forcing evacuations with the worst still days away. in california, communities bracing for epic flooding there from the meltdown of record snow. plus, tens of millions in texas and florida on the lookout for tornadoes and large hail. also tonight, the woman who accused former president trump of rape and defamation takes the stand in his civil trial. what she says about their alleged encounter years ago. the former president s denial. disney fires back suing florida governor ron desantis in their feud about free speech and the future of disney world. just breaking, republicans in the montana legislature punish a transgender lawmaker barred from speaking on the floor. the pastor killed, police say, by a man he stopped to help. it turned out to be an inmate escaped from jail. the violent standoff and manhunt ongoing. menopause and money. the new data on the billions in lost work. how some businesses are changing their thinking. and a song that echoes through the
weinstein are now living proof. now 94, rita, a holocaust survivor remembers fleeing the nazis as a teen in eastern europe and hid with a group of resistance fighters whose leaders included asael bielski. he says that was his father. more than 100 family members in the ghetto, in the camp, but two sisters and her mom survived. all because of bielski. reporter: last week outside chicago the two met for the very first time. thanks to violins of hope, weinstein s family collection of 100 stringed instruments, which includes many once owned by those who perished in the holocaust and those who survived. assaela hen his father, violinmakers, restored them and tour around the world. the collection now spending six months around chicago at a crucial time.
for the olympics. a delta airlines charter took off from lax with about 100 athletes on board. remaining team members will leave over the next few days. usually these u.s. olympic teams don t travel together in large numbers, but, yep, the charter was in response to those covid restrictions and we wish them the best. all right a story of american kindness and good sportsmanship, fans of the kansas city chiefs are donating in honor of the buffalo bills and quarterback josh allen after last week s nail biting play, chiefs fans started donating money to a bills children s hospital. so far kansas fans have donated over $300,000. how great is that. don t you love that? up next, a holocaust survivor s use of social media to reach the next generation.
speaking to the bbc about his team and what they experienced. the team was in some ways reluctant to leave for two reasons, heavy shelling and firing outside but at one point there were tanks surrounding the building and the russians were very much in control of that sector of the town. it enabled two things, and enable them to see what was happening to the woman they went to catch up with and the doctors treating them but also to see the actual bombardment from the outskirts of the city by the russians. it is the elderly and the infirm who suffer the most. i want to tell you about this man. this is 96 year old, boris romanshenko, a holocaust survivor who died friday in his apartment block that was hit in the eastern city of kharkiv. in 1942 he was rounded up by nazi troops after the invasion of the soviet union,
REMEMBERING HOLOCAUST VICTIMS. Six candles are lighted at the Philippine-Israel Friendship Park in Quezon City on Thursday (Jan. 27, 2022) to commemorate the six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust. At the time of the Holocaust, Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. said the refuge the Philippines gave to the fleeing victims under President Manuel L. Quezon's Open Door Policy was a defining moment in the country's friendship with the Jews. (Photo courtesy of Israel Embassy in Manila) MANILA The Philippines and Israel on Thursday honored the memory of the victims of the Holocaust, the darkest point in history that saw the mass murder of around six million Jews. "Six million Jews were murdered - one-third of the Jewish population, only because they were Jewish," Ambassador Ilan Fluss said during a symposium hosted by the Israel Embassy in Manila and the Department of Education (DepEd). "We are gathered today to remember and commemorate the Holocaust