mysterious hospitalization at walter reed national military medical center, which went unannounced for days. well, he's now out of the icu. the pentagon just said they don't have a release date yet for him, and there are big questions tonight now that we know the white house and even his deputy secretary of defense were kept in the dark about this medical emergency. cbs's david martin has new reporting from the pentagon. >> reporter: president biden said today he has full confidence in lloyd austin, but his aides did not hide their displeasure that the commander in chief was not told his secretary of defense was in intensive care on new year's day. >> i think there's an expectation that when a cabinet official becomes hospitalized, that that will be notified up the chain of command. >> reporter: the pentagon acknowledged today the chairman of the joint chiefs, austin's chief of staff, and his spokesman all knew on january 2nd the secretary had been hospi hospitalized, but waited for two more days before telling the white house.

austin had been at home recovering from an elective medical procedure when he started experiencing severe pain and was rushed to walter reed and admitted to the icu. >> you have, for all intents and purposes, a break in the chain of command. >> reporter: former secretary of defense mark esper. >> if the secretary of defense is being taken to the hospital in an ambulance, it seems to me that you would give somebody at the white house a heads-up. >> reporter: authority was transferred to the deputy secretary of defense. but, again, no one told the white house. with austin still in the icu, a u.s. drone carried out a strike approved by the president three days earlier. only then did austin's chief of staff finally notify the white house of his condition. another day went by before congress and the public were told. republican senator roger wicker sits on the arms services committee. >> the chain of command is altered in this way over decisions that are really, really very significant, the congress has to be notified.

>> reporter: austin is still in the hospital and still in some pain, but his spokesman says he has no intention of resigning. the secretary admits it took too long to notify the president, congress, and the public and has ordered a review of what went wrong. norah. >> still a lot of questions. david martin at the pentagon, thank you. well, turning now to the 2024 race for the white house, the iowa caucuses are just one week from tonight with donald trump holding a commanding lead over his republican rivals. cbs's ed o'keefe reports president biden traveled to south carolina where today he called out trump for glorifying political violence. >> the truth is under assault in america. >> reporter: making concerns about the future of democracy a central theme of his campaign, president biden struck back at former president donald trump, who's defended those serving time for the events of january 6th, 2021. >> some people call them prisoners.

i call them hostages. release the j-6 hostages, joe. >> reporter: of the 1,200 people charged, more than 700 admitted they broke the law. nearly 500 were sentenced to prison time. >> they tried to steal an election. now they're trying to steal history, telling us that violent mob was, and i quote, a peaceful protest. >> reporter: the president also called out trump for his response to last week's school shooting in iowa. >> we have to get over it. we have to move forward. >> my response is we have to stop it. >> reporter: biden gave a political speech from the pulpit of the historically black methodist church in charleston that was the site of a 2015 mass shooting. he criticized nikki haley, south carolina's former governor, now a gop presidential contender, for recently failing to mention slavery as a reason for the civil war. >> i think the cause of the civil war was basically how government was going to run. the freedoms and what people could and couldn't do. >> so let me be clear for those who don't seem to know. slavery was the cause of the civil war. >> reporter: haley later

clarified those comments. >> of course the civil war was about slavery. we know that. >> reporter: trump still leads in iowa by double digits. he's built an army of volunteers, the kind of robust operation he didn't have when he first ran and lost here. one concern here, however, for all campaigns, the weather. there is snow, high winds, and plunging temperatures forecast in the coming days. campaign aides tell cbs news they know that could keep supporters away from upcoming rallies and on caucus night. norah. >> ed with our political and weather report tonight. thank you, ed. well, heading overseas, secretary of state antony blinken arrived in israel tonight as part of his mideast tour to try to prevent the conflict from expanding across the region. cbs's ian lee reports israel says it is scaling back its military offensive inside gaza as it begins a new phase of the war. >> reporter: secretary of state antony blinken's visit comes at a critical time.

a top priority, preventing war on israel's northern border. today hezbollah accused israel of killing one of its most senior commander, who worked closely with iran. his death comes days after a heavy barrage of his bola rockets targeted an israeli base. >> it's clearly not in the interest of anyone, israel, lebanon, hezbollah for that matter, to see this escalate. >> reporter: blinken will also push israel to do more to protect civilians in gaza. over 23,000 palestinians have been killed according to the hamas-run ministry of health. while the u.n. reports roughly a third of gaza's overwhelmed hospitals are still operating. >> it's, as you can see, a chaotic scene. >> reporter: zisrael's military is shifting tactics in northern gaza to a more surgical operation while the main focus

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the movie "oppenheimer" dominated the golden globes last night here on cbs, winning best drama, director, and the top drama acting award for cillian murphy and robert downey jr. poor things starring emma stone pulled off an upset victory over "barbie" for best comedy or musical. liy gladstone won best actress in a drama film for martin scorsese's "killers of the flower moon," making history as the first indigenous winner.

and in more historic firsts, ali wong and steven yeun won for their roles in the netflix series "beef," becoming the first asian actors to win in their categories. what a night. and that's the overnight news for this tuesday. for some of you, the news continues. for others, check back later for "cbs mornings" and follow us online anytime at cbsnews.com. reporting from here in the nation's capital, i'm norah o'donnell. this is "cbs news flash." i'm shanelle kaul in new york. a major storm is making its way across the country overnight, bringing blizzard conditions to the central u.s. and tornado watches to the south. the storm is expected to bring heavy rain and snow and high winds to the midwest and northeast today. the ntsb says the door plug bolts on alaska airlines flight 1282 had not yet been found, and

it's investigating what happened to them. united airlines said tuesday inspections reveal loose bolts on its fleet of boeing 737 max 9s. alaska airlines also reported loose hardware on its planes. and the university of michigan defeated washington to win the college football national championship. it's the school's first title since 1997. for more, download the cbs news app on your cell phone or connected tv. i'm shanelle kaul, cbs news, new york. >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." we want to begin tonight with a major new development after that terrifying blowout in the sky. we learned just a short time ago about troubling new safety concerns and installation issues on boeing 737 max 9s, and those could be related to what caused the scary incident on board an

alaska airlines plane. remember, the cabin lost pressure, horrifying passengers as items including an iphone that remained intact was actually sucked out of the plane. the data from the cockpit voice recorder was erased, making the installation more difficult. today the head of the ntsb said had that plane been flying any higher, it could have been catastrophic for the 171 passengers on board. as a result, every boeing 737 max 9 was grounded. that's more than 170 planes. and for days now, these inspections have been ongoing. so late today, united revealing they have found what some of these issues are. kris van cleave is our senior transportation correspondent. he's been on this since it happened, and he joins us now from portland international airport, where the plane took off from. so good evening, chris. what do we know about these safety issues that they have just found out about? >> reporter: well, norah, good evening. the investigation here remains centered on the 737 max 9 behind us here, but the concern about the airplane is growing after

united airlines began inspecting its max 9s, and on a handful of planes found loose bolts, bolts that hold that piece of the plane in place. sources tell us it's at least five airplanes, but those inspections are ongoing. united believes those loose bolts stem from the manufacturing process. tonight investigators finally have their hands on a key piece of evidence, the 63-pound door panel that blew off an alaska airlines 737 max 9 friday night with a loud bang and such force, it ripped open the locked cockpit door 26 rows away, sucking the headset off the first officer and literally pulling the shirt off a passenger. nearly the entire cabin showed signs of damage, like these mangled seats next to the gaping hole that were fortunately unoccupied. >> there was moments of, am i going to make it? >> reporter: as oxygen masks fell, passenger nicholas hoke

texted family what he feared could be his final messages. >> that i loved them, and i'm not sure what's going to happen here. i'm in this predicament. >> reporter: saturday the faa grounded all 171 max 9s in the u.s. in 2019, all max jets were grounded for 619 days after two deadly crashes linked to a design flaw killed 346. here in portland, a schoolteacher found the missing door panel in his backyard. that plug door replaces an optional emergency exit on some 737s. pilots flying the plane now at the center of the investigation reported pressurization warnings on three separate occasions in the weeks prior. the day before the incident, alaska restricted the use of the newly built 737 so it wouldn't fly over the ocean according to the national transportation safety board. >> so if you don't trust the plane to fly over water, should it have been flying at all? >> that's an excellent question. that is something we're going to have to evaluate through our investigation. >> reporter: board chair jennifer homendy. >> this plane was at 16,000 feet or so.

what happens if it had been at cruise altitude? >> we could have lost the aircraft. at that point, the pressure differential is so great that the explosion would have been extremely violent, extremely. >> oh, it is scary to hear that. kris van cleave is back with us. kris, united and alaska airlines are the only ones with this type of plane. how big of an issue is this for boeing? >> reporter: united and alaska are two of boeings best customers, so you have hundreds of their flights being canceled daily. you also have a bigger issue. you have boeing's stock price down sharply on wall street. and this comes at a time when they've been dealing with quality control issues for some time and are looking to ramp up production of the 737 max, which is a cash cow for boeing. >> this investigation just getting under way. kris, thank you so much. let's turn now to the

weather with a one-two punch of winter storms slamming the country from the pacific northwest to new england. nearly 250 million americans are in the path of dangerous weather across 47 states. let's bring in meteorologist mike bettes from our partners at the weather channel. good evening, mike. >> norah, good evening. the blockbuster storm creating dangerous weather for almost everyone east of the rockies. severe weather across the south highlighted in red. the most likely areas for tornadoes even. heavy rain pouring out of this one. it happens overnight and through the day tomorrow, finally exiting by tomorrow night. a lot of heavy rain across the midwest and the northeast through the day tomorrow. there's a lot of snow as well across the midwest, places like kansas city, chicago get blasted. then snow across new england. oh, and everyone gets very intense winds. winds could be gusting to 50 miles an hour in many locations. there's a footprint of the snow here from the quad cities into chicago and milwaukee. snow across northern new england. heavy rain along the i-95 corridor. that could eventually, norah, lead to more flooding, eventually melting some of the snow tht we just picked up over

the weekend. >> mike, thank you. back here in washington, we're learning new details about defense secretary lloyd austin's mysterious hospitalization at walter reed national military medical center, which went unannounced for days. well, he's now out of the icu. the pentagon just said they don't have a release date yet for him, and there are big questions tonight now that we know the white house and even his deputy secretary of defense were kept in the dark about this medical emergency. cbs's david martin has new reporting from the pentagon. >> reporter: president biden said today he has full confidence in lloyd austin, but his aides did not hide their displeasure that the commander in chief was not told his secretary of defense was in intensive care on new year's day. >> i think there's an expectation that when a cabinet official becomes hospitalized, that that will be notified up the chain of command. >> reporter: the pentagon acknowledged today the chairman of the joint chiefs, austin's chief of staff, and his spokesman all knew on january

2nd the secretary had been hospitalized, but waited for two more days before telling the white house. austin had been at home recovering from an elective medical procedure when he started experiencing severe pain and was rushed to walter reed and admitted to the icu. >> you have, for all intents and purposes, a break in the chain of command. >> reporter: former secretary of defense mark esper. >> if the secretary of defense is being taken to the hospital in an ambulance, it seems to me that you would give somebody at the white house a heads-up. >> reporter: authority was transferred to the deputy secretary of defense. but, again, no one told the white house. with austin still in the icu, a u.s. drone carried out a strike approved by the president three days earlier. only then did austin's chief of staff finally notify the white house of his condition. another day went by before congress and the public were told. republican senator roger wicker sits on the armed services committee. >> when the chain of command is

altered in this way over decisions that are really, really very significant, the congress has to be notified. >> reporter: austin is still in the hospital and still in some pain, but his spokesman says he has no intention of resigning. the secretary admits it took too long to notify the president, congress, and the public and has ordered a review of what went wrong. norah. >> still a lot of questions. david martin at the pentagon, thank you. -we're done. -what about these? looks right.

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>> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." i'm erica brown in washington. thanks for staying with us. thousands of travelers are scrambling to find alternate flights after the faa grounded all 737 max 9 passenger jets after friday's harrowing incident in the sky. the cabin door of an alaskan

airlines jet blew out mid flight. incredibly, no one was hurt. the ntsb now says that particular jet had been barred from long flights over water because of a cockpit warning light. but instead of fixing the problem, maintenance crews simply reset the system. kris van cleave has the latest. >> reporter: the plane is back behind us. when this piece blew out, it did with so much force, that it ripped open the fortified cockpit door 26 rows ahead of it. it was so strong, it ripped the shirt off a passenger's back. and now we're learning on at least three incidents leading up to this one, there were pressurization alerts that pilots received. it was so concerning, alaska said that newly built plane shouldn't be able to fly over water. our first look at the crippled alaska airlines 737 max 9. investigators say damage like this mangled seat has been found in nearly every row. nicholas hoke was on the flight from night. >> a loud boom or almost like a

mini explosion happened abruptly. >> reporter: it was a 63-pound piece of the plane known as a plug door blowing out at 16,000 feet, leaving a gaping hole, forcing the 171 passengers and 6 crew to don oxygen masks. >> alaska, we're declaring an emergency. >> there was moments of, am i going to make it? texting my loved ones that i love them and i'm not sure what's going to happen here. >> reporter: saturday the faa grounded all 737 max 9s in the u.s. 171 of them for further inspections. boeing says it fully supports that decision, and safety is our top priority. in march 2019, the max was grounded for 619 days after two deadly crashes linked to a design flaw in the plane's flight control systems killed

346. the plane is still here at the portland airport. it's been pulled over by a hangar where investigators have been working. you can see where that plug door is missing. the door was found late sunday night. >> it's incredibly important. it's a part of a puzzle to piece back what occurred. >> reporter: ntsb chair jennifer homendy. >> what happens if it had been at cruise altitude? >> at cruise altitude, we could have lost the aircraft. at that point, the pressure differential is so great that the explosion would have been extremely violent, extremely. >> that was kris van cleave in oregon. it's now six days and counting till the first votes are cast in campaign 2024. polls show donald trump with a big lead over nikki haley and ron desantis in iowa, but the only votes that count will come next monday at the caucuses. ed o'keefe is in des moines. >> reporter: former president donald trump is set to spend

most of this week far from here in courthouses in various parts of the country. so his opponents are trying to peel away his big lead. remember, trump didn't win here back in 2016. but now it appears he's built an operation designed to win. former president donald trump downplaying the january 6th attack on the capitol three years ago and reiterating his plan to pardon those who participated. >> some people call them prisoners. i call them hostages. release the j-6 hostages, joe. >> reporter: but president biden has no plans to do that. >> trump's mob wasn't a peaceful protest. it was a violent assault. they were insurrectionists, not patriots. >> reporter: as for trump's gop opponents, florida governor ron desantis warns if republicans pick trump -- >> i think it's going to be a really nasty election. i don't think that puts republicans in a good position to win. >> reporter: former u.n. ambassador nikki haley agrees. >> chaos follows him. >> reporter: but she says

attacking trump isn't the way to win. >> for those that want me to hit trump more, i just am not going to do it. >> reporter: recent polls show trump leading in iowa by double digits thanks to longtime supporters like gary loeffler, whose tractor is spotted outside many trump rallies. >> president trump restored the american dream to every american. >> reporter: loeffler and these volunteers spent the weekend making calls for trump, a part a far more organized campaign than the last time he ran here. >> what you're telling me is that taking this a lot more seriously and studiously than they did back in 2016. >> well, they understand what a caucus is. county by county, precinct by precinct. >> the goal is to bring at least 10 people with you. >> right. >> so what does the bell mean? >> when you get somebody to commit to caucus. >> now you're just rubbing it in. >> these young workers are intense, and they're competitive. >> that was ed o'keefe on the campaign trail in d

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>> reporter: on nfl game day, the strut is becoming nearly as exciting as the score. ♪ the weekly walk into the stadium has transformed into a new kind of runway. one that's bold, edgy, and often unique. while nba stars have dominated the sport's fashion world for years, nfl players have quickly and extravagantly caught up. it's in part thanks to designer joy alba, mastermind behind 150 nfl players. >> when did this moment happen where nfl athletes said, hey, i want to look good too? >> it's always been a thing. it's just now with social media, it's really starting to get out there, and they get to brand themselves and, you know, be creative within themselves. i mean imagine being 6'8", 325

pounds, and being able to have a suit that fits you perfectly. i have clients that their thigh is 33 inches. that's a normal man's waist. so the process is -- it's a lot of collaboration. i'll send them ideas and a look book of our designs, and then they'll choose, and then we go back and forth and ultimately come up with that one specific, one of a kind garment that nobody else will have. ♪ >> reporter: after getting her start in the industry more than 30 years ago, when her first client was basketball legend magic johnson, alba now runs this production house in los angeles, where she designs custom suits for athletes across the country. ♪ some of them especially relish the process, like new york giants defensive lineman ashawn robinson. you could say he knows how to work the room with tips that

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she had been homeless for more than two years after a string of unfortunate events and abusive relationships. >> i had been in tears, and i remember thinking to myself, you know, god, when is the tide going to turn? >> and that's when this guy walks in your life? >> yeah. ♪ lean on me ♪ >> reporter: ara said she'd been singing on the street, which she does on occasion, when a stranger came up to her. his name is matt shearer. he's a radio news reporter. ♪ carry on ♪ >> reporter: matt was out covering something else that day, but he sensed a better story in her. >> can i sit with you and chat? >> absolutely. >> reporter: and that's when ara told him about her most prized possession. >> i have a song, and i wrote it here on the streets. >> reporter: the lyrics were written on a piece of cardboard

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>> reporter: but as much as she needs that money, she says matt matters more. >> he's everything to me right now that i don't have, and he's a hero. >> reporter: finding someone who believes in you. >> let's try to get you singing the national anthem at the sox game. what do you think? >>. >> reporter: the best way to feel like a rock star. steve hartman, on the road

the latest jobs report shows there may be a raise in your future. bradley blackburn crunches the numbers. >> reporter: hotels, restaurants, and other businesses in the leisure and hospitality sector added 40,000 jobs in december. the health care industry also grew, bringing on 38,000 positions. all together, the economy added a better than expected 216,000 jobs last month. however, numbers for october and november were revised down significantly.

still, the economy finished 2023 with 2.7 million more jobs than the previous year. cbs news business analyst jill sles enjer. >> i think we finished the year as we started, defying expectations. >> reporter: wages also increased in december, and millions of workers are receiving a raise this month. more than 20 states boosted the minimum wage, some pushing it to over $20 an hour. restaurant owner leah is glad her employees are getting a raise, but she's facing a decision. >> it puts the business in quite the predicament where you have to raise prices to compensate for that, but people don't like when you raise prices to compensate for that. >> reporter: higher prices are something the federal reserve is trying to stop. the board has kept interest rates at a high level in an attempt to bring inflation down from the current level of just oer 3% to 2%. some analysts had hoped the board could cut rates later this year. >> if we keep getting data that

is consistent with a solid labor market, i don't think that the fed is going to be lowering interest rates anytime soon. >> reporter: the fed makes its decision at the end of the month. bradley blackburn, cbs news, new york. and that's the overnight news for this tuesday. be sure to check back later for cbs mornings. reporting from the nation's capital, i'm erica brown. this is "cbs news flash." i'm shanelle kaul in new york. a major storm is making its way across the country overnight, bringing blizzard conditions to the central u.s. and tornado watches to the south. the storm is expected to bring heavy rain and snow and high winds to the midwest and northeast today. the ntsb says the door plug bolts on alaska airlines flight 1282 have not yet been found, and it's investigating what

happened to them. united airlines said tuesday inspections reveal loose bolts on its fleet of boeing 737 max 9s. alaska airlines also reported loose hardware on its planes. and the university of michigan defeated washington to win the college football national championship. it's the school's first title since 1997. for more download the cbs ne connected tv. i'm shanelle kaul, cbs news, new york. tonight, the breaking news. united finds loose bolts on several of its boeing 737 max 9s. this comes just days after a plane wall blew out mid-flight on the same type of aircraft. we've got the new information just coming in. the terrifying discovery. hundreds of flights are canceled after that scary incident at 16,000 feet. >> there was moments of, am i going to make it? >> the door panel just found by investigators as we learn about

warning lights in the cockpit. breaking news. a hotel explosion rocks downtown fort worth. after a weekend snowstorm, more dangerous weather is sweeping the middle of the country, bringing blizzard warnings and tornado threats. new questions tonight about defense secretary lloyd austin's secret hospitalization. why the public and the president weren't notified. and liftoff. >> and the historic launch. why the first moon lander in over 50 years is in jeopardy. >> space exploration is a very risky business. >> hopefully they can not just get it to the moon but actually land it on the surface. >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." we want to begin tonight with a major new development after that terrifying blowout in the sky. we learned just a short time ago about troubling new safety concerns and installation issues

on boeing's 737 max 9s, and those could be related to what caused the scary incident on board an alaska airlines plane. remember, the cabin lost pressure, horrifying passengers as items, including an iphone that remained intact, was actually sucked out of the plane. the data from the cockpit voice recorder was erased, making the installation more difficult. today the head of the ntsb said had that plane been flying any higher, it could have been catastrophic for the 171 passengers on board. as a result, every boeing 737 max 9 was grounded. that's more than 170 planes. and for days now, these inspections have been ongoing. so late today, united revealing they have found what some of these issues are. kris van cleave is our senior transportation correspondent. he's been on this since it happened, and he joins us now from portland international airport, where the plane took off from. so good evening, kris. what do we know about these safety issues that they have

just found out about? >> reporter: well, norah, good evening. the investigation here remains centered on the 737 max 9 behind us here, but the concern about the airplane is growing after united airlines began inspecting its max 9s and, on a handful of planes, found loose bolts, bolts that hold that piece of the plane in place. sources tell us it's at least five airplanes, but those inspections are ongoing. united believes those loose bolts stem from the manufacturing process. tonight investigators finally have their hands on a key piece of evidence, the 63-pound door panel that blew off an alaska airlines 737 max 9 friday night with a loud bang and such force, it ripped open the locked cockpit door 26 rows away, sucking the headset off the first officer and literally pulling the shirt off a passenger. nearly the entire cabin showed signs of damage, like these mangled seats next to the gaping

hole that were fortunately unoccupied. >> there was moments of, am i going to make it? >> reporter: as oxygen masks fell, passenger nicholas hoke texted family what he feared could be his final messages. >> that i loved them, and i'm not sure what's going to happen here. i'm in this predicament. >> reporter: saturday the faa grounded all 171 max 9s in the u.s. in 2019, all max jets were grounded for 619 days after two deadly crashes linked to a design flaw killed 346. here in portland, a schoolteacher found the missing door panel in his backyard. that plug door replaces an optional emergency exit on some 737s. pilots flying the plane now at the center of the investigation reported pressurization warnings on three separate occasions in the weeks prior. the day before the incident, alaska restricted the use of the newly built 737 so it wouldn't fly over the ocean according to the national transportation safety board. >> so if you don't trust the plane to fly over water, should it have been flying at all?

>> that's an excellent question. that is something we're going to have to evaluate through our investigation. >> reporter: board chair jennifer homendy. >> this plane was at 16,000 feet or so. what happens if it had been at cruise altitude? >> we could have lost the aircraft. at that point, the pressure differential is so great that the explosion would have been extremely violent, extremely. >> oh, it is scary to hear that. kris van cleave is back with us. kris, united and alaska airlines are the only ones with this type of plane. how big of an issue is this for boeing? >> reporter: this is a big issue. united and alaska are two of boeing's best customers, so you have hundreds of their flights being canceled daily. you also have a bigger issue. you have boeing's stock price down sharply on wall street. and this comes at a time when they've been dealing with quality control issues for some time and are looking to ramp up

production of the 737 max, which is a cash cow for boeing. >> this investigation just getting under way. kris, thank you so much. let's turn now to some breaking news with an explosion at a hotel in fort worth, texas. the atf is on the scene where nearly a dozen people were injured. the huge blast, which sent a massive amount of debris flying across the historic downtown area. cbs's jason allen is there. good evening, jason. >> reporter: good evening, norah. i'm just about a block away from that historic sandman signature hotel that you were just talking about, where that powerful blast rocked the downtown area this afternoon. the power of the blast so strong that there was debris from that explosion that was sent a block or two in a couple of different directions. you can see what is left of the windows and the facade of that building, all littering the street. and there were some other businesses nearby that were also damaged. there's broken glass on the sidewalks and street either from just the force of the blast or the debris that was sent flying.

this explosion happened just after 4:00 this afternoon eastern time. the fire department at least initially believes that this was a gas explosion. there are dozens of firefighters that responded here to the area. police have taped off a big part of downtown, at least a couple of blocks in each direction. right now we're told 11 people were injured, one critically, another couple in serious condition. we saw at least one person taken away on a stretcher. at times tonight when the wind blows in the right direction, you can still smell natural gas in the area. this is a 20-story historic building, built back in 1920. we talked to one of the people who was in the building when the explosion happened, norah. he found that the stairwell had been blown away. he had to jump down to the first floor in order to escape. >> frightening situation. jason allen, thank you very much. pope francis made headlines today by calling for a universal ban on surrogate motherhood. the pope called the practice despicable, taking particular

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>> announcer: >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." let's turn now to the weather with the one-two punch of massive winter storms slamming the country from the pacific northwest to new england. nearly 250 million americans are in the path of dangerous weather across 47 states, including many with blizzard warnings, tornado

warnings, and flood alerts. let's bring in meteorologist mike better from our partners at the weather channel. good evening, mike. >> norah, good evening. the blockbuster storm creating dangerous weather for almost everyone east of the rockies. severe weather across the south highlighted in red. the most likely areas for tornadoes even. heavy rain pouring out of this one. it happens overnight and through the day tomorrow, finally exiting by tomorrow night. a lot of heavy rain across the midwest and the northeast through the day tomorrow. there's a lot of snow as well across the midwest, places like kansas city, chicago get blasted. then snow across new england. oh, and everyone gets very intense winds. winds could be gusting to 50 miles an hour in many locations. there's a footprint of the snow here from the quad cities into chicago and milwaukee. snow across northern new england. heavy rain along the i-95 corridor. that could eventually, norah, lead to more flooding, eventually melting some of the snow that we just picked up over the weekend. >> mike, thank you. back here in washington, we're learning new details about defense secretary lloyd austin's mysterious hospitalization at

walter reed national military medical center, which went unannounced for days. well, he's now out of the icu. the pentagon just said they don't have a release date yet for him, and there are big questions tonight now that we know the white house and even his deputy secretary of defense were kept in the dark about this medical emergency. cbs's david martin has new reporting from the pentagon. >> reporter: president biden said today he has full confidence in lloyd austin, but his aides did not hide their displeasure that the commander in chief was not told his secretary of defense was in intensive care on new year's day. >> i think there's an expectation that when a cabinet official becomes hospitalized, that that will be notified up the chain of command. >> reporter: the pentagon acknowledged today the chairman of the joint chiefs, austin's chief of staff, and his spokesman all knew on january 2nd the secretary had been hospitalized, but waited for two more days before telling the white house. austin had been at home

recovering from an elective medical procedure when he started experiencing severe pain and was rushed to walter reed and admitted to the icu. >> you have, for all intents and purposes, a break in the chain of command. >> reporter: former secretary of defense mark esper. >> if the secretary of defense is being taken to the hospital in an ambulance, it seems to me that you would give somebody at the white house a heads-up. >> reporter: authority was transferred to the deputy secretary of defense. but, again, no one told the white house. with austin still in the icu, a u.s. drone carried out a strike approved by the president three days earlier. only then did austin's chief of staff finally notify the white house of his condition. another day went by before congress and the public were told. republican senator roger wicker sits on the armed services committee. >> if the chain of command is altered in this way over decisions that are really, really very significant, the congress has to be notified.

>> reporter: austin is still in the hospital and still in some pain, but his spokesman says he has no intention of resigning. the secretary admits it took too long to notify the president, congress, and the public and has ordered a review of what went wrong. norah. >> still a lot of questions. david martin at the pentagon, thank you. well, turning now to the 2024 race for the white house, the iowa caucuses are just one week from tonight with donald trump holding a commanding lead over his republican rivals. cbs's ed o'keefe reports president biden traveled to south carolina where today he called out trump for glorifying political violence. >> the truth is under assault in america. >> reporter: making concerns about the future of democracy a central theme of his campaign, president biden struck back at former president donald trump, who's defended those serving time for the events of january 6th, 2021. >> some people call them prisoners. i call them hostages. release the j-6 hostages, joe.

>> reporter: of the 1,200 people charged, more than 700 admitted they broke the law. nearly 500 were sentenced to prison time. >> they tried to steal an election. now they're trying to steal history, telling us that violent mob was -- and i quote -- a peaceful protest. >> reporter: the president also called out trump for his response to last week's school shooting in iowa. >> we have to get over it. we have to move forward. >> my response is we have to stop it. >> reporter: biden gave a political speech from the pulpit of the historically black methodist church in charleston that was the site of a 2015 mass shooting. he criticized nikki haley, south carolina's former governor, now a gop presidential contender, for recently failing to mention slavery as a reason for the civil war. >> i think the cause of the civil war was basically how government was going to run. the freedoms and what people could and couldn't do. >> so let me be clear for those who don't seem to know. slavery was the cause of the civil war. >> reporter: haley later clarified those comments.

>> of course the civil war was about slavery. we know that. >> reporter: trump still leads in iowa by double digits. he's built an army of volunteers, the kind of robust operation he didn't have when he first ran and lost here. one concern here, however, for all campaigns, the weather. there is snow, high winds, and plunging temperatures forecast in the coming days. campaign aides tell cbs news they know that could keep supporters away from upcoming rallies and on caucus night. norah. >> ed with our political and weather report tonight. thank you, ed. well, heading overseas, secretary of state antony blinken arrived in israel tonight as part of his mideast tour to try to prevent the conflict from expanding across the region. cbs's ian lee reports israel says it is scaling back its military offensive inside gaza as it begins a new phase of the war. >> reporter: secretary of state antony blinken's visit comes at a critical time.

a top priority, preventing war on israel's northern border. today hezbollah accused israel of killing one of its most senior commanders, wissam tawil, who worked closely with iran. his death comes days after a heavy barrage of hezbollah rockets targeted an israeli base. >> it's clearly not in the interest of anyone, israel, lebanon, hezbollah for that matter, to see this escalate. >> reporter: blinken will also push israel to do more to protect civilians in gaza. over 23,000 palestinians have been killed according to the hamas-run ministry of health. while the u.n. reports roughly a third of gaza's overwhelmed hospitals are still operating. >> it's, as you can see, a chaotic scene. >> reporter: israel's military is shifting tactics in northern gaza to a more surgical operation while the main focus moves to hunting hamas in

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tonight homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas is back at the u.s. southern border, where today he called the immigration system broken. this as a cbs news poll finds three-quarters of americans describe the border situation as very serious or a crisis. cbs's adam yamaguchi takes an in-depth look at the steps being taken to crack down on migrant crossings. >> walk over right there. >> reporter: at a remote town east of san diego, it's this easy to cross the border. this hole in the wall has made jacumba hot springs a popular destination for migrants coming into the u.s. illegally. i just walked through the gap when mexican authorities rushed up. moments ago i was chased by mexican national guard. i had circled around the wall. the actual u.s./mexico border is

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golf great tiger woods announced today that his longtime partnership with nike has ended. the 15-time major champion has worn nike since signing with the company nearly three decades ago, raking in hundreds of millions of dollars in endorsement fees. wonder what happens to the red shirt. all right. the historic moments made at the golden globes. that's next.

the movie "oppenheimer" dominated the golden globes last night here on cbs, winning best drama, director, and the top drama acting awards for cillian murphy and robert downey jr. "poor things" starring emma stone pulled off an upset victory over "barbie" for best comedy or musical. lily gladstone won best actress in a dramatic film for martin scorsese's "killers of the flower moon," making history as the first indigenous winner.

and in more historic firsts, ali wong and steven yeun won for their roles in the netflix series "beef," becoming the first asian actors to win in their categories. what a night. and that's the overnight news for this tuesday. for some of you, the news continues. for others, check back later for "cbs mornings" and follow us online anytime at cbsnews.com. reporting from here in the nation's capital, i'm norah o'donnell. this is "cbs news flash." i'm shanelle kaul in new york. a major storm is making its way across the country overnight, bringing blizzard conditions to the central u.s. and tornado watches to the south. the storm is expected to bring heavy rain and snow and high winds to the midwest and northeast today. the ntsb says the door plug bolts on alaska airlines flight 1282 have not yet been found, and it's investigating what

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