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Fighting russian invaders, quote, as soon as possible. Zelenskyy also praised the house of representatives for approving billions in foreign aid this weekend that will unleash a flood of American Military equipment. But it didnt happen without a fight from hard right republicans. Cbss skyler henry is on capitol hill tonight. Skyler, as we know, the senate is expected to pass this bill in the coming days. Reporter yeah, jericka, good evening to you. They could pass this as soon as tuesday. But the victory lap comes following six months of republican infighting that could put the house speakership in jeopardy again. Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy says the 95 billion bipartisan foreign aid package passed in the house on saturday will help keep the war with russia from expanding. Translator this aid will strengthen ukraine and send the kremlin a powerful signal that it will not be the second afghanistan. Reporter theres more than 60 billion in assistance set aside for kyiv, including nearly 14 billion to help ukraine buy advanced Weapons Systems and defense equipment. For months hard right members of the house vehemently opposed more aid for ukraine, including Speaker Mike Johnson before he received the gavel. On saturday more than half of House Republicans voted no to the measure, leaving johnson to rely on democratic support. Now a small but growing number of republicans are openly calling to oust johnson, saying there should be more focus on domestic issues including the crisis at the border. He has completely betrayed Republican Voters all over the country, and he is absolutely working for the democrats. I dont walk around this building being worried about a motion to vacate. I have to do my job. We we did. Reporter now, there is pushback from democrats and republicans even in terms of any sort of effort to oust johnson. Also we should point out that in addition to the foreign aid the house passed a measure saturdy that would ban tiktok in the u. S. If the apps Parent Company does not divest from china. The company says that if that were to become law then it would violate the First Amendment rights of millions of users. Well see what happens with that. Skyler, switching topics, its a packed final week of oral arguments at the Supreme Court. Give us a sense of what we can expect there. Reporter yeah, the justices will perhaps hear the most consequential case on homelessness in decades. Theyll consider whether its cruel and unusual punishment to fine or jail someone who is sleeping outside with no place to go. But the main event, if you will, jericka, will be later on this week as the justices will also consider whether former President Trump is immune from criminal charges stemming from his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Yeah, that is a big one. Skyler henry on capitol hill tonight. Thank you. To the middle east, where this weekend Israeli Defense forces launched a deadly series of air strikes on the city of rafah in Southern Gaza and violence also flared in the israelioccupied west bank. Thats where we find cbss debora patta in jerusalem with more on the impact the war is having on children. Debora. Reporter good evening. Every ten minutes a child is killed in gaza according to the united nations. Thats nearly 15,000 children in almost seven months. Rushed into this world far too early and already an orphan, this doctor works efficiently to help the baby girl breathe, her lungs not yet fully developed. Her mother, sa brien al sakani, was six months pregnant when she was killed in an israeli air strike in rafah last night. But miraculously, doctors managed to save the preterm infant. Nobody else survived the hit on who houses. Among the dead, 13 children. The youngest, just 2 years old. Reporter here Israeli Defense force soldiers prepare for a different mission. But this is not in gaza. Its idf footage in the west bank city of tulkarem, where they say they conducted a counterterrorism operation, killing 14 militants in close contact. Residents are now cleaning up after the operation. What the Israeli Military does is it uses bulldozers to dig up the roads. You can see theyve been completely destroyed, making sure that residents cannot move freely in the area. Bulldozers also smashed through anything that stood in their way. Homes and shops were damaged, pipes and power lines severed, cutting off water and electricity. The Israeli Military is in the global spotlight right now. A u. S. Official told cbs news that since 2022 its been investigating an idf unit of ultraorthodox soldiers stationed in the west bank accused of human rights atrocities. With an announcement expected this week. Media reports suggesting the unit could be blacklisted from receiving u. S. Military aid prompted an angry outburst from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who said sanctions against an idf unit would be a moral low, jericka, at a time when his country was fighting in gaza. Debora patta in jerusalem, we thank you for your reporting. Opening statements will be heard in the first criminal trial of former President Donald Trump. Cbss Shanelle Kaul is outside the courthouse there in Lower Manhattan. Shanelle. Reporter former President Donald Trump was set to attend a Campaign Rally in North Carolina last night but was forced to cancel due to stormy weather. I think were going to have to just do a raincheck. Im so sad. Reporter speaking to supporters over a loudspeaker, former President Donald Trump called off what would have been his First Campaign event since his new york city criminal hush money trial began. This is really a concerted wij hunt. Reporter trump is required to be in court daily, often stopping on his way in or out to rail against the case accusing him of falsifying Business Records to hide an alleged affair ahead of the 2016 president ial election. Hes pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts. The 12 jurors and six alternates chosen last week will be the First American jury to judge their former president. There are studies that say that 80 of jurors minds are made up at the end of Opening Statements. And its very difficult to change someones mind if theyve made the individual decision. Reporter prosecutors are also expected to call their first witness monday. So rikki, why dont we know who will be testifying tomorrow . Judge merchan feels very strongly that if the witnesses are known to the defense and to the defendant that they will be harassed by the defendant on social media and that those witnesses may be intimidated about their testimony or their safety may be in danger. Reporter two of the former president s trials will overlap. Just down the street from here new York Attorney general Letitia James will ask a judge to reject the 175 million bond payment in Donald Trumps new york civil fraud case. This over new concerns about the companys finances and legitimacy. Jericka . Shanelle kaul for us in manhattan. Thank feeling sluggish or weighed down . Could be a sign that your digestive system isnt at its best. But a little metamucil everyday can help. Metamucils psyllium fiber gels to trap and remove the waste that weighs you down. So you can lighten every day the metamucil way. coi leray metro boomin, enjoy yourself new axe black vanilla . Yum he like when i get dressed, i live life with no stress, he said thats my best flex. I hopped on a big plane, said im doing big things, gonna bring out the champagne. Yeah. Baby im cool, yeah, you know what to do, yeah, we got nothing to lose. 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Now, despite recent efforts to slow Climate Change, the average temperature here in the United States has climbed more than 2 1 2 degrees since the first earth day and Carbon Dioxide in the atmosphere has increased by nearly a third. Well, some new technologies are offering hope for the future. Heres Senior National and environmental correspondent ben tacy. When you replace it you open those things up. Reporter when you spend the day with bill gates, the first thing you notice what is that . Reporter is that he asks a lot of questions. But what type of up time is realistic . 6, 10, 12 . Reporter we met up with him in corpus christi, texas as he learned about a startup called infinium. Im a software guy. I wasnt even that good in the chemistry lab. Reporter infiniium uses waste Carbon Dioxide from nearby oil and gas refineries and converts it into ultra low carbon fuels that may replace diesel for long haul trucking and jet fuel for airplanes. This has all the benefits of fuel as we know it today, without the emissions. What is this vehicle running on . So this vehicle is running on r. E. Fuels. Thats zero carbon fuel from our fuels facility. Reporter it also powered our ride around the plant. There plant is literal ly 1 100 the size of the one theyre dreaming of making. Reporter infinium got funding from an organization gates founded in 2014 thats raised mor than 2 billion to support about 120 climate tech startups. Theyre trying to drafrm everything from how he makes cement and clothing to how we power our lives and even how we turn the pollution we cant eliminate into bricks that are buried underground. Breakthrough energy only funds things that can make a Significant Impact on emissions. So many of these things people hear about them and say that sounds really cool but can they actually do this at the scale that we need. It can happen. I mean, this is much harder than we think. The hardest part is not actually the breakthroughs in the lab. Thats been going very well. The hardest part is when you take that and actually built these big physical plants. This is a particularly large reservoir under this king ranch. Reporter one of those big plants will be built here, on the largest cattle ranch in texas. It will be a direct air capture facility, which sucks in planetwarming Carbon Dioxide and buries it underneath. This term direct air capture means theyre just pulling it out of the air. Reporter this facility in iceland is currently the Worlds Largest operating plant, removing from 4,000 tons a year, not even a drop in the co2 bucket. But a new one being built in west texas called stratos is expected to remove 500,000 tons per year. This is really the hub of co2. Reporter the one here on the ranch could eventually capture 1 million tons. They are being developed by oil and gas giant occidental, which plans to build 100 of them with the help of federal tax credits. Vicky holub is the companys ceo. Ewere the only company doin if at a large scale. Reporter but occidental is doing this so it can sell socalled Carbon Offset credits to other companies krath new revenue stream. It will also take the co2 captured at its stratos plant and inject it back into the ground to push out more oil, a product holub argues is nfltly fr inherently friendly. Some say this sounds like greenwashing. We are developing a technology the world needs. We have to do that. Reporter critics and scientists worry that using direct air capture this way will prolong oil production, leading to more planetwarming emissions just as World Leaders have pledged to transition away from fossil fuels. The real cynical view is that you dont really care about reducing the emissions, that this is about kind of futureproving your business, that you can make money off selling Carbon Offsets and at the same time you can use co2 to pump more oil. We do need money coming in because we do have shareholders. And so the way that we are approaching this mitigation of Climate Change is in a way that does provide value for our shareholders. Carbon capture wont solve the entire problem. Its part of our arsenal of tools. Reporter gates says the oil and gas industry can be part of the solution if they use their expertise to reduce emissions. He personally pays Carbon Capture companies 9 million a year to offset his own pollution, a perk of being one of the richest people on the planet. I have a plane. I have a huge carbon footprint. Reporter he knows most people cant afford to do that. Which is why he believes technology and American Innovation is the key to combating the climate crisis. 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Reporter we met up with james balogh at the ice park in colorados box canyon. But he has visited some of the most remote and remarkable kingdoms of ice all over the planet. Capturing stunning images of these severe and surreal landscapes as an environmental photographer. The big problem with being a photographer is that you have to be there and you have to see something and you have it tourn it into something inside that little rectangle. I think of it as an adventure with a purpose. Reporter for decades that purpose has been to document the dramatic climatic changes happening on our warming planet. Vanishing ice, rising seas. The floods, the fires, and the toll its taking on all living things. Balogh has become one of the foremost chroniclers of humancaused Climate Change. So many of the things youve actually documented no ed no lo exist. Do you think about that . On the ice project i think about that all the time. I mean, im stunned by it. You are a bit of a convert. You were a Climate Change skeptic at one point. Well, yeah. I just had this reflexive human assumption that our little species wasnt Strong Enough to change this huge organism called nature with a capital n. Then eventually i realized that that assumption was wrong and that i needed to somehow dprs the reality of what was going on through the pictures and thats what became the ice prongt project. Reporter balogh founded the extreme ice survey in 2007 a network of cameras watching glaciers, each providing thousands of images per year that when combined reveal how quickly we are reshaping our planet. Look at that. Reporter the 2012 documentary chasing ice shows the moment baloghs team captured one of the largest ice calving events ever recorded. As a massive piece of ice the size of Lower Manhattan broke off the Greenland Ice sheet. When i started the extreme ice survey, Climate Change was still as a pretty abstract thing. It was something that was

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