A bomb squad called to in detonate a Pressure Cooker bomb. A virginia man was arrested near the scene. Pressure cookers have been used in the recent terrorist attacks. The incident last night taking place as thousands gathered for the memorial day concert. Iraqi forces rising up against isis in ramadi. The iraqi forces taking back part of the city one week after it fell to the terrorists showing life after the u. S. Defense secretary questioned their will. All this as new reports of mass slaughter in syria at the hands of isis fighters. Lets start with the situation unfolding in ramadi with Senior International correspondent arwa damon live from baghdad. Good morning, arwa. Reporter good morning, christine. They have not quite yet taken back portions of ramadi. They did manage to capture a town to the citys southeastern outskirts. According to security sources we spoke to, a force numbering around 5,000 or 6,000 is in position waiting for what they are calling for zero hour. Now this f
31 arrests were made overnight. At least two people were shot. None by police. Two fires broke out, and two guns were confiscated by authorities. Hoping to avoid the same headlines tomorrow, missouri Highway Patrol captain ron johnson called for protesters to come out during the day night, noted some of those arrested came far from ferguson. He promised this morning to make things right in his community. Im not going to let the criminals that have come out here from across this country or live in this community define this neighborhood and define what were going to do to make it right. My colleague craig melvin spoke with captain johnson last hour about what his officers are facing. Our officers were under gunfire here last night. Did the officers return fire . No, they did not. Lets start on the ground in ferguson with msnbc. Com reporter amanda. Shes on the phone. Thank you for being with us. Tell me how it was last night. What did you see . Last night i witnessed multiple clashes be
This is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Good evening. This is our western edition. Pelley good evening. The old Northern California logging town called weed rightfully brags about its natural beauty, but tonight much of it is up in flames. Trees turned into kindling, feeding a wildfire that has driven hundreds of people from their homes. And that is just one of a dozen major wildfires in the state 6,000 firefighters are battling flames that have burned well over 183,000 acres. Heres John Blackstone. Reporter fire crews were still battling the fastmoving blaze that tore through the california town of weed near the the oregon border, the winds, the fire exploded monday afternoon, burning cars, and destroying more than 110 homes. Plus the catholic church. Firefighters scrambled to evacuate the town. Oe 40 Miles Per Hour wind gusts sent fire racing through the neighborhood, residents say embers flew from house tomd ho the she saw her neighborhoouk burn. The fire just rushed up the
Sources tell us that saudi arabia, the United Arab Emirates, bahrain, jordan and qatar. White house correspondent chris jansing, what is the white house saying publicly at this moment . Publicly they are saying absolutely nothing. What we know is this is significant what you just said. These partner nations. We heard from the president that he planned to have a coalition. We heard from Samantha Power, the un ambassador. If air strikes happen in syria, the United States was not going to go it alone and sig knave cant that it comes on the eve of the president going to the United Nations to do what he calls rallying the world around this threat that is posed by isis. You had bombers and fighter jets and tomahawk cruise missiles raining down. We are about 2 3 where they are in syria. The president , we expect will hear from him tomorrow. He leaves at around 10 20 eastern time. The president went before the American People and gave a speech and he said that he was willing to go into syria a
Believe they are close to finding suspected cop kill eric frein. One picture shows an ak47 that investigators believe he was carrying while on the run. Another shows ammunition. Police say its just a matter of time until frein is found. Were pushing him hard. Hes no longer safe and im confident that he will be apprehended. Frein is accused of ambushing two state troopers more than a week ago. New this morning a possible clue in finding a missing uva student is made public. In fact, i believe that Jesse Matthew was the last person she was seen with before she vanished off the face of the earth. Matthew is now a person of interest in Hannah Grahams disappearance. Theres now an arrest warrant for him. Graham vanished september 13th by a mall. Security cameras caught her last moments. Her father made this plea. Did you see hannah . Who saw hannah. Somebody did. This weekend more than 1,200 volunteers combed charlottesville for clues. A man accused of sneaking in to the white house with a k