Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley good evening. President obama will address the nation this evening to lay out his plan for reforming the immigration system on his own terms in defiance of congressional republicans. Senate g. O. P. Leader Mitch Mcconnell said the president will come to regret it. The president s plan will spare as many as five Million People who are in the United States illegally from being deported, and Major Garrett has more for us now from the white house. Major. Reporter scott, in excerpts just released by the white house, the president will say in his primetime address to the country taking on the challenge republicans have exceeding his own president ial powers. One excerpt reads as follows applause reporter the president s actions will shield parents of children here legally from deportation and expand protection for young adults brought to the u. S. Illegally as kids. The white house is framing president obamas
Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley good evening. President obama will address the nation this evening to lay out his plan for reforming the immigration system on his own terms in defiance of congressional republicans. Senate g. O. P. Leader Mitch Mcconnell said the president will come to regret it. The president s plan will spare as many as five Million People who are in the United States illegally from being deported, and Major Garrett has more for us now from the white house. Major. Reporter scott, in excerpts just released by the white house, the president will say in his primetime address to the country taking on the challenge republicans have exceeding his own president ial powers. One excerpt reads as follows applause reporter the president s actions will shield parents of children here legally from deportation and expand protection for young adults brought to the u. S. Illegally as kids. The white house is framing president obamas
Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Glor good evening, i am jeff glor, the family of Thomas Eric Duncan is about to leave quarantine. The family of Amber Vincent a nurse who got ebola from duncan just released their first extensive comments on what happened after she cared for him. Vicente arenas is in dallas. Reporter there had been lots of mistakes made in treating Thomas Eric Duncan at Texas Health Presbyterian hospital, but nurse amber vinson says they werent made by her. In a Statement Today her family said she has to fly back to dallas from cleveland a day early after hearing cleej had been diagnosed with ebola, officials told her that her concerns were unfounded, vincent reported her temperature three times before boarding her flight last sunday and was cleared to fly each time. The following day, vincent admitted herself to the hospital, vincent who is now being treated at Emory University hospital in atlanta has hired prominent Washingto
Change . And titan, ben bradlee, the longtime editor of the Washington Post, has died. And tributes are pouring in for the man who guided the paper through watergate and defined journalism for decades today, wednesday, october 22nd, 2014. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning, welcome to today on a wednesday morning. Im matt lauer, along with hoda kotb. Al roker and Natalie Morales. When you do what we do and ben bradlee was in a room you stopped and took notice. He was that big. And you were probably a little intimidated. There are few giants like that in our industry. No question. Well talk about his life and career in a little while. We want to start on this wednesday morning with our top story, the ebola crisis. A Liberian National is in isolation in newark, new jersey, this morning as doctors wait for ebola results. Meantime, the cameraman working with nbc in liberia when he contracte
Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Glor good evening, i am jeff glor, the family of Thomas Eric Duncan is about to leave quarantine. The family of Amber Vincent a nurse who got ebola from duncan just released their first extensive comments on what happened after she cared for him. Vicente arenas is in dallas. Reporter there had been lots of mistakes made in treating Thomas Eric Duncan at Texas Health Presbyterian hospital, but nurse amber vinson says they werent made by her. In a Statement Today her family said she has to fly back to dallas from cleveland a day early after hearing cleej had been diagnosed with ebola, officials told her that her concerns were unfounded, vincent reported her temperature three times before boarding her flight last sunday and was cleared to fly each time. The following day, vincent admitted herself to the hospital, vincent who is now being treated at Emory University hospital in atlanta has hired prominent Washingto