city were required to start wearing masks again in class. despite rising cases of ba-2 here in new york city, a new cbs news poll shows covid doesn't even rank among the top five most pressing issues for americans. they're more concerned about the economy and inflation. norah. >> meg oliver, thanks. well, china's largest city remains under a strict covid lockdown tonight affecting more than 26 million residents with most being forced to remain indoors. here's cbs's elizabeth palmer. >> reporter: no one dreamed they would ever see this. shanghai, china's cosmopolitan dynamo, empty and silent. at night between the high-rises a drone tells people to follow covid rules and bizarrely not to sing on their balcony. during the day, there is a frantic push by the government to get food to millions shut into their homes.

but it hasn't reached everyone. and social media showed protest in some neighborhoods. in this one, the crowd shouts "we're starving." while last week a man was filmed venting his fury on the phone. what am i supposed to buy, what do i eat, you are driving us to our death. construction crews have converted shanghai's convention center into a vast isolation ward for 50,000 beds. anyone who tests positive has no choice. as one patient posted on tiktok, i had to board this special bus and then check in to a facility filled with bunks and staff in haz/mat suits. there's been economic fallout from this gigantic lockdown, too. trucks aren't moving. and the volume of goods leaving shanghai by ship is down more than 25% in a month. that's going to push up prices

everywhere, including in the u.s. and add to the pressure on the world's already fraying supply lines. norah. >> elizabeth palmer, thank you. the cbs "overnight news" will be right back.

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we get more on this from cbs's omar villafranca. >> reporter: sam miller has more than 8,000 hungry mouths to feed every day at cedar ridge egg farm in northeast, texas. the rising cost of the corn and wheat feed is forcing miller to raise his egg prices. his feed bill for his growing business is up nearly 7,000 dollars a month. >> i don't jack my price up. i make a little bit, i don't make a lot off my eggs. >> reporter: the war in ukraine, a major grain producer and draught conditions in the u.s. have pushed wheat and corn prices up significantly. that has driven up the price of eggs by 56 percent. last year the national average for a dozen large white eggs was $1.60. now it is up to $2.50. >> your morning breakfast price is going up all the way from the eggs but to the bacon and the toast and everything else. >> reporter: livestock economist david anderson said the worst avian flu outbreak in seven

years has killed more than 20 million birds in 24 states and has chipped away at the egg supply and pushed prices up. >> it takes time to adjust to higher prices and higher costs. you don't just snap your fingers and get more production. >> reporter: higher fuel prices are also hammering miller. the cost to fill up his delivery truck almost doubled and he's doing everything he can to avoid raising his egg prices again. >> i had to do something or i'm not going to be here. >> reporter: higher grain prices aren't just affecting eggs. the price per pound of bacon, ground beef, whole chickens are all up compared to last year and experts say those prices will get even higher. norah. >> interesting reporting, omar villafranca, thank you so much. well, president biden today announced a crackdown on unlicensed kits to make so called ghost guns, that can be quickly assembled at home or with a 3-d printer, with no serial numbers. making them difficult to trace. the biden administration will

require they be classified the same as other guns made and sold in the u.s. ghost guns have been used in a growing number of high-profile crimes, including the fatal shooting in new york city just last week of a 16-year-old girl on her way home from school. the president today also introduced former u.s. attorney steve dettelbach as his nominee to lead the atf. let's turn now to the weather with a spring storm bringing historic snowfall for april in portland, oregon, and blizzard warnings in the dakotas. that same system is expected to trigger severe thunderstorms and possible tornadoes in the plains and the south. so let's get the forecast from mike bettes and the weather channel. good evening, mike. >> good evening, norah. yes, anticipated multi-day severe weather outbreak across the midwest and south as you see behind us, what little rock could look like later on in the evening. more intense storms across the south from arkansas to the ohio river valley here. place like little rock and memphis through the evening and

overnight, those storms weaken overnight but guess what, like clock work, they return again tomorow. more storms from texas all the way up into iowa, where thunderstorms and tornadoes are possible. not to mention an increased threat for hail as well, large hail from omaha back down toward austin, two inch diameter hail is possible. if that weren't enough, come wednesday more thunderstorms return from shreveport to chicago. >> mike bettes, thanks so much. there's a lot more news ahead on the cbs "overnight news." the investigation after a fire races through a ups facility. and the tragic death of an nfl quarterback. the questions tonight on how the 24-year-old was killed by a dump truck. and we remember a masterful performance at augusta national.

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alarm fire today outside los angeles, about 70 firefighters got it under control, several trucks were damaged. luckily no one was hurt. in florida tht intthe gain has kins. the 24-year-old was hit by a dump truck and killed while walking on a highway outside the fort lauderdale hollywood international airport. haskins, a star player at ohio state, played two seasons in washington before joining the pittsburgh steelers last season. the steelers head coach said he was truly heart broken and calls haskins a great teammate you go even more so a tremendous friend to so many. >> all right. tonight, the number one golfer in the world is celebrating his victory at the masters. 25-year-old scotty scheffler won the coveted green jacket on sunday along with a record $2.7 million payout. tiger woods finished 47th but says all the work to make his comeback was absolutely worth it and he is planning to play in the british open this summer. it was fun to watch. up next, julian lennon's

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john lennon's "imagine" is one of the most beloved songs of all time. the song that lennon described as an ad campaign for peace has been covered by more than 200 artists including stevie wonder, elton john and lady gaga, well a new performance of the song is making headlines for its personal connection to the original. here's cbs's jonathan vigliotti. ♪ imagine all the people ♪ >> reporter: in 1971 during the vietnam war -- ♪ living life in peace ♪ >> reporter: -- john lennon imagined a world united. ♪ you may say i'm a dreamer ♪ ♪ but i'm not the only one ♪ >> reporter: his lyrics have grown up through times of war and peace.

♪ imagine there's no countries, it isn't hard to do ♪ >> reporter: julian lennon, who was just eight when the song was released, sang his father's anthem for the first time to support the stand up for ukraine concert, which brought in $10 billion in pledges this weekend. online julian wrote, "i felt compelled to respond in the most significant way i could." his father's lyrics have brought light during darkness. after 9/11. ♪ nothing to kill or die for ♪ >> reporter: and following terror attacks in paris. ♪ imagine all the people ♪ >> reporter: julian lennon echoes his father's call for world peace that 50 years later we're still imagining. ♪ and the world will live as one ♪ >> reporter: jonathan vigliotti, cbs news. and that's the "overnight news" for this tuesday.

for some of you the news continues. for others, check back later for cbs "mornings." follow us online any time at cbsnews.com. reporting from new york, i'm norah o'donnell. this is cbs news flash. i'm elise preston in new york. the mayor of mariupol fears the death toll could surpass 20,000 as rushi continues its assault on the ukrainian city. the mayor is accusing russian forces of blocking humanitarian convoys. california utility company pacific gas and electric will pay more than $55 million to the state for its role in sparking two major wildfires after being accused of using aged power lines. and pop superstar britney spears is expecting. she announced her pregnancy on instagram. the news comes five months after the entertainer's

conservatorship ended. for more news, download the cbs news app on your cell phone or connecttv. i'm elise preston, cbs news, new york. this is the cbs "overnight news." good evening. thank you for joining us as we start a new week together. tonight ukrainian officials are warning residents in the eastern part of the country to flee ahead of an expected major assault by tens of thousands of russian troops. the pentagon is seeing an early indication that russian troops are trying to resupply after pulling out of the north. new video shows a convoy of reinforcements heading toward the donbas region from inside russia. as a reminder that women and children bear the brunt of war, we learned today from unicef that nearly 2/3 of ukraine's kids have been displaced, and

the situation is only getting worse. in the besieged port city of mariupol, residents have gone weeks without running water, electricity, food and medical supplies. we have a lot of news to get to tonight and cbs's nancy cordes will start us off from the white house. good evening, nancy. >> reporter: good evening, norah. there are several troubling new signs that russia is marshaling its forces for an all-out assault on eastern ukraine. even austria's chancellor who managed to sit down today with russian president putin came away saying he is pessimistic about what comes next. in eastern ukraine it is a race against time to dig trenches and evacuate civilians as the russian war machine pivots. shelling intensified in the east overnight, as new satellite images showed an eight mile convoy of russian trucks and armored vehicles moving through the east toward the donbas region, home to a large population of russian separatists. >> we believe these are the

early stages of a reinforcement efforts by the russians in the donbas. >> reporter: the latest evidence of a shift in strategy after russian forces failed to take the capitol city of kyiv. ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy pleaded with south korea's parliament today to give him weapons he can use to fend off the russians in donbas and in southern ukraine. where the mayor of the port city of mariupol today estimated that as many as 20,000 residents have been killed in the ongoing siege. and the horror there isn't over, with the russian military releasing video of missiles being fired from ships in the black sea. on "60 minutes," scott pelley met president zelenskyy in the darkened hallways of his command center and asked about a possible end-game. >> are you willing to give up any part of ukraine for peace? >> translator: overall, we're not ready to give away our country.

i think we've already given up a lot of lives, so we need to stand firm for as long as we can. but this is life, different things happen. >> it's negotiable? >> translator: well, this issue would definitely be raised in the course of negotiations. >> reporter: but right now the russians aren't negotiating, they're digging in. tapping a new commander to turn the invasion around. he's a veteran of the russian offensive in syria where his tendency to target civilian facilities like hospitals earned him the nickname the butcher of syria. >> the situation in ukraine is very worrying. >> reporter: india's prime minister narendra modi met virtually with president biden, both of them condemning the killing of innocent ukrainians. >> including the tragic shelling in the train station that killed dozens of innocent children and women and civilians attempting to flee the violence. >> reporter: and the death toll

from that train station attack stands at 57 with the russian story about it changing. initially russia's defense ministry said it bombed the train station because weapons were being hidden there. but once faced with evidence of clear civilian casualties the defense ministry now says it had nothing to do with it at all. norah. >> nancy cordes at the white house, thank you. the atrocities in ukraine have shocked the world as more alleged war crimes are revealed every day, meanwhile many women in ukraine are living under constant threat and there is growing evidence of sexual violence. cbs' holly williams spoke to a elderly woman who described her horrendous experience. >> reporter: vera is 83 years old, a retired school teacher who told us when her village was occupied by russian forces last month she was raped. "he grabbed me by the back of the neck," she said. "i started to choke, i couldn't

breathe. i told the one who raped me, i'm old enough to be your mother. would you let this happen to your mother," vera told us. "he made me shut up." she said her disabled husband was in the house when she was d she was also beaten. when he finished he grabbed a bottle of vodka, she told us. i asked if i could put my clothes back on. he barked no. she said when he left he fired his assault rifle in the air three times outside. the ukrainian military said they heard reports of sexual assault by russian forces, we were told others were also raped there including a 16-year-old girl. we cannot independently verify any of the allegations, but vera's story with details compelling and heartbreaking. she's also reported it to the ukrainian police, she told us. they took sheets away for testing. i wish he had killed me instead of what he did, vera said.

she told us she believes her attacker was from ukraine's far east, a region controlled by russian-backed separatists, where men have reportedly been conscripted to fight for russia. everything hurts vera told us. i am in a state where i'm neither dead nor alive. before i felt joy with the spring. now i don't feel anything. i have nothing. >> holly williams joins us now from central ukraine. it is sickening to hear what happened to vera. how are the ukrainians collecting evidence of war crimes? >> reporter: well, norah, we know that ukrainian war crimes investigators have been visiting towns and villages that were occupied by russian forces and documenting dead bodies and alleged atrocities and there have reportedly been multiple allegations of rape, but war crimes are notoriously difficult to prosecute. >> holly williams, thank you for your reporting. let's turn now to the

weather, with a spring storm bringing historic snowfall for april in portland, oregon, and blizzard warnings in the dakotas. that same system is expected to trigger severe thunderstorms and possible tornadoes in the plains and the south. so let's get the forecast from mike bet es from our partners at the weather channel. good evening, mike. >> good evening, norah. yes, anticipated multi-day severe weather outbreak across the midwest and south as you see behind us, what little rock could look like later on in the evening. more intense storms across the south from arkansas to the ohio river valley here. places like little rock and memphis through the evening and overnight, those storms weaken overnight but guess what, like clock work, they return again tomorrow. more storms from texas all the way up into iowa, where thunderstorms and tornadoes are possible. not to mention an increased threat for hail as well, large hail from omaha back down toward austin, two inch diameter hail is possible. if that weren't enough, come wednesday more thunderstorms return from shreveport to chicago.

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this is the cbs "overnight news." i'm scott macfarlane in washington. zelenskyy says tens of thousands of russian troops are preparing for a major assault on the donbas region where the ukrainian army has been battling russian-backed separatists for eight years. moscow's move east comes after ukrainian forces fought the russian army to a stand still around the capital kyiv. russian president vladamir putin assumed his army would capture kyiv in a matter of days and president zelenskyy would flee the country.

scott pelley traveled to kyiv and spoke to zelenskyy about his decision to stand and fight. >> translator: good evening, everyone. we are all here, our soldiers are here, the citizens of the country are here. we are all here protecting our independence, our country, and we're going to continue. >> you had made a decision to give your life for your country, if it came to that. >> translator: i don't want to make myself out to be a hero. i love my family. i want to live many more years. but choosing between running or being with my people, of course i'm ready to give my life for my country. >> for a man with 44 million lives in his hands, we found zelenskyy buoyant, gracious, humble, and brutally honest.

the day before our visit, an angrier zelenskyy scolded the u.n. security council. "where's the security?" he asked. in speaking to nato, you called them weak. in speaking to the u.n. security council, you said if you can't help, you shouldn't exist. not very diplomatic of you. i wonder why you feel the need to speak so bluntly? >> translator: when you're working at diplomacy, there are no results. all of this is very bureaucratic. that's why the way i am talking to them is absolutely justifiable. i don't have any more lives to give. i don't have any more emotions. i'm no longer interested in their diplomacy that leads to the destruction of my country. lot o countries have changed

their mind about ukraine and about our people. but i think we have paid too high a price for that. >> what must the world understand? >> translator: we are defending the ability of a person to live in the modern world. we are defending the right to live. i never thought this right was so costly. these are human values, so that russia doesn't choose what we should do and how i'm exercising my rights. that right was given to me by god and my parents. >> reporter: god was hard to find on our visit to kyiv's northern suburbs which russia occupied for weeks. much of what we found will be difficult to watch. behind st. andrew's church, there is a sandy trench, not quite full of civilian residents

of the town of bucha. ukraine stopped the russians here, 45 minutes from the center of the capital city. the russian retreat was so hasty, it seems there was no time to cover up the war crimes. president zelenskyy visited bucha two days before our interview. what did you see in bucha? >> translator: death. just death. >> reporter: last monday was the first time zelenskyy saw with his own eyes what russia has done and what vladamir putin calls the liberation of ukraine. the day after our interview, we found civilian neighborhoods in bucha, blocks and blocks, shelled and blasted with no purpose but terror. bodies and parts of bodies lay

in the streets, left out like trash, zelenskyy told us. no one knows how many victims are still in their homes. yet to be found. there's a photograph, mr. president, of you in bucha, with an expression on your face that you have not allowed your people to see during this war. and i wonder what we're seeing there? is that heartbreak? sit anger? >> translator: it's anger. it's anger. because we don't understand the russians. you can't really understand this world, that there are people on this planet who give these orders, and people who carry them out. >> reporter: in bucha, neighborhood relief for the hungry and the homeless looked like world war ii in color.

valerie was so angry about the senseless russian bullet wound in his leg, we can't repeat what he told us in english. >> translator: some of the russians were normal. some of them were totally crazy. you could walk and they would shoot, sometimes up in the air, sometimes at your legs. so you would have to jump in front of them. cars were run over by russian tanks. very brutal. not human. >> reporter: we met tatjana, who compressed the occupation into a single word. >> translator: horror. horror. >> reporter: gunfire was nonstop day and night. thanks to god it all passed and we survived. it's simply a miracle. i had two grandchildren with me in the basement. i never thought i would live to

see this horror. >> mr. zelenskyy told us that he couldn't believe that human beings could do something like this. >> translator: we never believed it either. we are simply in shock, all of us. >> what evidence is there of war crimes across ukraine? >> translator: the ukrainian security service has intercepted communications. there are russian soldiers talking with their parents about what they stole and who they abducted. there are recordings of russian prisoners of war who admitted to killin p i,ho had maps with civilian targets to bomb. there are also investigations being done based on the remains of the dead. >> should vladamir putin be prosecuted for war crimes? >> translator: look, i think

everyone who made a decision, who issued an order, who fulfilled an order, everyone who is relevant to this, i believe they are all guilty. >> do you hold putin responsible? >> i do believe he's one of them. that's what i believe. >> reporter: the slaughter of civilians could have been stopped, zelenskyy told us. he's deeply grateful for the weapons nato and the u.s. are sending around the clock. but he's bitterly disappointed the allies refuse to impose a no-fly zone over ukraine. joe biden has called that an invitation to world war iii. but in zelenskyy's view, it's the kind of inaction the world has suffered before. mr. president, in a speech to nato, you said "all the people who die will die because of you,

because of your weakness." are you saying that the west bears some responsibility for these atrocities? he told us, "i remember, all of us remember books about the second world war and about the devil in uniform, adolf hitler. are those countries who did not participate in the war responsible? the countries who let german forces march throughout europe? does the world carry responsibility for the genocide? yes, yes, it does. when you have the ability to close the sky, yes, it's scary, that a world war could start, it's scary, i understand that. and i cannot put pressure on these people, because everyone is afraid of war. but whether the world is responsible for this, i believe so. yes, i believe so.

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most drivers are feeling a little less pain at the pump, as gasoline prices begin to fall. the national average for a gallon of regular is now under $4.12. but there's been no relief for those who rely on diesel fuel. that includes the nation's school districts. this semester, it's the schools learning the tough lesson in economics. diesel, at approximately $5 a gallon, is potentially combustible to the school montg the buses use about 18,000 gallons a day. >> we go about 112,000 miles a day on our buses. >> reporter: this public school system has signed a long-term fuel contract to attempt tockin. but as some ofho cactsexpire, al you mig want to tighten up the mileage some of these buses run?

>> absolutely. we look at our routes continuously throughout the year to tighten up routing. >> reporter: there are approximately 480,000 school buses in america, according to the national school transportation association, which calls rising diesel prices a definite and growing concern. a cbs news review finds education officials nationwide going on a diesel diet. in michigan, school districts are drawing new routes to put more kids on fewer buses. in new york, drivers are being told to avoid extended idling and rapid decelerations and stops. and in georgia, the state superintendent is seeking approval to use federal covid relief funds to offset diesel costs. in virginia, they have raised the maximum allowable bus ride from 60 minutes to 90. how stressful is it when you see diesel get close to $5 a gallon? >> you have to go back and look at your budget and think are we going to make it?

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people around the world are showing their support for ukraine in a thousand different ways. one advertising executive posted his support along america's highways. adriana diaz has the story. >> reporter: it's a simple sunflower set against a blue sky. no words, nothing else. more than 400 of them have sprung up in seven states, from south carolina to illinois. tony chaffy came up with the idea. >> we get phone calls, what sit about? >> reporter: this is what it's about. chaffy was infired by this moment in the first days of a new war. a defiant ukrainian woman confronting a russian soldier. she gives him sunflower seeds, saying when he dies, sunflowers

will flow in his place. it's ukraine's national frlower a sign of peace, long displayed on stages and now in the streets. a field of them serve as a battleground in ukraine's 2014 with russia. and now they grow here, on bill boards across america. why did you decide not to put any wording on it? >> the beauty of a picture is that it's made for the interpretation of what you see. most people that love sunflowers know a lot of attachment is to ukraine. and if it makes other people find out about that, it's a beautiful journey. this is far from an advertising message, it's just a thought bomb. >> reporter: a silent symbol of resistance and solidarity. >> that was adriana diaz reporting. that's the "overnight news" for this monday. for some of you the news continues. for others check back later for cbs "mornings" and follow us online any time at cbsnews.com. reporting from the nation's capital, i'm scott macfarlane.

newssh. i'm elise preston in new york. the mayor of mariupol fears the death toll could surpass 20,000 as russia continues its assault on the ukrainian city. the mayor is accusing russian forces of blocking humanitarian convoys. california utility company pacific gas and electric will pay more than $55 million to the state for its role in sparking two major wildfires after being accused of using aged power lines. the settlement includes five years of independent oversight. and pop superstar britney spears is expecting. the 40-year-old singer announced her pregnancy on instagram. the news comes five months after the entertainer's conservatorship ended. for more news, download the cbs

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