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norah? >> o'donnell: all right, chip. thank you.eading into the next round of televised impeachment hearings, tonight house speaker nancy pelosi says democrats have not yet made a decision on whether to impeach president trump, but she did publicly accuse him of bribery. that word is significant. there is also news tonight that more ears were listening in on a phone call that not only ties the president to a pressure campaign in ukraine, but is also prompting concerns of a security breach. nancy cordes reports from capitol hill. >> quid pro quo. bribery. >> reporter: for the first time today house speaker nancy pelosi used a term that has been gaining steam in her party. >> bribery >> extortion and bribery. >> bribe an ally. >> reporter: article ii of the constitution says a president can be removed from office for treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors. that's a very serious charge. what makes this a case of bribery? >> the bribe is to grant or withhold military assistance in return for a public statement of a fake

i'm norah o'donnell. than >>> a joint cbs news/reuters investigation has revealed new evidence of potential fraud ing pr the military's privatized as s mily fs le with roaches and mold, a former employee housing contractor said the company records. >> reporter: a former employee at fall fort media communities told us that issues would take days, sometimes weeks if they were fixed at all. on paper, everything was aboveboard, but the pressure to falsify records came from management. >> i told them i said this is lying. it's not right. >> reporter: f

norah? >> o'donnell: janet, thank you.se democrats want to hear from acting white house chief of staff mick mulvaney. he's the highest-ranking white house official investigators have called on. today they sent a letter seeking his testimony in the impeachment inquiry, but nobody is counting on him to appear. meanwhile, we learned today what a key witness-- how a key witness changed his testimony. gordon sondland, a top u.s. diplomat, now says he believes the trump administration demanded a quid pro quo from ukraine. nancy cordes is at the capital, and nancy, did we learn why sondland changed his story? >> reporter: well, in a way, norah, sondland had to change his original testimony because so many of the other witnesses had disputed it. so in this new three-page addendum, he says that reading those other witness statements, "refreshed his recollection about his role in the president's quid pro quo." >> it's never too late to do the right thing. >> reporter: that was the democrat's reaction to an about- face from ambassado

norah? >> o'donnell: all right, manny. thank you.ord of a possible trade deal with china sent stock markets soaring to new record highs today. the dow shot up 180 points, breaking the all-time high set earlier in the week. the s&p 500 also climbed to its highest level ever. now turning to a fraud scheme that authorities say threatens national security. it's quite a story. today seven people at a new york tech company were charged with importing chinese surveillance equipment and then selling it as made in the u.s.a. mola lenghi has the details. >> reporter: federal agents swarmed this long island, new york, facility this morning. the entire executive team of adventura technologies is charged with fraud. according to the criminal complaint, since 2006, adventura operated a scheme where nearly 1,000 shipments of network security software and hardware from china were relabeled as american and then resold to the federal government, including surveillance systems bought by the army, air force, department of energy, and other u.s. agencies

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norah? >> o'donnell: roxana, thank you. today police in los angeles shot and killed a man who was armed with a machete. an officer opened fire when the suspect charged at him holding the foot-long blade. police say the man first robbed an auto parts store, then carjacked a vehicle at a chick- fil-a restaurant after crashing into two police cars he tried to get away, which led to the deadly confrontation. now to another cbs news exclusive. a grandfather from indiana is speaking out tonight in his first interview after being hit with criminal charges in the death of his granddaughter. just 18 months old. they were on a cruise in puerto rico when the girl slipped from his grasp and fell more than ten stories from a window. salvatore anello is now charged with negligent homicide for what he says was an accident. well, late today he sat down with david begnaud for "cbs this morning." >> i remember trying to find her on the floor, and then i saw her fall. i saw her fall all the way down. i saw her fall, and it was just disbelief.

norah. >> o'donnell: nancy, thank you.resident trump suffered another legal setback today in his battle to keep his tax returns private. a federal appeals court ruled that the president's tax returns cannot be kept from new york state investigators looking into those hush money payments made to adult film star stormy daniels. paula reid joins us now from the white house. so, paula, does this mean we're finally going to see the president's tax returns? >> reporter: norah, the president's attorneys are going to do everything they can to keep these returns private. cbs news has learned they intend to appeal this decision to the supreme court, arguing that the president is protected from any criminal proceedings while he's in office. but today these judges held they don't think that the president will prevail at the high court, because they believe the president's accountants are not protected from subpoenas, and they may have to hand those returns off to investigators. >> o'donnell: another question for you, paula. the justic

norah? >> o'donnell: all right ed, thank you. political violence in hong kong hit a new level today with the stabbing of a pro-china politician caught on camera. an anti-government activist approached the lawmaker pretending to be a supporter. he gave him flowers, asked to take a photo, and pulled out a knife and stabbed him. the man was quickly arrested. the lawmaker, apparently despised by protesters, is okay. there is still much more ahead on tonight's "cbs evening news." could new evidence save a man who is about to be put to death in texas? later, how running just once a week could change your life. and the pro wrestler tackling prejudice and hate. good job, brain! say hello to neuriva, a new brain supplement with clinically proven ingredients that fuel five indicators of brain performance. neuriva. this is loma linda. a place with one of the highest life expectancies in the country. and you see so many people walking around here in their 100s. so how do you stay financially well for all those extra years? well, you have to

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norah. >> o'donnell: all right, manny, thank you. in a large part of the country, winds are howling on this halloween night. chicago got more than an inch o. and it's not over yet. lonnie quinn of wcbs tv in new . some of the trick-or-treaters on the eastern portion of the united states will have severe weather to deal with. here's the picture, the inch of snow you talked about around chicago, there's the low pressure system. here's the associated cold front. but it's that cold front that's got the possibility for severe weather. as a matter of fact, take a look at this-- tornado watches in effect right now anywhere from eastern pennsylvania all the way down into south carolina. and for you folks on the western portion of the country, look, the air's cold enough here during the overnight hours. 30 degrees, 22 for lancaster. but for a place like los angeles, okay, with the fire situation, yeah, you're cold overnight, but you bounce back up to about 80 degrees in the afternoon. and with those winds still blowing-- maybe not as strong,

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>> reporter: amazingly, yes, norah. though she said she has gotten h.lls at her home, people screaming obscenities, one individual even banging on her door, all, apparently, because she agreed to speak to lawmakers. she says that she knows of one other witness, marie yovanovitch, who went through something similar after rudy giuliani spread unfounded conspiracy theories about her, both here in the u.s. and abroad. >> o'donnell: all right, nancy, thank you. tonight, we're hearing from one of the few trump administration officials who parted ways with the president on relatively good terms. former south carolina governor nikki haley served for nearly two years as president trump's ambassador to the united nations. she has a new book coming out that details what she saw during her time in the administration. we interviewed haley for "cbs sunday morning." do you think ultimately the president will be impeached and removed from office? >> no. on what? you're going to impeach a president for asking for a favor that didn't hap

and, nancy, that was some powerful testimony today. >> reporter: it was, norah. hill and holmes became the seventh and eighth witnesses to testify publicly that there was an improper scheme that put the president's personal interests .head of national security. today's testimony also featured a key piece of firsthand evidence. vo the president's voice was loud and recognizable. >> reporter: david holmes is a top official at the u.s. embassy in ukraine. that's how he came to be sitting at a kiev restaurant with ambassador gordon sondland when sondland placed a call to president trump. >> when the president came on, he sort of winced and held the phone away from his ear like this. ep reporter: holmes says the atnversation immediately turned to the investigation president trump had just been pushing the day before in another call with the ukrainian president, an investigation into the president's campaign rival, joe biden. > so you heard president trump ask ambassador sondland, "is he going to do the investigation?" >> yes, sir. >> what was ambassador eondland's res

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norah. >> o'donnell: all right, mola, thank you. new tonight, days after president trump overturned a navy seal's sentence for a war crime, the military is ordering that man to go before a review board that could kick him out of the elite unit. tonight his lawyer tells david martin it is an act of defiance against the president. d reporter: just days ago, president trump signed this brief order restoring navy seal eddie gallagher to his full rank. then he called gallagher and told him he was overturning the sentence handed down by a court- martial, which convicted him of posing with the corpse of an isis fighter. >> he told me that he was going to be restoring my rank back to chief petty officer, and also expunging everything from my record so that i could retire honorably and that, you know, basically it was like this thing had never happened. >> reporter: but now the navy intends to take gallagher and three officers involved in the bcident before a review board, which could kick them out of the seals. it's being ordered by the nav

norah. >> o'donnell: nancy, thank you. president trump suffered another legal setback today in his battle to keep his tax returns private. a federal appeals court ruled that the president's tax returns cannot be kept from new york state investigators looking into those hush money payments made to adult film star stormy daniels. paula reid joins us now from the white house. so, paula, does this mean we're finally going to see the president's tax returns? >> reporter: norah, the president's attorneys are going to do everything they can to keep these returns private. cbs news has learned they intend to appeal this decision to the supreme court, arguing that the president is protected from any criminal proceedings while he's in office. but today these judges held they don't think that the president will prevail at the high court, because they believe the president's accountants are not protected from subpoenas, and they may have to hand those returns off to investigators. >> o'donnell: another question for you, paula. the just

norah, winter doesn't even begin until december 21. >> o'donnell: there you go. all right, david, thank you. lonnie quinn of wcbs tv in new york is tracking the frosty weather. where and when will it be the worst, lonnie? >> reporter: by the worst, we have to address the worst snowfall and the worst cold air. let's start off with the snow, worst of it right now taking place in the ohio valley while the tennessee valls but some of that rain will transition into snow as the temperatures drop. but who gets the most snowfall? we're thinking of places like around buffalo or cleveland with a little lake-effect enhancement could see an additional, on top of what they alreadyave, m eight inches. but say upstate new york, i'm thinking lake placid, maybe over toward burlington, vermont, they could maybe pick up a foot of snow, that's that dark blue that you see peppered in there. as far as the cold air goes, this will be a big story. right now coldest air anywhere in our country is in fargo, where it feels like, again, this is temperature combined with wind-chill, it feels

norah. >> o'donnell: all right, mark. thank you. an ominous warning tonight from >> o'donnell: there is breaking news in mexico. multiple arrests have been made in the massacre of nine women and children. the motive in the attack remains unknown. it's unclear how many suspects are under arrest or what role they may have played in the attack. on the veterans day we should remember that hundreds of thousands of americans are currently stationed overseas, including in syria. charlie d'agata reports from inside syria that the u.s. navy drawing down to about 700 troops, but it's keeping a big profile. >> reporter: u.s. forces brought out the big guns today, bradley fighting vehicles at a remote base in northern syria, significantly ramping up u.s. firepower. major general eric hill told us their arrival is to counter new threats on the battlefield. how has it changed over the past couple of months? >> we've been conducting a withdrawal, and we have been resetting ourselves here in the east. as we do that, we want to make sure we have the

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norah, that's correct the way we see it again.wo storms right now and that makes its way across the country and will affect the east coast by the time we get to sunday. >> o'donnell: good focus, thank you. california firefighters are dealing with they are calling the new normal, a -seasonexplod overnight. jonathan vigliotti is in santa barbara tonight. >> oh, my god. oh, my god! od reporter: terrified residents race down this mountain as flames came within inches of their cars. they were escaping the so-called cave fire, which exploded overnight devouring more than 4,000 acres in santa barbara county, winds gusting as high as 55 miles per hour quickly lynning the flames in all directions and threatening homes in the canyons. crews using specially equipped helicopters and night-vision goggles, attack the erratic wildfire from the air while firefighters engaged in a grueling tug-of-war on the ground in what they describe as some of the toughest weather conditions anywhere in the world. we've been watching firefighters go from hot sp

nancy, this was powerful testimony. >> reporter: it was, norah.nd congress was riveted as she essentially accused president trump of siding with some notoriously corrupt ukrainians over his own u.s. ambassador and allowing "shady interests" hijack u.s. policy. >> it was terrible. it's not the way i wanted my career to end. >> reporter: yovanovitch is a 33-year veteran of foreign fervice. >> my first tour was mogadishu, somalia. tashkent, uzbekistan. i later served in moscow. >> reporter: but as she spoke, the president broke with g.o.p. strategy, slamming her heblemished record by tweet. >> would you like to respond to the president's attack that "everywhere you went turned bad?" >> i... i mean, i don't-- i don't think i have such powers. >> what effect do you think that has on other witnesses' willingness to come forward and expose wrongdoing? >> well, it's very intimidating. >> reporter: yovanovitch described how the president's personal attorney worked for months to smear her reputation... >> we were blocked by the ambassador who eventually got

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this is the "cbs evening news" with norah o'donnell.eporting tonight from washington. >> o'donnell: good evening, and thank you for joining us on this historic night in the nation's capital. for the first time in more than two decades, the country watched televised impeachment hearings and today was the first of many. we learned something new. ambassador bill taylor, the top diplomat to ukraine, testified about a phone call between president trump and gordon sondland. that's the president's ambassador to the european ayion. the takeaway from that phone call, according to taylor, the president cared more about investigating his political rival than he did about ukraine. taylor, a west point grad and vietnam veteran, and george kent vicareer foreign service officer, have served for decades under republican and democratic presidents. they used words like "alarming, confusing, irregular, illogical, and crazy" to describe the trump administration's policy towards ukraine. both diplomats called freezing aid to ukraine a threat to u.s. nationa

norah? >> all right, manny, thank you. >>> in a large part of the country, winds are howling on this halloween night. chicago got more than an inch of snow today, breaking a record. and it's not over yet. lonnie quinn at wcbs tv in new york has the forecast. it is a rough night for some trick-or-treaters, lonnie. >> you bet you, real rough and big winds out there. you talk about chicago picking up that inch of snow or so. and there is that low-pressure system. but that low-pressure system is all associated with this cold front, which has much more volatile weather than just an inch of snow. we're talking tornado watches. right now halloween night that extends from eastern pennsylvania down into south carolina, and even if you don't get the twist in your atmosphere, a place like boston, massachusetts has a high wind warning. could see gusts 60 miles per hour or stronger. as this front makes its march to the east, it's being to drop the temperatures. currently right now let's check in on what

well done, norah! >> o'donnell: what are these shows meant to do? really shows what precision and professionalism we can demonstrate when we all work together. but beyond, that it's meant to inspire all the people that will never join the military, but if they go out and they, you know, chase a dream that they didn't think they could do because they saw what we can do, then our mission is achieved. >> o'donnell: they are truly incredible. thank you very much to the air force thunderbirds for that. and in tomorrow's "profiles in service," they were the only all-black women's army corps battalion deployed overseas in world war ii. highway their work proved essential to victory. can't wait to see that story, too. and that is the "cbs evening news." ♪ >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." >> i'm errol barnett, and we've got a lot more to tell you about this morning, including, of course, the impeachment hearings. this is just the fourth time in u.s. history that congress has considered removing a president from office. last time was when the h

norah is off tonight. i'm david begnaud. a bomb cyclone, as it's known, is whipping the west coast, threatening southern california with flooding and mudslides. we are going to get to that severe weather in a moment, but right now there is news breaking. tonight, president trump is flying back to the united states after making a secret trip to afghanistan. the president revealed the u.s. and the taliban have reopened peace talks aimed at ending america's longest war. now, the trip comes the same week that president trumpacd son pentagon of being part of the resistance against him. weijia jiang joins us now from florida. weijia, how exactly is a surprise like this by a president pulled off? >> reporter: well, david, president trump took off from here in florida for joint base andrew, where air force one was hidden inside a hangar, and after it was wheels-up, the plane flew in darkness before landing on a pitch-black tarmac. president trump made his first trip to afghanistan under the cover of darkness, flying 13 hours to serv

norah is off tonight. i'm john dickerson.ice in london are searching tonight for a motive into a new terror attack in the british capital. it happened today when a man wielding a knife went on a stabbing spree, killing two people and seriously wounding three others. witnesses say he was wearing a suicide vest, but the vest oak police shot and killed the attacker, but not before people tried to stop him. it happened on the busy london bridge. tonight, london's mayor is praising the bravery of those who rushed to help, while investigators search for the attacker's motive. imtiaz tyab is in london. >> reporter: chaotic scenes following a mass stabbing in london. here, the attacker is pinned to the ground by the public, despite being armed with a knife. in another clip, a bystander runs from the scene with a large blade in hand, apparently taken from the perpetrator. then, the police take no chances... ( gunshots ) ...firing two shots and killing the man. it's not until later that images surface showing him wearing what police ar

norah is off tonight. i'm david begnaud.e are going to begin with that breaking news out of southeast evacuate after a sers ofo explosions at a chemical plant. the first one happened this morning. that fire is still burning. this is happening at port neches. that's about 90 miles east of houston. federal environmental officials have been sent to the scene. in fact, i spoke with a 911 dispatcher who said people who cannot evacuate should shelter in place. courtney zubowski is near the scene. >> reporter: a huge exploding fireball erupted from the chemical plant more than 13 hours after the sudden explosion erupted just after 1:00 a.m. scorching flames lit up the night sky. officials say the blast was felt up to 30 miles away. by sunrise, toxic plumes could be seen for miles. when matt vincent heard the blast, he jumped out of his chair. >> i could see the fire. it shot up in the air about half a mile. it was-- it lit the whole place up. >> reporter: the impact blasted doors off hinges, shattered windows, and sent debris flyin

. >>> "cbs evening news" anchor and managing editor norah o'donnell will have a special report from washington during today's hearing and again for friday's hearing. you can also watch continuing team coverage to our 24-hour streaming network, cbsn. >>> the eastern two-thirds of the u.s. remains in a deep freeze this morning. arctic cold is giving millions of americans an early taste of winter. snow fell from the great lakes to new england. the entire state of michigan saw snowy weather this week. the national weather service said some areas reported 30 inches of snow. the snow and ice made for treacherous travel conditions. yesterday, slick roads caused a 50-car pileup near youngstown, ohio. two people were critically injured. the arctic cold surge is expected to shatter hundreds of mid-november records. chief meteorologist kate bylow of our philadelphia station, kyw, will tell us how long this cold snap will last. >>> in the wake of a very strong arctic cold front, the rain and snow has moved out. the cold has moved in and bitter windchills to start our morning. take a look at morning temper

>> exactly, norah. i can tell you that's not the script the republicans looking at this hearing and planning for it put forward to their own members. i was texting with a significant republican in the leadership. they had prepared a memo for the house intelligence committee republicans, look, this is a very tough witness, don't try to badger her, don't try to undercut her credibility. go back to two main points. the president does have the power to recall you or remove you for any reason or no reason and you're not a fact witness to the july 25th call because you were removed a couple months before that. just stick with that. they knew ambassador yovanovitch would come across as a credible witness, as someone who had served the country and had lots of dangerous posts and had always worked consistently with u.s. policy. don't try, this moment mow said, to undercut her or badger her or put her on the spot. just try to deal with the witness as it is, make those two points and try to back off. and you could

i'm norah o'donnell in washington on this historic day.sed doors of the impeachment investigation are swinging wide open, as the associated press puts it today because the house intelligence committee is about to begin the first public hearings. the stakes could not be higher. today could shape voters' opinions ahead of the presidential election and determine mr. trump's place in the history books. right now members and spectators are gathering in 1100 longworth hearing room on capitol hill. one of the largest in the capitol. this is only the fourth time ever that congress is considering whether to remove a sitting president. we should note these hearings don't involve actual articles of impeachment. this investigation, you may recall, began just two months ago after an unidentified whistle-blower reported a phone call between president trump and the ukraine president on july 25th. witnesses say during that call mr. trump asked ukraine to investigate former vice president joe biden and his son, along with other democrats. the president's a

i'm norah o'donnell in washington.nd in just a few minutes we'll be kick off what is going to be a blockbuster week of hearings on capitol hill. nine witnesses are due to give public testimony this week, including the ambassador to the european union gordon sondland who has already had to amend his earlier deposition. that will happen tomorrow. but today we will hear first hand accounts of the controversial july 25th phone call between president trump and ukraine's leader in which president trump asked him to do us a favor. it has become the center of these impeachment proceedings. now, as you can see, the committee room in the long worth building is already gng toromee officials who were listening in on that call. they'll be giving public testimony. jennifer williams, an aide to vice president mike pence. she described president trump's actions on that call as, quote, unusual and inappropriate. we are also going to hear from lieutenant colonel alexander vindman. aries the top ukraine specialist on the unusual security

i think norah and margaret know where i'm going with this. this would come closer to what democrats have said, but evidentiary from been far from approving, there's some component of bribery involved in this entire saga, something of official value, official act rather, and something of value. one for the other. the sequencing that came through ambassador sondland's testimony because he talked so frequently to the president and his designated non-government operative in ukraine, rudy giuliani, tied these things together. >> stand by, major. want to touch base with chairman schiff who is briefing reporters right now. listen. >> just how significant the president's obstruction of this investigation has been. we now can see the veneer has been torn away, just why secretary pompeo and president donald trump do not want any of these documents provided to congress because apparently they show as ambassador sondland has testified the knowledge of this scheme to condition official acts, a white house meeting and $400 million in security assistance to

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nikki haley unveiled explosive new details about discord in the administration to cbs news anchor norah'donnell. what did she say? >> elaine, haley says during a closed door meeting, former secretary of state rex tillerson and former chief of staff john kelly asked her to joine ey werg to save the country. in a statement to cbs news, kelly says it was his job to prevent both pros and cons of policy changes to the >> all right, weijia jiang there outside of trump tower in new york. thank you. >>> president trump will mark veterans day in new york city tomorrow. he will kick off the veterans day parade, the nation's largest along fifth avenue. it's a tradition that began 100 years ago with a huge ticker tape parade for returning troops from world war i. >>> in mexico today, a somber caravan of fundamentalist mormons fled their homes in a rural part of the country following the brutal massacre last week of nine family members. but as jonathan vigliotti reports, some are staying behind, looking for justice. >> some are never coming back. >> reporter: sadness and relief for members of the of

the problem is thesese two witnesses, like all the others who have testified, norah, have told a very similar story about what they saw and heard. >> nancy, stand by as we wait for these hearings to begin any moment now. i want to bring in paula reed at the white house and has been talking to her sources there. paula, do we know, will the president be watching these hearings? >> reporter: he will be watching these hearings, norah, but the white house insists he won't watch the whole thing. he has other business to attend to. staffers will be watching very closely. up until now, the president has been a one-man war room handling impeachment messaging on his own. a krcbs news poll shows 56% of americans don't think he's doing a very good job. they will try a rapid response to try to counter what comes out in these hearings. they will go on twitter, have staffers out. we have to inject some skepticism because so far we've seen almost none of that from the white house. i was here yesterday asking about strategy and there did not appear to be any war room. this morning we see more of the s