now./// ((paula francis)) > switching gears now... the number of a-list performers committing to las vegas residencies is growing. ((dave courvoisier)) britney's and j-lo's shows are smash hits at planet hollywood. and pretty soon pitbull and lionel ritchie will be added to the lineup. 8 news now anchor paul joncich talked to the man who's been signing up the big name acts. performers to come here in the prime of their careers used to be a tough sell. but not anymore. a vegas residency is now a coveted gig. think about it, living in a penthouse suite....taking a short walk down to work everyday. it sure beats life on the road. ((paul joncich)) ((trk)) ((nat pop music)) when britney came to town, some thought it would never last. kurt melien (mehl-een) was the guy who convinced the suits at ceasars it would. and boy was he right. britney's done so well....her two year residency at planet hollywood's axis theater...has been extended to four years. and helped change the perception that artists have of performing in las vegas for an exten

((paula francis)) the cbs evening news is next. we'll see you at six. >> pelley: on the eve of super tuesday, trump clashes with black lives matter protesters. >> get 'em out. get 'em out. out, out, out, out.ls >> pelley: also tonight, a cop is gunned down on her first day on the job. the big cheese at a food company pleads guilty to selling parmesan that had no parmesan. and david martin with an american hero. >> that's five bronze stars, two purple hearts? >> that's correct. >> pelley: and now the highest military honor of all. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: this is our western edition. no candidate will clinch the nomination tomorrow, but super tuesday may generate irreversible momentum for hillary clinton and donald they're favored many most of the 12 state primaries and caucuses. for democrats, it's a step toward certainty. for republicans, another jolt in the party's identity crisis. polls show trump leading in at least six states, but he is trailing ted cruz in cruz's

((paula francis)) people say they're finding it on facebook. but is it really worth your money? ((dave courvoisier)) 8 on your side consumer advocate michelle mortensen looked into the shops advertising or selling on social media... promising cheap couture... to find out. ((michelle mortensen)) cheap is right. i'm talking dresses for 10 and this stuff looks like it came right off the runway... too. < facebook isn't just pictures ... status updates .. and comment wars... anymore facebook is big business. especially in the world of fashion. ((noelle: i fell in love with the dress )) noelle sliman adored this windowpane dress that appeared on her facebook feed a quick click .. took her to rosegal.com ... revealing the fabulous frock had a fabulous price tag. ((noelle: i paid $10.63 )) more than 30 days later ... the dress ... size small ... arrived. but it didn't quite fit her size 4 frame. ((noelle: i said this is for barbie because there's no way.)) she wanted a refund ... but returning the dainty dress ... required big effort. like pictures ... her measurements ... and a lot of

((paula francis)) and i'm paula francis. the las vegas paiute indian tribe is moving ahead with plans to build one of the largest medical marijuana facilities in nevada. ((dave courvoisier)) 8 news now anchor paul joncich says plans include at least two dispensaries and three huge greenhouses needed to grow the weed. ((paul joncich)) the paiutes are jumping into medical marijuana game with both feet. they are going big. once built, their facilities, which will include greenhouses larger than a couple of football fields, will be bigger than any medical marjuana facility in nevada, arizona or colorado. ((paul joncich)) calling it an economic development plan, the paiutes plan to open two medical marijuana dispensaries. one will be near their exisiting las vegas smoke shop on main street. the other, on the paiutes snow mountain campus in the northwest. where they'll also build three 28-thousand square foot 10-thousand squre foot warehouse and kitchen to formulate it, and a stylish dispensary to sell it. the tribe which has fewe

as the commissioners awarded paula with the key to the strip... and recognized her 30- years news: commissioner - i just wanted to say thank you so very much because it was people like you and emily nielsen, when i was interning there it was my senior year, my mother passed away. i was fortunate to have you guys see me through school and i got my college credits and was able to graduate. so i just want to say thank you very much for being a friend and congrats on your retirement.)) ((dave courvoisier)) the accolades keep coming... tomorrow mayor carolyn goodman will proclaim "paula francis day."/// dave courvoisier > thanks for watching for 8 news now at 6. this is "jeopardy!" let's meet today's contestants -- a writer and editor from deer park, texas... a data engineer originally from philadelphia, pennsylvania... and our returning champion, an author from atlanta, georgia... and now here is the host of "jeopardy!" -- alex trebek! hey, johnny, thank you. [ applause ] hi, folks. f.y.i., our champion david is into music. he particularly likes our "

((paula francis)) the late show with stephen colbert is next. we'll see you back here tomorrow >> jon: stephen colbert! yeah! captioning sponsored by cbs ( band playing intro music ) ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: hey! thanks, everybody! thanks so much! welcome to "the late show." nice to see you. what's going on? ( cheers and applause ) thanks, everybody. thanks, so much. welcome to "the late show." i'm stephen colbert. ladies and gentlemen, i don't know if you know this, but there's news coming from the some folks a little bit jittery. starbucks has announced-- it just came out-- that next year they will open their first store in italy. finally, they will have customers who know what venti means. i looked it up. it means 20, because that is the price of a venti. ( laughter ) now, this could be even bigger than when dom neoopenned in italy and introduced them to the idea of disappointment. it's delicious. it's delicious. i want to say considerations to starbucks and hope the italians enjoy-- >> excuse me. i don't want to interrupt, but whe

made to paula.. at today's meeting./// our very own paula francis.. was honored by the clark county board of comissioners. commisioner steve sisolak gave her the key to the las vegas strip.. and proclamation recognizing her for her outstanding career in journalism. ((steve sisolak/clark co. commissioner: 30:11 paula's career as a broadcast journalist in our community has spanned 31 years, she's not old enough, but it's been 31 years. making her one of the most talented and respected and we've ever had in las vegas)) ((brian loftus)) but the commission isn't the only organization honoring paula. the city council just announced tomorrow, mayor carolyn goodman will proclaim may 2nd "paula francis day."/// ((brian loftus)) > that's all for 8 news now live at noon.. remember that 8 news now is always available at las vegas now dot com, facebook and twitter. have a great afternoon./// tt0w!tx#hi!!%4@-*! tt0w!tx#hi!!el@- &l tt0w!tx#hi!!ed@-&$( tt0w!tx#hi%!)8h-fzt tt0w!tx#hi%!kzh-[5( tt0w!tx#hi%!n-h-.\$ tt0w!tx#hi%!0ph-0;< tt0w!tx#hi%!s"h- i\ tt0w!tx#hi%!ueh-

good morning to you paula and dan.ood morning, everyone. >>> we begin with a raging wildfire that has now spread from oklahoma into kansas. the blaze has already charred more than 600 square miles and destroyed at least six homes. military helicopters have been called in to help battle that fire. four black hawk choppers from the kansas national guard have been deployed this weekend. at least two of them have 660-gallon buckets that can dump water onto the flames. officials say the wildfire is already the largest in kansas' history. >>> and in alabama, investigators are trying to figure out what caused the fatal crash of a medevac helicopter. the chopper went down in a field on saturday while ferrying a man who had just been injured in a car crash to a hospital. all three crew members and the patient on board were killed. >>> a routine fire department training mission off the coast of san francisco ended up turning into a real rescue mission. rough waves causing the firefighters' boat to overturn sending all seven fire

. >> it's paula broadwell. >> she triggered the vision that military's most admired men upside down. >>> and prowling for highthons. the competition deep in the everglades to stop these slithering invaders attacking native wildlife. >> i have no idea why i signed up for this. >> we're riding shotgun. >> i just jumped from a butterfly. >> but first, the night line" 5. try zyrtec. muddle no more. >> good evening. thank you for joining us. it was a riveting sex scandal that struck deep in the heart of the u.s. military. bringing down a high ranking general. tonight it's the other woman at the center of the story stepping out to set the record. juju chang has the broadcast exclusive. >> i didn't know who it was. is it a terrorist group? is it a rogue agent. >> you thought you were in danger. >> i was scared for my life. >> reporter: jill kelley is caught up in if the tabloid sex scandal. >> reporter: that ended the career of david petraeus. celebrated four-star general, the combat hero who led the military surge in iraq resigning in disgrace. after the fbi uncovered an extramarital affai

what do you think, paula?> you think navigator. >> oh. >> i see what you did there. >> that's brilliant. >> did you like that? >> you know, i would never come up with that one. >> that was a drop the mike moment. you just need to walk off set after that. >> drop the pen. >> drop the pen. you have many of those moments. we have missed you so much. >> i drop a lot of things. >> never the ball, though. >> that's true. great to be back. obviously ron's got a problem. we love ryan. rachel, hello, and i missed you guys. >> dan's been pining for you. >> i know. i'm in such a good mood this morning to have you back. >> finally. >> i see the eyes you've been giving indra. she did a fantastic job. >> indra did do a really great job. >> check out this video out of kearney, nebraska, a dust devil, yeah, it's spinning up there. conditions just perfect as we get a stronger sun angle with colder air moving over top of that. it is need to see video. often they do damage and this one obviously kicked up quite a bit of dust and

hi, mary. >> reporter: hi, paula. good morning. with those big contests in utah and arizona just around the corner, this morning donald trump is under attack from all sides, republicans, democrats, even international hackers, all trying to stop him. >> i think we get to the i don't think there is going to be much of a dispute. >> reporter: this morning as on the nomination, the republican establishment is take him down. >> there are only two candidates that have any plausible path to winning the republican nomination, either donald trump or me. >> reporter: ted cruz, who spent arizona/mexico border, is racking up support from republicans who see him as their best hope to block trump, and now mitt romney says he will next week saying he's the only one who can deny trump the delegates to win the nomination forcing a contested convention. trump fired back on twitter saying "mitt romney is a mixed up man who doesn't have a clue. no wonder he lost." overnight in utah he went a step further questioning romney's religion. >> are you sure

alex. >> reporter: good morning, paula.hat four-month manhunt came to an end right here at this house where salah abdeslam had been hiding. you can see the ground floor has been boarded up after the police raid. the police had been scouring this neighborhood and finally found abdeslam just a few hundred yards from his family's home. gunshots rang out as heavily armed s.w.a.t. teams moved in. this cell phone video showing residents running for cover. after four months on the run, one of the most wanted men in the world finally cornered on a quiet brussels street, the man in the hooded shirt believe to be salah abdeslam dragged to a waiting police car seeming to limp after being shot in the d be salah abdeslam dragged to a waiting police car seeming to limp after being shot in the leg. 26-year-old salah abdeslam is the so-called eighth attacker, the only surviving terrorist of november's deadly attacks that left 130 dead. he grew up in belgium, a childhood friend of abdelhamid abaaoud, the mastermind. on the night of november

good morning, kendis. >> dan and paula, good morning. investigators are in british columbia are on the set location locateabout 50 miles north of vancouver. they're trying to figure out how this popular actor was severely injured. "maze runner" star dylan o'brien injured on the set of the latest film in the series filming a stunt gone wrong. >> we get out now or we die trying. >> reporter: according to tmz, the 24-year-old actor was run over while shooting a sequence involving a car. "variety" reporting he was rushed to a hospital after the accident. vehicle and he suffered at least but nothing life-threatening. >> reporter: twentieth century statement "production on the film will be shut down while he recovers. a full and speedy recovery." >> get down! death cure" is the third film in the $400 million franchise the heartthrob in the popular "teen wolf" series on tv. he spoke with "gma" about becoming a reluctant action hero. >> i guess you -- you don't, you know, consider yourself an action person, i guess, but it's fun. it's fun to do.

dan, paula. >> all right, alex. and for more on this we want to bring in abc's chief white house correspondent jon karl and, jon, some startling images we just saw. you've been covering politics for a very long time. have you seen anything like this? >> reporter: paula, this reminds me of something i did not cover but i grew up watching and that's 1968 in chicago. the riots that took place around the democratic convention that actually spilled out for a time onto the convention floor but but i have to say, it's also not entirely surprising. i've been to so many donald trump rallies where i have heard from the podium, you know, leading presidential candidates say things like you just heard announced in alex perez's piece like how he'd like to slug a protester in the face and in the good old days they were taken out in stretchers. i heard those taunts aimed at, frankly, me and other s s in the media pen where they often require reporters to stay at donald trump rallies taunting members of the press saying these are aw

good morning to you paula and dan. good morning, everyone. >>> we begin with a raging wildfire that has spread from oklahoma into kansas. the blaze has charred more than 600 square miles and destroyed at least six homes. called in to help battle that fire. four blackhawk choppers from the kansas national guard have been deployed this weekend. at least two of them have 660-gallon buckets that can dump water on the flames. >>> in alabama, investigators trying to find out what caused the fatal crash of a medevac helicopter. the chopper went down if the a field on saturday while ferrying man who had just been injured in a car crash to a hospital. the three crew members and the patient on board were killed. >>> a routine fire department training mission turned into a real rescue mission off the coast of san francisco. rough waves causing the boat to overturn, sending all seven firefighters into the chilly waters. some meesh fishing boats and the coast guard helped bring the men to safety. four were hospitalized with minor i

paula. >> thamgs, alex. isis is threatening new attacks and on this holy easter weekend, europe will be on heightened alert. security will be tightened at places where large numbers are expected to gather and worship such as the vatican and abc's matt gutman is in rome for us this morning with more on the new threats and increased security. >> reporter: good morning, paula. we're told that 150,000 people are expected to pack in and around st. peter's square here and to meet them, an extra 3,000 security forces here in rome. now, there's 24-hour surveillance of sensitive sites like this one, the kind of beefed up security we're seeing across europe today. with isis threatening another wave of attacks this morning, europe is jittery. anti-terror roundups still unfolding in france and buss. patrols have been beefed number britain, and in rome, in the midst of holy week during a pilgrimage year, officials tell abc news 3,000 more officers have been deployed. at st. peter's square worshippers basked in prayer as

thank you, dan and paula. later this morning, a little girl being raised with her foster family will be sent to live with members of her extended family in another state. her name is lexi. her move is coming as a result of the custody battle with the chocktaw nation at its center. this morning, a california family preparing to say good-bye to 6-year-old lexi. >> we can't fathom it. it doesn't make any sense at all. i don't know why we don't care about kids anymore. >> reporter: lexi, whose face is blurred to conceal her identity was raised by rusty and summer paige in foster care from the from the home of her buyiological parents. in the paiges' home, she's bonded with her foster siblings. gaining happiness, playfulness, a positive rapport. now, according to the paiges, a court order is splitting their family up. >> she's going to wonder why mommy and daddy didn't fight for her. or why she's not at home. >> reporter: friday, a court ruling she should be taken to live with her extended family in utah. where a c

dan and paula. >> we'll see if that bird helps him at the polls. all right, devon dwyer, thank you. >> was that bird carrying an olive branch? i don't know. >> hard to see. >> hard to see. that's in part two of the story. >>> we want to move to a skier's close call all caught on camera. he may have triggered an avalanche and then found himself trying to survive and a split-second decision may have saved his life. here's abc's eva pilgrim. >> whoa! >> reporter: this is what it looks like to be caught in the middle of an avalanche. >> certainly big enough to injure or kill somebody. >> reporter: watch from this skier's gopro camera mounted on his helmet. you can see he is quickly swept down more than 1,000 vertical feet. how can a skier cause this kind of snow slide? parts of the rockies having its snowiest march in five years. spring sun plus multiple storms makes for unstable snow. all it takes is a trigger for it all to come crashing down. >> we often will see a spike or an increase in avalanches occurring during and immediately after big storm ev

hi, eva. >> reporter: good morning, paula. a jury of seven women and five men will soon decide who ise for a naked video of erin andrews that went viral online and if she is entitled to any money for what happened. the erin andrews case, lawyers disagreeing on the damage done to her after that secretly recorded naked video went viral. >> what is the damage that has been sustained and has pay increased. what is it you compensate the person for? >> don't they get it. not ary? where have they been during this trial? >> reporter: andrews suing her stalker michael barrett as well as the owners and managers of that nashville marmillion claiming the hotel made it easy for barrett to get a room next door to hers so he out of the shower.ave done it without the negligence of the nashville marriott. >> reporter: the jury will soon have to decide whether barrett and the nashville marriott should pay for what sheh and if so, how much. >> if she wins this case as ugly as it sounds, these jurors will suffering. >> this could have been stoppe

hi, matt. >> reporter: hey, good morning, paula. the lapd is working to glean whatever forensic evidence it can from that mud encrusted knife. the murder weapon has never been found which is why the discover which of this knife has set in motion the o.j. simpson circus once again. it's been the first lead in the o.j. simpson case in years. >> it's described as a knife. >> reporter: a frenzy of interest. >> police say investigators are -- >> testing a knife. >> reportedly found -- >> reporter: the possibility of the knife used to murder simpson's ex-wife nicole brown simpson and her friend ron goldman in 1994 may have finally been found. >> well, i was really surprised. >> reporter: police say a construction worker handed the officer near the simpson estate in the late 1990s. at the time the house was being rebuilt. the now retired officer's lawyer tells abc news he call ed ed the lapd to alert them that he had some sort of evidence but was told the case was closed. is this another case of the lapd or an lapd officer mishandling evid

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paula. >> thanks, mary. >>> we move to the democrats. hillary clinton has a chance to really widen her lead over bernie sanders today, and he's reminding voters of her inconsistencies and contradictions throughout her political career and abc's david wright outside clinton headquarters in brooklyn with the story. good morning, david. >> reporter: good morning, paula. that's the building right there behind me. clinton's campaign this weekend is actually managing expectations insisting that this time around, they're the underdog. this morning, it's do or die for bernie sanders. >> all: bernie, bernie, bernie. >> reporter: vermont senator still has huge crowds and getting lots of donations but he also needs to catch up in the delegate count. >> bring your friends and your your co-workers. >> reporter: today there are 26 delegates are up for grabs in louisiana, nebraska and kansas where bernie stopped at this barber shop to get a trim on the trail. >> no style. no style. >> reporter: hillary cli

then there was paula abdul's "hey, paula." the star's odd behavior on her reality show at the height of >> hi. >> reporter: led some viewers to question whether she had a substance abuse problem. allegations she addressed on "nightline" in 2009. >> i've never been addicted to any prescription drugs, i've never been drunk, i have worked my whole life. i sacrificed being a normal girl have proper relationships, not being able to be a mom, a real mom. i am fortunate and feel completely blessed. but i'm not the girl that's in those tapes. >> reporter: the backlash making her question the decision to ever do a reality show. >> i am exhausted. >> i honestly think it was the biggest mistake. >> reporter: but "mariah's world" is not designed to be a warts and all production. >> mariah is one of the producers and she said she has veto powers over what is and isn't included. only a star as big as mariah can insist that i have veto power. >> reporter: she's already made it clear that some things are off limits. like her 4-year-old twins

. >> well, that's paula. i didn't know paula. i was up in harlem.was right across from the polo grounds on edgecomb avenue. any of you familiar with edgecomb in the sugar hill section? i was at the interview with a gentleman who was in the military who used green book traveling across the country and paula was just sitting on the bench, just sitting there, and she asked what we were doing. and becky mentioned we were filming some people about the green book and she said well, my parents had a green book. so that's how we got paula. we had no idea that she had all these stories. she has more stories than this. we have another clip of her that is very dramatic. i hope we get a chance to show it. so how many of you have a green book, heard of the green book or family members once owned a green book or have you heard of the green book before now? okay. i went to an auction last april at the swan gallery and a green book sold for $22,500. now it's a rare book. this was about the size of a jet magazine, 6 x 9. it fit inside the glove compartment of the ca