In his furry costume for a helmet and shoulder pads and became the teams star quarterback. Good morning, everybody. Love this mascot story. This is 16yearold trent bower, as the klutzcy high school mascot. There he is. And after this is the after shot. This is him after he convinced the coach to let him play quarterback. Were going to show you the results, coming up. Like a modernday rudy. Also coming up, just over two weeks until election day. And its a razorthin race, that has political watchers considering a tricky question. Could we see a repeat of bush gore in 2000. Could mitt romney win the popular vote and lose the election . They have the last debate monday night. Theyre hiring lawyers. Binders full of lawyers. Also coming up, good news in the extraordinary recovery of the 16yearold girl shot in the head by the taliban because she wanted to go to school. This is the picture she wants everybody to see this morning. And coming up this morning, theres a story that has ginger zee s
Its a hard thing to do. This is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley this is our western edition. Have no idea when theyll be allowed to go home. They were evacuated yesterday over concern that recent rain could cause a spillway to fail, at the nations tallest dam. Three counties town three counties down stream could be inundated, and John Blackstone is there. Reporter with water thundering out of oroville dam, officials are in a race to fix the damaged spillway and lower the lake level, which is at near capacity. Enlifornia department of Water Resources director bill croyle. Were moving 100,000 cubic feet per second down that spillway. Weve been doing that for about 16 or 17 hours. Reporter as the water pours out, crews are preparing to move huge boulders to fortify the dams spillways. Mainmain concrete spillway that funnels excess water into a floodplain began breaking apart last week. Chunks of concrete gave way, and the hole kept getting bigger. Engineers decided to use a