This is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Mason good evening. Scotts off tonight. Im anthony mason. President trump has left on his first overseas trip but he cannot escape the controversies engulfing his administration. Just as air force one flew off, a new report raised questions about mr. Trumps motive for firing f. B. I. Director james comey. Jeff pegues begins our coverage. Reporter it was a move that the president said relieved great pressure on him. Thats what President Trump told Russian Foreign minister Sergey Lavrov and ambassador sergey kislyak. According to the new york times, the comments were made during the may 10 oval office meeting. I just fired the head of the f. B. I. He was crazy, a real nut job, the report quotes mr. Trump as saying in the official white house account of the meeting. I faced great pressure because of russia. Thats taken off. White House Press Secretary sean spicer did not deny the comments but in a statement said by grand standing and polit s
Thousands have signed an online petition to keep the statue in place. Deanna durante spoke with one man who wants to see the statue e remain roigt there. She joins us life live with the story new at 5 00. Reporter the barricade you talked about is getting bigger as we speak. Police here setting up a larger perimeter around the statue and the Police Department tells us that a special detail will be on site as long as needed. In the meantime, those who knew frank rizzo are calling to keep this statue in place. Thomas gibbons still has the radio recording from frank rizzo when gibbons was shot on the job. He locked thu his own archives pulling out books and pictures of frank rizzo. I think its up to the people who still remember him and had experience with him to speak out. Rizzo died 25 years ago. The tough talking former cop and mayor was a major figure in gibbons life. He remembers the riots of the 1960s. His security force, it was mostly black guys. All of the black guys in the depart
Right now there say large area around the statue that is sectioned off and police are here now watching over this area. Look at video this is what it looked like earlier this morning after a man got out of the car and spray painted the words black power on the statue. They tell us there are many witnesses and they got a good description of the car and license plate and they expect to catch up with this person and file vandalism and criminal mischief charges today. He also painted another message on the ground. There is controversy of late over the statue and some acorps the former mayor rizzo of racism and some called for the statue to be taken down. Earlier in the week, eggs had been thrown at the statue and folks out here are questioning how this new vandalism could happen, considering there had been a Large Police Presence and barricades around the statue earlier in the day. But those barricades had been removed. Coming up, i spoke with that woman who came here to put that drape ove
Police say he then went on a shooting spree and led officers on a chase that ended at koufax and yosemite. Jamie leary, we learned both the victims and suspects families were there. Reporter yes. It was a pretty tense courtroom. He remains a person of interest. He faced the judge for that separate case, the shooting d afternoon in aurora. Now draper was arrested sunday around just afternoon when he carjacked a woman at gunpoint and went on a shooting spree and fired his gun in four separate times. He pointed a loaded gun at police and a chasten sued. Fortunately, nobody was hurt. He remains a shooter of interest. Her name was ashley ross draper. She was found shot to death in her apartment in aurora. Although the hearing was about the shooting and car chase, her entire family was present. He has not been charged with her murder but they wanted to be present for her. That is what they told the attorney to say this afternoon. Draper had many family members present well. Definitely a tens
Be a cooler pattern kicking in. Update on your traffic with sal. Steve, we have a big problem on the bay bridge westbound. Two left lanes are blocked with an injury crash. And chp has issued a cig alert. This means they think it will be out there for a bit. Traffic on the toll plaza is already backing up. Its jam packed. You can tell something is wrong because its barely moving. You can see traffic moving better usually. The only thing getting back is the car reports of a Sexual Assault this morning. The suspect reportedly was armed with a box cutter. The only reporter at the scene right now is ktvu janine de la vega. We are going to her right now to get the very latest on what happened out there. Janine. Reporter dave, police still have a thin description on the suspect but he is still at large. You can see a police star in front of me. And there were officers around the corner. They have crime tape roping off this apartment complex. This Sexual Assault happened at about 4 00 this mor