Breaking news tonight, American coronavirus crisis. Hundreds of Americans evacuated flown home after being trapped on a cruise ship.

14 of them now have the virus as the number of cases here in the U.S. nearly doubles.

Flooding disaster. Mississippi under a state of emergency as floodwaters strand people in their homes.

At least 18 people rescued thousands of buildings at risk, plus two houses plummet into the Tennessee

River after torrential rain. Texas explosion of fireball shoots into the sky after a gas line

in Texas ruptures, the latest on what caused the inferno.

Deadly avalanche, a 400-ton wall of snow races down a Colorado mountain, burying three men,

what one of them did to escape, plus the new avalanche warning tonight.

Gambling on Nevada.

Bernie Sanders surges in the polls ahead of this weekend's caucuses,

while the candidates turn their attacks on Michael Bloomberg. Will spending more than 400 million

of his own money lift the billionaire into the next debate? Bizarre kidnapping plot. She pretended to be

a photographer offering infant pictures for free, but police say it was an

elaborate hoax designed to steal a new mother's baby. Russians on the radio, Vladimir Putin's

government, accused of peddling propaganda on small town stations, is the talk radio host

you're listening to being paid for by the Kremlin.

Do I look like Russian propaganda?

And tonight they are some of the most popular singers in country music.

So why are female artists having trouble getting airtime?

The new study out with demands for equal play.

This is the CBS Evening News with Nora O'Donnell, reporting from the nation's capital.

Good evening and thank you so much for joining us.

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