[ sniffing ] [ seagulls squawking ] >> cowan: tonight, deadly gunfire in tulsa. >> these were vicious and cowardly attacks. >> cowan: police are looking for a lone gunman suspected in a string of shootings that left three dead and two wounded, bill whitaker has the latest. >> th the aftermath of a navy jt crash that miraculously took no lives. capitol hill is proving a tough hill to climb for female politicians, but nancy cordes tells us the anti-incumbent sentiment may change that. >> thomas kinkade known as the painter of light dies. a look back at his art and art of marketing that brought his paintings to millions of american homes. captioning sponsored by cbs

this is the "cbs evening news." >> cowan: good evening f i am lee cowan, we begin tonight with a shooting spree that has an african-american neighborhood on edge. in tulsa, oklahoma, yesterday police say a gunman shot five people within a mile of each other, killing on edge, in tulsa, okay yesterday, policemen say a gun man shot five people within a mile of each other, killing three, all were black. >> police are looking for a white man in a white pickup truck. >> bill whitaker reports. >> in a massive manhunt dubbed operation ra random shooter, the tulsa police department is seeking any information that might lead to the gunman who shot five people early friday morning, killing three, police chief chuck gordon. >> bobby clark and william allen were murdered on the streets of tulsa, these were vicious and cowardly at tax. >> the shootings all occurred in a small section of north tulsa, police found the first victim just after 1:00 a.m. friday, the 49-year-old woman died at the hospital.

three minutes later two, men were shot, but survived, shortly before 2:00 a.m., another man was found shot, he later died at the hospital. at 8:30 friday morning, a third man was found dead in the yard of this funeral home. all of the victims were shot with a small caliber weapon, all were black. >> yes, the community is on edge, and they want this man found. >> one of the surviving victims described the gunman as a white male in a white pickup. the timing and proximity of the shootings have led police to believe there is just one shooter. >> identified a lone wolf suspect who acted independently, it is going to be a real challenge. >> and alleged white gunman targeting black victims has some tulsa ns faring this is a hate crime, urging calm, police chief says it is too early to talk to motive. >> it is not time to say that, right now i am more worried about more of my citizens being murdered. >> to know that you can't walk down the street at night in your own neighborhood, that is a

terrible thing. >> tulsa police have called in the fbi and u.s. marshals to help with the investigation of a crime the mayor calls the most violent in the city's modern history. bill whitaker, cbs news, los angeles. >> cowan: the investigation continues tonight into yesterday's crash of a navy jet into an apartment complex, in virginia beach, virginia, a crash that incredibly took not a single life. johnson reports. >> reporter: the crash that reduced 40 apartment units to blackened rubble only injured seven people, including the two pilots but none seriously. >> it is a holiday weekend and it is divine enter invention played a role here. >> officials say just minutes after yesterday's takeoff the f/a-18 hornet suffered a catastrophic mechanical failure, the pilots dumped fuel and ejected. >> something shot out of the top of the plane and then of course you see the parachutes open. >> neighbors rushed to help, cutting them from their parachutes. >> he was very apologetic about

crashing, i said to him, don't worry about its, son, we will take care of you. >> while it is unclear whether the fuel dump was intentional or part of the malfunction, navy admiral john harvey credits the pilots with saving lives. >> they hung with that aircraft until the last possible moment on the jet trying to recover the aircraft and get it to safety. >> navy investigators are combing the site searching for a flight data recorder, the pilots interviews will also be key to understanding what caused this $40 million aircraft to crash in a populated area. >> these are very, very skilled, very professional officers, among the best we have and i am very confident we will get a very good detailed breakdown of what occurred. if you want to define a miracle, what happened here yesterday meets that definition for me. >> cowan: more than 60 residents who have been displaced will get assistance from the navy's emergency expense fund, the most severe injuries anyone suffered appear to be just a few broken bones.

>> mr. lee:. >> whitt johnson reporting tonight, thanks. >> the experts are still going over yesterday's job reports which showed unemployment 8.2 percent in march, down a tenth of a point but the numbers of new jobs dropping to just 120,000. so it is behind the shifting economic climate, tony guida takes a look. >> many economists look at the nation's unusually warm winter and wonder if there is a message blowing in the balmy wind. better weather led to better business and better than expected hiring. the economy added more than 200,000 jobs each month over the winter, but the latest number, a sharp dropoff in march asks was the winter recovery real or not the warm weather in january and february with boosted hiring and created an he illusion the economy is doing better than it actually is. >> construction which usually thrives in warm weather, did not. over the winter the industry lost jobs, a downward trend that continued in march. retailing shed 34,000 jobs in

march. but good news, first time claims for unemployment benefits have been trending down for the past month, hitting a four-year low this week. all in all, an economy of fits and starts. i would describe it as an ordeal that is no longer stalling, but is unable to accelerate. >> veteran financial analyst says the real success story of the u.s. economy is manufacturing. adding 37,000 jobs in march. but even there, it is a mixed picture. >> we, the manufacturing renaissance is for real and that is a good thing, but manufacturing alone cannot over wellment the other weak parts of the economy. >> we will learn how healthy the economy is next week when corporations begin reporting earnings, more important will be their projections for the months ahead, they will indicate whether march was the beginning of a trend or just a blimp.

>> tony guida, cbs news, new york. >> cowan: the current job market is proving difficult for returning iraq and afghanistan veterans too. >> 10.2 percent of male vets are listed as unemployed, the number stands at 10.8 percent for females. well above the national average. female veterans say they face particular barriers, as we hear tonight from john blackstone. >> the bombs were hitting all-round our chest and hitting our trucks and hitting our tanks. >> they served side by side. >> we are out there with them and the gunners, we are so used to being with the guys over there. >> being one of the guys has helped women like army reserve sergeant marie adams game acceptance on the battlefield. >> the, translating that into the civilian world, it is misunderstood. >> he is a photographer shooting everything from combat to portraits. >> i had the experience, i have been trained by the government, i should be able to get a job, there should be no problem but

that is not the case. >> it was the same with national guard sergeant lindsey freeland, a digital designer who who drove trucks through afghanistan. >> constantly putting in applications, resumes for different or same jobs and getting constant rejection letters. >> likewise for national guard sergeant anna rutherford, a communications specialist. >> i would definitely say the employers might be intimidated by a female who is very aggressive, very outgoing, somebody who is a very take charge type female. >> and when they go for a job interview -- >> the first questions they ask me, oh you have been deployed. >> yes. >> oh, my god, did you kill anybody? >> but praise for their accomplishments overseas often comes with rejection. >> thank you for your service, and i appreciate you coming in today. i will be giving you a call. >> or i may not be giving you a call. >> veterans, i think, feel like they have kind of been the forgotten patriots. >> congresswoman sanchez is on

the house veterans affairs committee. >> i don't think you will see increasing numbers continue to struggle. >> they have achieved equality. >> i was on the front line, i was next to my male counterparts and did everything that they did. >> but don't feel like equals. >> frustrated and unemployed, they made it home, but worry they are being left behind. >> john blackstone, cbs news, san francisco. >> later, the life and works of painter thomas kinkade, a question for congress watchers, just where are the women? and dozens more civilian deaths in syria in the runup to next week's truce. those stories when the cbs evening news continues.

>> cowan: a cease-fire in syria is set to begin next thursday but so far, the violence hasn't slowed, activists claim more than 80 civilians were killed just today in two cities by the forces of president assad, liz palmer has the latest. >> the epicenter of this uprising, homs, under attack today, according to activists, while often syria's north, refugees streamed over the border to safety in turkey. more than 3,000 since thursday joining more than 20,000 already there. these refugees say villages in the northern region were pounded to rubble last week. reports by activists show what appears to be a grave in taftanaz, in damascus the capital thousands turned out in support of president bashar al assad, it was a festive scene, but pressure on the government is mounting, now that it

promised the army will stop shooting and pull back. the american embassy in ba arkansas, ba damascus, satellite photos, in some areas apparently pulling out, these images of the town of dao show three tanks there on tuesday were gone by thursday. ambassador robert ford wrote that in the absence of journalists reporting freely, the regime and the syrian people know we are watching. but overall, he added, this is not the reduction in offensive syrian government security operations that all agree must be the first step. for example, in idlib, armored vehicles surrounded the town two days ago, it appeared. >> under the united nations peace plan a cease-fire is supposed to take effect on thursday, 6:00 a.m. and lead to political negotiations. but right now, that looks like a long shot.

i am elizabeth palmer, cbs news, london. >> on the other side of the arabian peninsula, pro democracy protests broke out in bahrain, thousands demonstrated as word came that a jailed protester on a hunger strike had been hospitalized, anti-riot police sprayed water canons on the demonstrators many who stood defiantly against them, bahrain is one of america's strongest allies and home of the fifth fleet. we will be right back.

>> cowan: election day is just under seven months away now, and the white house forum on women and the economy yesterday, president obama suggested that more women are needed at the other end of pennsylvania avenue. on capitol hill. >> fewer than 20 percent of the seats in congress are occupied by women.

is it possible that congress will get more done if there were more women in congress? is that fair to say? >> cowan: the percentage cited by mr. obama, it still marks an increase over generations past and there is a hope that the november elections may give those numbers a boost. here is nancy cordes. >> new hampshire senator jean shaheen 15 years working on other people's campaigns before finally launching one of her own. >> i just decided all of the men i had been working for hadn't been getting it right. >> shah machine is now the only, shaheen is the only woman in history to serve as both a governor and senator. >> we have different experiences than men, not better or worse but different and we bring those experiences to whatever we do. >> women make up just 17 percent of the u.s. senate and 17 percent of the house. >> family responsibilities, a lack of political recruitment, and the notion that they don't

think we are qualified to run the process have hindered candidate emergence. >> wallace who directs the women policy institute says self image is also an issue. >> despite the fact on paper the women and men we surveyed and interviewed look exactly the same and have the same credentials, about 60 percent of men compared to only 40 percent of women felt as being qualified to run for office. >> republican martha zoller waited until her kids were grown before she ran for georgia's ninth congressional district. >> i have had people suggesting to me that i should run for office for years, but i never really took it seriously until i was an empty nester. >> zoller says more conservative women need to put their names on the ballot, in the last 20 years, her party have nominated about half as many women for congress as have the democrats. >> when the president just the the dealt with this issue, contraceptives should be covered and paid for, i didn't see any

conservative women really getting out there and talking about this issue, although there are plenty of them that could have, so i think it is time for women to get involved in politics and to step up there. >> in the history of the u.s. congress, only two percent of its members have been women, but with anti-incumbent fever still rampant, being seen as a political outsider might actually give female candidates an edge in november. nancy cordes, cbs news, capitol hill. >> cowan: according to the u.n. the united states ranks 71st in the world for the number of women in the legislature, behind nations like vietnam and kazakhstan, wit rwanda ranks nur one. >> ahead the case of a father charged with murdering his own daughter, we preview a 48 hours mystery investigation. next.

>> cowan: the practice of honor killings tragically occurs in other parts of the world but is almost unheard of here in the united states, until the case of a young woman in arizona, then someone thinks the practice may have moved here. mystery correspondent corey roberts explains. >> it was in this peoria arizona parking lot unemployed truck driver faleh almaleki, a married father of seven, a man with no criminal record, rammed his jeep into two women, alma al-arabiya left two battered women on the pavement. >> witness, shaneil nakamoto, i heard the sound of an engine speeding up, and i heard a thud, and i saw a girl laying in the rocks, face down. >> one of, one of faleh almaleki's victim was his daughter noor, according to investigators she left an arranged marriage in iraq several years later and moved

out of her parent's home about after constant fighting in her lifestyle. >> she was left in a coma and she was pronounced dead and her family took her off life support. >> what would possess a father to do something like this to his daughter. >> they believe noor may have been the victim of an honor killing. >> when a young woman strays from what her family expects and she tries to stand up for what might be her legal rights, her family may react, retaliate by killing her or hurting her in order to avenge hermes behavior and clean its own honor, redeem itself in the face of the community. >> primarily occurring in parts of the middle east, south asia and north africa, cases of honor violence are now being found in europe, canada, and the united states. experts have no handle on the exact number of cases, but worldwide, the u.n. estimates that at least 5,000 women are murdered each year in the name

of honor. >> and then you come to -- >> jasmine guerra works with survivors of forced marriages and honor crimes. >> noah, in islam, sikhism, hinduism, all of the major faiths does it say it is acceptable, it does not say it is acceptable. it is oppressive corporal practice. >> as for faleh almaleki, he was charged with first degree murder in the death of his daughter noor, one of the first honor killings in the united states to be prosecuted. faleh almaleki chose not to testify but his attorneys argued it was all just an accident. he never meant to kill his daughter. for 48 hours mystery, i am troy roberts, cbs news, new york. >> cowan: to hear the surprising verdict in the case, tune in to 48 hours tonight at 10:00 o'clock right here on cbs. coming up tonight on the cbs evening news, remembering california's thomas kinkade, the artist of light.

>> cowan: you have to wonder about this next story, just what was this guy thinking? in england, the famous rowing race between oxford and cambridge universities had just begun when a man jumped into the river shapes and swam up to the boats so close he nearly got hit by the oars. the race was restarted, for those keeping score, cambridge won. well, finally tonight, the world's most prolific artist, thomas kinkade died unexpectedly last night at his home near san francisco, kinkade sold more works of art than anyone else, popular beyond measure, even if his critics weren't always impressed. >> thomas kinkade knew his way around a canvas cottage, his paintbrush traced millions of lighthouses, churches and quaint downtowns. he was part walt disney, part norman rockwell, at least that's how he saw his work and whether you thought he was a talented painter or not most agreed he

was a marketing genius. >> his paintings hang in an estimated one of every 20 homes in america. kinkade told 60 minutes in 2001 he did for art what danielle steel did for romance novels. >> these paintings may be easy to call insignificant by a critic, but they are precious to the people who bring them into their homes. >> he was as much a painter as a brand, known fo for getting his, giving his scenes the warmth of light, it was art people could understand, he said, comfort food for your wall. >> everyone can identify with a fragrant garden, with the beauty of a sunset, with the quiet of nature, with a warm and cozy cottage. >> thomas kinkade was only 54. >> cowan: and that is the cbs evening news, i am lee cowan, cbs evening news in new york. i will see you tomorrow.

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