God i was in the room when he came. The workers mother says her son had no history of violence. And nofly zone. Were at one of americas busiest airports where millions of travelers will soon find there are no plastic Water Bottles in stores and restaurants. Its tuesday, august 20th, 2019. Here is todays eye opener. Your world in 90 seconds. Jeffrey epstein signed a will two days before he apparently hanged himself. More fallout from epsteins death behind bars. Court papers say epsteins estate is worth half a billion dollars. There are no details on his beneficiaries. Today is a day of reckoning. A new York City Police officer has been fired for his role in the chokehold death of eric garner. You may have lost your job but i lost a son. Planned parenthood is rejecting federal funding rather than comply with a new rule that bans them from referring women to an abortion provider. Senator and president ial candidate Elizabeth Warren apologized again for making claims about her native ameri
Attacks in texas and ohio. What he said about racism, bigotry and White Supremacy in this country. And tonight, former president obama now weighing in. And in dayton, ohio, tonight, new images of the horror. Customers diving for cover to escape the gunman. The lists he allegedly once had, who to kill, who to rape. And ohios governor drowned out by the crowd, chanting do something about gun violence. The other major news this monday night, the stock market plunge on wall street, were live. The breaking news coming in from north korea. What they have now done. And two pilots arrested, accused of being too drunk to fly. They were headed to newark. And the other headline, the Emergency Landing. The smoke filling the cabin. And good evening tonight from el paso. We arrived here over the weekend as this country comes to grips with yet more carnage. Two Mass Shootings, 13 hours apart. And new demands from so many in this country that our leaders do something. That they offer more than words.
Reversing course when it comes to your privacy . Privacy . This is the cbs evening news with norah odonnell. Odonnell good evening, this is our western edition. President trumps choice to be americas top spy didnt even make it to the end of the week. Remember, it was in a tweet on sunday that the president announced his intention to nominate texas congressman and trump loyalist John Ratcliffe as director of national intelligence. But, questions were quickly raised about his qualifications and whether he could win confirmation. And today, it was retreat and retweet. Taking to twitter again, the president announced ratcliffe was withdrawing from consideration. Leading us off tonight is paula ulid on how this happened and what might happen next. Hapeporter President Trump said congressman ratcliffe withdrew from consideration to avoid further media scrutiny. I i think he was just treated atry badly, very harshly by the press. Reporter that press focused on bipartisan concerns about ontcli
Didnt exist. Cbs news gets rare access to a Veterans Crisis line as two Government Agencies launch a new effort to stop veteran suicides. And a tennis legend received a rare honor that is decades overdue. This is the cbs evening news with norah odonnell. Dickerson good evening, norah is off tonight, im john dickerson. And this is our western edition. We begin with breaking news, a verdict in a case that could set the stage for dozens, maybe hundreds of new lawsuits against pharmaceutical companies. In the first state opioid case to make it to trial, a judge in oklahoma late today ruled Johnson Johnson helped fuel the states Opioid Crisis and ordered the company to pay more than a half a billion dollars to the state. Omar villafranca has the latest including what Johnson Johnson is saying tonight. I am entering an abatement plan that consists of costs totaling 572,102,028. Reporter judge thad balkman concluded the state proved pharmaceutical giant johnson and johnson and its subsidiary