This is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Schieffer good evening. Scotts on assignment. Im bob schieffer. Well, there was a wild shootout 75 miles from brussels today and Belgium Police believe they may have prevented a terrorist attack similar to the one in paris. Two heavily armed men were killed, another wounded. There is a wide dragnet out for more people believed involved in the plot, which is thought to be aimed at Police Buildings. Our Charlie Dagata is in belgium. He has more. Reporter gunfire rang out as police raided a house and fire burned inside. The two men shot dead had terror links to syria. An injured man was arrested. Police say the suspects were heavily armed with automatic weapons and opened fire first. Eyewitnesses reported hearing explosions. Police cordoned off the street as a bomb Disposal Team arrived. Authorities say this was an active terror cell theyve been monitoring for weeks when they realized an attack was imminent. They were reportedly plotting to
Rebels agree to a ceasefire to end fighting. The u. S. Is worried the fragile peace deal could fall apart a labour standoff. West coast shipping ports shut for five days how it could impact all americans and cost the u. S. Economy billions im antonio mora and this is Al Jazeera America. We begin with breaking news from egypt. Mohamed fadel fahmy, our colleague was released from prison on bail. He was held for 412 days along with Baher Mohamed, also expected to be released within hours. The two journalists were granted bail by an egyptian judge. They were being retried on charges that they aided the Muslim Brotherhood. Neave barker reports on their day in court. Reporter this could be the beginning of the end for an ordeal that lasted more than 400 days. Mohamed fadel fahmy, and Baher Mohamed were granted bail at the start of a retrial. Its a huge relief for their families. Im going immediately to tell the kids that their father is going home and life will be beautiful. Ill wait to welc
This is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Schieffer good evening. Scotts on assignment. Im bob schieffer. Well, there was a wild shootout 75 miles from brussels today and Belgium Police believe they may have prevented a terrorist attack similar to the one in paris. Two heavily armed men were killed, another wounded. There is a wide dragnet out for more people believed involved in the plot, which is thought to be aimed at Police Buildings. Our Charlie Dagata is in belgium. He has more. Reporter gunfire rang out as police raided a house and fire burned inside. The two men shot dead had terror links to syria. An injured man was arrested. Police say the suspects were heavily armed with automatic weapons and opened fire first. Eyewitnesses reported hearing explosions. Police cordoned off the street as a bomb Disposal Team arrived. Authorities say this was an active terror cell theyve been monitoring for weeks when they realized an attack was imminent. They were reportedly plotting to
Advance all of these as a body. That said, there is value in enforcement and to that end we did already shift a little bit more resource into the placard detail. With regard to and thats something well monitor the effectiveness of, as carla suggested, it is very time consuming and labor intensive, but feedback we heard from people concerned about these recommendations is that you really should try to increase enforcement, to educate people about enforcement, before you do some of these other things. So i think its a reasonable step forward. With regard to increased blue zones, two things. One is what we committed to doing is creating the equivalent to what we have for the public right of way in terms of an ad a transmission plan, a path for how we would get to an increased number of blue zones, how we would prioritize them, define them. The Committee Recommended we work with the Mayors Office on disability on looking at how we restrict locations for blue zones which were quite restrict
Party here in San Francisco, we are the local democratic voice for our communities and, you know, we are here to oppose the i believe they are recommendations 4 and 6 to impose time limits and begin charging. As was alluded, director nolan, i appreciate the comments that you made at the beginning regarding the economic impact. You know, theres another issue behind this. We believe that we acknowledge that there is fraud in this system. However, we dont believe that the fraud is so pervasive that it is vital, the only way to save the system is to advice rate the benefits that it offers and we would draw an analogy to some law makers in congress that believe fraud and misuse of food stamps and unemployment are so pervasive that you have to obliterate those programs. So its really important to recognize as we sit here, we have an affordability crisis in San Francisco. And its not simply just low income folks and high income folks but thats really what its turning into, it really is turnin