Schieffer tonight, planning for a u. S. Military strike against syria. As the death toll rises, the pentagon makes preparations for action, but will the president give the goahead . David martin that has story. The fastestgrowing wildfire in the country now covers 165 square miles and it is just entered Yosemite National park. Theresa garcia is on the scene. Something is killing dolphins along the east coast. Terrell brown has the latest on the search for clues. And on the road, Steve Hartman catches motorists smiling in a nosmiling zone. Never so happy to get a ticket in my life. Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Schieffer good evening,
scotts off tonight, im Bob Schieffer. Cbs news has learned that the pentagon is making the initial preparations for a Cruise Missile attack on Syrian Government forces. We say initial preparations because such an attack wont happen unless and until the president gives the green light, and it was clear during an
All right, thats going to do it for this edition of way too early. Morning joe starts right now. Good morning look at that, willie. That is a beautiful view. Beautiful day. Its a Beautiful Day. Last couple , not so beautiful. Its thursday, august the 14th. Great to have you here with us. Along with you, we have got washington anchor for bbc world news america, katty kay and nick consori and then with bloomberg news, al hunt. Yesterday, willie, really bad storms out there. Did you see some of the pictures . Even out here on long island. Cars on the highways up to their roofs. Looked like a river. It was. Yeah, parts of the midatlantic and northeast cleaning up and drying out after heavy rains sparked flooding across several states. The hardest appeared to be long island. Islip 13. 27 inches in under 24 hours and more than a foot in less than a day. More than the region receives in an entire summer. The rainfall shattered previous records and a lot of cars abandoned and a lot of people h
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deutsche and Columbia University school of Public Affairs Dorian Warren is back. In washington where there is a lot going on, we have reporter for the new york time Jeremy Peters with us covering capitol hill. We have so much going on. Well start in washington just to give you a sense of water going on there. Developing news in washington, concerning americas war on isis. For weeks, president obama has claimed he wont be deploying Ground Troops in iraq. We all heard that, right . Yesterday the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff testified it could be a possibility. Now the white house is trying to clarify that. We will get every angle of this, this hour just ahead, but we want to start with news from the nfl and why we may
Shopping site of all. How do they get it to you so fast . Power struggle is getting worse in egypt. Growing fight between a president once hailed as a hero and angry protesters threatening a revolution. Road rage caught on camera but not in the way you might think. How folks on two wheels are turning into four wheelers who dont play nice on the road. Making a difference for families who thought their most Cherished Memories were lost forever. Good evening. By any measure this weekend has been a bonanza for retailers. We went from gray thursday to black friday and were rounding the corner into cyber monday. One of our viewers suggested today should have been dubbed so broke sunday. Say what you will about the
state of the economy but americans didnt hold back this holiday weekend. A Record Number of shoppers were out there, 247 million in all. The amount spent per shopper last year, total spending was up, online sales was up too. That doesnt include all the online spending about to happ
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