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This is the "cbs evening news." >> jeff: good evening, everyone, i'm jeff glor with a western edition of the broadcast. it is called the hair hang act. acrobats suspend in the air performing a sort of human chandelier. today it went terribly wrong in providence, rhode island. this is video from inside the ringling brothers and barnum & bailey performance. a camera phone was recording as eight performers dropped to the ground below. we begin with don dahler in providence, don? >> reporter: jeff, the show had just about reached the halfway point when the accident happened. shocking the audience ...

On the las vegas strip this weekend, audience members watched in horror as a cirque du soleil performer fell from the so-called wheel of death. he's in the hospital tonight, and just days after the company was hit with fines after another performer fell to her death. there are growing questions about safety tonight, and here's abc's reena ninan now. >> reporter: this is "zarkana," one of cirque du soleil's acrobatic shows. and this is the wheel of death. 40 feet high, no safety net. on friday, acrobat junior espinoza fell but he survived. espinoza's accident comes only days after nevada regula...

Vast majority of americans who have insurance that works, you can keep it. for those who got cancellation notices, they will get insurance, said the president, and a better deal. >> jim, thanks very much. now a new twist in that shocking cirque du soleil tragedy. when a young performer and mom plunged 100 feet as the audience watched in horror. her death has been a mystery until now. tonight investigators say they know what went wrong and as abc's david wright reports, cirque du soleil and the casino will pay a big price. >> reporter: more than 100 million spectators have seen the cirque du ...

Time ranger in the national park service. she has been furloughed. >> well, i'm here. i want to do my work. >> reporter: the rosy the riveter national park is all about work and working together. the women and men who built the ships came to california largely from the segregated south. >> mississippi, oklahoma, arkansas, louisiana, and texas, worked of 98,000 black and white southerners who wouldn't be sharing drinking fountains for 20 years back in their places of origin, without the benefit of focus group or diversity training. they had to do it cold turkey. >> reporter: that history is per...

Frost. the bay area can not kick the cold. tonight, we will turn out to be the collest night of the current -- coldest night of the current cold snap. but we still have ways to go. and the rush to buy gun as congress considering drastic measures