late. lead-contaminated water in flint. failed levees in new orleans. collapsed bridge in minneapolis. reporting for nbc news, i ve seen it myself. driving over the troubled rent spence bridge between cincinnati and kentucky, in this 18-wheeler. roads getting better or worse? i d say getting worse. that is wild. reporter: and in the air, above this highway in arkansas, it goes nowhere. that s it. that s the end of it right there? yeah. reporter: after decades of talk and our infrastructure still in peril, this spring, president biden proposed a gigantic bill. the calls it the american jobs plan, with a promise to create good-paying blue collar jobs under the banner of buy american. what the biden administration says they re trying to rebuild is the american middle class. this hour, we ll show you that you don t have to wait for the president s plan to see what he wants to rebuild and why. and at street level, we ll see who can benefit and who risks getting left behi
for the full clean up. you re going to hear a lot today. we ve got a lot of facts. we know the facts. we re all intelligent people here, but i think what is lacking is courage to dot right thing. so i wanted to bring you my daughter s bides of courage. my daughter s a two-time cancer survivor at 9 years old. can you do it? hachoo! you want to go to disney land today? yeah. okay. let s go to disneyland. oh, yeah! are you going to go too? i m coming too. she earned all night beads through her cancer treatment program. each bead represents something different, for example, red represents when she had a blood transfusion. black when she got poked with a needle. yellow for in-patient stays. white for chemotherapy. this is what she earned the first month. i d like to share with you what shy has earned over the last two times fighting cancer. a few of the photos, i just want to fly through rile quick of some of the children that we ve met who are local. i went to camp wi
to heal. you re going to recover. you re going to rebuild. you re going to be stronger. o donnell: the fed s big decision: what it means for your pocketbook amid rising inflation. guilty plea: former minneapolis police officer derek chauvin admits to violating george floyd s civil rights. j.f.k. revelations from 1,500 classified files. breaking barriers: a woman set to run the n.y.p.d., the nation s largest police department, for the first time. a covid miracle. how one woman beat the odds and lived to tell her story. and the santa claus girls bringing cheer to children in need. 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. tonight, we re following a concerning surge in coronavirus cases across the country, leaving colleges and businesses to close or reinstate covid measures. several large schools are and returning to remote introduction. others have shutting down campus and
to hold mark meadows in contempt for refusing to cooperate. a new weapon in the fight against covid, the possible game-changing antiviral pill. could it prevent severe disease and protect against the omicron variant? cuomo ordered to return millions: the news about the disgraced new york governor and the $5.1 million he made off his pandemic memoir. holiday shipping deadline: still haven t gotten that gift out? well, all you need to know to make sure your presents arrive on time for christmas. and american kindness: neighbors turning the mayfield fairgrounds into a place to find help for those who lost everything. who lost ever this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. o donnell: good evening to our viewers in the west, and thank you for joining us. we are going to begin with the most heartwrenching witness accounts we have heard since that once-in-a-century outbreak of tornadoes across america s heartland. in kentucky tonight
to hold mark meadows in contempt for refusing to cooperate. a new weapon in the fight against covid, the possible game-changing antiviral pill. could it prevent severe disease and protect against the omicron? cuomo ordered to return millions: the news about the disgraced new york governor and the $5.1 million he made off his pandemic memoir. holiday shipping deadline: still haven t gotten that gift out? well, all you need to know to make sure your presents arrive on time for christmas. and american kindness: neighbors turning the mayfield fairgrounds into a place to find help for those who lost everything. 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. we are going to begin with the most heartwrenching witness accounts we have heard since that once-in-a-century outbreak of tornadoes across america s heartland. in kentucky tonight, the state is in a rescue-and-recovery mode wit