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nuclear disaster, said olena sidoryakina, not just us in ukraine, the whole world. international atomic energy agents have been asking for access to inspect the plant and ukraine's energy minister now says they could travel there in the coming days. norah. >> dep debora patta. we told you about columbus, ohio, the largest school district in the state where kids will return to the classroom after teachers reached an agreement with the county breaking an end to the three-day strike. thousands of miles away in kent, washington, a suburb of seattle, teachers were on the picket line impacting 25,000 students. the teachers union says the fight is over class sizes, mental health and higher pay. one of the biggest problems that unions and schools can agree on is the growing crisis of teacher
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shortages. school districts across the country are coming up with unique incentives in hopes of retaining teachers and attracting new ones. in missouri it includes a four-day workweek and hefty signing bonuses. here is adriana diaz. >> reporter: teachers nationwide cramming ahead of back to school, but not allie veatch from columbia, missouri. you taught what grade? >> mainly ninth. >> reporter: what was the mental age of the kids in the class? >> most hadn't had a normal year since sixth grade so probably 11, 12. we were all in survival mode and i couldn't last any longer in that mental state. >> reporter: nearly 300,000 public school educators have left the profession since the start of the pandemic. in fort dumb walt, missouri, the superintendent says that's due to burnout, pay and baby boomers retiring. are you competing with other school districts for applicants? >> absolutely we are. just selling your school
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district, our teachers very often sing our praises. >> reporter: superintendent, are you selling your school right now to potential teachers watching this interview? >> oh, yeah, always. >> reporter: missouri starts teachers at $25,000 a year. to help recruit the state passed a temporary pay bump. it also increased pay for substitute teachers and lowered their requirements and allowed districts to have four-day school weeks. >> the four-day school week was highly attractive to me. >> reporter: that was a deciding factor for gwen imhoff who got six job offers. she's also pregnant and has to find her own sub during a substitute teacher shortage. >> not a lot of people to even call for maternity leave sub. >> reporter: for veatch to come back, she says the whole system would need an overhaul. >> if teachers are given the resources they need to meet the needs of the students, i would go back. if students were given what they need to be successful, i would go back.
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>> reporter: in this job market teachers are finding more options outside of the classroom, given the rise of remote work and low unemployment. as for allie veatch who we interviewed, she is one of several teachers from her area that joined a company to help create their internal training materials. norah. >> this feels like a national emergency. adriana diaz, thank you. well, tonight a major decision that will impact millions of drivers looking to buy a new car in california. we've got that story in 60 seconds.
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there's big news tonight for the more than 25 million drivers in california. state regulators approved governor gavin anymore's plan to ban the sale of gas-powered vehicles by 2035. the governor is seekin to cut carbon emissions from cars in half by the year 2040, but the policy will still need federal approval. tonight a new study finds pfizer's covid pill paxlovid appears to provide little or no benefit for younger adults. israeli researchers looked at more than 1,000 patients and found the drug significantly reduced hospitalizations and deaths among seniors but younger adults didn't show measurable benefit. here in the u.s. paxlovid is recommended only for those with high risk of getting severely ill from covid. tonight two people from florida pleaded guilty of stealing and selling the private diary of president biden's
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daughter ashley. it was found by a woman who along with a friend sold them to the conservative activist group project veritas. they've been ordered to for fit the $40,000 they were paid and they now face five years in prison. with the u.s. open set to begin on monday, novak djokovic announced he will not play in the tournament because he is not vaccinated against covid and he is not allowed to travel to the u.s. as serena williams gears up for what is expected to be her final tournament we learn her first opponent. it will be her 21st appearance at the u.s. open. coming up next, "eye on america" with a new jersey man america" with a new jersey man working to keep kids there's a different way to treat hiv. it's every-other-month, injectable cabenuva. for adults who are undetectable, cabenuva is the only complete hiv treatment you can get every other month. cabenuva helps keep me undetectable. it's two injections, given by a healthcare provider every other month. it's one less thing to think about while traveling.
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in 2008. >> reporter: what's the goal of this program? >> the goal was to teach our kids there's opportunities. your life is worth living. >> reporter: in bridge ton, 17% of the children live below the poverty line. >> every kid is given the opportunity to write their story. what we want to be is an aid in that, so we provide support for everything from school to mentoring to anything recreational. >> reporter: for 14-year-old zaire bryant, this is his refuge from reality. >> reporter: what do you hear or see? >> i see people with guns and stuff. i'm like i don't like that, that's why i just get away from there. >> reporter: nationwide firearm injuries are the leading cause of death among children. over the past 15 years, he has worked with about 10,000 kids teaching them life skills to survive in an area plagued by crime. >> i live in the city where we don't have a recreation center. we have a county jail, a state prison, a federal prison and halfway house. >> reporter: 13-year-old jazair
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thompson started participating in the program two years ago. what are you most excited about right now? >> right now? >> up him. >> coming to the problem. he keeps me out of trouble. >> reporter: year around activities from sports and music and the arts, giving them a purpose and helping set goals for the future. what does basketball mean to you? >> if it wasn't for basketball i don't know what i would be doing right now. that's a lot. >> reporter: what do you want them to know? >> i want them to know that i'm going to make 'em proud, make dreams. >> reporter: dreaming of a better life. for "eye on america," meg oliver, cbs news, bridgeton, new jersey. >> such a great program. we need more like that. these kids need everybody's help. up next, terrifying moments for air passengers when their plane's engine catches fire.
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while the eyes of the tennis world will be on serena williams at next week's u.s. open, last night the focus was on peace with ukraine taking center court. here is cbs's michael george. >> reporter: there oy are among biggest names in tennis. >> mr. rafael nadal. coco gauff. john mcenroe. >> reporter: they're sharing the court and raising more than a million dollars in aid for ukraine. team phenom coco gauff is playing alongside john mcenroe. >> i like to speak out when it's right, and i'm glad that i was able to be a part of this. >> we all want peace and hopefully this will do something towards helping the situation over in ukraine. >> reporter: and watching from the front row, ukrainian tennis
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star sergiy stakhovsky. earlier this year the 36 year old walked away from his tennis career and took up arms to defend his country. >> why did you decide that you had to fight? >> i am ukrainian. i was born in that country. i felt obliged to do so because i know a lot of my friends, they stayed behind. >> reporter: now stachis life couldn't be farther from his days as a tennis star. he came to the event to remind people that ukrainians are still fighting. >> ukraine is in need of financial and military aid. >> reporter: stakhovsky is headed back to fight, grateful his tennis family has not forgotten him. >> every little dollar, every event matters because they see they're not left alone. >> reporter: michael george, "cbs evening news," new york. >> that is the overnight news for this friday. for some the news continues. for others check back for "cbs mornings." you can follow us online at
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cbsnews.com. reporting from the nation's capital, i'm norah o'donnell. ♪ this is cbs news flash. i'm matt pieper in new york. russian president putin has ordered a major buildup of his country's military forces. now six months into the russia/ukraine war 137,000 service members will be added to the russian military starting next year. it will boost russia's overall forces more than 2 million. artemis 1 will blast off to the moon on monday. it is first step for the program that aims to one day return astronauts to the lunar surface. it is a 42 day mission. ofor more news download the
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cbs news app on your cellphone or connected tv. i'm matt pieper. cbs news, new york. ♪ this is the "cbs overnight news". tonight we are one step closer to seeing a redacted version of the affidavit the government used to support a search warrant of former president trump's florida home, mar-a-lago. that release could come at any moment. a federal judge ordered the unsealing just hours after the justice department submitted the document with those redactions. there are parts of the affidavit that federal investigators want to keep secret, citing concerns that it will impact the early stages of this probe. the redactions are expected to be extensive. media organizations, including cbs news, urged the release of the document, something that would be extremely rare but
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would shed light on why the fbi searched a former president's home. we have a lot of news to get to tonight and cbs's robert costa will start us off from west palm beach, florida. good evening, robert. >> reporter: good evening, norah. the decision by the florida federal judge to release a redacted version of this affidavit is a major development in this case, and it could provide new details about why the home of the former president was searched. late this afternoon florida federal judge bruce reinhart, who initially approved the warrant that led to the search of mar-a-lago, issued an order that portions of an affidavit justifying the search should be made public by noon tomorrow. reinhart wrote that he approved the justice department suggested redactions to portions of the affidavit to protect the identity of witnesses, law enforcement agents, the investigation strategy, direction, scope, sources and methods, and grand jury information. justice department officials had opposed releasing the full
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affidavit and could still appeal the decision, saying last week they are very concerned about the safety of the witnesses involved. in their investigation of trump's handling of classified information, some of which went up to the level of top secret. >> i think what the public is going to learn is, again, just how much effort went into this affidavit, the fact that there are pages and pages and pages of probable cause, potentially the types of documents above and beyond what we already know were seized. >> reporter: judge reinhart made the ruling just hours after the justice department submitted the redacted affidavit at his request. former president trump, who has previously called for it to be released, conferred with his attorneys in bedminster, new jersey, today. this comes as new reporting from "the washington post" shows that national archives officials were urging trump's lawyers as far back as may of 2021, 15 months before the mar-a-lago search, to return boxes of documents they said were missing including letters from northern leader kim jong-un and former president
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obama, and that former white house counsel pat cipollone knew trump had stored documents in his residence and agreed they needed to be returned. this all comes as the investigation of trump in georgia ramps up. prosecutors said today they want to hear more from members of trump's inner circle including former white house chief of staff mark meadows. norah. >> so many new details. robert costa, thank you so much. well, tonight the gulf coast is bracing for more rain after a day of flooding. millions of americans are under watches and warning tonight and the situation is dire. the mayor of jackson, mississippi, is telling residents to be prepared to evacuate. let's bring in meteorologist mike bettes from our partners at the weather channel for more. good evening, mike. >> norah, good evening. we have had historic rain this week across the southeast, in some places more than a foot and a half of rain has fallen bringing us also historic flooding. we also know this summer we have been dealing with drought across
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the south, in particular in texas. all of the rain we have seen this week marginally helpful. small brochlts in the drought in places like dallas and still 22 million residents of the lone star state are under drought. more heavy rain across the southeast and the workweek especially along i-10 in the southeast and storms heavy across florida through the weekend. severe weather returns for the northeast as well, not ruling out the chance for tornados across new england, hartford to burlington. then, of course, there are the tropics. quiet for now but a couple of areas to watch including this area rolling through the caribbean, areas of interest all the way into central america into early next week, norah. >> mike bettes, thank you. families in uvalde, texas, are celebrating the firing of school police chief arredondo but some say it didn't go far enough and others should be fired, too. arredondo is the first officer to be held accountable for the delayed response to the school massacre that left 19 students and 2 teachers dead. cbs's janet shamlian is in
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uvalde. >> reporter: tonight uvalde school's police chief, pete arredondo, is out of a job. >> good cause exits to terminate the noncertified contract of pete arredondo effective immediately. >> no justice! >> no peace! >> reporter: an outraged community finally getting what it has been pleading for. >> turn in your badge and step down! you don't deserve to wear one! >> reporter: arredondo was a no-show here. his attorney releasing a 17-page statement calling the meeting an "unconstitutional public lynching" and calling his actions outstanding. family say next to go are some of the officers in the hallway while children were calling 911 from the classroom. adam martinez say his son and daughter are frightened and won't be going back to school. they will take classes remotely. >> i told my son, they're going
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to have impomore cops, they're g to have higher fencing, and right away he said, it doesn't matter if there's cops or not, they're not going to go in, they're not going to protect us. >> reporter: some are leaving the district entirely. uvalde's sacred heart catholic school has enrolled dozens of students from robb elementary. martinez says the trust isn't there. >> until they start making some changes, changing the staff around, i don't know if we are ever going to have that level of confidence we need to feel safe. >> reporter: some families connected to robb elementary are now seeking compensation. a $27 billion lawsuit is expected to be filed against the school district, the city and a number of police agencies that responded to the shooting. norah. >> janet shamlian, thank you. there's big news tonight for the more than 25 million drivers in california.
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state regulators approved governor anynewsom's plan to ba the sale of gas-powered cars by 2035. the policy will still need federal approval. tonight a new study finds pfizer's covid pill, paxlovid, appears to provide little or no benefit for younger adults. israeli researchers looked at more than 1,000 patients and found the drug significantly reduced hospitalizations and deaths among seniors but younger adults didn't show any measurable benefit. here in the u.s. paxlovid is recommended only for people at high risk of getting severely ill from covid. tonight two people from florida have pleaded guilty to stealing and selling the private diary of president biden's daughter, ashley. biden's daughter was moving from a friend's home in 2020 and she left behind some personal items including her diary. they were found by a woman who along with a friend sold them to the conservative activist group, project veritas. they've been ordered to forfeit
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♪ this is the "cbs overnight news." ♪ i am jeff hague enin washington. the count down has begun to the first test flight of nasa's new rocket designed to take humans back to the moon. come monday morning, 100,000 people are expected to line the beaches and causeways near the kennedy space center in florida where the artemis 1 rocket will blast into space. the mission wouldn't have any astronauts, but if all goes well mankind will be one step closer to walking on the moon for the first time in half a century. artemis is described as the most
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complex rocket ever built, and nasa, well, it has a lot riding on its success. mark strassmann has more from the kennedy space center. >> reporter: even from a d distance what you see standing on the pad behind me looks imposing, the most powerful rocket nasa has ever built. we are days away from seeing whether it works. >> it is a great sight, seeing that artemis vehicle on the pad. >> reporter: charlie blackwell thompson, the artemis 1 launch director, leads a team of 100 here inside the kennedy space center's firing room. >> ntv launch director. >> reporter: it is up to her to give the go to launch the most powerful rocket nasa has ever built. >> it does bring an entirely new capability. it is going to return our nation to the moon and it is going to pave the way for our next steps in exploration as we prepare to go someplace like mars. >> reporter: this rocket is a monster, 322-feet tall, weighing
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almost 6 million pounds when fully fuelled. for nasa, the stakes are just as massive. artemis 1 needs to work. 8.8 million pounds of thrust will lift the space launch system rocket sty ward. on top, orion, a next generation crew caps you will. orion will ply on a 42-day mission into a distant lunar orbit reaching roughly 40,000 miles beyond the moon, the farthest point for a vehicle that can carry humans. >> we will do a look over. >> reporter: on this flight the only passeners will be mannequins outfitted with sensors collecting data. >> we need to put the rocket on the pad with the capsule on top, send it to the moon and make sure it comes back safely. we have to test all of those things before we put humans in those seats and ask them to do something that's never been done before. >> reporter: watching closely, astronaut kayla barron. the next artemis mission,
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artemis 2, set for 2024, will have a crew for a test flight around the moon and back. >> a lot of people ask why would we go back to the moon. we want to travel to mars, and mars is really, really far from planet earth, and the first human crew to go do that might be testing equipment we have never had the opportunity to test before. the perfect place to practice that is the lunar surface. >> it is one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. >> reporter: the apollo missions landed near the moon's equator. artemis will aim for its south pole where dark craters may hold ice that can be converted to rocket fuel, air and water. nasa has announced 13 potential touchdown targets for artemis three, the first lunar landing mission later this decade using a spacex lander. long-term plans call for a mini space station in lunar orbit. >> we are ready to proceed into
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our pretest briefing. >> reporter: first, the most complex rocket in history must prove itself for nasa's artemis generation to get its moon shot moment. >> i think we have done all of the things you can do to be ready, and i find myself many mornings when i come out to go to work and the moon is up in the sky, i will look up and i will think, we're coming back, and we're coming back soon. >> reporter: this is all brand-new to us, everything. >> reporter: rick la brode works every day to give america the moon. now 60, he is the artemis one lead director, the guy in the hot seat, guiding nasa's most ambitious mission in a century. >> we have to have a successful flight before we put astronauts on the next mission. >> you can practice all you want to go to the moon, but the launch will be game time. >> it will be very different. the pucker factor will be there. >> reporter: we met him inside
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artemis mission control in the johnson space center. in nearly four decades with the center he helped assemble the international space station and served as flight director for the space center. no one working on artemis one, not him or anyone on the team has worked on a moon shot. >> i mean we were alive, a lot of us, last time we put boots on the moon but we were very young. >> reporter: apollo 17, december 1972. astronaut gene cernan's boot prints were last left in the dust. moon missions were ended and the books closed on one of mankind's greatest achievements until now. do you dust off the old apollo manuals? >> a lot of our guys did. >> reporter: he took us up one floor to the stage of so much space history, the iconic apollo mission control room. >> it is amazing to see the
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technology and what we were able to do with it. >> reporter: in here the united states beat the soviets to the moon using rotary dial phones and slide rules. >> when you look at old footage of the apollo era, what jumps out at you? >> bermuda. bermuda is green. >> well, it is interesting to see people smoking in mission control. we don't do that anymore. >> houston network, net one. >> but, you know, there's a lot of similarities. it is a laser focus. the flight control team will do whatever it takes to get it done. that part hasn't changed even in the slightest bit. >> reporter: launching on top of the most powerful rocket nasa has ever built, artemis one will send a capsule called orion on a trajectory to the moon. it will fly within 60 miles of the lunor surface, then push 40,000 miles beyond the moon for space high drama, a glimpse back on earth. after orbiting the moon it will reenter earth's atmosphere for priority 1 testing, whether the
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capsule's heat shield can withstand temperatures of 5,000 degrees, about half as hot as the surface of the sun. >> i mean it is coming back at some ridiculous speeds. i think it is 11.6 kilometers per second. >> 25,000 miles per hour? >> yes, it gets really hot. we have to make sure it will support the re-entry. >> reporter: if artemis one succeeds it would pave the way for human flights to the moon including a lunar landing later this decade. >> and how hurtful to the program would it be if it doesn't go right? >> i can't tell you that. i don't know, but conceivably it could end the program. it could. you just never know until you get in that situation. i hope we don't have to worry about that. that's my goal. >> reporter: no pressure, right? from this lead, la brode and his team will lead and follow the future of nasa's human space exploration starting with artemis one's lift-off. >> after almost four years of nasa, what is that moment going to be like for you? >> my gosh, i can't begin to think about it. i have gotten emotional in my old age so i have to be careful here.
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it will be very rewarding, very special for sure. >> you said emotional, why emotional? >> reflect back on being in this position, to be able to do this. yeah, it is a pretty big deal. >> reporter: big moment for him and nor the entire team. i asked la brode if he has even more respect now for the apollo era engineers now that he is directing a launch to the moon himself for first time. he said absolutely for a couple of reasons. one is, remember the apollo era folks were making it up as they went along, it never had been done before, and remember the level of 1960s technology. it was remarkable they pulled it off as quickly as they did and as well as they did back in the '60s. >> and that is mark strassmann at the kennedy space center. turning now to the biden administration's efforts to crack down on untraceable ghost guns that can be made with just the click of a 3d printer. cities across america are seeing surges in gun violence.
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some of it linked to so-called ghost guns. >> we are seeing this used in shooting incidents in new york city. >> ghost guns which can be assembled at home, don't have serial numbers making them untraceable. thomas chitham was a top official at atf. >> most firearms recovered in crimes are still commercially made, but these privately made firearms were a growing and significant source of crime. >> law enforcement is counting on the new rule changing that it it mandates ghost gun kits have serious numbers and licensed dealers can only sell them to people who have had background checks, but no one in law enforcement expects the flow of ghost guns to be cut off. they are becoming the criminal's weapon of choice. between 2016 and 2021, the atf got more than 45,000 reports of privately made firearms being recovered during criminal investigations. they are being used in part
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because of the fire power. this is a ghost gun. at an atf facility we were allowed to demonstrate how ghost guns are being converted into fully automatic firearms. >> as long as there are people out there who want to commit violent crimes, they're going to find ways to get guns. this new rule should shrink one of those avenues that criminals have used in the recent past to arm themselves. >> law enforcement officials and firearm safety groups are praising the new rule, but others, including the lobbying group gun owners of america, are challenging it in court. they say that it will sow chaos
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>> we were interested in the way that people use devices like smartphones as an extension of their memory. >> reporter: dr. sam gilbert led a team of researchers from university college london. using a computer program, 158 volunteers were given a memory task to do 16 times. for half of them, they had to rely on their own memory. for the rest they could set reminders on a digital device. >> when people have access to a digital memory they offload the most important information into that digital memory, but this in turn frees up space we can use to remember additional information. >> reporter: so your important information is only as good as your battery life? >> that's right. so you need to make sure that your devices are reliable. >> reporter: some folks agree. digital reminders help boost their memory. >> i was putting my dentist appointment, but i would also then remind myself also my husband has one and my son has one, so i need to make sure they go to theirs. >> reporter: others aren't
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convinced. >> no, because i just have everything written down. >> reporter: but researchers say remembering to outsource your memory just when you humble yourself under the mighty hand of god, in due time he will exalt you. hi, i'm joel osteen. i'm excited about being with you every week. i hope you'll tune in. you'll be inspired, you'll be encouraged. i'm looking forward to seeing you right here. you are fully loaded and completely equipped for the race that's been designed for you.
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s fundamental in the game of baseball than the ability to catch. well, there's a big star in the minor leagues making a name for himself for his ability to fetch. i think i know where this story is going. kris van cleave has the story. >> reporter: the 1988 hit "bull durham" was a major home run for the minor league durham bulls. now it is a dog that has fans barking for more. meet riffvkin, the dog. >> sometimes i have to apologize to the players because they will ground out to second and the crowd goes crazy.
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>> reporter: crazy for this dog collecting the bats for the hometown team and a good luck charm. do you worry people will say you are letting the game go to the dogs? >> no, not at all actually. >> reporter: assistant general manager chip allen says the team did have a couple of canine concerns. >> would the bats come back wet? would they have teeth marks in it? i don't know how rivkin does it, no saliva on the bats, no teeth marks. >> reporter: it helps his owner michael o'donnell is a dog trainer and former baseball player. >> it started playing fetch with bats in the backyard and having fun. >> reporter: how did you get the dog to ignore the balls on the field? >> lots of practice. >> reporter: letting o'donnell live out his baseball dreams through his four-legged best friend, while hoping the big leagues throw rivkin a bone sometime soon. kris van cleave, cbs news, durham. >> that is the overnight news for this friday. for some of you the news continues. for others, don't forget to
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check back later for "cbs mornings." you can follow us online any time at cbs news.com. reporting from the nation's capital, i'm jeff begues. this is cbs news flash. i'm matt pieper in new york. russia president putin ordered a major buildup of his country's military forces. now six months into the russia/ukraine war 137,000 service members will be added to the russian military starting next year. it will boost russia's armed forces overallll to more than 2 million. the mega rocket artemis 1 will blast off to the moon monday. it is the first major step for the space agency's artemis program that aims to one day return astronauts to the lunar be surface. he was the number one pick in the draft but oklahoma forward chet holmgren will miss
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the season. he is set to have surgery to repair a tendon in his foot. i'm matt pieper, cbs news, new york. what we're learning right now is a federal judge has ordered the justice department to release parts of the affidavit that were used to justify that fbi search of donald trump's florida resort. the breaking news and when americans could get more details on why the u.s. government wanted to enter mar-a-lago looking for top secret documents. cbs's robert costa is in palm beach with new reporting. fears of a nuclear meltdown in ukraine grow after europe's largest power plant disconnects from the power grid twice. cbs's debora patta is in kyiv. fighting the teacher shortage. cbs's adriana diaz looks at schools offering things like a four-day workweek to get educators back in the classroom. >> are you competing with other school districts for applicants?
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>> absolutely we are. and our "eye on america"." cbs's meg oliver shows us a program working to keep kids safe. >> if it wasn't for basketball i don't know what i would be doing right now. sechlt sechlt sechlt sechlt sechlt sechlt sechlt sechlt sechlt captioning funded by cbs this is the cbs overnight news. tonight we are one step closer to seeing a redacted version of the affidavit the government used to support a search warrant of former president trump's florida home, mar-a-lago. that release could come at any moment. a federal judge ordered the unsealing just hours after the justice department submitted the document with those redactions. there are parts of the affidavit that federal investigators want to keep secret, citing concerns it will impact the early stages of this probe. the redactions are expected to be extensive. media organizations including cbs news urged the release of the document, something that would be extremely rare but
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would shed light on why the fbi searched a former president's home. we have a lot of news to get to tonight and cbs's robert costa will start us off from west palm beach, florida. good evening, robert. >> reporter: good evening, norah. the decision by the florida federal judge to release a redacted version of this affidavit is a major development in this case. it could provide new details about why the home of the former president was searched. late this afternoon florida federal judge bruce reinhart who initially approved the warrant that led to the search of mar-a-lago issued an order portions of the affidavit justifying the search should be made public by noon tomorrow. reinhart wrote that he approved the justice department suggested redactions to portions of the affidavit to protect the identity of witnesses, law enforcement agents, the investigation strategy, direction, scope, sources and methods, and grand jury information. justice department officials had opposed releasing the full affidavit and could still appeal
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the decision, saying last week they are very concerned about the safety of the witnesses involved in their investigation of trump's handling of classified information, some of which went up to the level of top secret. >> i think what the public is going to learn is, again, just how much effort went into this affidavit, the fact that there are pages and pages and pages of probable cause, potentially the types of documents above and beyond what we already know were seized. >> reporter: judge reinhart made the ruling just hours after the justice department submitted the redacted affidavit at his request. former president trump, who has previously called for it to be released, conferred with his attorneys in bedminster, new jersey today. this comes as new reporting from "the washington post" shows that national archives officials were urging trump's lawyers as far back as may of 2021, 15 months before the mar-a-lago search to return boxes of documents they said were missing including letters from northern leader kim
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jong-un and former president obama, and that former white house counsel pat cipollone knew trump had stored documents in his residence and agreed they needed to be returned. this all comes as the investigation of trump in georgia ramps up. prosecutors said today they want to hear more from members of trump's inner circle, including former white house chief of staff mark meadows. norah. >> so many new details. robert costa, thank you so much. well, tonight the gulf coast is bracing for more rain after a day of flooding. millions of americans are under watches and warning tonight and the situation is dire. the mayor of jackson, mississippi, is telling residents to be prepared to evacuate. let's bring in meteorologist mike bettes from our partners at the weather channel for more. good evening, mike. >> norah, good evening. we have had historic rain across the southeast, in some places more than a foot and a half of rain has fallen, bringing us also historic flooding. we know this summer we have been dealing with drought across the
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south, in particular in texas. all of the rain we have seen this week marginally helpful. small improvements in the drought in places like dallas and still 22 million residents of the lone star state are under drought. more heavy rain across the southeast to end the workweek, especially along i-10 in the southeast and storms getting very, very heavy across florida all the way through the weekend. severe weather does return for the northeast as well, not ruling out the chance for tornados across new england, hartford to burlington. then, of course, there are the tropics. quiet for now, but a couple of areas to watch including this area rolling through the caribbean. areas of interest all the way to central america into early next week, norah. >> mike bettes, thank you. families in uvalde, texas, are celebrating the firing of school police chief pete arredondo, but some say it didn't go far enough and that others should be fired, too. arredondo is the first officer to be held accountable for the delayed respone to the school massacre that left 19 students and two teachers dead. cbs's janet shamlian is in
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uvalde. >> reporter: tonight uvalde school's police chief, pete arredondo, is out of a job. >> good cause exists to terminate the noncertified contract of pete arredondo effective immediately. >> no justice! >> no peace! >> reporter: an outraged community finally getting what it has been pleading for. >> turn in your badge and step down! you don't deserve to wear one! >> reporter: arredondo was a no-show here, his attorney releasing a 17-page statement calling the meeting an unconstitutional public lynching and describing the chief's actions that day as outstanding. >> it took 'em that long just to get rid of one person so that's why i'm saying the fight has just begun. >> reporter: families saying next to go should be some of these officers who were in the hallway as children were calling 911 from the classroom. adam martinez says his third-grade son zayon who attended robb elementary and seventh-grade daughter anna leah are frightened and won't be going back to school.
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they will take classes remotely. >> i told my son, they're going to have more cops, they're going to have higher fencing, and right away he said it doesn't matter if there's cops or not, they're not going to go in. they're not going to protect us. >> reporter: some are leaving the district entirely. uvalde's sacred heart catholic school has enrolled dozens of students from robb elementary. martinez says the trust isn't there. >> until they start making some changes, changing the staff around, i don't know if we are ever going to have that level of confidence we need to feel safe. >> reporter: and some families connected to robb elementary are now seeking compensation. a $27 billion lawsuit is expected to be filed against the school district, the city and a number of police agencies that responded to the shooting. norah. >> janet shamlian, thank you. the "cbs overnight news" will be right back. ♪
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♪ this is the "cbs overnight news". let's turn now to ukraine where fears are growing over a potential nuclear disaster. after weeks of shelling, europe's largest nuclear power plant temporarily lost power today for the first time ever. president biden spoke with ukrainian president zelenskyy, both urging russia to withdraw from the facility. cbs's debora patta is in ukraine. >> reporter: it is a historic first in all the wrong ways, the first time zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant has been completely disconnected from the grid. it was caused by a fire in a nearby coal station that cut off the plant's last remaining
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supply lines. a constant electricity supply is critical to cooling down spent nuclear fuel and avoiding a disastrous meltdown says nuclear expert hamish lebretton gordon. >> if the power goes off we're reliant on fairly elderly diesel generators to run the safety systems. once you lose the main power supply you are almost in a two-engine airplane which loses one engine and then you are in a bad position. >> reporter: potentially a nuclear disaster, and ukraine warns that russia may be planning to divert power to crimea. zaporizhzhia was captured by russia in march, but is still controlled by ukrainian technicians. russia and ukraine have accused each other of shelling the site which has been turned into a deadly front line. ukrainians living in the shadow of the reactors have been running drills, planning for the worst case scenario.
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everyone will die if there's a nuclear disaster, said olena sidoryakina, not just us in ukraine, the whole world. international atomic energy agents have been asking for access to inspect the plant and ukraine's energy minister now says they could travel there in the coming days. norah. >> debora patta with that warning. thank you. well, we have some news tonight about teachers on strike and not in the classroom. we told you about columbus, ohio, the largest school district in that state. well, kids there will return to the classroom on monday after teachers reached an agreement with the county breaking an end to the three-day strike. thousands of miles away in kent, washington, a suburb of seattle, teachers were on the picket line today, impacting 25,000 students. the teachers union says the fight is over class sizes, mental health staff and higher pay. one of the biggest problems that unions and schools can agree on is the growing crisis of teacher shortages. school districts across the
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country are coming up with unique incentives in hopes of retaining teachers and attracting new ones. in missouri that includes a four-day workweek and hefty signing bonuses. here is cbs's adriana diaz. >> reporter: teachers nationwide cramming. >> give them 30 seconds. >> reporter: ahead of back-to-school. but not allie veatch from columbia, missouri. she left teaching in april. you taught what grade? >> mainly ninth. >> reporter: what was the mental age of the kids in your class? >> most hadn't had a normal year of school since sixth grade so probably 11, 12, for some. not all. we were all kind of in survival mode and i just couldn't last any longer in that mental state. >> reporter: nearly 300,000 public school educators have left the profession since the start of the pandemic. in fort zumwalt, missouri, superintendent dubray says it is due to burnout, pay and baby boomers retiring. are you competing with other school districts for applicants?
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>> absolutely we are, just selling your school district. our teachers very often sing our praises. >> reporter: superintendent, are you selling your school right now to any potential teachers watching this interview? >> oh, yeah, always. >> reporter: missouri starts teachers at $25,000 a year. to help recruit, the state passed a temporary pay bump. it also increased pay for substitute teachers and lowered their requirements and allowed districts to have four-day school weeks. >> the four-day school week was highly attractive to me. >> reporter: that was a deciding factor for gwen imhoff who got six job offers. she's also pregnant and has to find her own sub during a substitute teacher shortage. >> not a lot of people to even call for maternity leave sub. >> reporter: for veatch to come back she says the whole system would need an overhaul. >> if teachers are given the resources they need to meet the needs of their students i would go back. if students were given what they need to be successful, i would go back. >> reporter: in this job market
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teachers are finding more options outside of the classroom, given the rise of remote work and low unemployment. as for allie veatch who we interviewed, she is one of several teachers from her area that joined a company to help create their internal training materials. norah. >> this feels like a national emergency. adriana diaz, thank you so much. well, tonight a major decision that will impact millions of drivers looking to buy a new car in california. we've got that story in 60 seconds.
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there's big news tonight for the more than 25 million drivers in california. state regulators approved governor gavin newsom's plan to ban the sale of gas-powered vehicles by 2035. the governor is seeking to cut carbon emissions from cars in half by the year 2040, but the policy will still need federal approval. tonight a new study finds pfizer's covid pill, paxlovid, appears to provide little or no benefit for young adults. israeli researchers found the drug significantly reduced hospitalizations and deaths among seniors but younger adults didn't show measurable benefit. here in the u.s. paxlovid is recommended only for people at high risk of getting severely ill from covid. tonight two people from florida pleaded guilty to stealing and selling the private diary of president biden's daughter ashley. she was moving from a friend's home in 2020 and left behind personal items including her
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diary. they were found by a woman who along with a friend sold them to the conservative activist group project veritas. they've been ordered to face the $40,000 they were paid and they now face five years in prison. with the u.s. open set to begin on monday, novak djokovic announced he will not play in the tournament because he is not vaccinated against covid and he is not allowed to travel to the u.s. and as serena williams gears up for what is expected to be her final tournament, we learned today her first opponent will be danka kovinic. it will be williams' 21st appearance at the u.s. open. all right. coming up next, "eye on america" with a new jersey man working to keep kids safe as
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2022 is on track to be one of the deadliest yrs for gun violence in the u.s. in more than two decades. according to the gun violence archive, 880 teenagers have died so far this year from firearms. now a new jersey nonprofit is working to get at-risk kids off the street in hopes of saving lives. here's cbs's meg oliver with tonight's "eye on america." >> reporter: a steady beat of basketballs fills the air in the small town of bridgeton, new jersey. this summer camp is part of life worth living, a nonprofit john fuqua created after his 18-year-old nephew was murdered
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in 2008. >> reporter: what is the goal of the program? >> the goal is to teach our kids there's opportunities, your life is worth living. >> reporter: in bridgeton, 17% of the children live below the poverty line. >> every kid is given an opportunity to write their story, and what we want to be is an aid in that. so we provide support for everything from school to mentoring, to anything recreational. >> reporter: for 14-year-old zaire bryant, this is his refuge from reality. >> reporter: what do you hear or see? >> i see people with guns and stuff. i'm like, i don't like that, that's why i just get away from there. >> reporter: nationwide firearm injuries are the leading cause of death among children. over the past 15 years, fuqua has worked with about 10,000 kids, teaching them life skills to survive in an area plagued by crime. >> i live in the city where we don't have a recreation center. we have a county jail, a state prison, a federal prison and a half way house. >> reporter: 13-year-old jazeer
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thompson started participating in the program two years ago. >> reporter: woo are you most excited about in life right now? >> right now? >> reporter: uh-huh. >> coming to this program. john is like a role model. he keeps me out of trouble. >> reporter: year around activities from sports and music to the arts, giving them a purpose and helping them set goals for the future. what does basketball mean to you? >> if it wasn't for basketball i don't know what i would be doing right now. like it is a lot. >> reporter: what do you want them to know? >> i want them to know that i'm going to make 'em proud. big dreams. >> reporter: dreaming of a better life. for "eye on america," meg oliver, cbs news, bridgeton, new jersey. >> such a great program. we need more like that. these kids need everybody's help. up next, terrifying moments for air passengers when their plane's engine catches fire. with depression, you just feel...blah.
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while the eyes of the tennis world will be on serena williams at next week's u.s. open, last night the focus was on peace with ukraine taking center court. here's cbs's michael george. >> reporter: they're among the biggest names in tennis. >> mr. rafael nadal! coco gauff! john mcenroe! iga swiatek! >> reporter: they're sharing the court and raising more than a million dollars in aid for ukraine. team phenom coco gauff is playing alongside john mcenroe. >> i like to speak out when it is right, and i'm glad that i was able to be a part of this. >> we all want peace, and hopefully this will do something towards helping the situation over in ukraine. >> reporter: and watching from the front row, ukrainian tennis
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star sergiy stakhovsky. earlier this year the 36 year old walked away from his tennis career and took up arps to defend his country. why did you decide you had to fight? >> i am ukrainian. i was born in that country. i fell obliged to do so because i know a lot of my friends stayed by behind. >> reporter: now stakhovsky's life couldn't be farther from his days as a tennis star. he came to the event to remind americans that ukrainians are still fighting. >> ukraine is in need of those financial aid and military aid. >> reporter: stakhovsky is already headed back to fight, grateful his tennis family hasn't forgotten him. >> every little dollar, every little event like this, it matters because they see they're not left alone. >> reporter: michael george, cbs news, new york. that is the "overnight news" for this friday. for some the news continues. for others, check back later for "cbs mornings." you can follow online at any time at cbsnews.com.
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reporting from the nation's capital, i'm norah o'donnell. snoemt ♪ ♪ this is cbs news flash. i'm matt pieper in new york. russian president putin has ordered a major bill buildup of his country's military forces. now six months into the russia/ukraine war 137,000 eastbound members will be added to the russian military starting next year. the move will boost russia's armed forces overall to over 2 million. the nasa mega rocket artemis 1 will blast off towards the moon monday. it is the first major step tore the space agency's program that aims to return astronauts to the moon surface. he was the n two pick in in years's nba draft, but oklahoma forward chet holmgren will miss the entire next season. he is set to have surgery to
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repair a ruptured tendon in his right foot. it's friday, august 26th, 2022. this is the "cbs morning news." redacted release. the public could soon learn more about why the fbi searched mar-a-lago. what to expect once the affidavit is made public. pumping the brakes on gas-powered vehicles. california's aggressive move that will impact millions of drivers. disaster averted. a nuclear power plant in ukraine disconnected from the power grid. what caused the outage as fears grow over a possible meltdown. well, good morning and good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. we should learn more today about why the fbi searched former president trump's home in florida. a federal judge ordered the justice department to release by
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