details and analysis from julianna goldman and juan zarate. a rl incident killed chemical workers outside houston. when will the unusual cold temperatures end? ♪ >> and three decades later, rm recreate a charity hit of the past. knowledge ♪ >> this is captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news." >> glor: good evening, i'm jeff glor. the white house confirmedthis afternoon what i.s.i.s, held last october, be kassig becomes the fifth western hostage beheaded by i.s.i.s. two other americans and two from britain were previously killed. the newest video however is much different than before. we have two reports tonight beginning with julianna goldman. >> this is peter edward kassig. a u.s. citizen of your country. >>reporter: like previous videos, this features jihadi john. but kassig was not kneeling this a orange jump suit and did not make a statement. shows i.s.i.s. soldiers executing syrian officers, there wasn't an additional western hostage at the end. susan rice briefed president obama on the video board ifers ah 1. the parent

details and analysis from julianna goldman and juan zarate. the investigation into a chemical spill that killed four workers outside houston. a storm system will spread snow from new mexico to new york. when will the unusual cold temperatures end? >> ♪ bring peace and joy this christmas... ♪ to west africa! >> glor: and three decades later, stars of the present recreate a charity hit of the past. ♪ ♪ captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news." >> glor: good evening, i'm jeff glor. this is our western edition of the broadcast. the white house confirmed this afternoon, what isis claimed this morning, american peter kissig has been executed. kassig who was just 26-years-old had been held since last october, he becomes the fifth western hostage beheaded by isis. two other americans and two from britain were previously killed. the newest video, however is much different than before. we have two reports tonight beginning with julianna goldman. >> this is peter edward kassig. a u.s. citizen of your country. >> reporter: like previous

details and analysis from julianna goldman and juan zarate.stigation into a chemical spill that killed four workers outside houston. a storm system will spread snow from new mexico to new york. when will the unusual cold temperatures end? >> ♪ bring peace and joy this christmas... ♪ to west africa! >> glor: and three decades later, stars of the present recreate a charity hit of the past. ♪ ♪ captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news."

director fbi, former deputy fbi director sean joyce, former national deputy nationals good advisor juan zarate. and interest of moving forward at me stop, welcome the nominee and ask senator burr for his opening statement. >> thank you, madam chairman. nic, let me first that want to thank you for your many years of government service, state department, the white house, the odni and nctc. and i think you for the time that you spent with me the other day and your insight into the areas of interest to had an opportunity to talk about a guy like to welcome your wife, your parents. i know all three of you are proud of the progress of his career, and i thank you for sharing him with the country. because it is invaluable. over the last 10 years you focus primarily on analyzing the terrorist threat to our country and devising policies to address those threats. nctc is going to need your experience in the years to come. 13 years after 9/11 we continue to face al-qaeda in afghanistan, al-qaeda affiliates and somalia, yemen, north africa, syria and now the indian subcontinent. boko haram in nigeria, al-s

one zarate juan zarate is with us from washington.ood morning. >> in the wake of the beheadings, the white house feels they have to review the way here handling hostage situations across the middle east. in addition, charlie, you'll remember the bowe bergdahl prisoner exchange and that created confusion among the families. finally, there's been criticism among the family members that coordination and information sharing was not handled well. so the white house has reviewed this the wake of that. >> how could the policy change juan, you touched on it briefly. we talked with families who were very frustrated with the way they were handled by the government. what possible changes could you see? when i was in the white house, it was very difficult to deal with the family members in part because you couldn't share information with them. you couldn't explain all details what you knew about their family members and what the u.s. government was doing. so i think in the first instance, it's going to be about sharing information and coordinatin