This is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley we have two breaking stories tonight world stock markets lost 2 trillion today. The dow fell more than 600 points, part of a rout, after Great Britain broke from the European Union. Are dead, more than 100 homes destroyed after nine inches of rain uninidated West Virginia. The death toll is expected to rise. First, well go to the shaky economy. Once the largest empire, britain is an island again. The United Kingdom declared independence from the European Union in a referendum that felt like a revolution bitter, violent, cleaving the kingdom almost precisely in half. Mark phillips is there. Reporter the sun did rise over london today, somehow, despite the shock of what had happened overnight. And the light of day revealed one of the first consequences and casualties the Prime Ministers motorcade on its way to buckingham palace, where David Cameron would tell the queen he was quitting. He had gambled on the referendum, led the campai
Collect gold. We begin with a look at todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. We got out. Thats all that matters. The worst ive ever seen. A state of emergency in West Virginia. At least 23 are dead after flooding ravages the mountain state. Houses and cars have been swept away. Look at that. The National Weather service is calling it a once in a thousand years event. You never think that it can happen to you. The 30,000acre fire in california is the states largest this year and has claimed at least two deaths. Like driving into the apocalyp apocalypse. The dow is not good financial and political fallout after a surprise vote by uk voters to exit the European Union. Wiped out. A man in cincinnati trying to grab an officers gun. Two more officers tased him until he let if. The fbi says it has not turned up any credible evidence that the orlando gunman was gay or pursuing gay relationships. Lift off atlas rockets flying again. This one launching from cape canaveral. Are you kidding
Collect gold. We begin with a look at todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. We got out. Thats all that matters. The worst ive ever seen. A state of emergency in West Virginia. At least 23 are dead after flooding ravages the mountain state. Houses and cars have been swept away. Look at that. The National Weather service is calling it a once in a thousand years event. You never think that it can happen to you. The california is the states largest this year and has claimed at least two deaths. Like driving into the apocaly apocalypse. The dow is not good financial and political fallout after a surprise vote by uk voters to exit the European Union. Wiped out. A man in cincinnati trying to grab an officers gun. Two more officers tased him until he let if. The fbi says it has not or pursuing gay relationships. Lift off atlas rockets flying again. This one launching from cape canaveral. Are you kidding . I think its safe to say t llama loves shooting the breeze at the zoo. In the hole,
This is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Happened overnight. And the light of day revealed one of the first consequences and casualties the Prime Ministers motorcade on its way to buckingham palace, where David Cameron would tell the queen he was quitting. He had gambled on the referendum, led the campaign to stay in europe and lost. Someone else could manage the divorce. I will do everything i can as Prime Minister to steady the ship over the coming weeks and months, but i do not think it would be right for me to try to be the captain that steers our country to its next destination. Reporter other consequences became apparent even as the ballots were being counted. As the vote to leave the e. U. Rose, the value of the british pound fell. The biggest single oneday drop ever, down 10 promise at one point against the dollar. Stock prices followed. The leave campaign had called warnings of an economic tailspin scaremongering, but the fears were turning to instead, many did buy into
You may notice a strawiest pi high cloud here and there as we go through the day. Probably not an awful lot of those. By the time we get into the mid afternoon, were up to about 56 by 3 00 or 4 00 for our high. So seasonably mild. Just a few degrees on the warm side of normal. Looks like we fall back to about 48 by 8 00 p. M. Mostly clear with a few thin high clouds and a big warming trend the next couple of days. Well talk abt that in the sevenday forecast in 15 minutes. Thank you u. Well get on to that breaking news we have been following. We are learning some heartbreaking new details about a deadly fire this morning in smithfield. We have learned a 43year old man, michael davis, died in that fire, that a. M. At a home off of south fifth now, the family tells us that he was dead and he has trapped upstairs as that fire spread. According to his aunt, the family noticed smoke coming out of the kitchen, and about seven people were about to get out of the home in time. The fire detector