Crisis. The deadliest violence since morrissey was austined july 3rd. Left 65 people dead and 270 wounded. A make shirt morgue was overwhelmed. All had been shot in the head, the heart, or the chest. And claimed everyone was targeted the military crack down concerned egypts muslims. One doesnt have to be a fan of the muslim brother hood in any way whatsoever to protest whats happening in egypt at this stage. According to the associated press, the latest confrontation developed as Security Forces and armed men confronted promorrissey demonstrators as they tried to expand their main cairo senate. A state of anarchy. There is a break down of discipline and order in egypt. We will see. A lot more of this violence being carried out. On to israel. An unstable egypt is bad for the middle east and for u. S. Interests in the region. Egypt is absolutely key to any political profits in the middle east. To any stability in the region as a whole. And if things get out of control in egypt, my concer
Captioning funded by cbs this is the cbs morning news for friday, august 2 pd this is the cbs morning news for friday, august 2nd, 2013. Good morning. Good to be with you. Im annemarie green. Well, the state department is taking a potential Terror Threat very seriously. Its prompting embassies throughout the muslim world to shut down sunday. Susan mcginnis has more. Susan, good morning. Good morning, annemarie. Without elaborating it says its closing its diplomatic posts because of security threats but intelligence says they picked up signs of a plot by al qaeda. The state department reacted to a security concern thursday, ordering u. S. Embassies and consulates across north africa and the middle east to be shuttered down on sunday. They include dip employee masts posts in egypt, israel, and jordan. We continue our operations with security and safety. Reporter the state department stayed quiet but the closings are tied to a nonspecific threat from al qaeda. Without knowing an exact loc
Chemical weapons on its own people but only 29 said that the u. S. Should react with air strikes. This is after 10 years of a very, very difficult experience in afghanistan and iraq. Reporter for her part, pelosi says she is not pushing a vote one way or the other. If anything, she appears to be handling the situation with kid gloves. Some people will never be for anything. I totally respect that. I do not believe we can ignore the use of chemical weapons. Reporter what would it take to get you on board this . It doesnt work that way. I think you continue to live with the evidence, i continue to sift your your your beliefs, your values, your thoughts, your understanding of this of these issues, and obviously what always lurks in the background is those unintended consequences. Reporter those unintended consequences are likely to be the center of debate as this moves into the house, which could take a week or two she was very clear today that this is not going to be a rush job, that its
Now. We have a transitional day today. Looks like the fog will give to lift throughout the day and well see a whole lot of sunshine. Temperatures now in the 50s and the 60s. By the afternoon, its going to be one more mild day outside. It will be warm inland in spots with these temperatures probably a little bit below the average in many areas, about 83 in livermore, still comfortable, 83 in concord. Should be about 79 degrees in san jose. Much hotter days are on the way. Well talk about it coming up lets check the roads with elizabeth. The roads are looking good if you are traveling the nimitz freeway. We are at 5 01 this morning. So now that were past that 5 00 hour, a lot of the overnight roadwork is being picked up. So were talking the san mateo bridge, there is a stall reported on westbound 92. Its on the line approaching the highrise so a dangerous area a heads up westbound 92 traffic, but looks okay from this Vantage Point drive time in the green past the toll plaza westbound tow
Time now is 6 00. Developing news this morning. President obama has arrived in russia for the start of the g20 summit. The meetings are supposed to focus on economic issues. But syria is likely to be a hot topic among the global leaders. Bart working overtime while the bay bridge is closed. Its now paying the price after covering the trips over 200,000 miles more than a dozen cars out of service for maintenance. And the sound of exploding gas tanks woke up a richmond neighborhood after a home caught fire. The fire started in a van on south ninth and virginia at about 2 30. Flames then spread to a carport and then the home. Firefighters evacuated nearby homes. Police in san mateo are investigating a shooting that left one man dead another injured. This is a live look at the scene at the 1500 block of lodi avenue near South Norfolk street. Police say it started just before midnight last night when several people heard shots fired. About a half hour later two victims showed up at a hospit