Aids. The disease that has claimed so many lives here has also come to dominate the lives of many who are not infected. Diaz: border nurses: battling covid and a closed crossing just to get to work. And later, a photographer gets up close and creative with cicadas. I feel like people should embrace nature. This is the cbs weekend news. From chicago, here s adriana diaz. Diaz: good evening. So much for spring. Tonight, millions of americans are feeling the heat from the west to here in the midwest, and into the northeast. It was just last weekend, the socalled unofficial start of summer, that we were reporting on rain and record cold. But this weekend, weather isn t just hot it s dangerous. And the wildfire threat in the west extreme. Cbs news meteorologist jeff berardelli joins us now with more. Jeff, good evening. Reporter: good evening, adriana. Good evening, everybody. So we have widespread and intense sweltering heat all the way up to the canadian border. About 60 record highs toda
Record highs. Deadly arsenal: police discover 25,000 round of ammunition, molotov cocktails and other explosives in the home of the san jose killer. Was he plotting an even bigger attack? the verdict is in: the breaking news tonight in the murder trial of the undocumented immigrant charged with killing college student mollie tibbetts. Blocking the bill: senate republicans narrowly defeat a plan for a bipartisan commission investigating the january 6 insurrection and the new divide inside the g. O. P. Russian cyber attack: hackers backed by vladimir putin target the u. S. Government, nonprofits and other organizations just weeks ahead of a meeting with president biden. Western wildfire an inferno in arizona torches homes, forcing hundreds to evacuate. What caused the blaze? and, one nation, 24 notes, and a special tribute this memorial day. Steve hartman on the road, with taps across america. This is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. Garrett
lowered to half staff for officer billy evans, who was killed in the attack. the outpouring of grief as capitol police lose another officer in the line of duty. also tonight, new travel guidance. the c.d.c. issues sweeping new recommendations for people who are fully vaccinated. and the new explosion of infections heading into easter. why are so many young people now getting covid? devastating testimony in the derek chauvin murder trial. nnea homicide unit says the former officer crossed the line as he pinned down george floyd. congressman under fire the disturbing new allegations in the federal investigation of florida republican matt gaetz: was he paying for sex, using his cell phone? georgia strikes out major league baseball pulls the all- star game out of atlanta. why the sports league says a new law there doesn t match its values. and on the road with steve hartman, after a year of heartache, some faith and hope this holiday weekend. this is the cbs evening n
overturned. and stacey abrams jumps into the governor s race with the focus on voting rights. we are a democracy. it isn t about bipartisanism. this is about patriotism. inside politics, the biggest stories assessed by the best reporters now. welcome to inside politics sunday. i m manu raju, in today for abby. colder weather means another spike of covid cases is here. the plan to control it makes it easier for kids to get shots, adults to get boosters, requiring insurers to cover at-home testing and new laws for traveling across the country. the biden administration said there s nothing controversial about it. it s a plan that i think should unite us. i know covid-19 has been very divisive in this country. it s become a political issue, which is a sad, sad commentary. it shouldn t be but it has been. now as we move into winter and face the challenges of this new variant, this is a moment we can put crisis behind us. reporter: but according to congressman jim
described and has prohibited the broadcast of information the government regards as false. with that matthew filed this report just moments ago. reporter: this was a much anticipated event amid speculation that the victory day parade would be used to make an important announcement about what russia calls its special military operation in ukraine. possibly a formal declaration of war or a mass mobilization of troops. but neither of those things happened. what we did witness was a spectacular display of russian military might. even though the air display was cancelled because of bad weather, 11,000 troops marched over the cobbles of red square followed by columns of tanks, rocket launchers and interballistic missiles. vladimir putin repeated claims trying to justify the conflict in ukraine that russia was faising an eminent attack and that it had to act preemptively. he also drew parallels between the soviet victory over germany in the 1940s which is what victory day is meant