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 iiri memorial dole helped build. and, our 15-year holiday tradition: on the road with secret santa. who reminds 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 to our viewers in the west 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 r
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
meeting, the first time since july, all of this as inflation roils the country. the president says he s on top of it, but growing concerns that its overwhelming his administration. jacqui heinrich at the white house with more. hi, jacqui. good afternoon, neil. the president is saying that he s on top of it. we re hearing though no new announcements in terms of what s being done to address it. just the same touting of the bill that passed and the bills that they want to pass as coming solutions. the president said he will appoint someone to implement the $1.2 trillion hard infrastructure plan that congress passed, which will be signed next week after it is signed at some point next week. he touted his own experience for special attention to making sure the money is implemented efficiently. we finished implementing the recovery act. he had less than .2% of waste or fraud. that s how i became known, the president started calling me sheriff joe. that s what i want to talk to
we begin with breaking news. nikki haley will drop out of the presidential race this morning. a huge wave of super tuesday loss is cementing her campaigns fate, while victory for president biden and donald trump made or 2020 rematch, practically a done deal. cnn with unprecedented accessing firsthand china s aggressive attempts to dominate one of the world s busiest shipping waterways and the new legislation to protect ivf providers in alabama could be passed today. a direct result of the alabama supreme court ruling, frozen embryos are children i m sara sidner with kate bolduan and john berman. this is cnn news central all right, the major breaking news this morning, we re standing by for nikki haley to officially end her presidential run, which will all but solidify a trump-biden rematch. and now with haley sun out it is all about november. and winning over her supporters. the biden campaign now, gunning for haley s voters as they make a new push to take down the man th
trump, dominant on super tuesday pulling off. a near-sweeps. that s could spell the end for his only real primary opponent left in the race. and president biden, hoping to drive home to key points when he delivers his state of the union address, why he s fit for a second term, and why donald trump is not. and nikki haley is still hanging on. but for how long after seeing her hopes all but slip away on super tuesday a live look at the white house right there in front of the washington monument. there s still not awake there. can i it s 06:00 a.m. here on the east coast. good morning, everyone. i m kasie hunt. it s wonderful to have you with us. it looks like that november rematch that most americans tell us they don t want. well, it s exactly what we re all going to get after donald trump s near sweep on super tuesday, trump dominating nearly every race, winning by big margins and state after state and now closing in pretty quickly on the 1,215 delegates. he needs to clinc