clarissa, thank you very much. if you want to talk to clarissa about all of this, you can reach her in a facebook chat tomorrow at noon eastern. you can find it at facebook.com/cbsnews. that is noon eastern tomorrow. isis has worked its way into the congressional elections, too. they're just coming up four weeks from today. nancy cordes tells us about some campaign ads that are getting a lot of attention. >> are we secure? are we protected? >> reporter: the ad was released yesterday by an arizona republican running for congress named wendy rogers. it opens with video of american journalist james foley just before he was beheaded. >> keeping us safe and secure is congress' job. kirsten sinema hasn't done her job. >> reporter: a democratic spokesman called the ad reprehensible and accused rogers of using footage of an american tragedy for political gain. but the rogers campaign argued it was only using current events to show differences between the candidates, like several other republican challengers have done. >> w

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clarissa ward talks with an american fighter who's fighting for a group in syria. good morning, usher! hey! did you know bees communicate through dance? me too... we're practically twins! look for big g cereals with money saving offers on these breakfast favorites and give your budget a boost. >>> this morning a human rights monitoring group says islamic militants now control more than a third of the syrian border town of kobani. the battle for kobani including u.s.-led air strikes has been raging for weeks. clarissa ward is inside syria where she got a rare interview with an american militant who's fighting with the terrorist. >> when i was living in america, i was just a normal kid. i liked sports and whatnot growing up, watching movies and things. >> but evan zubare as he called himself is not a normal american. he's been fighting with a group that's sworn alee jabs to al qaeda. we agreed to diskiguise his voi to protect him. >> i don't hate america. but the government, that's another story. >> reporter: the somali-american dropped out of college to fight in the

clarissa, thank you so much. great reporting. about a celebrity photo-hacking scandal. in "vanity fair" she said she was afraid and angry when intimate pictures were stolen and leaked. she said just because i'm an actress does not mean that i asked for this. it does not mean that it comes with the territory. she said it's not a scandal. it's a sex crime. the law needs to be changed. her family is suing google to remove them. >> she said shame on anyone who looks at the picture, you're participating a crime. >>> this morning a 24-year-old newlywed with stage 4 breast cancer is telling the world how she will take her own life on november 1st. she made a video promoting assisted suicide. >> i plan to be surrounded by my immediate family which is my husband and my mother and my stepfather and my best friend who's also a physician and probably not much more people and i will die upstairs in my bedroom that i share with my husband with my mother and husband by my signed pass peacefully with music in the background. i can't tell you the

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>> clarissa, thanks. that american jihadi says the obama administration is lying about its air strikes. more from him in part two of clarissa's undercover report tonight on the "cbs evening news with scott pelley." >>> florida becomes the latest state to confirm a case of enterovirus. a 10-year-old girl was released from the tampa hospital last month after six days. the health department just confirmed tuesday she has ent enterovirus d-68. the cdc now says more than 650 people in 44 states and washington, d.c., have the contagious disease. >>> several police officers in the city of hammond, indiana, are facing a federal lawsuit this morning. it alleges the use of excessive force during a traffic stop captured on video. take a look. a couple claims the officers smashed their car window and tasered one of them for no apparent reason. dean reynolds is in chicago with what the couple and the police are saying. dean, good morning. >> good morning. well, a woman named lisa mahone said the police were right to s

>> rose: clarissa ward is here along with mike morell and "washington post" columnist david ignatious. let me go, mike, first to this question of lone wolves and home grown terror. what do you make and what do you assess from canada and the u.s. and new york? >> so, charlie, we have had three attacks in the last week. two in canada, one in new york city. and there was terrorist attack in united states last week, media sort of didn't pay a lot of attention to it, but there was. also in last month we've had arrests in australia, malaysia, france and united kingdom arresting people who are planning attacks. this is a very significant threat, self radicalization inspired by isis message. >> rose: how do you combat it? >> you have to cam bat it whole number of ways. you have to be on these websites where these individuals are going and getting radicalized and when they talk about violence and committing violence you have to investigate them. and you also have to take on the narrative, not something the united states can do by itself, we need the help of allies and moderate clerics to be ab

plus, clarissa ward is inside syria with an american who has joined rebels linked to al qaeda. we'll have those stories tonight on the "cbs evening news." tonight: fighting for justice... for a teenager >>> i'm veronica de la cruz in the kpix 5 newsroom. here's what's new at 6:00 tonight. fighting for justice for a teenager stabbed to death. >> he ruined everyone's life. >> what the victim's family is calling for even before a punishment is handed down. >> plus, a bay area city set to vote on taxing soda. the big so the da companies pull out all the -- soda companies pull out all the stops to fight it. >> an award for an east bay teacher who overcame a huge battle outside the classroom. that's at 6:00. back to you. >> thank you. see you in 30 minutes. >>> well, brian, it looks gorgeous for the rest of the week but did you say maybe rain? >> well, there's just a suggestion that maybe on wednesday we are going to get -- i'll tell you this. it's definitely going to cool down next week a significant amount when this low pressure trough comes in. mid-70s by wednesday. the other thin

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. >> clarissa ward went undercover in syria and filed this report. >> when i was living in america, , i was just a normal kid playing sports and watching movies, just like any american. >> reporter: but he is not any american, he is a fighter for a terrorist organization. he calls himself azan buzar and insist the we disguise his voice. >> i don't care for what america has to say about us or any other group for that matter. >> reporter: he told us he narrowly escaped death when his house was hit during recent u.s. airstrikes in syria. the u.s. claimed the strikes targeted terrorists plotting an attack on the west. could you honestly say nobody in that house had intention of attacking the west? >> better question is can you tell me honestly that these hits, these hits won't create people that will want to come and hit america? >> reporter: you look up to osama bin laden? >> of course. >> reporter: you can understand that that's really hard for americans to hear. >> why? >> reporter: because of 9/11. >> we have 9/11 every single day. >> reporter: that narrative. that u.s. is waging a wa

thank you, clarissa. we'll be back to talk about mid term elections and politics.n my journey across ame if they want on my journey across ame it's a bit l if they want ...'scus on my journey across ame it's a bit l ...or a if they want ...'scus ico. fiftee ico. fifteen perc fiftee means keeping seven billion ctransactions flowing.g, and when weather hits, it's data mayhem. but airlines running hp end-to-end solutions are always calm during a storm. so if your business deals with the unexpected, hp big data and cloud solutions make sure you always know what's coming - and are ready for it. make it matter. >> rose: with the mid term elections nine days away we have some results for the 2014 battleground tracker joining us today amy walters, david leonhardt and cbs political news director of director and cbs news nancy corder, having said all of that -- give us a snapshot of the moment. >> snapshot republicans go in to the final week with the edge to retake the senate. big picture we think they will get at least 51 seats for majority. wouldn't be surprise understand

clarissa ward is inside syria with an american who has joined rebels linked to al qaeda. >> reporter: would you support a terrorist attack on the united states? >> pelley: and as the nfl owners' meeting tackles domestic violence today, elaine quijano talks to abusers who have been through court-ordered intervention. >> reporter: can an abuser be rehabilitated? captioning sponsored by cbs

clarissa ward is inside syria with a rebel fighter who has has a warning for america. >> if you keep on poking and cornering a wild dog that wants nothing but the freedom, well, he will bite you, and he will bite you hard. >> pelley: the texas ebola patient is put on a ventilator. john blackstone looks at whether america's health care workers are ready for the disease. caught on video-- dean reynolds on a traffic stop that turned violent. and chip reid takes us 9,000 years into the past to hear the storield

clarissa ward is inside syria with an american who has joined rebels linked to al qaeda. >> reporter:ould you support a terrorist attack on the united states? >> pelley: and as the nfl owners' meeting tackles domestic violence today, elaine quijano talks to abusers who have been through court-ordered intervention. >> reporter: can an abuser be rehabilitated? captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley.

clarissa ward is inside syria with a rebel fighter who has has a warning for america. >> if you keepn poking and cornering a wild dog that wants nothing but the freedom, well, he will bite you, and he will bite you hard. >> pelley: the texas ebola patient is put on a ventilator. john blackstone looks at whether america's health care workers are ready for the disease. caught on video-- dean reynolds on a traffic stop that turned violent. and chip reid takes us 9,000 years into the past to hear the stories told by

clarissa ward is inside syria with a rebel fighter who has a warning for america. >> if you keep on poking and cornering a wild dog that wants nothing but its freedom, well, he will bite you, and he will bite you hard. >> pelley: the texas ebola patient is put on a ventilator. john blackstone looks at whether america's health care workers are ready for the disease. caught on video-- dean reynolds on a traffic stop that turned violent. and chip reid takes us 9,000 years into the past to hear the stories told by kennewick man. >> i truly consider him an ambassador from an ancient time

>> reporter: clarissa flippen lived just a block away. >> everybody wanted to get into recovery mode to try to help out. >> reporter: almost a mile of oakland freeway had collapsed on cars and the people in them. police were ordering rescuers out, because of aftershocks, when doctors found a 6-year-old boy pinned in a car. >> we all discussed it and we decided, no matter what, as long as he was alive, we were going to stay there. >> reporter: children's hospital oakland surgeon james betz told me to free the boy, he to amputate his leg. to get to him, dr. betz had to cut through the boy's dead mother. >> we used one of the fire department's chainsaws. gruesome, horrific when one thinks about it. we had to do that to save his life. >> reporter: dr. betz says healthcare roirs providers and the rest of us need to be prepared for hard choices of survival. >> it will happen again. it will happen again. >> reporter: scientists are quick to point out just that, that it's not a matter of if, but when a much stronger earthquake hits the bay area. reporting live, john fowler, ktvu channel 2new

resident of sunset district and is survived by her husband, married 41 year, son eric, daughter clarissa, son-in-law and [speaker not understood]. i know she was fond of all of them. priscilla considered being a wife and grandmother her most important role in life, but she found great joy serving in her parish and community. she what an arktive parishioner of saint gabriel's parish and [speaker not understood]. a gifted singer [speaker not understood] she developed and cultivated lifelong friendship with fellow members of the [speaker not understood] prayer group and the [speaker not understood] club. services were held this morning at saint gabriel's church. again, i do want to send my deepest condolances to her family, friend, all of her colleagues in the controller's office, and for both of these in memoriams i'd really like to request that we adjourn our meeting on behalf of the full board in memory of these two individuals and really encourage all of us to continue our work with the vision zero task force with all of our city departments to improve pedestrian safety for everyone in

clarissa ward interviewed a foreign fighter who left the dutch military and joined the fight against the syrian government. >> even if it was my own father that was bombing these people i would fight him and kill him myself. >> canada's parliament has voted to join the u.s. coalition against isis. it approved up to six months of air strikes in iraq. >>> fremont police believe two men are behind burglaries at three warehouses stealing electronics worth more than a million dollars. surveillance video shows the culprits in action early saturday. the business owner says they stole $150,000 worth of ipads and cameras. core microsystems on clipper court and another company were hit last weekend. >>> happening today two san francisco 49er fans due in court in connection with a bathroom brawl last weekend's game at levi's stadium. >> oh!! hey! >> dario and amador rebollero from tulare county are set to appear at noon today in court. both face felony assault charges. a man was hospitalized after the melee sunday which began after an argument over a toilet stall. >>> last night neighbors of th

>> clarissa, thanks. the parents of an american isis prisoner are reaching out. video said he would be killed next, his mother sent this twitter message referring to to her son by the muslim name he chose while in captivity. we are on our own with no help from the government. we would like to talk to you. how can we reach you? his parents joined hundreds last night at a vigil in indianapolis calling for his freedom. >>> millions of at&t wireless customers are getting money back thanks to a historic agreement this morning. the communication giants will give $105 million to settle cramming charges. business analyst jill is here. what is cramming? >> when a consumer unknowingly signs up for some service on their mobile phone, and this can happen from a link, i want a ring tone, i want wall paper, and the phone carrier will put that charge on your bill and you don't check it month after month, according to the government, up to 20 million people a year are affected by this and this is a historic settlement. it has been going on for eight years, though. >> where does

. >> reporter: clarissa williams and others are hopeful that a strike does not happen, but the bus service under local 234 voted to give union leaders authority to set a date and time to walk off the job. >> we got a strike, we'll strike. as of right now, i'm tired of coming home hurt, exhausted, just barely being able to make it. >> reporter: 147 members have been without a contract since march. >> i understand they don't want to give back some concessions in their contract. but in this day and time, people need to hold on to everything they can. i do hope they don't strike. >> reporter: i spoke to septa this morning. are you close to a deal? a spokesperson tells me while bargaining does continue, the two sides are still far apart. the main issues have been pensions and health care. >> a lot of people are going to be in trouble. a lot of people depend on septa to get back and forth to work. so they need not to go on strike. >> reporter: what would you do without it? >> i would be home. because i work a long ways and travel all over the city. >> reporter: this afternoon twu local 234 is pl

because suddenly are you reading a novel and you are clarissa harlow or are you, you know, tom jones, or so ofie weston, that you are in another person's soul, he doesn't like the word empathy. but that, sympathy is what the novel imbecause-- imbued in us. and if i can contribute a single molecule of this a mealior difficult presence in the novel, making the human race less violent, you know that's the effort you are involved. >> rose: thank you for coming. >> pleasure. >> rose: martin amis, the book is called the zone of interest. thank you for joining us. see you next time. >> for more about this program and earlier episodes visit us on-line at pbs.org an charlie rose.com. >> funning for charlie rose has been provided by the coca-cola company, supporting this program since 2002. american express. additional funding provided by: . and by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and information services worldwide. >> you're watching pbs. >>> the following production was produced in high definition. ♪ >>> and their buns are something i have yet to find anywhere else. >> 'cause i'm not

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clarissa ward interviewed a holland citizen who is fighting with isis. >> i would fight and kill my fatherf. >> canada is joining the coalition against isis approving up to six months of air strikes in iraq. >>> new email show an improper relationship between pg&e and state regulators. yesterday a consumer watchdog group asked a judge to bar all private contacts between the cpuc and the state's largest utility. the judge is considering fines up to $200 million against pg&e for emails and improper conversations with state regulators in the wake of the deadly san bruno pipeline explosion. it was a relationship several city leaders are condemning. >> the puc as mayor ruane said is supposed to be a watchdog working on behalf of the citizens of california. it's time for them to stop being a lap dog. >> the decision on fines against pg&e is expected in the coming weeks. federal prosecutors have launched a criminal investigation into the communications between the utility and state regulators. >>> yet another silicon valley company could be on the verge of splitting up in two. bloomberg and reute

cbs news' clarissa ward is a recent exception.th.ç >> after months of negotiations we met a 26-year-old dutch fighter named yilmaz. >> sreenivasan: and over the summer, a cameraman from "vice news" embedd with islamic state fighters. "vice" has not said what, if any, restrictions were placed on its coverage. >> islamic state press officer, abu mosa, said he would take "vice news" to see the frontlines. but in large measure, much of the reporting on syria is done from outside as reporters rely on sources inside the country on social media and extensive, but hard-to-vet video posted online by rebels and islamic state sources.ç so as furious fighting and american air strikes continue at the syrian town of kobane, the closest most viewers and readerç will get to on the ground reporting is just across the border, in turkey. newshour is a subscribe tore to the ap. you have covered this con income and the region for quite some time. how difficult is it to cover syria versus anywhere else in the region? >> it's very, very tough. and it

clarissa ward is here. she's been to iraq more than a dozen times. good morning. >> only one of the four guards was convicted of murder. he could with sentenced. the others face up to 30 years each on manslaughter and weapons charges. no date has been set yet for sentencing. on the 16th of september, 2000 a convoy of american contractors from black water security opened fire on a line of cars at a bustling baghdad intersection. over 30 iraqi civilians were shot. 17 died in the assault that witnesses say last 20d minutes. the contractors claimed they were fired upon first but witness after witness came forward to say the americans shot the iraqis entirely unprovoked. following the 2003-lead invasion hundreds of blackwater security contractors were to protect diplomats in iraq. but undisciplined behavior and a string of accusations implicating them in attacks on iraqi civil they say themselves abob the law. >> he was the youngest that day. just one of the bullets passed right through him. the shootings were seen as a turning point and sparked an anti-a

clarissa ward went undercover and went to an america who's fighting. good morning. >> good morning. he's a young sew a omali-american who grew up in the midwest. he said he felt compelled to oin the fight. >> when i was living in america, i was just a normal kid who liked sports and what not, growing up and these things. so just like any other american. >> but he is not just any other american. he is a fighter if a rebel group that the united states has designated a terrorist organization organization. he insisted we disguise his voice. >> who america sees as a terrorist doesn't mean anything to me. i don't care what america has to say about any group for that matter. >> za bareubayr told us he narrow ly escaped death when his house was hit during recent u.s. air strikes in syria. the u.s. has claim thad the strikes targeted terrorists plotting an attack on the west. >> with more than a dozen fighting inside syria it is a concern for washington. >> that sounds like something osama bin laden once said. >> that's the case. we look up to him. >> you look up to bichbn laden? >> of cours

clarissa ward is here. she's been to iraq more than a dozen times. good morning. >> only one of the four guards nicholas slaten was convicted murder. he could be sentenced to life in prison. the other three face up to 30 years each on manslaughter and weapons charges. no date has yet been set for sentencing. on sunday the 16th of september, 2007, a convoy of american contractors from blackwater security opened fire on a line of cars at a bustling baghdad intersection. during the assault that witnesses say lasted 20 minutes, over 30 iraqi civilians were shot. up to 17 died. the contracts claimed they were fired upon first. but witness after witness came forward to say the americans shot the iraqis entirely unprovoked. following the 2003 u.s.-led invasion, hundreds of blackwater security contractors were employed to guard vulnerable diplomats in a volatile iraq. but undisciplined behavior and a string of accusations implicating them in attacks on iraqi civilians, gave blackwater the reputation of trigger-happy mercenaries who saw themselves as above th

. >> clarissa ward talks to an american citizen fighting alongside an al qaeda affiliate in syria. >>> think about the women in your life, the women you love and cared for, the women that have nurtured you. >> tackling violence in the wake of a series of domestic abuse scandals, nfl owners discuss new policies for player conduct and discipline. captioning funded by cbs

> the fbi asks for help in identifying a masked isis fighter who may be from north america while clarissaspeaks with a fighter waging war in syria. >> if you keep on poking and cornering a wild dog that wants nothing but its freedom, he will bite you and he will bite you hard. >> oh. >> and accusations of excessive force by police during a traffic stop for a seat belt violation. captioning funded by cbs captioning funded by cbs >>> this is the "cbs morning news" for wednesday, october 8th, 2014.