stalemate over sending tanks to ukraine. we re going to take you there and report on why this aid is so crucial. not sharing, at least for now. the gop rebuffs an investigation, a move certain to frustrate newly empowered republicans. three active duty marines have been arrested for taking part in the january 6th insurrection. how they landed on the fbi s radar. and new developments in the death of elijah mcclain. the charges. that s coming up on cbs this morning. welcome to weekend, saturday, january 21st. we re grateful to have you with us. our weekend is starting out great. mine is. i get to be with amara walker. and me with you. and i got my chocolate cupcake my daughter baked. please send one in my direction. we ve got a lot to get to. up first, a plea from ukraine. german officials says they won t send their leopard 2 tanks unless the u.s. agrees to send theirs to the battlefield. and president volodymyr zelenskyy said there s no alternative. he said h
fortunately because they re in a war they re not holding session, but unfortunately one person was killed in a blast. in fact, in another town to the south of here, there were about a dozen missiles striking overnight. much talk about the fear of the western allies to come up with some sort of agreement to provide ukraine with these tanks that are so desperately needed. yesterday we were in the embattled city of bakhmut, and we saw there ukrainians are fighting hard, trying to stop the russians from encircling that city. in trenches outside bakhmut, mortar crews are at work. ground footage shows the impact of their rounds on enemy
the neurosurgical block. people suffered because of it. when patients died, another remains in critical condition. one patient died, another remains in critical condition. this footage has been released. they claim shows their mortar crews targeting ukrainian troops, including observation posts and artillery positions. across ukraine the daily struggle to keep the power on has become an important part of the conflict. in the eastern industrial city of kramatorsk workers have been trying to repair the grid as quickly as possible despite the shelling from russian forces. translation: almost every day, the electrical power plant - is stopped because of massive shelling and all the heating supply to the city have also stopped. and every time we are supposed to start again and provide the buildings with heating, and all while having two, three or four air raid
very consistently, that we believe it was an opportunistic attack on our mission, that did not involve significant preplanning. reporter: but those with extensive military experience with mortars strongly disagreed. this was the one piece of evidence that convinces me, and certainly convinces others with experience with mortars or attacks that this was pre-planned, well laid out, well thought-out and reasonably well executed. reporter: in most cases, mortar crews can t see the target, so they re trained to rely on complex maps. the first two missed, but the next three were direct hits. ham testified the mortar crew likely used a spotter to recalibrate. there was no happenstance luck there. they knew exactly how far it was from their mortar round to the target. the suspect links him to the
shooting. it was cheerily accurate. they adjusted their clearly accurate. they adjusted their fire, so they went a little long, they went a little short, they fired for effect. reporter: as this pent gone training video shows, mortar crews have specialized training to prepare the rounds for launch which includes math calculations for distance, direction and altitude. mortars are called indirect fire because this most cases, especially urban environments like benghazi, the crew cannot see the target. given the attack s accuracy, five military officers contacted by fox news concluded the terrorists had preset the location to fire from and also significantly, these mortars were fired in the dead of night, so they did not have a line of sight to the actual target, martha. martha: wow. so what did the former director and his deputy say originally? reporter: well, mike morrell, who is also accused by republicans of misleading the senate intelligence committee in the talking points, tol