where we re police in new york. what they re doing to seize illegal weapons. soaring gas prices. fuel hits more than $5 a gallon in more than a dozen states as we learn the pain at the pump might be here to stay. the battle against long-haul covid. the first in our two-part series about the 23 million americans, including kids, fighting to the battle against long-haul covid. recover after months of illness. and american kindness: a teenager using her birthday money to help her neighbors. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. o donnell: good evening, o donnell: good evening, to our viewers in the west, and thank you for joining us on this tuesday night. t, the presso something on gun reform came to washington today in moving testimony and star power. oscar award-winning actor and uvalde native matthew mcconaughey gave one of the most emotionally powerful speeches about gun laws that we ve ever seen at the whit
we re in mesa, arizona, tonight s cnn arizona republican presidential debate. it s been about a among since they last faced off and since then even more upheaval. rick santorum is now the surging candidates and the one for mitt romney to beat tonight. both men we are campaigning down to the wire and may have given each other press ammunition. he s here with us, going through the details. what s the latest? for the top two candidates, the devil is in the debails. two potential flash points. tonight mitt romney s new tax plan and rick santorum s faith-based brand of politics. he made what could be a risky move, a plan that could come under fire. i m going to lower rates across the board for all americans by 20%. it will last setting the top bracket for the wealthier earners at 28%, and cut the corporate tax rate to 25%, lower than the 28% proposed by the president, but higher than his gop rivals. romney would offset some of those cuts by limiting popular deductions for th