good evening welcome to washington, i m mike emanuel in for bret baier. border crossings set another record. officials report the highest monthly total ever recorded for december. with the new year comes new laws. we ll tell you where minimum wage is up and which states are implementing new gun restrictions and bret baier looks at the reece of internet use and how they re impacting the electric grid. but, first, breaking tonight, president joe biden says his favorite memory of the year is bringing jobs back to the u.s. he also says the country s in a better position to lead the world than any other nation. the president s new year s message comes amid a year of low approval numbers criticism of the us handling of the war in israel and the crisis at our southern border. the first family s scheduled to return to, wa ton tomorrow after a week-long caribbean vacation. lucas tomlinson is traveling with the president and reports from st. croix. good evening, lucas. mike, the wh
de aferlt agents seize 1 million fentanyl pills as the mexican marines arrest one of the faib s most wanted. the reason there might be more sightness this summer. dial 988, the new mental health number for emergencies worldwide. it s safe. on the road this friday, the extraordinary act of generosity. giving new neighbor a new meaning. this is 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 on this tri night. tonight we begin in descraid where president biden is on day 3 of his four day trip to the middle east. to meet the king and if country s de facto leader crown prince mohammed bin salman. to b he tolmbs to his face that he believes the young leader is to blame for the cij contributors jamal khashoggi. saying the country is vital to the security in the renal. american officials also announced a number of agreements with saudi arabia on topics like energy secu
prosecutors say davis confessed to the crime over and over again and even referred to him as the shot caller. in his memoir and interviews, davis admits that he provided the gun to use to shoot tupac. now davis says the fbi and los angeles police department agreed to give him immunity in 2008. davis was arrested for tupac s murder in september. he has pleaded not guilty and is being held in jail without bail. his lawyers have asked for davis to be released and placed on house arrest ahead of his trial in june. they say the 60 year old is not getting proper medical care after he was diagnosed with colon cancer that is currently in remission. davis s attorneys have not responded for our request to comment about the prosecution s allegations. the judge will hear that request for bail tomorrow, mike. mike: dana marie nick on thanks very much since the ncaa first allowed student athletes to profit from their name image or likeness
to red sea attacks going forward. it follow a u.s. response to houthi aggressions that left several militants dead. chief correspondent jennifer griffen takes a look from the pentagon. good evening jennifer. reporter: good evening mike. the white house is weighing whether to strike at houthi targets in yemen as the iranian backed proxy fires missiles into international shipping lanes. houthi fighters like these shown here from an attempted hijacking in november attempted to take a singapore denmark shipping vessel early sunday. the u.s. navy responded to the distress call and sank three of the four houthi vessels killing an estimated ten iranian-backed fighters. announced it as postponing its operations from the red sea for 48 hours. uk defense secretary grant shaps issued a warning to the houthis and their iranian backers, if we
evening mike. norah, 101 in dallas to start the weekend, the pattern it doesn t change much going into next week. high pressure dominates and this map shows you all the cities with these red dots are expecting to set record high temperatures all the way through next week. oklahoma city will be right in 100emperatures exof th. a fecas for next tuesday.petures norah in the 80s inment cases with the air crchers running 24-7. o donnell: that is hot mike thank you. shark sightings off american beaches, there have been a rash of them over new york s long island. mike george is on the south shore. reporter: by the way goers are on the lookout for sharks.