confirmed dead, and as the survivors sift through the wreckage of their lives, the question is what comes next? this is my mother s house. this is my whole life. my mom was supposed to retire here and spend the rest of her life and be happy, and now we have nothing. do you have insurance? no. no, they don t like to insure mobile homes that close to the water. i will talk with a top dhs official on how to make a difference after disasters like this with so much loss. now nbc news has exclusively scooped when the next hearing will likely be for the january 6th committee. and we have our eyes and ears on the supreme court, where a big case with bigger implications for race and voting rights is playing out. a major story shaking up one of the closest watched races, and nbc news has not independently verified this, and how herschel walker is responding and the shocking response from his own son. first, jesse kirsch is on the ground. let s talk about sanibel. the number e
closely. well, tonight, three officers face punishment for the death of candidate kyle mullen during hell week. cbs david martin speaks to the mother of the yale football player. and a warning for parents. tonight, the respiratory illness on the rise in children. cbs nikole killion talks to parents and doctors. 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. and we want to begin with the breaking news in what is the largest defamation suit payout ever in american history. the landmark verdict awarded the families of those killed in the sandy hook massacre, parents who lost their young children and then faced a decade of. far-right info wars host alex jones to pay nearly $1 billion in damages for spreading lies about the elementary school shooting. the 2012 massacre in newtown, connecticut,killed 20 children elementary schl shng ineadlies our nation so how listeners it was st
still without power. the extent of the death and destruction may just be coming to light. governor ron desantis is defending officials in lee county where more than half the storm related deaths have been announced. they re facing criticism for issuing evacuation orders a day later than neighboring counties. here s what governor ron desantis told cnn. is that what you ll be reviewing, looking at the evacuation orders even lee county if they had followed their own evaluation orders from what we reviewed they should have had the evacuation order sooner. the issue is they informed people and most people did not want to do it. that s just the reality. you re in a situation, are you going to grab somebody out of their home that doesn t want to. i don t think that s the appropriate use of government. i think that takes it a little too far. reporter: boris sanchez joins us live from fort myers this morning to tell us what they re dealing with there. boris, what s the latest?
the list. and power is first. how we got there, i remember when trump was elected and i reached out to lizzie and i said, whatever are we going to do? and she said, don t let the bastards grind you down. there s no answer to this question, i m sorry, that will make sense. but margaret atwood and the story we re telling and the shape of our country and our world are hand in hand. and i don t believe the writers are trying to write about the world, they are following the characters in this story. the fact that they re lining up is terrifying. and it confirms margaret atwood s profound intelligence. it s a very upsetting one thing i think about all the time is the fact that it s so clear in our world, misogyny is at the rep till onbrain stem of all of these nationalist movements. you know, there s no so, there s no sense of making men s participation, in my experience, men seem to participate in pregnancies, but we re just going to punish the women. and it s something abou
hear whether the inspectors will be able to get to that plant. it is the fighting, the shelling that is precisely why it s making it so necessary, alisyn and victor. all right, melissa bell in kyiv. thank you. let s bring in now retired brigadier general steve anderson. he just returned from ukraine. general, you were talking to people there about the logistics and the maintenance or the weapons systems they ve received from the u.s., and other countries, we should say. what are the biggest issues that they re facing at this point in the war? well, really, there s two issues, victor, that they re facing right now. first is frontline leadership. they ve taken tremendous casu casualties in the front line. their junior leader, small unit leaders have been perhaps 30% to 40% have been killed over the course of this war, so, they ve got to replace those. but the other big issue is logistics. and my ten days on the ground, i got to see this firsthand. the big issue, really,