in spirit. plus, celebrating orthodox christmas in ukraine. no cease-fire, but new american firepower heads to the front lines. i m ian lee in kyiv with ukraine being promised heavy weapons that the pentagon says can change the battlefield. weekend journal, a minnesota cancer survivor pays it back by sharing her hair. wow! and later, double duty on capitol hill. the four-day stalemate complicated lives and child care. challenging, but it s been fun. announcer: this is the cbs weekend news from chicago with adriana diaz. good evening. it took 15 ballots and heated moments, but tonight congress finally has a new house speaker. kevin mccarthy won early this morning, putting an end to days of raucous debate and a historic standoff with emboldened hard-line republicans. the gop s strife playing out for all to see and ending with arm twisting, flaring tempers and phone calls from former president donald trump. cbs christina ruffini leads us off with what happen
I says just before her third collapse she was like a full term baby, she was on full bottle feeds, sitting on my knee, very alert, she often smiled and she never tried. i remember a content little girl, a happy little girl. i remember burning herfather and said we happy little girl. i remember burning her father and said we would go home soon. they even asked us to bring the car seat into be checked but a week later this all changed. we were called and told we needed to comment as she had had another collapse. the mother goes on to say we were in a fight or flight mode. we barely ate or slept because our babyjust kept needing to be resuscitated. on the night our baby died we were speaking with the nurses in room one and they said at the rate she was improving there was still a chance she could be home for christmas. she says when they handed our baby to us we never wanted to let her go stop we held her so tight. she was our gorgeous little princess and i can t even begin to explain the
she has an important job, and we always said that, you know, she wouldn t the mom wouldn t be the default parent. gomez. reporter: so gomez and 4-month-old hodge got some father/son bonding time on the house floor fitting bottle-feeds and naps in between votes and mastering quick diaper changes in the democratic cloakroom where he bonded with fellow dads in congress. i hope that it sends a positive message where dads need to do their part. you know, the mom shouldn t be the one that automatically has to give up their career in order for the family schedule to work out. reporter: a message he hopes can get majority support. you got this. reporter: caitlin huey-burns, cbs news, washington. yes, a message we should all agree on. that is the cbs weekend news for this saturday. later on cbs 48 hours with new reporting on the idaho student murders. i m adriana diaz in chicago. good night.