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
hundreds ever migrants are schiffering about a critical immigration law. and a drone creeps deep inside of russian territory and killed three soldiers. p plus, should the world take vladimir putin as his word as the russian leader repeats an offer to slide a chair up to the negotiating table with ukraine. this is what we re watching at this hour. and good morning, thank you so much for being here. i m amara walker in for kate bolduan. the death toll from a brutal winter storm rising now to at least 47 western new york bearing the blunt with a once in a lifetime blizzard. the death toll in erie county climbing to 25. more than 43 inches of snow fell over the weekend. and it is still coming down in some places. roads in buffalo are impassable and the city is under a driving ban. over 12,000 people are without power there. the governor of new york has declared a state of emergency and the national guard is deploying 200 additional troops to the western part of the state. e
are we using power tools? will: i get the power tool thing. i want someone to show us, this is what i want some tips on, how about cleaning the pumpkin out? everybody shows you how to to make the designs, my least favorite art e part, the kids don t like the part of scooping rachel: really? my kids love that. will: getting it scraped so there s no strings on the edges. everybody likes to do the cutting and the designs, nobody likes the actual manual labor rachel: i bet if you went online, you could find the hack yesterday there was a hack about opening it from the bottom up. will: yes. rachel: i m going to try that this year. kids do love it. will: they don t finish job. i guarantee you sean finishes the job. todd: so this is what i have to look forward to with the little ones? will: you re super excited, and you will do rachel: most of the work. will: 70% of the work. todd: sort of like yesterday. yesterday all about the ponies, i can t wait we take her to the
whiteout conditions are already here. ice, wind, snow, power outages. millions tonight feeling the impact of the once-in-a-generation storm. plus, we have breaking news. more transcripts just released from the january 6th committee s investigation. everyone from the president s daughter to his attorney general in a top white house lawyer, what they all had to say, and how the committee s final report puts the blame squarely on donald trump. and shocking government numbers out of china about covid cases. new infections reportedly in the hundreds of millions this month alone and growing. let s go outfront. good evening, everyone. i m kate bolduan in for erin burnett. millions are trying for the holidays as snowy conditions caused a massive pileup of roughly 50 cars. we are told at least one person died in this crash. and it s not just in ohio, it s across the country. cars sliding, being abandoned on the streets of memphis, tennessee. today more than 5,000 flights have
the dangerous arctic blast now slamming across the earth. with it, snow, ice, howling winds and all before christmas. we ll have a full forecast for you. we ll also tell you about in kansas city, delays here. driving in was wild, with all the weather, and, you know. winds and rain. there s the people hoping to fly home for the christmas holidays. may simply not make it. we ll also update you with the travel delays in your world. and there s a not nativity display at the vatican, and it sends a message of hope to the people of ukraine. very good day to you. we begin, of course, with the massive winter storm that s barreling across united states. 11 people so far have died from the storm. at least 200 million people are under winter weather advisories. it s an arctic blast that s knocked out power to more than 1 million homes and businesses. it s brought with it a combination of frigid temperatures, gusty winds, heavy snow and ice. and as a result, hundreds of t