tony guida has the story. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news." >> axelrod: good evening. i'm jim axelrod. the fighting in syria is widening tonight and claiming still more civilian lives. more than 50 today alone according to one activist group. more than a dozen people are reported dead in the southern city of deraa, and today there was combat, as well new york damascus itself. elizabeth palmer is there. >> reporter: united nations observers arrived in syria supposedly to monitor a ceasefire. instead they're documenting constant fighting. today they drove to an outer suburb of damascus, mehleha, and immediately a crowd formed to point out the damage they say syrian soldiers did last night. there are in what looked like armored vehicle tracks in the road and burned-out cars say -- residents say were destroyed by artillery. >> yes, yes. and hospital. >> reporter: they damaged these buildings? >> yes! >> reporter: suddenly a helicopter appears overhead and the crowd starts to chant "the sy

tony guida, cbs news, new york. >> axelrod: and that is the "cbs evening news." later on cbs, "48 hours mystery." for all of us here at cbs news, i'm jim axelrod in new york. good night.

tony guida has the latest. >> bail was revoked. now george zimmerman is back in jail. randall pynnington on what is next for the man who shot trayvon martin. >> it's the final weekend of campaigning before tuesday's recall election in wisconsin. we'll hear from dean reynolds and john dickerson. and floating holiday, mark phillips shows us the thousand ship flolt flotilla that horned queen elizabeth today on her diamond jubilee. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news." >> good evening, everyone, i'm jeff glor. we begin tonight with a till developing air disaster overseas. adana air passenger plane crashed in nigeria today, and this evening officials confirm more than 150 people are dead. with more details here's tony guida. >> reporter: the twin engine jet appeared to belly flop into an apartment building into a desly populated area of lagos close to the airport. several charred bodies could be seen in the rubble of the building, as firefighters pulled a dead body from the wreckage. thousands of residence swarmed the smoking ruins taking cell phone pi

tony guida, cbs news, new york. >> jeff: that is the "cbs evening news" tonight.0 minutes." i'm jeff glor, cbs news in new york. scott pelley will be here tomorrow. good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >>> coming up on wjz ease eyewitness news tonight -- wjz's eyewitness news tonight. a shooting on the auburn campus kills three. >>> and a rare motion, what leaders are doing to get the bottle tax moving. >>> banning bumpers statewide, the proposed legislation that could keep sleeping babies safe. i'm gigi barnett, that story is just ahead. >>> tim is going to tell us [ female announcer ] with xfinity, you can always expect more. like more on demand shows and movies than ever. and more ways to discover them too. plus more speed from america's fastest internet provider. so you can run more devices at the same time. ♪ feel a firework

tony guida, cbs news, new york. >> jeff: that is the "cbs evening news" tonight.0 minutes." i'm jeff glor, cbs news in new york. scott pelley will be here tomorrow. good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org

tony guida reports. >> in the 20 years after richard nixon resigned, he worked to portray watergate asrd rate burglary and himself innocent of crimes. but woodward and bernstein whose reporting was instrumental in bringing nixon down, say nixon was worse than they knew. >> well i'm not a crook. >> what we found is that his white house became to a remarkable extent a criminal enterprise. >> in the first joint reporting effort for the washington post in 36 years and on cbs' face the nation, the two prize winners say nixon's presidency was rife with corruption. >> transactions, dirty tricks, cover-ups, hush money and so forth. >> paying off the watergate burglars is one example. in june 1972, five men broke into democratic party headquarters at the watergate complex in washington. in his book, nixon maintained it was a myth that he authorized payoffs to them. >> i neither took part in, nor knew about any of the subsequent cover-up activity. >> woodward and bernstein say the truth is in nixon's own white house tapes. president nixon in the oval office march 21, 1973. he's talking to white

tony guida, cbs news, new york. >> jeff: that is the "cbs evening news" tonight.0 minutes." i'm jeff glor, cbs news in new york. scott pelley will be here tomorrow. good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >>> that up and taken action to amend debaters in the east failed to prevent ball and attacks. >>> it seems like it is taken off earlier >>> a dangerous combination of dry weather and strong winds but firefighters on high alert. >>> home invasion should cut in sacramento for are dead. a fifth wounded. visit: