putin is right now entirely too confident of his ability to wear down ukraine. plus, millions brace for tougher times at the grocery store as extra federal benefits are cut. and later, go for launch. spacex gets set for nasa s upcoming crewed flight. why me? why am i so lucky? announcer: this is the cbs weekend news from new york, with jericka duncan. good evening and thanks for joining us tonight. more than 10 million people from texas to missouri are threatened by severe and dangerous weather. oklahoma could see the worst of it with thunderstorms forecast to bring destructive winds as powerful as category 2 hurricane. tornadoes are possible. the same storm system impacted southern california this weekend. look at those pictures with a mix of misery, and it s not over. cbs s joy benedict leads us off tonight from los angeles. joy, good evening. reporter: yeah, good evening, jericka. it has been tough. california is getting a small break but is bracing for more
Says, President Trumps vision of soldiers marching and tanks rolling down the boulevards of washington is moving closer to reality in the pentagon and white house, where Officials Say they have begun to plan a Grand Military Parade later this year showcasing the might of Americas Armed forces. Trump has long mused publicly and privately about wanting such a parade, but a January 18th Meeting between trump and top generals in the pentagons tank, a room reserved for topsecret discussions, marked a Tipping Point according to two officials briefed on the planning. So theres where we begin. Lets bring in our leadoff panel on a tuesday night. Phillip rucker. White house bureau chief for the Washington Post. Shannon pettypiece for bloomberg news. And the Pool Reporter on duty at the white house today. So, todd, id like to begin with you. Talk about the president s demeanor, the kind of Bluster Index compared to other days
youve spent on the beat and the mood around him in the west wing. It wa
the prices at supermarkets now and the s.n.a.p. benefits reduced, and people are just going to need more help. reporter: elderly americans could be hardest hit by these benefit cuts. that s what experts say, as they are the ones to receive the minimum monthly benefits. jericka. astrid martinez for us tonight, thank you. to the kennedy space center in florida now. this is launch pad 39-a, once used to launch saturn rockets and astronauts to the moon. now the spacex rocket is set to blast off at 1:45 a.m. eastern, carrying a crew of four to the international space station. cbs s mark strassmann is there. reporter: after months of training, this crew, like all astronauts before them, recognizes certain truths about life in space. it can be unpredictable and unforgiving. russian flight controllers have been noticing a stream of particles coming out of the soyuz ms-22 vehicle.
build a better website - in under an hour. free to try. no credit card required. gocentral from godaddy. last thing before we go tonight is about what we witnessed in florida today. an immigrant to this country cemented his status as a leader in science and technology whose name may indeed belong alongside those of edison and jobs. but another way, elon musk told showed the world how it s done. spacex, the company he started, launched the biggest rocket ever shot off since the moon missions from nasa s launch pad 39-a where we launched the mission to the moon. eight minutes after launch both side booster rockets came back down to earth and landed on land in florida at the same time. a colossal feat of engineering. and think about the gulf between
launch its new falcon heavy spacecraft. and there s nothing about the falcon heavy that s ordinary. from its rocket boosters to its payload and its destination. our rachel crane has this story for us. reporter: spacex is about to make the ground seriously rumble. their new rocket the falcon heavy is about to launch for the first time and this thing is big. it s lifting off from the historic kennedy center launch pad 39-a which is where apollo 11 launched humans to the moon, and once again the pad will be the site of space flight history. once falcon heavy has liftoff spacex says it will be the most powerful operational rocket in the world. by a factor of two. the rocket is powered by 27 engines, and spacex says that when all engines are at full throttle the rocket has 5 million pounds of thrust which is the equivalent of 18 747s. the going fast for a launch, according to the company, $90 million. but that s just a fraction of