Generations of children. Hey, listen, im from a kid show. We remember legendary puppeteer caroll spinney. And later, banding together. How a community is stepping up to help an officer in need. Announcer this is the cbs overnight news. Welcome to the overnight news. Im elaine quijano. The fbi now says its investigating the shooting rampage at the naval station in pensacola, florida on friday as an act of terrorism. The gunman, identified as a 21yearold Saudi Air Force officer, was shot and killed. The fbi says he carried out the attack with a legally purchased handgun. Three sailors were killed in the attack. A motorcade took their bodies back to the naval base today, and people lined streets to pay their respects. David begnaud is in pensacola tonight. We are as we do in most active shooter investigations, work with the presumption that this was an act of terrorism. Reporter the shooter was 21yearold Second Lieutenant in the royal Saudi Air Force, Mohammad Alshamrani. He was a naval f
Reporter from a lack of water . Yeah. Reporter tree ecologists Anthony Ambrose and wendy baxter have been working throughout that drought which lasted from late 2010 to earlier this year. Its not much further. Reporter but they havent been studying the pine, firs and cedars that died. Theyve been analyzing the world famous monsters that survived, the giant sequoias, the largest living creatures on earth. Theyve been living and growing in the same place, some of them for thousands of years. Reporter but even these giants have an achilles heel . Yeah, their demand for water. Weve measured that an individual giant sequoia tree uses up to a thousand gallons of water in a single day. If that water supply diminishes, there is going to be an impact on the trees eventually. Really puts everything into perspective. Yeah. Reporter doing science way out here means more than just a strenuous hike. In fact, thats just the beginning. Most of the action is happening up in the canopies. Thats where al
Million. The opposition spent a fraction of that. Just a tenth. And i think that voters heard that. The measure wasnt as well crafted as perhaps it could have been. It was very easy to attack. And you know, this was something that a lot of the cities, the mayor, a lot of the cities sort of political establishment came out against. But we saw other issues that i think we want to talk about where housing played front and center. Wrooel get to that in a second. Lets talk about the mayors race. Mayor ed lee easily won reelection. He picks up 60 of the vote. But 40 of the voters said no to him. To what extent was that percentage a protest vote against ed lee . I would say it absolutely is. Not only that but we had 10,000 people sit out the mayors race. This is an incumbent who is well known in san francisco. Mayor gavin newsom in 2007, the year he had an fair with the wife of one of his employees who worked for him got 74 of the vote. This is not as much of a mandate as the mayor could have
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Million. The opposition spent a fraction of that. Just a tenth. And i think that voters heard that. The measure wasnt as well crafted as perhaps it could have been. It was very easy to attack. And you know, this was something that a lot of the cities, the mayor, a lot of the cities sort of political establishment came out against. But we saw other issues that i think we want to talk about where housing played front and center. Wrooel get to that in a second. Lets talk about the mayors race. Mayor ed lee easily won reelection. He picks up 60 of the vote. But 40 of the voters said no to him. To what extent was that percentage a protest vote against ed lee . I would say it absolutely is. Not only that but we had 10,000 people sit out the mayors race. This is an incumbent who is well known in san francisco. Mayor gavin newsom in 2007, the year he had an fair with the wife of one of his employees who worked for him got 74 of the vote. This is not as much of a mandate as the mayor could have