Side lines. On monday morning with hundreds of thousands of government workers staying home today. This is everything at this moment. And to cover everything is nbcs kasie hunt on capitol hill. We expect to see mcconnell momentarily and have you Senate Democrats ready to meet to talk through their strategy. Bring us up to speed on where this is going in the next half hour or two hours. Well, hallie, one update actually, just coming in in the last few minutes as you were getting toward go on the air, which is that there are now conversations happening in the hallways of the capitol. It is possible there might not be a vote today at noon. We dont have an official update on that. And as of now, that is the schedule thats been agreed to. But all of our reporting indicates at this point republicans dont have the votes to reopen the government. Mcconnells offer on the floor last night was not enough to win over enough of them to potentially change the game here and to open the doors back up
To school, calling them naive, after what they said about iran, north korea, russia and isis. The woman officer shot in the chest and killed. The officer charged. Police say it happened during a game of russian roulette. But tonight, new questions. Prosecutors asking, was there a rush to call this an accident . The sink hole in an American Neighborhood revealing a secret tunnel underneath. Authorities say someone was digging that tunnel to break into a bank. And the stunning and heartbreaking images tonight. The senior citizen, a patient with dementia, left to wander the streets. Her family says she was discharged from the hospital in the middle of the night. Good evening and its great to have you with us here on a very busy wednesday night. We have several developing stories as we come on. And were going to begin tonight with this dangerous cold now turning deadly. Those wind chills as low as 65 degrees below zero. At least eight people are dead tonight. Look at this. Steam rising off
It was the Early Morning hours of january 29th. Smollett had just gotten back to chicago, posting on instagram that he had just spent seven hours on a plane for a flight that was supposed to take only two hours. He told the police that as he was walking back from a sandwich shop, the Subway Sandwich shop, that two men attacked him, putting a rope around his neck and quote, yelling out racial and homophobic slurs and pouring an unknown chemical substance on him. This was all in the streeterville neighborhood where he had been staying. I know that neighborhood very well. I worked there for three years at the nbc tower, so i know it very, very well. In a supplemental interview with authorities smollett confirmed what had already been reported in the media, claiming that one of the attackers also shouted this is maga country. In those Early Morning hours of the 29th smollett took himself to Northwestern Memorial Hospital with a friend. And as you may know, jussie is gay, and since 2015 he
It was the Early Morning hours of january 29th. Smollett had just gotten back to chicago, posting on instagram that he had just spent seven hours on a plane for a flight that was supposed to take only two hours. He told the police that as he was walking back from a sandwich shop, the Subway Sandwich shop, that two men attacked him, putting a rope around his neck and, quote, yelling out racial and homophobic slurs and pouring an unknown chemical substance on him. This was all in the streeterville neighborhood where he had been staying. I know that neighborhood very well. I worked there for three years at the nbc tower in streeterville. So i know it very, very, very well. In a supplemental interview with authorities, smollett confirmed what had already been reported in the media, claiming that one of the attackers also shouted this is maga country. In those Early Morning hours of the 29th, smollett took himself to Northwestern Memorial Hospital with a friend. And as you may know, jussie
What we can learn from her experience. And, we follow the children of 9 11 heroes as they follow in their parents footsteps. This is the cbs evening news with norah odonnell. Brennan good evening. This is our western edition. Norah is on assignment. Im margaret brennan. The impeachment process is on. President trump and House Democrats are now on a collision course. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi late today announced plans to move ahead with an official impeachment inquiry. She had been reluctant to do that, but changed her mind after at least 170 House Democrats came out in support of it. That follows reports that the president tried to pressure ukraines leader to open a corruption investigation of joe biden. Pelosi calls that election interference. Also tonight, the governmentwhth tleb tisr insewe committee. And the president , who says he has nothing to hide, says he will release a transcript of his phone call with the ukrainian leader. We have a team working on this on capitol hill, th