this is gops. the global public square. welcome to you around the united states and the world. i m fareed zakaria live from new york. today on the program, what would it take for ukraine to win this war? i ll put that question to two of america s top military officials. general david petraeus and james. do gas prices trump human rights? i ll ask an expert. and the federal reserve acts boldly to get inflation under control. will it work? i ll ask rana. first, here s my take. in 1942, winston churchill tried to ready the british people for a long conflict. referring to the allied victory in egypt, he said, this is not the end, it is not even the beginning of the end. but it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning. when we think of it in those terms, what phase are we witnessing in the war in ukraine? we are likely in the middle, explains gid eon rose, an excellent book how wars end. he points out that every war begins like a chess game, with a dramatic attack and a defense.
plus, american innovation. how some cities are battling the heat, by changing the color of their roads. take a look at this a beach-goer captures the momnt a small plane crashes into the ocean. and, on the road. making a young boy s dream come true, and inspiring others in the process. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. norah o donnell, reporting garrett: good evening, to our viewers in the west, and thank you for joining us. i m major garrett, in for norah. tonight, the president is in covid isolation in the white house residence, but keeping up a brisk work pace, that according to his spokesperson. mr. biden, 79, held a virtual meeting with his advisors to survey turbulent economic trends and still above-average gas prices. he appeared in good spirits, but his voice sounded a bit hoarse. he gave reporters a thumbs up when they asked how he was feeling. the president s doctors say his symptoms have impro
railways. we start with the war in ukraine, and russia is denying that its invasion has caused a global food crisis, despite the fact that we ve seen soaring wheat prices driven by the collapse of ukrainian exports. its foreign minister, sergey lavrov, is in the turkish capital, ankara, for talks with his turkish counterpart mevlut cavusoglu. on the agenda creating a potential sea corridor for ukrainian agricultural exports. throughout the war, russia has been blockading black sea ports, including odesa. 20 million tonnes of grain is now stuck there grain many countries are reliant on. but mr lavrov says the onus is on ukraine to demine the waters around them, which were laid by ukraine as part of its defence. here s mr lavrov. to resolve this problem, we need one thing for the ukrainians to allow access to their ports, either by demining or the provision of safe corridors. nothing more is required. ukraine wants proper assurances that any safe, demined pathway wouldn t
we don t understand exactly what happened, but i think that they should have gone in and secured that are you saying that your brother went inside when he first arrived at the school and stayed inside and did not retreat as some have suggested? right. they did not retreat, and so the shooter was down. they were in there that entire time. a bit of hindsight where i m sitting now, of course it was not the right decision, it was the wrong decision. there is no excuse for that. but, again, i wasn t there the, but i m just telling you from what we know, we believe there should have been an entry. hey, when there s an active shooter, the rules change. neil: five days after the shooting, still questions as to could a number of them have been prevented. welcome, everybody, i m neil cavuto, and this is cavuto live. for the next two hours, we re going to be exploring exactly what happened in texas and the mixed signals we re getting out of that school and what happened in t
residents of uvalde, texas, are holding vigils for the 19 children and two teachers gunned down inside robb elementary school by an 18-year-old high school dropout. and people are leaving flowers and balloons at a makeshift memorial outside the school in the largely latino community not far from the border with mexico. and we are learning the names of some of the victims, mostly 9 and 10-year-old children. the justice of the peace in uvalde says some of the bodies are being released to funeral homes as families make their arrangements. more now on the investigation from cnn s jason carol. reporter: 11:21 a.m., the time stamp from a text message the gunman sent saying he s just shot his grandmother. the gunman was 18 years old and reportedly a high school dropout. reportedly there has been no criminal history identified yet. there was no known mental health history of the gunman. reporter: soon after that text message to a girl ramos met online, another one saying he w