This is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley today, president obama passed the torch to the person he hopes will succeed him, endorsing Hillary Clinton for the democratic nomination. The president , the outgoing head of the party, would like to clear the field for clinton before the july convention. But democratic don quixote Bernie Sanders is not letting go of his impossible dream. Heres nancy cordes. Im with her. I am fired up. Pelley in a threeminute love letter to the presumptive nominee, president obama called clinton the most qualified person ever to run for the white house. I have seen her judgment. Ive seen her toughness. Reporter the Clinton Campaign posted the video an hour after the president met with Bernie Sanders, whose prolonged exit from the race has distracted attention from clintons achievement. I look forward to meeting with her in the near future to see how we can Work Together to defeat donald trump. Reporter it was his first acknowledgment that the compe
Tore day with the cloud around highs of only 80 degrees. Sitting in the the 07s right now. Humidity starts to rise in the nighttime hearst and that fools heavier rain. Seventys at the shore at this hour. Fire works forecast for philadelphia, yes, there will be some showers, around at this time, temperatures hanging out in the lower 70s. Muggy. We will time out this entire storm system and talking about big time summertime heat on the way as well. Details in a few minutes. Thanks, justin. Keep track the rain on the go tonight. Down load cbs3 weather app to check storm scan three from your smart phone available on itune and google play. There are plenty of celebrations going on today but none as big as right now in center city. Our own Vittoria Woodill joins us from the party on the parkway, happy fourth, torey. Reporter happy fourth of july, ukee. Right now we are Hearing National anthem being sung behind us. Look at that stage and look at all of those people. Concert begun at 5 00 oclo
This is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Defeat donald trump. Reporter it was his first acknowledgment that the competition is over, though he still wouldnt answer the big question how much longer do you intend to stay in the race, senator sanders . The democratic leaderses who met with sanders on capitol hill couldnt nail down a timeline, either. Im not pushing him to do anything. I think he needs a little time to just decide what he wants to do. Reporter what exactly is he holding out for . I think he is somebody who is interested in changing the direction of the country. I think hes done that with his historic election. I think hell, of course, be involved in the process. Reporter and that means pushing clinton and the party to embrace at least some of his positions. Those might be things ranging from the 15anhour minimum wage, to ending fracking in america. Reporter oregons jeff merkley was the only senator to endorse sanders. To have the the party united, you have to have i
Airport one minute after the crash. We have live team coverage. Cheryl hurd joins us. Weve been checking in with you for the last 30 minutes, what is the latest now at the 6 00 hour . Reporter well, we are hearing, at first we heard 60 people were unaccounted for and everyone held their breath. But now we are hearing that only one person is unaccounted for. Thats the latest that we heard 15 minutes ago from our latest news briefing that we had just moments ago. We are seeing people standing by waiting. We are abilitying for someone to speak to us. Earlier today we saw about half a dozen people being taken from that reflection room to another undisclosed location. We also heard from someone from the red cross. She is telling us that people are afraid. Theyre frightened. Theyre even cold. A number of people lost their shoes in all of the chaos. So theyre working the get shoes, blankets and clothes for the people on the airplane. From that news briefing that we had, they didnt have a lot
Can tonight. Most likely wait until daybreak to continue their investigation. Officials have been briefing us all day long, trying to tell us what happened here early this morning. It was the kind of briefing that officials havent had to deliver for more than seven decades. Theres been a tragic accident for sfo and all of San Francisco. Reporter this morning, Asiana Airlines flight 214 from seoul, korea, with 291 passengers and 16 crew members, slammed into the runway at sfo. Tearing away the planes tale. The plane then burst into flames as fire crews arrived on scene. My hat goes off to the people who went into the cabin of the plane to do what they could. Reporter two people are confirmed dead. Miraculously 123 people walked away from the plane. Include thing teenage passenger. The top just totally collapsed on a lot of people. So a lot of people were injured. Reporter the mare chan of the ntsb was expected to land at sfo around midnight to take charge of the investigation. The San F