costa tonight with new reporting about vice president mike pence ahead of our live coverage of tomorrow s hearing. dr. fauci tests positive for covid. he s the face of america s pandemic response. tonight, the treatment he s taking. plus, a key f.d.a. panel endorses the moderna and pfizer vaccines for kids as young as six months old. severe weather. life-threatening heat and devastating floods. ford s major recall. nearly three million vehicles in danger of rolling away after being put into park. and a basketball team with no home. meet the middle schoolers who beat the odds. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. o donnell: good evening, and thank you for joining us as we begin with the state of the american economy and what it means for you and your family. today, the federal reserve took aggressive action to tackle the fastest inflation in four decades. the rate increase was three-quarters of a percentage point, and th
two. i m john roberts in washington as we sit and watch and wait. sandra: every day is a new day. i m sandra smith, and this is america reports. the judge told the jurors they must be unanimous to find the former president guilty on any of the 34 counts that he currently faces. they also cannot hold trump s decision not to testify in this case against him. and when it comes to the prosecution s star witness, michael cohen, the judge told the jury that they cannot convict solely on his testimony. john: let s bring in our panel, trey gowdy, host andy gaudi, and lydia hu, correspondent for fox business. so andy, let s start with you. the jury has to unanimously believe that donald trump committed a crime in order to convict him. but they do not need to unanimously agree on what that crime was. and in what world does that work? andy: not in any world i have ever been in, john. you look at what makes it a criminal prosecution appropriate in the sense of taking somebody s
i mean, somebody was s responsible, you know? the only question i have now is what s next? russian police break up an opposition conference in moscow and detain 200 people, including high profile figures. and the voice of formula 1, murray walker, has died at the age of 97. hello, and thanks forjoining us. four arrests have been made after clashes between the police and some people who defied advice and gathered in south london for a visual memory of sarah everard. the 33 year old s body was found in woodland in kent on wednesday, one week after she disappeared while walking home. more than 1000 people gathered on clapham common, despite organisers cancelling the event and urging people to hold doorstep or online individuals instead. vigils. there has been widespread criticism of the police. this report contains flushing images. flushing. police moved in to try to break up police moved in to try to break up an unofficial visual to mark the life of sarah everard, near t
massive $1.9 trillion bill. amanda, catch us up to speed on the latest border crisis. reporter: the department of homeland security has instructed fema to begin to get involved with the unaccompanied migrant children coming over the southern border and trying to mitigate and shelter and move them into other facilities to help the influx we re seeing. to note the data points we have so far, about 3200 unaccompanied children being held at cvb facilities it comes as a 28% increase. this is all coming both with the biden administration trying to tackle the immigration issue but it s taking notice here among lawmakers within capitol hill. keep in mind, the influx we re seeing of this of the migrant children coming through across the border is due in part to a couple of factors including devastation from hurricanes in the last year as well as the covid pandemic impacting where the communities are as well as looking forward to anticipating more relaxed border protection and en
welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. we start in the american city of minneapolis and what s thought to be one of the largest pre trial settlements in us history. lawyers for george floyd, the african american man who died while being restrained by police officers in may last year, say the city has agreed a settlement of 27 million dollars in their civil case for damages. the money will be paid to mr floyd s family. separately, a former minneapolis police officer, derek chauvin, is standing trial on criminal charges, including third degree murder, following the incident. here s the floyd family lawyer, ben crump. the financial compensation most directly impacts george floyd and his family, the future of their family, but it is the policy reforms that affects all of us. our north america correspondent david willis told me more about why this settlement is so significant. the death of george floyd sparked protests in major cities here and across the wo