they have to rely on 4,000 donkeys to carry back ballots over mountainous terrain. >> axelrod: charlie d'agata joins us now from kabul. charlie, there had been a surge in violence predicted around the time of the elections but it never seemed to materialize. are people surprised about that? >> reporter: very surprised. i think everybody here is bracing for the worst, and it may say something about the capability of the afghan security forces that it didn't happen. and, of course, we are reminded of the unpredictable nature of that violence and the attack on two associated press journalists in eastern afghanistan, a photographer, who was killed. we have an update on kathy gannon, the a.p. writer. she was treated at the scene in eastern afghanistan. she was flown to a coalition hospital here in kabul where she received medical treatment, a surgery last night, and where she remains in stable condition. >> axelrod: charlie d'agata, thank you. we are learning more tonight about what may have set off the shooter at fort hood, texas. specialist ivan lopez killed three people and injured 16 on the bas

charlie d'agata. thank you, charlie. in all, 173 journalists have e d' killed covering the wars in iraq and afghanistan. the committee to protect journalists told us today that 150 were lost in iraq, and now 23 in afghanistan. we learned today that the u.s. economy has at long last regained all of the private sector jobs that it lost in the great recession. it took six years. ree labor department says america added 192,000 jobs in march-- moderate but steady. the unemployment rate remained 6.7%. anthony mason has more. >> it's getting better but it's a very slow, slow, long process of getting better. >> reporter: after five years of being in and out of work, tara dublin found a job a few weeks >> i ep is it three of you or four? >> reporter: as a hostess at a restaurant in portland, oregon. >> okay, great. i've been recently hired by a wonderful restaurant that i absolutely love but it's a part- time situation. >> reporter: she makes $11 an hour, plus tips. >> this money will probably go to pay the power bill, which is l

charlie d'agata on rising violence against american civilians. u.s.-backed ukraine opens fire on pro-russian forces. holly williams on the greatest east-west tensions since the cold war. billion in sales.ttes hit $2 today, the government proposed a crackdown. chip reid's on the story. what triggered a radiation leak that contaminated 21 workers? anna werner reports. and barry petersen on the need >> reporter: and speed is your...? >> drug of choice, i guess? captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. this is our western edition. as the war in afghanistan winds down, violence against american civilians there is increasing. today, an afghan government security guard shot three americans to death at a christian charity hospital in kabul. another american was wounded. the dead include 57-year-old dr. jerry umanos, who was there to treat afghan children. we have more on this from charlie d'agata. >> reporter: the three americans were shot dead by one of the men that should have been protecting the

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and charlie d'agata is in the f ghan capital. >> reporter: parts of kabul look less like a nation preparing for li election than a war. toliban militants have made good on their threat to disrupt this weekend's vote. yesterday, a taliban suicide riorer killed six police officers outside the ministry of ghe interior. ,he afghan election commission itself has come under attack, too, yet in spite of the threat, cordf electoral officer zia-ul- haq amarkhaial told us, record numbers of people have signed up to vote. are they so interested that they're willing to risk their lives in order to vote? >> reporter: there are more afghan security forces on the streets of kabul than ever before, and come election day, ande will be more than 350,000 soldiers and police spread throughout the country on high alert. for the first time, u.s. soldiers are no longer taking hamilead protecting voters. in fact, they're nowhere to be seen. and president hamid karzai has .sfused to sign a security agreement that would allow u.s. troops to remain in afghanistan fst 2014. many fear the taliban will return in full fo

>> charlie d'agata in kabul, afghanistan. thank you so much. >>> it's now been four full weeks since malaysia flight 370 has disappeared and not a trace of boeing 777 or the 239 people have been found. but time is running out for the so-called pingers designed to locate the missing plane. the batteries are running down. seth doane is following the story of flight 370s intended destination, beijing. >> reporter: authorities were announcing today they're appointing an independent investigator in charge to oversee an investigation team looking into this mystery. that team will include representatives from malaysia china, the united states and several other countries. meanwhile authorities in australia called today's search the biggest so far. searchers continue scouring the vast expanse of the southern indian ocean but still have not found a trace of the missing jetliner. on board a p 3 surveillance plane from new zealand, this wing commander says he keeps thinking about the victims' families. >> now they appear to be looking to

charlie d'agata is in the capital of kabul about 150 miles northwest of where the killings happened. charlie, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. the journalists, both women, are familiar faces and colleagues to those of us who cover this egion, and we got word of the shooting this morning. the associated press has confirmed that veteran photographer ehas been shot .mornin kathy gannon a canadian shotgunshot wounds to the upper body. she is said to be in stable condition. they were covering this election story east of here. they were in a convoy when a man in a police uniform approached their vehicle and opened fire. they were supposed to be under the protection of afghan security forces, as we all here. here in kabul, we've never seen such a high security presence out on the streets. there are checkpoints everywhere, you look despite the ring of steel, the taliban have been able to launch a couple of attacks in the past couple of weeks, hitting the ministry of information -- excuse me, the ministry of the interior, and election offices here. having said that, there has been a ve