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of seditious conspiracy and raising money. allege some brought bomb makers and a hit list to washington. >> came with explosives, armed, with maps of the capitol and plans that extended beyond just a peaceful protest. many ways they carried out the will, the pressure, the anger, they were manifestation of that. >> reporter: committee member tells cbs news they'll play excerpts tomorrow of last week's deposition with former white house counsel patwho tried to s president trump from stopping the election results and trying to join the mob. cbs news will have full coverage of the january 6th hearing at 1:00 p.m. eastern time. hope you'll join us. expected long legal battle between elon musk and twitter is
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pro prove expensive. twitter's stock lost $2.2 uskaid he market value wanted to pull out of the deal to buy the platform. cbs's jamie yuccas. >> reporter: in laughing mood releasing this after he bailed. saying they said i couldn't buy twitter, now they want to force me to buy twitter in court. twitter ceo says the company plans to take musk to court to enforce the transaction on the $54 per share price tag that musk agreed to buy the company. board is upset, they don't have buyers to match the price tag. >> board should be upset. he has wasted a great deal of their time. can't even use the determine distraction for what he's been to the company. >> reporter: twitter stock lost
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more than a third of its offer since the board accepted the musk offer. he claimed that twitter couldn't give him a number of actual useers. >> $1 billion breakup fee and the money liable for with specific performance. i suspect negotiated settlement between 1 and $45 billion. >> reporter: believe that twitter is in. could take months to sort out. >> thank you. turn now to the historic change that swept through the island nation of sri lanka over the weekend. after thousands of protesters stormed the presidential residence over country's shortages of fuel, food and medicine. cbs's elizabeth palmer has the
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pictures. >> reporter: tens of thousands started protest, heard the president had fled, surged into his residence and marvelled. country where the minimum wage is just over a dollar a day, people wanted to look at this opulence and see how it felt. right down to a dip in the presidential pool. but overnight the mood had been ugly when police fired tear gas at crowds who torched the prime minister's house, furious with corruption and incompetence that's left the economy in tatters and sri lankans without food. having forced leaders out, protesters were cleaning up the presidential palace today, hoping its next resident will
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holly williams reports where she says missile attacks are not the only threat civilians are facing. >> hi vlad, welcome home. >> reporter: vlad buriak has just made it home after what he says was four months as captive of the russian military. he was reunited with his father. >> maybe kill you like this. >> they threatened to kill you? >> reporter: told us he was stopped evacuating from mhe we can't verify the story but he claims he was tasked with
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cleaning room for torture. what did you see? >> lot of blood. >> reporter: seeing one ukrainian prisoner hanging by his hands, hearing others tortured. >> help us, it's painful. >> reporter: his father is a senior government official and claims the russians knew that and held his son hostage. doesn't want to share how he helped negotiate his release. >> why kidnap a 16-year-old? >> reporter: the russian troops are stealing washing machines and toilets as well as children for greed, he said. holly williams, cbs news, zaporiozhia, ukraine. there's a lot of news ahead. how brittney griner's fellow wnba players honored her at all-star game. terrifying moments when a jet's
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airlines flight, one of the brakes overheated and caught fire. panic erupted as the plane landed. no one was hurt. spirit thanked first responders who put out the fire. british composer monty norman has died. you likely know his work. ♪ norman wrote the theme song used in all 25 bond movies. 2001, awarded nearly $45,000 after british newspaper wrongfully credited other composer with the theme. monty norman was 94 years old. look at deepest part of space, president biden released the photo from james webb telescope, mission to capture light from first stars and galaxies to form after the big
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now to long overdue honor for world war ii hero who's incredible story of survival was nearly lost to history. cbs's nikki battiste. >> reporter: stormed the beaches of normandy, was captured by the germans, so began a remarkable story of survival and bravery, only now recognized. >> 77 years late but it's never too late to do the right thing. >> i've been living in a shadow all these years, most people didn't believe me. >> reporter: but it was all true. >> my bedtime stories were his war stories. started off, did i ever tell you
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i was captured by the nazis? >> >> reporter: escaped, dodging gunfire, finding french resistance, then returned to unit, wounded by enemy fire. he traveled back to normandy to receive the french legion of honor and his daughter began a fight for justice. what does this date mean to you? >> everything. >> privacy first class william kellerman. >> reporter: according bronze star and -- >> the president of the united states of america has awarded the purple heart. >> long overdue. >> feels wonderful. >> thanks for your service and congratulations. >> you're very welcome. god bless america. >> nikki battiste, cbs news, brooklyn. that's the overnight news for tuesday, check back and onl.
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i'm norah o'donnell. ♪ this is cbs news flash. i'm in new york. supermarket in buffalo where ten were killed and another three injured is set to reopen onayid moment of silence and prayer will be held to honor the victims. official says the store has been fully renovated. biden administration is telling hospitals they must provide abortion services if the life of the mother is in risk. regardless of state bans. mo farah said he was
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illegally trafficked as a child from africa. cbs news, new york. ♪ >> announcer: this is "cbs overnight news." tonight in california, a fast-growing wildfire in yosemite national park is threatening the park's famous giant sequoias, some of the largest and oldest trees in the world. these national treasures have survived everything for thousands of years and now in jeopardy because of climate change. hundreds of firefighters are battling the flames under brutal conditions with heavy terrain, blistering temperatures, low humidity. the washburn fire, which grew more than fivefold over the weekend, 2,300 acres, 25% contained. firefighters have set up containment lines around the sequoias and sprinkler system to
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protect most famous trees on the planet. in nearby utah, record heat and winds are fuelling two massive wildfires burned 18 square miles. we have a lot of news and jonathan vigliotti will start off from yosemite. good evening, jonathan. >> reporter: good evening, norah. park rangers are hopeful they can save the sequoias but in the past few minutes we've watched the fire explode around the trees, sending a dark plume of toxic smoke into the sky. world's largest trees are under threat. at yosemite national park, firefighters are enduring scorching heat as out-of-control wildfire continues to rage. and as they race to save a treasure. 500 of yosemite's giant sequoias are threatened by this fire. trees in some cases survived all kinds of weather for thousands of years. at least one, the grizzly giant nearly 3,000 years old.
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battle plan to protect the trees fight fire with new source of water. how often are water sprinklers brought in as solution? >> been here 20 years and don't recall that happening. >> reporter: we scaled a 200-foot sequoia with researchers in 2019, at the time they believed the iconic trees were projected from wildfires thanks to two-foot thick bark. no longer the case. california drought has taken a toll on the sequoias, tens of thousands killed. in the past six years, 85% of the giant sequoia habitat in the sierra nevada has been hit by wildfire, compared to 25% previous century. more immediate concern, flames so intense, creating its own weather. updrafts sending debris into the sky. one air tanker reported a near miss. >> a branch went by us. pretty good sized.
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don't want to take a chance to bust a window in airplane. hurting aircraft for this. >> reporter: in remote area, hard to reach. fire crews hope back burns will stop this blaze from growing. norah. >> jonathan vigliotti, thank you so much. in washington, president biden addressed families of those killed in mass shootings to mark a bipartisan gun safety law, first significant gun legislation in three decades but for some doesn't go far enough. cbs's lilia luciano is in uvalde where the frustration over the release of key evidence is mounting. >> no justice. >> no peace. >> reporter: grief has grown to action in uvalde. more than a month after the massacre of 19 students and two teachers, hundreds marched nearly a mile from robb elementary school to the town square. >> a month ago it was our children. school is going to start soon for everyone. everybody's children is still in
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danger. >> reporter: what they called unheard voices march and rally, siblings, parents and activists made sure their voices are heard. >> i challenge all of you cowards that were in that class, in that hallway, to step down. >> reporter: at the state capital, the fight is intensifying over the release of surveillance video from inside the school. according to the "austin american statesman" newspaper, shows the gunman shooting as he walks in, hail of gunfire continues, and in between, screams. first half hour dozens of officers armed with 13 rifles and one shield, three more shields later, no one entered the classroom for over an hour. >> one of the things i requested is part of the committee report have a video attached to it, made public.
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department of public safety and mayor of uvalde agreed to that. >> reporter: but the uvalde district attorney has objected to releasing it as the investigation continues. today at white house, president biden was interrupted by father from parkland school shooting as he spoke about the new gun reform law. the committee investigating the shooting announced today they're hoping to release their full report sooner rather than later but they haven't reached agreement on whether or not that video from the hallway will be included in the report. norah. >> thank you. to capitol hill, will be critical hearings on the january 6th committee tomorrow. key witness still a mystery but lawmakers say they'll connect the dots between far right groups like the oath keepers and president trump. cbs's scott mcfarlane. >> reporter: on the eve of the
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next hearing, another star witness says he's willing to talk to the committee investigating the u.s. capitol attack. president trump's former white house adviser steve bannon, after snubbing the committee for months, says trump, dissatisfied with the hearings progressing has given him the green light to talk. the committee wants to know what bannon knew ahead of the attack and has focused on this prediction the day before. >> all hell is going to break loose. >> reporter: tomorrow will explore the mobilization of the mob. including by far right groups, proud boys and oath keepers and l links they have to trump associates, including roger stone and michael flynn. committee member murphy said it will showcase the december 2020 tweet, mr. trump writing big protest in d.c. on january 6th, be there, will be wild. >> president's tweet in the wee hours of december 19th activated the groups and how the members of congress amplified that tweet,
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and the tragic end result was january 6th. >> reporter: members of both far right groups have been accused of seditious conspiracy and raising money for the attack ahead of the 6th. recent court filings allege some brought bomb makers instructions and a hit list to washington. >> came with explosives, armed, with maps of the capitol and plans that extended beyond just a peaceful protest. many ways they carried out the will, the pressure, the anger, they were manifestation of that. >> reporter: committee member tells cbs news they'll play excerpts tomorrow of last week's deposition with former white house counsel who tried to stop trump from challenging the election results and trying to join the mob. norah. >> will be worth watching, scott mcfarlane, thank you.
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>> announcer: this is "the cbs overnight i'm nikole killion in washington, thanks for staying with us. shares of twitter continue to tank after elon musk announced $44 billion offer to buy the social media platform is off the table. twitter says it will see him in court. months ago the world's richest man announced he would purchase the company. musk says the price has nothing
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to do with backing out. he complains twitter is full of fake accounts. how did this come to this? john has a look. >> reporter: elon musk's complicated relationship with twitter and fake twitter accounts. please ignore prior tweets, that was someone pretending to me. in years since, musk has amassed 90 million followers on twitter. only barack obama and handful of ccer have more.usic o in but no one is capable of shake up stock market as musk can. >> i would describe his behavior as uncontrolled. >> reporter: part of a team of attorneys accusing musk of
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market manipulation at expense of twitter shareholders. >> it's absolutely offensive. i think he referred to himself as toddler once, feels like young child run amok. hearing about their personal billions, maybe not caring or realizing impacts on everyday americans. >> reporter: since early may, musk made chart of twitter share price look like earthquake aftershocks. first hitting market april 4th, rising more than 28% after musk revealed he acquired 9% of the company stock. recognize further april 25th when he agreed to buy it for $44 billion. >> there was announcement that mr. musk was going to purchase twitter and shareholders were paid $54.20 a share. market responded positively to that news. >> reporter: but may 13th,
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twitter shares plunged 25% after musk tweeted deal is temporarily on hold. price dropped further on may 17th with another tweet, deal cannot move forward he says, until the company proves only 5% of twitter users are fake. >> mood seems to change from day to day on twitter. >> reporter: and can attract the attention of financial regulators. now retired from the securities and exchange commission. >> the s.e.c. is struggling with, limited to bringing cases of fraud, making demonstrably false statement that's material to investors. a tweet of a few money letters talking about whim that moment. i like twitter, may less excited about buying it, is that false? that's hard. >> reporter: s.e.c. is investigating whether musk failed to disclose within ten
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days as required that he owned more than 5% of twitter. and s.e.c. has gone after musk previously for a tweak. august 2019 posted this, am considering taking tesla private at $420, funding secured. s.e.c. investigation alleged the tweet lacked adequate basis in fact. . what did it cost him? >> settled, paid $20 million as penalty. >> reporter: now that the world has so many billionaires, does the s.e.c. have enough punishment available? when elon musk is fined $20 million, that's not very much for world's richest man. >> penalties s.e.c. can assess are fixed by law. dp dealing with players with billions or trillions, current pen penalties will not deter. >> reporter: in 2017, musk said i love twitter.
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few months later, warned his followers don't take my tweet too seriously, for one thing, it's called a tweet. but those suing musk are taking his tweets about twitter very seriously. >> hope would be that mr. musk completes the transaction on the terms agreed to. >> reporter: neither twitter nor attorneys for elon musk responded to requests for comment. if forced to buy twitter could be forced to pay a billion dollar payoff fee, leaving him $200 billion fortune and still be able to tweet. san francisco. to ukraine, russian forces continue to target civilian infrastructure. missile strikes on shopping mall and apartment buildings outside of kharkiv left more than a dozen dead and in the east, picked through rubble of destroyed apartment buildings.
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in moscow, vladimir putin fast tracked russian citizenship for ukrainians, including those taken by force. holly williams has one young man's story. >> reporter: 16-year-old vlad buriak has just made it home after what he says was three months in captivity, a child prisoner of the russian military. this is the moment he was finally reunited with his father. vlad told us he was taken captive in april as he evacuated from mariupol from southern ukraine with other civilians. >> maybe kill you, like this. >> reporter: threatened to kill awe the the checkpoint? >> yes. >> reporter: said the russian soldiers took him to jail in occupied territory where he was held for several weeks. vlad drew a map of the facility. >> this is the torture room.
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>> reporter: claims he witnessed russian guards torturing other ukrainian prisoners. did you see that happening? >> i see this, i hear this. >> reporter: we can't independently verify his story and he said he wasn't tortured himself but detailed account of being put to work cleaning the room used for torture. what did you see? >> a lot of blood. >> reporter: seeing one ukrainian prisoner hanging from ceiling from his hands, learning from another he had been tortured with electric shock and hearing it himself. >> help us, it's painful. >> reporter: father is a senior government official and claims the russians knew that and held his son hostage hoping for a prisoner swap. why kidnap a 16-year-old? he told us russian troops are
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stealing washing machines and toilets as well as children, all for greed, he said. he told us he negotiated directly with the russian side for vlad's release. doesn't want to share the details because he hopes what happened to his teenage son will happened to his teenage son will be prosecuted as a war open talenti and raise the jar. to gelato made from scratch. raise the jar to all five layers. raise the jar to the best gelato... you've ever tasted. talenti. raise the jar.
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the fashion industry continues to go green, and the latest innovation, leather made out of mushrooms, yes mushrooms. lilia luciano. >> reporter: out west, cowhide leather may be losing its luster row a cow to spec. cows just do what they do. what's remarkable about natural material can you grow to form. >> reporter: this made from mushrooms under the watchful eyes of bay area technicians. >> feels like leather. >> reporter: one company engineering mushroom leather through mycelium, the underground network of fibers that's the basis of mushrooms, the company turning heads with what plant-based leather is capable of. >> it's phenomenal material.
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everybody loves leather for clothes or car. >> reporter: approaching the issue from scientist perspective. says leather is huge industry to take on but the fashion world has always embraced innovation, especially kind that fights climate change. >> fewer cows we grow industrially will lessen the ggt contributor to greenhouse gas emissions are from the cows that make their leather. >> deforestation. >> biodiversity loss, ecological collapse, list goes on and on. >> reporter: but it needs to be durable, workable and most importantly, look and feel like the real thing. >> we're getting really close with this material to having something completely looking like leather.
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>> reporter: a leather artisan with four decades of experience, says this keeps with the trend of finding plant-based alternatives to what we eat and wear. >> people are ready for changes and innovation. combining old techniques with bio materials is incredible opportunity. >> reporter: what is it like? >> it's incredible feeling, combining the two. >> reporter: works with another bay area company that's got the fashion industry doing double takes. >> i see this material working everywhere leather goes. >> sophia wang and her cofounder philip ross have been pushing the boundaries of leather since 2003. reishi appears close to the real thing. what testing are you doing? >> accelerated wear testing,
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exposing it to the elements to demonstrate it's competitive to leather in terms of durability, strength, resistance. >> reporter: finds purpose from potentially life-saving sheets interwoven with bulletproof kevlar, to allowing fashion that connects with devices, and leather enmeshed with gold thread for -- you know. $100,000 designer bag. >> redefining luxury. work to grow the materials to customized needs, not something you can do with other natural materials. >> reporter: says if you can think of luxury brand they've probably worked with them. like hermes, the high priest of french leather products. worked on iconic bag in 2021,
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if you have a teenager in the market for first car, consumer reports has advice. >> reporter: slow motion test video shows how powerful and destructive a collision can be, often a teenager behind the wheel during a crash. teens three times more likely to be involved in fatal accident compared to older drivers. that's why experts say parents need to consider the right car for younger drivers. >> big part of the reason teen drivers are more at risk of crashing is rice. >> reporter: with the insurance institute for highway safety, teamed up with consumer reports to create a list of safe vehicles for teen drivers.
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ranging from $6,000 to $39,000. won't find high-speed sports cars or extra large vehicles hard to control. all performed well in crash tests, have high reliability scores and can brake from 60 miles per hour to zero in 145 feet or less. and electronic stability control which can prevent accident. >> trying to promote the idea that cars for teens should have features to help them avoid being in crashes. >> reporter: includes auto braking found in many of the newer vehicles. >> buy as much safety as you can afford. automatic emergency braking is wonderful backup for new driver building experience of braking distances. >> reporter: supply chainued in purchase of safe vehicle is money well spent. cbs news new york.
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>> that's tovernight news for tuesday. reporting from the nation's capital, i'm nikole killion. ♪ this is cbs news flash, from new york. after two months, topp's supermarket in buffalo where ten were killed and others injured have set to reopen friday. store has been fully renovated since the shooting. booiden administration is telling hospitals to perform abortions if the mother's life is at risk, will be protected regardless of the state bans. and olympic champion mo farah said he was illegally trafficked to the uk from oafria
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as a child. more news on bs news app. cbs news, new york. ♪ tonight, dangerous heat across the country, tens of millions of americans face record-breaking temperatures. race to save the sequoias from out-of-control wildfire in yosemite national park. hundreds of firefighters battle the blaze. it continues to grow. why sprinklers may be best way to save the sequoia trees, a majestic national treasure. 77 minutes of horror, fight tonight over release of a video from inside the hallway of elementary school in uvalde on the day of the massacre that left 19 kids and two teachers dead. plus president biden's gun control speech interrupted by father of parkland shooting victim. >> sit down and hear what i have to say.
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on the eve of tomorrow's january 6th hearing, what president trump's former white house counsel may have told lawmakers plus steve bannon's last-minute offer to cooperate. presidential palace under siege, remarkable story, why these protesters stormed the residence of the president of sri lanka. elon musk versus twitter. stock plummets after the billionaire pulled his bid. how the saga could end. honor 77 years overdue for american hero. >> god bless america. >> announcer: this is "cbs overnight news." tonight in california, a fast-growing wildfire in yosemite national park is threatening the park's famous giant sequoias, some of the largest and oldest trees in the world. these national treasures have survived everything for
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thousands of years and now in jeopardy because of climate change. hundreds of firefighters are battling the flames under brutal conditions with heavy terrain, blistering temperatures, low humidity. the washburn fire, which grew more than fivefold over the weekend, 2,300 acres, 25% contained. firefighters have set up containment lines around the sequoias and sprinkler system to help protect some of the most famous trees on the planet. in nearby utah, record heat and winds are fuelling two massive wildfires burned 18 square miles. we have a lot of news and jonathan vigliotti will start off from yosemite. good evening, jonathan. >> reporter: good evening, norah. park rangers are hopeful they can save the sequoias but in the past few minutes we've watched the fire explode around the tees, sending a dark plume of toxic smoke into the sky. world's largest trees are under
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threat. at yosemite national park, firefighters are enduring scorching heat as out-of-control wildfire continues to rage. and as they race to save a treasure. 500 of yosemite's giant sequoias are threatened by this fire. trees in some cases survived all kinds of weather for thousands of years. at least one, the grizzly giant nearly 3,000 years old. battle plan to protect the trees fight fire with new source of water. how often are water sprinklers brought in as solution? >> been here 20 years and don't recall that happening. >> reporter: we scaled a 200-foot sequoia with researchers in 2019, at the time they believed the iconic trees were projected from wildfires thanks to two-foot thick bark. no longer the case. california's drought, worsened by climate change, has already taken a toll on the sequoias, tens of thousands killed. in the past six years, 85% of
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the giant sequoia habitat in the sierra nevada has been hit by wildfire, compared to 25% previous century. more immediate concern, flames so intense, creating its own weather. updrafts sending debris into the sky. one air tanker reported a near miss. >> a branch went by us. pretty good sized. don't want to take a chance to bust a window in airplane. hurting aircraft for this. >> reporter: worst of the fire is burning away from the sequoias but in a remote area that's hard to reach. fire crews hope back burns will stop this blaze from growing. norah. >> jonathan vigliotti, thank you so much. fight against the wildfires made more difficult thanks to record heat. heat advisories up around california and nine other states, with highs reaching the triple digits. chris warren from our partners at weather channel. good evening, chris. >> good evening, norah, it
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remains hot and very dry in the west where the wildfires are. away from the water, 90s and triple digits. extreme to exceptional drought, most intense form of drought. more record heat on the way for western locations and once again in texas. tens of millions will have temperatures over next few days above 95 degrees. in texas, ercot asking customers to conserve electricity and climate center showing no relief in sight for at least a couple of weeks. >> chris, thank you. in washington, president biden addressed families of those killed in mass shootings to mark a bipartisan gun safety law, first significant gun legislation in three decades but for some doesn't go far enough. cbs's lilia luciano is in uvalde
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where the frustration over the release of key evidence is mounting. >> no justice. >> no peace. >> reporter: grief has grown to action in uvalde. more than a month after the massacre of 19 students and two teachers, hundreds marched nearly a mile from robb elementary school to the town square. >> a month ago it was our children. school is going to start soon for everyone. everybody's children is still in danger. >> reporter: what they called unheard voices march and rally, siblings, parents and activists made sure their voices are heard. >> i challenge all of you cowards that were in that class, in that hallway, to step down. >> reporter: at the state capital, the fight is intensifying over the release of surveillance video from inside the school. according to the "austin american statesman" newspaper, shows the gunman shooting as he
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walks in, hail of gunfire continues, and in between, screams. first half hour dozens of officers armed with 13 rifles and one shield. three more shields came later, but no one entered the classroom for over an hour. >> one of the things i requested is part of the committee report have a video attached to it, made public. department of public safety and mayor of uvalde agreed to that. >> reporter: but the uvalde district attorney has objected to releasing it as the investigation continues. today at white house, president biden was interrupted by father from parkland school shooting as he spoke about the new gun reform law. the committee investigating the shooting announced today they're hoping to release their full report sooner rather than later but they haven't reached agreement on whether or not that video from the hallway will be included in the report.
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>> announcer: this is "the cbs overnight news". to capitol hill, will be critical hearings on the january 6th committee tomorrow. key witness still a mystery but lawmakers say they'll connect the dots between far right groups like the oath keepers and president trump. cbs's scott mcfarlane. >> reporter: on the eve of the next hearing, another star witness says he's willing to talk to the committee investigating the u.s. capitol attack. president trump's former white house adviser steve bannon, after snubbing the committee for months, says trump, dissatisfied
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with how the hearings are progressing, has given him the green light to talk. the committee wants to know what bannon knew ahead anhas fod on ts prediction the defore. ll hell isngo brose. >> reporter:th mobilition of the mob.cluding by right gros, oud boys and oath keepers and links they have to trump associates, including roger stone and michael flynn. committee member murphy said it will showcase the december 2020 tweet, mr. trump writing big protest in d.c. on january 6th, be there, will be wild. >> president's tweet in the wee hours of december 19th activated the groups and how the members of congress amplified that tweet, and the tragic end result was january 6th. >> reporter: members of both far right groups have been accused of seditious conspiracy and raising money for the attack
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ahead of the 6th. recent court filings allege some brought bomb makers instructions and a hit list to washington. >> came with explosives, armed, with maps of the capitol and plans that extended beyond just a peaceful protest. many ways they carried out the will, the pressure, the anger, they were manifestation of that. >> reporter: committee member tells cbs news they'll play excerpts tomorrow of last week's deposition with former white house counsel who tried to stop trump from challenging the election results and trying to join the mob. norah. >> will be worth watching, scott thank you. cbs news will have full coverage starting 1:00 p.m. eastern time. we hope you'll join us. expected long legal battle between elon musk and twitter is
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already proving to be expensive. twitter's stock lost $2.2 billion in market value equivalent after musk said he wanted to pull out of the deal to buy the platform. cbs's jamie yuccas. >> reporter: elon musk, world's richest man, was in a laughing mood today, releasing this tweet mocking twitter's lawsuit after he bailed. saying they said i couldn't buy twitter, now they want to force me to buy twitter in court. twitter ceo says the company plans to take musk to court to enforce the transaction on the $54 per share price tag that musk agreed to buy the company. board is upset, they don't have buyers to match the price tag. >> board should be upset. he has wasted a great deal of >> reporter: twitter stock lost re than third of va
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since the board accepted the musk offer. musk pulled out of the deal, claiming that twitter could not give him a number of actual users. >> $1 billion breakup fee and $45 billion he would be liable for with specific performance. i suspect negotiated settlement between 1 and $45 billion. >> reporter: many legal experts believe twitter is in a strong position and there is precedence that musk could be forced to go through with the sale. could take months to sort out. norah. >> thank you. turn now to the historic change that swept through the island nation of sri lanka over the weekend. after thousands of protesters stormed the presidential residence over country's shortages of fuel, food and medicine. cbs's elizabeth palmer has the remarkable video and pictures of a mostly peaceful revolution. >> reporter: tens of thousands
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of sri lankans started protest at presidential headquarters over the weekend, but when they heard the president had fled, surged into his residence and marvelled. country where the minimum wage is just over a dollar a day, people wanted to look at this opulence and see how it felt. right down to a dip in the presidential pool. but overnight the mood had been ugly when police fired tear gas at crowds who torched the prime minister's house, furious with corruption and incompetence that's left the economy in tatters and sri lankans without fuel and food. but the prime minister has now promised to leave office, said the president will step down, too, on wednesday. having forced leaders out, protesters were cleaning up the presidential palace today, hoping its next resident will put sri lanka back on its feet. elizabeth palmer, cbs news, tokyo.
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sys missile attacks are not the only threat civilians are facing. >> hi vlad, welcome home. >> reporter: vlad buriak has just made it home after what he says was nearly three months as a captive of the russian military. he was reunited with his father. >> maybe kill you like this. >> reporter: they threatened to kill you? at the checkpoint? >> yes. >> reporter: told us he was stopped evacuating from melitopol, and was taken to a jail. we can't verify the story but he claims he was tasked with cleaning room for torture. what did you see? inside the torture room? >> lot of blood. >> reporter: seeing one
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ukrainian prisoner hanging by his hands, hearing others tortured. >> help us, it's painful. >> reporter: his father is a senior government official and claims the russians knew that and held his son hostage. doesn't want to share how he helped negotiate his release. >> reporter: would would they kidnap a 16-year-old? he told us the russian troops are stealing washing machines and toilets as well as children for greed, he said. holly williams, cbs news, zaporiozhia, ukraine. there's a lot of news ahead. on the "cbs overnight news." we'll show you how brittney griner's fellow wnba players honored her at all-star game. terrifying moments aboard a spirit airlines jet when its landing
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airlines flight, one of the brakes overheated and caught fire. panic erupted as the plane landed at atlanta sunday. no one was hurt. spirit thanked first responders who put out the fire. said the plane would be temporarily removed from service for maintenance. british composer monty norman has died. you may not recognize his name, you likely know his work. ♪ norman wrote the theme song used in all 25 bond movies. 2001, awarded nearly $45,000 after british newspaper wrongfully credited other composer with the theme. monty norman was 94 years old. tonight, first look at deepest part of space. president biden unveiled first image from the recently launched james webb space telescope, now 1 million miles from earth. $10 billion probe's mission is to capture light from first stars and galaxies to form after the big
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now to long overdue honor for world war ii hero who's incredible story of survival was nearly lost to history. cbs's nikki battiste. >> reporter: at age 19, willie kellerman stormed the beaches of normandy, was captured by the germans, so began a remarkable story of survival and bravery, only now recognized. >> 77 years late but it's never too late to do the right thing. >> i've been living in a shadow all these years, most people didn't believe me. >> reporter: but it was all true. >> my bedtime stories were his war stories. started off, did i ever tell you i was captured by the nazis?
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>> reporter: kellerman escaped, running and biking 600 miles, dodging gunfire, finding french resistance, then returned to unit, wounded by enemy fire. to nmay toravele back ivthfrench legion of honor and his daughter began a fight for justice. what does this date mean to you? >> everything. >> private first class william kellerman. >> reporter: 97-year-old was awarded the prisoner of war medal, a bronze star and -- >> the president of the united states of america has awarded the purple heart. >> long overdue. >> feels wonderful. >> thanks for your service and congratulations. >> you're very welcome. god bless america. >> nikki battiste, cbs news, brooklyn. that's the overnight news for this tuesday, for some of you, news continues, others check back later for "cbs
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mornings," and follow online at cbsnews.com. from the nation's capital, i'm norah o'donnell. ♪ this is cbs news flash. i'm matt pieper in new york. the topp's supermarket in buffalo where ten were killed and another three injured is set to reopen on friday. moment of silence and prayer will be held to honor the victims. official says the store has been fully renovated. biden administration is telling hospitals they must provide abortion services if the life of the mother is at risk. said procedures conducted under such circumstances will be protected under federal law regardless of state bans. olympic long distance champion mo farah is not who you think he is, he said he was
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illegally trafficked as a child from africa. for more it's tuesday, juul 12th, 2022. this is the "cbs morning news." public hearing number 7. the january 6 panel is preparing to offer more insight into the capitol riot today. how it will explore the possible link between militants and the trumphouse. mounting pressure, the fight over surveillance video in the uvalde mass shooting is intensifying. who is blocking release amid growing calls to let the public see the image. >> this is a reminder to the world america can do big things. >
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