o donnell: plus our bob costa tonight with new reporting about vice president mike pence ahead of our live coverage of tomorrow s hearing. dr. fauci tests positive for covid. he s the face of america s pandemic response. pandemic tonight, the treatment he s taking. plus, a key f.d.a. panel endorses the moderna and pfizer vaccines for kids as young as six months old. severe weather. life-threatening heat and devastating floods. ford s major recall. nearly three million vehicles in danger of rolling away after being put into park. and a basketball team with no home. meet the middle schoolers who beat the odds. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. o donnell: good evening to our viewers in the west, and thank you for joining us as we begin with the state of the american economy and what it means for you and your family. today, the federal reserve took aggressive action to tackle the fastest inflation in four decades. the ra
tonight. the new images coming in of the historic flooding and now the damage at yellowstone national park. 10,000 people forced to evacuate. cars narrowly escaping rising waters. and just in tonight, a confirmed tornado touching down in wisconsin. at this hour, the tornado watches and warnings in effect across several states. and of course, the record-breaking heat. nearly 130 million americans on alert tonight for potentially life-threatening heat. rob marciano standing by tracking it all. news on covid tonight and the youngest of children. tonight, an fda panel now giving the green light for both the pfizer and moderna covid vaccines for children under 5. as young at 6 months. how they work, how many shots. and this could begin within days. and the other headline tonight, dr. anthony fauci testing positive, now on paxlovid. we do have news on his simympto tonight. tomorrow brings the third january 6th hearing in front of the american people. the pressure on mike pe
costa tonight with new reporting about vice president mike pence ahead of our live coverage of tomorrow s hearing. dr. fauci tests positive for covid. he s the face of america s pandemic response. tonight, the treatment he s taking. plus, a key f.d.a. panel endorses the moderna and pfizer vaccines for kids as young as six months old. severe weather. life-threatening heat and devastating floods. ford s major recall. nearly three million vehicles in danger of rolling away after being put into park. and a basketball team with no home. meet the middle schoolers who beat the odds. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. o donnell: good evening, and thank you for joining us as we begin with the state of the american economy and what it means for you and your family. today, the federal reserve took aggressive action to tackle the fastest inflation in four decades. the rate increase was three-quarters of a percentage point, and th
onboard. we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin with a new evidence that then-president trump was repeatedly told by some top officials and closest advisers that the 2020 presidential election was not stolen. the january 6th investigators say he didn t care. our ryan nobles has all the top lines from today s hearing. it was a lie that began on election night. we were getting ready to win this election. frankly, we did win this election. donald trump s false claim that he won the 2020 election before all the votes were counted. a lie he continues to peddle. one that some of his closest advisers told the january 6th committee they didn t believe. like his attorney general. he s become detached from reality if he really believes this stuff. his campaign manager. i didn t think what was happening was necessarily honest or professional at that point in time. so yeah,
already from china. we ll have much more on that in just a moment. but we re also keeping an eye on the pentagon where in just minutes, top leaders will hold a press conference. this question of military intervention in taijuan, it s very likely to be raised. we ll bring that to you when it begins. president biden is also formally answering an indy pacific trade pact. a lot to get to this hour. let s get started. cnn s jeremy diamond is live in tokyo. jeremy, what are you hearing from administration, from the white house about the president s comments in taijuan? reporter: well, listen, a white house official almost immediately after the president made those comments at a news conference saying that quote, as the president said our policy has not changed and yet, if you listen to the president s words directly, he very much does seem to be tossing away the u.s. s decades long foreign policy of strategic ambiguity as it relates to taijuan and the question of whether or not