This is the cbs morning news for tuesday, september 23rd, 2014. Good morning, im susan mcginnis. In for annemarie green. The u. S. And five allies launched air strikes in syria. Cruise missiles launched from u. S. Warships and drones began last night, there were 14 in all. Many of the targets were in or around the militants selfproclaimed capital in syria. The pentagon said the targets included headquarters, Training Facilities and a finance center. Today, president obama travels to the United Nations to try to rally more support for the push against isis. Marlie hall reports from the u. N. Reporter the u. S. And several arab allies launched their first air strikes against isis in syria last night. Pentagon said a mix of fighter jets, bombers and tomahawk missiles fired from nearby warships were used. Syria said some of the strikes hit targets in raqqa. Primary targets are command centers in raqqa. Training facilities. And logistics, known targets. Reporter the Video Campaign comes aft
Mudslides in Southern California, other parts of the southwest are swamped by flash floods. Get out hurry this is the cbs morning news for tuesday, august 5th, this is the cbs morning news for tuesday, august 5th, 2014. Captioning funded by cbs good morning, good to be with you. Im annemarie green. An american aid worker infected with the ebola virus is on her way back to the United States for treatment this morning. Nancy writebol boarded a specially equipped plane last night in liberia and is being flown to Emory University hospital in atlanta. That is where another american patient, dr. Kent brantly is also being treated for the potentially deadly disease. The two americans were infected in liberia, one of four african nations dealing with the worst Ebola Outbreak in history. More than 1600 people have been infected and nearly 900 have died. Here in new york city, doctors are awaiting test results on a man exhibiting symptoms of ebola. Ko im is at the mt. Sinai Medical Center with d
Training camp. 10,000 fans won some tickets online and its their first chance to see players if n helmets and jerseys nowing and catching footballs inned the new stadium. Also a new chance for the folks to work out the kinks they went through over the weekend. Call it unintended consequences but who knew that fans would park up to a mile away from the stadium and then walk in but thats what happened on saturday. Dozens of fans flooded the california impressions subdivision across the guadalupe river. Loud rowdy fans walked through the neighborhood at 10 00 p. M. Dropping litter and blocking driveways. Near the stadium there are plenty of no parking signs in the local neighborhoods but on the san jose side. There are no signs. I feel a bit more secure if there were explicit signs which said you know no event parking and it was actually regulated by you know the from the garages. You could barely walk to and everyone with football or soccer jerseys walking over here. So definitely the ot
The Seattle Seahawks and the Denver Broncos need overtime to settle a rematch of last seasons super bowl. Captioning funded by cbs this is the cbs morning news for monday, this is the cbs morning news for monday, september 22nd, 2014. Good morning. Im Susan Mcginnis in for annemarie green. The secret service is considering installing check points a few blocks from the white house after a big security breach. On friday iraq war veteran Omar Gonzalez jumped the white house fence and made it into the executive mansion armed with a knife. Julianna goldman tells us about gonzalez who suffers from Mental Illness. Reporter the secret service says it has increased security around the white house while it investigates fridays historic breach. Representative mike rogers who chairs the Intelligence Committee told cbs news that secret Service Needs to be, quote, upping its game. I think what you have seen is theyre not doing their audits, their checks, their test runs to make sure that people are
Reporter from a distance mandy thought she was look at a bonfire. 911 asked if it was the size of a football field and at that point it was. And at that point, it just started getting bigger, really fast. Reporter alarmingly fast. Within just a few hours, the flames would consume 2500 acres in rural pope valley fueled by grass, trees and rocky terrain left desiccated by a punishing drought. This firefighters told us is not your typical july wildfire. We are seeing fires that we would see later in the year. Hot conditions, low humidity, strong winds and fires will burn faster than this one. Reporter an aggressive unpredictable intensity that firefighters have been struggling for hours to try to control. Heres one of the unique problems firefighters are dealing with, spot fires like this hopping all along the hillside. They are sporadic and when they come together they create larger fires causing this particular fire to spread fast. And firefighters say this is just the beginning. Wildfi