captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: in southern california, heavy rain unleashed floods that triggered massive mudslides. this was the result. cars and trucks, hundreds of them, were stuck deep in the mud angeles. road crews spent the whole day hauling away the mud and the vehicles, just to try to get the roads open 15. carter evans is in the thick of it. carter. >> reporter: scott, these are just a few of the hundreds of vehicles that drivers had to abandon as a wall of mud came down the hill and overwhelmed this highway. it happened so fast, that many of these cars were buried up to minutes. the floods came with little warning. >> oh, my god! run for yr life! >> reporter: torrential rain, four inches an hour, triggered massive mudslides, trapping rush hour drivers on busy interstate 5. nearly 200 cars and trucks were minutes. >> i have never seen anything like this. >> reporter: how long is that going to take to clear the mud and all those automobiles out there? only escape for some was through the floodwater. others climbed on t

>> pelley: joe biden shakes up the race. >> unfortunately, i believe we're out of time. >> pelley: also tonight, remnant of america's nuclear past, the health effects from radioactive contamination at dozens of sites. baby boomers are forced to put off retirement. >> right now, all i'm looking at is working and making money. >> pelley: and a big change on "sesame street." a very special new kid moves in to the neighborhood. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: this is our western edition. today, joseph r. biden jr. stepped into the rose garden, laid out a platform, and then gracefully stepped off, bringing to an end his ambitions of becoming president and a nearly 50-year political career. with president obama at his side, the vice president announced he will not make a third run for the democratic nomination in what would have been an uphill battle against hillary clinton. major garrett broke the story today, and he begins our coverage. >> i believe we're out of time, the time necessary to mount a winning campaign for the nomination.

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: today, joseph r. biden jr. stepped into the rose garden, laid out a platform, and then gracefully stepped off, bringing to an end his ambitions of becoming president and a nearly 50-year political career. with president obama at his side, the vice president announced he will not make a third run for the democratic nomination in what would have been an uphill battle against hillary clinton. major garrett broke the story today, and he begins our coverage. >> i believe we're out of time, the time necessary to mount a winning campaign for the nomination. but while i will not be a candidate, i will not be silent. >> reporter: joe biden stood with president obama and said the democratic nominee should stand on their accomplishments. >> democrats should not only defend this record and protect this record. they should run on the record. >> reporter: but mostly, biden framed an agenda for a campaign that was not to be. >> we cannot sustain the current levels of inequality that exists in this country. i beli

>> pelley: floodwaters reach new heights. carolina roads wash out. >> reporter: we're riding on what is the highway. >> yes, sir. >> pelley: and there is more rain on the way. also tonight, for republicans in despair, ryan's hope. will he run for speaker? >> right now i'm just going to try to make it home for dinner. >> pelley: obama versus putin. >> he's challenging your leadership, mr. president. he's challenging your leadership. >> steve, i gotta tell you -- >> and steve hartman with the ultimate wedding gift. >> it meant the world to me. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: the carolinas are about to get the last thing they need-- more rain. the worst flooding there on record is already blamed for at least 19 deaths. 372 roads and bridges are closed, and 17 dams have failed. the waters are still rising, filling not just basements but attics. david begnaud is in the flood zone. >> wow, look at that. >> reporter: this is the scene in andrews, south carolina, a town nearly

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: this is our western edition. have a look at the rain in maine. cars up to their gas caps, a storm system is whipping up scenes just like this all the way from florida to new england. it's likely to get worse with hurricane joaquin now threatening the east coast. chip reid is in virginia where an emergency has been declared. >> reporter: sheets of driving rain pummeled the northeast wednesday. a half foot of rain fell in some areas. it came down in buckets, almost literally. the streets of downtown portland, maine, flooded dramatically, though the waters quickly receded. >> this is insane. it looks more like rapids. it's unbelievable. >> reporter: rush hour was a slog in providence, rhode island. some cars ended up with about as much water inside as out. the system, which drenched coastal alabama and florida over the weekend and hit virginia and the mid-atlantic yesterday has now pretty much moved into canada. but the ground here is now well saturated, a date with hurricane joaquin next week could

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: this is our western edition. late today, we learned their names and saw their faces, the nine gunned down yesterday at umpqua community college in oregon. some were fresh out of high school, new to college. others were returning to education to make a new start in life. president obama this evening has ordered flags across the nation at half-staff. nine others were wounded, including chris mintz, a hero amid the horror. he was shot several times as he tried to stop the gunman. john blackstone is in roseburg, oregon, and begins our coverage. >> reporter: the smiling faces of the victims are now known, ranging in age from 18 to 67. they include three 18-year-olds, recent high school graduates-- rebekah carnes, lucas eibel, and quinn cooper. carrie boyd spoke for cooper's family. >> quinn was funny, sweet, compassionate and such a wonderful, loving person. he always stood up for people. >> reporter: 19-year-old lucero alcaraz hoped to be a pediatric nurse. and 20-year-old treven anspach was the son

scott. >> pelley: david martin, thanks. well, the key to northern iraq is the city of mosul, which has been occupied by isis for more than a year. take the city of one million people back, but noct has happened. elizabeth palmer is in northern iraq for us tonight. liz. >> reporter: the operation to take mosul back should have gone ahead about six months ago, and yet the iraqi army is stalled more than 100 miles away. commanders here say that the iraqi army simply can't do it alone, but even with american firepower and intelligence, there is another huge problem. the iraqi army is largely shiite. mosul is a sunni city, and that means it's filled with people who actually, crazy as it sounds, support isis, or at least they think rule by isis is preferable to having their city taken by a shiite army backed by a corrupt government in baghdad. bottom line, this is not going to happen any time soon. >> pelley: the two major factions of islam opposed to each other there around mosul. every day, three children are killed and 470 inj

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: we spent much of this day literally chasing the news after a military surveillance blimp designed to keep the nation's capital safe, took off on its own. tonight, the helium-filled blimp is on the ground in pennsylvania but it caused havoc from the heavens and became a social media sensation. here's chip reid. >> reporter: the unmanned blimp housing a state of the radar system. after a three-year test period it's supposed to track the skies over the atlantic for incoming cruise missiles. today what was being tracked was the blimp itself. around 12:20 p.m. ist somehow detached from its mooring at the army's aberdeen proving ground in maryland. it drifted north through pennsylvania for hours trailed by two f-16ss while military minds tried to figure on the a way to bring it down. it finally deflated deflated and landed in a wooded area in montour county, pennsylvania, in two parts, first the tail section then the rest of it. the blimp is massive, more than 230 feet long and flew with thousands of fee

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: president obama is putting u.s. forces on the ground in syria, something he had vowed not to do. but after a year of american airstrikes and the failure of a u.s. program to build an army of syrian rebels, mr. obama is order, in about 50 special operations troops to step up the war against isis. u.s. forces have struck inside syria before in lightning raids, but these troops are in for the long haul. the white house says their advisers, not combat troops, but they will be in harm's way. david martin is at the pentagon. >> reporter: a pentagon official said american special forces will spend up to 60 days at a time in the headquarters of u.s.-backed fighters in syria. they will north, for the foreseeable future, go out on operations against isis. their mission-- to coordinate a drive by various bands of arab and kurdish fighters on the isis capital of raqqa with the help of american airstrikes. strikes out of a nearby base in turkey will quadruple from just six to 24. "we want to be prosecuting as man

>> pelley: chaos in the house. the speaker-in-waiting drops out. >> for us to unite, we probably need a fresh face. >> pelley: also tonight, a v.w. executive takes the oath and then pleads ignorance. >> to my best knowledge today the corporation in no board meeting or supervisory report meeting has authorized this. >> pelley: an american hero is stabbed and seriously wounded. and a belly laugh in the button capital. >> reporter: is this a decent button? >> that's polyester. >> reporter: is that bad? captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: he left them speechless. house majority leader kevin mccarthy stunned his republican colleagues today by dropping out of the race for speaker of the house on the very day that he was expected to be nominated for one of the most powerful positions in the nation. nancy cordes now on what's behind mccarthy's decision and the scramble for a replacement. >> reporter: chaos was the word house republicans used to describe their own confere

i believe it was a small-caliber handgun. >> pelley: did you see the wounded? >> i did not see the wounded. i was blocked by the building itself since i was in the parking lot, but i did hear people screaming and people running from the building. >> pelley: as people were running from the building, what did you see? i understand all the classrooms actually open to the outside. >> correct. it's an open hallway, and all the classrooms have glass doors and glass windows. the doors aren't glass but the windows are glass. and i just-- i saw i bunch of people running out of hallway, going up towards the library, and that's when i got up and dropped my jeep and got out of there as a matter of fact possible and decided to try to help ask make sure cars didn't go into the campus. >> pelley: the people who were running out, what were they saying i just heard a fee people saying, "he has a gun. he's shooting. get out of here. this is real." >> pelley: kenney ungerman, an eyewitness to the shooting today. thank you very much. now, we have just contacted the hospitals invol

>> this i captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: we begin tonight with death in the word of life church. two teenagers were brutally beaten, one fatally, by members of the congregation, including the victims' parents. as for the motive, michelle miller is following the investigation. >> reporter: 59-year-old deborah leonard and her 65-year-old husband bruce were charged with manslaughter in the beating death of their 19-year-old son lucas. authorities say lucas and his 17-year-old brother christopher were brought to the word of life church sunday night as part of a spiritual counseling session. new hartford police chief michael inserra. >> both brothers were continually subjected to physical punishment over the course of several hours in the hopes that each would confess their prior sins and ask 3415 forestdale drive giveness. >> reporter: according to the police complaint, lucas sustained blunt-force trauma with injuries to his stomach, genital, back and thigh areas. authorities say at one point lucas stopped breathing and was taken t

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: this is our western edition. today an international panel of experts said that eating processed meats such as cold cuts and bacon increases the risk of colon cancer and eating red meat likely does the same. after today's report by the world health organization, every one seemed to be asking how great is that risk? so we asked dr. jon lapook. >> reporter: the w.h.o. committee has placed processed meat like hot dogs and ham in the same cancer risk category as tobacco but the amount of increased risk is nowhere near the same. lifetime risk of getting colon cancer is 5%. eating the equivalent of one hot dog a day raises that to about 6%. by comparison, one study found the lifetime risk of lung cancer is 1.3% in male nonsmokers, and about 17% in smokers. the evidence was strongest for a cancer link with processed meat. the international panel of experts said the cancer link for red meat like steak and pork is weaker. but that red meat probably also causes cancer, mainly colon but possibly also pancrea

scott pelley reports now from new york. take care family, >> pelley: roseberg remembers the victims of the college massacre. >> we have been trying to figure out how to tell everyone how amazing pliewkas was, but that would take 18 years. >> pelley: also tonight, how do we stop the killing? we'll listen to voices against violence. >> the president ought to take full charge and do whatever is necessary to protect the lives of united states citizen. >> pelley: the search for 28 americans lost at sea in hurricane joaquin. and the latest on where that storm is headed. and steve hartman takes us for a ride on the gravy train. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: late today, we plrnd their names and saw their faces, the nine gunned down yesterday at umpqua community college in oregon. some were fresh out of high school, new to college. others were returning to education to make a new start in life. president obama this evening has ordered flags across the nation at half-staff. n

comments@captioncolorado.com >> pelley: death opens the doors of a secretive church. parishioners are charged in the savage beating of two teenagers to force them to confess their sins. also tonight, clinton, sanders and the first democratic debate. >> the american people are sick and tired of hearing about your damn e-mail. >> thank you. >> pelley: products promoted as health supplements are sending tens of thousands to the emergency room. and they're just delivering the paper, so why are 15,000 people following them? >> this i this is the "cbs evening news" >> pelley: we begin tonight with death in the word of life church. police in upstate new york say two teenagers were brutally beaten, one fatally, by members of the congregation, including the victims' parents. as for the motive, michelle miller is following the investigation. >> reporter: 59-year-old deborah leonard and her 65-year-old husband bruce were charged with manslaughter in the beating death of their 19-year-old son lucas. authorities say lucas and his 17-year-old brother christopher were brought to the

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: it was a frightening few minutes today that must have seemed like hours for more than 100 people aboard a boeing 767 jetliner. the plane was about to take off from fort lauderdale, florida, for caracas, venezuela, when an engine burst into flames. passengers and crew raced to evacuate, and david begnaud is in ft. lauderdale. >> reporter: these are some of the pictures of dynamic airways flight 405 on nier after the pilot aborted takeoff. this cell phone video captured huge black plumes of billowing smoke as the plane's pilot frantically radioed for help. just minutes earlier, a pilot on an aircraft taxiing behind the dynamic plane reported a fuel leak to air traffic control. >> dynamic, out of the left engine it looks like it's leaking a lot of fuel. yeah, it's fluid leaking out of the left engine. >> reporter: all 101 people on board were evacuated, using emergency slides. >> the pilot didn't say anything. >> reporter: camilla diaz was in seat 1"g." >> i was completely asleep, and when i woke up, i was h

. >> pelley: many are dead in the latest mass shooting in america. >> he's in the classroom. >> pelley: this time a community college in corgon. also tonight, category 4 joaquin batters the bahamas, and there's been an important change in the hurricane's direction. and russian warplanes bomb syria for a second day. these targets included u.s.-supported rebels. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: oregon's attorney general says at least 13 people were killed today and 20 wounded when a gunman opened fire in southwestern oregon. it land on the campus of umpqua community college in roseberg, 180 miles south of portland. the shooter, a 20-year-old man, is dead. this is the fifth mass shooting to lead this broadcast since june, and ben tracy begins our coverage. >> this is an active shooter at yuck. >> reporter: the first call came in at 10:38 this morning, an active shooter on the campus of this southern oregon community college. >> reporter: students say the gunfire lasted for at least a minute as officers arrived on scene. >> reporter:

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: oregon's attorney general says at least 13 people were killed today and 20 wounded when a gunman opened fire in southwestern oregon. it land on the campus of umpqua community college in roseberg, 180 miles south of portland. the shooter, a 20-year-old man, is dead. to lead this broadcast since june, and ben tracy begins our coverage. >> this is an active shooter at yuck. >> reporter: the first call came in at 10:38 this morning, an active shooter on the campus of this southern oregon community college. >> reporter: students say the gunfire lasted for at least a minute as officers arrived on scene. >> reporter: and then silence. >> reporter: douglas county sheriff john hanlin: >> the shooter threat was neutralized and officers continued to sweep the campus, looking for other threats. >> reporter: with the 20-year-old male suspect now dead, officers searched students' backpacks for weapons and used dogs to check cars in the parking loss. lacey gregory was just 100 yourself away when the gunfire started.

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: they've discovered more dead today in the worst flooding the carolinas have ever seen. officials say at least 17 have died, and they can't even begin to put a number on the damage done by an estimated 11 trillion gallons of water. today as the sun came out and the water slowly began to recede, we heard amazing stories of survival. david begnaud is in south carolina. >> reporter: for angela cole, coming home was hard. >> oh, god. i can't even breathe right now. oh, my god. this is just-- . >> reporter: but she does alive. she snapped photos on her phone as the water was rising, and her family kept climbing higher trying to escape. craig smith is her partner. >> and by that time, the this direction. help. did you think that you and your family were going to die? >> when i saw the water coming up, yeah. there was nowhere to go. >> reporter: cole decided post a plea for help on facebook. "if anyone has a boat, please help. 4220 timberlane drive. i have two children, one with special needs" she wrote. smith

. >> pelley: high-level security breech. a hacker got his hands on the personal e-mail of two of america's top national security officials. also tonight, trump makes 9/11 an issue in the presidential campaign. house democrats try to keep benghazi out of it. their cars were towed out of the mud. now comes the hard part -- the great california scrape-off. and big ben may need surgery. diagnosis: bad ticker. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. accounts of two of the highest-ranking national security officials have been hacked. c.i.a. director john brennan and an anonymous hacker has been bragging about breaking into these accounts, but now multiple law enforcement sources tell us the breaches actually occurred. and jeff pegues is breaking this new development in our washington newsroom tonight. jeff? >> reporter: scott, this is a criminal investigation, and authorities are working to locate the suspect. he seems to be feeding off the publicity, and that's in part why investigators are r

>> monuments men. >> this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: house republicans have been planning this day for over a year. former secretary of state and now presidential candidate hillary clinton is testifying under oath before the benghazi committee. the panel is investigating the 2012 attack on u.s. diplomatic buildings in benghazi, libya. four americans were killed. ambassador chris steven, sean smith, glen doherty and tyrone woods. republicans are searching for any mistakes made on secretary clinton's watch. democrats say benghazi has been thoroughly investigated and the hearing is only designed to damage her. this is a live picture of her returning. her testimony began more than eight hours ago. nancy cordes is on capitol hill. >> reporter: the hearing started out cordle with handshakes, but things quickly grew tense. >> i think if you look at the statement i made, i clearly said that it was an attack. >> calling it an attack is like of course it was an attack. >> reporter: republicans accuse clinton of ignoring requests from ambassador chris stevens for more s