. >> nancy miller, your interim executive officer. i would like to welcome you to the team. we are very excited. jason and i met with her. it's very nice to fill that slot. we are getting a lot of focus in terms of time and staff to be able to lead and deal with all these major issues we have going on with cca. just today i would like for to you authorize staff to present a protest letter to the chair to the same puc proceeding and just setting forth, we'll piggy back on what the puc has said and use some stronger language where appropriate to make our concerns known about the pg and e request. secondly just a couple updates. or m o u. memorandum of understanding was approved by the sf puc. so that was taken care of and the peer review, the update is smud what i talked about before is willing to do for free a report on the deliverables and how they approach that kind of program similarities and providing a little bit of guidance there and i have been in contact with just recently with the advocates to make sure that we coordinate in terms of the work that's being done on the

nancy cordes reports. breaking news from correspondent john miller. the survivoring boston bombing suspect left a note explaining the motive. and one of the most famous athletes in the world runs out of extra time. >> they said you should go out on the top. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. folks in north texas got more warning than usual that the tornadoes were coming. time to look for a safe place to hide, but for some there was no safe place. at least six people were killed and the search goes on tonight for the missing. one of the tornadoes was an ef- 4, the second-most powerful, with 200 miles an hour winds. it hit grandbury, destroying 19 buildings and 17 mobile homes. eva and dario waited to hear the fate of family members. in a nearby town, the mayor says as many as 300 homes were hit. anna werner begins our coverage. >> reporter: this disaster did not discriminate. the string of tornadoes laid waste to mansions and mobile homes over a six-county area. the twister started tou

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>> reporter: you know honestly although luana miller and nancy ruiz the mother of gina dejesus, who ias also very close with and continue to be they told me never give up hope. nancy gave me a hug a couple weeks ago and said hope hope hope. told me to never give it up. i guess i never did, because i kept the shirt and tie. i guess because i knew that one day this would come but there were moments when i feefr feared the worst for this family. just saying that i and so many were wrong. >> you came in contact with the castro brothers on several occasions. you ever suspect them? >> reporter: i can't tell you that we suspected them. i can't call them suspects but there were some family members that were suspicious. obviously, they didn't have the evidence they didn't have the proof to do anything about it and i did come close to them at a couple of the vigils and talked to them and they always appeared to be concerned for this family. it's just chilling to know that a lot of times we think that there is evil among us that people think about these three brothers in this situation, but obvi

. >> miller is speaking for the first time since he resigned under fire two days ago. nancyo his testimony. nancy, good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning. well, at that hearing which is still going on, the acting commissioner, steven miller, said that he did not believe that the mistakes were caused by partisanship. take a listen. >> as acting commissioner, i want to apologize to behalf of the irs for the mistakes we made and the poor service we provided. the affected organizations are the american public deserve better. partisanship or even the perception of partisanship has no place at the irs. i think that what happened here was that foolish mistakes were made by people trying to be more efficient in their workload selection. the listing described in the report, while intolerable, was a mistake and not an act of part sanship. the agency is moving forward and has learned its lesson. we've previously worked to correct issues in the processing of the cases described in the report, and we have implemented changes to make sure that this type of thing never happens agai

miller's signature on some of those i.r.s. letters to congress insisting over the years that the i.r.s. was not honing in on conservative groups. >> pelley: more to come, nancy. thank you very much. in his news conference today, president obama seemed to have lost his patience with questions about the u.s. consulate in benghazi, libya. ambassador chris stevens and three other americans were killed when militants attacked there last year. congressional republicans are investigating whether the administration was honest about what happened at the time that mr. obama was running for reelection. bill plante is at the white house for us tonight. bill? >> reporter: scott, the to review those e-mails discussing how that controversy was being responded to months ago and he criticized it, saying there's no there there. >> two to three days after susan rice appeared on the sunday shows-- using these talking point which have been the source of all this controversy-- i sent up the head of our national counterterrorism center, matt olson, up to capitol hill and specifically said it was an act of terrorism and that extremist elements inside of libya had been involved in i

steven miller of misleading them, so the house ways and means committee took the unusual step of putting him under oath, meaning that he would risk perjury charges if he were caught in a lie. nancy cordes is on capitol hill. >> nothing but the truth, so help you god. >> i do. >> i do. >> reporter: wearing a look like he knew what he was in for, the head of the i.r.s. started with an following. >> i think that what happened here was that foolish mistakes were made by people trying to be more efficient in their workload selection. >> reporter: and then steven miller settled in for a four- hour barrage of bipartisan disgust. new york democrat charles rangel. >> how far did this cancer go? how quickly can we cut it out? >> reporter: lawmakers were furious with miller who they say spent the past year denying that tea party groups had been singled out for extra scrutiny when they applied for tax-exempt status. wisconsin republican paul ryan. >> how was that not misleading this committee? you knew the targets was taking place. you knew the terms "tea party" "patriots" were being used. how can we conclude you did not mislead this committee. >> i did not mislead the committee. i stand by

nancy tell you? who is responsible? >> by that i don't remember to be honest with. >> you you don't remember again. >> harris: lawmakers accused miller of misleading or even lying to congress when he claimed he had no idea the targeting was happening. mike imhandle live on capitol hill tonight. make, this goes back to another hearing actually from last summer. >> well, harris, you are correct. congressman paul ryan asked miller about a july 25th, 2012 subcommittee hearing looking into nonprofit groups seeking tax exempt status. this very issue in discrimination involved in that, ryan used the word mislead, chairman dave camp went a step further. >> despite a two year long investigation by this committee, the irs never told the american people or their representatives about this simple truth. in fact we were repeatedly told no such targeting was happening. that isn't being mislead. that's lying. >> carp noted that two years ago senior irs officials were aware of targeting the top management of the irs knew a year ago, harris. >> harris: we heard a lot of republican outrage. we saw preppive charlie rangel from new york among the democr

miller at that hearing on friday. by the way, the irs knew that this report was coming out. that's why they finally came clean on friday. >> that sounds about right. nancy, thank you. >>> attorney general holder is also expected to face pointed questions today about justice department subpoenas. the government used them to get phone records from journalists at the associated press. bob, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, norah. the obama administration as you know has been very aggressive in going after leaks of classified information but as far as we know this is the broadest investigation we've seen so far and the associated press now is caught in the government's cross hairs. attorney general holder on tuesday strongly defended the justice department's seizure of ap phone records saying the leak of secret information to ap reporters created a national security threat. >> it put the american people at risk and that is not hyperbole. it put the american people at risk. >> reporter: federal prosecutors say the disclosure of classified information fueled a series of associated press stories in the spring of 2012 about the al qaeda affiliate in yeme

nancy tell you? who is responsible? >> that i don't remember to be honest with you. >> you don't remember again? bill: steven millerof minutes. they start to re-enter the hearing room on the hill now. martha: very heated morning on the hill. all of these questions and the major one, who authorized this decision to target these conservative groups? busy morning and we're about to get ready to go again. man: the charcoal went out already? ... forget it. vo: there's more barbeque time in every bag of kingsford original charcoal. kingsford. slow down and grill. bill: steve miller might have needed a lot of water there during that break. martha: he might have. bill: round two is about to begin. martha: it is. he has said that he always answered truthfully. he will be questioned once again in a heated hearing on capitol hill which continues now. jon: right now brand-new stories and breaking news. a new way to avoid those long lines at the airport. one airline announcing a plan that would allow some passengers to board flights earlier than others, but there is a catch. plus, a man in new mexico accused of kidnapping a fou

miller, having received our letter and knowing additional information from the media i assumed you asked nancy marks who was your senior technical advisor for tax-exempt organizations to see what was going on and report back to you. you testified earlier for six weeks you don't recall having asked her what she learned. and therefore you responded to our letter by saying everything's fine. and you responded to our letter on april 26th. so march 14th we asked you these questions. and again, this is not about the members of this committee. i was not actually on the committee at the type. this is about the american people getting the information that was needed to be able to correct the situation. you now tell us today that you received a briefing one week after you september us a letter. now remember, your letter says everything's fine, no targeting. and we can believe or not believe the fact that during that five-week period you didn't bother to find out what they were finding out down in cincinnati, but a week after you send a letter back to us, you do get a briefing. this is the may 3rd briefi

miller is admitting mistakes were made. >> on friday he will be questioned by a house committee in congress. among those under scrutiny for what he didn't tell lawmakers, nancy cordes on capitol hill. good morning. >> good morning, norah and charlie. lawmakers are furious, particularly republicans who repeatedly asked the irs about reports that tea party groups were targeted and were always told it wasn't happening. the house weighs and means committee began asking the irs about reports that the tea party was being targeted and were told it wasn't happening. they rebuffed questions and insisting that decisions were not influenced by political considerations. in may 2012 two months after the commissioner said this to the house ways and means committee. >> absolutely no targeting. >> reporter: his deputy steven miller, briefed by investigators who told him s targeted groups that had words like tea party, patriots and government spending in their title. miller, the acting commissioner did not acknowledge errors when asked about them at a hearing that summer or in a letter to congress in september. in fact, irs officials might never have admitted the mistakes if

reporter: miller told lawmakers this morning he went to one of his senior advisories who would have been able to figure out which employees were responsible for scrutinizing the groups. >> and what did nancy remember to be don't remember again? congress are trying to get to the bottom of who started the targeting of conservative groups as early as 2010. but they're not getting the answers they want. lawmakers keep reminding miller of his obligations. they believe he should have told congress about the problem when he became aware of it last may. that's according to the audit that was done. some members of congress say either the irs officials lied or were incompetent leaders. >> you're a law enforcement agency for crying out loud. i was a cop for 33 years. now you've raised your right hand today, did this committee have the right to know what you knew? yes or no? >> i answered all questions truthfully. >> miller started off the hearing by apologizing for the irs mistakes. he said that the public deceives better and the i consider deserves and the irs. congress believes they deserve better answers. live in washington kyla campbell ktvu channel 2 news. >>> thanks kyla. 8:15. there's new con