♪ >> announcer: ie "cbs erninews." >> jericka is off. i'm mark strassmann. tonight, president biden has the legislative milestone he desperately wanted and needed. naturally, it didn't come easy. first, polarized senators pulled an all-nighter. they started debating saturday and kept debating before finally voting. and late today with vice president kamala harris passing the tiebreaker, democrats passed the president's economic agenda that had been left for dead. it's a mix of climate spending, lower health care costs and corporate taxes.

also, the president left the white house today for the first time in two weeks since he first tested positive for covid. he'll leave tomorrow to tour kentucky's flood damage. natalie brand is on capitol hill for us. natalie? >> mark, the president acknowledged that this bill required compromises, but it includes some of his top policy goals. the legislation now heads to the u.s. house for a vote there expected later this week. >> a great win. >> reporter: after a marathon weekend session that started more than 24 hours ago and ended in a major legislative win for democrats -- >> the vice president votes in the affirmative. >> reporter: vice president kamala harris delivered the tie-breaking vote to pass the climate, health care and tax bill known as the inflation reduction act through evenly divided senate. >> i think it was a historic vote. >> it's an inflation increase act. >> reporter: but the final vote didn't come before 11th hour negotiations over a key tax provision in the legislation, a 15% minimum tax on large companies. >> and i encourage my colleagues

to support this amendment and help ensure that our nation's small and medium-sized businesses aren't hit with a misguided and entirely inappropriate $35 billion tax hike. >> reporter: arizona senator kyrsten sinema once again forced a deal with senate democrats to move forward. the last-minute drama followed a vote-a-rama on dozen of other amendments. >> do you think there is going to be any changes in the house? >> no, i expect it to be smooth sailing. >> reporter: senate democrats say the legislation, which represents an historic investment in climate, will lower energy costs, providing tax credits to those who guy bye buy green and manufacturers who build it. they also argue it will reduce health care cost, especially for seniors and allow medicare to negotiate down high-priced prescription drugs. since this could take a while to implement, when will people see and feel the impacts? >> some of the things they'll find quite quickly, and some of the things will take a longer time.

>> natalie, as democrats celebrate, there is trouble on another front following speaker pelosi's visit to taiwan. china's furious, and for four days has been carrying out war games immediately after the island's coast. dozens of warships and planes. so is the biden administration worried about how far beijing will go? >> well, mark, the administration has said it expected china to take actions like this, but also notes they raise the risk of miscalculation. the white house says the u.s. does not want a crisis, but is also prepared for what beijing chooses to do. >> natalie brand, thank you. today, the president also responded to the murders of four men in albuquerque, new mexico, all of them muslims, all of them ambushed according to police. in a tweet, mr. biden wrote he is angered and saddened by the horrific killings. cbs' lilia luciano is monitoring developments. lilia? >> reporter: mark, the governor of new mexico is calling them

targeted killings and is sending more state law enforcement to albuquerque. but until the killer or killers are caught, the local albuquerque muslim community are living in fear. local, state and federal police are stepping up efforts after friday's shooting of naeem hussain, the thirst muslim man murdered in albuquerque in less than two weeks. ahmad assed runs the islamic center of new mexico, which all three of the victims attended. >> just an emotional roller coaster in trying to make sense of these horrific and heinous crimes. >> reporter: 41-year-old aftab hussein was killed on july 26th. and 27-year-old muhammad afzaal hussain on august 1st. >> my brother will not come back, but i want someone else's brother, someone else's sister, someone else's dad or mother should not be victim of those people. >> reporter: police say the killer or killers may also be responsible for a fourth victim. 62-year-old mohammed zahir ahmadi slain last november.

how are people reacting? >> panic. we're certainly taking precautions, things like the buddy system. don't travel at night if you don't have to. don't come to the mosque for prayer if you feel like you can't do that safely. >> reporter: i'm sure that impacts far beyond the sense of security. also people's livelihoods. >> and that's exactly what's happening here. i mean, it is hitting businesses. it's hitting schooling. we live in times where uncertainty rules the day. >> reporter: mr. assed says he is confident the killer or killers will be caught, and that his community is thankful for the outpouring of support. mark? >> lilia luciano, thanks. follow today in indiana, following the state's passage of a wide ranging abortion bin, eli lilly, one of indiana's largest employers complained the new law could make it difficult to recruit new talent. the drugmaker said the restriction also force the company to grow future development outside the state.

with millions of kids getting ready to go back to school, america's teacher shortage has hit crisis levels as school officials everywhere are scrambling. cbs' elise preston is in new york now with details. elise? >> reporter: mark, here in new york, the state changed some of its teacher certification requirements this year. supporters hope the move will help ease the shortage. it's a crisis playing out across the country. monday is the first day of school in quinlan, texas, where the district resorted to some creative incentives to recruit teachers. >> we get to wear jeans and t-shirts every day, which as a science teacher, i love. >> reporter: that new dress code, plus a four-day week, and the announcement of a $1,000 bonus just for showing up. kansas could have its worst teacher shortage ever. still missing 1400. and florida has about 8,000 openings. in san francisco -- >> we want you now. we need you now. >> reporter: the school district is using emergency permits to waive the usual credentials.

>> it's actually possible for somebody who doesn't have a aching credential but has an interest in being an educator right now to come and try it out. >> reporter: teachers blame low pay, pandemic stress, and politics for driving them away. and the problem could get worse. a poll of the american federation of teachers found 40% of its members may leave the job in the next two years. 3/4 say they would not recommend their profession to others. >> you're calling this a crisis? >> yes, it is a crisis. >> reporter: randy weingarten is aft president. >> we need to actually make the conditions better so that the teachers we have right now will stay. we really need them. and that new people want to come in to teaching. >> reporter: experts point out some classrooms are feeling the burden even more. bilingual students and children with special needs have been facing shortages for years. teachers say that it is tougher to staff those programs.

mark? >> elise preston, thanks. her ahead on the "cbs overnight

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♪ nouns this is the "cbs overnight news." >> i'm mark strassmann in new york. thanks for staying with us. depending where you live, the new school year is already here or is fast approaching. with the covid pandemic fading in much of the nation, the cdc is expected to announce new recommendations for students returning to class. some recommendations are expected to be relaxed, including how schools manage infections. nantz chen has more. >> reporter: as students go back to class, cbs news has obtained a copy of the cdc's draft document, expected to ease covid-19 guidelines controlling the spread of the virus.

michael osterholm is an infectious disease expert. >> this virus is going to be here with us in the days ahead, and we have got to learn to live with it. >> reporter: while the guidelines are not final yet, we're learning some of the proposed changes, de-emphasizing six feet social distancing, and removing the test to stay recommendations in which students exposed to covid-19 take regular tests to stay in the classroom. >> the cdc is going to say we should go back to school relatively normally with minimal restrictions. then count me in. >> reporter: michael cornell, a superintendent in western new york, says his students need to get back to normal. >> we have to focus on is making sure our kids experience joy, value, and connection in school. >> reporter: another possible change, unvaccinated people exposed to covid-19 will no longer need to quarantine, instead masking for ten days and maxing for five days after exposure. the proposed changes are raising

some concerns. with less than half of school aged children vaccinated, and the majority of americans living in communities with high rates of covid. but osterholm says the virus is still evolving. >> since this virus continues to change over time, we might be revising these guidelines again. >> that was nancy chen reporting. overseas, the agreement to allow cargo ships loaded with grain to leave ukrainian ports appears to be holding. four more ships carrying tons of corn and sunflower oil were given permission to leave the black seaports yesterday. three others left friday. the ships travel under military escort and are inspected before heading to their final destinations. in all about, 20 million tons of grain has been stuck in silos because of the war. meanwhile, russia has stepped up its attacks in the south of the ukraine with some shells falling near europe's largest nuclear power plant. charlie d'agata reports.

>> reporter: smoke rise breezy the zaporizhzhia power plant as both sides blame each other for shelling the downed high voltage power lines, prompting engineers to pull the plug on one of six reactors. russian forces captured the compound in the early stages of the war back in march, but ukrainians still operate it. ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy accusing russia as using the plant as a weapon. "any shelling of this facility is an open, brazen crime, an act of terror," he says. fighting has raged in this region as both sides prepare for a showdown over the strategic frontline city of mykolaiv, the target of nightly bombardment. the shelling is happening all the time, ludmila said. the school was burned down over there. this russian missile strike on the regional government headquarters happened in the first few weeks of the war. but the bombardment has

continued. in fact, it's intensified in the past few days. and while russia may have promised safe passage of grain at sea, it's still open season on land. rockets hit a grain silo in the zaporizhzhia region yesterday, destroying more than 350 tons of sunflower seeds, according to the grain company manager. and military spokesperson natalia told us russian missiles continue to target odesa ports, despite the grain deal. it is a demonstration of their brute force, she said. we have no trust in the russian, so we have to rely on international guarantees and support. >> charlie d'agata at the port of odesa. inside russia, despite thousands of soldiers either killed or wounded, the kremlin continues to control news about the war in ukraine. holly williams has that story. >> reporter: russia's invasion

of its neighbor has been vicious. ukrainian civilians cut down on the street and in their homes. but what do ordinary russians know about the war that was started by their president, vladimir putin? in russia, television is state controlled with current affairs shows following the kremlin's line. ukraine's leaders are nazis who need to be eradicated, says this guest. russia is not just fighting ukraine, but also the values of the west says another commentator with russia on the side of justice and salvation. this man was not loyal to vladimir putin. he is a former member of russia's duma, or parliament, who was forced into exile after voting against russia's annexation of crimea in 2014. he told us many russians have been willingly brainwashed and actually believe their military is liberating ukraine because

the truth is painful. >> ukraine is being controlled by the west. ukrainians are being zombifiyed by neo-nazis, and we want to liberate. and that's what majority of the population actually think, because nobody wants to understand that we are the fascists of today. and that's such an inconvenient truth. >> it's hard for russian, just as it's hard for people in most countries to accept that their country is doing something that might be morally wrong. >> absolutely. and you americans, you are not exception to the same thing when you were nighting in vietnam, for example, or in iraq. >> reporter: but the u.s. media is free to report on the reality of america's wars while doing so in russia can be illegal. that's why he has set up this online news channel broadcasting in russian from ukraine, giving russians an unfiltered account of the war they claim to have around a million viewers.

he believes ukraine will win the war and the invasion will ultimate ly be putin's down fal. >> there will be uprising in russia because all of putin's might and influence and power is coming from his alpha male image. if he is losing, that means that he is weakened. he will be overturned. >> reporter: there are many who disagree with his prediction, but he points out that very few expected the soviet union to crumble as quickly as it did in 1991. and if you recall, one of the things that contributed to the collapse of the ussr was its disastrous invasion of afghanistan. >> that was holly williams in thank you for taking care of lorenzo. (♪ ♪) (grunts) for a noticeably smooth shave. dollar shave club. one prilosec otc in the morning

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to scarlett lewis and neil heslin, the parents of 6-year-old jesse lewis, who died in the sandy hook elementary school shooting in 2012. >> i don't know what really happened with sandy hook, folks. we've looked at all sides. we play devil's advocate from both sides. but i mean, it's as phony as a $3 bill. >> reporter: this is what the defamation lawsuit was all about. alex jones' regular rants on his infowars website that sandy hook was a hoax, staged, that none of the 20 dead children or their parents were even real. >> sandy hook is a synthetic, completely fake in my view manufactured. >> jesse was real. i am a real mom. i know you know that. that's the problem. >> reporter: the road to a reckoning for alex jones has been as ugly and wild a ride as last week's trial turned out to be. >> i can't even describe the

last 9 1/2 years of the living hell that i and others have had to endure. >> reporter: heslin described the harassment, the death threats he and other sandy hook victims' families have faced because alex jones' followers believed him. >> but have i done some things that are wrong, and i didn't do it on purpose, and i apologize. >> reporter: in one of several stunning moments in court last week, a suddenly contrite alex jones admitted he had lied. >> especially since i met the parents and it's 100% real. >> alex jones is exposed as a liar. >> cbs news legal analyst rikki klieman. >> and what alex jones then admit, admits that he knew that this happened at sandy hook, and that it wasn't a hoax, if that didn't make you get the chills,

i don't know what would. >> reporter: another of those moments, the revelation that jones' lawyer had mistakenly sent the other side years of text messages proving he lied. >> sent me an entire digital copy of your entire cell phone. >> reporter: phone records jones claimed under oath didn't exist, now of interest to the january 6th committee. >> there is certainly the n possibility that a prosecutor could look at the record in this case and say this is someone who committed perjury. >> how much trouble is he really in? >> i think alex jones is in a whole world of trouble thinking a kangaroo court, a political action. >> reporter: like a sideshow to the drama inside, outside the courtroom, jones cried witch hunt, and then cried poor. his company free speech systems filed for bankruptcy.

>> alex jones is as much as a maverick as he is, as much of an outsider that he is, he is a very successful man. >> reporter: forensic economist bernard pettinggame testified that jones and his company are actually worth between 135 and $270 million. and that he's been shielding money in shell companies. pettinggil told the jury -- >> everything flows to alex jones. i think alex jones made all the major decision, and i think alex jones knows where the money is. >> reporter: will scarlett lewis and neil heslin see the money they hoped would be a deterrent, would stop jones and others from profiting from spreading lies? probably not. texas caps punitive damages. that $45 million is likely to be knocked way down. >> alex jones will be on the air today. he'll be on the air tomorrow.

he'll be on the air next week. >> reporter: but jones still faces other trials in texas and in connec

researchers in italy are using robots to check the health of the environment. tina kraus has that story. >> reporter: this four-legged robot isn't just strolling in the park. it's a machine on a mission. researchers at university of pisa in italy programmed the dog-looking bot named animal to track the plants and record the impact animals have on their habitat. >> for example, wild boars can ruin the terrain, can ruin the ground and prevent the proper growth of new small plants. >> reporter: equipped with sensors and cameras, animal does jobs only people could do before, like measuring the height of trees and tracking

conservation efforts. the brainy bought can even go unsupervised, deciding for itself where to explore. >> he is very agile, and he is also able to walk over really irregular and rough terrain. >> reporter: but he is not completely self-sufficient. he needs a battery change every two hours. robotic technology is booming in popularity across italy. earlier this year, officials rolled out a robotic dog named spot, designed by boston dynamic to patrol the ancient ruins of pompeii. other robots are diving deep to explore underwater marine habitats, helping scientists map sea beds faster, since bots don't need to breathe and can stay on the job longer than people. researchers hope to put more roaming robots on earth to protect and preserve it in the years to come. tina kraus, cbs news. and that is the "overnight

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vote-a-rama drama. >> and the bill as amended is passed. >> senate final passes president biden's long stalled economic agenda. >> this is major win for the american people. >> and staunch republican opposition. >> this bill has nothing to do with what real people in the real world are worried about every day. overseas, china's war games off taiwan spark new worry. in ukraine, four ships carrying needed grain safely set sail to feed the world's hungry. >> i'm charlie d'agata in odesa, ukraine. as more cargo ships leave these ports, we're showing a fraction of the 20 million tons of grain still waiting to be shipped out.

also tonight, targeting muslims, reinforcements for albuquerque police following the killings of four muslim men. plus, with kids returning to school, america's teacher shortage hits crisis levels. and later, weekend journal. a field of dreams for every child. >> i'm scott macfarlane in new york, pennsylvania. the second half of the baseball season, we found some new players who say their first experience is absolutely life-changing. ♪ >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." >> jericka is off. i'm mark strassmann. tonight, president biden has the milestone legislative victory he desperately wanted and needed heading into november's midterms. and naturally, it didn't come easy. first, polarized senators pulled an all-nighter. they started debating saturday and kept arguing before finally voting. and then late today, with vice

president kamala harris casting the tiebreaker, democrats passed the president's economic agenda that had been left for dead. it's a mix of climate change spending, lowered health care costs, and raised corporate taxes. also today, the president left the white house for the first time in more than two weeks since he first tested positive for covid. he'll head tomorrow to tour kentucky's flood damage, and said today he's feeling great. cbs' natalie brand is on capitol hill for us. natalie? >> mark, the president acknowledged that this bill required compromises, but it includes some of his top policy goals. the legislation now heads to the u.s. house for a vote there expected later this week. >> a great win. >> reporter: after a marathon weekend session that started more than 24 hours ago and ended in a major legislative win for democrats -- >> the vice president votes in the affirmative. >> reporter: vice president kamala harris delivered the tie-breaking vote to pass the climate, health care and tax

bill known as the inflation reduction act through evenly divided senate. >> i think it was a historic vote. >> it's an inflation increase act. >> reporter: but the final vote didn't come before 11th hour negotiations over a key tax provision in the legislation, a 15% minimum tax on large companies. >> and i encourage my colleagues to support this amendment and help ensure that our nation's small and medium-sized businesses aren't hit with a misguided and entirely inappropriate $35 billion tax hike. >> reporter: arizona senator kyrsten sinema once again forced a deal with senate democrats to move forward. the last-minute drama followed a vote-a-rama on dozen of other amendments. >> do you think there is going to be any change in the house? >> no. i expect it to have smooth sailing. >> reporter: senate democrats say the legislation, which represents an historic investment in climate, will lower energy costs, providing tax credits to those who buy green and manufacturers who build it. they also argue it will reduce

health care costs, especially for seniors, and allow medicare to negotiate down high-priced prescription drugs. since this could take a while to implement, when will people see and feel the impacts? >> some of the things they'll find quite quickly, and some of the things will take a longer time. >> natalie, as democrats celebrate, there is trouble on another front following speaker pelosi's visit to taiwan. china's furious, and for four days has been carrying out war games immediately after the island's coast. dozens of warships and planes. so is the biden administration worried about how far beijing will go? >> well, mark, the administration has said it expected china to take actions like this, but also notes they raise the risk of miscalculation. the white house says the u.s. does not want a crisis, but is also prepared for what beijing chooses to do. >> natalie brand, thank you. today, the president also

responded to the murders of four men in albuquerque, new mexico, all of them muslims, all of them ambushed according to police. in a tweet, mr. biden wrote he is angered and saddened by the horrific killings. cbs' lilia luciano is monitoring developments. lilia? >> reporter: mark, the governor of new mexico has called them targeted killings and is sending more state law enforcement to albuquerque. but until the killer or killers are caught, many in the albuquerque muslim community are living in fear. local, state and federal police are stepping up efforts after friday's shooting of naeem hussain, the thirst muslim man murdered in albuquerque in less than two weeks. ahmad assed runs the islamic center of mexico which all three victims attended. >> just an emotional roller coaster in trying to make sense of these horrific and heinous crimes. >> reporter: 41-year-old aftab hussein was killed on july 26th. and 27-year-old muhammad afzaal hussain on august 1st.

>> my brother will not come back, but i want someone else's brother, someone else's sister, someone else's dad or mother should not be victim of those people. >> reporter: police say the killer or killers may also be responsible for a fourth victim. 62-year-old mohammed zahir ahmadi slain last november. how are people reacting? >> panic. we're certainly taking precautions, things like the buddy system. don't travel at night if you don't have to. don't come to the mosque for prayer if you feel like you can't do that safely. >> reporter: i'm sure that impacts far beyond the sense of security. also people's livelihoods. >> and that's exactly what's happening here. i mean, it is hitting businesses. it's hitting schooling. we live in times where uncertainty rules the day. >> reporter: mr. assed says he is confident the killer or killers will be caught, and that his community is thankful for the outpouring of support. mark? >> lilia luciano, thanks.

follow today in indiana, following the state's passage of a bide ranging abortion bill, pharmaceutical giant eli lilly, one of indiana's largest employers, complained the new law could make it difficult to recruit new talent. the drugmaker said the restriction also force the company to grow future development outside the state. today roughly 200 haitian migrants are in custody after their packed boat ran aground off the florida keys. more than 100 others jumped into the water and made it to shore. they're being held in a border patrol detention center. those who remained on the boat will likely be returned to haiti. to the middle east now, where tonight there is talk of a truce in gaza. this was the third day of the deadly cross-border conflict, and fears of rocket attacks sent people running for cover in tel aviv. palestinians say more than 40 have been killed, including children. the "cbs overnight news" will be right back. ♪

>> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." >> with millions of kids getting ready to go back to school, america's teacher shortage has hit crisis levels, as school officials everywhere are scrambling. cbs' elise preston is in new york now with details. elise? >> reporter: mark, here in new york, the state changed some of its teacher certification requirements this year. supporters hope the move will help ease the shortage. it's a crisis playing out across the country. monday is the first day of school in quinlan, texas, where the district resorted to creative incentives to recruit teachers. >> i get to wear jeans and

t-shirts every day, which as a science teacher, i love. >> reporter: that new dress code, plus a four-day week, and the announcement of a $1,000 bonus just for showing up. kansas could have its worst teacher shortage ever. still missing 1400. and florida has about 8,000 openings. in san francisco -- >> we want you now. we need you now. somedy who doesn't have a teaching credential but has an interest in being an educator right now to come and try it out. >> reporter: teachers blame low pay, pandemic stress, and politics for driving them away. and the problem could get worse. a poll of the american federation of teachers found 40% of its members may leave the job in the next two years. 3/4 say they would not recommend their profession to others. >> you're calling this a crisis? >> yes, it is a crisis. >> reporter: randy weingarten is aft president. >> we need to actually make the conditions better so that the teachers we have right now will

stay. >> reporter: experts point out some classrooms are feeling the burden even more. bilingual students and children with special needs have been facing shortages for years. teachers say that it is tougher to staff those programs. mark? >> elise preston, thanks. with russian forces bogged down in ukraine, president vladimir putin has fired another three generals, including his top commander there. according to british defense officials. also today, four more ships loaded with grain left ukrainian ports. it's part of a humanitarian deal struck with moscow to ease a looming global food crisis. from the black sea port city of odesa, here is charlie d'agata. >> reporter: the 60,000 or so tons of grain that have already set sail this week a tiny fraction of what needs to be shifted. 20 million tons are in silos at port, trapped by russia's suffocating blockade. countless more tons of wheat,

corn, barley, rape seed stuck at farms like this one north of odesa. >> this is all last year's harvest. >> reporter: yuri is a third generation farmer. he says it's degrading by the day and should have been shipped out in the spring. a thousand tons here, and he's got four more warehouses full of it. do you still hope that you'll be able to export all of this grain? "we have a saying that hope dies last," he says. "yes, we still hope to export it." it's already no longer fit for human consumption, literally chicken feed. this is just one warehouse in one village in the south of ukraine, but this grain is part of a worldwide food crisis triggered by the russian invasion here. president zelenskyy has welcomed the resumption of exports, but has zero trust in russian promises, saying the threat of

russian provocations and terrorist acts remains. farmers in flak jackets have found themselves on the front line. russian forces setting fire to wheat fields, shelling farms and storage facilities. "my friends have already become victims of shelling. we have nothing left," yuri tells us. "everything has been destroyed." russia's grip over ukraine's grains remains a weapon in its arsenal, starving ukraine of valuable resources and the world of vital food supplies. charlie d'agata, cbs news, odesa, ukraine. and straight ahead, the unthinkable price of survival in africa's newest nation. and later, a field of dreams for a special group of baseball for a special group of baseball players. ♪♪ here goes nothing. hey greg.

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he lays out his sticks. each one represents a cow. he is demanding 100. after several hours of haggling, a deal is struck. it's less than he hoped for, but times are tough. 60 scrawny cows in exchange for his daughter. today it will be a marriage. wearing a green dress and an ill-fitting wig, the bride is treated like royalty. the cattle will save her family from starvation. but it comes at a terrible cost. she is a child, just 14 years old. two months ago, she had a future beyond this village. she was in school where she received not only an education, but a meal once a y, a then that school feeding scheme came to an abrupt halt. water lilies, but at least ng

the kids were being fed at school. then a cash-strapped world food program was forced to suspend the meals. an aid worker says she feels ashamed parents have to choose between food or education. >> my fear is from what i have seen today, there is going to be a lost generation if we don't come back with this assistance. >> reporter: she seems tired and resigned to her fate. "when girls get married, your whole family gets help and something to eat," she says. "you live or die together." tonight the 25-year-old groom gets to take her home. she is a child. how does it make you feel as a father? "it hurts," he says. "the cows we are getting are hardly worth it, but we are afraid. we don't have anything to eat." it's a heavy burden for a 14-year-old to carry. if there was no problems with

food, what would you choose to do right now? "i have to get married so my family survives," she says. "but if there was food, i would go to school." she loves science and dreams of being a doctor. but there are many ways hunger can destroy a life. debora patta, cbs news, south sudan. there is a lot more news ahead on the "cbs overnight news." the land of fire and ice is drawing big crowds. we'll check out the show. trelegy for copd. ♪ birds flyin' high ♪ ♪ you know how i feel ♪ (coughing) ♪ breeze driftin' on by ♪ ♪ you know how i feel ♪ copd may have gotten you here, but you decide what's next. start a new day with trelegy. ♪ ...feelin' good ♪

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unlike pepcid, which stops working after 9. 24 hour protection. prilosec otc one pill, 24 hours, zero heartburn. baseball dreams. for many kids, it's to play in the big leagues one day. but sometimes that dream is more modest, to get just one at-bat anywhere. in tonight's weekend journal, cbs' scott macfarlane shows us our new favorite boys and girls of summer. >> how far can you throw it? >> throw it! >> reporter: ethan brianer wants to be a catcher, just like his big brother. >> that is a wide curveball. >> reporter: they're already working on ethan's home run celebration. briner's family lives near york, pennsylvania, and was among the first to arrive when the york revolution minor league baseball team donated their field today to a nonprofit project called

beautiful lives project which is traveling america this year, staging games for people with disabilities. >> are you good? >> yes, i'm awesome. >> reporter: for adults and children who say they're often left out when local towns and communities organize sports leagues and events. carter hutchinson was born 16 weeks premature with cerebral palsy. his mom says carter suffers chronic pain and breathing struggles, but always has a sparkle in his eye when he talks baseball. >> i can't imagine not having baseball. i love it so much. it brings us so much joy. >> reporter: carter is also an encyclopedia of the sport, who knows every batting average, home run total and world series champ since the 1970s. who won the world series in 2000? >> the yankees. >> reporter: how about in 1990? >> the reds. >> reporter: from town to town, beautiful lives project finds and invites the local kids and adults with disabilities to play. and it's often the local minor league ballplayers and coaches leading the drills. these events were dreamt up and

organized by a young man who now brings them all across the country in the summer, the man who's also seizing his own opportunity, inside the press box. >> thank you for coming out. >> reporter: bryce weiler of illinois, who has put together 20 stops this year from boston to minneapolis to here in york. bryce is blind and discovered few people think to organize events like this. so he does it. >> they're able to see how important it is to surround yourself with people and friends who believe in you. >> reporter: and weiler is not stopping there. >> a home run of his own and not -- >> reporter: he's begun broadcasting, calling nearly 150 games so far. it's an effort to break more boundaries, he says. as for his nonprofit, it's a bigger hit than he imagined. 61 people showed up for this event in york who at no cost enjoyed the day of their lives, and where ethan had a chance to emulate and bond with his hero, big brother dustin. >> he takes good care of me, and

i love him all my life. >> you're going to bring me to tears. >> reporter: just a grand slam. scott ma arlane, cbs news,

today in iceland, this type of fiery show never disappoint, and it's drawing thousands of tourists. fountains of lava are shooting 100 feet into the a air. the volcano, just ten miles from the country's capital, began erupting last week. at least three people have been hurt after getting a little too

close. this weekend marked the start of another season for soccer great lionel messi. and this is why he is a world famous marvel. take a look at this, this bicycle kick for a goal. just amazing. it was his second of the match in the french league. messi's team won, 5-0. how do we top that? we go wind walking with betty bromage in britain. a 93-year-old grandma and daredevil strapped to the wing of a biplane, defying the laws of gravity and aging. her pilot said he might have been more scared than she was. and that is the "overnight news" for this monday. for some of you, the news continues. for others, check back later for "cbs mornings" and follow us online any time at cbsnews.com. reporting from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm mark strassmann.

♪ s is cbsew prest ithe president and first will tour eastern kentucky, where devastating storms are to blame for killing at least 37. more storms could sweep through the state tuesday and wednesday. cincinnati police are investigating a mass shooting outside a bar which left nine people hurt. police say a fight between two groups broke out before at least two people began shooting at each other. a responding officer fired at one of the suspects, but it's not clear if they were hit while running away from the scene. brad pitt's latest action "bullet train" sped its way to the top of the box office. this weekend's debut brought in $30 million for the film, just a

third of the cost to make the summer blockbuster. for more news, download the cbs news app on your cell phone or connected tv. i'm it's monday, august 8th, 2022. this is the "cbs morning news." spending bill passed. the senate approves a measure that ay ererit could worsen inflation.>>we wnot stopr tice. fear in albuquerque. four men are shot and killed, all of them muslim. the developments as police search for the killer. new guidelines? the cdc is expected to ease some covid rules including for students. what it could mean ahead of the new school year. good morning, and good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green.

this morning president biden and