Historic swearing in. Former mayor Pete Buttigieg becomes the first openly gay Cabinet Secretary to be confirmed by the senate. New Video Tonight of three officers involved in George Floyds death forcibly arresting an innocent man weeks earlier, raising questions about previous patterns of behavior. Women and the pandemic. What you need to know about Misinformation Being spread about Covid Vaccines and fertility. Also tonight, why this charttopping Country Music stars songs will no longer be played on major Radio Stations. And, gridiron girls. The trailblazing women that will make history during super bowl 55 on cbs. This is the Cbs Evening News with norah odonnell, reporting from the nations capital. Odonnell good evening to our viewers in the west and thank you for joining us. We are going to begin tonight with that new astrazeneca vaccine, which now appears to not only prevent people from getting severely ill from coronavirus it may also slow the spread of it. Researchers say thats
And it starts with copper, the mineral copper. Theres copper in brass. Theres copper in bronze. The Statue Of Liberty is sheathed in a layer of copper. Thats about the thickness of two pennies. Pennies themselves used to be copper, but now theyre just coppercovered zinc, which sort of seems sad. It makes financial sense, because copper over time became too valuable to use in something as cheap as a penny, because most of what we use copper for now is conducting electricity. We use copper for wiring. There is a massive global appetite for copper. And the Worlds Largest producer of copper is an american company. Its a company that used to be based in new orleans but now the Mining Company freeport is based in phoenix, arizona. And the freeport Mining Company of phoenix, arizona, they do still mine copper in arizona and
they mine copper in new mexico and in colorado. But they are a gigantic firm. And theyre a global operation. In south america, they mine copper in chile, peru. In indonesi
And we know how that turned out. God, you may want to intervene here. I want to just pray for arnold, if we can, for those ratings. Im not worried about arnolds ratings. Im worried about what are we going to do about iran. Im in favor of additional sanctions against iran. Nothing is off the table. Reporter officials in the u. S. Military raising Major Concerns over President Trumps hastily approved Ground Strike in yemen. He doesnt make executions like that glibly. He did make the call at dinner, right . I cant reveal where he made the call. President trumps enemies within the administration continue an unprecedented level of leaking for a presidency that is not yet two weeks old. There are new leaks tonight about the president s role in launching a mission in yemen in which u. S. Navy s. E. A. L. William owens became the First American killed in yemen. Counsel of different people. There were other people around the Table Including his secretaries and generals. So he did make the call
Exhibiting the kind of profound indifference to the racial contours of the jeff session nomination that i wouldnt have expected from somebody as savvy as mitch mcconnell. If they did that on purpose to be racially provocative, to stir you racial currents here, i think thats scary and gross. If they did it accidentally, i think its political malpractice. But i think theyve just turned this issue and Elizabeth Warren and the Jeff Sessions nomination into a much hotter, more hotly contested and sort of scarier thing that its been up until now. It was remarkable. Do you think it changes any votes . Thats my last question. I dont know. Weve seen a lot of republicans say they were willing to support Jeff Sessions, joe mancion. An extraordinary legal battle over the fate of the travel ban. A threejudge panel is considering an argument on whether to keep a hold on the order. Is there any reason for to us think theres a real risk . The president determined that there was a real risk. I cant bel
Well break it down and President Obamas spirited Farewell Speech included a forceful defense of his record, an emotional thank you to the first family. It falls to each of those to be those anxious, jealous guardians of our democracy, to embrace the joyous task that weve been given to continually try to improve this great nation of ours. I will be right there with you as a citizen all my remaining days. Tonight, as im sure you heard, theres a stunning report thats surfaced regarding what donald trump was told last week in his briefing of russias roll in the u. S. Election. The materials prepared for trumps Briefing Last Friday included information that made
damaging allegations about trumps deelgts with the russians. The Officials Say that the material initially circulated among opponents of donald trump and was passed to u. S. Intelligence agency. The information has not been verified and the sources would not comment on the nature of the allegations. Neither of the officials said tha