horror, pleading with the u.s. for more weapons as russia expands its onslaught. one single text. tonight the only message the secret service turned over as congress prepares for thursday s prime time hearings that will air here on cbs. baby formula shortage. even with an effort to restock shelves the crisis worsens. we speak to parents struggling to feed their children. remembering ivana trump, the former president and his family mourn its 73 year old. shark sightings near popular beaches and on shore. this is believed to be a baby great white shark on long island. a wrong nearly a century later. this is the this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. o donnell: good evening, thank you for joining us on this wednesday night. tonight it is another day of extreme heat across the country and europe as triple digit temperatures are being felt around the world. more than one-third of the u.s. is under excessive heat warnings and a
strike last week. and she pleaded with america to supply her country with air defense systems to protect civilians. just hours earlier ukraine says this 13 year old boy was killed by a russian strike as he waited for a bus. his father struck silent in his grief. with no end in sight to the carnage russia s foreign minister warned today that the west s supply of long-range weapons to ukraine will only drive moscow to seize more territory. he is talking about these heimar rocket systems sents to the u.s. the ukrainian says they are game changing but america has promised only 16 in total and it is not enough, according to retired u.s. marine cornel andy millburn who served in iraq and somalia. the idea is that are you giving them a significant edge over the russians. millburn s in ukraine with
in his powerful and damning speech to the u.n. security council, president zelenskyy not holding back, accusing russian forces of killing ukrainians for what he called pleasure of torturing innocent civilians. incredibly, russia s ambassador to the u.n. calling zelenskyy s accusations, and i quote, ungrounded and not confirmed by eyewitnesses. i m going to bring in now cnn s ivan watson who is in ukraine for us tonight. ivan? reporter: don, i was really struck by a statement, an announcement made by russia s ambassador to the united nations while speaking at the united nations security council. and he said, quote, we came to you to ukraine not to conquer lands. we came to bring the long-awaited peace to the blood-soaked land of donbas. the actions, though, that we ve seen this week, the fighting alone in the north and the east and the south of the country
and there are fears that the death toll could be higher than in bucha. joining me now to discuss cnn military analyst and retired two-star general dana patard who is the author of hunting the caliphate: america s war on isis and the dawn of the strike cell. thank you, general. appreciate you joining us. good evening, don. did you hear what the guest said, what they re doing is worse than isis now, what russia s doing? what d you think of that? yeah, i did hear that. and what russia is doing is bad. but isis was in its own category of brutality in beheading civilians, beheading hostages, systematically raping women, taking them for slaves and wives, genocidal actions against the yizidi and others. isis was in a different class of brutality. what russia s doing is pretty bad, though.
i think we ve seen some decisions in the last several weeks, good decisions to help ukraine get antiaircraft systems that go against planes flying at 30,000 feet, antiship missiles. but these things, the decision s been taken, it s not clear that these weapons have been delivered. the administration needs to make that a priority. they also need to send tanks, they need to send rocket systems which can travel 30, 40 miles to take out russian forces as russia begins to change its tactics to begin to focus exclusively on the east of ukraine. this is very important. but how long will it take to get these? look, is there enough time now, considering that russia is changing its tactics, and as we look at bucha and we look at what s happening in borodianka, i mean, is there time? there is time to stall the next russian offensive. the ukrainians have beaten back the first russian offensive.