york. ♪ this is the "cbs overnight news." good evening. thanks for joining us. california officials and cleanup crews are trying to limit the damage from a major offshore oil spill south of los angeles. the crude has spoiled beaches, killed fish and birds and threatens local wetlands. right now the cause of the spill is under investigation. it's connected to an offshore oil platform known as elly. cbs' lilia luciano is in newport beach with the latest. what your seeing? >> jericka, we've just learned the leak has been stopped. the bad news is all around here, all along the shore you see these balls of tar.

it smells dizzying. it smells like you're in the middle of a gas station. behind me, you can see some of that contained crude that's been stopped by that berm so it wouldn't get into the river that goes upstream into very delicate wildland. the work is on to stop the impact of this massive spill. by sunrise, the oil started washing ashore in huntington beach, about 40 miles south of l.a. the crude killing wildlife and threatening nearby wetlands. >> our local response efforts have been focused on two major priorities. first, protecting the health and safety of our residents and visitors. and second, preventing an ecological disaster. >> reporter: the coast guard deployed skimming equipment and booms to slow the spread. a ruptured pipeline from an offshore oil rig spewed at least 126,000 gallons of oil into the ocean some five miles offshore. when did you realize something was going on? >> so, yesterday i came out, and

there were a lot of fish just like swarming everywhere, jumping out of the water. >> the smell hits you, and then we're just looking at our beautiful ocean. this is our home. and there is just gunk everywhere. >> reporter: beaches are closed for cleanup, but that didn't stop people from heading there to see the damage. this area is home to about 90 species of birds, some endangered, some of them now dead or coated with the slick tar. >> it's really heartbreaking to see something like this. >> reporter: it's hard to assess the true environmental and economic impact to the area. this weekend they had to cancel an air show so the people, the species, everybody is being affected but the crews are working around the clock to stop the spill and clean it up. jericka? >> good thing they were able to stop that leak. lilia luciano in newport beach, thank you. millions of americans are facing deadlines as vaccine mandates take effect. as of today, about 67% of adults

in this country are fully vaccinated. cbs' tom hanson is in new york where jobs are on the line. right, tom? >> that's right. here at the nation's largest school system, 1 out of every 10 teachers in new york city is unvaccinated, but tomorrow will be the first day that every teacher will be required to have at least one dose. when schools open monday, roxanne rizzy could face suspension from her teaching job. >> i liken this to psychological warfare. >> reporter: all 148,000 new york city school employees were required to get their first shot by last friday after losing legal appeals. >> if i do decide to do this, i will never stop fighting unless i am dead. i will never stop fighting for my co-workers who won't do it. >> reporter: in washington, monday is the deadline for state workers to show they've had their shots and a similar deadline passed in connecticut. a new study found unvaccinated

americans eight times more likely to test positive for covid. dr. anthony fauci said on "face the nation," mandates make sense. >> i think that the emergent nature of what we're dealing with actually does justify that. >> reporter: west virginia is struggling with one of the highest infection rates in the country, but when it comes to vaccine mandates for schoolchildren, governor jim justice says, not a chance. >> from the standpoint of mandates, i don't believe in imposing upon our freedoms over and over and over. >> reporter: new york school mandate goes into effect as children are increasingly at risk. the cdc says hospitalization of patients 4 years and under is at the highest rate so far in the pandemic. states and cities are bracing for potential fallout. the state of connecticut deploying the national guard as potential replacements for unvaccinated workers. jericka? >> tom hanson, thank you.

president biden face news pressure this week to unite his party. budget battles among democrats have reached new lows and tensions are high. cbs' christina ruffini is at the white house where the attention remains on two bills and really two democrats. >> reporter: the senate passed that bipartisan infrastructure bill almost two months ago, but it still hasn't become law. and that's due to objectors in the president's own party. >> we want to make sure that we're fighting for all of us, not just some of us. >> reporter: house progressive democrats are adamant they won't compromise policy goals to cut down a proposed multitrillion-dollar social spending bill. >> i think that one of the ideas that's out there is fully fund what we can fully fund, but maybe instead of doing it for ten years you fully fund it for five years. >> reporter: the debate is over a $3.5 trillion social spending measure, without which some house democrats say they won't support the smaller $1.2

trillion infrastructure bill that passed the senate in august. >> $3.5 trillion should be a minimum, but i accept that there's going to have to be give and take. >> reporter: but two democratic senators -- joe manchin and kyrsten sinema -- want a ess pe. away at his home in wilmington this weekend, the white house says president biden remains engaged with lawmakers, but the democratic infighting poses a risk to his domestic agenda. >> mr. president -- >> reporter: after meeting with the president on the hill last week, some house democrats say they are willing to negotiate. > we don't want to pit roads and bridges against child care. >> reporter: today, pramila jayapal, head of the progressive caucus, couldn't give a bottom line. >> it's going to be somewhere, you know, between 1.5 and 3.5, and i think the white house is working on that right now. >> reporter: president biden will travel to michigan on tuesday to try to build support for the infrastructure plan and that spending program, also known as the build back better plan. jericka?

>> christina ruffini reporting from d.c., thank you. in asia, taiwan is accusing china of bullying after an aerial show of force. dozens of chinese fighter jets and bombers have flown toward the island in two waves since friday. china claims taiwan as its territory. but the two have been split since 1949. in texas, a small plane came crashing down onto a highway about 60 miles west of houston, and it was all caught on video. the plane was trying to land when it clipped a light pole. luckily no one, including the pilot, was hurt. and also in the sky over albuquerque, new mexico, take a look at this. hot air balloons captivated crowds this weekend for the return of the city's 49th international balloon fiesta. last year's gathering canceled by covid, but not this year. the weather, picture perfect. there's a lot more news ahead on the "cbs overnight news."

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♪ this is the "cbs overnight news." >> i'm jericka duncan in new york. thanks for staying with us. former president donald trump is asking a federal judge to force twitter to reinstate his account. trump was banned from the platform last january 8th, two days after a mob of his supporters stormed the u.s. capitol. twitter said his tweets violated company policies and risked inciting further violence. trump has also been banned from facebook, instagram, youtube, snapchat and twitch. this has drawn more attention to the power of social media outlets, including from members of congress.

david agts. >> we've gone from around 350,000 people to around a million. >> reporter: when i interviewed mark zuckerberg in 2005, the company was just getting off the ground. >> people use the site so much it's creating a marketplace for advertising. >> reporter: it was still called the facebook.com. it was still limited to college students. >> i have no idea what's going on back here. >> reporter: and it was still a little bit casual. >> dude, what's up? dude, you're on tv. >> reporter: how did that facebook become this? >> facebook is just like big tobacco, pushing a product that they know is harmful. >> researchers from facebook which owns instagram repeatedly found that the app was toxic, even deadly for teen girls in particular. >> the report shows the new algorithm that facebook had would push more and morecotse is >> repter:nheined >> anyonets

getting hurt by it. it's killing people. >> reporter: he was referring to one of face problems. misinformation. like posts saying that the covid vaccine causes miscarriages. or that the fda is tracking unvaccinated people. or that the vaccine is the mark of the beast. none of that is true. but people really are dying from misinformation. how often do you see somebody die of covid? >> almost every shift. like daily somebody dies? >> yeah. >> reporter: adriano is a medical director of the altus health system near houston. his emergency rooms have been overrun with desperately sick, unvaccinated covid patients. >> the massive binder. >> this is just august. >> reporter: most of these patients refused the vaccine because they'd read bad information on social media. >> about 80% would come from facebook.

read on facebook it's poison. it's got tracking devices in me. it makes cows sterile. i've heard all kinds of things. >> when you encounter somebody like that, where are you on the scale of, this person is an idiot or i feel so sorry for this person that they're this brainwashed? >> i feel really bad for individuals because, if that is your source, right, it's hard for them to separate reality and what is being fed to them. and they get their swab and they're sick and some patients w it? it's complicated. >> what they sell is user attention. user attention gets sold in the form of advertising. so, yes, there's a profit

motive. >> reporter: laura is a misinformation researcher at new york university. her studies have found that misinformation sells. >> misinformation in general, gets more shares, comments, likes than factual content. this effect is pretty large. my recent study found that it's a sixfold effect. >> so if something is bogue urks i'm six times more likely to share it or like it than if it's true? >> maybe not you specifically, but in general, it will get six times the engagement. facebook is a user engagement. a user interaction maximizing machine. that is what facebook is built to do. get users to interact with content as much as possible, as often as possible, for as long as possible. >> reporter: as you might guess, facebook is no fan of edelson's research. so this summer, the company got tough. >> the ftc is slamming facebook

for cutting off access to a group of researchers who were studying misinformation on facebook. >> in august of 2021, they shut down our accounts. >> reporter: so you're not on facebook anymore? >> no, i'm not. i have no place to post my dog pictures. >> reporter: now all social media companies have a covid misinformation problem. but facebook is nearly a trillion-dollar company with $2.9 billion users a month. its sheer size makes it special. >> facebook is the most powerful media apparatus in the world. >> reporter: "new york times" tech columnist kevin roose has written extensively about misinformation on facebook. >> why don't they just say oh, sorry. we'll have our amazing artificial intelligence just wipe misinformation off the platform? >> well, it's not as easy as it sounds. one, a lot of people disagree about what misinformation is. they've had to walk a very fine line between removing genuinely

hrmful content from the site, while also, you know, not engaging in what they would consider censorship. >> reporter: facebook declined our request for an interview. but it heartily rejects the notion that it's killing people or that it's doing nothing to fight covid misinformation. the company points out that it has deleted over 20 million false posts, shut down the accounts of 3,000 repeat offenders, put warning labels on 190 million questionable posts, and promoted factual vaccine information by building, among other things, a vaccine finder to help people get their shots. in a statement, facebook added, we're encouraged to see that for people in the u.s. on facebook, vaccine hesitancy has declined by about 50% and vaccine acceptance is high. but our work is far from finished. >> i want to talk to you about covid misinformation on your platform. >> reporter: finally, as ceo mark zuckerberg told gayle king

a few weeks ago, maybe the problem isn't facebook. maybe it's america. >> if this were primarily a question about social media, then i think you'd see that being the effect in all of these countries where people use it. but there's something unique in our ecosystem here. >> reporter: all right. so facebook says it's doing everything in its power to fight misinformation, but researchers, journalists and congress don't believe it. they want facebook to share its data on how many people are seeing the false posts. >> so they were basically saying, you just have to trust us on that because we're not going to show you the data. and there are teams inside facebook that are working very hard to prevent the spread of misinformation. i think the challenge is that a lot of that data and a lot of that work stays inside the company. >> let me play facebook advocate. if i were facebook, i might say, wait, waite, wait. we're supposed to reveal all our internal data? you don't havask that of coca-c

or starbucks. >> we do ask it of organizations like banks. banks are incredibly powerful institutions that are a vital part of modern society, but they also have the power to be inincredibly harmful. that's why banks are regulated. i think we need to move toward something like that for social media companies. >> wow. that's a radical change. >> it would be a radical change, but i just don't see how the status quo can go on. it is not hyperbolic to say misinformation on facebook kills people. >> i'm left wondering where the truth lies. is it corporate bungling or is there an evil streak to it all? >> i think there are some people who think, even inside the company, who think that this thing has gotten sort of out of control. it's sort of their version of a frankenstein story where they built this platform that billions of people use and it's just simply gotten a little out of control.

>> reporter: so how will all this end? both parties in congress seem intent on regulating facebook, and the company says that it will make more of its data public. for facebook, it all means more conflict and compromise. but then, mark zuckerberg has been fighting battles over his baby since 2005. >> the lawsuits and squabbles, has it been a shock to you? >> it's not really shocking, but it is a little like upsetting, i guess. if you are making something cool, it's something you have to deal with. as long as you can maintain that attitude and realize we're doing something that's positive and that's the dayquil severe for you... and daily vicks super c for me. introducing new vicks super c and dayquil severe convenience pack. vicks super c is a daily supplement to help energize and replenish your body with vitamin c and b vitamins. dayquil severe is a max strength medicine for cold and flu relief.

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water so deep her car wouldn't budge. >> it was scary. >> had you ever felt that scared before? >> no. idie. ror woman of faith. but she says she's never prayed harder than she did at that moment. >> clinging on to the hope that god heard me. >> reporter: a minute passed. you had to think you were seeing things. >> for a second, it was like, this is real. so i had to take my phone and start recording it. >> so cool. >> reporter: what virginia saw was the next best thing to the hand of god. >> the marines are going to help us. >> reporter: marines in dress blues who seemed to appear out of nowhere. >> thank you so much. >> reporter: believe it or not, i've actually met these same men before and can personally vouch for their strength of character and their strength.ba i islite group known beers. arlin

cemetery is to shoulder the burden of american grief. literally. in their charge, they rarely due interviews. and were especially reluctant to talk about rescuing virginia that day. >> we had to fight to get you on camera. >> but they sat for me because they thought there could be a lesson in this. >> the more i thought about it, this is kind of a platform to tell people to be the one to get out of your car. like that's got to be the takeaway. >> reporter: in other words, it should be the motto of all americans to leave no man behind. not in a war. not in a flood. not anywhere in any way. >> they didn't ask who we were. they just helped. selflessly. and they didn't leave us behind that day. >> reporter: and there is the

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an avid snorkeler made an historic and unlikely find in the waters off england. >> reporter: it's world famous for its miles of sandy beaches. historic fishing villages and now the picturesque norfolk coast after the discovery of a shipwreck. three weeks ago the remains of this vessel which last sailed in 1896 was spotted near the town of sharingham by chris taylor. you were snorkeling. you weren't deep sea diving. is it normal to discover a wreck just by snorkeling? >> i don't think so. i think i just got lucky. it was just a lot of -- the

weather. the clearness of the water. the sand not being there and me happening to swim ashore at the right place. it all came at once. i should have bought a lottery ticket. >> reporter: on a rainy november night 125 years ago, the "ss commodore" was carrying coal when the ship ran aground. the sailors made it safely to shore but it sank into the seabed. it was intentionally blown up six years later leaving these remains. now so clearly visible from above from the drone taylor uses in his film making. he sent images to a local museum to confirm his find. >> looked at the shots and said that's the "ss commodore." they were really quite excited because it hasn't been seen this clearly for some time. >> reporter: residents of sherringham have flocked here to see this remnant of the past. visible now but maybe not for

long. imtiaz tyab. from the cbs broadcast center in new york city, i'm jericka duncan. ♪ this is cbs news flash. i'm elise preston in new york. the u.s. supreme court returns to the bench in person. the majority republican, largely catholic judicial body will hear a number of controversial arguments this session, including a case to overturn the 1973 roe v. wade decision. cvs, walgreens andiant eagle head to trial. they are facing a lawsuit which blame for the opioid crisis in their communities. the stores say their pharmacists fill prescriptions as written. tom brady broke the nfl passing record while on his old team's turf sunday. the buccaneers beat the patriots

19-17. for more news, download the cbs news app on your cell phone or connected tv. i'm elise preston, cbs news, new york. it's monday, october 4th, it's monday, october 4th, 2021. this is the "cbs morning news." you can smell it. you can smell it. and you can see the tar all over the beach. >> environmental disaster. about 126,000 gallons of oil spill into the ocean off the coast of southern california. how crews are trying to limit the damage. divided democrats. negotiations resume this week on president biden's agenda. the new deadline to pass two major spending bills. exposing facebook. a whistleblower speaks out for the first time on "60 minutes." she claims the social network helped fuel the january 6th capitol riot.