the 7pm news, weeknights on kpix 5. ♪ ♪ this is the "cbs overnight news." good evening, there's hope in america's long covid recovery after a spring wave of infections. we will have that in a moment, first, breaking news out of california, where there's been a fatal boat accident, 27 people were transported to local hospitals. three people did not survive. and the distress came in around 10:00 local time, a 40 foot vessel capsized off the southern coast of california. emergency crews from several san diego agencies mobilized racing to the water to helpn t ou in e aty least six is aircrat ople from the water.

survivors were brought here bo being sent to local hospitals. it's not known why the boat capsized, the passengers have not been identified and the search at the sea goes on for other possible victims. now to the latest in the pandemic. infections are down significantly in most the states. more than 103 million americans have been fully vaccinated, that is 1 out of every 4 people. as a daily average, 2.6 million people got a shot over the last week. but that is down sharply from a couple of weeks ago. cbs is in santa monica, where peo people there are anxious to get outside. >> good evening. that is right, the boardwalk here is busy as americans are ready to get out of town, a travel rush is on despite outbreaks hitting states hard.

crowds enjoyed the outdoors today in los angeles as more vaccines and fewer infections boost optimism in the nation's fight against the pandemic. >> i am fully vaccinated and i am completely comfortable with being out and in public . >> that confidence is driving up summer plan % of americans areng vacation compared to 37% a year ago. but millions are refusing to give the vaccine a shot. despite the danger. >> the more that the virus continues to circulate, the more it will mutate. >> oregon is fighting a another outbreak, governor brown has put most of the state under extreme risk restrictions. >> as your governor, i chose toa and connecticut are lifting restrictions. in oklahoma city, there's no longer a state of emergency. prompting this warning from david holt. >> if you go to a hospital or worse, you die, all because you chose to not get vaccinated, that would really be a tragedy.

for normalcy, this weekend, the kentucky derby welcomed back fans, nearly 52,000 of them. and it was the largest crowd in an american sporting event since the pandemic began. >> welcome to the 2021 nfl draft. in cleveland, hundreds of fans gathered for an in person nfl draft. pandemic weary americans are rapidly booking thingss, u renta cars and air bnbs, it will be a busy summer. that is for sure. >> absolutely, thank you. worldwide global virus cases have reached a new peak.he ory.e is getting worse. there were 400,000 new cases yesterday. and a stream of critically ill

people arriving in hospitals already over full. everywhere, there's a shortage of oxygen. in the hospitals, and on the street where family members line up for hours to refill tanks for patients at home. a seek temple set up curbside oxygen for the very sickest. like this man, who's brother is doing what he can until he can find hospital care. he has been looking for morean y ght,oth furiou uthoties opened up even to mass religious and political gatherings. now, indian families, especially poor, are paying price. the other covid hot spot is brazil, with a per capita death rate higher than india's right now. a vaccination program that is

reached in to brazil's vast interior has distributed more than 40 million doses. but in the cities, with no lockdown, it's no surprise that the virus has continued to spread. and in turkey, where the covid rate started to climb steeply last month, authorities anxiouses to not lose control imposed the country's first ever national lockdown. and from europe, at last, good news. both deaths and infections are falling as vaccination rates rise s and in some countries they are even starting to talk about opening up their borders again to foreign travelers. elizabeth palmer, cbs news, london. president biden hits the road this week, crossing the country to sell his expans i have and exp infrastructure and at the white convince skeptics that it's good for the country. >> president biden is inviting a group of republicans to the

white house for negotiations hoping they can find common ground and roads is and bridges on an infrastructure plan. buts hamrout. is g to work hard with anyone, democrat or republican, who shares our goals of getting the economy moving. >> on face the nation this morning, white house chief of staff, said he is optimistic, both parties will be able to hammer out a deal to rebuild america's crumbling infrastructure. and he defended a white house proposal to raise taxes on corporations and high income werers to help pay for the two trillion bill. >> he is not going to raise taxes on people making more than, making less than $400,000 a year. the middle classes are not goin arguing the plan is bloated big government. >> it's the trillions and trillions of dollars of recklesy with a new credit card. >> they want the white house to negotiate on a smaller more targeted plan.

>> only about 20% of the jobs bill that the president has proposed goes to real infrastructure. >> if you are talking about a roads and bridges and internet and tunnels and airports and waterways, we can be pretty close. if you are talking about, spending hundreds of billions of dollars, to benefit public service unions, hen we are far apart. >> also, today, the president issued a statement commemorating the death of binde then vice president biden watched the operation from the situation room. and he is now withdrawing all troops from african stan bicep -- by september 11th, ending america's longest war.

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♪ ♪ this is the "cbs overnight news." thanks for staying with us, the coronavirus pandemic continues to reshape the worldwide automotive industry, many models are in short supply because automakers can get ahold of chips they need. it comes as americans are getting ready to hit the road this summer. we have more. >> reporter: to some degree, i looks like maybe i'm going out of business. >> any other year, stephen wade would be worried to see his 40 acres of car dealerships in utah

empty, instead, he is over joyed. ihe best year in my life financially. >> reporter: his lucky cards are thanks to an on going shortage of computer chips. it's been more than a century since it was just four wheels. now, they are comfort machines infused with top technology. but the semi conductor chips underlying that convenience key to computers and wireless devices for which demand shot up dramatically in the obbins this. >> semiconductors are going in everything and what happened is, when covid hit, i think everyone thought that the demand side was going to decline significantly and in fact, we saw the opposite. >> reporter: global car makers were forced to pauseermo dozen

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♪ ♪ over the course of almost 40 years. countless albums and three grammys. the flaming lips have established themselves as one of music'ses most prolific and delightfully weird bands. ♪ ♪ and if you thought a global pandemic may slow down their creative output. you have not met wayne coin. >> i think i'm descended from some like in demp-- indestructible viking guy. >> he is the♪ ♪ during themote

ew album, american head, wayne coyne came up with his most ambitious idea ever. >> it's part of music history. we think it's the future. >> here's how it worked. each group of up to three audience members were zipped in to clear vinyl bubbles. which were then inflatedh leaf blowers, all so these lucky few could see their favorite c. ♪ ♪ performed in 1983 in oklahoma city, by coyne, his brother mark and friends. early on the band prided itself

on not being for everybody. >> we are doing our art and you know, if you are just a normal person on the street, you should hate us. you know, if you like us too much, we must be doing something wrong. >> he is insanely creative and creatively insane. >> steven droughs, a multi-instrumentalist and singer who coyne calls the musical genius of the group joined the band in 1991. >> he has a lot of can confidence and faith in me. it's a good thing. when i joined, i joined as a drummer. the joke goes, what was the last thing the drummer said before he was kicked out of the band, hey, guys i have a song. >> reporter: they attracted the attention of warner brother's records. ♪ ♪ >> and scored a surprise hit with the song she don't use jelly.

the sudde major change for coyne who had been working in a long john silver's restaurant are, where he was once robbed at gunpoint, a terrifying and for him, a life changing event. >> after i didn't die. these petty insecurities that you have about doing especially stuff like art and music, and for a little while, i was just a superman. didn't matter. because to me it was like that is not important. wo cares about it, i'm alive i can do whatever i want. >> coyne used the money from his first record deal with warner bros. to buy a home for $20,000. and in what was then one of oklahoma city's poorest neighborhoods. >> it's aig house that we felt like we could all live here, we could rehearsee t des later, he iocks, his this is art and wife katie and son

bloom. >> i call him the energizer bunny. he dreamed up the bubble shows. and drew a sketch, i'm like, yeah, that is cool and i did not know if he was going to make it happen. if he is tryingake something happen, he is going to make it happen. >> the idea of an entire audience safely sealed in in bubbles came to coyne, one day while he was in traffic. >> i'm driving in the car, and i think, i thought, that was funny. a half hour later, i got it. coyne, was in a bubble on top of the crowd in the coachela music festival. to seal the audience in bubbles that was a complicated thing. the lodgistics of is are craz a. >> it's worse than i thought.

>> he agonized over detail. from the signs for audience members to holdup if they get too hot or have to uses the bathroom to how to disinfect the bubbles after the show. >> thank you for taking a chance and doing this bizarre th ♪ >> it's probably safe to say that the flaming lips may be the only band in the world. who could pull off a safe concert in a pandemic, a pandemic that killed far too many americans. death and the beauty of being alive are a common theme in the band's music. including in arguably the biggest hit, do you ♪ ♪

♪ ♪ according to wayne coyne, sometimes it's easier to sing about things than talk about them. >> i to tell my father when he came back from his last, seeing if his cancer was going to kill him or he was not going get better. i had to tell him it was not going to get better. you wish there was a way to say that in a song. it's impossible to say things. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ as the concert drew to a close, and the audience swayed in their bubbles. it was clear that the flaming lips accomplished what they had set out to do. to find the beauty in the strangeness. that is life in this moment of time. it sounds hokie, but, you know, i say, you have to do this stuff with love. you know, you can't do it with

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the first coin operated he s and there were soon fixtured around the world, these days there's more than seven million vending machines in the united states, that is a drop in the bucket compared to japan. lucy kraft has more. >> reporter: it's hard to over state japan's total infatuation with the vending machine. the country has so many, there'. the blinking lights and friendly glow seem to becon from every nook and crannie, super slim versions sprout from lonely corners making it impossible to escape the pause that refreshes.

a low crime rate, and a ving for convenience has made it a great service. that's a whole grilled fish in the bottle. you have the munchies, if you are in japan, you are in luck, there's a wide variety of treats to choose from. rhino, beetles, scorpions, and giant f prn and for thehoerwor. at tokyo's airport, the price of a green tea buys a tea serving latte foam art. the planner said there's a lot of opinions about this, but japanese are basically shy. vending machines are perfect for

introverts, there's a bunch o choi om to woodft ks to collectibles. like trading cards. pop star posters and cat sushi trinkets, at this buddhist temples, good luck amulets sold like sodas and tiffany perfume and fresh water pearls. vending machines are now, high art. this image by photographer ohashi, auctioned in london for more than$40,000. shinin snow,hedi machin seeme to sa ohashi has captured the vending machine in the wild. he has only begun to scratch the

surface.>> it's monday, may 3rd, 2021. this is the "cbs morning news." tragedy along the coast. dozens of people are thrown into the water after their boat broke apart in rough surf off california. what police are saying about the incident that left at least four dead. powerful tornadoes. more than a dozen twisters touched down overnight across the south causing significant damage. and covid crisis. o caonavu overflow and people to run out overflow and people to run out of oxygen. captioning funded by cbs