Search for two convicted killers. Who appear to have devised a cunning way to walk out of prison. And it raises the possibility that other convicts have done the same thing, abcs senior justice correspondent Pierre Thomas has the very latest at this hour. Reporter the families of the men killed by two released murderers, fear and outrage. I fear for my safety. Yes, i am. He knows where i live. Its very scary. If he doesnt come after my family, its possible he will kill someone else. Reporter florida authorities realized the men had escaped after corrections officials did a Courtesy Call to victim families to tell them the men had been released. A frustrated Family Member called authorities asking why convicted killers were suddenly free. He was just dumbfounded. Reporter Joseph Jenkins and Charles Walker walked out of prison weeks ago after someone created a fake court order, the documents looked authentic, proper letterhead, seemingly legitimate signatures, even the chief judge. They
Come back here. This of course is where donald trump will be sworn in tomorrow as the 45th president of the United States. The president elect hoping most of his cabinet nominees will be confirmed on day one. Senate democrats have something to say about that. Theyre trying to slow down the confirmation profecess because ethical concerns facing several of mr. Trumps nominees. All of this about the trumps administrations readiness to run the nations federal agencies. Were just a day away from the inauguration. Lets get to our coverage. We have cnn live on capitol hill. Good morning to you, chris. President elect donald trump is pushing for his cabinet nominees to be confirmed quickly. Republicans up here on capitol hill they want 7 nominees to be confirmed on friday just hours after donald trump is inaugurated. But Senate Democrats here are threatening to push the breaks on this saying that they will not rush this and really threatening saying that republicans here are trying to jam thes
This is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley this is our western edition. The president flew out of washington today, leaving behind a sense of insecurity in National Security. Yesterday, President Trump ordered an investigation of his intelligence agencies, which he accused of leaking classified information that forced him to fire his National Security adviser. Hes compared u. S. Intelligence to nazis. Now, there is skepticism in the military. The decorated retired vice admiral mr. Trump asked to be the new National Security adviser has turned the commander in chief down. Earlier this week, the head of u. S. Special Operations Forces said the government continues to be in unbelievable turmoil. And today, the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee Said that the president s word cannot be trusted. Major garrett picks up the story at the white house. And the leaks are absolutely real. The news is fake. Reporter before his first solo press conference yesterday, Presiden
Head of the boy scouts called him to say his speech to the scouts was, in trumps words, the greatest speech ever given to the group. The second one saying the mention cal president called him to offer what trump said was the ultimate compliment, that very few people are crossing over the southern border. We now know that neither of those statements are true. Heres press secretary Sarah Huckabee sanders admitting this today. On mexico, he was referencing a conversation that they had had at the g20 summit where they talked about the issues he referenced. In terms of the boy scouts, multiple members of the boy squad leadership following his speech there that day congratulated him, praised him and offered quite im looking for the word. Quite powerful compliments. So he lied . I wouldnt say it was a lie. Thats pretty bold accusation. The conversations took place. They just simply didnt take place over a phone call, that he had them in person. Face to face conversations, of course, are not p
Struggling mightily. Breaking news. A massive change is coming to the boy scouts. Justice correspondent Pete Williams has the story on that. Pete, whats the change . Craig, for the first time in its more than 100year history, the boy scouts have decided to admit girls into scouting, cub scouts and scouting, and allow girls to achieve the coveted rank of eagle scout, which is scoutings highest honor. We learned this was a unanimous vote by the boy scouts board of directors. Theyll have a twophase program here. Theyll begin allowing younger girls to become cub scouts starting next year. The cub scout units will either be all girls or all girls. Local units can have both or either one, whichever they chose. They will be single gender organizations. The following year in 2019, the boy scouts will begin establishing a program for girls that will allow them to get to the rank of eagle scout. Now, the reason for this, scouting says, is simply the change in American Life. The chief scouting ex