watch cbs in bay area with the kpix 5 news app. . >> returns to the political stage for the first time as a former president sglfrmt hello, cpac, do you miss me yet? >> is this the gop's future or a power play, will a third vaccine accelerate the covid shot. >> u.p.s. is ready to roll out the nation's first single shot vaccine. >> critical moment, with cases dropping and millions getting shots. warnings of a covid come back. hunger crisis.

the child's cries are -- and beyond. >> this is happening in your backyard. >> how the fashion and beauty industry is facing up to its ugly past. >> and later, he could not afford college. but now this former u.p.s. driver is paying it forward. >> you are giving is historic. why do this? >> when you have the resources to help others, it's something that i think you should do. this is the "cbs overnight news." >> good evening we begin to donald trump returning to the stage since leaving the white house. he received a welcome from a gathering of conservatives in florida. as the former soundtrack of his campaign events played on. senior white house and political correspondent is following it off and joins us from the washington bureau.

ed, good evening. >> good evening, former president donald trump did not launch a 2024 presidential campaign today, as some expected but he re--asserted his hold on the republican party. speaking at the meeting in orlando, he said he wants to unite the republican party. and attacked the president's early moves. especially on immigration. >> in one short month, we have gone from america first to america last. there's no better example than the new andhorrible crisis on our southern border. >> mr. biden is home inelaware as part of the weekend and aides said they don't plan to respond every time trump speaks out but the former president's political activity is unique. >> who knows, who knows, i may even decide to beat them for a

third time, okay. >> and polls show a majority of republicans say they support a trump 2024 campaign. party leaders are split over whether to stick with him. >> the voters are saying overwhelmingly that they agree with what trump did in ovrs. >> if we idolize one person, we will lose. >> if trump makes a pather for 2024, several made a statement. >> let me tell you right this, donald j trump is not going anywhere. >> and on another political matter, governor cuomo is facing accusations of sexual harassment from a second woman that used to work for him. the democrats said this a statement, that he never made advancementes toward a second accuser, who is next? >> they are appointing an independent investigator to look

in to the accused crimes. the governor had to formally request a investigation for one to be launched and they are investigating how he oversaw nursing homes. biden backs an independent investigation. all of this could affect cuomo's plans to run for an unprecedented fourth term in 2022. >> ed o'keefe for us in washington tonight. thank you. well the race to vaccinate america is getting a big boost. a third vaccine approved this weekend is about to ship out. cbs news transportation correspondent, is in louisville, kentucky. good evening. >> good evening. behind me you see a fleet of u.p.s. aircraft, among those set to distribute the johnson & johnson vaccination wide. it's the literal shot in the arm the country needs to get as many people vaccinated as soon as possible.

tonight, the cdc clearing the way nor the nation's first single shot vaccine. joining two existing vaccinations in the fight against the pandemic and while it's solo dose and standard refrigeration mean more people will be fully vaccinated quick er supply is limited. only four million doses have been manufactured, ready for immediate shipment but they predict 20 million doses should be available by the end of march and 100 million by the end of june t he june. they say it's important to get whatever vaccine is available. >> they are good at preventing severe and critical disease fumpt look at all lee of them, they are really very good. >> u.p.s. and fedex will put the vaccine shipments with unique labels along side other special deliveries inside cargo holds like this one.

they expect to receive those vaccine shipments on monday, arriving at their destinations tuesday at the earliest. >> thank you. there's good news on covid's front lines the number of people in hospitals with covid-19 has fallen below 50,000 for the first time in nearly four months. and infections have slowed but still nearing 30 million. and deaths have reached 513,000. cbs's lilia luciano joins us from the hardest hit state, california, good evening to you. >> the mood is optimistic as covid cases are starting to take a nose dive. the number of californians in the icu has not been this low since november. but they are worried about what is next. l.a.'s covid crisis is in a

piv pivotal point. cases are down 64% in hospitalizations, and deaths down 44%. >> we have time to get a better tool box to take care of the variants in the fall. the strain is confirmed in 43 states and puerto rico and accounts for 10% of cases in the u.s. a year after a breakout in new york that started the pandemic are now reporting zero cases. this woman defied science. battled covid for 150 days with oxygen levels doctors called unliveable. >> i told the family many times she was going to pass away. >> 2% of the tests taken in l.a.

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♪ ♪ this is the "cbs overnight news". >> for more on the new vaccine, let's move to dr. are david agus also in los angeles, we know that the johnson & johnson vaccine could roll out as early as this week. what difference will this make in the ongoing effort to vaccinate people? >> thank you, this is really an impressive vaccine, because it's

refridgerated and not frozen, it's one shot not two and it can be given at community centers and potentially at people's homes, because you don't have on to watch people, it's a easier vaccine to administer. >> there's people that believe that the johnson & johnson vaccine is inferior to the pfizer and moderna can you clarify? >> 66% of four weeks have no symptoms exposed to the virus, for moderna, that number is 95%. over the next month, the johnson & johnson number goes up. it's an excellent vaccine. the numbers will be nearer to each other, two, three months out. what is critical, it's the first and only vaccine was shown to work very effectively against a south african variant. i'm very enthusiastic about the vaccine and i truly believe, whichever vaccine you can get

first take it, a day earlier means a day earlier you were protected. 100% protects from hospitalization and death. from all three of these vaccines. >> you know, the latest numbers show covid-19 death rates in hospitalizations are down. but there's still concern as you mentioned about the new variants. could we see potentially a covid comeback? >> yes, we are starting to see is it a bit this week and the numbers across the country. hospitalizations are going up. and remember, hospitalizations and death lag infection by 2-3 weeks. it's a bit worri ssome that it' going up, it's a more infectious strain. >> when a new jersey third grader told her teacher that she didn't have enough to eat. she highlighted a problem at home and one that affects some 18 million children nationwide. >> reporter: a third grade new

jersey girl burst in to tears in the middle of her virtual class. coconfessing to teachers and students that she was starving. >> this 9-year-old could not take it anymore. >> reporter: that party breaking moment led to an entire community to help. including the form lieutenant governor, who manages a food bank called fulfill. >> this family has been offered not only immediate food but food for, groceries for six months. >> reporter: the girl's mother lost her restaurant job a year ago. >> this is happening across america. not just to this young girl. >> this is happen engine your backyard. >> reporter:s as of january, 40 million people live in a family where at least one adult lacks paid work. and the number of american children facing food insecurity has doubled from 14% to 28% since 2019. about 80% of the families in los angeles school district were in

poverty before the pandemic began. food drives like this can be life saving for mothers like sarah swager. >> my son is in special ed -- i'm going the ii iing to cry. having to do his school stuff at home and very hard. >> reporter: the president and first lady toured a food bank. trying to meet the demands of the pandemic and a weather disaster. they say this will be a long fight. >> our hungry children are looking at two or three years of, maybe longer, need. >> reporter: food for thought for all americans. >> can't forget about those in need. overseas, 18 people were killed after fire was opened.

it's the deadliest day since the military ceased power in a coup. this is the moment an unexploded world war ii bomb was detonated in an explosion. thousands were evacuated. the bottom mb was a big one. weighing 2200 pounds some nearby buildings were damaged in a blast. straight ahead, a passion industry is shaped by a growing movement and later, college students learn a valuable lesson from a baltimore couple who never forgot where they came from.

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she often earned less in her mo modelling jobs than her white peers. >> what has changed. >> it's been an amazing moment, i think n the world. people are finally listening. >> reporter: listening as the black lives matter movement has amplified calls for the modelling industry to tackle the subject of racism. kenya hunt is the deputy editor at grazia-uk magazine. >> you see it at every level. what the board of directors of the big brands look like. >> reporter: so when big brands showed support for black lives matter some critics accused them of hypocrisy.

if you look at recent issues, they say black lives matter is making a big impact. what affects have you seen on the fashion industry? >> it has empowered people to talk candidly about their experiences. >> people like this man. he was the first black head designer in a fashion house, he was honored by queen elizabeth and has put on shows across the world. still, he said, for years he absorbed racism silently. >> if i was white, what would be the difference, right? would it be as hard? would i be maybe more successful? >> reporter: he is calling for more opportunities for people of color and reparations of the decendants of enslaved people. >> you have to look the people. there has to be a shift, which by the way is happening. >> beverly johnson also ses a shift she is having them

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those are nasa astronauts working outside the international space station today. they spent six hours installing new upgrades to the station's 20-year-old solar power system. to an unusually daring feat in california, two-and-a-half gated a thin layer of snow with no margin of error to make it down yosemite's treacherous dome. the 2800 foot drop to the valley floor took them five hours to complete. glad they are safe. texas state climbed its way to the top winning the first basketball championship in 22 years. coach terrence johnson could not be on the court due to covid row toe coles. but the coach found a way to join the post game celebration as you see there, driving to the

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we end tonight with a story of a couple's extraordinary gift inspired by a dream deferred. ♪ ♪ while the band at morgan state university in baltimore is known for drumming up excitement, it's the actions of this former student that have energized the campus. y your giving is historic. why coudo hathis? >> when you are blessed and you have t the resources, it's something that you shohould do. >> this couplple annnnounced a mimillion commititment to o the

university, the largest from an alum, bolstering the endowment. >> it's to allow kids to get to college and get a degree. that's what we are trying to do. >> he attended morgan in the '60s and remembers whats it was like to struggle. >> i had to pay my own way. i didn't have a scholarship. >> reporter: he reluctantly dropped out and started to drive for u.p.s. he rose up the ranks and became the first black senior is vice president of u.s. operations. tyler says he and his wife tina never forgot their baltimore roots. >> i wanted to focus on our hometown, on morgan state. >> reporter: without that scholarship, where do you think you would be? >> lord knows. i would number probably a statistic in baltimore. >> reporter: byron was one of the first so-called tyler scholars. he received a full scholarship

and graduated in 2008, now he works for the united states secret service. >> their generosity not only helped me it inspired my family and helped people i meet on the daily. >> education, plus opportunity kw equals success. i coach and mentor. >> reporter: so far, 200 students have benefitted from the tyler scholarship fund. university president, david wilson. mr. what calvin and tina tylerer are doing is paving a way for those students to get a morgan degree, and not start out in life with $50-80,000 in dedebt. >> do youou s see youourself as inspiration? >> i i hope so. every young person has god given talents and they need to believe in themselves first. believe in themselves. and just chase their dreams. >> absolutely. well, if it were not for morgan

state, i would not be here. it's where my parents met 40 years ago. there's mom and dad, 1981 and another picture of them from 2017. well, that is the "overnight news" for this monday. reporting from new york city. ♪ ♪ this is the "cbs overnight news." good evening, we begin with formerpresident donald trump who returned to the public stage late today for the first time since leaving the white house. mr. trump received a rousing welcome from a gathering of conservatives in florida as the familiar sound track of his former campaign events played on. cbs news senior white house and political correspondent, ed o'keefe is following it all and joins us from the washington bureau. good evening. >> former president donald trump did not launch a 2024

presidential campaign as some expected he did reassert his hold over the republican party and attacked critics and president biden. he said that he wants to unite republicans. >> we have the republican party. it's going to unite and be stronger than ever before. i'm not starting a new party. >> reporter: and he attackedpresident biden's early moves, especially on immigration. >> in just one short month, we have gone from america first to america last. there's no better example than the new and horrible crisis on our southern border. >> reporter: mr. biden is home in delaware for part of the weekend and aides say they don't plan to respond every time trump speaks out but the former president's political activity is unique. >> who knows, who knows, i may even decide to beat them 54 a third time, okay. >> reporter: and polls show a majority of republicans say they

support a trump 2024 campaign. party lead ers are split over whether to stick with him. >> the voters are saying overwhelmingly they agree with what president trump did, in office. >> if we idolize one person, we will lose. >> reporter: if trump takes a pass on 2024, more than a dozen other gop officials are making preparations. several spoke this weekend and mostly celebrated the trump legacy. >> let me tell you this right now, donald trump ain't going anywhere. >> ed on another political matter tonight, new york governor andrew cuomo is facing accusations of sexual harassment from a second woman that worked for him. the democrats said in a statement, he never made advancementes toward the second accuser what is next? >> they have called for an independent investigator to look in to the investigation detailed in today's "new york times" they said that the governor had to formally request an

investigation for the office to launch one. the latest investigation comes as a federal investigation is being launched. and president biden a long time ally of cuomo backs an independent investigation. all of this could affect cuomo's plans to run for an unprecedented fourth term in 2022. >> ed o'keefe for us in washington tonight, thank you. well the race to vaccinate america is getting a big boost. a third vaccine approved this weekend is about to ship out. cbs is in louisville, kentucky, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, behind me, you see a fleet of uppers u.p.s. aircraft, it's the literal shot in the arm the country needs to get as many people vaccinated as soon as possible. tonight the cdc clearing the way for the nation's first single shot vaccine.

joining two existing vaccinations in the fight against the pandemic. and while it's solo dose and standard refrigeration mean more people will be fully vaccinated quicker, supply is limited. four million doses have been manufactured and ready for shipment. johnson & johnson projects that 20 million doses should be available at the end of march and 100 million by the end of jun june, they are asserting that it's important to get whichever vaccine is available as fast as possible. >> they are highly effective in many ways and including, importantly preventing seer of critical disease. if you look at all three of them, they are really very good. >> now, both u.p.s. and fedex will put the vaccine shipments with unique ladies and gebels a other deliveries inside cargo holds like this one.

they expect to receive the shipments monday, arriving at the destinations tuesday at the ear earliest. >> the number of people in hospitals with covid is 19 has fallen below 50,000 for the first time in nearly four months. infections have slowed but still nearing 30 million. and deaths have reached 513,000. cbs's lilia luciano. >> reporter: the mood is optimistic as covid cases are taking a nose dive, the number of californians in the icu has not been this low since november. people are still worried about what is next. l.a. county's covid crisis is in a pivotal point, there's fears of the variant as cases show.

hospitalizations are down 64% and death down 44%. mirroring national numbers that may be leveling off. the cdc sees the variant first identified in the uk as the top threat. the strain is confirmed in 43 states plus puerto rico and accounts for 10% of cases in the u.s. still, a reason for hope. one year after a covid outbreak in a washington state nursing home, kick started the american pandemic. that county reporting for the first time zero new cases in long-term care centers. in miami this 55-year-old defied science, battled covid for 150 days, with oxygen levels very low. she said it was god's miracle. today, just 2% of the tests taken in l.a. county are coming back positive.

that's down from 19% just a month ago. and here, it's a welcome break for a very covid weary state. >> thank you. overseas now at least 18 people were killed in myanmar after security forces opened fire on pro democracy protesters. several others were wounded. it's the deadliest day since the military seized power in a coup a month ago. and britain, this is the moment an unexploded world war ii bomb recently discovered was detonated in an explosion. it happened in exce tter englan that was big one, weighing 2200 pounds some nearby buildings were damaged in the blast. to a daring feat in california. these two men navigated a thin

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♪ ♪ this is the "cbs overnight news." thanks for staying with us. the united states may be turning the corner in the battle against the coronavirus, infections, hospitalizations and deaths have been falling for six weeks now. about 1.3 million people are being vaccinated every day and the new johnson & johnson vaccine has just been approved. but health officials warn that progress can go down the drain with one possible super spreader event. spring break. we have the view from miami beacach.

♪ ♪ >> reporter: the sun and sand of south beach is synonymous with spring break. the mayor has a warning. >> you are coming here to go crazy. go somewhere else, you will be arrested. >> reporter: he is hoping to avoid scenes like this from last year's spring break. >> i get corona, i get it i'm not going to let it stop me from partying. >> reporter: the city has stepped up its police presence. banned open alcohol containers and set capacity hilimit-s on i beaches but he is not able to force a mask mandate or capacity limits on most businesses. do you think the restrictions for spring break will make a difference or is it trying to hold back a tidal wave with a dixie cup? >> i don't know, but you have on to do what you can do. we are going to try to manage it with the tools we have. >> reporter: one of the tools is

a midnight curfew, which means that this is not what tourists expected. >> we wanted to go to bars and have a good time, it's south beach. it's miami, nobody wants to be done at 12 midnight. it was a bummer but i'm still having a blast. >> reporter: that's what businesses are hoping for. customers comfortable with the new normal. >> our goal is keep you safe, and give you a good time. >> reporter: so you are not letting things be the wild wild west out here. >> far from it. >> reporter: this is the general manager of the hotel. he said that hotels and restaurants depend on this season for profit. but after the virus devastated the industry last year, they are not looking for another lockdown. >> i believe that from what we have done, people can be safe. but there's always an individual responsibility. this is a two-way street. >> reporter: it's a tricky balance to strike, according to this man, he is the chief operating officer at tone of th

restaurant. >> we are in a proctering type of business and the truth is, we are in a pandemic. >> reporter: joes has been in his family for 100 years. he said when the shutdown happened last year, he was not sure they would make it. but he said protecting the public is good business. >> i thought it was hpossible. i said who's going to walk in to the empty restaurant. i thought they wanted the crowd, i never thought it would take like it has and it's been very positive. this is a matter of life and death so we have to just take the proper precautions. >> reporter: hotel bookings are already estimaed to be 20% higher this march than they were last year before the virus took off t mayor said he is definitely concerned about the potential for a super spreader event. and not just concerned about what tourists could be taking home, but what they could be bringing in and leaving here. >> now to texas, which is still

recovering from that devastating arctic blast that knocked out power and water to much of the state. investigations have been launched in to the state run power grid and it turns out texas is not alone. a recent study found major power outages caused by extreme weather have increased 67% since 2000. last year the u.s. experienced a record 22 climate and weather disasters. we have the story. >> reporter: if this is a wake-up call that our current mainly fossil fuel system is not serving out, i don't know what it is. this put, my wife's hospital out of water and working toilets when they were treating carbon monoxide poisonings. >> this man has survival guilt. a professor of environmental engineers, cohen said that the record breaking weather pushed power demands beyond the worse case scenario. >> this storm hit every power

provider. it hit wind turbines, it knocked out a nuclear unit. it knocked down several is -- several coal plants it was a failure of the gas system to get gas to the plants to make power when we needed it. the state was unable to borrow power from its neighbors. >> in texas, they don't have a planning process. the planning process is the market will take care of this. the man is on the board of governor's for the state. and said that texas failed to plan for this type of situation. how do you convince people who don't believe in climate change to look at the events and say,

there's a problem here? >> i think that even the leaders in texas who are not ready to accept the climate change as being driven by co-2 emissions are coming around to the realization that we are getting more extreme weather and they need to plan for that. >> rich glick is part of the federation that is the federal agency that ensures reliability of the grid, including in texas. so should we get used to this or should people start demanding answers? >> i think people should start demanding answers. they know how to operate all of these different types of technology in emergencies. that means investments have to be made. >> it takes money. >> it does, but if you don't take the investments today, it will cost you in dollars and lives.

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puttingpolitics aside to reclaim an african-american cemetery that was nearly forgotten by history. chip reid has more. virginia state senator richard -- and his wife lisa were exploring their new home in the potomac river, that brought tears to her eyes and made him ill. >> we looked at each other and said, is that a headstone? and then we looked and we saw another and another and another. >> reporter: what did you feel at that moment? >> horrible. it was just a horrible feeling to think that this person's headstone was here on our shoreline and not where it belonged with her body where her family could grieve and mourn and remember her life. >> that was four years ago. >> and since that time, we have been working to get them back

where they belong. >> reporter: they consulted with historians who followed the trail of names to the old columbian harmony cemetery in washington, d.c. for about 100 years starting in the late 1850s, it was the final resting place for 37,000 black residents of washington. including many of its most prominent citizens. such as elizabeth keckley, seamstress and confident of mary todd lincoln and a maryann, america's first black female publisher. so how did all headstones from a cemetery 60 miles up river in washington, d.c., end up here? well, about 60 years ago, that cemetery was sold. and all those headstones were

either sold or given away as scrap. a previous owner here bought truckloads of them to shore up this river bank. today, there's a metro station where the headstones once stood. the only recognition a plaque that reads many distinguished black citizens, including civil war veterans were buried in this cemetery the bodies now rest in the new national harmony memorial park in maryland. but most were reburied without headstones so the precise locations of the bodies are lost forever. >> it's an ugly thing and it's ugly because cemeteries are a mark of humanity. >> reporter: professor michael blaky, director of the institute for historical biology at william and mary said there's a long history in america of what he calls dehumanization of black

cemeteries. >> it's casual the humanization at this point. it's a kind of disregard. >> reporter: it has a lot in common, he said, with the death of george floyd. >> the murder of george floyd, as i see it, by officer chauvin was casual. he clearly did not see mr. floyd as a real complete human being. >> this is a beauty. >> a virginia nonprofit, the history, arts and science action network has taken on the job of recovering as many of the head stones as possible. but it is a monumental task, so far, only 55 have been recovered. with thousands more believed to be buried in the muck. >> virginia's governor, democrat raffle northum put $5 million in

his budget for the recovery effort and working closely with his long-time republican friend senator stewart. >> republican senator, democratic governor. what's the message here? >> chip, there's some things that transend politics and this is one. this would not have happened to a white cemetery in virginia. and the fact that it happened in an african-american cemetery is wrong and we need to make it right. >> reporter: that is music to the ears of william hart who's great grandfather william harry harrison hart was a law professor and was buried at harmony, has his stone been found in the river? >> no, it has not. i think i would be overjoyed if i found a headstone. >> reporter: hart admits he has every reason to be bitter about what happened. but, he says, that is just not how he feels.

>> i am overwhelmed that other people care so deeply about this issue. even though this was a tragedy,

one of the heroes in the battle against the coronavirus was laid to rest in england this weekend. captain sir thomas moore passed away at the ripe old age of 100. >> reporter: humble to the end, captain sir tom once said it would be quite a joke to look down on his funeral and chuckle at everyone making a fuss of him and touching to think complete strangers might weep over his passing. a royal air force fly-by is usually reserved for heads of state, war heroes. but then world war ii captain,

sir tom war was a war hero of sorts in the last year of his life. captain tom captured the hearts of the nation with one small gesture, walk a hundred laps of his garden to mark his 100th birthday, raise money for britain's national health service. he ended up raising more than $40 million. earning among other accolades a knighthood from the queen. the last time i spoke with captain tom, we talked about a movie deal in the works. is the world ready for captain tom the movie? >> now, that's a very good question. >> reporter: though he was not quite ready for hell w-- for hollywood's walk of fame just yet. >> i don't expect coming in to america and putting my hand in a piece off wet concrcrete somewh. >> reporter: sadly one of the very few moments that sir

captain tom did not live to see. if an epilogue to his book writing with his inevitable passing. life will go on, babies will be born and people will eventually forget about captain tom. he added for a while though, i will be remembered for the last years of my life. rather than those that went before. a rare blessing. he said that he only wants a little white headstone to mark his existence, in his words nothing too fancy. for cbs this morning saturday, bedford, england. and that is the overnight news for this monday, for some of you the news continues, for others check back later for cbs this morning and fol follow us onlin any time at cbs news.com. reporting from the broadcast center in new york city.

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