i m charlie d agata in kyiv, where a swift russian victory turned into a devastating conflict with no end in sight. plus, new fallout following the toxic train derailment in ohio. we ve got a lot to do to fix this, to make rails safer. back to class. michigan state university moves forward as it begins to heal from last week s mass shooting. and later, insights from our own bob schieffer on covering the nation s 39th president, a period of american upheaval and a leader determined to go his own way. telling the truth has been pretty deeply ingrained in me. announcer: this is the cbs weekend news from new york with jericka duncan. good evening and thank you for joining us on this sunday. today an outpouring of tributes for former president jimmy carter after it was announced that he would be receiving hospice care at home. at age 98, mr. carter is the nation s oldest living president. his decision follows a series of hospital stays and many years of health chal
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in the leadership you ve got that has to deal with the crisis like this at all levels. right? this is the sort of thing that wants you to have really good, really smart, really qualified people in place when this crisis a arising. when this happens now at this point in our country, of course, we have some novel concerns right now in our country that we might not necessarily have with any other president in place, with any other presidential administration in place for example, that statement from the f.a.a. today saying everything is fine as far as they can tell, everything is fine, no need to worry you can see that statement was put out in the name of the acting faa administrator but it is a little bit odd if you think about it this far into the trump administration, more than two years into the trump presidency, why do we still have an acting administrator in place at faa?
and countries around the world and airlines around the world are grounding these flights. sometimes in the middle of flights turning those flights around and grounding them, grounding these planes prohibiting these planes from flying through their air space and throwing global aviation into chaos and maybe this gets fixed by the end of next month? in the meantime, here in the u.s. continue to enjoy your flights on boeing 737 max 8 aircraft. don t worry, the president talks to the boeing ceo on the phone about it all the time. and the president himself knows aviation after all, he had the best pilot you can ever imagine who was amazing. he would have been perfect to run the faa. i don t know why anybody didn t go along with it. or, you know, maybe elaine chow will fix it. so you know, it s easy for
is worth worrying about here, hey, do you maybe want to play golf next week? the president s faa would now be led by the president s pilot from his own private jet if the president had had his way on the matter with the faa, but he didn t. as a consolation prize, we still have no permanent person running that agency more than two years into this presidency. the faa for its part in all this says everything is fine. no need to worry. now congress may try to act including republicans in congress who may try to act. the transportation secretary has the option to act although she is the wife of the top republican in the senate, mitch mcconnell so maybe it s hard to imagine her making such a decision inside the political cross winds. but there is one other piece of