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mass shootings. our cbs news investigation the uvalde gunman bragged to friends about getting an assault rifle after his 18th birthday. are gun manufacturers marketing military-grade weapons to at-risk young men? american adversaries united. vladimir putin meets with the iranian leader, after iran promises drones to russia. plus, great news for those toys r us kids. and, america s favorite pastime, honoring a member of america s greatest generation. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. o donnell: good evening to our viewers in the west and thank you for joining us on this very warm tuesday night. tonight, the heat is on across much of the country as the scorching hot summer grips the nation. brutal and dangerous temperatures are being felt from california to massachusetts. more than 120 million americans are under excessive heat warnings or advisories, with triple-digit temperatures expected from the great plains to th
but i m still not hearing from you what is it the a.t.f. can do to stop this epidemic of mass shootings. our cbs news investigation, the diduvalde gunman bragged to fris about getting an assault rifle after his 18th birthday. are gun manufacturers marketing militari grade weapons to at risk young men? american adversaries united vladimir putin meets with the iranian leader after iran promises drones to russia. plus, great news for those toys r us kids. and america s favorite past time, honoring a member of america s greatest generation. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. o donnell: good evening, and thank you for joining us on this very warm tuesday night. tonight, the heat is on across much of the country, as the scorching hot summer imrips the nation grips the nations. brutal temperatures are felt from california to massachusetts. more than 120 million americans are under excessive heat warnings or advisories w
isn t it amazing how that sounds now? holly, dr. mayor, is now a professor emirita from the college in the graduate school of at duquesne university in my hometown of pittsburgh, pennsylvania, where she taught for many decades. she did two stints as chair of the history department there after joining duquesne, after receiving her ph.d. at the college of . she s also served as the visiting harold k johnson chair of military history at the u.s. army war college out in carlisle, pennsylvania, the carlile merits. and it s currently during this academic year at west point where she s serving as the charles bull ewing visited professor of history. she s also has been commissioned, went through rotc and served in the u.s. army reserves. and so, she sends a long time ago. but you still stand fairly straight. you are recognizable as a military person, still. she s the author of a whole slew of articles about her military and history, historical, i m sorry, the military political
showing a continued slowdown. of it over to stephen engle in beijing with the latest. a very good morning to you. what are the numbers telling us? you said it. the economic indicators from the weekend and generally from the that 7.5%ths, missing growth target for the full year. does that really matter? i will get into it. his options have definitely narrowed, stimulate, or you are probably going to miss that target. we have the weakest growth since the global financial crisis and the data released over the weekend. fixed assets investment, retail sales also moderated. we saw the second straight decline in imports, a 40% drop in the aggregate financing. the numbers are not necessarily looking good for the program of cap. helen xiao at morgan stanley this isimportant an apartment wake-up call. slowdown, engineered or is this happening a bit faster than they wanted? will they stimulate more? will they ease policy? those are the big questions. they have done so with targeted