Well have enough for national how longer games. Dickerson well handicap the odds talk to candidate Rick Santorum and preview the world cup soccer final. All ahead on fakes the nation. Captioning sponsored by cbs good morning welcome to face the nation im john dickerson. Overnight u. S. And Coalition Forces launched intense airstrikes over raqqa. Where step militants were killed. Cbs news correspondent Elizabeth Palmer filed this report. This was one of the heaviest bombardments if not the heaviest since airstrikes began back in september. There was 16 strikes on various targets but most at least one bridge. All important for isis to move men and equipment around their territory. Theyre going to have a lot more trouble doing that now. Many of the strikes appear to have been to the north of raqqa we know isis has been reinforcing on that front in anticipation some of kind of attack from the considereddish army. We may actually be witnessing a preparation for that. A softening up of that
Were doing everything we can to move as many people as we can and were still encouraging people to use alternate means of transportation if they have them. Reporter in this video provided by bart you can see crews have been hard at work replacing a series of aging transfer rails floor the west oakland bart station that leaded to to transbay tube. That is why Train Service under the bay had to at the stopped this weekend. According to bart the crews are making pretty Good Progress and bus bridges will continue through regular service tomorrow and then monday morning trains will continue their regular service through the transbay tube. Theyll be doing this again labor day weekend. Reporting live in San Francisco. Abc7 news. Thank you. San Francisco Bay ferry ridership is higher than usual this weekend because of the transbay tube closure. The alameda, oakland, San Francisco ferry, experience ted jump in ridership this morning from its usual 2,000 passengers to nearly 2500. The vallejo Sa
The iraqi army itself, to put new generals in, to reconstitute it, and to help marshall outside forces in the coalition to come together to help them. The Islamic State assault against kobani has been going on for a month. And a lawsuit over the short term rental site, which is called unconstitutional, saying it benefits rival airbnb. It requires people to live in their homes at least nine months per year in order to legally rent them out. And a french advertising giant is pushing deeper into digital ads after a failed merger. Inez agreed to buy a firm for 3. 7 billion dollars in an all cash deal. It is called a ground jewel, allowing clients to receive digital transformation. And new clues as to when the digital watch will hit the market. In an internal memo, it was said the watch will be launched in the spring of next year. At a september product unveiling, apple said the watch would be coming early in 2015. Now, to our lead. Was it a mechanical problem, pilot error, Something Else .
Tech companies. A federal judge says she will give final approval to apples settlement in the ebook pricefixing case. They will have to pay 450 million to as many as 23 million consumers. About 50 million of that is for lawyers fees. If its appeal is successful, it could be reduced to nothing. Fcc chairman tom wheeler dropped some hints on net neutrality. He says he wants to make sure that the new open internet rules are legally sound and will withstand challenges. He says he wants to write the rules quickly although the fcc has previously said the process will drag into next year. Turner broadcasting channels like cnn and Cartoon Network are back on the dish network, at least for the next few months. This comes after the Companies Reached an interim deal in their heated dispute. The shortterm agreement will keep the channels on dish while companies try to reach a longterm solution. Cory johnson has the lead story. Now to the lead president obamas plan for Immigration Reform was not th
Back to you. Some news coming out of the imf looking at their forecast for this year and next. Looks like the Global Economy is going to be slower. The u. S. Economy will be faster. They are forecasting growth of the most in three years. They have cut their 2015 Global Growth forecast to 3. 5 . They also downgraded the eurozone forecast. The only major upgrade is the u. S. , which has gone up to 3. 6 . They do cite a boost from lower oil prices, but there are negative factors. The concern is the divergence amongst the economies namely the u. S. Against japan. A strong dollar against a weaker yen. Rates on the rise. These are the factors highlighted. Meanwhile china growth down for the Third Quarter was also a concern. We will endear you will indeed be hearing from the imf cheese economist chief economist later in the program. Chinas Economic Growth beat Economy Economic estimates last quarter, helping the fullyear expansion remain close to the governments target. Pristine has the detai