that state. the fed raises interest rates, plus our cbs s carter evans takes a closer look tonight at inflation and why those already struggling financially are being hit the hardest. and america s opioid crisis. cbs s jeff pegues shows us why drug cartels are now pushing fentanyl that looks like candy. they re deliberately doing this to kill our children. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. duncan: good evening to our viewers in the west, and thank you for joining us tonight. i m jericka duncan in for norah. we begin tonight with the biggest escalation in the war in ukraine since the invasion itself. russia s vladimir putin is threatening nuclear war and warning the west he s not bluffing. it comes after humiliating defeats on the battlefield in ukraine and in a move not seen in russia since world war ii, putin is calling up hundreds of thousands of reservists. the announcement was met by intense anti-war protestors a
days have just been released. let s go out front. and good evening. i m erin burnett. out front tonight, putin threatening nuclear war amid humiliating losses in ukraine, russian president vladimir putin today ordering a military draft and warning that he could use nuclear weapons against west. during a rare televised address to the russian nation, the russian president summoned 300,000 more troops to fight and threatened nuclear retaliation. translator: mobilization will begin today, september 21st. i am instructing the heads of the regions to provide the necessary assistance to the work of the military recruitment offices. this is not a bluff. the citizens of russia can be sure that the territorial integrity of our homeland, our independence and freedom will be ensured. i emphasize this again with all the means at our disposal. and those who try to blackmail us with nuclear weapons should know that the prevailing winds can turn in their direction. the prevailing winds c
months. the city pushed to the brink, and some new yorkers are not happy about it. it s a story you ll see first outfront. and an american citizen sentenced to 16 years in a saudi prison for tweets he sent while he was in the united states. the man s son is my guest. let s go out front. and good evening. i m erin burnett. outfront front, putin s top commander speaking out saying russia and ukraine are one, upping the ante hours ahead of a major meeting between putin and his national security council. all eyes on what putin will do. this as his top commander in an interview said that, quote, difficult decisions are ahead, seeming to signal that he may pull back from the crucial ukrainian city of kherson. tonight we have new video, it shows ukrainian forces pushing deeper into the russian-controlled area of kherson. so they re in that armored vehicle moving relatively quickly there. that is in the kherson region. you hear the sound of constant gunfire. you see that man
is a monster move again, and they have signaled that they are not done and project nag the interest rates are going to be going significantly higher from here, and the message that the fed is trying to convey is clear. they are serious about trying to get stubbornly high inflation back down, but the moves they are making here have lifted the interest rates to the highest level since 2008, and now the fed was late to this inflation fight. they did not start raising interest rates until earlier this years, and they have been forced to play catchup, and that has forced the interest rates to go rapidly higher, and we have not seen three straight moves of a percentage point and we have not seen anything like that since the modern era, and you have to go back to 1981, and this is not a perfect comparison, because that is before the fed publicly announced the fed moves, and what does it mean? it means the borrowing costs are higher, and interest rates and car loans and mortgage rate
intelligence has stark words for what s left of putin s arsenal. plus, the two americans captured in ukraine held for 105 days. we follow their story. and tonight they will tell you what they endured. and a dead heat for arizona governor, a face-off in ohio s senate race tonight. and the republican in georgia still hanging on despite the ugly allegations. john king is here. he says this is the most unpredictable election he s covered in his lifetime. let s go out front. good evening, i m erin burnett. out front tonight, unsustainable. that is the stark analysis tonight from america s director of national intelligence avril haines. she says russia is now firing off its precision weapons at an unsustainable rate. its conventional arsenal, terribly depleted. ukraine s defense ministry posted a video that i m showing here which appears to show russia pulling 70-year-old antiaircraft guns from its warehouses. 70-year-old weapons going to the field. that is the depletion of t