tv CBS Evening News CBS September 14, 2013 6:00pm-6:31pm PDT
6:00 pm
>> glor: tonight, all sides of the syria deal. >> we're finished. >> glor: the u.s. and russia agree on a plane to eliminate syria's chemical weapons but it will work. margaret brennen is in geneva, elizabeth palmer in damascus of course, and holly williams in istanbul. we have stories of narrow escapes after record flooding. the race to clear a massive molasses spill in hawaii is threatening marine life and baffling cleanup crews. and fighting spirit-- terrell brown talks to a man from the front line of new jersey's board walk fire. >> the radio goes off, and we don't hesitate. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" >> glor: good evening, everyone. i'm jeff glower with a western
6:01 pm
edition of the broadcast. the deal came together quickly. the implementation will not. the u.s. and russia say they have an agreement that will avert american airstrikes by removing or destroying all chemical weapons in syria. the deadline-- the middle of next year. in the meantime, the pentagon is keeping the same level of forces in the region, and the u.s. will continue arming the opposition. the deal was struck in geneva, switzerland, and margaret brennan is there. >> reporter: after two and a half days of hasty, arnd of clock negotiations in geneva. >> we're finished. >> reporter: the deal was struck. >> the world will now expect the assad regime to live up to its public commitments, andaise said at the outset of these negotiations, there can be no games, no room for avoidance or anything less than full compliance by the assad regime. >> reporter: within one week, the assad regime must submit details of the weapons in the
6:02 pm
chemical arsenal. allow international inspections by november and she destroy all chemical weapons material and equipment by the first half of 2014. if the assad regime does not comply, the u.s. and russia agree there will be consequences, though they have not yet decided what those consequences might be. foreign minister lavrov said russia would support a resolution at the united nations security council to punish any violations. that's surprising because it leaves the door open for possible military action, as well as sanctions. the white house said its threat of unilateral military strikes stand should diplomatic efforts fail. we still don't know how the weapons inspectors will be able to work safely in an active work zone or who will provide security for them. most importantly, president assad still has not agreed to these terms. >> glor: meanwhile, margaret, secretary kerry is not coming home now.
6:03 pm
what is next for him? >> reporter: secretary kerry will leave geneva on sunday. he'll travel on to israel, then to paris, where he'll meet with the foreign ministers of saudi arab, the u.k., and france. this is about keeping up international pressure on russia to follow through and on assad to make good on this plan to hand over his chemical weapons. >> glor: margaret brennan in geneva, thank you. for more on this agreement, we want to bring in holly williams in istanbul, turkey, and, also, elizabeth palmer who is in damascus. holly, i want to start with you. what is the opposition reaction to this agreement? >> reporter: well, jeff, the head of syria's main armed opposition group, general salim idriss, he held a press conferee and rejected the framework agreed on by the u.s. and russia. >> we think the russians and syrian regime are playing games too waste time and win time for the criminal regime in damascus. >> reporter: general idriss
6:04 pm
also sailed the opposition would not agree to a cease-fire in order to allow international inspectors to visit syria's chemical weapons facilities. >> glor: holly, there's some speculation that some of these chemical weapons are already being moved into neighboring countries. do we know anything about that? >> reporter: well, jeff, we cannot independently verify this, but general idriss claims today the syrian government has begun moving some of its chemical weapon stockpiles and iraq and lebanon in order to evade inspection. >> glor: and to elizabeth palmer now in damascus. liz, how dism is it going to be to remove or destroy all of these chemical weapons? >> reporter: hugely difficult, especially as the russians and the americans have given themselves a very tight timeline. in there were, as some intelligence analysts say, 50 sites they've got to visit, that's going to be difficult. it would be difficult in the best of times. in the middle of a civil war, almost unimaginable. two of them specifically are
6:05 pm
very large complex, just south of aleppo, which is the main complex for manufacturing sarin gas. it is in the middle of a hot zone, a live combat zone. and another site is in an area where the fighting is ongoing. it's going to be especially difficult if, as holly mentioned, the rebels aren't going to observe a cease-fire or give the inspectors safe passible. >> glor: still many unanswered questions. elizabeth palmer in damascus tonight, and holly williams in istanbul, thank you, both. here at home, republican senators john mccain and lindsey graham criticized the deal saying it would just give president assad more time to "delay and deceive." democrat carl levin defended the deal, saying it did not limit u.s. aid to the opposition or block unilateral u.s. action. in colorado today, the death toll from floodwaters rose today
6:06 pm
as the state braced for more rain. least five people are now presumed dead. canyon communities north of denver have been affect the the most, and tonight, rescuers are still helping those stranded. rick sallinger was there. >> reporter: it was supposed to be a learning experience about the outdoors but these school children received an unforgettable lesson. they were reunited with their parents after being flown out of mountains on a chinook helicopter having survived an historic flight. >> the kids were amazing, pulled together, supported each other. they were helping cleaning up, setting up tables-- you name it, they did it. >> reporter: with roads washed out, this was the only way out. the colorado national guard provided a non-stop helicopter airlift. the floodwaters fled to the eastern plains of colorado, cutting off towns just like those in the mountains. >> it was right thera at our house. >> reporter: ted and virginia
6:07 pm
chrohn's vacation pictures show the extent of the devastation in jamestown. >> even though the people had lost their home would come up to us and comment they were so sorpry we were not going to have a vacation in jamestown. froarpt this foothills town of 300 was ravaged by the waters. one man died when a hillside collapsed on to his house. inside the rented home, the krohns could hear what sound like thunder. it was a roll of thunder sound and my husband said to me, "that's the rocks. that's the bolders coming down that creek." >> reporter: with the roads impanel, they stayed in an elementary school that served as a shelter where they heard a little boy crying. >> he just whimpered "i want to go home." >> reporter: after 300 people remain unaccounted for, but that could be due in part to the difficulties in communication. , and jeff, there are more
6:08 pm
thunderstorms in the forecast. >> glor: rick sallinger, thank you. the flooding in colorado has followed what is the wettest summer in 2004 in the lower 48 states. for more we turn to meteorologist david bernard from kfor. david, from what you're seeing what's next in colorado and new mexico. >> we're not out of the woods yet because of a slow-moving upper level low just west of colorado. it's beginning to move east. that deep flow of monsoon moisture continues to move across new mexico and colorado. our rainfall potential, jeff, going through sunday afternoon is showing up to three inches more of rain across the denver metro area, including fort collins in colorado springs, and the same story from santa fe to alber question,y. >> glor: i want to ask what is happening in new mexico right now. how bad is this and how long
6:09 pm
will it continue for? >> reporter: this is a really bad setup. this is our tropical rainstorm potential. both of those qenching across mexico, so both the west and east coasts could see as much as two feet of rain over the next self days. >> glor: david bernard from wfor, thank you. 35 people were hurt today when a greyhound bus drove off an ohio interstate 25 miles north of cincinnati. the bus hit a tree, a fence and ?ripped flipped on its side. rescuers say some injuries were severe but not life threatening. later, a 12-year-old dies after being cyber bullied. the online sites where she came under attack. the millions of dollars wasted at the department of housing and urban development. and the enormous molasses spill that's killing thousands of fish off honolulu. those stories when the cbs evening news continues.
6:12 pm
disaster continues to unfold this weekend from an unlikely sounding source in idyllic spots. we are talking about an industrial-sized spill of molasses into honolulu harbor. here's edward lawrence. >> reporter: this is just a small part of a major environmental disaster. diver roger white took his camera below the surface to record the results of what 233,000 gallons of molasses has done to the sea life. >> they're all dead and they're all just laying across the bottom, hundreds and hundreds, thousands. >> clearly, it looks as if they're suffering-- they're suffocated. >> reporter: jeff bader is a marine biologist at southern california's aquarium of the pacific. he says as the molasses breaks down, it robs the fish of
6:13 pm
oxygen, and it's likely eating away at the coral reefs. >> we're talking decades, centuries, thousands of years for some of these corals and in hawaii it's a very distressed environment to begin with. >> reporter: complicating the cleanup the company that caused the spill says it has plans for oil and chemical fills but none for molasses. as officials figure how to get rid of the mess, the toll grows higher. most these fish are in the harbor in hawaii. what is the impact of molasses. >> it seems everything at all depths and levels of food chain are being affected. >> the impact also extends to honolulu's tourist industry. >> in the long run we're talking quite a few thousand dollars. >> reporter: ray collier, who runs a fishing and diving business says it's not just the sight of the decomposing fish, but the fear that large predators will come looking for them. >> they have the fears with the sharks in the area. >> it's important to remember sharks are fish themselveses and it seems to be all fish in this area are being impacted. sharks would be impacted just the same as everything else.
6:14 pm
>> reporter: the e.p.a. hopes to have a team in place by tomorrow, but the cleanup could take weeks. edward lawrence, cbs news, los angeles. >> glor: government troops in the philippines are battling to retake coastal villages seized by rebels. they are holding more than 100 people00. the standoff has left at least 56 people dead. thousands others have fled their homes to escape the fighting. police in mexico say they've arrested ivan soto barraza, a suspect in the killing of border patrol agent brian terne2010. two of the guns found were traced to disgraced a.t.f. gun running operation fast and furious. after a 12-year-old dies, are social media sites making cyber bullying too easy?
6:17 pm
>> glor: police in florida say a 12-year-old girl this week became one of the youngest victims of cyber bullying. add don dahler tells us, a girl named rebecca sedgwick committed suicide even as her mother was trying to do everything she could to protect her. >> reporter: friend of rebecca sedgwick created a makeshift memorial. these stuffed animals and balloons reflect just how young she was. 12 years old. her mother, tricia norman, says her daughter's stiewdz came after months of bullying on social media and in person. >> "you haven't killed yourself yet? would you please just die." they got what they wanted. >> reporter: she says it continued even after she complained to school officials. >> i told them,un, becka's being threatened. these girls are saying they're going to jump her. and "oh, we'll talk to them,"
6:18 pm
and then, you know, she would still get jumped. >> reporter: florm an norman says the bullying began last december. she did everything she could think of, moved her daughter to another school and closed rebecca's facebook account but polk county sheriff said the bullying didn't stop. >> here are some of the quotes we found, you should die. why don't you go kill yourself." >> reporter: her mother was unaware she used new forms of social media. >> the bullying continued by a group of female juveniles on different social media outlets such as kik, ask.com, instagram, and voxer. >> reporter: finally, it was too much. rebecca texted a friend sailing, "i'm dead. i'm jumping, i can't take it anymore." on monday she climbed a tower at a concrete factory and jumped off. detectives later found even more ominous clues. >> we also found on rebecca's
6:19 pm
search engines or search questions, "how many advil do you need to take to die?" >> reporter: the sheriff's office is considering filing charges against the students who sent the hostile messages, jeff. >> don dahler thank you very much. it spends billions of dollars to help home and house the poor but who is watching out for waste at hud? that's next.
6:21 pm
>> glor: a new government support says social security paid $1.3 billion to people who had jobs while claiming to be disabled. auditors estimate some 36 now workers mistakenly received check over the past two years. the social security administration says it will investigate. spending at the department of housing and urban development is
6:22 pm
also under new scrutiny. hud disperses more than $40 billion tax dollars every year. as sharyl attkisson reports tonight, some accuse the agency of scwawndering precious resources. >> it's apparent waste is rampant in hud. >> reporter: congressman patrick mchenry heads a commit they examines waste and fraud at hud this week. the agency's inspector general criticized a program that gave many louisiana residents $30,000 a piece to prepare their homes for the next hurricane. 24,000 people spent the money on something else, but no one knows on what. >> we spent three quarters of a billion dollars to pay people to elevate their home that didn't do it. >> reporter: and there's billions of dollars in disaster relief sitting in bank accounts unused, including money for hurricane katrina relief in 2005. congressman al green argues that sequestration has left hud with fewer people to do oversight.
6:23 pm
>> but i don't think we can overlook the fact that hud is understaffed. i don't think we can overlook the fact that sequestration has had an impact on hud, and is having an impact on many of hud's programs. >> reporter: hud's inspector general, who uncovered the waste, fraud, and questionable spending says states and city that received the billions are also to blame for lax controls. >> it is our fundamental belief, and i believe hud's, that these localities should also take responsibility for proper overheight cite and management of those programs. >> reporter: hud wouldn't agree with an interview but told us is carefully monitors activities of recipients all over the country and promptly fixes any problems. meantime, as of the end of march, not one penny of $5.4 billion in hud money meant for superstorm sandy relief had been spent, and believe it or not, more than $500 million meant for the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist
6:24 pm
6:26 pm
>> glor: two days after fire ravaged a section of the rebuilt board walk on the jersey shore, governor chris christie says they will rebuild again. christie spoke in sea hide heights where dozens of businesses were destroyed. this is the latest setback for seaside. first there was sandy. terrell brown has the story of one man who responded to both disasters now fighting to get back. >> reporter: 400 firefighters battledly the massive seaside blaze on thursday. >> the radio goes off, and we don't hesitate. >> reporter: 42-year-old tim ferrell was one of the first firefighters on the scene. >> it was a hot fire right from the start. not only did we have fire in
6:27 pm
front of us. we had fire behind us. this was a tough one. >> reporter: ferrell was still at it yesterday, 24 hours after the fire had begun. >> i kind of took a knee at one point. i kind of took it all into perspective. >> reporter: you ever fought a fire that big before? >> never thought i would ever be involved in a fire such as that. >> reporter: 11 months ago we never imagined he'd see a storm like sandy. fer expel his son lost everything, and stayed with relatives for four months. he then moved into another home in seaside heights with his girlfriend. and then something else happened. >> the worst thing that ever could happen to a firefighter. i got a call on my radio. when we got a block away from it, the crew and myself knew it was mine. the first thing i saw i was flames coming out of the windows, and high matter dropped. >> reporter: the fire destroyed their new home. the couple moved into a condo together and life was getting back to normal. until thursday, and the worst
6:28 pm
fire he's ever seen on the beloved board walk where he'd grown up. how much more can you take? >> i really don't know. that's a good question. it's been a hell of a year. but i'm hoping this is it. i'm surround hoping this is it. >> reporter: ferrell doesn't have an answer for his town's suffering but believes good will come out in the end. >> i think it's going to come back better than ever. i really do. >> reporter: and through it all, he plans to keep his family on the jersey shore. terrell brown, cbs news, seahide heights, new jersey. >> glor: this is the cbs evening news tonight. later on cbs, "48 hours." i'm jeff glor, cbs news in new york. and i'll see you back here again tomorrow night. good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org
6:29 pm
that caused one of the catamarans to nearly capsiz crime is way up-- in one b a heart stopping moment on san francisco bay during america's cup. the mishap that caused one of the catamarans to nearly capsize. crime is way up in one bay area city not used to seeing it. we talked to one woman who witnessed her car being stolen. >> after the mount diablo fire, the race is on to repair the moon scape left in its path, the species of plants that show up that no one has seen in decades. kpix news is next. ,,,,,,,,
6:30 pm
238 Views
IN COLLECTIONS
KPIX (CBS)Uploaded by TV Archive on
![](http://athena.archive.org/0.gif?kind=track_js&track_js_case=control&cache_bust=268912321)