institute of health said he never rejected the lab leak theory even though emails direct tore collins had been exchanging with dr. fauci appear to dismiss it as conspiracy. here is collins on fox news yesterday. there were a lot of conspiracy theories and other ideas floating around at that point. one of them was that actually sars covid 2 had been a bioengineered bioweapon created on purpose by human intervention by the wuhan institute of virology. that doesn t fit with what we know about this particular viral genome. we should be talking about how to put covid-19 behind us not going back to january 2020. right now we don t have any new data. harris: here is one example of why those emails could spell trouble for fauci. rand paul says it shows dr. fauci had a moral culpability for the pandemic and fauci is still refusing to hold china accountable. dr. fauci to this day says he still trusts the chinese scientists. i don t think he seems to be aware of the way it works i
conference in germany. this is an important moment, a critical moment in the fight in ukraine. western allies are meeting and have been there to hammer out the latest plan to support ukraine now and support ukraine going forward. a key point of contention right now is germany s refusal so far to supply ukraine with tanks that it said are necessary to win against russia. tanks are not part of the latest aid package that was just announced by the pentagon. a very big package, though. $2.5 billion for ukraine. that does, however, include striker armored vehicles for the very first time. we re going to stand by and going to this press conference any moment. oren liebermann is standing by at the pentagon. what are we expecting to hear. reporter: one of the things that we could hear from lloyd austin is a thank you for everything that countries have provided. the u.s. on the front foot here with a just announced yesterday $2.5 billion package. the second largest the u.s. has ev
airports. the record number of firearms confiscated at security. wait until you hear just how many of those guns were loaded. the 12-year-old boy who caught a great white shark. i don t know if i want to go up against a shark. o donnell: and, making dreams come true for america s heroes. 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 on this tuesday night. tonight, there are alarming new details about what the mayor of albuquerque is calling politically-motivated shootings. a failed republican candidate is under arrest, accused of hiring men to shoot at the homes of democratic lawmakers. plus, cbs news tonight has new details on the timeline of the special counsel s investigation into president biden s handling of classified documents. but first, we want to start with those major storms that are pummeling the west coast, and the aftermath as califo
also tonight, guns at america s airports, the record number of firearms confiscated at security. wait until you hear just how many of those guns were loaded. the 12-year-old boy who caught a great white shark. i don t know if i want to go up against a shark. o donnell: and making dreams come true for americaas heroes. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. o donnell: good evening and thank you tore joining us observe this tuesday night. tonight there are alarming new details about what the mayor of albuquerque is calling politically motivated shootings. a failed republican candidate is under arrest accused of hiring men to shoot at the homes of democratic lawmakers. plus cbs news tonight has new details on the timeline of the special counsel s investigation into president biden s handling of classified documents. first, we want to start with those major storms that are pummeling the west coast in the aftermath as califo
democratic officials. republicans are demanding more answers from president biden over his handling of classified material, but the white house says those answers do not exist. we ll explain. in ukraine, hope of finding survivors is fading after a reportedly russian missile sliced an apartment building in half on saturday. we re live with the latest. on capitol hill, a battle is brewing over the debt limit. the deadline to raise is two day was. congress isn t in session, so what happens on thursday? and a new policy goes into effect today for miliary veterans in crisis. how it could help millions. we begin this morning with the arrest of a failed republican candidate accused of being a master mind behind a series of shootings at the homes of democrat you can lawmakers. police took him into custody yesterday calling the shootings politically motivated. back in november, he lost his race for state representative and complained the election was rigged. police say he confro