This is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley good evening. This is our western edition. The death toll from the worth Ebola Outbreak to date has grown to at least 887 in the african nations of guinea, sierra leone, liberia and nigeria. U. S. Officials are downplaying the threat here in the United States but del cats to the africa summit in washington arriving from atrisk countries are being screened at the airport. The world bank announced today that as much as 200 million in aid will be provided to the affected countries. An american missionary who was infected in liberia is being treated tonight in atlanta and another is due there tomorrow. Heres dr. Jon lapook. Reporter today the m. I. H. Revealed dr. Kent brantly and Nancy Writebol received an experimental serum called zmapp, previously only tested in monkeys. They both received the serum in liberia before brantly was flown to atlanta in a specially equipped plan. The serum has antibodies that prevent the virus from enter
Good morning. Welcome to early start. Im debra feyerick. Im john berman. Its 4 00 a. M. In the east. We would like to welcome our viewers here in the United States and around the world. After sundays bombing of a u. N. Shelter in gaza. They called the attack disgraceful. The u. N. Described it as moral outrage and criminal attack. Israel is suspending their fire for a seven hour humanitarian ceasefire. John, does hamas seem to be willing to support this ceasefire . If so, what can actually be physically achieved in seven hours . Reporter well, at this point, hamas says they will not go along with the ceasefire. They dont trust the israelis. They believe its an attempt to divert attention away from what happened at the school. The israelis say they were attacking three members of the jihad on a motorcycle. Apparently, they passed near the front gates of the school. Nine people died from shrapnel after it was fired. As for what can be done in the seven hour ceasefire, they need to get ai
Goes there. She, too, is not getting any answers. Thats got to be the toughest thing, to be a parent in that situation not knowing. We can probably safely say that a lot of those kids are doing what theyve been told, that is, to hunker down and stay in place until Law Enforcement can come through. Cindy, thanks. Stay with us if you would. Were just hearing from nbc news that president obama has been advised on this School Shooting at marysvillepilchuck high school. As mindy said earlier, we want her on the side of not saying too much. Weve heard a lot of people speculate about the cause of the shooting, perhaps a motive. The public reun if i case site will be shortly as soon as we make that determination. We are not aware of any other injuries at this time, but that has not been confirmed because we are still clearing the buildings at the school. You have seen people that is that is possible but we are not confirming that yet. We have not received that information from the command post
Republican events happening this afternoon and tonight. The democrats also fanning out across the state. We have two major rallies were watching this hour. Well bring them to you live, one is for jeb bush, another for Hillary Clinton. That will be led by her husband former president bill clinton. Lets get straight to Brooke Baldwin live in des moines, iowa. The final countdown. People are excited. What i love by iowans, they love this stuff. They do. I was out and about last night. Went out of my way to talk to people from des moines, and you know, they started talking about, not a candidate but potential snow. About snow potentially monday night in time for the caucuses. I kid you not. Were going to talk about snow coming up. They can handle it, but some of these caucusgoers may not. That is one of the crucial questions is whether or not. That said, you saw the map, all of the busy buttons. Lets go and listen to marco rubio in ames, iowa. And i look forward with passion to making that
He was practicing how to detonate explosives. Were convinced that this suspect had other plans and thought that what he was doing was righteous and believed that he was going to make Law Enforcement and target Law Enforcement, make us pay for what he sees as Law Enforcements efforts to punish people of color. And that is not the only revelation that came today. Chief david brown also told our jake tapper that the killer laughed and sang while police desperately tried to negotiate with him, at one point saying he wanted to kill more. We had negotiated with him for about two hours. A and. And he just basically lying to us, playing games, laughing at us, singing, asking how many did he get and that he wanted to kill some more and that there were bombs there. So there was no progress on the negotiation. And i began to feel that it was only at a split second he would charge us and take out many more before we would kill him. Ultimately police would make the unprecedented decision to send in