♪ ♪ this is the cbs overnight news. good evening, a another weekend in america has been marred by a mass shooting. tonight, police near miami, florida, are are searching for gunman who used assault weapons and handguns to fire a hail of bullets in to a crowd. the county's police director calls them "cold blooded murders," two people were killed and 20 others wounded in the attack. the community is being asked for help and a cash reward has been offered for clues. manuel is there. manny, good evening.

>> reporter: the shots rang out after midnight in a banquet hall behind me as a rap concert was ending as people filed out, police say three men opened fire. >> we need a response, multiple victims. >> reporter: tonight, people are looking for the three men who jumped out of a nissan path finder at the trip mall, armed with assault rifles and handguns and fired in to the crowd of concert goers leaving 20 injured and two dead. the injured were rushed to several hospitals. chad harris was among one of the stunned parts and his daughter one of the wounded. >> my daughter was on the other side. words cannot explain how i feel right now. this is a sad moment. >> this type of gun violence has to stop. every weekend it's the same thing. this is targeted, it's not random. >> reporter: for police, it's a worrying reminder that the nation returning to normal from the pandemic means violence like

this returns too. >> it's very disheartening but it's a trend that you are seeing around the country. >> reporter: on pace the nations, the sheriff urged lawmakers to act. >> we need the federal government and both sides to address this issue. because without legislation, without certainty as it relates to holding these criminals accountable, we are never going to get through the summer. >> reporter: even before this shooting, local leaders had proposed a $10 billion plan to stem gun violence, which involves creating more jobs for under served youth and adding surveillance cameras in high crime neighborhoods. one philanthropist is offering a $100,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction to the men involved with the attack. >> thank you. americans are heading in to another pandemic summer, but this time, with optimism. and memorial day weekend is

proof of that. we are in hollywood, california, good evening to you. >> reporter: good evening, it's a very busy hollywood boulevard tonight here in california, masks are still mandated but elsewhere in america, it's a holiday weekend with way fewer restrictions. america's pastimes are making a big come memorial day weekend. in indianapolis, 135,000 racing fans rev'ed up in the indy 500. the largest crowd in a sporting event since the start of the pandemic. washington, d.c., thousands of bikers rolled through the nation's capitol, raising awareness for missing service members. in boston, fenway park is packed again. even cdc director was there are throwing on out the first pitch. while travel soars to pandemic

peaks. it's all possible because half of american adults are fully vaccinated in less than six months. but covid still kills. the u.s. death toll pushes past 594,000. and tonight, new concern about a variant detected in vietnam. this as the biden administration urges china to cooperate with an investigation on the virus' source. >> they can provide the blood samples of those that worked in the lab in wu han and they refuse to do that. >> reporter: there's joy in the new normal. >> it's relief in celebration to be outside and feel safe. >> reporter: here in hollywood, there's reason to celebrate. with 75% of movie heaters open nationwide, memorial day weekend could top $100 million in the box office, one year ago it was not even a million. >> thank you. president biden is expected

to travel to arlington national cemetery tomorrow to lay a wreath at the tomb of the unknowns. today in delaware, the president and his family know attended church on the six th anniversary of the death of his son, bo biden. later, he was joined by his grandson and attended a memorial day service and he called it a hard day for his family. in texas, republican lawmakers have a midnight deadline to pass some of the toughest voting restrictions in the country. that's when the legislative session ends. we are joined by christina rafini, why is this getting so much attention even from the president? >> reporter: good evening, the bill like others in kgeorgia an florida are said to attack the sacred right to vote. they are targeting black and

brown americans and the states say it's about voting security although there was no evidence of widespread voting fraud in 2020. now this texas bill does things like bans drive-in voting, makes it illegal for counties to send ballots to anyone who does not request them and limits after work voting hours. poll s have to close at 7:00 p.. no democrats in the texas legislature support the legislation. reporting from the white house. thank you. asian americans have faced a dramatic spike in violence in recent months. as cbs's nancy chen reports rs, some are finding new ways to protect each other. >> reporter: they keep happening. attacks on asian americans nationwide, including a 75-year-old woman, punched to the ground without warning in new york. there alone, 86 anti-asian ate

crimes have been reported this year. up from 19 in 2020, in response, people are finding ways to help their neighbors. med student michelle tran has been distributing 14,000 self defense devices. paid for with donations. >> having a personal alarm or pepper sprayer on feeling equipped enough to feel more protected walking down the street is what we are wanting to achieve with the project. >> reporter: the nypd created an asian hate crimes task force. and it include whiches 25 investigators of asian decent, speaking a combined 11 languages. they control asian american communities often undercover and work with detectives to solve hate crimes. this inspector heads the task force. >> i came to this country in 1988, i was a victim of robbery delivering food. and i did not go to the police, i did not speak the language, i felt embarrassed. >> reporter: the incident inspired him to join the force

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♪ ♪ this is the cbs overnight news. thanks for staying with us on this memorial day. it's a time when americans honor those who made the ultimate sacrifice for the freedom we hold dear. now, some of the planned barbecues and parades may be washed out by the weather, no matter the conditions, president joe biden will be at arlington national cemetery. he will address the families of the fallen and lay a wreath at the tomb of the unknowns. after a year of covid limits. arlington and other military cemeteries across the country are now fully open to the public

and the third infantry regiment has arlington ready. planting flags at the 228,000 grave sites. david martin visited them this weekend. >> reporter: it was raw and raining at section 60 in arlington national cemetery where the fallen from iraq and afghanistan are buried. sarah's brother, special forces captain andrew ross was killed in afghanistan in 2018. he was 29, newly married and planning to start a family. instead, he came home to section 60. >> most of the people who rest here chose to do this post 9/11. most of these kids were kids when this happened. they chose to go in this very long war and give their lives for you, for me. >> reporter: corporal honeycut

was 19 when he stepped on a land idealism is etched on his head stone. >> next week, he he would be 30 years old. >> reporter: his mother comes here just to be close. >> it just makes me feel better to sit and talk to him. >> reporter: nor the past year, covid has kept arlington closed to all but family. >> i have never seen arlington be more empty. >> reporter: does it make a difference in the way you feely when you go there? >> i like to see arlington have visitors because every single person that's buried there deserves to do be remembered. >> reporter: arlington is opening up to visitors again, and ryan manion borque has organized a army of volunteers to make sure that everyone here is honored. >> making sure that the families know that somebody over the course of this weekend spent time to stand in front of their loved one's grave and remember them. >> reporter: ryan's brother

travis was buried here in 2010 and since, look how many more head stones have been added. >> now, there's so many rows that follow. >> reporter: andrew ross killed in 2018 is in the next to last row. now, with all american troops coming home from afghan stan, and with visitors coming back to arlington, we can all say a memorial day prayer, please let there be no morrows of head stones in section 60. cbs news, arlington national cemetery. some of the brave men and women who died in the service of our nation will forever remain unknown to the american public. they were the nation's secret soldiers, members of the pentagon, special operation units, or part of the cia or other intelligence agencies. their mission is always classified and it turns out annual event held in their honor is top secret too. however, cbs catherine harrige

managed to get a special invitation. >> reporter: with no written invitations and a time and place so secret it's on a need to know basis. ♪ ♪ each year, intelligence professionals and special operators gather for a heart felt cause. >> we like to call it a covert concert event. >> reporter: retired cia officer mark kelton sits on the board of an event so cloak and dagger, even the name is under wraps. why the event? why so much schedecretsy? >> we come from a secret world and it addss t to the mystique the event. >> reporter: some past perform ers are far from unknown. zz top, the steve miller band, and peter framton, and one year,

lenny kravitz rubbed shoulders with a general. >> these scholarships made it possible for me to go through school. >> reporter: this year's concert emcee and scholarship recipient, allison span, now a local journalist, her cia officer father was the first american killed in afghanistan in 9/11. >> we think of my dad all the ti time. >> reporter: what should people know about your dad? >> he believed in the united states and he believed it was the best country in the world. >> reporter: one of the last videos of him interrogating john walker er l aint, later called

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>> it's a constant treasure hunt. >> reporter: richman is not just talking about the rich and famous. in 2002, he made it his mission to identify the cemetery's military veterans, starting with the civil war. at the time, did you know how many civil war soldiers, veterans were buried here? >> i had no idea. we did have one volunteer and he had been walking the grounds for 20 years and he had a lust of of 250. and so, i was young and foolish back then and thought that if he had 250, perhaps we would find another 250. and we have well past 5,000. >> reporter: and it goes beyond just the name on the head stone. with each veteran, tied to an online biography, after the civil war identifications the greenwood project turned to world war i, how did you go about finding out more about the people? >> fortunately with the internet

and a number of websites there's extraordinary information out there. there may be an obituary from 1903, saying here's this person's story and he served in, and so, those are kind of the magic words. served in the 51st new york infantry and we go from there. >> the liberation of every town requires staggering -- >> these people landed in normandy and we came across a rosie the rivoter, who went to work and so, just a loving description from her daughter about my mother would dress up for the factory where she was working and so she'd wear this kind of industrial on outfit, but the daughter was very careful to point out that after work, she'd get back in to her dress as a lady.

and come home to her family. >> reporter: families sharing stories and even documents them. >> my grandfather was in the army and my in grandmother was in the navy as a nurse and they met while in the army and navy and serving and history is made. >> reporter: catherine is one of 20 volunteers currently compiling stories and pictures of the world war ii veterans, including her grandparents. her grarandfather served a as a corprporal in ththe army's 7 7t armored division which saw heavy combat in europe from 1944 until the end of the war. her grandmother served in a women's naval reserve unit known ask the waves. >> wavaves learn combat tactics. >> they met in luiz where the seventh was raining and were married for 41 years after the war. >> i'm learning more about how much history is out thereof them wether it's pictures or whether

it's just stories that are documented in newspapers. >> reporter: yeah. >> i know their lives and what they did but not necessarily those pieces of history. >> reporter: learning about another generation often teaches us something, have you learned soming? >> i think what i realized is that every generation has their struggles and every generation has their times that they look back on and whether they regret it or not, saying this is what i can learn from, i can learn from this. and if we don't document it, right, how do we learn from it? >> reporter: for you, what stood out in learning the individual stories? >> just how important it is for us to remember them and tell their story and to focus on just what makes life worth living. >> reporter: volunteer, jessica does not have a family tie to any of the veterans. >> i want to know what motivates them to come from a small midwestern team to come to new york and join world war ii, what inspired them to enlist.

>> reporter: you would never know it when you hear her talk about those that she researched. >> he was a few months shy of 18. he went down will on a thursday, on a tuesday he was sworn in. went off to world war ii, came back, he had nine children. he was an iron worker. proud iron worker for 45 years. >> reporter: we were with her when she visited his grave site for the first time. what does it mean to you to see the head stone. this is no longer a stranger, it is someone that you have to feel like you know? >> it makes me proud of being part of his story and telling his sorry. >> reporter: it's a pride that the volunteers share by telling the stories of those who sacrificed for our country. >> why is it is so important? >> ultimately a cemetery is about remembrance. and so, the monuments and memorials that are out there remember the people, but there are stories behind each of these

lives and so, we are trying to share the stories and collect those stories, and it's just been, a wonderful

for a few precious moments this afternoon, a divided nation will come together to pay tribute to america's fallen heroes with a song. it's a tradition that was started by on our very own steve hartman, on the road. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: 10-year-old kaitlyn sanders of maryland is hard at work. praging the 24 notes that will give this memorial day it's resonance. >> because if it sounds terrible it's not going to connect as well. >> reporter: well, i heard you and it was a lot better than terrible. >> thanks. >> reporter: kaitlyn and her offi

sister lauren are returns participants in what we are hoping is becoming an american tradition. we started playing taps last year as a way to safely commemorate memorial day in the pandemic and the response we got still gives me chills, almost will as much as the song itself. at precisely 3 chn:00, musician played taps in what turned out to be one of the largest musical tributes of all time. rough areally 20,000 soloists, all playing in harmony. >> reporter: i have i was emotional when hi saw the videos. how do you explain it? >> i think this comes from an underlying feeling of americans wanting to be part of something bigger than they are. >> yeah, i just decided that's what i need to do. >> bob had never played an

instrument before. but after seeing what happened last year, he felt compelled to take part this year. >> now the work begins. >> he has been practicing every day, much to his family's chagrin. >> what did you think of that? >> yuck. >> my granddaughter, i have a house full of critics, i'm still motivated, because it means a lot to me. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: in a country, too often divided, this is the call we all can answer. so, if you play, whatever you play, please join us monday, fo taps across america. steve hartman, cbs news. on the road. so if you have an instrument, pull it out, and join the band. it's 3:00 p.m. local time this afternoon. well with, that's the overnight

news for this memorial day, for some of you the news continues for others check back with us later for cbs this morning, i will be there. any time at cbs news.com. rep ting from t broadca it's monday, may 31st, 2021. this is the "cbs morning news." maskless memorial day. americans are out and about this holiday weekend. how travelers are feeling as calls grow for another investigation into how the coronavirus outbreak started. breaking overnight, house democrats stage a walkout at the texas state capitol temporarily killing a restrictive voting bill. a new chapter. how black leaders in tulsa are trying to encourage a new generation of entrepreneurs as the nation marks 100 years since the tulsa race massacre.