this is the "cbs overnight news." good evening, everyone. jericka is off tonight. i'm nancy cordes. it's the news many parents have been waiting to hear since the start of the covid pandemic more than two years ago. the first covid shots for children ages 5 and under are heading out the door a day after the director of the cdc signed off on two vaccines. here's the new cdc recommendation this weekend. all children 6 months and up should get vaccinated. the first shots for the youngest set will be available this week and cbs's elise preston leads us off with all the details. elise, good evening.

>> reporter: good evening to you, nancy. cdc director rochelle walensky said her team is working through the juneteenth holiday to make sure doses are available for children under 5 as soon as wednesday. some of the parents we spoke with say they haven't decided what they're going to do. >> reporter: the cdc says she will soon be able to get vaccinated. how do you feel today? >> where's the shot? where's the shot? >> reporter: a sigh of relief. covid-19 vaccinations will be available for children under 5. 18 million babies, toddlers and preschoolers are now eligible for the shot. moderna's vaccine is two doses one month apart and for pfizer it's three doses over the course of about three months. today on face the nation former fda commissioner dr. scott gottleib said low vaccination rates among children are still a concern. >> more than 1,000 kids have

died. about 440 under the age of 4. we've seen, as you said, tens of thousands of hospitalizations in this age segment. >> reporter: some parents are already resisting the age recommendations. >> people don't understand what the vaccine is about and to give it to children under 5, i don't think it's the right move. >> reporter: in a recent survey, less than 20% of parents with young kids said they would have them vaccinated immediately. 38% plan to wait and see. 27% said they don't intend to get their children a om pare, ths hope t droio rnoheir want the akm f ai minitias b or f weeks allowing states, tribes, community health centers and pharmacies to preorder millions of doses. manufacturing companies can now

begin shipping those doses across the country. nancy? >> anyone who has questions should talk to their pediatrician. elise preston tonight, thank you so much. a disturbing new report today about the mass shooting at robb elementary in uvalde, texas. the san antonio express reports that surveillance video shows police never tried to open a door leading to two classrooms during the 77 minutes that followed the 18-year-old gunman entering the rooms. 19 children and two teachers were massacred. the paper cites police investigators who say the door was likely unlocked. to washington now and federal reserve chair jerome powell who is expected to testify before the u.s. senate banking committee as fears of an economic slowdown pick up. cbs's christ nineteen ruffini has more. >> reporter: good evening, nancy. president biden said a recession is not inevitable.

even saying it over and over again might not be enough. >> i don't think a recession is inevitable. >> reporter: that was the top talking point for biden administration officials on today's sunday shows. >> not only is a recession not inevitable, but i think a lot of people are underestimating the strengths. >> larry summers said he doubts those economic strengths will be enough. >> the dominant probability would be that by the end of next year we would be seeing a recession in the american economy. >> i've said many times, tackling inflation is my number one priority. >> reporter: last week the federal reserve enacted the biggest interest rate increase in almost 30 years trying to rein in run away prices, but as summer travel season heats up, gas prices are still around $5 a gallon across the country. >> this gas is killing me. >> reporter: prompting some members of congress to call for a national gas taxfe conmers a p

consumers. gas prices have risen a great deal and it's clearly burdenening households. he stands ready to work with congress and that's an idea that's certainly worth considering. >> christina is back with us. eight in ten ceos say they expect a recession. why are white house officials so insistent that a recession is not inevitable? >> reporter: nancy, part of this is the power of positive thought. they know consumer confidence is the key to a healthy economy. they're talking about the jobs numbers as a counter point. the recession would count zwlaer. >> no question. this programming note, the january 6th committee will hold its next hearing this tuesday and cbs news will carry it live

starting at 1 p.m. eastern. this fourth hearing will focus on pressure president trump and his allies placed on various state official alzheimer's to overturn the 2020 decision. the swimming association will blockmms from competition. in march thomas made history as the first transgender woman to win an ncaa swimming championship. the federation has proposed an open category for transgender swimmers. a first for apple employees at a store in maryland. they celebrated last night after voting to unionize. the store near baltimore is the first of the company's 270 plus stores to organize. joining a trend sweeping through retailers, restaurants and tech companies. yellowstone national park will partially reopen this week.

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this is the "cbs overnight news." i'm nancy cordes in new york. thanks for staying with us. well, today the nation is observing our newest national holiday, juneteenth. it marks the day that freedom was brought to the last enslaved people in the united states, a quarter million of them, with the help of 2,000 union soldiers marching through texas. the juneteenth federal holiday was signed into law by president biden last year. the official date is june 19th. this weekend there were parades and celebrations from coast to coast. mark whitaker reports. >> reporter: juneteenth celebrations have already

started this weekend in galveston, texas, the city where the holiday has its roots. it was 157 years ago on june 19th, 1865, when union general gordon granger went from the piers to downtown galveston reading general order number 3 which said that all slaves are free. this involves an absolute equality of personal rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves, but it didn't happen until two years after press lincoln signed the emancipation proclamation. i have my own personal story. this is frank whitaker who was born enslaved in texas in 1853. my great-grandfather was 11 when he was freed on juneteenth. frank whitaker is buried alongside his wife della and one

of his daughters, julia, who died when she was just 1-year-old. the tombstones are in a tiny all black cemetery down the road from a town in jew wet. >> how are you? >> great to see you. >> reporter: an hour away i met my second cousin bernice bryant for the first time. >> it's only recently i've become aware of this part of the family. >> we, too. >> we're discovering each other after all of this time. >> frank whitaker was bryant's great-gr great-grandfather. >> did you know frank whitaker? >> i see him one time. he was blind. >> okay. >> and he got very upset because he went to crying. >> he cried? >> because he was blind and he couldn't see us. >> i sat down with bernice, her daughter angela tyler and

tyler's son john bible. for earlier generations juneteenth didn't change that much. >> you had slaves that were free but had nowhere to go. they didn't leave with a mule, land, anything like to. >> and they remained share cropping. you know, they didn't like venture out right immediately. they waited for years. >> they couldn't buy their land? couldn't own their land? >> un-uh. >> my great gr-grandfather becaa share cropper. most of his 13 children never left this area, but my grandfather, cecil whit taker migrated and became an undertaker. before he died he left this remembrance. my father, an ex-slave was very highly respected by all who knew him. he became a fine statistician

and historian. anyone who wanted to know anything about the history of leon county would go to my father. he wrote many articles for the jewett messenger, the village new hampshire. even into bernices generation, many picked crops. >> you were all working as --? urch pick being account cotton. >> back then juneteenth was just another day in the fields. >> couldn't take a day off. no. no. no. >> always get something to eat. we would eat and go back to the field. >> reporter: go back to the field on juneteenth. oh, my god. now juneteenth has spread from texas into a national holiday and my new found relatives have come a long way, too. angela is the director of a day care center where bernice also works and john is the president and ceo.

centechs organization. >> reporter: what should juneteenth stand for? >> i think it should be a time where you look back and see where we came from and then celebrate where we are now, where we are trying to arrive. >> it being a federal holiday allowed everyone to understand there is a tree decade. everyone has a right to freedoms. that's truly an independent peo people. >> reporter: juneteenth is about freedom and it's about family. >> for christ's sake w (woman) oh. oh! hi there.

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portland, oregon. there were cheerleaders, news cameras. they even cut down a net. >> 3, 2, 1. whew! >> reporter: but, in fact, all of this was to celebrate the opening of a sports bar and jamie orr was first in line. >> it feels like a very monumental day, not just in portland but for women's sports. >> reporter: that's because this isn't just any sports bar, it's the first one in america that exclusively shows women's sports on all of its tvs. if you're mostly a fan of men's sports, it would never even occur to you that a bar might not be showing the championship game or might have the sound turned off, but that's exactly what happened back in 2019 when jenny nguyen and her friends wanted to watch baylor versus notre dame in the women's ncaa championship. the game was one for the ages.

>> it ended up being just like a spectacular game. >> on the drive for the lead. >> but the audio feed was nonexistent, at least in the bar where nguyen and her friends were watching. >> somebody was like, yeah, it would have been better if the sound were on. >> so she had a thought. that kind of thought you might have after a couple of beers but never follow up on. >> said something to the effect of, the only way we're ever going to be able to watch a woman's game in its full glory is if we had our own place. >> reporter: nguyen and her friends had a name for this place. >> the sports bra. it just makes sense. make a couple of letters around. i know what the tag line is going to be, we support women. it was a big joke. >> reporter: but that joke got serious after the me too movement and the pandemic had nguyen looking for a way to make an impact on the culture in

whatever way she could. >> the whole country was going through a phase of reprioritizing what was important. >> reporter: however, jenny's mom, whom she had been working for at their family real estate company, was dubious. >> i yell at her and i said, this is not good with the covid and labor shortage. it's not going to work. but she told me, she said, mom, you cannot stop me. i am doing it. >> reporter: and so she did, raising over $100,000 on kick start. along the way she and the bar became something of a media sensation. >> one of its kind in the world. >> reporter: but the most challenging part of running the sports bra might actually be finding enough televised women's sports to keep the tvs busy. >> only 4% of sports on tv are women's sports. when you have that kind of a

discrepancy, there's going to be issues. >> reporter: but changing that might be part of nguyen's plan. in the 50 years since the landmark title ix legislation, millions of girls gained access to athletics, so it's not that women aren't playing sports, it's that the networks tend not to broadcast them. >> i'm asking a lot of networks, streaming services, all of these things questions they've never encountered before so a lot of it is almost like taking your machete and cutting through the brush. it's hard and it's a slog. >> reporter: on this night, however, there was no shortage of content. it was the semi-finals of the ncaa women's final four. the sports bra would be packed and the volume would be turned up all the way. >> that was luke burbank reporting. it's graduation season and steve hartman has the story of one man who used his special day to inspire the whole town.

>> reporter: mike and tracy thibault always believed time heals all wounds but that belief faded last fall when their 18-year-old son jake was paralyzed in a hockey game. >> i don't know how time's going to take care of this because he couldn't cut a piece of steak. he couldn't sit up, couldn't put shoes on. >> reporter: plus, jake's goal in life had always been to play college hockey and his parents couldn't imagine how long it would take him to findew purpose. they really couldn't imagine. jake had just found out he would likely never walk again when his high school principal came to visit him in the hospital here. whether jake got caught up in the moment or was simply in denial, he made a bold prediction that day. >> i don't remember much but i vividly remember saying to them, i will walk at graduation. >> reporter: what was that based on? >> i have no clue honestly. i just said it, i'm going to walk at graduation. >> he was so positive.

>> reporter: he's head of school at milton academy outside of boston. >> you want to be encouraging but you don't want to assure something that you're not sure that could happen. >> reporter: he simply said, that's wonderful, jake. >> that kind of became his goal. >> if i said something, i'm going to do what it takes to get to it. >> reporter: and from that day jake immersed himself in therapy doing way more than was asked of him in the slim hope that one day he could do that walk. >> jake morris thibault. >> reporter: under his own power. >> i was so in the zone that i just kind of got a sense of like you can do it. >> reporter: nine months work for 30 steps. >> then he looks up and he just has this huge smile on his face. one of the most special moments i've ever experienced. >> it motivates me to go harder than ever to beat this. >> reporter: next goal, to walk

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in sports there's nothing like playing before your home crowd. cheers and electricity can make the difference between winning and losing. mark strassmann has the story of one team that fought to redefine home court advantage. >> turn and dump it right there. >> reporter: nothing about centennial academy's season was a lay-up. >> angles. >> reporter: small team, first time playing together and their practice gym -- >> it's a small gym. >> reporter: yes. this half-court, and barely that, at the neighboring ymca. >> i was like, wow, this is the gym? >> reporter: it was a resilient group? >> yes. we can overcome that. we've done it in a classroom. we can do it here. >> reporter: centennial is a

daily lesson in challenges. 1/4 of the kids have battled homelessness. no home basketball court. >> it was really rough. >> we need to work harder and beat everybody, it was motivation. >> reporter: despite the short won atlanta's city wide middle school basketball championship. >> and these guys, they beat the odds and win it, yes, anything is possible. >> reporter: competitive sports teach resilience. >> no matter what? >> no matter what. >> but a gym helps? >> yes, a gym helps. >> reporter: centennial school schooled everybody. that's the overnight news. for some of you the news continues. for others, check back on cbs mornings. follow us on cbsnews.com.

reporting from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm nancy cordes. this is cbs news flash. i'm wendy gillette in new york. sections of yellowstone national park will begin reopening wednesday after historic flooding. the northern area will remain shut down much longer after floods knocked out roads and bridges. the park will implement a new system of license plate numbers to restrict the number of visitors. residents of odessa, texas, can drink their water after boiling it. the texas department of environmental equality has determined the water is now safe. "jurassic world dominion" roared into the top spot at the box office for the second straight weekend raking in an

estimated $58 million. for more news download the cbs news app on your cell phone or connected tv. i'm wen it's monday, june 20th, 2022. this is the "cbs morning news." flight frustration. with the summer travel season here, how airlines appear to be overwhelmed already. it's been a tough week for you. >> it's been much worse for them. >> network exclusive. cbs news' chris livesay speaks with an american who fought alongside two u.s. citizens captured by pro russian forces. reopening yellowstone. days after homes and roads were destroyed by historic flooding, the national park is on track to let visitors back in starting this week.