Successful to take exception to share of responsibility i may have given you the feeling that i wasnt concerned that i help other priorities i also know that ive hurt some of you with my statements in the piece you saw. A model of mccoys helping to defuse the yellow vest protests that are going the country into trim while but will those concessions be enough. And the bail hearing for aggressive hallway chief Financial Officer may want to continue the outcome threatens to further aggravate already tense u. S. China. Or the us. Im so misconducts good to have you with us britains Prime Minister theresa may will meet german chancellor Angela Merkel in berlin today may is fighting for her political survival after delaying a parliamentary vote on her braggs a deal she hopes european leaders will give assurances that will soften opposition to the deal at home e. U. Leaders have called a meeting for thursday to discuss the crisis and they say they are stepping up preparations for a hard drugs
For everyone. Israel gears up to host this years euro vision song contest but the event is already surrounded by controversy. Thanks. Im sorry so much conducts good to have you with us washington is expected to announce that it is pulling out of a key arms control treaty now the u. S. And soviet union assigned the intermediate range Nuclear Forces or i. N. F. Treaty in one thousand nine hundred eighty seven the agreement aimed to eliminate a whole category of Nuclear Missiles now the americans say a new generation of russian Cruise Missiles violate the a pact an accusation that moscow does deny now last week parts of this are. Virtual weapons system were publicly displayed near moscow but not the missiles themselves russia accuses the us of also violating b. I. N. F. Treaty with other weapon systems in an interview with the us has lead to arms control negotiator said that the us was suspending the treaty to force russias hand and allow washington to start developing the type of arms ba
Company suddenly shut down. Well remember pioneering journalist Cokie Roberts. And the inspiring story of a cancer survivor swimming her way into the record books. What she did to celebrate. This is the cbs evening news with norah odonnell. Odonnell good evening. This is our western edition. Were going to get to the new reporting by cbs news on the saudi arabia attack in just a moment but as we come on the air, there is breaking news. A Tropical Storm is hitting americas fourth largest city tonight. Imelda formed just a few hoursa, targeting the houston area with lifethreatening flash floods. Chief weathercaster lonnie quinn from wcbs is tracking the storm. Lonny, imelda seemed to pop up out of nowhere, and now there are flash flood warnings for six million people. Without a doubt. Im talking three hours. This went from nothing to a tropical depression to a Tropical Storm. It made landfall around houstond this afternoon. Ghook he sig all the bright color shows you where the heavy rain
Trips life, too. Steve talking about our country in first story. 6 00 here in new york city. We are starting with this. A sohio of strength. Look at these images. Wow, u. S. Military launched over 50 fighter jets, the f35 as in utah as tension escalates with iran. Ainsley countrys revolutionary guard now says it will set ablaze places that are supported by the u. S. Pete it was 52 fighter jets specifically. What could that number represent . Steve hold on, didnt President Trump mention 52 targets . Pete maybe. Might be, you know. Steve 52 airplanes. Ainsley been planned for a while. Pete Rick Leventhal joins us from jerusalem about a deadly stampede at Qassem Soleimani funeral. Rick . Exactly. Pete, ainsley and steve good morning. General killed. A massive turnout for the funeral and some sort of stampede happened and Iranian State tv is reporting at least 32 people are dead. Trampled in that stampede at the funeral. The numbers of dead have been fluxiating throughout the hour. We will
Will climb even higher than the 20 killed that was described by the Prime Minister. Tonight with that same storm now gaining strength again, as it zeros in on the southeastern United States, with hurricane warnings and storm surge warnings in parts of florida and georgia and the carolinas and virginia tonight, today the u. S. Government in the midst of that stumbled into a station that we have never seen before. We have never seen anything remotely like this before. This is usually the time in the show where i would try to come up with some sort of clever story to lead up to this. Maybe a little historical anecdote to put it in perspective to help us understand what happened what it means today that this strange thing happened. I tried to show one of the other times that a u. S. President has done Something Like this. Thats what i would do at this point. I cannot do that tonight. Because the u. S. President has never before done a thing even remotely like what President Trump did tonig