on the cost, and why it doesn t address the problem, or, for some, go far enough. nearly two dozen killed in ukraine after russian rockets strike a train station. cbs debora patta is in kyiv, tonight, where the world is marking six months of war. the new move tonight by the federal government to get untraceable ghost guns off the streets. cbs jeff pegues shows us why these guns are so dangerous. reporter: this is a ghost gun. it s something that can be produced on a printer, that you can get for less than $200. o donnell: and, we ve all heard about the summer slump. but, what impact did the pandemic have on america s school children? the startling details, with cbs meg oliver. 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 on this wednesday night. tonight, president biden offers relief for millions of americans burdened with federal student loans
federal government to get untraceable ghost guns off the streets. cbs jeff pegues shows us why these guns are so dangerous. reporter: this is a ghost gun. it s something that can be produced on a printer. and you can get it for less than $200. o donnell: and we ve all heard about the summer slump. but what impact did the pandemic have on america s school children? the startling details with cbs meg oliver. 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 on this wednesday night. tonight, president biden offers relief for millions of americans burdened with federal student loans. the president pledged to wipe away thousands of dollars of college debt and his administration is also proposing big changes to the repayment programs. the highly anticipated plan forgives up to $20,000 for individual borrowers following through on a campaign promise he made in 2020. the average u.
griff: anita, great to see you. let s kick things off with lucas tomlinson from the white house. the labor department issuing a brutal report saying inflation is getting worse not better. in los angeles president biden says it s not just putin that s responsible, but exxon as well for skyrocketing prices. they have 9,000 permits to drill, they re not drilling. why aren t they drilling? because they make more money not producing more oil. the price goes up, number one and number two the reason they re not drilling, they re buying back their own stock. exxon made more money than god this year. when president biden was sworn into office he had a 57% approval rating, gas was just 2.39 a gallon. today s approval rating was presume plummeted to 39%, some lower in some polls. and gas nationwide soared across the country and the president s popularity has gone down. president obama once told him his popularity was tied to the price of gasoline and it s happening once again toda
where we re police in new york. what they re doing to seize illegal weapons. soaring gas prices. fuel hits more than $5 a gallon in more than a dozen states as we learn the pain at the pump might be here to stay. the battle against long-haul covid. the first in our two-part series about the 23 million americans, including kids, fighting to the battle against long-haul covid. recover after months of illness. and american kindness: a teenager using her birthday money to help her neighbors. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. o donnell: good evening, o donnell: good evening, to our viewers in the west, and thank you for joining us on this tuesday night. t, the presso something on gun reform came to washington today in moving testimony and star power. oscar award-winning actor and uvalde native matthew mcconaughey gave one of the most emotionally powerful speeches about gun laws that we ve ever seen at the whit
great white shark spotted off the beach of a popular vacation spot. and the big announcement from apple. why texting will never be the same again. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening i m tom llamas in for lester tonight, there is an urgent manhunt in philadelphia police there searching for a gunman in a shooting that left at least three people dead, including a staffer at a nearby school for boys who worked with second graders. a second suspect, an 18-year-old, already in custody the mass shooting one of more than 13 over the past 72 hours in the u.s. putting june on pace to be the deadliest for mass shootings this year. it all comes at a time when americans are asking washington what can be done with bipartisan talks on capitol hill a top democrat saying his goal is for a proposal this week gabe gutierrez with a video police are analyzing frame by frame. he starts us off from philadelphia reporter: a party turning into panic on the str