the cbs evening news begins now! good evening. we are live from here in manchester, new hampshire, with just hours until the first in the nation primary. i m norah o donnell. and it is now a two-person race. and today we spoke with nikki haley who is going head-to-head with donald trump. haley is canvassing the great state hoping for an upset tomorrow night but is trailing in the polls. we spoke to her about the former president and the issues including immigration and abortion rights. another major issue in this race, the economy. wall street hit record highs in both the dow and s&p 500. but on main street, it s a different feeling for millions of americans. even the blow of unemployment and growing wages, cbs s tony dokoupil spoke to people who say they are still struggling to make ends meet. but ahead of election day both trump and haley are holding rallies tonight. so let s begin with cbs s caitlin huey-burns who has been out speaking with voters. reporter: nikki
Im paula reed in washington. For a ferocious freeze complicating Rescue Efforts after a deadly winter storm pummeled the u. S. Freed warnings in effect across the u. S. Snow and sheets of ice. The storm blamed for at least 26 deaths. Roads impassable in Upstate New York after a monstrous blizzard. For nearly 12 hours it was almost impossible to go anywhere in a vast majority of the community. This is an area with approximately 500,000 residents between the city of buffalo and the suburbs. It was such that we had to pull Emergency Rescue vehicling off the roads. The bitter cold icing over the christmas celebrations. This morning parts of the south seeing the coldest christmas in decades and making a mess of holiday travel. 1,800 Flights Canceled again today. We have a team covering this all tracking the latest Winter Weather developments but beginning in buffalo, new york. Paw lo sandoval is there. Last time we spoke we did see some trucks on the road. Whats the latest there . Reporter
a daring evacuation. the u.s. military carries out an operation to pull government personnel out of sudan s capital. but thousands of americans are still trapped in the country as it descends deeper into chaos, and the white house says it s not safe to get them out right now. the gop s fight over abortion erupts over the weekend. political peril for the republican party as the national battle over reproductive rights heats up. and kimberly potter set free after serving only 16 months in pr prison for killing daunte wright. the former police officer spent more than two years behind bars for fatally shooting wright while yelling taser. critics say the punishment didn t fit the crime. we re following these major developing stories and many more coming in right here to cnn news central. scrambling to get out of sudan as foreign powers rush to evacuate the war-torn country. the biden administration says that u.s. special forces have carried out a daring rescue operation, s
morning following a major computer outage at the faa. john: the white house set to brief in moments after the biden administration mixed messaging added to today s confusion. karine jean-pierre ruling out a cyber attack, only to have president biden say later that they don t know if hackers were to blame. sandra: will the white house have the story straight by the time the briefing takes place? it s scheduled for now, so we are watching for karine jean-pierre to take to the podium. when that begins, we ll get to it. welcome back as america reports rolls into hour two. hectic morning for a lot of travelers. sandra smith in new york. john: some were out on the tarmac and the flight was called back. i m john roberts in washington, what we will be watching for, including the first response from 1600 pennsylvania to those classified documents that turned up at president biden s former office. we ll dip into the briefing for any news. sandra: we ll watch for that. but fir
a batch of new transcripts. what did donald trump jr. tell the committee? plus, a message from moscow. nearly 70 missiles pierce the ukrainian sky in a massive attack. the target ukraine s energy grid. the objective to force war weary ukrainians to spend the holidays in the pitch black. and the united states revives a covid travel restriction for passengers traveling from china. that s what we re watching this hour. hello, everyone, i m amara walker in for kate bolduan. developing, the january 6th committee releasing deposition transcripts from 19 witnesses, many of them donald trump insiders. now, the list includes the former president s son donald trump jr., kimberly guilfoyle, the former fox anchor and trump jr. s girlfriend. stephanie grisham, alexa farah griffin, stephen miller, a former top adviser, christopher miller, the former acting defense lawyer and paula reid joining us with the latest. what did he tell the committee? a lot of news in this batch of transcri