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and they learn great business skills at the same time. it's just a wonderful way for girls to be able to do things that they never thought they could, also get out of their comfort zone and have a great time doing it. >> proceeds from the cookie sales help fund local councils and troops all year long. do you have a favorite one? >> thin mints, yeah. >> actually hold on. after tonight's nfc championship game we'll have a special red and gold report on our sister channel . tonight, u.s. troops attacked. three killed, over 30 injured in a drone strike by iran-backed military tants in jordan. president biden calling it
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despicable. >> we shall respond. >> we'll have the very latest. also tonight, border battle. >> it's been the simple request of americans, whether you're republican, democrat, or independent, people just want a secure border. >> senators zero in on a bipartisan deal aimed at curbing illegal migrant crossings and expediting the asylum process. >> look, this is a painful compromise. this is a tough bill. weather whiplash. after a sudden thaw, snow returns to the northeast, and the west coast set for a new soaking. the full forecast straight ahead. deepening mystery. what happened to three kansas city men found dead, frozen in their friend's backyard? in california, a retired space shuttle is ready for a final lift. >> i'm elise preston in los angeles, where "endeavour" is set to soar again after a big move. and later we head to route 66 to meet a man with a history lesson and drawing crowds with
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something sweet -- donuts. >> i'm just thankful that we were given the opportunity, and we made the best of it. the american dream. >> announcer: this is the cbs weekend news from washington, with jericka duncan. good evening and thanks for joining us. tonight president biden, as you just heard, says the united states, quote, shall respond following a deadly drone attack on american troops. he blames an iran-backed militia for the overnight strike. it happened at a remote base in jordan near the iraq/syria borders, underscoring the spreading violence in the middle east. at least three american service members were killed. more than 30 others were wounded, some of them seriously. cbs news chief national security correspondent david martin has the very latest tonight from the pentagon. david, good evening. >> reporter: u.s. officials say the troops manning the outpost on the jordanian side of the
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border with syria had little warning of the incoming drone. many of the dead and wounded were still in their barracks when it hit. the outpost-provides support to u.s. forces where they are under constant threat of attack. until now, tower 22 had not been attacked. president biden blamed it on iranian-backed militias and vowed to retaliate. >> we lost three brave soldiers in an attack on one of our bases. we shall respond. >> reporter: it was the u.s. military's worst loss of life to enemy action since the fall of afghanistan and the first since israel's war with hamas set off a drum beat of more than 160 tacks against u.s. troop locations in iraq and syria. scores of troops suffered concussions in the previous attacks, but there had been only one serious injury. now that the attacks have turned
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deadly, the biden administration will be under pressure to launch much more damaging air strikes against targets in iraq and syria. jericka. >> all right. david martin at the pentagon tonight, thank you. as the president confronts a steep rise in violence throughout the middle east, the administration is also facing a b battle in congress over the immigration crisis at the southern border. but there may be progress on that front. cbs's skyler henry is at the white house tonight to explain. skyler, good evening. >> reporter: that bipartisan group of negotiators says they've been hammering out this deal for months and are positive about the prospects of an agreement as early as this week with the biden administration. that's despite sharp criticism from former president trump. >> if that bill were the law today, i'd shut down the border right now and fix it quickly. >> reporter: president biden campaigning in south carolina this weekend says he'll close up the u.s./mexico border if at any point it becomes overwhelmed, if congress approves the bipartisan
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proposal currently under negotiation in the senate. lawmakers are finalizing the language of the plan. >> it's been the simple request of americans, whether you're republican, democrat, or independent. people just want a secure border. >> reporter: cbs's news immigration reporter is at the border in eagle pass, texas. >> this would be a seismic shift in policy here at the u.s./mexico border. the president would be allowed to suspend asylum processing when illegal crossings spike. >> reporter: the terms also would raise the standard to accept asylum seekers and shorten the legal review process of their cases to just six months. while the immigration challenge remains front and center in washington, it's also a pressing issue along the campaign trail. >> i'll tell you what. a bad bill is -- i'd rather have no bill than a bad bill. a bad bill you can't have, and that's what was happening. >> i say to president biden, prove it. get into a room and get this done and prove it because the american people are waiting. i put this on republicans and
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democrats. i'm not picking favorites in this. i'm telling you they have all not done a good job from the very beginning. >> reporter: also on the docket, house republicans released articles of impeachment against homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas over what they call his failure to manage the southern border. a charge democrats call a sham. >> skyler, even with this likely compromise in the senate, this bill would face an uphill battle in the house as republicans want even stricter asylum measures. talk about what's at stake. >> reporter: yeah, that's the interesting part of this. lawmakers in the senate have signaled they want to move quickly on this deal. remember, this includes more funding in terms of a vote that would include more funding for everything from getting more aid to ukraine and taiwan, state disaster relief, and provide more support for israel in its war with hamas. jericka. >> all right. skyler henry at the white house, thank you. tonight united nations secretary-general antonio guterres is urging governments
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not to suspend their support for the u.n.'s palestinian relief agency in gaza. at least nine countries, including the u.s. paused funding following allegations that a dozen u.n. staffers were involved in the hamas attacks on israel. cbs's debora patta reports from tel aviv. >> reporter: these men try to outrun the hunger stalking gaza. on this day, bags of flour have arrived. we managed to get just one bag, said this man. often there is not enough to go around. many go home empty handed. "we need to eat" shouted this man. our children are dying of hunger. the suspension of funding could not have come at a worse time. gaza is on the brink of famine. the aid cuts amount to 70% of the relief agency's annual budget said palestinian prime minister mohammad shtayyeh. >> this measure is extremely
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dangerous, and it is our hope that it will be reversed. >> reporter: for the more than 2 million palestinians in gaza who depend on that aid, the cuts are potentially crippling. on top of the constant hunger, no they cut our aid, this woman said. what did we do wrong? it is a collective punishment said the head of the relief agency, which employs around 13,000 staff members in gaza. already 152 of them have been killed. after nearly four months of war, more than 80% of gazans have had to flee the fighting, forced out of their homes, their misery compounded by rain and cold. the u.n. organization is often the only source of food and water for those trapped inside gaza. now even that meager lifeline could collapse. the funding cuts come as talks between the u.s., israel, and
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qatar in paris today inch closer to a possible agreement in which it is understood that israel could suspend its war in gaza for as long as two months in exchange for the release of more than 100 hostages, jericka, who are still being held by hamas. >> debora patta reporting in tel aviv, thank you. now to the weather and a whiplash of sorts. tonight winter has returned across the northeast. this is winsted, connecticut, where they're already shoveling. more than a foot of snow could fall in some areas after an unprecedented january thaw. meteorologist paul goodloe from our partners at the weather channel has more on that. >> jericka, it's the last sunday of january, but the temperatures this week feeling perhaps more like march than late january into early february here. we're talking at times more than half of the population of the lower 48 above average. we do see some slight cooling and a trend beginning at the end of the week as we head into next
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month. but right now we're dealing with a clipper system. that will bring some snow across parts of the great lakes and into the ohio valley. even the mid-atlantic as well. the elevation, the mountains here, the appalachians seeing some bonus snow. we'll take that. we haven't seen that much snow, especially with the warming trend. but looking down the road, we do look for dry air coming into parts of the great lakes, the northeast, as we head into next month. much wetter, but also much cooler air starts moving into the west. that will slowly push across the nation and finally limit some of our well above average temperatures in the middle of the country. jericka. >> all right. paul goodloe, thanks so much. to hawaii now. an american airlines flight from los angeles made what's described as a hard landing in maui. it happened saturday. five flight attendants and one passenger were sent to the hospital, thankfully later released. the airbus a-320 was carrying 167 passengers and 7 crew. and boeing 737 max 9 jets
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flown by alaska and united airlines are taking off again this weekend. they had been grounded after you may recall a panel blew out of one of alaska's jets but returned to the sky after being cleared by federal inspectors. well, tonight there's a deepening mystery in kansas city following the deaths of three men. their bodies found frozen in a friend's backyard after watching a night of football. cbs's astrid martinez joins us now with more on the investigation and family reaction. astrid. >> reporter: good evening, jericka. well, tonight police say no foul play is suspected, but the grieving family members say they are still eagerly awaiting a medical report that could provide definitive clues into what killed these men or how these men died. >> we're in a really hard place right now. >> reporter: growing frustration from the mother of david harrington. her son along with ricky johnson
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and clay mcgeeny were found dead nearly three weeks ago, frozen outside a friend's kansas city rental home. >> what do you think happened? >> honestly, i don't know. i know my son was not a drug addict. i know these men were not drug addicts. >> reporter: police say the longtime friends went to jordan willis' house on a snowy january 7th to watch the kansas city chiefs play. after the game, family of the three men say they couldn't reach them. according to police, two days later, one of the men's fiancee went to the house looking for him. when no one answered the door, she says she broke into the home and found a body on the back porch. police discovered two more in the yard. adriana juarez is the mother of ricky johnson's child. >> how do you not know there's three dead bodies on the back porch? >> reporter: police say willis, who hosted the men, told them he saw his friends leave through the front door. then he went to sleep with headphones on and a fan and didn't see texts from worried family and friends. jordan willis' attorney says his
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client is not responsible for his friends' deaths. >> jordan had absolutely nothing to do with the deaths of his three friends. >> reporter: and police say it could take up to six more weeks for that medical report to be released to the public. jericka. >> astrid, such a bizarre story. thank you. well, today marks 38 years since the space shuttle challenger exploded 73 seconds after liftoff from cape canaveral. all seven crew members on board were killed, including the first civilian chosen for a space mission, schoolteacher christa mcauliffe. the space shutting "endeavour" was built as a replacement for "challenger," and it's again making news. cbs's elise preston is in los angeles with more on that. good evening, elise. >> reporter: good evening to you, jericka. "endeavour" will soon be the only space shuttle displayed like it's ready for launch. the mission to move the spacecraft has a margin of error of less than an inch.
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more than a decade after its final flight home to southern california, "endeavour" is now covered in protective shrink wrap and waiting to be lifted by a 450-foot crane and reamuch taed upright to its giant orange fuel tank and twin rocket boosters. >> it's very challenging. this is the only place in the world that there will be a full space shuttle stack of all real hardware. >> and liftoff of the maiden voyage of "endeavour." >> reporter: "endeavour" blasted into orbit in 1992 and its 25 missions including many firsts, preparing the hubble telescope, putting mae jemison into space, and adding a u.s. component to the international space station. in 2011, after more than 120 million miles flown, it came home for good. in 2012, "endeavour" hitched a ride to hollywood on a boeing 747 and spent three days inching its way through los angeles to the california science center. if the weather holds, monday it
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will be in its new museum home, the samuel oschin air and space center. >> why do you do what you do? >> i absolutely love it. it's about inspiring the next generation of engineers and explorers. >> reporter: once "endeavour" is in place, a 20-story museum addition will be built around it. but it will take a few years before it is open to the public. jericka. >> all right. elise preston for us in los angeles, thank you. straight ahead on the "cbs weekend news," the california restaurant taking the express lane to the future. and later, the urgent search to find a prized statue and the thieves who stole it. in the mor. i'm so glad i can still come here. you see, i was diagnosed with obstructive hcm. and there were some days i was so short of breath. i thought i'd have to settle for never stepping foot on this trail again. i became great at making excuses. but i have people who count on me so i talked to my cardiologist.
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minimum wage for most fast food workers will soon be $20 an goi. more and more focus on spending on a.i. because that's inflationary. that's the problem. you can't pass all that to the consumer. >> reporter: flippy can cook 250 pounds of french fries an hour. the burger bot, 100 patties. >> these restaurants are very, very busy at peak times, and every second that gets added to somebody waiting in drive-through is a lost revenue opportunity for that restaurant. >> is it costing people their jobs? >> that -- not what we've seen. it's really here to help people. >> reporter: humans at caliexpress will put the finishing touches on orders. for customers, the price of the meals are competitive. as for taste -- >> is it going to affect the quality in the taste? >> i would say yes, in a good way, because now each burger is being cooked precisely the same way every time. >> reporter: time will tell whether a.i. takes over kitchens everywhere. that will be up to the public to
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strawberry, there's no shortage of crowd pleasers. >> come to glendora. have a strawberry donut. they're terrific. >> this is our specialty. >> oh, it is so good. >> reporter: as uniquely american as the donut, so, too, is nakano's personal story. during world war ii, at just 2 years old, he was sent with his mother to a japanese-american internment camp. >> so many americans do not know about this chapter in our history. and some of them don't believe it, you know, that our country would do that to people. >> you don't want that history to die? >> learn about your culture. learn about your family and all that because that will make us closer. >> reporter: a family that now extends to the entire community. >> this donut shop has given us so much opportunity to meet different people. i'm just thankful that we were given the opportunity and we made the best of it. the american dream. >> reporter: adam yamaguchi, cbs news, los angeles. and that is the cbs weekend
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news for this sunday. i'm jericka duncan. from all of us here in washington, we thank you. good night. from cbs news bay area, thi now at 6:00, trying to find answers for what seems like a never ending american problem, how some groups in the north bay are trying to tackle gun violence. >> we are fighting for anything that promotes common sense gun laws that will prevent gun violence. plus how bay area doctors are trading life threatening genetic disorders even before the patient is born.
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and growing tensions in the middle east after a drone strike kills three u.s. soldiers in jordan. president biden now vows to retaliate. >> good evening. i'm andrea nakano. we begin in the north bay where people spent the day working toward new solutions for the unique american problem of widespread gun violence. according to cdc data gathered in 2022, there were more than 48,000 homicide deaths, of those suicides reached an all time high with 26,000. today two democratic congressmen attended a gun violence forum in petaluma. john ramos has the story. >> reporter: on a day when much of the bay area was focused on fun and games, in petaluma the discussion was serious, deadly serious, as people gathered to explore the causes and solutions to the epidemic of gun violence.

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