and tonight, we hear from parents of kids inside robb elementary school. nothing was being done. o donnell: fighting a megadrought. the extreme measures. one area outlawing yes, outlawing grass lawns. sheryl sanborn is stepping down from facebook s parent company. alls tonight, the queen s platinum jubilee. the royal celebration in honor of her majesty. finally, military s glass ceiling, shattered on the high seas. we introduce you to the first woman to lead a branch of the armed services. i m immensely grateful to the many pioneers who paved the way. 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. we re going to begin with the news that is just coming in to us, news that many parents will welcome. choolers are one step closer to one step closer to getting a covid vaccine. pfizer just submitted its application and data
the long good-byes continue in texas. a wife and husband laid to rest. and tonight, we hear from parents of kids inside robb elta sool. ns beone. o don: ghtimega drought. the extreme measures one area outlawing yes, outlawing grass lawns. tonight s other top headlines: the man who attempted to kill ronald reagan is granted full freedom. and sheryl sanborn is stepping down from facebook s parent company. also tonight, the queen s program of platinum jubilee, the royal celebration in honor of her majesty. finally, military s glass ceiling shattered on the high seas. we introduce you to the first woman to lead a branch of the armed services. i m immensely grateful to the many pioneers who paved the way. 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. we re going to begin with the news that is just coming in to us, news that many parents will welcome.
polls opening up in georgia. why this pivotal election is pitting donald trump against mike pence. and how the former vice president could one up his old boss. plus vladimir putin receives a stinging rebuke from one of his senior diplomats. why a top russian official says he s never been so ashamed of his country. good to have you with us. right now, the second in person summit of the quad is wrapping up in tokyo. leaders of the informal alliance between the u.s., japan, australia and india have been holding talks one on one. u.s. president biden met with indian prime minister. also meeting with the australia new prime minister. one key focus of all these meetings, russia s war on ukraine. russia s assault on ukraine only heightens the importance of those goals. the principles of international order, territorial integrity and sovereignty, international law, human rights. must always be defended regardless of where they re violated in the world. so the quad has a lot of
takening a pivotal step in restocking the low baby formula supply. the first palets of emergency formula arriving from europe via a u.s. military plane just a short time ago. and now going through inspection. the product is a specialty formula for infants who are intolerant of protein in cow s milk and will be distributed to pharmacies and hospitals and doctor s offices. we are live in indianapolis where the first shipment landed. p polo, this is just the first of what s expected to be many baby formula flights? reporter: and it is more than just a drop in the bucket. you re talking about 35 tons of the prescription baby formula that landed in indianapolis today. manufactured in germany. transferred to germany and air lifted yesterday. flew all night to get here. as you mentioned, this will not serve the general needs of parents who have been looking for a solution. in fact, asking the biden administration to act. we did see a representative of the biden administration, tom
so in a very short time the poverty rate in venezuela doubled. by 1995, 66% of all venezuelans were impoverished. getting poorer tends to make motors radical so inevitably venezuela got radical politics. you know what happened next, venezuela is now rated one of the most miserable places on planet earth. a few years ago, citizens in caracas were reduced to eating zoo animals. there was no food, for that matter there was no electricity. seven just half a lifetime, an advanced society had returned to the stone age. united states is not in danger of becoming venezuela next week but we are moving closer to it. inflation is a big part of the reason. of all the economic crises a country can face, inflation is the most dangerous. inflation doesn t just make people poorer, it totally destroys their confidence in their leaders, the authorities who issue the now worthless currency they are using for toilet paper. inflation is not an act of god like a drug or hurricane, it is an active