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that's good news. that's darren peck. there's vern glenn. tonight, covid rebound. the president tests positive for the virus again. >> i'm doing fine. everything is good. >> also tonight, catastrophe in kentucky. the death toll keeps rising, as receding floodwaters reveal the scope of the disaster. >> there's no words. it's just hard to imagine. >> the race to find the missing with more rain forecast this weekend. plus, russia accused of new horrors in ukraine, as families face the fury of the front line. monkeypox spreads. efforts intensify to contain the outbreak. more cities are saying they don't have enough shots. i'm michael george with the race to get vaccines to at-risk communities.
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pope francis slowing down? what he said after a pilgrimage of penance to canada. >> i'm chris livesay in rome. pope francis apologized for what he called cultural genocide. mega-winner. >> mega ball number. >> a single ticket beat the odds. later, seeing is believing. we take you to a place where all children see themselves as heroes. >> we get a lot of gasps from children. >> really? >> we've had parents and adults cry. >> announcer: this is the cbs weekend news from chicago with adriana diaz. good evening. a covid rebound for president biden. he's tested positive again. a phenomenon that happens in some cases after people take paxlovid. that's the antiviral therapy from pfizer taken as a pill. in a video released today, the
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president says he's feeling fine. but he is again isolating at the white house and canceled his weekend travel plans. cbs' christina ruffini is at the white house tonight with more. christina, we know the president tested negative just yesterday. what's the latest? >> reporter: that's right, adriana. according to the president's doctor he tested positive this morning on an antigen test. and did tweet a video. let's take a listen. we have a short clip, i believe. >> i'm doing fine. everything is good. commander and i got a lot of work to do. >> reporter: now, the president's doctor says this is a rebound case as you mentioned. it's a rare but known issue after taking that antiviral paxlovid which the president took for several days following his initial diagnosis on july 21st. he then had four negative tests in a row, even celebrating with a rose garden speech before testing positive again today. >> christina, how common are these rebound cases? >> reporter: it's not exactly known because this paxlovid is so effective against preventing hospitalizations for these more serious covid cases.
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it was kind of rushed onto the market, so the data is still coming in. the head of the covid response team here at the white house says these relapse cases are rare, in the single digits but the good news is even if you rebound most of these cases are mild, 90% of people who take this stay out of the hospital. the president is not going back on the medication. he's just going to isolate and wait until he gets another negative covid test. adriana. >> christina ruffini, thank you so much. now, to flood ravaged kentucky. the death toll rose again today. at least 25 people have been killed. and rain is again forecast for this weekend, as rescue crews struggle to get to the hardest hit areas swamped by what's described as the worst flooding to hit the region in decades. we get more now from cbs' tom wait. >> reporter: kentucky is racing to recover as receding floodwaters reveal the scope of devastation in the state's hard struck appalachian region. entire communities were wiped out in the catastrophe. >> lives were destroyed.
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towns were lost and then people were left void of everything. >> reporter: today governor andy beshear said the death toll will keep rising. >> this is still an emergency situation. that count is going to continue to go up. and we don't lose this many people in flooding. it's just a real tough one. >> reporter: national guard units and first responders have performed at least 1,200 air and water rescues so far, including more than 600 people saved by helicopter. thousands are still without power. flooding is also plaguing arizona. in apache junction, a dramatic rescue captured on body camera. a woman trapped in a car pleading to have her puppy saved. >> can you just get my dog? >> reporter: crewed pulled her out, but her dog could not be found. heavy rains, hail and near hurricane force winds pounded parts of nevada. in las vegas this week, water poured into casinos, swamping gaming floors and parking garages. >> bottles of water.
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>> reporter: in the pacific northwest, the heat is extreme. after six days, still no relief with the heat dome expected to spread across the country next week. in rain-starved california, the threat is fire. the mckinney fire shown in this time-lapse video has burned more than 30,000 acres. not only is the mckinney fire in a remote part of the state, the temperatures there are hitting triple digits, much like oregon, washington, and idaho, where temperature records there are expected to be broken tomorrow. adriana. >> all right, tom wait, thanks so much. today, ukraine called on the united nations and the international committee of the red cross to investigate the deaths of dozens of prisoners of war held by russia. in a tv address, ukraine's president called it mass murder and, quote, a deliberate russian war crime. cbs' holly williams has the latest. >> reporter: the latest horror from ukraine, charred bodies too graphic for us to show on television. ukraine claims russia did this
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to cover up its torture of ukrainian prisoners of war and it's demanding a u.n. investigation. but russia's claiming the ukrainian military killed its own soldiers with american-supplied rockets. also in eastern ukraine, more senseless civilian casualties, more families struck down by grief. in ukraine's second city, kharkiv, a russian missile targeted this park, a place where children once played in safety. even ukraine's youngest citizens are being slaughtered in russia's vicious invasion. a 12-year-old girl decapitated by shelling. a 13-year-old boy killed as he waited for a bus. the city of dnipro is around 100 miles from the front line, and up until now it stayed
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relatively calm. in its park, life looks normal enough. but nearly everyone here has a war story, including 9-year-old oleksander. he fled the fighting in kharkiv with his family. he told me how they hid in a basement with enemy planes overhead and explosions outside. ukraine used to be a peaceful place, now russia's plunged it into a nightmare. and children have no immunity from the violence. holly williams, cbs news, dnipro, ukraine. the last patient wounded in the school massacre in uvalde, texas, has left the hospital. 10-year-old mayah zamora passed out roses to staff as she walked out of a san antonio hospital on friday. she arrived in critical condition and spent 66 days recovering from multiple gunshot wounds. hospital staff called mayah their hero. to georgia now where investigators have released body cam video of a woman who died
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last month after falling out of a moving patrol car. the footage shows two deputies carrying a handcuffed brianna greer to their car. moments later, it shows the 28-year-old laying on the side of the road. the georgia bureau of investigation says greer was not wearing a seat belt. her hands were cuffed in front of her, and the rear passenger door was never closed by deputies before they drove away. greer's family is demanding answers in her death. their lawyer says her mother had called 911 because greer was having a mental health crisis. now, to the latest on the fast-spreading monkeypox outbreak. it's been detected in at least 77 countries. cbs' michael george joins us now from new york, the epicenter of the virus in the u.s. michael, how are officials responding to this? >> reporter: well, adriana, good evening. new york's governor's declared a state of emergency. so has the city of san francisco. now, those declarations authorize more people to
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administer vaccines which is crucial. health officials say time is of the essence to get this outbreak under control. after three visits to the er, david watson has a warning for people who take monkeypox lightly. >> it is the most painful thing i have ever experienced in my 47 years on this planet, and i wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy. >> reporter: right now the demand for the vaccine is outpacing supply. many are finding it difficult to get an appointment for a shot. >> i have been asking for a vaccine since the middle of june. >> reporter: the federal government is in the process of distributing more than 780,000 doses. but it's not fast enough in pl places like new york and san francisco. >> we are at a very scary place and we don't want to be ignored by the federal government in our need. >> reporter: stanford university's dr. jorge salinas says the biggest challenge now
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is getting the doses we have where they're needed. >> the longer we take to vaccinate the at-risk population the more it will spread. >> reporter: the monkeypox virus is disproportionately affecting men who have sex with men, but anyone can catch it. it's spread by skin on skin contact, and it's rarely fatal. >> our public, our population needs to continue following public health recommendations, practice safe sex, get vaccinated as soon as a dose is available to you. >> reporter: and there are also calls for the biden administration to declare monkeypox a federal health emergency. that would free up more resources and funds to fight the outbreak. adriana? >> all right, michael george, in a noisy new york city, thank you. tonight, pope francis is back at the vatican after his trip to canada. speaking to reporters on the flight across the atlantic, the 85-year-old said the fast-paced six-day visit was also a test of his endurance, mentioning the possibility of one day stepping aside. and for the first time, francis called the church abuse of canada's indigenous people genocide.
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cbs' chris livesay was traveling with the pontiff. >> reporter: pope francis humbled by the sacred rituals the catholic church once tried to suppress. [ speaking foreign language ] "i've come to beg for forgiveness," he said, forgiveness for catholic run boarding schools. children were ripped from their homes, stripped of their identity, and forced to be christian. their hair was cut, their ancient traditions banned, and speaking their own language was a punishable offense, often with violence. closed in the 1990s, more than 150,000 children later. as far away as the inuit village just south of the arctic circle survivors turned out to hear the pope. [ speaking foreign language ] "i want to tell you how very sorry i am," he said, even apologizing for priest sex abuse, once rampant in canada's
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residential schools. and now after so much trauma, the time has finally come to forgive says phil fontaine, the former chief of the national assembly of first nations and a survivor of boarding school abuse credited with first bringing this issue to international attention. >> the holy father in a very humble way begged for forgiveness. if forgiveness is absent, we will drag this out forever. and our people don't deserve this. >> reporter: francis seemed to receive that forgiveness in one unforgettable ceremony, a ritual and a people that despite the church's best efforts could not be erased. says first nation's veteran chief david gamble. >> we're taking back our language. we're taking back our culture. we're taking back our traditions. we have our own schools on the reserve. we're doing things for ourselves now. >> reporter: generations of
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trauma and not just in canada. there were once more than 400 such schools in the united states as well. now, aboard the papal plane that just returned to rome, pope francis told us what happened at these schools was nothing short of cultural genocide. chris livesay, cbs news, rome. well, someone in illinois hit the mega millions jackpot and it wasn't me. the winning ticket was sold at this speedway in des plaines, illinois, a chicago suburb. the jackpot ballooned to more than $1.3 billion after no one matched all six numbers since mid-april. but don't toss your ticket just yet. 26 were sold matching enough numbers to win $1 million. and straight ahead on the cbs weekend news, tenants face a storm of rising rents with prices surging through the roof. and a chicago store helping all kids find their power on every page. for copd, ask your doctor about breztri. breztri gives you better breathing,
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rising rents have exacerbated the nation's housing crisis. a new report shows that in 91% of u.s. counties, low wage workers can't afford modest one-bedroom apartments. that includes the city of tampa, florida, where we find cbs' mark strassmann. >> nice little porch area. >> reporter: like any renter here, kavita knows tampa is a landlord's market. but the single mother of three's family needs an affordable three-bedroom and fast and how many places have you looked at? >> oh, over 50. >> 50 places? >> over 50 places and reached out to over 200 all over tampa bay, all over the state of florida. >> reporter: on average tampa's rents ballooned 22% last year. >> father god, what am i going to do? >> reporter: valerie's landlord
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hiked her rent nearly 60% to $2,400 a month for this modest four-bedroom. earning under 20 grand a year this overnight auditor moved her family into a hotel, the bill paid by a charity. >> to me it's no different from a hurricane or something disrupting your household and taking your home away and you're being homeless, not having anywhere to go and not knowing what to do. >> reporter: fueling that hurricane here, thousands of pandemic relocations. inflation, rising interest rates discouraging buyers, and few tenant protections. tampa recently put $5 million toward rental assistance, money gone in two days. erica could be too. this pr account exec's rent will jump $530 beyond her budget. >> if i want to pay less, which is my goal, i will need to move
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30 to 40 minutes outside of this neighborhood. >> 30 to 40 minutes? >> yes. >> very clean, spacious. >> reporter: she keeps looking, calling, emailing. everything's expensive. this home's deal breaker, the pond. she says a danger for her autistic son. >> you hear somebody talking about it, but until you experience something firsthand, then it really doesn't fully resonate or hit you. >> reporter: a rental crisis that hits home every day for families like hers. mark strassmann, cbs news, tampa. still ahead on the cbs weekend news, this major league slugger just smashed his way into an exclusive club.
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powerful impression, sparking inspiration and imagination. and the woman behind it all has her own fairy tale. >> reporter: step inside this chicago children's store and enter a new world. >> we get a lot of gasps from children. >> really? >> we do. we've had parents and adults cry in the store. you know, it can be emotional for some people. >> reporter: emotional because a kido, the faces on the book are black and brown and protagonists you don't usually see, a girl in a wheelchair, a mom in a hijab deliberate choices said kido owner keewa nurullah. >> we want every kid to feel reflected, seen, included. kids with disabilities, kids growing up in foster care or ph. >> why did you like these books? >> because i like the pictures on them. >> reporter: with titles like "queer heroes," "hair love" and "the abcs of black history."
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>> bees wax crayons that show the different skin shades. >> oh, i wish i had these growing up. >> reporter: she introduced us to regulars. >> he has two brilliant mothers and an exceptional daughter as we want her to be rented in the books she sees. >> reporter: she got into this work as a new work. she didn't see options that reflected her family, so she made them. >> do you have a business background? >> not at all. not at all. >> reporter: this is her background, the performing arts, where she also embodied diversity in an unexpected way. >> i'm a retired princess, disney princess. if you ever wanted to know what happens to them when they grow old -- >> when they grow up. >> when the princess and the frog came out i was one of the princesses in the show at disney world. ♪ come on down ♪ >> i was thinking about your representation on stage and what that could mean for a little kid who wants to sing and dance too.
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>> your total is. >> reporter: but business is in her blood too, stretching back to her great grandfather. >> he was a tailor and he had a family in tulsa, oklahoma. he had a taylor shop on black wall street. and his family was forced to flee during the massacre of 1921. >> reporter: they made it to the south side of chicago, where they re-opened the family business, an entrepreneurial legacy that lives on here. >> we don't want any child to feel isolated in their experience. we want them to come into the kido store and say, oh, wait, i'm not the only one. >> reporter: when books have heroes of all backgrounds real world heroes are born. that is the cbs weekend news for this saturday. first thing tomorrow, "sunday morning with jane pauley" followed by "face the nation" with margaret brennan. i'm adriana diaz in chicago, good night.
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live from the cbs bay area studios. this is kpix 5 per now at six clock, hard- fought victory over east bay housing. in the face of a growing monkeypox outbreak, is it risky to attend concerts and events? we ask an expert. >> to see it gone is upsetting. bay area residents are literally lifting each other up in a different way. the fight for abortion rights. a new video from the front lines of an exploding wildfire, what we learned just minutes ago. tenants and housing activists are celebrating the end of the
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longest rent control strike in oaklands history. the owner sold it to a nonprofit. as kpix 5's john ramose reports -- >> reporter: what is happening at this apartment complex is an indicator of what may be a shift in the power of power between tenant and landowner. it started six years ago with the dispute over the conditions of the apartments at this building on 29th avenue. francisco perez had to install new flooring and fix his own cabinets that were falling apart. but then came rent increases, and in 2019, he was worried were him and his wife would end up. >> i was worried that we would be under a bridge. >> it is full of people. >> out

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