this is the cbs overnight news. >> good evening, america's covid recovery is picking up speed and vaccines are the reason why. tonight, the cdc is reviewing several dozen reports that some vaccinated teenagers and young adults may have suffered heart inflammation. the seven day average of cases is don't 90%. and covid deaths now roughly 500 a day have fallen by 85%.snpaca. tonight and we are leading off there.

>> good evening, health officials are optimisti for more people to get vaccinated. meanwhile, there's a new concern for youngs investigating rare cases of heart inflammation among vaccinated teens and young adults. the agency said that the complications were more common in males than females and were seen more often following second doses and were within four days after vaccination. >> these are complications that were not totally unexpected but are very, very rare and manageable. whereas i cannot stress it enough, the virus can be deadly. >> reporter: so you are saying teens and young adults should still get the vaccine? >> there's no question about it. right now, 12 and older should get the vaccine. the vaccine is remarkably safe. >> reporter: 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's really nice, it's been a year, it's been hard. >> reporter: here in california, where half of all adults are fully vaccinated. police crack down on a massive beach party. nearly 150 people were arrested. >> don't you remember when you were young, you wanted to go have fun and have parties and we lacked it this year because of covid. >> reporter: the positivity rate in california dipped below 1% in week. that's the lowest it has been and that is great news as the state prepares to fully reopen in three weeks. >> great to hear the numbers, thank you. there's developing news tonight in europe, belarus used one of the 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. they are calling it a hijacking and state terrorism. we have the latest. >> reporter: this is the ryan airplane on the tarmac. after security officials searched it, they detained this man, a journalist active in the movement on opposed to belarus's strong man president. he along with 100 other passengers boarded the plane in athens, bound for lithuania. and as the aircraft flew through belarus air space, it made a sudden detour to minsk, the general said that authorities told the pilot to divert because of a security threat and they scrambled an escort fighter plane to what he called, protect it. but no threat was found and the ryan airplane was allowed to continue its journey and land minus the journalist. before he was arrested says a fellow passenger, he knew he was

in trouble. >> he is super scared. i saw, i looked at him directly in to his eyes and it was very sad. >> reporter: huge protests in 2020 against lukashenko provoked a violent crack down that has earned him international sanctions. and the rogue behavior said that the foreign minister makes belarus more of a poriaya. >> it's completely unsafe for a commercial flight. >> reporter: the head of nato said that forcing a civilian plane to land on false pretenses is a serious incident, but if question is what can nato or westerner countriesyies do abou? >> devastating news out of italy, where a cable car crash

claimed 14 lives. it happened in the italian alps, the only survivor, a 5-year-old child who was air lifted to a hospital. the cable snapped a thousand feet from the top of a mountain. no word yet on how it happened. in the democrat i can republic of congo, a natural disaster there this weekend when a volcano suddenly erupted. the people in the nearby city panicked and thousands fled the area. at least 13 were killed trying to escape. flowing lava stopped short of the city. drone video there today captured the devastation in lava that has now cooled and hardened. this week marks a year since the death of george floyd killed by then officer daerek chauvin. 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 on officially ends those that

remain are heading home. over 26,000 were sent following the attack on january 6th. and as cbs's debra are alfarone reports one local institution made sure they felt welcome. >> reporter: pete's diner has been feeding capitol hill for years. >> say hi to grand pa, okay? >> okay. >> reporter: after the january 6th siege on the capitol, national guard troops descended to guard against unprecedented security threats. this woman owns pete's diner. she remembers the first time she saw them. >> we inside and nice and warm and the soldier standing there in the frozen rain, sleet and blee 30 degrees, and anybody with common sense, would feel like, can i offer them a nice warm coffee or something? >> reporter: she said that she

gave them a few breakfast sandwiches on her dime. it grew from there. a lot. >> from two, three sandwich, it become 2-300. and 5-600 now on the road. >> reporter: it just took off, people started finding out and donating. some regulars and some she never met. even the followers of a popular qamon influencer joined n feeding troops, apparently something everyone can agree on. >> look at this wonderful note they send like they give us the stimulus paycheck. the whole paycheck, $600 for the food. >> oh, look at you, monday -- y crying. >> we going to be better, okay? yes. we take care of each other. >> yes, ma'am. >> reporter: retired native captain, is a pete's regular he donated more than a thousand dollars to help feed troops. >> it's the closest thing to home cooking i believe they can get. >> if i can cook and feed you, then i do. that that's my job.

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this is the "cbs overnight news." >> thanks for staying with us. a tense calm has settled over israel and gaza, where a cease fire that took affect friday appears to be holding. the truce ended a bloody 11-day conflict, palestinian rockets fired in to israel killed 13 people and wrecked several apartment buildings and damaged a gas pipeline. the israeli response devastated the gaza strip, in addition to the 230 people killed, it left 70,000 people homeless. they damaged 17 hospitals and clinics. 53 schools and two major water

plants. holly williams is there. >> reporter: while the conflict was raging the israeli government would not allow us in to the gaza strip for our own noe e finallyhere, we canhow you the scale. buildings torn off their foundations by air strikes and you can see over here, people sifting through the rubble for their belongings. in gaza, palestinians are taking stock of what they lost in the conflict. it's opened new wounds in a place already worn down by poverty. they told us she is mourning family friends. who once lived where there's now only rubble. >> oh, and my friends, these are my friends. dads, moms, brothers. all -- >> reporter: hamas, the group that controls the gaza strip,

labeled a terrorist organization by the u.s. celebrated the cease fire as a victory. they fired over 4,000 rockets at israeli towns and cities. killing 13. though israel's iron dome air defense system shot down most of the projectiles. israel's retaliation was to pummel the over crowded gaza strip where they have no defense. the israeli government claims it did unprecedented damage to hamas, killing more than 200 militants and doing its best to avoid civilians, but officials say here nearly 70 of those killed were children. five month old baby omar lost his four brothers and mother in a strike. >> reporter: my heart is

breaking. his father told us, what guilt does the baby have. there's two versions of what happened in the conflict, and a cease fire does nothing to fix the real problem, which is two peoples fighting over the same piece of land that they both call home. holy william-- holly williams, president biden gave the medal to puckett, jr. he led his troop to safety after his foot was blown off by a grenade. he ordered the men to leave him behind to speed their retreat, instead, they carried him in to history. david martin has more on puckett's remarkable story of courage. >> reporter: it was 1950. first year of the korean war. and raffle puckett, a green lieutenant with no combat experience answered a call for volunteers. >> he said, i'm selecting

volunteers for an extremely dangerous mission behind enemy lines. and i said, sir is, i volunteer. and he said, don't you want to know what the mission is? and i said, yes, sir. but i volunteer. >> reporter: not only was he accepted he was put in command of 51 army rangers. >> i said to myself, dear god, please don't let me get a bunch of good guys killed. >> reporter: that was raffle puckett seven years ago. his steps slowed by age, he received the medal of honor which president biden said was long overdue. >> i understand that your first response to us hosting this event was, to ask, why all the fuss? >> fuss because he put the lives of his men above his own when they were about to be reoverrun. >> he ordered one of his men who found him on the ground to leave him behind. there. >> tell your men to leave you behind? >> that took a lot of courage.

>> sometimes i was so afraid i thought i was going to vomit. but i had to do the job. >> reporter: to honor that courage, the presidents of the u.s. and south korea did something raffle puck-- somethi ralph puckett never did, they took a knee. puckett went to fight in vietnam and after 22 years in the army, he retired as one of the nation's most decorated combat soldiers. in addition to the medal of honor, puckett received the distinguished service cross twice two silver stars for valor and two bronze star medals and five purple hearts and he earned the undying praise of a thankful (announcer) if you're an american age 50 to 85, and you're counting on social security to help your family with your final expenses, this news may surprise you. the social security death benefit is capped at just $255 and not everyone is entitled to claim it.

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dog in the bunch. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: in 1969, the super group, crosby, stills, nash and young recorded deja vu. were you conscious while you were making the record of what you were making? >> yeah. >> reporter: you were? >> yeah. we knew. >> reporter: you heard it. >> when you hear "carry on," you knew it. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: the record would on sell eight million copies. >> deja vu was intense, tragic in many ways and a great album. >> they had released their debut album earlier in 1969. david crosby had come from the birds. steven stills from the buffalo

springfield and graham nash from the hollys, and stills wanted to add another member. what were you looking to add to the band? you wanted somebody? >> i wanted to do what the springfield used to do. i didn't want to be a folk group, i wanted to play rock and roll as well. >> reporter: he settled on band mate neil young. you were not in favor originally. >> i was not in favor of it at all. we had created between me and david and stephen a vocal sound that was completely unique. >> reporter: but nash agreed to meet young for breakfast in new york. >> i said why should we invite you in to the band and he looked at me and he said, have you heard me and stephen play guitar together? i went, yeah, i have. of he was in the band from that moment on. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: but the band was entering a dark period. stills just broken up with

na relationship with joany mitchell was growing rocky. and crosby's girlfriend christine hinton had been killed in a car crash. >> i was in terrible shape. >> reporter: yeah. >> i was damn near destroyed and it's what kept me alive. >> reporter: how would you describe the period of recording that album? >> chaotic. >> reporter: you talk about how you guys butt heads all the time. >> well, it was glancing blows but they were continuous, and that tends to numb your skulls and you turn in to numb skulls. >> reporter: and neil young, the only band member that did not talk for the story, also went >> when neil joins the band, he does not join the band. he made his tracks outside by himself and brought them and we sang on them. perfm on either of your songs

did he? >> no, he never sang or played on teach your children or never played or sang on our house. >> reporter: did that bother you? >> no, listen to them, they are decent records. ♪ ♪ csny had started touring in the summer of '69. your second gig -- >> woodstock. our second gig was woodstock. ♪ ♪

the song woodstock would be the biggest hit on the album released in 1970. the 50th anniversary edition a year late because of the pandemic. includes some memorable out-takes. >> there's a demo of me singing our house, and joanie was there and was at the piano with me, and started to play the top end of the keys. ♪ ♪ >> i wanted the fans of the deja vu record to be thrilled of what they were listening to and get an idea of what we went through as four people to make that one record. >> but the band that made that record may never play together again. how are you all with each other? >> stephen and neil and i are great. >> reporter: yeah. >> we talk often. we don't talk to david.

>> i don't know, i don't expect to be friends with graham at any point. neil, hates my guts. >> reporter: why? >> i said bad stuff about his girlfriend. >> reporter: hm-mm . >> probably don't say it, dave. >> reporter: do you regret saying them? >> yeah, sure. >> you know, when that silver thread that connects a band gets broken, it's very difficult to glue the ends together. it doesn't quite work. and so, the things that happened in me and david's life broke that silver thread and i, for the life of me i can't put it back together. >> reporter: do you wish you could? >> yes. i do. i do wish i could. only because of the loss of the music. ♪ ♪

. ow, charlie, ow, charlie, that really hurts. >> that adorable 2007 video, charlie bit my finger has been viewed nearly billion times over the years. this weekend the family sold it at auction for $761,000. so how do you auction something that has been on the internet for 14 years? ann lee got the inside scoop from the now teenage stars of the video. >> ow, charlie. ow! >> reporter: it's a moment that made most all of us laugh. >> charlie! that really hurts. >> reporter: even 1-year-old charlie davies carr, and more than 880 million people who have watched him bite his brother

harry's finger. youtube's most watched viral video of all me , e! >> reporter: wilea >> it's a for both of . >> reporter: sold as an nft do you know what it is? >> i have the basics of it. >> it's a certificate of authenticity. that can represent a scarce piece of art, or potentially merchandise. >> reporter: matthew lou and josh fraser are the tech providers in charge of launching the family's nft to target the growing number of collectors. >> it's very similar to why people buy traditional fine art, or sports memorabilia. >> reporter: the disaster girl rcently sold for half a million. ceo's jack dorsey sold his first ever tweet for 2.9. and bepple sold a nft for $69.3 million. >> we don't have any expectations and will not be

disappointed, whatever happens. >> charlie! >> reporter: the boy's father a, howard, hopes the old video can help his sons now 15, in the future. >> it would be great if somebody thinks it's fantastic and they want to do whatever and it makes it easier for us and it means that harry goes to university and has a nice place to stay and doesn't have to have a bar job. >> no splurging on fast cars and video games? probably not. >> education takes priority. >> reporter: and while charlie found biting his brother funny. >> that really hurts charlie and it's stillng. >> rep>> reporter: it's the fam that could be the last ones laughing all the way to the bank. ian lee inenan again s the video to an anonymous bird for $761,000. wonder what they will do with all that, g that's the overnight news for this monday. for some of you the news

continues for others check back later for cbs this morning and follow us online any time at cbs nene it's monday, may 24th, 2021. this is the "cbs morning news." controlling covid. new cases plummet as the vaccine push continues, but some young adults are now experiencing a rare side effect. deadly road-rage shooting. a 6-year-old boy dies after someone opens fire on a freeway. the search underway as the rewar grows to find the gunman. journalist arrested. belarus officials force a plane to land and detain a passenger on board. the global anger and the u.s. the global anger and the u.s. response. captioning funded by cbs good morning. good to be with you, i'm