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Today for the 129 people who died in the terror attacks, and tonight, in their honor, the eiffel tower is bathed in the french national colors. the terrorists left the heart of this nation wounded, but the president vowed they will never destroy its soul. france observed a moment of silence at noon today to remember the dead and pray for the wounded. the victims were from 19 nations, including the united states. secretary of state john kerry arrived here to pay americas respects to its oldest al...

Who did not want us to use his last name, suffered a grazing bullet wound from the music hall massacre. [gunfire] >> i heard the gunshots, about ten. he shot in my direction, so i just laid down on the floor, like head on the ground, and then thats how i felt the bullets in my back. >> pelley: can you show me where you were hit? >> so i was shot here on the back just below my shoulder, and the bullet came out here. >> pelley: so lucky to be alive. >> yeah, yeah. >> he shot three of them just lik...

Was the inclusion of gender identity that opponents like lieutenant governor dan patrick seized upon. >> im glad houston led tonight to end this constant political correctness attack on what we know in our heart and our gut as americans is not right. >> reporter: houston mayor anise parker, who is lesbian, had endorsed the measure. >> this is a calculated campaign of lies designed to demonize a little-understood minority. >> reporter: 17 other states and 200 municipalities, including five major ...

Kris van cleave shows us how. >> oh, my god. >> reporter: cell phone video shows the four-seat cirrus airplane drifting slowly to the ground thanks to its on-board parachute. at the controls when the engine issue surfaced was former wal- mart c.e.o. bill simon. >> were going to try to find a place thats clear. >> reporter: this cirrus aircraft test video shows how the chute works, launched by a rocket out of the back of the plane, it fully deploys within eight seconds. >> none of the people woul...

Egyptian president abdul fattah al-sisi has dismissed the isis claim as propaganda. the russians have also been skeptical of any terror plot, but isis has recently been angered by russias air strike campaign against them in syria. today, egyptian authorities said they had successfully extracted data from the planes flight data recorder, but the cockpit voice recorder is partially damaged and weeks more work will be required. out in the desert, investigators have widened their search field to 15 ...

>> i had no other choice but to bomb, in this case, selected military targets and supply buildup areas. the results have been very, very effective. >> pelley: president nixon touting the effectiveness of the bombing of north vietnam in a cbs news interview in january of 1972. well now, newly revealed top- secret documents show that the very next day in private nixon wrote what he really thought. david martin reported this story for "cbs sunday morning." >> reporter: richard nixons candid opinion...

>> what quite frankly i think changes the historical understanding of vietnam is that nixon, the commander-in-chief himself, realized the failure. >> reporter: according to woodwards research, nixon had already ordered the military to drop nearly three million tons of bombs and would order another million dropped in the year after the zilch memo. >> it takes the concept of military leadership by a president and turns it on its head. >> reporter: the document was given to woodward by former nixon...

>> reporter: nixon was forced to resign when the tapes revealed he had personally ordered the cover-up of the watergate break- in. butterfield faded into anonymity until two years ago when he turned 20 boxes full of white house documents over to woodward, the reporter who had vecovered much of the watergate scandal. some of those documents are classified top secret. how did you just walk away with them from the white house? >> it was easy. i just walked away with them. >> reporter: the zilch mem...

Heres nancy cordes. >> reporter: podliskas claims are another blow to the house benghazi investigation, but republicans say hes lying. the air force reservist says he was fired as an investigator for the committee because he refused to focus solely on former secretary of state hillary clinton and her e-mails. >> this has become a partisan investigation. i honestly do not believe this investigation was set up to go after hillary. i believe it shifted that way. >> reporter: but republican trey gow...

Dont give out your card number over the phone call to report any suspected fraud were cracking down on medicare fraud lets make medicare stronger for all of us >> pelley: today the ncaa scored a big victory. a federal appeals court struck down a plan to pay college athletes as much as $5,000 a year on top of tuition, room and board. college football, of course, is bigger than ever, but don dahler tells us tonight that many high schools are dropping the sport. >> reporter: football runs through i...