country. our daughter is a hero. norah: the cbs evening news starts now. good evening, and thank you for being with us on this busy friday night. and we do want to begin with at breaking news. the united states beginning a series of retaliatory air strikes on sites the white house said tonight that they have clear, irrefutable evidence is connected to the deadly drone attack that killed three soldiers in jordan. the president s national security spokesperson john kirby saying tonight the strikes were successful, but that a damage assessment will be done when the sun rises in the region. and this is just the beginning. the president saying the response will continue. here is what we know. three of the locations hit are in iraq. four are in syria. and there were dozens of individual targets within each site. the strike lasted over 30 minutes, involving multiple aircraft. those planes are now out of harm s way. and it comes on the same day president biden and first lady
chaos we re hitting new lows. are illegal migrants not only entering and crossing there is word they are setting up their own organized crime outfits filled with phony documents, and in new york city, a migrant accused of badly beating a new york city police officer, as you can see, gives a message to the world, and his cohorts who were arrested and let go, now might be headed to california. bill is in california. he s live with the break information on. this bill, good evening. trace, it keeps getting worse. they have identified a ring that was targeting the cook county sheriff s office says these three mexican nationals had directed illegal immigrants from venezuela to steal items from magnificent mile stores all in exchange for fraudulent i.d. cards that would allow them to get jocks. the sheriff there says they uncovered the fraud after talking to dozens of migrants with nearly identical stories, all after an explosion of retail thefts in certain areas. they were be
tropical storm ian for that storm is forecast to start strengthening today are fox weather team coverage is coming up on the storm and what to expect in just a few minutes. the countdown to november 8 is on. just over six weeks to the midterms with control of the house and senate hanging in the balance. the latest on the high stakes of pennsylvania senate race and how the economy is dominating the conversation. but first, the latest on our southern border. alexis and mcadams is in eagle pass, alexis. hi arthel. we see it every single day here the southern border. hundreds of migrant showing up here walking right across the border into the united states. we are now learning about where they go once they are in the u.s. it depends on how much the migrants are willing to pay the cartel. the people willing to dish out or catching private planes to be smuggled across the u.s. take a look on your screen. this is a picture regarding the short time ago from a texas showing a priv
paid their last respects to mikhail gorbachev, the man who brought the cold war to an end. the death of mikhail gorbachev really does mark the end of an extraordinary era in history. a rare period when russia was opening up to the world. mississippi police charge a man with making terrorist threats after a warning that he d crash a twin engine aeroplane into a us discount store. hello and welcome to bbc news. very good to have you with a s. us. nasa tried and failed again on saturday to get its space launch system vehicle to lift off from florida s kennedy space center. the countdown had to be halted three hours before launch, because of a fuel leak. it s the second postponement in a week. the artemis programme aims to once again send humans to the moon in 2025, but the nasa team has suggested there may now be a significant delay to the project. our science editor, rebecca morelle, sent this update latest from kennedy space center in florida. there s a real sense of di
at last check, they ve tried a few different ways to troubleshoot it, to fix the problem. no word yet on whether they ve been able to stop it at this point. this follows monday s scrubbed launch which was largely due to an engine cooling problem. it was a tricky sensor that was off. but engineers remain optimistic that today there will be a launch. for now, the weather has been cooperating so that helps. nasa meteorologists predict about 60% favorable conditions, which increases to 80% as the day goes on. of course this historic mission marks the next chapter of lunar exploration and will land the first woman and first person of color on the moon in a matter of years. let s go now to cnn s space and defense correspondent kristin fisher live this morning from the kennedy space center. i don t think kristin has us. can you hear us? reporter: hey, guys, i m having a hard time with my earpiece so i can t quite hear what you said. let me bring you up to speed from the kenned