with a look at today s eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. hate it. freezing freezing. november is turning into novemberrrr. record cold grips the country. most of the states are colder right now than parts of alaska. hue about a warmup before thanksgiving. president obama kicked off his visit to australia with the g-20 summit. this week i traveled to burma, china, australia. i have no idea what time it is right now. the bill has passed. another bill to approve the keystone pipeline and this one will be taken up in the senate. the philae has not been able to charge up its batteries and it s gone into shutdown mode. chuck haggle orders a top to bottom search. the program uncovered serious, serious problems. up close and personal with humpback whales. all that julianne congratulations. welcome to the 18th hollywood film awards. let s move in. the only award show without pharrell this year. thank you, god. i don t have to listen to happy
this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. pelley: goodñi evening. we learned today that the most powerful weapons in the world are suffering from years of neglect and mismanagement. some of what we heard today might seemxd comical if the stas weren t so high. months ago defense secretary chuck hagel launched two investigations after a series of surprises including a scandalñi over personnel cheating on qualification tests. well, it turns out it gets worse. today, hagel said he needs $10 billion to fix the force. here s david martin. reporter: the pentagon has long proclaimed nuclear forces, land-based and submarine-launched missiles as well as long-rangeñiçóçó bomber, itsñr highest priority. but this review commissioned by the paght made that claim sound farcical. consider this exchange with defense secretary hagel about a ludicrous shortage of añi specialized wrench used to attach nuclear war heads to miss also spread across bases in north dakota, montan
hate it. freezing freezing. november is turning into novemberrrr. record cold grips the country. most of the states are colder right now than parts of alaska. hue about a warmup before thanksgiving. president obama kicked off his visit to australia with the g-20 summit. this week i traveled to burma, china, australia. i have no idea what time it is right now. the bill has passed. another bill to approve the keystone pipeline and this one will be taken up in the senate. the philae has not been able to charge up its batteries and it s gone into shutdown mode. chuck haggle orders a top to bottom search. the program uncovered serious, serious problems. up close and personal with humpback whales. all that julianne congratulations. welcome to the 18th hollywood film awards. let s move in. the only award show without pharrell this year. thank you, god. i don t have to listen to happy right now. and all that matters. a new generation of mus
headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with brian williams. good evening. the changeover we ve been talking about has now arrived as we get you situated to head into the weekend overnight. this arctic blast has taken two-thirds of the nation and tonight that includes part of the south where they broke a record in atlanta. the northeast is dealing with freezing precip. full on ice in parts of the northwest while parts of wisconsin are dealing with 55, five-zero inches of snow. and none of this includes the next weather system expected to roll in across the country. we begin tonight with nbc s gabe gutierrez in atlanta. reporter: from coast-to-coast today the unrelenting, bone-chilling wall of arctic air kept marching. in oregon an icy nightmare. cars and trucks sliding all over. it was so slippery. like i could barely walk. reporter: record snow piled up fast prompting amazing images on social media. huge snow drifts blanketing cars, burying backyards and
the changeover we ve been talking about has now arrived as we get you situated to head into the weekend tonight. this arctic blast has taken two-thirds of the nation and tonight that includes part of the south where they broke a record in atlanta. the northeast is dealing with freezing precip. full on ice in parts of the northwest while parts of wisconsin are dealing with 55, five-zero inches of snow. and none of this includes the next weather system expected to roll in across the country. we begin tonight with nbc s gabe gutierrez in atlanta. reporter: from coast-to-coast today the unrelenting, bone-chilling wall of arctic air kept marching. in oregon an icy nightmare. cars and trucks sliding all over. it was so slippery. like i could barely walk. reporter: record snow piled up fast prompting amazing images on social media. huge snow drifts blanketing cars, burying backyards and almost reaching old glory. the frigid temperatures and ice proving to be a challenge for th