thousands more people are waking up to the news they will soon be out of a job. after google s parent company alphabet announced it is slashing a whooping 12,000 jobs worldwide. that s more than 6% of its workforce according to cnbc. it s one day after microsoft announced 10,000 layoffs. so what s driving these signature job cuts and what does it say about our economic climate? president biden marking the halfway point of his first term in the white house under a cloud of controversy. the president finally broke his days long silence about classified documents from his time as vice president found in his former office and home. i have no regrets. i m following what the lawyers have told me they want me to do. it s exactly what we re doing. there s no there-there. how will that response land with congressional republicans eager to launch investigations? plus, a look at the very first march for life happening in washington since the supreme court overturned roe v. wade
video shows briana greer falling out of this patrol car. tonight her family demanding answers. we want to know what happened. later, we remember two towering trail blazers. nichelle nichols, who helped br women, including with this kiss, and bill russell, 11-time nba champion, celtics legend and civil rights activist. i wasn t making a contribution, i was just doing the best i could. this is the cbs weekend news from new york. with jericka duncan. good evening and thanks for joining us on this sunday. tonight tens of millions of americans are dealing with extreme weather. in kentucky more rain is soaking the state already struggling to recover from catastrophic flooding. the death toll now at 28. and the scope of the destruction still unfolding. in the pacific northwest, a heat dome that s sizzled for days is forecast to spread east this week, while california tonight battles that state s biggest fire so far this year. the inferno seen here from space. cbs joy be
declare victory. they needed time for the votes to come in. disregards what they say. and then just continue with a big lie. even when his attorney general told him it was bs. when other senior members of the justice department said there was no merit to the fraud allegations. the u.s. attorney in georgia looked into other allegations and said they were without merit. he s told over and over again this is just not true. but he continues with it. and they raise money off the big lie. anger and motivate people to show up on the 6th around the big lie. and those people he insights to attack the capitol. and it s a pretty clear linear progress of that big lie from beginning to end. i think there s a question here about accountability that you and i have talked about before. the idea of clearly drying a line between the former president and what happened on this day. you don t have the ability to bring criminal proceedings, but you could make criminal referrals. what s your mess
boys group are now charged with seditious conspiracy. we are learning a capitol police officer who was injured in an altercation with that group will be one of the first people to testify thursday during the january 6th committee s primetime public hearing. also this morning, fast-moving developments on the efforts to get some form of gun legislation passed on capitol hill and what by all accounts is a critical week. details on what could be included in a bipartisan teal and what is likely going to be left out. and will they take action this time? we ll see. those negotiations are happening, though. as we hear heartbreaking new details about what happened inside robb elementary school. frightening details frankly. it s two weeks ago today. this is an interview you re about to hear with abc news of a fourth grade teacher who says initially he who says he initially told his students to pretend they were asleep when all of this began shortly after he came face-to-face wi