Exactly. Money, honey. This is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley today president elect donald trump named the c. E. O. Of exxonmobil, Rex Tillerson, to be secretary of state. The Senior Member of the cabinet. Tillerson was chosen because hes made successful deals with heads of state all around the world, but those could be ties that bind. Tillerson, for example, has a close business relationship with Vladimir Putin of russia. The lifelong oil man has no government experience, but he did convince exxon to acknowledge climate change. Also today, mr. Trump picked another texan, former governor rick perry, to head the energy department, a department that perry once vowed to scrap. Major garrett begins our coverage. We just couldnt be more grateful that someone of Rex Tillersons proven will leadership and accomplishment has been willing to step forward to serve our nation as our next secretary of state. Reporter Rex Tillersons move from exxonmobil c. E. O. To secretary of state
A priceless gift. I hope she will keep that for forever. This is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Reporting tonight from washington. Pelley tonight the Central Intelligence agency is confident that a russian hacking plot tried to influence the u. S. President ial election in favor of donald trump. The hacking did not affect the actual vote totals. Inea leaking of embarrassing emails and a campaign of misinformation. Now with 39 days to go before the president elect takes the oath on the steps of the capitol, jeff pegues looks at the case against russia. Reporter the evidence that the russians were trying the influence the u. S. Election dates back to midjune when private emails, Opposition Research and Campaign Information stolen from the Democratic National committee appeared online. Russians were to blame. Did their actions impact one candidate over another . I would say that their actions definitely were more detrimental to one candidate than the other. Reporter adam myers wo
Forever. This is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Reporting tonight from washington. Reporter the evidence that the russians were trying the influence the u. S. Election dates back to midjune when private emails, Opposition Research and Campaign Information stolen from the Democratic National committee appeared online. U. S. Investigators said the russians were to candidate over another . I would say that their actions definitely were more detrimental to one candidate than the other. Reporter adam myers works for crowd strike, the Cyber Security firm that investigated the hack and that works closely with u. S. Intelligence. What did you see . Imagine somebody breaks into a bank and they use some sort of special saw to cut through the safe. We found that saw as they were using it. Reporter you caught them in action . We did. Reporter myers said the Cyber Attacks beganned with russianbacked hackers he nicknamed fancy bear and cozy bear. The information they obtained was then passe
Beloved tv dad, ni nightly news begins right now. Announcer from nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening, theres late word from yahoo tonight of a massive and stunning security breach. The company revealing that hackers may have stolen the personal information from more than a billion yahoo users. The hack apparently occurred over three years ago, but is just now being made public. Whats more, the eyepopping breach is apparently separate from the major attack announced by the company just a few months ago. Nbcs Miguel Almaguer has late details. In what is one of the largest hacks in u. S. History, today yahoo confirms data from more than one billion User Accounts was stolen in 2013. Private names, email addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, even encrypted security questions and answers have been exposed. The scale of this attack is something that weve never seen before but were going to keep seeing these things. Because n
Tillerson, for example, has a close business relationship with Vladimir Putin of russia. The lifelong oil man has no government experience, but he did convince exxon to acknowledge climate change. Also today, mr. Trump picked another texan, former governor rick perry, to head the energy department, a department that perry once vowed to scrap. Major garrett begins our coverage. Grateful that someone of Rex Tillersons proven will leadership and accomplishment has been willing to step forward to serve our nation as our next secretary of state. Reporter Rex Tillersons move from exxonmobil c. E. O. To secretary of state nominee began with a meeting last month between Vice President elect mike pence and former secretary of state condoleezza rice. Rice, along with fellow former secretary of state james baker and former defense secretary robert gates strongly recommended tillerson for the post. After his second facetoface meeting with mr. Trump on saturday, tillerson emerged as the president e