President-elect Joe Biden has chosen retired General Lloyd Austin to be his defense secretary. CBS News correspondent Nikole Killion joins CBSN to discuss what makes the pick so historic. Source

The U.S. recorded its deadliest week of the pandemic since April when more than 15,000 people died as a result of the virus last week, pushing the total number of coronavirus-related deaths past 283,000. CBS News correspondent Debra Alfarone joins CBSN AM to discuss when the country may expect a rollout of a vaccine. Source

Forbes magazine has released its list of the world’s most powerful women. German Chancellor Angela Merkel and U.S. Vice President-elect Kamala Harris are among the top names. CBSN’s Tanya Rivero has more. Source

President-elect Joe Biden is pledging to change the course of the pandemic in the U.S. He introduced key members of his administration’s health team Tuesday afternoon. CBS News political correspondent Ed O’Keefe and Boston Globe deputy Washington bureau chief Liz Goodwin join CBSN’s “Red & Blue” host Elaine Quijano to discuss what Mr. Biden aims to accomplish when he enters the White House. Source

Legendary pilot Chuck Yeager, most famously known for breaking the sound barrier in October 1947, has died at the age of 97. Jericka Duncan has more on his life and accomplishments. Source

Body camera video shows a police officer in Lodi, California rush to rescue a man in a wheelchair who was stuck on train tracks. Officer Erica Urrea pulled the man to safety seconds before a train barreled by – saving his life. Source

Body camera footage from two of George Floyd’s arresting officers shows him sobbing and pleading. This comes more than 11 weeks after Floyd’s death, when protests over racial inequality in policing have not disappeared. On average, Black men and women are five times more likely to be apprehended by the police, compared to White people. Too often, those encounters prove to be violent. Michelle Miller reports. Source

California firefighters are turning to a statewide network of nearly 650 cameras to quickly locate a fire and send resources. Carter Evans went to San Diego County to see the system firsthand. Source

US Marshals said the deputy shot Goodson after he saw him “waving a gun” and ignored an order to drop his weapon — but Goodson’s family said he was holding sandwiches before he was shot in the back on his grandmother’s doorstep. Source

“When it was happening it didn’t feel wrong. I was in my own little bubble, focusing on my comfortable world, that I never had to look outside of that bubble,” she says. Source