guilty in the shooting death of duante wright. the war on cancer: a new treatment that can help prevent one of the devastating side effects of chemotherapy. royal baby s first photo. babe lilibetmation her debut in the family s christmas card. a t.s.a. agent turns super hero to save a baby s life. and bringing christmas cheer and light to a nation s military family. this is the cbs evening this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. yuccas: good evening, and thank you for joining us. i m jamie yuccas in for norah. we begin tonight with this year s holiday season looking like a disappointing repeat of last year, all thanks to the omicron variant. case numbers are rackingum, more people are entering the hospital, healthcare workers are overwhelmed. average daily cases fueled by the highly transmissible variant have now exceeded the delta peak from the summer. meanwhile, americans are shattering records at pop-up testing sites w
i had a dream that i would be here receiving something from the president but i thought it would be the front door s key. bob dole receiving the presidential medal of freedom from the man he lost the election to a couple of months earlier. we are going to remember the life of the american hero and republican statesman. first, the greatest of bob dole in stark contrast. over the weekend we got a sampling from some of the far-right s finest, first on the big lie from donald trump who once tweeted that on saturday, he admitted he lost the 2020 election or he called himself stupid releasing a statement anybody does not think there wasn t massive election fraud in the 2020 presidential election is either very stupid or very corrupt. on covid, it s marjorie taylor greene tweeted a thread comparing the virus to cancer. more than 600,000 people in the u.s. die from cancer. the country has never once shutdown. not a single school has closed. every year, people of all ages and r
system after a jury found rittenhouse not guilty on all accounts. advocates now calling for rittenhouse to face federal charges. we watched the aftermath unfold in ken yorba, and attention turns to brunswick, georgia. closing arguments are expected to beginning tomorrow in the trial of the men accused of killing ahmaud arbery. ahmaud was shot after being chased and killed by two white men who thought he might be behind recent break-ins in the neighborhood. we will see arbery s trial and the rise of americans thinking they can take the law into their own hands. and there s growing concern the rittenhouse verdict could embolden vigilanteism across the country. this morning on meet the press my colleague reverend al sharpton spoke about the message he fears the verdict sends to people who want to police their own communities. we just have a big rally and prayer vigil in georgia, brunswick, georgia, around the case of ahmaud arbery. now i will be concerned this week of having
and in the nation s capital, president biden talking about this, and affirming the american jury system after this controversial acquittal. watch. i stand by what the jury has concluded. the jury system works. we re expecting to hear more from him later in the hour as he celebrates the house passing his social spending plan this morning, but his jnt isn t quite over the finish line yet. i m hallie jackson in washington. but we start with our team in and around kenosha, wisconsin. ellison barber, who is there. i m also joined by former u.s. attorney, rachel paulus, barbara mcquade, former prosecutor, paul henderson, and brittany pat nick cunningham. ellis, i have to start with you. you re on scene. we just heard from the defense attorney who i assume spoke not too far from where you are now. what do you expect in the next hour or so. have we heard from everybody that we expect to hear from at this point? given that we just got that statement from the prosecutor, i would
unrest in kenosha last summer. in just a moment, you ll hear from wendy rittenhouse, kyle s mom, who spoke to nbc s gabe gutierrez just a short time ago, hours before closing arguments are set to begin in her son s murder trial. the end of this trial coming after the judge overseeing proceedings has repeatedly made headlines. first for banning prosecutors from using the word victim to describe the men rittenhouse is accused of killing, then he scolded the prosecution over lines of questioning. the judge even asked the jury to gave round of applause to a defense witness, honoring his status as a veteran. and then he made a joke about asian view that many view as racially charged. then there s the ahmaud arbery trial. arbery was shot and killed after a confrontation with a group of white men who claimed they thought that he might be behind recent break hunns in the neighborhood. a jury is made up of 11 white people and just one black juror in a county where the african-americ