This is the cbs morning news for friday, august 7th, 2015. Good morning and thanks for joining us. Im Alison Harmelin in for annemarie green. The republican president ial candidates will be back on the campaign trail this morning after last nights first debate. The ten Top White House hopefuls showed their combative sides. They traded barbs over hot button issues like immigration. Donald trump refused to rule out a third party run. Craig boss will in cleveland. Reporter fireworks at the start from the first primetime republican president ial debate of the 2016 election. Donald trump went after the moderators as well as the other republicans on the stage. The other republicans fired back and the tone remained testy. Billionaire Businessman Donald Trump was center stage in a debate on the Fox News Channel and he came out swinging. Mr. Trump reporter he was the only republican candidate who couldnt promise he wont run as an independent. Im talking about a lot of leverage. We want to win a
I know you gave him a big hug. If you want to give him a big hug again, go right ahead. You call women you dont like fat pigs, slobs, dogs and disgusting animals. Only rosie odonnell. I think god has blessed us. Hes blessed the party with good candidates. The democrats cant even find one. Im the only one on the stage. I havent said anything about me being the only one to do anything, so im the only one that separates chinese twins. One of the Top Democrats in the senate says hes voting to oppose the president s plan to limit Irans Nuclear program. Charles schumer saying i believe iran will not change. U. S. Investigators believe russia is behind a cyber attack that brought down email servers at the pentagon. For the joint chiefs of staff. You are infuriatingly good at your job from cameos to every single former correspondent, it was a grand finale for a comedy legend. Thank you. Good night. Powerful typhoon is on a collision course with taiwan. The outer rain band already lashing the e
His 21yearold mother taken to Jamaica Medical Center for observation. There were three other adults in the apartment at the time who are still being questioned by police. And while taylor resa heard the aftermath, his brother overhead noises minutes before the infant was tossed. We live right below them, so he heard like a huge tantrum of a kid crying and like just running up and down. Thats all he heard. Reporter now, this is a live look at the Apartment Building where this child was tossed from. You can see theres still an nypd officer guarding the front entrance of this building. We are told by sources they are still serving a search warrant on that apartment and those family members are still being questioned at the 102nd precinct but no charges have been filed in this incident. Reporting live in richmond hill, darla miles, channel 7 Eyewitness News. Darla, thank you. New information about a disturbing discovery in rockland county, a fetus found in a sewer grate, the county now tel
Routedded in syria in its First Contact with the enemy. Both the cost and the stakes are high. The Obama Administration is depending on u. S. Trained syrians and iraqis to roll back the Islamic Extremist Group isis, which has dismembered both countries despite daily u. S. Air strikes. One pentagon official described the defeat as the u. S. Trained troops as a friggin mess. Heres david martin. Reporter this video purporting to show u. S. Trained fighters captured in syria could not be independently verified, but theres no doubt the pentagons first attempt to insert fighters into syria met with what one official called abject failure. Nearly half the force was either killed, captured or missing. And they never even came in contact with isis. Officially called the new syrian force, first contingent of 54 fighters was trained by the u. S. Military at a base in turkey and sent across the border into northern syria. [explosion] but instead of fighting isis, they unexpectedly came under attac
Typhoon makes landfall in taiwan. The u. N. Security Council Voted unanimously to set up an investigation into who was responsible for chemical weapons attacks in syria. The west is repeatedly blamed the atrocity on the government. The inquiry could pave the way to sanctions against those responsible. We report from the United Nations in new york. Reporter there is agreement on the what. Now the u. N. Security council wants to know the who. Will thoses in favor of the draft resolution please raise their hand. Reporter a vote to set up a panel of experts to finally point the finger of blame for the chemical weapons and chlorine attacks in syria. Its the first time blame could be assigned to the perpetrators. This sends a clear and powerful message to all those involved in chemical weapons attacks in syria. We will identify you if you gas people. It bears repeating we need to bring the same unity we have shown today to urgently find a political solution to the syrian crisis. Reporter the