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>> it can make me feel insecure and incompetent in my own body. >> reporter: sheoined instagram in eighth grade. could you stop if you wanted to? >> i think i could but i would not like it at all. >> it's designed for addiction. instagram focuses on bodies and lifestyle. that creates feelings of social comparison. er for it's cancerous for teenage mental health. >> reporter: and next week a whistle-blower is expected to testify it could expose more. earlier this week, the company paused development on a new app aimed at kids 10 to 12 years old. >> and that whistle-blower's going to be on "60 minutes." fewer undocumented immigrants will face arrest under new rules unveiled by the biden administration.
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they're being told to pursue only migrants that entered last november or those considered a threat to public safety. that's a major change from the policy of apprehending everyone. we're getting a look inside a u.s. military base housing evacuees from afghanistan, one of eight bases helping more than 60,000 afghans resettle. >> reporter: surrounded by miles of farmland and corn fields, this is where life in america begins for nearly 13,000 afghan evacuees. today we were allowed inside fort mccoy in wisconsin, which houses the largest afghan evacuee process in the u.s. after desperately scaping the brutal rule of the taliban. >> before coming to taliban, i have a good life in afghanistan. >> reporter: 24-year-old is ready for her new future.
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a former member of the afghan paralimpic basketball team, she believes if she stayed, life as she knew it would have been over. >> i can go to the basketball. i can go outside of my home because taliban not let every woman to the outside. >> reporter: many arrive with nothing but the clothes on their backs. they say there's ample access to donated clothing, english access and health care, including 29,000 covid shots over the past five days. 1500 soldiers provide security. earlier this month, two evacuees were charged with abuse. >> when we arrive, in kabul, we feel unsafe. >> reporter: they fled with their five children. now, he teach as boxing class, as the family hopes for a better future.
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children born today will feel nearly three times the effects of climate change than their grandparents as droughts, floods and storms increase. this is effecting americans on the great lakes to come up with unique solutions. ben tracy has tonight's "eye on america" the great change along the great lakes. >> you are not going to beat mother nature. this is really an example of the force of the lake. >> reporter: when you live along a great lake named superior, you never forget who has the upper hand. >> and the lake wins every time. >> reporter: planning director for the city of marquette on michigan's upper peninsula. >> so, this is the road to nowhere? >> it is. >> reporter: this shattered stretch of road used to be lake shore boulevard. >> ultimately, it failed because
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nature caught up with us. >> the solution was expensive. nearly $3 million to build three feet away from its unpredictable neighbor. >> the predictability of the storms have increased. >> reporter: more intense storms are battering cities throughout the great lakes, pulling the land right out from under some homes. >> cities like detroit, cleveland, milwaukee, they all have to adapt to this. >> reporter: she is director of the senter for water policy at the universe of milwaukee. and michigan has swung from record-low water levels to record highs the past few dwreerz. so it's normal for the great lakes to rise and fall. how is that cycle changing? >> the high-rise getting higher and the lows are getting lower.
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i'm most concerned about flooding and sewage contaminating the drinking water supply for millions of people. >> when intense storms overwhelm the storm water systems, sewage can get dumped into west michigan. he runs the area's sewer district. they're replacing concrete channels, built in the 1960s, with more natural creeks to try to prevent future flooding. do you think cities around the great lakes are prepared for what's coming? >> none of us are. >> reporter: but the great lakes region is still considered something of a climate haven. he says with the right solutions, they hope to weather the storm. >> change is occurring and we probably need to prepare for it. >> reporter: for eye on america, ben tracy, cbs news, marquette, michigan. >> there's a lot more news ahead on the "cbs overnight news."
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hawaii's mt. kilauea volcano is erupting again. for now lava is staying within the crater and the only threat is high levels of volcanic gas. it destroyed over 700 homes when it erupted in 2018. a stretch of california beach has been returned to the descendants of its rightful owners. once a thriving resort for black families was seized by the town of manhattan beach in 1924. historical records show the beach was taken only because its owners and those who used it were black. well, coming up next. remember this baby? handed to a marine in afghanistan? well, we found her. how her family plans to honor
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one image from the kabul airport evacuation is seared in our memory. an afghan baby lifted to safety by a marine. that baby is safe with her parents in phoenix, arizona. >> reporter: this nine-second video became a symbol of the desperation engulfing the u.s. withdrawal from afghanistan. a 16-day old girl is passed over razor wire to the marine in kabul. the baby's name is leah. her father is on the uth side, about to see his daughter for the first time. he missed her birth because he was assisting the u.s. with evacuations, unable to leave the
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airport. how long did you get to hold her? >> two minutes, maybe. >> reporter: he says he handed leah over to another solder and focussed on aving his wife. during her dangerous journey to escape the country, the taliban robbed her of everything, even her shoes. >> that day i handed over my baby to total stranger but the only thing i trusted was a marine and my daughter will be fine. >> reporter: leah is fine now. she's eight weeks old, safe in phoenix with her parents. they don't have much more than the clothes on their backs but they certainly have their treasure. what do you think you'll tell her when she's old enough? >> she's a fighter. she made it through the worst of the times, the beginning of her life. so, that's why i'm thinking to put marine as her middle name. >> for cbs news, phoenix. and that is the "cbs overnight news" for this friday.
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some of you the news continues. for others, check back later for "cbs mornings." reporting from our nation's capitol, i'm nora o'donnell. ♪ ♪ this is cbs news flash. the stealemate on capitol hill moves on. they did not vote on the infrastructure bill thursday night. debate over the bill continues friday. ever wonder what it looks like inside a hurricane? well, this is hurricane sam. category four barrelling through the atlantic. captured by the sail drone, collecting data for storms forecast. and the line up for the super bowl 56 halftime show is set. dr. dre, snoop dogg, eminem and
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mary j. blige will share the stage for the first time. i'm tom hanson, cbs news, new york. ♪ ♪ good evening and thank you for joining us on this busy thursday here in the nation's capitol. with just hours before the deadline, they voted to avoid the shutdown. the crisis for the democratic party remains. because president biden's domestic agenda is on the line. progressives say they won't vote to spend a trillion dollars to spend our nation's roads, rails and bridges unless a much bigger social safety net bill is passed at the same time. that $3.5 trillion bill includes
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programs like child care and other initiatives. there is a joke here in washington that creating legislation is like making sausage and tonight the white house press secretary points out it's messy. right now there's plenty of talk and no hint of a compromise. we're going to break down all the moving parts with our team, starting with nicole killian at our nation's capitol. >> reporter: avoiding the shutdown was the least of lawmaker's worries as they deal with another major deadline to try to deliver on one of president biden's key priorities. >> the motion is adopted. >> reporter: on the brink of a pos possible shutdown, the house and senate voted to keep the government open, sparing thousands of federal workers from being furloughed. >> the last thing the american people need is for the government to grind to a halt. >> reporter: instead, intransigents over infrastructure threate s
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>> this is an ongoing negotiation. >> reporter: the house democrats spent the better part of the day trying to round up votes to make good on a $1.2 trillion bipartisan bill to pay for roads, rails and bridges. >> i plan on moving forward in a positive way and everybody has to think that this is the path we're on. >> reporter: progressives main tabe their opposition to the measure until a larger social spending package that encompasses everything from child care to climate can get done in both chambers. >> we're ready to do whatever we can to deliver the entirety of the president's agenda. >> reporter: they want to keep the price tag at 3.5 trillion. butting heads with joe manchin and kristen cinema, 1.5 is a number he says he's floated to the president and democratic leaders. >> reporter: what do you say to people who say you're holding
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the whole thing up? >> basically take whatever we're not able to come to an agreement with today and take that on the campaign trail next year. >> reporter: if the senator thinks electing more democrats is how you get it done, then that's something he should state to the president because this is the president's agenda. >> reporter: this evening democratic aids are huddled to try to craft a compromise to satisfy all sides. and if that happens, that could potentially pave the way for a vote on that smaller infrastructure package tonight. well, tonight the national school board association is taking extraordinary action, sending an sos to law enforcement. members have been threatened online over covid safety protocols. >> reporter: school board officials are calling for help tonight. >> you cowards. >> reporter: following
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increasingly violent incidents like this in minnesota. a man complimenting school board members, who's then charged by an unmasked man. writing to president biden, the national school board's association asks for help investigating the violent incidents. and suggested the fbi monitor threats to board members, likening these heinous actions to domestic terrorists. >> the impact on the public schools is creating all this to heightened rhetoric and in some cases leading to tlehreats and actual incidents of violence. >> reporter: former school board member said he resigned after constant harassment made him thik about suicide. he sited the january 6th insurrection as a trigger for the unruly behavior. >> they were coming after me and my colleagues consistently every day. for multiple mediums. they saw me as a target for their hate.
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>> reporter: white house responding today to the schoolboard letter, saying they're looking at what more the administration can do. >> obviously these threats to schoolboard members is horrible. they're doing their jobs. >> reporter: obviously local police are still going to have a presence at these very contentious, sometimes violent schoolboard meetings. but what school officials, nationwide want, is for the feds to give them some sense of what kind of threats are heading their way. >> thank you. social media giant, facebook is under fire and today a top executive was in the senate hot seat over a recent report that showed facebook's instagram app can be toxic for teens, especially girls. we get more now from cbs's carter evans. >> reporter: instagram is that first child hood cigarette. >> reporter: facebook is in the process of hiding. >> reporter: in a rare show of
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bipartisanship, lawmakers hammered facebook. using the company's own data against it. leaked research indicated about a third of teen girls, who already feel bad about their bodies, say facebook's instagram makes them feel even worse. >> this research is a bomb shell. i ask you to commit that you will make full disclosure all of the thousands of pages of documents. >> we are looking for ways to release more research. >> reporter: facebook's global head of security testified a day after the company did release more research, showing that roughly 40% of users in the u.s. say their ideas of a perfect image, feeling attractive and having enough money started on instagram. she says lawmakers are focusing on the wrong information. >> we found more teen girls actually find instagram helpful than not. >> reporter: senator blumenthal said his office set up an
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account for a fake 13-year-old girl. >> within a day its recman dagdss were exclusively fill would accounts that promote self injury and eating disorders. ake feelect confi in mywn body. >> reporter: she started in eighth grade. could you stop if you wanted to? >> i think i could but i would not like it at all. >> reporter: it's designed for addiction. instagram focuses on bodies and lifestyles. that creates feelings of social comparison. right now the business model is cancerous for teenage mental health. and next week a whistle-blower is expected to testify. they could expose more about what they knew and what they did about it. earlier this week they pause dd investment on a new instagram app aimed at kids, 8 to 12 years old. >> carter evans, thank you.
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♪ >> this is the "cbs overnight news." i'm ben tracy in washington. thank you for staying with us. president biden's plan to have most workers vaccinated against the coronavirus or tested regularly is causing a rip. 14% say they have no opinion. one industry likely to be impacted, the airlines. as air carriers step up staff to take the jab, people are refusing.
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what does that mean for the flying public? >> reporter: as people start making holiday travel plans, ages could scrame familyvacaan vaccine mandate takes effect. >> if in fact the pilots, who were not vaccinated, are put on unpaid leave or terminated, that's more than 4,000 pilots at american airlines that will not be able to fly. >> reporter: captain dennis is spokesperson for the allied pilots association and its 15,000 american airlines pilots. its vaccination rate is higher than the national average. that leaves over 4,000 of their pilots holding out. >> indeed the executive order for the mandate will hit right in the december time frame. >> reporter: so, both apa and southwest airline pilot association are asking for exemptions before president biden's executive order
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mandating vaccines takes hold. >> to vaccinate or to not vaccinate? >> reporter: transport workers union, local 514 president, voiced his resista t i just don government ought to give a company the right -- >> reporter: and this as the process begins for 6,000 united airlines staff that refuse to get vaccinated. that's dwarfed by those who are vaccinated. doug parker is pleading with his staff but not requiring them to do the same. >> reporter: please go get vaccinated now before the end of this month because we are before too long, one way or the other. >> reporter: the nba preseason gets underway sunday with strict new covid rules for unvaccinated players. they say vaccine holdouts will not be paid for games they
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missed because local laws won't let them in arenas. they discussed with nbaend, l kareem jabr. >> donet it. are dying in the streets. we have to do something about it. >> reporter: basketball legend, kareem abdul-jabbar is insisting his nba and players take a tougher stants. over 90% of nba players are vaccinated. >> i did what was best for me and my family to stay protected. >> reporter: and at least seven of the league's 30 teams say their rosters are fully vaccinated with several others not far behind. but there are a few holdouts, like washington wizards' star, beale. >> when i feel confident and ready with the results i get, i'll handle them accordingly. >> reporter: others aren't sharing their status, like basketball star, kyrie irving.
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>> i'd like to keep that private. >> reporter: kareem abdul writlo tands they say it's a personal choice. >> it's a personal choice if you don't belong to a team where you have to be in close confinement with other players. they have families. they have friends. >> reporter: after we spoke to abdul-jabbar, cbs news received the daily protocols. undergo daily testing and given lockers as distant as possible from other players and be forced to quarantine, except for essential activities like taking kids to schools or buying groceries. you've called for the nba to insist that all players and staff be vaccinated. why dooul so efuse, you believe.
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abou i think whe ndemic that i killing people just because some people don't feel like doing research, i can't go along with that. this covid thing is killing black and brown people at a ridiculous rate. it's an extension of the black lives matter and we have to make this obvious and let people know how important it is. >> reporter: some vaccinated superstars, like lebron james r staying out of the debate. >> i don't feel like me personally should get involved in what other people do with their livelihoods. >> anyone who has a public platform, like professional athletes, they should use their platform in a way that helps their community. >> reporter: celebrities have played a critical role in vaccination campaigns before. in the 1950s, it was stars like
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ella fitzgerald, and brooklyn dodgers catcher, supporting the polio vaccine. >> let's all dig down deep and do our part in the fight against infantile paralysis. vaccines work. >> what do you think is different now? >> i don't know what's different now. the polio vaccine was so instrumental in eliminating that disease. so, what's the problem? this, to me, seems more like willful ignorance than a legitimate concern. and that bothers me a lot. >> reporter: that's vladimir with kareem abdul-jabbar. there's a traffic jam in the ocean off southern california. dozens of cargo ships full of containers they can't unload and that's hurting businesses big and small. >> reporter: when buyers with stulus cwiped he inventoryhe last
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year,e ordered new only aandful arrived. where are all all the bikes? >> i imagine some are on the ships. it's frustrating because you can look in the harbor and see all the containers stacked five/six high school. >> reporter: on average, sitting nearly six days and nearly 11.5 days waiting to get loaded on rail. >> reporter: he says import shipping from overseas is up 50% this summer. 70 ships are currently waiting a week or more just to get inat the port. what is going on here? is it just that we're buying a lot more stuff? >> the buying strength is so strong and epic that we can't absorb all this cargo. >> reporter: retail sales jumped unexpectedly in august, as the delta variant caused americans to change once again on what wr they spend their money.
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more onconsumdskeni is a global chain expert. he anticipates more hold ups. >> we have to have this global participation of labor forces. supply side activities, manufacturing. transportation. all of this seems to work. people have to be immunized. >> reporter: back in the shop, he stopped taking bike orders because he doesn't know when or if they'll arrive. >> i'll say if you're interested in getting a bike for christmas, now is the time to buy it. >> reporter: because christmas rush. >> yeah, probably not going to have them.
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>> we've been expecting you, mr. bond. e'ep tws7 he has forged ahead from the most inescapable situations. but the very real-life global pandemic brought bond to a screeching halt. six long years since "specter", "no time to die" has been on life support since covid shut down around the globe. bond not only has to save the world, but maybe an entire movie industry. what better place than the royal albert hall for the glittery, global premier in london. it's the last time daniel craig walks this red carpet as james bond, sharing the spotlight with royalty, as he bids farewell to
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a role he's held for more than 15 years. >> i'm incredibly proud of the work we've done and what we've achieved. and of course it'su with some sadness but time to move on. >> reporter: when he first came on in "casino royal" he was set to change many things. >> she had to twist his arm to say yes and he said i'll do it but i want input. i want to change this character, give him more depth. >> reporter: craig's bond was unafraid to show heartbreak, betrayal and moments of self doubt. he, himself, labelled bond a misogynist. 007 had to evolve to survive. >> i think the emotions we talk about in the daniel craig era, they feel realistic, to me.
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i don't see them as weakness. they show james bond as a real person, a three-dimensional character. >> reporter: apparently emotional on and off screen, his voice cracking as he wrapped filming in 2019. >> i've loved every single second. one of the greatest honors of my life. >> reporter: but of course he brought healthy dose of bad as too. james bond, the cultural phenomenon that even made stars out of the cars alodge the way. >> you'll be using this aston martin. >> reporter: which have i ever mentioned i actually drove? anyway, when you consider more men have walked on the moon than played bond, craig has gone next level, forever cementing himself into the upper reaches of who's your favorite bond debates? and as daniel craig takes his final bow as bond, rumors have been ripe about his successor.
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a year and a half of covid restrictions had a lot of people putting off everything from doctor's appointments to haircuts. one barber decided to bring his clippers to the great outdoors and found a whole new clien tell. >> reporter: it's the buzz of clippers, not critters that you'll hear in this section of central park. >> i get to do what i do best as an artist. to shape, create and craft people's these beautiful human beings that they are. >> reporter: he sets up shop in the scenic outdoors, every day, when weather permits. he started offering outside services during the height of
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the pandemic. >> nobody was comfortable being inside the shops. they were more for being outside where they could get fresh air and lessen the risk of catching covid. >> reporter: a year and a half later, he's gained dozens of clients, like one person who decided his friend's cut did not make the cut. >> i know a lot of people were financially impacted by the pandemic. and i didn't feel a need to charge them at all. >> reporter: people give what they can and it's a range from $1 to hundreds. >> somebody gave me a cake once. >> reporter: for james, it's not about the payment. it's the connection to people he says he values the most. elysse preston, cbs news, new york. and that's the "overnight news" for this friday. for some of you the news continues, for others, check
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back later for cbs mornings and follow us anytime at cbs news.com. reporting from the nation's capitol, i'm ben tracy. >> this is cbs news flash. the stalemate drags on. the house did not vote on the infrastructure bill. debate over the bill continues friday. ever wondert it looks lik inside inside a hurricane? this is hurricane sam, captured by the sale drone, collecting data for storm forecasting. and the line in for the super bowl halftime show is stet, dr. dre, mary j. blige and kendrick
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lamar will share the stage for the first time. for more news,ownldhehe app onr cell phone or connected tv. cbs news, new york. it's friday, october 1st, 2021. this is the "cbs morning news." seeking a deal. congress avoids a shutdown, but divided democrats are now racing to save president biden's agenda from falling apart. inside hurricane sam. a drone battles the power of a category-four storm as part of a historic scientific mission. righting a wrong. the state of california returns beachfront property seized from a black family nearly 100 years ago. good morning. good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. we begin with drama on capitol hill.
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