baby formula crisis: two children with special medical needs hospitalized amid the shortage. the new details tonight. plus the major manufacturer airlifting in supplies. breaking news: covid boosters authorized for kids. all the details parents need to know. and one million covid deaths, and the hundreds of thousands of children who lost a parent in the pandemic. tonight s other top headlines: the drug smuggling tunnel found on the southern border stretching the length of almost six football fields. 400 u.f.o. encounters the pentagon s newly declassified intelligence. plus the memorial day weekend travel forecast you re going to want to hear. and finally tonight, one woman s run for the record books. her inspirational story from cancer survivor to marathoner. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell reporting tonight from new york. o donnell: good evening, and thank you for joining us on this tuesday night from new york. we re going to begin tonight with the d
I’M sure many in the community are glad to see the Medical Referral Program is finally being addressed to make it “fiscally responsible, sustainable and always functioning as the last
that was my low, realizing that they re gone. reporter: lazaro is now among the more than 214,000 children in the u.s. who have lost a parent or primary care giver to covid-19. experts say the loss of a parent can be linked to an increased risk of substance abuse, dropping out of school, depression,s and suicide. she is now the head of the household, giving insulin shots to her grandmother and making sure lazaro stays on top of his homework. i can t go on vacation, or anything like that, but ultimately they matter the most to me, so i don t mind sacrificing those things. reporter: and it is appreciated. she is exactly like my mom. reporter: she s like your mom? yes. reporter: that s the important thing to have each other, right? exactly.
transplant list on september of last year, but finding the perfect match can be a long and grueling process. we need to make absolutely certain that we re matching up brittany with the appropriate organs. and while brittany was waiting for a transplant, her mother, tammy, passed away from covid. she was a single mom. she was the biggest cubs fan you could ever meet. she loved christmas. she s one that would listen to christmas songs year around. tammy was brittany s best friend and primary care giver. you know, when you would talk to brittany s mother, she would tell you she has one wish. her one wish was that her daughter, brittany, would be able to have that new lease on life that she deserves. sometimes good things really do come to those who wait. i ve been at northwestern since march 10th, waiting, and then november 2nd is when we got
about is vaccines. we just learned that we may soon get some clarity on whether private employers can require their workers to get vaccines or regular tests. the supreme court is fast tracking oral arguments, settling them for two weeks from tomorrow, and one final piece of good news, covid pills may soon be coming to a primary care giver or a pharmacy near you. the fda authorized them for emergency use yesterday, and they could be available in some places by this weekend. that s a lot of good news. i want to dig deeper and bring in meg, jen petty piece covers the white house, and dr. peter hotez at texas children s hospital and a dean at baylor college of medicine. the president said yesterday they have bought millions and millions of pills to send out. that s on top of the 500 million test kits. that is a major logistical undertaking, and we know time is