thank you so much for joining me this saturday. i m fredericka witfield. we begin with the search for answers after the u.s. shot down what is described as an unidentified high altitude object. u.s. fighter jets taking it down after the coast of alaska friday. pentagon officials say they acted swiftly after the object about the size of a small car crossed into frozen territorial waters. it s the second time in less than a week that u.s. fighter jets have shot an object out of the sky following that chinese spy balloon taken down off the coast of south carolina last saturday. katie bow little lis is with us. what are we learning about this second object? reporter: this object is still quite a bit of a mystery. what we know is that on thursday the military observed this unknown object in us air space just off the coast of alaska. they sent up military aircraft to get a look at this thing. pilots weren t able to tell a whole lot. they could see it was flying at about 40,000 fe
Fbis mishandling of the investigation into the disgraced doctor. Im especially sorry that there were people at the fbi who had their own chance to stop this monster and failed. Norah the Cbs Evening News starts now. Good evening. Im norah odonnell, and thank you for being with us. We do want to begin tonight with that Breaking News of a major settlement between the department of justice and some of the survivors of convicted sex offender larry nassar. Cbs news has learned that the deal is in its final stages, and there are reports the amount could be up to 100 million. And the news comes three years after a department of justice Watchdog Report outlined the fbis mishandling of the case, including how agents were slow to investigate the Abuse Allegations into nassar. He was the former team doctor for the Womens National gymnastics team. Olympic stars simone biles, mckayla maroney, and aly raisman are among the gymnasts who sued the fbi and the settlement, when finalized, could bring tot
east coast eight on the west coast it s day 27 on america s late news fox news at night. while the israeli ground war continues to expand in gaza where the death toll on both sides is rising, and while many are still calling for a ceasefire, we now have a hamas official on the record, and on video, saying they won t stop until they rid the world of israel. we have team fox coverage, lucas tomlinson in tel aviv, steve harrigan in northern is real, we ll get to them in moments but we begin here in the u.s. with the big-time concerns about the attack on the homeland. the fbi director says we are lacking intelligence on terror suspects and the white house says it s impossible to know if terrorists are in the u.s. bill melugin is live with more on how the threat level could be higher than anyone realizes. bill good evening. good evening to you and the fbi director says right now we are seeing the most significant terror threat to the united states in the last decade and now ther
about 100,000 flights jet around the world every day. flying accounts for 2.5% of all carbon emissions. now, that might not sound like much, but if aviation was a country, it would be among the top ten most polluting nations in the world, and its impact is expected to rise. now there s a global race to get clean aviation off the ground. and some companies think they re close to cracking it. pretty soon, passengers will be flying in zero emission aircraft. but how did we get here? archive: the new machine is called, optimistically, - the flyer. we ve come a long way since the wright brothers first flight in 1903. that day, they lifted the world into a new dimension. then we achieved bigger, faster planes. great, but that s also how we ended up with all these emissions. jet engines burn kerosene, which releases carbon dioxide, one of the main greenhouse gases causing climate change. the industry faces an enormous challenge to clean up its act, and that means coming up with new
Now on bbc news, the Islamic State group may no longer control territory in syria or iraq, but it hasnt given up the fight. Undeterred, some of its army of global jihadists survived and have taken sanctuary in the most remote corners of the globe. So where has the Islamic State group gone after the caliphate . In this bbc news exclusive, Quentin Sommerville followed the trail of one attack, planned and executed despite the groups apparent collapse. There are some images in the following programme which some viewers may find disturbing. Vicious, fearless, the Islamic State group was an army of globaljihadists. Hungry to die for their cause. We followed them to their strongholds in mosul, and raqqa. The fight was ferocious and at close quarters. The american Led Coalition unleashed bombardment not seen since the second world war. And the world watched the Islamic State group fall. The black flag was captured, the caliphate conquered. A broken and cowered army of local and foreign jihadis