president biden speaks with ukraine s president zelensky, as russia sends in more troops. teacher shortages. the state taking extraordinary measures to deal with the lack of staff inside schools, calling in the national guard. i really like her uniform, because i like how it has, like, the patches and stuff. o donnell: eye on america. the innovative ways ranchers are trying to maintain their way of life after two decades of droughts. hello, tiktok. o donnell: and, on this holocaust remembrance day, how a 98-year-old survivor and her great-grandson are using tiktok to make sure the next generation never forgets. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. o donnell: good evening to our viewers in the west and thank you for joining us. it s history in the making as president biden vows to make good on his campaign pledge to nominate the first black woman to the supreme court. if you look back of the 115 justices, all
president biden speaks with ukraine s president zelensky as russia sends in more troops. teacher shortages, the state taking extraordinary measures to deal with the lack of staff inside schools, calling in the national guard. i really like the uniform because i like how it has the patches and stuff. o donnell: eye on america, innovative way rampers are trying to maintain their way of life after two decades of drought. and on this holocaust remembrance day, how a 98-year-old survivor and her great-grandson are using tiktok to make sure the next generation never forgets. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. o donnell: good evening. thank you for joining us. it s history in the making as president biden vows to make good on his campaign pledge to nominate the first black woman to the supreme court. if you look back, of the 115 justices, all but seven have been white men. the president said today he will name his choice
lawmaker barred from speaking on the floor. a pastor killed, police say, by a man he stopped to help it turned out to be an inmate escaped from jail the violent standoff and manhunt ongoing. menopause and money. the new data on the billions in lost work. how some businesses are changing their thinking and a song that echoes through the past the violins that survived the holocaust and the people who saved them announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening, and welcome. it is like the worst of winter in reverse as excessive snow melt poses a rising disaster threat in parts of the country tonight. along the mississippi river, flood warnings up from st. paul to north of st. louis in places like davenport, an agonizing wait for residents powerless to halt the creeping waters still days before the river is expected to crest. almost 2,000 miles away, the atmospheric rivers that brought massive snowpacks to california s high country are gone, but war
forcing evacuations with the worst still days away. in california, communities bracing for epic flooding there from the meltdown of record snow. plus, tens of millions in texas and florida on the lookout for tornadoes and large hail. also tonight, the woman who accused former president trump of rape and defamation takes the stand in his civil trial. what she says about their alleged encounter years ago. the former president s denial. disney fires back suing florida governor ron desantis in their feud about free speech and the future of disney world. just breaking, republicans in the montana legislature punish a transgender lawmaker barred from speaking on the floor. the pastor killed, police say, by a man he stopped to help. it turned out to be an inmate escaped from jail. the violent standoff and manhunt ongoing. menopause and money. the new data on the billions in lost work. how some businesses are changing their thinking. and a song that echoes through the
Weinstein are now living proof. now 94, rita, a holocaust survivor remembers fleeing the nazis as a teen in eastern europe and hid with a group of resistance fighters whose leaders included asael bielski. he says that was his father. more than 100 family members in the ghetto, in the camp, but two sisters and her mom survived. all because of bielski. reporter: last week outside chicago the two met for the very first time. thanks to violins of hope, weinstein s family collection of 100 stringed instruments, which includes many once owned by those who perished in the holocaust and those who survived. assaela hen his father, violinmakers, restored them and tour around the world. the collection now spending six months around chicago at a crucial time.