gold medalist simone biles speaks out after a startling new report. why was she kept in the dark about an investigation into the doctor who abused u.s. gymnasts? and why a man who e-mailed his boss he was sick got 20,000 get- well responses. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting tonight from washington. o donnell: good evening. and thanks so much for joining an. us are going to begin with what s on everybody s minds heading into the holiday week weather and travel. tonight we are following three storms moving across the country. this weekend, snow and freezing sin in new england. snow in the midwest by midweek. soaking rain and snowstorms in the midwest by thanksgiving. this as more than 55 million americans plan to travel 50 avles or more. now, that s up 3% from last
passengers will pass through airport security over a 10-day stretch and if you re planning on bringing food for the family. they say if you can spill it, spray it, spread it, pour it, or pump it, it should go in your keecked luggage. but, otherwise, solid foods can t through checkpoint. reporter: but clearing security may be the last of your worries if the weather doesn t cooperate. adriana diaz, cbs news, chicago. o donnell: let s get the forecast now from wcbs s lonnie niinn. all right, lonnie, is the weather bad enough that some may use it as an excuse to stay away from their relatives? you know, you can always blame it on the weather, i suppose, norah. there s always that one uncle, right? taking a peek here at what the systems look like right now. we have an exiting system around the northeast. but that one is leaving right now. this system around the tennessee valley will be moving in by sunday. so take a look at it. it s going to be such a mess for the weekend, especial
america to make every decision just based on their bottom line, even with automation. if automation can replace jobs, do we just throw those workers out on the street? or do we have an obligation to retrain them for other jobs, to provide extended unemployment and educational opportunities? we just cannot allow this culture of corporate greed, which results in the very, very rich becoming much richer, a middle class shrinking and 43 million people living in poverty. somebody has got to stand up to these billionaires and say, you know what? enough is enough. you cannot have it all. i want an economy that belongs to all of us. works for all of us. people forget, chris, we are the wealthiest nation in the history of the world. and our job now is to create a government which represents all of the people, not just the 1 mr1%. let s bring in rowy. he s studying international
does that make sense to you? no. well, it doesn t make sense to me or the vast majority of american people. i m not demonizing people, what i m saying is that the billionaire class has enormous power. they wrote the trade policies. you got people sitting at the top of the pharmaceutical industry who last year, the top five drug companies made $50 billion in profits, while the average american cannot afford the medicine he or she needs. am i demonizing, or is that a fact? i think what we need is to bring the american people together and tell those people that we want a government that works for everybody. that is what i m trying to do. this is your opportunity, what do you got, rowy, what do you have? bernie is laying out his case. well, particularly in international trade i think that most studies show that international trade, free trade agreements, nafta, specially,