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Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley weve learned tonight how president obama intends to tighten gun sales without the approval of congress. The president , frustrated by mass murders that seem to come every month, has decided in his last year to test the limits of his power. Chief Legal Correspondent jan crawford has the breaking news from the white house. Jan . Well, scott, Senior Administration officials just moments ago outlined the executive actions the president will announce tomorrow which he says will help keep guns out of the wrong hands,....

Premature tightening and the fed needs to guard against getting back into the zero or lower bound once it were to lift off. He says the fed should not repeat mistakes. Once the said does lift off, evans saying the path of increases should be kept, quote, shallow for some time. Even says the fed could allow, quote, modest overshooting of inflation, letting the inflation rate run above that two percent target for some time. Inflation breakout, he says, is not likely in todays economic environment in part because theres a good deal of slack that remains in the labor market and he sees that in wag...

First of all, lets not make too much of this. A majority of the people who vote yesterday were female. It was 5149. But it was less than we a point or so less, but it wasnt like there was a huge shift in the gender balance in the electorate that voted yesterday. Women have a tendency to place a higher priority on issues like education and health care and i think any politicians, republican or democrat who hopes to appeal to women has got to have something intelligent to say about both of those issues. We dont have as many people as we need to be able to articulate a position on education. Its ...

Defeating two incumbents along the way. In arkansas, tom cotton defeated senator mark pryor in colorado, republican cory gardner beat incumbent democrat mark udall. Ifill republicans have won seats left over by retiring democrats in montana, south dakota and west virginia. They have held on to closely contested seats in georgia where david perdue defeated michelle nunn, the former senator sam nunn. In kansas where pat roberts beat back challenge by greg other man. In kentucky where Senate Minority leader Mitch Mcconnell won. Woodruff other key races have yet to be called in such closely watche...

Fire fighters. We have encountered a lot of ice and crews are walking gingerly on the ice. We were able to get salt down right away, but were waiting for the major salt trucks to get here. Reporter smoke alarms alerted occupants of the home to the fire allowing the victims three elderly relatives to get out safely. Now they are staying with family as Fire Fighters finish the job as investigators work to find a cause. And back here live you can tell crews have since left the scene. So pretty clear here other than restoration crews looking at that age, again they imagined to get out of the side ...