Incredible are q. I just asked her. I blurted it out. Reporter what did you say . Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley good evening. The Islamic Terrorist Group known as isis said late today it has executed another western captive. That would be the fourth in six weeks. Isis put out brutally graphic video purporting to show the beheading of a british aid worker 47yearold alan henning. Of course, we will not show that to you. The terrorists are now threatening to kill another american, peter kasig, in retaliation for u. S. And allied airstrikes isis targets in iraq and syria. Holly williams has more now about this latest casualty in the war with isis. Reporter he was a british taxi driver and father of two daughters who worked with a Muslim Charity to deliver aid to syrians. And everybody watching. Reporter but that didnt matter to the isis militants who kidnapped alan henning nine months ago and have now beheaded him. His blood is on the ha
Behind there is 95. It leads to where they will be playing fedex field. Both places this morning it is cold. Theres probably frost on parked cars. Sharon will have traffic right after meteorologist tim williams in for marty and over at first warning weather. Good morning. Those clear skies have allowed the temperatures to drop. Any heat we generated yesterday has lifted up and out of here. 21 oakland, 30 at bwi 29 elkin 31 on the shore. Our daytime high only in the low to mid 40s with a good day of sunshine. We have rain headed our way. We will talk about the timing of it coming up. Keeping a close eye on our interstates and surface streets Sharon Gibala at wjz traffic control. Good morning. We have a new problem to tell you about. This one will effect you in ann arundel county. Two intersections on crane highway where we had traffic lights out one at mayo road, the other Hospital Drive treat them as 4way stops. Theres a look at your speeds on the beltway. Thats a live look at 95 in an
Americans about the process. Take a listen. This vaccine met the fdas rigorous standards for quality, safety and efficacy. Science and data guided the fdas decision. We worked quickly based on the urgency of this pandemic, not because of any other external pressure. This will be a long process and its only a glimmer of hope at the end of what has been and continues to be a very dark tunnel. And it could not come at a more dire time. The u. S. Seeing its worst day of the pandemic thus far on friday. The highest number of deaths, over 3,300 in one day. Hospitalizations and new cases higher also than any day prior. The u. S. Now approaching another horrific milestone, closing in on 300,000 americans killed this year by the disease. As we wait for the vaccines arrival, hospitals are also struggling, the department of health and Human Services saying that 85 of hospitals across the country have more covid19 patients last week than they did a month ago. The sad reality of all of this is that
Job. We are going to continue. Its going to disappear in one day. Its a miracle, itll disappear. From our shores that could get worse before it gets better. It could maybe go away. Well see what happens. Nobody really knows. The risk of the spread of the coronavirus in the United States of america remains low. That is according to all of our experience. And it is a direct result of the unprecedented action that President Trump took last month. Harris democrats are arguing we cannot ignore the seriousness of this international outbreak. Watch. We shouldnt be panicky, we should be set down my pessimistic, but we have to be realistic. When japanese shuts down its Public Schools for a month, its fair warning that many leaders across the world take this very seriously and are making what might be, on its face, and unpopular but important decision. Harris here is what is breaking now from the World Health Organization. We are just getting this end. It is now raising the coronavirus Risk Asse
Of surviving go way up. If they do not, theyre much more likely to die. American hospitals are not equipped for the scale of ventilator need presented by this pandemic and this has been clear, i want to make this clear for a long time including the National Security handbook given to the Trump Administration by the Obama Administration and in a pandemic simulation practiced by the Trump Administration itself code named crimson contaken that found states request challenges due to a lack of standardized well understood and properly executed resource request processes. This administrations wore gaar said they need to be prepared. In new york city doctors are hacking ventilators themselves to split them between multiple patients. Andrew cuomo says the state could need 30,000 machines in the next few weeks. This is a simple matter of life and death. Okay . If we dont get the ventilators, more people will die. Its not complicated. The president , the president seems to think the whole ventil