closely. well, tonight, three officers face punishment for the death of candidate kyle mullen during hell week. cbs david martin speaks to the mother of the yale football player. and a warning for parents. tonight, the respiratory illness on the rise in children. cbs nikole killion talks to parents and doctors. 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. and we want to begin with the breaking news in what is the largest defamation suit payout ever in american history. the landmark verdict awarded the families of those killed in the sandy hook massacre, parents who lost their young children and then faced a decade of. far-right info wars host alex jones to pay nearly $1 billion in damages for spreading lies about the elementary school shooting. the 2012 massacre in newtown, connecticut,killed 20 children elementary schl shng ineadlies our nation so how listeners it was st
as we come on the air, new details coming in about the ninth and maybe last january 6th hearing, now less than 24 hours away. what new evidence the committee is planning to share. who they ll hear from, who we won t, and how the committee might use all of those eternal messages that they have their own internal messages that they have their own hands on. a member of the far right militia group oath keepers is on the stand as we speak, what he told the jurors about the massive stockpile of weapons the group was stashing at a virginia hotel on january 6th. how the abortion controversy is changing the play for the race for senate or not. and spoiler, more not. we re live on the campaign trail. i m hallie jackson in washington. good to be with you. with me is nbc news capitol hill correspondent ali vitali and former attorney and former cia official chuck rosenberg. let s start with what we know what we think is the last hearing and we have to caveat a little bit. first, al
declassified. and providing any evidence that he had declassified any of these documents. now as we and others have reported, and as every expert we have spoken to has said, there is a process for declassification. and if you don t believe them, take it from these republican senators today. there is a process for declassifying documents. there is a process that one must go through. okay. so that s pretty clear. what isn t clear or accurate is what the former president claimed in an interview last night with his tv friend sean hannity. if you re the president of the united states, you can declassify just by saying it s declassified. even by thinking about it, because you re sending it to mar-a-lago or to wherever you re sending it. and it doesn t have to be a process. there can be a process, but it doesn t have to be. you re the president. you make that decision. so when you send it, it s declassified. even by thinking about it. those are his words, which raises the
reporting. in russia tonight, panic following vladimir putin s plan to call up 300,000 reservists to fight in ukraine. tonight, flights out of moscow booked for several days out. russian authorities detaining protesters, some of those protesters now drafted to fight. tom soufi burridge in ukraine tonight. the deadly protests spreading across iran tonight. after the death of a woman arrested by the morality police for allegedly not properly wearing her head scarf. martha raddatz with the scenes unfolding in iran. here in this country, the midair scare. a united airlines flight taking off from newark, circling over the atlantic for nearly two hours, after sparks are seen shooting from the plane. debris falling from the sky. you will hear air traffic control alerting the cockpit. gio benitez tonight. meantime, the chaotic scene onboard an american airlines flight. a passenger accused of punching a flight attendant. tonight, the heated words in court. alex jones, who sa
Susan candiotti is working her sources. Were hearing from the governor of connecticut, dan malloy. Update our viewers on what youre learning. Wolf, today we are learning more from authorities about they are picking up more evidence, both at the scene, crime scene, as well as at the home that the shooter shared with his mother. And they are trying to saying it is beginning to explain why this happened. Now, theyre not revealing exactly what that information is. However, an official with the atf is telling us that, in fact, more weapons were found at the mothers home. Now, they are doing complete traces on those weapons. They are not saying they are directly related to the shooting. But it is providing more of a picture about how everything happened. We have, however, learned from our sources about the three additional weapons that were found at the home. Appear to be found there. And they are all rifles. All rifles. These are in addition to the three weapons that weve already told you a