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arrest . >> his heart stopped for more than 20 minutes after finishing a previous 5k . doctors say it is a miracle he was okay , much less racing again and winning his age group. can you imagine ? a 5k in 49 minutes ? >> that is what it says. >> okay. going from napa to sonoma at times running through grapevines. that is it at 5:00, we will see tonight ripple effects. new chaos and frustration after computers are crippled worldwide. >> i'm really frustrated. >> airports back online, but still struggling after the tech
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meltdown. new details and cancellations for passengers. luggage piling up. is there a fast fix? >> i'm elise preston in los angeles, where customers fear this could happen again. also tonight, digging in. president biden fighting covid vows to return to campaigning, even as more democrats today urge him to drop out. while donald trump and j.d. vance hit the trail in michigan for their first rally. >> security is tight here in grand rapids, and people have been lined up fr hours to see the former president. congresswoman sheila jackson lee remembered tonight as a fierce champion of people. israel strikes back, after a deadly houthi rebel attack on tel aviv. plus, the u.s. navy exonerates 258 black sailors unjustly punished after a deadly world war ii blast. why families say it was long
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overdue. and later, in our weekend journal, we meet tiki. chatting up customers on the morning coffee run. this is the "cbs weekend news" from new york with adriana diaz. good evening. we begin with the global computer crisis. the worst may be over, but the outage is still causing problems. microsoft estimates that 8.5 million computers running windows were disabled by the tech outage. it's the first time the company has provided a number. tonight, countless hospitals, government agencies, and businesses, including airlines, are working overtime to get back online. the outage has led to chaos and frustration, including at airports. today, more disruptions and delays after the faulty software update caused worldwide chaos. cbs' elise preston is in los angeles with the latest. >> reporter: adriana, good
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evening to you. so far, more than 1,700 flights have been canceled across the country. today even here in los angeles, passengers are scrambling to find their luggage and find new flights. >> you might not be back until monday. i'm like, monday? >> reporter: millions of passengers feeling the fallout today of the largest i.t. outage in history. the crowdstrike software meltdown. >> this is all luggage from people, flights canceled or waiting for a different flight. >> reporter: from malaysia to mexico, europe and the u.s., airlines struggle for a second day to get online. >> they couldn't get us out until monday afternoon. >> reporter: delta has scrapped at least one-fourth of its flights, with the most disruption at atlanta's airport. half of united's flights are delayed with its houston hub. the outage impacting operations at our nation's ports,
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border, hospitals, 911 call centers, and more. >> small businesses, large businesses, spending the whole weekend trying to get their systems back online. this is not a sort of champagne moment, now that maybe the panic's over. >> reporter: the fix isn't fast. it's machine by machine, where each computer needs to be manually rebooted and updated. has this been oversold or undersold? >> the magnitude of this has probably been underestimated around the globe. this is not one, two, three, snap of the finger. i mean, this will go on probably for the next week, the lingering impact. >> reporter: tired travelers will have to practice patience. >> it stinks. it's scary. >> reporter: why is it scary? >> because it could happen again. >> reporter: now, if your flight is canceled and you choose not to get on a different one, you can ask for your money back. adriana?
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>> elise preston, thank you so much. tonight, president biden is at his home in rehoboth, delaware. he is recovering from covid and vowing to return to the campaign trail. this, as the drum beat of calls from democrats for biden to end his re-election campaign grows louder. cbs' willie james inman is in delaware for us tonight. willie, good evening. >> reporter: good evening to you, adriana. president biden's physician says his condition continues to improve, but as he is in isolation and fighting covid, he is vowing to return to the campaign trail next week, even as a political firestorm over his future continues to grow in the democratic party. cbs news has learned president biden is deeply frustrated amid a push from within the democratic party to end his presidential bid. today, california democrat mark takano added his name to the growing list of at least three dozen democrats who have publicly said biden should step down. some democrats are supporting the president, while pitching an
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alternative, should he leave the race. >> what gives me a lot of hope right now is that if president biden decides to step back, we have vice president kamala harris, who is ready to step up, to unite the party, to take on donald trump, and to win in november. >> reporter: despite the mounting public pressure, the biden/harris campaign is moving ahead. though today, a campaign spokesperson, would not say when or where that would happen. behind the scenes, the campaign is working to rally the troops. during a call on friday, campaign chair jen o'malley dillon said, when you give me polls, i'm going to give you direct voter contact. a recent poll shows trump leading biden nationally by five points. cbs news has learned that former president bill clinton and former secretary of state hillary clinton are encuraging donors to support president biden's campaign.
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amid concerns over whether or not he can defeat former president donald trump. in fact, today, more than $2 million was raised at a fund-raiser in massachusetts, in which vice president kamala harris attended. adriana? >> willie, thank you so much. now, to the trump campaign. tonight, the former president is in the battleground state of michigan, holding his first rally with his new running mate, j.d. vance. and that's where we find caitlyn huey burns. good evening. >> reporter: and good evening to you, adriana. well, it was just one week ago an assassination attempt at a campaign rally very much like this one. the big difference today, this is being held indoors. the security has been tightened. and the campaign is hoping to send the message that the show must go on. former president donald trump and senator j.d. vance are campaigning together for the first time in the battleground state of michigan.
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wearing a smaller bandage on his injured ear, trump recalled the attempt on his life. >> when you think of it, it was exactly one week ago today, almost to the hour, even to the minute. last week, i took a bullet for democracy. >> reporter: with the event here today, the trump campaign is signaling their path to victory runs through the midwest. >> less than four months from now, we are going to win michigan, we are going to take back the white house. >> this will be my 81st trump rally that i've attended. >> reporter: supporters who lined up for hours before trump took the stage said they came to send a message. >> i'm here to show that we're not afraid. i will gladly take a bullet for president trump. >> reporter: jared says he was at the rally in butler, pennsylvania, last week, and was among the first in line in grand rapids. >> just shows resilience and toughness. we have to move forward and push
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ahead. >> reporter: but as the campaign pushes ahead, questions remain about last week's historic security failures. cbs news has learned from law enforcement sources that the gunman flew a drone near the area around the rally site days before the event began. and many of those questions will be put to the u.s. secret service director when she appears on capitol hill to testify on monday. adriana? >> thank you. today, texas congresswoman sheila jackson lee is being remembered as a champion for progressive causes, and, of course, for leading efforts to make juneteenth a national holiday. the 15-term congresswoman died in houston friday. she revealed in june that she'd been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. today, president biden recalled lee as unrelenting in her leadership. sheila jackson lee was 74 years old. today, in dallas, firefighters remained on the scene of a massive fire that destroyed part of the city's historic first dallas baptist church. more than 60 units responded to the fire that sent smoke billowing over the city. thankfully, there were no deaths or injuries. the landmark sanctuary, which
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was built in 1890, largely collapsed. the church with 16,000 members is led by pastor robert jeffress. >> you know, this is a sprawling church, but thank god the church is not composed of brick and wood, it's composed of people, and our people are absolutely more determined than ever to take the good news of jesus christ throughout the world. >> the cause of the fire remains under investigation. to the middle east now. today, israel said it had carried out air strikes on a city in yemen controlled by the houthi militant group. the attack sparked massive fires and caused deaths and injuries. according to both israeli and yemeni officials. the attack came a day after the iran-backed houthis claimed responsibilities for a rare drone attack in tel aviv. cbs's debora patta is in jerusalem tonight with the latest. >> reporter: the israeli strikes on the houthi-controlled port
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appear to be the first on yemeni soil since the october 7th hamas attack, and threaten to open a new front, even as israel's bombing campaign in gaza intensifies. the world may be paying less attention to the war in gaza, but that doesn't mean the scale of suffering has diminished. in fact, this american doctor, who has just completed a second volunteer mission to gaza, says it is worse than ever. the daily barrage of deadly israeli air strikes is now compounded by a dramatic rise in infectious diseases. >> and it feels like there's a systematic effort to decimate this population. >> reporter: the hunger crisis has also deepened. every day, crowds of children queue in lines for food. >> what we find is, there are so many children that have gone to sleep without having had any
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meal for the day or drinking water. >> reporter: hospitals are overrun with civilian casualties, and are running out of supplies. patients often treated on the floor, due to a lack of beds, and that's not all. >> something as simple as tylenol and ibuprofen, we don't have. >> reporter: two-thirds of children are needing amputations. the other day, it was a 9-year-old boy hit in a missile strike. >> he sustained injuries to his left leg, and due to the lack of supplies, we could only amputate his leg. >> reporter: for this doctor, this mission has been soul-destroying. >> it's gut-wrenching as a human being to witness this first-hand. it can end within -- within a day. but there is a deliberate choice
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not to end it. >> reporter: adding to the misery of palestinians in gaza, the world health organization says it has found polio in sewage samples, adriana, threatening a new health crisis. >> debora patta in jerusalem, thank you. tonight, in bangladesh, a nationwide curfew and communications blackout is in effect. its goal is to quash student-led demonstrations that have become intensely violent. protesting government job quotas. so far, more than 100 people have died, including at least 50 friday. the protests, which began peacefully on campuses, has now spread to nationwide unrest. in this country, the u.s. forest service today enlisted the help of the defense department, activating four c-130 aircraft to fight increasing wildfires across the west. one of the largest is the fork fire near glendora, california. it has already burned through more than 330 acres of angeles
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cbs's elizabeth cooke has more. >> reporter: in concord, california, a city about 30 miles from san francisco, are the remains of a pier. it was here in 1944 where disaster struck. >> the explosion of two munitions ships in san francisco bay shocks the world. >> it was so devastating. it actually knocked him off his bunk. >> reporter: daryl meeks' father had just returned to the barracks. carol cherry's father. the blast injured 400, and heavily damaged the town of port chicago. most of the dead, young black sailors who loaded ordnance onto ships. >> they received very little training. >> reporter: segregation meant
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they were barred from sea-faring jobs, but they could load munitions. >> talked about the big bombs you can't get your arms around, and these guys weren't trained. all you could hear was bam, bam. >> reporter: after the last, surviving white officers were sent on leave to recover. black sailors were ordered back to work, including picking up human remains. >> it had to be traumatic. it had to be traumatic. >> reporter: 258 sailors refused to go back to work, citing safety concerns, after warnings and threats from senior officers, most complied. but 50 men held out. >> the 50, they stood together and they said, kill us, but we're not going to continue to work under these conditions. >> reporter: the sailors, including meeks and shepphard, were convicted of mutiny. it took until this week for the navy to clear their names. >> here's a letter from the secretary today.
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>> reporter: all the sailors exonerated. their convictions ruled unjust. >> the findings of guilty and the sentence are set aside. >> this was a long time coming. >> reporter: 80 years later, none of the port chicago 50 were alive to see it. >> they deserve to be in our history books, and i'm not speaking just of black history, but they deserve to be in american history books. >> he's our hero, because he stood with those 50, those other 49 sailors, they stood for what was right. >> reporter: justice at last. elizabeth cooke, cbs news, concord, california. >> and so overdue. still ahead, the last living apollo 11 astronaut marks an historic first. astronaut marks astronaut marks historic first. emerge as you. and the majority stayed clearer, at 5 years. serious allergic reactions may occur.
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morning ritual in pennsylvania that might make you do a double take. in our weekend journal, how a man and his pet make an everyday coffee run one to remember. here's cbs's madeleine wright. >> reporter: a 28-year-old cockatoo on the back of a pickup truck is a rare sight in most places. but not here in delaware county, pennsylvania. >> tiki's here every day. every day, he's here. every time i pull up, he greets me with it. >> reporter: meet tiki's owner, 84-year-old bill wasson. the former breeder brings his feathered companion to the local wawa so the bird can get out of the house and socialize. wasson buys coffee and a newspaper inside. while tiki waits patiently outside. a cherished morning ritual for the last eight years. >> see, this is his routine.
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he knows that i'm coming, and then we're going to go in there and we're going to have coffee and something to eat. >> reporter: wasson feeds tiki bread dipped in coffee. he says his pet is family. >> he's like my son, you know, that's what he thinks, i'm his dad. who knows? you know, he don't tell me. he just shows me. >> reporter: wasson says tiki is unlike any bird he's ever owned. smart, affectionate, and independent. >> people see him and they come over to him and talk to him. >> reporter: tiki loves chatting with customers. >> being good? >> reporter: they admire his beauty and incredible beak strength. i love the peach feathers. i have never seen a bird this color. >> all righty. >> reporter: after breakfast, the pair heads to a second wawa down the street for a change of scenery. wawa's general manager says with tiki by his side, wasson's more than just a fixture in the community, he's a delaware county legend. >> it's a delco thing, for sure. you see the bird and you know where you are.
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>> reporter: a man and his bird -- >> good boy. >> reporter: -- spreading joy to those around them. madeleine wright, cbs news, delaware county, pennsylvania. >> and he whistles, too. that is the "cbs weekend news" for this saturday. first thing tomorrow "cbs sunday morning." be sure to tune into "face the nation" tomorrow morning. i'm adriana diaz in new york. good night. from cbs news bay area this is the evening edition. >> any time something like this does happen, your first initial instinct is, oh, it could happen again. >> now at 6:00, robbers break into a san francisco nightclub and hold up the cleaning crew at gunpoint. and it wasn't the only spot the crew tried to
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ransack. plus, why some people in vallejo are asking state police to take over a specific street that's home to all sorts of problems. >> everybody's on edge, yeah, because we have no protection. and a prominent south bay democrat joins the chorus calling on president biden to suspend his campaign. why one expert says no matter what happens, the final decision needs to come quickly. and later, convicted of mutiny in the wake of one of the worst disasters in bay area history, how dozens of families received justice 80 years later. live from the cbs studios in san francisco, i'm brian hackney. >> and i'm andrea nakano. we begin tonight with the heat that just won't go away, at least completely. we're finally out of the most recent heat advisories, and we won't see triple digits this weekend, but even this cooldown is still pretty hot. out in pleasanton they flirted with 90 degrees, though we did see a crowd of dedicated fans lined up at the hello kitty pop-up truck. >> and taking a live look at

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