poland for us with what the top leaders at the pentagon are saying. same-sex marriage rights. tonight, the news from the senate about a marriage-equality law. plus breaking news, cbs news projects republicans win the house of representatives. deep freeze, more than 80% of americans face bel deep freeze. more than 80% of americans face below-average temperatures. we have the forecast. and part two of our reporting on america s nursing shortage. tonight, the solutions of how to support the backbone of america s healthcare system. 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 busy wednesday night. and we want to begin with want to begin with a shocking
well away from the blast site, norah. american and polish investigators have been here much of the day at odds with the u.s. and nato tonight, ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy saying, this is not our missile strike and not our missile. o donnell: charlie d agata, thank you. we want to go back now to that breaking news on the midterm elections. cbs news projects republicans have won control of the house of representatives, winning at least 218 seats. it will be a slim majority. the victory comes a day after donald trump announced that he s running for president again. but as cbs major garrett reports, trump may be facing an uphill battle, even in his own party. reporter: the day after the former president s announcement, some republicans looked open to alternatives. we need to have a future leaning party. we need other people to run. reporter: trump s tuesday night speech at mar-a-lago ran long and sounded subdued. i am your voice.
trump has defense attorney to the done to the georgia republican party. have you heard all of that, willie, yet? i have. it s incredible. how is he going to bring this plane in for a landing, and you get to the end, and it doesn t. it goes into the side of sewn mountain. yeah, there s no sense to it at all. no. it s a very good georgia reference. we re going to have more from that moment in the campaign trail. the big development, nbc news projects republicans will win the house of representatives. with democrats in control of the senate, we re going to discuss what a split congress means for the biden agenda. we re following new reporting this morning that more and nor republican maga donors are ditching trump s 2024 presidential run with one billionaire who donated to trump in 2020 telling the new york
energized for a number of reasons. one, we want to get reverend warnock back in there. to, again, every vote matters. the white house is very expanding their numbers and the senate. but, then you also have, i think there are just black voters who saw what the republican party did by propping up a number of these, you know, candidates across the country, who were people of color, but did not necessarily show the interest of the people that they look like. i think the only similarities, frankly, between overt or knock or herschel walker or the fact that they re blackmon. and i think there s a lot of people in georgia that want to go to the polls to send a message. reverend warnock is there a person, and you cannot just book a person of color in a sea, and think that black people will go and vote for them. symone, can i ask you about the next two months. based on what we ve seen out of these midterm elections, let s say, even if republicans to win as protected, 2019 seats, it is clear,
election, with marie perez, democrat. and again, this is one what we re looking at, giving the partisan tilt of the district. trump won it by 35 points. the expectation that the midterm environment was gonna favor republicans or democrats, the expectation certainly going in was that this was a seat that republicans were going to defend, even with kent replacing jamie herrera beutler as the nominee. it s a republican district, especially in this political climate. so, this is an upset victory for democrats. and as we say, for democrats to actually hit that number of 218, our nbc model as you mentioned has been estimating them landing at 2:16 right now. to get those extra two seats, they would actually get a new majority to 218. this is precisely the kind of district they need to win. this is precisely the kind of upset they need to pull. it s not the only one they need a couple of others. i can give you a couple of examples. i mean, the 41st district of california, for instance, take a