that shed light on human evolution has died aged 77. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. the south african authorities say that a massive fire inside the parliament building in cape town has completely destroyed the national assembly. police have arrested a forty nine year old suspect, and charged him with theft and arson. the building was empty for the new year holidays and there ve been no casualties. president cyril ramaphosa, who earlier visited the scene, described the fire as devastating. our correspondent nomsa maseko has more from capetown. an historic building on fire. plumes of smoke engulfing south africa s parliament. within hours, the fire tore through the complex and completely destroyed the main debating chamber. sirens. more than 60 fire fighters battling to extinguish the blaze. the damage is significant and there are fears that some parts of the structure which was built in the late 1800s could collapse. the entire parliamen
related staff shortages cause turbulence for travelers. i was supposed to have a flight out of here. they canceled it. i m here for 12 hours. garrett: diplomatic talks: president biden to speak with russia s vladimir putin amid tension over ukraine. remembering harry reid, tributes and remembrances following the death of the former democratic leader. thank you for the friendship and support over the years. garrett: unifying america, how a new jersey school is building trust between students and polie. an epic career: the n.f.l. world salutes former coach and broadcaster john madden. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. garrett: good evening to our viewers in the west. thank you for joining us. i m major garrett in for norah. we ll have the latest news on the continued spread of covid and the threat of tornadoes across the south, but we begin with breaking news. the guilty verdicts against ghislaine maxwell, found
sixth straight day as covid-related staff shortages cause turbulence for travelers. i was supposed to have a flight out of here. he houdiplomatic talks: president biden to speak with russia s vladimir putin amid tension over ukraine. remembering harry reid, tributes and remembrances following the death of the former democratic leader. thank you for the friendship and support over the years. garrett: unifying america, now a new jersey school is building trust between students and police. an epic career: the n.f.l. world salutes former coach and broadcaster john madden. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell reporting from the nation s capital. garrett: good evening, everyone. thank you for joining us. i m major garrett in for norah. we ll have the latest news on the continued spread of covid and the threat of tornadoes across the south, but we begin with breaking news. the guilty verdicts against ghislaine maxwell, found guilty late today of luring teena
americans trying to get home from their destinations. thousands of flights were canceled over the weekend. it is due in part to the virus. near nearly 800 flights have been canceled. we have crews across the country. let s begin first with our national correspondent who joins us live outside of hartsfield-jackson. nadya, is this due to covid? the cancellations? reporter: that what s we hear, poppy. 800 domestic flights have been canceled. every time we check, that number is growing and growing. airlines say it is because they don t have the flight crews for all of the travelers to keep with the flight schedules because of the omicron variant. we are learning about technical issues for flights and weather delays as well. weather delays, those flights are canceled over 250 in the last week. over the last three days, 3,000 flights canceled from this past weekend and those canceled this morning. you can imagine the headache for travelers. we spoke with one couple who live in ta
time. we have a mortality of one%, they are experiment with viruses with mortality between 15% and 50%. experiments that combine unknown viruses with known pandemic causing viruses are incredibly risky, provide unknown viruses with coronavirus is with 50% mortality and endanger civilization as we know it and unwilling to accept responsibility and take any steps to keep gain of function research from unleashing a more deadly virus, mislead the public by saying they could not be that. no one is alleging the published viruses by the chinese are covid. what we are saying is that this was risky kind of research, to share with the chinese and covid may be created from a not yet revealed virus, we don t anticipate the chinese are going to reveal if the virus came from lab. you know that and you continue to mislead and support nih money going to wuhan and so you trust the chinese scientists who appeared to have learned nothing from this pandemic which would you today finally take res