Can come avoid any unnecessary travel. Flash flood warning for the area has been extended to 3:00 a. M. Eastern. Of the flooding also stranding air travel, with water rising in new york international airport. Earlier, tornadoes touched down in new jersey, dozens of homes destroyed. Joining us now for more on the situation is new york city councilman, in staten island, one of the hardest hit areas. Joe, can you hear me? i can, thank you very much. What does it look like where you are right now? it s more widespread in terms of damage that hurricane sandy. With that storm, it was the storm surge and some of the low lying areas. We have the coast affected come almost predictably. With this, just the sheer volume of water is something i have never seen in all my years living in staten island, and it just overwhelms the sewer system and has backed up so many basements with sewage water and flooded garages and flooded houses, and i have to say, i ve never seen damage this widespread before,
preparing a false flag operation as a pretext to invade ukraine. and the news on that massive cyber attack. body cam video released: what new footage from a fayetteville, north carolina, fatal police shooting reveals. double fault: the latest in the drama between the world s top tennis star and australia. will novak djokovic be deported before the australian open? alec baldwin s phone turned over. why investigators want the actor s cell. and on the road, love lost and found again, after more than four decades. 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 re going to begin with a monster winter storm that s expected to be the biggest of the season and is already causing dangerous travel conditions in the midwest. the national weather service warns that part of the country could see 14-20 hours of continuous snowfall. areas
intelligence that putin is preparing a false flag operation as a pretext to invade ukraine. and the news on that massive cyberattack. body cam video released: what new footage from a fayetteville, north carolina, fatal police shooting reveals. double fault: the latest in the drama between the world s top tennis star and australia. will novak djokovic be deported before the australian open? alec baldwin s phone turned over. why investigators want the actoror s cell. and on the road, love lost and found again, after more than four decades. 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 friday night. we re going to begin with a monster winter storm that s expected to be the biggest of the season and is already causing dangerous travel conditions in the midwest. the national weather service warns that part of the country could see 14-20 hours of continuous snowfall. areas
increasingly convinced vladimir putin may be ignoring those warnings. state department correspondent benjamin hall has the latest tonight. good evening, benjamin. good evening, bret. yes, the state department and the rest of the administration say they are ready for any eventuality whether that is for diplomacy or russian military escalation. everything we have seen and heard today suggest the latter is increasingly likely. russian troops ready, and the stage is set. all putin needs now is the excuse. he could have that very soon. russia is already working actively to create a pretext for potential invasion. u.s. officials say intelligence indicate russian operatives feigned urban war ferrari and using explosives are already in eastern ukraine ready to carry out acts of sabotage and may be planning operations against russia s own forces. we have information that they prepositioned a group of operatives to conduct what we call a false flag operation. russia is also p
this is how she responded. i m vice president of the united states. anything that i handle is because it s a tough issue. and it couldn t be handled at some other level. and there are a lot of big, tough issues that need to be addressed. and it has actually been part of my life-long career to deal with tough issues. the vice president was also asked to respond to the speculation already beginning over 2024. i think that there are so many issues that are present issues in 2021 that i just don t have the luxury of engaging in that, you know, the pundits can sit back and do whatever they do. meanwhile, as we near the one-year anniversary of the january 6th attack on the capitol, the select committee investigating is ramping up its fact-finding mission. the panel is waiting to hear back from republican congressman jim jordan after it asked him for a voluntary interview last week and it s also looking what to refer donald trump to the doj for criminal prosecution. earlier