ayman al zawahri, al qaeda s leader and a former deputy to osama bin laden on 9/11, was killed by a cia drone strike in kabul. the administration has not confirmed al zawahri was the target ahead of the president s re, ma. the senior administration official said there were no civilian casualties in the mission. al zawahri has been on the run for year, and his history of violence extends well beyond his role in planning 9/11. the egyptian doctor was at one point arrested in connection with the assassination of egyptian president anwar sadat and was indicted in 1999 for the 1997 bombings of the u.s. embassies in tanzania. joining me now is chief white house correspondent kristen welker. what do we know about what the president is going to announce, and any details about that operation? reporter: the details are still coming in. what we do know is that the president is going to announce that ayman al zawahri was killed over the weekend in a counterterrorism operation. the pres
america and china s taiwan faceoff. tonight, tensions escalate ahead of speaker nancy pelosi s possible trip to the self-governed island. adam yamaguchi is there tonight as war games with uh underway. the fact we re seeing an amphibious assault suggests that the taiwanese think the chinese will take islands in the south china sea and dickerson: another supply chain log jam in the warning from the nation s businessiest port. terror shark encounters. what had swimmers racing to shore. and renning the life and careers of two americans icons and thee. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. dickerson: good evening, and thank you for joining us, i m john dickerson in for norah. tonight, we are awaiting president biden, who will speak within the hour about what s being described as a successful counterterrorism strike. a seen nor administration official tells cbs news that the u.s. killed top al quaida leader aym
zawahiri in afghanistan. happened over the weekend. the news is breaking, confirm now. i can tell you what you may know, the president will be addressing the nation if about 90 minutes. the white house saying president biden will speak out on this. it is a fast moving late-breaking story, and for that reason we go directly to some of our experts on this. kristen welker and retired four-star army general barry mccaffery. wristen, what are we learning from the white house about something that apparently already occurred but is breaking news tonight? it certainly is. first we learned that president biden was going to speak at 7:30 eastern time to announce an operation against a senior al qaeda leader, and based on conversations with two sources familiar with the matter, my colleague and i have been able to confirm that that leader was ayman al zawahiri, the leader of al qaeda, took over after osama bin laden was killed. this is significant. this is a raid that was conducted ov
folded carefully, maybe put it in a little archival paper or parchment if you don t have that. put it away someday, you might depending on how saucy you are feeling, you might want to note in archival ink in the margin of tomorrow s paper note, anniversary of richard nixon s resignation as president. people will get a kick out of that some years down the road. the reason you might buy tomorrow s paper is if the world doesn t collapse into ash by then, your grandkids some day will look at that old physical paper that you were able to say from august 9th, 2022 and they are going to google at the thought of what your life must be like. they will goggle at the thought of what it must be like to see something like this happening in your lifetime in realtime for the first time ever in american history, having no idea how it would play out. nothing like this has ever happened before and we don t know how this ends. tonight the news that the fbi has raided the home of the past pres
reporter: tonight the view from space of the path card by the flames. america and china s taiwan faceoff. tonight, tensions escalate ahead of speaker nancy pelosi s possible trip to the self- governed island. cbs adam yamaguchi is there tonight aswar games are underway. another supply chain log jam in the warning tonight from the nation s busiest port. terrifying shark encounters, the frightening scene in florida hat had swimmers racing to shore. and we remember the life and careers of and remembering the life and careers of two americans icons and the legacy they ve left behind. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. dickerson: good evening, to our viewers in the west, and thank you for joining us, i m john dickerson in for norah. tonight, we are awaiting president biden just announced a successful counterterrorism strike that killed top al quaida leader ayman al-zawahri over the weekend. this is a significa