the war in ukraine russian missiles hit a crowded shopping mall, possibly over a thousand people inside. the fear tonight of a rising civilian death toll. the hunger crisis in south sudan. we met this mother who walked for more than a month to get food for her eight month old. so he so weak he can barely eat, reports tonight in depth on the risk of starvation for millions. tonight s other top headlines, new video tonight of wnba brittney griner after 130 days in russian detention. and a terrifying moment in colombia, the deadly collapse killing at least four including a one-year old. and we ll end tonight with the hertz warming story of a 7 year old cancer patient s dream come true. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell. reporting from the nation s capitol. good evening and thank you for joining us on this busy monday night. we begin tonight with breaking news, an horrific scene from america s heartland. an amtrak train knocked on its side in a missouri, c
have the courage to do what needed to be done? i do. what was your reaction when you saw this tweet? as a staffer that works to always represent the administration to the best of my ability and to showcase the good things he had done for the country, i remember feeling frustrated, disappointed and really it felt personal. i was really sad. as an american, i was disgused. it was unpatriotic, it was un-american. we were watching the capitol building get defaced over a lie. it was something that was really hard in that moment to digest knowing what i ve been hearing down the hall, the conversations that were happening, seeing that tweet come up and knowing what was happening on the hill. and it s something that i still struggle to work through the emotions of that. again, it was a 24-year-old aide to the white house chief of staff who was disgusted. it was a 24-year-old aide to the white house chief of staff who said this was un-american, not the alleged leaders of our c
if there is anyone that could balance all of the tough and competing issues in a high stakes meeting in a region, it is president joe biden. and with that question and about that balance, especially given the murder of khashoggi and president biden has said i made it clear how i feel about that. but yet this visit is validating that there is a balance between strategic economic realities and moral issues. and at same time, it comes back to our dependence on foreign oil, does it not. there are other ways that we should be solving this problem, would you not agree? mika, i want to see us make a transition to a lower carbon cleaner economy to breaking our dependence on fossil energy more than anybody i know. as much as many of my colleagues in my caucus in the senate. and to your point, this highlights that right now at a time when prices at the pump are high for the american people, they ve come down. here in delaware 50 cents over the last month. but they are still too hig
they said they wanted to come home safely and share their military skills with other fighters. the news continues. let s go over to laura. thank you, anderson. i am laura coates and this is cnn tonight. it seems that everyone told trump that the emperor had no clothes on, even behind closed doors but the vice president counsel, the vice president, they all told him that the plan to have vice president mike pence not certify the election was an american. in the words of the prosecutor, illegal. even the top prosecutor, attorney general bill barr could not support the play to stay in office. tonight we have two former attorneys general here. both are going to give us their take on whether the emperors wardrobe might be treated for prison guard. it is being watched very closely and we are wondering what his predecessors think and what might they have done differently. day three has had quite a theme. it is called pressure. persistent, relentless, unyielding pressure. all targe