captioning sponsored by cbs >> begnaud: tonight, flooding swamps the south. it is threatening lives and property as destructive weather heads east. also president trump's trade fight with china is escalating with beijing expected to punch back. the question is who pays? emergency landing. >> evacuate, evacuate! >> begnaud: sparks fly after the nose gear on packed jetliner fails to deploy. a new mississippi state flag without the confederate symbol has a surprising champion. >> that's a horrible symbol. we need a symbol that'stive. >> begnaud: and the mother's day this duo thought they'd never have. >> i know what i went through to

be a mom, and i now what she went through to get a mom. >> begnaud: good evening. thank you for joining us. i'm david begnaud. it has been a stormy mother's day for millions of americans across the eastern half of our country following rounds of rain and severe thunderstorms, but it has been the worst in the south. they have been slammed by days of torrential rainfall and some pretty widespread flooding. here's meg oliver. >> reporter: after days of relentless rain, new orleans looked more like a swamp, closing roads and shutting down public transportation. in baton rouge, the storm sent trees crashing on to roofs and caused water to bubble out of sewers. here in church point, louisiana, flooding shut down neighborhoods. >> when it floods too bad, we get water in our house. not too much we can do. just wait for the water to go down. >> reporter: the storm system started a week ago, drenching multiple states from texas to virginia. in water-logged stone county,

mississippi, flash floods trapped more than a dozen people in r.v. parks. >> the water was going down. all of a sudden it just rose an overtook the park. there was nothing more we could do. we all evacuate and got out. >> i lost everything, sir. i lost everything. >> reporter: nearby highways were overflowing from torrential rains. in dauphin island, alabama, the storm ripped roofs off buildings. over in gulf shores, alabama, workers sawed through debris after strong winds toppled trees on the cars at a local zoo. no animals were hurt. in hillsdale, mississippi, severe weather derailed a freight train, leaving more than 20 cars bunched together like an accordion. no one was injured. and a tornado touched down outside norfolk, virginia, knocking down trees and power lines. the powerful but slow-moving system now stretches from florida to here in new york city. rain is expected to drench the northeast through at least

monday evening. david? >> begnaud: all right, meg. thank you very much. let's bring in meteorologist jeff beradelli. jeff, i see the red lines behind you. those are the swollen rivers? >> yes. those are the flood warnings. the rivers are swollen, dangerous, right against their banks. although the rain has proved out, we'll still be dealing with are river flooding for next couple days. much crier air has proved inch the rain has proved way to the east. we're drying out nicely in texas and louisiana and also into mississippi. there is still the lingering strong-to-severe thunderstorm threat from florida up through the carolinas. now, as meg just mentioned, still dealing with heavy rain across parts of the northeast. it will be a somewhat miserable night for rain, showers, breezy, chilly temperatures in the 40s. a bit of a break tomorrow morning for a morning commute in the big cities, however, next system moves in during the afternoon and evening and another round of showers, some heavy rain, and it stays in the 40s for a lot of folks. here's the good news, looking at the water vapor loop, it measures how much moisture is in

the at position -- atmosphere. much drier air will move in from coast to coast as we head through the upcoming middle of the week. so drier times are moving in. david. >> begnaud: good deal. thank you, jeff. well, the white house today says it does expect china to retaliate over new tariffs. president trump is warning beijing to act now on a trade deal, tweeting it will be far worse for them in his second term plsm trump today took a new hit at an old target. nikole killion is at the white house. >> reporter: president trump stayed indoors on a soggy sunday, lashing out over the mueller probe. on twitter he called it a "sick and unlawful investigation," claimed his campaign was "seriously spied upon by intel agents and democrats," then declared "this must never be allowed to happen again." >> i think it's fair to say that we're looking at a crisis, not only of confidence, but potential lay constitutional crisis. >> reporter: democrats sounded their own alarms after holding the attorney general in contempt

last week. >> those in favor respond by saying aye. aye. >> reporter: it was part of an escalating battle with the white house, which exerted executive privilege to block access to the full mueller report and key documents from former white house counsel don mcgahn. >> the trump administration has decided to say a blanket no, no to any kind of oversight whatsoever, no witnesses, no document, no nothing, claim executive privilege over things that it knows there is no basis for. >> reporter: this week things could come to a head again with a federal judge expected to rule tuesday on the house oversight committee's request for the president's financial records. the administration also faces a friday deadline to comply with a subpoena from house ways and means for the president's tax returns. >> the democrats are more interested in subpoenas than solutions. >> reporter: congressional republicans say it's time to move on. >> the best thing we can do at this point is say, let's get on with the country's business. >> reporter: special counsel robert mueller was supposed to testify this week, but

negotiations continue over his appearance. the president had said that mueller should not testify. he now says it's up to the attorney general. david? >> begnaud: nikole, thank you. a jetliner came to a grieptionding halt on a runway today in burm, yeah the country also known as myanmar. the landing gear under the nose of the plane failed to deploy and passengers inside record the tense touchdown. roxana saberi has the story. >> reporter: in this video posted online, the myanmar national airlines plane appears to touch down smoothly on its rear wheels, but then its nose tilts down, setting off sparks and scraping along the runway for several seconds until the jet skids to a stop. inside smoke rises from under the seats of passengers who appear anxious for the order to evacuate. >> evacuate, evacuate, evacuate! >> reporter: when it come, they scramble to safety. amazingly, all 8 passengers and seven crew members made it out

without any injuries. some even walked away smiling. the airline is praising the pilot. it says the embraer 190 had taken off this morning from yangon, myanmar's biggest city, and was approaching the airport when its landing gear malfunctioned. the front wheels didn't deploy, so the pilot burned excess fuel to lighten the aircraft's weight before making an emergency landing. this incident comes one week after a russian plane made an emergency landing in moscow. russian media say that plane landed with full fuel tanks. it erupted in flame, killing at least 41 people. david. >> begnaud: roxana saberi in our london bureau, thank you. police in houston have arrested the stepfather of four-year-old maleah davis. he's 2 one who reported her missing. tonight he's in jail after police say they found drops of blood in his apartment. >> they did see the defendant leave later with only his

two-year-old son. >> begnaud: that is derion vence in the black sweatshirt, appearing in court to be charged with tampering with evidence. vence was first to report the disappearance of maleah last saturday. here's what he claimed, that three hispanic men attacked and abducted him, maleah, and his two-year-old son while they were on the side of the road checking on a tire. vence then said the suspects freed him and his son and stole the car. next day maleah was reported missing and law enforcement started looking for her. >> i love her so much. >> begnaud: her mother, brittany bowens, pleaded for her safe return. >> if there is somebody that can help us, please. >> begnaud: investigators say vence's story kept changing and then fell apart. later in the week authorities found blood evidence inside of his apartment that was linked to maleah. on april 30th, surveillance video shows maleah entering the apartment just steps behind her stepfather, but she was never seen coming out. days later, vence and his son are seen leaving the apartment

complex. vence was carrying a laundry basket with a garbage bag and bottles of bleach. investigators found a laundry basket and a gas can in his car, k-9s detected human remains. on friday, a family spokesperson appeared with maleah's mother and reacted to the bottles of bleach seen in the video. >> he told her he was cleaning up the apartment, and she didn't understand why he would be cleaning up the apartment. >> begnaud: tonight the stepfather is in jail, but maleah is still missing. to west virginia now. cole has been an economic backbone for that state for generation, but rising costs and chieper fuel alternatives have wiped out jobs we the tens of thousands. now there is a new opportunity in the state, and it's green. adam yamaguchi has the story for a new cbs original we're calling "clinging to coal." >> my father, my uncle, my grandfathers, my brother.

i was born and raised in a coal family. coal raised me and raised all three of my kids, too. until i made the transition. >> when you first started looking into switching from coal to wind, did your buddies give you a lot of [bleeped], your buddies at the coal mine? >> they did. >> what did they say? >> when are you going to get your wooden shoes and i heard all the tree-hugger comments, and i heard all that. and, of course, just to play along, as soon as i made the transition, i went and with boua subaru. >> wow, you went full circle. >> it's funny, because now it's for a job.ople who are calling i get calls almost on a weekly basis, are you guys going to be hiring soon? and it's guys i used to work in

the mines with. so i think they realize that it's less of a competitive thing now and it's more of... it's a job. it's a future. i've got no interest competing with the coal mines. i have an opportunity right here that i can earn a living for my family and produce some energy. that's my main concern. >> begnaud: "clinging to coal" is available to stream now. you can watch it at cbsnews.com. it has been six months since the mp fire raced through northern california. it became the deadliest and most destructive fire in that state's history. 85 people were killed. it caused more than $11 billion in damage. jonathan vigliotti went to paradise to check on some of the youngest survivors. >> reporter: on the surface, children from paradise elementary school seem fine. >> you're a strong little girl.

>> yes. >> reporter: but shortly into our interview with eight-year-old ellie wrobel and her mom kylie, six months of trauma flooded through. why are you crying? >> because it's sad. >> what's sad? >> we're talking about everything that happened to us. >> reporter: ellie and her mother's home was among those reduced to ash by the camp fire. they have been on the move ever since, recently settling down in a donated r.v. >> you are strong, but it's when you see your mom schad you feel it the most. >> when my mom says, i can feel how she feels, and she makes me feel bad. >> reporter: more than 18,000 buildings were lost in the fire, including paradise elementary. >> good morning. >> reporter: at the temporary school a few towns south, children silently battle their

fears. >> all of them have had a turn feeling sad and needing to talk >> reporter: second-grade teacher katy schrum says 40% of students have proved away. she developed a questionnaire to get children talking. when was the last time every kid in this class was happy? >> i think it was a couple weeks ago. >> reporter: the school trauma specialist scott lindstrom says it's been hard for the teachers. more 500 of them have lost their home. >> one of our teachers coined a new term "uncertainty trauma" because there's so much encertainty now. >> reporter: but time is healing. that took center stage at a recital celebrating survival. in six months these kids' worlds has changed. their courage is a lesson in strength for us all. ♪ when i'm feeling sad. i simply remember my favorite

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>> reporter: angel lives in a town of 500. she's a teacher and a mother of four. nine years ago her brother was killed by a drunk driver, and it changed her life in ways she never could have imagined. >> i was a monster. it was terrible. i can honestly say now that looking back at that time in my life, i was a terrible mother. i was a terrible teacher. i was really just an uninspiring person, because i felt i had the right to be. >> reporter: until she met her brother's killer. >> begnaud: you can see scott's full report on "the restorative justice project" tonight on "60 minutes." and next on the "cbs weekend news," a for for a new state flag in mississippi, minus that confederate battle symbol. l make my own insulin. and trulicity activates my body to release it like it's supposed to. trulicity is for people with type 2 diabetes.

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stennis designed an alternative in 2014 that she says is for all mississippians. >> the three things that i've guarded like mama bear about this effort is that the flag is bipartisan, it is grassroots, and also positive. >> reporter: her gone fare, senator john stennis, was often provocative. the staunch segregationist repeatedly voted against civil rights and voting rights acts in the 1960s. >> he evolved over the course of his lifetime, but we have to take in the whole story, which is that for years he voted in a way that harmed many mississippians. >> reporter: but today the stennis flag is a hit. more businesses fly it in jackson, the state capital, than fly the state flag. >> that's great. >> reporter: cheryl washington bought one. she told us she would never buy the state's current flag. >> it represents a negative part of history for me and my people.

>> reporter: at a complete flag store, the stennis flag outsells the official flag 4-1. >> i don't find a problem with it. some do and some of the problem that people find with it i feel legitate and some is not legitimate. >> reporter: the last failed attempt to change mississippi's flag was in000. a current bill to make the stennis flag mississippi's official one has never left committee, but it has bipartisan support. what do you think your grandfather would think about this flag? >> i think he would love it. his personal motto was look ahead. >> reporter: a new flag for a new mississippi designed bay granddaughter of the old south. mark strassmann, cbs news, jackson, mississippi. >> begnaud: and when we come back, we're going to end with a story from the american heartland. how a former foster child found unconditional love. ior year.

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d.j. manou. >> reporter: sitting down to do her homework a normal after-school routine kira grimes, but doing it with her mom is new. she spent six years in foster school >> eight different schools and at least five different houses. >> reporter: when another family backed out of adopted her, she met tania grimes. she was the principal at school at the time. >> i saw something in kira she didn't see in herself. >> reporter: kira told her her new year's resolution was her family. tania decided to make it come through. >> i didn't think i would get to be a mom. i met kira and that changed. >> reporter: mother's day has never meant a lot to tania after losing her own mother as a teenager. >> to get to know that that was a special day that kira and i got to share together, it just meant the world to me. and it still does. >> reporter: that first mother's day three years ago also meant the world for kira grimes. >> wow.

i actually have family. i actually have a mom that's not going to get rid of me because of my bad behavior. i can finally say happy mother's day and mean it. >> reporter: both say the past three years has almost erased the past struggles. >> never had any foster homes. never had traw match just been here the entire time. >> i can't give kira all of those years back, but i can give her experiences back that she missed by growing up in foster care. >> reporter: that's why this mother's day they want others to take a second to enjoy it. >> i know what i went through to become a mom, and i know what she went through get a mom. >> they do so much for you. you should still care about them. she's my mom. it may not be by blood, but i still love her. >> begnaud: that's an example of how so many wonderful stories come from our cbs affiliates. happen we we could end the show that way tonight.

. live from the cbs bay area studios, this is kpix5 news. and now at 6:00 we are following breaking news in daly city where a two-alarm fire has left more than a dozen people homeless. a suspected drunk driver causes a head-on crash and kills a 17-year-old teenager from fremont on the day before mother's day. and the bay area amber alert takes a shocking turn. it turns out the little girl that officers spent all night looking for was never missing at all, an fhers under arrest. and by this time tomorrow, the oakland as could be another step closer to building their new water front ballpark. good evening, i'm juliette goodrich. >> and i'm brian hackney. we have video of thick black smoke pouring out of the building near templeton avenue.

>> more than a dozen people were displaced. katie nielsen is there. katie, was anybody hurt in the fire? >> reporter: brian, not that we know of right now. firefighters still here on scene. they are trying to figure out what is going on, but initial reports are that everyone made it out safely and no firefighters were hurt as they were trying to put this fire out. now, we want to actually show you where this fire started. it was near the back of this apartment building here on mission street in daly city. you can see one of the firefighters there near the roof and also you can see some of the burn marks on that window near the roof of the apartment building. the first calls came in to 911 around 4:15 this afternoon, and firefighters got on scene and there was thick black smoke pouring out of the back of the building and flames shooting up from the roof. according to the people who live here, there are three apame