The crisis in ukraine is growing this weekend and it is getting the worlds attention. The Russian Parliament approved Vladimir Putins request for the use of force inside ukraine. This comes as a Southern Region of cream i cant schedules a vote to increase its independence. And for days we have seen armed men patrolling the streets there. And there were demonstration as cross the country today, some turned violent. The u. N. Security council is meet to go discuss its next steps include diplomacy. The European Union announced it will address the crisis on monday. Lets to get to phil live in moscow. Rushing a seems to be moving aggressively on cream i cant, why is it so interested in that region . Reporter John Jonathan there are a number of reasons why they are interested in the region, first and foremost the base for their black sea fleet. Thats a particularly important military asset russia has because it gives them access to the mediterranean by way of the black sea and through the me
Bay. Palo alto looking at light showers. You see the San Ramon Valley is wet and heavier showers toward 101 south of petaluma and novato. Definitely slick roadways out there. As we go through the morning, the activity mainly south of San Francisco. It will continue to push further to the south and we will look for a few sunny breaks in afternoon but there is another system on the way to keep the second half of your weekend a little damp. Details on this in a few minutes. Thanks, lisa. A massive treetop he would over in marin county yesterday. Came crashing down and blocked Mountain View avenue. Until a crew got out the chainsaw and cleared it away. The tree fell from the yard of a homeowner. He said hes glad it fell away from his home. I was sitting here and started Hearing Branch and thats always a bad sign. Then i heard more and big branches and then there was a rooom crews estimate it was about 200 feet tall. The storm brought very welcome news, as well. Abc7 News Reporter cornell b
Paradise dealershitownship afte truck and school bus collided. The accident happened here at about 8 30 this morning. A dump truck was coming through this intersection when it rolled through the stop sign just as the school bus was coming through. Now, the bus, which had the special needs students on board, flipped onto its side, rolled across the street, and landed in that field behind me. Now, passers by and neighbors in the area worked quickly to get those students, two of whom were restrained in wheelchairs and another two buckled in seats, they got them out of the bus. They were transported to a local hospital with nonlife threatening injuries. As for the dump truck driver, he told me he is fine but he was very smhaken. When i spoke to him he said he was too emotional to talk about what had happened. Reporting from lancaster county, im ann shannon. Back to you. Family and friends of the now deceased ebola patient Thomas Duncan are now virusfree. That includes his fiancee. The two
Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley good evening, this is our western edition and we begin the broadcast in the west where that fastmoving brushfire is still burning out of control, threatening homes east of los angeles. Hundreds of firefighters are trying to contain it. Strong winds early in the day made that difficult. Hundreds of people who live in glen dora and azusa have been ordered to evacuate. We were sent this picture of the fire bearing down on her neighbors home. The Police Believe the fire was started by campers in the Angeles National forest. Carter evans is on the screen for us, carter . Firefighters are still putting out some hot spots, scott. This is one of five homes that were destroyed. 17 more were burned and 2,000 people were forced to evacuate. This fire has been burning all day and its now only 30 contained. The fire began just before day break. Within hours it burned across more than two and a half square miles of dr
4,000 pages of memos and this could shed light on everything from the push from Health Care Reform to the early struggle against al qaeda. These papers could also have an impact on the next race for the white house. The memos will give us insight into Hilary Clinton as first lady and could provide juicy details for her opponents to use a little later. Keep this in mind. This is the beginning. 33,000 pages could be released over the course of the next month. Lets talk about this and what we are learning. Our chief political analyst Gloria Borger joins us and brianna keilar. Welcome. I realize we are talking pamgs a pages and pages. Tell me what you see so far. What i have seen and we have about a dozen people here at cnn going through the documents here right now. What we are seeing so far is just kind of pulling back the curtain and showing us color i guess you could say on how this white house handled negotiations over Health Care Reform. Also interesting tidbits about then first lady