captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >>> from cbs news bay area, this is the evening edition. >>> now at 11 a busy weekend for airports across the country had here in the bay area. we talked to thanksgiving weekend travelers in oakland. >>> president biden pardons his son hunter, why he decided to break his promise to not interfere. >>> a milestone in california's legislature as a record number of women are set to be sworn into office this week. >>> president biden has pardoned his son hunter on federal gun and tax convictions going back on a promise that he would not interfere. natalie has more from washington. >> reporter: president biden sunday night confirmed he signed a pardon for his son hunter, in a statement the president said from the day he took office he would not interfere with the justice department's decision making and said he kept his word even as he watched his son being unfairly prosecuted. he said hunter was singled out only because he was my son and alleges the effort to break hunter who is 5 1/2 years sober and he also blamed political opponents i

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captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >>> from cbs news bay area, this is the evening edition. >>> now at 11:00, people out in scotts valley and across the bay area trying to clean up quickly as they can from yesterday's storm because here's another one on the way. >>> then a robber hits a san francisco cafe and attacks customers with mace, the brave actions of a barista as he takes down the robbers to protect customers. >> i just stepped in and helped, but he is the hero. >> good evening. i'm brian hackney. >> i'm andrea nakano. >>> a enough different day in the bay area compared to saturday. then is was out in most places as people picked up the pieces after yesterday's storm, including that rare tornado that touched down in scotts valley. >> but wait, there's more but not much more, i take it. darren peck is here with a look at what will shape up to be more wet weather coming in just in time for the morning drive. darren? >> that is a very good way to put this, brian. there is more, but in relation to what we had, it's not much more. if you look what's going on on t

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filmed by a team of russian film—makers at the romb independent media group, the producers carefully navigated accesstening official control. nobody else would make a story about these people. even if they are loyal to the regime, with exclusive, intimate access, this film by melanie ouigley, vladimir sevrinovsky, oksa na serbinova, anastasia tenisheva and evan williams reveals the story of russian women trying to find their sons, husbands and brothers who've gone missing fighting in ukraine. filmed by a team of russian film—makers at the romb independent media group, the producers carefully navigated access, security and legal issues at a time of ever—tightening official control. because these women are also victims. while russian public support for the war remains ostensibly high, sevrinovsky sees a clear distinction between the views of ukrainian and russian service families. in ukraine, the picture for them is quite clear, because they are defending their country. and for russia, it's very hard for any mother to admit that her son gave his life in an unjust war. so they're heavily tortured by thi

filmed by a team of russian film—makers at the romb independent media group, the producers carefully navigated access official control. nobody else would make a story about these people. even if they are loyal to the regime, is not very convenient to the regime, because it wants to paint a very bright and nice picture. but, of course, people are dying and the whole of russia is full of tragedies such as the tragedy of these women. as the women's searches were hampered by a repressive state bureaucracy, some of them turned to an unlikely source in the search for their loved ones. a lot of our heroes, they called ukrainian soldiers and they asked about their sons and husbands, and the ukrainian soldiers answered them. maybe they thought that maybe if something bad would happen to me, my mother would do the same. and i think there's a kind of weird brotherhood between these victims of the war on both sides, because these women are also victims. while russian public support for the war remains ostensibly high, sevrinovsky sees a clear distinction between the views of ukrainian and russian service familie

lgbtq and pride and legal groups and community organizers in bars and social media are working to help trans folks before january 20th. they're sorting out how to maintain accessofficial documentation shows the correct gender marker of the bearer. all of these steps require time, money and know-how, but they are vital steps for the trans community to protect itself and live in dignity and safety. joining me now to discuss all of this is imara jones the award winning journalist and founder of trans lash media and the trans lash podcast. there are about five weeks until donald trump is inaugurated for the second time. how are trans folks preparing themselves for trump's second run at office? >> well, thanks for having me. i think that your setup framed it extremely well in terms of the range of things that people are thinking about and the emphasis on communities and organizing themselves. one of the most interesting things here is the way in which trans elders are actually helping to inform the actions of younger people who may not have lived during a time when there were outright bans on a whole host of things and services that trans people need and expression

media and technology group was approved to hire a data analyst in 2022. but trump has previously criticized the visa program, even restricting access to foreign worker visas in his first term. i wonder, as someone who worked in his white house, the first term, what you recall from that time in terms of his opposition to those visas and why he is changing his mind now. >> so this is kind of a fascinating update, because it's actually conservative and republican party orthodoxy to support high skill immigration. >> we see it. >> we've always framed it as a way to counter china to compete with china. >> you want to attract the best workers in stem fields. donald trump kind of went back and forth on this issue, and the maga wing, the steve bannon's of the world certainly didn't support. support more of these and wanted these caps on visas that were in place in the first administration. but i see this as, yes, the growing influence that elon musk has on donald trump. but i also see it as part of donald trump's just general being tough on china strategy. the reality is china is investing to try to be able to compete more with us in these areas. and i think that

the technical issues, how he gained access to the weapon, but also about the psychological issues, what he was thinking of for example, was he on social media groups that were talking about insurance companies? we're going to learn a lot in the next two days. >> jake and catherine, we know that all sorts of ps have been coming in to the nypd from individuals, including from unitedhealthcare, talking about individuals that have expressed discontent and threatened the ceo. but take a listen to what the nypd said at its press conference earlier today what's his name on your radar? >> was he someone who you had been looking into before his arrest? no, we did not have his name prior to today so they did not even have his name prior to today this is as far as we know as of right now, it seems like this guy was caught entirely because the mcdonald's employee recognized him. >> yeah, he was. i mean, that's how he was caught in the. >> and the tracing and the check on the gun will tell them whether or not it matches the suppression. the suppression and item and the handgun will tell us whether or not it matches the items found on the scene. and that will c

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rump group of republicans will vote with democrats to pass something that most republican voters would object to, except elon musk. president trump and voters had access to twitter and social media and blew all that up. and i don't think that would have happened prior to the election. remember, republicans promised to stop this type of activity at the election, you know, in order to retain power. and so now we have a less bad bill, something i still object to, but it would have been a lot worse. but for the consequences of the election, i think tom makes a great point, lindsey. >> and we've got about a minute or so to go. his point being without x, for example. i mean, we could back time this all the way to when elon musk purchased x. but for that purchase, could we crowdsource the way we've been able to find out what's in it? you know, again, going back to that pelosi point, your thoughts, lindsey, on what's happened here tonight. >> kevin, unlike democrats, i'm not going to preheat everything that the trump administration has done. this was successful. his transition has been a tremendous success. and democrats need to acknowledge that they can't just automatically or instinct