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happened, the film community held a vigil last night in l.a. to remember halyna hutchins, while long-time friends like dennis zanatta grieve for her family. >> i'm just sad, you know, that her son now is going to grow up without a mother, without a beautiful mother that she was. >> production of the movie has officially stopped, and no one has been charged, but we are expecting to learn more about this case when the sheriff and the district attorney have a press conference on wednesday. norah? >> omar villafranca, thank you. and we want the turn now to the covid pandemic. tomorrow an fda advisory committee is meeting on whether to green light pfizer's lower dose vaccine for kids 5 to 11 years old. there is also some news tonight about another possible vaccine for young children. and here is cbs' meg oliver. >> it feels good. >> woo! >> reporter: tonight as anticipation builds for younger children to get covid shots, moderna says its vaccine is safe and triggers a strong immune
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columbia, and the cdc says it's watching it closely. >> it has several mutations on the spike protein that we have not yet seen implicated in increased transmissibility or decreased ability of our vaccines or therapeutics to work. >> reporter: if the cdc grants emergency use authorization for pfizer's vaccine for kids 5 to 11, the earliest some children's hospitals like this one would start administering the two-dose shot is by the end of next week. norah? >> meg oliver, thank you so much. tonight facebook reports it made $9 billion in profits from july through september. and ceo mark zuckerberg is answering critics who claim the company puts those profits over people. cbs news along with other news outlets reviewed thousands of pages of internal documents suggesting facebook knew its platforms can fuel hate, but at times did little to stop it. we get more from "60 minutes
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plus" correspondent laurie segall. >> reporter: tonight facebook ceo mark zuckerberg is addressing the firestorm around his company. >> what we are seeing is a coordinated effort to selectively use leaked documents to paint a false picture of our company. >> reporter: that response came after leaked internal studies found facebook posts incited violence while the platform enabled human trafficking and hate speech. the same whistle-blower frances haugen had in the uk. former executive brian boland left facebook last year after more than a decade. >> i'm concerned that facebook causes divisions in a lot of area, political being one of them, and a powerful one that we neil early. but also in race and ethnicity, religion. >> reporter: the documents also reveal how facebook rolled back safety measures after the 2020 election, allowing misinformation to spread ahead of january 6. an internal analysis stating
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"our enforcement was piecemeal." >> those type of safety things are not the top priority. the top priority is growth. >> reporter: a famed ceo of mark zuckerberg has denied, writing this idea that we prioritize profit over safety and well-being, that's just not true. but boland says zuckerberg has too much power. >> i think if he stepped down as ceo and somebody with a focus on shepherding this amazing thing that's been built and keeping people safe, you'd see changes. >> reporter: for now the change, a rebranding campaign that zuckerberg is expected to announce on thursday. laurie segall, cbs news, new york.
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the polls next week to elect a new governor. president biden won that state by 10 points, but democrat terry mcauliffe and republican challenger glenn youngkin are locked in a tight race, and independents could be a key factor. so we went to the state to find out what's driving people to the polls. >> reporter: kendra lee is a prime example of why this race is so close. >> i tried when hillary clinton lost. someone told me that i would ever be not considering voting for a democrat, i would have thought like you were crazy. >> reporter: and yet the mother of two voted for republican glenn youngkin. after a year of virtual learning and now mask mandates in schools, she trusts him more with her kids' education. what is it about what youngkin is saying he'll do that appeals to you? >> i don't think he would have as much governmental restrictions. i think that he would leave it more in terms of local control. >> ready, woo! >> reporter: youngkin, a multimillionaire businessman has wooed voters like lee by making schools a central focus of the
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race, holding parents matter rallies where he hammers mcauliffe over something he said at a debate. >> i don't think parents should be told by schools how to teach. this movement is being led by parents who say no, i am the one who gets to decide what's best for my children. >> reporter: youngkin has tapped into race and gender issues in schools and he is opposed to mask and vaccine mandates. so what is it that's happening in schools that you don't like? >> i feel like i know what's best for my family better than a politician does record independent robert clark also voted for president biden, but calls this decision a toss-out. so you support president biden. >> i do. >> but you may vote for a republican. if a republican wins the governor's race, what message will that send? >> that there is some tepidness around the president's agenda. there are concerns about a lot of the choices he has made. >> reporter: and there is concern a loss here would be a preview of what's could to come in next year's midterms.
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mcauliffe is trying to make this a referendum on the former president. >> he is a trump acolyte. >> reporter: he says youngkin has a far right agenda, citing caught on tape comments about abortion. >> when i'm governor, we can start going on offense. but as the campaign, sadly, that in fact won't win votes. >> we cannot go back. he is against gay marriage. he is against a woman's right to choose. >> reporter: the choice of swing voters like robert will ultimately decide who win. >> i mean, i would like to imagine that my vote is the deciding one, but it won't be. i'm just going to go out and i'm just going to go out and vote for who i there's a different way to treat hiv. it's once-monthly injectable cabenuva. cabenuva is the only once-a-month, complete hiv treatment for adults who are undetectable. cabenuva helps keep me undetectable. it's two injections, given by a healthcare provider once a month. hiv pills aren't on my mind. i love being able to pick up and go. don't receive cabenuva if you're allergic to its ingredients or taking certain medicines,
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tom brady did it again, proving why many consider him the g.o.a.t., or greatest of all time. on sunday, he became the first nfl quarterback to reach 600 touchdown passes in his career, but he also noticed a young fan holding a sign that read "tom brady helped me beat brain cancer." so brady reached up and handed 9-year-old noah reeb a team cap. it meant everything to noah, and it was special for brady too. >> obviously tough kid, man. puts a lot in perspective of what we're doing on the field. in the end, it doesn't mean much compared to what so many people go through. you know we all try to make a difference in different way. >> well said, tom. noah's dad called ate dream come true. we'll be right back.
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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. we begin with an update on that deadly shooting at an idaho mall, killing two. four others, including a boise police officer were injured. the shooter's identity has not been released yet. report by the u.n. says we are way off track in curbing co2 emissions. the world saw a dramatic surge in carbon dioxide for 2020. in a week world leaders will meet in glasgow for the u.n. climate change summit. and andy warhol said art is anything you can get away with. well, for just $250, someone will get away with an original andy warhol, but they probably won't know it. the real wore hall is being sold alongside 999 high quality forgeries that are so good the
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sellers can't even tell them apart. for more news download our news app of your cell phone or connected tv. from new york, i'm tom hanson. ♪ this is the "cbs overnight news." >> good evening and thank you so much for joining us. we want to begin with severe storms impacting millions of americans from coast-to-coast. tonight the san francisco bay area is recovering from what's being called the strongest storm to hit the region in more than 25 years. record rain, howling winds and mud slides caused widespread damage from southern california to the pacific northwest. knocking out power to more than 150,000 homes and businesses and shutting down major highways. at least two people were killed by a falling tree near seattle. now in the midwest, a powerful tornado damaged buildings and knocked out power along the border between illinois and missouri.
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and tonight millions in the east are bracing for a nor'easter that's expected to unleash 4 to 8 inches of rain and gusts up to 60 miles per hour. we're going to get the forecast in just a moment, but cbs' david begnaud is going to lead us off in el dorado hills, california, near sacramento. good evening, david. >> good evening, norah. this is rainwater from that record-breaking storm running off into a reservoir just outside of sacramento. and this reservoir provides drinking water to people. look, if you live in california in what seems like the never-ending drought, you should love to see and hear this. that storm yesterday was so powerful, they called it a bomb cyclone. . what blew through northern california and much of the west this weekend is being described as epic, even historic. and here is what it left behind, a major rock slide covering a highway in northern california. it could take days before that's cleared. meanwhile, listen to these gale-force winds ripping through
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the golden gate bridge in san francisco. they even lifted up this semitruck on one bay area bridge and literally moved it over. there were numerous trees uprooted. tens of thousands of people were left without power and more than a foot of water in some places. all of that from an atmospheric river as it's known stretching all the way from the hawaiian islands, the darker spots showing the heavier rainfall, with northern california right in the bulls-eye. more than 5 inches fell in sacramento on sunday, making it the wettest day in record. and more than 4 inches fell in san francisco. that made it the fourth highest one-day total ever recorded. and they've been tracking weather since the gold rush days. still, there is one upside. california had a devastating fire season. the dixie fire north of sacramento, the second largest fire in state history, had been burning since mid-july, scorching nearly one million acres and destroying more than 1,300 structures.
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last night finally it was declared contained. now here is the reality check. that record-breaking storm was just a drop in the bucket in terms of ending california's record-breaking drought. we came here to folsom lake outside of sacramento to show you what we're talking about. look at the boat marina. it's so dry you can practically walk through it. as we fly through the reservoir now, it's less than half full. this place provides drinking water to people, water to farmers for crops. we asked and were told it was take seven more record-breaking storms just like the one we had yesterday, seven more to even get a place like folsom like close to normal. norah? >> that really puts into it perspective. cbs' david begnaud, thank you. let's get the forecast now from cbs' lonnie quinn. good evening, lonnie. >> good evening. look, the pictures david just showed us is something else. that storm finishes up with southern california tonight. then it's going to be moving over the rocky mountains during
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the overnight hours, and tomorrow it's bringing severe weather to the plains and the gulf coast. strong winds associated with it, maybe 60 miles per hour. but not all straight-line winds. there is a bit of rotation detected as well. there is the possibility for tornadoes from the gulf of mexico all the way up into the plains. it could be an eventful tuesday for that portion of the country. norah? >> well, lonnie, on that note, i want to ask you about the more than dozen tornadoes reported in the midwest last night. including, look at this, ef-3 storm that sliced through frederick town, missouri last night. i understand that's the weather that's headed here to the northeast? is that right? >> that's right. that's going to be a problem for the northeast. what's going to happen is as that moves into the northeast tomorrow, it's going to be combining with a coastal storm. it becomes the first nor'easter of the season. so the effects of it will be like 6 inches of rain, maybe more? in some spot, from philadelphia to boston. and your winds there gusting in spots to over 60 miles per hour. so again, the first nor'easter. 'tis that time of the year, norah. >> umbrella and raincoat tomorrow. lonnie quinn, thank you. and we want to get to some breaking news now coming in from boise, idaho. shots fired at a shopping mall with multiple injuries and at
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least two dead. cbs' carter evans has the latest. >> reporter: the sound of possible gunfire can be heard in this video posted online at what appears about the boise town square maul, causing shoppers to evacuate or shelter in place. outside a large police presence, including multiple ambulances. >> looks like more first responders here. >> reporter: boise police say six people, including an officer were injured. >> this is where most of the folks seem to be concentrated. >> reporter: the incident reportedly happened in an area surrounding the macy's. the entire mall was placed on lockdown as police cleared the building store by store. >> you see someone being taken out right there, loaded on to a stretcher. >> reporter: as first responders loaded another possible victim into an ambulance, another man is treated for minor injuries. police say one person is in custody. now this all happened in the early afternoon hours, and the investigation is just getting under way. again, two dead. police have not released any information on the shooter.
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norah? >> carter evans, thank you. and we want to turn now to the covid pandemic. tomorrow an fda advisory committee is meeting on whether to green light pfizer's lower dose vaccine for kids 5 to 11 years old. there is also news tonight about another possible vaccine for young children. and here is cbs' meg oliver. >> it feels good. >> woo! >> reporter: tonight as anticipation builds for younger children to get covid shots, moderna says its vaccine is safe and triggers a strong immune response in children ages 6 to 11. moderna said it used half the adult dose in its trial. some participants in the moderna trial reported mild to moderate side effects. but the company did not address the possible rare side effect of myocarditis, an inflammation of the heart muscle found in a small number of teenagers and young men who received the other mrna vaccine pfizer. fifth grader jarren monroe was in the pfizer clinical trial for
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5 to 11-year-olds. >> it will make it easier for me to go outside and play all the sports i play and have fun with my friends and family. >> reporter: the fda's advisory committee is scheduled to review the results of that trial tomorrow. did you feel like you were taking a risk by having him take part in this trial? >> i actually thought it was more of a risk for him not be able to get vaccinated at the first opportunity that he had. >> reporter: this comes as the so-called delta plus variant begins to spread, accounting for 6% of all cases in england. it's been detected in four u.s. states and the district of columbia, and the cdc says it's watching it closely. >> it has several mutations on the spike protein that we have not yet seen implicated in increased transmissibility or decreased ability of our vaccines or therapeutics to work. >> reporter: if the cdc grants emergency use authorization for pfizer's vaccine for kids 5 to 11, the earliest some children's hospitals like this one would start administering the two-dose
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shot is by the end of next week. norah? >> meg oliver, thank you so much. the "cbs overnight news" will be right back. instantly clear everyday congestion with vicks sinex saline. for fast drug free relief vicks sinex. instantly clear everyday congestion. and try vicks sinex children's saline. safe and gentle relief for children's noses.
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♪ >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." >> i'm jan crawford in washington. thanks for staying was. retailers are bracing for a difficult holiday season, with supply chain trouble, labor shortages and covid outbreaks here and overseas. all that could mean fewer choices for holiday shopper, higher prices, and longer delivery times. meanwhile, dangerous weather off the post isn't helping matters. a fir broke out aboard one of the dozens of cargo ships waiting to unload off the coast of british columbia. the same ship lost 40 containers overboard due to foul weather.
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the global traffic jam outside port facilities is blamed on a shortage of warehouse workers and truck drivers. carter evans got a firsthand look at the trouble. >> instead of being $39.99 retail, now it's officially $54.99. >> reporter: outdoor toymaker ed o'brien is raising prices on some of his most popular products. you don't think people will want to pay that for this? >> i do not think people will pay that. we will lose most of our sales on this item now due to the retail price. >> reporter: but he he's says he has no choice. because of the port backlog, he is paying more for shipping than ever before. >> the cost for shipping co container out of china was $1600. >> reporter: how much is it now? >> reporter: it's $30,000. >> reporter: how much have you lost now? >> we have faced over $2 million of unexpected expenses. i'm scrambling for friends and family money, banks, everything else to get additional money just to keep the business going. >> reporter: his company is now on track for a 40% decline in
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sales. nationwide, suppliers can't get items to stores fast enough, in part because there is a shortage of warehouse workers and truck drivers with more than half a million job openings. >> companies almost certainly won't be able to fill all the roles they hope to this holiday season. >> reporter: andrew challenge were outplacement firm challenger, gray and christmas says companies are trying to entice workers. amazon is offering signing bonuses up to $3,000, and starting wages up to $22.50 an hour. walmart and target are offering free college tuition. >> what it's mostly doing is hiring away workers from their competitors. and that's why we're seeing some of the highest switch rates that the country has ever reported. >> reporter: for ed o'brien, there are even bigger concerns if things don't turn around. >> we've already had a round of layoffs. and i obviously would expect more the way that it's going. >> reporter: i'm carter evans in denver, colorado. another problem for the u.s. economy is what analysts are
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calling the great resignation. 4.3 million americans quit their jobs in august alone. that's a record. the biggest reason, burnout. although most chose to retire, others decided to keep working for themselves. mark strassmann has the story. >> reporter: nick folmer had pandemic panic, furloughed by his janitorial company 13 months ago when no one else was hiring. >> if i'm going to have something, i'm going to have to create it. >> hi, i'm nicholas with jet stream clean. >> reporter: folmer gambled with his family savings to start jet stream clean, his carpet cleaning business along the alabama/georgia border. how has it paid off? >> well, i've doubled my money and my salary. >> reporter: doubled? >> doubled. >> reporter: covid america has become a nation of quitters, job quitters. millions of workers like folmer leaving the job market for good, often to become their own boss. in one survey, nearly one-third
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of workers who quit started their own business. ominously for employers, in another survey, 95% of workers said they were thinking about quitting. >> done with the cubicle. i'm done commuting. i'm done sitting in an office. >> reporter: professor tom smith studies the pandemic's labor market trends at emory university's business school. what explains why people are willing to take that leap now? >> maybe the looking craziness in the eye and coming out on the other end of it has made people reevaluate how much risk is actually involved. >> reporter: hustling in a crisis, folmer found pandemic prosperity. more money, more time with his family, better life balance. >> i took this dream and ran with it. and with it i carried my family. >> reporter: with a paycheck he created, folmer can take this job -- >>
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>> trevor, you're in charge of music. >> reporter: you'll find very few flying the canadian flag, and even fewer blasting only canadian pop music. ♪ wayne gretzky is pretty easy to spot out here. although he's less comfortable on the open water than he is on the frozen kind. >> wayne gretzky on the right! scores! >> people say to me all the time do you misplaying? of course i do. >> gretzky feeds schneider, score! >> you know, i did it since i was 2 1/2 years old. >> here's gretzky, score! >> reporter: he did for hockey what michael jordan did for basketball or tiger woods did for golf. >> he is just one of the greats of his sport. >> fourth stanley cup. >> reporter: on top of four stanley cup championships,
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gretzky holds nearly every top record in the nhl. his points total alone 2,857, maybe the most untouchable record in all sports. >> wayne gretzky, a breakaway goal! >> reporter: and yet when asked about all his success, he's politely canadian about it all. >> all right, come on in. >> i was in the right city with the right fans, the right teammates, the right coach, the right era. if it would have been today, maybe it wouldn't be the same. >> reporter: he doesn't do many interviews these days, but he still seems to enjoy the part where people like me scratch their heads in bewilderment about just how he became the great one. one of the remarkable things people always talk about is you were sort of a non-athlete in some ways. you weren't necessarily big. it didn't seem like you worked out. you just kind of -- >> was just myself. >> reporter: it just worked which is remarkable. some people say that makes you
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even more of an athlete. >> well, played to my strength. my strength was my mind. >> hat trick from wayne gretzky! >> so i was always the smallest guy, right? i had to figure out a way to be able to be more successful than those bigger, stronger, faster guys. >> reporter: he started figuring that out on an ice rink in his backyard in branford, ontario, one his father, walter gretzky, built for him. >> he taught me so much more than just being a hockey player. >> reporter: he was canada's hockey dad. and when wayne lost him this year to parkinson's at the age of 82, there was a hole that was pretty hard to fill. >> mob >> money didn't real matter to him. friendships did. hard work mattered to him. being unselfish, true to himself. he was a true canadian. >> reporter: his dad was there through his entire career, including the tough moments like when the edmonton oilers traded gretzky away.
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canada went into national mourning. gretzky himself was in tears. but the skill and determination that his dad taught him followed him to l.a., where he truly became a king. >> he did it! he did it! the greatest goal scorer in national hockey league history is wayne gretzky. >> reporter: he helped grow the sport, even in places that hadn't seen the ice since the ice age. for 20 seasons, number 99 thrilled fans, until he finally retired in 1999. gretzky grdrove his dad to his last game, just as his dad has driven him to his first. >> it was the worst decision i've ever made in my life. the whole way there he kept hitting me on the leg saying you know, you can play one more year. and i said oh, my gosh. i said dad, i'm done. >> reporter: few would have blamed him if he did nothing
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after hanging up his skates. >> no hockey trophies in this house. >> reporter: but retirement is a relative term for superstars. he's owned hockey teams and restaurants, even has a wine label. now at the age of 60 -- >> let's get the pads here for barkley. >> reporter: he is trying something entirely new. he has joined tnt as an on-arianist list. his matchup with charles barkley almost broke the internet this month. >> there we go. no, no, no! >> charles called me every day, twice a day sometimes. i said to everyone, look, i'm not charles. he is one of the most lovable people in the world. but if i'm going to do this, i have to be wayne gretzky. i can't be charles barkley. >> he's not really worried, though. after all, he can talk hockey all day long, each on the golf course. >> oh, that's why i don't do it
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for a living. >> reporter: his club covers say it all. >> this one's the oilers in the championships. and that is the kings 802. there we go. >> reporter: his wife janet is often a worthy opponent. who is the better golfer? >> he is better. >> she's more competitive. >> i'm probably more competitive. >> reporter: son-in-law dustin johnson, who married their oldest daughter won the masters last year. so golf is kind of part of the family. gretzky's wedding to the then janet jones was canada's answer to a royal wedding. it made quite a splash, just like she did a few years earlier as an actress in "the flamingo kid." some in canada still blame her for stealing gretzky away to hollywood. >> they also said our marriage wouldn't work. and here we are 33 years later. >> people were kind of mean about it. >> they were mean. but he made me feel like i was beside him, not behind him.
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so he brought me right along with his career. i loved it. >> reporter: they're empty nesters now. their vacation home here in idaho has just about everything, a beautiful view, even a double water slide that is ostensibly there for their visiting kids and grandkids. >> what's up here in general? >> it's pretty peaceful. >> reporter: his two sons trevor and ty were there when we were there, and they maybe sum up their dad the best. >> loved what he did. that's the biggest lesson he taught us. if you love something and work hard, things are going to pay off. that's all that matters. >> reporter: one of the greatest lessons gretzky said he learned from his late father was to do everything, no matter how inconsequential, as if it was the stanley cup play-offs. so when his wife janet dares you. >> one, two, three! >> reporter: right in front of the great one to race him down their water slide, you really can't say no.
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how much would you bid for a fossilized skeleton of a giant dinosaur? perhaps a bigger question is what would you do with it if you won it at auction? ian lee has the story from lndon. >> reporter: they call him big john, and it's easy to see why. he's the world's largest triceratops skeleton. >> the history behind this and the curation of it is absolutely impressive. >> reporter: big john went for some big bucks at an auction in paris on thursday. $7.7 million, five times the
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expected price. >> this is unbelievable record. >> reporter: paleontologists dug him up back in 2014. the mammoth dino comes in at 23 feet long, 8-feet high with a massive skull and three-foot horns. big john roamed modern day south dakota more than 66 million years ago. so it might be fitting that he is going home. >> he is being acquired by an american collector. and that individual is absolutely thrilled with the idea of being able to bring a piece like this to his personal use. >> reporter: big john's anonymous buyer will now get all 200 pieces of him and hopefully instructions on how to put him back together. ian lee, cbs news. >> and that's 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 capital, i'm jan crawford.
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this is the "cbs overnight news flash. we begin with the update on the mall killing two. four others including a police officer were injured. a report by the u.n. says we're waf. in a week meters will meet in glasgow for the climate c summit. and andy warhol said art is anything you can get away with. for just $250, someone will get away with an original andy warhol. but they probably won't know it. the real wore hall is being sold among 999 high quality forgeries
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that are so good, the sellers can't even tell them apart. for more news, downl d our a it is tuesday october 26, 2021. this is the cbs morning news. covid vaccine meeting. in hours the fda panel will meet to discuss shots for kids as young as five. a deadly mall shooting in idaho. at least two are dead after shots ring out. what authorities know about a motive. wicked weather. the northeast gets slammed today. we head out west to see what was left behind by that bomb cyclone. one of the strongest storms in that region's history. good morning. good to be with you. i'm anne marie green. today, a key fda panel could
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