christmas tree may have fueled this fire. fire marshals and federal officials with the atf are still investigating the exact cause, norah. >> nancy chen, thank you. well tonight, forecasters are tracking dangerous weather -- winter weather from coast to coast. more than a dozen vehicles including a tractor-trailer piled up today on an icy highway in western michigan. there were no serious injuries. that same system dumped heavy snow across the western mountains and northern plains. well, the next major threat it's coming friday with millions in the east bracing for several inches of snow from tennessee to washington, d.c. to boston. some areas could get half a foot. all right. here in washington, one year ago tonight, political tensions were on the verge of exploding as lawmakers prepared for a final count of the electoral college votes. confirming that joe biden won the presidency. well, tomorrow, president biden will address the nation to mark one year since the deadly attack on the capitol.

and we are learning more about what he is going to say and cbs's nancy cortez is at the white house. good evening, nancy. >> good evening, norah. you know, that attack one year ago changed washington, possibly forever. and tomorrow, in a speech at the capitol, president biden is going to lay the blame for that attack squarely at the feet of his predecessor. according to white house officials, president biden will lay out the, quote, singular responsibility president trump has for the chaos and carnage that we saw one year ago. they tell us he will also call out mr. trump for misleading his supporters to this day about who won the election. white house officials say lies like that don't just rile people up, as we saw one year ago, but they also, they argue, pose an ongoing threat to the nation's democratic system. norah. >> nancy cortez, thank you. and as we mark the anniversary of the attack, the investigation into who carried out the assault is ongoing.

in the last year, more than 725 defendants have been arrested for taking part in the insurrection on the capitol. and authorities continue to hunt down the suspects. we get more now from cbs's jeff bigaze. >> reporter: last january 5th, this hooded and masked person ro roamed capitol hill planting bombs near the democratic and republican national committee headquarters. a year later, still no arrest. >> correct. >> reporter: the bombs were disabled before they exploded. but steve dent, the fbi's lead agent in washington, says that they were made to be lethal. were these devices viable? >> oh, absolutely, they were definitely viable. absolutely, they could have exploded. >> so they could have killed people? >> oh, they could have done serious-physical injury or death. >> to identify the bomber, investigators have conducted over 900 interviews, and scoured 39,000 video files. they have tracked much of the bomber's route just blocks from the u.s. capitol. >> we believe the individual could have been operating out of

this park or the vicinity of this park. >> reporter: the fbi is still asking for the public's help. why has it been so difficult tracking this person down? >> individuals head to toe, hoodie on, glasses, mask, gloves. >> reporter: do you know if this is a man or a woman? >> we do not know that. >> reporter: that attack on the capitol itself has resulted in more than 725 arrests, 225 people for assaulting, resisting, or impeding officers, and over 75 people for using a deadly or dangerous weapon. but the fbi is still looking for 250 people believed to have committed acts of violence that day. today, attorney general merrick garland marked the anniversary of the attack. >> the justice department remains committed to holding all january 6th perpetrators, at any level, accountable under law.

>> reporter: this is where it happened. >> it is. one of the locations where the entry was made into the building. >> reporter: don o'connor, former-fbi counterterrorism agent says anti-government anger remains a major concern. january 6th was the wake-up call. you think with all of these arrests, do you think the problem goes away? >> not at all. we have to say there is more potential for violence out there. i mean, anybody who says there isn't and this has gone away is living in a dream world. >> reporter: a recent law enforcement bulletin says there are no more specific credible threats to the capitol tomorrow. last year, there were numerous intelligence and law enforcement failures leading up to the attack. norah. >> jeff, thank you very much. there is a lot more news ahead on the "cbs overnight news."

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it's not exactly clear what he meant, but north korea resents both the u.s.'s joint exercises with south korea's military, and punishing sanctions. in south korea, president moon jae-in reacted to the launch diplomatically. at the opening of a railway, he hopes will, one day, unite the north and the south, he said there was still hope for dialogue. but at the moment, north korea's actions are speaking much louder than its words. elizabeth palmer, cbs news. we have this collection from last night's broadcast. enter a story on the elizabeth holmes trial we erroneously reported colin powell was an investor and board member of theranos. that is incorrect. mr. powell was not a board member, and was not part of the organization. we regret the error. and still ahead. why the world's top tennis player was told to leave

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australia's prime minister says djokovic's visa was cancelled, and he said no one is above his country's covid rules. all right. louisiana's governor, today, issued a pardon for the black man whose arrest for refusing to leave a whites-only railroad car led to the supreme court ruling that cemented separate but equal into u.s. law for half a century. 126 years after that ruling, governor john bel edwards said he was beyond grateful to help restore plessy's legacy. and tonight, we want to highlight an act of kindness during that epic traffic jam on the i-95 in virginia the other day. a couple trapped in their car called the owner of a bread truck that was also stuck on the highway asking for food. well, the bakery owner instructed the driver to give away all of the bread and rolls that he was shipping. the couple went car to car, delivering and breaking bread with others stranded in the

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in a time when this nation can seem so divided, two people from two very different parts of the country show us there is far more that unites us. here's cbs's janet shamlian. >> reporter: alabama's tuskegee news has never had a journalist like amy miller. for one thing, amy lives more than a thousand miles from tuskegee. and journalist guy, with whom she shares a twice-monthly column. >> you actually getting to know each other. >> i had this idea anyway um about doing a column from a white perspective and trying to match it with somebody doing it from a black perspective. >> reporter: also runs in the newspaper covering amy's community, south burwick, maine.

her idea after the mostly white new england town became sister cities with the predominantly black southern city. tuskegee welcomed residents to visit as part of the exchange. hospitality returned. >> what has this relationship meant to you? >> this is one opportunity to actually bring people together, instead of a divided states, we're the united states. >> there is no politics in the columns. guy and amy simply share a slice of life from their perspective. a black man in the south, a white woman in the north. >> so now, we feel like we're walking together towards the progress we want to make in this country. >> once you move from communication to relationships, something real can take place and that's what's happened here. >> reporter: two communities finding common ground. janet shamlian, cbs news, tuskegee, alabama. and that is the overnight news for this thursday. for some of you, nuts co the ne continues. for others, check back later for cbs mornings and follow us online anytime at

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this is the "cbs overnight news." good evening, and thank you for joining us. we are going to begin tonight with breaking news. a key cdc advisory panel is recommending covid-19 boosters for younger teens. that means that nearly 5 million kids could be eligible for a third dose of the pfizer shot as early as tomorrow. but for many parents, that booster couldn't come soon enough, as the omicron covid surge is shattering records across the u.s. cases are up in nearly every state. and the cdc said the seven-day average of daily cases is up 98%

from the previous week. in miami, florida, where cases have almost doubled in the last week. good evening, manny. >> reporter: good evening, norah. across the country, demand for testing remains high. and here in miami-dade county, well it now has the second highest rate of new infections in the nation. as the virus continues to disrupt lives. tonight, omicron's impact continues to be felt nationwide. the upcoming grammy awards are now postponed indefinitely after organizers said there were too many risks. the awards were scheduled to air on cbs at the end of this month. >> good morning, everyone. >> reporter: there is news out of the cdc today. children ages 12 to 15 could be eligible as soon as tomorrow to receive a booster of the pfizer vaccine if it's been five months after their second dose. the agency's advisers cited rising infections in teens and young adults, and a troubling increase in pediatric hospitalizations for the recommendation. >> cdc surveillance data and other studies from around the world have demonstrated the

benefit of a booster dose, including decreased risk of infection, severe disease, and death. >> reporter: and as omicron continues its record-setting pace, a new cdc forecast says cases and hospitalizations will likely increase in the coming weeks, with d.c., new jersey, florida, georgia, new york, and maryland seeing the highest rates. infectious disease dr. eileen marty. >> people are not taking it seriously. >> reporter: new hospital admissions in miami-dade county are up 550% in just two weeks. >> so many of our people are sick, not just the critically-facing staff, but even the support staff. the lab staff, et cetera. >> as hospital gets strained, there is less opportunity to -- to provide all these resources to the one single patient. >> reporter: patients, like 26-year-old jada turnball, who says doctors at the cleveland clinic outside miami saved her

life after a 42-day-long battle with covid last year. >> you had a 10 to 15% chance of living? >> yes. >> and here you are. what words do you have for the medical staff? >> thank you. i cannot thank you guys enough. >> reporter: and we are also learning tonight that data on vaccinating children six months to 4 years old could be released as soon as the end of march. norah. >> lot of new headlines, manny, thank you. all right. here in washington, one year ago tonight, political tensions were on the verge of exploding as lawmakers prepared for a final count of the electoral college votes confirming that joe biden won the presidency. well tomorrow, president biden will address the nation to mark one year since the deadly attack on the capitol. and we are learning more about what he is going to say, and cbs's nancy cortez is at the white house. good evening, nancy. >> reporter: good evening, norah. you know, that attack one year ago changed washington possibly forever.

and tomorrow, in a speech at the capitol, president biden is going to lay the blame for that attack squarely at the feet of his predecessor. according to white house officials, president biden will lay out the, quote, singular responsibility president trump has for the chaos and carnage that we saw one year ago. they tell us he will also call out mr. trump for misleading his supp supporters, to this day, about who won the election. white house officials say lies like that don't just rile people up, as we say one year ago, but they also they argue pose an ongoing threat to the nation's democratic system. norah. >> nancy cortez, thank you. and as we mark the anniversary of the attack, the investigation into who carried out the assault is ongoing. in the last year, more than 725 defendants have been arrested for taking part in the insurrection on the capitol, and authorities continue to hunt down the suspects. we get more now from cbs's jeff

pegues. >> reporter: last january 5th, this hooded and masked person roamed capitol hill planting bombs near the democratic and republican national committee headquarters. a year later, still no arrest? >> correct. >> reporter: the bombs were disabled before they exploded but steve dent, the fbi's lead agent in washington, says that they were made to be lethal. were these devices viable? >> oh, absolutely, they were definitely viable. >> absolute hadly? >> absolutely, they could have exploded. >> they could have killed people? >> oh they could have done serious physical injury or death. >> to identify the bomber, investigators have conducted over 900 interviews and scoured 39,000 video files. they have tracked much of the bomber's route just blocks from the u.s. capitol. >> we believe the individual could have been operating out of this park or the vicinity of this park. >> reporter: the fbi is still asking for the public's help. >> why has it been so difficult tracking this person down? >> individuals covered head to

toe. hoodie on, glasses, mask, um, gloves. >> reporter: do you know if this is a man or a woman? >> we do not know that. >> reporter: that attack on the capitol itself has resulted in more than 725 arrests, 225 people for assaulting, resisting, or impeding officers. and over 75 people for using a deadly or dangerous weapon. but the fbi is still looking for 250 people believed to have committed acts of violence that day. today, attorney general merrick garland marked the anniversary of the attack. >> the justice department remains committed to holding all january 6th perpetrators at any level accountable under law. >> this is where it happened? >> it is. that's one of the locations where the entry was made into the building. >> don o'connor, former fbi counterterrorism agent, says anti-government anger remains a

major concern. january 6th was the wake-up call. you think with all of these reacts, do you think the problem goes away? >> not at all. we have to say there is more potential for violence out there. there -- i mean, anybody who says that there isn't and that this is gone away is living in a dream world. >> reporter: a recent law enforcement bulletin says that there are no specific, nor credible threats to the capitol tomorrow. last year, there were numerous intelligence and law enforcement failures leading up to the attack. norah. >> jeff pegues, thank you very much. the "cbs overnight news" will be right back.

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thanks for staying with us. it is january 6th. the one-year anniversary of the assault on the u.s. capitol by a mob seeking to overthrow the results of the presidential election. that riot left five people dead, 140 capitol police injured, and faith in american democracy shaken. president biden will deliver an address to the nation later today, and the house select committee continues its investigation of the assault. the new head of the capitol police, thomas manger, assured congress his troops will not be caught unprepared again. meanwhile, the top intelligence official of the capitol police says the violence that day was predictable.

she says she delivered an intelligence assessment sounding the alarm three days before it happened. chris van cleave has her story. >> reporter: julia had been on the job just 72 days when rioters stormed the capitol on january 6th but it was this report she gave to capitol police leadership three days earlier, on january 3rd, that's become a glaring example of intelligence slipping through the cracks. do you feel that -- that you and your team bear responsibility for what happened on the 6th? >> no, i don't. i think we provided the information. i think we did an excellent job. >> reporter: julia is the acting intelligence director for the capitol police. for weeks leading up to january 6th, she says her team had been gathering intelligence indicating violence was likely. >> we knew there were going to be thousands of protestors, and we knew there were going to be extremists there. and i knew things were not going to be good that day. >> reporter: cbs news obtained her final intelligence assessment dated january 3rd. bottom line, it read, protestors

planned to be armed. then, there is this on page 13. her team's overall analysis, which raised concerns about permits given to groups affiliated with stop the steal, known to attract white supremacists and militia members who actively promote violence. it warned trump supporters see january 6th as the last opportunity to overturn the results of the presidential election. this sense of desperation and disappointment may lead to more of an incentive to become violent, and unlike previous protests, congress itself is the target on the 6th. >> there was no other agency in the federal government, except the capitol police, that wrote a comprehensive assessment and report that outlined the violence that was expected that day. >> how do you justify the performance to some of the folks that -- that look at the end result on january 6th, which was an utter failure? >> uh-huh. i think in some regards, on january 6th, our intelligence division was an island. we bear some responsibility for that. >> so, the warnings were there,

they just didn't get where they needed to go tenat the end of t day? >> that's my understanding. once i sent it up to my leadership, i didn't have control over where it went. >> reporter: last february, congress asked acting chief after the insurrection about the january 3rd assessment. >> although we knew the likelihood for violence by extremists, no credible threat indicated that tens of thousands would attack the u.s. capitol. >> reporter: pitman is now back in the job she held on january 6th overseeing all intelligence operations for the capitol police, including julie farnham's team. >> i should be because i largely wrote that assessment and i am the one who has been working tirelessly, every single day, since i have come onboard to right this ship. >> reporter: the department declined to make pitman available for an interview. current chief tom manger took over the force in july. why wasn't intelligence acted on? >> i can't answer that question

because i was not here on january 3rd, nor january 6th but i can tell you this. that the way intelligence was shared, the way it was disseminated needed vast improvement. and so, today that kind of intelligence would be acted on. we are in a posture now where we are not taking any chances. >> what responsibility does the department bear for what happened that day? >> i think overall, the department bears the majority of the responsibility. i mean, the organization let the men and women of this police department down. >> they had the intelligence. the intelligence was right but the leadership, i think, failed the rank-and-fail members and they failed congress. >> congressman tim ryan chairs the committee overseeing the capitol police. >> we have taken some positive steps in the right direction but there is a hell of a long way for us to go. >> reporter: over the last year, the department has opened its first ever field offices. the intelligence unit has doubled in size, and improved the training of its analysts in an effort to ensure something like the 6th never happens again. is it hard for an intel person who's delivered a report, much of it came to fruition, to then

see the result on january 6th? >> of course, it is. i mean, that was a difficult day. to see what happened. i was listening to the police radio when that was happening, and to hear the officers' screams and everything that happened that day, it's very difficult. >> reporter: now, chief manger tld a senate hearing yesterday that january 6th exposed critical deficiencies in the capitol police, which are all being addressed. among them, a shortage of about 450 officers. the overnight news will be right back.

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♪ one of those leading the house select committee's investigation of january 6th is maryland congressman jamie raskin. it's been a busy and heartbreaking year for raskin. rita braver has his story. >> reporter: americans watched congressman jamie raskin manage the impeachment trial of former-president trump last february. >> this trial is about who we are, who we are. >> reporter: and they now see him on the committee investigating the january 6th capitol assault. >> we have a duty to collect all of the evidence we need to report back to congress, and to the american people. >> reporter: but many viewers may not know that raskin has

carried out these duties under circumstances most of us could not even imagine. after all, jamie raskin seems to have lived a charmed life. since 2017, representing a maryland congressional district that shares his pragmatic progressive ideals. >> this is a community of activists and dreamers and visionaries. it always has been. >> reporter: he met his wife, law professor sarah bloom raskin, a former-deputy treasury secretary and federal reserve board member, when they were both students at harvard law school. jamie raskin's mom barbara was a best-selling novelist. his dad, marcus, an anti-vietnam war activist who ended up on president richard nixon's enemies list. >> it certainly gave me a sensitivity to people who get into high office or the highest ofice of the presidency, and

then abuse it for their own political purposes. >> reporter: when raskin, a longtime professor of constitutional law at american university, decided to enter politics, his family was all in. sara, daughters hanna and tabitha, and especially son tommy. >> tommy was pure magic. he just was. he was always writing plays. he was always writing poems. he was exuberant. everybody wanted to be around him. like so many kids today, he had -- he had a struggle with mental health. >> reporter: during the paemic, tom t hisarla school clm the raskins' maryland home. he was shaken by both george floyd's death and donald trump's false election claims. >> the darkness at the time overcame him. >> reporter: and on the night of

december 30th, 2020, tommy raskin would take his own life. and the next morning, you were the one who found him? >> yes. >> i can't even imagine what that must have felt like. >> like the end of the world. >> reporter: tommy left a note for you and the family. >> yes. >> what did it say? >> please forgive me. my illness won today. look after each other. the animals and the global poor for me. all my love, tommy. for him to ask forgiveness of us means that we can ask forgiveness from him. >> reporter: but jamie raskin's new book "unthinkable" is not only about the tragedy of his son's suicide but also about the

tragedy that befell the whole nation just a few days later. on january 6th, raskin felt duty bound to be in the house chamber when congress was to certify joe biden as the next president. >> madam speaker, members of congress -- >> reporter: raskin breathed a sigh of relief when vice president mike pence refused donald trump's demands to reject some electoral votes. was vice president pence a hero? >> on that day, he was a hero and this is a guy who i felt went along with way too much during the trump administration. but on that day, he was a constitutional patriot. >> reporter: once the proceedings began, raskin got up to speak. >> your love and tenderness, which my family and i will never forget. everybody was in a standing ovation, and i was absolutely overcome with emotion and for a

second, a split second, i thought maybe because of tommy, the two sides aren't gonna fight tonight. but that was a bit of a fantasy. >> reporter: in fact, within a few minutes, after a rally where president trump repeated the big lie that the election had been stolen from him, trump's supporters were soon storming the capitol trying to break into the house chamber. >> boom, boom, boom. and at that point, it was pandemonium and chaos. >> reporter: raskin and other members found themselves running through the hallways trying to find a safe place to shelter. were you terrified? >> i didn't feel any fear the entire time. and i think that was because of tommy. the very worst thing that could ever happen to me has already happened. and then, i felt like tommy was in my chest. i felt him by my heart. he was giving me strength.

>> reporter: last february, after the house voted to impeach donald trump for incitement of insurrection -- >> the evidence will show you -- >> reporter: raskin became the lead house manager in the senate trial. but the democrats could not get the two-thirds majority they needed to convict. >> i believed, from the beginning up until the moment when the roll call was called, that we could get 100 votes. i thought it would be 100-0. >> reporter: undaunted, congressman jamie raskin agreed to serve on the january 6th committee. methodically, trying to uncover what he now sees as a plot to stage a coup. >> there was a plan, essentially, to set aside the presidential election of 2020 despite the fact that joe biden won by more than 7 million votes. set it aside, and then implant a new presidency. >> given your own personal tragedy, why do you stay in the fight? >> look.

i have already lost my son, the thing most precious to me. but i'm not gonna see american democracy go down the tubes. we are in th when you humble yourself under the mighty hand of god, in due time he will exalt you.

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one year after the attack on the capitol, it may sometimes seem like america is more divided than ever. well, mark strassman reports on one group trying to change that, one meal at a time in our series "unifying america." >> we need to talk. >> reporter: inviting strangers to talk politics. >> we might not agree with -- with each other on everything. >> reporter: fireworks alert, right? wrong. since 2017, mada, make america dinner again, somehow has bridged red and blue america. people disagree agreeably. at first, warmed by an actual meal, now on zoom. >> once everyone has a chance to share, there is a lot of goodness that can happen. >> reporter: like wes dennis -- >> yeah, fairly liberal. >> reporter: -- and patrick yu.

>> i am definitely seen as relatively conservative. >> i mean, we disagree on a lot of things. >> reporter: yet, they've become friends. stepping outside their silos, where many liberals and conservatives live. >> some of those members, like, regularly frustrate me. >> reporter: it's important to get out of your own echo chamber. >> yes. >> for everyone. >> for everyone. >> keeping it civil, con conversation agreements, online moderators, and mostly seeing each other as people. >> i see them, period. right? before, i didn't see them at all. >> the goal wasn't to change minds but to change hearts? >> yes. >> what choice do we have? we share this country. >> reporter: we've seen this alternative. make america dinner again is food for thought. mark strassman, cbs news, atlanta. >> and that is the overnight news for this thursday. for some of you, the in yous continues. for everyone else, check back later for cbs mornings and of course follow us online anytime

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