This is nbc nightly news with brian williams. Good evening. And here is what Public Officials are up against in trying to tamp down the panic over ebola. The nurse who spent the weekend in a quarantine tent in new jersey after returning from africa is home in the state of maine tonight, and because her boyfriend lives in ft. Kent in northern maine, the local paper there says some patients have canceled elective procedures at the local hospital. Even though this nurse, kaci hickox, has never been there, has no plans to go there and is not sick and may not be anywhere near there. The president today said people like her need to be applauded, thanked and supported for their work with ebola patients in west africa. And in a moment well see the scope of that fight right now. We begin tonight with the latest in this country. The release of a dallas nurse from the hospital. Here is our National Correspondent kate snow. Reporter dallas nurse amber vinson is headed home. Im so grateful to be we
Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley reporting tonight from Jackson Square in new orleans. Pelley good evening, we have a lot to get to on this super bowl eve, and we will tell you all about that in a moment. T first we are going to turn to a place that is legendary for being very far away. There was a remarkable spectacle in the town of timbuktu today, the center of culture in the african nature of mali, islamic extremists had taken over there, but this week, French Forces with american help retook it and today the french president capped the triumph with a quick visit to the city, whose people had suffered under the severe islamic code known as sharia law. Elizabeth palmer reached ti timbuktu behind the french advance. It was a victory lap for french president francois hollande. The troops he sent into mali three weeks ago chased islamic extremist out of timbuktu to the relief and joy of the inhabitants. The extremists not only terrorized the peo
Interception and with two minutes left flacco goes deep to jacoby jones who battles his way into the end zone. The ravens went to the locker room up. To many the game itself is just an appetizer to the starstudded halftime show. Pop star beyonce rocking the super dome which had its own coming out seven years removed from the devastation of hurricane katrina. Beyonce was joined on stage by her former group destinys child. They have a new reunion ail bum and it was built as a surprise performance. Jacoby jones takes the second half kickoff from 8 yards deep and ties the longest kick return in nfl history. With baltimore up 286 they would turn out the lights literally. The stadium went dark and when play resumed a half hour later the 49ers began a nearly historic comeback. Kaepernick to crabtree for six and then frank gore around the right side leaving San Francisco within eight. Fourth quarter kaepernick takes it hits. The 49ers missed the twopoint conversion. Frank gore rumbles for the
Me two of them now in ruins. Last spring the extremists decided they werent islamic enough and sent in a wrecking crew. We were heart heartbroken sidi told us but when we protested they fired their guns in the air to drive us away. At timbuktus library the extremist turned to arson just before they fled in january. Torching some of the 300,000 ancient arabic documents. But today the librarians have good news for frances president , the timely arrival of his army meant less than one percent of the collection has been destroyed. Now feeling safe again the people of timbuktu want the french army to stay. Mali an troops alone they say cant keep the extremists at bay. But for the french government, mindful of americas recent losses in afghanistan and iraq leaving these soldiers here for much longer is simply not an option. Elizabeth has left timbuktu now and is in the town of bamako. The United States was also instrumental in the french victory. Reporter it certainly was, the United States
Many of us heading to the airport for this holiday season, and abc news has learned tonight about a Record Number of guns confiscated in the security lines. 37 in just one week. So what kind of guns and why the surge . Abcs Senior National correspondent jim avila starts us off. Reporter this guy is clearly not going to make his plane because just like a Record Number of travelers this year, he brought a gun to the airport, this one. Thats right, nearly 1,750 times, tsa screeners have pulled luggage from the Security Belt because it carried a gun, often loaded, carried by some otherwise smart people. There is bill russell, nba legend. This is his confiscated weapon. Or the wife of noted gunadvocate ted nugent, she was carrying this piece through dallas. What are people thinking . Virtually everybody says i forgot or i got a different bag than i usually have. Reporter the number of guns confiscated by the tsa has skyrocketed from 660 in 2005 to double that in 2011, and nearly triple in 2