Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Dubois good evening. Scott is off tonight. Im Maurice Dubois. Two days after a new york city grand jury cleared a white Police Officer in the chokehold death of an unarmed black man, the protests are growing larger and spreading across the country, including boston and chicago. And now another new york grand jury, this one in brooklyn, is about to investigate the shooting of another unarmed black man. Michelle miller begins our coverage. I cant breathe i cant breathe reporter today, the chant on the streets of chicago was like thousands heard last night in new york i cant breathe reporter at a protest in minneapolis. I cant breathe. Reporter and at a diein on the campus of clemson university. I cant breathe. I cant breathe. I cant breathe. Reporter the last words of 43yearold eric garner have become a rallying cry for thousands across the country. Hands up dont shoot reporter the angry voices over the choking d
Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley good evening. Tonight the number of measles cases is approaching 100 and weve learned that hundreds more people may have been exposed. As of tonight, there are at least 98 cases in 14 states, most of them in california, and most linked to that outbreak at disneyland. With each case, there is more pressure for those at risk to get vaccinated and heres ben tracy. Sixyearold Rhett Krawitt has battled leukemia. His immune system is too weak from chemo therapy to get a measles vaccination. Nearly 10 of the kids at his school are not vaccinated and that worried his parents carl and jodi. If his son got meas telz could kill him. Lets say if youre not vaccinated with a medical dpevmention, you cant come to school. Reporter but there are parents who have very strong beliefs about vaccinations and say i dont want them in my kid. We rely on the people that can be immunized to be immunized to protect the rest of the
Pelley good evening. So lets start with the good news about the flu. Today, the c. D. C. Said that the flu season in much of the country appears to have worst of it. But the worst still includes this the flu is now widespread in all but six states, and its sending americans 65 and older to the hospital at the highest rate in at least a decade. Heres dr. Jon lapook. Reporter at a Senior Center in new york city, the fridays bingo game is in full swing but 96yearold may robinson is thinking about her friend who recently caught the flu. My deceased friend had it. They worked very hard to save her, but she passed. Reporter the c. D. C. Began tracking flu hospitalization rates 10 years ago. This year, the hospitalization rate for patients over 65 has been more than twice the average rate over the previous five seasons. Dr. Susan ream is an Infectious Disease specialist at the cleveland clinic. People who are 65 years of age and up tend to have other diseases like Heart Disease diabetes Kidne
Bar federal subsidies. Here is Iowa Republican congressman steve king. This law does not allow the federal government to set up exchanges and if this court should decide that the wish of the president trumps the will of the people, we got a problem. A decision expected in june. Hillary clinton reportedly used her own email server while acting as secretary of state. The server that transmitted and received email traced back to an Internet Service registered in her home. The senator has not said what she is private email for some official state department business. Holding a q and a event. Were pretty focused that the company is thats ethical to help people connect is pretty broad and pretty mission focused than that. Sacrament pushing that facebook effort to bring Internet Service to report remote parts of the world during his visit. Microsoft cofounder paul allen says his Research Team has found a massive cap needs battleship off the coast of the philippines. The ship was considered on
210. Road map begins with the markets. Investors facing this continuing pullback, after the nasdaq broke 5000 earlier in the week. Private Sector Employment data not helping, days ahead of fridays jobs number. Everything must go. Target aiming for billions in cost cuts while abercrombie shares get discounted on mixed quarterly results. Pressure mounting on ges ceo jeff imle. Well explain why thats in the news. Stocks pulling bakken on track for a second straight lower open adp employment below forecast 212,000 workers added to payrolls in february. Thats ahead of the jobs number friday. And after some of the mixed data out of europe and china overnight as well as surprise rate cut from indias central bank, the second cut there of the year. Eurozone, jim, you said yesterday the green chutes are no longer green chutes theyre outright plants and the pmi number, even in france would back that up. Persistent low growth there. I hate the term negative growth. But things are going down there