as catherine herridge reports there are growing concerns about what may come next. >> reporter: a starkarning as hackers thought to be linked to russian intelligence are now feared to be deep inside american infrastructure networks. across the u.s. government, and including the nation's top nuclear laboratory. u.s. officials called the hack a grave risk. >> this is an attack on the united states. it's an attack on our infrastructure, our government, our private sector. >> reporter: cbs news has learned evidence of the hack has been detected at the department of energy, which maintains the nation's nuclear weapons stockpile and operates the los alamos national lab in new mexico. it's unclear what, if any, damage has been done. while vladimir putin's government denies responsibility, the evidence continues to mount. >> the keys of the kingdom have been taken. >> this hack gave a foreign adversary the capability to destroy government networks or turn off critical infrastructure. >> yeah, absolutely. so it's not as easy as flipping a light switch, but they absolutely did have access into ma

capt >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." >>> i'm catherine herridge in washington, thankscovid-19 vaccinations are under way across the country, first doses to frontline health care workers and those who live and work in long-term care facilities. rest of us have to wait. big fapharmacies, a story from troy, michigan, right side detroit. >> reporter: cbs and walgreens have made agreement with the federal government to pick up the baton now and distribute the vaccine to high priority groups across the country but it is happening so quickly, there's confusion when the most vulnerab vulnerable groups will get the vaccine, and emergency staff and residents among that group. >> can't happen a day too soon. >> head of genesis, one of the largest nursing home operators. working with cvs to get nursing home residents and staff at more than 300 facilities nationwide vaccinated. tell us how you're coordinating with cvs to get vaccines to all of your people. >> cvs's job is coordination. >> reporter: on "face the nation" alex azar said as soon as the vaccines are received this week,

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here's cbs' catherine herridge. >> reporter: sources tell cbs news the hack is believed to be the largester espionage campaign in u.s. history, and it's not over. >> this was really an attack of massive scale. told us today the hact's president told us today the hack spans at least eight countries, with 80% of the targets in the u.s., including many of the company's clients. >> this attack is still taking place. the industry is scrambling, people in government are scrambling to get it under control. but it's not under control yet. >> reporter: among the concerns, that the breach at the treasury department may have exposed taxpayer information. what's the impact? >> well, the impact is extraordinary. any information of yours may have been compromised by very sophisticated attackers. >> reporter: officials say the tactics are similar to other large-scale attacks blamed on russia, but investigators can't rule out other foreign adversaries. are we going to learn that the hack was even bigger than we know right now? >> well, we should assume that the number of victims is going to increase. thi

norah. >> o'donnell: catherine herridge, thank you. there is still much more news ahead on tonight's "cbs evening news." chicago's mayor makes a frank admission, after wbbm and cbs news broadcast video of police raiding the wrong home and handcuffing an innocent woman. and, they're going from the front lines of the covid crisis to the super bowl, and we'll explain why. with less eczema, you can show more skin. so roll up those sleeves. and help heal your skin from within with dupixent. dupixent is the first treatment of its kind that continuously treats moderate-to-severe eczema, or atopic dermatitis, even between flare ups. dupixent is a biologic, and not a cream or steroid. many people taking dupixent saw clear or almost clear skin, and, had significantly less itch. don't use if you're allergic to dupixent. serious allergic reactions can occur, including anaphylaxis, which is severe. tell your doctor about new or worsening eye problems, such as eye pain or vision changes, or a parasitic infection. if you take asthma medicines, don't

norah. >> o'donnell: catherine herridge with that exclusive interview. thank you.ersecurity experts at i.b.m. have uncovered a scheme targeting covid vaccine supply chains. they say that someone posing as a chinese business executive is using so-called "phishing" emails to gain access to plans for refrigerated transport of vaccines. well, tonight, the department of homeland security is warning officials running "operation ale speed" to be on alert. now to that explosive new wildfire in southern california. it's being fueled by ferocious winds, including a gust of 95 miles an hour. tonight, it is raging out of control, threatening homes and at least two firefighters are injured. cbs' jonathan vigliotti reports from the fire zone. >> reporter: sheer panic in silverado canyon, as people race to escape an out-of-control wildfire. >> we barely, barely could get out. >> reporter: powerful winds pushing the flames in all directions, scorching an area larger than 3,000 football fields overnight. we have watched over the past few minutes as this entire canyon has gone up in

reporting from the nation's capital, i'm catherine herridge. >>> it's >>> it's tuesday, december 15th2020. this is the "cbs morning news." fighting back. the first health care workers in the u.s. get vaccinated against the coronavirus as a vaccine rolls out across the country. >>> making it official. the electoral college chooses joe biden as the 46th president. his message to the nation and to president trump. >>> no jail time for ghislaine maxwell? lawyers presented a $28 million deal to free her as she awaits trial. >>> good morning. good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green.

reporting from the nation's reporting from the nation's capitol, i'm catherine herridge. -- captions www.vitac.com >>> it's tuesday, december 8th, 2020. this is the "cbs morning news." >>> vaccine rollout. the u.k. starts giving out the first doses of medicine designed to fight covid-19. why americans could face a delay getting a shot next year. >>> changing the culture. why a number of soldiers and officers are expected to be fired at a military base in texas. >>> and remembering chuck yeager. the first person ever to break the sound barrier has died. >>> well, good morning. good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. so we begin with a major first step in the fight against

reporting from the nation's capital, i'm catherine herridge wishing you a happy and safe holiday. >>>mber 24, 2020. this is the cbs morning news. presidential pardons. president trump bails out more allies. plus more on the stimulus check. >> the winter threat as we head into the holidays. >> and lockdown expanding. a new covid strain is parl liesing the uk. tougher restrictions that start tonight. >>> good morning from cbs news headquarters in new york. i'm diane king hall in for anne-marre

reporting from the nation's capitol, i'm catherine herridge. >>> it's tuesday, december 1st, 2020.is the "cbs morning news." >>> preparing for a vaccine. who's the first to get one and how soon america can get past the pandemic danger point. >>> moving forward. a foot injury isn't slowing down president-elect joe biden. how he's helping shatter washington's glass ceiling. >>> repair or dismantle? the navy decides the fate of a warship badly damaged in a fire. >>> good morning. good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. we begin with the wait for the first doses of a coronavirus vaccine. today the cdc is holding an emergency meeting to discuss who will be the first

reporting from the nation's reporting from the nation's capitol, i'm catherine herridge. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> it's tuesday, december 8th, 2020. this is the "cbs morning news." >>> vaccine rollout. the u.k. starts giving out the first doses of medicine designed to fight covid-19. why americans could face a delay getting a shot next year. >>> changing the culture. why a number of soldiers and officers are expected to be fired at a military base in texas. >>> and remembering chuck yeager. the first person ever to break the sound barrier has died. >>> well, good morning. good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. so we begin with a major first step in the fight against covid-19. this morning health officials in the u.k. started administering the first doses of the widely tested pfizer vaccine. this went to margaret keenan who turns 91 years old next week. the grandmother said she was privileged to be the first person vaccinated against the virus. >>> here in the u.s. the fda could authorize pfizer's vaccine as early as the end of this week. meanwhile, the trump admin

." >>> i'm catherine herridge in washington, thanks for staying with us.on the cbs news investigation that uncovered toxic exposure to u.s. troops deployed after 9/11 to uzbekistan. more than 2,0 service members report illnesses and rare cancers they believe are linked to time spent at base k-2. chris miller says he's getting directly involved, drafting executive order he hopes the president will sign to acknowledge the suffering of the k-2 veterans and open the door for relief. i spoke to chris miller in first network interview. >> throwing the kitchen sink at this. >> reporter: one of the first into afghanistan in 9/11, to k-2 in neighboring uzbekistan. is the issue personal? >> it's very personal. i feel i have an obligation to help those who went through there and are suffering illnesses. >> reporter: of the service members who passed through k-2, 2001 to 2005, more than 2,000 flooded facebook page, self-reporting illnesses, including rare cancers. do you accept there's a link between the illnesses and toxic exposure at the base? >> i want to error on

." >> i'm catherine herridge in washington. thanks for staying with us.st three shopping days left until christmas and you can't get your hands on a couple of choice gifts, you're not alone. every christmas season some of the most popular toys, tools, dolls and electronic gadgets sell out. but this year the shortages are extreme. some people are even using computer bots to corner the market on gaming consoles and selling them for double the price. anna werner reports. >> reporter: just how far will someone go to find a playstation 5 video gaming console? ask mom christina de jesus who wants one for her son. >> i tried going to stores and waited in long lines. it's just been -- it's impossible. >> reporter: she even set up a twitter account to track announcements of new online sales. but rushing to buy one -- >> as soon as i clicked on it, it was sold out already. i don't even know how that's possible. >> reporter: the playstation 5 and xbox series x are in high demand. compounding the problem? shipping delays. many are sitting on ships like these, shipped

." >>> merry christmas eve to you, i'm catherine herridge in washington, thanks for staying with us. now shipping millions of vials of covid-19 vaccine across the country in multibillion dollar effort to end the pandemic. frontline health care workers and people who live and work in long-term facilities are front of the line, issue is who gets the shot after them? adriana diaz has the story. >> every day it's not offered to them is another day they're putting lives in undue harm. >> reporter: anthony mcgee says who gets vaccinated next is person. he's seen the virus take the lives of five guards and sicken several hundred more. >> reporter: why do you think corrections officers should go before police officers or teachers? >> there's additional risk that typical police officer who arrests someone, they're done with them. our people have to sit with them day in and day out on a regular basis. >> reporter: cdc study found of all occupations, corrections officers are most exposed to covid-19. >> we strongly believe our members should be considered in the early stages. >> reporter: he's

." >> herridge: i'm catherine herridge. thanks for stay withing us.re they were when they hard john lennon had been shot. lennon had avoided the press for years, but just two days before his death, he opened up during the a three-our interview with andy peebles of the pbs. anthony mason has the story. >> reporter: john lennon and yo coe ono had just fin herbed recordi recording when they sat down with their first interview with the bbc in five yores. >> it is more than wonderful to be able to talk to you after a very, very long time. >> it was december 6th, 1980. >> i don't think i've ever been so nervous in my life. >> andy peebles was the bbc reporter. >> growing up not just idolizing him but the group and everything they've done. one of my most treasured positions is the billboard chart on that day in america when they held positions 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. >> but lennon came ready to talk. >> paul and i made that. >> how would you describe his state of mind then? >> reporte . >> i felt that he was on top of everything. they seemed very, very happy. >>

." >>> i'm catherine herridge in washington. thanks for staying with us.lled the 2020 vote the most secure in american history. and that got him fired. krebs discussed the election and the years long government wide effort to ensure it was safe and accurate with scott pelley for "60 minutes." >> i have confidence in the security of this election because i know the work that we've done for four years in support of our state and local partners. i know the work that the intelligence community has done, the department of defense has done, the fbi has done, my team has done. i know these systems are more secure. i know based on what we've seen that any attacks on the election were not successful. >> two years ago, president trump put christopher krebs in charge of the new cyber security and infrastructure security agency. krebs, a life long republican, was confirmed unanimously by the senate. his agency, known by its acronym cisa helped secure computer systems, nuclear power plants for example, and the election hardware in all 50 states. why are you speaking to

catherine herridge, cbs news, washington. >> o'donnell: and we want to turn now to america's hunger crisis. more than 50 million people in this country have experienced hunger this year. that's up from 35 million last year. well, ton well, tonight, federal aid programs are running low on funding and food pantries are running low on supplies. here's cbs' mark strassmann. >> reporter: this morning, yolanda myers made her monthly run for groceries. >> if it wasn't for the food bank i don't think we're going to make it some time. >> reporter: 400 pounds of donations-- a lot of food for a lot of family. in this 1,000-square-foot shoe box myers cares full time for 10 grandchildren, ages 1-12. they call her g-mama. >> we love her. we take care of her. we make sure she okay. >> reporter: she's disabled, her husband lost his chef's job in march. >> sometimes i have to go buy the kids something that they need, and they'll be like, "we don't have the money to do this or to do that." >> reporter: food banks, a sometimes option, became a lifeline. they're also $3,000 behind on rent. here in fulton coun

catherine herridge has more. >> reporter: a sobering warning from senior cybersecurity officials.ackers believed to be linked to russian intelligence are now feared to be deep inside american infrastructure networks and across government agencies. u.s. officials called the hack highly complex and a grave risk. the hackers made their move at least as early as march. and remained undetected until last week. they broke into solarwinds, a texas-based software company that serves government agencies. and many fortune 500 companies. but officials now say they managed to infect networks using other methods. >> it's going to take a while for our forensic cybersleuths to find out where this attack is. where the russians have gotten their technicals in. >> reporter: jack thomas tomarchio is a former principal deputy undersecretary for homeland intelligence. what i'm hearing you say is that it will be very difficult to fully understand the damage and then get the bad actors out of the system. >> we don't have an easy fix here. >> okay. >> and i would say that if you look at that as a hemorrh

senior investigative correspondent catherine herridge spoke with john ratcliffe in his first networknterview as director of national intelligence. >> does the intelligence show that any foreign adversary or criminal group had the ability to change the vote results? >> not that we have been able to determine now. at this point in time we're still analyzing all of the intelligence. >> tremendous voter fraud and irregularities. >> when the president gives a video on voter fraud allegations, is that intelligence coming from you? >> i can't tell you the specific information that i give the president, but voter fraud is not an issue for the intelligence community, per se. that's a domestic law enforcement issue. >> does the intelligence show that foreign adversaries are amplifying the voter fraud allegations? >> they are. >> who is doing that? >> i can't tell you. >> but they are? >> yes. >> and what's their objective? >> to undermine public confidence in our democratic processes. >> reporter: as the government prepares for a new administration in january, ratcliffe says china is now the n

katherine h catherine herridge has the story. >> reporter: shattered by a jumbo jet falling in flamesboard killed. >> reporter: four days before christmas in 1988, shattered nose and cockpit bearing the name clipper maid of the seas symbolized lives lost to international terrorism. >> my brother was one of the passengers on the plane. >> reporter: outside the justice department, she said rick was a junior at syracuse university studying abroad in the uk. >> he was going to live his life to the fullest while he was in london. >> reporter: along with rick, 34 classmates from syracuse university died when the bomb ripped through the luggage hold an hour into the flight from london to new york jfk. 259 lives cut short on the flight. 11 more killed by falling debris in lockerbie, scotland. >> families fought hard over the last 32 years to make sure this was an open investigation and remained an open investigation. >> reporter: the pan am 103 case has come full circle for outgoing attorney general bill barr who led the justice department when initial charges were made in 1991. >> we will no

. >> or catherine herridge. >>> nearly 50 million americans are in the path of a snowstorm.m is dumping snow in parts of the west. it will create near impossible driving conditions in much of the northeast by wednesday afternoon. that sounds like fun. parts of pennsylvania could see two feet of snow. suburbs of new york city and philadelphia could see a foot. and 5 to 10 inches likely along i-95 from philadelphia to boston. but we haven't had any snow this season. >> it is december. >> i was going to say -- >> but i'm thinking about those vaccines on the road. >> yeah, that's true. that is true. >> can they get through? >> that's a really good point, tony dokoupil. >> i'm sure they're planning for it. >>> a new twist in the ahmaud arbery case. we'll show you police video that may contradict the account of one of the suspects charge inside arbery's killing. >>> ahead we talk to the first two u.s. health care workers to get the coronavirus vaccine o outside of trials. >>> this portion of "cbs this morning" sponsored by fasenra. for more information, visit fasenra.com. into a s

for "cbs this morning: saturday," catherine herridge, washington. >>>ion vertz of florida forward keyontae johnson is reaching out to his fans for the first time since collapsing on the court at florida state last weekend. johnson released a short video of social media friday from his hospital room. take a look. >> i want to thank you all for the prayers. go gators. >> reporter: >> the cause of johnson's collapse has not been revealed, but like many of his teammates, the 21-year-old tested positive over the summer for the coronavirus. one of the lingering complications of the illness can be a viral infection of the heart muscle that has been linked to sudden cardiac arrest. >>> 21 minutes after the hour. here's a look now at the weather for your weekend. >>> it's another consequence of the pandemic. thousands of businesses forced to close their doors, and giant office buildings largely unoccupi unoccupied. we'll see the effect of the crisis on commercial real estate and the future of american cities. >> plus, it brings readers right to the front lin

senior investigative correspondent catherine herridge looks at the top suspect in the breach. >> reporter into the commerce and treasury departments are believed to be led by the russian government, and they appear to be related to a recently disclosed hack on prominent u.s. cybersecurity firm fireeye. fireeye said sunday it believed hackers were able to gain access to numerous public and private organizations around the world. by slipping malware into software developed by solar winds, an i.t. management company. solar winds products are used by hundreds of thousands of organizations worldwide, including the military, the cdc, major telecommunications companies as well as viacom/cbs. in a statement the company's ceo said it is cooperating with the fbi, the intelligence community and law enforcement. "the washington post" reported the russia-affiliated hacking group known as cozy bear reached email systems in some cases. the group has direct ties to russian intelligence and was allegedly behind hacking attacks against the democratic national committee in 2015. and in july, the u.s., brita

our senior investigative correspondent, catherine herridge, spoke with him in his first tv interview.rter: after years of struggling for recognition, the executive order would acknowledge the ongoing suffering and sacrifice of the k2 veterans and open the door to medical help and financial relief. >> throwing the kitchen sink at this. >> reporter: acting secretary of defense chris miller, one of the first into afghanistan after 9/11, launched from the former soviet air base karshi-khanabad or k2 in neighboring uzbekistan. >> for you is the k2 issue personal? >> it's very personal. i feel that i have an obligation to help through those that went through there and are suffering illnesses. >> reporter: of the 15,000 service members who passed through k2 between 2001 and 2005, more than 2,000 flooded this facebook page, self-reporting illnesses, including rare cancers. >> do you accept that there is a link between the illness of these veterans and toxic exposure at the base? >> what i want is let's err on the side of the veteran and not get caught up in bureaucracy and endless studies lik