in spirit. plus, celebrating orthodox christmas in ukraine. no cease-fire, but new american firepower heads to the front lines. i m ian lee in kyiv with ukraine being promised heavy weapons that the pentagon says can change the battlefield. weekend journal, a minnesota cancer survivor pays it back by sharing her hair. wow! and later, double duty on capitol hill. the four-day stalemate complicated lives and child care. challenging, but it s been fun. announcer: this is the cbs weekend news from chicago with adriana diaz. good evening. it took 15 ballots and heated moments, but tonight congress finally has a new house speaker. kevin mccarthy won early this morning, putting an end to days of raucous debate and a historic standoff with emboldened hard-line republicans. the gop s strife playing out for all to see and ending with arm twisting, flaring tempers and phone calls from former president donald trump. cbs christina ruffini leads us off with what happen
putin meets. ukraine is turning the tide in the war and taking key territory. first, 20 hours that matter a whole lot, very lot to your life. the biden white house has a deal in place to avert a major rail strike. the 20 hours of negotiations included a call from president biden, who reportfully sided with union real workers. amtrak is scrambling to get back on the rails trains its canceled as it anticipated the strike. the president holding a rose garden event to savor the moment. it would have meant shortages of key goods and price spikes on everything from gas to key groceries and more. every good you need, is delivered on a rail where it needs to go. today is a win, i mean this sincerely, a win for america. straight to the white house. k walk us through how this happened. reporter: it s not only a big win for president biden but a big relief for the white house, who thought economic consequences would look severe. had they not gone to the deadline on friday. that
mind. i don t know. i don t know. i really don t know. this is a cat that meant a lot of things to a lot of people. i have tried to be very thoughtful and respectful of that. and if i ever felt that it would be appropriate, i think i would. i ve tried very hard not to make this mine. i tried to make this what i really honest live thought would be the voice of this cat. and it really belongs to everyone else. i m not planning anything. all right. we ll wait and see. we are looking at the iconic pictures. eric spiegelman, thank you so much and bless p-22. absolutely. we ll miss him. all right. i m sara sidner to for fredricka whitfield. thank you for joining us. it is 1:00 eastern time. we have breaking news for you. a deadly and dangerous winter storm is wreaking havoc across the united states. we are learning of new throeuf threatening situations unfoldings al we speak in upstate new york. officials there say there are hundreds of cars that are still stranded in buffalo
we begin with an alarming outbreak that has some u.s. hospitals struggling. the common but potentially deadly respiratory virus called rsv is spreading rapidly among children. doctors telling cnn the spike is unprecedented for this time of year. cnn s brian todd has more on this troubling surge. the drive to the emergency room was really scary and really intense. reporter: this mother of a 5-year-old who was hospitalized with difficulty breathing told us of an anxious drive to the emergency room. things eventually had gotten worse since we were admitted. i have seen starting last night that he is progressively having a harder time breathing. rsv is one of the scariest infections in a child, especially when it s in your baby. so you will see your baby breathing really, really fast and you feel like there is nothing that you can do. reporter: around the country doctors are reporting a spike in cases of rsv, respiratory syncytial virus, a common respiratory illness tha
the illegal server taking the fifth, i think it s disgraceful. have you seen what is going on in front of congress? fifth amendment, fifth amendment, fifth amendment. horrible. horrible! the lawyers are deposing trump in a civil investigation by the new york attorney general. she s looking into the donald trump organization s allegedly misleading of lenders and insurers and tax authorities by providing inaccurate financial statements. add this to the list of legal troubles facing the former president. including a probe of documents. monday s search has his supporters urging him to move up the announcement of the 2024 run. cnn has the latest on the deposition from outside the new york attorney general s office. what is the president saying about why he took the fifth? reporter: well, victor, as you have played in the montage, you can see it s a different tune today that the former president saying he s not answering questions and asserting his fifth amendment right. in a l