that will do it for you at 5:00. we will see you for an captioning sponsored by cbs >> duncan: tonight: mother's day rush. americans return to the sky in record numbers. is the pandemic really grounded? >> covid won't disappear. we're going to have to learn to live with it. >> duncan: also tonight, back to earth, where the chinese rocket was seen during an anxious descent. plus, congressional republicans to oust a trump critic despite liz cheney being one of their own. >> e need to be united. you cannot unit truth with lies. >> duncan: in afghanistan, death toll mounts after terrorists target students. >> reporter: charlie d'agata in kabul where dozens of school

girls were laid to rest after yesterday's suicide car bombing. >> duncan: derby doubt, medina's spirit failed the drug test. finally, this mother's day, finally, this mother's day, she's nearly 80 and still caring for babies. >> the reward is to see the smile. this is the "cbs weekend news" from new york. here's jericka duncan. >> duncan: good evening. there's good news on america's covid recovery. new cases of the virus, hospitalizations and deaths are all down. nearly 35% of american adults have been fully vaccinated. at the same time, nothing gets americans on plains during a pandemic like the holidays. and mother's day weekend has proven no exception. mola lenghi is at new york's la guardia airport and leads us off tonight.

mola, not a lot of people behind you right now. >> reporter: well, that's right, jericka, but, generally, travel seems to be up this week. people we spoke with here today said they felt safer about traveling because the ones we spoke with are among the country's vaccinated. nationwide, new covid cases and hospitalizations are generally down. travel, at least this weekend, is up. a mother's day travel rush today as passengers from l.a. to new york take flight. more than 1.7 million travelers nationwide passed through airports friday, a pandemic era record. were there any concerns traveling? >> i'm fully vaccinated which helps a lot. i felt pretty safe coming and traveling between states. >> reporter: america's confidence appears to be growing as more covid restrictions are lifted but former f.d.a. commissioner dr. scott gottlieb said on "face the nation," the virus won't just disappear. >> i think we will have to contend with covid this winter and we may have to reimplementat masks in states where th masks in states where there are outbreaks. >> reporter: some states is there less than 40% of populations vaccinated with mississippi at the bottom, as

more states turn down doses is wisconsin asking for just 8% of its federal allocation, illinois 9% and kansas just under 9%. ♪ sweet caroline ♪ >> reporter: saturdays global citizen concert which encouraged people to get vaccinated raised $302 million to fight covid. >> we can't let up now, the vaccines are safe, i promise you they're safe. >> reporter: with more americans vaccinated, we could soon see changes to indoor mask mandates. today dr. anthony fauci said that the country may eventually take a more seasonal approach to masks -- for example, wear them during flu season. jericka. >> duncan: mola lenghi for us in new york. thank you. for more on america's covid recovery let's check in with cbs news medical contributor dr. david agus. already agus, always good to see you. one to have the main goals for president biden, as we know, is to get 70% of the adult

population vaccinated by july 4, with at least one dose. but is that likely to happen? >> well, it's a hell of a goal, and i appreciate president biden putting it out there, and i certainly hope we can get to 70%. every increase in number is going to be lives saved and potentially complications of the vaccine. what we know from data from the united kingdom and israel, is that if we can go up 15 percentage points more in terms of who's been vaccinated, there will be a dramatic decrease in the number of cases in the united states. to me that is tremendously optimistic. we are getting close. >> reporter: so, doctor, if we didn't get to the 70%, let's say we get to 60 or 61, it wouldwe make a huge difference. >> no question about it. we can't get down if we're not going to get all the way to 70 or 75%. every increase upward is going to be dramatic increase in the number of cases and save many complications from this horrible virus. >> reporter: dr. agus, there's a push to vaccinate children. pfizer is expected to get authorization for its vaccine on

kids 12 to 15. why do you think it's so important to get children vaccinated? >> 17 million children will be eligible for the vaccine hopefully this week with the pfizer approval. it's not just the death rate in children, though any death is horrible, obviously, in a child, it's the fact this virus can cause lung and heart problems that could potentially last the rest of their life. so we have to step up andve vaccinate these children. >> duncan: dr. david agus, thank you. there has been a mass shooting in colorado springs. seven people are dead after a gnman opened fire at a birthday party today. police say the suspected shooter then took his own life. all the victims were adults. no children were injured. parts of a chinese rocket that launched last month crashed back to earth overnight. it was captured on camera as a flash of light in the sky over amman, it's believed to splashed down in the indian ocean near the maldives.

congressional republicans face a reckoning this week, set to vote on whether to oust liz cheney from here leadership position. cbs' christina ruffini is at the white house tonight. christina, this move isn't just about leadership, it has bigger implications. >> reporter: that's right, jericka. this is all about the midterms. a lot of republicans think they will have a chance to take back the house if they present add united front and say liz cheney is no longer helping them do that. >> we need a conference chair delivering that a message day in and day out and uniting the nation. >> minority leader kevin mccarthy initially stood by his conference chair colleague liz cheney, when other house republicans wanted her kicked out of leadership for voting to impeach former president trump after the january 6 capitol riots. >> i don't think he should be playing a role in leading the party for the country. >> reporter: now, he's standing by someone else. >> do you support elisa stefanik for that job? >> yes, i do.

>> reporter: stefanik, who represents a rural part of upstate new york, has a less conservative voting record by a greater loyalty to the former president. in a press release, mr. trump called cheney a war mongering fool and endorsed stefanik as ae "superior choice," but not everyone in the g.o.p. agrees. they're going to get rid of liz cheney because they'd much rather pretend that the conspiracy is either real or not confronted. >> it bothers me you have to swear fealty to the leader or you get kicked out to have the party. >> reporter: jericka duncan's fate will be decided wednesday when house republicans will take a secret ballot to see if she keeps her leadership. >> christina ruffini, thank you. an incredibly tough day for families in kabul, afghanistan. parents have been burying their children, many young girls killed in a bombing attack outside a school. at least 68 people have died.

our charlie d'agata is there. >> reporter: yesterday, they were in school with their friends, preparing for their lives ahead. innocent school girls who were murdered in an act of unimaginable cruelty for daring to pursue an education. she was 15 years old and didn't miss a day of school, ghulam hussein said of his niece, we buried her here today. the interior ministry spokesman tells cbs news a car bomb exploded outside thehe entrancef the school just as the teenagage girls were leaving class, followed by two more bombs planted in the area. the govevernment blames the taliban, which has denied involvement,t, but that papart f kabul hahas also been the frequt site of bombings by isis in afghanistan, especially targeting schools. the massacre underlines the instability here as u.s. and and international forces international forces withdraw and afghan security forces

struggle to both contain mill militants on the battlefield and keep safe civilians in the cities. >> our front line is our mosques, there are streets, schools, there are universities, any place that the taliban can attack is a front line for us now. >> reporter: parents burying their children today didn't send them to the front line. they sent them to school. it's a tragic reality here in afghanistan that attacks like this are not uncommon, but it comes at the end of an exceptionally violent week that's seen a surge in attacks from the moment the u.s. drawdown began. jericka. >> duncan: charlie d'aga >> duncan: charlie d'agata for us in kabul, thank you. india today reported a new daily death toll of over 4,000 and more than 400,000 new cases. it's the world's worst covid surge, and a doctor here in new york is along those trying to help. cbs' nancy chen has more.

>> reporter: a welcome sight at mumbai international airport tarmac as a shipment of life saving supplies arrived, among them ventilators, now hard to come by. it's a crisis playing out across the nation. desperate families are turning to oxygen clinics on the street while those in need of ventilators wait in ambulances outside overwhelmed hospitals. >> it was like what we were dealing last year in new york. last year, we were getting all the supplies. people were coming to help us out. >> dr. ash tewari is the chairman of mount sinai's neurology department, he's sending hospitals in india some of the same ventilators sinai received at the height of new york's covid outbreak. 25 ventilators are part of this delivery as well as 100 sleep apnea machines with kits to convert them into ventilators. the help came together with help of actor and philanthropistilat. the help came together with help anupam kher. >> there are people who can not

afford ventilators, who can not afford medical help, so i think the gesture by dr. tewari is going to go far. >> i have names, faces and memories related to people who are suffering right now. >> reporter: the mission hits close to home for tewari. he's a covid survivor and born and raised in kanpur, india and lost a childhood friend to covid. >> they tried two hospitals and couldn't get a ventilator and within an hour he was just a memory for me. because it was a ventilator, i thought, this is something we can do. >> reporter: his hope for other hospitals in the u.s. to follow suit and send supplies, each device one potential life saved. nancy chen, cbs news, new york. >> medina's spirit, the horse that won the kentucky derby failed a drug test. trainer bob baffert made the

disclosure today at churchill downs denying any wrongdoing. >> medina's spirit has never been treated with beta methicillin. i got the biggest gut punch in racing for something that i didn't do and this is really-- it's disturbing, it's an injustice to the horse. >> duncan: if medina's spirit fails a second test, it could be disqualified. the colt is expected to run in the preakness on saturday. straight ahead on the "cbs weekend news:" a student turned teacher, changing lives back home. it's navy versus wisconsin-- in a badger battle. and later, she calls herself "a temporary mom," we celebreate temporary mom," we celebrate her permanant impact.

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a full scholarship launched her engineering and computer science studies at this top u.s. school, but she says too many others are left behind. >> i felt like i wanted the luxury. i got into berkeley and then a scholarship, i don't think i slept. >> reporter: in uganda, 77% of the population is under 25. opportunities are limited, she says, particularly for women. >> in a lot of homes, it's still very traditional the woman does more to have the housework and the cleaning and all that. >> reporter: many who do attend school were set back by the pandemic. marta is one of them. >> housework is all i could do in the pandemic. >> reporter: but a world away, gloria decided to help. >> so i thought, maybe this is my moment to actually start teaching and really empower these people to learn computer science. >> reporter: she spread the word back home she would teach girls

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play with her but don't interrupt her sleep time. >> reporter: you providing this safe and healthy environment for these babies is allowing you to give the gift of motherhood to other people or parenthood. do you look at it that way? >> yes, i do. when they're matched with a family that's going to adopt them, that's the warming part of the job that i have done to secure them, to build them trust, to go on to their new adventure. >> reporter: owens considers herself a temporary mother but what she offerings is ever lasting. do you know how much longer you will continue to do this? >> i would like to do it as long as the lord gives me the health and the strength to do the job that i'm doing. >> reporter: a job well done. danya bacchus, cbs news, los angeles. angeles. >> duncan: momma linda, happy mother's day. that's the "cbs weekend news" for this sunday. coming up tonight, "60 minutes." i'm jericka duncan in new york. we thank you so much for watching.

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