margaret. >> brennan: carter evans in los angeles. in nashville, four days after that devastating bombing, residents and business owners were allowed back inside that heavily damaged neighborhood today. meanwhile, investigators are zeroing in on the bomber's motives. here's cbs' mola lenghi. ( explosion ) >> reporter: nashville police body cam footage released late last night shows the dramatic aftermath of the christmas day blast. today, some of those evacuees were escorted back to the scene to survey the damage... >> sweet and sad, all at the same time. >> reporter: ...including noelle and jeffrey rasmussen, who shot this video. you're going to go back and see your kids now. what do you tell them? >> i've really been struggling with what to tell my four-year- old. it was a really striking picture of our window blown out, and our christmas tree still standing there. >> reporter: f.b.i. and a.t.f. response teams continue to recover evidence at the bomb scene, hoping to figure out why 63-year-old anthony warner blew up his r.v. ( explo

norah. >> o'donnell: carter evans, thank you. tonight doctors tell this surge is the worse since the pandemic the pandemic began and they may not be able to care for future patients. nevada has the highest number of covid hospitalizations per capita. and tonight david begnaud shows how one hospital was forced to take drastic measures. >> reporter: renown health in reno, nevada services one million people, over 100,000 square miles. and now the hospital is in crisis mode. look at what they have had to resort to. they're putting patients in their parking garage. >> our front line caregivers are seeing things that they never would have imagined. >> reporter: anthony slonim is president and c.e.o. of renown health. for him covid is personal. >> this condition took my father's life. we couldn't be there for him, but i know as a former i.c.u. doctor but they were there comforting him. >> reporter: on the day that slonim's father died, the field hospital opened. 265 people have been treated here in just the last three weeks. >> nobody w

here is cbs' carter evans. >> i'm not trying to victimize myself. i don't want pity. i don't deserve pity. we messed up. >> reporter: olivia jade giannulli revealed her parents, lori loughlin and mossimo giannulli, did not tell her about the admissions scandal but she quickly found details online and confronted them. >> they didn't really have much to say except, "i'm so sorry. i really messed up in trying to give the best to you and your sister." >> reporter: on facebook watch, she told jada pinkett smith she initially didn't see anything wrong with her parents' half-million-dollar scheme to get their daughters into u.s.c. >> i walked around my whole 20 years of life not realizing you have insane privilege. you're like the poster child of white privilege. you have no idea. >> reporter: both parents are now in prison. loughlin has served one month. >> she gets to rethink everything that happened, hopefully will be a blessing in the end. >> reporter: carter evans, cbs news, los angeles. >> o'donnell: and coming up next, we'll remember chuck yeager the test pilot who he

major. >> garrett: carter evans, thank you. tonight, an army green beret is being held without bond in the killing of three people at a bowling alley this weekend in rockford, illinois. authorities say 37-year-old sergeant duke webb randomly shot and killed three men between 65 and 73 years old. three others including two teenagers were also wounded. sergeant webb has served four deployments to afghanistan. his lawyer says webb may suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder. a prominent saudi arabian activist who helped lead the push to allow women to drive cars in the kingdom was sentenced today to nearly six years in prison. saudi officials charged her under the country's anti- terrorism law, saying that she was pursuing what they call a foreign agenda. here's cbs's holly williams. >> reporter: loujain al-hathloul dared to take the wheel in saudi arabia when it was banned by the conservative islamic kingdom. posting the evidence of her crimes on the internet in protest. she was arrested in 2018, ironically just weeks before s

norah. >> o'donnell: carter evans, thank you. well, tonight, last-minute demands from a small group of senators are leaving the $900 billion covid relief bill on hold. the gridlock means americans hoping for a stimulus check will have to keep waiting. cbs' nancy cordes is at the capitol tonight. so, nancy, we kept saying that a deal was close. what's happened? >> reporter: norah, what's happened is that republicans tried to insert a provision that democrats argue would tie the hands of the incoming biden administration. this is a measure authored by pennsylvania republican pat toomey. it would pare back some of the lending powers the federal reserve had this year to try to prevent an economic crisis. so, that's the big sticking point right now. and until they work this out, the entire $900 billion relief bill is hanging in the balance-- the stimulus checks, the unemployment benefits-- all of it. and now, congressional leaders ch atelling us they don't think they'll be able to reach a deal tonight after all. they think it might ta

we get more now from cbs' carter evans. >> there's a quick shot taken in. it's loose! >> reporter: during her professional soccer career rachel van hollebeke competed in the world cup and earned two olympic gold medals. now, instead of dribbling the ball, she juggles patients at a san diego-area hospital. what sort of traits or skills did you bring to medicine from soccer? >> team work. understanding your role on a team. >> reporter: van hollebeke graduated from medical school just before covid-19 gained traction. the family medicine resident has already seen the crisis firsthand. >> i don't want to be, like, a fearful person, but it's a very, very real disease, and it is very dangerous. every patient you encounter, you're prepared in case somebody is covid positive. >> reporter: medicine is in rachel's blood. she follows three generations of doctors, including her father, and now even her little sister. >> it just makes me feel proud, you know, that i've had a family y givhas really given a lot back to society, to humanity, in to society, to humanity, in caring for pe

carter evans. >> reporter: the massive wildfires burned through california burned with intensity many had not seen before. moving at unprecedented speeds. some barely made it out alive. >> every fire that starts has the potential to grow like we've never seen it before. >> reporter: cal fire san diego unit chief turning to statewide network of nearly 650 fire cameras. as soon as a flare-up is spotted, firefighters remotely control nearby cameras to triangulate the location. when you pinpoint where a fire s how quickly are you acting on it versus without the camera? >> used to take us 20, 30 minutes to get to the fire, now we're doing within seconds. >> reporter: how much of a difference does the first few minutes make? >> i can't put it into words. dispatchers start moving additional resources to the fire before the first are on scene asking for that. >> built the modern day fire tower. >> reporter: part of a nonprofit, alert wildfire. proposed adding cameras to remote seismic stations after close call at his own home. took us to one atop palomar mountain in san diego county. >> on cl

as carter evans shows us, it could have a devastating impact on movie theaters already hit very hard by the pandemic. >> reporter: releasing a movie simultaneously in theaters and online was almost unheard of less than a year ago. but when "wonder woman 1984" premiers christmas day in theaters, it will be the first of warner brothers' entire 2021 roster of new movies to be released in theaters and on streaming service, hbo max at the same time. >> it sort of redefines what a blockbuster looks like. >> reporter: matt donnelly is a senior writer for "variety." >> is this the end of movie theaters as we know it in. >> absolutely, they're suffering incredible losses, now we are heading into another round of extreme closures, i think it will ultimately change. >> reporter: warner brothers is releasing 17 most anticipated films of the year, including "suicide squad." remake of classic "do you know." and "the heist." >> how does it work financially. >> the incentive is drive subscriber growth when all 17 movies come out, they'll have a higher number of subscribers than now. >> reporter: in

carter evans reports. >> i don't want pitty. i don't deserve pitty. we messed up. i just want a second chance to be like a recognize i messed up. >> in the first public comments, she recalls the moment she found out her parents were arrested, telling red table talk co-host she was on a spring break trip when she got a call asking if she spoken to her mother. >> i didn't know what she was talking about. i was like, i'm just going to search my mom's name up. and then it's everywhere. and i remember just like freezing and feeling so ashamed. >> lori! >> last year lori loughlin and her husband were accused of paying half a million dollars to get their two daughters into usc. after initially fighting the charges, the couple pleaded guilty in may and are now in federal prison. giannulli five months and loughlin two months. >> i'm super close with my parents, especially my mom. she's my best friend. i know she's strong and a good reflection period. >> the 21-year-old said at first she didn't see anything wrong with what her parents did. >> my parents came from a place of

carter evans is in mapasadena. >> huntington hospital behind me has treated nearly 1500 covid patients here since the start of the pandemic and patient numbers are only expected to raise after the holiday season. in fact, governor gavin newsom now warning hospitalizations could double in the next month. california's battered hospitals are bracing for another coronavirus surge after the holidays. in hard-hit los angeles county, icus are completely full. and about 600 people test positive every hour. >> i think we're now in a viral tsunami. >> dr. robert farley is an epidemiologist. >> the people we're seeing in the hospital now, is that still the thanksgiving surge? >> yes, that's the reality of it. we're still in for a big viral wildfire. we have this light at the end of the tunnel. the vaccine that's coming. what's happening is this tunnel is looking uglier and uglier every day. >> reporter: a demand for that vaccine is evident across the country. hundreds of seniors lined up for hours to get vaccinated at a florida community center on monday. and in new york, the owner of a network o

carter evans shows how the cameras are making a big difference. the massive wildfires that burned through california burned with an intensity few have seen before. entire towns over run by flames moving at unprecedented speeds and some barely made it out alive. >> every fire that starts has this potential to grow like we've never seen it grow before. >> reporter: now firefighters like cal fire san diego unit chief tony meachem are turning to a statewide network of 650 fire cameras. as soon as a flare-up is spotted, firefighters remotely control nearby cameras to try angulate its location. >> when you pinpoint with a camera where a fire is, how quickly are you acting on that versus without a camera? >> the things that used to take us 20, 30 minutes to get to the fire and make those decisions now we're doing within seconds. >> reporter: how much of a difference does the first few minutes make? >> i can't even put it into words. our dispatchers will start moving additional resources before the first fire engines are on scene asking for that. what we'

carter evans is in santa monica, california, in a county where every icu bed is full. >> reporter: after millions of americans crossed the country and gathered over the holidays, experts are warning of another surge on top of a surge. as we get into the next few weeks, it might actually get worse. >> reporter: adding to those concerns, the spread of the new more contagious virus. it's been found in france, australia, japan and now canada. experts believe the strain is likely already here in the u.s. but dr. fauci says public health officials worldwide are monitoring the situation. >> does it make someone more ill, is it more serious virus in the sense of virulence and the answer is it doesn't appear to be that way. >> reporter: the numbers in the u.s. are already staggering. roughly 200,000 cases daily. nearly 120,000 people currently hospitalized and more than 2,000 people dying every single day. yet, there are still people ignoring public health rules. in beverly hills, california, the famous la scala restaurant was reported to authorities by its own customers after giving out invitati

have a book by evan that just came out on joe biden, evan won the national book award on china he is a new yorker staff writer and he is gone to cover he's been covering biden for many years and we think -- we hope this will be the book that everybody turned to to understand joe biden. host: jonathan, president and ceo of simon & schuster, a couple of years ago book tv wenp into the headquarters building in new york city of simon & schuster and did a tour, if you would like to watch that you can type in jonathan karp in the search function at booktv.org, thank you for spending a few minutes with us. >> thank you. host: in 2007 on book tv in-depth program these authors appeared, bj or work the political humorist, barbara aaron wright, luke, michael, edward, christopher hitchens, david horowitz, vince and newt gingrich, dan in massachusetts, good afternoon. who are you reading and who is your favorite in-depth guest, who is an author you would like to recommend. >> i would be glad to tell you, first of all i want to compliment you on the wonderful job of book tv, it was very interestin