how the social media company rigid the covid debate with elon musk teasing there are more files to come. correspondent aishah hasnie joins us tonight. good evening, aishah. rich, good evening to you. in a relatively brief thread writer says both the trump and biden white house is, quote: directly pressed twitter to moderate covid content. you, however they saw fit and that the platform oftentimes complied. today s newly released twitter files focus on the pandemic. how the government tried to control the narrative. writer da david says the trump white house came looking for help from the tech companies to combat misinformation about runs on grocery stores. but there were runs on grocery stores. he also reveals twitter monitored the trump white house sharing an email exchange where twitter s former deputy general counsel jim baker asked why a tweet from then president trump telling people not to be afraid of covid was not violating their covid misinformation policy. twitte
pediatric medicine shortage. over-the-counter cold medicine for children is selling out, forcing major pharmacies to limit just how much families can buy. cbs carter evans speaks with worried parents. and a match made in heaven with campus housing in short supply, a group of pennsylvania college students trade the dorm room for a con. bs kki battisteas sist saight out of the movies. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. duncan: good evening, and thank you for joining us. i m jericka duncan in for norah. national drug chains are limiting the sale of over-the-counter children s medicine amid a widespread shortage. plus, the white house accuses texas governor greg abbott of endangering lives when he dropped off bus loads of migrants outside the vice president s home on a very cold christmas eve. more on those stories in just a moment. but first, a state of emergency is in effect tonight in new york state following the dea
and prince william greeting some who gathered to grieve, shaking hands with well-wishers and speaking with them briefly as well. world leaders are also arriving to honor the queen. joe biden and the first lady departing this morning to attend the queen s funeral scheduled for monday. earlier today, canadian prime minister justin trudeau and his wife arriving. max foster, richard quest, and anna stewart begin our coverage right now. max, to you first, we re getting new details about the royal grandchildren s vigil, and we are looking at i believe live pictures of some of the grandchildren coming down the steps at westminster hall. what do you know about what we will be witnessing now? reporter: you can see the prince of wales there, prince william, followed by prince harry. they ll take either end of the coffin, i think. the prince of wales will be at the head of the coffin, and prince harry will be at the foot of the coffin. then the other grandchildren, usually beatrice be
being a great friend of this show. all right. hello again, everyone. thank you so much for being with me. i m fredricka whitfield. right now a heart-felt tribute to queen elizabeth ii is under way in london. thousands pouring in to say a final farewell to their monarch. the last hour we saw the queen s eight grandchildren holding a vigil as she lies in state. the royal family also greeting world leaders as they arrive today ahead of the queen s funeral, which is monday. let s go straight to london right now. max foster, richard quest and anna stewart are following this historic event. max, to you first. this vigil, with the queen s grandchildren, was only about 15 minutes. wow, even with that brevity, you felt such love being exuded from these family members, from these young men and women who were paying the greatest homage to their grandmother. reporter: yeah. something they all wanted to do. outline, for william and harry, more practice at this sort of thing. for the
the country in traffic accidents from freezing to death in the elements or from a range of other causes as a direct result of this storm. multiday snowfall totals have been titanic, up to 43 inches in hard hit buffalo. governor hochul requesting a federal disaster declaration due to the historic winter storm. it is devastating. it is going to a warzone and the vehicles along the sides of the roads are shocking. it is not just small vehicles, it is literally snowplows, it is major size recovery vehicles and utility vehicles and tow trucks. so we have a real challenge right now are we have roads blocked. roads are literally blocked by emergency vehicles so that has made it extremely challenging for us. effect on air travel on a crucial holiday week end was nothing shorts of catastrophic. there were a total of more than 11,000 flights canceled friday, saturday and sunday. this morning so far airlines have canceled another 1300 flights. nationwide more than 60,000 homes and bus