gearing up for an historic trip to europe meant to strengthen american leadership overseas. after a week spend touting the administration s command of the economic situation here at home. yesterday the labor department announced 209,000 jobs were added in july. the white house touted he number as a sign of bidenomics inaction. alongside consumer-focused efforts to reduce jump fees and health care costs. and democrats and their allies are mobilizing in the wake of last week s rulings from the conservative dominated supreme court. with race based affirmative action band, legislators and lawyers are taking aim at so-called legacy admissions. we talk to one group suing harvard university for what some call affirmative action for the rich. in the meantime, it was a bloody-long independence weekend, as mass shootings rocked cities from coast to coast. kansas city mayor quentin once better law enforcement, but also tighter gun restrictions. he will join us shortly. and later you a
good morning. i m kristen fisher. i m jim sciutto. joe biden is meet virtually with g7 leaders and the ukrainian president as the world marks one year since russia s full-scale invasion of ukraine. the u.s. has pledged another $2 billion in aid to the country and announced new sanctions against russians, and the people who help them around the world, particularly procuring weapons for that invasion. defense secretary lloyd austin vows the u.s. will stand by ukraine, using a phrase we have heard frequently of late, for as long as it takes. as long as ukraine continues to conduct operations and continues to work to take back its sovereign territory, we will be there with them. you can expect that the international community will be with ukraine once the fighting stops. and just look at how the front lines of this war have evolved over the course of the past year. in that time, more than 8,000 ukrainian civilians have been killed, entire communities have been decim
interviews with the powerful and famous. she busted through the glass ceiling as a journalist at a time when men dominated the tv news business. tonight the tributes pouring in from her abc news colleagues and beyond. deborah roberts with a look at barbara s 50-year legacy as an extraordinary woman and journalist. we re tracking two new year s eve storms on both coasts tonight. in the northeast a rainy forecast for the big night. crowds in times square can expect to get drenched right up until midnight. and that major storm system in the west, bringing heavy snow and flooding rain. our team timing it out. new details in the idaho college student murders. police tonight saying, we have our guy. confident they ve arrested the man responsible, but offering few details on a possible motive. we re learning more about how they tracked his car and used dna evidence that allegedly helped identify the 20-year-old grad student. kayna whitworth with new reporting from idaho. acros
attacks as vladimir putin marks the new year with a combative speech. [ cheers ] plus, the world welcomes 2023 from the land down under to asia and beyond. new york getting ready for its biggest celebration in years. oh, i ve always seen it on tv, so i decided to be here today. and later, the rubik s cube fast approaching 50. why the color-matching puzzle is showing no signs of aging. whenever i m bored and i don t know what to do, i just play with this. announcer: this is the cbs weekend news from new york with adriana diaz. good evening. there is only one pope today. benedict xvi died today ending an unprecedented decade in which the catholic church had two living popes, one reigning, one retired. in 2013 benedict became the first pope in 600 years to resign saying that at age 85, he was no longer up to the job. his successor, pope francis, is 86. the path could be clear now for him to step down. cbs chris livesay is in rome tonight with more on the death of
scheduled for tuesday the earliest on this arrest and what comes next, just ahead, and in the meantime, there are two major passing to note on this finally in 2022, the pope benedict the 16th, the first pope coming to resign and nearly 600 years, has died at the age of 95 and tv journalism pioneer barbara walters has died to date 93 and a look back at both of their legacies, coming up the first time, the rest of the idaho murder suspect, moreno final standing by with her expert analysis met for an has more the suspect is background, but we begin with dan springer, live in washington, here were the suspect was attending grad school comedy on. yes john, i learned today from a pulley source, that the police investigators really just locked in on their suspect within the last few days in a dna, more specifically, genetic genealogy, whiskey played a key role in pointing them to their suspect in a s.w.a.t. team arrested and 28 -year-old ryan kohlberg, early on friday morning and