documents related to nuclear weapons capabilities during that court-approved search of his florida residence last month and includes as the post puts it a foreign government s military defenses, including its nuclear capabilities and nuclear defense readiness. what country was the subject of this classified material was not revealed. but some of the material so secret that it s described as many senior national security officials are kept in the bark about them and only the president and some members of hi cabinet or a near cabinet level official know about them and can authorize others to be read in. this comes as the justice department is weighing its next steps after a federal judge sided with donald trump, agreeing to appoint a special master to review all of the documents picked up in this investigation and that include the possibility of appealing on the part of the justice department and bill barr thinks they should push to fight for. we will much more on all of that i
from school. o donnell: deadly shark attack. a pennsylvania woman on a cruise killed while snorkeling in the bahamas. and the obamas return to the white house. let me thank my husband, first of all, for such spicy remarks. ( laughter ) this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. o donnell: good evening, and thank you for joining us on this wednesday night. tonight, wildfires are leaving a trail of destruction amid record-breaking heat in the west. the california heat wave is screching into its eighth straight day with seven states under warnings and advisories. the temperatures are record breaking. salt lake city and fresno, california, had their hottest september days ever. the brutal heat is straining california s power grid and power companies are pleading with the public to conserve energy. the governor there sending out rare text alerts to avoid rolling blackouts. the dry weather has caused more than a dozen wildfires
mar-a-lago. it s information so sensitive that many national security officials don t have access to it. also ahead, we have got new surveillance video that appears to show evidence of interference in the 2020 election as a fake elector is seen escorting several people into a county elections office in georgia. plus, there are urgent calls for action in ukraine to prevent a nuclear meltdown at europe s largest power plant. good morning and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, september 7th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. we ll begin with that new reporting from the washington post. people familiar with the matter tell the newspaper that a document describing a foreign government s nuclear secrets was among the top secret items seized from mar-a-lago a month ago. the post did not identify which government but there are only eight other countries with nuclear capabilities. the paper sources also didn t specify where inside the
at the time of 9/11, the man who took over as al-qaeda leader after bin laden was killed by u.s. navy seals. the string of attacks and murders attributed to ayman al-zawahiri is stomach churning. he was the ideological mastermind behind the fraters of al-qaeda and groups like that, toward indiscriminate mass murder of civilians anywhere, including muslims, all in the name of islamic piety. and how we got there, we are now looking back, and it seems like a straight shot. but if you dropped in anytime in his biography, you wouldn t know if he was going there. he was trained as a doctor, he was trained as a surgeon. he was from a respected family in egypt, born and raised in cairo. by the time he was 15 years old, he was a committed radical, that wanted to try to impose islamic theocracy by force. he formed his first terrorist cell, with the aim of overthrowing the government of egypt, when he was only 15 years old. when islamic militants did assassinate egypt s president, anwar
ballots, the allegations that they are taking one ballot and scanning it through three, four, five times to rack up votes for vice president biden. i told him the video did not support that. then he went off on double voting, he said that dead people are voting, indians are getting paid to vote, and he meant people in native american reservations. he said there s lots of fraud going on here. i told him flat out that much of the information he s getting is false and therefore is not supported by the evidence. we looked at the allegations, but they don t pan out. mr. barr and his advisors were not the only ones to determine that the president s allegations regarding dominion voting machines were false. i asked unanimous consent, reports issued by the department of homeland security, cybersecurity, and infrastructure security agency otherwise known, that reject the claims of manipulation of voting machines in the 2020 election. without objection, so ordered. thank you, mr.