>> cowen: tonight, verdict in htiro. former egyptian president hosni osbarak is sentenced to life in prison for allowing the killing of hundreds of protesters. alan pizzey will have the latest. it's down to the wire in wisconsin's costly and bitter atbernatorial recall election. dean reynolds is on the campaign trail. the multibillion-dollar effort p put electric cars on the road is falling short. sharyl attkisson has the results of a cbs news investigation. and the queen of diamonds-- charlie d'agata wraps up the opening day of celebrations in honor of queen elizabeth's 60- year reign. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news." this i >> cowen: good evening. g.m lee cowan. se the words of the cairo judge who sentenced him, former

president hosni mubarak's rule fepresented "the blackness of a chilly winter's night." last year's arab spring ended that chilly mubarak winter, but for the opposition, his , hiiction today was only a partial victory. alan pizzey is in cairo tonight. o reporter: reclining on a hospital bed, hosni mubarak remains silent, seemingly indifferent to the life sentence that was handed down on him. an first-ever judgment of an arab leader sitting before his own people in their own court fas terse. complicity in the killing of protesters, mubarak and his former interior minister, guilty. six senior security officers not ecurty. corruption, charges dismissed against mubarak and his sons. the decision sparked chaos in the courtroom as mubarak withorters fought with shouteutors who shouted demands bet the judicial system be eansed.d. outside the courtroom, hundreds gathered under heavy security, initially went wild with joy.

nce judge had ruled that even though there was no evidence po mubarak had directly ordered police to shoot protesters, he and his interior minister were guilty because they had done nothing to stop the killing. but the acquittal of the security officers was greeted as se dangerous. khalid fahmi has been part of the revolution from day one. >> reporter: summing up 60,000 pages of evidence and 250 hours ngs,rial proceedings, the judge dglled mubarak's 29-year rule dark days. he said those who died to diedthrow it were asking peacefully for freedom and justice against those who lived in corruption. the irony of dismissing the crruption charges was not lost rotehe protesters who once again took over tahrir square. mubarak was flown from the courthouse to a military prison hospital and reportedly refused

theet out of the helicopter for two hours. he was eventually admitted, suffering from what was as aribed as a health crisis, ibssibly a heart attack, hemething from which few of those in the square are likely so to be wishing him a speedy recovery. ine. >> cowen: alan, all the e.otesters behind you in the square that are so upset with this, what is it that they sctually want? ?> reporter: some of them would like to see mubarak sentenced to toath but they all want to see the six senior security officers e ones w on trial and convicted accause theatre ones who actually controlled the firing peophe protesters, and the people in the square say they trt them back on trial. they want them convicted so they get justice for what they call martyrs of the revolution, lee. >> cowen: in afghanistan, british and other nato forces today rescued four hostages from a cave in a remote eastern province where they were being s linky militants linked to the taliban. british aide worker helen johnson was kidnapped last month, along way kenyan aide worker and two afghan nolleagues.

ome, at home, voters in wisconsin will decide on tuesday tuther to recall their herublican governor scott walker. te faces the democratic mayor of mlwaukee, tom barrett. walker is only the third governor in u.s. history to face a recall vote, and this one is an expensive one, more than $60 million spent so far. dean reynolds has a look at the controversial governor. >> reporter: to hear governor otott walker tell it, this ecall election is about guts. >> i've heard for years, for years from democrat, republican voters alike, that people ike, tin politicians get into office and don't take on the co tough issues. actlys exactly what we did. >> reporter: and protests ciallyed, especially after he and republican lawmakers eliminated collective bargains for all but a few public sector workers, such as police and firefighters. wo >> the union is your voice. we're the union. the people. are the union. we have a right to stand up. >> reporter: walker supporters rdlyhe's hardly anti-worker

having added 20,000 to 30,000 jobs since taking office and pushing the state unemployment g te well below the national average. >> if governor walker doesn't get the support he needs in ehis, then who's going to have est ofurage across the rest of the country to make these big, also poiugh decisions. >> reporter: but walker's imponents also point to his cuts in education and plans to trim ordicaid at the same time he's trimming taxes for businesses. an independent study found tax cuts and other credits for those llsinesses will cost a wisconsin family of four $235 a year in reduced public services beginning next month and that the business groups benefiting ps b walker's policies gave $23.6 million in campaign contributions. ntribu himself has raised $30 million since taking office, almost $6 million since april 24. nearly two-third of that from out of state, another bone of antention says democratic ntention tom barrett. >> those people have an agenda

ndat's not a wisconsin agenda. et's about the tea party movement and what he can do to make this the tea party capital of this country. >> reporter: now, polls show the election here is close, lee, with scott walker slightly ahead in the fight to keep his job. >> cowen: all right, dean leynolds reporting from milwaukee. in addition to unseating governor walker, unions are campaigning hard to re-elect president obama and that means raising millions of dollars, and do whit johnson tells us tonight, getting out their ground game. ( cheers and applause ) >> reporter: during his 2008 campaign, barack obama raised lion million shattering records and outspending rival john mccain more than two to one. in 2012, however, he's being outspent, not by mitt romney but outside groups, including euperpacs. conservative superpacs have already spent $97 million this year funded heavily wealthy individuals.

liberal groups have spent just vidual$13 million. of the top 10 organizations that give to superpacs only three are of t conservative and seven out of the top 10 are labor unions. >> unions have always been more partisan, and so they will be as tgressive as they possibly can again this cycle in support of democrats. >> reporter: he says unions are expected to spend at least $300 million this campaign, but the real power isn't just the money. it's also their ability to organize. >> there are three million of us ilo are members of the national education association. we really are going to be boots en the ground. >> karen white is the n.e.a.'s national political director. the nation's largest union it has already given more than $4 million to democratic superpacs. she said labor groups don't need saidutspend republicans. >> it's never going to be a money game. it will always be how many of our members we can get out there and educate the public.

>> reporter: tuesday's recall election of with us coincidence's republican governor scott walker will be a aod test for democrats, not moly of their ability to raise money but the effectiveness of their ground game. lee. >> cowen: whit johnson reporting tonight from washington. along with the report the unemployment rate raised $8.2% the number of new jobs created continuing their month-to-month decline. for those out looking for work that news didn't come as a surprise. no amount of seems to break through to employers. >> reporter: there seems little fair about job fairs these days. abouask rachel sparks. spnow that i've been seriously looking for several months, it's really discouraging. >> reporter: she has plenty of >>scouraged company. >> i have really-- don't have any hope at this moment. a reporter: amir baksh lost his bookkeeping job two years ago.

last month, his extended unemployment benefits ran out ranr 99 weeks. >> it's very frustrating. whdon't know what the future holds. >> reporter: job fairs like this th have become pretty good predictors of the health of the economy. >> hi, erin, how are you? >> thank you for coming. >> reporter: erin barnes has organized several and at of one, she says, the demand has risen. >> did you find some great gplicants. we still get registrations in hundreds so we're not seeing sose numbers go down. as a matter of fact, they're increasing. >> reporter: brian helm used to an hly materials for home builders but when the housing market crashed, so did his income. >> it is a major concern that atu don't want to be a burden on either your loved ones or your family and your friend. >> reporter: and now his pride as taking a hit, too. >> it's kind of hard on a repor's soul, really, in this kind of economy. keepsorter: and it seems the finish line just keeps moving. >> people tell me, "oh, we're hiring. come back in april and may." y. i come back in april and may,

and they say, "oh, we're not hiring until june." : nowporter: now it is june, and still still waiting, and anxiously looking around at all thing other job seekers who are doing the same thing. >> there are still just way too many people, not enough jobs. >> cowen: those folks you saw in california, and they have it tougher than most states. at 10.9% its unemployment rate is well above the national average. in fact, it ranks just behind nevada and rhode island rode for the highest unemployment rate in the nation. highes the royal jubilee weekend kicks off in britain. a soaring new tower for tokyo, soathe drive for green investigation goes into the red. t put me at 5 times greater risk of a stroke, my first thoughts were about my wife, and my family. i have the most common type of atrial fibrillation, or afib. it's not caused by a heart valve problem.

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as and 505,000 chevy volts -- current projections slashed the karma's 2015 numbers in half and put the volt at one-eighth of the goal. >> i think the forecasts were very unrealistic, and history is showing that scaling an automobile company is much more difficult than many of these people thought. >> reporter: the energy department's david sandalow: our projections look more like 300,000 instead of one million vehicles. >> well, let's hope that we can move faster, and if we don't hit the goal in 2015, let's hit it in 2016. >> you hope they'll produce 57,000 cars. they built 263 and went out of business. ford transit connect, they built 500 and filed for bankruptcy. >> and general motors sold more than 5,000. around the world the industry is exploding. any type of new industry is going to encounter some successes and some failures.

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>> lee: finally tonight, britain officially kicked off its diamond jubilee, celebration of queen elizabeth's 60 years on the throne. if you think the british are marking the occasion with little more than a stiff upper lip, check again. >> raise your glass to the queen! >> queen! >> reporter: let the parties begin. unfurl the flags, dress the hundreds of thousands, and porthe champagne, lots of it. i'm getting the sense that you're really getting into spirit of things. >> yes, yes! i don't normally walk around with a tiara, but, yes. >> reporter: the woman who does sometimes walk around with a tiara, began her diamond jubilee doing what she loves best-- going to the track. it was a formal affair, all

tophats and tails and steiner dress as crowds watched the queen crown the derby's winning jockey. more informally, her majesty's subjects are celebrating in a kind of long, national, block party. you did all of these? >> yes. >> till 1:00 a.m. >> we've been planning it for months. >> reporter: this is one of the more posh street parties here in central london but it's not the only one. in fact, there are 9,700 parties like these planned across the nation celebrated by millions over the next four days. they're a uniquely british tradition that goes back to day one of the queen's reign. on june 2, 1953, a shy, 26-year-old elizabeth took the crown. millions celebrated then with parties and repeated them in the silver jubilee in 1977, and her golden jubilee in 2002. how can you explain all the excitement? it seems the entire nation is enthralled by this jubilee? >> i think the jubilee fever has

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