Toothpaste company. This is the cbs evening news with jeff glor. Golodryga good evening. Im bianna golodryga. Jeff is off tonight. Safety is the mantra for Law Enforcement approaching new years. The department of Homeland Security is especially concerned with security in lives las vegae scene this year of the worst mass shooting in recent american history. The tournament of roses parade in pasadena, california, is also high on its list. And, as always, the midnight celebration in new yorks times square. We begin with tony dokoupil. Reporter three days before the ball drops in times square, security is already building up. New York Police Commissioner james oneill the takeaway from our preparation this is people will be safe and they should feel safe, too. Reporter to protect about a million revelers in a city still shaken by a botched pipe bombing this month and a deadly vehicle attack on halloween, the n. Y. P. D. Is promising stepped up patrols, canine teams, and heavy weapons squads
Good morning everybody. And thank you for attending todays hearing. We gather here today in the wake of violent acts by evil men in las vegas and southern springs, and those two places get all the attention, but there is lesser number of people have died other places as well. Today, with the help of our witnesses, we hope to learn more about how those tragedies might have been prevented. And we will discuss various proposals on preventing similar tragedies in the future. Before october 1st, 2017, few americans new whatknew what a b stock was. Then a shooter used bump stocks to fire more than 1100 rounds into a crowd attending a Country Music concert. The shooting lasted only ten minutes. The bump stocks enabled this person to fire oammunition as i he had used an automatic weapon. 58 people died. 500 wounded. It was the deadliest mass shooting in our history. Our laws prohibit the manufacturer of machine guns, for decades and decades thats been the case, and greatly restrict their sale.
By mutual of america designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why were your retirement company. Additional support has been provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios at Lincoln Center in new york, hari sreenivasan. Sreenivasan good evening and thank you for joining us. On the one Year Anniversary of president Donald Trumps inauguration, the federal government is shut down. All but the most essential functions of government are being halted, but the senate and house of representatives are in session. With no clear end in sight. Mail will still be delivered; Social Security checks will still go out; the military will continue its missions around the world; some National Parks do remain open. But if the shutdown continues into monday, nearly 800,000 federal workers will be furloughed, including workers from almost every federal agency. This m
The eagles are preparing for the big game, sean . Ladies, everybody is hyped. The whole city and the players, too, i know youve seen the videos going around on social media of the players dancing, and having fun, and thats huge. The guys are staying loose before the biggest game of some of their lives because they cant be tight going into a game like this, it took the last regime four tries to the superbowl hopefully only takes this one once. Coach Doug Pederson has come a long way. People at one point wanted them fired now hes their guy. He has to be your guy. Now everyone has his back, peterson spoke about the john fry day one, to now. I just think im wiser, smarter, learn from past experience, i think im better swear allman injury in the games, and, you know, preparing the team, and my messaging with the team, i just think you learn and grow. I dont walk around the building sort of, you know, beating my chess or anything like, that im going to be me, you know, ive always tried to ex
Say they have shot that the suspect a sixty four year old man from nevada. And well get the latest from spain after a chaotic day in catalonia funds the country into crisis the catalog Regional Government is meeting right now to consider what steps towards independence it can take thats after ninety percent of voters back separating from spain in a referendum disrupted by police and dismissed our madrid. Im sumi so misconduct good to have you with us a gunman has killed at least fifty people and injured two hundred more in Las Vegas Police say the suspect a sixty four year old white male from nevada was shot dead the gunman began firing on an outdoor concert from the thirty second floor of the Mandalay Bay Hotel and casino. Authorities are not certain right now about the motives for the attack they say they have located a female person of interest she was seen accompanying the suspect before the attack. Now the las vegas Sheriff Joe Lombardo spoke just a few minutes ago lets listen in.