zone, particularly in the southwest florida counties, your time to evacuate is coming to an end. you need to evacuate now. a life threatening category 4 storm headed right towards florida. i m john berman live in tampa this morning. brianna keilar is in washington and that is the news from overnight. hurricane ian strength jentd to a category 4 storm with sustained winds of 140 miles per hour. wind gusts of 165 miles per hour. the storm forecast has adjusted somewhat south of where i am in tampa headed right towards the fort myers area in florida about 100 miles south of here, but the threat to florida is enormous. more than 2 1/2 million people under some sort of evacuation order. yes, the wind speed is a serious threat now, a category 4 storm. storm surge where i am in tampa, they could see storm surge of 6 feet which would put the water pretty much right where i m stand going it hit the maximum levels down towards where the storm is expected to make landfall. they could
philadelphia, new york to boston. and rob marciano timing it out. the war in ukraine tonight. and you ll see the new and harrowing images right here. a family rescued from the rubble of their home following a russian missile attack. and tonight, who vladimir putin has now arrested for that bridge explosion. ian pannell in ukraine. and here in the u.s. tonight, two americans on their capture in ukraine by russian-backed forces. they describe what they say was done to them in ca whit johnson with the interview. tonight, two navy officers and a doctor reprimanded in the death of a navy s.e.a.l. trainee at the end of what s called hell week. the new report tonight revealing his cause of death and martha raddatz is here. the former rookie officer now facing felony charges tonight after shooting that teenager while eating a burger in his car outside a mcdonald s. the officer now surrendering. the teen on life support. tonight, the chilling testimony from a member of the oat
well, tonight, three officers face punishment for the death of candidate kyle mullen during hell week. cbs david martin speaks to the mother of the yale football player. and, a warning for parents. tonight, the respiratory illness on the rise in children. cbs nikole killion talks to parents and doctors. 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. we want to begin with the breaking news in what is the largest defamation suit payout ever in american history. the landmark verdict awarded the families of those killed in the sandy hook massacre parents who lost their young children, and then faced a decade of torment a small sliver of justice. a connecticut jury ordered far- right infowars host alex jones to pay nearly $1 billion in damages for spreading lies about the elementary school shooting. the 2012 massacre in newtown, connecticut, killed 20
dies during hell week. tonight, questions about the culture of brutality and drug use. cbs david martin spoke to kyle mullen s mother. it s like a sick hazing. o donnell: and the medical breakthrough. cbs jon lapook with new technol that could change lives. ed 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. we want to begin tonight with that extraordinary, just-before-midnight filing from the justice department, where the government laid out its investigation in far more detail than ever before. the document is 36 pages long with 18 additional pages of attachments and includes this photo at the end of the filing, the final page showing several classified secret and top secret documents. one noteworthy point none of the folders bear a label our a stamp kathy indicating they have been declassified. justice department says even some of the f.b.i. pe
master would do. a separate filter team has gone through the documents. pierre thomas standing by on the investigation tonight. dan abrams also here on what may be coming next. also tonight, the major news on covid. the new booster for millions this fall here in the u.s. the fda now authorizing updated covid boosters from both pfizer and moderna, targeting omicron and the ba.4 and ba.5 subvariants. this could be ready in days. so, who should get one? your questions answered right here tonight. also this evening, the state of emergency in jackson, mississippi. 160,000 people still without d drinkable water. thousands lining up for hours waiting for cases of bottled water. but there has been a major development tonight, and we ll have the latest. the war in ukraine tonight. and this evening, the images now coming in. an armored convoy carrying u.n. inspectors trying to get to europe s largest nuclear power plant right there in ukraine. how will they be received by the rus