officials caution severe pediatric cases are on the rise in several states. gift cards, boom or bust? they are seemingly everywhere this time of year. cbs carter evans reports many go unused, wasting billions of dollars. and on the road. cbs steve hartman looks at the true meaning of extended family. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. garrett: good evening, everyone. thank you for joining us. i m major garrett in for norah. tonight, more than 200 million ameramericans are under some fof winter storm advisory heading into christmas weekend. the national weather service alerts range from washington state to maine, from the gulf coast from texas to florida is under a hard freeze warning. the midwest has and is suffering the most with near-whiteout
which millions and millions have not done well. so many have barely benefited from the astonishing progress in the world in the last 40 years. and meramericans who have profiteered from organization and tech and the internet and everything else that has happened, those americans have not just reaped the benefits of a set of natural occurrences. they have engineered america to work in a way that is not good for most people and good for them. they have set health care policy, education policy. they ve figured out zoning and housing policy. every kind of policy in ways that predictably reliably foreseebly will make life hard for most people and great for them. and then sensing the brokenness, the anger, when you look at the news, a lot of people are angry. a lot of people who voted for bernie sanders were angry on the left. a lot offence sense on both
democrats do, they ruin their credibility when senators come on here and start attacking every other nominee. because we know what s going on. the democrats are looking for scalps and they re attacking everyone in this administration they possibly can. the difference, i believe, between pompeo s nomination as secretary of state, you are the person who is the top diplomat for america. pompeo has said and backed some extremely problematic things. he s been anti-muslim, he s been anti-gay people, he s been problematic with women. which, if that s what we believe as americans across the board, sign him up and send them through. i do not think that s who we are as meramericans. those things are okay in the cia, then. i didn t think they were okay, but the job description as a cia member is a little different than secretary of state. nobody made scott pruitt go to morocco on a multi-day trip
place. despite that cloud, president trump gives himself an a at the 100 day mark and here s a shock. house democratic leader nancy pelosi disagrees. some people have asked me what grade would i give him. we could take it subject by subject. broken promises on jobs and infrastructure. f. we haven t seen a jobs bill. we haven t seen an infrastructure bill for all the talk. f. broken promises on america s health care. f minus. the president says a, nans see pelosi says f. 44% of meramericans approve of job. 54% disapprove. that s hardly an a. it s not an f. a lot of questions in our brand new cnn poll about the president s management abilities and his management style. 51% of americans say their new
you can choose a future where meramericans gain the chance to get the skills they need to compete, no matter how old they are or how much money they have. education was the gateway to opportunity for me. it was the gateway for michelle and for most of you. and now more than ever, it is the gateway to a middle-class life. for the first time in a generation, nearly every state has answered our call to raise their standards for teaching and learning. some of the worst schools in the country have made real gains in math and reading, millions of students are paying less for college today because we took on a system that wasted billions of taxpayer dollars on banks and lenders. it and now you have a choice, we can gut education or we can