none of this disqualified mr. biden from a white house bid, but she did suggest that he joined her in what she called the straight arm club, keeping at least this much distance between himself and colleagues and supporters so that there are no awkward moments in the first place, jeff. >> okay. nancy cordes, thank you very much. chicago made history tonight, electing its first african american female mayor. dean reynolds is there. >> reporter: the election of lori lightfoot as chicago's mayor is undoubtedly historic. lightfoot, a former federal prosecutor defeated toni preckwinkle, the president of the cook county board of commissioners by a wide margin. >> you know, when we started this journey 11 months ago, nobody gave us much of a chance.

we're up against powerful interests, a powerful machine, and a powerful mayor. but i remembered something martin luther king said when i was very young. faith, he said is taking the first step when you can't see the staircase. well, we couldn't see the whole staircase when we started this journey, but we had faith, and abiding faith in the city, in its people, and in its future. so we took that first step. and as father mike said, we let our faith overcome our fears. >> that's why nothing will distract me -- >> reporter: electing lightfoot, whose ads featured her daughter is another first. a fact that her opponent noted during a recent debate. >> she is open and honest about her lgbtq orientation. i think it's really important in this country that we be

respectful of differences. >> reporter: black, female, and gay, lightfoot told us she personifies progress. >> you got three hard ceilings. >> yes. >> reporter: woman, black, lesbian. and i think it's ten years ago it would be unthinkable. >> i think that's right. not only unthinkable, maybe dangerous. >> reporter: during the campaign, both lightfoot and preckwinkle ran on a promise of change. lightfoot, the winner, will face serious problems left to her by outgoing mayor rahm emanuel. the city's finances are a mess. income inequality is obvious. seemingly intractable violence haunts the poorest neighborhoods. >> officer shot -- >> reporter: as does animosity towards the police patrolling them. >> change for some people is really hard. but change in our city and particularly in our police department is absolutely mission critical. >> reporter: polls showed lightfoot well ahead during this campaign, and this outcome is not surprising.

so on may 20th, 56-year-old lori lightfoot will become the 56th mayor of the city of chicago. jeff? >> all right, dean reynolds at lightfoot headquarters tonight. dean, thank you. in his final week in office, fda commissioner scott gottlieb is threatening a potential ban on pod-based e-cigarettes like juul that are popular with teenagers. in an exit interview with dr. jon lapook, gottlieb points to a 70 to 80% spike in e-cigarette by high schoolers. nearly 5 million kids use tobacco. >> this is something that caught everyone by surprise. we see another 30, 40% increase this year on top of that, we're going to be at youth tobacco rates of around 40 to 45% in this country. there is nothing compared to that. >> in response to that data you thought well, oui got to regulate this more. we've got to get our arms around this, right? >> right. if we see another sharp increase in the youth rates this year, we're going have to look at more draconian measures, like potentially taking these

pod-based products off the market entirely. >> reporter: like juul? >> like juul, exactly. it's the cartridge-based products that are the kids are using. i said to the companies, if youth data goes up again sharply, we have to consider the use of this entire category o billions of bacteria,

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lawmakers discussed a possible crackdown on surprise medical bills for hospital service and treatment outside patients' insurance networks. this includes air ambulance costs. a helicopter ride to the hospital can cost more than $36,000. mireya villarreal has more on this in our series "your money, your health". >> reporter: when joseph penrod's son accidentally swallowed a bunch of prescription pills, his wife panicked. >> the first thing she did was call poison control, and they talked to her about getting him to an er as quickly as possible. >> reporter: and didn't think twice when he was airlifted to a better hospital. >> they suggested that they were not appropriately equipped to deal with that particular age of patient in that particular condition. >> reporter: and when they recommended that he be transported, he was stable? >> yes. >> reporter: his insurance paid for the er care, but he got slapped with a $40,000 bill for the air ambulance.

>> i did not have $40,000 laying around. it would have destroyed us financially. >> reporter: air ambulances are often out of insurance network coverage because they're independent contractor, and negotiate costs simply. they've become a growing lucrative business, making most of their money in rural areas. >> the air transport industry, the predominant players are driven by private equity. and the model is very simple. there are people out there in emergency. they have resources, and we can take them. >> reporter: executive director of the virginia association of health plans doug gray says a new virginia law that went into effect march 1st will give patients the right to choose if they want to take an air ambulance in non-emergency situations and requires hospitals to disclose more cost information. >> an accident can happen any time, any place, and you can be the one whose having that decision made for you, and your livelihood and your savings can be on the line.

>> reporter: penrod spent near lay year fighting this bill. he finally offered to pay a thousand dollars, and they took it. >> if you're rich, you can get a lawyer, and that's great. if you're on the lower end of the spectrum, then you need to be able to fight f long enough to figure out how to escape. >> reporter: a fight against hidden medical costs to save something that's priceless. mireya villarreal, cbs news, lynchburg, virginia. still ahead here tonight, a glacier breaks apart, and tourists try to outrun a wave. you still stressed about buying our first house, sweetie? yeah, i thought doing some hibachi grilling would help take

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tourists in iceland went to see a glacier and were surprised to see a massive chunk of it break off and crash into a lagoon. they then secured over blocks of ice to escape a big wave that was headed their way. they did manage to get away. it looks like they didn't even get wet. two former fraternity brothers at penn state were sent to prison today for the hazing

death of piazza. he died aft drinks. he fell down a flight of stairs. deborah norville says everything went great today with her cancer surgery. the host of "inside edition" announced doctors were removing a cancerous lump on her neck. norville says a viewer pointed out the lump years ago. doctors kept track and recently detected cancer. after surgery, norville's assistant posted this photo of her holding hands. up next, the veterans who bring history to life. this portion sponsored by the all new 2019 ford ranger. the only adventure gear built ford tough.

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we end here tonight with a history lesson, no textbook required. the teachers lined up some american heroes to help out. here is carter evans. >> one more. do one more. >> reporter: around here, u.s. history teacher john corona is a

celebrity of sort. >> hi, ron. how are you? ♪ >> reporter: every year for the last two decades, he brings military veterans to martin luther king high in riverside, california. >> this is my 17th visit. >> oh, wow! >> reporter: so they can tell their stories to his students. >> it's one thing to hear me lecture about it. it's another to read about it. when you sit down with somebody who lived it, it puts a whole new perspective on this for students. >> it was a happy heart, and now it's a happy life. >> walking in today, i think i was a little anxious about how the conversation would get started. but it's just great. >> reporter: he told her about his service in vietnam, some of the more difficult memories. >> getting wounded from the first major battle. >> reporter: this year, 300 veterans attended. but they didn't just come for the students. they came for john corona. he's retiring in june after 40

years of teaching. >> are you kidding? >> reporter: as a thank you for his service, he was presented a flag that once flew over the u.s. capitol. >> oh my god. >> reporter: corona is modest about his role in all of this. but to the veteran, he is more than just a teacher. >> mr. corona has been a good nighting light here. i would classify him as a hero. >> reporter: a hero who is leaving an impact that goes beyond the classroom for generations to come. ♪ >> i can't tell you the number of times veterans have left this program and said to me they feel a whole lot better about the future of our country after having talked to our kids here. >> reporter: carter evans, cbs news, los angeles. >> that is the "overnight news" for this wednesday. for some of you, the news continues. for others, check back later for the morning news and "cbs this morning." from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm jeff glor. ♪

this is the "cbs overnight news." >> welcome to the "overnight news." i'm meg oliver. president trump's threat to close the u.s. border with mexico later this week is now on hold. the president said he is happy with mexico's recent steps to stem the tide of migrants, and he says it's now up to congress to come up with a long-term solution. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell says sealing the border is the last thing he wants to see. mcconnell says it would be an economic catastrophe. manuel bojorquez reports. >> i'm ready to close it. >> reporter: this afternoon, the president doubled down on his threat to shut the border, but this time blamed congress for the immigration crisis. >> if we don't make a deal with

congress, the border is going to be closed. >> reporter: according to government statistics, the u.s. does some $600 billion in trade with mexico a year, much of it crossing by land. the president says stopping the surge of illegal immigration is his top priority. >> let me just give you a little secret. security is more important to me than trade. >> reporter: republican senate leader mitch mcconnell urged the president to go slow. >> closing down the border would have potentially catastrophic economic impact on our country and i would hope we would not be doing that sort of thing. >> reporter: while the administration is looking at easing the worst of the economic effects, for example, keeping truck lanes open, critics of a shutdown say any disruption at the border could hit consumers quickly. take food, for example. approximately half of vegetables and 40% of fruits imported to the u.s. come from mexico each year. by one estimate, the supply of avocados would be gone in three weeks.

>> it would be potentially de devastating. >> reporter: jon barela is ceo of the el paso-based borderplex alliance. he says the ripple effect could spread across the country. >> for example, people making autos up there rely on parts coming up and down through these borders here? thern tegrated veryight there. sophisticated supply chain that's been developed, everything from agriculture to automobile manufacturing. >> reporter: it's so integrated that the center for automotive research says a total shutdown could halt auto production in the u.s. within a week, impacting at least one million jobs. >> uncertainty is the enemy of jobs and economic development, and just the threat right now is creating that air of uncertainty. >> reporter: that's because even if the white house exempts commercial trade from the shutdown, thousands who cross the border legally every day to work jobs like manufacturing and construction could still be blocked. former vice president joe biden is getting some advice

before his expected announcement that he's running for president. house speaker nancy pelosi is warning him to keep his distance. two women have already acced ppm capitol hill. >> it is a big part of who he is, that he hugs people and connects with people and talks to people. >> reporter: delaware senator chris coons came to his mentor's defense today. coons insisted his daughter was not disturbed by this televised nuzzle from former vice president joe biden in 2015. >> there was a huge bank of cameras, about 50. and joe, who knows her, leaned forward and whispered some encouragement, telling her that she was doing great, that she looked wonderful. >> did his actions make her feel uncomfortable? >> no. my chirp have known joe biden their whole lives. >> reporter: but with a presidential bid on the line, mr. biden's intimate style is now taking a toll. >> do i consider it inappropriate to smell someone's

hair, to get so close that i smell their hair? yes. >> reporter: the controversy cropped up after two democrats, former nevada state assemblywoman lucy flores and former congressional staffer amy lappos described unusual encounters with mr. biden. >> he was talking to me while he was rubbing my nose with his. >> reporter: other democratic presidential hopefuls steered clear today. >> it was good to see you today. >> reporter: as mr. biden's team pushed back, issuing quotes from female friends, aides and colleagues who said he never once crossed the line. mr. biden himself said it was never his intention to make anyone uncomfortable. house speaker nancy pelosi took her long-time ally to task today, urging him to say more. >> so to say i'm sorry that you were offended is not an apology. >> reporter: pelosi added that none of this disqualified mr. biden from a white house bid, but she did suggest that he

join her in what she called the straight arm club, keeping at least this much distance between himself and colleagues and supporters so that there are no awkward mom place. there's been another deadly explosion at a chemical plant in texas, this one outside houston. adam bennett is there. >> reporter: the blast happened at the kmco chemical plant just before lunch. plant workers were initially told by a supervisor to evacuate. moments later, panic set in. >> you can see all the water kick in. and it just ignited. the thing blew. >> reporter: the explosion prompted the lockdown of four nearby school districts, serving some 30,000 students. residents within a one-mile radius were ordered to shelter in place. haountsherif gonzalez.

what caught fire with isobutylene. and then an adjacent storage contain next to that as well. >> reporter: when this worker heard the explosion, his crew took off across the parking lot. >> it was scary, yeah, very scary. everybody that was around me was running. >> reporter: the explosion followed a similar blast at a nearby chemical storage facility two weeks ago. although no one was killed, 11 tanks caught fire and burned for days, raising concerns about air quality. police in georgia have released new details about the tragic death of 19-year-old omarian banks. he was shot and killed after knocking on the wrong door of his apartment complex. 32-year-old darryl bynes is charged with murder. >> reporter: darryl bynes claimed he acted in self-defense when he shot him three times, but now police say there was no confrontation, and banks was simply walking away from an apartment that he thought was his own when the shooting happened. >> my son is gone. over an innocent mistake.

>> reporter: omairian banks' mother says he did nothing wrong on the night he was killed. according to the police incident report, the suspect, darryl bynes claimed he believed someone was attempting to enter his home, so he grabbed his handgun and went on to his balcony. omairian banks then started walking away and said he had the wrong apartment when bynes allegedly began yelling and swearing at him while continuing to hold his firearm. bynes then claims the victim reached for something chrome in color, which he believed to be a gun before firing. banks died on the scene with gunshot wounds to his neck and waist. >> how can you have that much evil in your heart and that much vengeance? >> reporter: banks had been on facebook with his girlfriend at the time. >> i heard him yell, and i heard all the fear in his voice, and he was just i'm sorry, i'm at the wrong door. >> reporter: georgia is a stand your ground state, which means the law allows you to not retreat and use deadly force if you reasonably feel threatened. but police say banks did not have a weapon and did not

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this is the "cbs overnight news." >> each year the u.s. sends about $1.3 billion in foreign aid to egypt. much of the money is used to buy u.s. military equipment. now some in congress are trying to block the sale of apache helicopters after one was used in an attack on tourists. a do people were killed.coerwny.

others were wounded. the egyptian government offered her $150,000 for her injury, but that was less than half of what it cost just to fly her back to the u.s. for treatment. errol barnett has the story. >> reporter: look, you may have seen april colley before. she is a hollywood stuntwoman and dancer who has appeared in hollywood commercials and even toured with maduro. all of that before sufferingjin attack on her tour group in egypt. she is speaking out in the hopes president trump holds egypt accountable. >> reporter: april colley moves for maduro and skated her way through mike myers' movies. >> my life was really about glitter and rhinestones and roller skates and i was living my dream. >> reporter: until 2015 and a vacation in egypt with her boyfriend, rafael. >> he is a soul mate to me.

>> reporter: one day in the desert, their tour group was attacked. >> i was thrown to the ground by like what felt like a mysterious force. but when i looked back, the sand was black, and i got up and i couldn't walk. >> reporter: colley, badly injured, say she laid there for nearly four hours calling out for rafael. he and 11 others died in the attack. >> there was blood everywhere. and the helicopters kept coming back and shooting at us. >> reporter: colley later learned the helicopters were flown by the egyptian military and made by the united states. >> egypt has said that they thought i was a terrorist. >> reporter: for what reason? did they explain? >> i have no idea, because had weapons. we permits for each tourist destination that we were going to. >> reporter: egypt's tourism

ministry said the group was in an area offlimits to tourists and, quote, were mistakenly dealt with. the egyptian government offered each "survivor" $140,000, but colley is asking it to pay more than $14 million for the scars she bears on her body and others she says you can't see. >> i went to the beach recently to meet some of my girlfriends, and a helicopter came over, and i ran in fear for my life. >> the state department tells cbs news it has raised april's case with the egyptian government. she and a vermont senator patrick leahy say they hope president trump will bring this up with egypt's president when up with egypt's president when they meet nex here's another cleaning tip from mr. clean. cleaning tough bathroom and kitchen messes with sprays and wipes can be a struggle. there's an easier way. try mr. clean magic eraser. just wet, squeeze and erase tough messes like bathtub soap scum

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>> reporter: and you can't help picturing rod serling, the man who create and hosted it. >> i know it's very late in his day. he has an errant wish that the rest of his life might be sent out to a laundry, to come back shiny and clean. >> reporter: it was an anthology show. >> respectfully submitted for your perusal. >> reporter: of science fiction. >> please, mr. chambers, eat. we wouldn't want you to lose weight. >> reporter: horror -- >> oh, johnny, i don't care if you are a ghost. >> reporter: and fantasy, graced by such future stars as robert redford. >> it's time to rest. >> reporter: robert duvall, carol burnett. >> yes, sir, mr. stout. >> reporter: and william shatner. what you may not remember is that "the twilight zone" wasn't

exactly a hit as serling was the first to admit in this 1970 interview. >> it is a mild successful it is not a runaway hit. it's not "begun smoke." it's a very questionable item as to whether or not we'll renew it. >> rod serling's whole career was a story of run-ins with sponsors and networks and corporate sensors. >> reporter: james is the chief television critic for "the new york times." >> there was a concept in television of the old sort of three network age that was called the least objectionable programing. the best kind of programing was something that was inoffensive, that didn't make people want to turn the tv off. >> you keep thinking bad thoughts about me. >> reporter: serling's screenplays wound up addressing controversial social issues by disguising them. >> he would use terror of aliens to stand in for mccarthyism, for conformity in american society, for fear of the other.

>> my name is talking tina and i think i could even hate you. >> oh, talking tina. >> i love that one. >> reporter: jodi serling is rod's daughter. we met in binghamton, new york, where rod serling grew up. the rod serling most people know is the man in the suit and the cigarette in black and white introducing each episode. but we know nothing about what he was like at home. >> my dad was the funniest person in the world. he would dress the animals up in human clothes and talk for the animals and put lamps on his head. >> reporter: by the end of ttoo '50s, early '60s, he was kind of a superstar, wasn't he in the industry? >> he was, he was. >> reporter: did that reflect at all in his parenting? was he around? >> when he was in his study and the door was shut, we knew that was offlimits. but most of the time he was open to talk to us when we wanted to

talk to him or play with him. i never felt he was ever absent in my life at all. >> reporter: serling enlisted in the army immediately after high school. world war ii was in full swing. he was a paratrooper in the pacific. a shattering experience that his family says haunted him for the rest of his life. >> my mom said that lots of times he'd wake up sweating, thinking he was back in the fields and everything. >> reporter: is it too simple to say that some of the episodes that we know were your dad trying to work out -- >> oh, yeah, it was cathartic, definitely for him. >> i played baseball on that field over there. and that merry-go-round, my goodness. i grew up with that merry-go-round. >> reporter: walking distance starring young is one of the most personal episodes serling wrote. it's about a man who returns to the idyllic town of his boyhood and finds it frozen in time as it was back then. it features a look-alike of the

binghamton carousel, which still runs today. now with commemorative portraits. >> he loved binghamton. this is where his childhood was. and when he came back after the war, his dad had passed. he wished he could turn time back and see his dad again. and that's what prompted him to write "walking distance." >> goodbye, son. >> goodbye, pop. >> reporter: as a tv series, "the twilight zone" has been resurrected three times. >> some people, like peter j.novens just push. >> we were tasked with this sort of near impossible feat of following in the footsteps of the greatest show of all time. >> reporter: its executive producer is jordan peele. >> the chores have become my sanctuary. >> reporter: who wrote and directed the oscar-winning movie "get out" in 2017 and the new horror movie "us."

which is in theaters now. >> who are you? >> it's us. >> reporter: people have said you are a natural choice for this project because serling also served up helps of social justice. >> yeah. we deal with issues like the price of fame and racial violence. we deal with issues of profiling and guns in the country. >> reporter: what elements of the original do you keep? >> well, serling and the other writers, you know, they built in reveals, and obviously they built in twists. >> what in the name of everything holy is going on? there is always this -- we call the serling wink, this sense of something sort of mischievous is at play.

and lastly, in the power of parable. this notion that when an audience is brought into an engaging story that sets their imagination going, that they'll be left afterward to think about what it's about. >> well, tonight he felt the rush of the limelight for the first time. >> reporter: peele introduces each new episode of "the twilight zone" just as rod serling does, mines the cigarettes. >> i have a lot of trouble with that cigarette. i think god is telling me don't smoke. >> i remember he came to visit me. his face was gray and ashen, and i knew something wasn't right. >> reporter: rod serling's four pack a day habit, 14-hour work day, and an inherited cardiac weakness eventually took their toll in the form of three successive heart attacks. he underwent open heart surgery but died in the hospital.

at age 50. >> he had a fear of his own mortality. he knew -- i think he knew that he was going to not make it. >> reporter: the days of tworksohi are gone now. so is there any need today for "twilight zone"'s trick of delivering social commentary through storytelling? tv critic james. >> i think there is always a need for good allegorical storytelling to kind of get to the demons that maybe you're allowed to talk about, but people don't necessarily like to talk about. >> what did you do to me? >> reporter: in the meantime, the serling family is happy to hand over the reins to jordan peele. >> one of the things that i'm really happy about is he is the same social conscious and feelings and he's also got a lot of humor in him. so in a lot of ways, he is a lot like my dad. and we are honored to have him step in and continue the legacy.

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here is a story about the circle of life, and it's got nothing to do with "the lion king." a 61-year-old woman in nebraska just gave birth to her own granddaughter, and it was a real family affair. . >> reporter: in many way, uma louise doherty el lidge is a

typical newborn. she eat, sleeps and cries. but the story behind her birth is far from ordinary. >> i love my mom. he loves his mother-in-law, and she has gone to extreme cases to finally get a grandkid around here. >> reporter: matthew ellis' mother did go to extreme lengths. she is not just the grandmother, she carried him as a surrogate. >> well, what are the chances of this? and we don't have a textbook on a 61-year-old having a baby. >> reporter: and the family ties don't stop there. >> when they wanted to start a family, i knew that it was no doubt i wanted to help them. >> reporter: elia doherty's sister and matthew donated the sperm. >> all we knew is we wanted to be a family. it all kind of kept happening in this beautiful sort of serendipitous way. >> yeah, we didn't go in demanding it has to be his sister that donate an egg, it has to be my mom. it was actually the other way. they were the ones that kind of

convinced us that this was a safe decision. >> reporter: grandmother cecil underwent numerous tests and regular hormone injections to guare ug to be the surrogate. >> let the fun begin. >> reporter: she says it wasn't always easy being pregnant at 61. >> i would have to keep visualizing okay, but when the day comes when i can deliver her and hand her off to her parents, that is going to be such a gift that i am honored to be able to give them. >> reporter: as for uma, her fathers say the unconventional process behind this little miracle has strengthened their family bond. >> i know that this is a unique situation, but i'm so proud of the creativity and the support and the love that made this happen, you know. i think she should feel really special that it literally took a village to bring her into this world. >> what a cutie. that's the "overnight news" for this wednesday. for some of you, the news continues. for others, check back with us a little later for the morning news. and you don't want to miss "cbs

this morning." from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm meg oliver. captioning funded by cbs it's wednesday, april 3rd, 2019. this is the "cbs morning news." trespassing at mar-a-lago. a chinese woman is accused of sneaking a laptop and a thumb drive with malware past secret service agents. health care fight. what forced president trump to flip-flop on a republican overhaul. and new accusers. two more women accuse joe biden of touching them