Best day ever this is the cbs evening news with jeff glor, reporting tonight from central park in new york city. Glor and this is our western edition. Good evening. This 843acre oasis in the heart of manhattan sits on land that 12,000 years ago was covered by a glacier. Tonight, its covered by nearly eight inches of snow, from a blizzard that hit the northeast today, the first major storm of the season. It dumped as much as a foot and a half of snow on parts of the region. 37,000 homes and businesses lost power. The wintry weather around the country this week is blamed for at least 15 deaths. We have a team of correspondents covering the blizzard. First, don dahler in boston. Reporter massive flooding inept through boston, turning streets into slowmoving rivers, sending water into restaurants and office buildings, while forcing evacuations. Firefighters rescued trapped drivers. Tofe quickly became miserable for new englanders used to harsh diather. Those who didnt stay indoors lived to
Alexa, give me the news. Bloomberg reports amazon is listening to what you tell alexa. Dozens of companies employees are studying your conversations. Glor and eye on america, fed up teachers, we examine the issues. I want my students to know theyre important enough to me that ill fight for them. Glor good evening. Im jeff glor. This is our western edition. And were going to begin tonight with the arrest of Julian Assange. The man who spilled hundreds of thousands of government secrets was forcefully pulled from a London Embassy today, handcuffed, bearded and bedraggled, pointing and yelling. Assange was removed from the Ecuadorian Embassy where he had been holed up for seven years. The ecuadorians, who had apparently had enough, invited police in to arrest him. A u. S. Indictment unsealed today charges him with conspiracy to break into a topsecret military computer. Paula reid has more. Reporter after nearly seven years, Julian Assange did not go quietly. Dragged screaming out of the E
A threestory School Building collapsed while classes were in session. Dozens are feared trapped. A dramatic day for Paul Manafort. Judge Amy Berman Jackson sentencing manafort to 3. 5 additional years. Then, the manhattan d. A. Charged him with 16 new crimes. Glor and, the eightyearold who overcame more than you can imagine to make her dreams come true. It makes me feel really happy. Glor good evening. Im jeff glor. And this is our western edition. Were going to begin with the world grounding boeings newest plane. The u. S. Was the latest, and last on board. It came after new satellite information emerged following the crash of Ethiopian Airlines. 157 people died. This was how it looked earlier today over the u. S. Just as the announcement was made, all these 737maxes in the air at the time, those planes were make an average of 280 flights per day in the u. S. This is what it looks like now. Heres kris van cleave. Reporter at miamis airport, boeing 737max planes landed and prepared to