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>> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." we begin tonight with the nearly 80 million of you dealing with sweltering temperatures and extreme weather conditions today. thermometers reached trie digit and philadelphia the heat has been blamed for at least two deaths. newark, new jersey, hit 100 degrees today. the nfifth day in a row. cbs's elise preston has more tonight from new york city and, elise, this weather is no laughing matter. >> reporter: definitely not, jericka. these extremely hot temperatures are not just uncomfortable, they
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are deadly. the national weather service says in the last 30 years more people have died from heat than any other weather-related cause. week after week of extreme temperatures are taking a toll across the country. >> i'm warm as hell. >> too hot. too hot right now. >> reporter: heat exposure is to be blamed for at least one death in new york city. there was a shortened triathlon today. >> extra water and we have medical staff on site just in case. >> reporter: parts of the northeast battle near triple digits and in washington, d.c., heat indexes approached 110 in some urban areas. it's so hot amtrak fears the blazing temps could expand train tracks. the rail line is warning commuters to expect delays between philadelphia and new york. if it feels like extreme weather is getting worse every year, that's because it is. jennifer frances with the wood
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well climate research center says heat waves are occurring more often. >> the headlines are going to be filled with heat wave news every summer and they are going to get worse and it is going to get stickier. >> "face the nation" host margaret brennan asked miami mayor about it? >> can you afford what's coming? >> it's not theoretical. it's real. >> reporter: frances says we're seeing the problems around us every day. >> there is no date in the future where we can say, okay, after that date is hopeless. everything we can do starting right now is going to make these impacts of climate change less bad. >> reporter: frances warns because the oceans are getting warmer there is more evaporation in the air which makes it feel a lot stick jier and higher. >> elise preston, thank you. tonight california's county
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is under a state of emergency. thousands of people are asked to evacuate. joy benedict has more. >> reporter: california's largest wildfire thifi's elosiv continued orng thousands to flee. >> just sad. >> reporter: the wild fire which started thursday afternoon burned more than 13,000 acres, destroyed 10 structures and destroyed many buildings. >> this is the first time ever being evacuated. this is kind of different. a lot of anxiety. >> reporter: firefighters are attacking the flames from the air and the ground but hot weather, low humidity and third year of extreme drought are making the battle even harder. >> everything burning in the fire is extremely dry. >> reporter: texas joins california and nearly half of
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the country in a drought. the dry conditions sparking 15 active wildfires. governor abbott declared a disaster. >> the bve been lost. >> reporter: back in california the state has fought more than 4400 wildfires this year and the oak fire is proving to be the toughesthemes that are dangerous, the smoke from the oak fire is reaching far beyond yosemite. it is expected to reach the san francisco area 200 miles away by tomorrow. >> thank you. while much of the nation is battling extreme heat, a severe storm slammed wisconsin. heavy rain and downed trees and power line leaving thousands in the dark. even more storms are expected.
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here's our partners from the weather channel. >> jericka, it's amazing how much heat we've seen from the northeast, boston 100 degrees. 2:25, that was a daily high. same thing for newark, new jersey. look at all of the numbers. there is some relief on the way, but it comes at a cost. showers and storms causing damage. we have the severe threat coming into tonight. all the way up towards syracuse and even up towards burlington, vermont. rnado canno be ruled out. we'll keep an eye on that. another story coming your way. talking about the heat. places like seattle up towards 100 this week. >> todd, thank you.to white hou president biden has the ba.5
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covid virus. the president is feeling well but he does still have a sore throat. now as he recovers, lawmakers in washington are discussing plans to call more witnesses before the january 6th committee. cbs's christina ruffini is at the white house on that. >> reporter: that's right. more evidence has been found and more people have come forward they want to talk to. they want to do more interviews including with the wife of a sitting supreme court justice. >> i hope they're watching. i hope they're watching carefully and i hope they understand the implications of what we're presenting. >> reporter: on "face the nation" representative adam schiff said the justice department should open an investigation into former president donald trump. >> whether they'll ultimately conclude they have enough evidence to charge him, that's up to the department. >> reporter: meanwhile they say they want to hear from more witnesses, including ginni
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thomas. >> the committee is engaged with her counsel. >> reporter: in march they confirmed ginni sent more than a dozen messages to mark meadows urging him to pursue unrelenting efforts to overturn the 2020 results. >> we hope she will agree to come in voluntarily but the committee will contemplate a subpoena if she does not. >> reporter: steve bannon was convicted on two counts of contempt of congress. >> you can plead the fifth if you want in front of our committee but you can't ignore a congressional subpoena or you'll pay the price. >> if i announced that i was not going to run for office, the persecution of donald trump would immediately stop. >> reporter: at a rally in tampa friday, president trump made personal attacks against cheney and said he will not be deterred. >> they are coming after me
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>> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." i'm jericka duncan in new york. thanks so much for staying with us. a labor protest at one of america's busiest ports could force families to pay even higher prices for their groceries. independent truckers have all but shut down the port of oakland which is a major hub. they're protesting a new state law that resets how they work, including whether they're entitled to job benefits. cbs's jamie yukkas explains. >> reporter: this is one of the ten busiest ports in the nation except now it's silent.
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they've effectively shut down the port of oakland protesting a new california labor law. >> i'm here to support my family because we have bills to pay. >> reporter: gladys hernandez has been here every day and has no plans to leave. >> you don't want to turn labor union and the corporate truck drivers against you. you want them with you. >> reporter: oakland police captain clay burke says he understands the driver's frustration but warns of unintended consequences. the shutdown is the latest in a long line of west coast work stop pages that have affected the supply chain and added to inflation. cargo here is mostly agricultural. >> it's about the greater good. it's about the consumer. >> reporter: what's not getting out, what's not getting in. >> perishable goods, food items, things like that. >> reporter: right now it is limited to portland and in southern california they're
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still recovering. >> reporter: what if people stop being sympathetic to you because they see the grocery prices . >> that's okay. >> reporter: it's anyone at the dock whose loading or offloading, they're not getting paid. much of the nation remains in the grip of an intense heat wave this morning. one of the hottest cities in the u.s., phoenix, arizona, is rolling out a new plan to stay cool. cbs's ben tracy shows how it could pave the way forward for other cities. >> reporter: phoenix is trying to beat the heat by turning the black asphalt streets grays. this special seal land reflects rather than absorbs all of the hot desert sun. >> 73 miles is now covered with
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th this. we saw a version of it being made inside this phoenix warehouse where it goes by the name of solar gray. >> reporter: 10 to 12 degrees that's a big difference. >> our residents say they can feel the difference. >> reporter: climate change is cranking up the heat in the nation's hottest large city. 2020 was phoenix's hottest summer ever with 50 days at or above 110 degrees and a record 28 nights when the temperature never dropped below 90. >> we are seeing every summer higher temperatures and less cooling overnight. >> reporter: cities are warming at twice the global average. phoenix, los angeles, miami have named chief heat officers to fight the extreme heat. >> here in phoenix the number of people who died from homicides every year is about on par with
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those who die from heat. >> reporter: david hondula heads the heat office. >> this is a problem that's going to get worse. >> reporter: the city is creating 100 cool corridors, planting hundreds of trees whose shade can drop the ambient air temperature by 30 to 40 degrees. phoenix is also experimenting with phoenix that's cooler than what we have today. a push for cleaner energy. one of them is nuclear fusion. there have been hopes about fusion for decades but slowly real progress is being made. cbs's jeff glor traveled to
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princeton, new jersey, for a closer look. >> we're in the tunnel that leads from the control room to the machine itself. >> reporter: inside an experimental area, steven took us down the long corridor that leads to his life's work. >> all of these are subsystems in the machine. >> reporter: an attempt to recreate the energy in the middle of the sun. >> it's called fusion. fission is how nuclear power plants work, also nuclear bombs. >> a million tons of water alive with deadly rage. fusion has been science's holy energy grail for the last century. the fits and starts have led to plenty of frustration. >> perfect energy source is one
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that doesn't take up much space, has a virtually inexhaustible supply, it's safe, it's fusion. >> you gave a ted talk in 2009, you said fusion by 2030. we're eight years away. >> this is the problem with the modern age with video, isn't it? >> you keep submitting to inte interviews. >> yeah. i mean, i think that we are looking -- so the national academy of sciences has come forward to say we want to start actually producing electricity by 2035. i was close. >> reporter: but that's still not a guarantee. >> yeah. >> reporter: it's a hope. >> yeah. >> reporter: hope is closer to reality when you take a look. >> there it is. that's the machine right there and if you look, you can see the red things are coils.
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>> reporter: inside temperatures can reach up to 200 million degrees. when there's no such things as solids, liquids or gas, it's all plasma. >> when you look at the eruptions from the sun, those pictures you see of solar flares erupting from the sun? >> yes. >> that's actually plasma forcing its way through a magnetic field and out. we're trying to do that here. we're not trying to let it erupt, we're trying to control it, hold it down. >> what's happening on the sun happens right here? >> oh, absolutely. right inside there. >> reporter: right now experimental machines are only able to sustain fusion at target temperatures for a few seconds. >> the goal is to have that sustained for hours. once they can do that, they'll be able to use that heat to make steam which eventually makes electricity. >> simple. >> simple, yes.
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>> is this a dangerous visions and there are no bad case safety issues with it. it can't melt down. it doesn't have an explosive area. >> reporter: he believes our long term energy future is a combination of renewables like wind and solar and fusion. a few gallons of seawater and the lithium in a couple of laptop batteries could provide enough energy for one person for their entire life. >> reporter: is it a money issue right now? >> there's always a money issue. we need to drive the innovation.
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investigators in pennsylvania arrested david sonopoli in the 1975 murder of lindy sue bleakler. they show how they tracked down her alleged killer. >> this has been a long and difficult case for everybody, 46 1/2 years. >> reporter: police relieved after sunday's arrest of david sonopoli. he's charged in the stabbing death. >> this case has been very emotional for many officers. they've shed tears. they've had sleepless nights hoping one day an arrest would be made. finally yesterday it was made. >> reporter: the gruesome crime gripped this community for 50 years. in the living room of her apartment. the killer left behind the knife and his dna. >> the case was solved with the use of dna and specifically dna genealogy. quite honestly, without that i don't know that we would have
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ever solved it. >> reporter: the case began to crack in 2019 when investigators extracted dna evidence from beekler's underwear. they used that to come up with these composite sketches of what the suspect might have looked like in 1975 and the present day. researchers also determined the suspect had ancestral ties to an ancestral town in southern italy. that narrowed it down to 2300 people in lancaster county, pennsylvania. from there they used court records and they zoed a prispec. e february. they recovered his dna from a coffee cup. police say it was a match. >> this is why we do what we do
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while summer camps are often a rite of passage, this camp gives kids with burn injuries a safe place to heal. >> reporter: healing target for these campers, simply getting to be kids. >> we've within through so much in our lives. >> reporter: 13-year-old hayley is one of many survivors who gathers in july. it's her sixth time here. >> reporter: why do you keep coming back to camp? >> this is my second home and it allows us to socialize with people that are just like us. >> when you are in other places, sometimes people tend to stare. here it's like we all the same.
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>> reporter: now in its 31st year the connecticut camp is freentiry by volunteers, including former campers like kathy wright. >> reporter: do you think you would be where you are today it it weren't for this camp? >> not at all. i wore turtlenecks and i didn't value myself. >> reporter: these campers call it a community, born of understanding. >> when i was younger i got bullied but as soon as i hit this camp my attitude changed, my personality changed. i feel it made me a better person than when i first got here. >> reporter: it may look like fun and games but this camp is a real game changer. union, connecticut. >> that is the overnight news for this monday. reporting from the cbs broadcast center in new york city, i'm jericka duncan.
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this is cbs news flash. i'm bradley blackburn in new york. a shooting at a public park in los angeles has left two people dead and at least five others injured. police say the gunfire started after a dispute at a baseball game. lapd issued a city wide tactical alert while searching for suspects. in japan, a volcano erupted sunday night. local residents were told to evacuate. at the weekend movie box office movie goers said yes to "nope." they took in $44 million. it's the best weekend that
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wasn't a sequel. for more news, downlo the cbs news. record heat. the mercury climbing with much of the country under heat warnings and advisories. all that hot air could trigger potentially powerful storms. i'm elise preston in new york with more on why experts warn the dangerous heat waves will keep happening. >> we'll have the very latest forecast. also, out of control. in california the explosive oak wildfire near yosemite national park is spreading fast with thousands of homes at risk. more than 14,000 acres scorched since friday. the governor declaring a state of emergency in one county. tonight the extraordinary conditions facing firefighters. and papal apology. pope francis visits canada on a
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mission to make amends. >> the pope is apologizing to indigenous canadians. the class of 2022. this year's inductees into the baseball hall of fame representing 150 years of america's favorite pastime. >> coopers town! >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." we begin tonight with the nearly 80 million of you dealing with sweltering temperatures and extreme weather conditions today. thermometers reached triple digits across the northeast and washington, d.c., new york city and the heat has been blamed for two deaths. newark, new jersey, hit 100 degrees, the fifth day in a row and the lomgest streak.
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cbs's elise press tonight is no laughing matter. >> reporter: definitely. they are not just uncomfortable, they are deadly. in the last 30 years more people have died from heat than any other. >> i'm warm as hell. >> too hot. hot as hell now. >> reporter: heat exposure is responsible for one death. a shortened triathlon. >> extra water and we have medical staff on site just in case. >> reporter: parts of the northeast gather and heat index is rising. the rail line is warning
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commuters to expect delays between philadelphia and new york. if it feels like extreme weather is getting worse every year, that's because it is. jennifer frances with the wood well climate sip ter. they are going to get worts and it is sticky jeff. they ask the him about the affects of climate change on his city. >> it's not owe or ret particular call. it forces the problems around us every day. >> there is no date in the future where we can say, okay, after that date it is hopeless. everything we can do starting right now is going to make these impacts of climate change less bad. >> reporter: now francis warns because the ocean is
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evaporating, it's making the heat stickier. jericka? >> not much we can do. thank you. today california's county is under a state of emergency. thousands of people are forced to ee vam cue waste. >> largest wildfire still rages out of clark. the oarea has thousands fleeing. the wildfire has burned more than 14,000 acres, destroyed ten structures anddi ts is the fir life ever being evacuated. this is kind of different. a lot of anxiety. >> reporter: firefighters attacking the flames from the air and the ground but a hot
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weather, low humidity. >> everything burning in the fire is extremely dry. the dry conditions are starting 15 active wildfires across the state. governor greg abbott signed a declaration after 16 homes were destroyed in north texas. >> the best news is no lives have been lost. >> back in california the state has fought more than 4400 wildfires and the oak fire proving to be the toughest yet. it is not just the flames, in fact, it is expeekted to right that area by 30.
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heavy rain and winds gusting up to 70 miles per hour. downed trees and power lines leaving thousands in the dark. looking ahead to tonight, even more storms are expected. here's meteorologist from the weather channel. >> it's amazing how much heat we've seen from the northeast. boston reaching 100 degrees. 2:25 this afternoon. daily record high. national emergency weather system. there is some relief but it comes at a cost. showers and storms already causing some damage. back with it farther off to the west. we have the severe threat places like eerie, up to burlington, vermont. another storm coming our way talking about the heat. the heat is shifting out to
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places like the northwest. >> todd, thank you. there's a new class of baseball greats. among those honored, boston red sox powerhouse left-handed slugger david ortiz affectionately as big papi. >> i want to thank god for giving me the opportunity and for giving me the zbroi al although. the newest tour de france winner attributes his success. jonas vingegaard. three years ago he was cleaning and packaging fish at a factory.
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this is the "cbs overnight news." today the white house confirmed president biden has the ba.5 variant of the coronavirus. the president is feeling well but he does still have a sore throat. as he recovers, lawmakers in washington are discussing plans to call more witnesses before the january 6th committee. christina ruffini is at the white house with more on that. >> reporter: that's right. the committee says throughout the hearings, more evidence has been found and more people are coming forward.
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>> i hope they're watching and watching carefully. >> reporter: on "face the nation" representative adam schiff said the justice department should open an investigation into former president donald trump. >> whether they'll ultimately conclude they have proof beyond a reasonable doubt to charge him and convict him, that wouldn't be up to the department. >> shiv wants to hear from more witnesses. >> the committee is engaged with her counsel. >> reporter: in march cbs news reported that ginni thomas sent memos to him. >> we certainly hope she will agree to comen if she does not. >> reporter: following.
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the committee is hoping other reluctant people will come forward. >> if i announced that i was not going to run for office, the persecution of donald trump would immediately stop. >> reporter: at a rally in tampa saturday, former president trump made personal attacks against cheney and said he will not be deferred. >> they're coming after me because i am standing up for you. >> reporter: now the committee also wants to talk to members of former prmp's hearings. today we're learning more about ukraine. >> reporter: brian young from california and luke from new jersey were killed in action this past week in eastern ukraine. where they volunteered to fight with ukrainian forces against
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russia's brutal assault of its neighbor. their commanding officer was colonel ruslin, a veteran. he said lusician was injured by enemy fire. >> youth side and evil fight. >> colonel russ lynn said brian young previously served in the u.s. military and always had a cheerful smile. >> he perfectly knew what he was doing. good soldier. >> luke was the father of two young children and was known by his comrades as luke skywalker. despite his young age, he dias he would. to uses of volunteers are caming
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to ukraine. many of them risking their lives. >> reporter: why did they volunteer to come to ukraine? >> this question i asked brian once. sir, if we americans don't help you win this war, you know, the next step for us russia will come here. >> jericka? >> holly williams for us in ukraine. thank you. the "cbs overnight ne (woman) oh. oh! hi there. you're jonathan, right? the 995 plan! yes, from colonial penn. your 995 plan fits my budget just right. excuse me? aren't you jonathan from tv, that 995 plan? yes, from colonial penn. i love your lifetime rate lock. that's what sold me.
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the bar in the handle removes unseen dirt and debris ahead of the blades, for effortless shaving in one efficient stroke. pope francis arrived in edmonton, alberta. he wanted to apologize to canada's indigenous children. pope francis greeted with an arrival ceremony but it was much more quiet, somber and not as celebratory as we're accustomed to seeing when the pope comes to town. still experiencing knee pain arrived in a wheelchair at the airport with prime minister justin trudeau. gone were the outward displays of joy we've come to expect when the pope comes to town. that's because as francis
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himself has put it, this is a penetential journ yimpt they put more than 100,000 indigenous children into schools and they were mostly managed by the church. the last one closed in 1997. many children were also abused and death rates were exnentiay higher compared to the general population. students succumbing to malnutrition and disease, sometimes without their parents even being notified. last year there was an international uproar over reports that presumed unmarked graves of children were discovered using ground penetrating radar though this is important to note, none have been exhumed to be verified. in april a group visited the vatican where pope francis apologized for, quote, deplorable abuses by some in the
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catholic church. pope francis is expected to apologize one more time as he meets with members of the indigenous community for the first five days. that is expected tomorrow. jericka? >> thank you, chris. straight ahead, controversy over the fund for victims of terrorism. who is getting the money? most bladder leak pads were similar. until always discreet invented a pad that protects differently.
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congress created a fund seven years ago to compensate vic victims. we have the story. >> how many pieces of glass have been removed over the years? >> probably 30 or 40. >> reporter: 77-year-old bob essington recalls april 18th, 1983, as the day terror rained down on a u.s. embassy in beirut, lebanon. >> it was like a shock wave hit me. >> reporter: planted by an iranian terror group, the truck bomb killed many and injured hundreds. it compressed his spine. >> i have a stimulator implanted in my hip with 14 plates on my spine. if i shut it off i go into instant pain and there's nothing to stop the pain. >> reporter: after the u.s. pulled out of afghanistan and
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froze 7 billion in assets from that central bank, the essington's and other families thought it would go to a general fund. president biden's executive order earmarked 3.5 billion to support the urgent needs of the people of afghanistan. the remain 3g.5 billion was left for a new york court to compensate others with the 9/11 victims at the head of the line. >> how unusual is the president's executive order on afghan? >> very unusual but the whole thing is unusual. >> reporter: ken feinberg has overseen more than $20 billion in victims compensation. >> was the u.s. victims of terrorism fund a viable option? >> absolutely. >> reporter: it was also an option to handle claims but no decision was without
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controversy. >> you're going to get frustration and emotional disagreement and anger no matter how you distribute $3.5 billion. >> victims of terrorist attacks in the '80s and '90s sent this letter with over 400 signatures to president biden urging him to change course writing, the victims compensation fund was created for exactly these moments, for the benefit of all u.s. terrorism victims, not this one small group. what if they dwroefr took -- overtook the area. >> these programs are more than just sort of taking a calculator and deciding who gets what. there's a very important element i learned the hard way in the 9/11 front.
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giving everybody a voice. >> reporter: essington, a state department and vietnam veteran, rarely speaks of the 1983 attack. now he wants president biden to acknowledge his story. >> i don't care about the total amount that i get or anything like that, just his recognition of us, the sacrifices that all of us made. >> catherine herridge, cbs news, washington. >> the "cbs overnight news" will be right back.
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finally before we leave you tonight, we want to take a moment to honor one of our own. we lost veteran cbs news producer diane renault over the weekend after a long battle can cancer. sunday morning's lee cowan has this remembrance. >> reporter: you may not have known her name, but over the course of her more than three decades at cbs news, diane renault helped us all make sense of the chaotic world, much of it while dealing with her own private chaos. a 16 year battle with pancreatic cancer. >> much as i was extremely worried about being sick i also wanted to participate in the rest of my life. >> reporter: she had enough grit to pave a freeway, enough humor to buoy a newsroom through the
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ugliest of scenes and enough nd why w got into this business in the first place. perhaps her greatest gift was helping those around her find balance too. >> i'd much rather be cooking dinner, cleaning my house, than being sick. >> diane was defined by her family. their twin sons that knew no bounds. they were her headline, her own front page news and the ones we carry in our thoughts. diane was a mentor, friend, loving parent who showed the rest of us how inspiring and rewarding a life well lived, even one tragically cut short, can truly be. that is the overnight news
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for this monday. reporting from the cbs broadcast center in new york city, i'm jericka duncan. this is cbs news flash. i'm bradley blackburn in new york. a shooting at a public park in los angeles has left two people dead and at least five others injured. police say the gunfire started after a dispute at a baseball game. lapd issued a city wide tactical alert while searching for suspects. in japan a volcano erupted sunlighting up the sky and spreading ashmore than a mile away. and at the weekend box office movie goers said yes to "nope." it took in $44 million. it's the best opening weekend for a nonsequel original movie since peal's last film "us" was
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released three years ago. for more information download th it's monday, july 25th, 2022. this is the "cbs morning news." fast-moving wildfire. thousands of people are forced to evacuate their homes near yosemite national park as fire crews battle several obstacles trying to get the flames under o ntl. breaking overnight, deadly park shooting. two people are killed and five others hurt in los angeles. what police say led up to the gunfire. >> we have a number of -- many interviews scheduled that are coming up. >> next move. the january 6th panel looks ahead after last week's latest primetime hearing. who they plan to interview next as part of the capitol riot investigation.
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