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thousands without power. why record-high winter temperatures are playing a role. hostages released, the final twelve christian missionaries who were held by a haitian gang are free tonight. bombshell allegations two women accuse sex and the city star chris noth of sexual assault. dangerous drinking water, a cbs exclusive with the head of the e.p.a., the plan to get rid of the millions of lead pipes carrying water to america s children. the boss cashes in, wait till you hear how much bruce springsteen sold his music catalog for. and american heroes three soldiers receive the medal of honor, two who paid the ultimate sacrifice. 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 re going to begin tonight with a spike in covid cases that has health officials sounding the alarm. a rise in cases has states and businesses changing their plans, bringing back indoor mas ....
well, thank you so much, general spider marks, oren lieberman. it looks like the ceremony is about to start. we re going to hand the reins over to alisyn camerota and victor blackwell to take it from here. hello, everyone. thanks for joining me on newsroom. cdc advisers are set to decide this hour possible changes in guidance for the j&j covid vaccine, after rates of a rare blood clotting condition were higher than previously thought. the biggest news is the omicron variant, this appears to be on its way to the dominant variant in the u.s. new covid cases and hospitalizations are rising sharply. research are saying omicron is markedly recessant to the four major vaccines. now some colleges are going virtual for the rest of the semester. sports teams are postponing games. broadway shows are getting cancelled. cnn s nick watt has all the details you re simply the best reporter: tina among the brought way shows cancelling, just two months after reopening. pri ....
as the trees that reach for the sky. i think she s dead! it eats at me. i can t sleep most of the time. reporter: a crime like a storm everyone could see it coming. everybody in town has their suspicions. she was missing the matriarch with a grip on the family s powerful fortune. did someone have a powerful motive to do her harm? i saw bruises on bonnie s arms, like someone had grabbed her. she looked at him and said you tried to kill me. who was behind this? a search in the dark. right there, right there! a secret in the family. and a jailhouse interview to make your jaw drop! reporter: you said you wished she were dead. and then later, she became dead! i m lester holt, and this dateline is a twisted tale deep in the heart of texas. people who are desperate will do desperate things. in this country power and mon and struggle to get hands on both, the saga of a proud texas family never as cold hearted as some of the people you re about ....
not aware of this because the media began telling a different story about what happened. the washington post, for example, explained the radical left wasn t actually to blame for the capitol bombings. instead the culprit was far more general, something called the easy contagion of extremism in a time of dark frustrations and deep disillusionment, whatever that means. it meant there was the republican president at the time. the bombers remained welcomed in polite society. one became a professor at a prestigious american university, if you can imagine. even now, 50 years after the fact, the whitewash of that day continues. politico just ran a long piece telling us the real villain in the 1971 terror attack on the capitol was richard nixon, who was not there, but according to politico, the bombing, quote, supercharged nixon s paranoia in the end led to watergate. the story ended this way. 50 years on, it seems remarkable how fast the 1971 attacks faded from collective me ....
more previously unknown visits to the white house back in 2016. as attorney general merrick garland faces growing pressure to appoint a special prosecutor. an argument today before the supreme court over whether or not the biden administration could do away with the trump administration s migrant protection protocol commonly known as the remain in mexico policy. arizona attorney general mark brnovich is standing by live to weigh in. we have team coverage tonight in the twitter verse in an uproar over elon musk s $44 million deal to take over the giant. we begin with trace gallagher on those apparently not taking the news so well like twitter employees. let s begin with the company itself. many of twitter s current employees were either so shocked or distraught by elon musk s $44 billion buyout they couldn t compel themselves to speak out about his push to promote free speech. in fact, all some employees could muster was a tear-filled emoji or meme of emotional distre ....