Motions must be submitted to the electronic repository to sbc see. Repository mail. House. Golf. Witnesses experiencing technical difficulties should inform the Committee Staff immediately. Lets get started. Good afternoon. Welcome. Thank you for joining this remote hearing. Today we are going to talk about cities and states working to protect their communities and how to increase resilience to climate impact. I recognize myself or five minutes for anopening statement. Members, as congress continues to work on muchneeded orinfrastructure jobs legislation, the climate crisis keeps proving that we need generational investment that will create a stronger and more resilient america. Mo as we speak the west is facing a recordsetting management, increasing risk of dangerous heat waves and wildfires and drinking Water Supply formillions of americans. Of your storms, persistent drought, massive flooding and other climate related disasters cost our nation nearly 100 billion in 2020 alone. And e
we begin in ukraine where 60 people are feared dead following a bombing on a school in the eastern luhansk region. local officials are saying 90 people were sheltering in that school when a russian plane bombed the building. there were rescued. we believe 60 were killed. a regional official says they are most likely dead. president biden is holding a virtual summit today with other g7 leaders and ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy. this meeting was deliberately scheduled ahead of russia s annual victory day celebrations which is tomorrow. it marks the nazi surrender in world war ii. president zelenskyy today marking a day of remembrance and celebration. it s marked every day on may 8th to honor the people who lost their lives during world war ii. translator: this year we say never again differently. we hear never again differently. it sounds painful, cruel, without an exclamation, but with a question mark, you say never again? tell ukraine about it. ukraine says
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reporter: the carnage you re describing sounds like something out of world war ii. yeah. o donnell: in tonight s eye on america, cbs ben tracy on how parts of the mighty mississippi now look like a desert and why that could impact the price of things you buy. and, the new york city bus driver being hailed a hero after a hijacking. 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. tonight, we return to a community still in pain, still searching for answers, and still wondering why it took police more than an hour to enter the classroom where a gunman was murdering fourth graders. at a hearing today, families had their first face-to-face confrontation with the texas public safety chief. he s the one in charge of the dozens of state troopers who waited in the hallway during the deadliest elementary school shooting in a decade. today, colonel s
explosions seen across russia s capital from the russian kamikaze drone strike. at least four people were killed in kyiv, including a pregnant woman. a ukrainian official says they were able to shoot down most of the drones. like this one. caught on dramatic police body cam video. the words for beldograv written on the drone. here s what she saw there. reporter: i think you can see behind me, this is an ongoing rescue effort, this is quite clearly a residential building. we have already seen one body being removed from the air. we also saw another elderly woman being rescued from the rubble, actually from the balcony on the neighbors building. if we sort of look around at just how chaotic this scene is. there are dozens and dozens of paramedics, firemen, rescue workers. officials say at least 19 people were rescued from that building alone. let s start our coverage with fred pleitgen in ukraine. fred, earlier, you were at a power plant that was targeted by the russians.