this is the cbs overnight news. >> good evening, spring is sizzling. in the south, severe storms have swamped the gulf coast, while fire scorches parts of the west. cbs's tom hanson is in new york and has more on the nation's weather extremes. tom, greechk.

>> good evening. as you can see behind me, bryant park is very busy with new yorkers trying to beat the heat. today temperatures hit 92 degrees. to give you context, that is 40 degrees higher than just one week ago. throughout the northeast, crowds are seeking relief from soaring temperatures. at least three dozen heat records from broken today, from michigan all the way to maine. boston and washington, d.c. are under a heat emergency. cooling centers are open as the cities brace for 100-degree temperatures on monday. in arizona, triple digit temperatures fuelling wildfires and forcing evacuations outside of phoenix. the telegraph fire in superior exploding in size to more than 34,000 acres. torrential rainfall hit parts of the gulf coast from texas to alabama. southern mississippi and louisiana bracing for another half a foot of rain through monday. in texas, heavy rain flooded roads swamping cars outside of houston. flooding hit more than 100 homes. here in new york city as well as the northeast, this heat wave is expected to stick around for just a few more days. believe it or not, it's only spring. >> luckily, summer is just two weeks away. tom hanson for us.

thank you. president biden departs on his first foreign trip this week. he's heading to europe for a g7 meeting, a visit with the queen, and his first summit with russia's vladimir putin. today vice president kamala harris began a trip to guatemala and mexico, but air force 2 experienced a mechanical problem forcing a return to joint base andrews to switch planes. she's now on her way. cbs's ed o'keefe is in antigua with a preview the vice president's trip. >> good evening, vice president harris comes to guatemala on her first international trip since taking office after spending the last few months on an issue with no easy answer. >> i am there to listen as much as i am to share prospective. >> reporter: the vice president's intense focus on the root causes of immigration has drawn close scrutiny and criticism from republicans who say she should focus on the u.s./mexico leader. on monday she had set to meet at guatemala's national palace with the world leader she's discussed the issue with most frequently.

>> translator: we are not on the same side of the coin. we are in agreement in the what, which is something. we are not in agreement on the how. >> reporter: he says increased border crossings have been caused in part by the change of administrations in washington. >> translator: the message cha changed to, we are going to reunite families and reunite children. the very next day the coyotes were here organizing groups of children to take them to the united states. >> reporter: those who do leave or let their children head north american politics never crosses their mind. >> announcer: we don't have -- >> translator: we don't have water or electricity. we don't have any money to bye -- buy food. >> what kind of help do you need? >> here, water and electricity. >> reporter: guatemala has 16 million people, similar in size to ohio. more than two dozen indigenous languages are spoken here. in addition to spanish. and it's the poorest of the poor who often opt to leave.

harris sites a poor economy, violence fueled by trade, and climate change. but she's also focused on the region's long history of government corruption meeting recently with former guatemalan prosecutors and judges ousted by the national congress. yamate said she should focus elsewhere. >> there is someone else more corrupt than a government of this size like ours, narco traffickers. >> reporter: the -- to fight the drug mar, he announced harris plans to announce they will partner to fight crime. the white house wouldn't comment. after guatemala, harris heads to mexico, where she will meet with that country's president. >> ed o'keefe reporting for us tonight from guatemala. thank you. former president trump returned to the political stage this weekend. cbs's christina raffini is at the white house. christina, mr. trump had a lot to say last night. hi pdency sequestered most of some his propert fo the sec time since leaving office, he

returned to the podium. after entering to a tune from his campaign sound track ♪ proud to be an american ♪ >> reporter: mr. trump led a crowd of north carolina republicans in a familiar retrain. >> that election will go down as the crime of the century and our country is being destroyed by people who perhaps have no right to destroy it. >> reporter: the speech, which included multiple false claims about the 2020 election marked a return to the political stage for the former president who many republicans see as key to helping them retake the house in next year's mid-term elections. >> 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. february and has been banned by major social media platforms since the insurrection at the capitol. one of his most vocal 's

critics liz cheney was ousted from house republican leadership last month, and replaced with a trump loyalist. >> our movement is far from over in fact, it is just getting started. >> christina, president biden is set to meet with republicans about the infrastructure bill tomorrow. does this at all signal that they are close to striking a deal? >> that meeting is now going to be a phone call. so that doesn't seem like a deal is especially imminent. look, the two sides are getting a little bit closer on the money. president biden dropped from $2.3 trillion down to $1 trillion but they are still at odds how pay for it. that's something they need to hash out if they think they are going to strike a deal any time soon. >> all right. christina raffini at the white house for us. thank you. today meghan markle and prince harry announced a new addition to their family with the birth of their second child arc baby girl. she's lilibet diana

mountbatten-windsor. cbs has more. >> reporter: so far the only glimpse the world had of this baby was back in march when she was a very visible bump during meghan markle's interview with oprah winfrey. her parents, the duke and duchess of sussex, aka harry and meghan, now live in california after a rift with the royal family that saw them cut most ties to buckingham palace. but the baby's name, lilibet diana, pays direct tribute to two towering royal figures, queen elizabeth herself, the baby's 95-year-old great grandmother. lilibet was her family nickname. and prince harry's late mother, diana, princess of wales. harry and meghan announced their new baby, 7 pounds, 11 ounces, was born on friday in santa barbara. a little sister for 2-year-old archie. elizabeth palmer, cbs news london.

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>> announcer: this is the cbs overnight news. i'm jericka duncan in new york. thanks for staying with us. the united states continues to make progress in the battle against coronavirus. more than 41% of the nation has been fully vaccinated. covid cases, hospitalizations and deaths continue to fall. but this weekend the nation marked a milestone in the fight against another virus. it was 40 years ago this weekend that the cdc published the first report of a mysterious disease that imto be known as hiv/aids. since then, aids has killed 33 million people worldwide. another 38 million people are now living with hiv.

in the past 20 years, infections and deaths have fallen dramatically. elaine quijano looks back at the early years of the health crisis. >> reporter: published on june 5th, 1981, this cdc report described a pneumonia-like disease in five previously healthy gay men in los angeles. while the disease was a mystery with no name then, the study is regarded as the arrival of the hiv/aids epidemic. dr. michael gatt leeb published the paper 40 years ago. when your paper was initially published, was there much of a reaction? >> people tell me, particularly people in the lgbtq community tell me they remember where they were when they read this publication, and they had an uncomfortable feeling about what was coming on. but the reaction of the general public was basically flat. it really didn't make iton ody's radar. repor b uncoring theig ofad as.

by then, millions of people had been infected. the disease was first detected in the gay community, and often referred to inaccurately as gay cancer. >> i remember those very first patient as well as i remember patients i saw yesterday. i remember their stories, their faces. i remember their occupations. i remember how they dealt with this undiagnosed illness that had no -- no cause and no name, with incredible strength and understanding and grace. >> reporter: it wasn't until 1985 that president ronald reagan first publicly addressed aids. when he defended his administration from criticism that it had inadequately funded aids research. >> this is a top priority with us. >> reporter: by then, more than 3,600 americans had died from aids. >> that was a very dark time in our country. >> reporter: paul olson is chief

communications for gmhc, an organization founded in 1982 as gay men's health crisis, the first hiv/aids service organization in the world. >> at that time, our government was not stepping up and assuming their responsibility for responding to this crisis because it was primarily affecting a community that was deeply marginalizeds at the time. >> reporter: sensing a lack of help from the government, activists including a group that disrupted the cbs even news in one instance. >> the story is aids. and the television is responsible to cover that. >> reporter: pushed for change. along with activism, cultural flash points put aids into the public consciousness. the death of hollywood actor rock hudson, a gloveless princess diana shaking hands with aids patients in the uk, and magic johnson's shocking retirement announcement in which he revealed he was hiv positive.

>> the hiv virus that i have, i will have to retear from the lakers. >> reporter: in the mid 90s, a medical breakthrough, the development of anti-retro viral treatment that turned hiv/aids to a virtual death sentence to a manageable disease. today more than two thirds of those living with hiv are receiving that treatment. but the epidemic remains in what paul olson calls the last mile. what are some misconceptions, paul, that still exist today about hiv? >> i think the biggest misconception is that the epidemic is over and we still are seeing the unacceptably high numbers of new infections, especially in black and brown and low income communities that are disproportion addly affected by other infectious diseases. >> reporter: where do things stand now since you first submitted that article to the

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jealous kind ♪ >> reporter: you are coming in sicking you make me feel like a. >> natural woman. it is pretty stuff. then you have got sinatra, and our version of sinatra, which is george straight, very conversational. well, excuse me, but i think you have got my chair. how cool is that? >> garth think about that, when you go, how cool is that. i think that's how people feel about you, how cool is he, honestly? >> that's great. i am the last guy who would think that cool would be on my -- >> have you looked in the mirror. ? >> looking in the mirror is one of the things that mystifies me. i am not cool. i am not -- you know, "the voice" is not of cinematic quality. my curse is i'm not special. my blessing is, i'm not special.

i get to be the average guy. >> reporter: the youngest of six kids, from a small down in oklahoma, gorgt's mother gave up her own music career to raise a family. shortly before her death, she told cbs news she tried to steer her son away from music. >> did you want him to follow in your footsteps. >> lord no. i begged him not to. >> so i went to the recruiting office there in still water for the marine corps because my father was a marine and i thought i would surprise my dad. i told him i want. his first words, garth, you don't want to do that. i think every parent wants something different for their child because every parent has seen the dark side of everything. >> reporter: but that didn't were very close to yourmer. >> oh, yeah. >> that didn't deter you that she didn't want you to do this. >> if you know my mom, garth,

don't get in this business. >> wing, wing, after playing local bars through college he left oklahoma for nashville arc trip that lasted just 24 hours. >> i go to nashville thinking is going to be vow hats and goose neck trailers. but everything is suit and ties, business, i am not ready for that. >> reporter: back home he married his college sweetheart got a band together and in radio music city he got a music deal in less than a year. his first record went gold ♪ the thunder rolled ♪ >> reporter: and his career took off. in the '90s, garth, you are unstoppable. how did you handle all of that fame? what did it mean to you? >> i probably didn't handle it well. the nation watches you grow up, right. >> reporter: yeah. >> you are going the make decisions where you go, man, i wish i could take that one back. but the truth is now, if changing anything then meant any

part of now would change, no thank you. >> reporter: brooks embraced that philosophy on love from one of his earliest hits. ♪ but i would have had to miss the dance ♪ >> so there's the blessing and the curse. the blessing is you found the song that defines you. some artists never get to. the curse, is it was way back off that first record ♪ hello samantha dear ♪ >> reporter: by 1999, brookts brooks sold 100 million albums and brought millions of new fans into country music. but with his marriage falling apart he announced he will be walking away. >> i never thought i would be saying this, music is not the first thing in my life anymore. once children come into the mix, children take the lead. that's it. they didn't want to come into this place. that wasn't their choice. we brought them in. even though sandy and i were not going to be able to complete our marriage, we still had our

children to raise. the country music audience has given you everything. now you simply ask them i am going to go home and raise my babies. the big surprise is never ever thinking you were going to be let back in. >> reporter: it seems to be a recurring theme with you, you seem to feel lucky or surprised that people show up. >> done. >> reporter: do you still think? >> oh, yeah. because when you don't know why they show up, you don't know if they will show up again. >> reporter: were you nervous when you came back after 14 years? i would love to have been at that first show. >> scared to death. >> reporter: you were scared to death. >> but the people were so sweet. >> reporter: they let you back in. >> oh, did that. >> reporter: you go on tour and the sales go through the roof. ♪ you were missed garth brooks. >> country is the best place to be. tough most loyal audience there could possibly be, and they will

wait four. right? and there began my life. your kids are all out of high school. >> reporter: yeah. >> you are with the love of your life. and this is the rest of your life as far as you can see? what gets better than that? >> reporter: yeah. that love is his wife and fellow country singer trisha yearwood. the two first met in the 1980s while married to other people. >> so you kind of become friends, buddies. every time she comes in to sing on every record, you know, you start getting kinds of sweaty and just love the way she smelled. >> reporter: how does she smell? that's a loving thing to say. >> she smells like nothing's impossible. she really does. >> reporter: despite all his success, brooks isn't ready to slow down. after accepting his kennedy center medalion, he made a bold promise. >> this is going to start making what we've done hopefully look

small. >> you wake up in the morning and you are breathing and god's got a plan for you. what are you going to do with it? are you going t

finding love in the time of covid proved to be nearly impossible for most people. but for one couple in upstate new york, it just took a little perseverance. steve hartman found their story on the road. >> reporter: for 95-year-old john schultz, the best thing to come out this pandemic is coming down the aisle. john's brand-new bride, joy marrow noton is also 95 and together they are proving you

are never too old to make a lifetime commitment. >> until death do us part. >> reporter: we first met john and joy in march parked along the banks of the hudson river in kingston new york, parked in the slang sense. >> get your glasses up. >> reporter: fortunately their pda. >> that's it, for the week. >> reporter: is mostly lol. >> he's a lot of baloney. >> reporter: john and joyce were both widowed twice. but determined to find love again. it wasn't easy. before getting vaccinated they had to do most of their dating in a bubble. >> she was worth it. it was a pain in the neck, though. >> reporter: pete schultz is john's son. >> they would call every day. they would find a way to get together. they did whatever it took. >> you haven't held hands with me all day by the way. >> hold my hands. >> reporter: what it took they say was a return to simple pleasures like long drives to were no, batting balloons around the house, and a whole lot of

selflessness. >> she bought me a walker. >> reporter: she bought you a walker. >> $159, i think. >> reporter: whoa. >> i told you she had money. she did, until she bought me a walker. >> reporter: not to be undone, john bought her a little something, too. >> i declare you husband and wife. >> reporter: for many of us, june weddings are a bright time after a long winter and a procolumnation that young love is officially out of lockdown. steve hartman on the road near kingston, new york. and that's the overnight news for this monday. for some of you, the news continues. for others, check back with us for "cbs this morning." and follow us on line any time at cbs news.com. cen new york city.ro i'm jericka duncan.

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