captioning sponsored by cbs >> duncan: tonight the cdc investigates a possible vaccine side effect in some young people. a few teens and young adults who got their shots experienced heart inflammation. we get the latest from our dr. agus. >> the cdc putting a warning out there is a red flag to doctors. >> this as the race to vaccinate towers the covid recovery, infections near a one-year low. also tonight forced to land, belarus day verts a plane carrying a dissident and seizes him, european leaders are outraged. we have reaction the the u.s. warns of a humanitarian situation in gazza cbs news is on the ground. >> i'm on the gaza strip where mm hast-- hamas is celebrating

victory while the people of gaza are still sifting through the wreckage. >> duncan: the last national guard troop deployed to defend the capitol heads home, we visit pete's dine wrer they found food and friendship. and later a classic big wheel bike makes a comeback. our ian lee takes a spin. >> they're so unusual. >> this is the cbs weekend news from new york, here's jericka duncan. >> duncan: good evening. america's covid recovery is picking up speed and vaccines are the reason why. but tonight the cdc is reviewing several dozen reports that some vaccinated teenagers and young adults may have experienced heart inflammation. still the dark days of january appear to be behind us. the seven day average of new cases down 90%. hospitalizations are down almost 80 percent, and covid deaths now roughly 500 a day have fallen by

85 percent. cbs's lilia luciano is in pasadena, california tonight and leads us off. good evening, lilia. >> good evening to you, jericka. health officials with optimistic about those numbers but they're still pushing for more people to get vaccinated. meanwhile there's new concern fr young people. tonight the cdc is investigating rare cases of heart inflammation among vaccinated teens and young adults. the agency says the complications were more common in males than females. we're seeing more often following second doses and were within four days after vaccinations. >> these are complicate-- complicationed that were not totally unexpected but are very, very rare and manageable. i can't emphasize it enough, the virus can be deadly. >> so you are saying teens and young adults should still get the vaccine. >> there is no question about it. right now 12 and old should get there vaccine. the vaccine is remarkably safe. >> but vaccinations nationwide have slowed down. in ten states mostly in the

south less than half of all adults have been partially vaccinated. the northeast is leading the way with several states above 70%. >> in massachusetts a high vaccination rate means a return to prom. >> it is really nice. it's been a year, it's been really hard. >> and here in california where half of all adults are fully vaccinated, police cracked down on a massive beach party. nearly 150 people were arrested. >> when you were young you just wanted to go have fun, have parties. and we kind of lacked that this year because of covid. >> the positive iterate here in california dipped below 1 percent this eck would, that is the lowest it's ever been which is great news here as the state prepares to fully reopen in about three weeks. jericka. >> duncan: great to here those numbers, thank you. >> there is developing news tonight in europe, belarus used one of its fighter jets to

intercept an irish passenger plane and force it to land. on the ground in the capitol minsk state security officials arrested one of the passengers, an opposition activist. european leaders have called it a hijacking and state terrorism. cbs's elizabeth palmer has the latest. >> this is the ryanair plane on the tarmac, arveg officials searched they defined roman protasevich, active in the movement opposed to belarus as strong nn president lukashenko. he and a hundred other passengers boarded the plane in athens bound for lithuanian-- lithuania but as it flew lieu belarus airspace it made a de tour to minsk. air force general andree gutter selfish said authorities told the pilot to diverse because of a security threat and they even scrambleed an escort fighter

plane to what he called protect it but no threat was found and the ryanair plane was allowed to continue its journey to landmine us roman protasevich. before he was arrested, says a fellow passenger, he knew he was in trouble. >> super scared. i looked at him directly into his eyes and it was very sad. >> huge protests in 2020 against lukashenko provoked a violent crackdown by police. that already earned belarus' president massive criticism. today's roag behavier says the makes belarus even more of a pariah. >> the russian bella russia airspace is unsafe for a commercial flight. >> the head of nato says forcing a civilian aircraft to land on false pretenses is a serious and dangerous incident. the question though is what is anything nato countries in

western allies can do about it. pamer,. thanks. today secretary of state anthony blinken said gaza is in a grave humanitarian situation following the 11 day conflict between israel and hamas militants. hundreds were killed, most of them palestinians. blinken is expected to travel to the region this week. the u.s. has pledged support to help rebuild the territory. cbs's holly williams is there. >> hamas celebrated the ceasefire with a victory parade. state they governed the gaza strip andheic ha helped bolster their image as the defenders of the palestinian cause. but the people of gaza bother the brunt of this conflict and they're still sifting through the wreckage of splint erred homes and lives. this used to be the gaza international hotel. >> so this was the lobby. >> owned by afaf abu jaber and

her family, they built the business up over 25 years. until an israeli air strike targeted the multistory building just next door, shattering the hotel. >> i don't want to cry but when i saw this, i'm very cried, in my heart. >> israel is also claiming victory saying it killed over 200 militants. but 12 civilians in israel were killed by rockets fired from gaza and some in the country are sceptical. goneen benities yak is a former israeli intelligence officer, hamas are war criminals, he says but he blamed israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu for igniting the conflict and told us israel's policies have strengthened hamas. >> and i think to myself what would have happened if i would live in gazza at least i would tb to the border and throw

stones, maybe become a terrorist because nobody gives me any hope. nobody gives me any future. >> a hamas official told us he hopes the ceasefire would hold but if that there were more ises rheal provocations quote we're not responsible for the next escalation. jericka. >> holly williams for us, reporting from gazza thank you. devastating news out of italy today where a cable car crash claimed at least 14 lives. it happened at a resort area in the italian alps, the only survive, a five year old child feet from the top of a mountain. no word yet on how it happened. >> in the democratic rep uk of congresso a natural disaster there this weekend when a volcano suddenly eruneptedrby cf goma panicked, thousands fled, at least 13 killed trying to escape.

flowing lava stopped short of the city, drone video captured the devastation and lava that has now cooled and hardened. this week marks one year since the death of george floyd killed by then officer derek chauvin. well today people rallied in several cities including minneapolis. president biden is expected to meet with floyd's family at the white house on tuesday. >> tonight the mission for national guard troops deployed to protect the capitol officially ends. those that remain are heading home. over 26,000 were sent following the attack on january 6th. at cbs's debra alfarone reports at least one local institution made sure they felt welcome. >> pete's diner has been keeping capitol hill fed for more than 50 years. >> say i had to grandpa, okay. >> we will. we'll check out grandpa. >> after the january 6th seige of the capitol thousands of national guard troops from

all over descended on the city to guard against unprecedented security threats. gum tong owns pete's diner, she remembers the first time she saw them. >> we-- the soltdier standing there, in the frozen rain, sleet, and cold, below 30 degrees and anybody with a common sense will feel like can i offer them a nice warm coffee or something. >> tong says she gave them a few breakfast sandwiches on her dime, it grew from there, a lot. >> from 2, 3 sandwich it become 2, 300 t become 5, 600, down on the road. >> it just took off. people started finding out and donating. some regulars, some tong never met. even the followers of a popular q-anon influencer joined in, feeding troops, apparently something everyone can agree on. >> look at this wonderful note they sent, like they give us a similar paycheck, the whole

paycheck $600 for the food. >> look at you, honey, you're crying. >> customer danyell carter couldn't hold back tears. >> we're going to be better, to take care of each other. >> yes ma'am. >> retired navy captain filllip bush is a pete's regular, he donated more than a thousand dollars to help feed troops. >> this is the closest thing to home cookk, i believe, that they can get bns if i can cook and feed you, then do i that. that is my job. >> tong says at this diner in the shadow of the seat of democracy, there's always a seat for these troops. >> debra alfarone, cbs news, washington. >> duncan: and just to think it started with one person. straight ahead on the cbs weekend news, covid's hardest hit victims getting help on the road to recovery. also battery powered planes could took us to new heights in the future. and she's back, simone biles returns with a bang and an

historic landing.

>> duncan: the cdc says the average recovery time for a person infected by covid is two to three weeks but for some people there can be lingering complications. kbs's danya bacchus visited a los angeles clinic help sog called long haulers get back to their lives before covid. >> at the height of the los angeles covid winter surge, 43 year old mario armendariz ended up in icu. >> i thought it was going to be just another flu, check in, get medicine, and get out. >> his case so severe, doctors intubated him. for weeks he was in a medically induced coma. the father of three and sole provider for his family said he faced a different fight after he was discharged. >> i couldn't walk. i couldn't eat by myself. the hard work comes when are you

getting up. >> their live has been completely upended. >> dr. jason practiceso helps patients-- prasso helps patient yefer come those challenges at the. >> are you sending somebody home who needs to relearn how to walk, to dress themselves, to bathe themselves, who's on oxygen now, depression, anxiety, ptsd. >> with all the clinic, which services one of the most medically underserved communities in the nation, patients like armendariz who said he lost his employer health insurance wouldn't have access to specialty doctors, physical therapy or social workers. >> just discharging them to a standard primary care appointment is not going to restore the life that they had prior to all of this. >> the clinic also provides a sense of healing for health care workers. >> if you remember every minute of their hospitalization.

>> ar mela took care of armendariz in the icu. >> what was it like being reconnected. >> it was great feeling, there is a light at the end of the tunnel. >> and it is that light. >> what would be be like without this. >> i wouldn't be here. >> that keeps mario going, danya bacchus, cbs news, los angeles. >> still ahead on the cbs weekend news, could it be the future of flight. check out battery-powered planes.

>> duncan: a boeing 737, the work horse of commercial aviation burns about 750 gallons of jet fuel an hour. well that makes air travel a major source of planet warming gas emissions. in our eye on earth series cbs's mark phillips found electric powered flight could soon take off. >> this is the point where we are at right now. >> this one looks like the red

baron's worlwar and o a tit paty. ouke skywalker miuste school run and this one looks like a flash from the past that doesn't flash very fast. >> a look around this display of vintage aircraft illustrates the challenge. >> in this british aviation museum you can trace the history of aircraft design back over more than a century. but whatever the technological advances from original biplanes to supersonic, all of these planes use one basic fuel, oil. >> how far are we away from having the holy grail of aviation, an electric airplane. >> a full electric airplane is a little way away. the big problem with full electric flight at this time is power density. >> power density is airplanes speak for the fact that when it comes to flyingk there is nothing like aviation fuel it may be polluting but found for pound it packs 14 times the

punch of any current battery, where we are right now is this 19 seater design that neil says will be in the air in three years, it is admittedly an interim step, a so called bio electric hybrid. >> in the future as we get to better batteries we swap out the generator, put that power pack in, the rest of the aircraft stays the same. >> others are trying to go pure electric right now. this nine seater got a lot of interest at the last paris airshow. >> internally we say a used battery with some bling painted on it. >> harbor air in vancouver has taken the pison engine owflt one of its sea planes and put an electric one in. the thing flies but not very far. scaling up is the problem. the major blesser, boeing, air business, are betting on improved biofuel engines but they come with their own environmental problems. >> the developers of the new technology say electric planes will be a commercial reality

this decade. but there's a saying in radical aviation design. take theory, apply engineering, add miracle. mark fill lisp, cbs-- phillips, cbs news, duxford england. >> duncan: next simone biles returned to competition this weekend with this historic vault, why it's not been seen before.

charlie, charlie bit me. >> ow! >> 14 years to the day after charlie bit my finger was posted online, going viral and getting nearly $900 million views, the original post is being removed from youtube. this week end the family auctioned off digital artwork, man, he's screaming on the video called an nft, after an online

bidding war an anonymous bidder paid a whopping $760,999 for the exclusive rights to own it. on the flip side, simone biles keeps proving why she is one of the greatest gymnasts of all time. competing in ind yap-- indianapolis bilees became the first to land the yourchengo double pike, considered the hardest vault in women's gymnastics. next top for the reigning world and olympic champion, the summer games in tokyo. congratulations. >> when we return, we'll take a ride with a big bike that dates back to the 19th century. popular again in the 21s.

>> duncan: finally tonight a blast from the past. sort of. our ian lee took a spin. >> whoever said it's as easy as

riding a bike never road a penny farthing. >> be careful, you are ride being seven foot up in the air. >> neil laughton runs the club in london. >> they're so unusual. these bikes were, had their day, their fame was in the 1807s to 18 90s. >> there is a reason the term break neck speed comes from these bikes. >> back then before gears, the bigger the tire, the faster and further you would go. oh, an there are no brakes. >> this is a queen victoria. >> and its name penny farthing was coined from century as old currency. >> penny being the large coin and the farthing the small coin. >> when the pafned hit, more and more people tbaif these victorian classics a spin. bike shops saw demand double. one will cost you a pretty penny though, about two grand. but it's easy to see why there's interest. just look at the reaction. >> nothing to see here. just a man on a penny farthing. >> to ride this beast of a bike

it's important to remember the five c's. confidence, courage, commitment, coordination, concentration. and if you lose one of them, you will learn the 6th c, crashing. >> and if you fall off, you fall off. >> melissa is a penny farthing enthusiast. >> some people might think i'm a bit bad but i think you have to try them to understand it. it is such good fun. >> and a good way to ride around london's famous tourist attraction. heck, you might just become one yourself. >> ian lee, cbs news, london. >> nice job, ian. well, that is the cbs weekend news for this sunday. later on cbs, "60 minutes." i'm jericka duncan in new york. we thank you so much for watching. have a wonderful night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org

live from the cbs bay area studios, this is kpix 5 news. it is another symbol of victory over the pandemic as one of the most magnificent cathedrals in the city reopens its doors. we will have that story coming up. one of the bay area's biggest vaccine sites is shutting down. >> there are large numbers of people standing around waiting for people to and it's probably not the best use of resources. the shift in strategy that could help more people get their shots. a landmark reopening tomorrow that could market pandemic turning point for san francisco tourism. thank you for joining us. >> new on this pentecost sunday, consider the birthday

of the christian church, san francisco's grace cathedral celebrated a rebirth of sorts opening its doors to the thankful for the first time since the pandemic began and john ramos was there.'s >> reporter: they say the spirit of the church is not the building itself but the people inside and there are some churches that have a power all the room. >> reporter: there is a tradition here in san francisco that the ornate front doors are kept closed except for special occasions or when the bishop is visiting. today, both of those were true. this morning, the bishop presided over the mass as the magnificent cathedral welcomed in the congregation for the first time in more than 14 months. >> we watch every sunday on zoom but this is a great day to see everybody together and we