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here's cbs's charlie d'agata. >> reporter: an explosion just a few hundred yards away. it's part "m*a*s*h" unit, part e.r. in a frontline town. medics provide life i saving care to casually and get them to fully equipped hospitals hours away. then a number of smaller blasts. first to arrive, wounded soldiers, then more and in much worse shape. then come the civilian casualties. an elderly woman begs for help, but priority goes to the unresponsive patients in what's now become a battlefield triage. we are near the front lines but not on the front lines. and from the number of civilians we've seen coming in this morning and their injuries, this is clearly an attack on a civilian area. they keep coming until dr. alexi and his team are overwhelmed. "cardiac arrest" shouts a medic. "heart stopped for two minutes." some already too far gone to save. the shrapnel wounds to the head, chest, severed arteries, and the sheer number of casualties all consistent with cluster munitions, dr. alexi tells us. >> can you be sure those injuries were from a cluster bomb? [ speaking in a gl

cbs's charlie d'agata reports from ukraine. warning, some of the images are graphic. >> reporter: at this run down clinic not far from the front line, we expected to find a handful of soldiers wounded in fighting. what happened next was much, much worse. about 20 minutes after we arrived here at the hospital, there was this huge explosion, not more than 300 yards away, and ever since there's been this steady flow of the wounded. some of them soldiers, most of them civilians, some of them mortally wounded. russian artillery had struck a residential neighborhood in this otherwise nearly deserted town. some died on the spot. patients crying out for help. some unable to cry out at all. when we report that eight civilians were killed and 13 more were wounded, we're rarely at the scene to witness exactly what that looks like up close. doctors say the high number of victims suggests a cluster bomb attack. it's been a tough day but this doctor says his team have seen worse. we would like there to be less days like this, he said, but we

jericka. >> charlie d'agata in ukraine, thank you. >>> an aide to former president donald trump pleaded not guilty in a miami courtroom today. prosecutors say walt nauta helped trump hide classified documents from federal investigators. they say the 40-year-old was spotted on security cameras moving boxes from the storage room at trump's mar-a-lago estate in florida. nauta, a navy veteran, faces 20 years in prison if convicted on the most serious charge, obstruction of justice. >>> we have some breaking health news tonight. for the first time, the fda has given full approval to a drug that slows the progression of alzheimer's. more than 6 million americans are living with the disease. cbs news chief medical correspondent dr. jon lapook shows us how the long-awaited drug impacts the brain. >> reporter: today's approval of lecanemab is a step forward for a disease that has been largely untreatable. alzheimer's researcher dr. sam gandy consults for asai, the maker of lecanemab, but does not benefit financially from drug sales. >> lecanemab is the first consistent disease modifying therapy

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our charlie d'agata filed this report from the region. >> through the darkness and debris following therdment of ukraine's black sea port cities rescuers shout out is anybody here, even in the daily reality of war, it's still hard to see civilians bearing the brunt of it. in rare access to recapture territory, we pass through the ruins of ramifka. pre-war population, 1300 now just 15 people. including victor and lubia who happily invited us in. amid the constant thump of artillery rounds. >> these explosions don't bother you? >> no. those are far away. for us, this is like silence. >> you call it silence? wow. viktor says it wasn't that far away that morning with helicopters hovering overhead in support of ground troops. lubya's smile never disappeared even as she cut flowers for her 92-year-old mother who passed away during the winter. soldiers helped bury her in the yard. the graveyard was too dangerous. we eventually made our way to the neighborhoods recaptured by ukrainian troops in recent days. here on the very edge of newly liberated territory, not a building has been left untouch

here is cbs's charlie d'agata appeared and we do want to warn you, some of the images are graphic. >>landmines have now surpassed those caused by incoming artillery. and while new equipment like the u.s. bradley fighting vehicle is saving lives, soldiers are at risk the moment they step outside. he lost a leg, but survived. on an exercise in zaporizhzhia, the mind hunters, the 35th marine brigade, take us through a difficult scenario, diffusing russian mines they removed from the battlefield. it is not just the sheer number of minds they are finding, but the different types. antitank, antipersonnel. one particular mine springs out of the ground to about that height, and then spray's shrapnel every direction. call sign "mr. brown" shows us an array of trophy minds triggered by tripwires. pressure plates, minds booby trapped to blow up even we being removed. using metal detectors is not only dangerous, it is painstakingly slow. but they are not the only tools at their disposal. among other mine-clearing equipment, the u.s. has supplied ukraine with these: mine-clearing line charges, or

here is cbs's charlie d'agata. >> reporter: an explosion just a few hundred yards away.ne town. medics providing life-saving care to casualties and getting them to fully equipped hospitals hours away. then a number of smaller blasts. first to arrive is wounded soldiers, then more in much worse shape. then come the civilian casualties. an elderly woman begs for help. but priority goes to the unresponsive patients and what has become a battlefield triage. we are near the front lines, but not on the front lines. and from the number of civilians we have seen coming in this morning and their injuries, this is clearly an attack on the civilian area. they keep coming. until dr. alexie and his team are overwhelmed. "cardiac arrest," shouts a medic, "heart stop for 2 minutes." some already too far gone to save. the shrapnel wounds to the head, chest, severed arteries, and the sheer number of casualties all consistent with cluster munitions dr. alexie tells us. are you sure that those injuries were from a cluster bomb? "yes," he said, "the enemy uses them a lot. it's not the first

. >> charlie d'agata, thank you. >>> there was a scary scene here in d.c. today. police are now investigating a deadly crash in a parking garage at med star georgetown university hospital. one woman was killed, and five other people were injured when a car hit a group of pedestrians. the injured are expected to recover. one official said there's no indication that the crash was intentional. >>> the lights of broadway will continue to shine after a last-minute deal between producers and the backstage workers union. the agreement avoids another major strike with hollywood actors and writers continuing to walk the picket line. cbs's mark strassmann reports the shutdown of the industry which supports nearly 2.5 million jobs is already being felt beyond the screen. >> no contract. >> no actors! >> reporter: in hollywood, striking the set has a whole new meaning, with repercussions rippling 2,200 miles away in atlanta. >> this is decades of stuff, right? >> reporter: billy biggers family-owned prop house services the hollywood of the south. it's jam-packed with movie-ma

-supplied cluster munitions for the first time. >> norah: charlie d'agata, thank you. d.c. today. police are now investigating a deadly crash in a parking garage at medstar georgetown university hospital. one woman was killed and five other people were injured when a car hit a group of pedestrians. the injured are expected to recover. one official said there is no indication that the crash was intentional. the lights of broadway will continue to shine after a last-minute deal between producers and the backstage workers union. the agreement avoids another major strike, with hollywood actors and writers continuing to walk the picket line. cbs's mark strassmann reports the shutdown of the industry, which supports nearly 2.5 million jobs, is already being felt beyond the screen. >> no contract! >> no actors! >> reporter: in hollywood, striking the set has a whole new meaning. with repercussions rippling 2200 miles away in atlanta. this is decades of stuff, right? billy biggar's family-owned prop house services the hollywood of the south.3 it's jam-packed with movie-making

>> jericka: charlie d'agata in ukraine, thank you.eaded not guilty in a miami courtroom today. prosecutors say walt nauta helped trump hide classified documents from federal investigators. they say the 40-year-old was spotted on security cameras moving boxes from the storage room at trump's mar-a-lago estate in florida. nauta, a navy veteran, faces 20 years in prison if convicted on the most serious charge, obstruction of justice. well, we have some breaking health news tonight. for the first time, the fda has given full approval to a drug that slows the progression of alzheimer's. more than 6 million americans are living with the disease. cbs news chief medical correspondent dr. jon lapook shows us how the long-awaited drug impacts the brain. >> here. >> reporter: today's approval of lecanemab is a step forward for a disease that has been largely untreatable. alzheimer's researcher dr. sam gandy consults for eisai, the maker of lecanemab, but does not benefit financially from drug sales. >> lecanemab is the first consistently effecti

charlie d'agata, cbs news, near bakhmut, ukraine. >> norah: back here at home, about 10,000 baby boomersery day in the u.s. now, a growing number of younger americans don't want to wait and are thinking differently about retirement. in tonight's "money watch," cbs's carter evans has tips on making your money last. >> look at how windy it is. >> reporter: rob and allie marmion spend their days traveling the world. >> i think it is great just to be able to eat ramen in japan and eat spaghetti in italy. >> reporter: it is like a nonstop vacation that began after their kids left home and they realized they did not save enough to retire comfortably in the u.s. >> rob probably is the one that came up with the crazy idea. [laughs] just sell everything. >>>> reporter: you said "sell everything," and you mean everything. >> we sold not just our home, everything that was inside of it, our cars. >> reporter: they invested the money. and now, at ages 49 and 50, they live off the earnings, and some occasional remote work. >> what you, you know, learn growing up is you retire when you're 65 and you si

norah. >> norah: charlie d'agata, thank you very much.n has been one for the records books. millions of air travelers are taken to the skies, but most are paying a high price for their getaways. in tonight's money watch, kris van cleave shows us how savvy flyers can still find a bargain at 35,000 feet. >> reporter: amanda pullen's summer vacation was in serious doubt with airfares to europe at a six year high. >> we were putting our vacation on hold because that was really expensive, and so i just kind of kept looking at the airline prices and all of a sudden this $300 flight popped up. >> reporter: the dallas resident and her husband are going to greece, but they required a night in washington and connecting through london on upstart budget airline norse atlantic. >> with the three different flights, the three different hotels it was only like $600. compared to i don't know for the two of us would've been $2400 to fly directly to athens. >> reporter: while 64% of people say high inflation affected their fourth of july plans, airport saw

>> jericka: charlie d'agata, thank you.ho killed 23 people and wounded 22 others at a walmart in el paso, texas, was sentenced today to 90 consecutive life sentences. the 24-year-old pleaded guilty earlier this year to federal hate crime charges for targeting latinos in the 2019 massacre. he could face the death penalty, if convicted in his upcoming state trial. well, tonight, a 17-year-old suspect is under arrest in connection with the baltimore shooting that killed two people and injured 28 others during a block party on sunday. cbs's scott macfarlane explains why police continue to search for additional suspects. >> reporter: the 17-year-old boy is in custody tonight, charged in connection with the mass shooting at a baltimore neighborhood gathering on sunday. charged as a juvenile and police say too young to name publicly. >> i've never seen anything like this. never. >> reporter: the 17-year-old is charged with possession of an assault weapon and reckless endangerment, and more arrests are expected. a $28,000 reward fo

charlie d'agata, cbs news, nearby bakhmut, ukraine. >>> at a conservative conference this weekend inda, former president trump went back on his mockery tour. his target, rival ron desantis, trump taunted the florida governor about his 30-point lead in national polls and told desantis to drop out. no campaign can survive without money, and new quarterly reports give a focussed snapshot of various candidates and their campaigns. cbs news' schuyler henry joins us from the white house. >> reporter: good to see you. the numbers are revealing. for the first time, what these candidates are earning and spending, especially those republicans who are looking to meet a certain threshold to hit the debate stage in august. republican presidential hopefuls are revving up for next month's gop debate in milwaukee. >> i'm going to be at the debates. i think it's a great opportunity, especially for a guy like me. >> reporter: florida governor ron desantis currently polling in second place in the gop primary behind frontrunner former president trump says he's ready to take him and other candidates on.

charlie d'agata is in the war zone. >> reporter: terrifying, lethal and highly effective, ukraine isnger to cluster bombs. both sides have been accused of deploying them, since russia launched its invasion, with devastating effect. it's a weapon that breaks up midair as it approaches its target, ejecting a number of smaller explosives or bomblets, scattering indiscriminately across an area that can stretch to the size of several football fields. most of those explosives detonate. but not all. posing a threat to the civilian population, long after the war is ending. especially children. here in kharkiv, investigators have built a mountain off russin munitions and evidence of their use in civilian areas. these are just some of the russian cluster bombs that have been recovered here in the kharkiv region. and this is an example of a detonated bomblet, which would have been packedwith explosives. ukraine says it needs the help in a stalled counter offensive against entrenched russian troops. backing the white house's argument that the use of the controversial weapons is on ukraine's watc

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charlie d'agata reports from the front lines. >> reporter: ukrainian soldiers take us through the woodsh explosions ringing out. and from the moment we arrived, the guns of ukraine's 17-tank brigade never fell silent. pummelling russian defensive positions in the areas around bakhmut. for the general of ukukraine's ground forces said this week, the enemy is caught in a trapap butt refufusing to budge after claiming control of the shattered embattled city. but the tank brigade isn't firing from tanks here. these are u.s. supplied self-propelled howitzer m-109s. after they fire the gun is when this place becomes much more dangerous. they risk giving away their position with every artillery shell that they fire towards the russians. further back into the forest, we find the 24-year-old commander, call sign roman, so laid back, he looks like he is on a fishing trip. but he says the fighting goes on day and night. how important are these american weapons to the fight here? >> translator: the more weapons, the more ammunition, the better, he says. the more precise they are, the more enemies w

senior foreign correspondent charlie d'agata is in kharkiv with more. >> reporter: this morning, a tributey president volodymyr zelenskyy and the polish president in western ukraine marking the world war ii massacre of tens of thousands of polls at the hands of ukrainian nationalists now united in memory of the victims. zelenskyy, marked day 500 of the invasion yesterday in a visit to turkey to bring back home the commanders of ukrainian's brigadade. having sururrendered to the russians after the siege of maririupol under a deal they we to remain in turkey until the end of the war. instead, a hero's welcome ceremony in lviv and a vow to go right back to the fight. the specter of a major nuclear disaster has re-emerged at the zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. both sides accusing each other of plotting to attack it. ukraine says russia is exploiting the threat as a deterrence to the counteroffensive, which has become a relentless grind against an entrenched enemy. the commander tells us it's been tough. the enemy doesn't sleep. in the year or so that they invaded us, he says, they have learn

cbs' charlie d'agata was in the city of zaporizhzhia earlier today. >> reporter: the specter of a nuclear disaster looms again tonight. both sides warning of a catastrophic attack. president zelenskyy accuses russian troops of planting objects resembling explosives on top of reactor units. that follows russian claims ukraine is plotting to strike it with missiles packed with nuclear material gathered from other facilities. neither side providing any evidence, and the nuclear watchdog, the iaea says there is no visible indications of mines or explosives. residents in zaporizhzhia have become used to living in the shadow of the threat. drills are routinely held in the region for civilians. but this time, it feels different, says chairman of the regional counsel olena zuk. >> it's obvious. for me, it's completely obvious that they will try to do something. >> reporter: russia already stands accused of recent sabotage blamed for blowing up the dam just last month, wiping out dozens of towns and villages. young mother irina has withstood the worst of the war so far. "we're ready for everything

charlie d'agata is on the front lines. >> reporter: what we saw was a snapshot of what's happening allstretches for hundreds of miles. ukrainian forces making advances neighborhood by neighborhood, but at a tremendous cost. it's hard to imagine anyone surviving this savage violence in vermivka, let alone still living here. once home to around 1300 people, now just 15. including viktor and lubia. there is a reason we're in full body armor. we're smack-dab on one of the most active fault lines in this war, what ukrainians call the zero line. under constant shelling from both sides. these explosions don't bother you? "no, no, that's far away," lubia says. "we call this silence." they've lived here all their lives riding out the worst of it in a basement cellar. they had to look after lubia's 92-year-old mother and their dogs. lubia gleeffully shows us a hat scorched from shrapnel. i can see that. that's scary. >> hot metal. >> reporter: i know, hot metal. shr shrapnel. said she was riding her bike when an incoming mortar sprayed hot shrapnel into her sun hat. ukrainian forces have clawed

cbs's charlie d'agata was in the city of zaporizhia earlier today. >> reporter: the specter of a nuclear catastrophic attack. president zelenskyy accuses russian troops of planting objects resembling explosives on top of reactor units. that follows russian claims that ukraine is plotting to strike with missiles packed with nuclear material gathering from other facilities. neither side providing any evidence and the nuclear watchdog, the iaea said there is no visible indications of mines or explosives. residents in zaporizhzhia have become used to living in the shadow of the threat. drills are routinely held in a region for civilians. but this time it feels different says chairman of the regional council alayna zucca. >> it is obvious. for me and it's obvious that they will try to do something. >> reporter: russia stands accused of recent sabotage blamed for blowing up the nova kakhovka dam just last month. wiping out dozens of towns and villages. young mother iryna korenko is withstanding the worst of the worst so far. "we are ready for everything. so much has already happened here that

cbs's charlie d'agata is in ukraine for us tonight. >> reporter: in both a tribute to troops and bold defiance to russia, president volodymr zelenskyy posted an undated clip from snake island. he says, i want to thank from this place of victory each of our soldiers these 500 days. snake island, a symbol of audacious ukrainian insubordination after soldiers refused to surrender to the russian navy's flagship in the first few days of the invasion. that was later sunk. we will definitely win, he said in his video address. glory to ukraine. but winning looks a long way off as the war entered its 500th day. russian troops fired artillery into a residential neighborhood in the eastern city of lehmann, killing at least eight people, wounding several more. prosececutors in kharkiv have bn collecting russian rockets as evidence of attacks against civilians, including cluster bombs. both side have been adawesed of using them, but the prosecutors office spokesman told us ukrainian troops bear the responsibility of protecting civilians. their use makes more sense against russian forces in the for

cbs reporter charlie d'agata reports from along the front lines in eastern ukraine. >> reporter: under leaf, soldiers tell us to be quick and get ready to dive into a trench if there's incoming fire. [ explosion ] >> reporter: until we come upon the troops of ukraine's 17th tank brigade. [ explosion ] >> reporter: melting down the barrel of the u.s.-applied self-propelled howitzer m-109. the position is obviously a secret. their target is not. [ explosion ] >> reporter: this is what it's come to along the front line, this relentless artillery battle firing off at russian positions, trying to push them back from areas around bakmut. but they're proving hard to budge, entrenched in a war of defensive positions in and around the ruined city, yet the ukrainian military says they're making progress along the southern flank, due in part to artillery units like this one. drones or forward spotters identify russian targets and determine the coordinates. they are passed on to 24-year-old commander call sign roman who radios one of the gun positions, it's then directed to the gunner who takes ai

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charlie d'agata joined them on patrol. >> reporter: they are the hidden danger, and they are everywhereyone expected. now every single day, troops like these put their lives on the line to help save others. we need to warn you this story contains images some might find disturbing. they're called sappers. the mine hunters of the 35th marine brigade. retreating russians have laid land mines everywhere. commanders say it's the number one reason penetrating russian defenses is such a slow grind. and even though this is strictly an exercise for our benefit and these real mines have been defused, it's still terrifying. a forward team cuts a path only about two yards wide, gradually widening it so troops and equipment can cut through the mine field. but russians have been known to fire rockets contaiing smaller mines like these, sometimes called petal minds or butterfly minds, re-mining an area that had already been cleared. not just the sheer number of mines but mines of every description. anti-tank, anti-personnel, cluster bombs, ieds, call sign mr. brown shows us. one mine springs out of th