antibodies that are circulating in my blood from me getting the booster shot. >> reporter: there is evidence of that. one study found 100% of babies born to women who had received the pfizer or moderna shots also had the antibodies triggered by those vaccines. norah? >> what a gift a mother can give their child. manuel bojorquez, thank you. and now to a case of alleged espionage with a really bizarre twist. a naval engineer and his wife are expected to appear in federal court tomorrow on charges that they tried to pass nuclear secrets to a foreign country. and get this, key evidence was apparently hidden in a peanut butter sandwich. here is cbs's catherine herridge. >> reporter: this case revolves around the technology behind these high-tech u.s. subs, and the court records read like an espionage thriller. defendants jonathan toebbe, a nuclear engineer for the navy and his wife diana were arrested over the weekend, accused of

selling nuclear secrets to a foreign government official who was really an fbi agent. >> our summary program is the biggest defense capability that the u.s. has. >> reporter: eric o'neill worked underanother as an intelligence oper operative. >> this is a trusted insider who had access to the secrets and decided he was going to go sell them to a foreign power that is the most dangerous thing we find in counter intelligence. >> reporter: toebbe, who lived on this quiet street in annapolis, maryland, is charged with offering to sell an unnamed country nuclear secrets in exchange for $100,000 in cryptocurrency. the fbi was tipped by that country and began an elaborate months long investigation with undercover agents telling toebbe to drop off the stolen data in a rural area in west virginia. among the most sensational details, that toebbe passed information on a data card hidden inside band-aids and even a peanut butter sandwich. >> it's a very novel approach to an old traditional spy method.

>> reporter: federal prosecutors want the couple to remain in custody pending trial. they have their first court appearance in west virginia tomorrow, underscoring the severity of the espionage charge. prosecutors indicated they could get life in prison or death if convicted, norah. >> wow. catherine herridge, thank you. well, we have got a warning for parents tonight about an alarming wave of destructive and dangerous school pranks that are being provoked on social media. we have new details tonight from cbs's jamie yuccas. >> reporter: damaged bathrooms, a flooded hallway, just some of the recent destruction in one tennessee school district. >> across our 14 middle schools and high schools, there have been over 100 incidents of vandalism and theft over the last few weeks that have been linked to these challenges. >> reporter: the social media challenges say school spam anthony johnson include one on tiktok called devious licks that incited kids to school or destroy school property and post

it online. >> we're not talking about minor vandalism. >> dozens of students have faced consequences and their families are left paying thousands of dollars in fines in restitution. >> reporter: addison goldberg and lilly lambberg attend one of the vandalized schools. why is this happening? >> they just want the more popularity. >> reporter: how does this make you more popular by damaging property? >> because it makes you noticed, and it brings you to the attention of your peers. and the higher level of vandalism is the more attention that you're going to get. >> reporter: there is now a calendar of challenges circulating online. in october, students are being encouraged to slap a teacher, prompting warnings from police and school districts nationwide. several students have already been arrested for apparently following through. >> assaulting any employee is a zero tolerance offense that comes with a mandatory one-year expulsion. >> reporter: tiktok says the alleged challenge would violate its policies, and it would aggressively remove such

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jean peters baker publicly agreed with him. >> it is important to recognize when the system has made wrongs. anwhat we did ins case wrong. >> reporter: yet five months ba. how old were you when you were first incarcerated? >> about to be 19 in about three months. and i'm wondering if i'm going to be here at 63. >> reporter: why? >> the delays and the roadblocks that are being put up seem to be endless. >> reporter: roadblocks thrown up by the state's attorney general eric schmitt, who maintains strickland received a fair trial and is guilty. after a triple homicide in kansas city in 1978, the only survivor, 20-year-old cynthia douglas identified strickland as one of the shooters. douglas later tried to recant her testimony, saying she was mistaken after strickland's first trial ended with a hung jury, he was later convicted by an all white jury and sentenced to life without parole.

do you still remember hearing that verdict? >> yeah, yeah. i will never forget that. i didn't know i could cry like that at that age. >> reporter: strickland remained in prison even after two of the four actual shooters benson bell and kilm adkins stated he had nothing to do with the murders. >> none of them are serving time right now for that murder, but you are sitting in here. >> right. >> reporter: sftrickland says even if he is released, he can't get back the past. his daughter was 7 weeks old when he was arrested. you really have lost a lot. you get your life back, but you've lost so much of it. >> yeah. you kind of see i get my life back. i've never had one. so i get to try to establish a life, but i've actually never had one to get back. >> reporter: erin moriarty, cbs news, cameron, missouri.

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tonight some good news. a 3-year-old boy is home from the hospital and back with his family after he had gone missing for three days. christopher ramirez disappeared from his home in plantersville, texas last week after chasing a neighbor's puppy into the woods. the boy was found several miles from home hungry, thirsty, but happy to be back in his mother's arms. tonight a highway patrol accident and a woman he was helping are lucky to be alive. a pickup truck swerved to avoid the accident, nearly missing the officer and hitting the woman's car. she escaped with minor injuries. the cause of that initial wreck still under investigation. paul mccartney is setting the record straight saying he wasn't the one who broke up the beatles. he says it was the late john lennon. mccartney has long been blamed for instigating the split. but he tells the bbc saying that was our johnny coming in one day and saying "i'm leaving the

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kenyon runners swept today's rescheduled boston marathon. benson kipruto won the men's race. diana kipp yogi the women's. the boston marathon is a grueling race, but for one runner it's just another obstacle to overcome. here is nancy chen. >> reporter: there is resilience in each step of these 22.6 miles for ben. diagnosed with a eye condition when he was 17, the colorado runner lost his sight in his late 20s. >> the sense of disability was really starting to weigh on me. so i sign upped for a half marathon and started training for it. just getting out there to run changed my world. >> reporter: and his challenges soon took the 51-year-old around

the world. he climbed machu picchu, summited mt. kilimanjaro, and crossed the grand canyon. what does running mean for you? >> running for me means a sense of freedom. it's able to find ability in the face of disability. >> reporter: he hopes to instill in young people with his nonp nonprofit. >> we formed see possibilities to try to destroyed the notions of what somebody who is blind is capable of doing. >> reporter: this is berlin's seventh boston marathon, but his first with daughter talia by his side. if you were to sum up this experience all together, what would you say? >> can you combine elate and exhausted? >> reporter: and ready for his next adventure. nancy chen, cbs news, boston. >> and that is the "overnight news" for this tuesday. for some of you, the news continues. for others, check back later for "cbs mornings." and follow us online any time at cbsnews.com. reporting from the nation's capitol, i'm norah o'donnell.

this is cbs news flash. i'm tom hanson in new york. texas governor greg abbott issued an executive order banning vaccine mandates in the lone star state while calling on texans to get the job. the order says no entity in texas, including private companies can enforce vaccination. jon gruden has resigned as head coach of the las vegas raiders after reportedly making homophobic, racist and misogynistic statements. in a slew of emails, gruden denounced the drafting of gay players and women serving as referees. and d.c. comics has revealed the son of superman john kent is bisexual. the man of steals the heart of another man. jay nakamura, the fifth issue of

the comic comes out next month. for more news download news on our app or connected 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 on this monday. well, we're going to begin tonight with the anger and frustration of southwest airlines passengers as a weekend of stress and cancellations stretched all the way into monday. more than 360 flights were canceled today after about 2,000 were called off over the weekend. now why it's happening isn't exactly clear. the airline blames the weather, and, quote, other constraints, but the disruptions began shortly after the pilots tried to block southwest's new vaccine mandate. what is clear is thousands of southwest passengers were left stranded. lines were long and tempers were

short at airports in several cities as passengers were forced to wait hours, and in some cases days, yes, days, to get on other flights. cbs's errol barnett is going the lead us off tonight from reagan national airport just outside of here in d.c. good evening, errol. >> norah, good evening. there are folks out there tonight still waiting to get to their weekend destinations, and some having to pay hundreds of dollars out of pocket just to get there. while southwest struggles to rebuild its struggle, we spoke to the union representing southwest pilots who say there was no walkout. from l.a. to miami -- >> it's not a great end to a good vacation. >> reporter: dallas to denver. >> we're going try and get there. when, i don't know. >> reporter: thousands of southwest customers had weekend travel plans ruined by more than 2,000 flight cancellations. tonight, the company offering a, quote, tremendous apology to customers and employees exciting

citing weather and external cons constraints. did any of your pilots call out sick this weekend? >> we have data on what exactly happened. and so our pilot sick rates were right in line with what was occurring this summer. >> reporter: captain casey murray is president of the southwest pilots union and insists there was no protest of the company's pending vaccine mandate. but he acknowledged the union is suing southwest over its policy. >> the pilots were picking up extra flying. >> reporter: southwest stood out because other carriers had nowhere near its rate of cancellations. some stranded passengers hit the road to get back home. >> we're home. >> reporter: after how many hours on the road? >> 25 total. >> 25 hours. >> reporter: julianne mattox attended a wedding in austin before southwest canceled their flight back to d.c., offering wednesday instead. >> the general consensus among everyone was it's easier to rent

a car and just get out of town. >> reporter: 1500 miles later, the trio made it home safely today. >> so probably won't be looking at southwest any time soon. >> reporter: and this is not over yet. southwest says it is trying to rebuild its schedule, but norah, it does expect for there to be continued cancellations through tuesday. >> all right, errol barnett, thank you so much. well, tonight the central u.s. is bracing for severe weather. they've already gotten some in southern illinois. a tornado leveled at least two buildings in the town of wrights. more than a dozen tornadoes were reported sunday in oklahoma and missouri. the good news is no one was seriously hurt. we get more now on the storm threat from cbs's lonnie quinn. hey there, lonnie. >> hello, norah. tonight it's going to be illinois that is on alert for tornadoes. but as we get into your day tomorrow, the same area that was plagued today could very well see a repeat performance. we're talking oklahoma and kansas. look at this line coming through. anywhere along that line there the twist elemt isngorm. come from up above. a big river of fast-moving air.

the jet stream starts to twist the column of air. it could twist down to the service and then you have a problem out there. you go north of the system, and look at this. you get up into portions of wyoming and montana and we're talking snow. maybe 1 to 2 feet of snow as you finish up your day tomorrow. then i want to take us out west. just quickly. we do not have any big fires burning, but we do have a red flag warning in effect. we could have winds blowing tomorrow in excess of 60 miles per hour. if that's your home, you've got to be careful with a flame or any kind of spark. that's the latest. we have three weather stories out there tomorrow. it's all yours. >> thanks, lonnie. well, tonight we're following breaking news from southern california. at least two people were killed when a small plane crashed into a neighborhood outside san diego. just blocks from a high school. two homes were destroyed. cbs's lilia luciano has late details on just what happened. >> this is amateur video taken right after the plane crashed into a residential neighborhood just after noon local time.

>> aircraft has crashed about a half mile in front of us into the houses. >> we believe that the injuries are nonsurvivable for anyone that was on that plane. >> oh my god. >> reporter: a witness painted a scene of chaos in the moments after the crash. >> cars exploding, fires exploding, and ups tanks and everything exploding. >> reporter: she says two men in the neighborhood ran out after the explosion to help a man and a woman trapped in one of the destroyed homes. >> they pulled the lady out, and then they had to knock the fence down to get the husband out. so hopefully it was only just those two people in the house. >> reporter: san diego sheriffs set up a perimeter as fire crews worked to douse the flames at two homes that were destroyed. several others may be damaged. a ups truck also took a direct hit. it happened in a neighborhood just blocks away from a high school. luckily, no students were hurt. fire officials say one of the deaths was someone on the ground, though no one in those

homes affected was killed. the faa hasn't confirmed how many passengers were in that small cessna that was traveling from yuma, arizona to san diego, and now the ntsb will take the lead in the investigation. norah? >> thank you, lilia luciano. well, we have got a warning for parents tonight about an alarming wave of destructive and dangerous school pranks that are being provoked on social media. we have new details tonight from cbs's jamie yuccas. >> reporter: damaged bathrooms, a flooded hallway, just some of the recent destruction in one tennessee school district. >> across our 14 middle schools and high schools, there have been over 100 incidents of vandalism and theft over the last few weeks that have been linked to these challenges. >> reporter: the social media challenges say school spam spokesman anthony johnson include one on tiktok called devious licks that incited kids to steal or destroy school property and post it online.

>> we're not talking about minor vandalism. >> dozens of students have faced consequences and their families are left paying thousands of dollars in fines in restitution. >> reporter: addison goldberg and lilly lambert attend one of the vandalized schools. why is this happening? >> they just want the more popularity. >> reporter: how does this make you more popular by damaging property? >> because it makes you noticed, and it brings you to the attention of your peers. and the higher level of vandalism is the more attention that you're going to get. >> reporter: there is now a calendar of challenges circulating online. in october, students are being encouraged to slap a teacher, prompting warnings from police and school districts nationwide. several students have already been arrested for apparently following through. >> assaulting any employee is a zero tolerance offense that comes with a mandatory one-year expulsion. >> reporter: tiktok says the alleged challenge would violate its policies, and it would aggressively remove such content. but tiktok also says it has not found the challenge on its

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♪ >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." i'm major garrett in washington. thank you very much for staying with us. the drugmaker merck is asking the fda to grant emergency use authorization for its new antiviral pill to treat covid-19. unlike other treatments that have been administered in the hospital, merck says people could take their pills at home. it's been shown to reduce symptoms and speed recovery. approval could come in a matter of weeks. in the meantime, 68 eligible americans still refuse or have deep questions about the vaccine. and in some places so-called

vaccine hesitancy has turned into outright vaccine hostility. idaho is one example. only about half of eligible residents there are fully vaccinated, but covid wards are packed. and on sunday, there were only four open icu beds in the entire state. doctors and nurses there are lefterf fi bnout and misinformation. and in one case, a sign outside the hospital called staff inside, quote/unquote, murderers. jonathan vigliotti reports. >> we have now had to convert day surgery to a fourth intensive care unit space. >> reporter: icu director dr. megan mcinerney is normally the last person you want to meet at st. alfonse hospital's growing covid ward. >> if you're sick enough with covid to meet me, your chances are dying are pretty high. >> reporter: about 50% of patients who have been intubated in recent months have died. there are vaccines available to prevent the very scene before

our eyes, and yet here we are. >> yes. right. it did not have to be this way. >> hey, alicia, how is it going today? >> reporter: mcinerney's colleague dr. carolyn mcfarland says misinformation and political division over vaccines have become an unexpected and deadly side effect of idaho's covid crisis. >> the divisiveness that we saw with politics, i'm seeing that same kind of trend in health care. and that alarms me that i'm treating patients for their political views whereas this virus does not care. >> reporter: in idaho, it's not required and even frowned upon to wear masks indoors. many don't. >> i thought this would be bringing america together to fight a common evil. >> reporter: as more sick residents flood hospitals, some medical staffers are leaving. st. alfonse's has lost 50% of its entire staff since covid began, mostly due to burnout.

>> we do often get family members berating us up one side and down the other. >> reporter: charge nurse alicia luciani has had enough. today is her last day in the ward. what's going on in your mind right now? >> there is just so many of them. i put more people in body bags over the last two years than i have in the last nine. it's hard. and there's just a heaviness. so. that -- that effort to preserve my own mental and emotional health was a -- helped with the decision to do something a little different. >> reporter: the exhausting and polarized climate has also led to troubling protest signs like this one outside the e.r.,

calling doctors murderers. >> i feel forllf us whore trng toiggainst covid and provide care and that's what the greeting is. >> reporter: now more than 18 months into a pandemic that once celebrated these workers as heroes, dr. megan mcinerney says today she thinks twice about wearing her scrubs in public. >> is it because i feel unsafe? i don't necessarily think so, but i'm certainly not going to put myself out there. i'm not going to put up a sign that i'm a health care worker. >> once celebrated as heroes, today some at times feel like the enemy. one r.n. in this icu actually left to become a checkout clerk at the local walmart. she said the stress, the long hours and the frustration simply became too much. >> jonathan vigliotti on the front lines in the bat

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kirk. we were all talking about you this weekend. they all said this is a piece of cake because he has done it before. i said listen, that was a tv show. he never left the ground. so how you feeling? >> how wise of you to talk about a piece of cake and the remnants of that piece of cake. this is no piece of cake, but we've delayed 24 hours because of the winds, and the enormous concern for our safety. we welcome that concern. >> glen, you're a licensed private pilot. you some feel for what it's like to be up in the sky. what are you most looking forward to? >> i am actually looking forward to seeing the earth from a different perspective than i ever had before. i think it's going to be something that we've all heard. people have done it before us, come down changed. and i just can't wait to stare at that window and feel differently about humanity and our planet than i've ever had te opportunity before. >> i know, glen. that's what i think too.

you can't possibly go up there and not come back unchanged. i so understand that. audrey powers, you know blue origin very well. former employees have raised some safety concerns, safety issues. what do you make of the concerns that they've raised? ernce at blue.just hasn't been we're exceedingly thorough. i've worked on new shepherd for eight years now in a variety of roles. and i can't say enough about the team of professionals that work on this program from the earliest days up through now as we've started our human flights. and safety has always been our top priority. and that has always been my experience here. >> chris, you're a nasa engineer. what does this moment mean to you? >> yeah, i'm very excited. i've waited my entire life to do this. i think it's pretty amazing that 2021 is the year that really the tpat ale. is finally starting day yearsm now d go wow, this was a special

time in history, ht started flying es.you know, i think it's reall exciting to be a part of history and i can't wait to fly. >> what i also think is important to remember is jeff bezos' concept of doing all this is to build industry, homes to live in close connection with earth and function close to earth. and that's a vision that i think is very practical and worth getting behind. >> i think that's a good reminder for us all, william shatner. can i just say this? i want to be you when i grow up. you're 90 years old. they say that you will be the oldest person going into space. you look great. you're in great shape. clearly you've been enjoying life. why did you want to do it? >> because i wanted to claim they was the oldest person that went into -- what a thing to have. he's the oldest guy that went into space. i want to have the vision. i want to see space.

i want to see the earth. i want to see what we need to do to save earth. i want to have a perspective that hasn't been shown to m wm inrested in seeing. >> i look forward to your return, all of you. good luck, good luck, good luck. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> and so do we look forward to our return. >> gayle king with the blue origin crew. back here on earth, some of the brightest lights in the world are going dark. ramy inocencio has the story from hong kong. >> reporter: when night falls on hong kong, the dwindling number of neon lights still blaze on. the green glow from a pawnshop glinting off a window, a pink pig calling down to hungry customers for noodle soup, crafted characters in red and yellow advertising local spices. but these lights are fading. about 3,000 signs have b taken down each year since 2006.

80-year-old master wong tin hua is one of hong kong's last light benders. 1957 is when he started, he says, a career longer than most of us have been alive. his tiny workshop bears the proof. the tile floor worn down where he stood most. he shows me how the glass tubes are coated inside with phosphorous powder to give different colors, then fires up his self-designed pan pipe of blowtorches to soften the glass to bend it to his will. he attaches electrodes, pumps in colorless neon, and then runs a current to make sure it works. in neon's heyday, it's believed that hong con had about 40 masters. now master wong thinks there are fewer than four. the post world war ii boom brought commercialism, competition, and a crush of signs that made hong kong iconic. from the seductive world of suzie wong in 1960 to director

chungking express in the '90s and godzilla's fight with king kong in a fantasy world on neon steroids. but in the real world, fears over falling signs, many crafted decades before any government regulation has given way to strict modern policy. that and cheaper l.e.d.s are ending the reign of neon and its masters. there is just not enough demand. people have to make a living and put food on the table. many changed careers or were forced to retire. >> reporter: you're one of the last neon masters of hong kong. how does that make you feel? >> it makes me feel sad, he says. i don't know what to do. the dying of the light doesn't mean it goes gentle into the night. tetra neon exchange is a hong kong nonprofit raising awareness of this cultural loss. last year organizers took down one of the iconic diner signs to

brilliant public spectacle. cardin chen is its passionate general manager. but the takedown in the city is just half the job. among the rural hills of hong kong, the signs she saved lie under sky waiting t be restor fng and with business owners. many don't see neon worth saving. >> eventually, i would actually break into their hearts and then eventually they will want to work with us, yes. perseverance. >> reporter: as for those she did win over -- >> they were blown away. they just said i never actually thought someone would care so much. >> reporter: and a new generation has started to care, to make retro cool again, replacing commercial signs outside with artisanal ones inside. performers using neon as backdrops, and bars and restaurants using the lights to lure instagram influencers and likes. back at master wong's workshop, he shares one simple hope.

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the shortage of workers has some restaurants turning to high technology for help. elise preston has the story. >> reporter: there are some new employees at the dallas restaurant laduny. three robots that can greet customers and deliver meals. the owner says it's not a novelty but a necessity, because he can't find enough workers. >> i have people tell me well, they're taking people's jobs. guess what? no. they're not taking anybody's jobs because no one is showing up. what they are doing is helping the ones who are really working. >> reporter: sergio's restaurant in miami is also employing high-tech help for the same reason. >> we can't service the entire restaurant. so 30% of our restaurant's dining rooms are closed because we don't have the staffing to fulfill the demand. >> reporter: the robots allow

servers to handle more tables. it's a trend happening in restaurants around the world, from seoul, south korea to this establishment in iraq using a conveyor system to get meals to customers. >> restaurants are definitely going to become more automated. >> reporter: martin ford is the author of "the rule of the robots." he said restaurants started using technology like ordering kiosks and robots that deliver food to homes before the pandemic. now white castle is experimenting with a robot to help in the kitchen, and this salad chain sweet green recently created a robotic restaurant in boston. >> whether you like it or not, i think it's a trend. the best thing is to find ways to adapt to it. >> reporter: customers at sergio seems to be adapting. >> i've never seen anything like that before. honestly, it surprised me. >> i was so surprised. it's really cool. >> reporter: more diner mace be in for the same surprise with more restaurants turning to robots to help create a recipe for success. elise preston, cbs news, new

york. >> and that is the "overnight news" for this tuesday. reporting from the nation's capitol, i'm major garrett. this is cbs news flash. i'm tom hanson in new york. texas governor greg abbott issued an executive order banning vaccine mandates in the lone star state while calling on get the jab. jon gruden has resigned as head after reportedly making aider, homophobic statements and misogynistic statements. he denounced the drafting of gay players and women serving as referees. and d.c. comics has revealed the son of superman john kent is bisexual in the man of steals the heart of another man. nexmonth.ra, the fifth comic

news appelon ocbs cotetv. i'm tom hanson, cbs news, new york. . . it is tuesday, october 12, 2021. this is the cbs morning news. vaccine mandate banned. the debate heats up. the sweeping order issued in texas that sets it is tuesday, october 12, 2021. this is the cbs morning news. vaccine mandate banned. the debate heats up. the sweeping order issued in texas that sets up a showdown with the federal government. breaking overnight, jon gruden resigns. the raider head coach steps down after email surfaces. with statements against female referees and guy players. deadly plane crash. a twin engine crashes into a neighborhood leaving at least two dead. how good samaritans rescue a couple trapped in a destroyed home. good morning.