Either of those poles. Ifill plus, private contractors, nasa and the f. A. A. Investigate what caused a space station supply rocket to explode seconds after take off. Woodruff those are some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. Supported by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation. Committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information at macfound. Org and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. And friends of the newshour. And. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Ifill the ebola death rate in west africa may be slowing. The World Health Organization reported today that total cases now top 13,700, but the death toll remains at just under 5,000. Thats partly due to liberias dea
Damage from yesterday. Lets go straight to our Jennifer Gray. She is on the ground in cisco, texas, where that tornado, jennifer touched down yesterday during this program, killing one person. How are things looking where you are now . Well these are okay right now. Most of the storms that we are seeing are off to our south and our east. You can see the skies just over my shoulder, a little ominous out there. We are seeing some cumulus clouds building outs to the west though so we will have to see if some of that could develop, we will get more storms here this afternoon. I do want to quickly mention though we still have some Tornado Warnings, tornadoes in progress around the sherman area. Had is north of the dallas metroplex it is traveling to the northeast about 40 miles per hour. Spot verse seen the tornado and so we want to you take cover, if you are in that area. We also have a new Tornado Warning, this is in the hamilton area south of dallas. This is just to the west of waco. So
This is the cbs evening news. Axelrod good evening. This is the western edition of the broadcast. Im jim axelrod. It is a gruesome scene weve now seen at least half a dozen times. Isis militant again posted a video online today that purportedly shows the beheading of a hostage. This time it was a journalist from japan who was brutally murdered, a man named kenji goto. Goto had been held captive since october when he had traveled to syria seeking the release of another japanese hostage, haruna yukawa. Yukawa was executed a week ago. Charlie dagata reports now on the failed negotiations to free the two men. To the japanese government. Reporter time, apparently, ran out for japanese journalist kenji goto. The purported isis video addressed the people of japan. This knife will not only slaughter kenji, but also carry on and cause carnage wherever your people are found. Reporter japanese Prime Minister abe condemned the parent killings saying he would never forgive these terrorists and they
Im jim axelrod, and this is the western edition of the broadcast. We begin tonight in france with a story that sound like something out of a hollywood thriller that stars three very real american heroes. One is an air force airman, another an Army National guardsman, and the third is a pal from california they were traveling with on a train from anthony amsterdam to paris. Thats when the three americans jumped into action. Charlie dagata picks up the story. Reporter video that appears to be shot inside the train shows the suspect face down and tied up. You can see a rifle he was carrying and one of the american men who brought him down after seeing a french passenger first confront the gunman, 22yearold National Guardsman Alek Skarlatos and his two friends moved in. I saw a guy entering the train with an a. K. And a handgun, and i just looked over at spencer and said, lets go, go. And he jumped up, and i followed behind him by about three seconds. Reporter u. S. Air force airman firstc
Someone must open the window so the soul can depart. I smiled and squeezed her hand. Not tonight, britta. Not tonight. [ female announcer ] to nurses everywhere, thank you, from johnson johnson. A good friday to you, everyone. Coming to you live from princes estate outside paisley park. I have been here all day. It has truly been an amazing sight, a live look, fans young and old stopping to pay their respects. That was probably the youngest fan we have seen so far. Although a woman came up to me and said im princes oldest fan. I said, how old are you, maam . Im 73. Weve seen lots of folks, old, young, black, white, whowhundref thousands paying respects since news spread 26 hours ago. Prince died yesterday at the age of 57. Behind me here at his home. Theres a still a lot we dont know regarding the circumstances surrounding that. What we do know is the sheriff will be holding a News Conference about two hours from now, 4 00 eastern with an update where things stand right now. An autopsy