hundreds ever migrants are schiffering about a critical immigration law. and a drone creeps deep inside of russian territory and killed three soldiers. p plus, should the world take vladimir putin as his word as the russian leader repeats an offer to slide a chair up to the negotiating table with ukraine. this is what we re watching at this hour. and good morning, thank you so much for being here. i m amara walker in for kate bolduan. the death toll from a brutal winter storm rising now to at least 47 western new york bearing the blunt with a once in a lifetime blizzard. the death toll in erie county climbing to 25. more than 43 inches of snow fell over the weekend. and it is still coming down in some places. roads in buffalo are impassable and the city is under a driving ban. over 12,000 people are without power there. the governor of new york has declared a state of emergency and the national guard is deploying 200 additional troops to the western part of the state. e
simply unthinkable! norah: plus, we hear from the greatest generation. what were you fighting for? freedom. norah: the cbs evening news starts now. 80 years later, the world remembers the soldiers, sailors, and airmen of the allied expeditionary force. good evening. i m norah o donnell, and thank you being with us. the sun rose over normandy s cliffs this morning, just as it did on june 6, 1944, as the liberation of western europe began with the largest amphibious invasion in history. president biden joined other world leaders to honor the bravery and sacrifice of the d-day heroes. he drew a straight line from the fight for freedom in world war ii to the fight against russia s aggression now, saying, freedom is worth it. democracy is worth it. the world is worth it. cbs mornings anchor tony dokoupil is at the american cemetery in normandy. good evening, tony. reporter: good evening, norah. you know, with all world war ii veterans now in their upper 90s or
to bow down to dictators is simply unthinkable. norah: plus, we hear from the greatest generation. what were you fighting for? freedom. norah: the cbs evening news starts now. 80 years later, the world remembers of the soldiers, sailors, and airmen of the allied expeditionary force. good evening, i m norah o donnell come and thank you being with us. the sun rose over normandy s cliffs this mornings, just as it did on june 6th, 1944, as the liberation of western europe began with the largest amphibious invasion in history. president biden joined other world leaders to honor the bravery and sacrifice of the d-day heroes. he drew a straight line from the fight for freedom and world war ii to the fight against russia s aggression now, saying freedom is worth it. democracy is worth it. the world is worth it. cbs mornings anchor at tony dokoupil is at the american cemetery in normandy. good evening, tony. reporter: good evening, norah. you know with all world wa
biden s policies are different, i get that, but reporters pressed its aides, but not the president who takes very few questions, about this grim situation. some journalists are buying the white house explanation the problem is complicated. that s obviously true, but the tone is drastically different. the old media narrative, trump was a heartless hardliner. the new narrative biden means well but faces a difficult challenge. no amount of sympathetic spin can change that joe biden is now responsible. this is media buzz. i m howard kurtz. journalists keep rising the border crisis at white house briefings while the pundits are pointing fingers. so, how are you say that s not a crisis? it doesn t matter what you call it, it is an enormous challenge. it s something front and center for the president. we re just seven weeks into the biden presidency and already he s facing a growing humanitarian crisis at the u.s.-mexico border. the difference here, a lot of these children
democracy and freedom. what can you tell us? reporter: yeah, norah, he will be just up the shore from here at pointe du hoc, a cliff where army rangers on d-day fought up the sheer side as enemy fire rained down on them, and though they suffered heavy casualties, they eventually took the cliff in an act of courage, in defense of democracy, and an example the white house is expected to argue, of the risks of ignoring bullies abroad. norah: tony dokoupil, thank you. 11 people were hospitalized for heat exhaustion today after they were rescued in a human smuggling bust in san antonio. the city is under a heat dome, with temperatures spiking into the triple digits, and the migrants were found in a trailer, with no air conditioning and no access to water. cbs s ben tracy reports. reporter: this is the fault of the bloodthirsty organizations that are bringing these people across and putting them in harm s way. reporter: police say they began following a truck pulling a trailer on the