announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt reporting tonight from buffalo, new york. good evening from buffalo. a still proud but deeply wounded community asking tonight, why us. why a teenager traveled hundreds of miles to this city, to this block, to this grocery store to allegedly seek out black people to kill today we learn the gun attack that killed ten and injured three may not have gone entirely as planned police believe the shooter, pumped up on false and racist conspiracy theories, intended to head down the street and shoot more people. thankfully he was stopped and arrested it came on the same weekend as a mass shooting at a southern california church, an attack on taiwanese church members being investigated tonight as a hate crime that was politically motivated. we ll have more on that in a few moments. let s begin here with the pain, remembrances, and fear in buffalo tonight, buffalo still struggling to come to terms with how someone could turn a s
Tell us more about how this works . Well, jeff it is very difficult for us to get access to yemen at all. We are only there for around two dates. We were accompanied by officials who decided what we could, couldnt see. So that constrained us as journalists. In one place we couldnt go was aacross the front line into houthi territories where the air strikes have the been landing and hunger and disease so devastating. Whats jarring about going to yemen is how shockingly poor it is. I mean, 8 Million People on the brink of famine. When, when the countrys neighbors on the Arabian Peninsula are so very rich. Countries like saudi arabia. Some important perspective. Hol williams, thank you. Mike pence left on a five day trip to asia, focused on ratcheting up pressure on north koreas repressive regime. Among his stops, the opening ceremonies of the Winter Olympics 50 miles from the dmz. Ben tracy is in the host city, pyeongchang. Reporter they have been Holding Drills for months simulating ever
Something, i got the best players in the word. Th this is the cbs evening news with jeff glor. Glor good evening. The stock market picked up where it left off last week, continuing its sharp slide. The dow plunged at the opening bella dinhzarr, then recovered, but in the afternoon the selloff accelerated. At one point the blue chip index had fallen by nearly 1,600 points before closing down more than 1,100, thats record oneday point drop. Cbs News Business analyst Jill Schlesinger is here. An absolute record drop, not percentagewise at least. Jill, talk to us about whats happen, correction, bear market, whats going on . We have been enjoying this bull market since march 9, 2009, the second longest bull on record, so it stands to reason that weve been a little overdue for some selling. If you look at it, this bear market, a bear market would be defined as a 20 drop from a recent high. The last two days were down 8. 5 from the high reached on january 26th. So close to a 10 correction. No
Possession of the switch. But says it is participating, in this investigation. Jeff. Kris van cleave in South Carolina, thank you. We are back in just a moment. Growing up, a lot of people judged me because of the way i look. I thought all asians were good at math. You all look the same to me. No, where are you really from . 9 11 was your fault. How do you see out of such small eyes . Go back to your country. I guess i wish that people knew. We are not all the same. We are not all the same. We are not all the same. This is the cbs overnight news. To date u. S. Military said it has begun shifting its focus in iraq. Now that isis has been evicted from most of the country. That will mean a draw down of american troops from peak of 9,000 to 4,000. Many will be sent to afghanistan. Or kuwait. Iraq and afghanistan may get the headlines, but, right now, there may be no place in the world more dangerous than yemen. A 3yearold civil war is in a stalemate. One side is backed by saudi arabia. The