ceo and founder. the plane carries six people and flies 250 miles on one charge. >> but every year batteries get better and better. about 7% per year. that means in seven years, we will double that. another seven years, we will double that again. >> reporter: you think before you and i die that we will fly on an electric powered jetliner? >> yes. absolutely. >> reporter: traditional airplanes pump out about a billion tons of carbon dioxide every year. electric planes produce no emissions. that's only their first advantage. >> one of the things that i think is underappreciated in electric aviation is that it's quiet. you can actually hear the wind noise over the fuselage. you feel like a bird. >> reporter: elect j engines. they contain a tenth as many parts. furthermore, electric planes cost far less to fly since the electricity costs only about a 40th as much as jet fuel.

maybe the most impressive advantage of electric planes is that they can do this. wow! these planes are known in the biz as evtols, a clumsy acronym for electric vertical takeoff and landing. they don't need a runway to take off but they still fly forward the usual way. >> the propellers on the front are used in both forms of flight and the hover portion of the flight they are tilted up. the six propellers in the back are just used in the lifting portion of the flight. so the hover portion of the flight. >> reporter: adam goldstein is the founder and ceo of archer aviation, an evtol company in san jose, california, devoted to creating air taxis. you will board the air taxi from a so-called vertiport downtown and fly to the airport, for example, to catch your traditional flight. goldstein says your evtol flight will cost about as much as an

uber or lyft ride. >> there is lots of traffic that congest the roads. in between the cities and airports. manhattan to jfk is a great example. it's not that far on the ground, but takes a really long time using ground transportation. >> reporter: well, this sounds great. planes that are faster, safer, cheaper, more reliable and better for the environment. so what's the holdup? >> you are talking about a class of airplanes that did not exist. >> reporter: aerospace consultant sergio cecutta can tell you what the last hurdle is. the federal aviation administration. >> the faa is a very complex task. they make sure that we can walk on to one of the planes and be in no more danger than getting out of bed. >> reporter: the need for faa approval explains two strange aspects of beta's plane. first, it's available with or without the vertical propellers. clark believes it will be easier

to get initial faa approval for a traditional plane than one that takes off vertically. as for the second strange thing, beta's goal isn't creating air taxis. >> there are a lot of ways that we can make a meaningful dent on the emissions of aviation before we start to do the thing that everybody talks about, jumping over traffic. mving cargo. moving medical. all of those things happen first. >> reporter: really? the world's first electric planes will make history by carrying boxes? >> let's point out, cargo room. >> yes. >> reporter: for the consultant, that makes perfect sense. all the way back there. >> exactly. >> one of the goals from amazon is to have the majority of their products to be available the same day in large metropolitan areas. what if i take off and land from one warehouse to the other and move the cargo. i always think of the beta airplane as the amazon truck with wings.

>> reporter: today every airline has a desperate pilot shortage. that's one reason that most evtols will eventually be self-flying. >> in the 2030s, 2040s, there is a good chance you will walk into an airplane where there is no pilot. >> reporter: in the near term, the faa will require a pilot. >> with your left hand, just slowly pick up the lift lever. >> i can feel the vibration. >> the aircraft is going to lift off the ground. >> reporter: fortunately, flying these planes isn't rocket science, as beta pilot chris caputo showed me in beta's simulator. >> fly over the lake? >> absolutely. now we are going to transition on to the wing of the plane. >> okay. >> just push forward with your right hand a little bit, forward pressure. now we are just flying on the wing of the plane. we are literally just sipping energy. >> reporter: after 20 simulated minutes flying over simulated lake champlain, it was time to simulated land. touchdown. >> thank you for flying air pogue. >> you're very welcome. >> we know you have a choice when it comes to electric aircraft.

actually you don't. >> reporter: beta and archer received millions of dollars worth of orders from various airlines and military branches. both of them plus an air taxi company called joby have already delivered planes to the air force. all three companies expect to receive faa approval and begin flying in the u.s. next year. [ cheers and applause ] >> reporter: on the day of our visit, beta technologies unveiled its new factory, the first electric plane plant outside of china. among the dignitaries in attendance, vermont senator bernie sanders. >> it is an extraordinary day not just for vermont or for the country, but i think for aviation and in taking on climate change as well. >> reporter: why vermont? it seems like all the engineers and the programmers are in silicon valley. >> in vermont there is a heavy awareness of climate change. and having a group of people working on this not only are really good at what they do but they care about the mission,

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a five-mile warmup before hill drills where he and his chair hit speeds around 40 miles per hour. >> i've always enjoyed just pushing myself and seeing how far can i go, how fast can i go? >> reporter: the thrill of racing and competing is something this 25-year-old has been chasing since he was a kid. did you see yourself as different when you were younger? >> i think i knew it, but i -- it never really affected me at all. i didn't grow up with people telling me, oh, well, you can't do this, you know, it was always figure out -- figure out how to do it. >> reporter: romanchuk was born with spina bifida, a birth defect affecting the spine. he's been in a wheelchair since he was 5. a decision he made after trying to walk with braces. >> it allowed me to get where i wanted to go quickly and easily. so really the wheelchair was freedom for me. >> reporter: he took that freedom and rolled with it with the help of the bennett blazers, an adaptive sports program in

baltimore, maryland, where he grew up. >> the bennett blazers' motto, teach your kids they can before someone tells them they can't. set a goal, and figure out how to reach that goal. it may not look exactly like the person next to you, and that's perfectly fine. >> reporter: for romanchuk, that perspective was a guide post all his life, leading him to the rio paralympics in 2016 at age 17 and his first gold medal at the following games in tokyo. >> going into that race, i was -- i was fully expecting to get silver. one thing i learned at bennett is push all the way through the line. you know, the race is not over until you're across the line. >> reporter: he won by a wheel. on top of that podium, romanchuk says he was thinking about his family. he and his two siblings were home schooled growing up, and he remembers a lot of time spent playing outside in their backyard. >> i'm the youngest of three.

and so the other two were playing sports, and so there was no question i would, too. >> he was doing everything his siblings wanted to do it sounds like. if not more. >> yeah. sometimes it did seem like that. i think he probably did play more sports. >> reporter: today romanchuk and his mom kim are a team. they've traveled around the world together competing, winning dozens of marathons and races in the last ten years. >> gold and bronze from tokyo -- >> reporter: he's going for gold again at that year's paralympics. beyond that, his eyes are set on a different prize. >> what do i want to do beyond racing? i would say those things are almost more meaningful to me than winning titles and things like that. we want to give as many other people the same opportunities that i've had.

>> reporter: just a few weeks before heading off to paris, romanchuk went back to his roots, helping out at a basketball camp with the bennett blazers. >> using what i have and not focusing on what i don't have. >> reporter: more than 20 years since he first started in this gym, daniel romanchuk's finding his own lane by starting wheels for change. an endeavor with a simple mission -- change the perception of disability through wheelchair racing. >> just growing up in that i can atmosphere really never -- never having the excuse of oh, my legs don't work so i can't do that, i never, as a kid, internalized that thought because i never really saw it. all i saw were all of the capabilities that were out there. >> reporter: dana jaco en, champaign,

the town of liverpool, england, is cleaning up after a weeklong celebration of its local heroes. international beatles week 2024 saw 70 bands from 20 countries playing sold-out shows across the city. some of the fans even got to sleep in one of the fab four's early venues. tina kraus has more. >> reporter: the streets of liverpool, england, are teeming with tributes to the beatles. they check out one of the newest, the casbah coffee club. where the fab four performed some of their earliest gigs.

>> that's the original stage area where john, paul, george and cam brown opened the casbah in august 1959. >> reporter: 65 years later, it's an airbnb, and david and cheryl are among the first guests in the harrison suite, one of five beatles themed bathrooms. >> we haven't gone beatles-tastic, just a sprinkle. of each beatle in each suite. >> reporter: he transformed it with his brother pete, the original beatles drummer. >> they played here, slept here, partied here, it's unique, nothing else like it in the world. stars on the ceiling put by them. >> reporter: the beatles performed at the club more than 40 times. >> if there hadn't have been a casbah, there wouldn't have been a beatles. it was the starting point where

john, paul, george, stuart met pete and all five came together for the original lineup of the beatles. >> reporter: and all these years later, new generations can get back and let it airbnb. tina kraus, cbs news, london. >> just can't get enough of the beatles. and that's today's "cbs news roundup". for some of you, news continues. for others, tune in later for "cbs mornings" and follow us online anytime at cbsnews.com. reporting from the cbs news broadcast center in new york city, i'm shanelle kaul. ♪

hello, thanks so much for watching. i'm shanelle kaul in new york. here are some of the top stories on "cbs news roundup." the fbi gives an update on its investigation into the assassination attempt of former president donald trump. israel launches deadly raids in the occupied west bank. and a las vegas politician is found guilty in the murder of a journalist. nearly two months after attempted assassination of former president donald trump, officials are piecing together what happened. the fbi gave a briefing on its investigation and share what they're learning about the shooter. scott macfarlane has more. >> reporter: when he opened fire at the podium at former president donald trump, thomas

crooks used this gun and climbed to get to the roof, a football field length away from the stage. the fbi revealed the time line. got atop the building at 6:05:00 p.m., fired six bullets at 6:11. a local police sniper and a secret service sniper fired and struck crooks in the face and killed him. there were two explosives in the car nearby not turned into the on position. >> we believe the suspect engaged in detailed attack planning, well in advance of the rally. >> reporter: schedules for trump and biden. searched for how to make a bomb from fertilizer and how do remote detonators work. >> when the trump rally was announced early in july he

became hyper focused on that event as a target of opportunity. >> reporter: they say he didn't have a left wing or right wing ideology. there was no second shooter, no accomplice, and so far, no clear motive. in a tv interview, trump fuels conspiracy theories, accusing the president and vice president of putting him in danger. >> they were making it very difficult to have proper staffs of secret service. >> reporter: the then secret service director acknowledged failures and resigned ten days . in the meantime, the secret service continues its own investigation into what went wrong and how to protect future events. scott macfarlane, cbs news, washington. on the campaign trail, both are visiting battleground states and a controversy is growing on a visit to arlington national

cemetery. natalie brand. >> reporter: vice president kamala harris and her running mate, governor tim walz, kicked off their tour. their first stop, a high school band class. >> your generation, all that you guys stand for. everything you have at stake is what is going to propel our country. >> reporter: the duo's trip to the battleground state comes as a cbs news poll shows harris and trump tied in the peach state, which president biden narrowly won in 2020. trump's running mate jd vance stumped in wisconsin and pennsylvania where the race is also neck-to-neck. talking to truckers, he was asked about an incident at arlington national cemetery where some trump staffers got aggressive with an official when trump arrived with a campaign photographer during a ceremony

to honor service members killed in the afghanistan war withdrawal. arlington national cemetery prohibits photography for political purposes. >> want to talk about a story out of those brave 13 americans who lost their lives, kamala harris is so asleep at the wheel and won't do an investigation. she can -- she can go to hell. >> reporter: former president trump was not on the campaign trail but rallies thursday in battleground michigan and holds a town hall in wisconsin moderated by former democratic councilwoman gabbert. israel launching its biggest operation in the occupied west bank in years on wednesday. the raids took place cross four cities in the israeli occupied west bank where nearly 3 million

palestinians now live. israel's military calling it an antiterrorist operation. imtiaz tyab has more. >> reporter: towns and refugee camps locked down in what israel is calling acounterterrorism operation. a glimpse inside. according to local residents there hasn't been a israeli raid like this since the second intein intifada. two of his children were killed when their home was damaged in an explosion. my wife went to the rooftop, that's where she found her children, he weeps. in the village here, young palestinians gather stones and burn tires. in one of several villages in the israeli occupied west bank,

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this is "cbs news roundup," i'm shanelle kaul in new york. with a presidential election less than ten weeks away, vice president kamala harris and her running mate, tim walz, will hold their first and long awaited sitdown interview of the season. the pair has been campaigning in the swing state of georgia, the center of controversy. critics say the republican-controlled state election board is taking steps that could disenfranchise voters giving new power to potential election deniers. scott macfarlane explains. >> reporter: early august at a rally in atlanta -- >> we have to make sure that we stop them from cheating. >> reporter: -- former president donald trump gave a shout out to three republicans at a little-known government committee. >> three people are all pit bulls fighting for honesty, transparency, and victory. they are fighting. >> reporter: those georgia state election board members just changed the rules for how the state could certify votes in the 2024 election. >> are they here?

where are they? where are they? where are they? thank you. >> reporter: we sat down with salleigh grubbs, a cobb county republican party official, who introduced one of the new rules approved by the state board. some of the pushback is these rules are fixing a problem that doesn't exist, the elections have been fair. >> there's a lot of human error that can happen. >> reporter: grubbs and her allies believe these rules are necessary to address election fraud even though those claims were proven false in 2020. we know who won. we know who won georgia. it's president biden. >> president biden won georgia. >> reporter: you don't think so? >> i do not think it was a free and fair election. >> reporter: in a fiercely divided vote earlier this month, the board approved grubbs' new rule and others that empower local officials in any of georgia's 159 counties to question the election before they'll certify results. >> is there a motion to certify the election?

>> reporter: certification officially ends the voting process, typically a formality. >> i move to certify the election. >> reporter: now in georgia and elsewhere, new rules offer an open door to question the legitimacy of elections. since 2020, more than two dozen counties across the nation have tried to block certification of their elections. experts warn it's deniers throwing a wrench into the system. >> it's a power grab. >> reporter: david becker is an elections expert and former justice department official. >> there's a way to challenge it through a legal process, with evidence before a court. not >> reporter: not at certification? >> not at certification. and for a political appointee to claim the power to say we don't like the way the election turned out so we're going to hold this up is corrosive to our democracy. >> reporter: tori silas is cobb county's election administrator and a democrat. she'll be in charge of implementing these new rules which can turn just about any complaint into a reason to delay

naming a winner. what's your objection to it? >> there are no parameters. there are -- >> reporter: it can be anything. >> it really could be anything. >> reporter: there's already a process for challenging election results after the regular certification process. georgia's 2020 votes were counted three times. and georgia's top elections official, a republican, doesn't support the board's changes either. >> as i've been clear, the state election board's a mess. >> reporter: but rules passed by this small board of political appointees could have wide-reaching implications on our election this november. let's say one county raises their hand and says we've got a problem here. >> even one piece being delayed prevents the state from certifying the results. it could lead to uncertainty about the process that could be used by losing candidates to incite anger and potentially violence. >> reporter: the democratic national committee with the support of vice president harris' campaign has filed a legal challenge to stop the new rules saying they would invite chaos and run the risk of mass

disenfranchisement of georgia voters if a county delays certifying results. supporters of the new rule including the head of the cobb county republican party tell cbs news the new rules won't lead to delays. >> that was scott macfarlane in georgia. meanwhile in texas, a voting rights group is calling for a federal investigation after the state attorney general ordered raids on the homes of some of its volunteers. ken paxton says he's investigating alleged election fraud, critics say it's intimidation. >> reporter: she had her home raided as a voter fraud investigation by the attorney general. >> we live in the united states of america, you're acting like

g gestapo, this is not russia. >> reporter: they took her phone, laptop, questioned her for hours, made her wait outside. let me get dressed. go outside. >> reporter: what were you wearing? >> my nightgown, all these policemen around me. it was embarrassing, hume ill ya illiating, it was horrible. >> reporter: the raid came ken paxton alleged election fraud and vote harvesting. the attorney general's office said it had evidence for search warrants it executed across three different counties. this is voter suppression. >> it is evident through his patterns of lawsuits, raids, searches, and seizures he's trying to keep latinos from voting.

>> reporter: now they're asking the justice department to investigate paxton. they called his actions a serious violation of the civil rights of latino citizens. cecilia castellano had a search warrant at her home. >> republicans are trying to suppress the vote of the latino communiy, suppress me. that's not going to happen. >> reporter: we reached out to paxton's office for comment, did not hear back. prop pr propubica found he did you know, sweat from stress

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