angeles. i m trace gallagher in for bret baier. the crisis at the southern border spreading beyond major cities. we will look at how businesses are contacted by the record surge, plus, whatever happened to the russian military contractor the wagner group? and bret baier explains what additional infrastructure the u.s. may need to meet the biden administration s electric vehicle goals. but, first breaking tonight, president joe biden prepares to win over voters after what many say was a tough year. the president is on a family vacation in the caribbean amid the expanding conflict in the middle east, the war in ukraine and as the prices at the border as well as to record numbers these challenge also remain flash points in 2024. as a new fox poll shows how voters think this year has gone. just 24% think 2023 was a good year. while that number has steadily risen since 2020, it is still 13 percentage points lower than it was in 2019. lucas tomlinson is traveling with the preside
he claims to have personally witnessed interference by joe biden s doj. when i took control of this particular investigation, i immediately saw her, you know, it was way outside the norm of what i had experienced in the past. there was multiple steps that were slow walked at the direction of the department of justice. have you ever encounter that before? i had not, no. these were deviations from the normal process, and each and every time, it seemed to always benefit the subject. it just got to that point where that switch was turned on and i just couldn t silence my conscience anymore. greg: he may have a point about it being slow walked. it has taken five years to look into hunter s potential tax crimes in the shady income he earned overseas while pops was vp peered flying in the face of what biden s ag said under oath. will you commit the investigation will actually examine the public corruption aspect and not simply scapegoat hunter biden as an individual? i c
holidayh. or pkets soaring. i ielesith aokow fliers are with busy airports. on the ground, some lodges and campgrounds in the west still closed by snow. plus, training mission gone wrong. an f-18 fighter jet crashes, but the pilot survives. smoke alert. wildfires in canada choke skies as far south as colorado and utah. and later, staying the course. why this teacher at 94 has no plans to retire. i m going the try to come next year if they ll take me. announcer: this is the cbs weekend news from chicago with adriana diaz. good evening. we begin tonight with a bold move by ukraine s president volodymyr zelenskyy to shore up allied support against russia. zelenskyy arrived in hiroshima, japan, for face-to-face meetings with leaders of the world s richest democracies. he is urging them to stick with ukraine as russia bets on the west growing fatigued by the cost of the war. moments after landing, zelenskyy tweeted that peace will become closer today. cbs s elizabe
default on january 1st, if a deal is not reached on the debt ceiling. the pressure weighing on president biden and house speaker kevin mccarthy ahead of their next meeting which is now just hours away. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments. i want to go to first nbc s garrett haake on capitol hill ahead of the critical meeting between biden and mccarthy. we just heard from mccarthy moments ago. what did he have to say? reporter: this comes after negotiators from the white house had been meeting for three hours this morning. mccarthy took some questions from reporters about the outlines of these negotiations and i asked him specifically what he would need to see to feel like there was real progress today in his meeting with the president. here s what he told me. decisions have to start being made. it s been days now. the president has to be serious. i have been very clear from the very beginning, we are in this problem because when the democra
with just a week to go until the king s coronation, preparations for street parties across the uk are well underway. now on bbc news, extreme conservation: the maldives. i m michaela strachan, a wildlife presenter with a passion for conservation. for the past 35 years, my work has taken me all over the world and in that time, i ve seen huge changes many due to climate change. in extreme conservation, we travel to different countries, meeting inspirational people. hello! ..with new ideas. this time, i m in the maldives. this seems like paradise but behind all the beauty and the luxury lodges lies a very real and looming threat, and that s climate change, which is literally washing these stunning coral islands off the map. as soon as they realise i m from the maldives, they re like, oh, when is it sinking? i got to get there before it sinks. the maldives needs solutions, and it needs them fast. our islands are eroding at an alarming rate. we depend solely on our coral reef