Of 93. We remember the legendary actor with a commanding voice. I am your father. Norah the Cbs Evening news starts now. Good evening. Im Norah Odonnell and Thank You for being with us. There are a number of top stories we are covering on this monday night. From that upcoming president ial debate that will air here on cbs to those outofcontrol wildfires out west, and a tropical storm thats gaining strength in the Gulf Of Mexico. We want to begin tonight with some news just coming in about the death of james Earl Jones, whose commanding performance onscreen made him a Household Name for decades. He was the voice of Darth Vader in Star Wars and mufasa in the lion king. He overcame a Childhood Stutter to win nearly every accolade and award, after appearing in nearly 90 Television Dramas and series and some 120 movies. We get more now from cbs vladimir duthiers. Reporter james Earl Jones was an industry giant. Steel isnt strong, boy. Reporter Whose Unmistakable Deep Booming Voice Captivate
I think at that point, pakistan will accept that they have given up the notion that the taliban. Re going to take over i think pakistan now feels that afghanistan threatens pakistan. I will say that pakistan would lower its objective and except some kind about, as long as there is some type of taliban and role. Be toitical thing will have an empowered, fairly elected government supported by the supported Afghan People that can rectify the society. That is critical to discussing the things they talk about. I appreciate hearing the words thank you because that is something president karzai never seems to be able to say. With reference to your own view, what would you want the united to help you achieve the type of elections that the Afghan People will have faith and . I will endorse what he said about the elections, but to add on that, one of the critical things is the type of messages that both the afghan Political Leadership and the public receives starting with raising the bar higher
Political joining us. The meeting . Of it sounds like harry reid is ready to go forward with the Nuclear Option, to change the senate rules by 51 votes, rather than the normal threshold of 67 votes. The higher threshold is usually your usually set to make it harder to occur. He says he is so frustrated with the use of the Majority Party to block legislation moving forward that he will invoke this very unusual procedure to change the rules by 51 votes. We want to vote change the filibuster rules so no longer 60 votes will be required to facinge a filibuster president ial nominees for executive branch positions. Would only affect executive , noth decisions traditional nominees, not legislation, it wants to move forward so that no longer can a senator block a nominee for epa, Defense Department, by requiring , 61 votesinstead would be required, a majority of the senate. Majority lent leader reid wants to move forward, what would the next step the in the senate . There was going to be a jo
Gets more lifethreatening and expensive. A lot of good things are going to happen. We are the last industrialized nation in the world to have National Healthcare policy. What i have preferred a public option . Yes. But the system we have got is the best that we have ever devised. Started it iny massachusetts. It will help america, it and for many americans, we have got great health for people who can afford it. For or people, they do not have access to doctors living in the innercity. That needs to change. On twitter from jack who writes do you think the Founding Fathers back in 1776 envisioned a secret fisa as key to a thriving democracy . Dont know what they were thinking, and certainly they did not think about the fisa court. 1776really did not see in the first 10 amendments, the bill of rights did not come until later. The Founding Fathers were great. But they were not infallible. They were certainly wrong about women, who did not have the right to vote, and they were certainly wro
We will have a final look at the denial system. Hopefully, we will have information on the bank fees, looking at the financial sector, too. Host your Investigation Continues on this headquarters in afghanistan. When will we know who is held accountable . Guest it depends on when the investigation is. I think in a couple of months we will have an idea of who made the decisions. If it is a systemic problem, we will identify that, but there is an individual behind every systemic problem. Host chuck, independent caller. I wonder if he has ever racket. War is a militaryretired u. S. General. He wrote this pamphlet after serving 30 years in the United States marine corps. This is definitely a systemic but google it. What he wrote is a fivechapter a truth, but it is throughout time. Guest i do not know the book, but i would caution the caller the others who say that it is a systemic problem. I have been hearing that since i came here in 1982. We keep using that as an excuse for not doing anyt