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wounded vets. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. we have a much clearer picture tonight of how a leading chinese dissident wound if you want u.s. embassy in beijing, setting off a diplomat crisis, and it is straight out of hollywood. with the blind dissident escaping house arrest, american diplomats rescuing him, and then racing him to the embassy with chinese secret police in pursuit. the story is coming out at the same moment the u.s. secretaries of state and the treasury are in beijing to negotiate trade and polic...

almost-not-to-be-believed saga of chen guangcheng, is in the understated words of one u.s. diplomat, one of the most challenging human rights cases we've had in some time. critic escaped from house arrest, chen was hiding out with fellow dissidents in bake, when the u.s. earthquake headed by ambassador gary locke, mounted an operation to bring him in from the cold. >> when we got the word he was in beijing wanting to talk to us in the wee hours of the morning we went out and contacted him, and then we engineered almost a maneuver out of "mission impossible" to bring him in to the emb...

mother, a prominent political figure in her own right told judge john bates i humbly and passionately plead for mercy for my son. thomas himself said what is wrong? i broke the law. i humiliated my family. i humiliated my mother. he said i took this money because it was a sense of entitlement. my needs ahead of everyone. thomas pleaded guilty in january to two felony counts after several years of siphoning city money intended for youth programs he championed. he also resigned the council seat his father once held before him. judge bates, who neated thomas's earlier positive work with...

the rain has finally stopped here in times square. we have so much to get to this morning, everyone. what a wrenching day in the john edwards trial yesterday. so much emotion in the courtroom. his daughter, cate, was by his side all through the time. yesterday, she had to get up and leave the courtroom in tears. her father was calling after her in the courtroom. >> the testimony concerning her mother. and it was just too much. and this is just too much. junior seau, the nfl star's sudden death. and why there's a lesson here for teen athletes. it's shaken up the sports world. >> and...

the woman who cashed the $1 million ticket. what happens when finders keepers gets turned upside down? the rain has finally stopped here in times square. we have so much to get to this morning, everyone. what a wrenching day in the john edwards trial yesterday. so much emotion in the courtroom. his daughter cate was by his side all through the time. yesterday, she had to get up and leave the courtroom in tears. her father was calling after her in the courtroom. >> the testimony concerning her mother. and it was just too much. and this is just too much. junior seau the nfl star's ...