Also tonight republicans have to take sides in President Trumps dead end efforts to overturn the election. And with just days to go before those key Senate Runoff races in georgia, one of the candidates is now in quarantine. Tale of the tape, new video shows a woman attacking a black teenager, falsely accusing him of stealing her iphone. His family is demanding her arrest. What she is saying tonight and its not an apology. New years storm, millions are under weather alerts from texas to new york. Well have the latest. History on the hardwood. The extraordinary moment when becky hammon became the first woman to serve as an n. B. A. Head coach. And this isnt kid stuff. Meet the eight year old entrepreneur whos matching style with purpose. This is the cbs evening news with Norah Odonnell. Reporting from the nations capitol. Garrett good evening to our viewers in the west. Norah is off tonight. Im Major Garrett. We begin this new years eve with subdued celebrations as well as a longing to
All those people waiting and waiting to get two boxes of food just to feed their families. And those 2,000 stimulus checks, that could help them. Theyre a casualty of the standoff on capitol hill. Senate Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell making it clear his priority is to placate the president. While doing everything he can to ensure the measure doesnt actually come up for a vote. The senate is not going to split apart the three issues that President Trump linked together. So never mind those desperately needed checks. Well just tack on the president s grudge match with twitter and his false claims of voter fraud. False claims of voter fraud. And well just let the bill die. And what is the president doing . What is he doing while americans are suffering . There you go. Right there. Exactly what you knew hed be doing, and that is golfing. Spending his 313th day at one of his golf clubs since he took office. Trump supporters, how do you justify that . Republican lawmakers, how do you justi
Administration in its literal last days contesting the election at every turn, while an Unprecedented Campaign to eradicate a historic plague takes shape by the day. Related or not, its poetic. But as the vaccine teases prematurely at life beyond covid, the Republican Party cannot bring itself to face life without donald trump and its turning on itself in the process. Congress now bracing for an unexpected fight next week when it convenes to certify joe bidens president ial win. Nbc news reporting today that nearly a dozen gop senators are now calling for an emergency audit of the results, planning to vote to reject electors from a handful of socalled disputed states. These gop senators, of course, join the president in that objection as he travels to georgia monday for a rally ahead of Tuesdays Senate runoffs, casting doubt on his massive early vote. But not likely to say anything about the surging covid numbers, the rightful criticism of vaccine rollout on his watch, or the fact that
A woman who was dubbed 'SoHo Karen' after being caught on camera wrongly accusing a Black teenager of stealing her cellphone at a New York City hotel got
Miya Ponsetto pleaded guilty to a felony hate crime charge after the Dec. 2020 incident at the Arlo Hotel in NYC, when she got into a confrontation with.