The country, oklahoma, colorado, new york. But none with as much National Importance as mississippi, right . Mississippi is huge tonight, and its a real nailbiter. Lets put it up on the screen right now. You can see with about what, 80 of the vote now in, 80 , the republican establishment, the longterm senator, thad cochran with 51 . Chris mcdaniel with 49 . Only about 6,269 votes you see right there separating these two, these two candidates. The Tea Party Favorite Chris Mcdaniel. Thad cochran, the longterm sixterm republican senator from mississippi. Lets bring in dana bash. She is in jackson, mississippi. This is very, very close, dana. Everyone who is expecting a close race. It looks a bit closer than a lot of folks anticipate. Thats right. The truth is nobody really knew what to expect, wolf, because this whole runoff, this primary in general has been so unusual. But particularly the runoff. But what we have been able to determine from some of the results that have been coming in
Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley good evening. This is our western edition. If the government has its way, millions of american drivers will be taking their cars and light trucks into the shop to fix a defect that could kill them. Late today, the Transportation Department called for the expansion of what has been a limited, regional recall of vehicles whose front driverside airbags were made by japans takata corporation. The government now wants a nationwide recall with the expansion including vehicles manufactured by ford, honda, chrysler, mazda, and b. M. W. That could bring the number of recalled vehicles to more than 20 million. Jeff glor is following the investigation and has the details. Reporter the defective takata airbags have already been linked to at least five deaths and more than 100 injuries. Drivers and passengers can be hurt when airbags explode sending shrapnel through a vehicle. Takata first learned about the problem a
This is the cbs evening news. Glor good evening. I am jeff glor. This is our western edition of the broadcast. She was wearing protective gear, she still got ebola. Tonight, new questions for the hospital in texas that is now dealing with its second case of the virus. And a new search for those who may have been exposed. The latest person to come down with ebola is a nurse who cared for thomas eric duncan, that nurse was wearing a mask, gloves and gown. President obama is calling for an investigation into what went wrong as hospital workers across the country now wonder if they are prepared. We have two reports beginning with vicente arenas. E the cdc says the nurse cared for duncan on multiple times when he was in isolation, according to protocol, she had been monitoring herself for symptoms. Friday night she detected fever, the hospital admitted and isolated her within 90 minutes cdc director tom frieden says today it is very concerning a nrker who seemingly did everything right got
Glor good evening, im jeff glor. This is our western edition of the broadcast. The white house confirmed this afternoon, what isis claimed this morning, american peter kissig has been executed. Kassig who was just 26yearsold had been held since last october, he becomes the fifth western hostage beheaded by isis. Two other americans and two from britain were previously killed. The newest video, however is much different than before. We have two reports tonight beginning with julianna goldman. This is peter edward kassig. A u. S. Citizen of your country. Reporter like previous isis execution videos, this one features the same blackmasked killer with a british accent known as jihadi john. But kassig did not appear kneeling in an orange jump suit befire he was killed and did not make a statement. The 15 minute video also identified the militants location and shows isis soldiers executing syrian officers. There also wasnt an additional western hostage at the end. National security advisor s
Here is one special dramatic example, kearney, nebraska hit a high of 71 degrees this afternoon, it will be in the low teens by tomorrow. Over the course of the next week the coldest air since last winter arrives and frigid temperatures will stretch deep into the deep south. We are joined from boston by eric fischer. Eric, what is happening . Jeff, winter early and often is going to be a theme this year. Frost is across the arctic and head to is south as we head to the week, down the rockies, well into texas, stretching into the midwest, by the end of the week, the only state really spared from the cold air is going to be florida, never quite gets in on the action, deep into the sunshine state. In terms of temperatures, by wednesday, the cold really is taking control, Single Digits and teens here, places like cheyenne, denver, omaha, below freezing and staying in the twenties and by thursday morning when we are all waking up and this cold really worked its way eastward, look at some of