gutierrez-reed. according to search warrant af dafit, assist director dave hauls handed the gun to baldwin. >> i think that's going to be a major problem. that is so inexplicable, you're really rising to the level of potential criminal negligence. >> reporter: and district attorney has not ruled out criminal charges, she will join the sheriff's department tomorrow for a joint press conference where we hope to learn more about the chain of command for handling of the gun and type of bullet fired from it. back in washington, democrats are still working out details on the president's

social spending plan, including a possible new tax on billionaires. said repeatedly they're close to a deal. ed o'keefe, what is is in it? >> reporter: focused on areas to scale back and win the support of joe manchin and kyrsten sinema. working to ensure four weeks of planned family leave rather than 12. and considering vouchers of over $1,000 to cover dental instead of expanding medicare to cover dental and to pay for the plan, a tax on 700 billionaires. would only pay for part of the legislation. but cbs news learned that final package is expected to include $500 billion to fight climate change, a major signal of american commitment to the issue as president heads to europe

where it wille talks. new concerns over the health of britten'eesh canceled appear upcoming climate summit on advice of doctors. the queen now 95 years young spent time in the hospital last week. facebook not the only social media in cross hairs of congress. tiktok, snapchat and youtube were warned to do more to protect children or face legislation. more from nikole killion. >> reporter: laura berman is coming to grips of death of son who got drugs through image sharing app snapchat. >> never occurred to me that drug dealers were soliciting our

kids on the place they hung out most. >> reporter: dramatic instances like this were among the concerns. >> are you going to get drugs off snapchat? >> i assure you, it's a top priority. >> reporter: illicit drugs, bullying and violent challenges that have gone viral. >> what the [ bleep ] is going on, bro. >> reporter: dangers many kids face online. >> how can parents be confident that they will not continue to host and push dangerous and deadly challenges to our kids? >> anything illegal or dangerous violates our guidelines. >> how can you allow this? >> reporter: the platforms insist they have safeguards but that's little comfort to berman who wants more protections in place like parental monitoring

software. >> our kids can run circles around us digitally, good news is attention being called to the issue. >> reporter: companies agreed to share internal research about impact on kids with the committee. head of the panel told me he may call them back to testify again. >> nikole killion thank you. "cbs overnight news" will be right back.

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those in the horrors of the holo holocaust succumb to old age. those identified in u.s. since 1973, only five were later prosecuted in germany. deportation of friedrich karl berger from tennessee may be the last. tey're not actively seeking any more suspects for nazi crimes. >> we didn't hear from perpetrators for many years so it's important we do. >> reporter: ben cohen's great-grandmother was murdered at stutthof. >> how do we prevent them from happening again if we don't understand how they happened in the first place. >> reporter: the search continues.

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healing the wounds of war takes time. for some women warriors, the journey begins at sea. cbs's lilia luciano. >> ready to go. >> sergeant mea peterson knows what it's like to be among a small group of women in military dominated by men. so when women were invited to annual war heroes and water tournament, deep sea fishing for veterans wounded in combat, iraq war vet felt right at home. >> goes back to the experience i had as well. >> reporter: received a purple heart after being injured in 2005 but returning home was

hardest part. >> didn't know some of the aspects of returning from war, i was angry, frustrated, thought something was wrong with me. >> vanessa brown was wounded by a roadside bomb in afghanistan. >> lot of people wouldn't understand what i went through. they have to stigma if you have problems with mental health you're automatically crazy. >> reporter: that's why the women say it's important to connect with fellow vets at events like this one where the women caught some of the biggest fish. >> i can accomplish something again, had a mission to do and here's a finish line. >> reporter: and much needed lifeline, lilia luciano, cbs news, newport beach. >> that's the "cbs overnight news," for some of you, news keeps going, follow us online any time, cbsnews.com.

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mola lenghi is going to lead off from massachusetts. where the winds are picking up. good evening, mola. >> reporter: the steady rain and wind has been pounding the northeast all day long. last 24 hours there's been more rain in new york/new jersey/connecticut tri-state area than they receive on average in a given month. tens of millions of americans feeling impact of severe weather tonight. in northeast, first nor'easter brought heavy rain and damaging winds, knocking down trees, flooding roads in new jersey and leaving drivers stranded in new york city. >> by the time you realize, you're underwater. >> reporter: today the coast guard confirms 45-year-old laurence broderick was found dead after kayaking off the coast of long island. in one new jersey town, police made more than a dozen water rescues from cars on flooded roads after storm

dropped more than five inches of rain. ahead of the storm, many feared repeat of the devastating weather from the remnants of hurricane ida last month. >> i'm worried, got flooded in couple of properties. if we lose it again, going bankrupt. >> reporter: had cut a path of destruction through the midwest with tornadoes decimating towns. in illinois and missouri. >> roofs and walls are down and i mean, just a total, massive destruction. >> reporter: also this week on the west coast, a power storm dumped record-breaking rain triggering mud slides and major flooding in california after 13 inches of rain fell in parts of the state. the storm a small consolation for the parched western states. the waterfalls in yosemite roaring again after california's driest year in nearly a

century. the concern in new england is the wind, with wind gusts expected to reach up to 70 miles per hour, nora. >> mola lenghi, thank you very much. forecast now from cbs's lonnie quinn. it's going to be a long night for some folks. >> reporter: you bet you, it's been all about rain but talk about the winds into the late night hours. radar picture, center of the circulation is well off shore but spilling as far as syracuse, new york. heavy bands of rain from new york city up to boston, and five inches of rain. from this point forward, we talk about the wind, to midnight, winds, cape cod has a 76-mile-an-hour wind gust. 11:00 tomorrow morning, backed down but not gone. montauk to cape cod, 59-mile-an-hour gusts and ground is saturated and not secure

below it. check in on record-setting is storm in california yesterday. it's cleared california and moving tonight with severe weather possible from oklahoma city to dallas. by tomorrow morning, it's houston, lunch-time around new orleans, and flooding and damaging winds, concerned about storms that hold on to intensity overnight. dallas to houston, if you're sleeping, if you have a weather radio, keep it turned on and stay tuned. nora, it's all yours. >> lonnie quinn, thank you. major development in the fight against covid. today an fda advisory panel gave a thumbs up to mini doses for children as young as five. if it clears final hurdles, first shots could be delivered next week. cbs's janet shamlian. >> don't look. >> reporter: fda decision will impact some 28 million across the country. it's the same two-shot, two weeks apart regimen as

adolescents and dults but only a third of the dose. different colored cap, given with smaller needle. more than 6 million american children contracted covid since the pandemic started. more than 700 under the age of 18 have died. >> children may get fever, muscle aches, headaches, chills, sore arm. >> not a big deal. >> reporter: doctor who helped run pfizer's pediatric trial at duke university said 4,500 children took part overall. >> it's a pretty good-sized trial, especially with the safety track record in adolescents and adults. >> reporter: seven-year-old lydia melo and her sister bridgett were part of the trial. >> something brave and thought would keep us safe. >> reporter: that's great. did you feel okay when you did it? >> yes. >> yes. >> reporter: their parents meghan and jim first got okay from the family pediatrician. >> if we can create that herd

immunity, we can start coming out of this and start leading a normal life d playing d running arounder an friends getting to the. just returning to a normal life. >> reporter: the fda usually follows the recommendations of the advisory panel. cdc panel is expected to weigh in next week and it's possible that shots could be going into young arms by end of next week. pharmacies, pediatricians' offices and clinics. nora. >> hoping to return to normal life, janet shamlian, thank you. back in washington, democrats are still working out details on the president's social spending plan, including a possible new tax on billionaires. said repeatedly they're close to a deal. cbs's ed o'keefe with details from the white house. ed o'keefe, what is is in it? >> reporter: focused on areas to scale back the bill and win

support of key moderate senators, joe manchin and kyrsten sinema. working to ensure four weeks of planned family leave rather than 12 proposed. and considering vouchers of over $1,000 to cover dental instead of expanding medicare to cover dental and to pay for the plan, democrats are proposing a tax on 700 billionaires. there's some agreement over whether the plan could work and only pay for part of the legislation. but cbs news learned that final package is expected to include $500 billion to fight climate change, a major signal of american commitment to the issue as president heads to europe for two major summits where climate change will dominate the talks. nora. >> ed o'keefe. thank you. there are new concerns tonight over the health of britain's queen elizabeth. she canceled her appearance at

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>> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news". i'm jan crawford in washington, thanks for staying with us. the battle of vaccinating kids in the coronavirus crisis moving to the ball field. mandates for students who want to play afterschool sports. in los angeles, students involved in extracurricular programs have until end of this month to show they're fully vaccinated and dividing parents,

students and staff. lilia luciano from east l.a. >> reporter: many of the students who attend garfield high school know firsthand the devastation that covid can bring, predominantly latino community is one of the hardest hit in los angeles, why the entire football team was fully vaccinated weeks ahead of the schedule. that and they didn't want to miss out on the game. the biggest battle the bulldogs are facing isn't just on the field. >> we came out initially, instead of offering them water it was sanitizer off the field. >> reporter: the east los angeles school like others in the district is determined to stop the spread of covid-19 even if it means pulling unvaccinated teens from favorite sport or afterschool activity. >> depending on the type of activity. around each other in closer proximity.

>> reporter: principal has seen a decrease in positive cases among the students since the school district announced a vaccine mandate. i'm sure some parents say it's up to us to decide when to vaccinate kids, not the school. >> we understand that perspective, we're not forcing this on anybody. we feel as a district that's in line with the state and federal government that vaccination is the clear path to returning to school safely, back to normal. >> reporter: but not everyone was convinced at first. >> people were saying they had things with it, wasn't safe for them. >> reporter: quarterback jason vargas said he and his family had their doubts. >> we weren't sure, waited last minute. i had to get it to turn football and keep everybody safe. >> reporter: do you get calls from parents, concerned, hesitant? what are you hearing? >> heard some things but we assured them of the science.

i use as wouldn't be doing it if i didn't think it was safe. >> reporter: according to cdc, unvaccinated adolescents are ten times more likely to be hospitalized with covid-19 compared to those who have gotten the shots. so for christian and monica with two boys on the football team, the mandate makes as much sense as helmet and pads. what do you think it does for athletes to be the first to get the mandate? >> sets an example. if high school kids can do it, adults can do it. i don't see why not. >> reporter: the principal says about 30% of the student population still needs to be vaccinated by the january 10th deadline. if they don't, regardless of whether or not they're participating in extracurriculars, if they don't and don't have valid exemption, like a medical reason, officials say they can't be admitted to campus and will be referred to

independent study program. >> lilia luciano in los angeles. police departments repor a increase in thefts involving catalytic converters, important part of the car's exhaust system using precious metals to trap poisonous gasses. can fetch $1,000 from recycle are and thefts up 325% last years. jim williams has more. >> it was my toyota highlander. >> reporter: car number one, last year. >> got in the car, sounded like about to explode. >> reporter: car number two, this year. >> turned it on, heard the noise, turned to my husband, catalytic converter is gone. >> reporter: katie reynolds and husband have two cars and thieves took catalytic converters out of both. how much did you have to spend?

>> it hurt a lot. >> reporter: in addition to the $500 deductible to replace the catalytic converter in their prius. gwen was hit, too. >> we work in restaurants, still all recovering. big hit. >> people crying for help. >> reporter: all over illinois, people are outraged by the thefts, sold to scrap metal operators and used car park dealers for cash. introduced a new law to require catalytic converter sellers to show information. buyers have to log it. >> if you have to identify who you are selling this catalytic converter, then you're going to think twice. >> reporter: hope is dry up the market for the stolen parts. similar laws passed in similar

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united airlines plans to buy 50 supersonic jets to travel more than 1,000 miles an hour and get passengers from new york to london in three hours. last jet to do that was the concorde, retired nearly two decades ago. new ones are years from production but barry peterson paid a visit to the company working to put them into the skies. ♪ >> reporter: at the moment, america's first supersonic passenger jet is still a dream. the plane has a name -- overture -- and a developer, denver based boom supersonic. but it also has a secret weapon. >> a bigger version of this. >> reporter: ceo blake scholl

turning that dream into real life time lines. will you be flying in a supersonic jet by age 50, ten years from now? >> for sure. >> reporter: you think? >> 100%. >> reporter: why are you so confident? >> i know how we're getting there. >> reporter: scholl and his backers have funded and built the xb1 to test a design that will include using only sustainable biofuels. successful test flights next year could lead to airliner production. and scholl has no doubt that his pint-sized 7-year-old startup can reshape world aviation. i think people would have laughed at you more until recently when we saw richard branson and jeff bezos go off into space as private companies. is that a model for you for success? >> incredibly inspired by what's been accomplished at spacex and blue origin and virgin galactic. sometimes the most important breakthroughs come from folks who have the benefit of a fresh perspective, coming from outside the industry. >> reporter: and united airlines isn't laughing.

it's ordered 15 supersonic jets with options for 35 more. its first flights will be newark to london which now takes about seven hours. the supersonic jet will do it in about 3.5, and overseas business trip could be done in a single day. and that's what customers want, says michael leskinen, president of united airlines ventures. >> the difference will be that we won't have live seats and we're going to be getting customers home to their own beds. >> reporter: in terms of validating or encouraging this dream, how important is it that you have a client like, say, united airlines that says if you build it we'll buy it? >> absolutely critical. and i think it really speaks to the renaissance and high-speed flight that's happening here. i don't know a single passenger who doesn't want to arrive in half the time. >> good morning -- >> reporter: but supersonic travel has been the graveyard of

many high-flying hopes. the supersonic concorde catered to those willing to pay higher than first class to fly over the atlantic with fancy meals and small seats right out of coach. it never repaid billions in development costs -- and with its supersonic boom it was banned from flying across the united states. few remember the russian tu144. its main claim to fame was a crash at the 1973 paris air show. 16 made 102 supersonic flights before it was retired. and almost no one remembers usa supersonic -- >> the boeing 2707 -- >> reporter: because it only flew in an animator's daydream. nggnin

it and created a mockup but not a single actual plane was built before high costs grounded the whole concept. thus ended america's supersonic era until now. >> skid is on and dispenser is off -- >> reporter: the first step is getting the prototype xb1 into the air. that is test pilot bill shoemaker's job. he flew navy supersonic fighters for 15 years. he turned over the simulator seat to me. just slide in? i went from never flying a plane in my life -- oh, down and up -- breaking the sound barrier with one push of the throttle. >> you're at 35,500 feet. that's great. good altitude. you're at mach .94, .95, .97, .98, .99,

and you just went supersonic. >> reporter: i broke the sound barrier. >> you did. >> reporter: for me as it would be for future passengers, there is no sensation when going supersonic. if i'm a passenger in a supersonic jet and it goes to mach one or two, i don't feel -- does it even rattle my drink? >> you might not notice. >> reporter: but scholl wants more than just flying faster. your vision goes beyond that, though, because you think that you ought to have a plane where for $100 i can go from new york to london. why? what is it you're trying to accomplish by bringing the world that much closer together? >> i deeply believe a world in which more people go more places more often is a better world for us to live in, better world for our children to grow up in. and imagine what it would be like if instead of reading about other cultures and textbooks and youtube videos, if our kids instead were able to visit other people, break bread with them, experience our shared humanity. what does that do for the future of the planet, the future of our cultures? i think that's tremendously important.

>> reporter: so buckle up. america's supersonic jet age is just one man's dream away.

if you've gone pumpkin picking with your kids, might have suffered sticker shock. it's a difficult growing season and sent the price of halloween favorites through the roof, up 30% from last year. bradley blackburn has the story. >> reporter: kimberly, alex and their pup are searching for the perfect pumpkin. >> want it to be vibrant, medium sized. >> picture perfect. >> exactly. >> reporter: they got the gourd and photo, but this year big picture for growers is complicated. >> pumpkins, if you look at it wrong way, it might not happen. >> reporter: farmer lee has been growing pumpkins here for a decade, rain from two massive

storms came at worst possible time, stopped bees from pollenating the flowers and many never grew, cutting into the season's crop. how long has it been growing? >> 120 days, big ones take the longest. >> reporter: droughts forced them to scale back. >> i had to order a lot of pumpkins to supplement our crop. you have to go into it knowing you're not going to make any money. >> reporter: more than 4 in 10 consumers plan to carve a pumpkin but it's also hard for smaller pie pumpkins. blight surged due to heat and moisture, threatening shortages for thanksgiving pies. most people who want a pumpkin should be able to find one. >> it's fall, wanted pumpkins to carve. >> reporter: but the selection can be slim and more expensive,

bradley blackburn, cbs news, new york. >> and that's the overnight news for wednesday, reporting from the nation's capital, i'm jan crawford. this is cbs news flash, i'm tom hanson in new york. atlanta braves pulled through in game one of the major league world series, beating the houston astros 6-2. teams face off 7:00 p.m. central for game two. new details of huge international drug bust, arrested 150 people and seized drugs sold on the dark net, enough fentanyl for 4 million lethal doses. boss of the year, spanx founder blakely is going viral for giving out quite the bonus in 2021, each employee will get two first class plane tickets and $10,000 to spend.

spanx is valued $1.2 billion. for more news, download the cbs news pp on your cell phone or it's wednesday, october 27th, 2021. this is the "cbs morning news." vaccinating our children. young kids are now one step closer to being eligible for a covid shot after a big ruling from an fda panel. nasty nor'easter. heavy rains and gusty winds making a mess of the northeast. we'll show you the damage. and social media on the hill. the heads of some of the biggest social platforms testify about what they were doing to keep their youngest users safe. good morning. good to be with you. i'm anne-marie gre