Tom Hanson

2 weeks ago | cbsnews.com | Tom Hanson |Stations. His in-depth |programs. He |Laura Geller

New York City — Every time Jorge Badilla shifts into gear, he's sitting in the driver's seat of an industry that's running on fumes. According to the American Trucking Association, the industry is currently facing a shortage of about 60,000 drivers. With each mile, the 48-year-old Badilla is filling a critical need and mapping out a future he never thought he'd have. "I have an opportunity to do something positive for my life," Badilla told CBS News.

2 weeks ago | cbsnews.com | Laura Geller |Tom Hanson |Stations. His in-depth |programs. He

Niamh Winright's worst nightmare began with a loud bang. Then came the sound of shattering glass and the piercing echoes of gunfire. Reality set in. She was caught in the middle of a school shooting. On the morning of Oct. 24, 2022, panic swept through the joint campus of the Central Visual and Performing Arts High School and the Collegiate School of Medicine and Bioscience in St. Louis, Missouri. The 911 calls began pouring in as a gunman entered the building.

3 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Tom Hanson

NowI got to try Samsung's new ultra-thin S25 Edge smartphoneThe Samsung S25 Edge promises feature parity with the Galaxy S25 Ultra in a much thinner body. On Monday night, Samsung finally lifted the veil off the Galaxy S25 Edge. Just a few hours prior to that, I got to put my grubby little fingers all over it.

1 month ago | cbsnews.com | Tom Hanson |Aparna Zalani |Rachel L. Gold |Justin Sherman

In the U.S., thousands of donated organs never reach the patients who need them. CBS News found that last year, one in three kidneys recovered from deceased donors were never transplanted. Specialized organ recovery teams made more than 26 million attempts to place these kidneys with transplant centers, offering them again and again in search of a suitable match--before they were ultimately discarded as medical waste. And it's not just kidneys.

Jan 13, 2025 | cbsnews.com | Tom Hanson |Alicia Hastey

The scene in the Los Angeles area over the last week has become heartbreakingly familiar — people on the run and watching helplessly as unrelenting flames destroy homes and whole neighborhoods. Crystal Scott grew up playing in the picturesque San Gabriel Mountains, but her home at the base of the mountains was one of thousands destroyed in the Eaton Fire. "I'm very devastated. Our families worked hard to put us here and to establish us," Scott told CBS News.