Ell, im trying to make people smile. Mason this captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Mason scott is on assignment. Im Anthony Mason. Its been nearly two weeks since the tweet heard around the world. Its become an international incident. Prints Prime Minister branded ridiculous. Suggestions by the white house british spice wiretapped mr. Trump last year at the request of president obama. And then President Trump dragged Angela Merkel into it, suggesting they both had been wire tapped by mr. Obama. Mr. Trump has yet to offer a shred of evidence to backer up his claim and today the Justice Department sent congress what it knows about all this. Heres major garrett. During a joint press conference with german chancellor Angela Merkel, President Trump was asked about his allegation president Obama Wiretapped his phones. As far as wiretapping, i guess, you know, by this past administration, at least we have something in common perhaps. Thats a reference
Millions of americans after hacking the yahoo account. Lets not talk about them like criminals. Reporter the consul general in San Francisco Sergey Petrov would go no further. Not even to say russia would hand over the two intelligence agents if found guilty. He was adamant, though, that russia had no influence in the november u. S. Elections. As far as i know, my government approached the u. S. Government requesting this evidence and we never received anything. Reporter he is cautiously optimistic that under President Trump the relationship between the two countries will improve. He insists that under president obama things deteriorated. Towards the end of his administration, mr. Obama ordered the expulsion of some Russian Diplomats in the united states, including a few from the San Francisco office. I wouldnt use word offended. I would use a word disappointed. Reporter there is a large russianspeaking community in San Francisco concerned about whats happening between the two countrie
So well talk about totals, timing, yes, spring arriving when we see you again in just a few minutes. Breaking news this morning, firefighters battling a twoalarm fire in San Franciscos chinatown. Flames are burning on the third floor of a building on Waverly Place between sacramento and clay streets. Firefighters say there is one possible victim. We will bring you updates on this story as they become available. More breaking news out of france. The country remains under a state of emergency after police shot and killed a man for allegedly trying to grab a solars weapon at the orley airport. Police say the soldier is part of a special force deployed around france to defend sensitive sites from terror attacks. Police say the man also shot an officer at a traffic stop earlier then stole a womans car at gunpoint. The antiterrorism section of the Paris Prosecutors Office is leading the investigation. The mans identity is not known at this time. Other injuries at the airport have been report
Increased, especially into next week. Well talk about how much rain, when you can expect it and yes, its also the beginning of spring. Thats all coming up in a few minutes. Breaking news this morning, crews are cleaning up after a twoalarm fire broke out in San Franciscos chinatown. Firefighters say flames were coming from the third floor of an Apartment Building on Waverly Place between sacramento and clay streets. Firefighters rescued one person who suffered smoke inhalation. Waverly place is shut down right now. Developing news of the east bay, all lanes now opened on southbound i 880 in san leandro after multiple cars were involved in a bad accident. Crash happened around 3 40 this morning near the Marina Boulevard onramp. You can see one of the cars ended up on its roof. Its unclear how many people were hurt but chp tells us those who were injured have minor injuries and are expected to survive. Breaking news out of france this morning, the country remains under a state of emergen
This as the Justice Department makes a special delivery to capitol hill. Fantastic finishes. March madness. That was good. Kicking into high gear. The buzzworthy moments, favorites coming out on top. But which team will be the next bracket buster . Hey, good morning on a saturday with lots of news including a fresh storm moving into the northeast. And speaking of weather, you may notice that we have a familiar face here at the desk. Rob is off. Sam champion pitching in this morning. Welcome. Good morning. Hi. Nice to see you, sir. And weve got brandnew information on tonights winter storm, so we got to get people updated on that. This is the first time youve been on weekend gma. Youre going to have a lot of fun. All right. You may live to regret it. Thank you very much, sam. Were so excited to have you here. And much more on that storm coming up. But were going to start here with the breaking news this morning. Look at the pictures out of paris. Police out in force at the orly airport.