This is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Good evening, scott is off tonight, im ma ross. Two american journalists abducted by islamic terrorists in syria. 31yearold Steve Sotloff disappeared a year ago. And 45yearold theo curtis was freed over the weekend after nearly two years in captivity is back home. Heres Margaret Brennan. Reporter it had been 22 months since writer Peter Theo Curtis saw his mother. Last night, they were reunited at bostons logan airport. Today, outside his mothers house in cambridge, massachusetts, an emotional circus told reporters how thankful he was to be free. I remember how good the American People are and what kindness they have in their hearts and to all those people i say a huge thank you from my heart, from the bottom of my heart. Reporter curtis was held captive by alnusra, al quaidas official wing in syria, until his release was negotiated sunday. The more extreme terror group mos. I. S. Has also taken american hostages but so far not responded to negotiations. Im sherry sotloff. My son steven is in your hands. Reporter the mother of freelance journalist Steve Sotloff made an impassioned plea for help, held since last august. We want to see him safe and sound and hug him. Reporter the world first saw sotloffs face when i. S. I. S. Released the video showing the beheading of fellow journalist admes foley last week. The same executioner threatened to kill sotloff next unless the u. S. Calls off air strikes in iraq. I ask you to please release my child. Reporter sotloffs mother directly addressed i. S. I. S. Leader and begged for his mercy. I want what every mother wants, to see her childrens children. I plead with you to grant me this. Reporter the sotloff family considers it part of an 11th hour plea for help since all u. S. Efforts and other diplomatic channels have failed. Dubois Margaret Brennan at the state department, thank you. The u. S. Military today said the number of air strikes against i. S. I. S. Targets in iraq topped 100. President obama is getting closer to a decision on whether to attack i. S. I. S. Bases in syria as well. Hes expected to meet with the National Security council tomorrow. Douglas mcarthur mccain is the First American to die fighting with i. S. I. S. Jamie yuccas in minneapolis has more about him at the place he and other americans were recruited. Reporter the Cedar Riverside neighborhood of minneapolis is sometimes called little mogadishu, the center of americas largest concentration of somalis and Fertile Ground for Islamic Terrorist Groups recruiting fighters. Douglas mcarthur mccain grew up just a 15minute drive from here and had many contacts in the somali community. He was not targeted. He was quiet and a lot of things on his mind, you can tell. Reporter omar jamal said he met mccain briefly but said most people here denounce terrorist organizations. The Community Leader said as many as 40 young men from minneapolis joined islamic fighters after being pulled in by jihadists on the web. Theyre using any means available to a computer system. Reporter mccain gave hints his recent conversion turned militant. Troy posted a recruiting video in 2009 before he was killed fighting for terrorist Group Al Shabaab in somalia. If you guys only knew how much fun we have over here. Its a real disneyland. Reporter its now not just young men, according to another community activist. They change places and tactics. Now nobody was worried, but we are aware about the messages. They were sending the last few over the internet, including young women to be married off to jihadists. Reporter thats got to be terrifying for parents. Its terrifying. Its really scary. Ep reporter maurice, five minneapolis families now fear their daughters are either in or traveling to syria. Now, the vast majority of somalis condemn terrorism and love their country, but were told young men can be easy marks because of a lack of jobs and mentors. Jamie yuccas in minneapolis tonight, thank you. The story people all over america were talking about today is that freak accident at a shooting range in arizona. A nineyearold girl shot an instructor to death with a sub machine gun. More about that now from john blackstone. Reporter the bullets and burgers shooting range in the arizona desert promotes itself in online videos as a place for family fun, firing machine guns. Its one of several Las Vegas Area tour stops that offers visitors a chance to try out exotic weapons. Rock and roll, baby Reporter Video released by the mojave county Sheriffs Office shows the moments before the accidental shooting of bullets and burgers employee Charles Vacca. This foot forward there. You go. Just like that. Reporter the 39yearold military veteran is showing a nineyearold girl how to shoot an uzi submachine gun, firing 16 rounds a second. Reporter give me one shot. All right reporter then the gun is set to automatic. Pull on it. Reporter the gun recoiled, pointed up and vacca was shot in the head and killed. Sam scarmardo runs bullets and burgers. We dont know what happened. Our guys are trained to basically hover over people when theyre shooting. Yeah. Good job. Reporter another video shows an employee hovering with his hand on the shoulder of a young shooter standing on the same side as the gun and ready to push it out of the way. The video of vacca shows his hand on the girls back, not her shoulder, and standing on the side opposite the uzi. All right, pull on it. Reporter there is no requirement in arizona for gun range employees to be certified as firearms instructors. Maurice, the National Rifle association tells us that Charles Vacca was not an n. R. A. Certified instructor. Dubois john blackstone, thank you. Police in omaha says an officers bullet killed a crew member of cops last night as police old fire on a robbery suspect. Brice deyon, a tv sound man, was hit in a part of his upper body not covered by his protective vest. Dion was 38yearsold. The robbery suspect also died. Tonight big storms are churning off both u. S. Coasts. Hurricane cristobal to the east and marie in the west downgraded today from a hurricane to a tropical storm, both are hundreds of miles offshore, but they are generating life threatening rip currents and waves. In Southern California, high surf advisories are up from baja to santa barbara. Teri okita is monitoring the surge on seal beach south of los angeles. Teri . Reporter maurice, the waves killed at least one, a surfer near malibu, pulled unconscious from the water. The waves here reached as high as twostory buildings today. Its a surfers delight but the swells also required the rescue of dozens of people along Southern Californias coast. Nearly 200 were pulled from the water yesterday in l. A. And Orange County. This is the biggest south swell ive seen in 25 years in seal beach. Reporter joe bailey is in charge of safety at seal beach and had to call in extra lifeguards. The rip current threatened even strong swimmers. It makes it difficult even to bring a victim back in through the search. Its so large that were having to take victims to certain parts of the beach where the wave action is way less. Reporter lowlying areas had to be protected from surf and high tide with sand berms, Orange County fire crews that man fire lines this time of year help sandbag the shoreline. Everythings held. Reporter the surf caused flooding overnight in seal beach. In malibu, multimilliondollar homes were threatened and damage to the pier. But the danger and the spectacle drew many crowds. Michael westmoreland surfed most his life. I think if you can read the annditions and respect the ocean and know your limits, yeah, i think its okay out there. Reporter the surfers dream but the waves are beginning to die down. Maurice, forecasters say things will get back to normal twoto threefoot waves by the weekend. Dubois teri okita in Southern California tonight, thank you. The centers for Disease Control said today a worker in west africa had whats called a low risk contact with someone who has ebola. The c. D. C. Worker was flown to atlanta aboard a charter plane. The worker has no symptoms and is not being isolated and is lalfmonitoring at home. Dr. Jon lapook joins us now and, jon, we were all wondering this afternoon in the news room, why is a staffer not being quarantined . I just spoke to an expert at the c. D. C. And he confirmed the person is felt to be at low risk for getting ebola and unless they have symptoms they cannot spread it. The standard protocol is to take temperature twice daily and selfmonitor store symptoms. Even if it turns out the person has ebola and a lowgrade fever a few hours without realizing it, even if that setting he said the risk of spread is exceedingly well. Thats the language. Dubois tonight, chrysler confronting safety concerns about an electrical component, totally integrated power module found in millions of chryslers vehicles. Transportation correspondent jeff pegues. Reporter some chrysler owners say their car has a mind of its own, windshield wipers go on by themselves, gauges stop working. The center for auto safety or cas believes the problem is a defect in the totally integrated power module. The component is a vehicles electronic nerve center or fuse box and if it malfunctions cas says it can lead to air bag non deployment, vehicles shutdowns, unintended acceleration and fires. The piece is in millions of chrysler vehicles manufactured between 2007 and 2014. C. A. S. Executive director Clarence Ditlow is asking the national Highway Traffic Safety Administration to investigate. Do you know of any fatalities tied to this issue . Chrysler has submitted at least 20 death claims on components that are related to this totally integrated power module or the tipm. And were seeking documents to see if it was the tipm that caused the fatality. Reporter chrysler says its unaware of related fatalities and its vehicles meet or exceed applicable safety standards, however the company says its actively investigating customer complaints and retrieving components from the field for analysis. The auto maker already conducted smaller related recalls in 2007 and 2012. The part failed in julie lumberts 2011 jeep grand cherokee, costing her more than 2,600 to repair. It burned out the fuel pump, and also, then, ruined the tarter. So i had to have all three things replaced before the car would start again. Reporter nhtsa says it is reviewing allegations and will take appropriate action as necessary. Maurice, earlier this year, some members of congress accused the agency of not moving fast enough to force General Motors to fix the ignition switch problem to avoid 13 deaths. Dubois the Fatal Police Shooting in ferguson, missouri is bringing new calls for officers to be outfitted with cameras. And a bus driver facing justice after a dangerous joy ride when the cbs evening news continues. My name is michael, im 55 years old and i have diabetic nerve pain. The pain was terrible. My feet hurt so bad. It felt like hot pins and needles coming from the inside out of my skin. When i did go see the doctor, and he prescribed lyrica. It helped me. [ male announcer ] its known that diabetes damages nerves. Lyrica is fdaapproved to treat diabetic nerve pain. Lyrica is not for everyone. It may cause serious allergic reactions or suicidal thoughts or actions. 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New touch of gray mustache and beard. Dubois the st. Louis county grand jury investigating the Fatal Shooting of Michael Brown by furring Police Officer Darren Wilson met again today. Supporters of brown raised nearly 300,000 online for a memorial fund. Supporters of wilson have raced more than 400,000 for potential legal fees. There is no video of the shooting, and that has brought new calls for officers to wear cameras. Heres justice correspondent bob orr. Reporter it was 2 00 in the morning when police in laurel, maryland, pulled over a woman driving on the wrong side of the road. One officer was wearing a small camera like this one attached to his glasses. Turn the car off. Hands on the keys. Reporter this is exactly what he saw. The woman restarted the engine, slammed the car into drive and sped away. She just took off. Shes going the wrong way northbound. Reporter as the camera continued to roll, police gave chase. The woman crashed her car and tried to flee on foot. Pursuing officers hit her with a taser and arrested for for drunk driving. Hands behind you back reporter james brooks, laurels police chief, says all street officers wear cameras. As my head moves the camera moves with me. Reporter its all about accountability. If you didnt have that camera in that case, the officer would just have his account. Thats correct. So, going down the road, now you see a car maybe weaving back and forth, you can turn on your camera and start to capture the evidence you may want to present for a d. U. I. Case in court. Reporter in daytona beach, florida, Police Wearing cameras caught a man beating his girlfriend. Faced with clear video evidence, Jeremy Archer pleaded guilty to battery and drug possession. Police say the recordings also helped diffuse potential confrontations. In the two years cameras have been used in rialto, california, the use of force by police is down 48 , and complaints against officers are also down 88 . In laurel, maryland, where cameras have been on the street 18 months, complaints against police have also fallen. Officers like sean fable are required to record every encounter with the public. Anytime i make contact with a citizen, i turn the camera on, any sort of traffic stop, turn the camera on, someone walks up to me and asks me for directions, i turn the camera on. Reporter you want the public to know youre wearing cameras . We want them to know its being recorded. Transparency is what were looking for there. Reporter and brooks says incidents like this chase prove the approach is working. Cbs news, laurel, maryland. Dubois a serial stowaway Mary Lynn Jean harltman was picked up again yesterday loitering at phoenixs sky harbor airport. She is 62, been arrested several times for boarding planes or trying to without a ticket. Food fight. Thousands of people get a tomato pasting next. This is bill. His doubleheader day at the park starts with back pain. And a choice. Take 4 advil in a day or just 2 aleve for all day relief. Peanuts peanuts crowd cheers dubois a bus driver in sydney, australia, pleaded guilty today to driving recklessly while high. The joy rider was caught on camera. Sean murphy can be seen driving the bus while smoking synthetic marijuana. She finally passes out and crashes. There were no passengers on board. No one in the house he hit was injured. The university of Southern California announced tonight that it has suspended cornerback shaw. He suffered ankle sprains last weekend after jumping from a second story window to save his seven year old nephew from drowning in a pool. Usc says shaw has now admitted reat was a lie. And chicagos newest baseball stars were treated today like the champions they really are. Thousands turned out for a rally to welcome home the Jackie Robinson west allstar. The little leaguers won the u. S. Championship but lost the world series to south korea. And in pennsylvania, the star player mone davis became the first female pitcher to win a game in the series 68year history. Another young girl has just accomplished something that hasnt been done in 18 years. Her story is next. Get by. Next weather talent appears at wx center with generic pinpoint filling monitor then we take special sponsored 7day gra dubois finally tonight, if youve never heard the name cici bellis before, then this is probably the first time. But it likely wont be the last. The teenager came out from nowhere yesterday to become the youngest winner of a u. S. Open tennis match in 18 years. Heres elaine quijano. Reporter on paper, cici bellis chances of winning did not look good. The 15yearold ranked 1,208th in the world, taking on the 12th seeded player dominika cibulkova. Bellis was as surprised as anyone. I have no words. Im so happy to be here. I cant believe i got through that. Reporter tournament officials were so caught off guard they had to scramble cameras to her court. David brewer is the director of the open. How did her victory change the atmosphere here . It was packed to the rafters yesterday as people started to understand what might be transpiring. She added a lot of luster. Bellis was born when Serena Williams won her first u. S. Open. I played her 15 years ago and she was able to win. Thats so awesome for tennis. Reporter bellis is adjusting to new found fame and focused on her future. She turned down the 60,000 prize for first round win to keep her amateur status. Im definitely going to stay amateur to keep open my options for college in case an injury happens. Anwant to keep options open to be sure but i would love to be pro one day. R reporter her father says if she wins the open and the 3 million in prize money they might reconsider their position. Elaine quijano, cbs news at the u. S. Open. Dubois and that is the cbs evening news. For scott pelley, im maurice dubois. Thanks for joining us. Good night. Captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by Media Access Group at wgbh access. Wgbh. Org captioned by Media Access Group at wgbh access. Wgbh. Org in marshland behind a bay aa neighborhood. Breaking news. This evening the scramble to save homes from a brush fire burning in marshland behind a bay area neighborhood. Good evening, im allen martin. Ken bastida and veronica de la cruz are off tonight. Im elizabeth cook. Fire teams are tackling a brush fire in vallejo. Its happening near the junction of junction 29 and 37. Chopper 5 is live over vallejo right now where the fire blackened a large portion of the field about 10 acres. Some dramatic moments in this fire as flames crept up close to homes on sonora pass road with the flames stopped right at some back fences. For a time the response to this fire had closed the south connector from highway 29 to westbound 37. Traffic is now moving again. We want to show you video from a short time ago. Over the past hour we have seen a helicopter make repeated water drops on the fireline. Crews are battling the fire from the ground. One of the fires began at a homeless encampment. The other touched off by a structure fire. Fire assistance has been called in the surrounding areas including crockett, American Canyon and solano county. The good news, though, fire crews appear to have this fire contained. You can see a lot less smoke than we saw even about 10 minutes ago. Another Security Breach at a pg e substation in the south bay. Someone cut a hole in the fence at the metcalf station. Sound familiar . Its the second time its been hit in a little more than a year. Kpix 5s betty yu is there. We know they made changes to security after the first incident. So this has to be a huge concern tonight. Betty. Reporter and that is what a
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