airports. the record number of firearms confiscated at security. wait until you hear just how many of those guns were loaded. the 12-year-old boy who caught a great white shark. i don t know if i want to go up against a shark. o donnell: and, making dreams come true for america s heroes. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. o donnell: good evening to our viewers in the west, and thank you for joining us on this tuesday night. tonight, there are alarming new details about what the mayor of albuquerque is calling politically-motivated shootings. a failed republican candidate is under arrest, accused of hiring men to shoot at the homes of democratic lawmakers. plus, cbs news tonight has new details on the timeline of the special counsel s investigation into president biden s handling of classified documents. but first, we want to start with those major storms that are pummeling the west coast, and the aftermath as califo
it s the top of the hour on cnn newsroom. thank you for sticking with me. i m sara sidner. we re now get a look at even more witness transcripts from the january 6th investigation, 19 to be exact. the january 6th committee released key interviews from members of former president donald trump s family and staff, and conversations with people involved in the state level effort to overturn the 2020 election. in one interview, donald trump jr. gave more context around texts that he sent to mark meadows about plans to keep his father in office days after the election that he lost, and trump lawyer christina baub detailed something with lindsey graham in which he pledged to become a, quote, champion of election fraud claims. sara murray with me now. i know there s a lot to go through, and there s a team of people going through them, but what else stands out to you? reporter: there is a team that is diligently going through these transcripts, but the don jr. transcript is tfasc
hello, everyone. at this hour departure boards bringing post-christmas misery to travelers everywhere. one major u.s. carrier is the big source of a nationwide headache. plus, incoming congressman george santos says he should get a pass for lying about virtually every single detail of his resume because not telling the truth is not a crime. and new cnn exclusive reporting about why you ll pay less at the pump now, but should be preparing for more pain in the spring. this is what we re watching at this hour. we begin this hour with the blame game playing out at southwest airlines. thousands of stranded travelers just want to get where they are going but bad weather, bad planning and bad systems mean more than 25 hundred southwest flights grounded today so far. that s around 90% of all flights canceled in the u.s. southwest passengers can t get through to customer service and its employees are struggling to speak to the people in charge. it s just it s frustrating for pil
as the biden administration right now works on a response to the republican governors who are sending these migrants across the country. let s begin with mj lee. what tune about the discussions happening behind you inside the white house right now? everything that you just described with the situation with migrants unexpectedly being bussed and flown to different places like martha s vineyard, everyone the vp s residence here in washington, d.c., of course white house officials have been monitoring that situation very closely. and one thing we expect to happen today is a meeting between white house and cabinet officials to basically discuss all important issues related to immigration. we certainly expect those topics to include the situation at the border and generally some of the issues that have come up in these places where he s groups of migrants are showing up are obviously the situations that created a big logistical and as well as humanitarian situation in all these
weather wreaking havoc this holiday weekend, many in the united states are facing their coldest christmas in decades. right now more than 175 million people are under windchill alerts. the arctic blast extend interesting montana all the way down to, get this, yeah, florida. some temperatures in the midwest dipping into the negative 30s, even atlanta is seeing negative windchills. the bitter cold proving extremely dangerous. at least 15 people have lost their lives across the country so far. in tennessee, people are seeing intermittent power disruptions as the bone-chilling weather pushes the state s power grid to the absolute max. more than 840,000 customers are now without power nationwide. whiteout continues make it too perilous to travel. new york officials are issuing a driving ban for several counties amid blizzard conditions there, and if you are trying to fly this weekend, i got to give you some good luck and a prayer because pacific raceways than 1,700 flights have be