>> schrier: yeah. >> pelley: the bottoms of your feet? >> schrier: yeah. >> pelley: with what?ier: it's a cable. i thought it was a nightstick, that's about how thick it was. >> pelley: so they said, "okay, give him 15"? >> schrier: one-fifteen. 115. >> pelley: so what is that like? >> schrier: it hurts, obviously, and... i mean, it sounds ridiculous, but one thing you just got to remember is you can't curse. >> pelley: because of their religious fanaticism, no cursing... >> schrier: don't curse and just keep yelling out, you know, "god... god help me, god this, god that," because you know, they can relate to that. so they picked me up and they just, one on each side, dragged me back to the room and then they opened the door and the guy put his face next to me. and he said, in arabic, he said, "have you heard of guantanamo bay?" >> pelley: in his first 100 days, schrier says he was moved to new prisons repeatedly and every move was dangerous. >> schrier: they wear suicide belts in case somebody tries to take their prisoners. when they move you, they bring all their muscle. >> p

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captioning sponsored by cbs captioning this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. two weeks after a gunman opened fire at los angeles international airport questions are being raised this evening about the police response and whether a critically wounded t.s.a. officer might have been saved. the union representing the airport police is suggesting that an l.a.p.d. cop delayed medical aid by erroneously reporting that the officer was already dead. senior correspondent john miller is the former head of counter- terrorism at the l.a.p.d. and he's been looking into this. john, what have you learned? >> reporter: what we learned tonight, scott, is that the l.a.p.d. says it will launch an investigation into the allegations by the airport police union. the union is charging that fire at ®i6hpwm., police say 23- year-old paul ciancia opened fire on t.s.a. officer gerardo hernandez at the bottom of an escalator leading to the t.s.a. checkpoint in terminal three. the shooting ended about five minutes later when airport police shot the gunman four times deep inside th

ng news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. after every mass shooting people seem to ask "why doesn't anyone do anything about mental health care?" well, today someone did. the obama administration issued new rules that will improve access to care for 62 million americans. it's an idea the president said he would impose himself by executive order after congress declined to pass gun control legislation. the move comes after the movie massacre in colorado that left 12 dead, the shootings in newtown, connecticut, that killed 27, the washington navy yard attack in which 12 died, and the shooting at l.a.x. one week ago. 88 dead in 12 mass shootings in just over a year. major garrett is at the white house with more on what all this means. major? >> reporter: scott, mental health professionals have sought this change for decades, both to improve treatment and to lift a long-standing stigma. today's announcement means insurance companies must now provide the same benefit coverage for illnesses of the mind they have long provided by for

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening, what happens when your name is on a product and that product is not working as advertised? well, ask the president. a cbs news poll out tonight finds his job approval rating has fallen to an awl time low since the october 1 rollout of the health care law that he calls obamacare. have a look. only 37% of americans approve of the job mr. obama is doing. that is down nine points since last month. ha this that same time, approval of his affordable care act has dropped from 12 points -- has opped 12 points from 43% to 31%. john dickerson is our political director. bill daly is in chicago. he was once the president's chief of staff. first to you, john. these numbers in the poll, what strikes you? >> what strikes me, scott, is that when the president has had low approval ratings number before-- like during the debt ceiling night 2011, people still thought he was trustworthy. cbs asked last year and 60% said they did. now only 49% do. >> that's in part because of his broken promise that if y

>> pelley: tonight, judgment of the people. our new poll has a verdict on the president and the health care law. john dickerson looks at the sobering numbers. alex rodriguez storms out and sounds off. jeff glor on what a-rod said about the baseball commissioner. >> to put me in his big mantle on the way out, that's a hell of a trophy. >> pelley: chip reid reports on an emergency landing after an escape slide deployed inside the passenger compartment. and we'll speak with clint hill, the only secret service agent to reach president kennedy as the shots were being fired 50 years ago. >> and then just as i approached the president's car there was a third shot. it hit the president in the head. >> pelley: what did you see? captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening, what happens when your name is on a product and that product is not working as advertised? well, ask the president. a cbs news poll out tonight finds his job approval rating has fallen to an awl time low since t

>> niccoli: whatever you want. >> pelley: any color i want? basically, we try to fill out the requests of our customers >> pelley: i can walk in with my favorite tie. >> niccoli: or with the... or your... or with the bag of your wife, yes. >> pelley: has any woman ever matched the car to her handbag? >> niccoli: yes. ( laughter ) it happens. >> pelley: no, really. >> niccoli: yeah, really, it's funny. we see here pink cars or strange colors, really. >> pelley: the customer is king? >> niccoli: yes, of course. >> pelley: as we walked the plant with niccoli, we were struck by a sharp division of labor. nearly everyone on this assembly line is a man. but if you go over to where the interior is done, nearly everyone is a woman. why is that? >> niccoli: i can tell you this. we really need women on the... on the interior. because the precision that the women has, unfortunately, we as men, we don't have that. >> pelley: we don't have the precision? >> niccoli: not the precision and the manuality to really... to create a masterpiece like our interior.

captioning sponsored by cbs by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. president obama set out to fix a broken promise today. he's always said that obamacare would never force americans to give up a health insurance policy they liked. but then insurance companies started canceling nearly five million policies because those policies don't meet the higher standards of the affordable car act. the outcry has been getting louder by the day. here was the president on this day. >> i completely get how upsetting this can be for a lot of americans, particularly after assurances they heard from me that if they had a plan that they liked, they could keep it. and to those americans, i hear you loud and clear. i said that i would do everything we can to fix this problem, and today i'm offering an idea that will help do it. >> pelley: and with that, he announced a reversal. he will now allow insurance companies to reinstate those canceled policies at least for one year. mr. obama also took the hit today for the failed rollout of his health insurance web site.

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening, for 31 days now, the obama administration has been telling us americans by the millions are visiting the new health insurance web site despite all of its problems, but no one in the administration has been willing to tell us how many policies have been purchased, and this may be the reason. cbs news has learned enrollments got off to an incredibly slow start. sharyl attkisson attained documents that haven't been seen by the public until now. >> reporter: early enrollment figures are contained in notes from twice a day war room meetings from medicare and medicaid services after the web site failed on october 1. they were turned over in response to a document request from the house oversight committee. the web site launched on tuesday. publicly, the government said there were 4.7 million unique visits in the first 24 hours. but at a meeting wednesday morning, the war room notes say six enrollments very occurred so far. they were with blue cross blue shield of north carolina and kansas

this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. captioning sponsored by cbs >> pelley: good evening. the world is mobilizing to help the philippines, but just a trickle of food and water and medicine has reached the victims of typhoon haiyan. today, president obama phoned the philippine president begnino aquino, promising additional help. about 100 u.s. marines are already on the ground, as many as 2,000 more are expected. the aircraft carrier "george washington" should arrive on thursday. aquino said today the death toll may reach 2,500-- not the 10,000 some had predicted. but a reliable number is days away. we do know at least two americans are among the dead. in tacloban, the city hit hardest, thousands have swarmed the airport, desperate to get out. for now, it's women and children first. those who remain can only try to ward off the smell of death. this was tacloban, a city of 220,000 before the storm. that's the convention center there on the shore. after the typhoon, the convention center was just about the only building sti

open up. >> pelley: u.n. talks aimed at ending syria's civil war may be doomed before they start. today, syria's main opposition group said it may not participate, and another rebel faction says it won't stop fighting, even if the talks take place. we were struck today by some video from damascus. someone in the opposition was interviewing children about the relentless shelling of their neighborhood. watch what happens next. a mortar landed, but amazingly, none of the children was injured. among all of the weapons being used by the dictatorship, you can add one more-- hunger. and clarissa ward has been investigating that for us. >> reporter: it is one of the ugliest weapons being used in syria's civil war and children are most at risk. activists accuse the syrian government of starving the own people. neighborhoods like muadsmiya, a rebel stronghold on the outskirts of damascus, are surrounded by government troops. residents told us syrian soldiers are blocking the delivery of all food and medicine. graffiti

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good eveningon the eve of the thanksgiving holiday getaway, there is trouble for travelers. a storm system that began in the west last week is now heading into the northeast with rain, wind, snow, and ice. 1300 flights have been canceled since the weekend. this is a live look at airports in new york, cleveland, and nashville, where some folks are looking to make an early escape. this satellite view will will give you an idea of just how big this storm is. as you can see, it covers much of the country. it's already blamed for at least 11 deaths. we have three reports tonight with more than three million people expected to fly this weekend, we're going to begin with manuel bojorquez at the airport in atlanta. manuel. >> reporter: scott, this is the world's busiest airport. it's also headquarters for delta airlines, which today had to deal with the weather that is snarling air traffic from the southeast all the way up to new england. delta airlines will fly a million passengers between today and tomo

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening, los >> good evening, this is a special western edition. los angeles international airport is one of the busiest in the world. as many as 175,000 passengers pass through the terminals everyday. on this day at mid-morning a man walked into one of those term gnats, took a semiautomatic rifle out of a bag and started shooting. by the time it was over one man was dead, the first t.s.a. officer ever killed in the line of duty. six other people were rushed to a hospital. the suspect is identified as 23-year-old paul ciancia of los angeles who also has roots in new jersey. a note found in his bag may hold a clue to the motive and john miller will have more about that, but first we'll go to carter evens at l.a.x. >> reporter: stranded passengers are still scattered across the airport. when the shooting started this morning people ran for cover. some hid under ticket counters, others even ran out on to the tarmac and hid under a plane until the shooting stopped. the police calls at 9:20 a.m. i

and i wake up, open my eyes and i'm on the ground. >> pelley: dr.r runs the program. >> dr. kevin reeder: how are you feeling at this point? what were you... what were you feeling at that time? >> collins: anger. i'm scared. i'm feeling pain-- my leg, my back, my arm, my whole body. >> reeder: okay, let's go from the beginning. got to keep doing this. >> collins: the next thing i know, i hear a loud boom... >> pelley: they call it prolonged exposure because collins will relive the story of the attack five times a session. there's a tape running, and he'll listen to his memory throughout the day to break its power. tell me about prolonged exposure therapy. >> reeder: sure. they've done everything they can to push these memories away. in the process, they haven't gained a full realization of the impact and the meaning that these stories have on their lives. i like to use the term, "we're staring the dragon in the eye." >> pelley: where do these therapies come from? >> reeder: a lot of these therapies came about with survivors of physical or sexual abu

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening, bodies in the streets. survivors cry for help. that is the story for the philippines tonight four days after typhoon haiyan. it was one of the worst storms ever observed on the earth. the u.s. navy estimates sustained winds were 195 miles an hour with gusts up to 235. that force pushed a surge of sea water estimated between 13 and 20 feet high over the land. this was tacloban, a thriving city of more than 200,000 residents before the storm. and this is after. nearly every building damaged or destroyed. families scoured the ruins for anything they could use. this boy found just a few coins. this evening, the official death toll has passed 1,700 but that is sure to go much higher. there is just no way to tell how many have died. a mother went for her son in a chapel that is now a morgue. seth doane in the philippines continues our coverage. >> reporter: a forest of flattened palm trees and waterlogged debris now litter this city of 220,000 after a massive wall of water crashed into tac

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. this is a special western edition. those who know paul ciancia are at a loss to explain friday's rampage at los angeles international airport and his apparent hatred for the t.s.a. today his family apologized. ciancia is accused of shooting a t.s.a. officer to death and wounding two other officers and a passenger. terrified travelers fled the terminal friday. police shot ciancia four times, his condition has been upgraded to good today, though he remains sedated and under guard. who is ciancia? ben tracy is at l.a.x. for us tonight. ben? >> reporter: scott, the alleged shooter is something of a blank slate-- no criminal record and, for someone his age, 23, he's posted very little online. his family says they're shocked and investigators are trying to figure out why he targeted t.s.a. officers here in this terminal at l.a.x. today, f.b.i. agents were at the apartment where paul anthony ciancia has been living outside of los angeles. they escorted one of his roommates to his car and to

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. the federal government's health insurance web site has had so many problems since it was rolled out on october 1, the question has been, why didn't anyone warn the president? well, it turns out someone did. the white house acknowledged today that administration officials, including president obama, were briefed on a consultant's report six months before healthcare.gov went online, a report that said problems were coming. nancy cordes is on capitol hill for us tonight. nancy. >> reporter: scott, administration officials said today they took this report's warnings into account and made changes, but republicans argue that its very existence casts doubts on claims by the president on down that they were caught by surprise. with startling foresight, the consulting firm mckinsey predicted more than six months ago that the rollout of healthcare.gov would be hobbled by evolving requirements, insufficient time for end-to-end testing, and significant dependency on external parties and contract

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening, tornadoes this late in the year are rare, but this week before thanksgiving dozens of them tore across the nation's mid-section. preliminary estimates from the government say there were 75 tornadoes yesterday in seven states from tennessee to michigan. at least eight deaths are reported. relatively few considering the number of twisters. accurate forecasts and early warning apparently saved lives. illinois was hit hardest. six died there. in the city of whitaker, 82- year-old pat lost her home washington looks like it was hit by a bomb. dean rends is there. dean? >> reporter: since 1986 there have been 194 tornado warnings in the month of november in illinois and over half of them were issued yesterday. what's the condition of your town? >> devastation is the best way to describe it. >> reporter: gary manier is the mayor of washington, a city of 16,000 residents and tons and tons of rubble. what are you telling people? >> actually, the message i've been sending this morning is "be pa

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening, los angeles international airport is one of the busiest in the world, as many as 175,000 passengers pass through its terminals every day. on this day at midmorning a man walked into one of those terminals, took a semi aubling rifle out of a bag and started shooting am by the time it was over one man was dead, the first tsa officer ever killed in the line of duty. six other people were rushed to a hospital. at least one of them is in critical condition. the suspect is identified as 23-year-old paul ciancia of los angeles who has roots in new jersey. he is wounded and in custody. a note found in his bag may hold the clues to a motive. john miller will have more about that but first carter evans is at lax for us this evening. carter? >> reporter: scott, terminal 3 is still shut down. many of the roads in and out of lax are closed. and stranded passengers are scattered all over the airport as the investigation continues. the police calls began at 9:20 a.m. in the middle of the morning ru

. >> pelley: good evening. there are warning signs tonight for republicans and democrats. both parties are drawing lessons from yesterday's gubernatorial elections in two states. in virginia, democrat terry mcauliffe beat ken cuccinelli, but the tight margin of victory suggests that the democrat may have been damaged by the struggles of obamacare. in new jersey, republican chris christie easily won reelection in that heavily democratic state in part by emphasizing his willingness to work with both parties. >> the people of new jersey four years ago were downhearted and dispirited. they didn't believe that government could work for them anymore. in fact, what they thought -- what they thought was that government was just there to take from them but not to give to them. not to work with them. not to work for them. well, four years later we stand here tonight showing that it is possible to put doing your job first. to put working together first. to fight for what you believe in yet still stand by your principles a

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. the stock market is sailing in uncharted territory. interest rates are low, corporate earnings are high, and there is no end in sight for the federal reserve stimulus program. that added up to the dow hitting another record, heading for its best year in the a decade. anthony mason looks at how we got here and maybe where we're going. ( cheers and applause ) >> reporter: for the first time ever, the dow has broken through three 1,000-point milestones in just one year. >> it's funny to see how this market has become and how it shakes off any negative data that's there. >> reporter: trader jonathan corpina, with meridian equity partners, says even the government shutdown didn't make the markets flinch. >> our economy is getting better. and we see that translated in our market. and, also, there hasn't been any real earth-shattering news that's taken our market off the track that it's been on. >> reporter: the dow, which started the year just above 13,000, broke 14,000 in february, and 15

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. there hasn't been so much anticipation about a number since a record jackpot was at stake in powerball. today six weeks after the troubled opening of the federal health insurance web site, the obama administration finally told us how many americans have signed up. in the first month, it comes to just over 106,000. people who chose policies on both the federal and state sites, though they had not necessarily paid for them yet. that is only about 20% of the 494,000 that the administration had projected. major garrett at s at the white house for us tonight. major? >> reporter: scott, the white house said for weeks these enroll. numbers would fall short of expectations-- and they have. the poorly designed federal health care web site-- nearly unusable in its first days of operation-- severely limited the number of people who were able to sign up for coverage. of the 106,000 americans who are counted as enrolled in obamacare, less than a third-- just under 27,000-- did so by navigating he

. >> pelley: goo >> pelley: good evening. they are the ingredients that make cookies, and cakes taste better and piecrusts flakier. today, the food and drug administration said transfats are no longer recognized as safe, and the f.d.a. intends to ban them. chip reid caught up with the f.d.a. commissioner dr. margaret hamburg. >> transfats increase your risk for heart disease. it turns out that they elevate the so-called bad cholesterol, l.d.l.. >> reporter: will this save lives and avoid heart attacks? >> this action will save lives. the c.d.c. estimates that if we can reduce the levels of trans fat currently in the american diet, we can probably save about 7,000 people from preventable death and prevent about 20,000 heart attacks. >> reporter: trans fat is created by turning liquid vegetable oil into fat. processed food manufacturers use it because it extends the shelf life and improves the flavor of some foods, including snack foods, such as microwave popcorn, crackers, and cookies. packaged soups, cakes, pies, and biscuits

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. nearly a year after adam lanza murdered 20 first graders and six adults at sandy hook elementary school in newtown, connecticut, we know more tonight about what happened that day but not the one thing everyone wants to know-- why he did it. the final prosecutor's report out late today says lanza had significant mental health issues but was under no extreme emotional disturbance that would explain his actions. the report said lanza had a fascination with mass shootings and firearms but he displayed no aggressive or threatening tendencies. along with the report, prosecutors released this photograph of lanza's bushmaster semiautomatic rifle. we have more now on this report from elaine quijano. >> reporter: this is the shattered front glass window shot out by adam lanza so he could entered enter the locked sandy hook elementary school. the report says it was 9:35:39 when police received the first 911 call. >> sandy hook school caller is indicating someone is shooting in the building. >>

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. has it come to this-- has gunfire in public places become so ordinary? twice in a week, young men have stormed into buildings and started shooting-- last friday at the airport in los angeles, last night at a mall in new jersey. there, the only person killed was the shooter. but we were struck by how the mall's employees and shoppers reacted. elaine quijano is in new jersey. >> reporter: it took six hours for police to locate richard shoop. he was found dead in the basement from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. kevin shoop is his older brother. >> my brother intended to harm nobody else but himself. he just, sadly, decided to make an act of self-indulgence by taking his own life publicly, and it's a tragedy to us all. >> reporter: the gunshots sent thousands of people scrambling for cover inside new jersey's largest mall. carmen reynolds was getting ready to leave work at a clothing store. did you have a plan at the store for an active shooter situation like that? >> no, we don't have

(cheers and applause) >> pelley: we'll see how it's done. john dickerson and nancy cordes are joining us tonight. john, you've been looking into christie's win. >> yeah, what he's selling and what he was selling in that message is an a message of effective government. from tea party candidates we've heard about this riking government. what governor christie is talking about is making it work. there's another message which was purely political. governor christie got a third of democratic voters. he won women voters against a female candidate and he won 50% of hispanic voters. those are all groups republicans have had troubles with. so the question is, if he's going to run for president, will he be able to duplicate that? one thing that's hard to duplicate is that support came from his response in the aftermath of hurricane sandy. he can't duplicate that on the national level. the other big test is the primary process. the question there will be is he conservative enough. in new jersey, governor christie cut taxes, he took on the unions, he's

for all of us at cbs news all around the world, i'm scott pelley.ou sunday on "60 minutes." >>> tom cruise admits that katie left him in part because of scientology. >> and what we found inside his just-released court deposition. i'm nancy o'dell. >> i'm rob marciano. >> he just opened up the pandora's box. >> tom suing over headlines he chose scientology over suri. why didn't he see his daughter for 110 days? his admissions under oath in tonight's top story. >> plus, where we found tom's little girl with mom katie today. >>> then -- suri in the paparazzi crosshairs.

. >> pelley: ben tracy at l.a.x. thank you, ben. the attack was carefully planned. john miller is former head of counterterrorism for the l.a.p.d. john, what have you found out? >> investigators are telling us, scott, that paul ciancia had a plan to kill as many t.s.a. officers as he could. they say he expected resistance from police and carried more than a hundred rounds of ammunition loaded into five magazines. they also say he had a carefully devised plan to walk through the crowded term ball that a large assault weapon well hidden but easily accessible. ciancia modified his travel kit to stand a concealed rifle upright. he cut holes in the top of a roller board suitcase and the bottom of a backpack and stacked them. law enforcement sources say this allowed ciancia to lift the backpack and then pull the rifle through the suitcase and begin firing. he first shot t.s.a. officer gerardo hernandez who was checking documents and boarding passes at the bottom of the escalator leading to the t.s.a. checkpoint. a law enforcement source told cbs news after shooting hernan

scott pelley spent some time with the man overseeing the project for "60 minutes." >> pelley: stephentitle architect of the capitol. this is all original? it's all 150 years old. >> yes, it is. >> pelley: all of this was designed by ayres' predecessor, thomas walter, who proposed a dome no one asked for. this is the capitol george washington knew and it's till the center of the capitol building today. walter won a competition to expand the house and senate sides to hold all of the politicians coming in from the new states. but then walter thought the original dome looked too small. so he drew another. >> he posted it on the wall in his office and members of congress would often come by and see that and it just stuck immediately. didn't even have a cost estimate, didn't know how they were going to construct it, how they were going to build it, how they were going to design it, yet it was so beautiful and so wonderful everyone just knew immediately that they had to do it. >> pelley: walter drafted it after the great marble domes he'd seen in europe only to discover that the building cou

. >> pelley: and with that, he announced a reversal. he will now allow insurance companies to reinstate those canceled policies at least for one year. mr. obama also took the hit today for the failed rollout of his health insurance web site. chief white house correspondent major garrett made news when he scheduled the president whether he knew about the trouble ahead. >> reporter: you were informed or several people in this building were informed two weeks before the launch of the web site that it was failing the most basic tests internally, and yet a decision was made to launch the web site on october 1. did you regret that? >> on the web site i was not informed directly that the web site would not be working, the way it was supposed to. had i been informed i wouldn't be going out saying, "boy, this is going to be great." you know, i'm accused of a lot of things, but i don't think i'm stupid enough to go around saying, "this is going to be like shopping on amazon or travelocity" a week before the web site opens if i thought it wasn't g

. >> pelley: thank you, major. now we want to show you the 14 states plus the district of columbia that set up their own health insurance web sites instead of relying on the federal system. we found out today that nearly half of the people who have signed up for private insurance plans in these states are californians. ben tracy is in our los angeles newsroom. ben? >> reporter: scott, there are more than 5.5 million people in california that are uninsured, the largest in the country. it was always expected that california would enroll the most people in obamacare. california was also the first state to set up a health care exchange and got hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding to build the system that is now known as covered california. now, the goal here in the golden state is to enroll up to 700,000 people in private health plans by april 1. so far, 35,000 people have signed up, so at the current pace, it would take more than a year and a half to reach that goal. however, today the head of covered ca

. >> pelley: elaine, thank you. mental illness seems to be at the center of many of these shootings and ben tracy learned more today about the strange beliefs of the alleged llz airport killer. >> reporter: the f.b.i. agents who searched the apartment had a search warrant for his cell phone. they found it in his roommate's car. the warrant states they were look for information on his views on the legitimacy or activities of the united states government, including the existence of a plot to impose a new world order. shortly after the rampage, police say they found a one-page letter. he said he targeted t.s.a. agents to "instill fear in youritatorrous minds," and also mentioned, nwo, nigh world order, a century old conspiracy theory accord to mark potak, who tracks extremist groups. >> basically identifies the federal government as an evil malefactor that is involved in the conspiracy to force the united states into a so-called one world government, known as the new world order. >> reporter: people who believe this th

. >> pelley: elaine, thank you. a good day for twitter, and we learned today the u.s. economy had a good summer. the economy grew 2.8% from july through september. that was better than expected. thanks in part to americans buying more cars. the economy grew by 2.5% between april and june. today's good news got investors worried, though, that the fed might roll back its stimulus programs so the dow dropped 152 points to close at 15,593. today, a historic antidiscrimination bill passed the u.s. senate. 10 republicans joined the democratic majority to outlaw workplace bias against gays and lesbians. supporters said it would allow workers to love whom they chose without the threat of being fired. opponents said it could force employers to violate their own religious beliefs. the bill now goes to the house where speaker john boehner says he opposes it. our nancy cordes has been talking to senators today about a surprising jump in sexual assault in the military. a new defense department report says assaults are up 46% this year. senators are considering several different app

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the "cbs evening news with scott pelley" is next. >> pelley: tonight, food is declared unsafe..a. moves to ban transfats found in popcorn, desserts, pizzas and margarine. chip reid has details. twitter takes flight. elaine quijano on the bluebird's wall street debut. a former miami dolphin tells us about harassment and racial slurs in the locker room. >> this is common throughout the whole entire nfl. >> pelley: james brown of the "nfl today" on the league's investigation. and the big-city mayor who said this about crack cocaine. >> have i tried it? um, probably in one of my drunken stupors. >> pelley: now has another drunken rant to explain. >> i need ( bleep ). it will be over in five minutes. captioning sponsored by pt

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