holidayh. or pkets soaring. i ielesith aokow fliers are with busy airports. on the ground, some lodges and campgrounds in the west still closed by snow. plus, training mission gone wrong. an f-18 fighter jet crashes, but the pilot survives. smoke alert. wildfires in canada choke skies as far south as colorado and utah. and later, staying the course. why this teacher at 94 has no plans to retire. i m going the try to come next year if they ll take me. announcer: this is the cbs weekend news from chicago with adriana diaz. good evening. we begin tonight with a bold move by ukraine s president volodymyr zelenskyy to shore up allied support against russia. zelenskyy arrived in hiroshima, japan, for face-to-face meetings with leaders of the world s richest democracies. he is urging them to stick with ukraine as russia bets on the west growing fatigued by the cost of the war. moments after landing, zelenskyy tweeted that peace will become closer today. cbs s elizabe
up by discussions on ukraine with president biden saying washington was prepared to give the go ahead to train ukrainian pilots on f16 fighterjets. the go ahead to train ukrainian pilots on f 16 fighterjets. the news was welcomed by ukraine s president, volodymyr zelensky, who called it historic . he said the jets would greatly enhance ukraine s air force and that he counted on discussing the plan with mr biden at the summit on sunday. the us national security advisorjake sullivan has been speaking about the us f 16jets plan. just yesterday, as you all know, president biden informed his g7 counterparts that the united states will support ukrainian pilots on fourth generation fighter aircraft, including f 16s. over the past few months, we and our allies have focused on providing ukraine with the systems, weapon and training that it needs to be able to conduct effective offensive operations this spring and summer. we have delivered what we promised. we have given ukraine wh
responsibility to pay for this mess. senator tim scott has officially launched his 2024 presidential campaign. i m running for president of the united states. the naacp has issued a travel warning for florida, calling the policies of governor ron desantis hostile to minority communities. norah: back-to-back shark attacks in the florida keys. that one was not afraid of us. he wanted me. norah: the inspirational story behind the historic new name of a u.s. army base. it s not named fort hal moore. it s both hal moore and julie. the fairy tale story gets better. a hole-in-one for michael block! dunked it. get there, yes. magic. we get to see him next year. music to my ears, my friend. music to my ears. norah: good evening to our viewers in the west, and thank you for joining us as we start a new week together. we want to begin tonight at the white house with debt limit negotiations taking place with the full faith and credit of the unite
let me be the first to tell you that there is finally a new speaker of the house, and the 118 congress has officially been convened. it took four days, and 15 tries, but in the early hours of this morning, the california congressman, kevin mccarthy, was finally elected the new speaker, putting him third in line for the presidency of the united states. it was a tough road getting there, especially last night, when tensions between republican members themselves, almost reached a breaking point. from the house reconvened at 10 pm last night, republicans appeared hopeful that they had votes to elect mccarthy on the 14th ballot, but when that seem headed for baylor, mccarthy s allied huddled around the florida congressman, matt gates, to get him to vote for mccarthy. instead, gates voted present, which is not good enough to win mccarthy in speakership. after the roll call, mccarthy himself approached gates, the two exchanged words amid a group of other lawmakers. mccarthy was the
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