super saturday. also tonight, president biden leaves washington for the holidays. what the economy strong, but some voters saying bahumbug. the campaign season now just days away. in the czech republic, a day of mourning, one of europe s deadliest mass shootings. plus, christmas canceled. cbs chris shows us why bethlehem s big night is silent this year. normally, celebrations would have bound, but because of the war, there s hardly anybody here. later, it s an american town spreading the holiday spirit all year. this is going to the united kingdom, australia, japan. with festive flair and a special stand. you don t think of like christmas things in florida. announcer: this is the cbs weekend news from washington with adriana diaz. good evening. adriana is off. i m robert costa in washington. the holidays are here. around 115 million are packing up suitcases and are headed on their christmas and new year s travels. today was forecast to be the busiest trav
president s own family. lauren fox is joining us live from capitol hill. good morning, lauren. what can we expect tonight? reporter: well, hundreds of hours of interviews behind closed doors and the public going to get a chance to see tonight what the january 6 committee has been working toward. we expect that the committee hearing will kick off tonight with opening statements from the chairman bennie thompson as well as the top republican liz cheney on the committee. committee aides telling us that we expect thompson will put this in a historical context, the violence that transpired that day, and the unprecedented nature of the attack on the u.s. capitol. and then we expect things will move forward in three different areas. one of them, the public will get a chance to see some previously unseen video footage of private interviews behind closed doors that the committee has done with white house officials, trump campaign officials, as well as members of trump s own feel. we
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catastrophically low on artillery. they have for weeks thousand been pounded by superior russian force, outmanned, outgunned. most of the city now decimated. it is hard to imagine how much longer that they can hold. already they are pulling back to fortify positions, that there are tactical withdrawals happening. president zelenskyy says ukrainian fighters are fighting for every inch of this territory because this is highly symbolic, this would be the last stronghold in the luhansk region, of course the larger goal of taking the donbas. but when you imagine that ukrainian forces are running essentially out of artillery barrels, they are running out of troop, they are running out of steam, it is hard to imagine how much longer they can hold out in this one area. talk to us about the u.n. secretary-general s stark warning about the impact of this war. reporter: this is really crucial. this is really important. this comes down to the fact that ukraine is the bread basket of
500 stingers a day just to keep up against the russians. so the big question is whether there is enough supplies in the west to maintain that kind of support given that it is a major military fighting against another major military. it is not necessary what i the west had anticipated. maybe they thought they would just be supporting an insurgency by now. so clearly not what they had expected. you re absolutely right. if putin can t topple kyiv against zelenskyy, this is a horrible situation, do you think he might settle for as many ukrainian cities as he possibly can? reporter: well, i think the important thing here is that, let s not get ahead of ourselves. the ukrainians are not winning. they are just not losing. they are holding their own against what would on paper appear to be a superior russian force. now that the reality check has been delivered to vladimir