This is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. This is our western edition. Good evening. Im charlie rose. Scott is on assignment for 60 minutes. Hell be reporting for us from dallas in just a few minutes, but were beginning tonight as we have all too many times with a shooting at an american school. A student opened fire inside his high school in marysville, washington, just outside seattle. Police say he killed at least one of his classmates and wounded four others before killing himself. More now from ben tracy. Information of a possible shooting at the high school, the cafeteria. Reporter the shooting was reported just before 10 40 this morning. Students were seen running out of maryvilles pill chuck high school, many with their hands in the air. The shooting happened in the school cafeteria. The shooter was holding what witnesses say was a handgun. He shot five people. Jerricha roettgen was there. He was pulling the gun and shooting everyone, and there was blood everywhere and so
Wouldnt cure. Rest assured we democrats will stir it up. This Election Year of 1968 has touched emotions. I think we have too much violence in this country. We go up together, or we go down together. And we have that understanding for our fellow citizens, we will have a new america, and i need your help. [ cheers and applause ] if you look at the whole year as theater, as real acts of tragedy, theres an almost poetic feeling to it. 1968 was one god damn thing after another. Hardly a day goes by without a new report of another demonstration or protest against the vietnam war. There is, in the land, a certain restlessness. Lyndon johnson, whatever else one thinks of him, his reputation will always have the stone of vietnam around it. We live in the middle of a beast. Lyndon johnson is a common murderer. Johnson did things that no other president did. Civil rights, great society. He should have been somebody that every young person and every liberal would have celebrated, but they didnt.
Good evening. And while we are covering developing news on several fronts on this friday night, most urgently this evening, there has been another School Shooting in this country. This time at a High School North of seattle in marysville, washington, where a student started shooting in a school cafeteria. We want to begin with the very latest. Nbcs Hallie Jackson is covering for us tonight. A possible shooting in the cafeteria. Reporter moments before students sprinted out of marysvillepilchuck high school, just after 10 30 this morning, Austin Taylor was in the cafeteria with a classmate. All of a sudden i see him stand up, pull something out of his pocket. At first i thought it was just someone making a really loud noise with like a bag, like a big loud pop, until i heard four more after that. And i saw three kids just fall from the table like they were falling to the ground dead. Reporter from inside the school, tweets from students. Dont go towards the cafeteria, school in lockdown
Violence in this country. We go up together, or we go down together. And we have that understanding for our fellow citizens, we will have a new america, and i need your help. [ cheers and applause ] if you look at the whole year as theater, as real acts of tragedy, theres an almost poetic feeling to it. 1968 was one god damn thing after another. Hardly a day goes by without a new report of another demonstration or protest against the vietnam war. There is, in the land, a certain restlessness. Lyndon johnson, whatever else one thinks of him, his reputation will always have the stone of vietnam around it. We live in the middle of a beast. Lyndon johnson is a common murderer. Johnson did things that no other president did. Civil rights, great society. He should have been somebody that every young person and every liberal would have celebrated, but they didnt. He became the vietnam war president. Wed been told repeatedly that were succeeding, were defeating them. They cant hold out. Johnso
If you look at the whole year as theatre, as a real act of tragedy, theres almost a poetic feeling to it. 1968 was one god damn thing after another. Hardly a day goes by without another protest or demonstration against the vietnam war. There is in the land a certain restlessness. Lyndon johnson, always has the stone of vietnam around him. Lyndon johnson is a common murderer. Johnson did things that no other president did. Civil rights, great society. He should have been somebody that every young person in every liberal would have celebrated. But they didnt. He became the vietnam war president. They have been told repeatedly were succeeding, were defeating them. They cant hold on. Johnson kept saying theres light at the end of the tunnel. This is a cbs news special report. Saigon under fire. The enemy in vietnam has demolished the myth that a live military strength controls that country. The American Embassy is under siege. Inside are the vietcong terror squads that charged in during th