even use my gps, my music. we apologize for this inconvenience. norah: the cbs evening news starts right now. good evening. i m norah o donnell, and thank you for being with us. we want to begin tonight with that nationwide at&t outage that left a lot of people scratching their heads, wondering what is going on, and leading to confusion and concern about the ability to dial 911. the ripple effect inundating emergency centers from new york to los angeles. at&t tonight is apologizing, but they are not explaining what happened to be of the fbi, the fcc, and the department of homeland security are now investigating the cause, at the white house says there is no evidence that a malicious attack was behind the network shutdown. but there are still so many questions. the outage also highlighted concerns about how the lack of communications could impact on us all in a real emergency and renewing concerns about cybersecurity in the u.s. the top republican on the senate intel
we apologize for this inconvenience. norah: the cbs evening news starts right now. good evening. i m norah o donnell, and thank you for being with us. we want to begin tonight with that nationwide at&t outage that left a lot of people scratching their heads, wondering what is going on, and leading to confusion and concern about the ability to dial 911. the ripple effect inundating emergency centers from new york to los angeles. at&t tonight is apologizing, but they are not explaining what happened. the fbi, the fcc, and the department of homeland security are now investigating the cause, and the white house says there is no evidence that a malicious attack was behind the network shutdown. but there are still so many questions. the outage also highlighting concerns about how the lack of communications could impact us all in a real emergency and renewing concerns about cybersecurity in the u.s. the top republican on the senate intelligence committee tonight has a dire
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have a great day. julie: senior defense official sounding the alarm on a significant escalation in the middle east. u.s. navy using an anti-ship ballistic missile for the first time to stop incoming missile fire from houthis in the red sea. iran problem front and center stoking major fears of a wider war. good afternoon, everyone. the faulkner focus , i m julie banderas in for harris. thank you for joining us today. a lot of news to cover for you. we ll begin with more than 100 attacks on u.s. troops in the middle east since october 17th. iran proxies going after our men and women overseas. one top senate republican not happy with president biden s lack of action. listen. weakness. is there a red line? would you tell our enemies publicly if we tell an american we re coming after you? the houthis are completely backed by iran. i ve been saying for six months now hit iran. they have oil fields in the open. they have the revolutionary guard headquarters you can see from spa
great to have you, paul. second show of the week so i get a bonus today. let s get to it. we begin with this, new details emerging about the biden campaign s last minute effort to cover up the new york post hunter biden laptop story before the 2020 election. and the origins of the infamous in new sworn testimony morel said secretary of state antony blinken played a key role that led to the now debunked letter. blinken was working as senior biden campaign adviser at the time and house republicans are asking blinken to testify in their investigation of the coverup and many argue that the now debunked statement helped save president biden in the 2020 election final days. he uses it to defend his son during that year s final debate. there s 50 former national intelligence folks saying he s accused me of a russian plan and has all the former five heads of cia, both parties say what he s say asking a bunch of garbage. nobody believes it except his and his good friend rudy giulian