america and china s taiwan faceoff. tonight, tensions escalate ahead of speaker nancy pelosi s possible trip to the self-governed island. adam yamaguchi is there tonight as war games with uh underway. the fact we re seeing an amphibious assault suggests that the taiwanese think the chinese will take islands in the south china sea and dickerson: another supply chain log jam in the warning from the nation s businessiest port. terror shark encounters. what had swimmers racing to shore. and renning the life and careers of two americans icons and thee. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. dickerson: good evening, and thank you for joining us, i m john dickerson in for norah. tonight, we are awaiting president biden, who will speak within the hour about what s being described as a successful counterterrorism strike. a seen nor administration official tells cbs news that the u.s. killed top al quaida leader aym
thursday admitting his role in a decades long tax fraud scheme. international community reacting this horror that this could be at the center of fighting. hello and welcome, it is friday, august 19, 9:00 a.m. here in london, 4:00 a.m. on the u.s. east coast where a federal judge has released a few new documents related to the search of donald trump s mar-a-lago home and the details they contain on the potential offenses sharpen the focus on the former president. the same judge signed off on the affidavit and he indicated thursday that he is willing to unseal portions of it that were used to just guy the fbi search. he told prosecutors to prepare redactions to the document in case the ruling is to release it. meantime we re learning that trump s claim that he had a standing order to declassify the documents taken from the oval office is nonsense. cnn can exclusively report that 18 former top trump administration officials have been mocking that claim. here is how trump s f
help ves rans sickened by toxic burn pits. i m used to the lies. not used to the cruelty. can the bill pass this week? veterans secretary denis mcdonough will be here. with some world leaders falling short, will it be too late? i ll ask the new australian prime minister, anthony albanese, about his ambitious plan in his exclusive first u.s. interview ahead. hello. i m jake tapper in washington where the state of our union is wondering if political tides may be turning. president biden is back in isolation this morning after testing positive with a rebound case of covid after being treated with paxlovid. though his doctor says he no longer has any symptoms. this time biden does have some good news to mull over. first, the bipartisan passage of a bill to boost competition with china on the manufacturing of semiconductors. and second, a sudden possible deal in congress on a massive plan to begin to tackle the climate crisis, high drug prices and address big companies tha
outrage. i m used to the lies. i m not used to cruelty. can the bill pass this week? dennis mcdonagh will be here and the changing globe. heat waves and natural disasters raise pressure to act on the climate crisis. with some falling short, will it be too late? i ll ask the new australian prime minister in his exclusive first u.s. interview ahead. hello, i m jake tapper in washington where the state of our union is wondering if political tides may be turning. president biden is back in isolation this morning after testing positive with a rebound case of covid after being treated with paxlovid, though his doctor says he no longer has any symptoms. this time biden does have some good news to mull over. first, the bipartisan passage of the bill to boost competition with china on the manufacturing of semiconductors and second a sudden possible deal in congress on a massive plan to begin to tackle the climate crisis, high drug prices and address big companies that avoid taxe
the palestinian health ministry says 2a people, including six children, are now known to have died in israeli air strikes on the gaza strip. israel is targeting the palestinian militant group, islamichhad, and says it expects the offensive to last a week. the british foreign secretary, liz truss, said britain stood by israel s right to defend itself, but has called for a swift end to the violence, which has broken more than a year of relative calm. from jerusalem, here s our middle east correspondent, yolande knell. explosion. the full force of israel s new military operation in gaza. this building hitjust minutes after a warning strike. palestinians racing away. a year of relative calm now shattered. this is where one of the first israeli air strikes killed an islamichhad commander, leaving his neighbour in shock. we were safe in our home. we were thrown out of it by the bomb , says maryam. why didn t they warn us? tonight islamichhad fired heavy barrages of rockets in re