Three, two, one, one.

Tonight, Elon Musk's growing influence as Donald Trump joins the world's richest man for the launch of SpaceX's mega rocket.

Plus, a hacker gains access to witness testimony from investigations into Matt Gates.

What it could mean for his Attorney General nomination.

Are you reconsidering a nomination of Matt Gates?

If somebody walks in with an AR-15, what happens?

She is going to click this button, dispatch.

Eye on America, the high-tech solutions some schools are using to protect their students.

And extreme weather on both coasts, with a bomb cyclone set to slam the west. We've got the

latest forecast. The CBS evening news starts now. Good evening. I'm Nora O'Donnell, and thank you

for joining us. We want to begin with President-elect Trump and the influence of the world's richest man,

Elon Musk, on the launch of the next Trump administration. The two men are near the southernmost

point in Texas this evening for the latest test flight of SpaceX's Starship Rocket. Musk, meanwhile,

has been helping to engineer Trump's new administration. Today, the president-elect picks

celebrity Dr. Mehmet

Oz to serve as administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

That's essentially overseeing health insurance for more than 160 million Americans.

An investment banking CEO, Howard Lutnik, is being tapped to run the Commerce Department,

which means he'll take the lead in enacting Trump's promised tariffs.

And then starting tomorrow, two of Trump's most controversial picks will be on Capitol Hill

with Vice President-elect J.D. Vance. Matt Gates and Pete Hegseth will be working to win over

any skeptical Republican senators in their bids to become Attorney General and Defense Secretary, respectively.

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