escalate beyond control. o donnell: severe weather: a powerful snowstorm, tornado threats. we ll have your forecast. america s homicide surge: murder rates soar nationwide. how it s impacting college campuses. final salute: the nation s capitol honors bob dole, including a tom hanks tribute at the world war ii memorial dole helped build. and our 15-year holiday tradition: on the road with secret santa who remind us what s important this holiday season. this is for you. 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 on this friday night. we re going to begin tonight with the staggering inflation that is hitting americans right in the wallet. prices were up 6.8% in november compared to a year ago. that is the biggest increase in nearly 40 years. the cost of pretty much everything is surging food, gas, electricity, housing, cars, and clothes. and those who received raises
reza aslan joins me to talk about what happens next. good evening and welcome to the show. war crimes that s what russia seems to be carrying out in its war against ukraine. earlier today russian forces bombarded the city of zaporizhzhia, killing 17 people and wounding dozens of others. the shelling was concentrating on number apartment complexes in one of zaporizhzhia s most densely populated residential areas. marking a clear instance of vladimir putin s invading army roth laws of war. upstanding doubly, the strikes serve as a particularly dastardly reprisal for ukrainian military games on the battlefield against russia in recent weeks. the most noteworthy of which occurred yesterday, when ukrainians destroyed a massive brae ridge linking rachel what the kremlin peninsula. a critical surprise route for the kremlin s forces. as you might imagine, a thin skin putin is not taking this well. on the contrary, he s renewed his nuclear saber rattling. unnerving western a
starting to get new signs. trump realizes he could beat some serious trouble as he meets resistance in the court a law. new reporting in the hill frames quote, trump scored an initial victory before us court judge in florida granted his request to appoint a special master to review more than 10,000 government documents seized at his home. this case works its way through the court system. other judges seem more hesitant to grab trump s requests. last month, appeals court lifted up lower court ruling justice department from using classified documents seized from mar-a-lago and it s criminal investigation. trump s team now asking the supreme court to allow the special master to review the documents. my colleague, maggie haberman about trump s mounting leaguer associates today on meet the press. do you think that donald trump understands how much legal jeopardy he isn t? i do. i think he understands what legal jeopardy get season. then he convinces himself it s not that b