Breaking news tonight, Harvey Weinstein, guilty of rape. The movie mogul who set off the Me Too movement convicted on two counts of sexually assaulting women, handcuffed and taken to jail. What his victims are saying tonight. More breaking news tonight. Stock market meltdown. The Dow plummets wiping out all of 2020's games the fear now infecting the financial markets as cases of the coronavirus in the U.S. and overseas skyrocket showdown in South Carolina on the eve of our CBS News Democratic debate our exclusive new poll the new frontrunner in the Palmetto state,

and what Bernie Sanders just said about a dictator that has members of his own party nervous.

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Farewell to a legend. The star-studded memorial to basketball great Kobe Bryant, the tributes and tears

as celebrities in Bryant's wife honor Kobe and his daughter. You take care of our Gigi.

Empire star in court. Actor Jesse Smollett mobbed at a Chicago courthouse as he faces new charges

of staging a racist attack on himself,

what he's now saying to a judge. Road to Recovery. After that dramatic crash at the Daytona 500,

NASCAR driver Ryan Newman speaking out, the injury he's still suffering, and will he race again?

And remembering a pioneer, she got Americans to the

moon with nothing more than a pencil and her mind. Tonight we pay tribute to one of the space

program's real life hidden figures. This is the CBS evening news with Nora O'Donnell, reporting tonight from Charleston, South Carolina.

Good evening, and thank you so much for joining us. We are in Charleston ahead of tomorrow's pivotal,

democratic debate. We've got some big news on that in just a moment. But we want to begin tonight

with this breaking

news, Harvey Weinstein, the movie mogul behind some of Hollywood's biggest hits is behind bars tonight.

He was convicted by a New York jury today of rape and committing a criminal sexual act

after a month-long trial featuring testimony from multiple women who said he assaulted them.

While he was acquitted of three other charges, the 67-year-old could still face decades in prison.

Today's verdict was the end of a stunning fall from grace for one of the movie industry's most powerful men.

And it represents a milestone in the Me Too movement.

Jureka Duncan leads off our coverage tonight.

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