>> her name is captioning sponsored by cbs >> duncan: tonight bloody stalemate. russia intensifies attacks on the beseiged city of mayor poll, today a-- but across the country invading russian forces stall after sustaining heavy casualties. >> of him moving his forces into a wood chipper. >> today this protest showdown as ukrainians in the dhi of kherson turn these into reverse. >> ukraine with those trapped in horrific violence in the south of the country are now fleeing to safety. >> also tonight, united front, president biden gets set for an extraordinary summit this week

with nato's 30 leaders. plus navigating covid's new wave. >> i'm lilia luciano in los angeles where more mask mandates are being lifted and it concerns over a om cron sub variant. >> the stars of spring time return to washington d.c. >> and later on a stage far from home a ukrainian takes the lead as the metropolitan opera voices its support for his country. >> we feel that we are with the whole world with us this is the "cbs weekend news" from new york, with jericka duncan. >> duncan: good evening, thanks for joining us today defense secretary lloyd austin told cbs's "face the nation" that russia's invasion of ukraine had essentially stalled. he described vladimir putin as moving his forces into a quote wood chipper of ukrainian resistance but the invasion now

entering its fourth week say disaster for ukraine. this is the city of mario poll or what is lift-- mario pollndor what is left of it and volodymyr zelenskyy evoked the holocaust speaks to the particle. e he accused russia of wanting to inimpose a nazi style solution on ukraine, the united nations estimate more than 10 million people have been forced to flee their homes, that is over 20% of the country's population. in roam pope francis visited ukrainian refugees that the children's hospital. he said they are suffering quote. tonight russian forces are intensifying their attacks in the southeast as they continue to dig in elsewhere. cbs's imtiaz tyab begins our coverage in lviv. >> good evening. russia's ground offenses may have stalled but its air and sea assault on southern ukraine is only intensifying causing horrific damage.

>> these apocalyptic scenes of devastation stretch as far as the eye can see. this is the south eastern city of mariupol once home to nearly half a million people, now a waste land. even the corpses here remain unburied as russian forces encircle this strategically important seaport on the azov sea, those supported the dignity of a burial are put in graves with only crude wooden crosses. while for the living, the situation is desperate with little food, no power or medical supplies. the fall of mariupol would mark a major win for moscow allowing russians on northern ukraine to-- southern ukraine to connect with its soldiers in the east but if this is plent to be a spoil of war, it is now just a hollwed out husk of a once great city. a race against time to try to save those still trapped under the rubble after three russian missiles targeted this ukrainian military baracks in the

southwestern port city, in the middle of the night. around 200 soldiers were sleeping here at the time, including this soldier, alexander. >> i heard an explosion first t woke me up and i took my gun and then came came the most devastating explosion he said. i will never forget it. >> this violence like that few here will ever forget either. this is the main train station in the western city of lviv. many who make it here will start another journey into the unknown, this time as refugees in poland and beyond. >> it is where we met with irina who fled violence with her two children leaving her husband behind. >> it was our home. we don't want to live anywhere else, she says. we just want to go back home. ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy says it's now time he and a putin talk face to face to end this war.

>> i want everyone to hear me now. especially in moscow, the time has come for a meeting it is time to talk, he said, otherwise russia's loss also take generations to recover. imtiaz tyab joins us from lviv. just how serious are the russian losses. >> well, we have no way of independently verifying but according to u.s. officials that number is in the many thousands, which is a staggering number when you consider this war is now only in its fourth week. >> duncan: and lviv where are you is known to be a vital refugee hub. what is the current mood like what is the situation like there right now? >> yeah strks pretty tense. on friday russian missiles landed in an area close to the main airport here, bringing vladimir putin's war squarely on lviv's doorstep. as you rightly point out this is a city which has been a main transit route for refugee, at last counseled 3.3 million

ukrainians are refugees. >> duncan: thank you for your reporting from lviv. >> president biden traveled to brussel this week aiming to present a united front on the ukraine war can european and nato ldewhs expected to be a pivotal week for the administration. cbs's scott macfar land is at the white house with-- mcfar lane is at the white house with more. >> this extraordinary nato summit is an opportunity for a show of solidarity by western nations. but it is happening during an month moment back home, as president biden historic stream court nominee begins confirmation hearings. >> president biden's arrival at the white house from a weekend trip to delaware is just the beginning of a busy week of travel as the president heads to belgium mid week to talk about nato's military support and heurn efforts to help ukraine. the white house press secretary say there are no plans for the president to visit ukraine itself. the trip comes as the number of refugees has eclipsed 3 million, and amid growing concern that

some nato countries could be drawn into the fight. >> american troops will not be on the ground in ukraine at this moment. the president has been clear on that. >> before the president departs his nominee for the supreme court judge ketanji brown jackson begins her confirmation hearing before the senate judicialary committee. the first black woman nominated to the high court gives an opening statement tomorrow before answering senators questions tuesday. the larger question will any republicans vote with democrats to confirm judge jackson who was rated well qualified by the american bar association. help can leader mitch mcconnell told "face the nation" he's not yet decided how will vote. >> i haven't made a final decision as to how i will vote. i am willing to listen to the testimony, that is why we have hearings. >> duncan: and jot macfarlane joins me now alot of people no doubt will be tuning in to watch the confirmation hearings. you can give a sense of what to expect in terms of this process this week. >> opening statements tomorrow including from judge jackson,

then tuesday the senate judiciary committee begins its questions, each member gets 30 minute, i'm tomed some will focus on judge jackson's work as a federal defender but in the past some senatorrers did not use their time just for questions but to give extended remarks. >> duncan: all right, we will all be watching, thank you. tonight police in arkansas, about an hour and a half south of little rock are searching for upon suspects involved in a deadly shooting at a car show. one man was killed and at least 24 hours were hurt including six children. the crowd was sprayed with gunfire, so far just one suspect has been arrested. the event was organized by a group promoting nonviolence. u.s. health officials said today they are expecting more covid case with its new ba.2 variant but a large surge is unlikely. lilia luciano is in pasadena with more, good evening to you. >> good evening, jericka.

china and europe are seeing that new om cron variant but in the u.s. covid cases in general have dramatically dropped which explains those rollbacks that we are seeing. the latest of which is here in l.a. county, where schools will no longer require masks starting later this week. states are turning the page on covid from pandemic to end ddz emic. the masks are off and many testing sites are shutting down. most requirements are rolled back. except masking in airports and on public transportation where it's mandatory for another month. >> i'm glad to see we are opening up, baby steps of course because we're still not sure what is happening. >> new covid infections in the u.s. are at their lowest level since last july. and nearly 99.5 percent of americans are living in a low or medium risk area. >> i think we're going to continue to see low levels of infection through the summer am but before we get there we will probably see some pickup infection like the europeans are seeing right now. >> om cron sub variants ba.2 is

driving the surges in europe but health experts say vaccines are effective against the new strain, 82% of eligible americans have received at least one dose. but in china health officials say low vaccination rates among the elderly are behind the latest surge. the country just reported its first covid death in more than a year. the u.s. surgeon general says americans should not panic about the outbreaks abroad and many are confident as they return to newly opened workplaces. >> for the most part i feel safe. >> dr. anthony fauci said today he expects cases of that omicron subvariant to rise here in the u.s. but that it should be more of an yup tick rather than a full blown surge. jericka. >> duncan: lilia luciano, thank you. straight ahead on the cbs weekend news, more on the war in ukraine including the flaws the invasion has exposed in russia's vawnted military. and later, a concert for ukraine as new york's metropolitan opera joins a global chorus.

>> duncan: russia may be one of the most powerful military forces in the world but they're unprovoked attack on ukraine has exposed flaws. cbs's national security correspondent david martin has more in this report filed for sunday morning. >> the stalled and sputtering spectacle of the russian military is making of itself in ukraine, came as a revelation to general frank mckenzie and almost certainly to vladimir putin as well. >> i am surprised at the problems they're having. it should be very concerning to russian leadership. >> as commander of u.s. forces in the middle east mckenzie has spent the last three years operating in close proximity to the russians in syria and knows their history as one of the world's great tank armies. all of which has been belied by

the first three weeks of war. >> they haven't been able to maneuver their ar moar effectively. at the end of the second world war they were as good as nibbles. but these guys don't seem to have remember that. >> should heads roll. >> i would not be happy if that is the way u.s. forces were performing. >> mckenzie himself a tank commander as a young officer watched in disbelief as an entire armoured colume advancing on kyiv literally ran out of gas. >> if you are going to drive and operate a main battle tank as a commander, and i have, then you are thinking all the time about fueling that beast. if are you not think being fueling that beast, then are you behind. and they appear to have not taken those basic logistical considerations in trying as they move forward. >> are are you surprised-- surprised they seem to be sticking to the roads. >> that say lack of training, you have to get offer the roads to maneuver, they are death traps particularly for armoured vehicles and the ukrainians have good antitank system. >> at one point the president

biden said he will send 9,000 more. >> we are fully committed to surging weapons to the ukrainians and more will be coming. >> including the shoulder fired javelin which dives down on the top of the tank where the armour is thinnest. using everything from the high end javelin to the work a day rocket propelled grenade launcher, the ukrainians have destroyed several hundred russian vehicles. >> so how much of this is due to russian incompetent as opposed to ukrainian skill. >> the ukrainians have shown great bravery in defending their country stvment less clear to me how aggressive and motivated russian forces are down at the individual soldier level. >> ukrainian resistance spoiled russia's plan to take the capitol of kyiv with a lightning strike in the opening days of the war. their vawnted tank army stalled, the russians have reverted to seige tactics, pounding cities and their residents with rockets

and artillery. they are expected to regroup and try again. >> is it conceivable to you that russia could just flat out fail to take kyiv? >> i would be surprised if that outcome happened, taking kyiv is very important to them. so i predict they will try hard to take it and i think there could be a horrific price actually to be paid in the civilian population as they move against the city. >> david martin, cbs news, the pentagon. >> duncan: still ahead on the cbs weekend news, the challenges of surviving winter in a changing climate.

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stim emerging from winter and tonight's weekend journal erin hassanzadeh of wcco visits a bear's den to show us how they are adapting to a changing climb as-- climate. >> if you have ever wondered what being a bear biologist looks like, here is your answer. navigating weeks deep snow under the canopy of the chip what national forest to find bear 6080. >> we're getting close. we have to be quiet. >> the beeping of a gps tracker. >> strange we haven't heard anything. she's tiny though. >> then it's time to head first into the disen to is he date her, after waiting for that to kick in we move in. >> oh my gosh. >> and go head first ourselves into the bear's earthy tunnel. she's been down here since september or october. >> when this bear is pulled from her den and placed on her make shift check up table researchers

find their first surprise. >> what do you think her weight. >> very small. >> she weighs 127 pounds. >> she should be around 200. >> no cubs, even though she has had them before and is 11, in the prime of her reproductive years. >> we have had a really bad food year last year, sun of ones of worst since we started recording in the 80s, other than that, she is healthy, our changing climate is changing these bears. >> they started in 198 approximate and we have been doing this every winter since then. >> since the start of this project in 1981 food sources for bears dropped 70 percent. but they learn to adapt. >> most of our bears are just as fat as they were prior to the 70% decline. the same reproduction is going on. the same cub survival is going on. >> basically we have bears in a ton of areas we never thought we did. >> bouncing back despite ever-growing threats. erin hassanzadeh, cbs news, grand rapid, minnesota.

>> duncan: next on the cbs weekend news, it's in the his first rodeo. vanilla ice sets a record.

>> duncan: a surveillance camera in connecticut captured a wild altercation. it happened when this black bear climbed into this pig enclosure and began attacking but the two pig, get there named hammy and mary fought back, turning their home into a boxing ring. clearly they won that round. well, a new record this weekend at the 90th anniversary of houston's livestock show and rodeo. >> sold it, $1 million, $1 million. >> meat vanilla ice, this year's grand champion steer, and you heard that correctly, this not so little guy sold for a record $1 million. the previous record of $625,000 was set three years ago. well, when we return, the power

of music from one of the world's greatest stages.

>> duncan: we end tonight at new york's metropolitan opera where singers have added their voices in support of ukraine, here's cbs's jim axelrod. >> it wasn't hard at all to figure out what was going on at the metropolitan operahouse in new york city. >> they said it's so important not for me, just for whole our country. we feel that we are not alone, >> vladyslav buialski is a 24s,w year old from the coastal city of berdyansk now occupied by russian troops. not just any 24 year old, but

a-base baritone in the met's young artist program who lead the chorus in the ukrainian national anthem. the concert was the idea of the met's general manager, peter gelb. >> we're not canceling russian art, we want to can sill putin. >> who has taken a strong stand, selferring the met's ties with supporters to a putin, including popular diva anna netbreko. >> a personal friend twns is very pain toferl have to cuts that off. but she has made a point of associating with putin. and is really considered to be one of his cronies, no matter how great an artist she s once putin started murdering ukrainians t was clear that we couldn't possibly continue with her. >>. >> the concert was broadcast in ukraine why buialski's noechiciy

cell phone service. >> what happens when you she is not able to answer? >> i have today the situation with just her because lots of thoughts coming in your head and it's not a good one, you know. it's just terrible moment. it's heartbreaking, you know. vlad and 200-us his friends tried to mend those fences with a call of love they didn't need a phone to make. jim axelrod, cbs news, new york. >> duncan: and he sings on, well that's the news for this sunday, coming up tonight on "60 minutes," how u.s. sanctions are affecting putin and what elite athletes are doing to prolong their careers. i'm jericka duncan in new york, from all of us here,

for watching, have a great live from the cbsn bay area studios, this is kpix 5 news. right now, peninsula resident standing against the war in ukraine and a live look at a vigil calling to end the attacks and suffering. another curveball in the fight to build a waterfront ballpark in the new push to have residents vote on the plan. the supreme court justice clarence thomas is hospitalized. a deadly south bay house fire and why crews had trouble getting close to the flames. >> what motivated you? >> i love the city. >> later, we go for a run with a man setting out and marathon of love for his city.

more than 500 children -- refinery workers say they will be going on strike in richmond. they voted down the company's recent contract offer. >> they said chevron return to -- refused to return to the table and if it shuts down the refinery it could impact prices of gas even more. good evening. they could run into another roadblock to build the ballpark. >> another councilmember is considering asking residents to cast their vote. as da lin reports, a ballot measure could delay it even more. truck the city council was supposed to vote on the ballpark sometime this summer but now a city councilmember has to give the decision-making power to the voyeur -- voters. at a town hall meeting th