braces for immigration crisis at sea. cruise ships encountering boats full of migrants on their way to america. cbs manuel bojorquez tells us what happens next. help wanted: how some companies are getting around america s labor shortage by going after employees without college degrees. and on the road. how a stranger s gift brought music and joy to a little boy. 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 friday night. and there are a number of big developments. tonight, there s some intriguing news in the murders of four college students in idaho. we are just learning that mattresses were removed from the house, and we ve got more on that in just a minute. plus, today is january 6, the second anniversary of the attack on the u.s..prest y marked the occasion with an emotional ceremony and honoring 14 americans for their courage and selflessness in defending democ
leonie hermantin with satla, a community resource center for haitians in miami explains to us why they take the risk. they do not risk their lives unless what they leave behind is worse than death. reporter: the vast majority of migrant encountered at sea likely face deportation. those who do make it to florida s shores are processed under immigration law, meaning whether they can stay in this country is determined on a case-by-case basis. norah. o donnell: manuel bojorquez, thank you so much. there were new job numbers released today. the monthly employment report shows companies added 223,000 jobs in december, and the unemployment rate fell to 3.5%. while it was the second-best year on record for jobs, there are still nearly twice as many openings as there are job seekers. so that has led some companies to drop a long-standing requirement: a college degree.
pandemic, a trend that could unlock jobs to workers without a college degree over the next five years. at delta airlines around 85% of corporate jobs, including pilots, will no longer require a college degree. for us it s really about what you learn and what you know, not where you learned it. reporter: and for torres, that real-world training helped her get a leg up on the competition and a full-time job. i m not in the class learning the work. i m actually doing the work. reporter: christina ruffini, cbs news, new york. o donnell: i like that story. all right, coming up, a new drug to treat early alzheimer s disease has just been approved. what patients need to know. that story is next. two. nail the final interview. buy or lease? masterpiece. inside joke. artichoke. game with doug. brand new mug. come here, kid.
imagine, he said he said, i love you, boys. o donnell: the buffalo bills will honor him on sunday wearing number 3 patches on their uniforms. there will also be tributes across the league including warm-up shirts, teams including the patriots have highlighted in blue the number 3 on their field. back here in washington, president biden marked two years since the january 6 attack with an emotional ceremony at the white house. the president awarded the presidential citizens medal to more than a dozen people, including capitol police officers, saying history will remember your names, courage, and bravery. cbs nancy cordes is at the white house. reporter: the chaos of january 6, 2021, was marked by a moment of silence today. and a tribute to the officers who died protecting the capitol. officers billy evans. ( bell rings ). reporter: 140 officers were seriously injured that day,
forecast. as much as a foot of rain anticipated around the bay area and north of there, and our wildfire burn scar areas. also notice, five to six feet of snow expected in the sierra nevada. treacherous travel conditions as well as avalanche danger on the rise. look at the rain really concentrated on the central coast up to northern california. norah, as we go through the weekend and early next week, more rain in southern california, expecting flooding from l.a. to san diego. o donnell: mike, thank you. there is more good news tonight about demar hamlin s remarkable recovery after that blow to the theuffalols say hamlin ismondaog now breathing on his own and talking after collapsing on the field from cardiac arrest. head coach sean mcdermott says hamlin was able to facetime with teammates from his hospital room in cincinnati. he made the heart symbol probably more than anything, and he gave them a thumbs-up. some were in the midst of that, and it was a little bit hard to hear, but