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This is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley not since Alexander Graham bell invented the telephone has anyone received a call like this. A call from the federal government to stop using the phone because it could explode. That warning went out today from the Consumer Product Safety Commission to 2. 5 million owners of the new samsung note 7. Heres don reporter in the three weeks since samsung released the galaxy note 7 phone, there have been at least 35 reports around the world of the lithium ion batteries exploding. It was very surprising to me how quick the dash caught on fire. Re...

This is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. On board. And last friday, samsung issued a voluntary recall for all 2. 5 million phones. Lithium ion batteries have been touted as the future but they have also overheated in everything from popular hover board toys to ecigarettes. In 2014, boeing was forced to groundits dreamliners for three months because of problems with their lithium batterys. Jay whitaker is a professor of material science and engineering at carn ge melon university. Whats interesting aboutlicateiom ion batteries is theyre full of flammable material. Reporter samsung estima...

Spin up. That is why we will watch the storms as carefully as we will. 56 degrees in orlando. 70 degrees today. Cloudy and wet. 72, orlando. Storms in the forecast. Download the first alert weather app. You can get those Severe Weather alerts down into your neighborhood. Michelle i95 is open. Jason the northbound lanes were shut down. Traffic was being diverted onto beville road then north on williamson to International Speedway boulevard. Officials tell us the driver of that truck was taken to a hospital and is expected to be ok. It is not clear what caused the ted we have more trouble. This ...

Thought about todays hearing as it relates to cdc, it is this. With the recent incidents, we recognize the pattern at cdc where we need to greatly improve the culture of safety and i am overseeing sweeping measures to improve that culture of safety. Cdc works 24 7 and our scientists protect americans from threats, including naturally occurring threats like ebola and mers and drug resistant bacteria such as anthrax. But we must do that work more safely and we will. Theres a recap of the recent incidents that summarized in our report which has been completed and were just at the outset of our in...

Solve, but we think it would be worth spending some time even at a theoretical strategic level to address the issue and think through how we go about doing it in the future. Dr. Frieden, what are your views here in terms of the growing numbers of of the labs and just what how to move forward with the activity here in the u. S. . I do think this is a complicated topic for which theres probably not a quick and simple solution, but just logically, the more places with dangerous pathogens goes on, the more possibility there is of accidents or accidental releases. So ensuring that the work that hap...