>> reporter: but other providers are fearful, waiting for a definite ruling. >> it delays people access to safe abortion and displaces them, requires them to travel or delay the care that they need. >> reporter: the state of tx text has already filed its intent to appeal with one of the most conservative courts in the country. meileren texas, not all of them have started abortions again after six weeks because they are fearful they could be retroactively sued. norah? >> mireya villareal, thank you. well, tonight senate leaders have an agreement to extend the government's borrowing ability. that means the u.s. won't default on its debts, which would have plunged the country into an economic catastrophe. but it is only a temporary fix. the extension lasts until early december, when we could be right back where we started. tonight a senate report contains alarming new details on the extraordinary effort by then president trump to pressure the

justice department to overturn his election defeat. it took an oval office showdown to stop it. well, cbs's kris van cleave has all the new details. >> reporter: then president donald trump demanded his justice department reject the election results at least nine times between the 2020 election and january 6th, according to the new report. >> i think we were barely a half step away from a full-blown constitutional crisis. >> reporter: the democrat-written report highlights a january 3rd oval office meeting where mr. trump weighed firing acting attorney general jeffrey rosen and replacing him with a loyalist determined to find fraud, allegedly telling rosen, "you don't even agree that i'm right" and "the other guy has a different plan. you've made it clear you're going to do nothing." white house counsel pat cipollone warned he and other top officials would all resign if mr. trump fired rosen, calling it a murder-suicide pact. the former president abandoned the idea. >> this moment was

spine-tinglingly, chillingly close to shredding the constitution. >> reporter: republican chuck grassley, who is expected to rally with mr. trump in iowa this weekend, defended the former pren>> he a right decision. >> reporter: mr. trump is not relenting, declaring "the real insurrection happened on november 3rd, the presidential election, not on january 6th." and his former vice president mike pence is downplaying the violence that day even though some rioters vowed to hang him. >> the media wants to distract from the biden administration's failed agenda by focusing on one day in january. >> reporter: the former president is now demanding his top aides refuse to cooperate with the investigation into the attack. subpoenaed documents are due by midnight. >> we're going to use all the tools available to the united states congress, up to and including a referral for criminal prosecution. >> reporter: and tonight the committee investigating january 6th has issued new subpoenas,

these to organizers of a "stop the steal" rally that took place here on capitol grounds that day. we have also learned the committee plans to meet with facebook whistleblower frances haugen. %-p. well, in alabama tonight at least four people are dead after being swept away by floods. all were inside vehicles including a 4-year-old girl. many others were rescued from flooded streets and homes. parts of the state got over a foot of rain in a week. the storms also caused flooding today in the carolinas. the "cbs overnight news" will be right back.

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pipeline just 13 inches long where the oil leak began. with huge backlogs at the ports, investigators are looking at the dozens of container ships that occupy almost every designated anchor area offshore. the pipeline passes within a few hundred yards of the closest one. >> we don't have a smoking gun. >> reporter: satellite imagery provide bid environmental watchdog sky truth shows which ships were in the vicinity at the time of the oil spill, according to ceo john amos. >> we were able to determine that seven vessels crossed over the pipeline. >> reporter: but he says it doesn't appear any of the ships were close enough to snag an anchor on the pipeline. does the anchor strike explanation still sound plausible to you? >> if the drag marks are fresh from the movement of that pipeline, i don't know what else could possibly do that. could it have been a corrosion problem at the pipeline that just finally broke through? >> reporter: tonight, 54 cargo ships are still anchored just

off the coast behind me. the orange county district attorney's environmental crimes unit has launched an investigation into amplify energy. that's the company that owns the pipeline. and now business owners impacted by the oil spill are filing a class action lawsuit, and it's likely the first of many. norah? >> carter evans, thank you. we want to turn now to the growing wave of cyber attacks on american hospitals. 1,100 hospitals were hacked for ransom last year. and this year the number is expected to be even higher. as cbs's catherine her ij reports, these hacks are increasingly costly and potentially deadly. >> reporter: already struggling with covid patients, hospitals are now under attack from a silent enemy. a ruthless cyber group is going after hospitals, impacting some critical systems like heart monitors and patient records. are these hackers putting american lives at risk? >> yes. >> reporter: kevin mandia, one of the world's leading cybersecurity experts, says his

company is dealing with a surge in ransomware, where criminals freeze dngta operations to a standstill until money is paid. are these hackers aggressively going after healthcare networks? >> they are. it's amazing to us. 20% of the victims were healthcare. >> reporter: so these are hackers with no conscience during covid? >> well, i think it's hackers that want to make a lot of money. >> reporter: mandia says the group he calls fin 1 is a rising threat. the hackers are russian-speaking. they are thorough. they check financial statements before attacking. then they get in quick and demand millions of dollars. and there is growing evidence these cybercriminals are even leading to deaths. health care researcher ed gaudet says he surveyed over 500 health care systems and asked about the effects of cyberattacks. >> yeah, the data would suggest that people are dying, there's an increase in mortality rates based on ransomware attacks. >> reporter: in alabama a lawsuit blames springhill

memorial hospital for a baby's death after a cyberattack. in july of 2019 nico silar was born with the umbilical cord wrapped around her neck. some hospital monitoring systems were offline. the d and later died. springhill memorial says it handled the attack appropriately. fbi and homeland security have warned hospitals to toughen their defenses, but mandia says fin-12 sees the targets as easy money. >> quick hits but you can get millions of dollars. it's just boom, you get it. >> reporter: the warning -- hospitals should expect more attacks. catherine herridge, cbs news, washington. there's a lot more news ahead on the "cbs overnight news." tomorrower nba stars

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in honor of hispanic heritage month we'll introduce you to a group that wants to get more families to experience camping. cbs's omar villafranca reports. >> first-ti? e repter: l ver been the outdoorsy type. >> never put up a tent. never thought about sleeping in a tent. >> reporter: but a recent camping trip with her kids took her a few hours from her san antonio home and miles away from her comfort zone. >> it's a good family time. >> reporter: their guide, josie gutierrez, first camped here at garner state park, more than 30 years ago. >> oh, thank you. >> reporter: working with latino outdoors, she helps introduce more latino families to mother nature. why don't latinos camp more? what's the baber that keeps more of us from doing it?

>> definitely just not knowing. not knowing how easy it can be. >> if you're new to a park -- >> reporter: volunteers provide the basics, then let the families explore the land and themselves. >> even the little kids know oh, i can make fire, oh, i can do this. you build confidence so like for me i'm ready to go by myself with my kids. >> reporter: pacheco knew her kids were all in with camping when they stayed offline. >> they passed out. no tablets, no internet, no phones. and they actually stayed asleep. >> reporter: and dreaming of the next family fiesta in the great outdoors. >> so nice. >> reporter: omar vil afranka, cbs news, san antonio. >> and that is the "overnight news" for this friday. for some of you the news continues. for others check back later for "cbs mornings." and follow us online anytime at cbsnews.com. reporting from the nation's capital, i'm norah o'donnell.

this is "cbs news flash." i'm tom hanson in new york. the government has avert an economic disaster. at least for now. the senate approved a bill to extend the debt limit through early december, dodging a government default. the house will now vote on the measure before president biden signs it into law. tesla's headquarters is saying howdy, y'all, to the lone star state. elon musk announced the move in a shareholder meeting, citing limitations to how big the company can scale at its current home in the bay area. and hello from the other side. of the pond. adele is making history, appearing on the november covers of british and american "vogue." it comes the same week the singer announced a new single coming out october 15th.

for more news download the cbs news app on your cell phone or connect ed tv. i'm tom hanson, cbs news, new york. >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." good evening and thank you so much for joining us. we're going to begin with major news in the fight against covid. pfizer today applied for emergency use authorization for its vaccine in children ages 5 to 11. pfizer has said a mini dose of the vaccine is safe for younger children. cbs news has learned the cdc's advisory committee will meet the week of november 1st. that means your child might be able to get that first pfizer dose as early as the first week of november. this comes as presenitch to conl eligible americans to get their shots.

he also said vaccine mandates are working and a big reason why new cases and hospital admissions are down. and tonight there's a chilling new number about how many children lost a parent or grandparent caregiver due to covid. so there's a lot to get to, and cbs's nancy cordes is going to lead off our coverage tonight from the white house. good evening, nancy. >> reporter: good evening, norah. you know, doctors have long said that vaccinating kids is key to slowing the pace of the pandemic. and pfizer's move today means the younger set could start getting their shots about ten months after the vaccines were first okayed for their parents. tonight, 28 million children are one step closer to potentially life-saving protection. pfizer and biontech have asked the fda to authorize their vaccine for use in children ages 5 to 11, at 1/3 the adult dosage. >> you want to maximize the protection with the fewest amount of side effects. >> reporter: dr. grace lee leads

a cdc advisory board. she's a pediatrician at stanford. >> like many other children's hospitals, we have had children who have died of covid. i think that while the vast majority of children can tolerate the infection and do well we also know that sometimes we're not able to predict well who will suffer severe consequences. >> reporter: kids make up 22% of the population but 27% of newly reported covid cases. immunizing them could help prevent scenes like this. danville, pennsylvania schools forced to close this week because quarantine rates were too high. >> i was nervous, i should say, because he's under the high-risk zone with asthma. >> reporter: a heartbreaking new study in the journal "pediatrics" finds that covid caused more than 140,000 u.s. children to lose a parent or grandparent caregiver over the past 15 months. that's 1 in every515 children.

black and hispanic children were even more likely to lose a caretaker. >> 700,000 people dead in the united states. >> reporter: in chicago today president biden argued new corporate vaccine mandates are making a difference, by pushing the number of eligible but unvaccinated americans down from 95 million in late july to 67 million today. >> my message is require your employees to get vaccinated. with vaccinations we're going to beat this pandemic finally. without them we face endless months of chaos in our hospitals, damage to our economy and anxiety in our schools. >> and nancy joins us from the white house. nancy, the administration had been working on that rule to require all big companies to get their employees vaccinated. where does that stand? >> reporter: norah, president biden said today that the labor department is almost done crafting that osha rule. it would apply to all companies of 100 employees or more and it

would say that those companies must require their workers to either get vaccinated or submit to regular testing. that applies to about 100 million americans and fines would be impo o compaes comply. >> nancy cordes, thanks very much. well, tonight american airlines is just the latest to warn employees get the vaccine or get fired. airlines are considered government contractors under the president's federal vaccine plan. so it is a requirement for them. but the mandates are hitting some headwinds. cbs's errol barnett reports on how this could impact holiday travel. >> reporter: tonight a travel warning. turbulence could soon hit flights as pilot unions resist vaccine mandates and risk losing their jobs. >> what we're looking for is to ensure that there's a pilot in the cockpit. >> reporter: the union representing american airlines' 15,000 pilots warned staffing shortages could start as soon as holiday travel begins. >> if you suddenly in one day have 4,000-plus pilots that are not able to fly, that's a big

deal. that's worse than this past summer. >> reporter: but the largest pilots association and most major carriers confirm they will follow president biden's executive order requiring airline workers to get the shots. united says hundreds of its own vaccine holdouts changed course in just the last week. one airline, however, is flying a different route. >> some have very deep-seated feelings and concerns about the vaccine. i wanted to respect that. >> reporter: delta boss ed bastian says he's undecided on the mandate and points to a $200 per month surcharge for unvaccinated staff, putting their compliance rate at 85% rate. >> i think we'll be well over 90% by the end of this month. >> i'm perplexed by delta's stance. >> reporter: travel analyst henry harteveldt suspects delta will eventually give in. >> they have no choice. it's mandate vaccinations for your employees or potentially risk losing government contracts, by for delta are worth many millions of dollars.

>> reporter: there is also a new push for all airline passengers to be fully vaccinated after a bill was introduced in congress. all of the major carriers, though, have resisted going that far. meanwhile, our neighbors to the north are already there. prime minister justin trudeau announcing that by the end of this month you must be fully vaccinated, norah, to fly anywhere in canada. >> that's a big development. errol barn ept, thank you. well, in southern california the extensive cleanup continues from that catastrophic oil spill that has killed fis and sea birds and shut down beaches. tonight cbs's carter evans has a close-up look view at the site of the underwater disaster. >> reporter: new underwater video shows a small crack in the pipeline just 13 inches long where the oil leak began. with huge backlogs at the ports, investigators are looking at the dozens of container ships that occupy almost every designated anchor area offshore.

the pipelineses within a few hundred yards of the closest one. >> we don't have a smoking gun. >> reporter: satellite imagery provided by environmental watchdog sky truth shows which ships were in the vicinity at the time of the oil spill. according to ceo john amos. >> we were able to determine that seven vessels crossed over the pipeline. >> reporter: but he says it doesn't appear any of the ships were close enough to snag an anchor on the pipeline. does the anchor strike explanation still sound plausible to you? >> if the drag marks are fresh from the movement of that pipeline, i don't know what else could possibly do that. could it have been a corrosion problem with the pipeline that just finally broke through? >> reporter: tonight, 54 cargo ships are still anchored just off the coast behind me. the orange county district attorney's environmental crimes unit has launched an investigation into amplify energy. that's the company that owns the pipeline. and now business owners impacted by the oil spill are filing a class action lawsuit, and it's

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♪ >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." i'm jan crawford in washington. thanks for staying with us. the latest battle against coronavirus centers on children in the public schools, and new studies found that kids make up more than a quarter of all new covid cases nationwide and less than half of eligible youngsters are fully vaccinated. the department of education has opened civil rights investigations against six republican-led states that have banned mask requirements in public schools. the department contends the bans violate the rights of children with disabilities. one of the states under the microscope is florida.

omar vil afranka spoke with a family that says the law is putting their daughter's life at risk. >> every night i wish upon a starfish i can go back in person. >> reporter: 9-year-old reefy kinder has been learning virtually for almost two years. >> i miss socializing with my friends. >> being 9 years old and hanging out with your buddies. >> yes. >> reporter: reefy had 30 surgeries over six years, leaving her immunocompromised. her parents and doctor decided not to send her to school in person this year because there's no mask mandate in their county. >> it was too dangerous if you ask me for the other kids to go in without masks, let alone a child who's immune compromised. >> reporter: the kinders and 10 other families are part of a federal lawsuit against florida governor ron desantis, the state department of education and several school districts. it alleges an executive order from desantis banning mask mandates violates the americans with disabilities t. of thehe people that believe in the

governor at the time. >> reporter: a new state rule also lets families decide whether or not to send their child to school after being exposed to covid-19. >> anyone that may have been in contact without symptoms should be able to stay in school. they can be monitored. the parents can be notified that there may have been a case. the parents, you know, have a right to have their healthy kids in school. >> immunocompromised and immunocompromised. >> reporter: pediatrician candice jones says kids like reefy need multiple layers of protection against covid. >> you need to do everything. hand hygiene, mask, social distancing, ventilation, all of those things. >> reporter: for reefy that means staying home until there's a mask mandate or she can get a vaccine. >> we want a decision or a vaccine because she wants to go to school. >> reporter: we reached out to reefy's school district for coent, but ty did totet kinde e cautious because reefy's older sister got covid and had to

quarantine in a separate house. she's only 11 years old. so she's not eligible for the vaccine yet. but that could change because an fda advisory panel plans to meet later on this month and they're going to be talking about rolling out the vaccine for kids ages 5 to 11. >> omar vil afranka reporting from the sunshine state. overseas there's new hope for thousands of children who die each year from malaria. the world health organization has approved the first ever malaria vaccine. mosquito-borne parasite saint problem here in the u.s. but in africa it's a killer. debora patta has a story. >> reporter: describing this new vaccine as groundbreaking is something of an understatement here in africa. it really could mean the difference between life and death. we have bed nets to stop mosquito bites and drugs to kill the parasites, and yet malaria remains one of the most deadly diseases on the planet. so it's no wonder the world health organization regards this

as a game changer. >> this vaccine is a gift to the world. but its value will be felt most in africa. >> reporter: malaria kills around half a million people every year. more than 50% are children, and nearly all those cases are in sub-saharan africa. the new vaccine has been given to more than 800,000 african children since 2019 in a pilot program. one of its ingredients is from a rare chilean evergreen tree. clinical trials showed a 30% efficacy but when combined with anti-that lairial drugs there was a 70% reduction in deaths. in a year of unparalleled medical breakthroughs it's easy to become blase about another new vaccine. but this one could change the course of history. >> debora patta reporting. the "overnight news" is back in two minutes.

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swimmers or surfers, and most people just ignore them. but researchers are now trying ve chosehistret ofks caervans reports. durg whas pringbey shark season off southern california, just beyond the surf camp students in the shore break -- >> there's a fin out there. you see a fin? >> oh, my gosh. >> reporter: a sight that's terrifying for most people. >> is that a shark? >> reporter: it's actually one of many. most swimmers never even see them. but video from above shows countless baby great white sharks up to 6 years old and ten feet long swimming among families and surfers. it's becoming so familiar here something unusual is happening to these kids and their parents. >> hello, shark. >> reporter: they're not afraid. >> so you've seen sharks out there when your son is out here? >> yeah. >> reporter: it sounds weird to say, doesn't it? >> yes. i almost don't want to think about it too much.

>> reporter: nicky says her perception of thexre iuess if m there and i just saw a shark go by then yeah, it must be changing. >> reporter: surf camp owner chris kaet has a plan when a shark gets too close. >> what happens then? >> we blow a whistle, we have everyone come inside the surf line. we call it code black. >> all the kids are out in the water and that guy on the paddleboard there, he is a shark spotter. making sure to keep these kids safe. >> they have basically come to accept the fact that there are sharks here. and they're learning how to live with them. >> reporter: chris lowe runs the shark lab at cal state long beach. we met him and his team just a few hundred yards offshore from the surf camp. >> i see it. there he is. >> reporter: during a week-long expedition tagging and tracking a record number of juvenile great whites. >> we want to be able to predict where these sharks will show up. >> reporter: and to getter understand what's attracting the sharks, you have they have to catch one. >> it goes from zero to 100 very, very quickly. >> reporter: researcher james

anderson and the team wrangle it along the boat. >> it's thrashing, trying to get away and you've got to untangle it from the knelt, get it onto its back so it calms down and goes into a tonic inability state. >> he takes tissue samuels to see what the shark is eating maybe a clue why the shark is here. then he performs surgery at-z implanting a tracking device that will last a decade. that's researcher emily spurgeon getting hands-on with the 150-pound juvenile shark. she's responsible for monitoring and maintaining a network of underwater hydrophones listening for tagged sharks swimming by. >> so we're tracking these juvenile white sharks from mexico all the way up to the central coast of california. >> this is all part of aggregating the data so you can eventually maybe predict when sharks will be around? >> that's the goal. so if i can figure out if this habitat is perfect for them then maybe we can say if another beach has similar conditions then those sharngz v sharks might be moving there. >> reporter: ultimately the team hopes to creat srk r

to go with the surf report so southern california beachgoers know when to expect company in the water. >> you saw "jaws" when you were a kid? >> i did, yeah. i had a lot of misconceptions. >> hello, shark. >> reporter: the children see the animals, and they no longer are fearing them in the same way. >> reporter: off the coast of santa barbara i'm carter evans. and from the beach at santa barbara to the high desert of colorado steve hartman has the story of a high school football team that managed to turn their rotten home turf into a field of dreams. >> reporter: 250 miles south of denver, near the edge of isolation, sits the tiny town of branson, colorado. blink and you'll moos it. but branson does have a sight to see, what many have dubbed the worst football field in america. >> i don't dispute that title. >> reporter: brad doherty is the branson high school athletic

director and head dirtskeeper. how bad can a football field be? >> we go out before every game and fill in and collapse as many gopher holes as we can find. felt like bill murray in "caddyshack." >> the grass would stap b you. maybe you'd land in cactus if you're lucky. >> reporter: but the bearcats loved football enough to endure. until the end of last season when other teams in the league said they wouldn't play on this rocky rectangle of high desert anymore. it was just too dangerous, they said. >> it was pretty heart-wrenching to hear that people didn't want to come play on our field. >> football in our community is the one thing that grabs be everybody and brings everybody together. >> reporter: which is why brad decided to attempt a hail mary. had the kids make a video explaining how they needed artificial turf because they didn't have enough water in branson to grow real grass and how the price shocked the school board. >> we need your help.

>> reporter: brad posted the plea on social media, hoping anyone outside branson would see it. >> you just do that for kids. >> reporter: but this was a goal that was destined to fail? >> yeah. that's why it was so amazing. >> reporter: thanks to the kindness of strangers from across the country branson's bad news bearcats are back in the ball game. ended up raising more than half a million dollars and now have the best field in the league. they just had their first game and won by almost 60 points. but brad says the bigger victory is the field itself. >> it became something that we show our kids, you can aspire to do great and impossible things. >> reporter: an oasis of inspiration. for generations. to come. steve hartman, cbs news. >> good stuff! >> reporter: on the road.

as of this morning more than 57% of the u.s. population have been fully vaccinated against the coronavirus. 66% have received at least one dose of vaccine. for the rest there's a variety of reasons for not taking the jab. one of them is a fear of needles. well, now new technology may change that. maggie newlan has that story. >> reporter: for james todd vaccines come with anxiety. >> i'm not too fond of them. i actually have needlephobia. >> reporter: he's an loan. according to the cdc as many as 25% of adults and many children have a fear of needles. some so severe it prevents them from getting vaccinated. but one day needles, at least the ones we're used to, may not be necessary. >> it's pain-free and anxiety-free. >> reporter: dr. joseph disimone

at stanford university is working with researchers at the university of north carolina chapel hill on a tiny patch that can deliver rack vaccines when applied to the skin. >> so our approach was to directly 3-d print the microneedles and use a breakthrough in 3-d printing that we pioneered. >> reporter: the microneedles on that patch are so small they can hardly be felt. dr. disimone says not only is the patch painless it's also more effective than traditional shots. >> we have 100 to 1,000 times more of the targeted immune cells in the dermis of our skin than our muscle. >> it means people would need a smaller amount of vaccine. it also wouldn't have to be as cold as liquids used in liquid form. >> you're going to need things like that. >> reporter: right now the patch is being tested on animals. dr. disimone says the results are promising and within five years he says this could be how you get your shots. or more specifically how you could give yourself your shots. maggie newland, cbs news,

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