arguing the president needs to be removed. >> i believe impeachment is the most divisive forces, path we could go down in our country but the fact of fact-finding takes us there we have no choice but we're not there yet. >> and so, on the former vice president, feels like we've been hanging on this for a while, got a lost guidance, expected to a nounls announce on this day. what's taking the former vice president so long to make up his mind. >> good question and the reality is biden is building a campaign from scratch unlike some opponents hasn't ran on anything on his own in more than a decade to make it confusing to know when and how he plans to launch

a bid. one of his aides to be relieved and said quote this is going to be quite a ride. >> they think this is thursday definitely. >> latest guidance now is thursday. >> okay. ed, thank you very much. one of the nation's largest distributions of opioid bade the first to face charges in the opioid crisis, and agreed to pay $20 million to settle claims it did not report suspension orderers. the company's former ceo was also charged. in new haven, connecticut, a police shooting has led to nearly a week of protests. body cam video released today shows an officer firing, during a stop, hitting a passenger in the face. more on this now. >> be on the look out for a red honda civic. >> it shows the moment it the

police officer devin eaton pulled up to a red car matching the description of one reported in an alleged armed robbie and putting it out so quickly. >> the commissioners -- >> what's important is transparency and trust. >> he could be seen shooting through the cars rear and side windows while another shows a back up yale university police officer firing from the opposite direction. in the barrage of bullets, 22-year-old passenger stephanie washington was shot in the face. her boyfriend, the driver 21-year-old paul wither spoon was unanciented this is witherspoon's moernl. >> myit my jo fix h. >> during a week of peaceful protests. >> definitely need to be questions answered. >> followed by a hamden town

hall last night. community members demanded >> what are we going to do about justice for stephanie washington. and what are we going to do for justice for paul witherspoon? >> reporter: regaining community trust is a tall task ahead. >> i think it will take a long time. and i think that words are cheap. and the proof will be in the actions they're taking. >> reporter: family members say they don't think this shooting was about race. but about police training. the officers, both of whom are african-american, are on administrative leave while the investigation continues. and, jeff, stephanie washington, is expected to make a full recovery. >> mola lenghi, in new haven, for us. thk you very much. for a 5-year-old boy. a.j. freund was reported missing from his home in crystalli, ab

northwest of chicago. dean reynolds is there. >> reporter: police were out in force, searching a pond for any sign of 5-year-old a.j. freund, who was last seen at home about a mile from this park on wednesday night. >> tell me exactly what happened. >> we have a missing child. >> reporter: by the next morning, a 911 call from his father alerted authorities that a.j. was gone. >> when was the last time you've seen him? >> last night. probably 9:30, when he went to bed. >> reporter: police detectives from a number of nearby jurisdictions, together with the fbi, have all taken up the search since then, to no avail. >> there's no way to communicate with me now. >> reporter: andrew freund, nor joanne cunningham, his mother, have been particularly helpful in the days that have passed. >> i asked ms. cunningham to remain silent. >> reporter: her attorney said

cunningham was made to feel like a suspect in a.j.'s disappearance. >> we will literally be working on this case every day. >> reporter: without referring to the parents, the state's attorney, had a warning for whoever is to blame. >> the worst possible avenue that they can choose is to continue to conceal the truth in this case because this is not going away. >> reporter: so, the search goes on and there's been no arrests. dean reynolds, cbs news, crystal lake, illinois. two brothers who say jussie smollett paid them to commit a hate crime on the actor, sued smollett for ruining theirprspp against jussie smollett. coming up, where gas prices are on the rise and approaching $5 a

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we end tonight in wisconsin, where a 24-year-old just claimed one of the largest prizes in history. unlike other big winners, he does not have to share it. although people are asking. >> it's just, it's amazing. it feels like a dream. it feels like any moment i'm going to wake up and i'm just going to be back in my room, you know, in my bed. and it will be a disappointment. but i see that you're all here and it's not that way. >> reporter: up until this week, manuel franco's goal was to get $1,000 in his bank account. he just won $768 million. the third-largest in history. >> i see that number and my heart starts to pump. no freaking way.

and i go straight to the powerball number. it matched. and at this moment, i was going insane. >> reporter: franco almost missed it. the winning ticket was the last one he checked. a minor issue fixed, with more good problems to come. >> i think we're related. >> are we? >> have you had people come out of the woodwork yet? are you prepared for that? >> i'm ready. and i know how to say no to random people. but if he's related, i have to give him something, right? that's 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 kris van cleave. the boy scouts of america is the latest organization accused of hiding sexual predators. the scouts reportedly have a perversion file dating back decades. it's said to include the names of 12,000 young victims. lawsuits are in the works and there's calls for the release of the entire list. on capitol hill, a former white house security director defied a subpoenateify before konks acongress and coul been held in contempt. security clearances that were given to ivanka trump and others, that were denied by officials. joe biden is opening that the third time is the charge.

he is officially going to join the crowded race tomorrow and pickoff his campaign in pittsburgh. he will be the 20th democrat to throw his hat in the ring. this is his third attempt at president. george o'keeffe reports. >> reporter: after months of anticipati anticipation, he's finally getting in. >> you build america. we build america. >> reporter: he will launch his campaign on thursday, followed by a rally in pittsburgh next week. it's biden's third run for the white house and the first with him at the front of the pack, according to the latest polls. but at 76, he will be the second-oldest of the 20-candidate field, seeking support from an increasingly younger, liberal, democratic electorate. and the field he will joinh wan impeach president trump. >> i think congress should take steps towards impeachment. >> reporter: several are pushing for it. >> i believe that every person in the senate and the house, ought to have to vote.

>> reporter: others say impeachment would distract from their message. >> if we're only talking about him, folks at home feel like nobody's talking about them. >> in the next year and a half going into the election, all the congress is talking about is impeaching trump and trump, trump, trump, and mueller, mueller, mueller, we're not talking about health care and raising the minimum wage to a living wage. that works to trump's advantage. >> reporter: the latest poll shows six in ten support impeachment. impeachment proceedings start in the house of representatives. today, speaker nancy pelosi urged caution, despite many liberals in her caucus, arguing the president needs toim removed.>> the facts -- if the of fact-finding takes us there,

we have no choice. but we're not there yet. >> reporter: and the reality is, that biden is building a campaign from scratch. unlike some of his opponents, he hasn't run for anything on his own in more than a decade. so, that's made it confusing as to exactly where, when and how he plans to launch his bid. once the news surfaced today, one of his aides-to-be, relieved that it's finally happening, reached out to say, quote, this is going to be quite a ride. police in new haven have released the body cam video of a police-involved shooting that's touched off weeks of protests. mola lenghi has the story. >> reporter: the body camera video released shows when the officer pulled up to the car and opened fire. >> this is unheard of. we're putting it out to quickly. >> reporter: commissioner james

ravella. >> what is important, is transparency and trust. >> reporter: in surveillance video, he can be seen shooting through the side windows. while another shows a backup security officer, terence pollack, fighting from the other direction. >> reporter: in the barrage of bullets, stephanie washington was shot in the face. her boyfriend was uninjured. in the search of the car, no weapon was found. >> my son, they broke him. now, it's my job to fix him. >> reporter: during a week of peaceful protests -- >> there needs to be questions answered. >> reporter: followed by a town hall last night, community members demanded accountabilityt justice for stephanie washington? and what are we going to do for justice for paul witherspoon? >> reporter: hamden mayor curt

balzanl ballson balzanbalzano. >> proof is going to be in the actions they take. >> reporter: family members don't think this was about race, but police training. the officers, both of whom are african-american, are on administrative leave. and stephanie washington is expected to make a full recovery. overseas, funerals have begun in sri lanka for the more than 300 victims of the terror attacks. the islamic state has claim eed responsibility. and officials are under fire for not stopping attacks ahead of time. elizabeth palmer has this. >> reporter: these are the suicide bmers pledging allegiance to the islamic state. the man in the middle is a local islamist preacher who was known

to sri lankan inigicial s recei warnings that churches might be attacked but did nothing. sri lanka's president announced he would be replacing all of the defense chiefs and restructuring the security services. the death toll from the bombing has climbed to over 300. the defense minister said this was a reprisal for the mass shooting of muslims in new zealand last momnth. this security camera video shows a suspected suicide bomber, pausing to pat a child as he approached st. sebastian church. he enters by a side door. and moments later, detonates his bomb. in an instant, more than 100ad today, they were laid to rest.

one funeral procession following another. to give people a christian bu buri burial, required a mass grave. it had to be hastily dug to bury over 100 bodice. they lay under simple mounds covered in flowers, as family members look on. at a nearby vigil, baby joseph gomez grieved for his son and grandchildren killed by terrorists. >> five children, all our boys. i can't bear it. i can't bear. >> reporter: three years ago, the justice minister confirmed that 32 sri lankans had joined isis in syria. investigators arexaher some of central to this bombing plot. "the cbs overnight news"

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this is "the cbs overnight news." >> in our series, "earth matters," we're looking at the challenges facing our environment and what's being done to address them. we begin with vladimir duthier who went to the rain forest. >> reporter: the rate of deforestation slowed way down. but activists are noticing it started to speed up again. campaign with a newly-elected president that's critical to environmental priorities. and the scientists we spent a week in the jungle with say they're concerned. a trip to the amazon is no simple journey. or one lightly taken.

it usually involves multiple flights on planes, that get noticeably smaller as the regions get more remote. after another hour in the back of a truck, we're here. this industrial farm may not be what you imagine as the amazon. but it sits right up against the massive walls of dense rain forest. it's the last line of civilization and the front line in the battle of deforestization. >> we're able to set up different experiments in fo farmland and forest to see what the differences republican t s . >> reporter: his weapons are data. >> you cutn the you're adding to global warming. you're heating up the surface. >> reporter: since the rise of rge-scale industrial farming here in the past 50 years, scientists like koh, estimate

been deforested, cut down to make way for agriculture. to measure the impact of all of the lost trees, you have to get above it all. >> this tower allows us to measure how forests are breathing in and out. >> reporter: that's how paolo brando works. >> first thing you notice is how breathtaking the view is from up here. >> reporter: for scientists, it is not about the view. it's about the science. >> that's three or four tons of carbon. but that is otherwise in the atmosphe atmosphere. >> reporter: what if the trees are cut down and the carbon is released into the atmosphere? >> it would contribution to eat trapping in the atmosphere. >> reporter: there's as much carbon in all of the trees in the amazon, as the amount the

entire planet has emitted in ten years. cut them down, and we double the heat-trapping gases of the last decade. >> in some reaches of the amazon, about 30% of the rain depends on the trees. in some parts of the amazon, it rains because of the trees? >> yes. >> reporter: they're a key part of the global weather cycle. they soak up water from the soil, it evaporates off of the tree tops and gives the life-giving rain downwind. >> all of the water rains out somewhere else. without the recycling of water, a lot less rain and a hotter planet. >> reporter: his data shows that with less trees, the dry season has expanded by 3 1/2 weeks in the past 50 years. >> each year, there's more being taken out and there's none being released. that's the problem. >> reporter: koh and his team

may have discovered a solution. using field data, they have learned that large mammals are the best fertilizers. >> they're great at eating seeds and then dropping them somewhere else. >> reporter: tracking the seeds because the seeds when they hit the ground, lead to reforestization. >> reporter: right. also playing a role, are humans that live in the area. they're the people most immediately affected by recent drought and previously unheard of forest fires. his grandfather recognized there were changes happening. herelde a pre squeezing them. squeezing them. >> reporter: and they might also have some of the answers. >> it will be really important to engage indigenous people, in if whole discussion hoff how do

we make a landscape that works for everyone? >> reporter: the native communities have long been protected by the brazilian government. but that, too, has yet to change. the new president has changed it over to the agriculture ministry. and some see that as another attempt to exploit the rain forests that these people have relied on. an energy shortage plunges parts of the country into darkness on a regular basis. that spurred an investigation into solar energy. >> reporter: powered by a flo floating solar plant, one of many responses to south africa's energy shortage. the government is battling to keep the lights on here, a decade of mismanagement and corruption has left the national grid close to collapse. regularly plunging much of the

nation into darkness. increasingly, renewable energy is seen as the answer to the problem. one thing that south africa has a lot of is sunshine. that makes it ideal for the country's solar power revolution. a revolution, with a younger generation who has no allegiance to the old ways of doing things. >> for our generation, climate change is obvious. we're not threatened by changing ways. >> reporter: she is a co-founder of a company committed to building renewable energy plants in africa. they're plant generates enough energy to power 36,000 households. it's cheap and clean and unlike coal, in endless supply. >> it's time with history.

and also an opportunity for us to finally get on development that is sustainable as the african concert. >> reporter: they have a 5% stake and they provide help to this local school. most of the kids here have xwrogrown up with solar energy. it provides them with hidden benefits. they've cut their electricity bill by half, a huge savings. it's not only good for the school and cheaper, but also clean. >> it's really clean electricity. no pollution. and it really only uses the sun. >> reporter: these 10-year-old students agree. >> it's pretty mind-blowing because, it looks like just windows. but it's actually just a

generator. it makes its own power from theu >> reporter: it's that power that could ensure the survival of south africa's international's renowned wine country. here, the switch to solar has been borne out of necessity. on the back of three years of drought, the constant power outages have had a dire effect on the farming industry. this 300-year-old fruit farm esnlwable ergy. it was cheaper to build this floating solar pardon me than plant more orchards. >> we've taken so much from the earth, it's time to give back. >> reporter: giving back in a way that's good for business and good for planet earth. "the cbs

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victorian lighthouse. thousands found it unusual. >> i'm telling you, i can't think of a country in the world we didn't get applications from. there were some i didn't heard of. >> reporter: tom buck was in charge of getting two people to replace these two, who had been working at the east brother light station for two years. >> it's not technically an address. they were shocked so many people wanted the job. >> within an hour of that article being put online, we were getting phone calls every three minutes. >> that epitomizes for people. living in a victorian house in the middle of a bay, there's a huge desire to step back from the pace of modern life. >> reporter: but the pace on the island isn't laidback. >> cook and server and dishwasher and housekeeper and

concier concierge. >> reporter: the east brother light station is one of the country's more unusual bed and breakfast inns. they run the boat that bring s guests the island to cooking and serving meals. not bad, the view of san francisco. >> absolutely. it's distracting sometimes. >> reporter: the five victorian era bedrooms provides dramatic views of waves and wildlife on san francisco bay. this lighthouse is now considered a treasure. at one time, the coast guard was ready to demolish it. but lighthouse lovers stepped in to save it. the light itself, was commissioned by the coast guard years ago. >> guests can come up here whenever they want. >> reporter: the visitors this day, are tyler and tiffany. the couple was selected by more than 1,000 applicants to run the

place. people ask are you going to have a cook or a maintenance person? it's all us. >> reporter: you're going to be living in the 1870s. >> i'm okay with that. i enjoy suffrage and women's rights. other than that, i think i will be fine with it, yeah. >> reporter: among the new duties, learning to get the old fog horn up and running. as a noisy demonstration for overnight guests. they learn, as well, of all of the impressive views here, no guest wants to miss the sunset. >> we'll have to take a break to go see the sunset. >> we found that out quickly. and we built in a sunset break. >> reporter: while the job is more innkeeper than lighthousekeeper, there is a good reason that people wanted to work in the lighthouse. >> it's

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if you're one of those people that follow the british royal family, you probably already know that prince louis turned 1 yesterday. this was taken by his mom, the duchess of cambridge. you're probably also waiting for news from prince harry and meghan markle for the birth of their first child. >> reporter: for centuries, royal births have been the source of palace and international intrigue. when harry and meghan decided to ditch with tradition, it did raise eyebrows. it's not the first time that we've seen traditions defied ahead of a royal birth. years y

elizabeth ii, the longest monarch celebrated her birthday in style on sunday. but princess elizabeth, when she was born, was part of the push to end an ancient royal birthing protocol. her own home birth had to be witnessed by a government minister, for fears that any potential heir for the throne could be swapped out for a royal imposter. >> this is prince charles of edingur edingurgh. >> reporter: all of their children would usher in a new era of hospital births, most famously prince william, who is the first to be born in a medical ward. and was introduced ed to the w, fu repr: twoears r,ahotoapheswo

harry. but now, the rules of succession have changed, allowing princess charlotte, the next child, to maintain her position ahead of her younger brother, prince louis. harry and meghan are hoping to have a private birth near windsor. th first we see of their little ones is likely going to be days after their arrival. >> we want to enjoy this baby with them. i think everybody understands their decision. >> and the world waits for that first baby picture. that's "the overnrnight news for this wednesday.

for some of you, the news captioning funded by cbs captioning funded by cbs it's wednesday, april 24th. this is the "cbs morning news." the death toll rises in sri lanka's easter terror attack. >> my children all are boys. >> at least 60 people have been arrested, but officials say more suspects are out there, some armed with explosives. an arizona teenager accused of threatening to blow up a mosque. what police say he took to school in a plastic bag.