♪ ♪ turmoil in texas. the heat is back on and the state is still in crisis, millions scramble after a deadly and devastating deep freeze. texas is scraping its way out of a crisis. the need for food, and clean drinking water, unprecedented. >> also, terrible toll of covid wary america confrequents 500,000 lives lots. >> a terrible historic the couny. stimulus push. democrats speed ahead for economic aid for struggling americans. also, air scare. >> may day, may day. >> a near disaster over denver.

a jet engine explodes, debris falling on to front yards. >> it sounded like a war zone around here. >> this princess from dubai claims she is a prisoner. >> every day i'm worried about my safety and my life. the proof, the video. and what happens when states share their differences. good we think of things differently but we deeply care about each other. ♪ ♪ this is the "cbs overnight news." good evening, tonight americans are confronting yet another brutal covid milestone. 500,000 deaths. no other country has counted so. and across the south tonight, more miserry, this inflicted by an out break of cold. dozens killed in eight states. in texas, the s

pil ofhe world, millions shi shiverred in the dark for days and many are boiling mad because of the near collapse of the state's electrical grid and the crisis is not over. janet leads us off. >> reporter: there's an enormous need for water tonight. the distribution sites and community centers like this are running out. even as temperatures went to the 70s today, it's very clear that the winter storm that blasted through here still has a grip. this is what hardship looks like in the nation's fourthth lot, d stretches for miles. >> it's mind boggling, that's why i had to come help however i could. >> reporter: store shelves are bare. this give away is nothing short of a lifeline. the weather crisis is now a humanitarian one, the state has

thawed and the need is growing, they will run out of food well before the cars in line stop coming. water issues are threatening. when this hotel went up in frames, frozen pipes meant the sprinklers did not work. everyone was out safety. other states are struggling with water issues. back in texas, senator ted cruz posted pictures of himself handing out water amid a scandal. these people, without power and water for days. >> i was watching the news and i saw how bad it was, and i wanted to do my part to help out. >> reporter: and the moment an heb store in leander, texas went dark, shoppers told they can leave with everything in their carts. no money due. houston has just lifted its boil water order, as did a number of other cities today, but still,

are across the south, millions are without safe drinking water. janet, tonight, bringing us story from houston. we thank you. a covid weary nations about to hit an unfathomable death toll. "new york times" front page shows the deaths beginning with one dot, and in a year, the death and darkness has spread across the country. claiming the lives of some half a million people. we get more now. goodevhe u.s. has the world's worst covid death toll. making the race to vaccinate that much more critical. long lines today at l.a. vaccination sites to help ward off a another catastrophic surge. >> people decades from now, will be a talking about this as a terribly historic milestone. >> reporter: the rapid spread of

variants posing a risk of new spikes. but the number of americans hospitalized for covid is half of what it was a month ago. reducing the virus spread, more vaccine sites for vulnerable communities. california's governor visiting this one today at an l.a. church. >> we are seeing things turn around. u.p.s. and fedex are rush are to delivering vaccines after winter storms held had up 6 million doses, affecting all 50 states t white house said that those shipments are on the way. >> we have been able to get about 2 million of those 6 million doses out, we expect to rapidly catch up this week. >> and youl sleeve up a bit? >> reporter: more than 63 million americans have received one shot. and in california, it's said setting aside 10% of vaccine doses for teachers to help reopen schools faster. >> and what about teachers, what's the calculation of when everyone who wants a vaccine will get one? >> that's a question that not anyone can answer.

it's predicated on the knowledge that dr. fauci and the president of the united states does not have, that is the availability of manufactured supply. >> reporter: the governor said that california has vaccinated more than 7ly million people, and large sites like this one are open seven days a week. giving shots and boosting open at the pandemic's epi-center. >> thank you. with the pandemic still infecting the u.s. economy, president biden is pushing for his stimulus plans to pick up speed. we have more reporting from the white house. >> reporter: the biden administration is pushing ahead with its plan to get checks in to the hands of struggling americans. >> another $1400 will be coming. i believe that it should go to people who in fact are in need. >> repet a vote in the house as early as this week. but, republicans oppose, including a measure that would increase the federal minimum

wage to $15 an hour. >> what does it have to do with covid, it should be focused on helping families and small businesses. and not bankrupting our children. >> while families are continuing to struggle with the impact of the ongoing pandemic. scientists are struggling to determine how it started. >> the only way to have a scientifically based investigation is to have access to the data. it was said on face the naltion that china needs to be more transparent and let the w.h.o. conduct an investigation. >> it has to be left to science and the experts to layout without any interference by any government. >> the u.s. is in communication with the iran, and we believe there's five or so americans being held there. that's a separate discussion with the restarting of nuclear talks. the meeting does not have a

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. ♪ ♪ this is the "cbs overnight news." now, to that air scare over colorado. federal investigators are trying to do find out what caused an engine on a united boeing 777 to explode during takeoff. it was a terrifying as you can imagine for passengers and people on the ground. connor of our sister station in denver has the details. >> reporter: mayday, mayday. >> moments in to the flight an engine on fire was the view for alarmed pass eninjuries --

alarmed passengers, the damaged engine rained d ed down debris. people on the ground watched in horror. >> it's something that blew up. >> reporter: as engine parts fell from the sky, landing on streets, front yards and home. >> we heard another big bang and looked out the front window right as the engine kind of rolled in to the tree. so, it landed right straight up and down in the bed of my truck. smashed the whole truck in and then, fell off the truck and landed against, leaning against the tree that is there right now. >> reporter: this doorbell camera captured the sound of metal hitting the ground. debris fell through the roof of this home while his dauga fathe making his daughter

no o washe debris, we want to keep it in-tact for the ntsb. >> reporter: the jet liner's face return to denver a relief for all on board, some were startled. >> we looked at each other my wife and i and held hands and just wish withed our kids, that we would see them again. >> reporter: fortunately a disaster averted for those in the air and here on the ground. for cbs news, denver. >> thank goodness. hate crimes against asian americans are on the rise in new york this weekend, hundreds turned out after racist and violent attacks drew community outrage. they called it the unite against white nationalism march. the issue of americans attacking americans fueled by racism has caught the attention of our major garrett. and a warning, some images you will see is disturbing.

>> a 90-year-old man thrown to the ground and a man who later died from his injuries. more than 3,000 hate incidents have been recorded since the start of the pandemic. some violent, and some verbal. >> i feel like it could have escalated. >> reporter: she lives in chicago and in late january went for fast food with friends. >> i was filling up my soda cup and as i touched the dispenser button i heard a man yell, the oriental touched the button, somebody stop her had. so she blamed the entire pandemic on me. >> all racism is toxic, but this is particularly stupid racism as well. because there's no evidence that asian americans somehow transmit the virus any greater rate than any other ethnicity.

>> kung-flu, yeah. >> reporter: they attributed part of the rise of anti-asian american discrimikrcrimination former president's rhetoric.d, other officials use similar phrases, but certainly when the leader of the free world uses racist phrases against asian americans it's not helpful. >> discrimination against asian americans is the topic of this week's episode of the debrief with major garrett available tuesday and check out the take-out on friday's, find them both on apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. tonight the wear abouts of princess latifa, daughter of dubai is a mystery. she claims her father is holding her prisoner in recent secret phone video has prompted questions about her safety.

we have more. >> i'm a hostage and this villa has been converted in to a jail, all the windows are boarded shut. i window. >> reporter: in a video sent to friends she claims she is a prisoner. >> i have been by myself, solitary confinement. >> reporter: she is the 35-year-old daughter of the wealthy and well connected ruler of dubai three years ago she tried to escape from her father's kingdom by boat with her form er martial arts instructor. >> we were intercepted just off the coast of india. the boat was suddenly boarded by a commander unit, latifa was kidnapped kicking and screaming and the rest of us were kidnapped as well and taken to uae. >> reporter: she was eventually let go andfinland but latifa vanished the only

information coming in secret cell phone recordings. >> i'm afraid for my life every day. don't know if i'm going to survive. the police threatened me they would take me outside and shoot me if i did not cooperate. >> reporter: the videos stopped and they released the videos to the bbc, that prompted them to ask for proof that she is alive. >> he with raised concerns in light of the disturbing video evidence that emerged this week. sgr >> reporter: but instead of offering proof of life, a statement was given saying that latiffa was being cared for by her family with medical support. cbs news, london. there's a lot more news ahead on the cbs overnight news. how climate change is threatening the tallest living things on the planet. and later, moving day for one of

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we end tonight with a remarkable effort to bring people together across some of our deepest political divides. cbs's mark straussman shows us how in our series, "unifying america." >> reporter: three years ago,

prepandemic, 11 kentucky conservatives rode a bus for 15 hours all to meet some massachusetts liberals. >> we have folks in our communities that said you are crazy if you can get on that van. >> reporter: it's coal country and massachusetts is cobald blue, how suspicious were you? >> i was pretty darn suspicious. >> we wanted to understand the people that voted for trump. >> reporter: it brought the communities to work through differences. >> we try to help each other. that's what americans do. >> let's start with family stories. people were crying within the hour. >> reporter: crying? >> crying because family stories have joy and a lot of shadow. >> reporter: they eventually talked politics. people on both sides.

felt insulted. >> there was more to agree on than to disagree on. >> reporter: they met three times and met on zoom throughout the pandemic. not to change minds but to open hearts. >> if we can dive under the vote and get in to who the person is, something very different emerges. >> we see things differently, but we deeply care about each other. >> reporter: disagreeing agreeably. imagine that in america. mark straussman, cbs news, atlanta. >> and that's the overnight news for this monday, for some of you the news continues and for others check back with us later for cbs this morning and follow us online any time at cbs news.com. reporting from the broadcast center in new york city.

♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ this is the cbs overnight news. good evening, tonight americans are confronting yet another brutal covid milestone, 500,000 deaths. no other country has counted so. and across the south tonight, more misery, this inflicted by an outbreak of arctic cold, dozens killed in eight states. in texas, the so-called energy capitol of the world, millions shiverred in the dark for days and many are boiling mad because of the near collapse of the state's electrical grid and the crisis is not over. janet is in houston where she

leads us off tonight, janet, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, there's an enormous need for water. distribution sites and community centers like this are running out. even as temperatures went to the 70s today, it's very clear that the winter storm that blasted through here still has a grip. this is what hardship looks like in the nation's fourth largest city. in the parking lot of houston's football stadium, desperation stretches for miles. >> it is really mind boggling. that's why i, i had to come help however i could. >> reporter: store shelves are bare. this give away is nothing short of a lifeline. the weather crisis is now a humanitarian one, the state has thawed but the need is growing. they will run out of food here well before the cars in line stop coming. water issues are life threatening. when this hotel went up in flames frozen pipes meant the sprinklers did not work.

everyone got out safely. louisiana, mississippi, tennessee, and oklahoma, struggling with water issues. back in texas, ted cruz posted pictures of himself handing out water days after his vacation debacle. and amid this, acts of kindness. this man without power and water for days. >> i was watching the news and i saw how bad it was, and i wanted to do my part to help out. >> reporter: and the moment an heb store went dark, shoppers told they could leave with everything in their carts. no money due. houston has just lifted its boil water order as did a number of other cities today, but still, across the south, millions are without safe drinking water. >> janet, tonight, bringing us the storier from houston. we thank you. a covid weary nations about to hit an unfathomable death

toll, today's new york times front page shows the deaths as beginning with one dot, and in a year the death and darkness has spread across the country, claiming the lives of some half a million people. we get more now from cbs's lilia. >> reporter: the u.s. has the world's worst covid death toll, making the race to vaccinate that much more critical. long lines today at l.a. vaccination sites to ward off another catastrophic surge. >> people decades from now, dana, will be talking about this as a terribly historic milestone. >> reporter: the rapid spread of variants posing a risk of new spikes with the number of americans hospitalized for covid is half of what it was a month ago. reducing the virus spread, more vaccine sites for vulnerable

communities. california's governor visiting this one today in an l.a. church. >> we are seeing things turn around. >> reporter: u.p.s. and fedex rush are to deliver vaccines after winter storms held up 6 million doses. effecting all 50 states. the white house said that those shipments are on the way. >> we have been able to get 2 million of the 6 million doses out, we expect to rapidly catch up this week. >> you pull your sleeve up a bit? >> reporter: more than 63 million americans have received at least one shot in california, it's setting aside 10% of vaccine doses for teachers to help reopen schools faster. >> and what about teachers, what's the, what's the calculation of when every teacher that wants a vaccine can get one in can california? >> that is a question that not anyone can answer. it's predicated on the availability of manufactured supply. >> reporter: the governor said that california has vaccinated more than 7 million people, and

large sites like this one are open seven days a week, giving shots and boosting hope at the pandemic's epi-center. >> thank you. >> with the pandemic still infecting the u.s. economy, president biden is pushing for his stimulus plans to pick up speed. we have more reporting from the white house. >> reporter: the biden administration is pushing ahead with its plan to get checks in to the hands of struggling americans. >> another $1400 will be coming. i believe that it should go to people who in fact are in need. >> reporter: the nearly $2 trillion bill could get a vote in the house as early as this week. but republicans oppose including a measure that would increase the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour. >> what does it have to do with covid? it should be focused on helping families and small businesses who are struggling. not bankrupting our children. >> reporter: while people

struggle with the ongoing pande pandemic, scientists are struggling to determine how it started. >> the only way to have a scientific based investigation is to have access to all the data. >> reporter: it was said that china needs to be more transparent and let the world health organization conduct an unbiased investigation. >> the w.h.o. investigation has to be left to the scientists and the experts to layout without any interference by any government. >> reporter: also, making news tonight, sullivan said that the u.s. is in communication with iran about the, we believe the number is 5 or so americans still being held there. that is a separate discussion from efforts to restart the iran nuclear talks. the u.s. said last week, it would be willing to sit down with iran and talk about the topic but the meeting so far does not have a time, date, or place. >> at the white house, thank you. now, to that air scare over colorado. federal investigators are trying to find out what caused an engine on a united boeing 777 to

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♪ ♪ this is the cbs overnight news. thanks for staying with us. the house of representatives is set to take up president biden's covid relief package later today. the nearly $2 trillion bill is expected to sail through the house, but it faces hurdles in the senate where democrats cannot afford to lose a single vote. there's bipartisan support for provisions like extendsed unemployment benefits and more money for covid vaccine and testing. other parts of the bill are contentious like the $15 an hour

minimum wage increase and $350 billion earmarked for state and local governments. ed o'keefe discussed that issue with mayors from both political parties. sdploo one is a democrat. >> city revenues are gone. >> reporter: the other a republican. >> we are doing more with a little less. >> reporter: and these two mayors agree, congress needs to come together quickly to help cities struggling to balance the books. what is happening in big cities is not unique. smaller towns are struggling to provide essential services as tax revenues dry up. so they are all asking for help h had -- >> i'm still looking for a mayor of of a city that has not experienced a negative financial impact from the pandemic. >> oklahoma city's republican mayor said the downturn from the pandemic is preventing him from

hiring the police officers. >> i had to freeze a lot of hiring in police and fire. that is 2/3 of the budget. >> reporter: in baltimore, brandon scott, democratic mayor said a drop in tourism means he is facing a $30 million short fall. >> the convention center is a covid testing center and a vaccination site and no one is havie iing conventions there. >> reporter: baltimore and oklahoma city, each got more than $100 million. now, president biden's nearly 2 trillion dollars american rescue plan will provide $350 billion in direct aide to cities and states. polls show a majority of americans support the legislation, but most republican lawmakers say it's too expensive and taxpayers in one part of the country should not have to bail out somebody else's cash strapped city. >> this legislation, this proposal is a blue state bail out. >> we should help on covid relief, i want targeted help for

people. but to bail out the blue states makes month sense. >> but republican holt from ruby red oklahoma disagrees. >> the idea that there are places that have not experienced an economic downturn and therefore an impact on the city services that does not exist. >> and democratic mayor scott is less diplomatic. >> this is been a once in a lifetime pandemic and was made worse by the inaction of a republican president to still be talking in partisan talking points just shows that we still have folks who do not know want to grow up, do their job and help american citizens. >> the house is poised to pass the plan this week. democrats hope to have it ready for the president's signature by mid march. to florida where republican governor rob desantis is facing criticism for steering thousands of vaccine doses to areas that are his political supporters.

he tapped pubix to be the sole distributor of vaccines, following a $100,000 donation the company made to the governor's re-election pac. we have the story. >> reporter: in florida this week, thousands of people got the call they have been waiting for. come to the affluent lakewood ranch development and get a covid vaccine. >> we were fortunate and kbot the call and came down. >> reporter: it was more than fortunate, they lived in two specific zip codes and the doses came through a deal struck by governor ron desantis and the ceo of lakewood's parent company. >> it was inappropriate. >> reporter: the deal by-passed county pretoe col, allowing a select group of residents to go to the front of the vaccine line. >> rather than the randomized pool where everyone gets a fair

shake, these two zip codes have preferential treatment. >> you have to understand the optics are horrible. >> reporter: the zip t wealthiest and whitest in the county and in the bottom half of covid rates county wide. >> it's jufst wrong. it's the bottom line. >> reporter: patrick runs the region's largest primary care provider. >> we want to make sure that the process is done fair and it's done, you know, equitably across the board. >> reporter: governor desantis said he is trying to get the vaccine to a high concentration of seniors but never explained why it was limited to just this group. he did threaten to take the shots elsewhere. >> i mean, if they don't like us doing this, then we are fine with putting this in counties that want it. and we are totally happy to do that. >> reporter: asor - >> it pits people against each

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communist country has been exerting influence on the films. >> reporter: the you can, remember back to "top gun," tom cr cruise in his glasses and leather jacket. when a trailer came up, the jacket was different for the sequel. the flags had been replaced with nondiscrypt rectangles, to make a certain government happy. just 34 foreign films are allowed in on to china each year, giving hollywood reason to self censor what beijing doesn't like. your sense is they are making the deal with china, or they are standing up the them? >> no, nobody is standing up

china. if you want access to china market, you do not stand up to them. >> the hacked script showed the pixels movie had the wall blown up. but it was switched to the taj majal, and china is the source of a deadly virus in world war z, but the 2013 film points elsewhere. >> been tracking the recent outbreak of rabies that began in taiwan. >> you cannot get to the consumers unless you get through the government first. chris fenton knows, he spend decades trying to get american films in to chinese theaters including the block buster ironman 3.

and the time travel thriller looper. >> before we were involved with that script, is that script took place in france. >> reporter: in the final film, joseph gordon levitz's character dreams of moving to france. but the promise of chinese financing and access to chinese theaters inspired a creative re-write. >> you should go to china. >> i'm going to france. >> i'm from the future, you should go to china. >> i am going to france. >> needless to say, he goes to a futuristic shining china. >> we did it with the government and central government's approval. >> you showed them mock ups of the skyline and they chose what was to be used. >> reporter: correct. >> reporter: did you feel awkward about it at all? >> great question. no. >> reporter: he thought that it would be good for america. he a change of heart.

and wrote an insiders book called feeding the dragon. he said that chinese pressure is not just tweaking super hero movies or improving asian representation in hollywood, but scaring the industry away from telling stories even to just a u.s. audience that the chinese government doesn't like. >> religion is poison. >> they don't want anybody talking about taiwan, they don't want anybody talking about hong kong now. they definitely don't want anybody talking about human rights and now the studios are aware of this and they will not even embark on the development of projects that touch that stuff. >> reporter: streaming services most of them owned by companies with business in china seem to be following a similar script. according to the new york timti, apple tv plus said the two things we will never do, hard core nudity and china. >> china have been doing it for past decades. this is one of the world's most famous living artists and he is

also china's best known disdant. he made two documentaries, cockroach on the protests, no major streaming service or film festival would take them. did you make the latest films with the hope or expectation that you would be able to find a large audience with them? >> i'm totally surprised. i should say disappointed that a film like this about china cannot be presented. why i have to come to the west. i don't have a better treatment than in china. >> two of the festivals that rejected it did not respond to requests for comment. the toronto film festival said it does not share information on the selection process but a former programmer in one of the most prominent vefestivals in t u.s. said festivals get pressured sometimes by the american funders.

if there's a company that is influntial, they can pull sponsorship. >> oh, you have a $5.5 million theme park, we will have this tax problem and that tax problem and people get the point. ? isaac stonefish has been writing a book on chinese influence in america and arguing that hollywood has over learned the lesson of seven years in tibet, the movie that got the studio banned, china has more leeway than they think. >> i think what would happen if a hollywood studio distributed a movie on the chinese concentration camps they would react sternly. if they didn't yield, beijing would likely eventually yield. >> the theory will soon be tested, hb o, is distributing te

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safe together whether they realized it or not. which they didn't. and when folks failed to flock to his house, scott went door to door to coerse then. >> i was like, are you kidding me, tell your kid to come out and go ice skating. >> reporter: it's not if you build it they will come, if you build it and go and harass families they will come. >> that is true as well, they are coming, for certain. >> reporter: in droves. today, scott's side yard is the place to be in manton, michigan, the dark winter that was, now springing with joy. for children and parents away like. >> none of the kids have electronics in their hand, it's amazing. >> it is amazing. >> reporter: the parents are now all in. they help scott buy enough secondhand skates for everyone and snapped up every hockey stick they could find. there's a hot fire, hot chocolate. >> hot dogs! >> reporter: you know, when scott's inner voice told him to

build that rink, he no idea what he was really creating. but now, it's clear. for those that come, the sounds and smells and smiles of this winter will be forever lasting. an iconic memory, the kind children need to cherish their childhoods. >> we all know that you have to provide for your kids but somehow you have to give them magic every now and again. just give a kid some magic. doesn't get better than that. >> for child and parent. >> steve hartman, cbs news on the road. and that's the overnight news for this monday. for some of you the news continues. for others check back with us later for cbs's this morn and follow us online any time at cbs news.com. reporting from the broadcast center in new york city.

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