are as many as 10 million lead pipes carrying drinking across the country. the infrastructure bill includes $15 billion over five years to replace them. but the white house says the actual cost could reach $45 billion. do you acknowledge you'll need more money to really solve this problem? >> you know, we will need more resources at some point. >> reporter: because he says this issue is critical. >> right now there are children in this country drinking water from lead pipes. and so we can't fail our children. we have to get this done. >> reporter: there is no safe level of lead exposure, and it can cause lower iqs and increased aggression in children. and norah, we did follow up with some of those folks we talked to in benton harbor, and they say they are still drinking bottled water, and they don't expect to have new water pipes for at least a year. >> this is such a huge issue. it's an injustice to those communities and children that live there. ben tracy, thank you. all right. there is a labor shortage across

america as businesses are struggling to find and hire employees. well, now a popular app that connects businesses with hourly workers has become indispensable during the pandemic, both for businesses and those who have recently lost their jobs. cbs' carter evans has the store of amazing ingenuity. >> this is one of our most popular gifts. >> reporter: at lula's garden in los angeles, 'tis the season for succulents. but ceo liraz birnbaum says getting holiday help during the pandemic worker shortage is a challenge. now instead of placing a want ad, she orders instaworkers on an app. do you have to send them a paycheck? >> no. that's the best part. once you put the credit card on the app, it charges automatically. you dent need to deal with it. >> reporter: what makes this different from, say, a temp agency? >> we're economic opportunity at the touch of a button.

>> reporter: assume mir meghani cofounded it in a stroke of american ingenuity. but everything changed with the pandemic. >> they're not just looking for better jobs or higher pay they're looking for more flexible work. >> reporter: that appealed to chester lemon, who lost his job during the pandemic. now he works at a clothing designer warehouse one day, and the next a concert. >> i did bts this past weekend. >> reporter: the jobs don't provide benefits or overtime, but the best part for him, getting paid immediately. so let me get this straight. when you go home today, the money from this job will be in your bank account? >> before i get to my car. >> reporter: insta work has 1.5 million workers in 25 cities. and just since april of this year, wages on the app have increased 20%. >> about half of our professionals aren't willing to work for less than $15. >> reporter: the company charges employers a commission. and what would you say to

critics who say insta work is just another middle man who adds costs. >> our workers speak with their swipe. >> reporter: did you ever see yourself having a regular nine to five job again at one place? >> it's going to be hard right now because i've gotten so used to this now. you can just make money tonight, tomorrow. >> reporter: most instaworkers are considered independent contractors. so they have to pay their own taxes quarterly. the company does background checks and on the app workers only see the jobs they're qualified to do. norah? >> it's really interesting. carter evans, thank you. all right. now to a solemn ceremony at the white house today. three u.s. soldiers were honored with the nation's highest military award. two sacrificed their lives saving others, including the man who just became the first black recipient of the medal of honor since the vietnam war. here is cbs' david martin. >> reporter: a mother and daughter receive the medal of honor three years after their

husband and father, army ranger christopher celiz used his body to shield a battlefield casualty in afghanistan. >> i'm in awe that he would be so selfless, but that's who chris was. i wouldn't have expected anything less. >> reporter: eight years ago, master sergeant earl plumlee stepped into the breach to stop a suicidal attack on his outpost in afghanistan. you see ten guys coming at you. what did you think? >> that i would be killed. >> reporter: so what do you do when you think you're going to be killed? >> try and take a few of them with me. >> reporter: 16 years ago sergeant 1st class alwyn cashe pulled his soldiers from a burning vehicle in iraq. >> flames that are spewing out of every out of the bradley fighting vehicle. >> reporter: lieutenant colonel leon matthias was there. >> he is going in and out of the bradley, trying to pull them out one by one, and it's just an intense internal. >> reporter: jimmy hathaway arrived on the scene. >> here is cashe has been burned

75% of his body, who is still standing up, still walking around, still pushing everybody to take care of his boys, as he would say, first. >> reporter: cashe and three other badly burned soldiers were med evaced to the united states. his sister was at his bedside. he was still worried about his boys. >> he was just please tell them to fight. they can do this. >> reporter: one by one, the soldiers died. >> he was the last one to pass away. >> reporter: ever since, cashe's sister has been leading the campaign to recognize his sacrifice. >> i just want to know that sergeant 1st class alwyn c. cashe has been awarded the medal of honor that he earned. >> reporter: honor delayed but no longer denied. david martin, cbs news, the pentagon. >> never too late to honor these heroes.

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school teachers do some of the most important work across our country, both inside and outside the classroom. one kentucky school teacher proved just that following those devastating tornadoes. cbs' lilia luciano reports. >> there is diapers. there's wipes, shoes. >> reporter: kammie king's preschool classroom in dawson springs is now an overflow storage space for donations. >> my initial thought was how many students and families are we going to lose. >> reporter: how did you find dawson springs? >> it was devastating. >> reporter: since the tornadoes hit, king, who has been teaching pre-k for nearly two decades has reached out to every family to account for all of her littles, as she calls them. >> hello, it's miss cakammie fr

school. >> reporter: they need to know their connection to this school is out there walking around. >> and offering hugs. >> you literally feel all ten fingers squeezing into your back. >> reporter: with nowhere to go, the clark family is living a at shelter. >> we went from a five bedroom house to this one little room. >> and it's been difficult. >> reporter: whether they're current stay tuneds like zoe or older ones like her mom georgia. >> everybody here has been her student? including mom? >> reporter: miss kammie doesn't let go. >> i want them to know that i love them, and it's just a feeling that -- i'm doing the right thing. >> reporter: lilia luciano, cbs news, dawson springs. >> and that's the "overnight news" for this friday. for some of you, the news continues. for other, check back later for "cbs mornings" and follow us online any time at cbsnews.com. reporting from the nation's capitol, i'm norah o'donnell.

this is cbs news flash. i'm tom hanson in new york. a federal judge has just overturned a $4.5 billion settlement between purdue pharma and thousands of state and local governments because it shields purdue's owner, the billionaire sackler family from civil opioid lawsuits. the ruling is likely to be appealed. the defense is expected to rest in the trial of ghislaine maxwell. accused of trafficking young girls for jeffrey epstein. closing arguments could begin as soon as monday. and this weekend marks tiger woods's return to golf after his life-threatening car crash that required several surgeries. the golf star will hit the

fairways of the pnc championship with his 12-year-old son charlie. for more download our app on your cell phone or connected tv. i'm tom hanson, cbs news, new york. ♪ >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." >> good evening and thank you for joining us. we're going to begin tonight with a spike in covid cases that has health officials sounding the alarm. a rise in cases has states and businesses changing their plans, bringing back indoor mask mandates, cancelling holiday parties and giving employees the option to work from home again. and now professional sport seasons hang in the balance with the nba and nhl postponing games. also, a growing number of nhl players are testing positive, and that has the league requiring masks, regardless of vaccination status, and they're

pleading with players, get your booster shots. on average, nearly 118,000 cases are being reported daily, just as millions of americans prepare to hit the road and the airports for the holidays. the double threat tonight from the dangerous delta variant and the extremely contagious omicron strain leads to the question could covid be the grinch that steals christmas again? cbs' meg oliver is in new york tonight with all the headlines. good evening, meg. >> reporter: norah, good evening. as omicron quickly spreads, people are spending hours waiting in line for covid tests. here in new york city positive cases of covid-19 have doubled in the last three days. that's something the mayor's top health adviser says they've never seen before. tonight health officials are sounding the alarm. new covid cases are up nearly 40% in two weeks, fueled by the delta variant and omicron spread. >> it's so highly transmissible that it's just going to sweep across the country like a firestorm. >> reporter: dr. anthony fauci predicts omicron could become

the dominant variant in the u.s. soon. >> we're looking over our shoulder at omicron, which will assume a dominant role i would imagine within a period of a few weeks to as we go into january. >> reporter: now officials are bracing for an explosion of infections, although cases so far have been mostly mild. >> i think it's going to be pretty rough now heading into the holidays and then the early part of the new year. >> reporter: the cdc expects new cases to surge 57% in the coming days, with as many as 1.3 million cases reported the week of christmas. >> things could get really bad, particularly, particularly for the unvaccinated. >> reporter: today cdc advisers voted unanimously to discourage anyone 18 or older from getting the j&j vaccine, citing evidence that it could trigger a rare blood disorder that has been linked to at least nine deaths. and the list of companies telling employees to work from

home is growing. citibank announced today its employees in new york and new jersey could begin working from home again. >> with omicron surging right now, is it too early to turn back to the office in january? >> at this point i wouldn't push it. let's see how this unfolds. >> reporter: and with christmas only days away, the demand for tests is skyrocketing. alissa peralta is feeling fine but wanted to make sure she was safe to travel back home to chicago. are you worried about traveling this holiday? >> i definitely i am. i am really scared. >> reporter: i talked to alissa late this afternoon. her test came back negative. she plans to get the booster and keep testing before flying home next week, which is exactly what the experts recommend. norah? >> meg oliver, thank you. and turning now to the latest in a series of deadly storms across the great plains and midwst. at least five people were killed in wednesday night's dangerous weather, which brought more than a dozen tornadoes, including minnesota's first ever tornado

in the month of december. cbs' mola lenghi reports from hartland, minnesota. >> reporter: hurricane-force winds tore through over 700 miles of the midwest. in nebraska, strong winds toppling a moving tractor-trailer. next door in iowa, a roof ripped off a library. somehow the books remained on the shelves. residents were left to sort through what was left of their homes. >> we got power flashes. >> reporter: in chicago, 66-mile-per-hour winds reported at o'hare airport, tearing limbs off trees and smashing them into car windows. more than 20 tornadoes were reported in the upper midwest with minnesota's first ever december tornado. this after friday night's five-state tornado rampage. after the storm, highways were littered with overturned tractor-trailers. cbs news meteorologist jeff berardelli insists this is not normal. >> we should not see one of the biggest tornado outbreaks we've ever seen happen in the month of december and then three or four

days later another extraordinary weather event that is unprecedented. >> reporter: here in hartland, minnesota, the storm punched holes in the solid brick buildings, overturned an rv, and downed trees and power lines. not the holiday season the town had planned. >> it felt like someone ran into the side of the house and then it was over, just that quick. >> reporter: how quick are you talking? >> minutes, minutes. >> reporter: it was here and gone? >> nobody got hurt that is the key. so this stuff can all be replaced. >> reporter: well, cleanup is well under way here in hartland, minnesota. the small town, population just over 300 really got the brunt of it. they lost the only bank in town there behind me and the only post office in town right around the corner. tonight throughout the midwest, roughly 280,000 people remain without power, norah. >> mola lenghi, thank you. well, tonight the two-month hostage situation in haiti has come to an end. the final group of christian missionaries abducted by a violent street gang was released today. in all 17 people held captive, including five children.

it's not clear how much if any of the million dollar ransom per person was paid. as the cast of "sex & the city" returns to television, with it comes new accusations against star chris noth. two women say knot sexually assaulted them. tonight he is denying those allegations. jericka duncan has the details. >> reporter: tonight chris noth, who played mr. big in the '90s hit show "sex & the city" is facing explosive allegations of sexual assault. the hollywood reporter using pseudonyms for two women, details their accounts. one woman named a zoe says in 2004 when she was 22 years old, noth raped her from behind inside his los angeles apartment. she says she received medical treatment and counseling. the other woman named as lilly says she was raped inside noth's new york city apartment after a night of drinking in 2015. noth has denied the allegations, calling them categorically false, adding the encounters

were consensual. it's difficult not to question the timing of these stories coming out. both women approached the hollywood reporter at different times. they told the magazine they wanted to tell their stories after seeing promotions for hbo max's "sex & the city" reboot series "and just like that." variety chief correspondent elizabeth wagmeister. >> he played the character of mr. big, which was this very showy ladies' man. so appears to be an instant of life almost imitating art, but in the worst way possible. >> noth has starred on "law & order." and as a role on the cbs show "the equalizer." >> to new beginnings. >> reporter: tonight peloton, which used him in a commercial as mr. big, pulled the ad. cbs says it is not responding to any inquiries. as for the los angeles police department, it says it will look into the nature of the report. norah? >> jericka duncan, thank you.

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♪ >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." >> i'm jeff pegues. parts of california are still mopping up and digging out after powerful storms brought blizzard conditions to the north of the state and torrential rain from san francisco to san diego. more rain and snow are in the forecast for the next couple of weeks, but it's likely to do little to end the years' long drought gripping much of the west. carter evans has the story. >> reporter: we're walking on a lake bed right now. we should be under water, and this is where your town's water comes from. does it concern you? >> deeply. >> reporter: stephanie is mayor

of fairfax, california, in the heart of marin county where average rainfall the nearly 40 inches. but not this year. almost all of california is facing extreme drought. >> as beautiful as it is, it's frightening. >> reporter: it's forcing drastic measures on all 200,000 county residents, now told to cut water usage to just 55 gallons per day, dramatic considering a ten-minute shower uses about 25 gallons. 40 for a load of laundry, and a single sprinkler head can spray out 15 gallons per minute. you can't use those anymore? >> no. i mean, it's 1/3 of our water usage. >> reporter: the new restrictions mean no refilling swimming pools or fountains. you can't wash your car in your driveway, and outdoor irrigation is prohibited. >> there is no irrigation at all until june. >> reporter: none? >> none. >> reporter: john and his wife margaret lived here because of the lush landscape. >> we have a third of an acre of

mature trees and plants and flower, and i don't want to lose them. >> reporter: so they just installed two thousand-gallon tanks to capture the rain. >> you're capturing the water over there and pumping it here? >> correct. >> reporter: many homeowners here are finding 80% of their drinking water goes to irrigation, laundry and toilets. >> that's just ridiculous that we're using, think about it, fresh water to flush toilets. >> reporter: paul mannon installs systems to capture and recycle water for outdoors. it comes with an app when you use too much. >> imagine in everybody did this. we would have true sustainability despite the crisis we're in with climate. >> reporter: some of the biggest water wasters in marin could face fines of more than $500 on top of their regular bill. and if there is no significant rain in the next few months, those local reservoirs could be unusable by summer. carter evans, cbs news, los angeles. now for an "overnight news"

history lesson. you're probably familiar with the name rosa parks whose defiance on an alabama bus became a turning right in alabama in 1955. but you probably never heard of this woman, claudette colvin. as a teenager, she was arrested nine months before parks for the same reason, refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a white person. co colvin's story a happy ending that was years in the making. here is david begnaud. >> reporter: you don't hear about claudette colvin in the history books, but you should. she is now a great-grandmother, and for the past 66 years, she has lived with a criminal record. in what may be her final protest, she asked a judge in alabama to clear her name by expunging the record, and a judge did it. this is her story, and as gayle said you do not want to miss the surprise at the end. >> it's very nice to meet you.

>> reporter: claudette colvin has spent most of her 82 years as a convicted juvenile delinquent, who would go on to college, work as a nurse's aide and race two sons. do you think of yourself as an important figure in history? >> no, i think of myself as a survivor of the civil rights struggle. >> reporter: her place in the civil rights struggle began when she was 15 years old at the back of a crowded montgomery, alabama bus after school with three friends. >> i was sittin in the section that was allowed for colored people. and this white lady came. the bus driver demanded for the four seats. >> and this is you and three others? >> student, yes. >> reporter: so three of them got up? >> yes. >> reporter: and you refused? >> so i refused because this wasn't an elderly white lady. this was a young white lady. >> reporter: you were sitting there. your classmates get up and move. >> yes. >> reporter: what was going

through your head as to why you refused to stand? >> i said i could not move because history had me glued to the seat. and they said how is that? i said well, it felt as though harriet told me how on one s shoulder and sojourner truth on the other shoulder. >> reporter: now that happened nine months before rosa parks was arrested before refusing to give up her seat on a montgomery bus, overshadowing for decades what a teenager had also done. >> and the traffic patrolman came to the rear of the bus and asked me why was i sitting there. i told him i was sitting there because i paid my fare and it's my constitutional rights. >> reporter: now watching this interview from a nearby room was judge calvin williams. today he is the presiding judge

of the montgomery family court. and then what happened? >> lo and behold, two squad cars patrolling stop and cut the bus off and came. they stopped and oh my. >> reporter: we invited the judge to listen in and hear colvin's account of what the police did to her in 1955. >> and he asked me why i wasn't sitting there. and i was even more defiant. and i said i paid my fare, and it's my constitutional rights. he said constitutional rights, no, no. and they put me in the squad car and they handcuffed me through the window. >> reporter: claudette colvin was jailed, charged with disturbing the peace, breaking segregation law, and found guilty of assaulting police officers. clawing them with her fingernails. >> they said i clawed the policemen and i kicked the policemen. i didn't do all of that. >> reporter: was it the one and only time in your life that you had gone to jail?

>> yes. >> reporter: at the time i represented claudette colvin, there was no rosa parks case. >> reporter: as a young attorney, fred gray, later portrayed by cuba gooding jr. in the film "selma" took up her case. that's before he went on to defend rosa parks. in his book, he pays tribute. >> the hole history of the civil rights movement may have been different but for claudette. >> reporter: at the age of 16, she made headlines again as one of four plaintiffs in the lawsuit that would end alabama's bus segregation in the landmark browder versus gail segregation. when you won in court, you could sit in the front row if you wanted to. >> yes. >> reporter: and did you? >> yes. >> reporter: but the charge of assaulting police officers remained. fast forward to today when judge calvin williams in montgomery, alabama read her appeal, he

expunged her 66-year-old criminal record. >> and i'm no longer a juvenile delinquent at 82. >> reporter: she was not present when the judge ruled. she didn't know his name. she didn't even know what he looked like. we have a surprise. >> a surprise? >> reporter: we have a surprise for you. >> what is this surprise? >> reporter: someone would like to meet you. >> hello, ms. colvin. judge calvin williams. >> oh, wow, wow, wow! >> judge calvin williams. >> oh my godness! oh, lord. oh! oh my goodness. >> on behalf of myself and all of the judges of montgomery i offer my apology for an injustice that was perpetrated upon you. >> oh, this is a surprise. >> reporter: so you didn't know that the judge who did this was

african american? >> no. i'm so proud. >> reporter: the judge wasn't even born when ms. colvin refused to give up her seat on that bus. >> when she did this in 1955, there were no african american judges in montgomery. she stood up for right and now i'm the beneficiary and by-product of that, and i can correct the wrong that was done to her. >> amen to that. >> amen to that. >> can i squeeze your hand? >> yes, ma'am, please do. (announcer) if you're an american age 50 to 85, and you're counting on social security to help your family with your final expenses, this news may surprise you. the social security death benefit is capped at just $255 and not everyone is entitled to claim it. today, the average funeral cost is over $8,700.

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mckenzie. but donna researched, posted on social media, even set up tables at festivals around her home in lexington, kentucky, hoping someone might know who these belonged to, and eventually donna did get the full name. >> and when i did, his obituary was the first thing that came up. and it hit me like it would a family member. >> reporter: back in 2018, sergeant keith mckenzie, who had survived two deployments in afghanistan took his own life. he'd been diagnosed with ptsd. marriage was crumbling. car repossessed, which is actually how the uniform ended up in the dumpster. this wasn't at all the answer donna was hoping to find, but it made returning that uniform more important than ever. >> somebody may have wanted them. >> reporter: you could have never guessed how much they were wanted? >> no. >> reporter: a thousand miles away in waco, texas, keith

mckenzie jr., who was left to shag his own fly balls, still feels some bitterness toward his father. but that military service, that's a part of his dad he holds on to dearly and literally. >> i just sit there and hold the dog tags for a good while i never took them off since that's kind of all we had. >> reporter: that was all he had, until his mother, crystal, got a phone call from a stranger. >> she answered a prayer that i didn't know i was prayer for, some faith that there is people out there that care. >> reporter: crystal and her daughter kayla knew donna was coming. >> howdy. >> reporter: but it was a surprise to keith. >> i brought these for you all the way from kentucky. i've been looking for y'all for a long time. >> thank you. >> reporter: donna parker set out to return a uniform. >> i don't think you understand

how much this really means. >> i do. >> reporter: but she really returned to this family was hope. steve hartman, "on the

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designed for you. as nations from around the world prepare to send their athletes to beijing for february's winter olympics, another set of athletes is stepping up in japan. lucy craft has the story. >> reporter: it resembles a marching band without the instruments, or a kind of demented military drill. but the kinetic kookiness is actually a japanese tradition known as group action. for over 50 years, students at nippon sports science university have been busting moves. the walking performances originated with frustration over campus life, said coach ji jiro omi. >> translator: students were fed up with long lines at the cafeteria and even at the

washroom, he said. so they tried to come up with a more efficient way of moving people around. keeping time without a musical beat, the students managed to nail their signature moves, seeming to march head-long into each other, but weaving through unscathed, and repeating the case in reverse. it wasn't always this easy. >> translator: the hardest thing is getting everyone on the same wavelength, said this senior. of course at first we always ran right into each other. in rehearsal, the ten-minute routines are recorded, every angle fine-tuned a nauseam. the students have put in months of precision training. tonight they've walked the equivalent of six miles. all you have to do is walk, he said. even grade kid schools can master this. it's been called a masterpiece of perfect coordination. but showing off isn't the point, he said. it's really about team work and

compassion. lucy craft, yokohama, japan. . and that is the "overnight news" for this friday. reporting from the nation's capital, i'm jeff pegues. this is cbs news flash. i'm tom hanson in new york. a federal judge has just overturned a $4.5 billion settlement between purdue pharma and thousands of state and local governments because it shields purdue's owners, the billionaire sackler family from civil opioid lawsuits. the ruling is likely to be appealed. the defense is expected to rest in the trial of ghislaine maxwell. the 59-year-old is accused of trafficking young girls to be jeffrey epstein's sexual servants. closing arguments could begin as soon as monday. and this weekend marks tiger woods' return to golf after his life-threatening car crash that required several surgeries. the golf star will hit the fairways of the pnc championship with his 12-year-old son

charlie. for more news download our app on your cell phone or connected tv. m tom hanson, cbs ne , new york. it's friday, december 17th, 2021. this is the "cbs morning news". echoes of 2020. covid cases are back up and many hospitals are overwhelmed with the spread of the omicron and delta variants. president biden's dire warning to the unvaccinated. settlement rejected. a major twist in the opioid case. why the maker of oxycontin won't be able to settle thousands of lawsuits yet. hollywood scandal. "sex and the city" star chris noth is accused of sexual assault. his assault to the allegations. well, good morning and good

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