count act. the first official legislative response to donald trump s attempt to overturn the legal and legitimate win. reporter: this is the law that governs how that happens on the day of congressional certification when donald trump tried to pressure mike pence to disregard state certified electoral results. something that constitutional experts would be illegal but there s am big ewety in the law and senators are saying they re close to change how the law actually governs that process on that day. one of the issues they agreed on is to make it crystal clear the vice president s role is ceremonial. he cannot disregard the state s election results but there are other issues in discussion, including making it harder to make it senators and house members to object and force votes how to disregard the results come out, all of which there s fresh optimism after the discussions that s have gone on for months that the deal could happen and announced in the senate next week. ther
in our world news, we ve been covering the physical toll of the war in ukraine. the deaths, the injuries. what about the mental toll? the psychological toll it s having on ukrainians? we are in kyiev where the war is leading to heightened stress and anxiety, even heart attacks. reporter: with every russian strike, a deep crater collapsed homes and shatter lives. the pain and the fear are pal pable. this 19-year-old told us her friends go to bed terrified and jump at every sound. this father of a 6-year-old girl talks about the terror they feel but they ll cope. cope how? psychologists are increasingly alarmed and pessimistic about the long term affects of the daily trauma ukrainians are
that is exactly the goal. that is what putin wants. cnn alex marquardt visited the ruins of a village south of the capital. reporter: pam, every day seemingly every hour we re getting new reports of russian strikes on civilian areas on schools, on residential buildings, on scivilian government offices. today we went to a small village just south of kyiv which had been hit by a russian air strike and there we met a man digging in the rubble who lost five of his family members. some of the latest in the civilian ukrainian death toll that is quickly growing. this small country road is lined by piles of rubble, burned out cars, collapsed homes and a deep crater where a russian missile struck. the attack caught on a village security camera hit the home of igor in a small village about 15
the small country road is now lined by piles of rubble, burned out cars and a deep crater where a russian missile struck. the attack caught on a village security camera hit the home of igor in the small village of mykolaiv, now they re gone, killed in an instant. five family members and a friend, including his 12-year-old daughter who was disabled in an accident with a drunk driver. his wife just 46 years old and son-in-law, the father of his grandchildren. [ speaking foreign language ] . reporter: today, black eye and face bruised, he picked through the debris trying to