Tonight, heavy rain and snow slammed the west.

Winter weather alerts are now in effect for more than a dozen states.

Highways closed, hundreds left stranded, as more than two inches of snow per hour fall in some areas will have the latest forecast.

Travel woes, after days of cancellation chaos. Southwest

Airlines tells customers when it hopes flights will return to normal. CBS's Michael George

has the update. Santos under fire. Constituents demand that congressman-elect George Santos

resign after even more lies emerge.

CBS's Scott McFarlane is on Capitol Hill.

Remembering the greatest. International soccer icon, Hale, dies at 82.

We take a look at his legendary impact on and off the field and reaction from around the world.

Unsafe maneuver, the U.S. military's close call with the Chinese fighter jet.

And the meeting of family will show you how a St. Louis couple opened up their home to overcome tragedy.

Music opened up their home to overcome tragedy. This is the CBS evening news with Nora O'Donnell, reporting from the nation's capital.

Good evening and thank you for joining us.

I'm Jerika Duncan in for Nora.

Tonight, the sports world is mourning the passing of soccer superstar Pele at the age of 82. His fellow

Brazilian footballer Neymar wrote on Instagram, Pele made soccer into art. Also tonight, embattled

New York congressman-elect George Santos's own constituents are calling on him to resign after he lied about his faith and linked his mother's death to the September 11th attacks.

But first, a major storm system moves across the western part of the country, dumping nearly a foot of snow in parts of Colorado, shutting down an interstate

and leaving drivers stranded for more than nine hours. Heading into another holiday weekend,

more rain and snow is in the forecast from California to the Rocky Mountains, and a separate

system will bring heavy rain to much of the East Coast. Reporter Jasmine Arenas from our CBS station in Denver starts us off tonight.

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