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for anything sus spishus, this security was also for an israeli flag raising later tt day to celebrate israel s 65th birthday that. was cancelled when the president ordered flags flown at half staff. city crews quickly lowered flags around civic center plaza. something else to think b security for san francisco biggest foot race is a growing concern tonight. organizers talked with mark math use who joins us from the starting point. mark? 30,000 runners expected to sign up for the beta breakers probably twice that many will run. 100,000 were in the area where a huge crowd is expected to gather on the third sunday in may. the city and organizers promising safety will be of porpance. where there is a large crowd, police will provide guidance as to what we need to do to ensure the race is safe. angela is waiting to hear from police. yesterday the chief says the department is taking a look. we ll take a look at the plans for upcoming events and will make sure plans are a
guest: then you have duboise, and yet duboise wasn t done yet. he had a conflict with marcus garvey, a young jamaican who had come to the united states, founded something called the black star line. you ll recall, of course, the white star line was home of the titanic and those ships. garvey wanted to have a fleet, and he wanted to have a commercial base where blacks would leave the united states because he, again, didn t believe that blacks and whites should assimilate, and he wanted blacks through his black star line to leave and go to africa. host: did garvey believe that we shouldn t or that we couldn t assimilate and that s the reason he wanted to go back to africa? guest: both. he thought not only should we not do it, but that whites would never give us an equal opportunity. and he used a very pejorative term towards duboise in the early part of the 1920s of calling him a white man s inward because, again, duboise then had been a founder of the niagara movement wh
couric: tonight, indonesians run for their lives after a powerful earth wake. hundreds are feared dead. and devastation in the samoas as the tsunami sweeps away villages killing more than 100. i m katie couric, also tonight, the war in afghanistan. the commander wants more troops. will the commander-in-chief provide them? the president meets with his national security team. the first lady carries the torch to copenhagen, hoping to win the olympics for chicago. follow the yellow brick road to the land of oz, still busling with visitors 70 years later. that s how we laugh the day away in the very old land of oz captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with katie couric. couric: good evening, everyone. scientists call it a ring of fire, a part of the globe often rocked by violent undersea earthquake, volcanos and tsunamis. tonight, massive reliefers are under way following two disasters in less than 24 hours. officials in the snow was now say more than
but as celia hatton reports, the toll is expected to go much higher. reporter: thousands could be trapped alive in collapsed buildings on the indonesian island city of padang. authorities say untold numbers of homes, hotels, schools and shops have crumbled to the ground. what we re hearing from padang is sporadic,ons are down, but what we have heard is that this was a huge earthquake and there has been significant damage. there are obviously large numbers dead and injured and we expect those numbers to increase as daylight breaks. reporter: victims stay 7.6 magnitude quake made the ground shake so hard people outside had to sit down on the street to avoid falling over. rescuers don t fully know the extent of the damage left by the quake. it s still too early. landslides have cut off roads, electricity and power lines, further isolating the people who need help the most. thousands of quake victims are spending the night out in the open for lack of shelter. the nation s l