historic meeting and call for bracing for oprah s tell-all. package of the vaccine. diaz: that s the cbs weekend from chicago, here s adriana diaz. peace. royal ruckus, royal watchers are bracing for oprah s tell-all bracing are if impact ahead of meghan and harry s tell-all from europe. diaz: that s the cbs weekend from chicago, here s adriana diaz. diaz: good evening, we begin tonight with senate passage of the $1.9 trillion covid are relief bill. after an all-nighter the final vote was along strict party lines, 50-49. one senator was out of town. the senate version of the bill now returns to the house tuesday for almost-certain passage. it s a big victory for president biden. the measure includes a $1,400 check for millions of americans, emergency grants for small businesses, and extends unemployment benefits. cbs news congressional correspondent kris van cleave has the details and the drama from capitol hill. kris, good evening. reporter: well, adriana, it took
joins us to discuss. pushback against mandates starting january 4th affecting tens of millions of workers, what you need to know before the deadline and what kind of fine businesses could be facing for refusing to comply. new developments in the investigation by special counsel john durham and new information on what is pushing the trump russia collusion story. democrats in disarray still scrambling to push through the fake infrastructure and spending bills on the heels of election losses across the country this week, white house correspondent kevin corke is covering that for us tonight. house speaker nancy pelosi and her leadership team spent hours today scrambling to narrow the number of holdouts on the sweeping spending bill. while it is still anyone s guess if, and i mean if, they will manage a boat on friday as expected, they would do so on that and the infrastructure offering i should point out, no matter what makes it over the finish line especially as it relates to
bridge that collapsed after being hit by a container ship earlier in the week. now maryland governor is warning about the high cost of cleaning it up. he ll join me later in the hour. and the funeral of officer jonathan diller. we ll take you there. and in russia, in prison a journalist will be there after a russian court extended his detention and gave no reason. and former secretary of state mike pompeo will discuss that. one year since our colleague at the wall street journal was detained. and president biden talked about it yesterday. now, critics say that biden needs to get tougher with putin to get evan released, including obama s former cia director back in 2010 helped to release them. biden says he needs to do this again, arrest russian spies at the embassy in washington and use them as leverage to get evan freed. we ve got to develop some leverage here, frankly, and be able to arrest some of his spies so that he has a reason for coming to the bargaining table. th
the lowest level in three decades last year. kristalina georgieva, managing director of the international monetary fund, says china faces a fork in the road where it can choose to move away from policies that have worked in the past and re invent itself. it is very important to open up more space for entrepreneurship and create new drivers for growth, new industries that can bring china s prosperity up. julia lee from state street global advisors says she is seeing some signs of a pick up in investments in china. this is an interesting one. it is making headlines around financial markets and what we have a look at exchange rate of fun, there s been a lot happening. there has been a lot happening in some of the new changes mean more investment which means greatness for exchange coming at a time when the japan central is looking at using etf purchases so watching china closely. so the japan central bank is easing back on purchases watching china closely but the other thing
south east of athens where wildfires broke out monday night. guy de launey is in ljubljana. and imogen foulkes is in switzerland. i started by asking azadeh to bring us up to date on the situation in greece. i don t know if you can see it right now, but some of the winds are being felt here, and that is really complicating the situation for the firefighters within the country, because it makes it that much more difficult for them to get close to the fires and fight them. now, where i am today is the aftermath of those fires. as you can see around me, these hills have been completely decimated. if you were here with me right now, you would not only be able to see the fact that these trees have been burned, but you would be able to smell the ash and feel how hot it is around here. but in other parts of greece, on the other side of athens, fires have still been burning. this is very much a situation where firefighters are having to continue to respond to it. here where i am, t