m jim axelrod.e begin tonight with more dlolent and deadly weather along the plains and in the midwest. the national weather system still doesn't know exactly how many tornadoes touched down issoeen oklahoma and missouri last night, but look at the scene in st. charles, missouri, near st. louis, after a twister came through there. a line of powerful, slow-moving thunderstorms followed the tornadoes, causing severe flash flooding and sending rescue crews scrambling. once again, oklahoma got hit hardest. the storms killed at least nine sople and injured more than 100 in the oklahoma city area. add anna werner reports, the bad weather blew in during rush hour trapping people in their cars on >> that's on the ground, dude. on the ground. >> reporter: for the second time in less than two weeks, storm chasers followed large tornadoes that resulted in lives lost and property damaged. on a main interstate highway near oklahoma city, tractor trailers flipped. several people who were out driving in their cars

i'm jim axelrod. we begin tonight in colorado, with some promising news in the fight against the most destructive wildfire in the history of the state. four days after the fire started burning, firefighters now say they are getting the upper hand on the flames. at last count, 473 homes have been destroyed in a roughly 24-square-mile area near colorado springs. and two people have been killed. tonight, the fire is said to be 45% contained. manuel bojorquez begins our coverage. >> reporter: more than 300 firefighters were added to the front lines this weekend for the first time this week, the fire did not assume more land or homes, but it has changed the landscape. el paso county sheriff terry maketa: >> it look like a nuclear bomb went off in some of those areas and you can't even recognize whether it was a house or some other kind of structure. >> and i am pleading for some accuracy. >> reporter: at a packed town hall meeting today, frustrated residents wondered whether their homes were destroyed or a

>> axelrod: tonight, western swelter, record heat creates health risks for millions. carter evans and jeff berardelli tell us tomorrow could be worse. >> president obama in johannesburg, paid a private visit to the family of nelson mandela and a public tribute to the critically ill hero of the anti-apartheid movement. >> the triumph of nelson mandela and this nation speaks to something very deep in the human spirit. >> axelrod: major garrett and mark phillips are in south africa. >> a new shadow over the nfl as another pro football player is arrested on a gun charge. and meet our newest young innovator a teenage singer with plenty of challenges and a voice ♪ a enough to overcome them. ♪ amazing grace the captioning sponsored by cbs >> a this is the "cbs evening news." jim axelrod, the southwest is not just hot, not just dangerously hot, it is historic hot, this is one of the worst heat waves in years. you can see the heat pouring off the runway in phoenix, it is about the worst time to wear a costume for work in las vegas and this temperature reading may not be as hig

i'm jim axelrod. nelson mandela is back in the hospital tonight battling a recurring lung infection. we are told his condition is serious but stable, the most dire description the government spokesman has used to far. the former president of south africa and hero to millions around the world for his fight against apartheid is 94 years old. mandela is particularly vulnerable to problems with his lungs since contracting tuberculosis during the 27 years he was imprisoned by the south africa government. debra patta joins us now from pretoria. >> reporter: jim, nelson mandela has been battling this infection for a couple of days now, but it was in the early hours of this morning that his condition deteriorated significantly. so much so that doctors rushed him to this hospital here in pretoria. and that has been the pattern nelson mandela over the past few months with those health scares becoming a lot more frequent. nelson mandela has been hospitalized four times in the past six months, but for the first t

i'm jim axelrod. we begin tonight with the case of edward snowden, the former national security agency contractor charged yesterday with espionage for leaking secrets about u.s. surveillance programs. the obama administration is now turning up the pressure on authorities in hong kong, where snowden is believed to be. as dan raviv reports, the u.s. and hong kong have an extradition treaty, and the white house expects hong kong to honor it. >> reporter: the white house says if hong kong doesn't extradite edward snowden soon, that would complicate relations with the u.s. and in a radio interview with cbs' mark knoller, president obama's national security adviser, tom donilon, pressed the point. >> reporter: the criminal complaint has three charges, two of them under the espionage act: but it's complicated. in 1997, hong kong, a british colony, was transferred to china. it remains semi-independent with its own legal system, but the chinese government has significant influence. snowden's fate may really be

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and axelrod has turned into the, shh about the china and what we're doing to russia etc. >> i think axelrodes a decent point. i don't think snowden is out there to destroy americans. i think he genuinely cares about civil liberties. but the thing about shaefer that rubs me the wrong way his argument does not make any sense at all. he makes these statements and then runs away. what is he going to do, face the bradley manning consequence? he doesn't want to face being tortured and impressed for protecting our civil liberties and freedoms. >> cenk: it's easy for shaefer he's sitting in his office. doesn't want to run away to china. he is very comfortable. >> yes, i think he was seeing over the top rhetoric about snowden already. we're giving this guy the top status as being a whistle blower. i'm still on the ship of let's find out everything first before we have our time decision on the guy. so. >> it takes courage. i'm not saying he should have stayed around. there is that change of a certain level. >> i understand that running away makes it seems like he's not as courageous, but considering

richie check schools jim axelrod on the americans who built the nation. >> these places are full of memories, i would think. >> memories? you don't know where to start! captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. edward snowden is the most- wanted fugitive in the world tonight. the white house belief it is former national security agency contract employee now charged with espionage is in russia and the united states has been pressuring the russians all day to send him home before he can those asylum in some other country. the incident has strained u.s. relations with both russia and china. it was in hong kong that snowden exposed two top-secret u.s. surveillance programs, one that collects the phone records of millions of americans and the other that monitors internet traffic. bob orr begins our coverage. >> reporter: edward snowden's flight seemed stalled for now in moscow. seat 17-a, which snowden reportedly booked on this cuba- bound jetliner, remained empty today as the plane took off for havana. it's not clear if snowden changed

jim axelrod on how a powerful legacy changed one man's man'sn. mission. >> frederic douglas said it's easier to build strong children than repair broken men. captioning sponsored by cbs >> pelley: good evening. it doesn't happen very often but it happened today-- the stock market plunged in reaction to good news. the news from the head of the federal reserve was that the economy is doing better. here's the part wall street did not like. ben bernanke said the economy is doing well enough that the fed is likely to ease back on one of its stimulus programs, a bond buying program that has helped keep interest rates at record lows. the prospect of higher rates sent the dow down more than 200 points to close at 15,112. reason enough to call in our senior business correspondent anthony mason. anthony. >> reporter: scott, the downside risks have diminished since the fall, bernanke said today, in an assessment of the economy that has turned noticeably more upbeat. >> generally speaking, financial conditions are improving. >> reporter: the fed lowered its

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neil: to david axelrod mentions peolating scandals? it appears out of control. >> there are some that ar disconcerting. the s and was certain one of -hose. there other ises are other issues that have been brought to the force of the nsa monitoring. the various data exchanging exchange being also raise questionsnd are not necessarily wrongdoing. have to separate those and look into them. clearly the president's ability to manage the gvernment of the united states and the trustthat erics have for the government has been verted by the kinds of revelations that have come forward about the irs. >> these privacy trade-offs are relatively modest were his words. this is not big brother. what you thi of hat? >> well, congress will take a look. the present saying that no one is reading e-mails or listening in on phone cas. if that is the case, then it will pretty much be attacked. people will y, tt is a violation of principles and we don't know exactly where that is. everything that is going on in washington, he has a responsibility to care for

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joining me now, former senior add va sviser to the obama re-en campaign, david axelrod. republican congresswoman from tennessee, marshablackburn. jonathan alter, republican strategist ana navarro and tom friedman. i want to get everybody's impressions of the attorney general under fire. david axelrod, my question is, is this a holder problem or is it a president obama problem at this juncture? >> i think, look, the sport, the sie civic sport of washington, d.c., is -- there's a serious public policy issue underneath all of this that i think we have to resolve as a country which is there are things that you have to keep secret for the security of the people who are risking their lives out there. and for national security, how do you balance that against the public's right to know, which is a very sacred principle as well. that's a discussion we should be having. >> i think part of the discussion we have to be having is also a question of leadership. if that's what it is. there's obviously going to be a political target for holder, for republicans and the media that are go

captions by: caption colorado comments@captioncolorado.com ,,,,,,,,,,,, ,, >> axelrod: tonight, westernwelter, record heat creates health risks for millions. carter evans and jeff berardelli tell us tomorrow could be worse. >> president obama in johannesburg, paid a private visit to the family of nelson mandela and a public tribute to the critically ill hero of the anti-apartheid movement. >> the triumph of nelson mandela and this nation speaks to something very deep in the human spirit. >> axelrod: major garrett and mark phillips are in south africa. >> a new shadow over the nfl as another pro football player is arrested on a gun charge. and meet our newest young innovator a teenage singer with plenty of challenges and a voice big enough to overcome them.

. >> axelrod: tonight, nelson mandela in the hospital once again, and the government says it is serious. we will have the latest from south africa on the condition of this international hero in the fight against racism. police say the gunman in santa monica fired more than 70 rounds inside a college library during his rampage. carter evans is tracking the investigation. a mother's plea to get her 11- year-old the transplant he needs... >> if javier does not receive a transplant, he will die. >> axelrod: ...with a story of public policy and personal pain. and the london underground overhauled. we are not talking about the subway. charlie d'agata shows us who is launching businesses in some highly unlikely spots. >> it is really needs to be done. captioning sponsored by cbs

. >> axelrod: tonight, more ndouble in tornado alley.nd of twisters hits oklahoma, this time with severe storms that kill at least nine. anna werner is there. the greatest loss ever for the houston fire department. he'll have the latest on the deadly fire in texas. saying goodbye to jean stapleton, who made edith bunker one of the most memorable characters in the history of television >> ♪ those were the days. ( applause ) >> axelrod: and the big stink. bill whitaker tells us why these folks are holding their noses on one of america's most scenic stretches of shoreline. >> the smell was so overpowering ring we had guests get up and leave. d captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news."

jim axelrod introduces us to one man with personal ties to this man and his leader. >> reporter: no doubtof the frederick douglass statue stirred feelings, but perhaps this man. >> my father was frederick douglass iii and my grandmother was booker t. washington's granddaughter. >> reporter: that's right. morris descends not from one historic african leader but two, not at that he always embraced his bloodlines. >> can you imagine growing up and see your ancestors, there are bridges named after him, they're on schools and libraries? it can be pretty intimidating. that's quite a vast long shadow to grow up in. >> reporter: morris avoided the shadow while building a successful marketing career until one day his buddy passed along a magazine and the cover story pulled him. >> the cover story was 21st century slaves. i reacted the way most people do. the work didn't end with frederick douglass. i had two teenaged daughters who at the time were 9 and 12 years old, and got up and i walked into my girls'room and i couldn't look away. each and every one of us descends from somebody that made a dif

captions by: caption colorado comments@captioncolorado.com >> axelrod: tonight, beating back the flamesters in colorado continue to struggle, making slow but certain progress against a devastating fire. >> it looks like a nuclear bomb went off, and you can't even recognize whether it was a house or some other kind of structure. >> axelrod: manuel bojorquez is there with the latest. one of nelson mandela's body guard charges the former south african president is a virtual prisoner of his doctors. the long-term fallout from chemotherapy and radiation for childhood cancer. dr. jon lapook has the disturbing findings. and meet the young american innovator who's hawrnassing the power of children around the world and their piggy banks to help those who need it most. >> it goes to show how children around the world really can make an impact

jim axelrod has the story. >> reporter: the steel mill in bethlehem, pennsylvania, has been shut down> you look at it now you can't believe it. >> reporter: but richie check who spent more than 40 years working here still can't get used to the silence. >> no whistles, no horns, no nothing. it makes you cry. >> reporter: check is 80 years old now, his father worked in the plant and so did his nine brothers and sisters. it was a place where 32,000 men and women made the steel for ammunition, aircraft and battleships during both world wars. the golden gate bridge, the george washington bridge. 80% of the buildings that make up the new york city skyline. they were all the built with bethlehem steel. this place is full of memories, i would think. >> memories? you don't know where to start. >> reporter: actually, check knows exactly where to start. preserving the memories. he collects artifacts from bethlehem steel. like the brass i.d. buttons workers wore. >> 64 was my number for 44 years. >> reporter: he curates his own small museum. >> when the furnace called for hot air, he better have

jim axelrod on what could be the biggest doping scandal in sports. dozens of major league ball players could be suspended. there's a major change in the t.s.a.'s plan to allow knives on planes. sharyl attkisson on a sudden course correction. and 45 years ago today robert kennedy was gunned down. >> would a doctor come right here? >> reporter: that was doctor there, and therein lies a very personal story told for the first time by michelle miller. the first time by michelle captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. ews" with s >> pelley: good evening. today robert bales told a military court that he committed the worst american atrocity in the afghan war, but he does not know why. 15 months ago in the middle of the night bales left his combat outpost alone and murdered 16 afghan civilians in cold blood. mostly women and children. the bodies were delivered to a morgue in a truck. nine of them were children and bales had set many of the bodies on fire. in a deal, prosecutors dropped the death penalty and in return bal

jeremy, thank you so much. >> thanks, jeremy. >> david axelrod, stay with us. am not used to him without a mustache. it's weird. >> grew grow it back so he can shave it off again. >> i don't know. >> up next andrea mitchell on the new developments on the nsa leak and america's growing involvement in syria's long-running civil war. later comedian russell brand stops by the set and it doesn't take long for things to go downhile hill. -- downhill. >> talking about me as if i'm not here and as if i'm an extra ter rest ya y'all pu you knnpu. you're conveying news to the people of america. >> yes. >> people of america, we're going to be okay. everything is all right. these are your trusted anchors. change makes people nervous. but i see a world bursting with opportunity, with ideas, with ambition. i'm thinking about china, brazil, india. the world's a big place. i want to be a part of it. ishares international etfs. emerging markets and single countries. find out why nine out of ten large professional investors choose ishares for their etfs. ishares by blackrock. cal

. >> david axelrod and glen thrush share a brain on mondays or half a brain and david axelrod tweeted, fascinating for christie. does he name an interim who reflects his more moderate state or go tea party? >> if his whole focus is on winning the largest majority in this election this year in a blue state, he names somebody neutral, that has happened in the massachusetts senate seat that we're filling later this month, or he actually goes all the way and names cory booker. but if he did something like that, he would infuriate the republican party base. my hunch is what he may try to do is use this appointment to say i'm still a republican, i'm still pretty conservative. the other names, his own lieutenant governor, kim guadanio. state senator tom cain junior. that would be interesting because he was very close to governor cain. i think he visited him when he was a teenager, knocked on his door and asked for advice. and then there's somebody very close to him called bill pelatucci. these are republicans who would make the party happy. and the democrats if he did that are going to lose

david axelrod, go ahead. >> no, no, go ahead. >> david axelrod, thanks very much.on, thanks, as well. up next, while congress battles over tax policy, many companies are stashing their money offshore. digging into a new report showing how some big names in business are keeping their cash out of the government's pocket. >>> but first, bill karins with a check on the forecast. >>> good morning to you, mika. good news to report on the environmental weather front. the firefighters in california have done a great job. and now the power house fire is now 60% contained and about 2,800 people have been allowed to return to their homes. this fire grew immensely over the weekend and then on monday. and now they have really gotten the upper hand on it with cooler temperatures last night. that did burn about 12 structures there in los angeles county, california. dry season and fire season is well underway now in the west. >>> well, oklahoma city got hit again last night, not by tornadoes, but by strong thunderstorms, you're under flash flood warnings this morning, we had thous

double in the eighth off of off of axelrod. a's would add two more runs.s gets to top out for the final out. a's victorious, 3-0. >> severe weather caused the giants' game to postpone. they will play a doubleheader today. college ball,. you sf versus rice as the owls take a two-run lead. and pitcher strikes him out but the ball gets away. the runner goes to third and then scores on a routine fly ball because, he lost it in the sun. what a way to lose a game. rice victorious 3-2. >> the cal golf team number one in the makes trying to capture the team title. they have reached the semifinals, it was not easy. quarter finals in play action in georgia, as michael sinks the putt. cal advances but he loses on the first playoff game. michael kim lost his match. brandon, one up on approach on 18. he misses his birdie putts. cal faces illinois in the semifinals. >> nice surprise pulled off by the colin, kaepernick. brandon harris is retiring. >> he has worked with me a lot. he was the first person to actually let me run the ball a couple times. i think i had a negat

axelrod. obama said the same thing. the government is too big. same complaints that the tea rty has been maing >> when i see the dismissal of this, i have to say wait a second, when you talk to people who ran the irs and they say watch t if y are not on the same team, they have seen it happen, it is so still busy to run a big governnt and feel powerful at that. >> i was just going to say the peop running the irs, per se. it is quality people. government is going toto contine to grow. the economyrows, the population grows. >> and is o of the things that i have. if we know part of this growing problem is the birth, then wouldn't you think twi about signing this to the irs when it comes to health care? >> potentially. >> you know, i think that people are bleeding their fearnto their fear of government spying from the corporate spyng. >> exactly. for me personally, i am more coerned with consumer privacy with the iris. >> google, gmail, you do a arch on any medical disea. when you apply for health insurance than they assume that you have this with a

joining me now, former senior add va sviser to the obama re-en campaign, david axelrod.swoman from tennessee, marshablackburn. jonathan alter, republican strategist ana navarro and tom friedman. i want to get everybody's impressions of the attorney general under fire. david axelrod, my question is, is this a holder problem or is it a president obama problem at this juncture? >> i think, look, the sport, the sie civic sport of washington, d.c., is -- there's a serious public policy issue underneath all of this that i think we have to

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. >> he even invited david axelrod to come out to event in park city. >> he did.f the record we don't be able to know what david axelrod say. he came there to talk about his charity to cure epilepsy but i guarantee you politics is going to come up. this is a way for romney to dip his toe in the water and sort of get over it. >> to mo on. >> i think from the interviews as you saw, it hasn't been really easy for them. people who lose presidential races are people who have been in the limelight every day for two years and then suddenly they lose the trappings, they lose the secret service, they lose that single thing they need that they've been pushing them forward for two years, one goal, they lose it in a day and then they kind of look up and say what's next. it's very difficult for them people. >> people react differently. john kerry had the senate to fall back on. john mccain had the senator to fall back on. with mitt romney he has no senate necessarily to fall back on. >> i've spoken with john carry and john mccain a while book. it wasn't an easy transition for

david axelrod, a former senior adviser to president obama, now an msnbc senior political analyst. john feehery is a republican strategist. david, you have been around the track. have you ever seen a wedge issue jump aisles like this before? >> no. it's moved very quickly. you know, what i was struck by today, i was watching the vote on immigration. two-thirds of the republicans in the senate opposed immigration reform. you see republicans on the wrong side of public opinion on this issue. you see the republicans mounting campaigns to restrict a woman's right to choose, and you look at what happened in 2012 where they got beaten so badly among latinos, among young people, among women. and you have to ask yourself, what are they looking at? what did they learn here? because it seems like they're just digging a deeper hole with a lot of constituencies around this country. john feehery, i have a scenario in my head. i see a whole crop of akins, murdoch, angles, and how did the republican party prevent against the emergence of those sort of candidates? >> well, i think what they have t

. >> you have david axelrod who has a reputation for being one of the hardest dirty might not be thek for but you know, an old school form of politics. you have stephanie cutter, a veteran of the 2004 kerry campaign who watched kerry get decimated by the karl rove type tactics and you have a guy like jim mess even, that the campaign manager who knows how to win. >> covered stories i was also covering, she would quote anonymous pentagon officials saying things that weren't true. that's where i draw the line. >> i think that you know the filmmakers do have a responsibility, especially when they're tackling the subject to get it right to. get one of the biggest questions, the biggest debates in the last ten years. you have to get it right. >> eric holder was a busy man i think he needs a vacation and i think it should last at least three more years and however many days left in the administration. i'm so -- we haven't got to the a.p. scandal yet but in terms of the i.r.s., again let's talk about the administration's damage control here. it's classic obama in the sense that yes he's firi

richie check schools jim axelrod on the americans who built the nation. >> these places are full of memories, i would think. >> memories? you don't know where to start! captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley.

david axelrod, thank you very much. thank you, howard fineman, for telling the truth. if they ran the government the way the politics of the white house, the way they ran that campaign, this stuff would be all thrown out the window. >>> coming up, here's a dose of reality for the republican party looking to win the youth vote. a new report by college republicans, pretty smart report, finds young voters think the party, the grand old party is racist, close minded, rigid and old-fashioned. and says the big reason for the party's image problem among the 18 and 29-year-olds is the outrageous statements made by republicans themselves. young people watch television, they read the paper, they're on social media. they know what's going on. >>> by the way, the irs isn't in trouble enough? a new report shows the agency spent $50 million on conferences and its employees over the past three years. house republicans release this video of irs workers, there they are, line dancing at one of those conferences. your taxpayer dollars at work. anyway. we'll have more on that bad news fro

david, the guy who worked for obama, axelrod.e said when asked about the scandal the irs, he said the government is so big, but that is the point. ,hen government metastasizes regardless of the intentions or the motives of the redness of those at the top, that is the kind of thing that people are reacting to. when occupy wall street emerged, the times in the media built it up as the counterpart to the tea party. it was always a fraud because the tea party represents a strong strain in america and that is why it remains important. >> how do you shrink the government? >> a great question. >> you stop expansion. >> the republicans have their way, increase defense spending more and more. in perpetuity. wants to come up with some positive republican program that adjusts his the social injustices and needs of the country. he has been thwarted by the tea party that does not want this. we have a total reversal of our political system right now from where we were two generations ago. it is pointed out by the brilliant political analyst wh

we'll discuss that with david axelrod, senator coburn, eugene robinson and ed rendell.opening statements in the trial of george zimmerman. the defense begins with a knock-knock joke. we'll show you how that played out. and bring you up to speed in the latest arguments. that was fascinating. that absolutely fell flat. i have never seen a more awkward moment in court in recent history. and finally, a documentary on how to make money selling drugs. actor and producer adrian grenier joins us on the set to preview his new set. much more on "morning joe". back to you. >> we'll see you in a few minutes. still ahead, your best and most creative tweets on what perk would make you like your job. we'll be right back. [ shapiro ] at legalzoom, you can take care of virtually all your important legal matters in just minutes. protect your family... and launch your dreams. at legalzoom.com we put the law on your side. little things anyone can do. it steals your memories. your independence. ensures support, a breakthrough. and sooner than you'd like. sooner than you'd think. you die fro

jim axelrod has learned that baseball's latest doping scandal could turn out to be the biggest ever in sports. dozens of players, including some stars, may face long suspensions. major league baseball has been investigating this for some time and jim tells us tonight that turning point came when a key figure decided to name names. >> reporter: anthony bosch ran the miami clinic called biogenesis. before it folded, biogenesis offered what it called "antiaging" services. we learned bosch has an agreement with major league baseball to be interviewed under oath about allegations his clinic supplied performance-enhancing drugs to some of baseball's biggest stars. a baseball executive tells us bosch will name up to 25 players, including new york yankees star alex rodriguez, the game's top-played player. and milwaukee brewers slugger ryan braun, the national league's most valuable player two years ago. this was braun last night. >> i'm not answering any further questions regarding the whole situation. i've dealt with it for a long time over the last year and a half and aside from that i don't

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