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
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
Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley this is our western edition. 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. Also tonight, at least 20 people are dead, more than 100 homes destroyed after nine inches of rain inundated 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 Camer
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