watch cbs in bay area with the kpix 5 news app. deadly weather on the move, in tennessee, record rains sparked flash flooding. trapping people in cars and claiming lives. hail and tornadoes also tearing across the south. the dangerous systems now threatening millions in the east. >> biden's battles, the president targets gop led voting restrictions while represent are cans slam him for the migrant surge. we are putting in place, a plan that i feel confident about. >> plus, chauvin's trial begins in the police killing of george floyd, minneapolis braces and the world watches. the covid economy, one year

later, we check in with some of those impacted. >> when you are laying there in bed at night and you are like, okay, do we reopen, do we rehire people? >> and soaring success. america's bald eagles escape extinction but their future is uncertain. >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." >> four people have been killed in tennessee after flooding, tornadoes ripped up several southern states and the system is now impacting the east and millions people are in the path of the storm. nancy chen is following it tonight. >> reporter: 60 million

americans been impacted by the deadly storms. this weekend, flooding swamped tennessee, water rushing cross streets leaving a school bus submerged and cars floating. and in nashville, the second largest 2-day rainfall on record. emergency crews rescuing more than 250 people from vehicles, apartments and houses of night, in to sunday morning. >> we have about 251 incidents, it took 600 of our fire personnel to respond to these events. >> a man seen pulling a woman from her submerged car. the same system sent 15 reported tornadoes across four states. one possible twister reported here crossing the mississippi river. the destruction swift and severe. trees slicing through homes. >> i was thanking god that we were all okayfrom the situation, especially after seeing the s

house on. >> reporter: volunteers are now finding places for displaced people to stay. it's the tenth ef-4 tornado to hit the state. >> total destruction in many places. >> reporter: as quickly as the tornado struck the clean up begins. the same storm system is moving up in to the mid atlantic states. >> president biden's battles with republicans over voting rights and immigration policies are showing no sig of a truce. >> reporter: 18,000 migrant children are now in u.s. custody and pressure is being put on the administration to do something about it. before stepping on to air force one, president biden sid stepped

a question about whether he would be making a visit to the southern border. >> we are putting in place a plan that i feel very confident about. and i don't care what the other guydoes. >> reporter: earlier day, the white house communications director said that the surge of migrants was not due to administration policies. >> it's a cyclical issue, and one that president biden said is unacceptable to him and he is working to address it. >> reporter: they are work withing to address the controversial new voter law in georgia. >> jim crow racism, we have to call it for what it is. >> reporter: which opponents say it's aimed at making it harder for minorities to vote. >> rather than having the people select theirpolitis,he politicians are trying to cherry pick the voters. >> reporter: the new law does expand early voting days and enacts stricter requirements on absentee ballots and reduces early voting on run-off elections and makes it a crime

to deliver food and drink for people waiting to vote. governor brian kemp is saying he is trying to restore confidence in the voting system. >> find out what is in the bill, rather than saying it's racist of jim crow, because it is not. >> reporter: in addition to voting rights and immigration and let's not forget, covid-19. president biden is expected to reveal his this is long awaited infrastructure plan. trillions in new spending this wednesday in pittsburgh. >> a lot on his plate, thank you. the cities of minneapolis and st. paul and millions of people across the country are awaiting opening arguments in the trial of former police officer derek chauvin, they are set for tomorrow, more thaen months after the death of george floyd. >> nearly year after george floyd died, people in minneapolis are still demanding justice and the city is in the

spotlight. >> all right, we have 15. >> reporter: it took 11 days to pick 12 jurors and three alternates. there's nine women and six men. of those, nine are whites, four are blacks and two identify as multi-racial. it's a surprisingly diverse panel for a county that is about 75% white. floyd's death sparked protests here that spread across the country and the world. most were peaceful. but minneapolis still bears the scars of the looting and construction. the area around the courthouse isfortified, during jury selection, the city settled a lawsuit by floyd's family for $27 million. >> this is a message that the unjust taking of a black life will no longer be written off as trivial. >> reporter: the defense asked for the trial to be moved and delayed the judge ruled it would go on as planned the judge

reenstated a third degree murder charge, giving the prosecutors another option to convict derek chauvin. do you feel that he can get a fair trial? >> i do, because they have been picked and they have said they can be fair and impartial. there's no place to put this case. everyone knows about it. you could put this case at a town on the canadian border and still, people would know about it. >> reporter: the trial is expected to last as long as a month. drawing out the anxiety that has hung over the city of minneapolis for almost a year. >> jamie, thanks. the "cbs overnight news," will be right back.

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♪ ♪ this is the "cbs overnight ne news". there's progress in the race to vaccinate. as of today, nearly 92 million people have received their first dose of the covid vaccine. that's some 27% of americans. more than 50 million people are now fully vaccinated, however, 19 states report rising infections. and there's controversy about the distribution of some shots. cbs's charlie demarre in chicago explains. >> reporter: innovative express care will not be giving out covid-19 vaccines any time soon. the clinic has been cut off,

saying it misallocated doses that were meant for teachers and staff. >> i am feeling bad, i hope i can did not take a vaccine away from a cps teacher. >> reporter: she got her first dose at the clinic and then after they stopped supplying the doses. >> i received a message that my second dose was cancelled. i was stressed. >> reporter: we saw ongoing regularities in their reporting, requesting and allocation of vaccine supply. >> reporter: innovative express care's ce o denies any wrongdoing. >> they never made it clear to us as a provider that we should be storing vaccines in a fridge for people awaiting second doses. this makes no sense to us. >> reporter: this is the second chicago health care provider inu averaging vaccine doses. the hospital on the under served west side is facing backlash for

vaccinating the welludtaff at c trump tower, where a hospital executive who has resigned owns a condo. the ceo called it a mistake and has apologized, the hospital's board is going to continue to investigate. >> i fear that we are going to hear more stories. which is why we push pause on giving loreto new first doses. >> other states have struggled with instances of equitable vaccine programs being abused. in some cases doses meant for those most in need ended up in the arms of the host powerful. cbs news. chicago. >> reporter: at least 100 people were killed in myanmar by security forces. it was the most deadly day since the military seized pure in a

coup. america is accusing myanmar of a reign of terror. the massive cargo strip wedged in the suez canal is still stuck. egypt's president has made orders for the cargo ship to be unloaded. at vatican today, pope francis celebrated mass on this palm sunday, the start of the holy week. ♪ ♪ the was the second year in a row that the pope entered saint peters basillica to a mass congregation. the faithful celebrated the che church of the holy seplecure, where jesus returned a week from his crucifixion. march will be known as not just basketball, but the month

where covid-19 changed everything. last march, we talked with people about their financial struggles caused by the virus and we checked in with them again, one year later. >> i can't believe it's been a year. >> reporter: this 42-year-old is a mother of two and fitness trainer in chicago. when we met her in march of 2020, her studio just shut down. they were able to reopen in july, but her husband had who works for a trade show company is still mostly out of work. mitchell had to file for unemployment to keep a roof over her family's head. >> the mortgage thing is a big concern for my family and i. we have been blessed that our mortgage company gave us forebear a forebearance for a year. >> reporter: when you did the interview with us and you were like so many other americans trying to figure it out in the moment, week by week, did you expect back then, that we would be polling up with you a year

later and still talking about those same concerns? >> honestly, no. i didn't. i still just can't believe the situation that we are in. and i know that i can't be alone. my husband's industry is still is not back. and just concerned, you know, when will get back to the level that we were at before. >> reporter: meanwhile, in seattle, a father and small business owner was forced to shut down his car club and restaurant. he was going to expand to dallas and double his staff. instead, he had to cut back. >> three years ago we started the private club and there's a component that is open to the public, which is the restaurant. we had to close derby now twice due to restrictions around covid and it's really been hard, we started out precovid with somewhere around 55 employees. right now, we have about 20. >> reporter: matt, what has been the biggest challenge for you as

a business owner in the past year? >> i think our biggest challenge has been trying to predict what to do. when you are laying there in bed at night and you are like, okay, are we going to reopen? are we going to rehire people? some people have not beenimpacted at all and are benefitting in covid and others are hit e we planning for economic glory or disaster? >> there's a lot more news ahead on the "cbs overnight news" ." this montana town was abandoned by amtrak years ago and now is hoping for a rail revival. i give to shriners hospitals for children because i want to be a part of something amazing.

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>> we w here and there's no job for them on the railroad now. s that -- this is a bar, it's gone. >> reporter: she watched the population drop from 5,000 to half that. >> it was a nice town to raise your kids and it became a ghost town. >> reporter: the line connect chicago to seattle, it's more than a hundred places that lost passenger service. long gone too are visitorers supporting the old west museums, restaurants or traveling to the rocky and bitter root mountains. >> it's my heritage and dad and gramp. >> reporter: he is here to bring a rail service back here and across southern montana. >> this is actually where you used to stand and wait for the train. >> reporter: he is director of the big sky passenger rail authority, which has a plan and

political support. >> it's going to happen, i'm very confident in that. and i would say, you know, best case, three years sgloompt in washington, d.c., jim matthews the ceo of the rail passengers association is helping. a lobbyist reading moment. president biden's nickname is amtrak joe. how palpable is it now with a president biden in office? >> it's tremendous optimistic. you have a team of people in washington that are committed to really advancing rail as a practical mode of transportation in the country. >> reporter: there are more than 30 proposed new or revived passenger routes from al hal to new orleans, linking colorado to atlanta to charlotte to name a few. >> there's communities that are cut off from the rest of the country. and connecting them to the opportunities that exist -- >> reporter: back in deer lodge, this woman at the used furniture

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we end tonight with a historic comeback, america's population of bald eagles on the brink of extinction are taking flight. with success, there's struggle. we have more. like many expect ant couples, jackie and shadow are anxiously awaiting a new addition to the family from 150 feet up on the pine tree over hooking california's big bear lake. america's bald eagle population has more than quadrupled in the last decade, but here in the golden state, the species is still endangered and the tstake are high, they have been protecting their eggs for 45 days. can you give us a status update?

what is the latest? >> reporter: it's unlikely that it will hatch. >> reporter: sandy runs the conservation of friends of big bear valley where she has been watching the feathered pair for years. >> reporter: what is the challenge forgetting them to hatch, how difficult is it? >> they have to guard them all the time from predators. they have to keep them warm and incubated the whole time. >> reporter: what is it like when a egg finally hatches? >> you feel great seeing a little chick in the nest. >> reporter: two bald eagle pairs had triplets thousands of miles apart. in a nest in pittsburgh, another family of five. >> jackie has enough of a personality, it's like they are putting on a live action tv show. people like the entertainment and then they realize how much they feel connected with nature. and they like the scenes around the nest and the scenes they can see.

it's been making people relax when they are up tight about everything else going on in the world. >> rter: aymbol of the so american spirit, soaringe ba . and that is the "cbs overnight news" for this monday. checkac lmoin follo us any time online at cbs news doikts. reporting from the broadcast center in new york city.

♪ ♪ this is the "cbs overnight news." good evening, dangerous weather is ripping across a big swath of the country tonight, it's also proven deadly. at least four people have been killed in tennessee after rain triggered flash flooding, tornados also ripped up several southern states. the system is now impacting the east and millions of people are in the path of the storm. cbs's nancy chen is following it all for us tonight. nancy, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, the clean up is under way right now with some 60 million americans impacted by those deadly storms. this weekend, flooding

swamped tennessee, water rushing across streets. leaving a school bus submerged and cars floating. in nashville, rescue crews rescuing 250 people saturday night in to sunday morning. >> we have 250 incidents. it took 600 of our fire personnel to respond. >> reporter: a man seen pulling a woman from her sub be merge car.had 15naacrossour. sion,nd vere. shearff and nehoonehoods sepaysteorgi where volunteers are now finding

placed -- finding places for displaced people to stay. as quickly as the tornado struck, the clean up begins. and that same storm system is now moving up in to the mid at lan stick states with the lower tornado risk but strong gusts still packing a punch. >> reporter: nancy chen for us tonight. thank you. president biden's battle with republicans over voting rights and immigration is showing no signs of a truce. >> immigration officials say 18,000 migrant children are now in u.s. custody. and tonight, republicans are putting pressure on the administration to do something about it. before stepping to air force on one this evening. president biden sidestepped a question of whether he would be making a visit to the southern

border. >> we are putting in place a plan had that i feel confident about. and i don't care what the other guy does. >> reporter: earlier today, white house communications director said that the surge of migrants was not due to administration policies. >> it's a cyclical issue and it's one that president biden said is unaccept isable to him, and he is working quickly to address it. >> reporter: the white house is working to address the controversial new voter law in georgia. >> jim crow racism, that's what it is. we have to call it for what it is. >> reporter: which opponents say is aimed at making it harder for minorities to vote. >> so rather than having the people select their politicians, the politicians are trying cherry pick the voters. >> reporter: the new law does expand early voting days statewide but enacts stricter i.d. requirements on absentee ballots and made it a crime to deliver food and drinks to people waiting in line to vote.

governor kemp said he is trying to restore confidence in the system. >> find out what is in the bill, verse the blank statement of this is jim crow, or this is voter suppression or that it's racist. it is not. >> reporter: now, in addition to voting rights, immigration and let's not forget covid-19. president biden is expected to reveal his long awaited infrastructure plan. trillions in spending, this wednesday had in pittsburgh. >> the cities of minneapolis and saint paul and millions people across the country are awaiting opening arguments in the trial of former police officer derek chauvin, they are set for tomorrow, more than ten months after the death of george floyd. cbs is there there. >> reporter: nearal year after george floyd died, people in minneapolis are justice and the cis agaiin the spotlight.>>right, we have . >> reporter: it took 11 days to pick 12 jurors and three

alternates. there are nine women, and six men. of those nine are whites, four are blacks and two identify as multi-racial. it's a surprisingly diverse are panel for a county that is about 75% white. floyd's death sparked protests here and around the world. the area around the courthouse is fortified, during the jury selection, the city settled a lawsuit filed by the floyd family for $27 million. >> this is a message that the unjust taking of black life will no longer be written off as trivial. >> reporter: the defense asked for the trial to be moved and delayed. but the judge ruled the trial would go on as planned. the judge reenstated a third degree murdercharge, urts another convin do y feel t

he can get a fair trial in minneapolis? >> at this point, i do. becauses the jury has been picked and the jury has maintained that they can be fair and impartial. in terms of change of the venue, there's no place to put the case. everyone knows about it. you could put the case in a town on the canadian border and still, people would know about it. >> reporter: the trial is expected to last as long as a month on, drawing out the anxiety that has hung over the city of minneapolis for almost a year. >> overseas now, the killing of at least 100 protesters in myanmar is drawing global outrage. 100 he were killed by military. there was more blood shed today as funerals were held. the u.s. is accusing security forces in kneean mar oote, reign of terror. in egypt, that massive cargo ship wedged in the suez canal is

st joined the effort to free it. egypt's president has ordered preparations be made to unload the 18,000 containers on board, and the blockage is costing with billions in lost trade each day. at vatican today, the pope celebrated mass on this palm sunday, the start of the holy week. it was the second year in a row that the pope entered saint peters basilican to a masked congregation. the "cbs overnight news" will be right back.

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♪ ♪ this is the "cbs overnight news." thanks for staying with us. despite the continuing drive to on vaccinate people across this country, cases of covid-19 are again on the rise. health officials blame it on the new variants spreading lou i in the country and states dropping restrictions. the president is urging that people get the vaccine as it is available. delta airlines is opened free vaccination sites both inside and outside jacksonville,

airport in atlanta. we have the story from inside delta's atlanta museum. >> reporter: look, any other year this would be the main attraction. visitors wanting to get up closes to the spirit of delta, now it's a bonus in one of three locations had s that the airlin using to get the life saving shots in the arms to employees and the general public. >> perfect, follow me. >> reporter: after 36 years as a pilot, cam tptain bill barnes ks the importance of punctuation. >> time is very important to me. >> reporter: he is one of thousands getting vaccinated inside the concourse c this week. formerly busy gates have been converted in to clinics. from check in to a number system and the long awaited shots. an airport employee got vaccinated while working. he said that the benefits are immense. >> i'm afraid of the others that

are afraid of this. the other end is death. why would you not something to give you more of an opportunity, a chance at life? >> reporter: outside, in the shadow of an old 747, there's nor space provided for any georgian to get vaccinated. this is the state's busiest outdoor vaccination site. >> we are averaging right now about 2200 doses a day and starting monday, we will go 3,000 doses a day and currently we are right around 39,000 total doses in five weeks. >> reporter: how long can you keep it up? >> we are going to be here minimum of 13 weeks and that may be extended depending on what the governor and doctors say. >> reporter: dr. henry ting is the first chief health officer of delta. >> i think we are ready to reclaim our lives and reclaim our joy. we will get there by ending the pandemic with the vaccination. >> reporter: and for most, the step toward joy, took mere minutes. >> i may have been here eight

minutes. >> reporter: eight minutes is not even a lunch break. >> that's what i'm saying, it's a bathroom break. >> reporter: now, look, delta will not say what this costs. but certainly it cannot getedul everyosvacced here. i can tell you, beyond the joy that i'm seeing in all of the locations, there's another measurement of how well things are going. the man who runs the state's emergency agency told me that he received a compliment he is proud of. that even the home grown food chain, chick-fil-a would be proud of the efficiency here. >> the other major issue confronting the biden administration is the growing humanitarian challenge along the southern border. thousands of migrants are crossing in to the u.s. many of them children. we traveled to mexico to speak with a human smuggler and others making the dangerous journey alone. >> reporter: a guatemalan boy,

about 6 entering a vast unknown. crossing all alone in to the united states. running after he passes the wall. before crossing with women who were helping her along the journey from guatemala. this 16-year-old told her her parents back home are too sick to work. you're looking to york for your family. the biden administration is allowing unaccompanied minors to stay to plead their cases and others are being deported. the migrants we have spoken to, said their crisis is in their home countries. violence, poverty, made worse by the pandemic and natural disasters. many along this stretch of the border were looking to turn themselves in to border patrol. others are hiring smugglers like this man to try to evade agents. he spoke with us on condition of anonimity, with the risk of

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every detail about how our families arrived here. >> i came from cuba in a raft, 29 years ago. >> i moved to u.s. as a refuge. >> from auss trail i can't to los angeles, and no problems. >> reporter: for others the stories have been told and retold through generations. >> my great grandfather was a stone cutter from italy. >> my family originally is f spain. >> my oma and opa are from germany and came through elliss island. >> reporter: do you remember what the rules and process was like back then? >> only from what i have read. they didn't talk about it. >> i'm not sure. >> i don't know about that. >> reporter: the fact is, if you are one of the 10s of millions of americans who can trace their ancestors to early settlers or later arrivals through ellis island, there's a good reason you cannot remember the national rules back then.

there were none. >> you showed up. you did not need a passport or e card. >> reporter: wow. >> right, if there's no restrictions everyone is legal. >> reporter: she is a history professor at columbia university. she said prior to the immigration act of 1924, everyone who made it to america got to stay in america. 98% were allowed in that massed through ellis island. my family came through there. as i discovered, one of those arrivals was my own great grandfather. >> raphael starts the story of your family's immigration. >> reporter: a researcher showed me that he came from italy, not so different from the border stories that we heard today. he was young and alone. >> an unaccompanied minor. >> reporter: did he become a citizen? >> he did. and he pafought in world war i d

children fought in world war ii, it's what people call a classic american story. it makes me think, what was the differences between him in the early 20th century and the same 15-year-old on thetoday, right? >> the color of their skin. >> reporter: she writes about the little known and uncomfortable origins of our national immigration policy that began with quotas that favored those from white immigration when those more favored european immigrants were here illegally or exceeding the quotas entirely, they were very often forgiven, between 1925--1965, 200,000 undocumented europeans were given a path to citizenship. >> it's a mind-set ofif you are here and you are making a

contribution to society, we are not going to just throw you out. >> reporter: most people still seem to agree. polls show 3/4 of americans support a path to citizenship. but for decades both democrats and republicans have failed to find one. >> we don't have enough resources sgloompt and we heard again and again that america just can't handle this new wave of immigration. >> because we are over crowded already. >> i don't think it's right and i think they are taking people's jobs away and if they are illegal, theshtd not be allowed in. >> reporter: on the way to elliss island, we met alex who of was brought here from mexico as an infant. >> it was dangerous, they had to cross the rio to get to el paso, texas. >> reporter: he had not realized that many of families, like my own were as undocumented as his parents. did you realize that millions of people before the 1920s had no documents? >> i did not know that. >> reporter: do you think it's

fair that the people who came through this building could come with no paperwork at all and not live in fear, be welcomed in? and your parents are in a different situation? >> i don't think it's fair. >> reporter: now, he can only hope that eventually families w same dreams. will also be welcome withed much the same as americans. they wanted the see us happy. just to live a life of freedom. and um, it's just, it's hard. it's hard because they came here to live a better life, but like, i don't see the difference between us and them. >> the leaders of japan are determined to thoeft olympics this summer, the games were postponed last year, due to the pandemic. naomi has the story of one young sprinter who has her eyes on the next olympic games. she is just 12 years old,

and run 17 miles per hour this training video went viral after being put on tiktok, and now, more than 100 people have seen it. >> started at 12 or 13 and then we have planned on stopping at 15. but my coach said, it looked like i was jogging so we went up to 17 and he said i could have went up you to 18. >> reporter: she is no stranger to sprinting. she ises already a 19-time junior olympian. her dad knew early on she was destined for the track. >> i would hear her running and i happen to look at her legs and they were not just walking but they were striding. and at that point, i knew that she would be a runner sglo rrun >> reporter: and she has mom's backing too. >> we are there to support herrer and make sure she gets as far in life as she wants to go. >> reporter: they trains and tries to stay grounded despite racking up medals and awards.

>> i focus on staying humble and true to who i am and focused. >> reporter: she plans to keep running tall way to the 2 4

so what does a cheese steak have to do with a trip to egypt? a son's love for his mom. >> reporter: by his own admission, dustin vitale is a mama'ses boy. >> mom, you ready? >> reporter: he cooks her break fest every morning and thanks her for the privilege and because dustin has such devotion. when gloria was diagnosed with terminal bladder cancer last on one last trip.e would try to the trip she always dreamed of. to see the pyramids in egypt. with the whole family. 14 people. never mind that dustin works as

a middle school teacher in philadelphia could never afford the $10,000 to fly everyone. he thought he could raise the cheddar by selling cheese steaks. >> you don't own a restaurant. >> yeah, yeah, i have a kitchen though. >> reporter: there's no way you were going to make enough money selling cheese steaks out of your house. >> yeah, correct, yeah, correct. >> reporter: given that what was pushing you forward? >> just my mom, the love for my mom. >> reporter: and so, with his love, and her recipe, dustin started to make sandwiches. sandwiches so big, no container could he pedalled them to frien family. >> appreciate your support. >> reporter: those people must have told their friends and family too, because almost immediately cars started double parking outside his house. faces he did not recognize started showing up at the door. >> get your mom to egypt. >> trying to. >> reporter: next, word spread on social media and before he knew it, folks were lined up

down the block. a toad truck operator offered his services and in just six weeks, dustin raised all the money he needed and then some. $18,000. if she'd have asked to go to the ie made it happen as well. the trip is plan ford later this year. gloria said cleopatra never had it so good. >> the love is overwhelming. you know? >> she is mentally as healthy as she has been in her whole life. >> reporter: amazing. the healing power of a loving child. cbs news. on the road. and that is the "overnight ne news" for this monday. check back later with us later for cbs this morning. and follow us any time online at cbs news.com. reporting from the broadcast center in new york city.

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