the details of the lovers on the lam. baby formula shortage. the big announcement today that could help parents scrambling to feed their children. tonight s other top headlines: u.s. overdose deaths hit a record. the investigation after a palestinian-american reporter is shot dead covering a raid in the west bank. plus the haunting pictures of soldiers trapped inside a steel plant in ukraine. we speak to the wife of a soldier. i will do everything to save him. o donnell: and unifying america with with a group of teenagers who turned their experiences into action. 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 wednesday night. tonight, american families are coping with rising prices on everything from groceries, gas, and rent. consumer prices jumped by 8.3% compared to the same time last year. and while inflation eased slightly in april, it remains near a four-decade
minnesota. we really appreciate. thank you, lawrence. jane fonda gets tonight s last word. the 11th hour with brian williams starts now. well, good evening once again. day 55 of the biden administration and tonight we may be entering the most critical point thus far in our nation s fight to crush this virus. we re being warned that we could still see another surge of infections, even as the new data are out showing we appear to be headed in the right direction. the vaccine rollout is expanding. nearly a fifth of all american adults have had at least one shot. we re averaging nearly 2.5 million vaccines a day, while hospitalizations continue to decline, yet experts are sounding the alarm that we are not out of the clear, not by any means. the concerns are mounting that we are next going to see a spring break spike in cases, giving highly contagious variants a chance to spread in our country. that, plus a rebound in air travel has the administration s coronavirus team o
say the administration s immigration policies are to blame. it s the biden open border policies that are inviting even more illegal immigration and actually have created this humanitarian crisis. the border patrol officers told me that the biden administration policies they are enriching and they empowering the drug cartels in mexico. arthel: we ll get into this with our fox team coverage. griff jenkins is near the border in texas. david spunt is following the president in wilmington, delaware. what are you hearing. reporter: president biden is touting the covid relief, the $1.9 trillion covid relief package. the border is something the president will have to focus on. this is a big deal that fema is getting involved. it shows that the administration cannot ignore the influx of unaccompanied children at the southern border, no question about this at all. homeland security secretary, alejandro mayorkas, made the announcement yesterday that he s directing fema to shelter an
that s the focus of tonight s angle. now, donald trump famously called the press the enemy of the people and there s no doubt the media treated him like an enemy from the moment he came down that: escalator. the relentless hit jobs and smears were both political and personal. one day they would call him a racist, the next day they would call him a traitor. and by implication, the americans who supported his agenda, well, they were despicable too. of course, this stands in stark contrast to their fawning over joe biden. he s not treated as a subject to cover as much as one to cover for period day in and day out, their goal is to promote, protect, and defend him no matter what. now, if there was a political wing of the secret service, they d be at. he signs almost $1.9 trillion bill filled with bailouts and pork for covid relief and they cover him like they re on the red carpet at the academy awards. it is are markable for president biden to be signing such a sweeping piece o
letting us dive into your hour, and thanks to all of you for letting us into your homes during these truly extraordinary times, i ll see you tomorrow for deadline white house. rachel we turn it over to you. got bless you, nicole. it has been a remarkable hour on msnbc. i m so grateful for my colleagues and for colleagues in particular like nicole who can handle the emotional weight of what she just did there. that was just what a service. tomorrow night here is going to be a very big deal as well, which nicole alluded to at the end of her hour there. as you know, president biden is going to be giving his first prime time address to the nation on the issue of covid on the one-year anniversary of the declaration of the worldwide pandemic. we re going to have chris hayes at the lincoln memorial tomorrow coming out of that speech doing a special hour of his own. looking back at what we ve been through the past year but also looking ahead towards us being back together again