soar into the night sky, running drills and making their presence known along this stretch of the mediterranean. what's happening here on deck now after dark is all about readiness. this ship and the aircraft on it have been specifically deployed due to growing threats across the region, notable as a deterrent but ready to respond if necessary. from the houthis, where the u.s. launched another wave of ship and submarine-launched missiles on suspected houthi targets in yemen overnight, to iran, whose forces released this video today, holding air defense exercises in its own show of power. the fights between israel and hezbollah worsening by the day. the marines here remain in reach of both israel and lebanon should she be called upon to fight, provide humanitarian assistance, or even evacuate thousands of americans who live in both countries.

the unit's motto, "ready, relevant, and capable," seems more apt than ever tonight. a u.s. official tells cbs news that the u.s. military has mnaged to take out enough of the houthis' air defense system to enable drones to fly over yemen, providing the kind of surveillance they didn't have a week ago. major. >> charlie d'agata, thank you. congress avoided a government shutdown with one day to spare, passing a temporary spending bill that keeps the lights on and agencies funded into early march. congressional leaders earlier this month reached a tentative agreement on a more comprehensive $1.6 trillion spending agreement, but the details there still have to be hashed out. the new hampshire primary is kicking into high gear, and it appears to be a two-person contest between donald trump and nikki haley. cbs's caitlin huey-burns reports on the growing pressure on the former u.n. ambassador to close the gap. >> reporter: all eyes are on new

hampshire. >> reporter: tonight in the granite state, nikki haley is sharpening her attacks against her cheev rival, donald trump. >> it's the drama and the vengeance and the vindictiveness that we want to get out of the way. >> reporter: that pitch resonated with independent voters we spoke with. >> i think she really needs to go after president trump, former president trump, more. >> really? >> a little more aggressively. >> i voted for biden. however, i do believe that we need a change. >> reporter: but she still has an uphill climb with five days to go, haley is barnstorming new hampshire as trump maintains a steady lead in the polls. >> hey, governor, is this make or break for your campaign? >> we got to go to my home state of south carolina. >> so then the question is what is her path in south carolina because i don't think if you lose your home state, that you can continue. >> reporter: florida governor ron desantis is heading to south carolina, hoping for a warmer reception, all but ceding frosty

new hampshire, where he's polling in the single digits. >> if she wins, biden wins. >> reporter: trump is eyeing a solid new hampshire win to shore up the nomination early, and haley's supporters are managing expectations. >> we want it to get down to a two-person race. we did it. >> how do you think it is that donald trump is still way ahead here? >> well, he's the incumbent. he's the former president. the fact that this is a former president that can barely hold 50% of his own party's support, that actually isn't so good. >> reporter: and haley had new hampshire to herself today. donald trump was off the campaign trail, attending his mother-in-law's funeral down in florida. but he will be back here tomorrow to campaign with rallies scheduled through the weekend. major. >> caitlin huey-burns, thank you. we learned today the president's son, hunter biden, has agreed to sit for a closed-door deposition with congressional investigators as part of president biden a impeachment inquiry. republicans threatened to hold the president's son in contempt of congress after he refused to

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for his catch. >> is this driving people out of business? >> very much so. i mean people are dropping like flies out of this business. >> reporter: the issue, imported cheap shrimp from asia, grown in pond farms like these, often subsidized by foreign governments. it's idled many of the state e roughly 300 shrimpers. >> i would love to be out here at least six days a week. >> and how many days are you on the water? >> two to three now. >> because there's no market? >> no market. >> reporter: last year, local shrimpers here got $5.73 per pound. this year, $3.39 per pound, down more than 40%, which they say barely covers their costs. patrick rooney's restaurant serves only locally caught shrimp. he pays more because he says local shrimp tastes better. >> you could do cheaper. >> we could. we could. but that's not what people want. >> reporter: what shrimpers here want, a u.s. tariff on foreign competition. >> you're a fourth-generation

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that growth purely came organically through the experiences that we wanted to create. >> reporter: the average stateroom for a seven-day caribbean cruise costs about $3,500 for two people. but $100,000 gets this ultimate family townhouse. >> it took my breath away. >> reporter: kevin curren will be on icon's inaugural cruise. >> just the massiveness of it is the draw. >> reporter: post-pandemic, cruising is surging in popularity. a record 36 million passengers are expected in 2024. with a ship this size, health and safety pose new challenges. >> what do you guys do differently today than what you were doing before? >> this ship has the largest medical center we've ever built on a ship before. we've created new protocols coming out of the pandemic to handle health and safety issues of all sorts. we've been very careful about the flow of fresh air throughout our vessels. if you're in your stateroom, you're breathing only your own air. >> reporter: the cruise industry as a whole is under scrutiny for pollution. a 2021 report found a large cruise ship can have a carbon

footprint graelther than 12,000 cars. but royal caribbean says icon is greener than its predecessors running on natural gas, treating its own waste, and making its own water. it's also got a lot of things to try, like the first onboard water park with six water slides. kris van cleave, cbs news, the bahamas. we have new information tonight about a shark tank

an update tonight on the 10-year-old maryland boy bitten by a shark earlier this week in the bahamas. police say the boy was released from the hospital last night and airlifted home. he was bitten on the leg while taking part in a shark tank exhibit at the atlantis resort. the company that runs the exhibit says a dive instructor and guide were with the boy. they say this is the first time anyone has been bitten at the exhibit, which remains closed during an investigation. a spacex dragon capsule is on its way to the international space station after a successful

launch this afternoon from the kennedy space center in florida. the four-member all european crew includes the first astronaut from turkey. it is the third crewed mission for the private company axiom space and is being led by former nasa astronaut michael lopez alegria, who holds dual u.s. and spanish citizenship. the crew will spend about two weeks aboard the iss, conducting experiments. finally tonight, country music superstar reba mcentire and singers post malone and andra day will headline the pregame festivities for super bowl 358 in las vegas. the nfl says mackin tier will sping the national anthem, post malone, america the beautiful, and day, lift every voice and sing. all of this ahead of the big became. speaking of the big game and star-studded festivities, you can watch it all here on cbs and paramount+ on sunday, february 11th. and that is the overnight news for this friday. be sure to check back later for cbs mornings," and of course follow us online anytime at

cbsnews.com. that's where you'll find my podcast, the takeout. politics, policy, a little bit of pop culture. reporting from the nation's capital, i'm major garrett. this is "cbs news flash." i'm carissa lawson in new york. a date has been spet for a hearing in the fulton county, georgia, 2020 election interference case. it stems from allegations that district attorney fani willis had an improper relationship with the lead prosecutor in the case. this could lead to her removal from the case and the dismissal of charges. the los angeles innocence project is taking up the case of scott peterson, the man convicted in the 2002 killing of

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overnight news." coast to coast winter storms are blanketing the country with snow and a blast of cold air. more than 80% of all americans will see below-average temperatures this weekend. at least 60 deaths in the last week are being blamed on the weather due to car accidents, hypothermia, and heart attacks. plus, for the fifth time this week, the united states has launched air strikes on iranian-backed houthis inside yemen. but we begin with news in uvalde, where attorney general merrick garland released a nearly 600 page report on the shooting at robb elementary school. it confirmed the worst fears of the victims ph families, that their loved ones were failed by police. 19 children and 2 teachers were killed in the school shooting while 376 law enforcement officers waited outside the school. cbs's lilia luciano has the reaction tonight from uvalde. >> the law enforcement response to the mass shooting at robb

elementary was a failure. >> reporter: in a devastating new report, the department of justice blames cascading failures in leadership, decision-making, tactics, policy, and training for why police waited 77 minutes before confronting the gunman at robb elementary school in uvalde. associate attorney general vanita gupta led the investigation. >> have you seen a bigger policing failure in your career? >> the justice department had never seen anything like this. the goal of the justice department's engagement has been to learn from these lessons. >> reporter: after reviewing over 14,000 pieces of data and more than 260 interviews, the report lays much of the blame on then-school police chief pete arredondo and his failure to treat it as an active shooter situation and not send all available resources towards the threat until entry was made into the classroom. >> had the law enforcement agencies followed generally accepted practices, lives would have been saved, and people would have survived.

>> reporter: arredondo instead chose to evacuate other classrooms and wait for keys, backup, and tools. >> can you please tell the police to come to the room? >> reporter: a student from inside the classroom called 911 asking for help, and officers still waited nearly 40 minutes before stopping the shooter. only a handful of officers at the scene have lost their job or resigned. >> because the doj stamp is on there, maybe y'all will start taking us seriously now instead of telling us to move on, telling us to sweep it under the rug and not doing a damn thing about it. >> reporter: jazmin cazares, whose 9-year-old sister jacqueline was killed, fears there will be no accountability from the uvalde county district attorney. >> she's been doing her investigation just as long as the doj has. the doj has no jurisdiction over this. they can't prosecute. she can. what else does she need to be able to move forward? >> reporter: since the uvalde school shooting, districts across the country have reassessed their security protocols. >> we began to look at our door

configurations, ensuring that they are able to be locked and secured at all times. we began to look at the need to have an armed officer on each campus. >> lilia joins us now from uvalde. lilia, the central question for the families, will there be criminal charges arising from this report? >> reporter: well, major, i pressed the doj precisely on that question today because the d.a. doesn't provide any answers. i asked the doj could any of those failures lead to criminal charges? they said it is up to the state of texas and the d.a. the d.a. has had the investigation from the texas rangers now for a year. i reached out today to ask with this one too in hand, whether or not they will present any evidence to a grand jury. we are still waiting for a response. major. >> pressing for more answers. lilia luciano, thank you so much. now to the snow, ice, and freezing temperatures battering communities in the pacific northwest. in some parts of the upper

midwest, lake-effect snow is being measured in feet. cbs's carter evans reports deaths if at least 13 states are being blamed on this winter freeze. >> reporter: tonight, blinding snow and dangerous ice continue to torment vast regions of the country, making driving dangerous and even venturing outside deadly. >> throughout this period of storm, we are averaging around 900 to 1,000 calls a day. >> reporter: here in portland, a horrific loss of life caused by this arctic blast. three family members killed and a 9-month-old injured after power lines fell on their suv while they were inside. neighbor daniel buck heard the boom. >> i saw that the tires on the car were on fire. >> were they panicking? >> they were panicking, yeah. they were trying to get out of the car as fast as they could. >> reporter: he says the family escaped, and that's when they were electrocuted. >> they ran down the sidewalk, and part of the line was in the water, and at that point they

had already walked where the rest of the line had landed. it was just horrible. it was a horrible thing. >> reporter: 18-year-old majiah washington managed to save the baby. >> were you worried you might get shocked too? >> that never ran through my head. i was just thinking, like, i have to save this baby. >> reporter: in copenhagen, new york, homes and cars are now buried in up to six feet of snow. in nearby rochester, authorities are investigating an american airlines plane that slid off the runway. meanwhile, a massive ice jam along the kankakee river in wilmington, illinois, is pushing closer to homes. and in indianapolis, ems workers are responding to four times as many cold weather emergencies as they did this time last year. >> we've had people so cold that they needed resuscitation. >> reporter: downed power lines are common in winter storms, and if one were to land on your car, experts say you should stay inside until the line is de-energized. if you have to get out, you

should jump with both feet first so you're not touching the car and the ground at the same time. major. >> such valuable information. carter evans, thank you so much. we all want to know where this brutal weather is headed next. let's bring in meteorologist chris warren from our partners at the weather channel. chris, good evening. >> good evening, major. snow and ice finally coming to an end in the pacific northwest. snow lingering a little bit longer in the pacific northwest. but by the overnight hours into early friday, it will just be a few lingering snow showers in the north washington cascades, north idaho, and the inland empire of washington. the next weather system going through the northeast, generally one to three inches. higher amounts in the mountains with lake-effect snow lingering even into saturday. and then once again dangerously cold temperatures. it will be freezing all the way down to the gulf coast. windchills will be 40 below in some northern locations. and then, major, some much welcome warmth on the way. parts of the south next week with above average temperatures

will be back into the 60s and even 70s. >> we will welcome the warmth. chris warren, thank you. there is a lot more news ahead on the "cbs overnight news."

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but the scams sometimes have terrible consequences. nicole sganga reports. >> reporter: a college-bound track star, 17-year-old james woods, had just gotten his driver's license and posed for his senior yearbook photo. >> they always said he had a beautiful smile, which he did. >> reporter: when his mother, tamia woods, said an online predator targeted james on instagram. james received 200 messages in less than 20 hours? >> yes. 200 messages in less than 20 hours, and it ranged anywhere from "i own you" to "you need to take your own life". >> reporter: the fbi calls it financial sextortion. minors coerced into sending compromising images of themselves, some by networks of criminals overseas operating off scripts. >> this is a predator that is solely interested in financial gain. >> reporter: children as young as 9 years old told to send money or the photos will be posted online.

>> whether that is a child going into a parent's wallet or a child accessing their college money, forms of payment have taken on gaming tokens, gift cards, and other online payment types. >> you've seen children hand predators the keys to their college fund. >> yes. >> reporter: from october 2021 through march 2023, the fbi has tracked roughly 12,600 sextortion victims, all of them minors. since 2021, at least 20 kids have died by suicide, including woods' son, james. >> the most horrible phone call i've ever received, that my only child, my blessing, is no longer here. >> reporter: now the fbi is trying to warn parents and encourage victims to break their a lens. >> why do tips matter so much? >> that's the intelligence. that's the information that we have that makes law enforcement have the ability to act. >> reporter: the woods family

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>> what are some of the challenges using new materials? >> the whole industry has had a focus on plastics and synthetics now for going on 50 years. and all of a sudden, you're trying to bring in new material and new supply chain into a new product. and we've been around five years. >> reporter: leather is one of the most common materials in shoes. swillen jer understands why. >> it breathes. it's like, you know, naturally weather-resistant. it like, you know, bends nice when you walk, and it feels good. that's a very high bar. >> reporter: but leather is made from cattle hides with animal agriculture responsible for roughly 20% of all greenhouse gases. and both traditional and vegan leather alternatives are manufactured using petrochemicals, adding another layer of toxicity. >> and if you look out into the world of alternatives to bovine leather, and there's not a lot out there. >> reporter: as a certified "b" corporation fully committed to climate-friendly business

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>> if the molecule is relatively small and not so complex. >> reporter: his ph.d. in chemistry was researching at the u.s. naval academy until an epiphany brought him home to the midwest. >> the host complex, high-performance materials people know about are not the synthetic ones. they're natural. and yet we make so many things out of synthetics. so why? you can mold and shape polyethylene, polyurethane, polystyrene, polyester effectively into things that work for you in your everyday life. no one had invented the suite of technologies so that it would work with the abundant, redundant, diverse national nutrients. >> reporter: in other words, plants. nature, he says, is actually a thousand times more productive >> all right. this material, think of this as a dough. >> reporter: nfw uses the by-products of nature's point,

materials like cork and natural rubber. yes, there is all-natural rubber from trees. >> what a lot of people will do is look at this waste and say, huh, how could i mix this with plastic to get something? we come along and say let's not use the plastic part. let's figure out how to mix these things together. >> reporter: in the case of plant leather, he's got aaron am stutz to thank. >> and i just love inventing. >> reporter: nfw's chief toj officer, who created mirim four years ago this month. he took us inside the factory where natural materials are fed into an industrial mixer, sheeted out, and then cured under heat and pressure. >> how difficult is the aspect of color with this? >> it's surprisingly tough because the color isn't a thin coating over the top. the color is integral to the recipe. if i put cork powder in, the natural color will be brown. if i put lots of rice hulls in,

the natural color would be tan. this happens to be clays and talcs. they give it that off-white hue. >> along with sneakers, nfw is working with a host of brands, including bmw, which hopes one day to use mirim for car interiors, including seats. to make sure the material is viable, it runs tests for features ranging from durability to exposure to climate. >> ralph lauren released this hoodie, and fabrics like this are produced on machines like you see here. >> reporter: in addition to plant leather, nfw has developed a textile line in calls clari circus, which fuses natural fibers to mimic a moisture-wicking synthetic. >> now, the fiber is in that format that the plastics normally can take on and be in. >> but it feels like cotton. >> yeah. it doesn't just feel like cotton. it is cotton. >> reporter: you may see he's a dreamer, but he's not the only one. >> there have been a number of

leather alternatives coming to the market in the last few years. >> reporter: rachel sur nancy covers sustainability and fashion for vogue business. >> there's milo from bulk threads. there's the ecovative material. >> water repellent and biodegradable. >> there is mike oh works which is partnering with her mez. so the optimistic view is they are doing these small tests to see what works in anticipation of scaling them up. >> it's amazing that all of this is plant-based. all of this. so here's a foam that's no petrochemicals, no plastics. >> reporter: halver halls hopes to make a fully biodegradable sneaker. >> so when you have foam and you have a sole, you can make a newt rent shoe. that's a thing coming out later this year. >> reporter: one you can run through a shredder and safely sprinkle right back into the earth. >> because the moment that any brand, let alone some of the big brands, start making nutrient

things, it's kind of like you can't not make a nutrient thing, right? >> reporter: that's been allbirds goal from its founding, and with mirim and other natural materials on the horizon, they think the sky's the limit. >> people still for the most part, they want better products. that's our goal. the way we unlock all that value is through sustainable innovation. the opportunities ahead of us, it's

nasa's latest mission to mars is under way right now on earth. bradley blackburn reports. >> reporter: the johnson space center in texas, inside a large hangar, four volunteers are living like they're on another planet. the mission called chapea i began last july. a 378-day test of what it will be like when astronauts are on mars. >> at times we very much feel like we're away, you know, in some distant place.

>> some will think this is crazy. but for me i've always wanted to make a contribution to space flight. >> reporter: nasa 3-d printed a martian habitat and even mimicked the red soil. they're testing how to live with extremely limited resources 100 million miles away. even though the crew members are right here in houston, communicating with them is a challenge. there's up to a 22-minute delay to send signals each way, just like it would be if they were actually on mars. >> there's a bandwidth limitation as well. >> reporter: crew members recorded responses to our written questions, but they mostly emailed with their loved ones and with mission control. >> the crew is actually really innovative and adaptive and troubleshoots really rapidly in times where we can't get an answer back from mission control very quickly. >> reporter: with surveys and sensors, nasa is monitoring their physical and mental health too. there's an emotional toll of isolation, and they are eager to get home. >> definitely looking forward to a jump in the ocean and then drying in the sun. >> i miss my partner.

i miss my family. i miss my friends. and i'm so looking forward to seeing them. >> reporter: a crew making a real sacrifice on earth so man can be ready for mars. bradley blackburn, cbs news, at the johnson space center. and that's the overnight news for this friday. reporting from the nation's capital, i'm catherine herridge. this is "cbs news flash." i'm carissa lawson in new york. a date has been set for a hearing in the fulton county, georgia, 2020 election interference case. it stems from allegations that district attorney fani willis had an improper relationship with the lead prosecutor in the case. this could lead to her removal from the case and the dismissal of charges. the los angeles innocence project is taking up the case of scott peterson, the man convicted in the 2002 killing of his wife, laci peterson, and

their unborn son. the nonprofit group is seeking new evidence to set him free. and nominations are out for the iheartradio music awards. taylor swift leads the way with 9 while jelly roll, 21 savage, and sza all received 8. for more, download the cbs news app on your c i'm carissa lawson, cbs news, new york. do right by the victims and survivors of robb elementary. terminations, criminal prosecutions. >> it's hard enough to walk out and see a cop that you know was standing there while our babies were murdered and bleeding out. >> pain and a plea for accountability in uvalde, texas, after the department of justice reveals multiple police failures in the school shooting that killed 21 people. >> it was a complete breakdown and lack of leadership.

>> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." good evening, everyone. i'm major garrett in for norah. thank you for joining us. we will have more on that department of justice report on the uvalde school shooting in a moment. but first, coast-to-coast winter storms are blanketing the country with snow and a blast of cold air. more than 80% of all americans will see below-average temperatures this weekend. at least 60 deaths in the last week are being blamed on the weather due to car accidents, hypothermia, and heart attacks. plus, for the fifth time this week, the united states has launched air strikes on iranian-backed houthis inside yemen. cbs's charlie d'agata is in with marines on a navy warship in the mediterranean where they're preparing for a possible escalation of the war in the mideast. but we begin with news in uvalde. >> reporter: attorney general merrick garland released a nearly 600-page report on the shooting at robb elementary school. it confirmed the worst fears of the victims' families, that their loved ones were failed by

police. 19 children and 2 teachers were killed in the school shooting while 376 law enforcement officers waited outside the school. cbs's lilia luciano has the reaction tonight from uvalde. >> the law enforcement response to the mass shooting at robb elementary was a failure. >> reporter: in a devastating new report, the department of justice blames cascading failures in leadership, decision-making, tactics, policy, and training for why police waited 77 minutes before confronting the gunman at robb elementary school in uvalde. associate attorney general vanita gupta led the investigation. >> have you seen a bigger policing failure in your career? >> the justice department had never seen anything like this. the goal of the justice department's engagement has been to learn from these lessons. >> reporter: after reviewing over 14,000 pieces of data and more than 260 interviews, the report lays much of the blame on then school police chief pete arredondo and his failure to treat it as an active shooter

situation and not send all available resources towards the threat until entry was made into the classroom. >> had law enforcement agencies followed generally accepted practices, lives would have been saved, and people would have survived. >> reporter: arredondo instead chose to evacuate other classrooms and wait for keys, backup, and tools. >> can you please tell the police to come to my room? >> i've already told them to go to the room. we're trying to get someone to you. >> reporter: a student from inside the classroom called 911 asking for help, and officers still waited nearly 40 minutes before stopping the shooter. only a handful of officers at the scene have lost their job or resigned. >> because the doj stamp is on there, maybe y'all will start taking us seriously now instead of telling us to move on, telling us to sweep it under the rug, and not doing a damn thing about it. >> reporter: jazmin cazares, whose 9-year-old sister jacqueline was killed, fears there will be no accountability for the uvalde county district attorney. >> she's been doing her

investigation just as long as the doj has. the doj has no jurisdiction over this. they can't prosecute. she can. what else does she need to be able to move forward? >> reporter: since the uvalde school shooting, districts across the country have reassessed their security protocols. >> we began to look at our door configurations, ensuring that they are able to be locked and secured at all times. we began to look at the need to have an armed officer on each campus. >> lilia joins us now from uvalde. lilia, the central question for the families, will there be criminal charges arising from this report? >> reporter: well, major, i pressed the doj precisely on that question today because the d.a. doesn't provide any answers. i asked the doj could any of those failures lead to criminal charges. they said it is up to the state of texas and the d.a. the d.a. has had the investigation from the texas rangers now for a year. i reached out today to ask with

this one too in hand, whether or not they will present any evidence to a grand jury. we are still waiting for a response. major. >> pressing for more answers. lilia luciano, thank you so much. now to the snow, ice, and freezing temperatures battering communities in the pacific northwest. in some parts of the upper midwest, lake-effect snow is being measured in feet. cbs's carter evans reports deaths in at least 13 states are being blamed on this winter freeze. >> reporter: tonight, blinding snow and dangerous ice continue to torment vast regions of the country, making driving dangerous and even venturing outside deadly. >> throughout this period of storm, we are averaging around 900 to 1,000 calls a day. >> reporter: here in portland, a horrific loss of life caused by this arctic blast. three family members killed and a 9-month-old injured after power lines fell on their suv while they were inside. neighbor daniel buck heard the boom. >> i saw that the tires on the car were on fire. >> were they panicking? >> they were panicking, yeah.

they were trying to get out of the car as fast as they could. >> reporter: he says the family escaped, and that's when they were electrocuted. >> they ran down the sidewalk, and part of the line was in the water, and at that point they had already walked where the rest of the line had landed. it was just horrible. it was a horrible thing. >> reporter: 18-year-old majiah washington managed to save the baby. >> were you worried you might get shocked too? >> that never ran through my head. i was just thinking, like, i have to save this baby. >> reporter: in copenhagen, new york, homes and cars are now buried in up to six feet of snow. in nearby rochester, authorities are investigating an american airlines plane that slid off the runway. meanwhile, a massive ice jam along the kankakee river in wilmington, illinois, is pushing closer to homes. and in indianapolis, ems workers are responding to four times as many cold weather emergencies as they did this time last year.

>> we've had people so cold that they needed resuscitation. >> reporter: downed power lines are common in winter storms, and if one were to land on your car, experts say you should stay inside until the line is de-energized. if you have to get out, you should jump with both feet first so you're not touching the car and the ground at the same time. major. >> such valuable information. carter evans, thank you so much. we all want to know where this brutal weather is headed next. let's bring in meteorologist chris warren from our partners at the weather channel. chris, good evening. >> good evening, major. snow and ice finally coming to an end in the pacific northwest. snow lingering a little bit longer in the pacific northwest. but by the overnight hours into early friday, it will just be a few lingering snow showers in the north washington cascades, north idaho, and the inland empire of washington. the next weather system going through the northeast, generally one to three inches. higher amounts in the mountains

with lake-effect snow lingering even into saturday. and then once again dangerously cold temperatures. it will be freezing all the way down to the gulf coast. windchills will be 40 below in some northern locations. and then, major, some much welcome warmth on the way. parts of the south next week with above average temperatures will be back into the 60s and even 70s. >> we will welcome the warmth. chris warren, thank you.

>> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." president biden said today u.s. military strikes against houthi targets in yemen, quote, will continue. but the president acknowledged the iranian-backed militants so far remain undeterred in their attacks on commercial vessels in the red sea. this against the backdrop of the ongoing war between israel and hamas. cbs's charlie d'agata is

tracking it all tonight from aboard the "uss bataan" in the mediterranean sea. >> reporter: we join marines from the 26th marine expeditionary unit out of camp lejeune, north carolina, their home for more than six months and counting, the "uss bataan," the amphibious warship and navy work horse that's been center stage for u.s. military action here. the "uss bataan" had been in the red sea. it was then shifted to the mediterranean because of the circumstances in this region. and now it's been deployed indefinitely. equipped with harrier fighter jets and spearheading a quick reaction force that includes a full contingent of more than 2,000 u.s. marines. the marines should have sailed home by now too, but the war in gaza and the regional repercussions it triggered changed all that.

in complete darkness, harriers soar into the night sky, running drills and making their presence known along this stretch of the mediterranean. what's happening here on deck now after dark is all about readiness. this ship and the aircraft on it have been specifically deployed due to growing threats across the region, not only as a deterrent but ready to respond if necessary. from the houthis, where the u.s. launched another wave of ship and submarine-launched missiles on suspected houthi targets in yemen overnight, to iran, whose forces released this video today, holding air defense exercises in its own show of power. the fights between israel and hezbollah worsening by the day. the marines here remain in reach of both israel and lebanon should they be called upon to fight, provide humanitarian assistance, or even evacuae thousands of americans who live in both countries.

the unit's motto, "ready, relevant, and capable," seems more apt than ever tonight. a u.s. official tells cbs news that the u.s. military has managed to take out enough of the houthis' air defense system to enable drones to fly over yemen, providing the kind of surveillance they didn't have a week ago. major. >> charlie d'agata, thank you. congress avoided a government shutdown with one day to spare, passing a temporary spending bill that keeps the lights on and agencies funded into early march. congressional leaders earlier this month reached a tentative agreement on a more comprehensive $1.6 trillion spending agreement, but the details there still have to be hashed out. the new hampshire primary is kicking into high gear, and it appears to be a two-person contest between donald trump and nikki haley. cbs's caitlin huey-burns reports on the growing pressure on the former u.n. ambassador to close the gap. >> all eyes are on new

hampshire. >> reporter: tonight in the granite state, nikki haley is sharpening her attacks against her chief rival, donald trump. >> it's the drama and the vengeance and the vindictiveness that we want to get out of the way. >> reporter: that pitch resonated with independent voters we spoke with. >> i think she really needs to go after president trump, former president trump, more. >> really? >> a little more aggressively. >> i voted for biden. however, i do believe that we need a change. >> reporter: but she still has an uphill climb. with five days to go, haley is barnstorming new hampshire as trump maintains a steady lead in the polls. >> hey, governor, is new hampshire make or break for your campaign? >> we got to go to my home state of south carolina. >> so then the question is what is her path in south carolina because i don't think if you lose your home state, that you can continue. >> reporter: florida governor ron desantis is heading to south carolina, hoping for a warmer reception, all but ceding frosty new hampshire, where he's

polling in the single digits. >> if she wins, biden wins. >> reporter: trump is eyeing a solid new hampshire win to shore up the nomination early, and haley's supporters are managing expectations. >> we want it to get down to a two-person race. we did it. >> how do you think it is that donald trump is still way ahead here? >> well, he's the incumbent. he's the former president. the fact that this is a former president that can barely hold 50% of his own party's support, that actually isn't so good. >> reporter: and haley had new hampshire to herself today. donald trump was off the campaign trail, attending his mother-in-law's funeral down in florida. but he will be back here tomorrow to campaign with rallies scheduled through the weekend. major. >> caitlin huey-burns, thank you. we learned today the president's son, hunter biden, has agreed to sit for a closed-door deposition with congressional investigators as part of president biden's impeachment inquiry. republicans threatened to hold the president's son in contempt

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an update tonight on the 10-year-old maryland boy bitten by a shark earlier this week in the bahamas. police say the boy was released from the hospital last night and airlifted home. he was bitten on the leg while taking part in a shark tank exhibit at the atlantis resort. the company that runs the exhibit says a dive instructor and guide were with the boy. they say this is the first time anyone has been bitten at the exhibit, which remains closed during an investigation. a spacex dragon capsule is on its way to the international space station after a successful

launch this afternoon from the kennedy space center in florida. the four-member all european crew includes the first astronaut from turkey. it is the third crewed mission for the private company axiom space and is being led by former nasa astronaut michael lopez-alegria, who holds dual u.s. and spanish citizenship. the crew will spend about two weeks aboard the iss, conducting experiments. finally tonight, country music superstar reba mcentire and singers post malone and andra day will headline the pregame festivities for super bowl lviii in las vegas. the nfl says mcentire will sing national anthem, post malone "america the beautiful," and day "lift every voice and sing." all of this ahead of the big game. speaking of the big game and the star-studded festivities, you can watch it all here on cbs and paramount+ on sunday, february 11th. and that is the overnight news for this friday. be sure to check back later for cbs mornings," and of course follow us online anytime at cbsnews.com.

that's where you'll find my podcast, the takeout. politics, policy, a little bit of pop culture. reporting from the nation's capital, i'm major garrett. this is "cbs news flash." i'm carissa lawson in new york. a date has been set for a hearing in the fulton county, georgia, 2020 election interference case. it stems from allegations that district attorney fani willis had an improper relationship with the lead prosecutor in the case. this could lead to her removal from the case and the dismissal of charges. the los angeles innocence project is taking up the case of scott peterson, the man convicted in the 2002 killing of his wife, laci peterson, and

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