Still missing. One day after the deal to ease rising tensions in Eastern Ukraine the agreement appears to be in trouble. The geneva deal calls for pro russian activist who have seized government buildings to leave immediately, but the activists say they are not going to go anywhere just yet. We have more now from donestk. Reporter several have spent supplies because they are not party to the talks and say theyre not under obligation to implement what was decided, namely the demonstrators who have occupied government buildings should lay down their weapons and come out. Many feel they could find themselves arrested straight away. In kiev they appear to be offering a olive branch, and would give a certain status to the russian land bridge and autonomy to the region allowing people to elect their own town and Regional Council rather than having government imposed on them from kiev. And there has been a warning suggesting that they have misapologize what was agreed in geneva. The sub text
From eastern colorado to wisconsin. More than 30,000 people have lost power in iowa now, which has seen the most snow so far, as much as 8 inches. Near whiteout conditions on the roads called a 30car pileup near fort dodge, iowa killing one person. The storm is heading east expected to hit new england sometime tomorrow. Well keep our eye on the system and pri you the latest throughout the hour. Political showdown playing out on capitol hill could lead to higher taxes for almost all of us. The house votes today on speaker John Boehners backup proposal to avoid the automatic tax increases and spending cuts set to take in effect just 12 days from now. President obama is threatening to veto that plan. A new cnn orc poll reflects the concern among americans if the two sides do not reach a deal. 20 say going over the socalled fiscal cliff would lead to a crisis. 50 say it would cause major problems. Dana bash is on capitol hill following this. I understand you have two lawmakers who are goin
It was clarifying i think for both sides. House republicans meeting with president. And it was productive . Forgive our wonderment, but we havent heard anything like that in the past ten days. So crisis over . Our teams are going to be talking further tonight. Well, the president didnt say yes and he didnt say no to a shortterm plan that would raise the debt ceiling. And its unclear what effect any of this might have on the partial Government Shutdown. But the president strongly previous a longerterm resolution. Put a pot of coffee on this. Could be an all nighter. This is shutdown showdown. Good evening. Im jake tapper. Welcome to this special half hour of cnn, shutdown showdown. Tonight im going to report something that i have not been able to report for ten, almost 11 days now. Actual, honest to god progress its not a beast of progress, its a little mouse. Its small. It might run off if it hears a loud noise. Its fragile. But it exists tonight here in the nations capitol, our electe
Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley good evening. President obama has won the first battle in his campaign to get congress to authorize military action against syria. As you know, the president wants to punish the assad dictatorship of syria for a nerve gas attack two weeks ago today. U. S. Intelligence says sarin gas killed more than 1,400 civilians, including more than 400 children. Today the Senate Foreign Relations Committee passed a resolution that would give the President Authority to carry out a limited strike. The 107 vote sends the measure to the full senate. Congressional correspondent nancy cordes is on capitol hill for us tonight. Nancy . Reporter scott, three republicans joined nearly all of the committees democrats in voting to approve this resolution which was originally written by the white house but dramatically revised by the committee in order to restrict the president s military options. Yea. Mr. Durban . Yea. Mr. Udal
Directly to the white house and suggests the Senior Adviser to president obama played a essential role preparing former u. N. Ambassador susan rice for the sunday talk shows where she blamed an anti muslim video for the deaths of four americans. Among the pages of documents is an email from ben rhodes. With subject line prep call with susan. Rhodes writes to a dozen members of the administrations inner circle, including key players, such as spokesman jay carney, to underscore that these proceed refts are rooted in an internet video and not a failed policy. The document reads like a pr strategy. Not an effort to provide the best available intelligence to the American People. The goal of the house was to do one thing primarily was to make the president look good, blame it on the video and not on the president s policies. The rhodes email is significant because it was not part of the email released last may by the administration and in recent congressional testimony, the former cia Deputy