Everyone. Im jeff glor with a western edition of the broadcast. The vote today was 4070, a umaninous decision in the house of representativeses to give backpay to furloughed federal workers. Thats about all congress completely agrees on right now. It is day five of the Government Shutdown. We also learned that defense secretary chuck hagel is ordering most of the defense departments 350,000 furloughed civilian workers back on the job. Withnioore on all of this, heres jeff pegues in washington. Reporter if House Speaker john boehner had a plan to end the Government Shutdown this morning, he wasnt sharing. Good morning, everybody. Nice to see you all. Reporter speaking today on the senate floor, majority leader harry reid pointed the finger across the aisle. All the speaker has to do is find the courage to defy the tea party for the good of our great country. Reporter reid and boehner have not spoken face to face sinced withs meeting at the white house. Fund the government reporter democ
Good evening. This is our western edition. Just as we wer just as we were running out of words to describe this endless winter, today the Weather Service offered historic and catastrophic to describe the potential of the storm making its way across the south tonight. Winter storm watches, warnings and advisories are up from texas all the way over to the east coast, the storms next target. Tonight, alabama is getting a second round of snow. And along the storms path, ice is likely to bring down power lines and make roads treacherous. We have a team of cbs news correspondents covering the storm. First, Mark Strassmann in atlanta. Mark. Reporter heres the worry, scott. Two weeks ago, it took three hours of precipitation to ice in and gridlock atlanta. Local forecasters say this storm could bring 18 hours of precipitation. In anxious atlanta, roads and highways were lightly traveled all day. Many commuters stayed home, most schools canceled classes. The National Weather system predicted th
Arkansas. Teams are scouring debris, fearing the number of dead may rise. Many areas are bracing for possible tornados. Tennessee has declared a state of emergency ahead of the storm. A news crew from our arkansas affiliate, kark, was able to help one woman out. I dont know if this belongs to you, but i found this right near the tree. Oh, its my daughters thank you. Youre so welcome. Im so glad i was able to find a picture for you. Actually my photographer found that. Thank you so much. Joining me now, george howl. So much devastation, destruction. Tell us what youre seeing there. Setting the scene here, you look at this power pole, you can see it ripped in half. It gives you a real sense of how strong the winds were. You can see some of the damage and devastation here. A lot of the power lines were down. Were at a part just before it got really bad. If you look down the road there, thats where its a lot worse. Down the road officials are doing their best to go through the debris. They
Jan crawford on the case before the Supreme Court today. Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley good evening. This is our western edition. The new commissioner of the National Basketball association chose the nuclear option. Today, adam silver banned Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling for life and urged the rest of the nba owners to force him to sell his team. It is punishment for racist comments the 80yearold sterling admits that he made, comments condemned by president obama as incredibly offensive. Here is commissioner silver this afternoon in new york. Mr. Sterling may not attend any n. B. A. Games or practices. He may not be present at any clippers facility, and he may not participate in any business or player personnel decisions involving the team. Pelley and commissioner silver said this about the ownership of sterlings half billion dollar team. I will urge the board of governors to exercise its authority to force a sale of the
This is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley good evening. This is our western edition. 13 people died in crashes linked to a defect in general motorses vehicles and tonight the government is demanding answers. Chief among them, when did g. M. Know about the defect, and what did the company do . Car makers are required to notify the government within five days of discovering a safety defect. Cbs news was the first to obtain a Service Advisory that showed that g. M. Knew about these problems with ignition switches a decade before it announced a recall. That recall of 1. 6 million, mostly compact cars didnt begin until last month. More now from jeff glor. Mo reporter the 27page order demands names, emails, internal memos, engineering drawings, and more, everything linked to the ignition defects. 107 questions in all, including exactly how many consumer complaints has g. M. Received . How many lawsuits has g. M. Settled . And the details of each. These typically include confiden