emerging, calling and singing and calling and finding mates in your backyard. >> she is bugging on out with excitement. >> these are the brood ten. >> reporter: she is an entimologist, she said over the next few weeks along the east coast and midwest, the cicadas will emerge from the ground, shed their skins and par take i. making mating songs as loud as 100decibles, that intensity as a jam hacker. how do they know what to emerge? >> it's not when they know, it's hard wired. there's a series of bio chemical cascades and hormones that set a trigger. if you have a right hormone level and the temperature is 64 degrees, it's go time. >> reporter: when they are ty havehoheye is not on

have tinmate,ohe mating, females need to lay the cicada, this is an excinyeah, i underground and you have three or tour weeks to do the job. >> reporter: we were told not to worry, they don't bite or sting. >> they pose no harm to humans and they don't really even pose that much harm to your garden. their goal is to really find each other, to mate and then to make the next generation of cicadas. >> reporter: and even though they don't pose a threat to us. humans pose a threat to them. urban sprawl and over development has destroyed whole cicada populations. because of our warming climate, they have been emerging a month to a week earlier than a decade ago. and it may shorten the amount of years they stay underground. on a positive note, the cicadas

will be a feast for many of nature's other creatures. even some brave humans. i understand you eat cicadas. >> they are a great protein source. i'm excited to eat some iscicad. >> with or without dipping sauce? >> i would go with a rosemary garlic aoili. >> i'm in to adventure, but not that. and speaking of adventure, the people at nasa are still celebrating after this weekend's successful return of a spacex dragon capsule, carrying four astronauts from the international space station. it was the first night time splash down of the the u.s. crew in more than 52 years. that same capsule will be heading backing in door, but this fall. carrying the first all civilian space crew. mark straussman has their remarkable story.

>> reporter: 255 feet above launchpad 39-a, we met the crew of inspiration 4 on. the next astronauts to climb atop a rocket at spacex's launch tower. >> everywhere that walked on the moon launched from this facility. >> reporter: jared isaacman, their gateway to the stars. >> they are jet rockets. he quit high school to create a technology company. and his hobby, owning and flying fighter jets. >> so, when the new commercial era, thought -- >> three days, flying on auto pilot. it will orbit more than 300 miles. higher than the space station.

the nose cone popped open. and the view was out of this world. three will go to the complete strangers in the seats. >> when i found out that inspiration four was the first all civilian mission, that will be a bunch of fishing buddies going on a joyride. that is significant and we were going to make it special. >> each seat will represent a human virtue, isaacman's will be leadership. >> the physician's assistant, will be the youngest american to fly in space. >> yes, i knew from the moment a dream that i did not know i had.

>> this was haley in 2002, she was 10. being treated for ostiosarcoma, she recovered with a titanian rod in her left thigh bone. she works in the same hospital that saved her life t seat in the capsule will represent hope. >> so, we are going to call the thank you patients from space, we are going to see somebody that was in their shoes and fought childhood cancer can go to space and it will show them what they are capable of. >> aptly named, teaches science in a community college in science. >> did you think your space dream was over? >> absolutely. >> the 51-year-old was once a finalist for nasa's astronaut program. but passed over. procter's ticket to space aboard inspiration 4. came by winning a contest for entrepre entrepreneurs. her seat represents prosperity. >> you fwrent space, not being in the stars to suddenly it was

the. what was that moment like? >> i will never forget it. i made the analogy, of willie wonk wo won wonka and you open up the golden ticket. >> i get to ride the dragon in to space. >> this is where everyone got on their rocket. >> chris a 41-year-old engineer from seattle, won fourth seat through an online raffle to raise money for st. jude's. he lost the raffle, but a friend won and gave him the chance. now that is generosity. the virtue his seat represents. >> i ran up the stairs after the call, and i said, honey, i'm going to ride a rocket and her response was what? and my daughter who was sitting there said, that's awesome hrks that is cool, dad. >> reporter: the spaceflight will make history and they hope it makes money. as a fundraiser for st. jude's,

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increasingly alarmed by an invisible threat to the rivers, lakes and oceans, they are called micro plastics. and they have been even found off the coast of antarc temperaantarctica. >> they have been searching for tiny intruders, so small they are invisible to the naked eye. >> we will see there's any micro fibers in the water here. >> reporter: micro fibsre microscopic strands from our synthetic frag rant rents that wash. they estimate 3 million tons of micro fibers pollute the with waters. even reaching the areas of eure

and the states has a p here. >> reporter: thous thousands of away. >> we know they are in the guts of on fish. and we know that micro fibers and micro plastics can accumulate up the food chain. >> reporter: all the way to us? >> possiblepossibly. >> reporter: she sent the samples on the a lab in england, where they are poured over them for months. what they have now discovered is disheart disheartening. >> on this one, you can see the fiber there. sn >> reporter: micro fibers in everyone sample. >> this is a piece of polyester, floating out there in antarctic waters. >> reporter: people could say, they are so tiny, how can they be dangerous? >> we don't know what the

biolog biolog biolog biological co o biological problems are there. and it has gone global. >> reporter: that threatens to be start part of the fabric of our oceans. >> plastic is so, so durable, that these particles will be in the environment for hundreds of years. >> reporter: environmentalists say there's solutions. like, using special filterser or bags in washing machines to catch some micro fibers from escaping through wastewaterer in to rivers and seas. but they say, what we really need to do is make and use less plastic. >> we can focus on buying clothes that don't cane plastics are made of natural fibers and fibers do escape, they break down in the environment. we should be using much more sustainable materials every day. we need to think about it.

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there's a wonderful group of volunteers in pennsylvania, on a mission to lend a helping hand to our nation's military families. it's called roots for boots. and they are dedicated to bringing local communities together to restore strength to our heroes in need. >> they originally served eight needy veterans and now it's almost 90 interest and it takes a team of volunteers to pull it off. many of them vets themselves. >> see you guys. >> reporter: it's all pa because of christy lucas, who after 17 years in education felt a calling to devote herself to veterans so she created a charity, root force boots. the goal is to give the veterans whatever help they need. she did it full time with no pay. when you say it's more than a food bank, what is it? >> it's something that restores help. >>he ian angel.e is ans

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it's wednesday, may 5th, 2021. this is the "cbs morning news." vaccinating america. president biden sets a new goal to reach by july 4th in a push against vaccine hesitancy. decision day. former president trump will learn whether he can return to facebook, but he's already launched a new platform to communicate with his followers. family reunited. a mother and son hug for the first time in nearly four years after being nearly four years after being separated at the border. captioning funded by cbs good morning. good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. we begin with president biden's push to convince more americans