Reporter in 1924 when it hosted its first Republican National convention, cleveland was a boomtown. Since then, not so much. Oh, the Cuyahoga River. Goes smoking through my genes but now things are looking up. Cleveland, its on fire, and, no, im not talking about the river, ahead on sunday morning. Pauley the summer screen is about to be graced by a superb actress in the role of a notsosuperb singer. The actress is meryl streep, and shes been talking to anthony mason. The story was helped by my singing really badly in this. Reporter in her new film, meryl streep plays the reallife Florence Foster jenkins and the earsplitting amateur opera singer who somehow sold o so many of the great singers of her time are now remembered, but she is. Well, thats a tragedy actually. Reporter later on sunday morning, meryl streep and the story of the soprano who couldnt sing. Pauley for the record, the band known as chicago can sing very, very well, and theyve been at it for half a century now, as well
Beautiful for his country, people who are inspired by their spiritual beliefs, individual liberty, and rule of law, and our campaign represents that. You do not achieve that by terry people down by tearing people down. I believe that is why this campaign will win, because it better represents the party. Myink his background parents experienced a similar thing after world war ii lithuania. My dad loves his country. It was culture shock. Mrs. Cruz sure. [indiscernible] enjoy your trip. Mrs. Cruz thank you. Takinging forward to him the oath of office. Mrs. Cruz thank you so much. Nice to meet you. I told my husband we are going to be shaking the hand of the next first lady. Mrs. Cruz the voters will decide. Are your daughters able to get out . Doingruz they were school work today, so we have to have structure. [indiscernible] wait for we will get family and friends mrs. Cruz it is a wellinformed community. It is. Absolutely. S, [indiscernible] nothing wrong with that. [indiscernible] we h
There were perhaps over 45,000 workers working at different times on the canal. In total there were about, oh workers from perhaps 40 different countries. It is said you can go into the top of the hill and you can see all the nations of the world represented. The u. S. Was always interested in trying to find a short route to the west. And that became more apparent during the spanishamerican war. One ship was asked to go to fight in cuba. So it left san francisco. On the west coast. And it took two months to reach cuba. By the time it reached cuba, the war was basically over. So that gave new impetus for the idea of finding a way a short way to unite both coasts. Because it became, you know, apparent and particularly now for the u. S. Who had a two ocean navy. So it needed to have a route to cross from one ocean to the other. And so in 1903, when panama was fighting for its independence the u. S. Supported the rebels. And it bought the construction rights from the French Canal Company f
This is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. The war president obama wanted so much to put behind him is is coming back with a vengeance and demanding his attention. Tonight, two and a half years after the last u. S. Troops left iraq, the country is in danger of falling apart. And hundreds of americans are being evacuated this evening. Government forces are battling militants who are taking back territory where thousands of american troops died, and theyre vowing to march on to baghdad. Mr. Obama said all options are open for helping the Iraqi Government, but his spokesman said that does not include boots on the ground. We have a series of reports on this important, breaking story. First, Holly Williams in iraq. Reporter thousands continue to flee the fighting, streaming across the to iraqi kurdistan, a region that enjoys relative peace amer riad hussein told us hes a soldier in the iraqi army who fought against the militants when they seized the city of mosul on tuesday. Theyre ter
So ive directed the Intelligence Community to make public as much information about these programs as possible. Woodruff then, despite recent challenging moments of diplomacy, the u. S. And russia held highlevel meetings in washington. Margaret warner recaps todays talks. Brown four out of ten street lights dont work and it takes an hour on average for Detroit Police to respond to 911 calls. Hari sreenivasan looks at the motor citys battle amid bankruptcy. Detroiters are so used to bad news, and they are so used to things not really breaking our way, and theyre used to getting up the next morning and going, well, i cant stop, ive got to keep going, ive got to keep trying. Woodruff david brooks and ruth marcus analyze the weeks news. Brown and yes, those are goats in that graveyard. More than a hundred of them. Kwame holman tells us what theyre doing in this historic washington, d. C. , cemetery. Woodruff thats all ahead on tonights newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour h been pr