The new reporting tonight on that Chinese spy balloon as it floats over the United States heading east, carrying cameras and collecting intelligence.

So why hasn't it been shot down?

Well, what the heck is that? That's not the sun.

The international crisis unfolding tonight, with China's surveillance effort discovered.

We have all the new details and the diplomatic fallout after the Secretary of State

cancels his high stakes trip to Beijing.

Dangerous polar vortex, the brutal record-breaking cold temperatures felt by tens of millions.

Warming centers open as it will feel like negative 15 in New York City,

30 below in Boston, and negative 40 degrees in Vermont.

An American aid worker killed in Ukraine while helping civilians.

CBS is Deborah Pata tonight speaking to his widow.

Surprising jobs report the lowest unemployment rate in over 50 years. But what does it mean for inflation?

An update on the monkey business at the Dallas Zoo. A man is under arrest tonight, suspected of stealing two rare

primates and the connection with a clouded

leopard set free and on the road with a prescription for kindness you can see that one small

act makes a difference this is the CBS evening news with Nora O'Donnell.

Reporting from the nation's capital.

Good evening and thank you for joining us on this Friday night.

Tonight, a life-threatening and brutal Arctic blast of cold air and strong winds

are sending temperatures plunging for tens of millions of Americans.

We've got our forecast tonight in just a moment.

Plus the other big story tonight that Marine veteran working as an American aid worker killed in Ukraine in an ambulance while trying to help civilians.

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