This is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Officials in the front row. Mr. Trump ignored shouted questions about his confidence in flynn as he left the east room. Councilor to the president kellyanne conway. Yes, general flynn does enjoy the full confidence of the president , and this is a big week for general flynn. Hes the point of contact for many of these foreign visits. Reporter just over an hour later, though, the white house said the president is evaluating the situation. The f. B. I. And other intelligence agencies are investigating conversations flynn had with the Russian Ambassador to the u. S. Before President Trumps inauguration. Flynn initially denied discussing u. S. Sanctions on russia during the calls, a potential violation of federal law, but last week flynn said he couldnt be sure if the topic came up. In january Vice President elect pence defended flynn on face the nation. Those conversations that happened to occur around the time that the United States took act
President trump called this a dangerous world in a News Conference today with the visiting canadian Prime Minister. Mr. Trump was asked whether Syrian Refugees pose a terrorist threat, but his answer centered on the recent arrests of illegal immigrants, who have committed crimes. Were actually taking people that are criminals, very, very hardened criminals in some cases with a tremendous track record of abuse and problems, and were getting them out. And thats what i said i would do. Im just doing what i said i would do when we won by a very, very large Electoral College vote. Well, you never hear of refugees from the United States, but Canadian Border officials are po theyre refugees from the middle east who were legally admitted into the United States, but now they worry their legal status could be revoked. Canada has a more welcoming refugee policy. This syrian family youre seeing now crossed on saturday through the woods into quebec. The Canadian Border agency says there were 369 su
Doppler radar. There are a few shower that moved through today. Showers continue now but are more scattered. Theres another storm just off shore that is headed our way. Well have details coming up in a few minutes pam we are already seeing a whole lot of problems. Power outages and downed power lines. All across the bay area. Trees falling on top of homes and businesses. Causing major damage. And people in the north bay and south bay continuing to deal with major flooding on the roads. grant the biggest problem has been in the east bay. Three homes have been red tagged after sizable mudslide came crashing down in the Oakland Hills. The slide also impacted an eastbaymud service line. Leaving more than 20 homes without water all day. Kron4s Lydia Pantazes is in the Oakland Hills to explain how bad the damage is. pkg it started coming down our yard really fast. A sea of mud filled this backyard on banning drive in the Oakland Hills. Forcing people like Barbara Stone to get out. You have t
dave look for showers to return later this morning into the afternoon. Dry weather will return to most areas by this evening and into tuesday, except for a slight chance of light rain in the north bay into early monday. A significant spring storm system may impact our region with rain and winds beginning wednesday of next week. marty landing breaking news. New airstrikes have hit the site of tuesdays chemical attack in syria. Activists in the city say airstikes hit friday and today. At least one person was killed and 3 others are injured. Its not clear who conducted these airstrikes. We will continue to follow the situation out of syria this morning on kron four marty landing our top story this morning. Three homes have been red tagged after sizable mudslide came rumbling down in the oakland hills. The slide also impacted an eastbaymud service line. Leaving more than 20 homes without water kron4s Lydia Pantazes shows us just how bad the damage is. pkg it started coming down our yard re
Its a hard thing to do. This is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley this is our western edition. Have no idea when theyll be allowed to go home. They were evacuated yesterday over concern that recent rain could cause a spillway to fail, at the nations tallest dam. Three counties town three counties down stream could be inundated, and John Blackstone is there. Reporter with water thundering out of oroville dam, officials are in a race to fix the damaged spillway and lower the lake level, which is at near capacity. Enlifornia department of Water Resources director bill croyle. Were moving 100,000 cubic feet per second down that spillway. Weve been doing that for about 16 or 17 hours. Reporter as the water pours out, crews are preparing to move huge boulders to fortify the dams spillways. Mainmain concrete spillway that funnels excess water into a floodplain began breaking apart last week. Chunks of concrete gave way, and the hole kept getting bigger. Engineers decided to use a