no survivors after a russian jet crashes in egypt with 224 people on board. investigation into the cause is wide open. >> everything around me is water as you can see. >> intent away in a texas flood to tell an incredible story. >> 2 if i didn't have my phone right now, nobody's going to find me. >> axelrod: 14 years after 9/11, the billion dollar air market program. in the spirit of not kids on halloween, he built a happy haunt. >> is it scary. >> no, it's just really cool. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news."

>> axelrod: again, i'm jim axelroax -- good evening i'm jim axelrod and this is the western edition of the broadcast. no one survived after a russian passenger jet carrying 224 people crashed into egypt's eye indemnify pense law. it was headed to the red sea to st. petersburg. it ended up in an area where isis affiliated mill tenants operate. they claim responsibility and there's no evidence it was behind the crash. other airlines are now avoiding that air space. in another development tonight, a report about a phone call from a copilot to his family before a take off is now raising questions about the plane's condition. more now from allen pizzey in cairo. >> reporter: came down in a row mote area of the rugged sinai pense law and they had to use helicopters to reach it. they made it clear there could be no survivors. dozen of ambulances brought bodies, many of them reportedly burned to a morgue in cairo.

the names were flown home to st. petersburg. they gathered at the airport there showed photos and selfie's sent by passengers from their holiday in the resort town of sharm el sheikh. the youngest passenger on the plane. an egyptian aviation official said the plane was cruising at 31,000 feet when the pilot radioed he was having technical difficulties and wanted to make an emergency landing at the nearest airport. and then contact was lost. flight trackers indicate 23 minutes after take off, the airbus was moving at a speed of 400 knots . it suddenly dropped to 28,000 feespeed and then slowed to a sd of 93 knots barely 100 miles an hour. they recovered both black box records. they said the aircraft was manufactured in 197 and had logged some 47,000 flight hours

and almost 21,000 journeys. the captain had 12,000 hours flying experience nearly 4,000 of them. the russian tv station quoted the daughter of the copilot is saying she spoke to her father before the flight out and that he quote complained about the technical condition of the aircraft left much to be desiressed. >> an affiliate of the islamic state claim the responsibility for the crash in revenge for krution airussian air strikes at militants in syria. experts are recorded to saying they do not have surface to air missiles capable of doing it though they could not discount the possibility of a missile hitting the plane if it descended for an emergency landing or a bomb on board. they will not be flying over sinai until the cause of the crash has been verified. russian, german, french and egyptian aviation experts will take part of the investigation and the u.s. has also offered to help.

jim. >> axelrod: alan lizzy in liz n pizzey in cairo. romania following a deadly fire, at least 27 people were killed and nearly 200 injured when the special effects at a concert apparently sparked a fire. barry peter sent has the story. >.>> reporter: they were part of a crowd at a nightclub at a free heavy meda metal constart. in 30 seconds they were trying for their lives. the stampede became a crush to get out of one exit. didn't make it. they burned alive said the survivor. it was carnage. this pictures show the fireworks used by the heavy metal band good-bye to gravity with polystyrene decoration on a peripillar and 234r5eu78z roares

roared across the ceiling. like in rhode island that killed a hundred. like last night, many died because they could not escape the flames. doctors at boo bucharest hospits said it was like dealing with casualties of war. ambulance at one hospital had 20 people crammed inside. calls went out for blood donors who hurried to give. frantic parents gathered outside hospitals. victims some as young as 14 carried no identification leaving parents desperately trying to find their children alive or dead. barry petersen, cbs news london 1kwreu78. >1kwreu78. >> axelrod: ji four people are dead including the gun man. we have more. >> reporter: a gun opened fire in busy downtown colorado

springs this morning. witnesses say they saw a man in a green jacket walk down the street shooting. >> there were two whreedz. >> reporter: when police arrived, the suspect opened fired on them. they fired back killing the alleged gun man. >> put the gun down and he turned around and that's when he shot him a good 20 times. >> reporter: authorities say there were at least three different scenes. police won't release the name of the victims and the suspect until their families are notified. the investigation has been turned over to the el paso county sheriff's office. a new state law requires that shootings involving police officers be investigated by an outside agency. >> axelrod: thank you very much. at least five people died so far this weekend from flooding in central texas and it's not over.

tornados are also in the mix threatening the golf states. >> reporter: over night in houston, emergency crews rest canada rest rescued 90 people. it was the statement storm that battered central texas for a second night turning the usually calm guadalupe river into a raging water way. low lying creek in the area filled up making driving nearly impossible. >> so it's flooding here. >> reporter: terry packered somehow managed to stay calm as flood waters started carrying his car over the bridge. he called 911 and then took this amazing video on his phone. >> you can see i'm floating down some sort of creek. i wanted to send something to my wife. i didn't think my phone was going to last forever. >> reporter: he floated for half a mile before grabbing a passing tree branch and climbing to the top. moments later he captured a

picture of his car as the river swallowed it up. how were you not scared. >> i've done a lot of crazy things and i know survive skills so i knew once i was on a strong tree i was going to be fine. >> reporter: local station kbue spoke to terry but didn't realize he was still in the tree. >> are you still in the tree. >> yes. i'm about 20 feet up a tree. >> reporter: he wait for help at the top of fre tree for almot five hours before being rescue. >> my wife is saying there were a thousand people praying for you. i saw after the rescue on the comments people were praying. there was no need to be worried. reporter record resident>> repot will take weeks. those storms are moving across miss and alabama.

>> axelrod: coming for us tonight in austin texas. thank you. last week we reported on drought stricken california did such a good job at conserving water, they have to pay extraor it to make up for lost renays. well now the state is targeting those who waste water. as carter evans explain the penalties may just be a drop in the bucket. >> reporter: in california's coachella valley where green golf courses stand out like a mirage in the desert landscape. water users were asked to save 36%. instead according to state officials they are using 1.4 billion gallons more than allotted. water conservation is also in short supply in beverly hills where learn green lawns still prevail. now in a state of emergency because of the drought, california is slapping beverly hills coachella and two other water districts with fines of $61,000 each. state water regulator cris

carrigan. >> now folks who are not fulling their weight so to speak we need to be prodded and be thought these finals would do. >> reporter: what beverly hills has failed to do according to the state is to go after water wasters. >> they haven't issued a penalty to anyone there. i think it's going to come down to neighbors policing neighbors. >> reporter: beverly hills mayor julian gold told us instead of shaping the city's millionaire, he wanted to educate them. >> our goal is not to fine anybody. our goal is to get everybody on board with the fact that you got to save water. >> reporter: now the city says it's committed to implementing additional programs such as penalty surcharges. if that message doesn't get through the state could fine the city and other water suppliers up to $10,000 a day. carter evans, cbs news, los angeles. >> axelrod: the world of horse racing witnessed the end of a legendary career this afternoon. triple quran winner american pharoah ran for the last time at

the braryd' breeder come's clasn kentucky and as it reports, he went out a champion. >> reporter: the ending was fit for a kid. american pharoah won his last race at lexington kentucky becoming the first ever to win the triple crown and the classic. american pharoah made history earlier this year wowing fans across the country and around the world when the three year old became the first horse since 1978 to capture the coveted kentucky derby, the preakness and the belmont stakes. in all, he won 9 out of 11 races since august of last year. while pharoah record isn't perfect his loyal fans see him as a hero. >> his legacy will continue in at the time at the stud farm

that purchased breeding rights and some estimate he could bring upwards of $100 million. jim. >> axelrod: teresa duncan, thank you. hiring people on planes but at the time comes to ground the air marshals and the dramatic rescue of a whale in distress when the cbs evening news continues.

america's federal air marshall program has come under attack in congress with suggestions that the program is wasteful and unnecessary. the defenders say it's the air marshalls who are keeping us safe when we fly. this transportation correspond kris van cleave. >> reporter: the air marshall program rammed up just after 911 just after cockpit doors were imposed and body scanners added to airports. that has some lawmakerrers wondering how much do air marshals contribute to keeping travels save. tom coburn wrote it is unclear

to what extent the program is reducing risk to aviation security. he questioned if the agency's strategy for allocating resources including assigning federal air marshals to certain flights has kept pace with these changes and security enhancements. >> i would like to totally eliminate it. >> reporter: tom condone is the air marshall's biggest critic. >> it's the useless agency in the entire federal government and that's really saying something. >> reporter: duncan sits on the house oversight committee where in september the agency disclosed three air marshals stand accuse of hiring prostitutes posing as producers with one encountered on a government phone. last year the former director robert brain retire bray retire. how is it today compared to say 2001. >> there's been plenty of threats to the airline industry from isis and allocate al-qaedar

groups since 9/11. therefore the program is just as valid it is it was then. >> reporter: he was a former air marshall. he acknowledges it's been plagued by low morale. they ranked the tsa near the bottom of the list for worker morale but it may include hours of boredom doesn't mean it's necessary. >> we saw 9/11 you can take that plane and kill thousands. so you know we can't base whether or not that small moment in time when the door is open is worth billions. i think we have to look at it as how do we secure that moment in time. you don't know how many people did not try to take over a plane. >> reporter: the department of homeland security refused to answer questions about how many arrests and declined a request for on camera interview. in a statement dhs federal air marshals are an integral part of our risk base security and are the last line of defense on board an aircraft. >> axelrod: correspondent

kris van cleave in our washington news room tonight. thank you very much. next the goal line stands and nfl fans are making for keeping their teams from moving. without a professional football

team for 21 years but that could soon change. a number of teams have expressed interest in moving there in the next few years. as john blackstone reports, fans in danger of losing their teams to leverage a. showed up at nfl hearings this week begged them not to break their hearts. >> in san diego we will always love our team. >> st. louis. >> i'm a passionate football fan. >> and oakland. football fans are voicing their arrange and their sadness in the prostlesz to movproposals to mol teams to los angeles. >> i get really emotional. >> does it make sense to put all this emotion into a sports team. >> absolutely. >> reporter: in townhall

sponsored by the nfl emotional fans invested in their home town teams for years and times decades say they feel a sense of betrayal. >> i'm sitting here to support them i need them to support us. >> one in man particular wanted to calculate business interest over the team's consistent team loyalty. the charger's special council, mark fabiani. >> you're going to break the hawrlts of a lot of fans. >> if you had an opportunity to relocate your business to a much bigger market, you've been trying 14 years to make something in your existing market but you couldn't. why wouldn't you fight for that market. >> reporter: each teen has troubled at home. the league wants upgraded stadium but the cities don't want the tax burdens that come with them. meanwhile los angeles is promising world class stadiums all privately funded. >> there is among people an understandable concern about spending money on a sports facility when you have potholes

on the streets and you have the police department under funding. >> reporter: the nfl is expectinged to make a decision as early as january. jim black stone, cbs, san diego. >> axelrod: happy day fans loved him as big al. we remember al molinaro. we have a dramatic rescue to

tell you about of a hump back whale in distress. whale watchers spawd it yesterday in southern california tangled up in a fishing line. a crew managed to partially free the 35 foot whale but weren't able to finish the job. today they found the whale again and after hours of struggle, finally swam free. hollywood lost a familiar fist friday. character actor al molinaro.

he would often fill a scene by raising an eye brown. the producer garry marshall wanted to put him in the movies too. he didn't want to do it. he said i'm so square i won't do anything with four letter words on it. al molinaro is 96 years old. an elaborate halloween house is a fright -- fre-free zone. let's see. we'll wrap thing up on this wall

wean night at where else a hop her haunt. this is near los angeles and it's not a house that gives trick or treaters nightmare but as mireya vea villarreal is a pe for friendly. >> reporter: an amusement mark is actually his fronted yard. >> i want a lot of spectacle and a lot of people to see it. >> reporter: every night in the ten days leading up to halloween, four to 6,000

visitors stream into this normally quiet neighborhood to experience bony island. is it scary. >> no it's just really cool. >> reporter: the idea of a fright-free halloween began when he took his young daughters to the first haunted house. it didn't go well. they ran out screaming. a former animation producer for this tv show decided he could build something better. >> we just started upping it every year and i guess if it's worth doing it's worth overdoing. >> reporter: how much is your allowance for this. >> usually run between like 10 and 12,000 each year. >> reporter: and it also costs time. he starts around july. do you think their wife and children are like enough. >> yes. they did that ten years ago. >> reporter: with his daughters all grown up, polizzi

insists every year will be his last. but moments like this always pull him back. >> good job. i introduce their kids to it now, little babies and that makes them feel terribly old. >> reporter: and still not yet ready to hang it up. mireya villarreal,cbs news long as last. >> axelrod: daylight savings time ends at 2:00 a.m. so if you turn your clock back before you go to bed you get an extra hour sleep. that's it for cbs news. later on cbs, 48 hours. i'm jim axelrod and for everybody here at cbs news, thanks for joining us and good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org

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