Historic swearing in. Former mayor Pete Buttigieg becomes the first openly gay Cabinet Secretary to be confirmed by the senate. New Video Tonight of three officers involved in George Floyds death forcibly arresting an innocent man weeks earlier, raising questions about previous patterns of behavior. Women and the pandemic. What you need to know about Misinformation Being spread about Covid Vaccines and fertility. Also tonight, why this charttopping Country Music stars songs will no longer be played on major Radio Stations. And, gridiron girls. The trailblazing women that will make history during super bowl 55 on cbs. This is the Cbs Evening News with norah odonnell, reporting from the nations capital. Odonnell good evening to our viewers in the west and thank you for joining us. We are going to begin tonight with that new astrazeneca vaccine, which now appears to not only prevent people from getting severely ill from coronavirus it may also slow the spread of it. Researchers say thats
Sandra house conservatives also taking aim at Conference Chair liz cheney, calling for her removal from that post after she voted to impeach former President Trump. We have affecting coverage to kick things off on this wednesday afternoon, Kristin Fisher with more of the Biden Administrations next steps but we begin with Jacqui Heinrich live on capitol hill for us this afternoon, hey. Hey there sandra Marjorie Taylor greene did not make things easy on House Minority leader Kevin Mccarthy during our long meeting last night expressing no remorse, im told over past comments she made when elective promoting conspiracy theories. Mccarthy was forced to call in the Stearate Committee and lawmakers with their assignment. Whatever mccarthy decide to become it was not enough for House Democrats who Just Announced they are moving forward with a vote tomorrow on the floor to strip green of her committees. Democrats in the meantime seizing this moment watching half a Million Dollar ad campaign and
along with jessica tarlov, charlie hurt, and jimmy failla, it s 5:00 p.m. in new york city and this is the five. give us your poor, your tired, and your federal money. at the leaders of three sanctuary cities are begging president biden to shower them with some cold hard tax paying funded cash as they wind their hearts out over the big texas governor busting illegals to their doorsteps. you cannot continue to do the federal governments job. they must take the lead and lead on the humanitarian crisis instead of leaving it for the states. we need the federal government to lean in and provide more federal assistance. all of the cities have reached a point where we are either close to capacity or merely out of room. we need more federal support to manage this amount of inflow that will cross city budgets around the country as we know looking at about $160 million in potential costs going into next year s budget. almost 10% of our entire city budget. you know what the de
president biden s focus today on the fight to raise the debt limit and the dress of consequences that could be in store for the country have no actions taken. not a single solitary has this data is not that i accumulated. but that is not that occurred of the last several years. it is 200 years of debt. 200 years. the idea that we wouldn t pay our debt is bizarre. it s estimated that we didn t pay the debt, we lose 750,000 jobs, we have a recession, would be a disaster. the idea is for the first time saying, unless you can approve this ridiculous budget what the republican mega budget is, if you pass this budget, we re not going to increase the debt limit. then we re going to go bankrupt. the white house has also warning that if the white house default, it would result in severe damage. a default according to the white house would result in hud to thousands of job losses, which could increase to millions the longer it goes on. joining me now is nbc s correspondent, a
the wall street giant said it would pay $10.6 billion dollars to the federal insurance deposit corp, after officials shut down the smaller bank. first republic had been under pressure since last month, when the collapse of two other us lenders sparked fears about the state of the banking system. meanwhile, the managing director of the international monetary fund kristalina georgieva says she expects more weaknesses to be exposed in the banking sector. so just how vulnerable is it? let s ask the chief global investment officer of oreana financial, isaac poole. isaac, great to get you on the show. in the first instance, how much of a risk do you think there is of a failure amongst other us banks in the system? i failure amongst other us banks in the system? failure amongst other us banks in the system? i think there is a real risk of that- the system? i think there is a real risk of that. this the system? i think there is a real risk of that. this is the system? i think