year of campaigning. now it is time to vote. one week from tonight, we could know who won iowa. donald trump is about to raise from the courtroom to the campaign trail and pack again as his rivals are hoping to pull off an upset. also tonight, the missing piece of that alaskan airlines plane that blew off at 16,000 feet in the air has now been found. more planes are being grounded for inspections as one major airline says they found something. i m kaitlan collins, and this is the source. it has been one week now since defense secretary lloyd austin was admitted to the icu. tonight, not only do we still not know what exactly sent him there, we don t know why his staff didn t tell the white house for days that he was even in the hospital. nonetheless, in intensive care. the lack of transparency from a top u.s. military official, especially while the u.s. is dealing with multiple crises around the world, has resulted in some calls for austin s resignation. the top republic
that state. the fed raises interest rates, plus our cbs s carter evans takes a closer look tonight at inflation and why those already struggling financially are being hit the hardest. and america s opioid crisis. cbs s jeff pegues shows us why drug cartels are now pushing fentanyl that looks like candy. they re deliberately doing this to kill our children. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. duncan: good evening to our viewers in the west, and thank you for joining us tonight. i m jericka duncan in for norah. we begin tonight with the biggest escalation in the war in ukraine since the invasion itself. russia s vladimir putin is threatening nuclear war and warning the west he s not bluffing. it comes after humiliating defeats on the battlefield in ukraine and in a move not seen in russia since world war ii, putin is calling up hundreds of thousands of reservists. the announcement was met by intense anti-war protestors a
of which 250,000 are being released. texas has spent $12.5 billion of our own money to deal with the problem. i had six children in the school district in which my family lives die from fentanyl poisoning last year. it s a complete abduction of his responsibility. we have a few republicans who didn t do it in the fall. i hope they ll reconsider after we have a hearing tomorrow in the homeland security committee with mark green. i think there are real questions about whether or not impeaching him is going to solve any of the issues that you just raised. you just mentioned it s going through the homeland security committee, not the committee, one of the ones you sit on, house judiciary. are you okay with it not going through house judiciary, as rare as this is, would happen? yeah, look, i think there s reasons to have a judiciary. there s some reasons to have it in homeland. we covered a lot of this there. mark green has done a great job exposing some of the problems. it s going to b
once something comes into kol wh colorado where it can move. reporter: police stops find it hidden in vehicle. the problem is getting worse. fentanyl keeps coming. it s a poison that s continuously infecting not only colorado but every community throughout this country. reporter: this colonel is the chief of the colorado state patrol. we rode along as he monitored the state s highways. people that are selling fentanyl, they are profit driven. they do not care how many body bag are a result of the drive for profit. reporter: the cartels are now making it look like candy. for kim, the fight is personal. her son max died from a fentanyl poisoning last year. they are deliberately doing this to kill the children. they are marketing it to the
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