>> there it is. >> that's it for us at 5:00. we'll see you back here at 6:00 tonight. >> news updates always on kpix.com. ♪ tonight, breaking news. former president jimmy carter enters hospice care. >> i jimmy carter do solemnly swear -- >> the carter center announcing the nation's 39th president will spend his remaining time at home. we'll have the latest. also tonight, the u.s. accuses russia of crimes against humanity in ukraine. vice president kamala harris leveling the charge at a security conference in munich, germany. >> we have examined the evidence. we know the legal standards. also in munich, top diplomats from china and america meet face to face for the first time since the balloon blowup. secretary of state antony blinken then speaking to cbs

news. >> one of the things i'm hearing here in munich is real concern about the surveillance balloon program. plus, safety fears. fema arrives in east palestine, ohio more than two weeks after the toxic derailment. in turkey survival against the odds. more than 12 days after the earthquake a family is pulled from the rubble. returning to the depths. the titanic as never seen before. >> it was pretty haunting. and finally, rush hour rescue in los angeles. how this dog captivated a city and prompted these drivers to act. >> she goes, i rescued a dog on the freeway. i go no way, he i just watched somebody rescue a dog on the freeway. >> announcer: this is the "cbs weekend news," from chicago with adriana diaz. good evening. there is breaking news tonight. former president jimmy carter

has decided against any further medical treatment and entered home hospice care. mr. carter is 98 years old. his decision follows a series of short hospital stays. this weekend several family members have gathered at the carter home in plains, georgia. a statement released by the carter center today announced that mr. carter decided to spend his remaining time at home with his family. cbs's christina ruffini joins us now from the white house with the latest. christina, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, adriana. the former president is the longest-living u.s. president in american history. he only served one term. but it's his time outside the building behind me that's really defined his later decades. volunteering for habitat for humanity and speaking out on social justice issues. he was diagnosed with brain cancer in 2015, which he beat, but started to have a series of health problems in 2019. now, they stopped him from doing one of his favorite things, which was teaching sunday school at church. of course here in washington

president biden also went to mass and vice president kamala harris is overseas attending an annual conference of diplomats and security officials. that conference was supposed to be mainly focused on russia and ukraine, but it's a high-profile meeting on the sidelines between the u.s. and china that's threatening to pull focus. >> if putin thinks he can wait us out, he is badly mistaken. >> reporter: speaking in germany at the munich security conference, vice president kamala harris said if russia is allowed to succeed in ukraine other nations could follow its bloody, brutal example. >> russia has committed crimes against humanity. and i say to all those who have perpetrated these crimes, you will be held to account. >> reporter: but the longer the war drags on the harder it will be. >> we need to hurry up.

we need the speed. >> reporter: next week will mark one year since russia's invasion. ukrainian forces are bracing for a spring assault from moscow. already the russians have ramped up their artillery strikes at strategic points in the east. appearing remotely, ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy warned delegates in germany that delayed support could be deadly. >> courage is what we have. there is enough of it. >> reporter: but what they don't have is enough ammunition. ukrainian forces are firing thousands of artillery shells a day, and they're running out. >> these are extraordinary times. and therefore, we should also look at extraordinary measures. >> reporter: in munich several european leaders have voiced support for finding a way to furnish ukraine's ammunition needs. >> and christina, on a separate issue in munich china's top diplomat wang yi called the u.s. shootdown of its balloon, quote, absurd and hysterical. what do we know about the meeting he had with u.s.

secretary of state antony blinken? >> reporter: right. this was the first face-to-face meeting since those incidents. a senior state department official tells cbs news the secretary was frank and direct immediately bringing up what the u.s. says was a violation of american airspace by that chinese spy balloon. blinken gave an interview to cbs's margaret brennan. >> so one of the things i'm hearing here in munich is real concern about the surveillance balloon program. i suspect the fact that it's been exposed by us is going to have to cause china to take another look at this. >> and that full interview will air tomorrow on "face the nation." adriana? >> we'll be christina ruffini, thank you. the biden administration is facing backlash tonight over its handling of the massive train derailment in east palestine, ohio. fema officials arrived at the site today more than two weeks after the derailment following toxic chemical releases. cbs's michael george has the latest. michael, good evening.

>> reporter: adriana, good evening. federal and state officials say they'll set up a free health clinic for residents in east palestine who are experiencing health problems. now, it's been two weeks since that train derailment and release of toxic gases, and many say action hasn't happened nearly fast enough. after backlash from residents and lawmakers the ceo of rail operator norfolk southern visited east palestine saturday. >> the support of the community. and if you'll excuse me that's where i'm headed right now, to meet with some community members. >> reporter: the company has promised to pay for the cleanup, but it faces lingering questions about safety, this after another derailment thursday near detroit. and just last month norfolk told investors its accident rate has been rising for the last four years. >> i am frustrated. >> reporter: there's anger and mistrust in this community as some residents report rashes, eye editoration and headaches. ted murphy doesn' believe officials who say there's no

lingering health risks. >> i've got to move because i'm not safe be be being here. there is no way we are safe being here. >> reporter: also under scrutiny the federal response. fema only arrived in ohio today. the state's governor, mike dewine, says the epa tested both the air and municipal water and it's safe. >> if you get your water from a private well, you are encouraged to use bottled water until your water is confirmed to be safe. >> reporter: one local grocery says people are stocking up on bottled water. >> this is worse than what everybody thought it was. and the people in town are afraid. >> reporter: and it's believed some of the chemicals seeped into the river, the ohio river about 300 miles north of cincinnati, but public utility officials in cincinnati say they've shut down river water intake and there's no detected levels of chemicals. adriana? >> michael george, thank you. turning now to the

catastrophic earthquakes in turkey and syria where the death toll today topped 46,000. remarkably, rescues are still happening. this man was pulled alive from the rubble after being buried 296 hours. his wife also survived. but their son did not. the misery is inescapable. as cbs's imtiaz tyab shows us from the quake zoen in rebelheld syria. >> reporter: crumbled concrete and twisted metal. this was once home to over 1,000 people. as many as 800 of them died right here. >> so this was your home. >> reporter: mustafa al mahrawi is one of the few survivors. he tells us you hon he was trapped under the rubble with his wife and three children for more than 22 hours. "i found a big rock and i hit it as hard as i could and shouted i am here, i'm here." you just -- bang. al marahwi says "we saw a light

and my kids started shouting, daddy, daddy, a light." this video shows the moment al mahrawi and his kids were all saved. a rare glimmer of hope in rebelheld syria already scarred from a decade-long civil war. but this unrelenting disaster continues to bring even more deth. so many people were killed in the earthquake that they had to dig up farmland like this for mass burials. but even this won't be enough for all the dead. it's now a race against time to help the living. families displaced by the quake are now sheltering in tents in this olive grove. another generation of syrian children whose lives have been turned upside down. the response to the disaster in syria continues to be catastrophically slow. many here in the rebelheld north blame this man, president bashar al assad, seen here greeting quake survivors in a loyalist area. assad still controls most borders and how much aid can come into the country.

though western governments including the u.s. are wary of working with the regime it sanctioned, a regime which oversaw the killings of hundreds of thousands of civilians. assad has agreed to open two land routes through turkey for aid deliveries after immense pressure from the u.n. eight long days after the quake. for mustafa al mahrawi after enduring years of war and now this catastrophic earthquake that killed 20 members of his extended family, it's all too much. you've lost so much. what will you do now? [ speaking non-english ] "i have no hope left," he says. "i sometimes think it would have been better if i stayed under the rubble." imtiaz tyab, cbs news, northern syria. >> essential reporting from syria. today the united states strongly condemned yet another north korean ballistic missile test. it happened early this morning. also saturday north he korean

dictator kim jong un appeared at a soccer game with his young daughter, celebrating his late father's birthday, a major north korean holiday. it is the latest in a series of public appearances, fueling speculation about the regime's future. cbs's elizabeth palmer is in seoul. >> reporter: of eight new stamps commemorating north korea's icbm launch, five feature kim jong un's daughter. we don't even know how old she is though south korean intelligence estimates 10 or 11. it all started when she first appeared hand in hand with dad inspecting the missile and then at the launch. in north he korea she's referred to as precious or beloved daughter. it took the former basketball star dennis rodman after visiting his friend kim jong un to leak her name to a british newspaper in 2013. ju-ae. and now a local news outlet quoting anonymous north korean

officials as reporting that girls in north korea called ju ae are being forced to change their names. in two months ju ae has gone from invisible to front and center. ju ae is thought to have two brothers but they are nowhere in the picture. in 2020 kim jong un starred in a propaganda video on a white horse, symbol of in their telling the family's sacred duty to lead the charge into a glorious future. so when the commentator at a huge military display in february pointed out that ju ae's favorite white horse followed her dad's in the cavalry parade, speculation ran wild that these are actually our very first glimpses of north korea's next dictator. elizabeth palmer, cbs news, seoul. >> straight ahead on the "cbs weekend news," violent hayesings and a deadly shootout all tied

to a college basketball team. plus, wait till you see this video of the titanic shot decades ago but just released. and drivers come together to save a freeway runaway.

new mexico state's basketball team won't play its scheduled game today or ever again this season. a troubling hazing scandal has roiled the school and left its basketball program reeling. marc strassmann has more from las cruise es. >> reporter: new mexico state's basketball team was bad on the court and somehow worse off it. its lord of the flies locker room repeatedly hazed a teammate. >> it feels like a gut punch. i am both disgusted and i'm angry about what has occurred. >> reporter: the most recent alleged attack happened february 6th. one unidentified player told campus police three teammates held him face down in their locker room, stripped him of his

clothing and began to slap his ass. they also touched his scrotum. the university has fired head coach greg hire for cause. no severance. and scrapped the team's remaining six games in a season to forget. >> as a parent i'm angry. and i know that this is not what anybody anticipated for students coming to our institution. >> reporter: especially shocking to students here, the victim says the hazing has happened since last summer. usually in front of the entire team. and no one stepped in to stop it. this troubled team has also had gun issues. in a fight last november player mike peak fatally shot a student from rival new mexico university. the team suspended peak. the police investigation continues, and no charges have been filed. >> i think shutting down the program's definitely the right call. >> reporter: senior michael chavez reports for the school newspaper. >> it's pretty disgusting, actually, seeing what's been going on, seeing the reactions

just from the former players and just seeing how long this has been happening. >> reporter: some players have begun transferring, running from the stain their team leaves on campus. mark strassmann, cbs news, las cruces, new mexico. still ahead on the "cbs weekend news," never-before-seen video of the "titanic," 2 1/2 miles below the surface.

i'm the king of the world! >> this week marks 25 years since the release of the movie "titanic," starring kate winslet and leonardo dicaprio. it was a blockbuster, becoming the first movie to gross $1 billion. to coincide with the anniversary, never-before-seen video of the wreck was released this week from the expedition that found the long-lost steamliner. it was 1986 when the world first saw video of the "titanic"

again, almost 75 years after the so-called unsinkable ship was lost to the depths in the icy north atlantic. this week massachusetts woodshole oceanographic institution released 80 minutes of this never-before-seen raw video, the first ever to capture the vessel nearly 2 1/2 miles beneath the ocean surface. some images are familiar. others new to the public. among them from the ship's haunting interior this chandelier, still hanging, swaying in the current. robert ballard led the team that found the "titanic," and he was inside the small submersible that provided the first video of the wreck. this is him today. >> and as we rose up after that first dive we began to see the portholes. and it was like people looking back at us. it was pretty haunting. >> reporter: 1,500 people died on that maiden and final voyage. inspiring fascination and art.

♪ > i'm flying. jack. >> reporter: the wreck is decaying fast. the captain's bathtub now gone. so are these grand state rooms, succumbed to metal-eating bacteria and saltwater corrosion. researchers say it could all be gone in decades. and so too its secrets. >> and i think everyone wonders in their own mind if i were there what would i have done. >> i want to see the movie again. still ahead on the "cbs weekend news," a nightmare on a dreamliner. 16 hours in the air, only to return home. we'll tell you why.

today work crews in new york city fixed an electrical outage at john f. kennedy international airport. limited operations resumed at terminal 1 three days after a power outage canceled or delayed hundreds of flights, forcing passengers to scramble. some incoming flights were

canceled. in one case an air new zealand flight from auckland to jfk was forced to turn back halfway through the flight, becoming a 16-hour trip to nowhere. now to a dramatic rescue in evergreen, colorado caught on video. firefighters were called out to help an elk who'd fallen through the ice on a pond. eventually, they pulled the frightened animal to safety. the elk glanced back at its rescuers before running off into the woods, apparently unharmed. and it is carnaval time in rio. beautiful, colorful floats and dancers took to the streets for the annual celebration leading up to ash wednesday. brazil's government officials estimate nearly 50 million people will turn out to take part through next wednesday. when we return, the rush hour rescue that played out on live television.

finally tonight, the daily backup on california's freeways

usually sparks long waits and short tempers. but traffic willingly came to a full stop friday when a frightened dog was spotted frantically dodging traffic. jasmine veal from our los angeles station kcbs has the story. >> reporter: scary moments on the northbound 5 freeway friday morning in arl yeeta for this pup running loose and dodging cars. drivers tried to pull over and save the dog. but it was glendale nurse amber stride who made the rescue. that dog jumped right into her car. >> so i looked to the left and to the left of the carpool lane, i just see this little guy running. he's probably going like ten miles an hour. i just opened it, and for some reason he just went right in. >> reporter: that dog now safe in her back yard of her northridge home, hours after her dramatic leap. >> the couple in the truck started clapping. some guy in a white van started clapping. everyone was just happy that finally someone was able to get it. >> reporter: stride was just getting off her 12-hour shift as a cardiac nurse.

her dad mark was at home watching the drama unfold on live tv with no idea it was his daughter until he got the call. >> so she goes, i rescued a dog on te freeway. i go no way, i just watched somebody rescue a dog on the freeway. >> she's lucky to be alive. >> reporter: me called on their mobile vet joan winter to stop by and check out the dog. >> she doesn't look any worse for the wear. i do think she has an owner. she's well fed. she's somebody's pet. >> reporter: winter scanned the dog for a microchip -- >> tag not found. >> reporter: but no luck. stride says she is hoping that's the next part of this dog's story, to be reunited with her owner. but for now is taking all the kisses she can get. jasmine veal, cbs news, los angeles. >> we hope her owner's found. that is the "cbs weekend news" for this saturday. first thing tomorrow "sunday morning" with jane pauley followed by "face the nation." secretary of state antony blinken is among margaret brennan's guests. i'm adriana diaz in chicago. thanks for watching. good night.

now at 6:00, jimmy cartedder resting at home. the former president is now in hospice care. >> and preparing for demolition. a coastal community saying good- bye. >> and headaches for bay area drivers this weekend. we will tell you where. live from the cbs studios, i'm brian hackney. >> i'm andrea nakano. 98-year-old jimmy carter is resting at home in georgia under hospice care. >> the carter center said he decided to spend his remaining time at home with family. instead of facing additional

medical treatment. the 39th president survived cancer in 2015 and a serious fall at home four years later. you will remember that jimmy carter served a single term as president beating gerald folder in 1976 and losing to ronald reagan in 1980. >> former president carter and his wife last visited the bay area in october of 2013. the two helped build new homes at a habitat for humanity construction site in east oakland. a biographer who wrote a book about the former president says carter will be remembered for the ways he gave back after his presidency. >> he was the only president who used the white house as a stepping stool to greater things. and it's true. he had a remarkable ex- presidency. just a continuation. >> would