cbs's carter evans reports on how employees found out they're out of a job. the daylight saving debate, could changing the clocks soon be a thing of the past? and "on the road" -- >> nothing matters if the kids aren't grounded and good. >> o'donnell: cbs's steve hartman on the important lesston of kindness. >> o'donnell: good evening to our viewers in the west, and thank you for joining us on this busy friday night. tonight, we're tracking severe weather with millions in the past of dangerous storms. we'll have more on that in just a moment. but first, with just four days until the midterms, we want to begin with a candidate who's not on the ballot but looming over election day. tonight, donald trump is hinting he's ready to jump into the 2024 presidential race, teasing an announcement to supporters in iowa. advisors familiar with the former president's plans tell cbs news that trump is considering making his widely rumored bid for the white house official in the coming weeks. trump is hoping to get out in front of any g.o.p. challengers for the party's nomin

cbs's carter evans on rising prices. >> reporter: but there are still some ways to save, and we'll show you. >> o'donnell: and "eye on america," how climate change is turning alaska into america's fastest growing farmland. >> is the last frontier the new frontier for farming the america? >> o'donnell: good evening and thank you for joining us this thursday night. tonight, the political landscape here in washington is on the verge of very big change. house speaker nancy pelosi is stepping down from leadership after an historic 20 years, the longest serving democratic leader in the house, pelosi became the first woman to wield the speaker's gavel back in 2007. first elected to congress in 1987, she's been a trailblazer. but also a lightning rod for republican critics, and the announcement comes after her husband was brutally attacked last month and she was allegedly the intended target. there's bipartisan agreement about her legacy, too. president biden called pelosi the most consequential speaker in history. even former republican speaker newt gingrich said you could argue she's been the

carter evans, thank you so much. turning overseas to the escalating tensions on the korean peninsula. south korea scrambled 80 warplanes today, including steth fighters in response to north korea making about 180 military flights near the country's shared border. the north all week has been firing missiles into the sea, including an intercontinental ballistic missile, while u.s. forces have been conducting military drills with south korea. the u.s. today pledged an additional $400 million in aid to help ukraine buy more weapons and vehicles to fight off the russian invasion. in southern ukraine, civilians have been ordered out of the russian-occupied city of kherson as a major battle looms. tonight, cbs' holly williams has the harrowing story of a ukrainian soldier she previously met who survived months on the front lines. >> reporter: we first met this private in march. he just signed up and was heading to the front line to fight russia's invading army. >> it's pure evil what they do. >> reporter: pure evil. >> exac

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here's cbs's carter evans. >> welcome back to the daily show. >> kind sir. >> reporter: after staying mostly out of the spotlight since his oscars slap, will smith opened up to trevor noah. >> you just never know what somebody's going through, and i was going through something that night, you know. and not that that, you know, justifies my behavior at all. >> reporter: he didn't say what he was going through, but he did allude to an abusive childhood. >> it was the little boy that watched his father beat up his mother. all of that just bubbled up. >> yeah. >> in that moment. at the end of the day, i just -- i lost it. >> reporter: after smith got home oscar night, he said his 9-year-old nephew confronted him. >> he's on my lap and he's holding the oscar, and he's just like, why did you hit that man, uncle will? >> do you think this interview helped the situation? >> i think in the end, it sent the kind of public note that will smith probably wanted. >> reporter: npr media analyst eric deggans is skeptical about the timing of the interview with smith's upcoming film, "emancipation." >>

carter evans has a look at the layoffs of 11,000 people. >> reporter: the 11,000 layoffs at meta come company lost more than $700 billion in value since ceo mark zuckerberg re-branded facebook and went on a hiring spree. >> 2021 tech was booming due to people staying at home. 2022 has seen a reversal of those covid trends. >> reporter: zuckerberg apologized to employees for his big gamble on the virtual reality metaverse. "i got this wrong, and i take responsibility for that," he said. meta's layoffs and twitter's firings last week are the latest in a string of tech industry job cuts. >> over 700 tech companies have conducted layoffs this year, and that's affected now over 100,000 employees. >> look, where tech goes, that's where the rest of the world goes. our clients are preparing for a recession. >> reporter: employee relations expert jason greer says remote workers should be concerned. they may be targets now? >> if the only thing i know is what i see on the screen, when your name comes up for a potential layoff, you might be the first to be let go. >> reporter: he says this is a

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carter evans, cbs news, los angeles. >>> and that's the overnight news for this tuesday.or some of you, the news continues. for others, check back later for "cbs mornings." remember you can follow us online at any time at cbsnews.com. reporting from here in the nation's capital, i'm norah o'donnell. >>> this is cbs news flash. i'm wendy gillette in new york. cbs news projects democrat katie hobbs is elected arizona governor, defeating republican kari lake. the counting of votes took nearly a week after election day. lake was endorsed by former president donald trump. >>> and trump has an announcement of his own tuesday night at his mar-a-lago estate in palm beach, florida. he's expected to announce his bid for re-election in 2024. >>> president biden's plan to forgive student loan debt has hit another snag. a federal appeals court panel in st. louis has agreed to a preliminary injunction that halts the program while an appeal is ongoing. the plan would forgive as much as $20,000 in debt for those making less than $125,000 who received pell grants. >>> for more news, downl

carter evans, cbs news, los angeles. >> o'donnell: that's a survivor story that's music to our ears.ws." i'm norah o'donnell. good night. captioning sponsored by cbs >>> nearly a week after election day, a number of local raises up in the air, a number of cities waiting to find out there next mayors. >>> for seven years, this time it is serious. >> an unprecedented crackdown on illegal sideshows, how one a bay area city is trying to set an example for the rest. >>> california's first partners take the stand in harvey weinstein's sexual assault trial. jennifer newsom's tearful testimony against the distressed disgraced movie mogul. >>> a minor speculation turns into a major headache for cisco drivers. >>> you are watching cbs news bay area, with julian goodrich. >> thanks for joining us. waiting nearly a week to find out who won some of the biggest mayoral races, and we are still waiting. the race for san jose mayor just got a bit tighter. matt mahan's lead over cindy chavez has shrunk to just under two points, and it was nearly three points just yesterday. it is an even closer contes

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here's cbs's carter evans. >> welcome back. thank you sir. >> reporter: after staying mostly out of the spotlight since his oscar slap, will smith opened up to trevor noah. >> you just never know what somebody is going through, and i was goin through something that night, you know. and not that that, you know, justifies my behavior at all. >> reporter: he didn't say what he was going through but he did allude to an abusive childhood. >> it was the little boy that watched his father beat up his mother, all of that just bubbled up in that moment. at the end of the day, i lost it. >> reporter: after smith got home, oscar guy, he said his 9-year-old nephew confronted him. >> he's on my lap, holding the oscar, and he's just, like, why did you hit that man, uncle will? >> reporter: do you think this interview helped the situation? >> i think in the end it send a kind of public note will smith probably wand. >> reporter: npr media analyst eric deggans is skeptical of the timing of the interview with will smith's upcoming film emancipa

here's cbs's carter evans. ♪♪ >> reporter: it's a performance christine chen thought she might neverinking i don't know if i'm going to make it. >> reporter: on the day she gave birth in 2018, a nurse discovered a tumor masked by christine's pregnancy. >> about twelve hours after my daughter was born, we found myself at an an comingist, wild. >> reporter: it was extremely rare. the treatment for your cancer caused your leukemia. >> yes. >> reporter: she would need a stem cell transplant and a match within her race would be ideal but only 9% of donors on the national registry are asian. >> it's hard not to feel despair. >> andrew qin was a perfect match. >> reporter: her match, andrew qin. >> hi, andrew. >> reporter: hi. >> reporter: this is her first meeting since the procedure. >> i hope you know we always carry you with us. >> yeah, it really hits home. it's, like, wow, one person in a family, mother of two. >> reporter: a concert violinist celebrating her second chance in a duet with her doctor. carter evans, cbs news, los angeles. >> o'donnell: that's a survivor story that's musi

carter evans, thank you. now we want to turn to the volcano emergency on hawaii's big island. mauna loa is erupting for the first time in nearly 40 years, spewing potentially harmful clouds of smoke and ash. cbs' jonathan vigliotti is there. >> reporter: as mauna loa erupts, it's nature's fury and nature's beauty. >> to see live lava shooting out of a fissure is incredible. >> i waited my-- my whole life to see this. >> reporter: for 38 years, the world's largest active volcano sat silent. that changed instantly on sunday night, drawing locals and tourists to view a molten masterpiece. the eruption has at times sent lava hundreds of feet up into the air. nobody knows at this point when could cause. is this a safe eruption right now? are other communities threatened at this point? >> not according to civil defense. my hopes are that this stays as a beautiful, awesome sight, and doesn't affect people. >> reporter: mauna loa's previous eruptions have come close to wiping out communities, while people are not currently in danger, the slow-moving but persistent lava flow could thre

cbs' carter evans has more from the scientists on the humbling power of no mother nature. >> reporter: thermal imaging those the moment the world's largest active volcano exploded back to life, lighting up the hawaiian sides, and an ash cloud so large it can be seen from space. scientists say magma had been building for nearly two years. so you knew this was coming. >> we knew it was coming. we just didn't know that it was going to be in the middle of the night after thanksgiving weekend. pilling over theight, molten summit, but volcanologists say any threat to communities would be weeks away. mauna loa is massive. eruptions over the past 200 years have sent lava flows across the big island of hawaii, but it's been dormant nearly 40 years. the last major eruption, in 1984, threatened the city of hilo. this eruption follows years of lava flows from mauna loa's much smaller but much more active neighbor, kilauea. take a look at this fountain of lava. we were there in 2018 when lava from kilauea wiped out hundreds of homes, reshaping the island landscape. so far this time, evacuations ar

norah. >> o'donnell: carter evans, thank you so much. with just over two weeks until thanks, many americans have already started shopping for their holiday get-togethers and while higher prices at the grocery store are expected, it can still leave a "foul" taste in consumers' mouths. janet shamlian traveled to an indiana turkey farm, where she found inflation is not the only reason this year's holiday meal is going to cost you. >> reporter: these are the last of more than 6,000 turkeys kyle becker raised on his rural indiana farm this year. >> so these are broad-breasted white. >> reporter: even though he's now charging more for the pasture-raised birtdz, his earnings will be half from last year. what are you facing? >> feed sup, labor sup, processing, even the boxes that we put the turkeys in have increased in price. >> reporter: turkey prices are flying high. the average price of a whole frozen bird is $2.45 a pound, 70 cents higher per pound than in 2021. a combination of inflation and bird flu, which wiped out more than seven million

but this is the-- it's the definition of the word "awesome." >> reporter: carter evans, cbs news, los>> o'donnell: tonight, america's fourth-largest city is under a boil water order, following a power outage at a houston water purification plant. more than two million residents are now left wondering if what comes out of their tap is safe to drink. cbs' janet shamlian is in houston with more. >> where would you like us to put it? >> reporter: handouts in houston tonight. cases of water amid warnings what's coming from the tap might not be safe. where did you shower? >> well, i haven't this morning. i have to wait until night time. >> reporter: the city issued a boil water notice late sunday after a power outage disrupted the water system. then, disruptions across the city. houston schools closing classrooms for more than 194,000 students. >> at the latest, we anticipate report, clean report, coming, say 3:00 a.m. could it be before? possibly. >> reporter: it comes amid water woes related to aging infrastructure. from the jackson, mississippi, crisis in august triggering a federal disa

cbs' carter evans reports on how employees

cbs's carter evans reports on how employees found out they're

. >>> carter evans and spoke with a former meta employee among the 11,000 workers received an email telling them they no longer had a job. >> i pulled out my phone, cannot log into workshop, cannot log into internal sites, struggling to break the news to his pregnant wife. >> i was looking at my phone in shock and she is like, did you get laid off? >> reporter: just two weeks before things giving, the father and engineering manager finds himself part of a massive 13% reduction in workforce. >> ceo mark zuckerberg bet big on the virtual-reality meersestar en tech companies were flush e yowork fromhomering the pandemic. >> these companies have had to undo a lot of hiring to adjust to the new reality. >> fellow startup founder roger lee is tracking the layoffs and said impact could be far-reaching. >> 60% of the layoffs in tech have come from silicon valley. these entrances go bay area. these layoffs will have ripple effects through the local economies. >> reporter: nearly 75,000 tech workers across the country have gotten the ax so far this year . with borrowing costs rising at revenue fallin

carter evans has more on the shock waves hitting silicon valley's workforce. >> i pulled out my phonecouldn't log into work chat, couldn't log into our internal sites. >> reporter: eric treaby stunned by an early morning email from meta, struggled to break the surprise news to his pregnant wife. >> i was looking at my phone a little bit in shock, and she was like, did you get laid off? >> reporter: just two weeks before thanksgiving, the father and engineering manager finds himself part of a massive 13% reduction in meta's workforce. >> i believe the metaverse is the next chapter for the internet. >> reporter: ceo mark zuckerberg bet big on the virtual reality metaverse last year when tech companies were flush with cash while everyone was working from home during the pandemic. >> these companies like meta have had to undo a lot of that hiring to adjust to the new reality. >> reporter: fellow start-up founder roger lee tracks tech layoffs and says the impact can be far-reaching. >> 50% of the layoffs in tech in the u.s. have come from silicon valley, the san francisco bay area. these t