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life. this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. mason: good evening. scott s off tonight. i m anthony mason. we begin tonight with a major development in a story many of you saw sunday on 60 minutes about a michigan sports medicine doctor who treated the nation s top female gymnasts. today, 53-year-old dr. larry nassar was hit with 22 criminal charges, accused of sexually assaulting nine girls. and he has many more accusers. our dr. jon lapook has been investigating this story, and a word of caution some of what you re about to hear is graphic. this guy is disgusting. this guy is despicable. he is a monster. reporter: michigan attorney general bill schuette has charged dr. nassar with sexually assaulting young female gymnasts under the guise of medical treatment. today s complaint alleges the nine athletes, all under the age of 16, had treatments that included digital penetration of the vagina and anus. since december, nassar has been held without bail ....
capital of isis. the forces that we re operating with in syria are much more indigenous. they re much lighter. they don t have as good a mobility. they don t have as much firepower. so, you know, we have to be prepared to fill in some of the, some of those gaps for them, and that may involve, you know, additional fire support capability to help offset some of those gaps that they have and we would take the burden on ourselves to provide that aspect of the fighting. reporter: that sounds like more boots on the ground in syria. perhaps that is what we re doing. we may do that, but right now i haven t made that determination. reporter: votel said the basic strategy, begun by the obama administration, of letting local forces do the fighting will not change. but in iraq, 450 american advisers are moving forward with iraqi forces into the city of mosul, getting closer to the front lines than ever before. general votel is in jordan tonight as he makes one last tour of ....
this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. today s complaint alleges the nine athletes, all under the age of 16, had treatments that included digital penetration of the vagina and anus. since december, nassar has been held without bail in michigan, charged with possession of child pornography, and criminal sexual conduct involving the daughter of a family friend. complaints against nassar first became public in september 2016 after an investigation by the indy star revealed sexual abuse allegations against gymnastics coaches. that prompted young women to come forward with accusations about nassar. he was the team doctor for the women s olympic gymnastics team. that s him right after kerri strug s famous ankle injury in the 1996 olympics in atlanta. according to the attorney general, more than 80 women have come forward so far with complaints against nassar. taking the apple cart and flipped it upside down. reporter: jamie dantzscher, who won a bronze medal ....
right. in one of his first executive actions, the president gave the pentagon until next week to develop a new strategy for defeating isis in the middle east. such a plan could include more u.s. ground troops on top of the 5,000 already in iraq. david martin is traveling with the head of u.s. central command as he evaluates what s needed. reporter: with iraqi forces closing in on what remains of the isis self-proclaimed capital of mosul, the commander of u.s. forces in the middle east says he won t hesitate to ask for more american ground troops in both iraq and syria. i ve always been encouraged if we need more, we will ask for more. reporter: general joseph votel told cbs news additional american troops would be especially useful in syria. the u.s.-backed fighters are preparing an offensive to retake raqqa, the other self-proclaimed capital of isis. the forces that we re operating with in syria are much more indigenous. they re much lighter. they don t have a ....
this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. mason: good evening. scott s off tonight. i m anthony mason. this is our western edition. we begin tonight with a major development in a story many of you saw sunday on 60 minutes about a michigan sports medicine doctor who treated the nation s top female gymnasts. today, 53-year-old dr. larry nassar was hit with 22 criminal charges, accused of sexually assaulting nine girls. and he has many more accusers. our dr. jon lapook has been investigating this story, and a word of caution some of what you re about to hear is graphic. this guy is disgusting. this guy is despicable. he is a monster. reporter: michigan attorney general bill schuette has charged dr. nassar with sexually assaulting young female gymnasts under the guise of medical treatment. today s complaint alleges that nine athletes, all under the age of 16, had treatments that included digital penetration of the vagina and anus. since december, nassar has ....