Tonight, a special edition of the CBS Evening News.

We're here on one of the largest warships in the world, a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier that has just returned from the South China Sea.

And just today, CBS News Learning the Pentagon plans to increase the number of troops in Taiwan as the independent

island hopes to hold off Chinese aggression.

Tonight aboard the USS Nimitz with 5,000 of America's finest.

The concern tonight about the possibility of a new cold war, this time with China.

The U.S. warning, China may send weapons to Russia for the war in Ukraine, as the world marks one year of Putin's invasion.

We estimate that they will try to do something on this February.

With tens of billions of taxpayer dollars going to Ukraine,

CBS's David Martin reports on its impact on America's readiness.

For a couple of key items, the stockpile is getting low.

Richard Alexander Murdoch wishes to take the stand.

I didn't shoot my wife or my son anytime, ever.

Severe winter weather stretching from coast to coast.

The cold air comes charging in on Friday, setting the stage for a huge winter storm in the West.

This is a special edition of the CBS Evening News with Nora O'Donnell, reporting tonight from the USS Nimitz.

Good evening, and thank you for joining us.

Tonight we're broadcasting live aboard the USS Nimitz.

And while we can't give you our exact location, we can tell you we are here in the western Pacific Ocean.

We landed here just moments ago after boarding a C2 Greyhound in Guam and landing on the deck of this massive aircraft carrier that stretches nearly 1,100 feet long. That's more than three football fields. And about this exact location

on the ship, it's called Vultures Row. It is a viewing platform high above the flight deck

where the crew and others can observe the flight

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