outside a temple in albany in albany. >> with so much darkness around us, our job is to light our candles and to bring light into this world. i'm >> norah: weekend storm threat. the weekend system that flooded the west had ceased. medical breaktrough? the fda approves a cutting-edge gene editing therapy to be used in humans. >> did anybody use the word cure? >> we do. [laughter] >> norah: we are on the road to tell the story of a frugal man making a difference after his death. >> forever changed because of his choice of how he lived. ♪ ♪ >> norah: good evening and thank you for being with us on this friday night. you want to begin tonight with a very serious criminal charges facing the president's son, hunter biden. the indictment coming down last night, it's breathtaking in its scope, about how the yale trained lawyer allegedly spent years skimming to avoid more than a million dollars in taxes while in the words of prosecutors, living an extravagant lifestyle. the 56 page indictment includes numerous salacious details, including how he spent his money on escorts and girlfriends. it's important to know that hunter biden has admitted a decades long addiction problems with drugs and alcohol, getting worse after the death of his only brother. the reality is now that hunter biden faces two criminal trials as his father seeks reelection to the white house. in september, biden was indicted by a separate grand jury on charges of lying about being a drug user on an application to buy a handgun. cbs's catherine herridge has been following these legal develop its for month. >> reporter: good evening. legal experts tell cbs news felony charges against hunter biden are serious and the court papers contain graphic allegations as the white house keeps its distance from the case. leaving the white house for a campaign stop in california, >> any comment on the new charges against your son question >> reporter: president biden igd questions about his son's felony and misdemeanor tax charges for the 56 page indictment details and alleged four-year scheme to avoid paying at least 1.4 millin federal taxes. hunter biden is charged with nine counts including tax evasion, special counsel david weiss included eye-popping details about biden's alleged spending. 1.6 million in cash for atm withdrawals. 683,000 in payments to various women, and 39,000 for home help cleaning and job care. tom dupree is a former senior justice department official. >> this indictment reads like an accounting ledger of vice and the prosecutors spell out in gory, painful detail exactly how hunter biden was spending his money and it doesn't look good. >> reporter: the indictment calls hunter biden a lobbyist, consultant, and business person, and alleges he earned millions of work with ukrainian firm burisma, chinese energy firm cesa, and other foreign businesses. >> more charges could be possible. >> reporter: in a statement hunter biden's lawyer said "based on the facts in the law, if hunters last name was anything other than biden, the charges would not have been brought." in a podcast recorded before the indictment, hunter biden blamed republicans for much of his legal trouble. >> they are trying to kill me, knowing that it will be a pain greater than my father could be able to handle. and so therefore destroying a presidency in that way. >> norah: where does this leave hunter biden? >> reporter: hunter biden's attorneys say he's paid the back taxes. charges could mean up to 17 years in prison if convicted. he's already facing federal gun charges in delaware and hunter biden has been subpoenaed for a deposition before close doors next week before houston republicans and their impeachment inquiry. >> norah: more still had. catherine herridge, thank you. now to the middle east where today we learned the situation is getting increasingly more dangerous in the region. the u.s. official tell cbs news there've been ten attacks on u.s. forces in syria and iraq including a rocket attack on the embassy in baghdad. the other big headline today, the u.s. today vetoed a u.n. security council demand for a cease-fire in gaza. cbs news senior fo foreign correspondent charlie d'agata. >> another series of air strikes rained down on khan younis. the humanitarian crisis has deteriorated so rapidly the u.n. declared gaza is reaching the% point of no return. our cbs news colleagues in gaza captured this moment today, desperate civilians ransacking a u.n. truck carrying water. rations are down to one meal a day with a severe lack of water is more urgent concern. thousands remain at risk despite the israeli military's designated safe zones. >> no place to save across the gaza strip. there's limitations and restrictions on our ability to bring in supplies. the bombardment continues. the mass movement of people continued. >> the u.n. has said repeatedly there is no safe zone in gaza. in your answer to them? >> there is. >> reporter: israeli military says the assure the safe passage of input trucks are lined up on egypt's side of the rafah crossing, waiting to cross. >> we want to increase the humanitarian assistance, believe me. not if the u.n. tomorrow will come to us and say we need 300 trucks, they will get 400 trucks. >> reporter: but as we see, rafah too has been battered by air strikes in recent days. so how do you move trucks in the middle of an active conflict zone like that? >> rafah is a big place. there is a core door. in this quarter we are not attacking so they can move insie this corridor. >> reporter: there's a different battle here between israel and the u.n. and again it's civilians who are caught in the middle. and tonight the israeli military reports to soldiers were seriously wounded in a failed attempt to rescue a hostage. several kidnappers were killed but hamas says the hostage also, they claim, an israeli soldier, was killed in the rescue att attempt. nor? >> norah: charlie d'agata, thank you. back here at home and on this second night of hanukkah, security at synagogues across america has been ramped up after a man fires a shotgun outside a temple in albany. cbs's meg oliver reports on the increased safety members to keep community members safe. reporter mike law enforcement officers are standing guard outside temple israel sent a synagogue in albany. a day after a man with a shotgun allegedly fired two rounds in the air outside the synagogue. the preschool inside went into lockdown and the suspect fled to a nearby parking lot. police quickly took him into custody. no one was injured. >> we were told by responding officers that he made a comment, free palestine. >> reporter: today the suspect, mufid fawaz alkhader, appeared in federal court. prosecutors are investigating the incident as a potential hate crime. security outside jewish sites around new york city has increased, as anti-semitic incidents have surged more than 300% nationwide since the start of the israel-hamas war. >> no new yorker should never feel targeted because of who they are or what they believe. >> our congregation is feeling scared and unnerved right now. >> reporter: data temple in new jersey, marc katz increased security. surveillance video of amanda tapping to to firebomb the synagogue. in this community in hanukkah. >> my message is not to let mis anti-semitism win. the firm in your resolve here >> reporter: here in new york city which has the largest concentration of jewish people in the country, police are investigating another potential hate crime against a jewish man who was beaten and robbed thursday and tonight police are still searching for that suspect. norah. >> norah: meg oliver, thank you. life without parole, that's the sentence for a 17-year-old who pled guilty to a 2021 school shooting in oxford, michigan, that left four students dead and injured six others today we heard from the victims and their families, with powerful testimony. >> for the past two years our family has been navigating our way through complete hell. tears filled with pain, they fall like rain. we where the pain like a heavy coat. >> norah: ethan crumbley's parents are in jail awaiting trial on charges of failing to secure the gun used in the shooting and then neglecting their son's mental health problems. now to some promising and exciting news tonight about a potential medical breakthrough. today for the first time the fda approved gene editing therapy known as crispr. as a therapy for a disease that affects more than 100,000 americans. cbs news chief medical correspondent dr. jon lapook has been following this for years. >> for the time he was a baby pain was at the center of johnny lubin's daily existence. >> pounding pain in my lower back. >> johnny had it inherited a gene for sickle cell from each of his parents. >> reporter: when you heard your son had sickle cell genes, went through your head question works because it was devastating. reported back pain from sickle cell can occur anywhere blood circulates. that's because red blood cells normally doughnut shaped bend into inflexible sickle shapes causing them to pile up inside blood vessels and prevent the normal delivery of oxygen throughout the body. complications include bone deterioration, strokes, and organ failure. for more than a decade, johnny was in and out of the hospital. >> he wanted to try, you know, anything. reporter mike in the family learned about a cutting-edge clinical trial to edit a small number of that billions of letters in johnny's genetic code and relieve his symptoms. first, stem cells were removed from johnny's bone marrow and he was even chemotherapy to have wiped out the abnormal cells. then in a laboratory, gene editing technology called crispr was used to increase the amount of a productive form of hemoglobin, a protein that picks up oxygen from our lungs and delivers it throughout the body. that protective form usually diminishes after birth. the cells within an infused back johnny's bloodstream. >> reprogramming yourself to produce field hemoglobin. they tend to have less severe symptoms. >> reporter: dr. monica bhatia was well aware. >> you want to make sure the corrections are making are the ones you want. >> this is the calendar, octobe. we like to call it my second birthday. the report back after five weeks in the hospital at six months of school johnny was having a whole new life. >> i didn't have any pain. i didn't have to go to the hospital. report elected anybody use the word cure? >> we do. >> reporter: all right. dr. jon lapook, cbs news new york. >> norah: very good news. it's friday but as we head into the weekend there are some weather threats to tell you about. snow, heavy rain, strong wind or possible tornadoes could be impacting much of the country. let's bring it meteorologist mike bettes from our partners at the weather channel. good evening, mike. >> good evening. we are spiting active weather over the weekend in multiple parts of the country. dangerous storms across the south from houston to louisville and all points in between. severe storms with gusty winds, even a chance for tornadoes. the entire system pushes each has been going to sunday and really packs a punch into the northeast. rain and then the mix and then eventually winding up with snow not to mention 60 map are wind gusts. we expect high impact for travel. at the same time we've got yet another atmospheric river in the pacific northwest. more rain for seattle, portland, northern california. flooding rain expected. not to mention to two feet of snow in the cascades. three to 5 inches are likely to produce flooding around i five into the coastline. the storm not likely wrapping up until monday. >> norah: thanks, mike. we are one step closer to a radical transformation in transportation across america as new money flows to building a high-speed electric trains. experts tell our transportation correspondent kris van cleave that it will be ready for service on the west coast by the 2028 olympics in l.a. >> reporter: hoping to fire up the engine on high-speed rail, the biden administration is announcing a $.2 billion in projects on both coasts. >> folks, we've been talking about this project for decades. now we're really getting it d done. >> reporter: 3 billion ghost of bright line west linking the los angeles area to las vegas and about two hours. the 218 my line will run along interstate 15. it's a faster version of bright line service currently connecting orlando to miami. the nation's only run passenger rail system serving multiple cities. his world where the u.s. gets true high-speed rail? >> true high-speed rail with our biggest project. >> reporter: 50 million travel the court or annually. bright light hopes to capture 10% of them but rail has been a hard sell while california will get 3 billion towards furthering construction of its beleaguered l.a. to sanford cisco high-speed line, it's years behind in billings over budget. >> will never see high-speed rail without substantial public investment to build it and we will never see it without a substantial public commitment t. >> reporter: grants will fund improvements cutting 90 minutes off the trip from raleigh north to atlanta to richmond >> corridors as we build them out will naturally talk people out of their cars. >> reporter: a fast train future that 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