simply unthinkable! norah: plus, we hear from the greatest generation. what were you fighting for? freedom. norah: the cbs evening news starts now. 80 years later, the world remembers the soldiers, sailors, and airmen of the allied expeditionary force. good evening. i m norah o donnell, and thank you being with us. the sun rose over normandy s cliffs this morning, just as it did on june 6, 1944, as the liberation of western europe began with the largest amphibious invasion in history. president biden joined other world leaders to honor the bravery and sacrifice of the d-day heroes. he drew a straight line from the fight for freedom in world war ii to the fight against russia s aggression now, saying, freedom is worth it. democracy is worth it. the world is worth it. cbs mornings anchor tony dokoupil is at the american cemetery in normandy. good evening, tony. reporter: good evening, norah. you know, with all world war ii veterans now in their upper 90s or
to bow down to dictators is simply unthinkable. norah: plus, we hear from the greatest generation. what were you fighting for? freedom. norah: the cbs evening news starts now. 80 years later, the world remembers of the soldiers, sailors, and airmen of the allied expeditionary force. good evening, i m norah o donnell come and thank you being with us. the sun rose over normandy s cliffs this mornings, just as it did on june 6th, 1944, as the liberation of western europe began with the largest amphibious invasion in history. president biden joined other world leaders to honor the bravery and sacrifice of the d-day heroes. he drew a straight line from the fight for freedom and world war ii to the fight against russia s aggression now, saying freedom is worth it. democracy is worth it. the world is worth it. cbs mornings anchor at tony dokoupil is at the american cemetery in normandy. good evening, tony. reporter: good evening, norah. you know with all world wa
which we are we going? reporter: mayor darnell waites showed us baker s challenges. everything that i do is infrastructure. reporter: you know what the problems are, why don t you just fix it? it takes money. and there s a lot of other things that are going on at the same time. you want infrastructure, but you want to be safe. 50% of my budget is public safety, and everything else goes towards infrastructure. reporter: where is that money going to come from? well, revenue, but basically come it comes from state government and federal funding. reporter: in 2021, congress allocated more than $1 trillion to rebuild america s infrastructures. louisiana republican senator bill cassidy was instrumental in negotiating that deal. if you re talking about communities that are in genuine need of significant infrastructure help, if these communities are complaining, that the federal government has not stepped up, how would you respond? during the covid epidemic, billions were s
Voters in Baker selected Robert Young as their new District 4 council representative on Saturday, April 27. East Baton Rouge Parish residents also OK'd two tax propositions.