before seen. reporter: in a matter of seconds a country music festival turned tragic with a storm of gunfire raining down on an innocent crowd. he was shooting everybody and there was dead people everywhere and i don t even know what was happening. it was just shooting, randomly. reporter: it began a massive loss of life and hundred injured in the worst mass shooting in modern american history. the 2017 las vegas shooting was the worst mass shooting in modern american history. 58 people were killed, several hundred were wounded and two victims later died from their injuries. there have been more than 3500 mass shooting since then according to the gun violence archive. the las vegas shooting remains the deadliest and there is a reason for that. the shooter used a bump stock. america is the most unfriendly democracy in the world, yet even here it is illegal to own a fully automatic machine gun. but a bump stock essentially transforms the average semi automatic rifle int
hurricane. europe s last dictator faces new opposition. an iron fist next? covid concerns. we hop on the school bus to see how drivers plan to keep kids safe. and later, pandemic pups. bringing smiles to those who need them most. every time i see a dog it helps. this is the cbs overnight news. good evening, i m jamie yuccas in los angeles. this has been a weekend of rising political conflict across the country. over issues of can crime, protests and race. in portland, oregon, social justice dmopors and trump supporters battled in the streets. one man was killed. today pruch responded with a barrage of tweets. this one demanding law and order. there were many more, including one threatening sending in federal forces. in wisconsin, the state senate will tackle police reform in a special session tomorrow. mola lenghi is in kenosha. reporter: in kenosha today the streets were quiet and the city s youth painted signs of peace over last week s damage. yesterday about a
Channels with north korea until any of the terrorists was speaking at the u. N. Security Council Meeting on. The secretary of state Rex Tillerson says hell continue to pursue a diplomatic resolution with north korea but the military remains at the ready but we are not going to accept preconditions you heard others have called for freeze for freeze we do not accept a freeze for freeze as a precondition to talks we do not accept any relaxing of the sanctions regime as a precondition of talks we do not accept a resumption of humanitarian assistance as a precondition of talks so we are not going to accept preconditions for these talks but as i indicated in my remarks our communication Communication Channels remain open north korea knows there are open they know where the door is they know where to walk through that door when they want to talk. Free people have been killed and hundreds of others injured in demonstrations in gaza and the west bank against u. S. President double trumps decisi
Challenges president jacob zuma successor will lead the party in the next president ial election in two thousand and nineteen tanya page is in johannesburg. The African National congress elect of conference is underway and its going to be unfolding here over the next five days but most of the discussion and debate will be happening behind closed doors in those buildings there just in the distance behind the fence we can see some of the delegates there about five thousand or so have come here from branches of the a. N. C. All over the country they want to just be voting for the top job president but deputy and in fact all the top one hundred eighty decisions but of course its the presidency that is the most contested the most important to the future of the a. N. C. And there are really two main contenders the first being and course as many zuma she is a very experienced politician. She was a member of parliament and a minister under successive governments of the a. N. C. Shes a former c
Has called for unity in the governing African National congress as it prepares to select a new leader jacob zuma who is facing corruption allegations is stepping down as head of the party before a new leader is elected on sunday the contest has been marked by deep divisions within the party on your page now from johannesburg. The conference started with two warnings dont to saying divisive songs and to keep the chairs on the ground everybody its beds that chairs will be flying around this conference or we can say that you will not happen in this conference. A. N. C. Members from competing factions have hurled cheers at one another in the build up to this crucial event there have been allegations of vote buying and intimidation those accusations have led disgruntled members to take legal action that delayed the start of the conference by several hours but the trend to turn to the countrys courts was criticized by president jacob zuma and his last speech as party leader it is actually. T