that he didn't cooperate with certain aspects of the investigation. again, a jury here in cook county finding jussie smollett guilty on five of the six disorderly conduct charges that he is now facing. we the expect to hear from both prosecutors and the defense in this case. it's unclear if smollett will make any remarks after being convicted of those five charges. norah? >> charlie de mar, thank you. well, there is a contaminated water crisis on the hawaiian island of oahu, impacting military families. the u.s. navy has been forced to shut down the use of two underground jet fuel storage tanks after complaints of water smelling and looking like it contains fuel. cbs' lilia luciano reports from honolulu. >> reporter: crystal murray and her four children left home about a week ago, after spending days unknowingly drinking, cooking, and bathing with toxic water. >> like the whole house started smelling, literally like a mechanic's shop.

and then the next morning i ended up in the hospital. >> reporter: the navy now admits their water was contaminated by jet fuel leaking from this transfer facility. it was flowing into the faucets of thousands of military homes. the military mobilized troops to distribute safe water. >> all right, baby, go get your towel, please. >> reporter: so mothers like jamie simmic can bathe their children like this. >> how long have i been poisoning myself and my kids. >> our children haven' been bathed since saturday. we've been bathing out of bottled water. >> reporter: at town hall meetings, military officials have tried to reassure anxious families. >> i understand your frustrations and concerns, and i share them. this is -- we are working day and night to figure out what the source of the odor is. >> reporter: for many, reassurance came too late. >> when we could smell in the fuel in the water, i was told we cannot get told anything. we cannot give you any information. why is that okay? >> sir, it's not okay. bottom line.

>> i have an 18-week high-risk pregnant wife, and i'm being told you can use the water, go away. >> reporter: the murrays and thousands of military families have now been forced to move from their contaminated homes. she's not sure what it would mean to return here. how would you feel coming back here? >> nervous. i think i'll probably take my own money and just kind of check the water. >> reporter: many of those families evacuated to this busy hotel, and the risk of toxic water may extend beyond military families. those navy fuel tanks sit above a source that supplieswater, norah, for more than 400,000 people here in honolulu. >> wow, what a critical story. lilia luciano, thank you. there is a lot more news ahead on the "cbs overnight news."

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life, toni wright has had perfect vision. but after turning 50, she started using readers, allowing her to see things clearly that are close up. how many readers do you think you have in all? >> i probably have eight pairs. >> reporter: eight pairs? >> yes. >> reporter: in 2019, her doctor told her about eye drops with the potential to correct her vision problems temporarily. >> i would put the drops in my rise in the morning. >> reporter: what did you notice instantly? >> i would not need my readers as much. >> reporter: wright was one of 750 participants in a clinical trial to test the drug vuity. it's the first fda approved eye drop to treat age-related near blurry vision, also known as presbyopia. the drug takes effect in about 15 minutes. >> vuity utilizes the eye's natural ability toer are duce pupil size. reducing pupil size expands the depth of field or focus. >> reporter: one drop sharpens

vision for six to ten hours. a spokesperson for vuity says the medicine will cost about $80 for a 30-day supply. it is not expected to be covered by insurance. the drug works best in people age 40 to 55, and side effects in the three-month trial included headaches and red eyes. as for toni wright, it's an easy backup solution with a clear advantage. >> definitely a life-changer. just the convenience to have that option. >> reporter: jericka duncan, ze. 'tis the season of giving which also means it's the season of shipping. nearly 60 million americans will buy their gifts online this year, and that means hundreds of millions of packages. so how does it all get done? well, we got rare access inside the fed ex processing center here in los angeles to find out. i feel like in some ways we're inside santa's workshop santa may see you when you're sleeping, and he knows his

helpers at fed ex are wide awake. >> it's 3:30 a.m. it's the middle of the night and there is a lot going on. >> our employees, they look forward to this time of year because they know so many folks are depending on us to get them their packages. >> reporter: fed ex expects to ship 100 million more packages this holiday season. and each day 240,000 go through this facility alone. starting this summer, fed ex added 14.4 million square feet of sorting capacity for this holiday season. >> we're here long days. >> this is peak season? >> this is peak season. >> package handler kyle hawkins showed us one step in this complicated dance. >> when the packages are going up, make sure the labels are up. >> that one is not up. >> got to make sure it's up. >> reporter: bobby willis is vice president of operations on the west coast for fed ex, and he took us on what some might call santa's sleigh, a boeing 767. no passengers? >> no passengers on this part of the aircraft.

only cargo. >> how long does it take to fill a plane like this? >> anywhere between 30 and 40 minutes. >> pretty fast. >> yes. we can do it pretty fast. >> it's a real-life game of tetris called t-stacking. packages carefully placed in these metal containers, designed to pit perfectly on a cargo plane. go out empty, or even half full? >> no. >> especially not this time of year? >> not this time of year. >> and it's not just toys on these conveyor belts. >> but also our vaccine. >> operations manager steve hornstra was there for the first shipment of shots a year ago. so that vaccine that you get in your arm likely came through here in fed ex? >> exactly, exactly. >> how long are the vaccines in the fed ex network? >> from pickup to delivery, a total of 20 hours. we're saving lives. potentially millions of people with those 290 million vaccines that are coming through our season that we delivered? to me that's incredible. >> between vaccine shipments and

the holiday season, this is fed ex's super bowl, and hornstra calls his employees industrial athletes. >> every day first five minutes is a stretch and flex. they're coming out here lifting 50 pounds, packages up to 150 pounds coming through the system. you got to be warm. you got to be loose and ready to go. >> ready to go like team lead lasidia griffin. not only you working at night, it's a physically demanding job. >> it really is. it takes our arms, our upper body to do this. >> santa's elves need big muscles? >> yes! >> big muscles indeed. they work really hard. all right. still ahead, a major snowstorm wallops the west, while

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here in california, butterfly lovers are all aflutter over the return of the magnificent migrating monarch butterflies. here is cbs' carter evans. >> reporter: at the crack of dawn, the golfers here are not alone. >> you want to count in groups of five or ten. >> reporter: researcher richard brockman is also on the green, counting monarch butterflies just hanging out behind the 9th hole. >> here we have a few hundred that are clustering close together. they just look like pinecones or dead leaves or whatever. most people walking by would never even see them. >>reporter: an estimated 200,000 migrating western monarchs are spending the winter here in california. last year only 2,000 were s spotted, and they were shout

thousandth to be on the verge of extinction. >> some of the biggest factors impacting monarchs are insecticide as well as habitat loss. >> reporter: so will s there a comeback? >> i think it's too early to tell. and we'll need a few years of decent numbers to see if this is really a comeback. >> reporter: they only fly off feed and poll late 1998 when temperatures rise. future generations will then fly to other western states for the summer before making the long journey back to california next winter. >> what i love most about monarchs is they can help so many other insects and so many other plants if we help protect them. >> reporter: carter evan, cbs news, los angeles. >> and that's the "overnight news" for this friday. for some of you, the news continues. for others, check back later for "cbs mornings." and follow us any time at cbsnews.com. reporting from los angeles, i'm norah o'donnell.

this is cbs news flash. i'm tom hanson in new york. we begin with breaking news. a deadly crash in mexico killing more than 50 migrants in a cargo truck believed to be traveling from central america. dozens more were injured. travis scott is speaking out over the november tragedy at astroworld. in his first interview since, scott said during the concert, he was not aware of the crowd surge that killed ten people and injured hundreds. he is facing over 300 lawsuits. and finally, this video will blow you away. a bus driver holding on for dear life as a tornado flipped the bus on its side. thankfully, he made it out just fine. in all, six tornadoes ripped throughout tennessee earlier this week. no injuries were reported.

for more news, download the cbs news app on your cell phone or connected tv. i'm tom hanson, cbs news, new york. ♪ >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news" reporting tonight from los angeles. >> good evening and thank you so much for joining us. we're going to begin with the new push to boost covid immunity in millions more americans. today the fda authorized pfizer booster shots for 16 and 17-year-olds. boosters are already encouraged for everyone 18 and up. public health officials are worried that people who were vaccinated last winter and spring now have weakened immunity, especially against the new omicron variant. now that strain discovered last month has now been found in at least 24 states. most of those omicron infections happened in vaccinated people,

some who received a booster. the more pressing concern tonight is the surge in cases of the delta variant, that has cases rising in more than half the country. in the hard-hit northeast, national guard troops are being deployed in several states to help overwhelmed hospitals. cbs' nikki battiste leads off our coverage in wilkes-barre. pennsylvania. good evening, nikki. >> norah, good evening. here in pennsylvania, this hospital behind me so full, covid patients have been packed in the er waiting room for up to 20 hours. as cases rise in the northeast, several national guard troops are being deployed to maine, new york and new hampshire. >> today we got in more good news from the fda, the cdc. >> reporter: tonight 16 and 17-year-olds can now get additional protection against covid, with the fda authorizing pfizer booster shots for this age group. it comes as covid cases across the country are on the rise, averaging 117,000 over a seven-day period. new cases have increased nearly

42%, and reported deaths are up 37% from last week. though the delta variant is driving the vast majority of u.s. cases, omicron is showing troubling signs of at least 64 cases identified. more than 75% occurred in vaccinated people, and one-third had received a booster. as holiday gatherings become more frequent, the push for vaccinations grows more urgent. in the northeast, where vaccination rates are among the highest in the nation, cases have ballooned more than 50% in the last week. here in pennsylvania, covid cases have soared 35%. geisinger wyoming valley medical center in wilkes-barre is coping with a dramatic surge in covid cases. most of those cases are unvaccinated. the hospital is beyond overflow, operating at about 120% capacity, with nearly a quarter in the covid unit. emergency room physician dr.

essie reed says some patients are not heeding the warnings. >> i don't think we ask ourselves will it be bad today. we ask how bad will it be today. >> reporter: she says an unvaccinated couple critically ill with the virus refused any covid-related treatment. both died. >> it's tough to watch that when we know this so preventible. >> reporter: dr. reed told me tonight even though she has seen covid patients who are vaccinated, she says they're much less sick than the unvaccinated patients. she also just treated a 3-week-old baby whose parents had not had a vaccine. >> oh my goodness. another reason to get the shot. all right. nikki battiste, thank you. well, there is breaking news from chicago. a jury has just found actor jussie smollett guilty of staging an anti-gay and racist attack on himself and then lying to police about it. let's get the details from cbs' charlie de mar. he is outside the courthouse. good evening, charlie. > reporter: good evening, norah. the verdict was just read

moments ago. jussie smollett found guilty of five of the six disorderly conduct charges that he faced. jussie smollett faced that foreperson right in the eye as all six counts were read. he shook his head when the first five guilty verdict did come down. now jussie smollett, we did get video of him walking into the courthouse moments before he learned his fate. he was, again, convicted with five of the six felony disorderly conduct counts for staging his own hate crime, and then lying to several chicago police officers by reporting it as an actual hate crime. now the jury, which was made up of six men and six women, deliberated for more than nine hours over two days. smollett took the stand in his own defense in this case, telling the jury he was the actual victim of a hate crime. he told the jury that back in january 2019 that his attackers yelled racial and homophobic. slurs and doused him with bleach

and draped a rope around his neck. but brothers abel and ola osundairo also took the stand, telling a different story. they said they were paid $3500 to carry out the attack, and that smollett planned the entire stunt because he want ed publicity. prosecutors did poke holes in smollett's testimony, mainly that he didn't cooperate with certain aspects of the investigation. again, a jury here in cook county finding jussie smollett guilty on five of the six disorderly conduct charges that he is now facing. we the expect to hear from both prosecutors and the defense in this case. it's unclear if smollett will make any remarks after being convicted of those five charges. norah? >> charlie de mar, thank you. well, tonight a major loss for former president trump in his battle to shield documents from congress and its investigation into the deadly attack on the u.s. capitol. a federal appeals court ruled rate today that the congressional committee's unique need for the requested documents

outweighs the former president's claim of executive privilege. it's not clear when the former president will have to turn over those documents, including notes and visitor logs from the di of the january 6 insurrection. we turn now to president biden's efforts to prevent a foreign policy crisis on the russia-ukraine border where nearly 100,000 russian troops are amassed and could invade. cbs' weijia jiang has new details tonight from the white house. >> reporter: in a one-hour phone call this afternoon, president biden reiterated to ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky that the u.s. and nato allies will offer support if russia invades. nearly 100,000 russian troops have already flooded the border. ukrainian military officials reportedly warned that they are not equipped to deal with the full-scale attack without the help of western forces. and experts predicted that the russians could wipe out the ukrainian army in under one hour.

on wednesday, the president ruled out sending in u.s. troops. >> that is not on the table. >> reporter: zelensky has said his country needs mo h on top of the 88 tons of ammunition and anti-tank missiles that the u.s. supplied earlier this year, there are also 150 american military advisers in ukraine. president biden warned vladimir putin on tuesday that there would be severe consequences if russia invades. >> i am absolutely confident he got the message. >> reporter: today he also spoke with the leaders of nine countries on nato's eastern flank, uneasy about the instability in the region. >> our objective is to make clear this significant and severe economic consequences if russia were to invade ukraine. >> reporter: but today vladimir putin escalated his rhetoric, saying that the situation in ukraine resembles genocide. the white house dismissed the comment, advising the public to take it with a grain of salt,

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♪ >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." >> i'm major garrett in washington. thanks so very much for staying with us. in the continuing battle against coronavirus, another day brings shifting recommendations about booster shots. pfizer now says people will likely need four shots to keep the rapidly spreading omicron variant at bay. stick with us. that's the initial two-dose regimen, a booster, and then another booster shot some time in the future that could be a year later, or possibly sooner. more than 200 million americans are now fully vaccinated, but barely one quarter of those eligible have received a booster shot.

overseas, new covid restrictions took hold today in britain, and most people there are not happy. ramy inocencio is outside 10 downing street, the pastime's home in london. >> reporter: and the mood here is one of resignation, that this is a setback in terms of the freedoms and the mobilities that britons have been able to enjoy for much of the past year. but prime minister boris johnson is now saying that these covid restrictions are for the protection of the people. this is plan b, and it is not a prelude to another lockdown. >> for monday, you should work from home if you can. go to work if you must, but work from home if you can, all right? i know this will be hard for many people. >> reporter: uk prime minister boris johnson announcing the strictest covid prevention measures since this summer after a dire forecast of an exponential rise from about 500 known omicron cases now to more than one million by new years in just three weeks. starting friday, face masks will be legally required in most

public indoor venues. and starting next week, double vaccinations or a negative test will be required at large events. but johnson said people should not cancel their christmas parties, just as he is suffering a crisis in confidence after leaked video from a rehearsal conference inside 10 downing showing his staff strongly implied they flouted covid restriction was a christmas party there in 2020. >> it's a business meeting. is this recorded? this fictional party was a business meeting. and it was not socially distanced. >> reporter: tearfully resigning late wednesday. >> i will regret those remarks for the rest of my days and i offer my profound apologies to all of you at home. >> reporter: force an apology from the prime minister. >> i'm sickened myself and furious.

>> reporter: but sorry may not be enough for those who did follow the rules but lost loved ones during the pandemic. and all of the uk's new covid restriction also be coming into force by next week. but the question is whether the people will actually follow it, especially after prime minister boris johnson's government advisers this time last year apparently flouted those rules threaten. >> that was ramy inocencio in london. closer to home, the labor department says more than 4,0 people filed for unemployment benefits last week. that's the lowest level in years. there were 11 million job openings in october. it's part of the great resignation that saw 4.2 americans quit their jobs in october. mark strassmanns that is the story. >> reporter: these strikers in omaha have had it. like millions of american workers, they're among 1400

employees who walked out of kellogg's plant and most voted to reject the latest offer. >> i feel we have tupper hand. >> picketers used words like leverage to explain their first strike in almost half a century there. >> just isn't enough skilled craftsmen to fill all these openings. >> you're not that easy to replace. >> no. >> reporter: few employees are these days. job openings nationwide above 10 million for five straight months. wrapped inside the great resignation, new opportunities. >> you see fast food companies offering signing bonuses. you see professional services and tech companies offering benefits, even over the robust benefits that are already available. >> reporter: consider construction jobs. at a time when home sales and prices are both booming. >> they're running the wire through the house. >> reporter: in idaho, developer joe atala is building this house outside boise. >> the good news is these guys

are showing up. >> these guys are on the job, yeah, exactly. >> reporter: because that's not true for everybody. >> it's not. >> reporter: metro boise has too few homes for sale and too few workers to build more. in one year, local home prices jumped 30%. the industry's worried about the 430,000 unfilled construction jobs right now, and in three years, that number would multiply five fold. 2.2 million open jobs. >> it's tough to predict how long the home will take because you don't know when the materials will show up and when tlaibler show up. >> reporter: in the kellogg strike, the company says it's done negotiating. it will hire all replacement workers. what comforts these strikers, nebraska's unemployment rate, america's lowest. 1.9%. mark strassmann, omaha. we have an update now on a cbs news investigation into an iranian missile strike on a u.s.

base in iraq. nearly three dozen soldiers injured in the attack were denied the purple heart. that is until our report. catherine herridge has the latest from the pentagon. >> reporter: after our team contacted the pentagon, the army initiated a new review, and yesterday the soldiers learned their awards had been approved. some soldiers got a personal phone call telling them the nearly two-year wait for recognition is over. >> that's awesome. >> reporter: retired captain jeffrey hansen was still taking phone calls from his soldiers when we sat down wednesday. >> it's definitely a sense of relief and a sense of recognition i think that they definitely deserve to feel. >> reporter: we first spoke with hansen last month, along with haley webster, michael and dane. they were all diagnosed with traumatic brain injuries after living through this. the january 2020 attack on their base in iraq. days earlier, the u.s. killed the powerful iranian general

kasim suleimani. the missile strike in response would be the biggest against u.s. missile forces in history. >> the whole earth shook and pressure moving through your body. >> these are my hearing aids. >> reporter: he took the unusual step of going on the record after dozens of soldiers in their unit were denied the purple heart. what mental has the army said to the soldiers that were injured? >> that your sacrifice was insignificant and it's not worth consideration. >> which i don't understand. >> reporter: 59 soldiers appeared to meet the purple heart criteria. a hostel force launched the attack and their traumatic brain injuries were long-lasting, but only 23 soldiers were recognized with the award. what happened to the rest? >> we got no response. we actually were told to not ask that question. >> reporter: after the strike, the soldiers told us there was pressure to downplay the growing number of injuries to avoid a further escalation with iran, and to avoid undercutting then

president trump's initial comments. >> i heard that they had headaches and a couple of other things, but i would say and i can report it is not very serious. >> what the president at the time said that very much diminished the service of so many soldiers. >> reporter: on wednesday, the army approved an additional 39 purple hearts, among them corp.le jason, diagnosed with a traumatic brain injury , in october he took his own life. >> struggled like we all are, like i am. >> reporter: the purple heart carries lifetime benefit, including priority medical care at v.a. hospitals. what do you want the army leadership to know? >> eternal gratitude. they did a thorough review. they did it quickly and they took care of the soldiers, and that's huge. >> reporter: hansen told us he believes this would not have happened without the cbs news reporting. and more than 65 purple hearts,

this attack may turn out to be one of the single largest awards in recent history. another 11 service members are being considered on a case-by-case basis. >> catherine herridge reporting. the "overnight news" is back in two minutes.

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ages 18 to 25 will find themselves homeless. christina ruffini has a story dedicated to them helping get back on their feet. >> reporter: conner copley's job sucks and buffs. >> i like it. it's a good job. >> reporter: and at times shines. why does your side look better than my side? >> probably because i have been working here for three months. >> reporter: here at detail works near burlington, vermont, employees work from the inside out, both on the cars and themselves. growing up, did you think you would end up being in a shelter at some point? >> no. i had much higher hopes than that. >> reporter: for the past two years, copley has lived at this shelter run by spectrum youth and family services. the organization helps at-risk young people like him find jobs. trouble was only 40% were able to keep them. >> they don't know how to show up to work on time.

they don't know how to work as part of a team. they don't know how to dress for work. >> reporter: you mean you can't assume these kids were coming in with the knowledge of how to hold down a job. >> that's right. >> reporter: so mark redman decided to launch an in-house business to teach life skills some of the kids might have lost along the way. >> we had 26 different ideas. >> reporter: what were some of the ideas? >> burlington's 50th coffee shop, which we don't really need. burlington's 50th thrift store and somebody mentioned car detailers. >> reporter: today detail works led by two former correction officers is working. >> did i really accomplish something today? here you know you did. >> reporter: the hands-on approach appeals to josh moran, who says he struggles with anxiety and depression. >> basically, you wax on and wax off. >> reporter: you really wax on? >> yeah, you really wax on. >> reporter: a job here landed him a higher paying job at fed ex. >> and i did not like it.

it was too robotic for me. and i have a lot of adhd. just standing in one spot, taking out the packages. >> reporter: show came back. >> yeah, we really want you back. >> reporter: 86% of the participants stay here at least 90 days, and many go on to other jobs. >> before detail works, and even at detail works, i woke up, had a cough, call out, you know. don't have a way into work, call out. >> reporter: now charles hemingway makes it happen, walking more than a mile each way to the job he's had for four years. >> detail works has taught me everything i know about my work ethic, about communication, about making sure that i take care of myself as well as take care of my job so that i never wind up in a situation where i'm jobless or homeless again. >> reporter: he recently donated $250 back to the program to help others. like conner copley. >> i built up a lot of good work ethic, and i'm getting my stuff

in order. >> reporter: does that make you feel good about yourself? >> very. it gives me hope. >> reporter: the rest, they say, is in the detail.

the pandemic, as most of us know, has caused shortages of everything from cars to toilet paper. now it turns out those supply bottlenecks are following some people to their grave, literally. >> reporter: supreme memorials in brooklyn, new york has been creating headstones for 70 years. has this been the biggest challenge you faced? >> me personally, yes. >> reporter: co-owner michael casera says before the pandemic, it would take about three months to customize a stone. now it's up to six months. >> this is the material right now that is a real shortage in my industry. this is the rubber stencil. >> reporter: rubber stencil is used to create the template that is later sand blasted into the stone.

>> one of the major suppliers said they're closing their whole division of making it. so this is going to be a problem that's going to be going forward. >> reporter: many companies are also having trouble getting the granite nedded for headstones. the same worker and trucking shortage is impacting all sections of the economy are slowing down the delivery of granite. schultz monument company in tennessee is also having trouble getting bronze markers, and the delays often vary. >> the information that we're getting from our suppliers sometimes is not always accurate. so when i pass that on to my customer, my customer rightfully gets frustrated. >> reporter: adding to the challenges, the cost of materials is also on the rise, and cass era says these issues aren't going to end any time soon. >> i see it going into the summer of next year. >> reporter: and those delays are being felt by grieving families trying to say goodbye to family. >> that is the "overnight news" for this friday. be sure to check back later for

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