Transcripts For KPIX CBS Evening News With Scott Pelley 2015

The starting pistol sounds tonight in a 50week race to the republican president ial nomination. A race that begins and ends in cleveland, site of the g. O. P. Convention next july. Tonight the first debate with the topten candidates in the polls. Five governors, three senators a neurosurgeon and a real estate developer. Major garrett is in cleveland for us this evening. Reporter scott, that real estate developer, donald trump is also the undisputed frontev runner in a crowded republican field. Trump has promised he wont attack first tonight, but hes already been criticized here for being a celebrity, not a conservative. Ze donald trump arrived here in hiser own plane for his first debateer as a political wild card. The other nine candidates on thene stage are trying to halt trumps momentum. His sharp rhetoric has struck a chord with republican voters. Nearly 80 think trump says what he believes. Earlier seven other republicans met on the same stage for what South Carolina senator Lindsey Graham called the happy hour debate. N in the fox news forum, graham had sobering words about the fight against isis. If youre running for president of the United States and you dont understand that we need more american Ground Forces in iraq and that america has to be part of a regional ground force, then youre not ready toea be commanderinchief. Reporter former Texas Governor rick perry took aim at trump. Ive had my issues with donald trump. I talked about donald trump from the standpoint of being an individual who was using his celebrity rather than his conservatism. Reporter one of the ten in, tonights main event, kentucky senator rand paul, said hes eager to mix it up in prime time and will be looking for an empty suit. Is donald trump the empty suit . Well see. There will be a good debate. Well see whether its all going to be bombast or whether it willst be substantive, and the American People will have to make that judgment. Reporter those not on the stage tonight are on the outside looking in. Rick perry, Rick Santorum and Lindsey Graham will commiserate and hold their own debate watch party. Pelley weve learned that a key military unit that cost u. S. Taxpayers millions was routed in syria in its First Contact with the enemy. Both the cost and the stakes are high. The Obama Administration is depending on u. S. Trained syrians and iraqis to roll back the Islamic Extremist Group isis, which has dismembered both countries despite daily u. S. Air strikes. One pentagon official described the defeat as the u. S. Trained troops as a friggin mess. Heres david martin. Reporter this video purporting to show u. S. Trained fighters captured in syria could c not be independently verified, but theres no doubt the pentagons first attempt to insert fighters into syria met with what one official called abject failure. Nearly half the force was either killed, captured or missing. And they never even came in contact with isis. Of officially called the new, syrian force, the first contingent of 54 fighters was trained by the u. S. Military at a base in turkey and sent across the border into northern syria. [explosion] but instead of fighting isis they unexpectedly came under attack by a different radical Islamic Group called alnusra. The new syrian force called for american air strikes, and the alnusra attack was repulsed. F only one member of the new syrian force was killed while the enemy lost an estimated 30 fighters, but what appeared to be a victory turned into a defeat when the rest of the new syrian force scattered. Some were captured by alnusra some made it back to turkey, others are simply missing. Despite the bad start, the pentagon insisted it remains committed to the training program. Rec its a linchpin of a strategy that depends on local groundy forces taking advantage of american air strikes tore recapture territory seized by isis. Hundreds more fighters are currently in training or waiting to start. P so far the pentagon has spent 42 million setting up the program and plans to spend a total of 500 million to train and equip 12,000 fighters. Scott . Pelley david martin at the pentagon for us tonight. David, thank you. We learned today that the police were looking for Vincente Montano before he attacked a tennessee Movie Theater yesterday. His mother had called the police to say that she was worried because her mentally ill son had disappeared. David begnaud has the latest. Reporter Vincente David Montano was carrying a pellet gun when he attacked moviegoers. He was also carrying peppermo spray, a lighter, a propaneat canister and lighter fluid. A Metro Nashville Police Spokesman don aaron. There is a great possibility that he intended on using this propane canister as some type of an explosive. Reporter two minutes after being alerted to the attack,na officer Jonathan Frith was onnf the scene and confronted montano. I got a job to do. I have to save lives. If i have to, i have to go in there and engage the target. Reporter the 29yearold montano fired his pellet gun several times before he waser killed by swat officers as he ran from the theater. Montanos mother reported him missing three days ago. Denise pruett told police her son had been diagnosed withpa paranoid schizophrenia and as early as 2004 she reported her son was having thoughts of suicide as well as homicide. The visual of frightened moviegoers running from the theater wednesday has mothers like cina thomas rethinking movie nights with her kids. My family wont be going to the movies anymore. This has opened my eyes. There have been too many too close together. Reporter the attacker pepperto sprayed two women in the face, and the man who came to their aid was struck in the shoulder with a hatchet. But scott, in the end, despite all of that, no one was seriously hurt. I pelley david, thank you. You just heard the woman say she didnt want to go to the movies, but 230 million americans did go last year. And don dahler is looking at whats being done to make theaters safer. Reporter there are almost 6,000 Movie Theaters in the u. S. Security consultant tom delucas company, Global Security services, has 500 armed guards in 175 of them. Let the potential shooters see there is Armed Security there . 100 . No one undercover. We want to be seen. We want to be deterrent through visibility, yes. Theres a shooting at the grand 16. Reporter since the recentte shootings, his company has been fielding two to three calls a day from concerned theater owners. Ng new york state senator tony avella says metal detectors are the answer. Hes proposing legislation that would require them in theaters. I think it would cut down oncu anybody getting into whether its a Movie Theater or Shopping Mall undetected. One at a time please, thank you. Reporter magnometers are already used at many major sporting events and concerts but fewer than 1 of Movie Theaters do. Metal detectors can cost up to 5,000 each and operator costs could add up to 1 million annually at a time when most Movie Theaters sgins. Do you think the small mom and pops will be able to do this . In my opinion, they probably wont. I think theyll take the risk that it wont happen to them. Reporter the National Association of theater owners has not endorsed the use of magnometers. Instead it urged members to make sure emergency plans are up to date and that emergency exits, like the one colorado theater shooter james holmes entered through, are properly secured. Rg the largest theater chains have also banned costumes, face masks and toy weapons. But if security measures areur expensive for theaters, so are these shootings. Cinemark, the owner of the aurora theater where 12 people were killed and 70 wounded is40 being sued by 40 victims or family members of victims. Pelley thanks very much. In memphis today, a funeral was held for officer sean bolton. The former iraq war veteran was shot over the weekend when hewa interrupted a drug deal. An exconvict is charged. Firefighters are gaining againstt the biggest fire in the west the rocky fire north of San Francisco is 40 contained, but most of the hot, dry fire season lies ahead. Ben tracy is in lake county, california. Well make sure that itspe completely mopped up so that this doesnt restart. Reporter firefighters are chasing smokers, putting out hotn spots so windblown embers dont reignite the fire. Heinz maibaum dug out smoldering tree roots while Collette Harmon roped off dead trees. Its tedious. Its tedious. Th the most important thing is the fire goes out and everyone goes home safe and the town is safe as well. Reporter this work is a whole lot more dangerous than it looks. A lot of these trees are hollowed out and fall downnd without warning. Firefighters call them widow makers. Nd the wild and wicked rocky fire burned 109 square miles and destroyed 43 homes. It was a fire fueled by drought that has robbed california of two years worth of rain. On average, fire season is nows 78 days longer than it was in the 1970s. Fasten your seat belts. Its going to be a rough ride here. Reporter governor jerry brown visited the fire zone and said the intensity of the fire is a wakeup call. You can imagine if theou drought would continue for a year or several years, california can literally burn up. Reporter some of theat mandatory evacuation orders were lifted today so some people areg going back to their homes, butgh firefighters still have quite a bit of work to do, scott. S they say they will be putting out hot spots until at least monday. Pelley ben tracy in the part of california thats already burned up. Ben, thanks. Tonight too much rain is on ai collision course with taiwan. This is Typhoon Soudelor churning the pacific with gusts of 120 miles per hour. He it could drop 20 inches of rain t when it hits tomorrow. It left a path of destruction in the mariana islands, a u. S. Commonwealth. Much of saipan is without power and water. It was 70 years ago today that a manmade firestorm was unleashed on hiroshima, japan. 140,000 were killed. But the atomic bomb did spare u. S. Forces the invasion of japan by forcing the empire tode surrender. A peace bell was rung to mark the anniversary. Thousands attended. Lanterns floated in memory of the victims. Seth doane is in hiroshima. Reporter the scars of 70 years ago have been paved overeb in the rebuilding of this bustling, modern city, but theil pain is still there. Ma reporter so many people died here. Yes. Keiko ogura was eight years old when america dropped its atomic bomb a mile and a half from her home. Reporter it was just one designed to stop world war ii and force japanese surrender. The intense heat from the explosion incinerated the centerd of the city and the woodens buildings in it. He this was the only building left standing in this part of town, and it remains today as a stark reminder of the devastation. At the hiroshima Peace Memorial museum, director kenji shiga showed us everyday items that became artifacts. This is one of the things people want to come and see. A fouryearold boy was killed while riding this tricycle. Its grim evidence of the nuclear explosion. R temperatures reached 7,000 degrees. Shiga told us these personal be belongings, including an incinerated School Lunchbox burned by heat waves conveys how lethal and powerful the bomb was. Today there are 16,000 Nuclear Weapons on earth, he said, so its important to take another look at what happened here. It its difficult to tell thes story, but you feel its a story that must be told. Reporter this city straddles t a desire to move forward and to never forget. Seth doane, cbs news, hiroshima, japan. Pelley turns out there is a reason some flights get delayed more than others. A stradivarius stolen decades ago is back with its rightful o owners, and 16 years of jon stewart. Everyone was fair game. The only thing missing from this story in my kid fantasy is newsman Scott Pelleys non futuristic sense of style. Yeah y pelley when the cbs evening news continues. Pelley well, this wont improve your mood next timeoo youre waiting to take off. It turns out the airlines often choose which planes get stuck at the gate. Between january and may, more than 400,000 flights were delayed, and thats more than 19 . Heres kris van cleave. Reporter the 90minute flight from chicagos Ohare Airport to knoxville, tennessee, was the worstperforming route last year, not surprising to traveler larsen jay. We take this flight a lot. Were always delayed and were always behind. Its a crapshoot. Reporter the flight is a recipe for headaches. The route flies from an airline hub prone to delays. Last year 15 of 20 of the least ontime routes came to or from ohare. It typically uses smaller regional jets, the case for 17 of the 20 worstperforming routes. Those regional planes often make several stops a day. Josh marks of mass flight says theres a reason for all the delays on shorthaul regional routs. Thats because those regional aircraft are smaller planes. There are fewer number of people that the airlines have to reaccommodate. Reporter inside United Airlines Network Operation center in chicago, everyone from maintenance to meteorology is working to keep 5,000 daily flights operating as ontime as possible. Our key hubs are great. Reporter jim deyoung says. The Airline Tries to anticipatear travel problems but acknowledges some planes get an advantage. Do certain types of flights get s a preference if push comes to shove . Bl just by the length of the flight and the nature of the flight, youre going to see the International Flights will get priority, but ultimately werein looking at customer connections, were looking at the crew connections. Were looking at the aircraft flows and balancing all of those types of things. Reporter since 1980 the Seating Capacity on regional jets has increased 268 . Je that as the industry as a wholewhol has been reducing capacity of late. Scott, in 2013, about one quarter of all Domestic Airline passengers were flown by regional airlines. Pelley kris van cleave in washingtons Reagan National tonight. Kris, thanks. Bill cosby will have to testify. That story is next. Pelley a judge in los angeles has ordered bill cosby to testify in a Sexual Misconduct lawsuit. Judy huth claims cosby abused her at the playboy mansion four decades ago when she was 15. More than 40 women have accused cosby of raping or molesting them, but he has never been charged with a crime. A stolen stradivarius worth millions has been returned. The 18th century violin vanished in 1980. The owner said it was like losing an arm. He died three years ago. The break came in june when a woman who had the violin appraised took it to an expert who recognized it and called the f. B. I. The news is music to the ears of the owners daughters. They plan to sell it to make sure its voice is heard again int concert halls. In a moment, the maestro of satire is hanging it up. Jon stewart leaving the daily show is really reminding us all that were going to die. Pelley jon stewart wont be around to comment on the republican debate. Hes taped his final daily show, the end of 16 years of razorsharp satire. This is the daily show with jon stewart. The world is demonstrably worse than when i started. Have i caused this . Im a new member of this family, your family, and ill be here for you every night. I think what the daily show did was start commenting on the absurdity of the culture and the hypocrisy in media and government. Im going to try and download every movie ever made, and you try to sign up for obamacare and well see which happens first. Fi okay. Jon stewart is not afraid to get in the arena and throw punches. Ec i cant reconcile the brilliance and knowledge that you have and the intricacies of the market with the crazy [bleeped] i see you do every night. Or i felt uncomfortable for theu guy because you know hes going to get skewered. You gerrymander these clipsra like crazy, clip, clip, clip clip, clip. Gerrymander . Are you saying i have redistricted my clips . You certainly have. I felt like his interviews did not have the tone of im attacking you, more like im trying to understand. I think i know why youre here. Let me just deflate the tension right off the bat. Apology accepted. Is he an equal opportunity insulter . You bet he is. Ou you ran on very high rhetoric, hope and change, and the democrats this year seem to be running on, please, baby, one more chance. Ir now, this is our first show since the tragedy in new york city. 9 11 was such a world changing event, and there was such a blanket of sadness indn this town. We looked to those guys to comment on how were feeling. A lot of folks have asked me, what are you going to do when you get back, what are you going to say, geez, what a terrible d thing to have to do, and i dont see it as a burden at all. I see it as a privilege and. I think what september 11th did on an emotional level is what happens at any time when the comedian lets the wall down. Jons humanity is the thing thats really going to be missed. It cannot be replaced. Ng nothing feels better than making you laugh. Im really amazed by what you did here. Its really like one of the great comedy accomplishments of all time that you did. Very nice. Congratulations. Pelley thats the cbs evening news for tonight. For all of us at cbs news all around the world. Good night. The bomb squad on the scene of a world war ii weapons stash. Items found while someone was cleaning out their house. New at 6 00, copper thieves strike in the middle of the night and its