to uphold mississippi's ban on abortion after 15 weeks. chief justice john roberts suggested the court wouldn't have to overturn roe. >> if you think the issue is one of choice, that women should have a choice to terminate their pregnancy, why is 15 weeks an inappropriate line? >> reporter: that would be a major retreat from the last abortion case when the court drew the line at viability around 24 weeks. mississippi's only abortion clinic at the center of the fight performs abortions up to 16 weeks. >> that is the question, where does the line get drawn. it is them chipping away. >> reporter: a lawyer from mississippi said the issue should be up to the states. that struck a cord with justice kavanaugh. >> why should this court be the

arbiter rather than congress, the state legislatures, the state supreme courts being able to resolve this. >> reporter: former justice anthony kennedy changed his mind and provided the key vote to save it. it is an important reminder no matter how things look today, a lot can change between now and june when we expect this decision. the supreme court's ruling in the mississippi case could impact abortion laws across the country. now from texas, with the nation's most restrictive law. >> reporter: with the future of abortion in america on the line take both sides of the emotional issue and amplify the voices. >> the scourge. the bludgeoning. the horror. >> reporter: questions across the country, what access to the

procedure will look like if roe v. wade is overturned. >> today is the most clear attack on roe v. wade we have experienced since the 70s. >> reporter: the legal showdown could take away the constitutional right to the procedure, leaving it to the states and some are ready. 12 have trigger laws that would halt all abortions if roe is overturned. >> we know when any ban goes into effect it has a detrimental effect for people needing access to care. >> reporter: it doesn't have to be overturned to have an impact. the court could weaken the decision limiting how long into a pregnancy the right to an abortion is protected. when you realized you could not get the procedure in texas what did you think? >> i cried. >> reporter: this mom flew to denver for her abortion. here in texas they are awaitinga a supreme court ruling on the

ban currently in effect. any ruling by the high court is likely to result in years of new lawsuits. margaret. there is breaking news tonight about a former justice department official who is refusing to cooperate with a congressional committee investigating the january 6th attack on the u.s. capitol. >> reporter: moving towards contemp, the committee is set to vote a contempt of congress charge against trump doj official jeffrey clark. clark spread baseless claims of voter fraud. this is after steve bannon was indicted on contempt charges last month. >> you don't blow off a congressional subpoena and it is just a distraction and a side show. >> reporter: a new look at one of those charged with storming the capitol. >> i thought i was helping to save the country.

>> reporter: danny rodriguez, accused of multiple violent crimes. here you can see it appears the california man is tazing a d.c. police officer. >> why did you tyou taze him? >> i don't know. >> reporter: this one sent to minnesota democrat omar. omar says she received the racist voicemail after a colorado republican likened her to a suicide bomber. >> there are active discussions underway to make sure that she is held accountable. >> reporter: she apologized on twitter but after a contentious call went back on the offensive rank in file republicans entered

the fray and it is a twitter feud that feels like a food fight. >> there is a lot more news ahead on the cbs overnight news.

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about 27 million american children are in need of a coat to bundle up in the cold. now a story that will warm your heart as we continue our series unifying america. >> reporter: a brand-new warm coat, the simple necessity this third grader did not have when we met her on a 30 degree day. >> it is freezing. my hands are freezing. my body is freezing. >> reporter: 1 of 800 students at this new york city public school taking home a winter jacket thanks to operation warm. >> the coat is the first thing, the tangible thing. that really provides warmth, physical warmth, the emotional

warmth. >> reporter: in the past 23 years the nonprofit manufactured more than 4 million coats for children in need across the country paid for by donations. >> it is the difference between go to school on a cold day o me.>> reporter: cuest kids like isabella get to pick their coat color. what is your favorite color? each costs under $25 to make, but the joy that one brings is priceless. on a scale of 1 to 10 how excited are you? >> 100. and that's the overnight news for this thursday. for some the news continues and others, check back later for cbs this morning. follow us online any time at cbsnews.com. is cbs news flash.

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house for one night. for more news download the cbs news app on your cell phone. i am tom hanson. cbs news, new york. this is the cbs overnight news. good evening and thank you for joining us. i am margaret brennan in for norah. we begin with the first confirmed infection from the new covid variant omicron here in the united states. cbs news learned the u.s. is reviewing more potential cases in several states. the first case was detected in san francisco. that patient was fully vaccinated but not boosted and recently had travelled to south africa. hundreds of cases of the new variant have been confirmed in

more than 20 countries prompting the biden administration to require stricting tests requirements for all entering the united states, including americans. president biden implored americans to get that additional dose. 135 million americans are eligible for boosters. only about 42 million have gotten them so far. we lead off our coverage tonight from san francisco. good evening, anna. >> reporter: cbs news learned the first known u.s. omicron patient came through here, san francisco international airport. public health officials are crediting the state's large scale testing program for finding that case and now that testing will be stepped up at airports. the patient was someone 18-49 who developed mild symptoms on thanksgiving day and tested positive four days later. the sample was sequenced

overnight at a university of california san francisco lab and confirmed to contain the omicron variant. >> they had received a full dose of the moderna vaccine but no booster. >> reporter: five days after the world health organization declared omicron a variant of concern, little is known. officials say it may be more contagious than any other variant discovered so far. today at the house dr. anthony fauci said that it will be weeks before researchers determine how severe omicron really is. but current vaccines he says probably offer at least some protection. >> we know what we need to do to protect people. get vaccinated. get boosted. >> reporter: hospitalizations and deaths were predicted to increase after a recent surge in cases before omicron was detected. the delta variant still accounts for more than 99% of cases worldwide. now labs across the country are

sequencing approximately 80,000 pcr tests per week to see where omicron might show up. >> reporter: how long did it take for delta to become the majority of cases in new york city? >> probably six to eight weeks. >> reporter: once you detect omicron after one and a half to two months it could be the majority of everything? >> it could be. >> reporter: international travellers now must test negative within 72 hours. but the white house is expected to tighten the rules so that everyone coming to the u.s. must test negative within a day of boarding, regardless of whether they are vaccinated. the cdc announced yesterday it was expanding surveillance at four of the nation's busiest airports including here at san

francisco international and we learned the agency is now reviewing more potential cases of the omicron variant in several states. also the mask mandate for planes, trains, buss will be extended through march. margaret. those safety protocol, still need it. there is breaking news about a former justice department official who is refusing to cooperate with the congressional committee investigating the january 6th attack at the u.s. capitol. >> reporter: moving towards contempt. the committee is set to vote to advance a contempt of congress charge against jeffrey clark who has refused to cooperate. clark worked with mr. trump to overturn the election by spreading baseless claims of voter fraud. this comes after steve bannon was indicted last month on contempt charges. >> you don't blow off a congressional subpoena. executive privilege is just a distraction and side show. >> reporter: a new look at one

of those charged for storming the capitol. >> i thought i was helping to save the country. >> reporter: this is danny rodriguez, accused of multiple violent crimes, speaking to the fbi. here you can see it appears the california man is tasing a d.c. police officer. >> why did youyou tase him? >> i don't know. >> reporter: this one sent to minnesota democrat omar. she is as she received the racist profanity-laced voicemail after being likened to a suicide bomber. >> there are active discussions underway to make sure that lauren bobert is held accountable.

>> reporter: she apologized on twitter but after a contentious call with omar has gone back on the offensive. now it is a twitter feud that appears more like a food fight. we turn now to the deadly school shooting in oxford, michigan. a fourth student died today from his injuries. he was just 17. the accused gunman, a 15-year-old sophomore is being tried as an adult. we learned hours before the attack his parents had a school meeting regarding troubling behavior. >> anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law. do you understand that right sir? >> yes, i do. >> reporter: the 15-year-old ethan crumbley sat motionless as he was arraigned on terrorism and first degree murder. >> there are facts leading up to

the shooting suggesting it was not just an isi act. investigats saymore me out of a restroom at oxford high school and fired at least 30 rounds from a semi automatic handgun. hours earlier crumbley and his parents met with school officials over behavior concerns. the teen made a video the night before the shooting talking about killing students at the school. cell phone video shows terrified students barricaded behind a locked door before running to safety. four students, aged 14 to 17 were killed including justin shilling who died in the hospital this morning. >> reporter: the county prosecutor said more charges could be filed, including

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bomber while deployed to syria. he was one of about 7,000 service members killed in the 20-year global war on terror. >> his hugs. and dancing. >> reporter: we met his wife tabitha and two oldest children on the national mall. >> it has been 20 years. everyone talks about we will always remember and do this. this is a time and how we remember them. the effort was authorized by congress in 2017. it will be built with private donations and three sights have been proposeda,llowing the remembrance of our longest war to share hallowed memorials.

but that effort hit a snag in west virginia when senator joe manchin blocked an effort to fast track a law calling for construction on the national mall which is typically not allowed. >> i believe this precedent would reopen the fight to open more roversy.ls that will create >> this has been our nation's longest war. >> reporter: they are leading a bipartisan effort to mandate it be built on the mall. at least 54 other senators are also on board. for now in is on hold. >> we want to honor those that have participated in our

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gorillas in ■the sun doing what mountain gorillas do, eat, rest, eat some more and snuggle. >> you see a kindred spirit looking back at you. they love to play, eat, nap. they are incredible moms and dads. >> reporter: tara heads the diane fosse gorilla fund, an organization that grew out of her work. how many years did she live up here alone? >> she was in the forest for 18 years. >> reporter: sent to rwanda in 1967 by louis leeky. >> the people in the region gave

her a nickname meaning woman that lives alone in the forest. i am sure they wondered what she was doing up there. strange woman and very tall. >> reporter: what she was doing is observing gorillas for hours per day. >> there was soft pig grunting heard and gas is released. >> reporter: her research appeared to change the perception of gorillas to the gentle vegetarian giants they actually are. why were there porchers? >> people wanted parts of

gorillas as trophy. thousands of acres were cut down. the line stands out like a bad haircut, showing how little land gorillas have left. >> we cut down their homes. >> unfortunately that is the story for wildlife around the world. >> reporter: here the story is getting a rewrite. the new version starts at volcanos national park headquarters every morning where tourists gather to trek to see gorillas led by expert guides. the rwanda government regulates the visits with precautions taken to protect them from human

illness. $1500 per person. some of t-- other countries hav diamonds, oil. would you say that gorillas are the most important natural resource of this whole country? >> definitely. one of if not the top source of foreign revenue. >> reporter: the government gives 10% of the money from the gorilla treks to districts that border national parks in a program called tourism revenue sharing. the chief park warden met us in a local primary school. behind him was the old school.

behind me new classrooms that were paid for by tourism revenue sharing funds. it costs $1500 to see the gorillas for one hour. he said it is a lot but made a tremendous difference in meetings with local leaders. they decide? >> they decide. >> reporter: this village built a health center. this one, new housing with water tanks and electricity. here, a new marketplace. the 10% gives communities up to $650,000 u.s. dollars per year. he divides his time between meeting tourists, managing rangers and traveling around the villages, celebrating what

tourism revenue has achieved. a few years back this community chose to get milking calves. now they are being given to new needy families. the colorful striped sweaters are a product of tourism revenue sharing too. one year they used funds to buy knitting machines. some of the porters and guides are porchers? >> yeah. >> reporter: has all poaching of gorillas stopped? >> in rwanda, yes. >> reporter: they can still get caught in snares set for smaller antelopes. they dispatch a small army of trackers every morning.

if one looks ill, we will note is right the veterinarian. we call it extreme conservation. >> reporter: it could be called an extreme workout. we set off on a gorilla trek. it is an uphill hike for more than an hour through that farmland that once belonged to the gorillas, just to get to the park. just as we reached the park border a silverback used to seeing tourists sat calmly eating. unphased by our gawking and pointing.

he is an adult male. the director taught us how to signal that we come in peace. inside-the-park after more climbing we found the rest of lisanga's group. the dominant silverback was heading higher up the mountain and the whole group was following and so were we. this group has got five infants and several juveniles. she told us they play for fun and to practice fighting or perhaps just to show us who is

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wildfires claim millions of acres of forest every year. >> we have seen catastrophic wildfires. >> reporter: some forests need help to regrow. the process usually demands crews hand planting lab grown seedlings in scorched areas, labor intensive and time consuming, but some are speeding up the process with drones. >> if natural regeneration is occurring less and less because of high severity. we need to be able to step up and as humans reforest faster.

>> reporter: ceo of drone seed, a company in washington state. workers deploy drones in fire devastated area often over rough terrain, map out the area and programmed to drop seed vessels in locations marked ideal. they are about the size of a hockey puck. inside seeds of native trees and other elements assisting with the process hand planting seedlings is more successful. the university of california forestry specialist william stewart. >> no reason to say we can only do it the old way or the new way. we will see both out there on a landscape. >> a landscape constantly threatened by fires and needing

help to restore what was lost. >> and that is the overnight news for this thursday. reporting from the nations capital. this is nbc news flash. i am tom hanson in new york. president biden is expected to layout his strategy for fighting the new omicron variant including travel mandates through march and international travellers being tested for one day before departing to the u.s. ever wanted to live like kevin mccallister, listen up. one night at $25.

a, void the traps and harry and marv. tom hanson, cbs news, new york. tracking the omicron variant. it. tracking the omicron variant. the first confirmed cases reported in the u.s. the white house strategy ahead of a possible winter surge. breaking overnight, mlb lockout. the league and players union fail to reach a labor agreement threatening the upcoming season. first sit-down interview. what alec baldwin reveals about the deadly shooting on the movie set of "rust." well, good morning, and good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. president biden will address the nation today on his

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