i'm russ mitchell. also tonight, terror arrests-- federal officials charge a south dakota florida imam and two of his sons with funneling thousands of dollars to the pakistani taliban. riding into history-- on the 50th anniversary of the alabama bus burning, civil rights pioneers remember their brush with death. and walking tall-- a paralyzed college student fulfills a dream as he receives his diploma thanks to remarkable new technology. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with russ mitchell. >> mitchell: good evening. for army engineers hoping to keep ahead of the rising mississippi, it is the most drastic step yet. this afternoon they opened the first of the floodgates of the morganza spillway, up stream from baton rouge and new orlea orleans. potentially flooding thousands of square miles of countryside. dean reynolds is in organza with the very latest. >> reporter: good evening, russ. officials told us this afternoon everyone in the area the water will take 24 hours to reach h

i'm russ mitchell. also tonight, los angeles police arrest a suspect in the dodger stadium parking lot beating that left a san francisco giants fan brain damaged. medicare battlegrounds, a special election in a new york congressional district becomes a referendum on the republican budget plan. >> and smoking ban. new york city prepares to enforce a new law against smoking in city parks and on beaches. >> this is the "cbs evening news" with russ mitchell. >> mitchell: good evening. president obama fresh from that frosty meeting with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu took his middle east peace plan directly to supporters of israel today. the president speaking to the american israel public affairs committee defended his proposal and tonight the reviews are in. witt johnson has more from the white house. >> thank you very much. >> reporter: president obama stood firm while providing reassurance to the crowd of nearly 10,000 pro-israel activists. >> the commitment of the united states to the securit

i'm russ mitchell, also tonight, interrogation debate. in the wake of the raid that kill kd osama bin laden, a renewed argumentsover whether harsh interrogation techniques work or cross the line. distracted drivers. think you can text safely while behind the wheel? well, try this simulator test first. and honoring a hero. the u.s. names its newest warship for a navy seal who died in combat in the afghanistan war. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with russ mitchell. >> mitchell: and good evening, floodwaters are rising tonight and so are anxieties up and down the mississippi valley with memphis most immediately at risk. take a look. this is the mississippi and its tributaries in normal times. these are the waters this evening. and these are the counties facing flood warnings. the waters are expected to crest in just two days in memphis which is where randall pingston is standing by live. good evening. >> reporter: good evening, russ the u.s. army corps engineers flood control system cost billions of dollars and de

i'm russ mitchell. also tonight, the new royal couple puts off its honeymoon for now in favor of a quiet weekend as official photos give a behind-the-scenes look at william and catherine's big day. kicking the habit-- disturbing pictures of very young smokers helped shock china into imposing an indoor smoking ban. and how a los angeles county horse ranch is helping youngsters find a safe haven from gangs. >> when you want to fight, you just talk to your horse. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with russ mitchell. >> mitchell: three days after the tornadoes that swept through the south, the full extent of the destruction is still emerging. let's take a look at the latest. the death toll has risen to at least 342 people in seven states. at least 1,700 people are injured, and at least 477,000 customers are without power across the region. satellite imagery shows tuscaloosa, alabama, before the tornado, and after, with the storm's path cutting a long slash across the city. right in

i'm russ mitchell. also tonight path to st.hood. more than a million people turn out at the vatican for the beatification of pope john paul ii. prayers for recovery in the tornado zone on the first sunday after the storms that killed more than 340 people. and female jockey on the fast track. one of racing's most promising young riders sets her sights on becoming the first woman to win the kentucky derby. >> i think riding in the kentucky derby is a big deal no matter what gender you are. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with russ mitchell. >> mitchell: and good evening. the libyan government tonight is condemning the u.s. and nato for missile strike yesterday that killed one of moammar qadz avi's sons and three grandchildren. here's the latest. libyan officials say that attack at a qaddafi compound in tripoli. today's qaddafi's forces shelled misurata and violence against at least two western embassies in tripoli has been reported. mabdee clark has the latest now from benghazi, libya. >> reporter: the libya

i'm russ mitchell. also tonight, in the flood zone. as army engineers open more mississippi spillway gates, thousands of people across cajun country prepare for the worst. help wanted, facing a shortage of skilled workers, hospitals try a new approach, training their own employees for better jobs. and words in pictures. how one innovative artist is transforming old books into unique sculptures. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with russ mitchell. >> mitchell: good evening. we begin tonight with a major shock in the financial world. the head of the international monetary fund who is one of the most powerful men in world banking stands accused this evening of sexually assaulting a woman in a new york city hotel. michelle miller has more on the arrest and tells us what this could mean for the business of the imf. >> reporter: for almost four years dominique strauss-kahn has run the international monetary fund which is grappling with europe's debt crisis. now the 62-year-old french politician has a crisis of his o

. >> mitchell: i'm russ mitchell. also tonight, hitting the road. sarah palin rideses into washington as part of operation rolling thunder. does it signal her entry into the growing republican field? >> and back from the brink, bald eagles soar again over catalina island decades after the pesticide ddt destroyed their habitat. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with russ mitchell. >> mitchell: good evening. it has now been 1 week since that devastating tornado rolled through joplin, missouri and today the town got a visit from the president and there were new signs of hope. here are the latest numbers. 139 people died in last sunday's tornado and the number of people unaccounted for is down to 40. ben tracey is in joplin tonight with the latest. good evening. >> good evening, russ. president obama was on the ground here for about three hours today in joplin to see all of this firsthand. and he offered help to this town where at churches like this one, it was anything but a normal sunday. >> so this is your house. >> yeah, thi

i'm russ mitchell. also tonight, stopping the bullies-- how one school system is spreading the word to kids that bullying is not cool. savoring success-- a celebrated chef opens his second restaurant to raves after beating a cancer that threatened to take away his sense of taste. and what happened to doomsday? the hour of reckoning has come and gone across most of the world with no sign of the apocalypse. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with russ mitchell. >> mitchell: and good evening. we begin tonight with news of two economies. retailers are carefully watching their receipts this weekend amid signs that sluggish consumer spending may be hurting the recovery. the uncertain outlook has helped to push stocks down nearly 300 points in three weeks. but with gasoline still close to $4 per gallon and food prices also high, some merchants are doing very well. seth doane has the good news/bad news story. >> reporter: for the tenth month in a row, consumers are opening their wallets.

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russ mitchell, cbs news, birmingham, alabama. >> couric: and that is the cbs evening news for tonight. i'm katie couric. thank you for watching. i'll see you tomorrow. good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org can i eat heart healthy without giving up taste? a man can only try... and try...and try. [ male announcer ] honey nut cheerios tastes great and can help lower cholesterol. bee happy. bee healthy. ♪ that's ever happened to cinnamon. introducing cinnamon burst cheerios. 20% daily value of fiber bursting with the delicious taste of cinnamon. new cinnamon burst cheerios. prepare your taste buds. >>> now, "entertainment tonight," the most-watched entertainment news magazine in the world. >> marie osmond secret wedding, remarrying her first husband in las vegas today. >> she started crying, i started crying. everybody in the room started crying. >> more than 25 years since they divorced. marie wearing the same gown as the first wedding. >> if i want to live with him i'm going to have him forever, right. >> inside the reception, cu

russ mitchell, cbs news, birmingham, alabama. >> couric: and that is the cbs evening news for tonight. i'm katie couric. thank you for watching. i'll see you tomorrow. good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >>> this is 9news now. >>> good evening, i'm derek mcginty. tonight, no pictures but still plenty of debate about the death of osama bin laden. president obama said releasing the photos would be a bad idea. >> it is important for us to make sure that very graphic photos of somebody who was shot in the head are not floating around as an an insightment to more violence, a propaganda tool. >> president obama will honor victims

russ mitchell, cbs news, birmingham, alabama. >> couric: and that is the cbs evening news for tonightm katie couric. thank you for watching. i'll see you tomorrow. good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org at wgbh access.wgbh.org . >>> you're watching cbs 5 eyewitness news in high definition. >> arrests again. what led to another round of suspects in the sleighing a german tourist near union square. >>> california needs money and it may come from you. the costs that will double in the hopes of fixing a broken budget. >>> and a summer bummer. even before school gets out, the bad news on the seasonal job front. >>> good evening i'm a will less than march -- allen martin. >> and i'm dana king. a break in a case that stunned many here in the bay area. nine months after a german tourist was shot to death in union square police have just announced they have made some arrests. joe vasquez is outside the hall of justice where a major announcement was made just a short time ago. joe? >> repo:

. >> i'm russ mitchell. >> and good morning, i'm rebecca jarvis. good morning, russ. >> good morning. a lot to get to this morning. the latest on that stunning "60 minutes" investigation, alleging that seven-time tour de france champion lance armstrong cheated by using performance-enhancing drugs. >> armstrong denies the allegations. but "60 minutes" spoke with a former teammate of armstrong's who says otherwise. and according to the report, more teammates, they have come forward to federal authorities. but first we begin with the developing story on the former managing director of the international monetary fund. once one of the most powerful men in the world, he is now out on bail and under house arrest this morning. he was released from jail after being accused of sexually assaulting a hotel maid, and cbs news correspondent michelle miller is outside the temporary home of dominique strauss-kahn here in new york. michelle, good morning. >> and good morning, rebecca. dominique strauss-kahn will spend the next several days in downtown manhattan, con

. >> and i'm russ mitchell. hope you're having a great holiday weekend so far. >> hope it's off to a great start. >> it promises to be a very busy memorial day weekend, aaa says more americans will hit the road this year compared to last. despite those gas prices averaging $3.80 a gallon nationwide. joining us from the new jersey turnpike is the national spokesperson for aaa, troy green. good morning to you. >> good morning, russ. >> in terms of numbers, troy, how many folks are expect the to be out on the roads this weekend? >> we're projecting 34.9 million americans will travel this weekend. that's up only 0.2% or 100,000 more travelers this year compared to last year. that number would be significantly greater if not for the headwinds created by some very expensive gasoline prices. >> yes, those gas prices obviously a big factor there. compared to last memorial day, where are we? >> right now, the national average is $3.80 a gallon. last year we were paying $2.75 a gallon. so we are paying more than a dollar

russ mitchell, cbs news, new york. jim: luke donald and brandt snedeker. with a 4 on the third playoff hole. donald had to hole that chip and nearly did. brandt was on his way to his second victory of his career. last week the zurich classic of new orleans, webb simpson and bubba watson. another good one. that belonged to bubba in the end. his mom was there. she encouraged him to play in that tournament. very emotional, as it always is with bubba in wins. they are go to head out to the 18th very, very shortly. byrd, -0. this is lucas' first playoff. sabbatini takes third. bill haas is fourth. kevin na fifth. perez and zach johnson share perez and zach johnson share sixth. last month steve was in seattle on business. he returned home and realized he was missing a shoe. so he called avis employee bob noll. after a short search bob found steve's shoe. which is helpful because shoes are more effective in pairs. reuniting renters with lost items seems obvious, but not everyone does it. we do. at avis, we're in the business of treating people like people. jim: t

i'm russ mitchell in new york. see you back hire tomorrow, good night.oliday weekend. >>> lane change, the bay bridge traffic gets reconfigured. what drivers can expect this weekend. >>> honoring our heroes. a traditional salute to the bay area men and women who died in the line of duty. >> that's the stereotype. and then there is the reality. in reality, something very different. >> food for thought. why is there so much demand for food in one of the bay area's wealthiest communities? cbs 5 eyewitness news is next. ,,

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i'm russ mitchell. >> and i'm rebecca jarvis. of course, russ, this has been a very busy news week from the osama bin laden news to the jobs news. of course we'll be covering all of it right here on our program. >> first let's get to our top story. more is ee merging about osama bin laden's nine years in hiding. this morning u.s. officials say more new video of bin laden in the compound is expected to be released. it appears he played a key role in the attacks by al qaeda and its affiliates in yemen and somalia. the u.s. seized hundreds of hours of audio and videotapes in the raid and on friday president obama met the army pilots and navy s.e.a.l.s who exkited the raid on bin laden's compound. krrz correspondent elizabeth palmer is in the pakistani capital of islamabad with new pictures from inside bin laden's hideout. good morning to you. >> good morning. well, officially, since the beginning of the week, a few hours after the raid, that house has been sealed. but all week images have been leaking out. new video, probably shot se

. >> i'm russ mitchell. good morning to you. new details are emerging about osama bin laden's time in hiding. first there's his library of pornography that was found in the raid on his compound. and the cia is trying to get a second round of interviews with bin laden's wives, and there are new warnings of revenge attacks. cbs news correspondent whit johnson is at the white house with the very latest. whit, good morning. >> russ, good morning to you. well, for the white house, there's no such thing as too much information when it comes to osama bin laden. now, this latest discovery of pornography inside his compound, it's all enabling the u.s. government to paint a whole new picture of the al qaeda leader. hunkered down for years in a drab pakistani compound, pornography managed to find space on osama bin laden's computer files. sources tell cbs news the files contained inappropriate still images. some of which showed couples engaged in sex acts. it's unclear who the images may have belonged to, but the al qaeda leader's time in

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. >>> on the russ mitchell auto springs get a new boost and a new entertainment option is tested out. ashley morrison is here. good morning. >> a mostly down day for asian markets. the hang seng dropped more than 1.5 and tokyo's nikkei was closed for a national holiday. wall street gets the latest on the labor market, on tuesday weaker than expected corporate profits pushed stocks lower. the dow was mostly flat while the nasdaq lost 22. >>> numbers released overnight show a mixed picture for the retail sector, according to mastercard clothing and luxury sales rose more than 10% last month compared to april of last year but the normally steady sales of electronics took a hit, dipping 2% and online sales got another boost, climbing almost 20%. >>> high gas prices are boosting the sales of smaller, more fuel-efficient vehicles, both general motors and ford saw double-digit sales increases in april. the compact chevy cruise accounted for better than 10% of gm's sales and ford saw a big jump in the sales of its focus compact. chrysler had its best april in three years. industry wide sales

. >> osgood: russ mitchell marks 100 years in the indy 500. anthony mason remembers the woman.altschul takes us to the source of the marble and honors america's war dead. first the headlines for this sunday morning the 29th of may, 2011. officials in joplin, missouri, have lowered the official count of people killed in last weekend's huge tornado to 139. 100 others are still considered missing. president obama just back from his six-day trip to europe travels to joplin this afternoon. our ben tracy has spent the weekend in that devastated town. >> looking back there, the altar and sanctuary would have been where they're standing. >> reporter: this is not what sunday morning was supposed to look like. >> we try to hold up. then we break. we hug one another. >> reporter: father justin moynihan is now leading a deacon instruction effort. finishing off what the tornado began at his beloved st. mary's church. >> a lot of that will have to be replaced. it won't be able to be used. >> reporter: meanwhile officials are identifying more of the dead. 18-year-old will norton is now one of

i'm russ mitchell, cbs news. >> kroft: last sunday, as the final preparations for the raid were under way, president obama continued with his charade of "business as usual." most people in the white house, including some of his closest aides, had no idea what was about to happen. to break the tension and to clear his head, he played some golf in the morning, waiting for the sun to go down in pakistan. then, he returned to the white house for the most critical 40 minutes of his presidency. in midafternoon, he gathered the architects of the mission in a windowless room in the white house basement to watch it unfold. i want to go to the situation room. what was the mood? >> obama: tense. >> kroft: people talking? >> obama: yeah, but doing a lot of listening, as well, because... because we were able to monitor the situation in real time, getting reports back from bill mcraven, the head of our special forces operations, as well as leon panetta. there were big chunks of time in which all we were doing was just waiting. and it was the longest 40 minutes of my life, with the possible exceptio

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first let's go to russ mitchell in the news room for the sunday morning headlines. >> reporter: goodning. it is may 22, 2011. in the middle of the night message indiana governor mitch daniels has announced that he will not seek the republican presidential nomination. daniels told friends and supporters he has decided not to sacrifice his family's privacy. but in atlanta yesterday, another republican, businessman herman kane, said he would seek his party's nomination. kane is a favorite of the tea party and is in favor of replacing income taxes with a national sales tax. he has never held elective office. tonight president obama departs for a week-long overseas trip. tomorrow he visits ireland where his great great great grandfather lived before coming to the united states in 1850. the popeed out to the heavens yesterday. benedict xvi bestowd blessings upon the 12 astronauts now at the international space shuttle. while two members of the crew were on a space walk to do maintenance work. iceland has threatened to disrupts european air travel. the country's main airport closed this mor