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With congressman scalise sunday on 60 minutes and first thing tomorrow on cbs this morning. Twitter executives were on capitol hill today for the investigation of russian interference in the u. S. Election. But senators were not happy with the answers they got. Here is jeff pegues. Their response was frankly, inadequate on almost every level. Mark warner, top democrat on the Senate Intelligence committee, publicly scolded twitter executives for not being more forthcoming during a meeting on capitol hill. Their actions have not matched their words in terms of their grasping the seriousness of this threat. Both twitter and facebook have been under pressure to be more transparent about russias use of social media to influence the 12016 election. Facebook acknowledged 3,000 ads during the campaign that had links to russian trolls. Including one designed to amplify the divisions over the black lives matter movement. Sources say it was carefully crafted to both support the movement and portr
It was so moving, it was very powerful. This is this is the cbs evening news. Good evening, Anthony Mason is on assignment, im Elaine Quijano. Much of california is on fire tonight, or at risk of going up in flames. Red flag warnings meaning conditions are ripe for wildfires are up all over the state. More than 20 major fires are burning. 15 of them started in just the past 24 hours. And they are moving quickly, fueled by strong winds. They have already burned more than 70,000 acres, destroyed 1500 homes and commercialing whethers, buildings and forced 20,000 people to evacuate. The fairs are blamed for at least one death, heres mireya villarreal. In Southern California this afternoon several hillside homes went up in flames pushed by strong santa ana winds. Firefighters are making a desperate stand to save others that are burning. It is just one of several wildfires that is overwhelming the state. The worst in northern californias wine country which broke out late last night, home aft
Theyre doing it quickly. Green peace says theyre installing equivalent of a soccer field full of solar panels every hour of every day. We have 28 solar power plants in operation in china. And, three more are under construction. Maggie chao is executive president of Panda Green Energy it installed enough solar panels to power 40 million homes. Why are you build sowing many solar farms . We intend to bring a Better Future to our next generations. By using such clean energy, reducing the air pollution that is, the companys mission. It is also the governments mission. It is spending hundreds of billions of dollars to subsidize Renewable Energy as china tries to wean itself off coal. Still, it is dominant power source. And the reason for its notoriously toxic air. But china now produces 2 3 of the worlds solar panels has bond a major competitor for the u. S. Solar industry which employs quarter million american workers. Ben tracy, cbs news, datong, china. One of the most talked about plays
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