our website. and the weekend news is next. we will see you in a few. captioning sponsored by cbs >> duncan: tonight the u.s. warns russia as attacks intensify in ukraine, moscow's missiles target a ukrainian military facility near poland's border. the closest to a natdo ally. dozens killed, more than a hundred wounded while russian ground forces threaten to encircle the capitol kyiv and bombard other cities. >> i'm chris live sai in you you crane where the war is nearing nato territory. >> also tonight, new worries that vladimir putin could use chemical weapons. casualties add up, an american journalist among the latest killed. global outrage. tens of thousands protest russian's invasion in moscow

antiwar demonstrators risk retribution. mass exodus, cbs's norah o'donnell is in poland tonight with refugees who fled the fighting. >> wherein you crane. >> oh my goodness, that say long journey. >> duncan: and later vy lippists around the world unite for ukraine. -- violinists. >> this is the cbs weekend news from new york, with jericka duncan. >> good evening, and thanks for joining us. the white house issued a new warning to russia today after waves of missiles struck a ukrainian military facility less than 15 miles from the border-- border with poland bringing the fighting ever closer to nato's borders. dozens of people were killed and more than a hundred were wounded. there was also heavy shelling

northeast of kyiv. today ukraine's president volodymyr zelensky visited soldiers at this hospital in the capitol as russian forces advanced on the city. and among the car's casualties american journallest brent renaud who was killed when russia troops owned fire on his vehicle near kyiv. it has been 18 days now since russian tanks rolled across ukraine's border and air strikes started pummeling cities and civilians. cbs's chris livesay is at the black seaport city of odessa tonight. >> a war that many fear could spill into other countries has taken a dangerous turn with russia firing on a ukrainian military base close sto po lish border and the nato alliance. >> the sky turned red, witnesses say when roughly 30 russian missiles struck the training base in western ukraine. leaving this smoldering crater. 35 people dead and an escalation of the war now only a few miles from poland, a key nato ally.

the base was routinely used by u.s. and nato trainers over the years. heavy shelling also rained down in the north and nikoliv in the south where thing mores arenow so full, victims are laid out in the freezing cold. among those spared, gathered here below an abandoned market. their childhood interrupted by an invading army even though russian speaker, the very people putin says he wants to protection -- protect says the mayor. >> it is a border between russians and western civilization. >> tb it falls, the next domino is odessa, the former crown jewel of the russian empire. and today ukraine's biggest port on the black seavment ukraine's president says an attack here is imminent. it is a city half deserted. the half still here steals it self with antitank defenses and optimism like this soldier who calls himself snake. >> for 15 days we have stood up

against the second biggest army in the world, he says. it's weaker than us. during an air raid we descend into the happiest bombshell ter you've ever seen. two weeks ago it was a trendy restaurant. today, volunteers prepare more than 8,000 daily rations for soldiers, in their fight against fascism says the manager. >> vladimir putin says you are the fascist, that you are the nazi, i'm looking around here, you don't look like nazis. >> so, okay, i'm jewish. i-- it is impossible. >> during world war ii he said at least hitler admitted that jews exist. vladimir putin says the ukrainians do not. >> duncan: and chris livesay joins us from odessa. how imminent is an attack on desa? >> well, jericka, british intelligence said today that russian forces are advancing

from crimea in an effort to circumvent nikolyiv and head straight here to odessa, a city putin called out by name in hisn taking that threat very seriously ever since. >> chris livesay for us in odessa. thank you. tonight president biden is back at the white house after returning from camp david where he spent the weekend monitoring russia's attacks in ukraine. cbs's deborah alfarone has the latest where the administration had worsed of warning for the kremlin, debra good evening. >> good evening, jericka, russian air strikes are inching closer to nato territory and that is prompting a new warning from the white house. >> if there say military attack on nato territory, it would cause the invocation of article 5 and we would bring the full force of the nato alliance to bear in responding to it. >> on "face the nation" national security advisor jake sullivan reiterated the u.s. will defend

nato territory. the strike came one day after moscow warned u.s. weapons sent to ukraine are legitimate targets. >> we believe in our capacity to continue to flilitary assistanc, weapons and supplies to the front in ukraine. >> the latest provocation comes amid concerns russia may use chemical weapons. >> we haven't seen anything that indicates some sort of eminence, chemical or biological attack right now but we are watching this very closely. >> president biden has said putin would pay a severe price if that happened. a new cbs news poll found strong support for actions the administration has already taken. 77 percent of americans support sanctions on russia's oil & gas. >> and 63 percent say they support them even if gas prices go up. >> and that poll also finds that 59 percent want the u.s. to establish a no fly zone over i

crane. now that number does drop, however f it is seen as escalating russian aggression. jericka. >> debra alfarone for us tonight at the white house, thank you. protests today in europe. tens of thousands of people took to the streets in berlin as you see there. and other cities as well. many carried flags in the blue and yellow colors of ukraine while others had banners reading, stop the war. in moscow there were smam antiwar vigils despite a crackdown by authorities against such demonstrations. >> today at the vatican in his strongest language yet, pope francis denounced what he said was the barbarianism of killing civilians. speaking to the faith envelope st. peters' square the pontiff urged an end to russia's invasion, quote, before cities are reduced to cemeteries. more than two and a half million people have fled ukraine since the start of the war more than two weeks ago. many more would like to leave

but can't because of the danger. some refugees went to russia, most went to five countries on ukraine's western border. poland has taken in the biggest number, nearly two million people. tonight cbs evening news anchor norah o'donnell is at a refugee center in warsaw, poland. norah, good evening to you. what are the refugees telling you about what is next for them? >> good evening to you jericka. many of the refugees don't know. when you ask them that question, what is next for you, they answer with a question. how long will the war last. the numbers are staggering. 1.8 million refugees here in poland. 400,000 of them here in warsaw. that means the population of this city has increased by more than 20 percent. they come to a place like here, a reception area, it is dark now because they're sleeping. for many people it is the first sleep that they have had in days. a bunch just arrived a couple of minutes ago ree came up

here. people have been traveling from days from car chef, a mother carrying her baby, these people are so tired and they only have two small roger bags and some backpacks, it is tough for so many of the people, we melt a family of five here for several day, they have two dogs wth them and they hope to go to the u.s. or canada but say they are waiting to travel after their young daughter gets better. she has had a stomach flu right now. you can only just imagine some of the conditions that many people are going through. >> i can't imagine. i'm just so glad to hear that they at least have somewhere to go as of right now. when you think about the people that you have spoken to already, what has struck you the most about them, their resolve? >> yeah, their resolve. i mean the ukrainian people's resis tangs and resolve. but also they're in shock. these women and their children, they have sort of a blanks look on their face. and as one woman said to me, this is not supposed to happen in the 21s century, a war like. this and yet what we also found

is that while people are fleeing evil, they have found kindness here in poland. the polish people have opened their hearts and their homes. earlier today we were at the home of a 75 woman barbara. she has opened her home to a family of four from ukraine, total strangers. they don't even speak the same language and yet barbara, this polish grandmother has given up her bedroom and is sleeping on the living room couch so she can keep this ukrainian family for who knows how long, that some of the kindness they have encountered here as well, jericka. >> the language of love is universal. norah o'donnell, thank you so much for your coverage. norah will have much more on the refugee crisis and the war in ukraine tomorrow on the cbs evening news. >> former president ehud barak obama has tested positive for covid. he tweeted today he was fine after suffering from a scratchy throat for a few days, the former first lady tested

negative, both were vaccinated and boosted. >> we also learned late today that actor william hurt has died of natural causes, accord totion his family. hurt won an osc f in the movie kiss of the spider woman. hurt appeared in a number of movies during his long career including body heat, the big chill, children of a lesser god and broadcast news. >> fill for a second. >> tom? >> go. >> the latest message seems to indicate that the libyan pilot was acting on his own without authority from anyone else. > stand by camera two. >> in other words, i think we're all okay. >> william hurt was 71 years old, he would have celebrated his birthday next week. is well, straight ahead on the cbs weekend news, job number one for many businesses and companies, find enough workers. also why some students say the refugee crisis in ukraine is

complicated further because of race.

>> even with invasion rising the nation's unemployment rate keeps falling. the labor department reports that the number of people without a job is at a historic low. but as kris van cleave reports that's got a lot of businesses looking for help. >> there say big problem playing out in little liltel -- lytle texas outside san antonio, work installing this roof on the town's high school is moving slowly but it is not a shortage of supplies, it's a shortage of man power. >> at the end of the year we may hire 12 people and through attrition we are losing more than 12 people. >> despite salaries hitting the six figure brad's roofing company can't find enough roofers. >> construction industry is dirty, dangerous and difficult. and american workers aren't interested in doing that. >> has it goten worse during the pandemic. >> considerably worse.

>> the worker shortage is on display at this project here. they have about 25 percent of the people they would normally have working on this high school roof, and that means the project will take three to four times as long to finish. >> unable to find enough american worker beldon has used the governmentary h2b guest worker visa program since 2007 to bring in qualified roofers from abroad but there is more demand than visa n2017 congress allowed for up to 130,000 to be awarded annually. but tens of thousands go unissued each year by the government, leaving many jobs unfilled. >> to not use all of these visas is a major disservice to the economy. >> cato institute research fellow david beir estimates those unused visas cost the economy $2 billion a year. >> when businesses can't hire the labor that they need, that costs gets passioned on to the consumer of the product, that the business is trying to supply. >> we already have a workplace

shortage. >> maine congresswoman chellie pingree is proposing legislation to expand the h2b visa program, the bill has more than 70 bipartisan cosponsors but it faces opposition from labor unions and immigration reform has stalled for years in congress. >> would it be better for the economy to dictate how many guest workers come in? >> there is no reason it shouldn't be a more open process and the supply shouldn't be allowed to meet the demand. >> a decision on jobs currently going unfilled, on projects getting harder to complete. kris van cleave, c brrks s news, lytle, texas. >> duncan: still ahead on the cbs weekend new, the humanitarian crisis in ukraine and calls to ensure every refugee is treated equally.

>> duncan: recently the n.a.a.c.p. and the national urban league and several other groups signed a letter addressed to the president of the european union, in it they urged swift and proactive action to ensure fair and humane treatment of all refugees. >> from virtually day one of the war, reports of discrimination at the ukraine border began to surface. >> mostly they would consider indian peep, arabic people, before black people, we went to the train station and they would not let us in, and when they did let us in, they were like you have to give us money because this is not free for you because you are foreign, this is not free for you. >> on social media some wrote it off as russian propaganda. ukraine's minister of foreign affairs tweeted this video march 2-7bd stating an emergency hotline had been established

specifically for african, asian and other students wishing to leave ukraine. >> i just feel deep sadness. >> historian kimberly st. yulian varnon has been studying race, foreign policy and russia for years. and called ukraine home back in 2013. >> when i i fishally saw the videos i was just like not again. you know, it is one of those things where if you are a person of color and you work in eastern europe and research eastern europe, racism isn't new, racial discrimination is not new but to see it on display and being exacerbated by war, it was just really heart-wrenching. >> especially she said when considering syrian refugees in december sought help at the poland belarus border with little to no success. >> so i tried to point out this crisis in december because st very much the same situation of people fleeing a war and need

prog teks and care but they are not getting that. >> what is the difference and why is there a difference. >> i think the key difference is race and ethnicity. we have seen it in reporting and how people have said this but also like the bulgarian prime minister saying these aren't the refugees we are used to, these are educated refugees. >> while social media has helped ex-- expose racial discrimination, st. julian varnon says it has also been used by russia to spread disinformation. >> they use these videos of african students talking about racism and their experience of racism and use iting to undermine the ukrainian war effort. >> st. julian varnon is in touch with several students who made it to hungary and tells me many of them have been told they have to move to another country or go back to their home country within 30 days. well, next on the cbs weekend news, while sheltering from war, a ukrainian violinist is joined by others playing in harmony.

♪ >> duncan: violinists have united for ukraine, the musicians, some from world-class orchestras joined ukrainian violinist ilian-- ilya band rego-- bondarenko from his basement shelter in kyiv, may up of 24 mutionzician fromness. the area near bond rerchgeau home was being bombarded, he had to stop the video several times

because he could not hear >> well, when we come back, high above the world's troubles, a pair of celebrity bald eagles share something we can all cheer about.

>> duncan: we end this evening on a high note at lilia lucianne owe shows us a star has been hatched high above california with viewers watch interesting all over the world. >> a rare sight at sunrise, breakfast time for one of america's newest bald eagles. nestled in a pine tree 150 feet above california's big bear lake. social media jackie and shadow welcomed their first eagleet in two year this week, after 40 day pros tectsing the egg with little privacy. >> how the new exe-- extended family doing. >> they are doing great, the an age of ne times a day,

i think. and the normal is between 5 and eight. >> that nickname the little one won't last long. local third graders will pick a name for the gray fuzz ball while the helicopter parents work in shifts, sometimes squabbling. >> he pretends he doesn't fear so he can stay sitting with the chick longer, they are fighting who gets to take care of the baby. >> while the u.s. bald eagle population has more than quadrupled in the past few years it is still on california's endangered species list. >> this felt like a good year for the eagles and a much better year for everybody. >> like many americans, ready for take offer after two years in the nest. >> lilia luciano, cbs news, los angeles. >> wow, 2.9 million views. well, that is the cbs weekend news, for this sunday, later on cbs60 mings, secretary pete beut gij to fix america's transportation system. i'm jericka duncan from new york, from all of us here, thanks for watching, have a

great nig c1 this is kpix5 news. breaking news. football star and bay aria native, tom brady returning to the nfl. the big announcement. >> and an east bay sheriff blasting the da and the judgment why he is defending him for killing a man. tonight we hear from the victim's family. using the power of music here in the bay area to help ukrainians. >> and the plan to charge drivers to visit treasure island. >> good evening. i'm brian hackney. >> i'm juliette goodrich. we have breaking news. bay area neigh fif tom brady getting back in the name. >> his retirement lasted just 40

days. the seven-time super bowl champ is returning for his 23rd season. >> vern glenn with the big announcement. was this a surprise, vern? >> reporter: wow! we were here and that news spread like wildfire. people were like what is going on? so it just -- i won't say it stopped the show but it was a shock for six weeks. after announcing his retirement for the nfl, tom brady unretires and announced he is returning for a 23rd nfl season. he announced it on his social media that he has had a change of heart. brady has one year remaining on his contract with tampa bay so they held his rights. he was going to come back, it was going