pope francis is present today at the vatican s easter vigil after being absent from some good friday event. the job market cools. why there s still good news for workers. plus, treading water. play suspended again at the soggy masters. there s one jacket the golfers are still chasing. and later, it s the best seat in the house for the crowning of britain s monarchs, a historic royal relic. the historic royal throne getting spruced up for the coronation of king charles. announcer: this is the cbs weekend news from chicago with adriana diaz. good evening. tonight, nine months after the supreme court overturned americans constitutional right to an abortion, providers are once again scrambling. at issue, use of a key abortion medication after two conflicting court opinions. last night a federal judge in texas blocked the federal government s approval of mifepristone, rulingerly tested. another judge ruled the drug is safe and should remain available in a swath of
a very good wednesday morning to you, i m jim sciutto. and i m erica hill. we begin this hour with new details about the victims and also the gunman in that deadly mass shooting at michigan state university. first, the three people killed who have now been identified and so young, 20-year-old brian fraser, 19-year-old arielle anderson and 20-year-old alexandria verner. the 43-year-old gunman we ve learned apparently did leave behind a note and a criminal history that includes a gun charge, but what is still unknown this morning, the motive, and also how he got the firearm, which was reportedly used in the shooting. you look at pictures of their kids you think of their poor families. also ahead this morning, former south carolina governor nikki haley makes the first stop of her 2024 presidential campaign, we re going to take you live to charleston, south carolina, and just in a key report shows that retail sales surged in january, beating expectations. more signs of a ve
in friday s fighting, a russian missile destroyed a vital supply bridge into the city. bakhmut has seen intense fighting for weeks, as russia tries to claim a victory in eastern ukraine. cnn s melissa bell joins us now from kyiv. melissa, where do things stand? reporter: well, we ve just been hearing from the british ministry of defense, saying that they understand that ukrainian forces are under increasing pressure. that s what we re hearing from the ground, with one soldier on the ground telling us that they were essentially outmanned four to one. and this has been the story for the last few weeks. so russian forces sending in more and more men to try and take every trench, every defensive line, at huge cost to themselves, first and foremost. there is also ukrainians, will there is a lack of ammunition compared to what the russians have, and they are trying to capture bakhmut, but yes, for the time being, this town still stands with his four and a half thousand civilians
white. we didn t even have time to get anywhere. it was right on top of us. the house was shaking. we were all close together in the middle room of the house. wow. it s the craziest thing i ve ever been involved in. more than 20 million people are under high wind alerts in the mid atlantic, northeast and western u.s. meteorologist alilison chinchar is keeping an eye on all of this. this storm is heading out into the open atlantic, hopefully giving folks a break 24 hours from now. we still have heavy bands of snow across maine, new hampshire. you re getting a little bit of wraparound in upstate new york, places like watertown new york continuing to see snow. when you factor in the snow and wind component, it can lead to whiteout conditions. travel going to be very dicey in some spots. even farther south away from the snow, you still have wind advisories in place, looking at wind gusts of 50 to 60 miles per hour. that could lead to trees down and additional power outages.
something we already knew, that he s a terrible liar. then he follows that up with more lies. the latest on the embattled republican who now claims he wants to be the most transparent lawmaker in congress. we start with a defining day for the u.s./russian relationship as well as for safety and security around the globe. today, president biden and vladimir putin gave duelling speeches, laying out duelling visions, both of the war in ukraine and what the world order should be. both see huge stakes, democracy and ukrainian freedom on the u.s. side, while in putin s mind, it is his country s very existence and neither man giving any indication they re willing to back down. over the past year, the united states has come together with our allies and partners in an extraordinary coalition to stand against russian aggression. but the work in front of us is not just what we re against. it is about what we re for. what kind of world do we want to build? there is no sweeter word tha