hospitals on the brink. the omicron surge is overwhelming healthcare facilities nationwide. plus the big announcement from starbucks about its vaccine mandates for employees. trump business fraud. the new details from the new york attorney general about the family business. stabbing suspect arrested. after a week-long manhunt, the man accused of murdering a u.c.l.a. grad student is in police custody. tonight, the dramatic jump in homicides nationwide.ic and honoring a trailblazer. the tribute to the n.h.l. s first black hockey player who continues to make a difference in his community. 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. we re going to begin tonight with president biden marking his first year in office with a news conference, as his administration faces a growing list of challenges and setbacks. well, just today, senate democra
russia invades ukraine. hospitals on the brink. the omicron surge is overwhelming healthcare facilities nationwide. plus the big announcement from starbucks about its vaccine mandates for employees. trump business fraud. the new details from the new york attorney general about the family business. stabbing suspect arrested. after a week-long manhunt, the man accused of murdering a u.c.l.a. grad student is in police custody. tonight, the dramatic jump in homicides nationwide. and honoring a trailblazer. the tribute to the nhl s first black hockey player who continues to make a difference in his community. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell reporting from the nation s capital. o donnell: good evening, and thank you for joining us. we re going to begin tonight with president biden marking his first year in office with a news conference as his administration faces a growing list of challenges and setbacks. well, just today, senate democrats are expected to fa
far-reaching impacts on american lives. short-staffed airlines along with winter weather forcing the cancellation of thousands of flights again today. a travel nightmare for people returning from the holidays, and parents now worrying as classes are set to resume for their children after the winter break. several school districts, in fact, announcing they are switching to online learning to start this semester. the white house feverishly working on plans to address and mitigate covid s daily disruptions while acknowledging those disruptions will only get worse as the virus advances. it s kind of like a very interesting, somewhat complicated issue where you have a virus that might actually be less severe in its pathogenicity, but so many people getting infected that the net amount, the total amount of people that will require hospitalization might be up. so we can t be complacent in these reports which are likely accurate that it is ultimately in the big picture less sever
evening to you, bret. the call lasted two hours. according to the kremlin president putin told president biden that russia s posturing is purely defensive. the white house says biden was crystal clear about what would happen if russia takes additional steps and offered an alternative deescalation. president biden looked president putin in the eye and told him today that things we did not do in 2014 we are prepared to do now. in a high stakes call, president biden laid out economic consequences russia would face if they move forward with an invasion of ukraine. video of the meeting came from russian state media. good to see you again. i unfortunately last time we didn t get to see one another at the g-20. i hope next time we meet we do it in person. white house did not divulge sanctions package. biden made no concessions including on president putin s request to block ukraine from joining nato. instead the u.s. is preparing economic punishment with european allie
famous advice, sometimes we will speak softly and carry a large javelin because we re sending a lot of those in as well. and announcing how he plans to streamline red tape to keep his praumps of p promise. i m announcing a program, unite for ukraine, a new program to enable ukrainians to come directly from europe to the united states. it will provide an expedeiate channel for secure legal migration for ukrainians who have a u.s. sponsor, such as a family or an ngo. and the president challenged vladimir putin s claim today that his troops now control the strategic port city of mariupol, where ukrainian fighters and some of their families have been barricaded for weeks in a steel plant. it s questionable weather he does control mariupol. there is no evidence yet that mariupol is completely fallen. in kyiv today, president zelenskyy told reporters that while russia does control a major part of mariupol, ukrainian troops are still defending some of their strong holds