Good evening. I'm Jeff Bennett. I'm the Navas is away on the news hour tonight.

A wartime shakeup Ukraine replaces its defense minister amid a corruption investigation and

a slow counteroffensive against Russia. A national bus driver shortage leaves families

scrambling to find rides for their kids at the start of a new school year.

To us to transportation is is really access to education. Across the country we're

also seeing an increase in chronic absenteeism. And with more children becoming

social media influencers, one state works to ensure they're getting paid for their work.

Welcome to the news hour. On this labor day, President Biden has touted unions and played

down the threat of an auto worker strike. The president spoke today in Philadelphia. He emphasized

the number of jobs created since he took office and noted the new energy of organized labor.

Separately, the president said he does not think the United auto workers will walk out.

But with a strike deadline, just 10 days away, the union's leader said, quote, he must

know something we don't.

Russian President Vladimir Putin says he's not ready to renew a deal on Ukrainian grain

shipments just yet. It's been two months since Moscow pulled out of the agreement that

guaranteed safe passage for Ukrainian vessels hauling grain in the Black Sea. Today, Putin

met with Turkish President Erdogan, who helped broker the original deal. Afterward, he insisted

the West must make the first move.

We'll be ready to consider the possibility of reanimating the grain deal, as I told

the president today, as soon as agreements on lifting restrictions on the export of Russian

agricultural products are fully implemented.

For his part, Erdogan said he's ready to negotiate a new agreement and believes one

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