next, news updates are always on kpix5.com. have a good night, everyone. tonight, wild weather set for a cross country run. a major system expands across the west this weekend before rumbling east. deep snow, blizzards, and tornadoes in the forecast. travel concerns for millions of americans. also tonight, tributes for grant wahl after the soccer journalist suddenly dies during the world cup. >> unfortunate, you know, to lose someone as great as he was. plus, prisoner politics. with brittney griner released, pressure mounts on president joe biden to free others. taking aim -- today nobel peace prizewinners rebuke vladimir putin for his invasion of ukraine. the latest from the front lines. back to masks?

the new warnings as the flu spreads and covid surges. and later, a passion project like no other. meet the artist living his doodling dream. >> a childhood dream drawn to life. i'm with mr. doodles' doodled house. good evening. tonight, a huge storm system is set to sweep across the country, starting this weekend. and it is packing a punch. winter storm warnings have been issued across much of the west. for some it's snow. in some places measured in feet. for others, high winds and rain. this is mammoth ski resort today, where skiers had a hard time seeing anything. dr. greg postel has the forecast. >> reporter: good evening,

adriana. we have a big-time storm system coming for many of us across the country. let's start with tuesday and that threat for severe weather which does include parts of texas, louisiana, arkansas. it is not just going to be there, though. the whole system is going to move east into wednesday as well, and i think there's going to be that overnight threat as well. be careful. we could see tornadoes as well across the southern u.s. here's how it's going to evolve during the day on tuesday. basically, really bad weather moving across the south and also a blizzard in the northern plains at the same time. how about that? only the way december can provide. tuesday into wednesday, the rain moves into the southeast. we lose the severe weather threat, but overall, a very impactful system from coast to coast. adriana? >> dr. greg postel, thank you so much. tributes have been pouring in today for a pioneering soccer journalist grant wahl. wahl, who was 49, died friday while covering the world cup in

qatar. he had chronicled the sport for more than two decades, including right here at cbs. michael george joins us for more. michael, good evening. >> reporter: good evening. amidst all the celebration of the world cup, there is a dark cloud hanging over the sport today. grant wahl wasn't just one of the leading journalists, some called them the great evangelist. >> reporter: the soccer world is reeling after the sudden death of one of its most beloved figures, writer and cbs sports contributor grant wahl. the 49-year-old collapsed in the press box while covering the argentina/netherlands quarterfinal at the world cup. >> the world cup feels like you're at the center of the universe. >> reporter: according to some familiar with the situation wahl may have gone into cardiac arrest, though the cause still unknown. on a podcast wahl says he was and cbs news

contributor dr. celine gounder said she's in shock. friend and colleague keith pierce says his writing and passion -- >> we have pretty good teams now. >> reporter: helped bring soccer into the mainstream for the u.s. >> apioneer for the soccer space. >> reporter: wahl was also unafraid to speak truth to power. he reported extensively on the women's quest for equal pay and call out qatar for its treatment of migrants and the lgbtq community. >> he was asking questions and pushing the needle forward that allows a number of marginalized communities to feel seen, heard, and that there's somebody out there fighting the fight for them. >> reporter: today the white house offered condolences to wahl's family. they say the state department is assisting and is in contact with the government of qatar. adriana? >> thanks, michael. we're sure grant wahl would want us to share the latest from the

world cup. today france beat england 2-1, advancing to the semifinals. morocco also heading there after beating portugal, becoming the first ever african nation to make it so far. players on the phoenix suns are expressing relief over brittney griner's release from prison. griner, the star of the wnba's mercury plays in the same arena. the u.s. failed to secure the freedom of another american, paul whelan. he's jailed on espionage charges. for president biden, griner's return marks an end to month of high station diplomacy. cbs' christina rafini is at the white house. how did the u.s. pull this off when the two countries are barely speaking? >> reporter: secretary of state this week said this deal was about this deal and nothing else and this shouldn't be taken as a sign relations are thawing

between the u.s. and russia. when it comes to negotiating for detained americans abroad, even with hostile countries touchdown u.s. trying to keep that on a separate track from foreign policy goals and we've seen this in other places like north korea and venezuela. >> christina, which was a one for one deal. why won't russia negotiate for paul wheewhelan's release? >> reporter: whelan is consider a high value detainee. he's a u.s. marine and charged with espionage, which the u.s. says isn't true, but to vladimir putin that doesn't matter. he can parade him as a captured spy, and that's different than a celebrity there on drug charges, and that's not a chip he's going to e willing to give up easily. adriana? >> christina, thank you. today activists from russia, belarus, and ukraine accepted their nobel peace prizes. at the ceremony in oslo they denounced the war in ukraine, one a them calling putin's actions, quote, insane. bt there's no letup to the

fighting as we report from kyiv. >> reporter: as the battle rages on, president volodymyr zelenskyy says the city has been destroyed by russian forces. in a bombed out church, a soldier plays the piano. as the devastation to the city of 70,000 is laid bear. bakhmut is a prize to seize the contested eastern donbas region, a contest that has only intensified in russia's humiliating retreat from kherson last month. russia has been relentlessly pounding the territory it once occupied. residents are relying on these heated tents t get warm and charge their electronics. we meet andre. at the white house he shares with his hour, he tells us how they have to collect rainwater

in an old boat. inside, the electricity is off. every day we go to bed without power or water, he says, it's like living in a fog. one thing he and his mother do have the heat, thanks to an old gas heating system. but even that is likely to stop working soon. how do you stay so strong? most of us in kherson are strong, she says, and we will stay strong until our victory over russia. now, russia is being accused of increasingly relaying on iranian made drones to hit targets across ukraine, adriana, as tonight the white house warns of deepening defense ties between moscow and tehran. >> thanks. to venice, italy, now, where high tides washed over venice's st. mark's square. tourists wore boots to see the si sights.

back here at home, cleanup is under way in rural kansas after an oil spill from the keystone pipeline. about 14,000 barrels of crude flowed into a creek, making it the largest inland oil spill in the u.s. in decades. the pipeline travels from canada through the plains to the texas gulf coast. the number of covid and flu cases are surging sharply. the cdc calls it the worst season in 25 years, and that's got officials in some cities recommending a return to masking up. danya is in los angeles with more. >> reporter: good evening. a parking lot with heated tents is being used as this hospital to triage patients as cities nationwide brace for a winter surge of covid, flu, and rsv. the trio of respiratory viruses pushing several hospitals in new york and california to the limit. cbs news chief medical correspondent dr. john labuke.

is there cause for concern in. >> there's always cause for concern when we see the health care facilities overwhelmed. they may be doing because they're sick, but also the find out what they have. >> reporter: a rapid rise in new infections. the cdc says 25% of americans tested positive compared to 3% a year ago. >> it's respiratory virus season. they like indoors and also love it when people congregate. that's where we are right now, especially around the holiday seasons. >> reporter: covid up 14%. if it worsens in l.a. county, officials say, it's back to mandatory masking. >> a huge respite for the pandemic is these respiratory viruses spread through the air. the other thing is masks are effective. >> reporter: vaccines, which are lagging nationwide. just 13% of americans got the

latest covid booster and adriana, about a third say they don't plan on getting a flu shot at all. >> danya, thanks so much. nasa's artemis lunar 1 mission is expected the end tomorrow with a splashdown in the pacific ocean. they're training to retrieve the unmanned capsule. if all goes well, nasa could return astronauts to the moon in 2025. there was a very special christmas parade in london today. 60 dog owners and their corgis gather in honor of the late queen elizabeth. corgis were her life long companions. she owned 30 over the years. coming up, lawmakers look to ease the squeeze on passengers and their airline seats. and access to high speed internet is on the horizon for millions of americans. and finally, the humble

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down from 1.3 million people, mainly children dying every year, to last year less than 500,000. >> reporter: it's answering another need, providing internet access to one of the most remote places in the country, the navajo nation. >> there's a whole lot of navajo nation out there. >> reporter: he is working to provide internet access on sparsely populated tribal land in the southwest. >> on the navajo reservation itself in a three-state area, the availability of broad band is very low. i would estimate it's probably no more than 40%, and even at that 40%, the speeds are not that high. >> reporter: in tribal meetings, he heard many stories of the need for connection. >> one grandfather stood up and said, i don't know what this internet thing is all about, but my grandchildren do. he says my grandchildren won't come and visit me on weekends anymore, because i don't have internet. >> reporter: providing internet access throughout the nation's

25,000 square miles is a colossal task. >> it would require companies who install two to three towers. how long would that take? many ten years, maybe more, and the cost would be enormous. >> reporter: enter the high platform station. sitting over new mexico it's designed to deliver broad band internet over hundred of square miles. >> this cannot only be use in the new mexico, it has usefulness worldwide in the third world. >> reporter: do you see a time, then, when air ships like this will be the standard replacing what many satellites do today? >> i absolutely envision a future where this will be as normal as seeing ships in the port, as cars on the road, and trains on the tracks. >> reporter: and as normal as having access to the internet. john blackstone, cbs news, roswell, new mexico. next on the cbs weekend news, the doodling artist taking

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ian lee introduces us to an adult doodler who goes even further. >> this is the splash room. >> reporter: rarely do childhood dreams come to live. like a lot of kid, sam cot spent his younger years scribblings on walls. >> and now you buy your own house so you can draw on all the walls. >> yeah, that's right. >> reporter: known in the neighborhood as mr. doodle, every inch of his 12-room mansion is cover in the quirky creations, from floor to ceiling -- >> the clouds are filled with doodles. >> reporter: to every nook and cranny. is that a working fireplace? >> it is. >> reporter: each room has a theme. >> that's the computer room. >> reporter: reminds me of texas. >> this is the ensuite. >> reporter: sam's art give a whole new meaning of drawing a bath. have you bathed in this bathtub? >> not yet, no.

>> reporter: the house has staken two years to create. when all the doodling's done, sam will move into the mansion with his wife elena. when sam told you he wanted to live in a doodle house, what was your reaction to that. >> >> i don't know, maybe i'm weird, but i found it cool. >> reporter: so, to draw a conclusion, dreams of any shape and size really can come true. ian lee, cbs news, kent, england. >> reporter: >> that's a good wife. that is the news for this saturday. first thing tomorrow, sunday morning with jane pauley, polled by "face the nation". guests include democratic congressman adam schiff, j.p. morgan chase ceo jamie diamond. for now i'm adriana diaz in chicago. good night.

now at 6:00, another storm system packs a punch for the bay area. >> images like that are why today was a first alert weather day. that's the cold front with the heaviest rain. that has passed but we are not done. will the rain put a dent in our drought? >> live from san francisco, i'm brian hackney. >> i'm andrea nakano. wind and rain have been pummeling the bay area all day long. it doesn't matter where you live, in the city, or in the east

bay. , that wet weather came for everybody. >> it is coming again but darren has the details. >> tomorrow's rain will be different from today and you can see why when you look at first alert doppler. that was today's rain. that is the cold front. that well organized line of steady heavy rain at times. that is the leading edge of the storm. it gets windy when that comes through. and, you also get perhaps an occasional thunderstorm fixed in with that. that line of thunderstorms has cleared santa clara valley. it has moved to san bonino county. over half-moon bay, skyline boulevard. it extends across the peninsula toward the east bay. that is a good example of what happens now for the next 24 hours. scattered, isolated, on again off again. popup showers. some of them