welcome. president didn t buy it in chicago this hour. the home of united airlines, the first american carrier to impose a covid i9 vaccine mandate on its entire workforce. in august, only 80% of the cabin crew were fully vaccinated. today, the company says 99% proved since the white house that mandates work. there are still tens of millions of americans who have not been vaccinated but there is nothing evidence that biden and prosperous federal vaccine requirement for private sector employees, health care workers, and federal contractors is helping to lower the infection rate. a number of patients infection rate. a number of patients in us hospitals today, 68,760 is down 34% from the peak of the doubt to lower the infection rate. a number of patients in us hospitals today, 68,760 is down 34% from the peak of the delta leave earlier in september. , and it is misnamed. labor including the police unions as well as the firefighters stood up and endorsed me and because i kid wi
the election. tonight, why the plan was called a murder-suicide pact. search for a cause: new underwater pictures of a ruptured oil pipeline. could a container ship have caused the 13-inch crack? hospitals under attack. tonight, the silent enemy. how cyber criminals are putting lives at risk, and in one case, allegedly leading to the death of a baby. shipping deadlines: we know it seems early to think about it, but the dates to keep in mind for sending your holiday presents. and expanding horizons, making the great outdoors more inclusive. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. o donnell: good evening, and thank you for joining us. we re going to begin with major news in the fight against covid. pfizer today applied for emergency use authorization for its vaccine in children ages 5-11. pfizer has said a mini-dose of the vaccine is safe for younger children. cbs news has learned the c.d.c. s advisory committee will meet
benefits of vaccine mandates this as the president s approval in a new poll is plummeting to 38% nationally. they are also under water on the economy, coronavirus, and more. pfizer is submitting a request for emergency use authorization of a vaccine for children ages five to 11. ly get reaction from dr. michael ostraholm. and a question for an injunction to stop the state s restrictive new abortion law to stop from continuing. the state asked the fifth circuit court of appeals to reinstate the law. we begin here in washington with nbc senior congressional correspondent garrett haake and jonathan lamier. you have been so busy. garrett 24 hours ago we had a senate vote that we expected to fail. now there is a tentative agreement on the delay. that s right both parties agree they have a deal. a short-term agreement here to kick the debt ceiling off until december. it means at some point that everyone will vote to raise the debt ceiling by about $480 million. that is the numb
thursday. there is a deal in congress to avoid an economic calamity. but don t celebrate yet. the short term fix likely means a nightmare before christmas. also shocking new details about what sounds more and more like an attempted coup by donald trump at the department of justice as he desperately tried to cling to power after the election he lost. it comes as the clock ticks down on deadline day for trump aides to cooperate with subpoenas from the january 6 committee. meantime, pfizer officially asks the feds to approve its vaccine for kids ages 5 to 11. how soon could we see kids getting shots in arms? we begin, though, with a striking order from a federal judge slamming that texas law that bans almost all abortions across the state. in a sharply-worded ruling, the judge ordered the law to be suspended, calling it, quote, an offensive deprivation of a constitutional right, and a, quote, contrived and unprecedented transparent statutory scheme by texas republicans. the
replaced rosen with clark a subordinate who supported trump s big lie and wanted to send a letter command georgia to that letter was to be the first of six with one sent out to each of the swing states where trump hoped to toss out the election results. that s according to the plan hatched by clark. from that new report, according the rosen trump opened the january 3rd meeting by saying, quote, one thing we know, you, rosen, aren t going to do anything the overturn the election. the deputy attorney general richard donahue and assistant attorney general steven engle made clear all the assistant attorneys general would resign if trump replaced rose within clark. donahue added the mass resignations likely would not end there and other u.s. attorneys and other d.o.j. officials might resign en masse. donahue and rosen also rrld pat cipolloy and patrick philbin pushing back against a proposal to replace rosen with clark calling clark s letter a murder-suicide pact and the two whi