Swcho tt. Swcho os live from the cbs Broadcast Center in new york city, this is cbs2 news at 11 00. You are going to die and most painful a most painful death a killers words sent his the courtroom. Will we see more snow this weekend . Youll have to listen to lonnie quinn for that. And a change in the forecast . Could it really be the missing murder weapon in the o. J. Simpson case . Good evening. Im kristine johnson. And im maurice dubois. Its the murder mystery that seems just never to end. But is the timing convenient . Reporter the discovery of a knife is intriguing. Would be, in their words, bogus. The problem is it was discovered almost two decades ago but not turned over to police until just recently. We, the jury, in the above entitled action find the defendant not guilty reporter it was the acquittal of the double murder of Nicole Simpson and ron goldman unsolved. The weapon was described as a knife. Reporter a knife has been handed over to them. It was allegedly found during
They plan to be doing it all throughout the month and in many different transit hubs. Of course, well keep you updated on this. Thank you, shirley, a lot of attentions lately on slashings and stabbings in new york city. Heres the numbers. There have been 672 slashings or stabbings so far this year reported compared to 550 at this time last year and that is a 22 increase. L man trying to earn money picking up the man trying to earn money picking up fares is fighting for his life tonight. He dropped four passengers off at a club in astoria. The group entered the club, got into a dispute and ran back out to castillos suv and someone began shooting. Police say he does not have a livery license. Case. Was shot and i think thats the real deal. Licensed or not, whoever was in the pickup would have received the shot. He remains in critical condition. Doctors removed the bullet. The passengers were not hurt. The gunman is still on the loose. O. J. Simpson back in the news decades after being ac
J. Simpsons old brentwood home, demolished in 1998. Police say they are told it was an offduty or retired officer working in the area, there if a manufacture i job, who claims a construction worker gave him the knife, saying it was found on the estate. O. J. Simpson was acquitted of murder charges in the 1994 stabbing deaths of Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend, ron goldman. Simpson continues to claim he is innocent. Now many tv viewers reliving the whole trial in the people versus o. J. Simpson. As for what the discovery could mean. No matter what this knife turns out to be, it wont lead to o. J. Simpson getting prosecuted again. Reporter and that is because of double jeopardy. Police are emat that isising they are vetting the story to find out if it is real or made lets get back to breaking news. An overturned dump truck. Shannon stone is in copter 7. Reporter a mess this is. This dump truck was carrying gravel. You can see they are trying to get that off the road as well as clean
Exclusive video of a brazen bug burglary at a Cell Phone Store. And democrats and republicans caucus across the ycountry. What you need to know about this weekend races. Good morning. Welcome to today in new york on this saturday, march 5th. Im gus rosendale. And im Lynda Baquero in for pat battle this morning. There we see some battle going on. No shortage of it these days. Plenty going on in politics. Also with our weather this week. Were hoping for a warmup. We have meteorologist Raphael Miranda here. Good morning. Good morning, guys. Little chilly out there this morning. Temperatures will be cool as we start the weekend, but we have a warmup coming our way as we head throughout the weekend especially into next week. A little bit of everything seasonwise. You can see on Storm Tracker mostly clear skies. Lots of sunshine coming our way over the next few hours. Temperatures were dealing with. O29 degrees central park. 20 in floral park. Winds are pretty light, temperatures in the 20s
To the kingdoms of the ancient maya, archaeologists trace the evolution of human leadership. Theirs is a journey through time seeking clues to the emergence of the state. Join us now at the dawn of a civilization to uncover the roots of power, prestige and wealth. In the pyramids and monuments of the ancient maya, workers search for clues to the emergence of a vanished civilization. These are the ruins of the ancient city of copan, honduras. Dozens of stone monuments, called stelae, proclaim the power of mighty beings. Until experts could read these carved hieroglyphs, most scholars thought these largerthanlife figures represented maya gods. But we now know they are portraits of copans rulers, with names like butz chan. Smoke shell. And the most powerful of all, 18 rabbit. The maya called them cul ahau, or divine lord. The title was inherited. We call them kings since they passed their power to brothers or sons. A dynasty of 16 kings ruled copan for 400 years. How did they first acquir