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From CBS News headquarters in New York, this is the CBS Evening News. Good evening, I'm Maurice Dubois. I'm John Dickerson. A lot of the mystery about the deaths of Gene Hackman and his wife has been solved. Late today, the medical examiner said the Academy Award winning actor died of heart disease and Alzheimer's, most likely on February 18th.
That, the M.E. said, was about a week after his wife, Betsy Arakawa, died of hantavirus, a disease spread by rodents that attacks the lungs. Hackman was 95. Arakawa was 65. Their bodies were found Wednesday of last week at their home in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Carter Evans has the latest on the new developments. Carter?
Well, what we learned today is more about the timeline. Investigators already knew that Gene Hackman and his wife died in separate rooms of their home, but how and when they died is now becoming clear. For more than a week, the deaths of actor Gene Hackman and his wife Betsy had been a mystery filled with speculation. Today, Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Heather Jarrell provided answers. The cause of death for Ms. Betsy Hackman is Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome.
The manner of death is natural. The cause of death for Mr. Gene Hackman
is hypertensive an atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease with Alzheimer's disease as a significant contributory factor. Santa Fe Sheriff Adan Mendoza confirmed that Betsy Arakawa Hackman had run several errands on February 11th and when she returned home the data trail turned cold. There was no additional outgoing communication from her or known activity
After February 11th, 2025. Based on Hackman's pacemaker activity, it appears he was alive for a full week after his wife passed away. Was he aware that Ms. Hackman had died? And I think that question is difficult to answer, but I can tell you that he was in an advanced state of Alzheimer's and it's quite possible that he was not aware that she was deceased.
Now, the case is not closed just yet. Investigators are still waiting for a necropsy to help determine exactly how the couple's dog died. They're also still trying to gain access to their cell phones to see if it could shed any light on what may have happened in that week between their two deaths.
Carter Evans in Santa Fe tonight. Thank you. Dr. Celine Gounder is a CBS News medical contributor. Dr. Gounder, help us understand what hantavirus is. So this is a virus that is transmitted usually through rodent droppings or urine that have been aerosolized where someone is breathing those in.
There is quite a high case fatality rate, meaning of the people who we know have hantavirus, how many die? It's somewhere between 30 and 50%. And they die from failure of the lungs and the heart to function. A lot of people have not heard about it, Celine. So how common is it? Hantavirus is rare. So this is not something everybody at home should be worrying about for themselves.
Most of the cases we've seen have been out west maybe about 30 a year, concentrated in New Mexico, Colorado and Arizona. You may remember in the early 90s there was an outbreak of hantavirus that was discovered by Indian Health Service doctors in the area and there were about two dozen or so people who died in that outbreak.
We have about 20 seconds left. Older people were more susceptible or people with weakened immune states? Presumably, but this is so rare. We honestly don't have tremendous information about it. The best advice I have for you is if you're going to be cleaning in your garden shed or basement, make sure you wear appropriate protective equipment, mask, gloves to protect yourself. All right, Dr. Celine Gounder, thank you so much.
Well, Gladys Lark was in her living room in Taylors, South Carolina. Her husband, David, was in the kitchen. Brad Sigman walked in, moved methodically back and forth between those rooms, and repeatedly beat the Larks with a baseball bat.
until they died. - Angry that their daughter had broken up with him, Sigman showed her parents no mercy. - And none was shown to him. Tonight, 24 years after the murders, South Carolina put Sigman to death in the first execution in the United States by firing squad in 15 years. Meg Oliver is at the prison in Columbia, Meg.
With a hood over his head and a target over his heart, a firing squad executed Brad Sigmund. He was pronounced dead at 6.08, four years after the South Carolina State Legislature approved the option for death row inmates.
In this room behind a century-old electric chair, 67-year-old Brad Sigmund was strapped down here. Hidden behind a wall 15 feet away, three corrections employees fired live rounds at him through a small rectangular hole, a method he chose instead of lethal injection or the electric chair. New bulletproof glass was installed to shield witnesses. Do you expect more states in the fall of the same? No.
Why not? This was a political game that the Republicans in our legislature fell for when they voted for that. Nobody really wanted this. Why not? It wasn't necessary because we had two methods of execution. We had the electric chair and lethal injection. John Osmond is the former director of the South Carolina Department of Corrections, where he oversaw 14 executions.
While lethal injection remains the primary method in most states, drug shortages and botched executions have led to a revival of older methods. Sigmund's attorney, Beau King. Why would your client choose to die this way? Brad had repeatedly asked for the most basic facts about South Carolina's lethal injection drugs. He's like, is it expired?
Have the drugs been diluted the drugs spoiled and he was repeatedly refused that information So he chose a fire. He chose the firing squad what? Sigmund was sentenced to death for killing his ex-girlfriend's parents David and Gladys Lark in 2001 Beating them with a baseball bat a crime he admitted to how would you describe this form of execution death may be difficult for anybody but as far as
ending human life quickly. I think this is probably about as good as you can get. Twenty-three states currently have the death penalty. Five allow the use of a firing squad. This was an impossible choice, but between the prospect of dying strapped to a gurney over 20 minutes, drowning in the blood and fluid in your own lungs, as opposed to the firing squad, he made the only choice that he could.
Meg, how are people in South Carolina, state officials, responding to those who are calling this whole thing barbaric?
Maurice, the state of South Carolina maintains that this is not cruel and unusual punishment because they let the inmate choose the mess, the way they are put to death, whether it is lethal injection, the electric chair, or now a firing squad. If they don't make a choice, the electric chair is their default. Meg, what do we know about the people who pulled the trigger, the executioners?
We know that they are part of the corrections staff. We know they volunteered for the assignment. But because South Carolina passed a shield law in 2023, it protects the identities of everybody involved in an execution. So we don't know who they are. Make just a couple of seconds here. Did we get a sense of his last words before he was put to death?
Yes, his last words, Maurice, he wanted to say, I want my closing statement to be one of love and a calling to my fellow Christians to end the death penalty. Meg Oliver in Columbia, South Carolina. Thank you, Meg. Now, some of the top stories from around the world in tonight's evening news roundup. The privately backed Luna probe, Athena, landed on its side near the Moon's South Pole. You can see the feet up in the air.
Pointing back toward the Earth, it is the second bad moon landing for Athena's builders in a year. And a SpaceX Starship exploded during a test launch yesterday from South Texas. The FAA says the second such disaster this year disrupted about 240 passenger flights in the area. The United States has disabled Ukraine's access to satellite images, part of President Trump's ban on sharing military intelligence.
At the White House, the president said Russia is, as he put it, bombing the hell out of Ukraine. He is threatening to respond with sanctions. And two U.S. Army soldiers are under arrest in Washington state, suspected of trying to sell sensitive government information to buyers in China. Charlie Daggett has the latest on that.
This image is alleged to show active duty Army Sergeant Jian Zhou taking photos of classified material. According to court documents, he told one of his co-conspirators, very sensitive document, super difficult to get.
Stationed at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington state, Joe stands accused of selling the materials to agents operating in China, including 20 hard drives for which he was allegedly offered at least $10,000. Another active duty soldier and one former soldier were also charged.
The classified material is said to include intelligence on high mobility artillery rocket systems or HIMARS, Bradley and Stryker fighting vehicles and America's overall military readiness in the event of a conflict with China.
It's a case that reflects a growing threat revealed in a CBS News investigation, China's online recruitment of American active duty service members as spies. Jim Axelrod spoke to Kevin Vordren, the head of the FBI's counterintelligence division. Are they operating at another level from either side?
Compare them to Russia or Iran. Is China that much more of a threat in this particular area? Based on scale, yes, because the scale of their intelligence services is so significant that it outnumbers other adversaries on the board.
In a statement, Attorney General Pamela Bondi said the defendants will face swift, severe and comprehensive justice. Federal law enforcement have told us in the last two years they've identified around a dozen cases of China recruiting members of the U.S. military to spy. Charlie Daggett at the Pentagon tonight. Thank you. Still ahead on the CBS Evening News, Lonnie Quinn on the damaging winds in the Northeast. And we'll have these stories.
I'm Neetze Chin. New jobs numbers are signaling possible trouble ahead for the economy, just as workers are being told to get back into the office. I'm Steve Hartman. For 40 years, this pediatrician has given everything to the families in his care. You got one good. Why they're now giving back. Whatever needs to be done to save Dr. Z, we're going to do it. That story when we go on the road to Baltimore. There you go. Coming up on the CBS Evening News.
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The government reported today that the economy added 151,000 jobs in February, even as the unemployment rate ticked up a tenth of a point to 4.1%. Nancy Chen tells us the employment landscape in the country is changing as more Americans who've been working from home return to their offices.
In January, Amazon joined the growing list of companies mandating a return to the office five days a week. Does anybody have ideas for how we can make the summit more effective? The retail giant allowed us a visit with some of their workers at its corporate headquarters in Seattle, where it's the city's largest employer. People back in their cubicles. Is this the new normal? Yes, this is the new normal. Rena Palumbo has worked on Amazon's market research team for more than a decade.
What was it like being back in the office full time? It was a bit of an adjustment for some because it's really nice to be able to have the flexibility to work from home, but it's also isolating and can be a bit disconnected from your team and your community and the business. At one point, the tech-heavy city had the country's highest ratio of remote workers at more than 30%, leaving much of downtown Seattle empty.
Now, with those 50,000 Amazon workers commuting to the office, local businesses are experiencing a boost. Thank you so much. A trend seen around the country. The occupancy rate in 10 major cities bottomed out at about 15% during the pandemic. That number has since risen to nearly 55%.
The new Rainier Square Towers, considered a sign of Seattle's revival, now mostly full. Would that have been unimaginable just a few years ago?
For a building that was completely vacant five years ago, yes. John Miller works for CBRE, the world's largest commercial real estate company. Last year, his team in Seattle closed more deals than ever. I would say we're on the edge of a revival. We are seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. There are just so many reports about, like, the death of downtown. Even in real estate, it's cyclical. Life is cyclical.
Rina Palumbo says her 45-minute commute is a worthwhile trade-off. It's been sad to see sort of Seattle fall asleep over the last five years, and it's nice to see it wake back up again.
And Nancy Chen joins us now. So, Nancy, does the data here include all these federal workers who have been losing their jobs? Well, this is the first full jobs we've had since President Trump took office. But keep in mind, it doesn't show the majority of the impact we'll see from all those doge layoffs. That said, it paints a very similar picture to what we saw last month of a strong yet slowing labor market.
And Nancy, quickly, is Seattle like other cities in the country? You know, while there have been major gains in Seattle and nationally, real estate leasing is still far below pre-pandemic levels, which means that there could be some good deals for businesses out there, including lower rents. OK, Nancy Chen, thanks so much.
Strong winds in the northeast tore down part of a four-story tall scaffolding in Boston. It had been put up to do brick repairs on a building, but no workers were honored at the time and no one on the ground, thankfully, was injured. And Lonnie Quinn has more about the windy weather. Lonnie?
All right, let's get right to it then. I want to show you what the winds are doing right now in our country. So we can pull up the map. On top of the map, I want to superimpose the flow of the wind. Now, if you see them shaded in green, it's a light wind. But just offshore of Boston, we see that red shading. Those are winds that are stronger. But what creates wind in the first place? It's all about a pressure differential between a high and a low pressure.
system. So the strongest element on the map right now is that low pressure system way up into the Canadian Maritimes. All right. Now, a high pressure system is filled in south of it. The low pressure system will circulate air counterclockwise. All right. So imagine that hand of the clock going backwards. The high pressure goes clockwise. So imagine where that wind meets. It's like a pitching machine, right? If you were to drop a baseball in there, it would fire that baseball out. And sure enough,
That's what we dealt with today in and around Boston. Thankfully, that low is now far enough away. I don't see it posing a problem for the night. Gentlemen, Lonnie, is that it for the wind, at least for now?
For the toughest winds, yeah, but they don't go away entirely because everything's always moving in the atmosphere. So that high pressure system, I told you, is going to be pushing into the ocean, kind of fading away, right? But another low comes into the area. It's got wind with it as well, but you can just tell this is not as strong as that system to the north. See all those isobars so tightly packed around the low? This is a weaker low, so some gusty winds this weekend in the northeast, but not like what they dealt with today. Gentlemen? Lonnie Quinn. Thank you, Lonnie. On the road is next. Steve Hartman with the patience.
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I'm ready for my life to change. ABC Sunday, American Idol returns. Give it your all. Good luck. Come out with a golden ticket. Let's hear it. This is a man's world. I've never seen anything like it. And a new chapter begins. We're going to Hollywood. Carrie Underwood joins Lionel Richie, Luke Bryan, and Ryan Seacrest on American Idol. Season premieres Sunday, 8, 7 central on ABC and stream on Hulu.
Steve Hartman is just back from the doctor his office is on the road. In one of Baltimore's poorest neighborhoods we found one of its richest doctors rich not money in fact he's pretty much broke right but 66 year-old family doctor Michael Zollicoffer is flush with job satisfaction. Just love people I love to see a rash if you say you got a rash
I'm gonna find you, 'cause I love a bump on your head. You see what I'm saying to you? I have got this. - No, not really. - I love a bump. - Has anybody taken your temperature? - No. Listen to my sweetie. - That infectious spirit is part of what sets him apart. Another is his prices. Can't pay? That's okay. - You make everything sound so easy. - It is easy. Forget that dollar bill.
Now, I'm going to see you no matter what. You walk in that door, you will be seeing you bring your grandma with you. I'm going to see her too. Okay. But here's what amazed us even more. In the nearly 40 years Dr. Z has been practicing, he's never taken a real vacation. I think you'll live. Tells every patient they can call him 24-7, 365. There you go.
I have his cell phone number. Does everybody have a cell phone? Yeah. He's always available. This guy seems almost unbelievable. He is unbelievable because you'll never meet another person like him ever. A superhero, but hardly invincible. A few months ago, Dr. Z was diagnosed with cancer. So I got two separate cancers, one renal, one rectal, but I don't give up. And to add insult to injury, Dr. Z didn't have insurance.
There was a whole series of snafus, but bottom line is he had no way to pay for his radiation treatments until his patients turned the tables on that ever-giving doctor.
I'm like, let's fight. What can we do? Dr. Z will not give up on you. We damn sure ain't giving up on him. Whatever needs to be done to save Dr. Z, we're going to do it collectively. So collectively, they started a crowdfunding campaign. Nearly 1,000 people donated, raising more than $100,000.
Today, his prognosis is good. He got his insurance back and now plans to funnel any money left over back into the community. You know what? I'm going to say something that seems crazy as hell. I'm thankful that I got cancer because I am the happiest man on the planet, no matter what the outcome. What we have shown and why we're sitting in this table right now to show America, this is what you're about. We're about giving. I can't make it without them. There's no way they can make it without me.
You need each other. Let this nation hear this story. Let it hear this story. And let it follow his prescription.
for a better outcome. If you need something, you just buzz me, okay? Steve Hartman, On the Road in Baltimore. As we turn our timepieces ahead Sunday, we got to thinking about clocks. That led us to Leroy Anderson in 1945. He was a 36-year-old composer serving in the Army when he was invited to conduct the Boston Pops. He decided to write some music for the occasion, and a clock popped into his head.
an off-beat clock that didn't exactly tick-tock. It tock-ticked. The Pops performed the song, and it hit number 12 on the charts in 1951. But Anderson's big break came later that year, when a CBS producer was looking for a theme for a late-night movie show. The name of Anderson's song caught his eye. And the music his ear. And that is how the syncopated clock became
became the theme for the late show for the next quarter century. And part of the American songbook for all time. A look back before we leap ahead. And that is the CBS Evening News. I'm Maurice Dubois. I'm John Dickerson. See you soon on Evening News Plus. And we hope you'll join us right here on Monday. Have a fantastic weekend.
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