after the department of justice reveals multiple police failures and a school shooting that killed 21 people. it was a complete breakdown and lack of leadership. major: the cbs evening news starts right now. good evening, everyone, i m major garrett in for norah. thank you for joining us. we will have more of that department of justice report on the uvalde school shooting in a moment, but first, coast-to-coast winter storms are blanketing the country with snow and a blast of cold air. more than 80% of americans will see below average temperatures this weekend. at least 60 deaths in the last week are being blamed on the weather due to car accidents, hypothermia, and heart attacks. plus, for the fifth time this week, the united states has launched air strikes on iranian-backed houthi s inside yemen. cbs s charlie d agata is with marines on a navy warship in the mediterranean, where they are preparing for a possible escalation of the war in the mideast. but we begin wi
country, the humanitarian outpouring towards ukrainians in need. i can t help be believe they born the brunt of the holocaust communism, they see themselves if the ukrainians. michael, welcome to warsaw and thank you for coming to poland. thank you for coming here to bare witness. for poland, this is 1939, this is an invasion by a foreign occupier, a cruel represser. what you are seeing here is the polls doing what they wish they had done in 1939 and fight back. that s why you see the young people organizing on social media, getting into their cars and going to the border to rescue ukrainian refugees comes across the border. this is the only country in world s history which put every arriving refugee into someone s house or home. a whole new bar. 2,000 people, women and children, i met a four generation family from kherson. they have russian invaders still there. literally, ambassador, and i know you heard the story so many times, i left with only the clothing on their ba
elementary school, could have, should have been confronted sooner. parents demanding answers. why? why were police reluctant to immediately engage with the gunman? one explanation the texas department of public safety initially gave to cnn is that the officers could have been shot or killed, but we now know the mind-set goes directly against texas protocol for school shooter situations, which uvalde police trained for just two months ago. the manual states as first responders, we must recognize that innocent life must be defended. a first responder unwilling to place the lives of the innocent above their own safety should consider another career field. armed officers circled the building and up to 19 of them were inside a school hallway just feet away, kids and teachers in two classrooms were utterly helpless against the gunman. young kids, some covered in the blood of their friends dialed 911 begging for help. nearly 80 minutes after the gunman first entered the building he
but then they sounded like bangs but then our teacher kept saying, no, they re justifier works. a tactical team arriving, breaching the door and killing him at the scene the growing questions, what was the motive also tonight, the victims many just 10 years old or older one girl shot while calling 911. two cousins among the dead the teacher killed while shielding her students what we re learning about the lives lost and the stunning moment. the shooting. nothing texas republican greg abbott s news conference on the shooting interrupted by beto o rourke, the democrat challenging his re-election bid. o rourke escorted out of the room president biden today doubling down on demands for tighter gun laws will congress take action? our team in uvalde with complete coverage of this texas tragedy announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt reporting tonight from uvalde, texas. good evening from this city of sorrow. uvalde, texas, a small town that has become yet
poland. thank you, i am going to turn my attention to the tragedy in uv uvalde. yes, we have a gun problem and we also have a shooting problem. giver me something from social media that we can respond to in realtime. i take tweets and facebook comments. twitter s responds. russia is the largest country in the world. what more territory do they need? is that what russian young people want? is that what russian business people want to be disconnected from the west and not able to travel and not able to study abroad but instead of some