captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. most everyone who saw james holmes in court on monday wondered about his mental state or whether he was medicated. he looked like he didn't know he was there. he wasn't following the conversation, and when the judge asked hem a question, holmes' lawyer jumped in before he could speak. well, tonight, we have learned that holmes was in fact under the care of a psychiatrist before he allegedly opened fire on the audience in a movie theater in colorado, killing 12 and wounding 43. anna werner has the late-breaking details at the arapahoe county jail where holmes is held in solitary confinement tonight. >> reporter: a motion filed by joms' public defender reveals he was under the care of psychiatrist lynne fenton. dr. fenton is the medical director of student mental health services. holmes was a graduate student at the school. earlier this week, school officials said students were monitored by mental health specialists. >> the faculty and program leadership meet on a regular basis to disc

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good eveninge theater behind me was packed early this morning with people who had come to experience a big

scott. >> pelley: anne awe know dr. fenton's a psychiatrist, but does she have a spocial? eporter: the university won't say, scott, whether she has a specialty, but we do know she's been given grants in the past to study constituencies sc. >> pelley: 11 of the wounded are still in the hospital tonight. five of of them are in critical condition. now to the economy. we learned today that it is slowing down. the government reported a weak growth rate in the second quarter of just 1.5%. that is down from 2% in the first quarter. here's one reason it matters-- in the first quarter, the economy was creating, on average, 226,000 jobs a month, but by spring, that had plunged to 75,000 jobs a month, and that isn't nearly enough to bring down the unemployment rate. what's gone wrong? rebecca jarvis says have a look at spending by consumers. >> reporter: consumer spending grew by just 1.5% this spring, the weakest in a year, and not nearly enough to jump start growth and create jobs. economist diane swank: >> right now we have the highest risk of a second recession that we have had si

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening, the theater behind me was packed early this morning with people who had come to experience a big fantasy. but it was soon interrupted by a real-life plot so diabolical few could have imagined it. just a short time ago, authorities began removing the bodies of those killed in the massacre as the investigation continues. people have been coming here all day waiting for word of their loved ones. some of these images were captured by the "denver post". here's what we know: 71 people were shot at the midnight premier of the new batman movie. at least 12 are dead. many of the wounded are in critical condition this evening. 24-year-old james eagan holmes is under arrest. the police say that he booby trapped his apartment before heading to the theater to carry out the attack. we have a team of correspondents covering this rapidly developing story, including the biggest mystery of all, the motive. first we'll turn to barry petersen. >> reporter: for theater goer this is started as a very spec

the andy griffith show" playing" captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. heat in the summer is not news, but this summer is making history. over the last eight days, 2,400 high-temperature records have been tied or broken. on the eve of the fourth of july, americans are looking for independence from the weather. temperatures today climbed into the 90s and the 100s. they're really feeling it in those states hit hard by that fierce weekend storm in the east. in nearly 1.5 million homes and businesses, there is still have no electricity-- no power, no air. what's behind the record weather? we asked chip reid to find out. >> reporter: it's not just hot out there, it's record-breaking hot. this spring was the hottest since the government began keeping records in 1895. 150 million americans have spent some portion of the past week under a heat warning. in tiny norton, kansas, last week, it hit 118 degrees-- hotter than death valley. >> i don't think we've seen any conditions like this before. >> reporter: climate scientist kevin trenber

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: and this is a special western edition. good evening. in the west, thousands of v fled their homes. in the east, millions are without electricity. rarely do we see the power of fire and wind over so much of the nation at once. the wind came in hurricane force announced friday night across the mid-atlantic by lightning that some describe as artillery barrage. 22 people were killed over the weekend, mostly by trees uprooted in 80 miles an hour winds. more than two million homes and businesses are still without power. marcia mcleod and her great granddaughter mikaila milton found refuge in a red cross center in virginia. in the west, emmanuel and his daughter grace have no home to return to. the wildfire in colorado leveled their neighborhood. firefighters are still working to surround those flames. we have several correspondents on these stories and we will go first to anna werner near colorado springs. >> reporter: fire managers say this wildfire burned more than 1,500 degrees-- hotter than a lava

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captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. if you go to the official website for scranton, pennsylvania, you will find this boast: "the future is here." well, city workers hope not because their pay has just been slashed to minimum wage. scranton is just one of many cities struggling to recover from the great recession. american cities have seen their revenues decline for five straight years. 72% of them are making personnel cuts. it is a problem most everywhere so we have reports from east coast to west. firt, elaine quijano in scranton. elaine? >> reporter: well, scott, when public union workers opened their paychecks here last friday they were shocked to see just how small those checks were. now they're wondering what's next for them and their city. robert pulgiese has worked for scranton's department of public works for 26 years. he made $19 an hour. but last week his salary, along with nearly 400 other public workers, was cut to minimum wage. $7.25 an hour. >> i own a house in the city. two children. a wife. we have car

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. it was a strange and jarring picture. we got our first look today at the man accused of the worsz mass shooting in u.s. history-- the movie theater massacre in aurora, colorado. 24-year-old james holmes made his first court appearance, but from the looks of him, it wasn't entirely clear that he knew he was there. sitting next to one of his attorneys, his orange hair made him look like a character from the batman movies. as the judge spoke, holmes didn't seem to make eye contact. in fact, he didn't seem to follow the conversation at all. we have a team of correspondents covering this story. barry petersen was in the courtroom with holmes and, barry how did he seem in person? >> reporter: well, i have to say scott, it was really sort of eerie to be there. he seemed so unvovled. it was almost chilling, because we're talking about the fate of his life. frankly, i had a hard time taking my eyes off of him. you keep staring at that face, looking for some clue as to why this happened. he, o

scott pelley with the cbs evening news from colorado. >>> there's more ahead on wjz at 4:30. there's a big change in what it will cost you to fill the tank. don't miss tonight on watch report. >> and new details in the developing story from colorado where a gunman shoots 70 people inside of a ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, this is wjz-tv, wjz-hd and wjz.com, baltimore. from the city to the counties to your neighborhood, now is complete coverage. it's wjz, maryland's news station. >> it is 4:30. 74 degrees with light rain in the area. hello. thank you for staying with wjz eyewitness news. i'm denise koch. >> i'm vic carter. here's what people are talking about. >> dozens of men, women and children are dead, dying or injured. sarah reports from aurora. >> there's hundreds of people there around. >> reporter: chaos and panic following a shooting at a midnight showing of the dark knight rises. a man propped open an exit door at this aurora, colorado, cinema and threw in a smoke canister. >> anytime anyone would get up, he would shoot them. no specific agenda. >> reporter: he's 24-year-old

brings us the latest developments from aurora >>> thank you for watching cbs evening news with scott pelley live from aurora call ronald up next. >>> for latest >> they're saying somebody's shooting in the auditorium. there's hundreds of people just running around. >> he kept shooting at anybody and everybody. >> pelley: tonight, the biggest mass shooting in u.s. history. >> there was children that he was shooting. there were moms that he was shooting. >> pelley: a gunman opens fire at a crowded colorado movie theater. >> he was wearing a ballistic helmet, a tactical ballistic vest. >> pelley: more than 70 people were shot, leaving a nation in shock. >> we have to embrace them and let them know we will be there for them as a nation. >> pelley: police search the suspect's booby trapped apartment for evidence of a crime beyond comprehension. >> i don't ever want to see so

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. new orleans is famous for many things, but it is infamous for one. the police department is among the most corrupt in america. plagueded by bribery and violence. today in an agreement with the city, the federal government moved in to clean it up. it's an unprecedented top-to-bottom overhaul, and chip reid has the story. >> reporter: attorney general eric holder today announced a plan to completely transform the new orleans police department. one of the worst police forces in the nation. >> this agreement is the most widespread, wide-ranging in the department's history. >> reporter: the plan will change dozens of police policies and procedures on everything from training to recruitment to interrogation. for example, all officers will get 40 hours of training on the use of force and 24 hours on searches and arrests. officers will be barred from stopping or arresting people on the basis of their race, sex or sexual orientation. cameras will be installed in patrol cars. interrogations wi

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good eveningo to the official website for the city of scranton, pennsylvania, you will find this boast: "the future is here." well, city workers hope not because their pay has just been slashed

there is much more ahead on the cbs evening news with scott pelley. back here >> pelley: tonight, a foreign policy debut turns into an international incident. mitt romney criticizes the olympics. >> there are a few things that were disconcerting. >> are we ready? are we ready? >> pelley: jan crawford has reaction from across the pond to the great salt lake. dangerous storms move across america, and the drought is getting worse and fast. sharyl attkisson on the extreme weather. clarissa ward slips into forbidden territory to link up with the syrian rebels as u.s. warns of a massacre. and john blackstone on baby hugo's first visit with his dad whufs wounded in the colorado shooting. >> he cried a little bit which we were hoping for because we uponned kaleib to hear him cry. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. mitt romney was hoping his big, overseas trip to britain, israel, and poland would get plenty of attention, and it is,

scott pelley clearly doing the most traditional, hard news broadcast.ut it's awfully meat and potatoes you say, andrew, very few warm and fuzzy stories. >> yes. what paul said really good index of how committed to warm and fuzzy is how many animal stories you have and you don't hardly see any animal stories on cbs. >> the cute cat measurement may be something we can invent here. and paul, brian williams kind of doing, he has obviously the number one-rated news cast. kind of down the middle, tackles a lot of important stories. does a lot of politics, but at least introduces them with a more personal take. >> and also has a nice sense of humor which he's able to demonstrate in little items alone the way in the news cast. but it's the most traditional of the three now in the sense that it has the most traditional mix of both hard news and feature stories. >> so more traditional in that sense than scott pelley, who you would say is trying to establish his own identity? as a hard news guy? >> right. i cannot recall a program as unremittingly serious as the s

("taps") captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> glor: good evening, everyone, i'm jeff glor. scott is off tonight. it's the one idea that turned the supreme court decision on health care, this week it is the one idea that is front and center on the presidential campaign trail. whether the individual mandate-- the provision that requires every american to have health insurance-- amounts to a tax. on monday, mitt romney's senior advisors sided with president obama and against other republicans by calling it a penalty. today romney said not so. jan crawford sat down with the presumptive republican nominee in new hampshire where he's on vacation. >> reporter: romney has come under fire since the supreme court's decision because his position on this tax issue has been at odds with every republican that, of course, being in their saying that the health care law was in fact a massive tax hike. today in his first interview since the supreme court's decision, romney tried to clear things up. >> well, the supreme court has the final word and their final

we'll now take you to new york and the cbs evening news with scott pelley and invite you to come backtate officials said today after the final report on the sex abuse tragedy. armen ket yen reports e-mails expose a overcup-- cover-up. we'll talk to the son of the late joe paterno. >> was he deludes himself about the depth of the moral failure here. >> in the heartland drought is destroying the harvest, dean reynolds reports crisis will be-- prices will be soaring. >> the corn looks more like pine-- pineapple. >> why were pilots getting sick in flight. david martin breaks the news on a mystery solved. and clarissa ward finds the youngest victims of the syrian dictator's war against his own people. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening, one month after jerry sandusky was convicted on 45 counts including rape and sodomy of young boys, a newe

we don't want you to rush away, because there's much more ahead on the cbs evening news with scott pelley, including why american recovery is still stalling. we'll take you to the cbs evening news with ,, >> pelley: tonight is there an economic upturn on our doorstep? home prices are up, incomes are rising. but americans are still reluctant to spend. >> we get people that come into the store, they think we can negotiate and parter. >> pelley: reports from dean reynolds, sharyl attkisson and rebecca jarvis. the most critical battle of the syrian civil war, charlie d'agata is with the rebels on the road to aleppo. you could be getting a rebate on health insurance, ben tracey on a little known provision of the health care reform law. and among those summering at the cape is a very dangerous crowd. >> just like out of a movie, but knew was a shark. >> pelley: seth doane on the sharks of 2012. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. good evening. we have just begun the fourth year of what has been a very bumpy recovery from the great recession. today we go

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> good evening, scott is off, i'm anthony mason. the recession officially ended three years ago but today's jobs report is more proof the recovery is painfully slow. the june unemployment rate was 8.2%-- unchanged from may but employers added just 80,000 jobs. that's three straight months of disappointing job creation after a four-month stretch where growth was in the hundreds of thousands. it was the main issue today on the presidential campaign trail we have three reports beginning with rebecca jarvis, rebecca, those 80,000 jobs just aren't enough, are they? >> reporter: they are not, anthony. our economy needs to add at least 125,000 new jobs every month just to keep up with population growth. at this pace it could take four more years for the u.s. job market to fully recovery from the great recession. how does it feel to look at a project like this that is thriving now? >> it's exciting. it's a relief. it's thrilling. we're happy to be part of it. >> reporter: mark dinapoli is general manager at the su

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evenings are without power tonight. in the west, thousands are fled their homes. rarely do we see the power of wind and fire over so much of the nation at once. the wind came in hurricane force announced friday night across the mid-atlantic by lightning

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. from chicago. >> pelley: good evening. there's an important story breaking this sum, and it is happening here in america's third-largest city. homicides in chicago are up 38% this year. that's 275 murders so far

families on retreat in the rockies captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> good evening, scott is off tonight. i'm anthony mason. the sun is showing no mercy. the mercury soared again today in the central and eastern united states with temperatures in the 90s and over 100. the weather service put out a heat warning for much of the region including illinois. the temperature in chicago hit 103. breaking a record that had stood for more than a century. and the heat wave may be aggravating a crime wave. there were 22 more shootings in chicago overnight, five of them deadly. so far this area the city has had 272 homicides. dean reynolds has more now about crime in the heat of the night. >> reporter: the victims of chicago's increasingly bloody summer are trapped now between a plague of gangland violent-- violence and the onset of triple digit heat. 10-year-old kitanna peterson was out late tuesday night on the far west side playing in a fire hydrant when she was shot. a stray bullet went through her wrist and abdomen. >> you know what kind of man do that? a f

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. this is worst economic recovery america has ever had. we've been looking for hopeful signs, but today the chairman of the federal reserve threw a cold splash of reality on those hopes. ben bernanke said any improvement in unemployment will "likely be frustratingly slow." well, yes, to say the least. have a look at this. this chart starts in january, 2008, with the steep rise in unemployment. unemployment soared over 8% and it has stayed over 8% for 41 months in a row. it's 8.2% right now. bernanke was telling congress how he saw the near future, and we asked anthony mason to fill us in. >> reporter: in battle creek, michigan, this week, the "now hiring" call posted by a casino brought 1,500 job applicants hoping to win one of the 300 new jobs the gambling center will create. but fed chairman ben bernanke seems unsure which way to bet on the economy right now. bernanke told congress today the financial crisis in europe is slowing the economy here. >> moreover, the possibility that the

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captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. whooping cough sounds like a disease from an earlier age but we learn today that we're in the midst of an epidemic that may be the worst outbreak in the united states in more than 50 years. today the centers for disease control said there have been 18,000 cases so far this year. more than double the number by this time last year. nine children have died. whooping cough also known as pertussis is a highly contagious bacterial infection of the lungs. where is the outbreak the worst? and why is it happening now? here's jon lapook. >> reporter: this clinic in everett, washington, has seen more than 250 case of whooping cough this year. 20% more than usual. and it's stepping up its immunization. more than 3,000 case of the illness have been diagnosed in washington state, that's 13 times what they saw by this time last year. dr. thomas clark is at the centres for disease control. >> that's really on track to be a record since the 1940s. and we're seeing similar increases in most states aro

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening everyone who saw james holmes in court on monday wondered about his mental state or whether he was medicated. he looked like he didn't know he was there. he wasn't following the conversation, and when the judge asked hem a question, holmes' wy

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. mitt romney was hoping his big, overseas trip to britain, israel, and poland would get plenty of attention, and it is, for all the wrong reasons. the trip was designed to establish his foreign policy credentials, but instead, on his very first stop, he found himself trying to dig out of a diplomatic blunder. in london, he offended the british over their handling of the olympics. chief political correspondent jan crawford is with the republican presidential candidate. jan, fill us in. >> reporter: well, scott, that blunder happened yesterday in an interview with nbc news when romney talked about problems in the run-up to london's olympics. >olympics. >> there were a few things that were disconcertificating, the stories about the private security firm not having enough people, the supposed strike of the immigration and customs officials. that, only, is not something which is encouraging. >> reporter: romney's remarks became a full-blown controversy this morning when primedavid cameron,

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening, an audacious assassination has blown apart the inner circle of family and enforces that has kept the syrian dictatorship in power during a 17-month rebellion. this evening there are street battles in the capital and the u.s. defense secretary says syria is spinning out of control. it was a bomb planted inside the daily meeting of president bashar al-assad's security chiefs. three are known dead including defense ministerdaoud raja, the president's brother-in-law and the feared former head of the military intelligence and hassan turk manny, a former defense minister. others were wounded, most importantly the head of the dictatorship's secret police. syria does not often allow journalists into the country but we have reports tonight from two correspondents who have worked there extensively. elizabeth palmer reporting in london. >> reporter: after a year and a half of slowly escalating conflict, today's bombing is the first time the syrian regime has suffered a truly crushing blow. a fu

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good eveningous for many things, but it is infamous for one. the police department is among the most corrupt in america. plagueded by

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. gunfire took down three more people last night in chicago. homicides in america's third-largest city are up 38% this year. almost all of them casualties in the gang war. but the victims are not all gang members. innocent children are being shot. monday mayor rahm emanuel said this: . >> you got two gang bangers, one standing next to a kid. get away from that kid. take your stuff to the alley. don't touch the children of the city of chicago. don't get her near them. >> pelley: the gangs didn't get the message. last night three children were shot-- a 12-year-old girl, a 14-year-old boy and 13-year-old tishona poke. she was shot in a leg in a city park. crime is down in chicago in all categories except this surge in homicides. what's driving the violence? we asked dean reynolds to help us find out. >> almost all of the violence we're seeing now is from the gangs. >> reporter: sergeant matt little leads one of the teams in chicago's gang enforcement unit. there are about 200 such officer

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. gunfire took down three more people last night in chicago. homicides in america's third-largest city are up 38% this year. almost all of them c

scott pelley will be in aurora. >>> a man on a wrongful death lawsuit suspended. denise in the newsroom. >> the lawyers filed to stay the lawsuit until the criminal case against him ends. the hearing is for late august just before his sentencing for second-degree murder. he was convicted of killing love in may of 2010. she filed the civil lawsuit in april and against the commonwealth of virginia and u.v.a. athletic department claiming the coaches ignored the erratic behavior >> coroner confirmed died of blunt force trauma. >>> let's take a live look outside. rain clouds are moving as you in the video. mike hellgren with the latest. let's go first to bob turk who is tracking more on radar. bob? >> right now, some light rain and drizzle. some heavier showers and then light shower activity through the city. very light shower continues for the next hour or two. nothing heavy, no storm activity until we get far west around the hancock area. some showers there but moving pretty much off to the northeast. we can track these for you. there's hancock and flintstone moving

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley.ames holmes heard charges today that could cost him his life if he is convicted in the colorado theatre

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening, we haven't seen anything like this in more than 55 years. across the middle of the country the sun is beating down on dying crop and shrinking lakes. we got word in the newsroom today from the federal government that more than half of the continental united states 55%, is now experiencing moderate to exceptional drought. that is more of america drying out than at any time since 1956. we're going to look at why this is happening and when it might stop and we start with anna werner in texas with the dramatic pictures of how the country is suffering. >> reporter: times are hard on easy street. that's the name of this marine in in jonestown, texas. the falling water level has forced the owner to temporarily move his marina out to deeper water three times in six years. >> there's only so much you can take as a small business person when this is... this keeps happening over and over and over again. >> reporter: lake travis is not just for recreation, it's part of a network of reservoirs th

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelleyelley: good evening, heat in the summer is not news, but this summer is making history. over the last eight days, 2,400 high-temperature records have been tied or broken. on the eve of the fourth of july, americans are looking for independence from the

for all of us at cbs news all around the world, i'm scott pelley in aurora, colorado.e you soon. >>> now, "entertainment tonight," the most watched entertainment newsmagazine in the world. >> the "batman" shooting tragedy. was the killer imitating batman's most infamous villain, the joker, and what drove him to the attack? >> i got people running out of the people that are shot. >> what this just released police audio reveals as "e.t." recovers freem the shooter's childhood. >> i knew people in that video every well except for james. >> hollywood reaction from the tragedy.

much manufacture ahead on the cbs evening news with scott pelley.sourcing at bane capital. did it happen? we take you ,, >> mason: tonight, mitt romney under fire. wyatt andrews looks at the role romney played at bain capital and the outsourcing of jobs. jan crawford talks to the candidate. >> doesn't the buck stop with you? >> mason: and the c.e.o. of patrice bergeron written financial is arrested in a scheme that stole more than $200 million from investors. remembering the victims of the "costa concordia" disaster six months later. liz palmer is on the island of giglio. and steve hartman "on the road" and on the trail of flag fill. ers. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> mason: good evening, scott is on assignment i'm anthony mason. it's getting nasty in the presidential campaign with each side accusing the other of lying about mitt romney's role of bain capital and romney demanding an apology. with jobs the number-one issue in the election, the obama campaign says romney was running the private equity

scott pelley will anchor the show from colorado. >>> mother nature leaves behind a mess after severe storms continues in our area. parts of the region saw close to 2.5 inches of rain. taking a look outside right now, a dreary afternoon with no sign. tim williams is tracking more rain and storms on live doppler radar. tim? >> certainly, the type of rain we need is a steady soaking rain. we got more than that last night with a little bit of the cost of flooding and damage. we do have showers in the area in the baltimore metro area, we are getting a bit of a break right now. we have rain moving from the west and another evening full of storms firing up. take a look right now. the storm prediction center issued a slight risk advisory for our area south of the metro area and the entire eastern shore. most of the top tier of the state is not involved in this but because of the rain and drenching downpours that they could likely produce, we do have a flash flood watch in effect for much of the state and this is all through this evening as well as the slight risk category for the storm. we h

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> good evening, scott anthony mason. the recession officially ended three years ago but today's jobs report is more proof the recovery is painfully slow. the june unemploymenra