And the character that he developed over a lifetime, and if you think about what weve done for the duration of this course, weve brought him into the story intermittently throughout. Whether its talking about individual battles or whether its talking about how he organized men or how he kept men he recruited men to get them to maintain or stay in the service. And one of the things i try to get across whenever im talking about washington is that washington is a bit of an inenia to a modern audience. Why . Because we really dont know who he was, what he was, how he looked. I mean, when i show you these images here, these images are of three of our noteworthy president s. Every ten years or so about 700 political scientists and historians across the country, they rank our president s. Now, who knows how our current president is going to rank. But nonetheless, whenever those rankings come out, generally these three guys here rank at the top. Sometimes it will be lincoln. Sometimes it will
collabora a collaborative decision. we are told the federal bureau of investigation activated the ferguson contingent, everyone is on red alert to come here, and back up the ferguson police in the event that they need it. there are hundreds agents coming in. there are 100 on standby if needed it follows a week in which we have seen now the authorities are moving in to back up the police station, i can tell you the area back in summer where there was the police area. it looks as if we are readying for a decision. john terrett joining us live from ferguson, missouri. investigations are under way here in new york in the killing of yet another unarmed man by a rookie police officer. officials say two officers were on patrol inside a public housing building on thursday, with an officer firing his gun. the bullet hit and killed. it s unclir why the officer had his gun drawn. they have entered the hallway, not engaged in criminal activity. the mayor bill de blasio called
pelley: good evening. we saw something today we haven t seen since the dependents of the great recession. the price of oil fell below $50 a barrel. it ended the day at 50.04, the lowest close since spring of 2009. have a look at this. just since june of last year, the price of oil has dropped by more than half. no one knows when the slide will end. on wall street, the dow fell more than 300 points. the s&p nearly 38. in beth cases a loss of nearly 2%. elaine quijano is looking into why investors are worried. reporter: today marked the worst drop in the dow and s&p since october. analysts and traders say there was no one particular reason, but the continued freefall in oil prices played a major role. bill stone is chief investment strategist for pnc wealth management. why are the markets tanking? oil did breech a kind of psychological barrier going below $50 a barrel. when you see oil fall that much, historically that has been associated with a significant economic dow
this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. pelley: good evening. we saw something today we haven t seen since the dependents of the great recession. the price of oil fell below $50 a barrel. it ended the day at 50.04, the lowest close since spring of 2009. have a look at this. just since june of last year, the price of oil has dropped by more than half. no one knows when the slide will end. on wall street, the dow fell more than 300 points. the s&p nearly 38. in beth cases a loss of nearly 2%. elaine quijano is looking into why investors are worried. reporter: today marked the worst drop in the dow and s&p since october. analysts and traders say there was no one particular reason, but the continued freefall in oil prices played a major role. bill stone is chief investment strategist for pnc wealth management. why are the markets tanking? oil did breech a kind of psychological barrier going below $50 a barrel. when you see oil fall that much, historically that h
pelley: good evening. this is our western edition. we saw something today we haven t seen since the dependents of the great recession. the price of oil fell below $50 a barrel. it ended the day at 50.04, the lowest close since spring of 2009. have a look at this. just since june of last year the price of oil has dropped by more than half. no one knows when the slide will end. on wall street, the dow fell more than 300 points. the s&p nearly 38. in both cases a loss of nearly 2%. elaine quijano is looking into why investors are worried. reporter: today marked the worst drop in the dow and s&p since october. analysts and traders say there was no one particular reason but the continued free-fall in oil prices played a major role. bill stone is chief investment strategist for pnc wealth management. why are the markets tanking? oil did breech a kind of psychological barier going below $50 a barrel. when you see oil fall that much, historically that has been associated with a