i'm jim axelrod in new york. good night. over and kills 2 workers dog maintenance on the tracks. is a tragedy of th >>> breaking news. a deadly accident on day 2 of the bart strike. a train runs over and kills two workers doing maintenance on the tracks. >> this is a tragedy of the greatest proportions for the bart family. >> yeah. i think that this could have been avoided. >> tonight, how it happened and how the tragedy could impact the ongoing labor dispute. kpix 5 news is next. ,,,,,,,, >>> your realtime captioner is mrs. linda m. macdonald >>> good evening, i'm ann notarangelo. we begin with breaking news in the east bay. a bart train has hit and killed two men on the tracks. this was

jim. >> axelrod: jeff pegues on capitol hill for us tonight, thank you. let's bring in john harris now, editor in chief of the political web site, john, optimism is a rare commodity in washington tonight, anything that may break the stalemate on the o jorge quiroga son? >> yes, jim, i think there is, if you look at today there was all the usual chaos back and forth, partisan charges, sort of the lines drawn in the sand and yet beneath the surface there is a sense that both sides now see an end game and that end game resides in the senate between two people who don't necessarily like each other a lot but they do understand each other and they do respect each other as negotiators. that is of course, mitch mcconnell and senator harry reid, the majority leader, negotiations are now between the two of them and it looks like that is where the deal is going to germinate, the question is always as to whether house republicans will go along. >> this week some poll numbers suggested historic lows for republicans in terms of favorability. what kind of role are poll

i'm jim axelrod with a western edition of the broadcast. some of the strongest allies of the united states are among its most vocal critics tonight amid revelations that the n.s.a. eaves dropped on world leaders. several hundred demonstrators rallied near the u.s. capitol this afternoon, criticizing the practice of electronic surveillance. but as kelly cobiella tells us, it is the anger far from washington that's top priority. >> reporter: by all accounts, the leaders of germany and france had no idea a key ally, the united states, was spying on them and their citizens. the u.s. seemed just as surprised to find another secret was out, thanks once again to leaker edward snowden. now senior white house officials tell cbs news they're warning their allies about what snowden might release next. there is a better understanding of what snowden has. but there is no way of knowing the next shoe to drop. german leader angela merkel said her trust in the u.s. has been severely shaken after allegations this week that the n.s.a. tapped her private cell

seeking treatment for pain, scott, the system is only going to grow more overloaded. >> pelley: jim axelrodin our washington newsroom tonight. jim, thank you. doctors at san francisco general hospital said today that a body discovered in a stairwell there was that of a missing patient, lynn spaulding, who was 57. she was admitted nearly three weeks ago for treatment of an infection but she disappeared two days later. her body was found yesterday. it is not clear how she died or how she got to the stairwell. for years the child buried here was known only as hope. tonight, police know who she really was. that story next. good job! still running in the morning? yeah. getting your vegetables every day? when i can. [ bop ] [ male announcer ] could've had a v8. two full servings of vegetables for only 50 delicious calories. that's why there's new duracell quantum. only duracell quantum has a hi-density core. and that means more fuel, more power, more performance than the next leading brand. new duracell quantum. trusted everywhere. i don't miss out... you sat out most of our game yesterday! asthm

jim axelrod and the discovery that may upend what we knew about humans. and testimony comeback of the humpback. an american biologist tells "60 minutes" about one of the great success stories in all of conservation. >> reporter: so you speak whale but you don't understand it? >> absolutely. (laughs) (laughs) captioning sponsored by cbs nsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. who knew that breaking out of prison could be so easy? prison officials in florida admitted today they released a convicted murderer after receiving a forged court order. and if you think that kind of thing could never happen again, it did-- with another murderer less than two weeks later. a manhunt is now under by that the orlando area for these two escapees and we have more on this story from our senior correspondent john miller. john? >> reporter: scott, this scheme involves someone with knowledge of the law, legal documents, and the audacity to use the name of a famous judge. it was a less-than-daring escape. in fact, on two occasio

jim axelrod reports. >> it was saturated by all black muck. >> reporter: black muck? >> yeah. >> reporter: at 82, this is the time of life when mae callahar would like be enjoying the serenity of her view at the jersey shore. but sandy pushed bay water into her home and left behind $42,000 in damage. >> the bathroom, the heating system, the hot water heater, air conditioning, everything was repaired. >> reporter: the money came from a federally subsidized flood insurance program for homeowners living in flood zones. a program running a $24 billion deficit. congress passed a law to get rid of that shortfall by raising insurance premiums and eliminating those federal subsidies. roughly 1 million homeowners in flood zones will see their rates skyrocket. in the next years, mae's premium could jump from $60 to more than $9,000. >> i couldn't handle that. >> reporter: impossible? >> impossible, yes. >> that could have been avoided. >> reporter: congresswoman maxime waters co-sponsored the bill. but now says she never expected her own legislation could have such a devastatin

jim axelrod, cbs news, new york. >> pelley: and that's the cbs evening news for tonight. of us at cbs news, all around the world, good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >>> did chemile grammar hire bodyguards, which begs kwet, is she in fear for her life. >> the story just got kicked up a notch. we'll have the latest it note. i'm nancy o'dell. >> i'm rob marciano. >> this picture really shows the dark bruise. that shows pure rage. >> new photos in tonight's top story. does this prove chemile's boyfriend beat her? as "e.t." uncovers new details about her relationship. >> looking great today. >> i don't know about that. >> scandal star kerry washington and her baby secret

jim axelrod broke the story on this broadcast and since then he has learned of case after case of veterans following doctors orders. >> reporter: in the weeks after our investigation aired we received photos like this one, the daily dosage of pain pills prescribed to a 30-year-old v.a. patient in texas. and this one from a 54-year-old v.a. patient in oklahoma. these were the medications prescribed to ricky green, a veteran of the first gulf war for his back pain. among them, three narcotics. his wife kimberly described a visit her husband made to his v.a. doctors in september of 2007. >> he wanted to be taken off this large amount of medicines. >> reporter: what did his doctors and health care providers say to him? >> basically that he needed to continue to take the medication. >> reporter: all of them? >> all of them. >> reporter: when he came home, did he continue to take all the medication? >> he followed the doctors' orders. >> reporter: the next month green died in his sleep, accidentally overdosing on a narcotic and a muscle relaxer prescribed by v.a. medical centers in arkansas. >>

jim axelrod on the unintended consequences of a new law. and the boy with the bionic hand. new technology lets most anyone create the most amazing things. >> making your kids happy is like the most rewarding thing you can have as a dad. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening, in one of the biggest scandals ever in college sports penn state university said it will pay nearly $60 million to 26 men who say they were sexually abused as children by assistant football coach jerry sandusky. other claims are still pending. sandusky was convicted at trial of abusing ten boys, so the announcement today means there were many more victims than we thought. armen keteyian of "60 minutes sports" has been covering this from the start and has the latest developments tonight. >> reporter: frank fina, the former chief deputy state attorney general for pennsylvania was the architect in the case against jerry sandusky. joseph mcgettigan, iii, was the lead prosecutor. did you have victims of allegations of abuse by sandusky dating ba

jim axelrod, cbs news, new york. >> pelley: and that's the cbs evening news for tonight. us at cbs news, all around the world, good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org on the bay. good evening, i'm ken bastida. on the bay. good evening, i'm ken >>> your realtime captioner is mrs. linda m. macdonald. >>> the coast guard finally breaks its silence on that mysterious barge in the bay. >> good evening, i'm ken bastida. >> i'm elizabeth cook. google still won't sigh say a word about a secret project on the bay but allen martin found out more about the barges themselves, who owns them and their ties to a mysterious tenant on treasure island. >> government officials, federal agencies, everyone wondering what's going on with google in san francisco and maine. we finally received a comment from the u.s. coast guard, sort of today. we found at least three barges two with container structures on them all marked with the letters bal followed by four numbers. the two barges at treasure island are number

jim axelrod on a veteran who survived the gulf war only to die while being treated by v.a. doctors. >> reporter: when he came home, did he continue to take all the medication? >> he followed the doctor's orders. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley.

jim axelrod and the discovery that may upend what we knew about humans. and testimony comeback of the humpback. an american biologist tells "60 minutes" about one of the great success stories in all of conservation. >> reporter: so you speak whale but you don't understand it? >> absolutely. (laughs) captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. el

jim axelrod on the unintended consequences of a new law. and the boy with the bionic hand. technology lets most anyone create the most amaze magazines. >> making your kids happy is like the most rewarding thing you can have as a dad. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening, in one of the biggest scandals ever in college sports penn state

jim axelrod on the unintended consequences of a new law. and the boy with the bionic hand.chnology lets most anyone create the most amazing things. >> making your kids happy is like the most rewarding thing you can have as a dad. captioning sponsored by cbs

jim axelrod has a look. >> it was saturated with black muck. >> reporter: black muck. >> yeah. >> reporter: at 82, this is the time of life when may kelleher would like to be enjoying the serenity of her view at the jersey shore. but sandy pushed nearly five feet of bay water into her home and left behind. $42,000 in damage. >> we did the bathroom, the heating system, the hot water heater, air conditioning, everything was replaced. >> reporter: the money came from a federally subsidized flood insurance program for homeowners living in flood zones-- a program now running a $24 billion deficit. congress passed a law to get rid of that shortfall by raising insurance premiums and eliminating those federal subsidies, but roughly a million homeowners in flood zones coast to coast and hawaii will see their rates skyrocket. in the next five years, may kelleher's annual premium could jump if $850 to more than $9,000. >> i couldn't handle that. >> reporter: impossible? >> impossible, yes. >> that could have been avoided. >> reporter: congresswoman maxine waters cosponsored the bill but now says she

i'm jim axelrod with a western edition of the broadcast. we have breaking news to report.wo convicted murderers who walked out of the sameri

jim axelrod on 38 years of twists and turns.... ♪ it's been a hard day's night >> pelley: ben tracy tries to jog ringo starr's photographic memory. ep

jim axelrod and the discovery that may upend what we knew about humans. and testimony comeback of the humpback. an american biologist tells "60 minutes" about one of the great success stories in all of conservation. >> reporter: so you speak whale but you don't understand it?

despite the shutdown, a house subcommittee today heard testimony on a problem our jim axelrod exposed last month, that many returning war veterans are being over-medicated, some receiving lethal amounts of pain medication from v.a. hospitals. jim there was as congress opened the investigation. >> reporter: on capitol hill, two veterans crippled by debilitating pain describe their v.a. doctors increasing their narcotic dosages, instead of treating the underlying causes. >> i struggled with years of dependence on opiod therapy that was my only option, made available to me for my chronic, debilitating backpain. >> justin minyard, a retired special ops interrogator, hurt his back as a first responder at the pentagon on 9/11. >> at my worst point i was taking enough pills daily to treat four term neil ill cancer patients. >> josh renschler, hurt by a mortar blast in iraq, needs a cane and can barely hold his childs. the va has him on 13 medications for his pain. >> and when i cry out to the v.a., my only source of medical care, to help me with this situation, and i'm hit with a brick wall,

jim axelrod on a veteran who survived the gulf war only to die while being treated by v.a. >> reporter: when he came home, did he continue to take all the medication? >> he followed the doctor's orders. the captni

jim axelrod on 38 years of twists and turns. and... ♪ it's been a hard day's night >> pelley: ben tracy tries to jog ringo starr's photographic memory. >> reporter: this is the guy you're wondering about? >> the mystery man. ry man. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. how did it all go wrong? republican-controlled house today held the first congressional hearings about the disastrous rollout of the federal government's online health insurance market. contractors who built the web site were in the hot seat testifying under oath. they raised their hands, then pointed their fingers at the obama administration. wyatt andrews was there. >> reporter: the two main contractors who built the inner workings of the obamacare web site told congress their parts testify site worked well, but that the government never tested the dozens of parts together, called end-to-end testing until just days before the october 1 deadline. sharyl campbell represents c.g.i. federal. the main

for "cbs this morning saturday," this is jim axelrod in new york. >> joining us with more is jeffreyce editor of "cbs this morning." this is interesting stuff. >> it is. it used to be there were three different species. and the way pail owe anthropologists may see a distinction is looking at tiny subtle differences in bones that would be indifferent to you and me. those findings are very real. but imagine they dug up the bones of an nba forward or a jockey or danny devito and arnold schwarzenegger. they would think they even got to be different species, but they're not. >> it shows us how we became human human. >> it does. it's a combination of features never seen before in humans so it has a very bulky lower jaw, very butky face but an usually small brain case, about the third of ours which means he might be a simpletop now but he might have been a magna cum laude back then. >> what does that tell us? >> it tells us throughout human history there's a streamlining going on. the five skulls found at this site were no different in their different characteristics from five different sku

for "cbs this morning saturday," this is jim axelrod in new york. >> joining us with more is jeffrey kluger senior science editor of "cbs this morning." this is interesting stuff. >> it is. it used to be there were three different species. and the way pail owe anthropologists may see a distinction is looking at tiny subtle differences in bones that would be indifferent to you and me. those findings are very real. but imagine they dug up the bones of an nba forward or a jockey or danny devito and arnold schwarzenegger. they would think they even got to be different species, but they're not. >> it shows us how we became human human. >> it does. it's a combination of features never seen before in humans so it has a very bulky lower jaw, very butky face but an usually small brain case, about the third of ours which means he might be a simpletop now but he might have been a magna cum laude back then. >> what does that tell us? >> it tells us throughout human history there's a streamlining going on. the five skulls found at this site were no different in their different characteristics fro

jim axelrod on the unintended consequences of a new law. and the boy with the bionic hand.hnology lets most anyone create the most amaze magazines. >> making your kids happy is like the most rewarding thing you can have as a dad. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening, in one of the biggest scandals ever

jim axelrod on a veteran who survived the gulf war only to die while being treated by v.a. doctors. >> reporter: when he came home, did he continue to take all the medication? >> he followed the doctor's orders. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley.

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jim axelrod is on capitol hill. jim, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, charlie.r this morning a house subcommittee will hear from veterans and veterans dockers who say the v.a. is relying too heavily on narcotics to treat veterans' pain, a practice that in their view that could be costing veterans their lives. in the weeks after our investigation aired, we received photos like this one, the daily dosage of pain pills prescribed to a 38-year-old v.a. patient in texas. and this one from a 54-year-old v.a. patient in oklahoma. these were the medications prescribed to ricky green. a veteran of first gulf war for his back pain. among them, three narcotics. his wife kim ber by describes a visit her husband made to va hospitals in november of 2011. >> he wanted to be taken off this large amounts of medicines. >> what did his doctors and health care providers say to him? >> basically that he needed to continue to take the medication. >> all of them? >> all of them. >> when he came home, did he continue to take all the medication? >> he followed the doctor's orders. >> th

in talking to jim messina, the campaign manager of the obama campaign, david axelrod, rahm emanuel, stephanieand asking them, how would the next for your summer, president date, given that the house composition would be more or less the same. >> almost certainly simpler. >> uniformly their example, this is a talking point, was that the fever will break. the american people as they vote for president obama for another four years will basically be voting against obstructionism. the republicans will get the message and they will walk, albeit any soldier fashion towards the center. >> i can see that happening at all. >> is a talking point, but it's due. >> say governor romney on november the sixth as opposed to the president being reelected that their son you waiting for him after he gets into office click >> no, no i am not. i wrote a story for "the new york times" magazine on governor romney, specifically on his time as governor that appeared about three weeks ago or so. the way the piece concludes is i interviewed a number of people, particularly the more conservative of house republicans. and