helping his son obtain a gun? breaking news: derek chauvin sentenced: a federal judge gives the former officer 21 years for violating george floyd s civil rights. remembering a hollywood icon: the godfather star james caan dies after a six-decade career. cbs carter evans has a story about why you could see lower prices on your next purchase.xt. and honoring great americans: the 17 civilians awarded the presidential medal of freedom at the white house. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. duncan: good evening, to our viewers in the west, and thank you for joining us on this thursday night. i m jericka duncan in for norah. tonight, british prime minister boris johnson is stepping down following months of scandals, but he s not leaving right away. the embattled leader says he will stay on until his chosen successor comes in setember. his three years in office very plagued by controversy including his handling
he put them up for auction online, netting more than a quarter of a million dollars. he s used the money to rebuild schools, repairing windows, and basketball courts, even sending kids to camps. what are you more proud of? that time with the n.b.a., or your time now, helping with these kids? i think to help my country, it s more important. reporter: and today, what s your dream? my dream to get ukraine free, wealthy, and independent. reporter: chris livesay, cbs news, kyiv. duncan: what an example. well, back here at home, climate change and rising sea levels are threatening historic jamestown, virginia. it was the first permanent english settlement in the new world, and is now among the nation s most endangered sites. in tonight s eye on america, cbs kris van cleave has an update on the race to save
from an archaeologist we might not know much. americans thought the settlement were underwater but he had a hunch, and luckily for us he followed it. over 50 years ago i came to this spot. i was on a tour with a park ranger, and i saw exposed bank where they could actually see y could see soil layers. and one of them was a dark layer and there was, there were artifacts sticking out and i wasn t an architect at the time, but i thought it was pretty cool. i asked thet. ranger, where s t fort? he said it s washed into the river, it s way out there. and i said what about this dark layer? and he goes he couldn t answer me. without you doing that, do you think this would have been found? i don t think so. there s a theory that let s not disturb the past. but you had a different sneelg. i said go for it. time in my life to catch the brass ring. that decision to dig deeper unlocked a door into america s
cranium.m. and we alsowb found a tibia, yo shin bone. and these belonged to a young engli english woman about 14 years of age when sheof died. we saw the same markings on her bone that we had seen on the dog and the horse, which were evidence of processing. she was without a doubt eaten. the struggles of jamestown were verytr real there were som glimmers of hope in this newly forminged society. obviously the first seven years in this settlementy tremendously difficult and there was a b lot of death. but what about new life? what about children? there were women and men here, they started families, didn t they? there were children here pretty early on. and some of them made it to adulthood. and the colony survives. the men who fought, the stories of families that formed, now unearthed by piecing together treasures under the
and learn more about the kinds of plans that will be here for you now and down the road. i have a lifetime of experience. so i know how important that is. some fascinating new research is shedding light on a horrific chapter in american history. it happened more than 400 years ago in the colony called jamestown. the settlers were starving to death, and scientists today say it looks like they resorted to some of the most desperate acts imaginable. here s cnn s lisa sylvester. they came by the ship with their hope, jamestown, the first permanent english colony in north america in 1607. it was long believed that james fort on the island had over time washed away, but beginning in 1994 archaeologists began finding the remains of the original four.