>> vern? >> no way. 76 hot dogs in 10 minutes. >> that captioning sponsored by cbs >> tonight, demolition crews in surfside, floridida, gets seteth a a storm loooming.. search foror the mimissing uspendeded. and plans to the tower are suspended. >> we need to move forward with the rescue of all those people. >> the latest on the ground and the forecast of what's to come. also tonight, america celebrates independence from covid with a return of traditions, parades, picnics and fly-overs, and, president biden celebrates our

pandemic with a party. and former president undergoes colon surgery. later it's a 4th of july favorite. we go to cooneney island fofor e hotdog history. >> once the depression rolled around that's when the business started taking off. >> this is the cbs weekend news. from new york, here is jericka duncan. >> good evening, thanks for joining us. from coast to coast, america seems to be making up for what was lost on this holiday weekend last year. with more signs every day that life is getting back to normal. vaccines have crushed the worst of covid but amid the r reivelly therref el,before a tropical sts in. 24 people are confirmed dead,

121 still u unaccounted for. cbs's omar villafranca is there tonight. omar, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, jericka. demolition crews have been working for hours in extremely dangerous conditions, trying to get those explosive in place so they can take down the remainder of the building behind me before mother nature knocks it down. making way for demolition crews who are work at a furious pace to bring down the last section of the champlain tower south. >> the governor and i have made clear our top priority is that the building come down as soon as possible. >> reporter: manor a week after the deadly collapse, a heightened sense of urgency, in farther due to a tropical storm barreling towards south florida. the worry, that the storm would bring the remaining building

down on the debris field. >> once the building is demolished and the site is declared safe, rescue teams can get back to searching parts of the rubble that was off lirmts because of the danger. charleston ct burkett. >> no one should be thank yoing about recovery, as far as i'm concerned that needs to be shut down straight away. we are rescuing people, we're pulling people out, everybody's doing that, we're all pulling in the same direction and that's the way it's going to be. >> omar, officials have a huge undertaking there, when do you think search and rescue efforts will resume? >> fishes, jericka, engineers need to give the all clear that it's safe there. they need to make sure there is no high winds or even light nine thin area, lightning until people can go back, jericka.

>> omar villafranca, thank you. right now tropical storm elsa is battling in the.caribbean. meteorologist jeff berardelli, what could we expect as the storm moves closer to florida? >> jericka, looks like the rain and wind will move into south florida, as we head into tuesday. the good news with the system, it's fairly disheveled fairly disorganized. the region it's having trouble getting its act together is it's interacting with jamaica and cuba. now on tuesday, it will be located near the keys in southwest florida, producing heavy rain key west, anyw napled forth meyers. then move up towards jacksonville. thursday, along the carolina

coast as probably a weak tropical system. rainfall is the biggest concern along the track 4 to 8 inches is possible. jericka. >> jeff berardelli, we know you'll be keeping a close eye on things thank you. on the west, high winds and drought have cancelled many fireworks displays. cbs's lily luciano is in pasadena where the show will go on. >> that's right, jericka. be southern california's biggest fireworks show. this year's theme fittingly celebrating america's perseverance. ♪ ♪ ♪ 4th of july traditions are back and americans are celebrating their freedom from covid by filling beaches, packing parks and

watching for rains. after enduring 16 months of pandemic pain. >> i love it. i can finally get some air and breathes! >> reporter: anheuser busch's famous clydesdale are marching in pasadena. the thunderbirds are flying high. and in new york's coney island there was a feast of sorts, 76 hot dogs down in record time. still americans aren't free of covid. >> we definitely are concerned about the variants, kind of trying to be more careful. >> reporter: there's good reason, the highly contagious delta variant now found in all 50 states. >> there are still a lot of vulnerable americans. >> reporter: but covid concerns were not enough to cancel all trips. setting a new record this holiday weekend and fliers waiting in long lines and gates

packed full. >> looking for seats we sat on the floor. >> reporter: tomorrow, will likely be the busiest travel day but for tonight, millions of americans will get to enjoy those traditions that have been put on hold, jericka. >> all right lily luciano thank you. the president and first lady are are celebrating independence from covid-19. there. christina they're expecting quite a crowd tonight. >> reporter: good evening, jericka. the largest gathering at the white house since president biden took office. >> america is coming back together. >> reporter: speaking to a crowd on the south lawn of the white house this evening, president biden commended the country on its pandemic response. >> while the virus hasn't been van wished, we know this, it no longer controls our lives. it no longer paralyzes our

nation and it is within our power to america sure it never does again. >> reporter: in washington, te gates blocking pennsylvania avenue are finally gone. letting holiday tourists snap superior selfies right against the gate. 67% of adults have had at least one covid-19 vaccination but only 20% have reached the goal of getting at least one shot by today, and many states especially in the south are lagging behind. as america wraps up a weekend of red white and covid-19 break throughs, health expertsseu about large gatherings of unvaccinated people. >> we'll work with the state and local partners to make sure we do whatever we can to stop the spread of the disease. >> reporter: president biden took time tonight to memorialize the 600,000 lives lost to the

pandemic and recognizing getting their shots. jericka. >> thank you. be portfolio has undergone intest tinnal surgery. chris livesay is there. be chris, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, jericka. the pope was admitted this afternoon and staying in the to. floor behind me in the same suite of rooms that pope john paul ii stayed. it was a scheduled surgery for diverticulitis. regular sunday angeles, he announced he would be going to hungary and slovakia next year. the iraqi prime minister on friday and even holding an all day prayer service for pleb non-on thursday. now the vatican says the surgery was a success and the pope is now recovering.

this is the first time 84-year-old pontiff has been hospitalized since his election in 2015. he is -- in 2013. he has had part of his lung removed when he was younger. jericka. thank you. c-113 crashed while landing. more than 40 people were killed, several survivors jumped from the wreckage just before it exploded. rescuers in japan are racing against time following a that isive mudslide about 60 miles southwest of tokyo. it happened saturday after days of torrential rain. 20 people are missing, two are confirmed dead. officials in ocean city maryland have cancelled tonight's fireworks display after they accidentally exploded on the beach today. look at that. several people received minor

injuries. thankfully no beach goers were hurt. straight ahead, our david martin provides a reflection of the toll of america's longest war. also, two families connect over a shared history that started with the stars and stripes. and later, a frank discussion about an all american food favoritete. whwhen technolology is eaeasier to ususe... ♪ babarriers donon't stand a a c. ♪ ththat's why w we'll stopp at notothing to d deliver ourur technology as-a-a-service.. ♪

♪ to if you h have moderaratey toto severe pspsoriasis... or p psoriatic a arthritis, lilittle thingngs, can become youour big momement. that's's why therere's otez. otezlala is not anan injectction or a c cream... ...it't's a pill t that treats dififferently.. for r psoriasis,s, 75% clear skskin is achihievable.... .....with reduduced redness, t thickness,, and scscaliness ofof plaque. for r psoriatic c arthriti, ...o.otezla is p proven.... to r reduce joinint swellin, tetenderness, , and pain.. and ththe otezla p prescribg infoformation hahas no requiuirement for routinine lab moninitoring. don't t use if youou're allergic t to otezla.. itit may causese severe diarrhrhea, nauseaea, or vomi. otezla is s associateded with a. inincreased ririsk of deprpre. tellll your doctctor if you haveve a historyry of d depression n or susuicidal thohoughts..... .....or if thehese feelingngs d. someme people tataking oteza rereported weieight loss.. yourur doctor shshould monir yoyour weightt and mamay stop trereatment. upper rerespiratoryy tract t infectionn and d headache m may occur. tetell your dodoctor about yourur medicineses

and if youou're pregnanant oror planning g to be. ototezla. shshow more ofof you. ready to shine from the insidede out? try naturere's bounty y hai, skin and n nails gummimies. the numbmber one brarand to support bebeautiful hahair, glglowing skinin, and d healthy nanails. and intrtroducing jejelly bes with t two times m more biot. this is what freedom sounds like. and this. this is what freedom smells like. ahhh, enjoy 30 days of open-road freshness. febreze car. la, la, la, la, la this i is the gap,p, that oped up w when everytything shut t . ♪ bubut entreprereneurs never stopopped. ♪ anand found sosolutions that kepept them goioing. ♪ at u u.s. bank,, we can helelp you adapapt anand evolve y your businene, no m matter whatat you're fafa. because whwhen you close the e gap, a world ofof possibilility ope.

♪ u.u.s. bank. we'll get t there togegether. ♪ [swords s clashing]] - had d enough? - no... . arthritis.s. here.. new aspepercreme artrthriti. full prerescription-n-strengt? reduceces inflammamation? thanank the godsds. don't ththank them t too soo. kick paiain with aspercrereme. >> violence is rising in afghanistan with news today the taliban seizing more territory. it's happening as america's longest war comes to annal end. cbs sunday morning asked our david martin to take stork of what was won and who whereas lost. >> on my orders the united states military has begun strikes against al qaeda terrorist training camps and the taliban a&m in afghanistan.

>> >> reporter: with that the world's most powerful military unleeched, army parachuters and a marine general named madtis was ready to hunt down osama bin laden. >> we had a very good idea where he was. >> reporter: what was your plan? >> we would basically block the escape routes and then we would move up the two valleys. as a we pushed up those valleys he would have to move and at that point we'd kill him. >> reporter: you're willing to say now you could have got knowledge him? -- gotten hix? >> he'd have had a hell of a time getting out if we'd gotten the troops in. >> reporter: but the pentagon didn't want to commit more trtroops and lefeft amerirican r strikes. bin laden escaped and by the time navy seals finally killed him at this compound in packets,

nin pakistannearly ten years re. 94 retired, mike mullen became chairman of the joint chiefs six years into the war, and realized that the u.s. didn't have enough troops in afghanistan. >> because we went into iraq, the forces we would have put in afghanistan basically we were use inning iraq. >> reporter: the invasion of iraq started out with shawk and awe. but turned into a long, hard slog. leaving afghanistan as the forgotten war until barack obama became president. he sent a surge of troops into afghanistan, but also, put a time limit on their stay. >> after 18 months, our troops will begin to come home. >> 18 months later, where are you? >> we're still slugging it out. we hadn't turned the villages,

the provinces, et cetera, significantly. >> reporter: so you never felt like you were winning? >> we could win in a given area. we could win in a given district or given province but when you knitted it all together i never thought we were winning. >> reporter: there is one indisputable victory. bin laden was finally killed. his 9/11 hench men captured and al qaeda did not launch another successful attack on america. but 2400 dead, 20,000 wounded, and nearly $1 trillion in treasure could not remake afghanistan in the american image. was that ever achievable? >> in hit trow expect, i don't think so. >> reporter: afghanistan once again earned its reputation as the graveyard of empires. david martin, cbs news the pentagon. >> fascinating to take a look

back. still ahead on the cbs news, go families united by their connection to america's most famous s seamstress. well, , well, wellll. lolook at you.u. yoyou mastereded the e master batath. you created your own stylele. anand you - yes, y you! turned a a sourdodough starteter into a s sourdough finishsher. so when n you learn n yor chronic drdry eye is a actuy caused by y reduced tetear prododuction dueue to inflamamn you takeke it on, by talkiking to your eyeyecare profefessionl about rerestasis®..... whwhich may hehelp you makae morere of your o own tears with contitinued use twice a a day, everyry day. reststasis® helelps increae yoyour eye's naturaral abilityy to p produce teaears, whwhich may bebe reduced by infnflammationn due to c chronic dryry eye. restasis® did not i increase tr prproduction i in patientstsg anti-inflalammatory eyeye drs or teaear duct plulugs. to help avavoid eye ininjury

and cocontaminatioion, do n not touch b bottle tip to your r eye or other s surfaces. wait 15 miminutes afteter ue bebefore insererting cocontact lensnses. the e most commomon side effffs a temporarary burning g sensat. ask yourur eye care e professil ababout restasasis®. nonow to trickck out ththese lightsts. visisit restasisis.com toto learn morore. ♪♪ i'm 53, but t in my mindnd i'm still l 35. that''s why y i take ostste bix to keep meme moving the waway i was mamade to, it nouourishes andnd strengths my joioints for ththe long te. osteo o bi-flex, p plus vitamid fofor immune s support. advil dudual action n fights pa2 waysys. it's the f first and o only a approvov d osteo o bi-flex, p plus vitamid combinatioion of advilil pls acetamininophen. adadvil targetets p in. acetamininophen blococks it. advil l dual actio on. fast p pain reliefef that las8 hours.

liliberty mututual custstomizes carar insurancece so y you only papay for whwhat you neeeed. how muchch money canan libertrty mutual s save you? one!e! two! threree! fourur! five! 72,807! 72,8,808... dollllars. yep..... everythining hurts. only p pay for whahat you ne. ♪ liberty. . liberty. libertrty. libertyty. ♪

>> on this independence day it seems fitting that we travel to where it all began. philadelphia. it's also where some treasured family artifacts have found a new holm. they're perfect strangers, united by history that goes back more than 200 years. >> it's just so amazing! >> last month at the museum of the american revolution in philadelphia, aileen edge -- met her cousin steve balderston for the first time. both descendants of a legendary seamstress. >> betsy ross was your great great great great grandmother? >> yes. >> reporter: betsy ross was steve balderston's great great great great grandmother. >> you started off with this chest. what was that like? >> that was pretty exciting.

>> in 2019, his family came across the he be graifd sea chest. on the top, john claypool, betsy ross's third husband. >> it had can originally been in my house, the family house. i made a couple of calls, my cousin richard balderston and claudia said it would be great to be donated to the museum. >> reporter: one year later nearly 3,000 miles away in remedy, washington, eileen and her brother david were going through her mother's belongings. >> was in paper, saying, to be brerved great care. >> it was in the garage. >> in a sears shoe box. >> it said diary of john claypool. >> it was worth saving.

philip mead. >> how exciting is it to get a find like this and to rereconnect families together? >> it's one of the events of a lifetime. >> the chest and diary are now on permanent display in philadelphia. they provide personal insight into america's revolutionary start even if betsy ross's celebrated role of creator of the stars and stripes is reconsidered today. >> what we do know about her is she made lots of flags, which meant a pretty specialized artisan. she was a business wom, an entrepreneur, a mother, she was an exceptional woman. >> wow, talk about a chance encounter. well, next on the cbs weekend news, it might be more american than apple pie. we're in coney island for some hotdog history. rful long-l-lasting relelief wiwith a revololutionary,, rollllerball desesign. because wiwith the rigight papain relievever...

life opensns up. aleve e it, and sesee whwhat's popossible. why hihide your skskin if dupit has your moderarate-to-sevevere eczem, or atotopic dermatatitis ununder controrol? hide o our skin? not usus. bebecause dupipixent targegetst caususe of eczemema, it helps h hl your skin n from with, keeping g you one step a ahead of itit. and fofor kids ageges 6 and u, ththat means c clearer skik, and noticeceably less s itch. hide my y skin? not me.. byby helping t to control l ea with dupixixent, you can chchange how t their n lookoks and feelels. anand that's t the kind of chahange you nonotice. hide my skskin? not me. don't ususe if you're allllergic toto dupixe. seserious allelergic reactcts can occur,r, inincluding ananaphylaxis,, whicich is severere. tellll your doctctor about n r worsening g eye problelems, suchch as eye papain oror vision chchanges, or a parasasitic infecection. ifif you take e asthma mededic, don't chchange or ststop them without t talking toto your do. whwhen you helelpl your skikin from witi, you can shshow me with l less ecze.

tatalk to yourur child's e ea specialilist about d dupixen, a brbreakthroughgh eczema treatmtment. age is jusust a numberer. and d mine's unlnlisted. try boost® high protein with 20 grgrams of prorotein for musclele health. versusus 16 gramss in ensnsure high p protein. boostt® high prprotein alsoo has s key nutrieients for immunene support.. boostt® high prprotein. “cracacked windshshield” take 1 1. ♪ youou say ♪ boostt® high prprotein alsoo has s key nutrieients ♪ i got a c crack inin my windshshield... ♪ uh - uh, l lisa, maybybe less heaeartbroken?? geico lelets you filile a clclaim onlinene, over thehe e or with h their app.p. ♪ that mamakes meme wanna sayay... ♪ ♪ statay... ♪ (sniffles)s) are...are you crying? uhh,h, there's pollen..... geico. g great servivice withthout all ththe drama. crankyky-pated: a a bad mod relateted to a sluluggish g. mimiralax is d different.. it w works natururally with the wawater in youour body

to unblockck your gut.t. free youour gut, andnd your m mood will f follow. readady to shinene from the insidede out? try naturere's bounty y hai, skin and n nails gummimies. the numbmber one brarand to support bebeautiful hahair, glglowing skinin, and d healthy nanails. and intrtroducing jejelly bes with t two times m more biot. >> we ends tonight with a million dollars favorite for some. the hotdog. not just any old frank. nathan's famous in new york's coney island. here is michael george.

>> when it comes to 4th of july food it's the top dog. >> it's just wonderful. >> reporter: the hotdog is as american as it gets. >> one with mustard ketchup and ononions. >> one w with sasauerkrkraut and onions.. >> annd s someonene should know, that's right, the nathan, of nathan's f famous. naththan started aa humble hotdg stand in coney island back in 19 16. >> he came with no english and just enough to come to ellis island. >> it didn't become an ameerican symbolol right way. nathan gained customers when he decided to drop his applies to just -- prices to just five cents a dog. >> that't's when thehe depressin cameme along. you cocould feedd a familyy of r

for r under 50 cennts. >> prettyty soon everyone was coming to coney island for a dog.g. >> thee linne was pusshing a al, boardwalk was packed. >> as time went on hot dogs became synonymous with the cookout, the nathan's hotdog eating contest. it's hard to say what makes the hotdog so special. >> it's portable and it's quick. >> high quality meat on a bun. circulate. >> reporter: but one thing is clear. after a century -- >> it's been a long time since i've had any. really good. >> it is good. >> reporter: it is still an american classic. michael george, cbs news, coney island. >> i don't know what it is but now i'm hungry. that's the cbs weekend news for this 4th of july. i'm jericka duncan in new york, we leave you with a view of one world trade center, 1776 feet tall, marking the year of our

independence. have a great night, everyone. captioning sponsored by cbs captione by media acce live from the cbsn bay area studios, this is a kpix 5 news. >> it is great people watching and dog watching and nice to be part of the community again. strike up the band to celebrate independence and making it past the worst of the pandemic. how people are celebrating the fourth of july. this is the bay area and we won't let the marine layer ruin the fourth of july, but there will be an influence on the fireworks and i will go into that coming up. firefighters arm alert after seems like that and what started the grass fire in the

east bay and concerns tonight after the sun goes down. thank you for joining us on this fourth of july. we begin tonight with the celebration and festivity across the bay area and it was the first holiday since the state lifted covid restrictions and a lot of people excited to get out and celebrate in person. folks gathered for the parade at half moon bay. we are live at half moon bay with the old-fashioned kind of celebration. >> reporter: right now they are cleaning up the final bit of the festival, but many people said today it was the first time they found themselves in the middle of a crowd and they said it was surreal. >> reporter: they sang and danced and waved the american flag. as classic cars, military vehicles and even horses made their way downin