plus, the latest on house speaker nancy pelosi and taiwan. the uncertain visit is straining an already tense relationship between the united states and china. and a texas man gets the longest prison sentence to date tied to the capitol attack, but his daughters want someone else locked up, too. good morning, and welcome to way too early, on this tuesday, august 2nd. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for being with us. after decades on the run, the top leader of al qaeda has finally been taken off the battlefield. ayman al zawahiri was killed this last weekend by a cia drone while standing on a balcony in downtown kabul, second in command to osama bin laden during the september 11th attacks, and became the top leader when the united states killed bin laden in 2011. a senior administration official tells nbc news that the strike was so precise, none of his family inside the home were killed. in a rare evening address last night, president biden still isolating from covid said j
heli helicopters. why they re so concerned tonight. also this evening, the images, that u.s. navy ship confronti ing an iranian ship trying to steal an american drone. the standoff lasting hours. how this ends. martha raddatz with late reporting. the war in ukraine tonight. and new images online this evening. the smoke rising from southern ukraine, as president zelenskyy declares they will take back land seized by the russians. our team near the front lines. here at home tonight what s believed to be the first death i the u.s. from the monkeypox outbreak. what texas officials are now saying. and tonight, the cases are now growing involving children. at least 31 cases involving kids. the justice department at this hour set to respond to the judge after the former president s request for a special master to go through what was seized at mar-a-lago. pierre thomas standing by with what he s learned. tonight, the accuser speaking out in the rape case involving the colleg
moon, scrubbed. this is just part of the space business. o donnell: cbs mark strassmann reports tonight on why artemis 1 failed to launch, and when nasa will try again. and, the end of an era. the greatest of all time, serena williams, takes center court at the u.s. open, and cbs jericka duncan is there. 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 as we start a new week together. tonight top officials are beginning to assess whether intelligence was compromised as they review the material seized from former president donald trump s mar-a-lago resort. the justice department believes some of those documents includes intelligence gathering and information derived from clandestine human sources, among america s most closely-held secrets. and it comes as a federal judge is indicating she is open to appointing what s called a special master that s a
moment. plus president joe biden is ready to make more stops on the campaign trail. but some democratic candidates aren t exactly eager to join him on stage. also ahead, the latest from ukraine. as its forces launch a major counter-offensive to re-take a russian-occupied area in that country s south. good morning. welcome to way too early. on this tuesday, august 30th, i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. nbc news has learned that some of the documents recovered during the fbi search of former president donald trump s mar-a-lago resort potentially contain attorney-client privileged information. according to a court filing yesterday, the team used by the justice department has finished its examination of the possibly privileged documents, sorting through them and reviewing any material that could be part of congressional investigators and it would undermine trump s efforts to have a special master over the files. over the weekend a federal judge i
questioning some with regards to lindsey graham but it will probably not ultimately prevent him from having to testify as these appeals go up the chain. other witnesses have attempted to block the subpoenas from testifying. by and large graham has been told that he is a witness and not a target. the da is interested in the calls that he made to raffensperger that the sticker terry of state says that graham tried to influence him to throw out legitimate votes. graham denies that. he says he was just checking on the election integrity and that ultimately he voted to certify the election. but he is known on capitol hill as one of the people who was closest to donald trump. if this investigation is making its way up to trump, lindsey graham would be someone with direct knowledge and conversations of what donald trump was doing at what he was asking of lindsey graham. i want to also turn to the investigation in florida. we are juggling, covering so many investigations across t