underground basilica, which luka del fra with rome s cultural heritage facility says was discovered by chance. wow. reporter: when digging a hole 100 years ago. the worker for the railway line put their head inside and saw reporter: all of this? all of this, right. correct. reporter: incredible. this basilica, the oldest of its kind relates to the era of rome s first empire, augustus. the powerful family that built it one theory goes was not in favor with leader emperors, so the structure was filled in with dirt and abandoned. we re in a very mysterious place. reporter: restorers, including laura lippe have been working to clean the ancient stucco artwork, and undercover clues as the what this might have been, perhaps an ancient tomb or a place for pagan rites. animation show house this basilica was built around 2,000 years ago. first the spaces for the columns were excavated and reinforced. then the arched ceiling was formed and the earth removed from the g
also tonight, her story: how an american astronaut made history e. outer space. t it s not so much how many ysys you re up here but what you do with each of those days. villafranca: and steve oartman on the road with a thecial delivery one school bus driver makes every day. this is the cbs weekend news. villafranca: good evening. i m omar villafranca. t begin tonight with a deadly plane crash in louisiana. oh! oh, my god! villafranca: the twin-engine aircraft smashing into a parking lot, then bursting into flames tiis morning. as least five people on board were killed. the youngest victim, just 15 years old. miraculously, one person survived. the plane went down in lafayette about an hour west from baton rouge. evid begnaud starting us off on the crash site. reporter: everyone on board the plane was headed to the cs.u. game. in fact, one of the people who died in the plane crash, carley mccord. her father-in-law is steve ensminger. he is the offensive coordi
him on his record, agreeing with the president about that 1994 crime bill. that crime bill was one of the foundations of mass incarcerati incarceration. a very painful era in our nation s history. that bill contributed to mass incarceration, in a country that is the most grievously incarcerated in the world. reporter: younger candidates may say it s a changing party. we need to bring in new energy. we need to bring in new voters. ptweeted again about biden. and a campaign spokesman called it rich that biden would criticize the president for getting political overseas. pointing out that biden criticized the president in germany earlier this year. the campaign season is just beginning. that s right. opening statements were made in a landmark trial in oklahoma. it could determine whether states can hold drugmakers responsible for the opioid crisis. omar villa fran ka k ka is ther. reporter: t.j. served his country in the kentucky national guard. he was addicted t
team 4 radar and once the rain moves in occasional showers throughout the day. there will be dry time. when it sng not rai though, clouds out there. check it out. dry.ly we re still i m getting reports of isolated fog out there so a heads up if you heading out early this morning but not a huge concern. here s future weather. this is 10:00 a.m. most of us still dry but pts northern virginia seeing rain as we move toward about 11:00 a.m. noon. we do seehocatteredrs going wide. this includes the entire d.c. metro area. we then still see rain in spots as we head into afternoon hours. notice a good part of northern y.rginia mainly maryland mainly getting in on the action at that point. we then sai more as we head into the evening hours and overnight tonight. january 1st looking pretty but any issues out there with the road. yeah. sure. but one fewer, we are just getting into the traffic centera indian highway has just reopened. both directions south of wilson bridge driv as you
tingt to the post season? early today starts right now. good morning. we re counting doung down to the legendary new year s eve ball drop. of course added security measures are in place. the nypd will be in full force with heightened alert. we get more from matt bradley. this new year s eve the famous ball won t be the only thing over time square. new york city police keeping eye oz on the skies on what could be hundreds of thousands of revellers below. with the drone this is the first time year going to be using it a large-scale event. along with bombs, helicopters and snipers, and thousands of uniformed officers. the bottom line is thi this people will be safe monday and they should feel safe too. one of the most well policed, best protected events at one of the safest venues in the world. reporter: are you excited? were aides? i m excited. i m not worried about anything. and this have my first time ever seeing the ball drop so i m viu excited. reporter: