tonight, the president changing his schedule before heading overseas and going to delaware . after his son is convicted. good evening, i m norah o donnell. thank you for being with us. that moment of embrace captured on camera at the national guard airport now named after the president s late son, beau, who died of cancer in 2015. this trial publicly aired some of the first family s most painful moments, with just five months until the presidential election. the president says he will not pardon his son, as hunter faces up to 25 years in prison. and it all started with this x on a federal firearms application in 2018. hunter biden claimed he was not an unlawful user of, or addicted to, illegal drugs. the jury decided that was a lie. cbs s weijia jiang is in wilmington, and she s going to start us off tonight. reporter: hunter biden left court today holding hands with his wife and the first lady, dr. jill biden, just after hearing the verdict. he stood in court, stared str
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conviction. the cbs evening news starts now. norah: tonight, the president changing his schedule before heading overseas and going to delaware to see hunter biden just hours after his son is convicted. good evening. i m norah o donnell. thank you for being with us. that moment of embraced captured on camera on the national guard airport now named after the president s late son, beau, who died of cancer in 2015. this child publicly aired some of the first family s most moments, with just five months until the presidential election. the president says he will not pardon his son, as hunter faces up to 25 years in prison. and it all started with this: x on a federal firearms application 2018. an unlawful user of or addicted to illegal drugs. the jury decided that was a lie. cbs s weijia jiang is in wilmington and she is going to start us off tonight. reporter: hunter biden left court today holding hands with his wife in the first lady, dr. jill biden, just after hearing
the survivors of the sandy hook elementary school shooting, graduating from high school. they were just first-graders when they tragically lost 20 of their classmates in that massacre 12 years ago tonight they still feel the weight of that loss this is such a monumental guy and we all can feel what we ve lost should been all royal classmates 391. one last time. and i just can t i gave you that. i can never be that. i think we all are carrying your memory through us and making sure that they re walking stage right there with us. the school s principal reading the names of all 20 students who were murdered in that attack, also leading a moment of silence and honoring, of course, the six teachers and administrators were also killed wearing white and green ribbons on their gowns, each inscribed with forever in our hearts to remember the victims it is a tragedy that has understandably shape the course of their lives. many of the survivors now activists, some of them meeting rece
on russian territory with us supplied-weapons speaking ahead of the cuban naval visit vladimir putin warned of a possible russian response the easley and you put enough today in the worst supply weapons to the zone of combat operations and call for the use of these weapons against our territory. then why do we not have the right to do the same? to mirror these actions? i m not ready to say that we ll do it tomorrow, but we of course, should think about it elsewhere. moscow has been stepping up tactical nuclear drills to staging exercises with neighboring belarus near the ukrainian border. russian tactical nukes delivered from either ground or air can level entire cities for their the kremlin insists it has no plans at this stage to use the matthew chance cnn moscow thanks to matthew tonight. and thanks to you, of course, as always, for being with us ac30 60 with anderson begins right now tonight on 360. what happens now that the president s son is a convicted felon and