the warning for texans. shelter in place, we are in a emergency. rescue mode. norah: heavy rain and battering winds cause damage. went through the roof of her house instead of our shed. norah: and the nightmare for holiday travelers with 1500 flights canceled. every year it s getting hotter. norah: and a persistent heat wave, we are tracking the forecast. the cbs evening news starts now. we are coming on the air with a number of developing stories across the u.s., notably the dangerous weather and scorching heat and much of the country. good evening. i am norah o donnell and thank you for being with us. we will begin tonight right here in washington. the president of the united states, joe biden, facing a fresh round of questions about his health. 11 days after his disastrous debate performance, cbs news has learned a parkinson specialist from national regional medical center has visited the white house eight times over the last year. tonight the president s
urging businesses to require employees to be vaccinated. we need more businesses to step up and do their part. our civil liberties are a risk here and they a danger. brian: hi, everybody. welcome. we waited hours. hours for the president to make a speech. actually it was a day late after his secretary of state bored everyone by barely making eye contact with the camera and stiffly giving an address how the war of afghanistan was over and went so well. the president of the united states basically had the same message. this was a big success. anyone who defy was a big success just doesn t like me and by the way let s blame president trump. he was the one who put me in a deal i couldn t get out of it. that s the one deal he couldn t get out of it. i can t imagine that 30 minute speech convinced many people that this evacuation wasn t one of the worst moments in american history. ainsley: he called it extraordinary success even though 13 americans were killed at the a
about voter sentiment for democrats progressive push to the left. and concerns tonight about a possible meat shortage, how another big ransomware attack could put the nation s food supply in jeopardy. let s begin tonight with infrastructure as time runs down on a possible deal coming together, we are just hours away from a meeting between the president and the g.o.p. chief negotiator. kevin corke has the very latest tonight and kevin, i got to say when i talked to the senator sunday, she still sound hopeful. she did sound hopeful. i actually had a chance to hear a lot of her comments and i must say, that positivity could go a long way towards hopefully bridging the gap, but the planned one-on-one meeting as you know between biden and the senator actually comes after senate republicans last week offered a nearly trillion dollar counterproposal to the white house s infrastructure plan. that counter, by the way, still leaves the two sides about a trillion dollars apart. even w
bourbon for which the proceeds go to helping our men and women in uniform. jillian: good job reading those notes. good morning, you re watching fox & friends first. i m jillian mele. todd: i m todd piro. we honor our fallen heroes who gave their lives for our fleam and happening in freedom and happening in washington, president biden and vice president harris will mark memorial day by attending the wreath laying ceremony at arlington national cemetery. jillian: david spunt joins us from washington as the president puts world leaders on notice during a speech honoring his late son. reporter: president biden is in wilmington, delaware where he spent the weekend honoring his late son, army major beau biden. he will head to arlington national cemetery. this is a tradition going back decades. arlington is open to the public for the first time since the beginning of the pandemic, a solemn resting place of thousands of heroes. the president will visit, give the speech and visi
thousands of frustrated passengers have been told their flights have been canceled. the problem a highly contagious virus and not enough workers. these are the lucky ones. passengers heading through security to catch a flight. hopefully everybody can get home for the holidays. luckily for me, i should be fine. other travelers today are not as fortunate. in preemptive move some airlines canceled flights citing a lack of crews variant. among the hardest hit united airlines. in a company the company said quote the nationwide spike in omicron cases this week has had a direct impact on our flight crews and the people who run our operation. at least seven people of delta s flights today did not take off. the company said in a statement quote delta streams exhausted all options including re-routing substitution of aircraft s and crew. delta asked the cdc to reduce quarantine time for people testing upon for the vice. the airline boss feared the omicron variant would in his wor