Welcome to the news hour. President Biden is in Normandy France today to mark 80 years

since the D-Day landings ushered in the bloody final chapter of World War II.

But today he also pointed to the urgent threats once again

raging in Europe, this time in Ukraine. And while the specter of that brutal war

haunts Europe now, it was for the hundreds of veterans of the longest day that

these ceremonies were most poignant.

Both Mr. Biden and French President Emmanuel Macron extolled the uncommon valor of ordinary men and women who accomplished the extraordinary

some 80 years ago.

Today we are as far from D-Day as D-Day was from the height of the American Civil War, but the history made on those bluffs

above the wide beaches of Normandy feels closer still.

Here's Malcolm Brabant in northern France.

Eighty years ago, these veterans counted their life expectancy in minutes.

Yet here they were back at Omaha Beach, 100 years old or thereabouts. Among those greeting President Biden who was 18 months old on D

day was 99-year-old Staff Sergeant George Mullins of the 101st Airborne. He landed on Utah Beach in a glider and fought through Europe for 11 months

until he reached Hitler's Eagles nest in Bertesgarden, Germany.

The President drew on the heroism of the greatest generation

and their liberation of France

to implicitly warn against the isolationism of Donald Trump and to send a message to

Russia's president Putin. The struggle between the dictatorship and freedom is

unending. Here in Europe we see one stark example. Ukraine has been invaded by

a tyrant, then on domination. The audience was unaware that Ukraine's President Zelensky was in Normandy.

The Ukrainian Prime Minister is busy fighting right now.

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