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♪ >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." good evening, everyone. i'm errol barnett. jericka duncan is off tonight. president biden is in belgium tonight ahead of talks with nato and european leaders. it's the second stop on an eight-day foreign trip, his first as president. but it's his face-to-face summit with president vladimir putin that's attracting the most attention. america has an agenda of grievances for putin. cbs's ed o'keefe is in brussels tonight with more. ed, good evening. >> reporter: errol, good evening. the president's now here in brussels after weekend meetings
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about the economy and the global response to the pandemic. he's turning his attention now to thornier issues of national security and the u.s.-russia relationship. president biden today became the 13th american head of state to meet with queen elizabeth ii. >> reminded me of my mother. in terms of the look of her and you know, just the generosity. >> reporter: the courtesy call at windsor castle capped three days of events in the united kingdom for the president, and his debut on the world stage as commander in chief. >> america is back at the table. >> reporter: mr. biden now turns his focus to mainland europe. he's in brussels for meetings with nato and the european commission, and wednesday in geneva he's set to become the fifth american president to meet face to face with russian president vladimir putin. before departing the uk mr. biden said he agrees wh putin's assessment that the u.s.-russia relationship is at a 30-year low. >> i think he's right, it's a low point. and it depends on how he responds to acting consistent with international norms. which in many cases he has not.
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>> reporter: the president said he'd consider a putin-proposed prisoner swap with russia and is hopeful they can partner on fighting climate change and ending the conflict in syria. the u.s. and russia are also part of a u.n.-backed agreement against cyberhacking. but secretary of state antony blinken told "face the nation" today he's skeptical of russia's cooperation. >> i think someone once said trust but verify. i'd say don't trust and verify. we'll see by russia's actions whether it will make good on any commitments it makes. >> reporter: during the first major in-person global summit of the pandemic era the g7 ended with plans to counter the rise of china and overhaul international tax laws. but leaders didn't set a firm date on ending the use of coal, one of the biggest contributors to global warming. and progress on those issues can't be fully achieved anyway until the world gets control of the pandemic. >> i know that the world was looking to us to reject some of the selfishness and nationalistic approaches that have marred the initial global response to the pandemic.
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>> reporter: to that end g7 leaders today announced they'll be donating at least another 1 billion doses of the covid-19 vaccine to developing countries. but even president biden admitted today it'll take until well beyond the end of 2022 for the entire world to recover from the pandemic. errol? >> our ed o'keefe in brussels tonight. thank you. today president biden also congratulated israel's new prime minister, naftali bennett. he formed a coalition government ousting benjamin netanyahu from power. cbs's charlie d'agata in jerusalem has more on this political shake-up. >> reporter: and with that vote benjamin netanyahu's 12 years of rule are over. new prime minister naftali bennett and an unlikely coalition have dethroned the quloechkt-running leader in the history of the country. 49-year-old bennett thanked netanyahu for his service to the country but said that the job of governing israel has moved on to the next generation. in an afternoon punctuated with
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cheers and jeers from both sides netanyahu struck a defiant tone in what sounded nothing like a farewell speech. "if we are destined to go into the opposition," he said, "we will do so with our heads held high until we can bring down this government." the coalition government holds a razor-thin majority, and netanyahu is still the head of the largest single political party in parliament. the political upheaval comes just weeks after israel's military conflict with hamas militants in gaza and maintaining a fragile peace with its palestinian neighbors will be one of the biggest challenges facing the new government. the new coalition is unlike any that has come before. it crosses a political spectrum from the far left to the far right. and for the first time includes an arab party among them. deep divisions remain, but for those who've been pushing and protesting for benjamin netanyahu to go for months there was cause for celebration.
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in a speech here at the knesset prime minister bennett thanked president joe biden and the united states for backing israel during the conflict with hamas last month and warned hamas that if the militants again resort to violence they will meet a wall of steel. errol? >> charlie d'agata in jerusalem, thanks. "the new york times" is reporting tonight that apple informed former white house counsel don mcgahn and his wife last month that the justice department under the trump administration had secretly subpoenaed information about accounts belonging to them back in 2018. this is just the latest development of trump-era leak investigations involving members of congress and journalists. a big comeback today at the french open. did you see this? novak djokovic rallied from two sets down to beat stephanos tsitsipas capturing his title on the clay courts. it's djokovic's 19th grand slam victory just one behind rafael
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nadal and roger federer. now, there will be no cheering at the olympics in tokyo this july. that's because it is banned. so are international spectators. for japan the games were supposed to be a moment to celebrate. cbs's lucy craft is there. >> reporter: with anti-olympics protesters on the street, a japanese olympic board member slamming the international olympic committee for cornering japan into holding the games, and a top virus expert warning that guaranteeing a safe olympics was impossible, japanese officials are trying to give assurances they won't compromise public health to stage the games. despite all the warnings athletes already arriving in japan. but even if japan wanted to cancel the games, legally they couldn't. the olympic host city contract, signed between tokyo and the ioc in 2013, doesn't give tokyo the power to scrap the games. only the ioc holds that right.
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but if a covid surge forced japan to pull the plug, smith college economist andrew zimbalist said the ioc was unlikely to sue for what he estimates would be a $5 billion loss. >> they spent 30 to 35 billion dollars. they went ahead with the postponement. they said that's okay even though that cost them another $3 billion. and now you're going to sue them? certainly the ioc would have the legal right to do that. but whether they would do it or not is another question. >> reporter: but if organizers don't cancel the games, there is a chance of it becoming a superspreader event, said jack anderson, a sports law professor at the university of melbourne. >> what is your biggest worry? what's the worst case scenario? >> the worst case scenario is that the games begin, there is a severe outbreak and therefore you have thousands of athletes from all over the world and officials. what do we do logistically then? >> reporter: with with even critics say it's already too late to halt the event, japan is
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>> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." i'm errol barnett in new york. thanks for staying with us. the summer vacation season is upon us and many people have been biding their time to get back to sea on a cruise ship. the entire industry was closed down 15 months ago when several ships became superspreaders for the coronavirus. and it seeeems t these shipsps t completelyly safafe just yet. two passesengers on board thehe
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celebritity "millelennium" test positive t thursday w while at . whenen the shipp l left s st. m week ago, all adult passengers had to show proof of vaccination and a negative covid test. the cdc is recommending 95% of cruise ship passengers be vaccinated when sailing from u.s. ports resumes later this month. but the republican governors of florida and texas are refusing to let companies require passengers to prove they've been inoculated. and that's got the cruising public confused. after 15 months of a cdc no-sail order cruise ships around the u.s. are poised to welcome back vacationers. royal caribbean group ceo richard fain is eager to see americans embark from one of his vessels in port everglades in two weeks. >> it's very exciting. but i'm still confused about the details involved in getting us there. >> reporter: but after the cruise industry spent over a year negotiating with the cdc on how to safely protect against covid and prevent superspreader events, there's another wave of
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resistance. >> people are going to cruise one way or another. the question is are we going to do it out of florida which is the number one place into do it in the world or are they going to be doing it out of the bahamas and other locations? >> reporter: florida governor ron desantis sued the cdc to permit u.s.-based cruises in the spring. then last month the republican signed an executive order prohibiting businesses from requiring vaccinations. a key cdc recommendation for sailing. desantis is levying a $5,000 fine per violation. so one cruise ship could potentially incur milillions of dollars in penalties. and on monday texas governor geg abbott followed in florida's wake, even though carnival cruise lines had announceced a vaccinatated-only cruise frorom galalveston that daday. > no busininess orr govovern entity can require a person to prprovide a vaccine p passport any other vaccicine infnformatis a condition of receiving any service or entering any place.
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>> reporter: before covid more than $10 billion in direct spending was generated by the cruise industry in texas and in florida. nearly half of annual cruise spending in the u.s. cruise lines are eager to earn some of that back. what do you make of what cruise lines are tryrying to do to get back to business? >> they're sort of between a rock and a hard place. >> reporter: attorney michael winkelmamann represents cruise passengers and staff in legal disputes. >> neither of these g governors are members of the cdc.c. neither o of them operate a crue line. i think t they essentially needo keep out of this and let the cdc and the cruise lines continue to work together so that people can get back to cruising safely. >> reporter: it's a sentiment shared by most prospective cruise passengers. roughly 60% prefer mandatory vaccines according to a recent harris poll. only 23% prefer they not be mandatory. oliver max in texas would be on a cruise right now with his family if it weren't for this cruise conflict. >> i think that if there's not a
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vaccination requirement that i will wait a few months and wait to see what happens. i believe in the cruise industry to take care of people. >> reporter: cbs news travel adviser peter greenberg says cruise lines can decide to move their business elsewhere. >> we have 17 ports in the united states where cruise ships were operating before the pandemic. if you're not going to have vaccinations as a requirement, people are going to make other choices. >> reporter: and look, this confusion is far from over. carnival cruise lines' biggest ship the mardi gras is scheduled to set sail july 3 19 from port canaveral, florida. can't says every passenger on board will be vaccinated. meanwhile, many americans overseas will be spending their summer vacation looking for a place to be vaccinated. like i don't know, guam? lucy craft has the story of vaccine tourism. >> reporter: the u.s. territory of guam is a sleepy, compact island about 3,000 miles west of hawaii. its main attraction, beaches,
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palm trees, and sunsets. for more than a year guam's instagram-perfect aquamarine waters have been nearly deserted, imperilling livelihoods for a third of its workforce. but in recent months officials noticed a steady stream of americans living in asian countries with slow vaccine rollouts flying in to get their shots. americans like us. no sun and sand on this trip. i've just finished a week in quarantine to be able to come here to the university of guam fieldhouse for my coronavirus shot. lou leon guerrero is a registered nurse. she also happens to be the governor of guam. >> i kept up my license and i figured you know, if they fire me i'll still have a job. >> reporter: most of her constituents inoculated, governor leon guerrero said guam is launching vaccine tourism packages for u.s. expatriates. >> the win-win is really all over the place. we can vaccinate the u.s.
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the grammymy-winning b band t t black kekeys. ♪ what did you hear in the music? >> i just loved how raw it was, how simple it was. both pat and i grew up around a lot of folk art, and it felt like folk art and music were formed. you know what i mean? ♪ going down south ♪ >> it was like mystical. and dan could play those licks. you know.w. soso we wouould sit aroundnd an jamm for hours.s. >> r reporter: t the blackck ken sounund was bornn from thee blb. ♪ oh, oh ♪ ♪ i i got a l love that keepeps waiting ♪ afteter comingg off an arena to in 2019, the d duo s started plg some off their oldld favoritese auerbachch's easyy eye souound o
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in nashvhville. >> i lovove ththat. thatat sounds soo gogood. cacan you starart on that, man? >> yeah.. > reporter:r: the session,n, inincluded veteteran blueses mus kenny brown and eric deaton, w s going soso well they recorded ne songs the first day, then came back for more. >> you have the 10-inch. you want the 12-inch. you want the extra two inches. everyone wants it. >> reporter: the result is "delta cream," the duo's tenth studio album. named for the william eggleston photograph on its cover. >> what are you looking at? >> trying to read the menu, man. there's burritos, tacos. delta big burger. i want one of those. >> reporter: 20 years ago when a couple of kids from akron, ohio were first forming the black keys, they'd have to go to the akron public library to hear the mississippi blues. >> in fact, there's a video
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there that dan needs to check out of mississippi fred mcdowell. ♪ playing an electric guitar. and dan owns that guitar. and on this record we used it when we recorded "louise." ♪ i said louise ♪ ♪ >> yeah, this is the one i used to watch the video of him playing. it's a gibson trini lopez. he played this. >> do you go chasing these things down or do you -- >> yes. i've been chasing this stuff down my whole life. >> this is another guitar. >> this is hound dog taylor's guguitar. i use t these a lolot. i mean, thehese two guiuitars, obsesessed over r these mumusi. >> reporter: they were also obsessed with a little label in oxford, mississippi. fat possum records introduced them to blues greats r.l. burnside and junior kimbrough. ♪ >> a lot of people didn't know about them really until the '90s. >> oh, yeah. it was like a renaissance. you know, that we kind of lived
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through. and that's when i started making trips down to mississippi. >> second time i went i spent time with t.l. ford. was life changing for me. >> reporter: dan and patrick had their heart set on being signed by fat possum. >> we sent them our demo. they never even responded. >> reporter: so they drove there in person. >> they gave us a record contract. and then they tried to sell us a car. >> tried to sell you what? a car? >> they tried to sell us a mercedes with a bullet hole through the windshield as part of our contract. >> seriously? >> absolutely. but at the end of the day we needed the validation. we needed to be on fat possum. >> you wanted to be on -- >> we didn't take the car but we took the contract. >> reporter: auerbach and carney have long celebrated their music heroes. their 2006 e.p. "chulaho machlt" was a six-song tribute to junior kimbrough. its seventh and last track, a voicemail message from junior's widow. >> you're about the only one that really, really plays like
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junior played this record. and i'm very proud. >> it was like the only connection we had at the time to junior. so we put it on there. it was kind of ghostly and -- >> meant a lot. >> oh, yeah. >> you start playing music like this as white dudes from ohio, you know, everyone's asking about appropriation, things like that. those are valid questions to ask. >> what do you say to that? >> well, i'm not a black blues musician from mississippi. but i love the music. i think we're deeply indebted to this music. that's why it's important to put this out. because it's like junior isn't a household name. r.l. isn't a household name. they should be. if you're interested in blues, they should come up in n the convnversation s sooner than th do. and soo i it'ss payining our respecects. ♪ well, i'm'm crawlingg ♪ >> repeporter: thehe black keysl pay homamage inn anotherer waya adding new markers on n the mimississippi i blues trail to r
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lucky to be alive this morning after nearly becoming a snack for a whale. this happened off the coast of provincetown in cape cod. tom hansen has this whale of a tale. >> reporter: michael packard has been making a living for years diving for lobsters off the coast of cape cod. but on friday for a few seconds he says he almost became the prey when he ended up inside the jaws of a humpback whale. >> all of a sudden i just felt this huge bump and everything went dark. and i could sense that i was moving. >> reporter: veteran lobster diver michael packard was hoping to make a catch, but he says he
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almost ended up on the menu for a medium-sized humpback whale. >> and i thought to myself, okay, this is it. this is -- i finally -- i'm going to die. >> reporter: for 30 terrifying seconds packard says he was trapped in the whale's mouth. >> then all of a sudden he went up to the surface and just erupted and started shaking his head, and i just got thrown in the air and landedd in the wate, and i was free. >> the whale does not want a human dessert. >> reporter: dr. ian kerr is a marine biologist at the ocean alliance. he's been studying whales in cape cod for more than a decade. >> i've been in this business 30 years. and this is the second time i've heard of it happening. this area down by providence town is a highly productive area, which is why the fishermen are there, the lobstermen are there. it's why the whales are there. and basically, he just happened
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to be in the wrongng place at t wrongg time. >> reporter: kerr says humpbacks, which can grow anywhere from 25 to 40 tons, are gentle giants that pose no ththreat to humans. how lucky is the diver to make it out of the situation alive? >> i think he was very lucky. i think he's very lucky. it could have been a nasty situation. but i am sure the whale was almost as freaked out as michael was. >> reporter: bruised and battered but happy to live and tell the tale. >> soon as i'm healed up i'll be back in the water. >> not exactly the choice i would make. now, we asked dr. kerr if he finds anything fishy about packard's story. he tells us that as humans spend more and more time in the ocean for commerce and pleasure encounters with sea life will happen with more frequency. >> our tom hansen on the whale watch. wow. that is the "overnight news" for this monday. for some of you the news continues. for others check back later for "cbs this morning" and of course follow us online anytime t cbsnews.com.
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reporting from the broadcast center here in new york city, i'm errol barnett. it's monday, june 14th, 2021. this is the "cbs morning news." biden's big week. the president meets with european allies before his summit with vladimir putin. what the two leaders actually agree on ahead of wednesday's meeting. defying a dose. a new poll reveals the top reasons why vaccine holdouts in the u.s. refuse to get a shot against covid. next generation. a new coalition government takes over israel, ending benjamin netanyahu's 12-year rule. how this new leadership is unlike any before.
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