prominent attorney killed his wife and son. synagogue attack. new details about the man charged with trying to firebomb a large synagogue in new jersey. high on america, the effort to save america s largest coral reef. cbs s manuel bojorquez takes us there. we will show you what happens inside this lab. norah: plus i drop recall after an over-the-counter brand was linked to vision loss and one death. and the young singer hitting all the right notes on her journey to the grammy awards. to explain announcer: this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. norah: good evening and% thank you for joining us on this thursday night. we are coming on the air tonight with some braising news. we have just learned that the pentagon is tracking a suspected chinese spy balloon spotted flying over the united states. president biden was briefed. fighter jets scrambled, and there was a discussion at the highest levels of our gover
pete: this morning a terrifying warning out of collier county, florida, 911 services are down as search and rescue efforts continue across the state. no word yet on when they ll be back online. so far 30 people confirmed dead. 27 in florida and more than 1 million people in florida still without power. rachel: ian making its third and final landfall in south carolina yesterday battering the east as a hurricane before surging inland as a post-tropical cyclone. several piers including this one on pawley s island collapsing into the water due to storm surge. will: we have team coverage with the latest and chief meteorologist mcreichmuth standing by but we have alexandria hoff in florida. good morning. we re at a distribution site that opened up at 7:00 and a line of cars waiting on it at that point and ice and water being given out here by members of the national guard and food and some basic necessities and on the other side of this site, there s heavy machinery that s been a
southwest florida woke up to today, you ve seen houses shredded, others carried away by brutal storm surge including cars ending up in bays in some circumstances. steve harrigan by the grace of god rode out of this storm close to the impact his own as anyone else and tonight we find him right across a causeway connecting the barrier islands. you have seen some horrific destruction, what can you tell us about how the search and rescue attempts are unfolding in the dark? they are going on, they have carried out more than 700 rescues and they got started just after 1:00 in the morning. as soon as the wind died down more than 40 miles per hour they were out there risking their lives to try to save people who were trapped, some of those people on rooftops, both by helicopter and on land. talk about destruction, it is remarkable in the daylight hours to go around and see the level of destruction. i m standing in front of a destroyed house in a destroyed neighborhood. it s a sad s
is nothing compared to what southwest florida woke up to today. shreve seeflorida woke un house others carried away by brutal storm . carried away by brutal storm surge surge and debris, including cars ending up in bays. in some circumstances, the destruction is almost unimaginable. circumstance steve harrigan, by the grace of god , rode out the storm as close to the impact zoneow as anyone else. and tonight we find him inrigh placita, which is right acrossci the causeway connecting i the barrier island of bocasl grande. steve , you ve seen some justrii horrific destruction.de what can youstruct telion, whatc how the search and rescue attempts areue unfolding in the dark? there? ar they are going on . they are continuous. h they ve carried ouavt more than seven hundred rescues and they really got started just aftether 1:00 o clock in the morning.as o as soon as the winds die down belomow forty miles per hour, they were out there really risking their lives to try to save
twitter confirms that the world s richest man, elon musk, is going through with his bid to buy the company. australia announces plans to halt its extinction crisis to save more than 100 endangered species. # when i was born a coalminer s daughter. and musicians and fans pay tribute to the american country music star loretta lynn, who s died at the age of 90. it is one of the most severe humanitarian crises anywhere in the world right now. somalia is in the grip of the worst drought since the 1980 s. hundreds of thousands of people, many trapped by conflict, are facing extreme hunger and death. a full blown famine where households have no food, children suffer acute malnutrition and people die every day from starvation is likely within a matter of weeks, we are told. 0ur africa correspondent, andrew harding, reported on somalia s last famine in 2011, in which 250,000 people died. he sent this report from baidoa in the southwest of somalia, it s a city at the heart of the curre