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>> maurice: good evening. i'm maurice dubois. >> john: i'm john dickerson. a lot of the mystery about the deaths of gene hackman and his wife has been solved. >> maurice: late today, the medical examiner said the academy award-winning actor died of heart disease and alzheimer's, most likely on february 18th. that, the m.e. said, was about a week after his wife, betsy arakawa, died of hantavirus, a disease spread by rodents that attacks the lungs. >> john: hackman was 95. arakawa was 65. their bodies were found wednesday of last week at their home in santa fe, new mexico. carter evans has the latest on the new developments. carter? >> reporter: well, what we learned today is more about the timeline. investigators already knew that gene hackman and his wife died in separate rooms of their home, but how and when they died is now becoming clear. for more than a week, the deaths of actor gene hackman and his wife, betsy, had been a mystery filled with speculation. today, chief medical examiner

dr. heather jarrell provided answers. >> the cause of death for miss betsy hackman is hantavirus pulmonary syndrome. the manner of death is natural. the cause of death for mr. gene hackman is hypertensive and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, with alzheimer's disease as a significant contributory factor. >> reporter: santa fe sheriff adan mendoza confirmed betsy arakawa hackman had run several errands on february 11th and when she returned home, the data trail turned cold. >> there was no additional outgoing communication from her or known activity after february 11th, 2025. >> reporter: based on hackman's pacemaker activity, it appears he was alive for a full week after his wife passed away. >> was he aware that ms. hackman had died? and i think that question is difficult to answer, but i can tell you that he was in an advanced state of alzheimer's,

and it's quite possible that he was not aware that she was deceased. >> reporter: now the case is not closed just yet. investigators are still waiting for a necropsy to help determine exactly how the couple's dog died. they are also still trying to gain access to their cell phones to see if it can shed any light on what may have happened in that week between their two deaths. >> maurice: carter evans in santa fe tonight, thank you. >> john: dr. celine gounder is a cbs news medical contributor. dr. gounder, help us understand what hantavirus is. >> so this is a virus that is transmitted usually through rodent droppings or urine that have been aerosolized, where someone is breathing those in. there's quite a high case fatality rate, meaning of the people who we know hae hantavirus, how many die is somewhere between 30% and 50%, and they die from failure of the lungs and the heart to function. >> maurice: a lot of people have not heard about it, celine, so how common is it? >> hantavirus is rare. so this is not something everybody at home should be

worrying about for themselves. most of the cases we have seen have been out west, maybe about 30 a year, concentrated in new mexico, colorado, and arizona. you may remember in the early '90s, there was an outbreak of hantavirus that was discovered by indian health service doctors in the area, and there were about two dozen or so people who died in that outbreak. >> john: we have about 20 seconds left. older people more susceptible or people with weakened immune states? >> presumably, but this is so rare, we honestly don't have tremendous information about it. the best advice i have for you is, if you are going to be cleaning your garden shed or basement, make sure you wear appropriate protective equipment -- masks, gloves -- to protect yourself. >> john: dr. celine gounder, thank you so much. >> maurice: gladys larke was in her living room in taylors, south carolina. her husband, david, was in the kitchen. >> john: brad sigmon walked in, moved methodically back and forth between those rooms, and repeatedly beat the larkes with a baseball bat until they died. >> maurice: angry that their daughter had broken up with him, sigmon showed her parents no mercy.

>> john: and none was showed him. tonight, 24 years after the murders, south carolina put sigmon to death in the first execution in the united states by firing squad in 15 years. meg oliver is at the prison in columbia. meg? >> reporter: with a hood over his head and a target over his heart, a firing squad executed brad sigmon. he was pronounced dead at 6:08, four years after the south carolina state legislature approved the option for death row inmates. in this room, behind a century-old electric chair, 67-year-old brad sigmon was strapped down here. hidden behind a wall 15 feet away, three corrections employees fired live rounds at him through a small rectangular hole, a method he chose instead of lethal injection or the electric chair. new bulletproof glass was installed to shield witnesses. do you expect more states will follow suit? >> no. >> reporter: why not?

>> because it was a political game the republicans in our legislature fell for. when they voted for that, nobody really wanted this. >> reporter: why not? >> it wasn't necessary because we had two methods of execution. we had the electric chair and lethal injection. >> reporter: jon ozmint is the former director of the south carolina department of corrections where he oversaw 14 executions. while lethal injection remains the primary method in most states, drug shortages and botched executions have led to a revivalof older methods. sigmon's attorney, bo king. why would your client choose to die this way? >> brad had repeatedly asked for the most basic facts about south carolina's lethal injection drugs. like, is it expired? have the drugs been diluted? have the drugs spoiled? and he was repeatedly refused that information. >> reporter: so he chose a firing squad? >> he chose the firing squad. >> reporter: sigmon was sentenced to death for killing his ex-girlfriend's parents, david and gladys larke, in 2001, beating them with a baseball bat. a crime he admitted to.

how would you describe this form of execution? >> death may be difficult for anybody. but as far as ending a human life quickly, i think this is probably about as good as you can get. >> reporter: 23 states currently have the death penalty. five allow the use of a firing squad. >> this was an impossible choice, but between the prospect of dying strapped to a gurney over 20 minutes, drowning in the blood and fluid in your own lungs, as opposed to the firing squad, he made the only choice that he could. >> maurice: meg, how are people in south carolina, state officials, responding to those who are calling this whole thing barbaric? >> reporter: maurice, the state of south carolina maintains that this is not cruel and unusual punishment because they let the inmate choose the mess -- the way they are put to death, whether it is lethal injection, the electric chair, or now a firing squad. if they don't make a choice, the electric chair is their default.

>> john: meg, what do we know about the people who pulled the trigger, the executioners? >> reporter: we know that they are part of the corrections staff. we know they volunteered for the assignment. but because south carolina passed a shield law in 2023, it protects the identities of everybody involved in an execution, so we don't know who they are. >> maurice: meg, just a couple seconds here, did we get a sense of his last words before he was put to death? >> reporter: yes, his last words, maurice, he wanted to say, "i want my closing statement to be one of love and a calling to my fellow christians to end the death penalty." >> john: meg oliver in columbia, south carolina. thank you, meg. >> maurice: now some of the top stories from around the world in tonight's "evening news" round-up. the privately backed lunar probe athena landed on its side near the moon's south pole. you can see the feet up in the air, pointing back toward the earth. it is the second bad moon landing for athena's builders in a year.

>> john: and a spacex starship exploded during a test launch yesterday from south texas. the faa says the second such disaster this year disrupted about 240 passenger flights in the area. >> maurice: the united states has disabled ukraine's access to satellite images, part of president trump's ban on sharing military intelligence. at the white house, the president said russia is, as he put it, "bombing the hell out of ukraine." he is threatening to respond with sanctions. >> john: and two u.s. army soldiers are under arrest in washington state, suspected of trying to sell sensitive government information to buyers in china. charlie d'agata has the latest on that. >> reporter: this image is alleged to show active-duty army sergeant jian zhao taking photos of classified material. according to court documents, he told one of his coconspirators "very sensitive document, super difficult to get." stationed at joint base lewis-mcchord in washington state, zhao stands accused of selling the materials to agents

operating in china, including 20 hard drives, for which he was allegedly offered at least $10,000. another active-duty soldier and one former soldier were also charged. the classified material is said to include intelligence on high-mobility artillery rocket systems, or himars, bradley and stryker fighting vehicles, and america's overall military readiness in the event of a conflict with china. it's a case that reflects a growing threat revealed in a cbs news investigation: china's online recruitment of american active-duty service members as spies. jim axelrod spoke to kevin vorndran, the head of the fbi's counterintelligence division. >> are they operating at another level from either -- compare them to russia or iran. is china that much more of a threat in this particular area?

>> based on scale, yes, because their -- the scale of their intelligence services is so significant that it outnumbers other adversaries on the board. >> reporter: in a statement, attorney general pamela bondi said the defendants will face swift, severe, and comprehensive justice. federal law enforcement have told us in the last two years they have identified around a dozen cases of china recruiting. >> john: spy. >> maurice: charlie d'agata at the pentagon tonight. thank you. >> john: still ahead on the "cbs evening news," lonnie quinn on the damaging winds in the northeast. >> maurice: and we'll have these stories. >> i'm nancy chen. new jobs numbers are signaling possible trouble ahead for the economy, just as workers are being told to get back into the office. ♪ ♪ >> i'm steve hartman. for 40 years, this pediatrician has given everything to the families in his care. >> you got one of them. >> why they are now giving back. >> whatever needs to be done to save dr. z, we are going to do it. >> that story when we go

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reported today that the economy added 151,000 jobs in february, even as the unemployment rate ticked up a tenth of a point to 4.1%. >> john: nancy chen tells us the employment landscape in the country is changing as more americans who have been working from home return to their offices. >> reporter: in january, amazon joined the growing list of companies mandating a return to the office five days a week. >> does anybody have ideas for how we can make the summit more effective? >> reporter: the retail giant allowed us a visit with some of their workers at its corporate headquarters in seattle, where it's the city's largest employer. people back in their cubicles, is this the new normal? >> yes, this is the new normal. >> reporter: rena palumbo has worked on amazon's market research team for more than a decade. what was it like being back in the office full-time? >> it was a bit of an adjustment for some because it's really nice to be able to, you know, have the flexibility to work from home, but it's also isolating and can be a bit disconnected from your team and

your community and the business. >> reporter: at one point, the tech-heavy city had the country's highest ratio of remote workers at more than 30%, leaving much of downtown seattle empty. now with those 50,000 amazon workers commuting to the office, local businesses are experiencing a boost. >> thank you so much. >> reporter: a trend seen around the country. the occupancy rate in ten major cities bottomed out at about 15% during the pandemic. that number has since risen to nearly 55%. the new rainier square tower is considered a sign of seattle's revival, now mostly full. would that have been unimaginable just a few years ago? >> for a building that was completely vacant five years ago, yes. >> reporter: john miller works for cbre, the world's largest commercial real estate company. last year, his team in seattle closed more deals than ever. >> i would say we are on the edge of a revival. we are seeing the light at the end of the tunnel.

>> reporter: there were just so many reports about, like, the death of downtown. >> even in real estate it's cyclical. life is cyclical. >> reporter: rena palumbo says her 45-minute commute is a worthwhile trade-off. >> it has been sad to see seattle fall asleep over the last five years. and it is nice to see it wake back up again. >> maurice: and nancy chen joins us now. so nancy, does the data here include all these federal workers who have been losing their jobs? >> reporter: well, this is the first full jobs we've had since president trump took office. but keep in mind it does not show the majority of the impact we will see from all of those d.o.g.e. layoffs. that said, it paints a very similar picture to what we saw last month of a strong yet slowing labor market. >> john: nancy, quickly, is seattle like other cities in the country? >> reporter: you know, while there have been major gains in seattle and nationally, real estate leasing is still far below pre-pandemic levels, which means there could be some good deals for businesses out there, including lower rents. >> maurice: okay, nancy chen, thanks so much. >> john: strong winds in the northeast tore down part of a four-story tall scaffolding in

boston. >> maurice: it had been put up to do brick repairs on a building, but no workers were on it at the time and no one on the ground thankfully was injured. >> john: and lonnie quinn has more about the windy weather. lonnie? >> all right, let's get right to it then. i want to show you what the winds are doing right now in our country. so if we can pull up the map. on top of the map, i want to impose -- superimpose the flow of the wind. now, if you see them shaded in green, it is a light wind, but just offshore of boston where we see that red shading, those are winds that are stronger. but what creates wind in the first place? it is all about a pressure differential between a high and a low-pressure system, so the strongest element on the map right now is that low-pressure system way up in the canadian maritimes. all right? now a high-pressure system has filled in south of it. the low-pressure system will circulate air counterclockwise, all right, so imagine that hand of the clock going backwards. the high-pressure goes clockwise. so imagine where that wind meets, it is like a pitching machine, right? if you were to drop a baseball in there, foom, it would fire that baseball out, and sure enough, that is what we dealt

with today in and around boston. thankfully that low is now far enough away. i don't see it posing a problem for the night. gentlemen? >> maurice: lonnie, is that it for the wind, at least for now? >> for the toughest winds, yeah. they don't go away entirely because everything is always moving in the atmosphere. that high-pressure system will be pushing into the ocean, kind of fading away, right, but another low comes into the area. it has got wind with it as well. but you can just tell it is not as strong as that system to the north. see all those isobars so tightly packed around the low? gusty winds this weekend in the northeast but not like today. gentlemen? >> john: lonnie quinn. thank you, lonnie. >> maurice: "on the road" is next. >> john: steve hartman with the patients of a saint. ♪ ♪ the patients of a saint. ♪ ♪ mounjaro helps your body regulate blood sugar. and can help you eat less food. plus 3 out of 4 people reached an a1c of less than 7%.

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