rejected. the other big issue is within gaza, the so-called deconfliction process, a fancy name for those who are providing humanitarian assistance to have the confidence that they can deliver it without being killed, and according to all the international ngos we talked about who have been operating in conflict zones around the world, they've never seen a worse process for assuring the safe delivery of humanitarian assistance. and so that, of course, makes it very difficult to get the help to people who need it, people who are starving and where they're on the verge of outbreak of cholera and other diseases. >> france and jordan made the decision to airdrop aid in because of those issues going in by land. should the united states do the same?

>> well, i think we should consider every means to try to get desperately needed humanitarian assistance in to gaza. the problem with air drops is it's just not at scale. in other words, it's good, but what we need is far more trucks to be able to cross in to gaza. after all, before the war started, you had 500 trucks crossing into gaza, and today, you know, this last week, it was around 150 trucks per day. we need to make this a 24/7 operation. the israeli screening sites are only operating on like an eight-hour a day schedule, taking some days off. this is a 24/7 humanitarian crisis, and we need a system that will recognize that people are dying every day, of course, some from bombs, we have over 22

people dead, two-thirds of them women and children, but also this humanitarian crisis. >> you said you believe aid is not getting in because of a political decision by prime minister benjamin netanyahu. if that's the case, does that government need to face consequences from the united states, their ally? >> yes, i do think there have to be consequences, and, you know, secretary blinken and president biden have been right to insist on two things, a reduction in the unacceptable levels of civilian casualties and much more cooperation when it comes to providing humanitarian assistance. we've not seen that. this is one reason why i and other senators have proposed an amendment that would apply to every country the united states provides military assistance to,

ukraine, israel, or any other country, that would require that country to cooperate fully with the united states in providing humanitarian assistance in an area of conflict where u.s. provided weapons are being used. it would also require all recipients of the u.s. military assistance to abide by international humanitarian law. these are basic principles that should be universally applied by the united states. >> the white house so far has not signed on to that. before i let you go, sir, i want to ask you, since you're coming back to washington to work, 63% of americans, according to our polling, believe joe biden needs to get tougher at the u.s. border. i'm wondering if you are comfortable with provisions that would tighten asylum law and give more expulsion authority to turn away migrants coming to the united states?

>> well, margaret, president biden is well aware of the unacceptable challenges that we're facing right now at the u.s. border, which is why he provided large numbers of additional -- proposed additional resources for border patrol agents. as you know, there's a bipartisan group of senators that are discussing various policy changes. i'm looking forward to hearing the results of those discussions. i'm told that both the democratic senate caucus and the republican senate caucus may be briefed as early as this week on a framework, although i don't know for sure. i'm going to have to look at every proposal before i make any final decisions. i can tell you some of the house proposals are way too extreme. >> okay. >> all right. >> and undermine -- >> sorry -- >> the idea of america -- >> because of the delay i have to speak over you and cut you off because of a commercial break. i apologize, sir. we'll be back in a moment. .

we toured a federal border pfacility and a migrant shelter while in eagle pass, texas, to understand the full border picture. here's what we saw.

4 day old is one of america's newest citizens. we met him and his 26-year-old mother lesley at a temporary shelter the day after they were released from the hospital. she had an emergency c-section. >> are you in pain? [ speaking in a global language ] >> but you're smiling? thanks to god, everything is okay, she says. after a two-month journey from honduras with her 9 and 4-year-old, lessy told us she went into labor in the rio grande crossing illegally to the u.s. >> he's a u.s. citizen now. >> that's what you wanted? [ speaking in a global language ] >> yes, that was the plan, she says. lesley said she came to the u.s. seeking better opportunities, but the road ahead is unclear. she can't take this texas state funded bus to a different city since newborns in america aren't

permitted. shelters that receive federal funds like this one only assist noncitizens, so newborn juan cannot stay. some asylum seekers have family in the u.s. the average wait for asylum to be granted is four years. there's a backlog of 3 million pending cases and less than 800 immigration judges to process them. families make up 40% of arrivals in this sector. senior border patrol officials told us. this is the facility where migrants are processed. it can hold a maximum of 1100 people for no more than 7 hours. many arrive wet from the river and offered food and dry clothes. they are given blankets and medical checks. boys 14 and older are fingerprinted. 60% are single adult males, mostly venezuelan, held in the

plexiglass pods. border patrol estimates smugglers make $32 million a week in this remote border stretch. they target this thinly resourced area. since september, agents in eagle pass apprehended migrants from 61 countries from as far away as asia, africa and the middle east. the fbi is investigating one picked up last week. the agents admit they don't know who they might have missed. they're frustrated that before christmas, 90% of the sector went unpatrolled while they dealt with a crush of illegal entries. >> what's going to happen to these kids? there are caregivers for the unaccompanied children. this 6-year-old boy came on his own from mexico. these young girls made the dangerous trek from hon dor russ on their own. that weighs on the agents that apprehend them. a border patrol agent wanted us to know as he put it, we're not monsters. >> we have seen a lot of moms that have left their kids in the

river. >> reporter: runs the only shelter in eagle pass. she helps as many as 1200 migrants a day after they're released by border patrol. she thinks congress should make clear the trek isn't worth it? >> we know not everybody is going to be granted for asylum, so what's the point of all the struggles they have to plan through and all the suffering that this is causing. >> reporter: can america balance the national security risk of a hemisphere wide crisis while keeping our humanity and stay a nation of immigrants. that's the vexing challenge. >> enjoy. >> thank you.

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and -- >> reporter: his wife nicole remains in washington, attending court hearings each day. >> y'all make this vigil happen -- >> reporter: and along with ashleigh babbit's mother leads a vigil in support of the january 6th defendants for more than 500 straight nights. >> what's the goal of doing this thing outside of jail each night? >> the real goal is to give these people a voice and a platform and to show solidarity. >> i love getting letters from people. >> reporter: in jailhouse calls pumped over the loud speakers some january 6th defendants argue they're the victims of overzealous prosecutors. with thousands of viewers watching online streams. some talk about the prospects of future pardons being openly suggested by donald trump if he were to retake office. >> i watch a lot of defense lawyers argue that the january 6th defendants think they were sent here by trump and that trump is to blame for this. >> i think people have to account for their own actions. one man can't do that. you know, my daughter has a very

different opinion of that. >> she said it outside the court that day. >> yes, she did. >> she said it powerfully, that this is trump. >> trump deserves life in prison if my father's in prison for this long. >> that was how she feels. and i respect her feelings on that. >> it's not how you feel? >> it is not how i feel. >> we're going to walk down to the capitol -- >> reporter: yet donald trump is scheduled to stand trial for events related to january 6th as early as this spring at this same federal courthouse. >> he's a jan 6-er. he's an official jan 6-er. >> reporter: and on the 2024 campaign trail trump continues to stoke the fires of january 6th. >> i don't call them prisoners. i call them hostages. >> reporter: republicans in congress have echoed his claims. >> all you hear about is a three-hour riot on one single day, january 6th, 2021. >> reporter: some toured the jail last year and met with riot defendants or dropped by to join that nightly vigil outside. house speaker mike johnson announced plans in november to post 44,000 hours of january 6th

surveillance video. >> house republicans trust the american people to draw their own conclusions. >> we relive it every single day with the actions and the words of our colleagues. so it is a triggering moment every time there is a denial. >> reporter: in exactly one year congress will reconvene to certify the winner of the next presidential election. >> do you all think about january 6th, 2025 much? >> yeah. >> what do you think's at stake or possible that day? >> everything. i mean, all of this could happen again. and so that is the work that we have of preserving our democracy. >> this is where the mob gathered. >> yes. >> reporter: for thomas lloyd there's hope and inspiration for what happened three years ago tomorrow, january 7th, 2021. in comparison to the nation's darkest of days. >> there were many battles in the civil war. and if one particular side got truly beaten, there was a big act of desertion.

and that was my biggest fear coming back the next day, that you know, a lot of people would just not show up for work. but when i got the roll call and they all showed up, it was just unbelievable. >> what did that tell you? >> oh, it just showed they were not going to give up. you never give up. >> reporter: the u.s. justice department says it's still seeking to arrest at least 80 more people for their roles in the attack. and three years later they've yet to find the person who placed pipe bombs on capitol hill ahead of january 6th, which means the largest criminal probe in u.s. history will still grow larger. >> that was scott macfarlane. the "overnight news" is back in two minutes. ma, ma, ma— ( clears throat ) for fast sore throat relief, try vicks vapocool drops. with two times more menthol per drop, and powerful vicks vapors to vaporize sore throat pain. vicks vapocool drops. vaporize sore throat pain. i'm jonathan lawson,

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atmosphere. and fueling some of the worst impacts of climate change. >> what exactly is methane? >> methane is a greenhouse gas. it is the second largest contributor to climate change. and it accounts for more than a quarter of the warming that we're experiencing today. >> reporter: alissa acco is a senior climate scientist at the environmental defense fund. she says methane emissions mainly come from leaks during fossil fuel production. from the digestive tracts of cows when they burp and from rotting food in landfills. and here's why it matters. methane is like carbon dioxide on steroids. 84 times more powerful at warming the planet. but unlike co2, which can stay in the atmosphere for centuries, methane only lasts for about a decade. >> reducing methane emissions is the single fastest opportunity we have to slow down the rate of warming. >> if we're able to cut these methane emissions, what impact

would that have on warming? >> we have the technologies available to cut methane emissions globally in half over the next ten years. and if we do that, then we can slow down the rate of global warming by 30%. >> reporter: slowing warming could mean fewer destructive storms, wildfires and heat waves, and slower melting of the world's ice sheets, which is causing sea levels to rise. >> we need to know how much methane is being emitted, from where and by whom. >> so you actually detect the methane through the bottom of the plane? >> yeah, that's correct. >> reporter: and that's where the plane comes in. >> up front is actually methane air itself. if you look up you can actually see two lenses. >> reporter: the scientists call it methane air. they've been flying it over what's known as the permian basin. more than 86,000 square miles in texas, the largest oil field on the planet. special sensors on the plane detect methane leaks from oil

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over the past 50 years the endangered species act has saved 99% of the listed species from extinction, some of them right in our own back yard. backly blackburn reports. >> reporter: michael botchnik has been watching the skies over the hudson river since he was a teenager. >> wind is out of the west, which is pretty good. >> reporter: and he has seen

with his own eyes dramatic changes in the bird population, especially bald eagles. >> in the '80s and early '90s if we got one bald eagle come by in a year we would be jumping up and down. and now on a good day in the fall i can see 25 right here. >> reporter: the bald eagle went from nearly extinct to abundant because of landmark legislation president nixon signed 50 years ago. >> these problems will not stand still for politics or for partisanship. >> reporter: the endangered species act gave gofrt sweeping power to protect animals and plants not just in the u.s. but around the world. >> they are listed from other countries. it allows us to bar the trade in those animals so that that's another way that we can protect them, even if they're not here in the u.s. >> reporter: monica medina is a former federal official who now leads new york city's wildlife conservation society. she says their work to protect species including snow leopards

and red pandas wouldn't be possible without the law. but what's needed now is global cooperation to save habitat, further threatened by climate change. botchnik wants more people to look up and see we can make a difference. >> a plan is put in place, and it's executed. you know, these species recover. >> reporter: and 50 years of proof that preserves hope for the future. bradley blackburn, cbs news, yonkers, new york. and that's the "overnight news" for this monday. reporting from the nation's capital, i'm christina ruffini. this is "cbs news flash." i'm matt pieper in new york. the ntsb says the alaska airlines plane that had an explosive depressurization during a flight friday, blowing out a door plug, had already experienced three pressurization warnings. a planned check into what caused the warnings was not done before

the flight. the ceo of boeing, the maker of the plane, has called an all-hands meeting on safety for tuesday. congressional leaders say they've agreed to an overall spending level to fund the government for the rest of the year. congress now has until deadlines on january 19th and february 2nd to hammer out a deal and avoid a government shutdo . and "oppenheimer" was the big winner at last night's golden globes, taking home five awards. "succession" led the way in the tv categories, winning four. for more d nload the ne or connected tv. i'm tt pieper, cbs news, new york. ♪ >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." i'm lana zak in new york. thanks for joining us. congressional leaders have reached an agreement on a budget deal that they hope will avert the possibility of a government

shutdown later this month. house and senate negotiators have set an overall spending level of nearly $1.6 trillion for fiscal year 2024. that's just the first step. individual spending bills must still be passed over the next few weeks. and if not you can expect across-the-board spending cuts and a partial government shutdown. secretary of state antony blinken continues his shuttle diplomacy in the middle east. blinken again called for israel to scale back its military operations to spare civilians, increase humanitarian aid to gaza and prepare for a post-war future. the israeli military says it is wrapping up its major combat operations in north gaza and moving south, where nearly 2 million palestinians are seeking shelter. about 30 were killed when israeli air strikes hit the rafah refugee camp, and among the dead two more journalists. about 80 reporters have been killed so far in the conflict. ian lee has the story. >> reporter: from the destruction of gaza's neighborhoods to the suffering

of its people, journalists try to capture every moment. providing a window into the war for the outside world. despite the dangers of the job, kim fadouri keeps reporting. >> i know more than five friends that have been killed when they evacuated to the safe areas. so no place is safe. everywhere is targeted. >> reporter: dozens of reporters have been killed while covering this war according to the committee to protect journalists. >> this is the most dangerous environment and the most deadly we have seen on record since we started counting journalist killing in 1992. one particular worrying pattern, deadly pattern that we saw, that journalists have been killed after receiving threats by the idf. it's one of the things we ask that be independently investigated. >> reporter: the idf tells cbs news it has never and will never deliberately target journalists. "given the ongoing exchanges of fire, remaining in an active combat zone has inherent risks."

semi abu salem trains journalists in gaza to be safe in combat zones, but he says the four previous wars couldn't prepare him or his students. >> our friends have been killed while they were in helmets and flak jackets. even the principles which i teach, now they are useless. >> reporter: these journalists are local. they have lives in gaza and families. the body of sami's uncle is in a nearby tent. >> i'm divided, to bury him or to cover the news or to take my kids to a safe place. i'm trying to call my kids to check if they are okay or not. but the network is disabled. i cannot. >> reporter: just getting the news out can be difficult. generators run dry. the internet goes down. and networks get damaged. >> the number you have dialed can't be reached at the moment. you can leave a voice message by

calling star then the mobile number starting with -- >> no connection. i'm really scared. >> reporter: in previous wars the international media descended on gaza. i was there in 2014. this time we're kept out. and those who embed with the israeli military must submit material to idf cnsors. cbs news producer marwan agul shot video and conduct interviews in gaza helping to provide you the viewer this report. ian lee, tel aviv. the faa has grounded all boeing 737 max 9 jetliners until they pass a new inspection. now, this comes after an alaska airlines plane lost part of its fuselage in flight last friday. the pilots made an emergency landing, and no one was severely hurt. the groundings affect about 170 jets worldwide. the first votes of election 2024 will take place just a week from today in the iowa caucuses. a cbs news poll shows that the state of democracy and immigration are dominating the discussion.

we found three in four americans say the southern border is either a crisis or a very serious situation. and as the country just marked three years since the january 6th assault on the capitol, about half of respondents say they expect violence no matter who wins the presidential election. ed o'keefe is in iowa. >> reporter: just over a week to go, and donald trump remains confident. >> because i always say, how the hell do i lose iowa? i got the farmers of this country $28 billion. how the hell do i -- >> reporter: the former president is running a far more formidable operation than the first time he ran in the first in the nation caucus. >> calling from the trump team. >> reporter: and iowa is like the rest of the country. increasingly concerned about the crisis at the u.s.-mexico border. >> what's the sort of number one, number two issues you're worried about? >> close the border. >> immigration. >> immigration.

>> the border for sure. >> reporter: with more migrants being sent north and west to big cities, most americans now oppose providing temporary housing and social services in the areas where they live. >> all these millions of people that have nowhere to live and our system cannot support. we are not helping these people. >> reporter: another hot topic in iowa, january 6th. 2/3 of republicans nationally support trump's calls to pardon those who forced their way into the capitol. >> some people call them prisoners. i call them hostages. release the j-6 hostages, joe. >> trump's assault on democracy isn't just part of his past. it's what he's promising to be the future. >> reporter: how trump responded to january 6th and broader concerns about american democracy are now leading themes in president biden's re-election campaign. >> they were there with love in their heart. >> that was an unbelievable -- >> it was a beautiful day. >> it was a beautiful day. >> reporter: but while trump may be leading here in iowa that isn't stopping gop opponents ron

desantis and nikki haley, both running hard for second place. >> that was ed o'keefe reporting from iowa. the southern border has seen a big drop in illegal crossings after mexico started cracking down. the actions include forcing migrants off of freight trains, deporting some to venezuela, and flying or busing others to southern mexico. still some u.s. border communities continue to struggle. margaret brennan paid a visit to eagle pass, texas. >> reporter: families make up 40% of arrivals in this sector senior border patrol officials told us. this is the facility where migrants are processed. it can hold a maximum of 1100 people for no more than 72 hours. many arrive wet from the river and are offered food and dry clothes. they're given mylar blankets which are resistant to lice, and medical checks. boys 14 and older are fingerprinted. 60% of the migrants now are single adult males, mostly venezuelans, held in these

plexiglass pods. border patrol estimates smugglers make $32 million a week in this 242-mile remote border stretch. they target this thinly resourced area. since september agents in eagle pass apprehended migrants from 61 countries, from as far away as asia, africa and the middle east. can america balance the national security risk of a hemisphere-wide crisis while keeping our humanity and stay a nation of immigrants? that's the vexing challenge. >> that was margaret brennan reporting. the "overnight news" is back in just two minutes.

♪ >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." i'm christina ruffini in washington. thanks for staying with us. while the world remains focused on the war in gaza, where more than 22,000 people have been

killed according to the local health ministry, violence is also rampant in the west bank. since the start of the conflict nearly 500 palestinians have been killed and 13,000 injured by israeli forces and settlers. debora patta has this story from east jerusalem. >> reporter: just into his own driveway sadat garib must pass through this gate remotely controlled by israeli security forces in east jerusalem. it's like living in a prison. "worse," garib says. his home is surrounded by this imposing metal fence. a house within a cage encircled by israeli settlements. the settlers have offered to pay him whatever he wants to leave. he refused. since then he and his children have beethear-d son sabri was even arrested when his football rolled near the settlements. "as a father i feel broken inside," he said, "because my children are unable to play outside like other kids."

patrolling on the other side of the fence was settler jonathan landman. he was born here, he tells us, and the fence is to protect the settlers. >> if the palestinians leave their guns, we will live in peace here. if the israeli leave their guns, they will kill us. >> reporter: some 700,000 israelis live in west bank settlements, regarded as illegal under international law. since october 7th the west bank has reached boiling point. nearly 200 palestinians have been killed and more than 1,000 forcibly removed. among them 400 members of a bedouin community from the village of wadi el sik. elder abu asher gave us this cell phone footage which appears to show armed settlers forcing them to leave at gunpoint. "i was terrified my wife and

children would be slaughtered," he told us. the settlers destroyed everything including their local school and, says bashar, stole money, cell phones and valuable livestock. "i still haven't processed the shock," he said. "i feel hopeless." they're camping on a neighbor's land until they can get back on their feet. activist mohammed mata was helping to protect them after they received death threats from the settlers. turns out it was mata who needed protecting. settlers kidnapped him and two others. the men were stripped naked, beaten and tortured for over eight hours. "then someone started to urinate on us," he said, "and i started screaming." at one point israeli soldiers joined in. a commander has been dismissed and an investigation opened, says the idf. the settlers even bragged about it on social media, posting this image. matar is on the right. he plans on taking the bedouin case to court after the war. but for now for the sake of

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>> reporter: it was fall in the forests of iwate in northern japan when forager satoshi sato went to make a youtube video for mushroom pickers. suddenly he heard something and grabbed a stick. [ yelling ] a bear whose cup was up a tree nearby charged and kept on coming. until at last sato drove her off. a few weeks later we caught up with him. he was back on the job, but now tooled up with pepper spray, bells, and a whistle. it got close enough to tear your pants. it also bit you. "when i raised my stick, it lunged," he explained. "and that was it." there have been a record 193 bear attacks, six of them fatal, and plenty of maulings too. heiji minatoya was injured by a

bear inside his garage. it's been a lean year for bears. in the forest a dry summer left fewer acorns and beechnuts, their main food, so hunger has made them bold. just look at these regular night visitors to the feeding troughs of a cattle barn belonging to farmer sadao yoshizawa. did you try and keep them away? "i tried an electric fence," he said, "but it didn't work. they just followed me when i came into the barn." basically, he's given up and now puts out enough feed for both cows and bears. but hunger's not the only reason for these close encounters. as japan's population shrinks, humans are draining out of rural areas, and the bears are moving in. to find out what's going on, we met biologist koji yamazaki from tokyo university of agriculture.

>> this is a live trap for our study project. >> reporter: professor yamazaki is monitoring bear health in the okutama region west of tokyo. >> that area recovered through the forest. so they have the chance to extend, expand their range. >> reporter: in one sense this is a good news story. japan is one of the only places on the planet where a large mammal is reclaiming habitat. and if as biologists think the bear population is growing, japan will have to figure out how to protect people from bears and bears from people. and bears from people. i'm elizabet my frequent heartburn had me taking antacid after antacid all day long but with prilosec otc just one pill a day blocks heartburn for a full 24 hours. for one and done heartburn relief, prilosec otc. one pill a day, 24 hours, zero heartburn. if you've had sensitivity, those zingers can really cause some of that jolting pain. there is one great solution out there with sensodyne.

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in new york state. >> what is it your tagging here? >> this allows us when we harvest to know exactly which set of plants are in the batch that we've harvested. >> reporter: dobson and her sister freya track the cannabis from the greenhouse and the fields to the drying room to the rolling and packaging room. two years ago the sisters were growing cannabis out west, when their brother offered them a new opportunity back home. >> ben called us, and he said why don't you come back east and work with me? >> reporter: ben dobson was in upstate new york, marrying organic farming with hemp production. >> i needed help building a company and a brand. i was calling since from april when we got the license, when are you going to come back? >> reporter: cannabis farming is in the dobson family's blood. their father ted grew hemp and cannabis while the siblings were growing up. before there were any legal growers. what makes the cannabis from

licensed regulated growers like hudson cannabis different from what you get from illegal growers and shops is all the measures taken to standardize potency and minimize contaminants. >> they're looking at different bacteria and fungi. they're also looking at other toxins including pesticides and heavy metals. >> reporter: a 2022 study found that 40% of products sold by illegal cannabis shops in new york city contain toxic contaminants including bacteria, fungus, heavy metals, pesticides, and cancer-causing toxins. researchers also found that many of the products tested did not contain the amount of thc advertised on the laebl. >> how are you doing? >> good. how are you? >> reporter: but legal growers like hudson cannabis are required to test samples at third-party labs. new york has the strictest requirements of any state. once cannabis products clear testing, they're distributed to licensed dispensaries across the state.

irena henken biggars is the president of a manhattan dispensary called union square travel agency. >> the product you sell is not just tested for contaminants. it's also tested for potency. why does that matter? >> because you don't want a bad experience, right? you can have a negative reaction in many cases, increased paranoia, the effects of the high last a lot longer. >> reporter: the potency of cannabis products can range widely and may not be accurately labeled at illegal shops, no matter how fancy the packaging. that means consumers can't safely regulate the dose they're taking. >> how is a consumer supposed to know if a dispensary is a licensed legal one or not? >> there's a blue sticker with a square qr code and we can scan it and make sure that space is a licensed space. >> i'm one of the baby boomers who grew up partaking in cannabis when it was not legal. but now that i'm older i want to go to a place that believes in

science and where it's reliable. >> reporter: but legal cannabis often costs more because of licensing fees, taxes and the cost of testing. >> one batch of cannabis for us costs about $4,500 in testing. there's a really slim margin to capture in a very competitive landscape. >> and the illicit market doesn't have to pay those licensing fees or the taxes or for testing. >> and they don't pay the irs. >> and ultimately it hurts the customer, who doesn't necessarily know better. >> that was dr. celine gounder, and this is the "cbs (♪♪ ) why did i keep missing out on this? before you were preventing migraine with qulipta? do you remember the pain, the worry, the canceled plans? and look at me now. you'll never truly forget migraine but qulipta reduces attacks making zero-migraine days possible. it's the only pill of its kind that blocks cgrp and is approved to prevent migraine of any frequency. to help give you that forget you get migraine feeling. don't take if allergic to qulipta. most common side effects are nausea, constipation and sleepiness.

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in england a new airship is being promoted as the future of green travel. ian lee has that story. >> reporter: looking at it, you might think it's a blimp. some nicknamed it the flying bum. but makers of the airlander 10 call this the future of flight. >> what we have here is an aircraft that's using helium, it's using the same stuff that

blimps use, just to get a little head start against gravity but not enough to float. >> reporter: tom grundy from hybrid air vehicles is getting the concept off the ground. >> i have 16 olympic swimming pools' worth of helium up there. >> reporter: but it's the four engines that push airborne with the aerodynamics of an airplane. >> that's why you call it a hybrid aircraft. it's a hybrid of an airplane and an airship. >> reporter: but the similarities are there. big glass windows give a panoramic view. >> it's a bit more like being in the airport lounge than it is being on the airplane. >> reporter: the aircraft will initially be fitted out with 100 seats to travel up to 250 miles at 80 miles an hour. >> like a ferry, it can go to a terminal in the middle of a town rather than having to land at an airport a long way out. >> how much greener is air travel on one of these versus an airplane? >> in most cases 90% fewer emissions. >> reporter: the body of the

aircraft is made of a thin reinforced material that's pretty tough. and when it comes to safety, science has come a long way since the infamous hindenberg disaster. >> everything since 1937 that we've done in aerospace makes this safe. >> reporter: the company hopes airlines will be welcoming you on board and flying high before the end of the decade. ian lee, cbs news, bedford, england. >> and that's the "overnight news" for this monday. reporting from the nation's capital, i'm christina ruffini. this is "cbs news flash." i'm matt pieper in new york. the ntsb says the alaska airlines plane that had an explosive depressurization during a flight friday, blowing out a door plug, had already experienced three pressurization warnings. a planned check into what caused the warnings was not done before the flight. the ceo of boeing, the maker of

the plane, has called an all-hands meeting on safety for tuesday. congressional leaders say they've agreed to an overall spending level to fund the government for the rest of the year. congress now has until deadlines on january 19th and february 2nd to hammer out a deal and avoid a government shutdown. and "oppenheimer" was the big winner at last night's golden globes, taking home five awards. "succession" led the way in the tv categories, winning four. for more download the cbs news app on your cell phone or connected tv. i'm matt pieper, cbs news, new it's monday, january 8th, 2024. this is the "cbs morning news." ready for round two? as parts of the northeast clean up from the first major winter storm of the season, here comes another blast now moving across the country. what you need to know. the search