Seventh seed Wichita State advances to the sweet 16 by upsetting instate rival kansas. Captioning funded by cbs captioning funded by cbs this is the cbs morning news for monday, march 23rd, 2015. Good morning. Good to be with you. Im annemarie green. Senator ted cruz republican from texas says hes running for president. Cruz tweeted his intentions early this morning. Hes the First Major Party candidate to announce. A favorite of the conservatives cruz has battled against the president s health initiative, promised to abolish the Internal Revenue service, and the education department. Cruz will discuss his candidacy today during his visit in virginia. Susan mcginnis is in washington. Good morning. Annemarie, good morning. Announcing early is being called a strategy on the part of cruz to stand out and grab some early attention ahead of whats expected to be a very crowded field of competitors for the republican nomination. Hours before what was expected to be his official announcement at
California texas and florida. Today the pentagon asked local police to help protect these servicemen and women. We have more now from National Security correspondent david martin. Reporter most of the military personnel on the hit list are from the air force and navy. The two services which have been conducting the air campaign against isis. Some of them served aboard aircraft carriers launching strikes over iraq. Others are based at Dias Air Force base in texas home of the b1 bomber which has been carrying out the most visible strikes of the war. The ones around the syrian town of kobani. Isis has no way to defend against those strikes which by last count have hit more than 5,300 targets and killed more than 8500 fighters. Instead it fired off a salvo from what is proving to be its most potent weapon, social media. The eruption of grisly intermet videos and twitter feeds that spew into cyber space each day. The hit list first appeared to on a polish site frequently used by isis as a p
California texas and florida. Today the pentagon asked local police to help protect these servicemen and women. We have more now from National Security correspondent david martin. Reporter most of the military personnel on the hit list are from the air force and navy. The two services which have been conducting the air campaign against isis. Some of them served aboard aircraft carriers launching strikes over iraq. Others are based at Dias Air Force base in texas home of the b1 bomber which has been carrying out the most visible strikes of the war. The ones around the syrian town of kobani. Isis has no way to defend against those strikes which by last count have hit more than 5,300 targets and killed more 8500 fighters. Instead it fired off a salvo from what is proving to be its most potent weapon, social media. The eruption of grisly intermet videos and twitter feeds that spew into cyber space each day. The hit list first appeared to on a polish site frequently used by isis as a pop ga
This is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley good evening. The f. B. I. Has stormed an underground shelter today, shooting to death a kidnapper and freeing a fiveyearold boy unharmed. The boy, whose first name is ethan, had been held for seven days outside midland city, alabama. The family allowed us to show you his picture. The police say that ethan was kidnapped last tuesday from a school bus by 65yearold jimmy lee dykes who neighbors have described as belligerent. Mark strassmann is on the scene with the breaking news tonight. Mark . Reporter scott, heres what happened in the final minute. Two muffled bangs could be heard behind me in the direction of the shelter. An ambulance that had been parked nearby since the start of the standoff raced up the hill. About a minute later, local deputies and f. B. I. Agents were patting themselves on the back, then ambulance came back down the hill, this time driving slowly, carrying ethan to a local hospital for testing and observation
Four. When beyonce took the stage at the superdome for the halftime performance, she brought her a game. And all that matters. I want to make sure were doing everything we can to make the sport safer. For those of us that like to see a big hit, were probably going to be occasionally frustrated. On cbs this morning. 30 years from now the nfl will definitely still be here bigger and better, and youll probably still be here doing face the nation. Welcome to cbs this morning. The Baltimore Ravens are waking up as nfl champions after an unforgettable super bowl. They beat San Francisco 3431 in a game that featured a half hour blackout followed by a stirring comeback. The ravens and their fans celebrated inside the superdome after the 49ers final drive fell a few yards short. There were also wild celebrations in the streets of baltimore. Police say there were minor disturbances but no Serious Violence and our Armen Keteyian was inside the nfl nerve center when the power went out at the super