This is the cbs evening news. Mason good evening. Im Anthony Mason. In ten months as americas chief diplomat, Rex Tillerson has found no world leader a greater challenge than the president of the United States. Relations between President Trump and the Senior Member of his cabinet, the former c. E. O. Of exxonmobil, have been strained almost from the start. Now cbs news has confirmed the white house has a plan to force tillerson out. Heres white house and Senior Foreign Affairs correspondent Margaret Brennan. Hes here. Rex is here. Reporter today President Trump refused to answer questions about a white house plan to replace secretary of state Rex Tillerson after less than a year on the job. Mr. Trump has been publicly frustrated with his top diplomat. We disagree on a couple of things. Sometimes id like him to be a little bit tougher. Reporter that comment came just three days after tillerson held an extraordinary News Conference last month to shoot down reports that he had called the
And have it on action news. 10 kilometers east of dover, delaware. And 5. 1 on the Richter Scale. That is relatively low. The higher the number the much bigger it is. 5. 1 pretty low but here in philadelphia we did feel it. So folks near dover probably felt it a lot more. You mentioned several fault lines under pennsylvania. Can you tell us more about is this historically a place that had fault lines but not active. We dont have a fault line like they have in california that typically active. Three years ago we had one and a lot of people felt it. Its not that unusual that we get the small earthquakes but dont typically get the big ones fort fatally that cause a lot of damage. Well share the messages through the evening. Thank you meteorologist, cecily tynan for that update. In other news a horrifying end to the life of a young girl that met a man online. We are learning more about a murder victim in west philadelphia. She was only 15 years old and she may not be her suspected killers
Special. Why shes all choked up. This is entertainment tonight. Matt lauer makes his first Public Statement since he was fired by the today show. New allegations continue to surface. How are you feeling . Have you reached out to matt . Lauers former colleagues kept quiet about his personal life today. Meanwhile the today show was spotted out for the first time. He met with an attorney and was still wearing his wedding ring. Just a few hours earlier, he addressed the claims against him. The 59yearold former anchor said in a statement some of what is said about him was untrue, but theres enough truth in the stories to make me feel embarrassed or shamed. Adding, repairing the damage will take a lot of time and soul serming. Im committed to beginning that effort. It is now my fulltime job. Hi, everybody, and welcome to christmas in rockefeller center. He was noticeably missing from the rockefeller Tree Lighting ceremony. If New York Times reported one former nbc staffer claimed that after
Of first degree murder, Second Degree murder, not guilty of manslaughter. Guilty only of one charge, possession of a firearm. Team coverage in and outside the krors. Lyanne melendez has covered the trial from the beginning. Reporter it took six days for the jury to reach this verdict. I would calculate about 28 hours or so of deliberations. Many people were surprised by the verdict, again not guilty of murder, not guilty of assault with semiautomatic weapon and as you mentioned, guilty of possession of a gun. Now that one really surprised me and made little sense to me. This is the explanation given by the public defender jeff adachy. They heard the evidence, they deliberated as a group, they heard read back testimony, looked at physical evidence and rendered a verdict to best of their abilities in accordance to the law. Verdict we werent hoping for. Both sides fought very hard but again the jury is the one, the jurors are the ones to make the determination on the case and we will resp
Determination on the case and we will respect that decision. Reporter and that was Matt Gonzalez, defense attorney and spokesperson for the District Attorneys office. Hear from jeff and his explanation as to why Garcia Zarate was found guilty of possession of a firearm. If we could have that please. They heard the evidence, they deliberated as a group, they heard read back testimony, they looked at physical evidence, and they rendered a verdict to the best of their abilities in accordance with the law. It was a verdict we were not hoping for. I know that both sides fought very hard, but again the jury reporter we will hear eventually from jeff adachy. Apologies. After the verdict was read, defendant jose inez Garcia Zarate did not react but later got up and hugged Matt Gonzalez, hi attorney. And gonzalez maintained all along his client found the stolen gun at the pier wrapped in piece of cloth, if you remember, picked it up and accidentally fired. I want to also mention that that posse