Asked beforehand, do you trust the intelligence . Trump said, not so much. And the 12yearold hunter. Her family defending these photos amid Death Threats tonight. Good evening on this very busy wednesday night. And we begin with the frightening moments unfolding on a ship with more than 500 passengers and crew, offpuerto rico. A fire breaking out. They were ordered to abandon ip the u. S. Coast guard rushing to the scene of the caribbean fantasy. Black smoke there pouring out from the ship as it approached san juan. Passengers overcome. The captain, ordering that evacuation. Passengers in life vests jumping down slides. More than 100 injuries. And tonight, abcs gee io benit in puerto rico with new reporeport ing now on what might have caused the fire. Reporter tonight, new the ferry still smoldering some 12 hours after that dangerous fire erupted at sea. More than 500 passengers and crew, wearing life vests, ordered to abandon ship. Evacuating down those emergency slides into rescue ra
Showers out to the west of us. No big problems from the rain through the morning hours. A quick look at one of those storm reports, this is out at mattituck, officially an ef0 tornado in mattituck. Today, nothing severe. But any one particular storm could get nasty. 87 by what are we watching on the morning commute . Not much out there just some road work. Route 17, all lanes are shut down between midland avenue an century road. Thats something to keep in mind. On the cross bronx expressway, road work in both directions. Eastbound two lanes are shut down by webster avenue. Westbound out by the bronx river more weather and traffic on the 4s. Right now the man who scaled 21 flights of trump tower is in the hospital. Were learning more about who he is and the message he had for donald trump. Today in new yorks Katherine Creag has the latest on the high rise drama that lasted for hours. Once you arrive at trump tower, the first thing you notice are Police Officers and security personnel. A
This is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley we begin with major setback today for supporters of legalized pot. After a long review, the Obama Administration decided today that marijuana will remain what is called a schedule 1 drug, same as heroin, the category for the most dangerous drugs with no ow government in conflict with states that have already made pot legal either for recreational or medicinal use. We have more now from don dahler. Reporter the Drug Enforcement administration said marijuana has no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the united states. Chuck rosenberg is acting administrator for the d. E. A. Its not about danger. Stuff in schedule one can be and effective medicine. This decision keeps marijuana classified as a schedule 1 drug, like heroin and l. S. D. , which means the federal government only approves of its use under strictly limited research concerns. In violation of federal law, new jersey is one of 42 states and the district of columbi
. . . . Teammates, close friends, medalists tonight in rio, biles and raisman. That brings us to a look at the medal count of day six. Presented by mcdonalds, supporting athletes on their another big day and night for the americans, with five golds overall. While the United States owns more gold medals than any other country in olympic history, fiji won a gold in rugby for its first medal of any kind. A nation with a population less than delaware, fiji loves rugby like no other sport. Children grow up with a ball in their hands. Entire villages huddle around radios and small tvs to listen to or watch the National Team 15,000seat national stadium. There you see it, in the capital city. And they watched the gold medal match won by their countrymen there tonight. Meanwhile, turning back to the headliners here in rio, a group that included aly raisman, winning a silver medal and the performance of her life in the all around. Raisman has five medals in her distinguished olympic career, thre
The intelligence . Trump said, not so much. And the 12yearold hunter. Her family defending these photos amid Death Threats tonight. Good evening on this very busy wednesday night. And we begin with the frightening moments unfolding on a ship with more than 500 passengers and crew, offpuerto rico. A fire breaking out. They were ordered to abandon ship. The u. S. Coast guard rushing to the scene of the caribbean fantasy. Black smoke there pouring out from the ship as it approached san juan. Passengers overcome. The captain, ordering that evacuation. Passengers in life vests jumping down slides. More than 100 injuries. And tonight, abcs gee jeio ben in puerto rico with new reportireport ing now on what might have caused the fire. Reporter tonight, new details of the horror at sea. The ferry still smoldering some 12 hours after that dangerous fire erupted at sea. More than 500 passengers and crew, wearing life vests, ordered to abandon ship. Evacuating down those emergency slides into resc