street car service to a halt. transportation officialsri heret the heat is doing to our power cables, some cities even closed public schools, hot pool deck made conditions unsafe. >> part of the reason i moved here is to come in the summer to have relief from arizona heat and i seem to have brought it with me. so. i'm not real thrilled. >> well, temperatures are expected to come down this week, they'll still be in the '90s, that's 20 degrees above average. as covid-19 restrictions are lifted across the u.s. concerns are growing about the more transmissible delta variant of the virus, los angeles county requesting wearing masks inside whether vaccinated or not. now more on the spread sand the efforts to contain it

>> outside this soccer stadium young people are lining up to roll up their sleeves. >> this is the first opportunity i have had to get vaccinated. i'm looking forward to it. >> the uk is racing to vaccinate all adults as the delta variant has driven covid cases to 20,000 per day, highest since february, 52% have been partially vaccinated. slightly more than the u.s. but in russia and indonesia where vaccination rates are much lower the new strain is blamed for overwhelming hospitals and filling cemeteries and in australia where tough border controls helped to keep cases in check a two-week lockdown has now shut down sydney. >> it will become a very dominant variant globally. >> sharon peacock leads the uk's effort to map mutations of the virus. >> can we beat this virus that keeps mutating. >> it's here for good.

people will become infected. but we know how to treat people and to prevent infection and we learn to live with it. >> the english city of bolton shows one way how. in early may with less than one-third adults vaccinated, similar to some u.s. counties, delta sent infections soaring but after door to door testing and moving vaccination sites to more deprived communities, covid cases have dropped will. in half said vaccine director. >> people here it's about man amging vaccine programs why people are hesitant, it's also about not being able to access it. >> the doctor also told us while some vaccinated people are still getting infected fewer are getting hospitalized or dieing. and they hope to remove restrictions in three weeks, delayed by the delta variant. u.s. officials say the

american military withdraw from afghanistan will likely be complete by this sunday on july 4th, as the u.s. prepares to end its longest war the taliban is on offensive and gaining ground against afghanistan security forces, the fighting is drawing closer to afghanistan's capital. >> a trip to the front lines used mean getting a lift on a helicopter and now is a drive away into the mountains outside the capital. that close in the city north of kabul, the outpost came under attack. >> jesus christ. >> bullets ricochetted off the rocks. >> from the moment we arrived here these afghan forces open fire on taliban, militants were trying to advance up the valley,

and open-fire on this location. here. how fluid the front l >> this outpost fell to the taliban just the day before until they were pushed back. >> there's sometimes snipers in that valley so we have to stay back. >> can the absence of the u.s. troops hold the line, takes combination of afghanistan security forces and civilian fighters known as uprise who have taken up arms. this is the defense committee cha chairman. >> how important are the up rising people. >> they're very important and play a vital role for the security for all of afghanistan. >> an afghan humvee came racing back towards us in the valley below under fire and blasting its guns in a fighting retreat and then a whole column. we were told it was time to leave. taliban militants were advancing and no one were certain it could

be stopped. 20 years after u.s. forces came here they leave behind a country that's now on the verge of an all-out civil war. for cbs, from afghanistan. >> "cbs overnight news" will be right back.

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>> equality and acceptance. monnet has been attacked riding the subway home from new york. last year mmity seadlst i the world. pride month is to promote understanding beyond the world of entertainment. >> i remember thinking it is weird those guys are putting on dresses,s weird. but because of ru paul i was like it's not that weird. like, they're comedians, ators, singers, fathers, mothers, teachers, lawyers, doctors. drag queens are a lot like human beings. >> really. >> yes. >> for cbs this morning, jamie yuccas, los angeles. >> "cbs overnight news" will be right back.

millions of oil and gas wells provide much of the energy used in the u.s. but scientists say old and brandoned wells are proving to be a major threat to the environment. here's cbs's jeff berardelli. >> probably another 150 feet we'll find another well and that way. >> this is inspector for the pennsylvania environmental protection department. >> not even 150 feet. it's right there. >> it's an abandoned well. the epa estimates there may be 2 millioner scattered around the country left behind when gas and

oil companies stop taking care of their equipment. those wells fall into state hands. >> all of these colored dots represent a well, some are active, some abandoned, some are plugged, for every one of these there's two or three more not showing up on our map. >> many now leaking dangerous pollutants into the ground and air. we accompanied don on an emergency call to plug a broken well. >> i've been in this position now almost 11 years and i'm still amazed what we come across, where the wells are, in streams in, the river, on the allegheny river. and in people's basements, in foundations, they're just everywhere. >> this isn't only a pennsylvania problem it's a global one. leaking wells release methane, a big contributor to climate change, some estimates 80 times the power of carbon dioxide.

ted is the with the ohio river valley institute, clean energy group, he claims thousands of jobs could be created cleaning up these sites across appalachia. >> this is about creating jobs where they want to work and live not dislocating them to places they don't want to be. >> now president biden's bipartisan infrastructure framework sets aside $16 billion to help. >> federal government is talking about pumping monies into states to plug oil and gas wells. what would it mean for pennsylvania? >> it would be huge. they have the public safety aspect, the stock and pollution, the jobs for contractors and citizens who come out and do this work, it will be huge. >> but progress is slow. with no end in sight to the danger. jeff berardelli, cbs news, bradford, pennsylvania. >> and that's the overnight news for this wednesday. for some of you the news

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