Whitaker: plea deal: a former m. M. A. Fighter, known as wild man is the first to plead guilty to assaulting an officer in the capitol riot. Airline meltdown, passengers in limbo as spirit cancels hundreds of more flights. We press the c. E. O. For answers. Reporter: what do you say to those passengers? whitaker: olympic streak. Allyson felix sets a record for medals on the track and the american women reign supreme on the sand. And on the road. Cbs steve hartman on how a young intruder stole a homeowner s heart. This is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. Whitaker: good evening to our viewers in the west, and thank norah is off tonight. I m bill whitaker. We begin tonight with the sobering news that for the first time in six months, the u. S. Has topped 120,000 covid cases in a single day, a strong signal that the summer surge is only growing. But as we head into the weekend with the pace of shots picking up, today the country crossed the h
very, very angry after southwest cancels more than 2,000 flights over three days. tonight, passengers say some of the airlines explanations are hard to believe. we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin tonight with american democracy in peril as the country already looks ahead toward the 2024 race for the white house. former president trump working harder than ever to spread his big lie that the 2020 election that he lost was stolen. cnn s brian todd is joining us. he s got new details for us. brian, trump s big lie fueled that january 6th insurrection. and now the select committee in the house, their investigation is clearly intensifying. that investigation is at a critical stage, wolf. trump s former aides and the former president himself seem ready to do battle with the committee as trump continues to hold campaign-style rallies. i m thrilled to be back. reporter: toni
tonight with new developments on two key countries for this country and the free world, how to avoid default in debt and how to ensure that russia s invasion of ukraine is rolled back. president biden at the g7 summit is grappling with both. on ukraine, a milestone, with president zelenskyy due to travel from ukraine to japan this weekend. president biden gave his okay for a joint allied effort to train ukrainian pilots on f-16 fighters and other advanced aircraft. and on the debt ceiling, it looks like talks, which the president was being updated on remotely, are back on again. they resumed tonight just hours of kevin mccarthy s republican negotiators called a halt to them earlier today. we have correspondents spanning the globe tonight. phil mattingly traveling with the president in japan. what is the latest you re hearing from white house officials about debt ceiling negotiations? reporter: you know, anderson, as you point out, there was a pause, house republican negotia
- [announcer] do you have an invention idea but don t know what to do next? call invent help today. they can help you get started with your idea. call now 800-710-0020. new covid travel requirements for this coming from china, i will talk to a doctor about these restrictions, and whether they can be effective. after days of delays and cancellations, a southwest airlines slowly but surely seems to be working its way back to normal. but it won t get there right away. a representative for the pilots union says it looks like the flight schedule will be mostly full by friday. the airline has canceled more than 2300 flights for the coming day but that number jobs to only 39 cancellations by friday. airports are filled with long lines of southwest passengers trying to re-book as piles of luggage continue to grow. while other airlines recover from last week s winter storm fairly quickly, southwest has not. on tuesday, southwest accounted for 84% of cancellations among all airlines
the world, i am allison caustic . ahead on cnn newsroom, relief still days away for many southwest customers as we enter day eight of the airline meltdown. i talked to an aviation expert about the federal ramifications there plus we have a live report on a deadly fire at a casino in cambodia. that has left seven people that. pope francis says pope benedict is very sick and asks for everyone s prayers, the latest from the vatican. we begin with what ukrainian officials are calling a massive missile attack on cities across the country. ukrainian air force says russia is attacking from various directions with air and sea- based cruise missiles. joins us from kia, what is the latest and what are you hearing? well, what we are hearing from ukrainian officials is that at least 120 missiles have been fired so far today from russia to ukraine, hitting basically every major metropolitan area in the country, including, of course kia, where we are just a few minutes ago, a distant