remember the first grade teacher shot by a six-year-old, tonight s the teacher s lawyer claiming officials failed to act. three times, full administration was warned by concerned teachers and employees that the boy had a gun on him. o donnell: heavy tanks to are ukraine, president biden reverses course, european allies follow suit promising 80 more of their own leopard tanks. tonight with what the pope is saying about homosexuality in a new interview and the high school class, a lesson that changed one student s life forever. this is the cbs evening news with nora o donnell reporting from the nation s capitol. o donnell: good evening and thank you zoo much for joining us on this wednesday night. we are learning new details in that federal civil rights investigation into what the u.s. attorney today called the tragic death of tyre nichols, five officers were fired and just tonight cbs news has obtained new police dispatch audio. we are hearing for the first time from
dozens more are hurt. today, putin is boasting about these attacks and vowing there will be more. he says the attacks are retaliation for the weekend attack on a key bridge that links annexed crimea to russia. ukraine s president zelenskyy meanwhile says putin s latest assault shows a world he is a terrorist. cnn nick paton walsh is in onei targeted overnight. nick, what are you seeing there? reporter: what we saw here was a sign that while russia boasts about the precision firepower, it s hard to discern what the target was and clear it hasn t really hit it. across ukraine, we ve seen startling brutality, frankly. this is not the first time that russia has it seems targeted or killed civilians since the start of this war, but we haven t seen a level of violence unleashed across pretty much all of ukraine s major population centers like we ve seen today for a number of months, possibly since the start of the war. kyiv fundamentally gained the blunt brunt of this. carnage, m
asking for help. mother from venezuela telling the new york post she s waiting for food, clothes, and a place to work. chief economic advisor says core inflation is likely on the rise. inflation will come down with a slow down in the economy or a major recession. dodger is in trouble. recovered underneath, and the giants come from behind, and knock off the packers! that was a great win, but this is not great. we start with the fox news alert, explosions rocking kyiv as russia carries out a new assault on ukraine overnight. many people are dead. was in the last hour, the u.s. embassy issuing a dire warning urging american still in the country to shelter in place. ainsley: alexandria hoff is monitoring the situation and joins us. what s the latest? residence in multiple cities have been one to take shelter. we have trey yingst on the ground reporting that, at this hour, there s currently a total blackout in kharkiv and he reports sessions are aiming at civilian
this. president biden is set to speak in a few hours and all of this is occupied and announced a referendum this week. . and it s important to put some degree of qualification as to what russia says it s going to do. 300,000 is a lot. it is as people with military experience and those and the manpower has been pretty bad and it s likely the groups russia has called on have already been tapped to join the war. with it right equipment to actually be impactful because they ve really been struggling to keep their armed forces together over the past six months. this is an enormous task for russia while it s already on its back foot. but it will lead to some dramatic days ahead. these have these four referendum happening in freshly occupied areas. no doubt about it, these are just a number that we re going to hear on monday and tuesday that they allegedly claim that people in those areas want to be part of russia. russia will say, okay, we consider you part of our territory. what
investigators. plus a supreme court keeps a trump-era immigration policy in place. thousands will continue to be turned back. no condemnation, no rebuke, no nothing, from top republicans after an incoming lawmakers admits to gaslighting voters about his resume. this is what we re watching this hour. i m amara walker in for kate bolduan, christmas is over, but the holiday travel nightmare is not. relief could still be days away. today on the seventh day of the chaos, more than 2500 flights canceled by southwest so far. that is more than 60% of its entire schedule. u.s. transportation secretary pete buttigieg calls it a total meltdown. he s vowing to hold the airline accountable. the southwest ceo issued an apology to passengers and employees, but the implosion continue to say impact the holidays for countless families. some completely missed gatherings, some are racking up expenses while trying to find out ways to make it to that you are destination. c han live team covera