passing this thing. alexandria ocasio-cortez, made it very clear that the votes aren t there tomorrow, in your discussion. we are going to have three house members here, we are not going to leave the show tonight without knowing what s going to happen in the house tomorrow. we have to decode the whole thing. yes, we may be averting a government shutdown in the morning. but what happens in the house, is going to be drama all day. they did work out a deal, in the way he did it was he gave the republicans a guarantee of votes on three republican amendments, before you get to the continuing resolution. those will probably all be defeated on a party line vote. and then you ll get the continuing resolution. and the government will stay open till december 3rd. and will then do this all again, for absolutely no reason whatsoever. because the debt ceiling is something invented in world war i, to appease isolationist from that conflict. and maybe we will see what happens.
mariupol. trey yingst is in kyiv tonight to begin our coverage. good evening, trey. bret, good evening. there are new concerns tonight about the fate of ukrainian soldiers and civilians in the port city of mariupol as people across this country try to get out of harm s way. thousands of ukrainians flee their country each day as the russian invasion continues. many will now be offered refuge by the united states. we have already welcomed tens of thousands of ukrainians to the united states. and today i m announcing a program unite for ukraine. a new program to enable ukrainians seeking refuge to come directly from europe to the united states. president biden announcing a program that will fast track ukrainian asylum claims for those who have a u.s. sponsor. already, more than 10% of the ukrainian population has fled the country according to the united nations. with increased fighting along the eastern front, that number is expected to rise significantly in the coming wee
mandate. the requirement was thrown out yesterday by a federal judge in florida. some passengers on airplanes and trains and other forms of transportation were given the green light to get rid of face coverings while the biden administration urged caution and following cdc guidelines at the same time president biden said in new hampshire the decision is up to each person. notably, the biden administration is not yet challenging that federal court ruling. correspondent mark meredith starts us off tonight by from reagan national airport in arlington, virginia. good evening, mark. bret, good evening. the rules over where travelers need and where to wear mask confusing. federal mask mandate not being enforced still seeing mass transit requiring people to mask up. mr. president, should people continual to wear masks on planes? that s up to them. president biden is not saying if his administration will fight a federal judge s ruling which abruptly ended the federal transpor
wealth and smarts to become iron man. now, we don t live in that fantasy world there are no super heroes waiting around to fix our problems. just a couple of rich guys trying to do some good things. the real tony stark. you got your fingers in so many advanced technologies, are you sincerely trying to save the world? well, i m trying to do good things, yeah. pete that was 2015. this morning elon musk the world s richest man made a move to take over twitter. and resurrect free speech. the social media giant has spent years it criticizing and censors they who they disagree with. now they met their match. offer to buy twitter $43 billion. a deal that is set to turn the company private if it s successful and give elon full control this is democrats losing control of their grasp over big tech and americans waking in a major win. twitter acting as an arm of the democratic party for years using it to strangle the political narrative and censor their enemies. that s all thanks to t
the new intelligence tonight as vladimir putin shows up in china and pledges no limits to the chinese-russian relationship. disturbing new body cam video. why parents of a 22-year-old minneapolis man claim police executed their son. covid cases falling. the good news tonight after the omicron spike. deadly consumer alert: if you have bagged salad in your fridge, you ll want to hear the new details about a listeria threat. let the games begin. the first events of the winter olympics in china. and on the road with a fairytale friendship that s still going strong. 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 friday night. we have a lot of news to bring you, including some breaking news that people in politics thought they might never see. former vice president mike pence forcefully going after his former boss, president donald trump. pence