elizabeth palmer is there. mark phillips is at the crash site where rebels have turned over the flight recorders but other evidence has been tampered with. barry petersen is with gazaians driven from their homes by the war, taking shelter in a school. >> reporter: people here say at least they feel safe, if "safe" is a word you can use in gaza. >> pelley: an american teenager tries to pilot a plane around the world in record time. dean reynolds on today's unexpected ending. and a place to heal. mark strassmann with america's wounded women warriors. >> it's liberating because it's just women veterans. >> absolutely. >> reporter: just like you. >> yeah, absolutely. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. nearly a week after malaysia airlines flight 17 left amsterdam, some of the 298 people on board were flown back today in wooden caskets borne by military planes. it was a national day ofc mourning in the netherlands. two-thirds of the passengers kille

elizabeth palmer uses only her mind to take this picture. (laughter) and vanita nair with pete tucci, when he could no longer play the game. >> without baseball in his life, he was miserable. >> pelley: he built himself a whole new career. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. this will be a loud, potentially dangerous night in much of the country. have a look. thunderstorms, some severe, are possible for 195 million people from west to east. it's a system that has brought heavy downpours this week in parts of the east, sent temperatures plummeting in the midwest and worsened the drought in the west. we have a series of reports. first, jamie yuccas of our cbs minneapolis station wcco. >> reporter: severe thunderstorms tore through parts of maryland, virginia, new jersey and new york this afternoon. flash flood warnings have been posted with some areas expecting as much as 3 inches of rain. the storms ran along the eastern edge of a bubble of cold air that's dropped over the mid

elizabeth palmer shows us just by thinking. >> this is the eeg device. this is what read it is signals from your brain. >> reporter: the basic hardware for mind control turns out to be a headset that costs 80 bucks, software, and a pair of google glasses. with this, i should be able to take a picture by thinking. >> i feel like i'm taking an exam. >> it is a little daunting. >> they work for a london software company called this place. they were intrigued by the tiny camera in google glass that is normally activated by touch or by voice. but they wondered could it be triggered by brain power alone? >> literally your brain waves and those signals are higher if you are concentrating and lower if you are relaxing. >> reporter: in the company's video, a woman looks at some graffiti through google glass. as she concentrates on an idea, a white line moves up to the top of the image and she actually triggers the camera with her brain waves. science has known all about these waves since the eeg was invented in the 1920s s but it is only recently researchers have

elizabeth palmer has their story. >> reporter: after the plane went down, shocked family members were led out of amsterdam's airport to wait for more news. but they'd already heard the worst. there were no survivors. izzy simm, her husband and baby were bumped from pa laborrian airlines flight 17 -- from malaysia airlines flight 17 for lack of space. >> i was shaking. i didn't know what to do. i was physically sick. i was like -- i was coming through the airport and just crying. i'm just thinking like i feel like i've been given a second chance. >> reporter: this picture was snapped by a passenger who posted to facebook, should it disappear, this is what it looks like. it was posted as a joke but it now reads like a grim -- [indiscernible] the airline is offering to fly airlines here and maybe to the crash site if it's safe enough. a man who lost two of his sons a while ago said some of the families said no thank you. at the moment they're just not up to making the trip. elizabeth palmer, cbs news, amsterdam. >>> here in local news, metro crews will begin practice runs on the new silv

elizabeth palmer has learned more about him. ♪ >> reporter: in this elaborately produced video releasedy isis may there is a glaring omission. among the fighters and the isis faithful, we see not a single glimpse of their leader, abu bakr al baghdadi. in fact, there are only two known photographs of the man born in iraq in 1971 who now controls the most extreme islamist army on earth. and that's no coincidence says firas abi ali, a middle east analyst. >> you don't survive for a very long time in this kind of business if everybody knows your name and knows your face and knows where you stay. >> reporter: in 2005 during the u.s. occupation of iraq, american soldiers arrested al baghdadi. but when the military closed its camp bucca prison baghdadi was handed over to the iraqis who let him go. f the five following years, here is what he built. a fighting force that joined syria's civil war and took over hundreds of square miles. here al baghdadi honed his skills as a commander with violence so extreme that even al qaeda's leader ayman al zawahiri cut all ties to isis. that was fine with ba

elizabeth palmer has been watching the outpouring of grief. >> reporter: the book of remembrance in st. vitus' church is filling up fast. practly everyone knows someone in the small town of hilversum who died in the crash, 12 in all. take the pee-wee soccer league. it lost a key family. 12-year-old verter, a player, his sister and mother, and his dad, who ran the team's web site. ricardo metz is a league referee. >> we are devastated. we are broken. >> reporter: along with the shock and the grief, there is a great anger in the netherlands. and a growing consensus on who is responsible. just look at the front page of one of the main national newspapers, a photograph of the pro-russian rebels in ukraine, and one word across the top "murderers." the government isn't goings that far. but it has sent its foreign minister to kiev demanding answers. >> we want to know who did this and we want the proof to be there. not just the people who pulled the trigger. also the people who made this possible. >> reporter: in other words, he means russia. until now, an ally of the netherlands. hilversum's

elizabeth palmer, cbs news, amsterdam. >> it continues to be a dangerous weekend for wildfires in theific northwest. there are now 24 large scale fires burning in oregon and washington state. with two new fires declared since yesterday. washington's governor, jay inslee turned some of the damage there today. at least 100 homes have already been destroyed. >> tobacco giant r.j. reynolds is vowing to fight a verdict handed down yesterday in a florida lawsuit. a jury awarded $23.6 billion in punitive damages in the case of cynthia robinson, whose husband died of lung cancer in 1996. in a statement the company called the judgment, quote, verossly excessive." >> later, what a new video reveals about the death of a man in new york police custody. and the hot air balloon explosion that put five lives at risk. when the "cbs evening news" continues. of here! ahh... the complete balanced nutrition of great tasting ensure. 24 vitamins and minerals. 9 grams of protein... with 30% less sugars than before. ensure, your #1 dr. recommended brand now introduces ensure active. muscle health. clear prot

elizabeth palmer has the story from amsterdam where that plane took off. >> reporter: after the plane went down shocked family members were led out of amsterdam's airport to wait for more news. they'd already heard the worst, there were no survivors. izzie sims, her husband and baby were bumped from flight 17 for lack of space. >> i'm shaken. i don't even know what to do. i'm still physically sick. that was from coming through the airport and just crying. i'm just thinking that i feel like i've been given a second chance. >> reporter: this picture was snapped by passenger cor pan who posted to facebook should it disappear, here's what it looks like. it was intended as a black joke about malaysian airlines 370 which vanished in march, but it now reads like a grim portent. malaysian airlines is offering to fly family members from amsterdam to kiev and maybe on to the crash site if it's considered safe enough, but we spoke to a man who lost two sons a short while ago and he said some of the families have said no, thank you. at the moment they're just not up to making the trip. elizabeth

elizabeth palmer is there.ark phillips is at the crash site where rebels have turned over the flight recorders but other evidence has been tampered with. barry petersen is with gazaians driven from their homes by the war, taking shelter in a school. >> reporter: people here say at least they feel safe, if "safe" is a word you can use in gaza. >> pelley: an american teenager tries to pilot a plane around the world in record time. dean reynolds on today's unexpected ending. and a place to heal. mark strassmann with america's wounded women warriors. >> it's liberating because it's just women veterans. >> absolutely. >> reporter: just like you. >> yeah, absolutely.

elizabeth palmer, cbs news, london. >>> now an update on the former prisoner of war bowe bergdahl. in his reintegration process, he's entered a new stage. he's now allowed to leave. he's made supervised visits to a grocery store and a library. it's unclear whether he's seen his family. >>>. going up on the "morning news," tough talk at a town hall. they voice their anger over transfer of illegal immigrants to their city. this is the "cbs morning news." . i also like strawberry, boysenberry, red raspberry, blackberry, sweet orange marmalade, apple, pineapple, concord grape, apricot, peach, blueberry... [ male announcer ] tim and richard smucker grew up knowing that with so many delicious varieties, it's tough to choose just one favorite. apricot pineapple... [ male announcer ] for five generations, with a name like smucker's, it has to be good. vo: she no longer smells it. used to the odor her cat leaves in the couch, yep, she's gone "noseblind" (sfx) we staged an intervention to help her sister break the news. sister: to the left... this is exactly what your house smell like. angel

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and elizabeth palmer found out one reason why. >> reporter: the push for european sanctions against russia may be torpedoed by business. a case in point-- two brand new assault helicopter warships worth more than $1 billion that the french have built for russia. france's president, francois hollande has criticized president vladimir putin for supporting the ukrainian rebeles, but he argues that russia has paid for the ships and france will deliver them. karel van wolferen is an international relations analyst. >> people who want to sell stuff, like the french, the naval equipment, et cetera, they are not going to let orders of billions of dollars pass them by. >> reporter: for days, britain has been pushing hard for tough sanctions against russia. here's what's at stake. russia is europe's number one trading partner accounting for almost half of all imports and exports. germany has the strongestitize, getting fully a third of its oil and gas from russia. and in return, selling the russians everything from cars to chemicals. business the germans say means thousands of jobs. you might think

elizabeth palmer is there. mark phillips is at the crash site where rebels have turned over the flight recorders, but other evidence has been tampered with. barry petersen is with gazaians driven from their homes by the war, taking shelter in a school. >> reporter: people here say at least they feel safe, if "safe" is a word you can use in gaza. >> pelley: an american teenager tries to pilot a plane around the world in record time. dean reynolds on today's unexpected ending. and a place to heal. mark strassmann with america's wounded women warriors. >> it's liberating because it's just women veterans. >> absolutely. >> reporter: just like you. >> yeah, absolutely.

elizabeth palmer uses only her mind to take this picture. (laughter) and vanita nair with pete tucci, when he could no longer play the game. >> without baseball in his life, he was miserable. >> pelley: he built himself a

elizabeth palmer is there.k phillips is at the crash site where rebels have turned over the flight recorders, but other evidence has been tampered with. barry petersen is with gazans driven from their homes by the war, taking shelter in a school. >> reporter: people here say at least they feel safe, if "safe" is a word you can use in gaza. >> pelley: an american teenager >> pelley: the execution of a convicted killer in arizona runs into trouble. ben tracy has the breaking news. and a place to heal. mark strassmann with america's wounded women warriors. >> reporter: it's liberating because it's just women veterans just like you. >> yeah, absolutely.

more now from elizabeth palmer. >> reporter: among the men and women of science who died in this crash was a giant. joep lange, doctor and campaigner who spearheaded a push to get cheap antiviral drugs to the poor. >> he was treating the first, education -- >> reporter: his fellow researcher and friend tobias rinke de wit. >> i think we need to give a face to name these people mostly in africa and asia who were suffering from one of the biggest epidemics of all times. >> reporter: his partner in life and work was jacqueline van tongerent, traveling with him to the conference in australia. sun ding a colleague is still struggling to accept jacqueline van tongerent is gone. what will you miss most? >> her laughter. >> reporter: do you think you will make it? it just seem very unreal even now. >> (indiscernible). >> reporter: all of the nearly 100 aids and hiv scientists and activists who lost their lives will be terribly missed but the fierce dedication of champions like joep lange lives on. >> it's going to be a hole. >> absolutely, but we will not stop. we'll fill in his legacy. this i

elizabeth palmer uses only her aund to take this picture. (laughter) and vanita nair with pete tucci, when he could no longer play the game. >> without baseball in his life, he was miserable. >> pelley: he built himself a whole new career.

elizabeth palmer is at the hague where families have been meeting with lawmakers.th, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. i'd like to show you the front page of one of the main national newspapers. the headline says "give our people back" and there's a picture of president putin. there's a real fury in holland because as the dutch see it the victims of the crash are being held in standoff created by russia. the dutch are leaving flowers and notes of condolences. this one at the amsterdam airport just yards from where the passengers boarded flight 17 last thursday. but, of course, it's not enough. the families want the bodies sent home i want to arrange a funeral. i can't. i don't know where they are. i don't know. i want them back. i want my children back. look at those people. how beautiful. >> oh, my god. >> they have to come back. >> give the bodies back. >> mr. putin, send my children home. send them home. >> reporter: 17-year-old grieving for his friend min puts the blame squarely where most dutch people do. >> i do think mr. putin helped the terrorists. i

elizabeth palmer is in amsterdam where flight 17 took off just over 24 hours ago.th, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. well, nearly two-thirds of the passengers who died in malaysian airlines flight 17 were dutch. they were from the netherlands. this is a small country, and so people here are really still coming to grips with the sheer scale of this tragedy. after the plane went down, shocked family members were led out of amsterdam's airport to wait for more news. they had already heard the worst. there were no survivors. meanwhile, one family was reeling from their luck. izzy sim, her husband and baby were bumped from malaysian airlines flight 17 for lack of space. >> i'm shaken. i don't even know what to do. i'm feeling physically sick. i was like coming through the airport. i'm just thinking that i feel like i have been given a second chance. >> reporter: this picture was snapped by passenger cora pan who posted to facebook should it disappear, here's what it looks like. it was intended as a black joke about malaysian airlines 370 which vanished in march

ahead elizabeth palmer is in the netherland where the country is in mourning. talk to one of the families awaiting for victims of flight 17. many americans take tie lenr their back pain but new study says it does not work. doctor holy phillips has the other alternatives and this a cooler with wireless speakers and a rechargeable blender. it is one of the most crowd funded project ever. its inventor will be in studio 57. his plan to keep up with demand after more than 35,000 people decided to support his idea. all of that and more, the news is back in the morning, we will see you in about ten minutes. >> that looked cool. >> i like that idea. >> thanks very much charlie. >>> ♪ >> all right. well, the word is late she is staying put. >> steven colbert will not only follow in david letterman's footsteps but will be doing it on the same stage. cbs, parent company of the station says colbert will keep his show in the ed sullivan theater. his debut date is still up in the air. it depend on when dave decides he is ready to sign off. >>> fifty shades of gray fans liste

ahead mark philips is in ukraine and elizabeth palmer is in netherlands with the effort to return the of flight 17 to their families. plus, you're going to hear from the woman who won a $23 billion ruling against the nation's second largest tobacco company. and it's been nearly 40 years learned not to go in the water. remember the movie jaws? sharks now have tourists flocking to new england where in cape cod -- to new england. we're in cape cod where how great white sightings out of business. >> we saw you last night on the letterman show looking very g. i set my gvr and ended up waking up and saw you there late last night. looked good. >> thank you. >> worth losing sleep over. >> was it fun? >> it was a lot of fun. it was my first time doing that. dave was very complimentary. he said he watches the show. so i invited him to come on live, his first morning appearance. so we'll see. >>> 6:33. the johns hopkins health system has agreed to a massive settlement with 8,000 women and girls. >> baltimore hospital system will pay out $190 million because of the actions of one gynecologist. dr

ahead mark phillips is in ukraine and elizabeth palmer is in the netherlands.you're going to hear from the woman who won a $23 billion ruling against the nation's second largest tobacco company. and it's been nearly 40 years since movie goers were told not to go into the water. remember "jaws" that movie? well now sharks have tourists flocking to new england. we're in cape cod with how great white sightings are turning into big business for them. the news is back in the morning. >> how was david letterman last night? was that fun? >> reporter: it was a lot of fun indeed. you know, dave was in a good mood. and he's a big fan of the show. he says he watches in the morning and he teased me a lot about not getting my kids a toggle we'll have to see about that. >> -- dog. we'll have to see about that. >> stay strong with that. i'm not getting my kids one either. thanks. >>> it is 6:45 now. new this morning, some bay area water districts saying companies are thinking of using water cops now to help enforce water use restrictions. today the santa clara valley water di

elizabeth palmer is at the airport. elizabeth, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. well, it's been a week now exactly since mh-17 went down and this pile of flowers outside the airport funeral. meanwhile the dutch are seeing the bodies come back after the concussion and dignity at the crash site but that process has just zbon r begun. the 51 bodies will be flown to the airfield, the same place 40 coffins were unloaded yesterday by a detail of dutch military purse and one by one cared to hearses in an austere and dignified ceremony. while a group of dutch dignitaries looked on including netherlands king and queen. hundreds of family members to protect their privacy. there's no way of knowing who lies in these caskets until dna testing is done. kevin lost three members of his family. not only his mother but his father and grandmother as well, and he has no idea when he'll get them back. >> i'm trying to think about it. actually the boll is only the outside. their souls are here. their spirits are here. it's enough for me. >>> outside a restaurant family members paused

elizabeth palmer is tracking developments from london. izabeth, good morning. >> good morning charlie. yes, this terrible accident happened this morning at rush hour in the world's busiest subway network. as the wounded were carried out of the station and helicoptered to the hospital russian whose subway system has been in the past targeted by terrorists worry that they'd been hit again. but the russian authorities quickly ruled that out. and instead, determined that the crash, which happened as most were heading to work was caused by a power surge that tripped a switch causing the train to come to an abrupt halt and then derail. inside the tunnels at least three cars were sent into a pile completely blocking the track. witnesses reported feeling a huge bang and then a jolt. rescue workers say they haven't yet got to the first carriage in the crash. meanwhile some of those rescued alive are very badly injured. margaret the authorities expect that the death toll could yet climb even higher. >> thank you. >>> this morning, israel's governmen

for "cbs this morning," elizabeth palmer, the netherlands. >>> and then at least 51 people are reported attempt at an emergency landing when it went down. the flight took off from an airport in the capital of taipei. seven people above the turboprop survived. there is no word yet this morning if any americans were on board the flight. >>> an american ban on flights into israel remains in effect this morning. a rocket landed less than a mile from the runways and the flight restrictions of the newest casualty of the violence between hamas and israeli forces. >> secretary of state john kerry landed in tel aviv this morning aboard an air force one jet. and he met with ban ki-moon to push for a cease-fire. barry beater sun is there. >> reporter: there are many casualties of the war. we met a 9-year-old that was suffering from a broken leg and head wounds and we first asked her, how do you feel? >> good. >> good? >> yeah. >> does it hurt? >> no. >> what happened? >> i was sleeping. >> you were sleeping? >> yes. >> what happened? was there an explosion? >> i don't know. >> you don't remember?

elizabeth palmer is in the schiphol airport. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. well, it's been a week now exactly since mh-17 went down and this pile of flowers outside schiphol airport just continues to grow. it now stretches clear across the front of the departures terminal and people are still coming this morning to lay bouquets. meanwhile the dutch are relieved to see the bodies coming back to the netherlands, especially after the confusion and indignity at the crash site but of course that process has only just begun. the 51 bodies expected today will be flown to the military air field at einhoven. the same place 40 coffins were unloaded yesterday by a detail of dutch military personnel and one by one carried to waiting hearses in an austere and dignified ceremony. the national flags of all the victims flew at half staff while a group of dutch dignitaries looked on including the netherlands king willem and queen maxima. hundreds of family members also watching were kept out of sight to protect their privacy. there's no way of knowing who lies in these caske

elizabeth palmer reports ahead on "cbs this morning." >>> now we want to get to the crisis in the middle east. this morning two americans are among the latest victims of the fighting between israeli and palestinian forces. in gaza city this morning, israeli forces hit more targets. heavy fighting since the israeli offensive began now puts the palestinian death toll above 500. barry petersen is in gaza city where tens of thousands are out of their homes and hospitals are overwhelmed. barry, good morning. >> reporter: the israeli offensive shows no sign of letting up. there's shell still going on right now, and the palestinians are answering with rockets fired into israel. here in gaza one neighborhood in particular has been targeted. with concentrated fire the israelis pounded the eastern neighborhood neighborhood. [ speaking foreign language ] there were brief humanitarian cease-fires when the extent of the devastation and the death were clear. somehow some survived rushed to the city's main hospital. the cease-fire lasted long enough to get some of the wounded out and then it was broken

elizabeth palmer is in amsterdam. good morning. >> reporter: good morning.s you can see, there are still mourners coming to his impromptu tribute site. the mound of flowers continue to grow and people are lining up to find that condolence back. one of the newspapers has published on its back page a full list of all who perished in the crash under the headlines that say "shock and sadness." it is some comfort that the bodies are on their way home. perhaps they'll arrive tonight, more probably tomorrow. they'll be flown in on a special military transport plane that is already in the ukraine. once here, they'll go to a forensic center and the dutch specialist will begin the work of identification. the first task, of course, is to find the foreign citizens among the dead and get them to their governments and their families as quickly as possible. the dutch police have already visited all the families of the malaysian -- of the dutch victims. and they have gotten dna, so they'll be able to proceed with the rest of the identification very quickly. and then return

elizabeth palmer is there. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. it's been five days since the air disaster and still people are coming to this impromptu memorial at the airport to lay flowers and to sign the book of condolences. today, one of the main dtch national newspapers published a whole page listing the names of all 193 dutch citizens who died in the crash under a headline that says "shock and sadness." of course it is some comfort to the families to know that the bodies are finally on their way home after a delay that most dutch people think has been outrageous. the dutch prime minister had just spoken on national television to say that the bodies should be here by tomorrow. that is wednesday. they're coming on a military transport plane which is already on the ground waiting in the ukrainian city of kharkiv. the first task once the bodies arrive for forensic investigators will be to sort out the foreign citizens from among the dead and get those bodies very quickly to their own government and family. dutch police have already gathered dna