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Dubois good evening, scott off s off tonight, im Maurice Dubois and this is our western edition. Ice, snow, freezing cold, it is called winter and the northeast got plenty of it today and all the problems that go with it, including air travel problems that spread to the west coast. The storm is being blamed for at least eight deaths, most of them on roadways. The number of Flights Canceled over the past two days has topped 5,000, some places got as much as two feet of snow. Boston set a record. And now the cold is moving in in much of the region. The mercury never got out of the teens today. We have a team of correspondents covering the storm and first Karen Anderson of our boston station wbz. Reporter well, maurice, tonight the temperature is hovering around five degrees with a projected low of minus four. And boston ....
Pelley good evening. This is our western edition. Once again, an american president is weighing military options in iraq, this time to try to preserve a democracy created at the cost of thousands of american lives and billions of american tax dollars. Islamic extremists have seized large parts of iraq. Theyre getting closer to baghdad this evening, and the government there is pleading with president obama for help. Today, the president responded. We will not be sending u. S. Troops back into combat in iraq, but i have asked my National Security team to prepare a range of other options that could help support Iraq Security forces, and ill be reviewing those options in the days ahead. Pelley hes confronting a war between two branches of islam, the sunnis and the shia. The democratically elected Iraqi Government, backed ....
With scott pelley. Pelley good evening. This is our western edition. Today, nearly a week after a white Police Officer shot an unarmed black man to death in the suburbs of st. Louis, we learned a lot more about both men. The Ferguson Police release video they say shows 18yearold Michael Brown stealing cigars from a Convenience Store minutes before he was shot by the officer a few blocks away. The officer was identified today as 28yearold darren wilson. Hes been a cop for six years. The Ferguson Police chief described him today as a gentle, quiet man, and an excellent officer who never intended for any of this to happen. Wilson is on leave while the investigations continue. Vladimir duthiers is in ferguson. ....
Than 3 . It was the worst day of the year and the ninth biggest point drop ever. For stockholders, jim axelrod tells us, it has been a week for the strong. bell rings reporter the closing bell was the most welcome sound of the week on wall street, putting the bloodletting on hold. This was the worst week of the year. The dow lost more than 1,000 points, and its now off more than 7. 5 for the year. Weve had a market thats done incredibly well since the lows in the spring of 2009 that probably ran too far too fast and needed to reset. Reporter economist max wolf says the u. S. Stock market had long been the best global performer, attracting a lot of investment from underperforming countries, but the u. S. Markets were still outpacing the broader economy. The u. S. Stock market and assets had become the cleanest dirty shirt in the hamper, so everybody was wearing it because it was cleaner than other dirty shirts. But at some point you realize its still a dirty shirt. This week, we realize ....
This is the cbs evening news. Mason this is our western edition. Good evening. Im Anthony Mason. It only got worse today. President trump and his spokeswoman kept up the attacks on florida congresswoman Frederica Wilson, who had criticized the tone of the president s condolence call to a fallen soldier. Fallen soldiers widow. And the emotional defense of the president by john kelly came back to bite him today when his facts were called into question by video and by a check of the record. Chip reid is at the white house. I was stunned. Reporter white house chief of staff john kelly attacked florida congresswoman Frederica Wilson yesterday after she criticized President Trump for what she said was an insensitive condolence call to the widow of sergeant ladavid joh ....