Home. This is the cbs evening news. Mason good evening. Im Anthony Mason. Dry and powerful winds are kickinguf agaiing up again in nn california, creating blowtorch conditions. The state is a multifront war zone. A growing number of outofcontrol fires, 22 at latest count have, burned more than 170,000 acres. Since sunday, at least 21 people have been killed. Nearly 400 have been reported missing. More than 3500 homes and businesses are wiped out. Carter evans begins our coverage. Reporter amid yet another day of burning homes and towering flames, cal fire chief did not mince words this is a serious, critical, catastrophic event. Reporter this justreleased dash cam video is from a Sonoma County patrol car, a deputy driving through the flames. That hellish view is also what california Highway Patrol paramedic whitney lowe saw from the sky. He air lifted 44 people to safety, but one man refused to leave his elderly parents. Thats when it became real. These are people who think theyre neve
Police records showed that, received a text bible study would take place. Pledges were quiz add but fraternity history if they got an answer wrong they were forced to drink alcohol. A witness told police, a highly intoxicated groover was left on a couch. But the next morning he was found with a weak pulse. Fraternity members took him to the hospital where he was pronounced dead. An autopsy showed that groovers blood alcohol level was six times the legal limit. Groover is the second student to die in an alcohol fueled hazing incident this year. 19yearold penn state student, Timothy Piazza died at a Fraternity Party in february. The District Attorney plans to take the case to a grand jury, which could decide on additional charges if necessary. Anthony. In baton rouge, thanks. In syria, the u. S. Led Coalition Said today there will be no deal to let isis fighters withdraw from raqqa before it is liberated in the next few days. The coalition is working to free about 4,000 civilians trapped
Have denounced him. Now a new york da is defending a decision not to prosecute him. Here is jericka duncan. Reporter for the First Time Since the explosive allegations, tmz obtained video of Harvey Weinstein outside a home in los angeles. Come on, harvey under growing pressure, the manhattan District Attorney, explained today his decision to not prosecute weinstein for alleged sexual assault. If we had a case that we felt we could prosecute, my experts felt we could prosecute against him we would have. The case stems from an incident in 2015 when model amber batalana gutierrez, went to new York City Police after she claimed weinstein groped her. Police wired her the next day to see if weinstein would make a move. The new yorker obtained the audio. But less than two weeks after that encounter, vance decided to close the case, citing lack of evidence to prove criminal intent. Attorney caroline policci. Theyre doing a mea culpa, had we known the nypd was conducting an undercover investiga
People have had to face justice. Some of them all over old because some of the worst criminals have faced the worlds most lenient penal system. So they will say it is very much halffull, but the idea that not having it all is unthinkable. Some measure of justice was done. It will never be enough, the kind of scale of killing that took place. It is a bit like the u. N. Is completely flawed. It falls over itself. Its at odds with itself but if you abolished it you have to reinvent it the next day. Do you think they would be a similar manhunt one day for syrian war criminals . I really, really hope so. I know that some of the people who were involved in this manhunt are now building is occasion cases so that when they they will be able maybe to prosecute people in the assad regime, people in daesh. What they are doing very bravely is smuggling out documents that could one day prove these people are guilty, smuggling them out of syria and keeping them in europe and going through them and b
About about after the bin laden raid when published the first paper about led the group that published the first paper about the about bad papers and she has been working on the part about papers for really a decade now. And so were delighted that shes going to share some of our findings. And are then ill engage her in q a and then open it up to questions if you do have questions. Put them in the slido and i will. Relay them to tonality so over to you dr. Lahood. Thank you peter for this very generous introduction and as i make it here in economics to the book that this is all possible because if you peter and your support and mentorship were crucial throughout i also benefited from other new america colleagues a special. Thanks to David Starman new america also afforded me the resources to work with two very capable Research Assistants whos contributions will become apparent during the course of my presentation. Id also like to add that i was exceedingly fortunate that the great histo