breaking news coming in now from new hampshire. what we re receiving at this hour in this battle between donald trump and nikki haley. we ll go live to rachel scott. the state of emergency in california. carps swept away. vehicles piled up on top of one another. the historic and sudden flooding in sand yeah goep. will carr live in the storm zone. tonight, bracing for ice, snow, flooding elsewhere. 24 states at this hour from texas to georgia, up to the northeast. and then the major change coming. ginger zee is here. the stunning images tonight. the huge waves slamming a u.s. army base. water smashing through the doors of a dining hall. people knocked off their feet. that delta passenger plane and what that other pilot noticed about the jet right before it was about to take off from atlanta. the alarming message send to the pilots. tonight, the u.s. launching new air strikes. this time, inside iraq, targeting iranian-backed militants after recent attacks targeting u.
synagogue attack. new details about the man charged with trying to firebomb a large synagogue in new jersey. eye on america, the effort to save america s largest coral reef. cbs s manuel bojorquez takes us there. we ll show you what s happening inside this lab. norah: plus eye drop recall after an over-the-counter brand was linked to vision loss and one death. and the young singer hitting all the right notes on her journey to the grammy awards. to explain announcer: this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. norah: good evening to our viewers in the west, and thank you for joining us on this thursday night. we come on the air tonight with some breaking news. we have just learned that the pentagon is tracking a suspected chinese spy balloon spotted flying over the united states. president biden was briefed, fighter jets scrambled, and there was a discussion at the highest levels of our government about shooti
house. this as the georgia da investigating trump s efforts to overturn the 2020 election says a decision on charges is imminent. tonight, we ll speak to a former georgia official who testified in the case and says there is enough evidence to charge trump. new video into our show, george santos making new questionable claims including being the victim of a violent mugging. and that he s giving his salary to charity. let s go outfront. good evening. america upping the anti-sending tanks to the ukraine. the united states is finalizing plans to send a significant number of tanks to the m-1 abrams tanks to kyiv. the abrams is the main tank that the united states uses on the battlefield. this could be a game changer in the war. and i want to emphasize this is extremely significant not just for the military importance but because it s a dramatic 180 turn around. last week the pentagon said they had no intention of handing the tank officials to ukraine. in fact, the undersecretary
cnn s jamie gangel, who broke the story, joins us in the moment. first, though, the irony of classified documents ending up where they did, of all places. did you take any classified documents with you from the white house? i did not. do you see any reason for anyone to take classified documents with them leaving the white house? well, there would be no reason to have classified documents, particularly if they were in an unprotected area. so that was the former vice president in november talking about the former president, saying there is no reason for anyone to take classified documents with them after leaving office. here he is three days after the first batch of biden documents was reported suggesting that he knew how to handle such things. and then vice president did not. the handling of classified materials and the nation s secret is a very serious matter, and as a former vice president of the united states, i can speak from personal experience about the atte
of everything nefarious, as willfully taking them are obstructing their efforts to restrict that of course is in stark contrast with the mar-a-lago documents, former president posting this on his social media site today. mike pence is an innocent man, did not do anything knowingly dishonest in his life, leave him alone. he certainly not saying the same about president biden, newer will james calmer, the new oversight chairman backing off of his investigation with the president. saying today, former vice president pence s transparency stands in contrast to white house staff who continue to withhold information from congress and the american people. this is the same comer in that last week said that investigating the president would the would not be a priority for his committee. the news today helped blur with the real distinctions are between former presidents case and apparently the other two. an opportunity to blame the system, but instead as a member of the house intell