we will see you back your at 6:00. "the cbs evening news" is up next, and we alwa ♪ ♪ ♪ captioning sponsored by cbs >> diaz: tonight, america on alert. the nation's capitol braces for armed protests this weekend, leading up to the inauguration, washington, d.c. a fortress, troops, fences and razor wire deployed to protect our democracy from its own citizens. >> it's sad, but this is how the inauguration is going to be. >> diaz: all 50 state houses prepare for possible insurrections of their own. also tonight, president trump refuses to participate in the ceremonial transfer of power. plus, internet sleuths, on the hunt for rioters, mob the innocent. >> i was being called a murderer. i was called a terrorist. >> diaz: a dire warning about a highly-contagious covid strain, as governors vent about vaccine

shortages. >> they were lying. they don't have any doses held back.ra cut cct inars. ♪ ♪ ♪ this is the "cbs weekend news" from chicago. here's adriana diaz. >> diaz: good evening. warnings of extremist violence have sent authorities across the country rushing to secure government buildings and fortify state houses. in the nation's capitol, an unprecedented show of force will defend the peaceful transfer of presidential power. today, the national mall appeared almost normal. people took to empty streets to run, walk their dogs, and take photos of the sights. it won't stay that way. streets are being blocked off, the capitol locked down, tensions are high. late friday, police arrested a man at a d.c. security checkpoint. a search of his truck turned up

a gun and more than 500 rounds of ammunition. we get more now from cbs' kris van cleave in washington. kris, good evening. >> reporter: adriana, you can understand why right now, that would raise concerns. a man with a gun in the car near the capitol. but it appears this 31-year-old from virginia did not have malicious intent when he pulled up to the checkpoint. capitol police say he provided a non-state-issued i.d. they saw the gun in the car, and that prompted the arrest. it is a reminder about the heightened level of security in washington. tonight, washington, the fortress, as concerns about fortress, as concerns about violent unrest hang over democracy's dome. the nation's capitol increasingly locked down, vehicles checked, roads blocked, the rivers surrounding the city closed. >> what happened last week, certainly raised our concern level. >> reporter: coast guard captain joseph lorang is leading the hundreds patrolling the water. >> the goal is not only security but safety of all the-- all the

people involved in the inauguration, the residents of d.c., all the people that are traveling in-- into the area foe the event. >> reporter: d.c. police are asking for help identifying this man suspected of using a police shield to pin officer daniel hodges against a doorjamb, seen in this video. >> their intent was to make it through and into the capitol and get to congress by any means necessary. >> reporter: texas real estate agent jenna ryan, who took a private plane to washington and bragged about storming the capitol online, is now asking president trump for a pardon after her arrest. >> i do not feel a sense of shame or guilt from my heart for what i was doing. i thought i was following my president. >> reporter: across the country, security is being ratcheted up as warnings about extremists targeting government buildings continue to grow. >> shame on this country if we try and normalize what's happening here. shame on this country if we don't hold those that made this situation accountable. >> reporter: california is among the states activating its national guard to protect the state capitol. in michigan, where the governor

was targeted in a kidnapping plot, a militia group is planning to protest at the capitol in lansing, prompting heightened security. >> our focus is in identifying violent agitators and extremists who use the guise of first amendment-protected activity to incite violence and wreak havoc as we saw at the capitol. >> reporter: nearly a dozen subway stations in d.c. have already been closed, and blockades like this one stretch for miles. d.c.'s mayor is telling folks who live here to be prepared for heightened security well beyond the inauguration. adriana. >> diaz: kris van cleave in washington, thank you. the assault on the capitol appears to have given dangerous new energy to domestic extremists. cbs news senior investigative correspondent catherine herridge joins us. catherine, you have broken so much news about what u.s. intelligence has learned about the capitol assault. what are your sources telling you today about the current threat to the inauguration? >> reporter: adriana, u.s. government officials tell cbs

news that recent bulletins from homeland security, f.b.i., and other intelligence agencies conclude the greatest threat to the inauguration is domestic violent extremists, known by law enforcement as d.v.e.s. >> stop the steal! stop the steal! >> reporter: according to a recent intelligence assessment, the conditions that got us here include political division, especially over the legitimacy of the 2020 presidential election; grievances over policing and police brutality; and the ripple effect of covid-19 lockdowns; as well as the successful breach of the capitol building last week. that's seen as a driver ofeen af further further violence. this has created an environment where individuals and groups are no longer just talking about their plans but crossing the threshold to action. the biggest challenge for law enforcement is the tsunami of threat information, especially on social media, and discerning who's aspirational, and who's got the ability and the tools to carry out the threat. >> diaz: and, catherine, what do you know about potential attacks

on state capitols nationwide? >> reporter: this new york police department intelligence report obtained by cbs news draws heavily on social media that indicates a threat of violence to state capitols as early as the 17th. with state capitols already taking precautions, the intel report warns domestic extremists, including individuals motivated by extreme-right disinformation campaigns and conspiracy theories, will continue to pose a significant threat in the days leading up to the inauguration. there's a law enforcement term "bumper shot terrorism" or "bumper shot violence," which simply means if one target, like the capitol, is too secure, too difficult to breach, domestic extremists may shift their focus on these so-called soft targets. adriana. >> diaz: catherine herridge, thank you. presidt trumis expd to break long-standing tradition and not participate in wednesday's inauguration. sever thrst of several events for president-elect biden kick off tonight. nikole killion has more from the white house.

>> reporter: president trump remained behind closed doors saturday, but there was no shortage of activity at the white house. his lawyer, rudy giuliani, was spotted entering the complex, while staffers carted out boxes of their belongings. with four days left in his term, cbs news has learned president trump is contemplating a final send-off full of pomp and circumstance on the morning of the inauguration. >> i, donald john trump... >> reporter: mr. trump will not attend the inauguration, unlike vice president mike pence, who finally phoned to congratulate his successor vice president-elect kamala harris late this week. four separate house committees launched a joint review of the capitol insurrection as harrowing new details emerge about how close a mob got to the vice president and his family. >> hang mike pence! hang mike pence! >> reporter: at one point, rioters were less than 100 feet from where the pences were hiding before the secret service evacuated them to safety. health and human services

secretary alex azar cited the siege in his resignation letter and took a parting shot at the president, "unfortunately, the actions and rhetoric following the election, especially during this past week, threatened to tarnish these and other historic legacies of this administration." >> donald trump remains a threat to our democracy and will be held accountable. >> reporter: as the senate prepares for an impeachment trial, house speaker nancy pelosi declined to give a timetable for when the article could be handed over. >> so urgent was the matter, we're now working on taking this to trial. >> reporter: tonight, inaugural festivities are officially under way for president-elect joe biden, with more events over the next five days. news has also ld cbs news has also learned that vice president-elect kamala wiln harris will be sworn in by supreme court justice sonia sotomayor on january 20. adriana. >> diaz: nikole killion, thanks. tomorrow on "face the nation," margaret brennan's guests,

congressman adam schiff on the upcoming impeachment trial ofç president trump; and governor jim justice of west virginia, whose state is among those leading the nation in vaccine distribution. investigators have relied on social media for identifying many of the rioters who stormed the capitol, but tonight, a chicago man has found himself the mistaken target of a social media storm. cbs' charlie de mar spoke with him. >> we're willing to risk our lives! >> reporter: in the days since the assault at the u.s. capitol, the f.b.i. was on the hunt for the man seen in this video throwing a fire extinguisher at police. he was arrested, identified as robert sanford. >> i was being called a murderer. i was called a murderer. i was called a terrorist. >> reporter: have you been concerned for your safety? >> oh, constantly. >> reporter: david quintavalle was not in d.c. last week, but that didn't stop self-appointed social media detectives from publicly naming him as the prime suspect. he's even received threatening

calls. >> you're a ( bleep ) murderer and a traitor, and i can't believe you killed a cop. >> this needs to stop. you can't just ruin a person's career and life by making accusations that are fraudulent and untrue. >> reporter: quintavalle is a retired chicago firefighter. he says he was targeted in part because the man in the video is seen wearing a c.f.d. hat. sanford, the man actually accused of throwing the fire extinguisher, is a former member of the chester, pennsylvania, fire department. >> i'm not the guy. i did 30-some years of public service to help people, and this is not me. >> reporter: a police car now sits in front of quintavalle's home after he was wrongly accused. his address, phone number, and information about his family was widely shared on social media. david goldenberg is the head of the midwest chapter of the anti-defamation league. >> we have a responsibility as a society to not allow the same

mob mentality that we saw play out in washington, d.c., last week, to play out, also, in the identification of these individuals. >> reporter: quintavalle has receipts proving he wasn't at the capitol. >> i've always thought it was just to return something, to get my money back. >> reporter: you're getting your name back. > i hope so. >> reporter: a paper trail to regain his reputation. regain his reputation. charlie de mar, cbs news, chicago. >> diaz: the world has marked another devastating covid milestone. more than two million lives lost to the virus. it took roughly eight months to reach the first million deaths, just four to reach the second. the united states leads all countries with nearly 400,000 deaths, just breathtaking. brazil is second, followed by india. cbs' danya bacchus has the latest. >> reporter: a nation on the brink braces for another threat. the c.d.c. now warning that the highly contagious u.k. covid variant could dominate the u.s. by spring.

it also estimates 90,000 more people could die from the virus in the next three weeks, highlighting the urgency for vaccinations. >> it's just absolute shame on america that this is how the rollout of this vaccine is going. >> reporter: "operation warp speed" is moving in slow motion. the release of more doses promised by the trump administration, not happening. governors across the country confronting the failure. >> they were lying. they don't have any doses held back. >> their empty promises areç literally playing with people's lives. >> my guess is it's gross incompetence. >> "don't worry, we'll increase the supply, because we're going to send you the second dose." uh, not true. >> reporter: president-elect joe biden pledges to fix the botched rollout. >> but you have my word, we will manage the hell out of this operation. >> reporter: in arizona, the rate of infections is among the highest in the world. >> it's agonizing. youy he was, like, gasping for air,

like-- like he was being smothered. >> reporter: monique horbaczeweski's husband, bob, a 42-year-old father of three, was fighting for his life there since mid-december, and may require a double-lung transplant. >> i married a man thinking we were going to grow old together, and i don't know if he's going to come home. >> reporter: vaccine super-sites like the one here at dodger stadium take on a more urgent need. tonight, l.a. county officials announce its first confirmed case of the u.k. variant and the county has now reached a million coronavirus cases. adriana. >> diaz: straight ahead on the "cbs weekend news," the n.r.a. flees to a gun-friendly state. and we'll show you how crafty choral singers outsmarted the limits of the pandemic. lling-- to give back to younger people. i think most adults will start realizing

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>> diaz: on janua >> diaz: on january 20, at 12 noon, joseph r. biden jr. will be sworn in as the 46th president of the united states. it will be an inauguration like never before. and one notable spectator won't be there. cbs news chief washington correspondent major garrett offers this perspective. >> so help me god. >> so help me god. >> congratulations, mr. president. ( applause ) >> reporter: inaugurations are among the richest part of our history, a symbol to the world of our stability and our abilitv to move forward without moving against one another. >> ask not what your country can do for you. ask what you can do for your country. >> reporter: pulitzer prize-winning photographer david hume kennerly has photographed five inaugurations, and now lectures on their history. inaun picture was in

>> the first inauguration picture was in 1857. it was kind of a wide shot of the front of the capitol, but it's a remarkable image. >> reporter: that is president james buchanan, sworn in on the east front of the capitol. abraham lincoln in 1865, six weeks before he was assassinated. kennerly was president gerald ford's photographer and captured the non-ceremonial transfer of power from richard nixon, the only u.s. president to resign. >> he gives a little wave. it was one of the most dramatic things i've ever witnessed. >> reporter: traditionally, the incoming and outgoing president share a ride to the capitol. -kennerly was among the veryfirs camera inside the presidential limousine. ford and jimmy carter. carter and his successor, ronald reagan. >> in the eyes of many in the world, this every-four-year ceremony we accept as normal is nothing less than a miracle. >> reporter: kennerly has captured that miracle for millions. one of the reasons i e

doing what i do i >> one of the reasons i like doing what i do is being there in a front-row seat to history. >> reporter: for the first time in 152 years, there won't be an image of the incoming and departing presidents together to witness what we again realize must never be taken for granted: power peacefully transferred. >> the fact of the matter is that democracy works. a new president is going to be sworn in. >> diaz: cbs news chief washington correspondent major garrett. don't miss major's podcasts, the "the debrief," available tuesday mornings; and "the takeout" out on friday mornings. find them on apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. next on the "cbs weekend news," socially distant but together-- the choir reconnected in their cars.

>> diaz: at the start of the pandemic, as you might remembern a choir rehearsal in washington state was a superspreader evento that stopped the music for singers everywhere. but to the north of us, a canadian chorus has found a way to raise the volume again on their sound. ♪ ♪ ♪ ing car radios and some tech savvy, the lous voic chamber choir in calgary, alberta, found a way to sing

together from a distance, like at this holiday concert. ♪ ♪ ♪ tim shantz is artistic director. >> to make it happen and have people sing together, it really helps the soul. let's be honest, the performing arts is in a crisis. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> diaz: with a simple f.m. transmitter, the sound from each microphone is merged and returned on a radio frequency. the idea came from south of the border in virginia, where baritone david newman tried it out last spring... ♪ ♪ ♪ >> diaz: ...and word spread across the continent. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ when you're on the zoom call and you sing "happy birthday" and no one is in sync, this basically has found a way to fix that, right? signic, it's just the f.m.

outespace and midek. that's music to the ears of who led the technical effort and julie freedman smith. >> suddenly, everybody was in my car with me. it's happening in real time. we're making music, singing chords. >> we're making jokes. jokes don't work over zoom as well. you, >> diaz: what does it mean to you, julie, to be able to keep singing in a group? >> what does it mean to breathe? it's kind of the same thing. th. >> diaz: >> diaz: something their audience needed, too. >> to hear 200 car horns all going, "that was awesome!" it was-- it's amazing. >> diaz: art always finds a way. that is the "cbs weekend news" for this saturday. later on cbs, "48 hours." and don't forget "sunday morning with jane pauley" first thing tomorrow. i'm adriana diaz in chicago. good night. captioning sponsored by cbs

captioned by live from the cbs bay area studios, this is kpix5 news. and now at six from a heavy police presence at the governor's house to a 6 foot fence ringing the state capital, law enforcement is on alert for any political unrest. >> we have kind ofcavaccination celebration. >> plus a small group celebrated vaccine victory. many more across the bay area are wondering what is the holdup? >> billions of dollars were spent on developing these vaccines. billions of dollars were not spent on implementing vaccine administration rollout.

we were 20 degrees above average today in many spots, not a bad way to start a holiday weekend, but there is big surf coming for part of this weekend and a pretty intense offshore wind event. we are going to talk about a lot of things over the next three days, coming right up. but the weather has been perfect for these big guys, the spectacle drawing the crowds to one bay area sure. good evening. more than 300 members of the california national guard are on their way to washington to help secure the upcoming inauguration. back here at home, show of force that gov. newsom's house, in fair oaks. dozens of officers are standing by out side the gated entrance, patrol cars are also blocking the driveway to try to stop any kind of violence or disruption. a live look at the state capital in sacramento where the fbi is warning a potential political violence and they are takisecurity fence now surrounds the building. reporter heathja