Transcripts For KMEG CBS Evening News With Scott Pelley 2015

And thats going to spread that tropical moisture right here into the Southern Plains and just add to the flooding woes here in texas with an additional 612 inches of rain across parts of texas and, scott, some areas have already seen is 612 inches of rain here in the past 24 hours. Pelley larry mowry of kttv, thanks. And cbs News Reporter Adrienne Bard is in mexico city tonight. Adrienne. Scott, mexican officials are calling Hurricane Patricia a perfect storm. Forecasters expect 15 it inches of rain in the next 24 hours and waving towering up to 30 feet. There is also concern about lifethreatening mudslides and what it might do to the people who live in the rugged sierra madre villages. The storm center will had the land near Puerto Vallarta where thousands of tourists from hotels and cruises were evacuated in buses after the airport closed. Authorities urged everyone in to get off the beaches and streets. Some were not listening. Officials said they feared people might not believe all the doomsday warnings. There are shelters for 240,000 people ready with food, water, clothes, and blankets. Patricia intensified to a category 5 in 24 hours. Experts are blaming mump warmerthanusual sea temperatures. After enough has been done to prepare for this, one mexican official said all protocols for prevention were followed but admitted they dont know how well the roads, bridges, and Power Installations will hold up, really because the force of this storm is simply unprecedented. Pelley Adrienne Bard city. Thanks, adrienne. As larry mowry just told us, its been raining across most of texas since yesterday morning. Storms that had nothing to do with the hurricane are expected to last until sunday. Omar villafranca is in dallas this evening. Omar. Reporter scott, many of the roads and bridges in dallas look like this. Theyre washed over and closed, and more rain is on the way. More than four it inches of driving rain turned roadways into waterways in parts of north texas today. Near waco, a section of interstate 35, one of the nations busiest highways, was temporarily closed after this 18wheeler hit a median and overturned. This round of weather is the latest in a storm system that saturated the state. Its floating. There goes a doublewide gone. Reporter in west texas, runoff washed away this mobile home. No one was home, so no one was hurt. Floodwaters swallowed up this ambulance in odessa, and prompted at least 30 swiftwater rescues in the area. The fastmoving rainstorm it swamped lowlying streets in dallas, forcing some drivers to wade through several feet of water. The storm also toppled trees in to as many as 20,000 residents. A Lightning Strike sparked this house fire but the four people inside were able to get out. The 4. 5 inches of rain that has already fallen is more than dallas typically gets for the entire month and we know more is on the way. Scott, as we mentioned, texas is bracing for remnants of Hurricane Patricia and the states Emergency Operations center has been activated. Pelley Omar Villafranca on the scene for us tonight. Omar, thanks. Today, we learned the name of the american soldier killed yesterday during a raid to free dozens of prisoners that were held by isis in iraq. Master Sergeant Joshua wheeler was 39, a native of roland, oklahoma, a 20year veteran, and a member of the special Operations Delta force. He had earned 11 bronze stars in iraq and afghanistan for heroism in action. He leaves a wife and four sons. Troops and jumped into the fight when they got into trouble. Today, defense secretary ash carter sahd to expect more raids like it. Our Elizabeth Palmer is in Northern Iraq tonight, and shes learned a great deal more about that raid. Liz. Reporter scott, the secretary of Defense Ash Carter said he authorized this raid when new information, including fresh graves indicated that the prisoners were about to be it executed. So a joint force of Kurdish Peshmerga fighters and u. S. Special Operations Forces stormed this compound. They went in by helicopter, very early on thursday morning. Master Sergeant Wheeler died when the kurds came under very heavy gunfire as they stormed the compound, and the americans joined in to help. Now, this is video posted a very short time ago online by isis, which they say shows the aftermath of this raid. The mission was originally set in motion when the kurds told the americans that they thought some of their fighters who had been paraded as prisoners by isis were inside that compound. We now know they werent there, but 70 other prisoners were, some of them believed to be it isis fighters and the secretary said that they will provide valuable information about how the group works. He added that there are going to be more raids like this one because they are so very purposes. Pelley veteran war correspondent Elizabeth Palmer in Northern Iraq. Liz, thank you. David martin, our pentagon correspondent, has gone inside the command center for the u. S. Air war on isis, and you can see his report this sunday on 60 minutes. 101 days until the iowa caucuses, and Republican Donald Trump has fallen out of first place. A new poll shows him trailing ben carson by nine points. Onetime national frontrunner in iowa, and now hes laying off some staff and cutting salaries. Democrat Lincoln Chafee ended his Campaign Today. He was polling at less than 1 . Chafee is a former governor of rhode island. Hillary clinton returned to the Campaign Today after 11 hours of testimony yesterday before the house benghazi committee. What did we learn during that marathon grilling . Nancy cordes put the question to the chairman. As some of you may know, i had a pretty long day yesterday. Yesterday. cheers and applause reporter clinton did not declare victory today, conservative commentators declared it for her declaring the long hearing a bust and a waste of time, citing this line of question as an example. Yes uthats right. Did he have your cell phone number . No, but he had the 24hour number of the state operations in the state department that can reach me 24 7. Yes, maam. Did he have your fax number . He had the fax number of the state department. Did he have your home address . No, i dont think any ambassador has ever asked me for that. Reporter other exchanges seemed designed to shed more heat than light. And heres basically what happened to their requests. They were torn up. Well, thats just not true, congressman. Reporter clinton did have some rough patches. She couldnt tell indianas susan brooks how often she communicated with her ambassador to libya before he was killed. Did you ever personally speak to him after you swore him in, in may . Yes, i believe i did. And when was that . I i dont recall. Reporter but in the end, Even Committee chair trey gowdy struggled to explain what had been gained. What was the most important new things you learned today . Ah. I i think some of well, when you say new today, i mean we knew some of that already. We knew about the emails. In it terms of her testimony . I dont be that she testified that much differently today than previous times she testified. Id have to go back and look at the transcripts. Reporter the benghazi committees five democrats called on the House Speaker today to shut the committee down, calling it abusive and noting that it had spent more than 4. 8 million so far, scott, to examine an attack that has already been investigated by seven other committees. Pelley and this hearing has lasted longer than the watergate investigation. Nancy cordes reporting from capitol hill. Thank you, nancy. This program note Norah Odonnell will have the first interview with Vice President biden since he announced hes not running for president. That will be this sunday on 60 minutes. One of Vice President bidens assignments was to come up with recommendations for reducing gun violence. Well, weve been asking for in our series voices against violence. Earlier this week, we heard from it andy parker calling for more gun control laws. His daughter alison and fellow journalist adam ward were shot to death in the summer. Tonight, another view from a gun rights organization. Im larry pratt, executive director of gun owners of america where we have advocated, really ever since columbine, that the problem of mass murder in this country is the gunfree zone. We have a federal law that says that schools must be gunfree zones unless a state goes through an enormous amount of trouble. All but two of the mass murders in our country have occurred in gunfree zones, even while our Violent Crime rate has been going down, more americans are owning guns but not in gunfree zones. An armed citizen, a good guy with a gun, is the way you stop a crime. When theres a bad guy with a gun, he stops when a good guy with a gun is around. And until we kind of deal with that basic fact and we insist on disarming good guys, were going to give the advantage to bad guys. Gun owners of america has supported a measure thats been in the congress for several terms now that would treat your concealed carry permit the same way as your drivers licenses if you have it in one jurisdiction, then its going to be good anywhere in the country. Pelley the view of larry pratt of gun owners of america. In a moment, were going to look at why florida is lifting its ban on bear hunting. Dozens die when a truck slams headon into a bus. 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Reporter bryant is one of more than 3500 people to pay for a permit to try to shoot a bear over the wild card. The past 20 years the bear population has soared to nearly 3,000 and so have the nuisance complaints. More than 6600 people called authorities last year to report bears warning in the neighborhoods. 320 bears can be killed in the hunt, but animal activists like linda harsin fear a slaughter. This is no more than a trophy hunt, just a way to get a new head on the wall, a rug on the paperweight. Reporter state authorities insist they will closely monitor the hunt. Nick wileynick wiley runs floridas fish and Wildlife Conservation commission. Its not easy to hunt bears. Theyre very elusive. Theyre not easy to take. So we know only a small percentage of hunters are going to be successful. Stop the madness for the love of the bear reporter approval of the hunt sparked six months of protests. Environmentalists sued to prevent it and lost. Deer, turkey,s hogs, bear reporter ron bergeron is a lifelong hunter and one of two against the bear hunt. Coming from people. You think the issue the state of florida is having with bears circles back to trash . Absolutely, 95 of the conflicts of bears going into nawbds is the garbage. Reporter the hunt starts 30 minutes before sunrise will end when the 320th bear is killed, or in seven days, whichever comes first. Pelley david begnaud, thanks. Still ahead, Steve Hartman on the road. And a Mountain Village scatters when a giant rock rolls their for over 30 years, in study after study, advil is unsurpassed in pain relief. Nothing is proven stronger on aches and pains than advil. Not tylenol. Not aleve. Nothing. Relief doesnt get any better than this. For adults with an advanced lung cancer called squamous nonsmall cell, chad a Tornado Warning has and plymouth co. Ever taken. 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