Propulsion lab. It may sound familiar but what scientists here at jpl are actually looking for are signs of life past and present on the red planet woodruff mark shields and david brooks analyze the weeks news. Brown and we close with a conversation with Pulitzer Prizewinning humorist dave barry about miami, the insane city thats the focus of his new novel. The people come from everywhere, people just weird people are attracted to miami. The wildlife is weird, the weather is weird, its a festering stew of weirdness. Woodruff thats all ahead on tonights newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by bnsf railway. Support also comes from Carnegie Corporation of new york, a foundation created to do what Andrew Carnegie called real and permanent good. Celebrating 100 years of philanthropy at carnegie. Org. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. And friends of the newshour. And. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broa
Death toll in the twoyear civil war climbs to over 60,000. Brown special correspondent john tulenko examines ohios retention rule for schools finish third grade being able to read or be held back. Up until third grade youre learning to read, after third grade youre reading to learn. But if you arent well equipped, reading pro fish eptly at the end of third grade you will struggle throughout the rest of your school years woodruff ray suarez looks at the firestorm of criticism leveled against some of the front runners for highlevel jobs in a second Obama Administration. Former senator hagel hasnt been officially nominated to become the next secretary of defense but that hasnt stopped his critics from going to war against the possible picks. Brown and mark shields and david brooks analyze the weeks news. Woodruff thats all ahead on tonights newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by bnsf railway. Support also comes from Carnegie Corporation of new york, a foundation
Propulsion lab. It may sound familiar but what scientists here at jpl are actually looking for are signs of life past and present on the red planet woodruff mark shields and david brooks analyze the weeks news. Brown and we close with a conversation with Pulitzer Prizewinning humorist dave barry about miami, the insane city thats the focus of his new novel. The people come from everywhere, people just weird people are attracted to miami. The wildlife is weird, the weather is weird, its a festering stew of weirdness. Woodruff thats all ahead on tonights newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by bnsf railway. Support also comes from Carnegie Corporation of new york, a foundation created to do what Andrew Carnegie called real and permanent good. Celebrating 100 years of philanthropy at carnegie. Org. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. And friends of the newshour. And. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broa
Up until third grade youre learning to read after third grade youre reading to learn. But if you arent well equipped reading pro fish eptly at the end of third grade you will struggle throughout the rest of your school years woodruff ray suarez looks at the firestorm of criticism leveled against some of the front runners for highlevel jobs in a second Obama Administration. Former senator hagel hasnt been officially nominated to become the next secretary of defense but that hasnt stopped his critics from going to war against the possible picks. Brown and mark shields and david brooks analyze the weeks news. Woodruff thats all ahead on tonights newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by bnsf railway. Support also comes from Carnegie Corporation of new york, a foundation created to do what Andrew Carnegie called real and permanent good. Celebrating 100 years of philanthropy at carnegie. Org. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. And fri
Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Odonnell good evening. Scott is off tonight. Im norah odonnell. And this is our western edition. President obama is calling the latest revelations in the v. A. Scandal extremely troubling. A report today from the internal watchdogs in the department of Veterans Affairs says more than 1,000 vets seeking care at a v. A. Hospital in phoenix were waiting for appointments they might never get because they were never even put on a list. In addition, records were manipulated to show that veterans who got appointments waited an average of 24 days. The actual wait time was 115 days. And its not just in phoenix. The report says the problems are widespread. Nancy cordes is on capitol hill and has more. Nancy. Reporter norah, investigators say they have already interviewed dozens of v. A. Schedulers, and some of them say they were encouraged by their managers to fudge appointment wait times, leaving some veterans in a kind