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aids. >> the disease that has claimed so many lives here has also come to dominate the lives of many who are not infected. >> diaz: border nurses: battling covid and a closed crossing just to get to work. and later, a photographer gets up close and creative with cicadas. >> i feel like people should embrace nature. >> this is the "cbs weekend news." from chicago, here's adriana diaz. >> diaz: good evening. so much for spring. tonight, millions of americans are feeling the heat from the west to here in the midwest, and into the northeast. it was just last weekend, the so-called unofficial start of summer, that we were reporting on rain and record cold. but this weekend, weather isn't just hot-- it's dangerous. and the wildfire threat in the west extreme. cbs news meteorologist jeff berardelli joins us now with more.

jeff, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, adriana. good evening, everybody. so we have widespread and intense sweltering heat all the way up to the canadian border. about 60 record highs today tody alone. high temperatures near 100 degrees up towards the canadian border. north dakota, south dakota, and minnesota, all because of a heat dome which is right on top of the great lakes, the upper midwest, and the northeast. we're going to see more record highs toppled during the day on sunday and on monday with high temperatures both days in the 90s. as you can see, places like newark, new jersey, 94. washington, 94. minneapolis up to 96 degrees as we head into sunday. and monday, we're talking about temperatures once again in the low to mid 90s. across the gulf coast it is rainfall, and a lot of it, on top of saturated soil, and that means flash flooding is possible with another four to eight inches of rain on some parts of the gulf coast. in the west, they wish they would have any rain at all. look at the drought last year. last year there was barely any

drought but one of the worst fire seasons ever. this year, this is a monumental drought, probably the worst in modern history. we are seeing extreme drought all across the west and a drought emergency in california because of our warming climate and a lack of rainfall. adriana. >> diaz: all right, jeff berardelli, stay cool. thank you. the political season is heating up fast, too. tonight, former president donald trump makes a rare appearance in front of republicans in north carolina, planning their future. cbs' christina ruffini is at the white house with more. christina, good evening. >> reporter: adriana, tonight was mr. trump's first public appearance since, if a rare opportunity for him to address his supporters directly and in person. the former president is still banned from most social media platforms. on friday, facebook, announced it would increase that ban. it will go all the way until 2023. tonight he didn't need a facebook status update or a

tweet to get his point across. >> the survival of america depends upon our ability to elect republicans at every level, starting with the midterms next year. we have to get it done. ( applause ) we have to get it done. we have no choice, actually. we have to get it done. together, we're going to defund our freedoms. you just attack a look at what's happening. we have to defend our borders. we have to do all of these things. and we're going to stand up for our values. we have to stand up for our values. and we're going to take back our country. >> reporter: now, his supporters in congress are sticking close to mr. trump hoping he'll help them win big in next year's midterm election. the former president has also said he's flirting with the idea of running again in 2024. his run would start just about the time facebook could lift his suspension on the platform. adriana. >> diaz: all right, christina ruffini, thank you. california governor gavin newsom is california governor gavin newsom

is slamming a federal judge's ruling that overturns the state's three-decade-old ban on assault weapons. he calls it "a direct threat to public safety." cbs' lilia luciano is in culver city, california, with the latest. lilia, good evening. >> reporter: good evening to you, adriana. the state of california plans to fight back. attorney general rob bonta tweeted, "weapons of war don't belong on our streets," and promised, "we will fight this ruling." ( gunshot ) judge roger benitez called the 1989 ban on assault weapons a failed experiment. his ruling pleased the plaintiffs, including a group of san diego gun owners gee, i'm >> i'm really glad he are reaffirmed our right to keep and bear arms is rock solid, even here in california. >> reporter: but the judge drew sharp criticism after likening the ar-15 rifle to a swiss army knife, writing, "it is good for both home and battle." california governor gavin newsom condemned the comparison as a slap in the face to the families

who have lost loved ones to this weapon. ar-15-style weapons have been used in many mass shootings, with critics charges it's a weapon of mass murder. but america is arming up. gun sales surged nationwide over the last year. one-fifth of buyers, first-time gun owners. 39% of american households currently own guns, up from 32% in 2016. judge benitez's ruling won't go into effect for another 30 days, giving the california attorney general time to appeal. adriana. >> diaz: lilia luciano in california, thank you. there has been more bad behavior in the skies. tonight, the f.b.i. is looking into the actions of a passenger who forced a delta airlines jet to make an emergency landing in albuquerque. cbs' michael george reports.epoe supposed t >> reporter: they were supposed

to fly from los angeles to nashville, but delta flight 386 diverted to albuquerque, new mexico, late friday when a passenger caused a disruption. >> stop the plane! >> reporter: he was screaming, "stop the plane," according to jessica robertson. she was one of the 162 passengers on board, and took this video from her third-row seat. tom beanert sat in 1-b. >> they're not clowning around and i realized they were in a full-on fight, wrestling. >> reporter: cbs news has learned flight attendants were forced to act when the man approached the 737's flight deck. >> reporter: after making an emergency landing, the unruly passenger was removed by authorities. delta told cbs news, thanks to the crew and pas the crew and passengers of delta flight 386, who assisted in detaining an unruly passenger. >> chris williams had come back up and was sitting in the jump seat, and i was just so impressed with the guy. reported >> reporter: this man, seated

nearby, tweeted, "the attendant just saved the plane." michael george, cbs news, new york. >> diaz: you may recall this image: a man standing up against the communist crackdown at tiananmen square. today marks 32 years since the beijing massacre, and in hong kong, there were flickers of defiance. cbs' ramy ininocencio is t ther. >> reporter: hong kong police targeted youth wearing black, an elderly man carrying a lamp, and anyone lighting candles, one single flame too political for authorities to accept. personal vigils on this 32nd anniversary of china's tiananmen square massacre when beijing crushed a student-led democracy movement in 1989. in hong kong, a british colony at the time, they still remember. in 2019, a record-matching 180,000 people held a candlelight vigil at victoria

park. this year, the protest hot spot was empty except for police. the official reason: covid. >> ridiculous.e compared to las you see compared to last year, the covid virus is less serious. >> hong kong police will use whatever measures. >> reporter: it's now 8:00, ands back out the police are pushing us back out of victoria park with this orange line. it's a slow push, but, clearly, they've been given the order that any attempt at doing any kind of vigil is over. police raised a banner warning people to leave. with lights shining, they flowed like water around the park and across hong kong instead. but many hong kongers fear china's communist party is overwhelming them with a rubber- stamped national security law now looming to prevent the mass pro-democracy protest of 2019 from ever happening again. this june 4 may be a dying ember in a city once known for freedom

of expression, so many trying to keep hope burning in what they feel is their darkest time. ramy inocencio, cbs news, hong kong. >> diaz: america's covid recovery is still speeding ahead. less than 17,000 new infections were reported friday. that's down 47% over the last two weeks. but with all the good news, this sobering reality: total confirmed cases in the u.s. now top 33 million. and more than 597,000 people in this country have died. today marks the date 40 years ago that american researchers first described a mysterious illness in five gay men. it was an emerging epidemic that would come to be known as aids. john blackstone has covered this story for cbs news since the 1980s, and he returns tonight. >> reporter: in san francisco this morning, a wreath was laid under the redwoods of the national aids memorial, dedicated to the more than 700,000 americans who have died

from the disease. >> dick tavish, douglas wright... >> reporter: names were read and others remembered on a new panel of the aids memorial quilt. it's a project that started on sewing machines in san francisco in 1985 to remember the fir in 1985 to remember the first 1,000 who died, just the beginning of deaths in the city's castro district. >> the disease that has claimed so many lives here has also comm to dominate the lives of many who are not infected-- the doctors, nurses, and volunteers who have been caring for people since the mysterious virus first appeared. >> take a deep breath. >> reporter: back then, one of the them was dr. lisa capeldini. >> when i worked with my first patient with aids, i went to sit at his bedside and to hold his hand. i thought, oh, boy, is it okay to touch this man? >> reporter: 40 years ago, the newly-identified disease didn't even have a name. it was called "gay cancer." >> and yet, most of the country doesn't know about this cancer.

>> why? >> well, i think because it's a gay cancer. >> reporter: larry kramer was a founder of "act up," a group that used raucous tactics to mandate faster development of drugs. among the early researchers looking for both a cause and a cure was dr. anthony fauci. >> the plan is to put into clinical trials individuals who have full-blown aids. >> reporter: but when the first drug, a.z.t., was approved in 1987, the demonstrations got louder because the drug cost so much. >> your dosage is probably going to cost you $10,000 a year. >> reporter: at today's ceremony, the losses over 40 years were clear, but so were the gains. while there is still no cure, new treatments have made it possible to live with aids rther than just die with it. >> diaz: john blackstone joins us now from san francisco. john, it's so great to see you. 40 years later, are you struck by any parallels as we live through a pandemic caused by a new virus?

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mireya villarreal tells us why. >> reporter: hard to tell from this view, but bob dixon's southeast alabama mill is considered small by industry standards. >> the whole game is to get this into somebody else's shed, not mine. >> reporter: he says logistical issues like staffing and delivery are making it hard to respond to the increase in lumber demand. >> the issue now with employees being paid to stay at home. it's no being paid to stay at home. it's not just our industry. it's everywhere you go. >> reporter: in addition to the logistical hurdles, mills are also facing soaring demands for home renovations. the result: lumber prices have tripled in the last 12 months since april, adding roughlyil, d $36,000 to the price of a new home. what are we talking about price increases? >> so this one is about 400%. the flooring, about 400%. the sheathing on the outside of the wall, almost 700% the last time i checked. >> reporter: birmingham builder alicia huey says higher prices threaten her business and price homeowners out of the market.

so if this is going up for you, i would imagine that cost gets pushed on to the homeowner? >> it does. but right now i can't tell anybody how much a house is going to cost. >> reporter: what does that do to the american dream? >> kills it. >> reporter: the ripple effect now reaching families who need help the most. the nonprofit habitat for humanity no longer taking applications in birmingham. >> that will be good. that will help a lot. >> reporter: charles moore is the president and c.e.o. of greater birmingham habitat for humanity. >> there are families out there that are still struggling and still need habitat and still need assistance. we need these material prices to come down so that it's manageable for them. >> there are about 10 mills that produce this product right here. >> reporter: and huey believes some of the big mills are taking advantage of the situation. >> i think it's great for the lumber mills. >> reporter: home builders have told us they believe the big mills are the problem, that they're jacking up the prices. is that what's happening? >> i don't believe any mill can control our industry.

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>> it's not a border. it's a line we cross, and i think it would have been horribly cowardly, yeah, to abandon my american cousins. >> diaz: in canada there was some resistance. >> there was a call in our local paper to stop us being allowed to go back and forth across the border. >> diaz: how did that feel? >> not good, not good at all. >> diaz: both contracted covid and recovered and they remain as committed as ever. >> this is our burning building. this is what we run to and what we've been trained for, our moment to shine. >> diaz: that's true dedication. next on the "cbs weekend news," we bug out over a photographer giving cicadas a close-up. and with brokerage accounts online trades are commission free. personalized advice. unmatched value. at fidelity, you can have both.

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say it looks like an alien invasion, but the good news is, they're basically harmless. >> they're not going to bite. they're not going to sting. they're not going to carry away small children and dogs like the flying monkeys in "the wizard of oz." >> this is an amazingly beautiful creature. >> reporter: oxana ware's three young children were initially creeped out by cicadas, so the professional photographer staged them in playful scenes. her blog went viral. playful scenes. so your kids are no longer afraid of cicadas. >> not at all. they love them. i love playing with them. i feel like people should embrace nature and embrace the beautiful side of things more. >> want to see something really cool? >> reporter: a good frame of mind for getting through the rest of the cicada apocalypse. chip reid, cbs news, arlington, virginia. >> diaz: you can find beauty everywhere. that is the cbs effect news for this saturday. later on cbs, "48 hours."

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