caused mass power outages and mudslides. oh, my gosh. it was like thunder. norah: the cbs evening news starts now. good evening, and thank you for being with us here on this monday night. we ll have more in just a moment on that state of emergency in california and the powerful storm out west that has turned deadly. but we want to begin with the surprising news from the royal family. britain s king charles iii announcing he has cancer and is already starting treatment. just last week, the 75-year-old monarch underwent treatment for an enlarged prostate. that procedure led to this separate discovery. the palace s statement said the king is revealing his diagnosis to raise awareness for those impacted by cancer. but there are still so many big questions tonight about what type of cancer and how advanced it is. today the president of the united states, campaigning in las vgas, said he is concerned about king charles diagnosis and hopes to speak with him soon. cbs s ch
good evening and thank you for being with us here on this monday night. we will have more in just a moment on that state of emergency in california and the powerful storm out west that is turned deadly. we want to begin with the surprising news from the royal family. britain s king charles iii announcing he has cancer. and it s already starting treatment. just last week the 75-year-old monarch underwent treatment for an enlarged, that procedure led to the separate discovery. the palaces statement says that the king is raising awareness for those impacted by cancer, but there are still so many big questions tonight about what type of cancer and how advanced it is. today the president of the united states campaigning in las vegas said he s concerned about king charles diagnosis and hopes to speak with him soon. cbs s charlie d agata is outside buckingham palace tonight. good evening, so how is king charles doing tonight? reporter: good evening to you, norah. the palace is ki
there s an old interview question that the great barbara walters had teed up. what kind of tree would you be? for some reason, i asked martha this question. there is an old interview question. what kind of tree would you be. for some reason i asked this question. martha answered, i am the beechtree. the beach is the mother of all trees. the beechtree has a smooth skin but it s very hard and impenetrable. because i m a mother, all the other trees are underneath me. it is impenetrable. martha started planning the comeback the moment she was arrested. says she is ready for jail now. today in what was one of the more surreal conferences, she said she is ready for jail. thank you for coming here on such short notice. advertisers upset and attorneys telling her what her plans are. it is a long time to eat away at a company. the only way to reclaim my life and quality of life with certainty is to serve my sentence and surrender to authorities so i can return as soon as p
martha answered i am the beech tree. the beach is the mother of all trees. and the beech tree has a smooth skin, but it s very hard and impenetrable. and because i m the mother, then all the other trees are underneath me. it is the mother tree. and it is impenetrable. she has always believed that she can weather everything. martha started planning her comeback the moment she was arrested. [applause] today, in what was one of the more surreal news conferences we ve seen in quite some time, the homestyle maven says she is ready for jail now. - good morning, everybody. and thank you for coming here today on such short notice. for two years and seven months, she had no control. it was advertisers upset and attorneys telling her what her plans were. the government, both prosecutors and securities regulators, on her tail. that s quite a long time to really eat away at a company. - the only way to reclaim my life and the quality of life for all those related to me, with certainty n
now. our second hour star welcome . i m yasmin vossoughian, if you just running, as welcome. if you re sticking with, us we re thankful for that. we have got a lot of developments in russia, as the head of the wagner group, yevgeny prigozhin, says his mercenary group is turning back and abandoning s march towards moscow. he made that announcement after the president of belarus claimed he held talks with prigozhin. i want to bring in nbc s met in standing back and trying. this math, you heard this thing firsthand. talk us through what you heard from prigozhin, the revelation of this, quote unquote, deal. thank you, yasmin. obviously, very shocking development, after what has been, as we ve discussed, very astonishing 24 hours in russia. we had another audio message from prigozhin. he speaks very intensely, always, part of his charm, for lack of better word. we saw that again in this latest message, also a little bit taking a step back. he s admitting that he stepping down