Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley good evening. The search for Malaysia Airlines flight 370 has just entered a third week. Today the malaysian government asked the United States for undersea surveillance equipment the pentagon says that the u. S. Alex rodriguez loan has spent two and a half Million Dollars so far on the hunt for the boeing triple seven which vanished on a flight from kuala lumpur to beijing with 239 people on board. Three americans. The main focus is an area about the size of texas in the indian ocean west of australia. This is how much they have searched so far. It is a tedious operation involving six aircraft and six ships, and the weather is not cooperating. We have a team of correspondents on the story, first we will go to Holly Williams in perth, australia, holly. Scott, the search is duty due to begin here this hour involving six aircraft, but they are hunting for the wreckage of flight 370 in one of the most inacc
Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley, reporting tonight from boston. Pelley good evening, from a squstery, rainy copley square. One year ago today, terrorists tried to strike fear into the hearts of the people of this city. But those hearts were filled with courage and determination and compassion. That was the theme of this day hontributes to the victims of be Boston Marathon bombings the more than 260 who were wounded, at least 16 lost limbs and, of course, the three who died. Also, Police Officer sean collier, who was shot dead in cold blood allegedly by the bombing suspects. Jeff glor begins our coverage. Reporter the day began with a wreathlaying ceremony at the frathons finish line for the families of the four who were d lled. The Richard Family was there dau their daughter, jane, who lost a leg that day. Oh, beautiful for spacious skies. Reporter later, the larger tribute at a City Convention center. Massachusetts governor deval patrick. The
Terror suspects. What were learning about the attack in yemen. And a year after the Boston Marathon bombing. A city gets ready to run again. Coming up we hear from some of the youngest victims who were so close to the blast last year. Our top story, the death toll rises to 59 in that ferry that sank off the coast of south korea. And were getting new details about what happened when the ship was rolling over. From a radio transcript released a short time ago, heres what we know right now. Divers are trying to inch through the sunken ferry hoping to find any survivors. But so far theyre only coming across bodies. Theyre bringing those bodies back to shore one by one as heartbroken families watch. Todays death toll could go much higher. 243 people are still missing. Many of them are teens who all went to the same high school. Families try to get from jindo, the base of the search effort, to the capitol of seoul. They say they want to tell the government about their situations. But they we
Release, though he has chosen not to release it himself. Back to the hill it goes. The New York Times reporting, mr. Trump who had a brief window to block the memos disclosure on National Security grounds was expected to Tell Congress on friday that he had no sxokss would likely not request any material be redacted, according to a Senior Administration official. It would then be up to the House Intelligence Committee whose Republican Leaders have pushed for the release to make the document public. New reporting by the Washington Post gives us some insight into how the president arrived at that decision, that conclusion. According to the post, before he had even read it, trump became absolutely convinced of one thing. The memo needed to come out. That the president did not actually see the memo until wednesday afternoon, that would be yesterday, following committees monday vote to initiate its release. That was after the president was caught on a hot mike coming up the aisle after the s
More fisa applications on on behalf of the doj. Is this a big nothing burger . George papadopouloss information triggered the opening of an fbi counterintelligence investigation in july 2016 by fbi agent peter strzok. Hes also a favorite target of republicans because of his Text Messages with fbi attorney lisa page showing bias against trump. But we should also note that strzok also favored opening the clinton investigation. Democrats allege the memo compiled by republicans cherry picks information. Former fbi director james comey weighed in on the memos release a minute ago tweeting, thats it . Dishonest and misleading memo where he could the House Intel Committee, destroyed trust with the Intelligence Community, damaged relationship with fisa court and inexcuse bly exposed classified information of an american citizen . For what . Doj and fbi must keep doing their jobs. We have got the best folks in the business to break this down. Joining me now is the host of msnbcs hardball, chris