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in case you haven t noticed, the heatwave is continuing across america. and now severe thunderstorms are threatening the east coast. eye on america, cbs s jonathan vigliotti gets exclusive access to yellowstone national park, after unprecedented flooding. there is now concern that erosion in the area is so bad, parts of the cannian wall could collapse. o donnell: world s worst commute, a boston train catches on fire before 7:00 a.m., as passengers rush to escape, one even jumping into the mystic river below. and the kennedy center honors we ll tell you who will be celebrated. 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 busy thursday night. tonight, president biden has now joined many of us who have tested positive for covid 19, and is now forced to work from home. of course, that home is the white house, and is equipped by a full medical staff and team. t ....
hello again, everyone, thank you so much for joining me, i m fredricka whitfield. at any moment, the cdc s vaccine advisers will announce their decision on covid-19 vaccines for children, 6 months to 5 years old. pfizer and moderna are seeking authorization for their vaccines. if approved young children could begin beginning vaccinated as soon as next week. are we hearing anything more about how close they re getting? reporter: they are getting closer. they have been taking questions for an hour, and it sounds like several more questions came up. they were supposed to vote a half hour ago but they re going to take as many questions and time as need be to get through everything. after two and a half years of all of us dealing with covid, this is the last sort of big piece, you know, the last tool in the tool box to get all americans covered by vaccines and hopefully sort of squelch this pandemic to something near an end. several questions that they have been centering ....
with his 2:24 p.m. tweet condemning mike pence directly endangered his vice president s life. he d been told exactly how bad it was at the capitol. although the president s chief of staff, mark meadows, has refused to testify before this committee, mr. meadows aid, ben williamson and white house press secretary sarah matthews testified that mr. meadows went to the dining near the oval office to tell the president about the violence at the capitol before the president s 2:24 p.m. tweet. it was clear that it was escalating and escalating quickly. so, then when that tweet, the mike pence tweet, was sent out, i remember us saying that that was the last thing that needed to be tweeted at that moment. congressman pete avril says the committee s investigation says that immediately after that tweet, the crowd inside and outside the capitol surges. two minutes later, the secret service evacuated the former vice president from the senate chamber, coming within 40 feet, acc ....
the statement. the statement. he really wanted to make sure that it was just so. as president trump was, quote, pouring gasoline on the fire during the insurrection, we re now hearing how close to danger vice president pence was on january 6. plus we now have the first of the two captured by russiae reported missing. we re live in kyiv with the latest. and more than 65 million americans are in a heat alert with temperatures getting into the triple digits fahrenheit. we re live at the cnn weather center on how much longer this could last. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster. thursday s hearing on the january 6 riot revealed more chilling details. and stuck in the middle was vice president mike pence, testimony showed that he came perilously close to being discovered and possibly killed as rioters ram pained through the capitol. committee members also zeroed in on the role of john eastman who happened the illegal scheme to thwart the 2020 ....
two missing americans in ukraine, on the back of a russian military truck, hands apparently tied behind their backs. where are they now? let s go outfront. good evening, i m erin burnett, outfront tonight, donald trump was quote, pouring gasoline on the fire. how trump s former white house deputy press secretary describes trump s actions that put pence s life in danger on january 6th. this testimony showed at the january 6th committee this afternoon, rioters came within 40 feet, 40 feet of the vice-president at the capitol. committee showed these never before seen photos of the vice-president and these pictures are of pence at a secure loksz after rioters breached the capitol so when he s in that, you know, sort of rushed into that little back area of attempted safety. including this one that shows pence looking at the video trump tweeted, asking rioters to leave the capitol, the one sent many hours after the violence began, and hours after trump had repeatedly stok ....