. you re watching cbs5 eyewitness news in high definition. police have found a car, even got their cell phone signals but the nursing student michelle lee has disappeared. the tattoo clues, how investigators may have found the suspect in the brian stow sooner if a police computer database had been correct. concentration of some species are high. and a familiar warning reinforced, what new information reveals about the toxins in bay area fish. good evening. a nursing student vanishes during a class break telling friends she is going to reno. that was friday night. nobody was heard from her since. linda yee. reporter: it s the last place friends and classmates saw michelle, she was in a nursing class friday night in haywood. police say she planned to pick up a friend and go reno. she left at 7:00 p.m. but the friend said lee never came and didn t call to cancel the trip. investigators know she parked her car in the garage next to the medical center but they found he
what did we learn from that news conference? reporter: well, john, it was a pretty emotional news conference because after all, this organization, the international assistance mission, has lost ten really good people and a couple of them very, very experienced. what they described were as they put it, not saints but consummate professionals. many of them had worked for years in this country bringing help. one of the things that they especially do is eye clinics. this group, it was a team that was trekking over 100 miles into very, very dense forest and going to people who got absolutely no health care. and as you said, killed by the taliban. they did want to answer at this news conference some of the allegations by the taliban and other militant groups about being spies, about carrying bibles. the head of the organization, the executive director said absolutely not, they don t carry bibles and they do not proselytize. also after this news conference here was over, we talk t
good evening. i m lester holt. brian is on assignment. we want to begin here with a question millions of jobless and frustrated americans are asking tonight, what will it take to get companies to start hiring again? the question took on even greater urgency today with word the economy shed more than 130,000 jobs last month leaving the unemployment rate stuck at 9.5%. the news tonight is casting an ominous cloud over the future of the nation s economic recovery. nbc s lee cowan leads us off this evening with a painful reality for americans who are still pounding the pavement for work but coming up empty. reporter: for the unemployed, it is an economic broken record, 14 million americans were still hunting for work in july. for the last year and a half, stephanie carlino has been sending out a resume almost every single day. the light at the end of the economic tunnel just seems further and further away. it will come. it has to come. we are all due for a break on some level
summer on record around the und the rld.a lot of us have been asking, what is going on? re going to b begin in the desperate city of moscow, where desperate more than 10 million people are struggling just to breathe t to breathe fighting through a cloud of heavy smoke from an unheard of heavy smoke ring of wildfires around the city. it s a state of emergency, and alex marquardt takes us out into the streets. reporter: moscow s iconic smog arks, barely visible through some of the worst smog the city has ever seen. on friday, muscovites and on friday, mus tourists coughed their way through the gray haze as carbon onoxide levels soared to five times what is considered safe. this situation is very dangerous for peoples health, especially for those with chronic diseases, said this health official. there have been repeated eennings to stay inside, or if heading out, to wear a mask. warnings that many have ignored. l u wouldn t know it from all the crowds out here, but it is ve
so nice to see one of those stories end well. we needed that, didn t we? we did. and a lot of news out of washington. one powerful woman in. another one out. president obama s nominee for supreme court justice, elena kagan, has been confirmed by the senate. she ll be sworn in tomorrow. but one of his most pivotal economic advisers, christina romer, is resigning. the white house insists she leaves for personal reasons. but it comes as the administration is under increasing pressure to come up with a new strategy to create more jobs in this tough economy. and a stunning, new development on a story we first told you about here on gma. it was a brian ross investigation. this man right here, convicted of running down three people in his car. but he always insisted his toyota was out of control. no one believed him, until all those acceleration problems with toyota emerged. well, after three years behind bars, he is finally out of prison this morning. says the first thing