mason: and the bidding price fair piece of disco history reaches a fever pitch. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news. mason: good evening. i m anthony mason. the senate health care bill is in a politically-induced coma. republicans couldn t come up with enough votes from their own party to pass the alternative to obamacare today. so they put off the vote until after the holiday break. an embarrassing setbacks for the g.o.p. leadership. here s chief congressional correspondent nancy cordes. we re delaying the process so that we can close those remaining issues. reporter: the senate s republican leader postponed the vote in the face of mounting opposition from his own party s lawmakers, like maine s susan collins. it s evident to me that there are a lot of concerns. i m not the only one by any means about the senate bill. reporter: they discussed those concerns in a late-afternoon meeting with the president, who downplayed the party divide.
and we, engineers that we brought, along with our, our eod technicians swept out the field. minutes later a truck hit a mine less than a mile away. marines raced off to investigate. the driver miraculously was alive. the medic treated him for lacerations and concussion. a fighter with america s syrian allies. and said he was heading to the front line when he hit the mine. the marines found more mines and definited them. in the nearby village. they re grateful for american help. but there is very little optimism. nobody here would speak to us on camera because they still have family members living under isis control and they re frightened of retribution. offcamera they have told us they have no running water. very little food and their children are ill literal. because the the schools have been closed for five years. america s attempt to win hearts and minds in the middle east have often been troubled. after half a decade of civil war, syria s fractures may be beyond repair. h
reporter: moments after being stopped for allegedly jaywalking, 21-year-old davonte shipman started to record the incidence. i am about to put you in jail. disobeying a direct order. that s not resisting, officer. reporter: the interaction happened a week ago. shipman believes this is about more than just a jaywalking citation. i was just stopped for being black and walking how i feel. racial profile. racial discrimination. you are illegally detained. if you don t, you dill, i will put you in jail. in florida jaywalking is a crime that could mean citation and fine. not jail time. in the state of florida you have to have an id card on you i dent feeg who you are. according to florida law only motorists are required to have ids not pedestrians. reporter: the jacksonville sheriff s department says they are aware of the video and are condcting an administrative review. anthony shipman was issued two citations totaling $198 in fines. thanks. coming up,
president trump s u.n. ambassador, nikki haley told congress what u.s. intelligence has observed. they have seen activities similar to preparations of a chemical weapons attack, much like what we saw on april 4th. according to pentagon officials an aircraft center which once housed the syrian jet that carried out april chemical attack is once again in use. u.s. intelligence has also picked up increase in communications, by the syrian military unit responsible for chemical weapons. pentagon officials cautioned the intelligence does not add up to a smoking gun. still, the white house rushed out a statement. warning that if the regime of ba sheer al assad conducts another chemical attack he and his military will pay a heavy price. ambassador haley expanded that to include syria s two main allies. the goal is at this point, not just to send assad a message, but to send russia and iran a message. about the same time haley was making the statement, syria s assad was given a
this is an american logistics hub to retake raqqa, the isis capital which began a month ago. lieutenant general steven u.s.-led coalition to fight isis. and came straight from a forward command post near raqqa. getting started good in ju raqqa. as u.s. backed fighters close in on isis from the north they have also clashed with syrian regime forces which are backed by russia. sd drawn into a direct conflict. but the general downplayed that risk. we worked out a deconfliction line with the russians and the regime. and they seem, content to let us work on the raqqa problem and there we have drawn a line. they re happy to work on their side of it. we ll work on our side of it. reporter: general townsend promoted young officer to first eu and acknowledged to us that u.s. troops went be leaving this country any time soon. i think u.s. troops will leave syria when isis is defeated. tau awe isis will surely turn into insurgency when they lost their territory. that s th