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scott pelley is in new york. scott? >> reporter: hi, allen and liz. great to be with you in the bay area. tonight, we are going to take you to the scenes of those deadly tornadoes that mowed down whole communities. plus there may be a serious flaw in those new guidelines for lower cholesterol. dr. john lapook will be here to tell us what you need to know. that and more on the "cbs evening news with scott pelley." ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, ip, being >>> i'm ken bastida in the kpix 5 newsroom. coming up at 6:00 tonight, raising the red flag on a ship being used as a workplace for bay area startups. how entrepreneurs paying rent to use the former ferry are sailing into an unexpected challenge. >> and why a bay area tourist town is trying to make it almost impossible for developers to build another hotel in the area. we'll have those stories and a look at the rain that's coming tonight at 6:00. >> we're talking about. thanks, ken. appreciate it. thanks for watching us at 5:00. the "cbs evening news with scott pelley" is coming up next. >> and remember, the lates

we have scott pelley in new york. scott? >> reporter: hi, allen and liz. great to be with you in the bay area. well, it was an unnerving scene in new jersey as hundreds fled the shopping mall shooter. this of course on the heels of the shootings at l.a.x. we're following those stories plus a big city mayor today confessed to using crack cocaine. but will he quit his job. we'll have those stories on the "cbs evening news" at 5:30 right after kpix 5 news. ,, ,, female announcer: female announcer: when you see this truck, it means another neighbor is going to sleep better tonight because they went to sleep train's ticket to tempur-pedic event. choose from a huge selection of tempur-pedic models, including the new tempur-choice with head-to-toe customization. plus, get 36 months interest-free financing, two free pillows, and free same-day delivery. are you next? announcer: but don't wait. sleep train's ticket to tempur-pedic is ending soon. ♪ your ticket to a better night's sleep ♪ and why can you move the tv out here? the wireless receiver. i got that whe

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the "cbs evening news with scott pelley" is next. captions by: caption colorado comments@captioncolorado.com >> pelley: tonight, how far can the markets go? wall street makes history with a new high, but can the rally last? anthony mason on what is stampeding the bulls. >> this is a sad day. >> pelley: washington makes history with a new low. in a showdown democrats sweep away 100 years of tradition. republicans vow to make them pay. three women are freed after being held as slaves for 30 years. mark phillips is on the story. and bob schieffer finds the man who faced lee harvey oswald in the moment after oswald shot the president 50 years ago. >> he didn't appear stressed in any way. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. the stock market is sailing in uncharted territory. interest rates are low, corporate earnings are high, and there is no end in sight for the federal reserve stimulus program. that added up to the dow hitting another record, heading for its best year in

scott pelley is in new york. scott? >> reporter: hi, allen and liz. great to be with you in the bay area. well, we learned today that the tsa officer who was killed in the l.a.x. shootings was denied medical care for more than 30 minutes. john miller will have a look at how that happened. plus, we have been covering the batkid in san francisco. and we'll have that story, as well. all that and the rest of the world news on the "cbs evening news" at 5:30 right after kpix 5 news. ,, ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, they fear they're going to wiped out.. how california ught in the middle >>> i'm ken bastida in the kpix 5 newsroom. new at 6:00 tonight they fear they are going to be wiped out. how california farmers are caught in the middle of an escalating water war. and batkid wherever you are, a grateful city acknowledges you. thank you. we do salute you. >> all right. ken. thank you. >>> thanks for watching us at 5:00. the "cbs evening news with scott pelley" is next. we'll leave you with some of batkid's best crime-fighting moments. captions by: caption colorado com

ng news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. after every mass shooting people seem to ask "why doesn't anyone do anything about mental health care?" well, today someone did. the obama administration issued new rules that will improve access to care for 62 million americans. it's an idea the president said he would impose himself by executive order after congress declined to pass gun control legislation. the move comes after the movie massacre in colorado that left 12 dead, the shootings in newtown, connecticut, that killed 27, the washington navy yard attack in which 12 died, and the shooting at l.a.x. one week ago. 88 dead in 12 mass shootings in just over a year. major garrett is at the white house with more on what all this means. major? >> reporter: scott, mental health professionals have sought this change for decades, both to improve treatment and to lift a long-standing stigma. today's announcement means insurance companies must now provide the same benefit coverage for illnesses of the mind they have long provided by for

we have scott pelley in new york. scott? >> reporter: airport security screening that costs taxpayers nearly $1 billion may be a failure. we'll have the government's investigation tonight on the "cbs evening news." ,, the great american novel. so you can happily let life get in the way, while planning for tomorrow. so you can finish the great american novel banking for the life you have investing for the life you want chase. so you can to a tastier festive feast. so much to sip and savor, a feeding frenzy to say the least. a turkey from safeway is just what they crave. a hero of the table, "so delicious" they'll rave. fresh, natural, frozen. it's the best selection around. spend $30 and a frozen safeway turkey is just 59 cents a pound. so raise your glass, pull up a chair, grab a plate. this tastier thanksgiving is well worth the wait. safeway. ingredients for life. the new span of the bay bri might not be the only hat costs way mo >>> i'm ken bastida in the kpix 5 newsroom. new at 6:00 tonight, the new span of the bay bridg

the "cbs evening news with scott pelley" is next. captions by: caption colorado comments@captioncolorado.com >> pelley: tonight, how far can the markets go? wall street makes history with a new high, but can the rally last? anthony mason on what is stampeding the bulls. >> this is a sad day. >> pelley: washington makes history with a new low. in a showdown democrats sweep away 100 years of tradition. republicans vow to make them pay. three women are freed after being held as slaves for 30 years. mark phillips is on the story. and bob schieffer finds the man who faced lee harvey oswald in the moment after oswald shot the president 50 years ago. >> he didn't appear stressed in any way. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley.

the "cbs evening news with scott pelley" is next. remember, the latest news and weather are always on our website, kpix.com. captions by: caption colorado comments@captioncolorado.com >> pelley: tonight, the president was told that the web site was in trouble. newly revealed documents show just how much the administration knew about the problems with healthcare.gov. major garrett's at the white house. nancy cordes is on capitol hill. cheating death-- dean reynolds on why so many survived the midwest tornadoes. the tesla electric car gets top ratings, but now, ben tracy tells us the government's investigating a possible hazard. and chip reid on the search for abraham lincoln 150 years after the gettysburg address. is he in this picture? >> the hair, the high cheek bones and the brow all said to me that was him. captioning sponsored by cbs

for all of us at cbs news all around the world, i'm scott pelley. i'll see you sunday on "60 minutes." good night. good captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org access.wgbh.org >>> it's a crime wave unlike anything gotham city has ever seen. >> i have been a cop for over 30 years and i can tell you i thought i saw it all. >> a damsel in distress. >> there's a woman tied to the cable track. >> a bank heist. >> they kidnapped lou-seal. >> this was the city at the mercy of super villains. >> we got no book for that. >> and then he arrived. >> batkid! ♪[ music ] >> from russian hill to union square -- to the ballpark! ♪[ music ] >> this is the story of one city's desperate plea for help! and epic heroics the likes of which gotham city may never see again. >> good evening, gotham city. i'm ken bastida. >> i'm elizabeth cook. this was a day of drama, none of us will soon forget. so tonight, we are bringing you team coverage from across gotham city. linda yee on the crime wave that for a moment brought the cit

scott shaw and hundreds of other victims' families have filed a civil suit, scott. >> pelley: jim, thank you very much. in a major reversal today, the food and drug administration lifted the safety restrictions on the diabetes pill avandia. those restrictions were imposed in 2010 when reports came out that avandia can increase a patient's risk of heart attack. but new evidence now shows that's not the case. there's a new problem with the boeing 787 dreamliner. and two coaches and two school administrators are charged in connection with a notorious rape case when the "cbs evening news" continues. we're going across america to let people try the deep sweep power brush by oral-b for the first time. wow. it's "wow," you know? wow. wow. that feels wow! [ male announcer ] oral-b deep sweep, featuring three cleaning zones with dynamic power bristles that reach deep between teeth to remove up to 100% more plaque than a regular manual brush. it seems like it gets more to areas of your mouth that you can't reach with a regular toothbrush. [ male announcer ] guaranteed "wow" with deep sweep from or

. >>> scott pelley has a preview of the "cbs evening news." >> could it be an answer to mass murders? a sweeping change in insurance rules that will increase mental health for millions. we'll have the details, plus introduce you to three computer programmers who say they found the answer to the obama care melt down. melt down. that's tonight on the ,,,,,,,,,, tnÑñ . >> reporter: here in the wjz mobile weather lab, temperatures dropping down to just about freezing to start your saturday. look for a partly sunny skies, but breezy. milder with temperatures into the mid-50s. overnight lows into the 40s and back down to the 30s before bottoming out to around 32 degrees. back to bob for the next five days. >> a frosty morning, warmup into the 50s. warmer on sunday with a breeze. 58 monday, but chilly. tuesday and wednesday, low to mid-40s. could be rain showers in the area on thursday. north and west, maybe a few wet snowflakes. nothing big at this point. any low pressure that forms will be way off to our east out in the atlantic ocean. >> thank you, bob. still to come, the ravens get rea

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. the federal government's health insurance web site has had so many problems since it was rolled out on october 1, the question has been, why didn't anyone warn the president? well, it turns out someone did. the white house acknowledged today that administration officials, including president obama, were briefed on a consultant's report six months before healthcare.gov went online, a report that said problems were coming. nancy cordes is on capitol hill for us tonight. nancy. >> reporter: scott, administration officials said today they took this report's warnings into account and made changes, but republicans argue that its very existence casts doubts on claims by the president on down that they were caught by surprise. with startling foresight, the consulting firm mckinsey predicted more than six months ago that the rollout of healthcare.gov would be hobbled by evolving requirements, insufficient time for end-to-end testing, and significant dependency on external parties and contract

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for scott pelley, i'm margaret brennan. thanks for watching. good night. and happy thanksgiving. >>> i'm really glad to be home for thanksgiving. >> released from the hospital. tonight for the first time we're hearing from the bay area teenager set ablaze. >> i'm on fire. i was lit on fire. dad, i need you to come here immediately. >> good evening, happy thanksgiving. i'm elizabeth cook. >> i'm allen martin in for ken bastida tonight. kpix 5's da lin sat down with luke "sasha" fleischman at his home in oakland today. da? >> reporter: allen, from talking to sasha and his parents, you can tell this is a peaceful family and that's why they are getting so much support including ribbons. sasha tells me in our one-on- one interview that he has so much to be thankful for on this holiday. it's his second day home after spending three weeks at a hospital. he misses school, friend and most of all a sense of normalcy. >> nice to be home in my own house. >> especially on thanksgiving. the recovery both mentally and physically will take time, three surgeries so far. ba

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later in this episode, scott pelley reports from antarctica on the wide-ranging effects of global warming. and later bob simon has a story from canada on the environmental damage caused by the next great oil rush. but our first story involves a controversial waste product that could have damaging effects on the environment. there are more than 600 coal-fired power plants generating electricity in the u.s., and those plants produce 130 million tons of waste called coal ash. it contains concentrations of mercury, arsenic, lead, and other toxic materials. and as lesley stahl first reported in 2009, when coal ash is dumped into wet ponds--and there are more than 500 of those across the country-- the result can have an enormous health risk on the people living in nearby communities. >> we get about 48%, nearly half of the electricity in this country from coal. >> jim roewer is one of the top lobbyists for the power industry. >> coal is going to be around for a long time. >> and we really can't get rid of coal. >> we shouldn't get rid of coal. >> well, should or shouldn't, we can't, and coal ma

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for all of us at cbs news, all around the world, i'm scott pelley. i'll see you sunday on "60 minutes." good night. >>> your realtime captioner is mrs. linda m. macdonald >>> i was terrified like everybody else was. we were all on the ground. >> travelers running for their lives at l.a.x. and tonight, the ripple effect of today's deadly shooting is being felt at bay area airports. good evening, i'm ken bastida. >> i'm elizabeth cook. this story is still developing at this hour. it was chaos in l.a.x. terminal 3 after gunshots rang out just before 9:30 this morning. panicked travelers scrambled to safety. police say this man, 23-year- old paul ciancia killed a tsa agent and injured others. he was then shot multiple times, then taken to the hospital under police guard. witnesses say he was asking people if they were tsa workers. investigators say he was armed with an assault rifle. a preliminary review of terror databases and watch lists found no connections to the suspected gunman. officials also say he isn't a text message -- sent a text message to a

. >> dennis hockley's mother nicole told scott pelley one thing will never be known. >> i would love to know why, but i think that is a question that is never going to be answered and i don't expect that to be in the police report. we will never know what went on in that shooter's mind. >> the report will be released monday afternoon. >> don dahler, cbs news, stanford, connecticut. >> glor: for the first time the vatican put on public display bone fragments believed to be the remains of st. peter the founding pope, allen pizzey was there. >> reporter: the sacred relics were brought to the altar in a recession to mark the end of the year of the faithful, the fragments were with in a jewel box inside a bronze display case. pope francis prayed before the bones at the start of the service, and later clutched the box in his arms for several minutes. it is an act father geno silva of new jersey says is integral to the catholic faith. >> we believe that when we venerate the relics, what we really do is we honor the saints who helped us grow in living with christian virtues that faith involv

this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening, bodies in the streets. survivors cry for help. that is the story for the philippines tonight four days after typhoon haiyan. it was one of the worst storms ever observed on the earth. the u.s. navy estimates sustained winds were 195 miles an hour with gusts up to 235. that force pushed a surge of sea water estimated between 13 and 20 feet high over the land. this was tacloban, a thriving city of more than 200,000 residents before the storm. and this is after. nearly every building damaged or destroyed. families scoured the ruins for anything they could use. this boy found just a few coins. this evening, the official death toll has passed 1,700 but that is sure to go much higher. there is just no way to tell how many have died. a mother went for her son in a chapel that is now a morgue. seth doane in the philippines continues our coverage. >> reporter: a forest of flattened palm trees and waterlogged debris now litter this city of 220,000 after a massive wall of water crashed into tacloban. the ferocious win

scott pelley is in new york. scott? >> reporter: hi, allen and liz. great to be with you in the bay area. well, our new cbs news poll out tonight asks whether the president is trustworthy and what should happen to his healthcare law. we'll show you the sobering numbers. plus, today alex rodriguez stormed out and sounded off. we'll tell you what a-rod had to say about the baseball commissioner. those stories and the rest of the world news for you on the "cbs evening news" at 5:30 right after kpix 5 news. ,,,, announcer: announcer: you're on the right track to save big during sleep train's triple choice sale. for a limited time, you can choose to save hundreds on beautyrest and posturepedic mattress sets. or choose $300 in free gifts with sleep train's most popular tempur-pedic mattresses. you can even choose 48 months interest-free financing on the new tempur-choice with head-to-toe customization. the triple choice sale ends soon at sleep train! ♪ sleep train ♪ your ticket to a better night's sleep ♪ new at 6:00 tonight: they're critical to our f

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. this is a special western edition. those who know paul ciancia are at a loss to explain friday's rampage at los angeles international airport and his apparent hatred for the t.s.a. today his family apologized. ciancia is accused of shooting a t.s.a. officer to death and wounding two other officers and a passenger. terrified travelers fled the terminal friday. police shot ciancia four times, his condition has been upgraded to good today, though he remains sedated and under guard. who is ciancia? ben tracy is at l.a.x. for us tonight. ben? >> reporter: scott, the alleged shooter is something of a blank slate-- no criminal record and, for someone his age, 23, he's posted very little online. his family says they're shocked and investigators are trying to figure out why he targeted t.s.a. officers here in this terminal at l.a.x. today, f.b.i. agents were at the apartment where paul anthony ciancia has been living outside of los angeles. they escorted one of his roommates to his car and to

for scott pelley, i'm margaret brennan in new york. thanks for joining us. we leave you now with the lighting of the national menorah in washington. good night. happy chanukah. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >>> right now on your only local news cast the 7:00, one local government passes on the way to get cancelled medical plans reinstated. >> the turkeys getting a presidential pardon. let's get started with a look at the most important moments of your world in 90 seconds. >> along the east coast, winds gusting to 50 miles per hour and rain are creating dangerous driving conditions along the i-95 corridor. >> there's a lot of pulling on the road. traction is difficult. police reports are full of spin outs on all of the roads. >> many retailers like target and best buy have lowered profit expectation. expects spending to increase slightly but shoppers are going to be cautious. >> people are telling us i'm not going to over spend. i'm going to manage it. work off my list. >> three people are dead after a cra

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we have scott pelley in new york tonight. scott? >> reporter: hi, allen and liz. great to be with you in the bay area. as you have been reporting the fda today moved to ban transfats. we are going to sit down with the head of the fda to understand why they have taken this action. plus, a former miami dolphin tells us about harassment and racial slurs in the locker room. those stories tonight on the "cbs evening news" at 5:30 right after kpix 5 news. ,, i love watching tv outside. and why can you move the tv out here? the wireless receiver. i got that when i switched to u-verse. but why? because it's so much better than cable. it's got more hd channels, more dvr space. yeah, but i mean, how did you know? i researched. no, i-i told you. no. yeah! no. the important part is that you're happy now. and i got you this visor. you made a visor! yes! that i'll never wear. ohh. [ male announcer ] get u-verse tv for just $19 a month for two years with qualifying bundles. rethink possible. i want you to be smart. super smart. i want one thing in a doctor. i want you to be hand

. >> scott pelley joins us from dallas tonight. >> reporter: hi, allen and liz, great to be with you in the bay area. it's been a day of solemn remembrance as the nation marks the 50th anniversary of president kennedy's assassination. we'll speak with bob schieffer about what he saw that day and we'll talk to the only secret service agent who managed to reach the stricken president, all that tonight on the cbs evening news live from dealey plaza at 5:30 right after kpix5 news. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, radiation tests show it' >>> i'm ken bastida in the kpix5 newsroom. new at 6:00 tonight radiation tests show it's up to 100 times the normal level, but there's no warning signs. tonight the toxic history of a radioactive bay area trail and the potential risks for people in the area. >> plus. >> i thought that being an engineer was just a bald white man in a 5 by 5 cubicle. >> now a bay area code cam is giving girls the tools to succeed in a field full of men, those stories and much more tonight at 6:00. >> thank you, ken. >> see you then. thanks for watching us at 5:00. the cbs evening news w

for scott pelley, i'm margaret brennan in new york. thanks for joining us. we leave you now with the lighting of the national menorah in washington. good night. happy chanukah. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >>> your realtime captioner is mrs. linda m. macdonald. >>> our cameras role a floating crime scene being towed away after an apparent meth operation turns deadly. good evening, i'm ken bastida. >> i'm elizabeth cook. the bodies of two bay area men were found on that houseboat about 6 miles south of rio vista. kpix 5's brian webb has been following the boat all day long looking into what went wrong and where it's headed next. brian. >> reporter: liz, fishermen have seen that boat bounce from place to place in the waters back behind me over the past couple of days. as for what was found on it breaking bad comes to the delta. video from cheap, a solano county sheriff's boat towing a crime scene, video from chopper 5 showing it being taken to an undisclosed location not something the locals like to hear.

"cbs evening news with scott pelley" is coming up next. remember, the latest news and weather are always on our website, kpix.com. captions by: caption colorado comments@captioncolorado.com >> p onight, voters point to a new direction. >> maybe the folks in washington, d.c. should tune in their t.v.s right now, see how it's done. (cheers and applause) >> pelley: the republican wins among democrats, a democrat wins in republican territory. nancy cordes and john dickerson on where this is headed. the n.f.l. appoints a special counsel to investigate possible harassment within the miami dolphins. mark strassmann reports. climate scientists have never seen greenhouse gas readings like what they announced today. seth doane reports from china, john blackstone is in san francisco. and john miller with a cbs news investigation. the inside story of a pharmaceutical company that committed fraud with life-saving drugs. captioning sponsored by cbs captioning sponsored by cb this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley.

" with scott pelley. >> pelley: goo >> pelley: good evening. they are the ingredients that make cookies, and cakes taste better and piecrusts flakier. today, the food and drug administration said transfats are no longer recognized as safe, and the f.d.a. intends to ban them. chip reid caught up with the f.d.a. commissioner dr. margaret hamburg. >> transfats increase your risk for heart disease. it turns out that they elevate the so-called bad cholesterol, l.d.l.. >> reporter: will this save lives and avoid heart attacks? >> this action will save lives. the c.d.c. estimates that if we can reduce the levels of trans fat currently in the american diet, we can probably save about 7,000 people from preventable death and prevent about 20,000 heart attacks. >> reporter: trans fat is created by turning liquid vegetable oil into fat. processed food manufacturers use it because it extends the shelf life and improves the flavor of some foods, including snack foods, such as microwave popcorn, crackers, and cookies. packaged soups, cakes, pies, and biscuits

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening, tornadoes this late in the year are rare, but this week before thanksgiving dozens of them tore across the nation's mid-section. preliminary estimates from the government say there were 75 tornadoes yesterday in seven states from tennessee to michigan. at least eight deaths are reported. relatively few considering the number of twisters. accurate forecasts and early warning apparently saved lives. illinois was hit hardest. six died there. in the city of whitaker, 82- year-old pat lost her home washington looks like it was hit by a bomb. dean rends is there. dean? >> reporter: since 1986 there have been 194 tornado warnings in the month of november in illinois and over half of them were issued yesterday. what's the condition of your town? >> devastation is the best way to describe it. >> reporter: gary manier is the mayor of washington, a city of 16,000 residents and tons and tons of rubble. what are you telling people? >> actually, the message i've been sending this morning is "be pa

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. those who know paul ciancia are at a loss to explain friday's rampage at los angeles international airport and his apparent hatred for the t.s.a

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captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. on the eve of the thanksgiving holiday getaway, there is trouble for travelers. a storm system that began in the west last week is now heading into the northeast with rain, wind, snow, and ice. 1300 flights have been canceled since the weekend. this is a live look at airports in new york, cleveland, and nashville, where some folks are looking to make an early escape. this satellite view will will give you an idea of just how big this storm is. as you can see, it covers much of the country. it's already blamed for at least 11 deaths. we have three reports tonight with more than three million people expected to fly this weekend, we're going to begin with manuel bojorquez at the airport in atlanta. manuel. >> reporter: scott, this is the world's busiest airport. it's also headquarters for delta airlines, which today had to deal with the weather that is snarling air traffic from the southeast all the way up to new england. delta airlines will fly a million passengers between today and to

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. after every mass shooting people seem to ask "why doesn't anyone do anything about mental health care?" well, today someone did. the obama administration issued

captioning sponsored by cbs captioning sponsored by cb this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. there are warning signs tonight for republicans and democrats. both parties are drawing lessons from yesterday's gubernatorial elections in two states. in virginia, democrat terry mcauliffe beat ken cuccinelli, but the tight margin of victory suggests that the democrat may have been damaged by the struggles of obamacare. in new jersey, republican chris christie easily won reelection in that heavily democratic state in part by emphasizing his willingness to work with both parties. >> the people of new jersey four years ago were downhearted and dispirited. they didn't believe that government could work for them anymore. in fact, what they thought -- what they thought was that government was just there to take from them but not to give to them. not to work with them. not to work for them. well, four years later we stand here tonight showing that it is possible to put doing your job first. to put working together first. to fight for what you believe in yet still

scott, the mall here is expected to reopen tomorrow. >> pelley: elaine, thank you. mental illness seems to be at the center of many of these shootings, and ben tracy learned more today about the strange beliefs of the alleged l.a. airport killer. >> reporter: the f.b.i. agents who searched the apartment had a search warrant for his cell phone. they found it in his roommate's car. the warrant states they were looking for information on his views on the legitimacy or activities of the united states government, including the existence of a plot to impose a new world order. shortly after the rampage, police say they found a one-page letter. it said he targeted t.s.a. agents to "instill fear in your traitorous minds," and also mentioned "n.w.o.," "new world order," a century-old conspiracy theory, accord to mark potak, who tracks extremist groups. >> basically identifies the federal government as an evil malefactor that is involved in the conspiracy to force the united states into a so-called "one world government," known as the "new world order." >> reporter: people who

captioning sponsored by cbs by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. president obama set out to fix a broken promise today. he's always said that obamacare would never force americans to give up a health insurance policy they liked. but then insurance companies started canceling nearly five million policies because those policies don't meet the higher standards of the affordable car act. the outcry has been getting louder by the day. here was the president on this day. >> i completely get how upsetting this can be for a lot of americans, particularly after assurances they heard from me that if they had a plan that they liked, they could keep it. and to those americans, i hear you loud and clear. i said that i would do everything we can to fix this problem, and today i'm offering an idea that will help do it. >> pelley: and with that, he announced a reversal. he will now allow insurance companies to reinstate those canceled policies at least for one year. mr. obama also took the hit today for the failed rollout of his health insurance web site.

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captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. those who know paul ciancia are at a loss to explain friday's rampage at los angeles international airport and his apparent hatred for the t.s.a. today his family apologized.

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening, what happens when your name is on a product and that product is not working as advertised? well, ask the president. a cbs news poll out tonight finds his job approval rating has fallen to an awl time low since the october 1 rollout of the health care law that he calls obamacare. have a look. only 37% of americans approve of the job mr. obama is doing. that is down nine points since last month. ha this that same time, approval of his affordable care act has dropped from 12 points -- has opped 12 points from 43% to 31%. john dickerson is our political director. bill daly is in chicago. he was once the president's chief of staff. first to you, john. these numbers in the poll, what strikes you? >> what strikes me, scott, is that when the president has had low approval ratings number before-- like during the debt ceiling night 2011, people still thought he was trustworthy. cbs asked last year and 60% said they did. now only 49% do. >> that's in part because of his broken promise that if y

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. there hasn't been so much anticipation about a number since a record jackpot was at stake in powerball. today six weeks after the troubled opening of the federal health insurance web site, the obama administration finally told us how many americans have signed up. in the first month, it comes to just over 106,000. people who chose policies on both the federal and state sites, though they had not necessarily paid for them yet. that is only about 20% of the 494,000 that the administration had projected. major garrett at s at the white house for us tonight. major? >> reporter: scott, the white house said for weeks these enroll. numbers would fall short of expectations-- and they have. the poorly designed federal health care web site-- nearly unusable in its first days of operation-- severely limited the number of people who were able to sign up for coverage. of the 106,000 americans who are counted as enrolled in obamacare, less than a third-- just under 27,000-- did so by navigating he

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captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening, for 31 days now, the obama administration has been telling us americans by the millions are visiting the new health insurance web site despite all of its problems, but no one in the administration has been willing to tell us how many policies have been purchased, and this may be the reason. cbs news has learned enrollments got off to an incredibly slow start. sharyl attkisson attained documents that haven't been seen by the public until now. >> reporter: early enrollment figures are contained in notes from twice a day war room meetings from medicare and medicaid services after the web site failed on october 1. they were turned over in response to a document request from the house oversight committee. the web site launched on tuesday. publicly, the government said there were 4.7 million unique visits in the first 24 hours. but at a meeting wednesday morning, the war room notes say six enrollments very occurred so far. they were with blue cross blue shield of north carolina and kansas