Discovery. Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Reporting tonight from the Democratic National convention in philadelphia. Just hours after an address to this convention by mothers who lost children to violence, some at the hands of police, criminal charges were dropped in baltimore today in the death of freddie gray. Grays neck was mysteriously not involved in an accident. Riots in baltimore calmed after Six Police Officers were charged, but now after four trials and no convictions, the prosecutor conceded today it would be impossible to convict any of the cops. Jeff pegues is in baltimore. Reporter baltimores top prosecutor Marilyn Mosby had a small group of supporters behind her, and a divided city beyond, for those that believe im antipolice, its simply not the case. Im antipolice brutality, and i need not reporter she was unapologet and i can at times defiant. For over a year, my office has been forced to remain silent in all six of the cases
Give me a break thats a bunch of malarkey and there is new controversy for trump this morning after he reached out to russia with a request. Russia, if youre listening, i hope youre able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing. Now gop leader and his own running mate are distancing themselves from the nominees plea to hack Hillary Clinton. Good morning from the studio 57 newsroom at cbs news headquarters here in new york. Good to be with you. Im annemarie green. Tonight, Hillary Clinton formally accepts the democratic partys nomination for president of the United States. Last night, president obama said he was ready to pass the torch in a forceful and sometimes emotional speech, the first black president made the case for his former rival. The first woman to be nominated jamie yuccas is in philadelphia. Good morning, jamie. Good morning, annemarie. Reporter i dont know if you can see behind me right now but a lot of construction is taking place. They are going to set an entirely new
John dickerson, thank you. So the reason youre here, bob, is that youve been at every Convention Since 1968. You were in cleveland with us. Weve seen the end of this one. How do you assess where we are . This is different than any of the others that attended. Theyre all different. This maybe is the most different of all. We didnt see the violence that we saw in 1968 in chic this one is coming down to, as you mentioned, scott, when you were talking about when bill clinton ran, people said its the economy, stupid. The Winning Campaign usually has a simple phrase that you can sum it up. This one maybe the way they were telling it tonight, all you need to print on the Bumper Sticker is donald trump, yes or no. Do you want him or do you not want him . Are you willing to trust him in the most powerful office in the country . Bob schieffer, dean of american political reporters. Bob, thanks very much. So post parties have their nominees in a titanic battle is going. It will last 102 days, the
Places where ive fallen short, i told hillary and ill tell you what has picked me back up every single time, its been you. The american people. Its the letter i keep on my wall from a survivor in ohio who twice almost lost everything to cancer, but urged me to keep fighting for health care reform. Even when the battle lost, do not quit. Its the painting i keep in my private office, a bigeyed green owl with blue wings. Made by a 7yearold girl who was taken from us in newtown. Given to me by her parents so i wouldnt forget. A reminder of all the parents who have turned their grief into action. Its the Small Business owner in salary so he wouldnt have to lay off any of his workers in the recession. Because he said, that wouldnt have been in the spirit of america. The conserve stiff in texas who said he disagreed with me on everything. But he appreciated that, like him, i try to be a good dad. 9 courage of the young solder from arizona who nearly died on the battlefield in afghanistan but
Former rivals that stole the show. Cruz never formally endorsed trump. Well have all of that coming up. Katy, vai. Thanks, well get back to the rnc in a minute. First, here in our area, oh, youre going to feel it, the 90s are making a comeback. All right 71 degrees at 6 01. Lets get to bill henley and the neighborhood forecast. Hey, bill. Its going to be bright sunshine today. We saw scattered clouds yesterday. We were in the 80s yesterday and warming into the 90s but a cooler start to begin with. 60s and low 70s. 91 degrees in new jersey. Lehigh valley, 92. You can see the skies are already starting to brighten. Just a few thin clouds there. And sunshine, youll see it now at the stadium in delaware. 91 degrees in philadelphia, upper 80s for the suburbs. Ill give you the forecast hour by hour when im back in a few minutes. Jessica boyington has an update from the first alert traffic center. Were watching in northeast philadelphia for a house wire closing the outer lanes of the boulevar