consumer confidence rises as president biden declares christmas shipping problems solved. we re also working to unstick bottlenecks between the ports and the stores. yuccas: day three and still no verdict. the jury remains out in the manslaughter trial of a former minnesota police officer. the capitol riot investigation: why the house select committee wants to speak to a republican congressman who is a top ally of former president trump. the war on cancer: how close are we to a vaccine for breast cancer? and a new york school teaches lessons in kindness, both inside and outside the classroom. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell reporting from the nation s capital. yuccas: good evening, and thank you for joining this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. i m jamie yuccas in for norah o donnell. we begin tonight with a major milestone in the fight against covid. the f.d.a. has authorized the first antiviral
that time some storms to start to move into areas like lancaster county berks county poconos, lehigh valley you should already start seeing storms by 6:00 p.m. then that threat shifts over to the east a little more so upper montgomery county chester county upper bucks county moving still through the allentown area by 7:00 p.m. and then that whole area slides through philadelphia. we could also see storms in parts of delaware into south jersey. that would be by 8:00 this evening. at this time we do expect some of these storms to be strong to severe. then we will continue seeing this whole area shift off through new jersey heading to the shore closer to 9:00 and then by 10:00, i think the threat should be mostly over. but either way we are tracking severe storms off to our west right now. they are approaching so coming up we will give you a closer look at the timing as they move in and what you can expect locally. count on nbc 10 for complete coverage through these afternoon
as they move in they kind of feed off the heat and humidity. take a look at future weather. by 6:00 7:00 about an hour from now, we should start to see storms through reading, berks county lancaster county and up through the allentown area and the poconos. by 7:00 to about 8:00 we will see the storms shifting into upper montgomery upper bucks county, also chester county. approaching the philadelphia area about an hour later and down into parts of delaware throughout delaware and parts of south jersey we could see more storms moving into those sections. by 9:00 this evening, i think a lot of the storm activity would be shifting to our delaware beaches, mostly in sussex county up through south jersey and along the shore. the threat should end by 10:00 to 11:00 tonight from west to east. coming up glenn will have a closer look at what you can expect with these storms and the timing straight ahead. we have crews all across the region. nbc 10 s randy gyllenhaal joining us from
this storm. 16 lightning strikes in the past 15 minutes, you hear the thunder you have to get inside. there is no safe place outside during a thunderstorm. this is the storm timeline the far western suburbs really under the gun for the next hour, the i-95 metro area including philadelphia wilmington and trenton, that line moving between 7:00 and 9:00 and central delaware and southern new jersey between 9:00 and 11:00 tonight, if you are down the shore most of the evening should be fine the problem with these storms that there is a lot of juice with them. we are looking at abundant lightning and quick heavy downpours and strong winds and wind gusts up to 16 miles per hour and a low threat of large hail and the wind profile shows north and west of philadelphia, there is a bit of sheer and change of direction, that means there is a low risk of tornadoes, we ll talk about the timing of the storms coming up in the full accuweather forecast. stay ahead of severe weather with the
you know, injustice. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. pelley: today, after first denying it, the state of florida reported a new cluster of locally transmitted zika virus infection, these outside the one miami neighborhood called the zika zone. five people have been infected, apparently by mui that brings the total of mosquito-borne infections in the area to 36. zika can cause severe birth defects. miami beach gets nearly eight million tourists a year, but today the c.d.c. warned pregnant women to stay away from the two zika zones. david begnaud is there. we believe we have a new area where local transmissions are occurring in miami beach. reporter: the five new two are still in miami beach. one has returned to el paso, texas, another to new york, and the third to taiwan. florida governor rick scott has come under fire for waiting too long to inform the public about the newest zika zone. cbs news confirmed this information ye