deadly accidents, scrubbed flights and an ice storm creating chaos. and a woman in oregon kidnapped and tortured and the suspect found dead. and first republican ready to officially take on donald trump and it is not ron desantis. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m christine romans. an ice storm is wreaking havoc on the roads in at least eight states from texas to west virginia. that crash was in memphis. the national weather service urging everyone to avoid driving if possible. two people have died in texas accidents as sleet piled on top of ice makes roads very slick. vehicles backed up at at least ten miles down in texas highway on monday, flight aware says more than 1300 flights are already canceled today. the freezing rain still threatening parts of the south and central u.s. for at least another day. cnn s chad myers is here with the forecast. the video just tells the story. the roads are icy. where are we seeing the hardest hit
storms, bringing snow from the southwest to new england. could you get a foot of snow this weekend? america s top military officials meet with 50 defense ministers, united against russia, but fail to agree on sending tanks to ukraine. cbs debora patta is on the front lines tonight. organic food label fraud. the crackdown at the grocery store. what to look out for. and on the road with the lesson of perseverance from a teenager who never gave up on his dreams. 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 on this friday night. tonight and this weekend, the marches across america as this sunday marks 50 years since the supreme court ruled on roe v. wade. that anniversary observed for the first time since the landmark decision on abortion was overturned. plus, we ve got an important health update on damar hamlin as his team, the buffalo bills, prepares for a remash against
Out of office, including campaigning with democrats. Youre live in the cnn newsroom. Hello, everyone. Thank you for joining us. Im fredricka whitfield. Welcome to a new 11 00 a. M. Eastern hour here on this sunday of the newsroom. Florida under a State Of Emergency this hour, as Tropical Storm ian gains strength. Ian is expected to become a hurricane today, and may peak as a category 4 storm before weakening and making a direct hit on florida as early as wednesday. Were expecting an update from Governor Ron Desantis minutes from now. Our reporter is in the weather center. Cnns Priscilla Alvarez is traveling with the president in wilmington, delaware, who announced a federal energy for the state. So lets begin with you, alison. You just got an update if the National Hurricane center. Tell us what youre learning. Lets look at the breakdown. The sustained winds are at 50 Miles Per Hour, gusting up to 65. That Forward Movement has increased, up to 14 Miles Per Hour to the westnorthwest. An
the end of the show. you will get the last word. first breaking news. a bombshell new development about joe biden. according to reports, classified documents from biden s time as vice-president were discovered at joe biden s private unsecured office last year in november. it include top secret material designated as sensitive information. national archives referred the matter to the department of justice and a u.s. attorney has been assigned to the case. only a few short months ago there was a similar referral about documents in former president trump s possession and mar-a-lago was raided at the request of the attorney general merrick garland. part of biden s executive branch and the fbi director christopher wray. trump s possession of classified materials was an offense that deserve prison time and called on merrick garland to indict the former president. the hyster ia was through the roof. let s see if they apply in to biden. take a look. if the trump people represented
it was dismissed in less than six months. practically actually laughed out of court. now the ruling by u.s. district judge donald middlebrooks ordering trump and his attorney to cover the legal costs of the defendants in that suit is one for the ages. it is a stinging rebuke of donald trump the man and of donald trump s lies and his tried and true now legal strategy of jamming and gumming up the courts with lawsuits. it starts off like this, quote, this case never should have been brought. its inadequacy there is that word again as a legal claim was evident from the start. no reasonable lawyer would have filed it. the judge then makes it crystal clear that the ex-president himself bears responsibility for the suit. he goes on, quote, trump is a prolific and sophisticated litigant who is repeatedly using the courts to seek revenge on political adversaries. he is the mastermind of strategic abuse of the judicial process, and he cannot be seen as a litigant blindly following