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we will see you in a half hour. ♪ ♪ ♪ captioning sponsored by cbs >> duncan: tonight, diplomacy stalls. fears mount on an all-out russian invasion of ukraine and soon. they could launch a military action at any time. in the capital kyiv calls for peace, americans urged to leave immediately, as airlines cancel or divert flights to the country. we will have the latest. also tonight, border blockades, a critical u.s.-canada trade route reopened, as protesters plague other crossings >> i am in one, canadian police moved in to refocus last of the protesters blocking the border. >> still overwhelmed by covid, hospitals are forced to delay surgery. plus, over a year from the
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capitol siege, prosecutors press forward with the first trials. and latet, super bowl and huge growth for the city. >> reporter: i am carter evans, the stadium cost $5 billion to build. >> ,is it paying off? ♪ ♪ ♪ this is the "cbs weekend news" from new york, with jericka duncan. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> duncan: good evening. and thanks for watching, today president biden told ukraine's president that the united states and its allies would respond, "swiftly and decisively" to a new russian invasion into the country, diplomatic efforts to diffuse crisis are ongoing but the u.s. warns an attack is expected and soon. this weekend some airliners began suspending flights in ukrainian airspace, today a jetliner carry carrying troops from 82nd airborne division
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arrived in poland to nato's bolster presence there. >> both agreed for the need of continued dip city with russia but tonight cbs news learned the biden administration is getting ready to pull all u.s. personnel out of kyiv in the next 24 to 48 hours. >> we have seen over the course of the past ten days dramatic acceleration in the buildup of russian forces. >> reporter: with almost all of the forces it would need poised on ukraine's borders national security advisor jake sullivan said today a russian invasion could happen at any time. >> diplomacy is still open and available, but, we are prepared to respond. >> reporter: the u.s. has threatened unprecedented economic and political consequences. but so far, that threat hasn't stopped moscow's massive military buildup. >> things are sort of building now to some sort of crescendo
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opportunity for mr. putin. >> reporter: saturday's phone call between president biden and putin produced no major breakthroughs. the state department told all americans in ukraine to leave the country immediately. but, the streets of ukraine's capitol are calm and president volodymyr zelensky said the biggest threat to his one is panic. cbs' christina ruffini is there. >> reporter: here in the capital of kyiv the life is carrying on pretty much as normal with most believing it is the kremlin who wants to live in fear, something they refuse to do. >> but the u.s. says if the russia makes a move, kyiv will be at risk. a full-scale invasion would come from the north to isolate the capital and other major cities, the east where most of ukraine's army is located and the south where russia is beginning live fire exercises that blanket almost the entire coast. >> duncan: and, christina, what is the u.s. doing at this point to try to deescalate the situation and why hasn't the white house actually pulled the
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trigger on those sanctions they talked about? >> reporter: well, the white house says those sanctions are the arrow in its quiver, right, and they don't want to take their shot because that is what they have against russian aggression but republicans on the hill and even the ukrainian president disagree saying moscow should face consequences now before it is too late. >> duncan: christina ruffini for us at the white house, thank you. >> duncan: today, canadian police arrested the remaining protesters who were blocking the ambassador bridge between the u.s. and canada, it is one of several critical border crossings that have been blockaded by protesters. the standoffs have hurt econmies on both sides of the borders. cbs' kris van cleave has the latest tonight from windsor, ontario. >> reporter: jerika it has been an all day effort but you can see canadian police are out in force. they are pushing back the last few protesters away from the ambassador bridge, an important step to get traffic and trade flowing again. >> officers took advantage of
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frigid morning temperatures in windsor to break the blockade, clearing protesters who have closed a vital trade route with the u.s. for a week. >> was there a safety concern yesterday? because it sort of felt like you had a 24-hour staring contest with the protesters. >> i certainly wouldn't call it a staring contest, but it was communication and dialogue between the police and the protesters involved. time is on your side. >> reporter: police made more than two dozen arrests during the ambassador bridge to detroit, its closure disrupted auto production and cost auto makers more than $700 million. >> they will have to carry me away. >> clay is one of the last to leave, she lost her job after refusing to comply with canada's vaccine mandate. >> this is a hill i am willing to die on, not just for me but for my children, your children. >> across canada a third weekend of protests over the country's vaccine mandate and covid restrictions, it started with a trucker convoy and blockades of key border crossings nationwide, thousands gathered in the capital city of ottawa.
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>> and in toronto police closed downtown streets. >> our freedoms are being stripped away. >> reporter: u.s. authorities are on alert after a department of homeland security bulletin warning of possible trucker protests around the super bowl. >> windsor police tell us their plan is to have the bridge open before monday morning's rush hour, that will be welcome news for auto makers, analysts say it could take them months to catch up from just five or six days of disruption. jericka. >> duncan: wow, we will see what happens, kris van cleave from windsor, ontario, thank you. a michigan interstate was shut down today and not by protesters but a multi-vehicle crash. police say at least 20 cars were involved, it happened in a whiteout conditions near farmington hills, that's about 25 miles west of detroit, several people were taken to a local hospital. no word yet on any injuries. well, the full-blown pandemic could be ending soon, that declaration came today from
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dr. anthony fauci in comments he made to the "financial times." infections are falling sharply is sharply numbering fewer than 200,000 case as day for the first time since christmas. but some places are still being overwhelmed by the omicron surge. here is dr. jon lapook. >> reporter: karen mccadden is living in limbo. it has become this really complex dance for me emotionally. i am getting ready for the surgery, am i not getting ready for the surgery? i will count my best work, that thin little books-- >> mccadden, a 55-year-old poet and english teacher in vermont said her scheduled hysterectomy was cancel, canceled at the end of december as the covid caseload surround. what symptoms are you having now? >> i have pain and wake up with pain in the night and sometimes it is pretty excruciating. >> intensive care units in vermont are three-quarters full, and withcritical staffing shortages nationwide hospitals say they have no choice but to delay procedures that are not an emergency. dartmouth-hitchcock health in
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nrthern new england has a backlog they call tremendous. in 2021, procedures were booked two to three months in advance. now, they are being postponed indefinitely. >> we know that any delay in a needed procedure has the risk that the situation could get worse. >> dr. ed merrens, dartmouth chief clinical officer, he says covid patients sometimes need long hospital stays and that means fewer available beds. >> a normal surgical case is in the hospital for three or four days, we have covid patients that stay in the hospital 40, 50, 60 days. >> reporter: adding to the problem? hospital has a staff vacancy rate of 25%. mccadden's procedure is now scheduled for the end of february with a different surgeon. >> we always imagined that we can take medical care for granted. you know, that if you need surgery, you can go get it, like i have never in my life considered maybe it wouldn't be available to me. >> reporter: a harsh reality as covid puts increasing strain on
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our healthcare system. dr. jon lapook, cbs news, new york. >> duncan: well, for the first time since the siege of the u.s. capitol, one of the accused rioters is getting ready to face the jury. cbs' scott macfarlane has more on what is expected to be the largest criminal prosecution in u.s. history. >> guy reffitt of texas pleaded not guilty, just one of a handful of defendants accused of carrying a gun amid the mob january 6th, accused member of the far right three percenters group and one of just a few dozen who has been jailed while awaiting trial, he's also accused of telling your children if you turn me in you are a traitor and you know what happens to traitors, traitors get shot. >> the department of justice needs to win this case. >> if it loses this case, if it messes it up in any way there is going to be huge criticism of
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the department of justice, d.o.j. would look bad. >> pretrial hearings begin this week with the trial scheduled for february 28th. cbs news has reviewed the justice department's witness list which includes reffitt's children, capitol police, a senate staffer and a man whom defense call a fellow member of the texas three percenter militia group. reffitt's lawyer did not comment to cbs news, defense attorney david benowitz who handles other january 6 cases says it is no private it took more than a year to begin this first trial in a covid backlogged courthouse the feds are having a fire hose of evidence, 23,000 video files. >> we are getting video from a variety of sources, variety of quality with the absolute chaos going on in some instances. >> it is hard to navigate that? >> sure, and to parse out what one person did or didn't do. among those watching this first trial, the closest, the other u.s. capitol riot defendants. this is the first time the defense will be showing their cards and if the prosecutors win a conviction they also win new leverage against hundreds more
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defendants to come. scott macfarlane, cbs news, washington. >> duncan: it is finally here, super bowl 56, with los angeles rams playing at home against the cincinnati bengals, the game will be played in a new stadium in a community where many are celebrating the investment while others are questioning if it is really a win. cbs' carter evans explains. >> reporter: with the price tag of more than $5 billion, sofi is the most expensive stadium ever built in the u.s., a state of the art facility that can over shadow the city it calls home. >> inglewood, california, still reeling from covid. >> at the worst of the worse, how bad was it here? >> it was very scary. it was very scary. it is like oh, my god, how are we going to do this? >> angela and j.c. johnson own the serving spoon, a fixture in inglewood for nearly 40 years but the pandemic hit business hard. >> roughly 40% drop in revenue, but our cost of goods went up
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pretty much the same amount. >> donations from customers and residents kept the restaurant open, other businesses weren't so lucky. many here were counting on the stadium to the help revitalize this city of 110,000 people, more than 90% black or hispanic. >> our property tax has gone up 250%, our residents now are accumulating generational wealth, and opportunity they have never had before. >> inglewood mayor james butts fought to get stadium built here. >> on the sofi project there are about 3,200 people a day that went to work there, 1,200 of them were inglewood residents. >> in the long run some i didn't can ticks say football stadiums don't pay off. >> for a football stadium, it is just an economic loser. the money stays within the rams and stays within the nfl and doesn't trickle down very far. >> reporter: what is the future for business it is like yours here in inglewood? >> inglewood is definite will, inglewood is on a great trajectory and very happy to be a part of that.
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>> reporter: sofi stadium is set to host college play-off playoffs next year and even the opening ceremony for the 2028 olympics. carter evans, cbs news, inglewood. >> duncan: all good news, time will tell. well, quite a spectacle in the sky over los angeles last night, take a look, the nfl staged its first ever drone show, 500 drones soared across the sky, the giants logo and players could be seen from a mile away. well, straight ahead on the "cbs weekend news", aaron jackson, she wins gold while making history at the winter games. and while your streaming services are surging in price. and later, the cafe serving up a fix for a culture used to throwing things away. ...chronic kidney disease. you can already have it and not know it. if you have chronic kidney disease... ...your kidney health...
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>>duncan: talk about sticker shock, the country's inflation rate spiked 7.5% in a month. that's a 40 year high. so tonight's weekend journal, cbs' lilia luciano tells us how cable cord cutters who were hoping to save money by streaming are also feeling the pain. >> keeping up with content in the age of streaming isn't just a time suck, it is expensive. >> i have realized once you have a few of them, it becomes almost like a car payment. >> any streaming platform you can imagine i am subscribing to right now. >> as streaming services multiply, so does the monthly bill for viewers. >> i love this man. >> reporter: am amazon announce it is bumping prime subscription by $20 and a netflix raised the monthly rate by $2. >> the company hopes it is a small price for picking what you want to watch or bingeing new seasons of "the crown" or "ozark."
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>> money. that which separates the haves from the have-nots. >> reporter: where does it end? >> it ends at which point where consumers stop, they start leaving the service or they stop subscribing. but i think that's a ways off, especially if you are raising prices incrementally over time. >> reporter: entertainment researcher paul erickson says the rate hikes are part competition and part inflation. >> services really see content as their weapon to ensure that people subscribe and they stay subscribed in this dog-eat-dog environment. in 2021, netflix spent an estimated $17 billion on content including oscar nominated films, but experts say the next move is getting more live sports on streaming apps and that will just continue to push prices up. >> reporter: are we at that point where it is more expensive to subscribe to all of these streamers than the old cable? >> i mean, you select add lot of tis content and these services and what you are getting for that money, it is more relevant
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mission to repair. >> reporter: they say one man's trash is another man's treasurer. but in this room, there is no such thing as trash at all. >> the impulse to throw something away after it breaks is rooted in the fear of asking for help. >> thank you, guys. >> reporter: and if there is one place to feel safe asking for help with fixing-- it is here at the evanston repair cafe. >> this is a movement that started in the netherlands, i think it is in 2009, so there are a lot of repair cafes all over the world. >> reporter: the movement is to create hubs where people can bring their broken things for repair. an idea bea echeverria recycled from overseas. >> europe has roughly 2,000 of these types of repair cafes, and he is noticed north america has a little catching up to do with less than 200. >> the system here promotes throw away, the throw away culture so people don't think twice about like if they have a toaster that breaks they are
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like oh i will just buy anotherr one. >> reporter: instead of taking your trash to the landfills piled with it, these people want to see if they can fix your trash instead. from the smallest jewelry to the biggest wheels, volunteers like lily fix for, i will fix for fun and some do it for free. >> some of the things that came in, i wouldn't think to repair myself. >> here the only thing that needs tossing is taken broken for an answer. >> this is something that empowers people, it is fun, it builds community, it takes stuff .. away from landfill, as the win-win-win situation. >> reporter: marissa parra, cbs news, evanston, illinois. >> duncan: well, that is the news for this sunday. coming up tonight, "60 minutes" on how weather is impacting wine. i am jericka duncan in new york. we thank you for watching. have a great night.
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live from the cbsn bay area studios, this is kpix 5 news . hundreds remembering a south bay cyclist who had a lasting impact and the call for change after a devastating crash. it not only feels like but looks like summer and that is this afternoon and we hope you enjoyed it and took advantage of it because tomorrow it is back to normal and i will show you what that looks like. siberite terminals targeting the niners and how the team is responding tonight. >> we are fighting for an $18 minimum wage across the state. >> a push to raise california's minimum wage and why opponents say it is not the nine -- right time. changing how one county
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handles mental illness and why they say they are pouring money in the wrong place. we begin with hundreds of cyclists coming together in the south bay to remember one of their own. a week ago today ellen lee was killed in a head-on crash while riding her bicycle. >> we look at a memorial bike ride in her and. >> reporter: she was not only a talented cyclist but compassionate friend and volunteer who touched many lives and that is why her fellow cyclists came out and started their day here to ride in her honor and remind others to be careful when sharing the road. >> we lost a very beautiful soul. >> reporter: it didn't take much time for her to have a lasting impact on those fortunate enough to meet her. >> ellen is like a long lost cousin and we both came from vietnam. truck she loved ride a bike and wanted to help others connect to the sport as well. she was an experienced writer
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