dangerous and even deadly. we ll tell you where the storm is headed next and when it will the cbs evening news starts right now. good evening. i m norah o donnell and thank you for being with us on this wednesday night. we are going to have more on that deadly winter storm in just a second but first the health scares facing the royal family. we learned today that the princess of wales, kate middleton, who is 42 years old, will be in the hospital for two weeks following abdominal surgery. and just hours later, king charles announced he too would be hospitalized for treatment for an enlarged, so we are going to talk to our chief medical correspondent dr. jon lapook about their prognosis, plus the big health headline here at home, colon cancer is killing more young men and women than ever before. plus, alarming reporting about sextortion and the safety of our kids online. children as young as nine years old being targeted and exploited. we are going to talk to the fbi and
platforming and publishing, said liar, the problem is us. that, ladies and gentlemen, is textbook gas lighting. i say this with sadness, affection, awe and a little bit of envy. we live in a world in which your immediate family, your child s immediate circle of teachers, coaches, friends, friends parents, your neighbors, loved ones and social circle doesn t include people who voted for different people than you voted for, than you live in the only silo i m aware of. this is annerson s cooper defense of cnn s campaign style event earlier in the week. maybe you haven t been paying attention to him since he left off and enjoying not hearing from him, saying it can t happen again, some investigation is going to stop him. it hasn t so far. so if last night showed anything, showed it can happen again. it is happening again. he hasn t changed. and he is running hard. you have every right to be outrame and angry and never watch this network again gut do you think stay nurg silo an
tensions with china. nbc news was first to report the suspected chinese surveillance balloon hovering over the northern united states around montana for the past few days. china is now responding claiming it is a civilian airship used for weather research that was blown off course. but how credible is that claim? minutes ago we learned secretary of state antony blinken is postponing his trip to china for what was supposed to be a highly anticipated meeting with china s leader next week. the pentagon is set to hold a briefing in the next hour. we know the department of defense is tracking the balloon closely, even at one point discussing shooting it down. we even have air traffic audio from wednesday about a, quote, special mission. we just got alerted from salt lake tmu we re on a ground stop right now until further notice for a special mission going on over the livingston area. we don t know exactly when we can have our next departure. it is landing with a thud on capito
top of the hour. i m allison. i m victor. more than 1 million puerto ricans are without power. the water washed away this bridge as it made landfall. fiona is a tropical storm and battering the island with heavy winds and catastrophic flash floods. hundreds of fema workers are on the ground. the president is assuring puerto rico we stand with you and will get through this together. cnn s laila santiago is live in san juan where the rising water is the major concern. laila, what are you seeing? reporter: in san juan in the northwestern part of the island it is different than what they seeing on the interior and eastern part of the island. so i know victor showed that video of the bridge washed away. i talked to a young man there last night when it happened and said he was looking outside the window and happened within a matter of minutes. this morning i got into salina on the southeastern part of the island and there is a lot of concern and frustration among the people i
president to go to places where there has been tragedy and dove station. he has the first lady with him. it is the compassion of the presidency to deliver. he is known for being able to connect with people going through hardship so expect to see some of that today. but then also to be able to talk about federal resources that are being brought to bear in kentucky. money that s already been delivered but then also being able to talk about the legislation just passed by the senate that deals with climate and to connect it to the devastation from flooding and storms that kentucky experienced and the communities around the nation have in all kinds of weather related events and to say part of what washington and his administration are trying to do is to find ways to releigh the climate crisis by putting in new steps that will address some of that and so look for it to be part empathy and part policy as they visit kentucky today. of course just coming out of covid isolation and thi