of rappers, so the fact that they've been able to thread these generations, you got something for everyone. nicki tonight, classified fallout. alarming new information surfaces from the affidavit used to justify the fbi's search at former president trump's florida estate. >> this is the most sensitive material of the united states intelligence community. >> this as republicans question the validity of the investigation. >> we wanted to know whether or not it was justified or not >> new cbs polling tonight previews the election battles ahead. also tonight, triple threat. a wildfire in oregon quadruples in size this weekend. mississippi sounds the alarm with floodwaters rising fast while the sleepy atlantic hurricane season shows signs of waking up. overseas, pakistan calls this a climate catastrophe.

the death toll now topping 1,000. that's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. >> a half century later, nasa counts down to its next moon shot on its most powerful rocket yet. and later, marching to his own beat. how music is opening doors for a texas teen. >> to become the best person that i can ever be. i mean you only live once, so i have to make it great. >> announcer: this is the cbs weekend news from new york with jericka duncan. good evening and thank you for joining us on this sunday. we begin tonight with a developing story out of ukraine. this video shows new attacks near europe's largest nuclear power plant. overnight, fighting there is reported as intense, and the plant has been repeatedly damaged by days of shelling. it is controlled by russian forces but operated by ukrainian engineers. international experts say the

latest shelling underlies the risk of a nuclear catastrophe. now to a political battle for control of congress. a cbs news poll out today shows republicans heading into the fall still estimated to win control of the house this november. at the same time, president biden's job approval has ticked up. cbs's christina ruffini joins us from washington. christina, former president trump is also in an intensifying legal fight against that unprecedented fbi search at mar-a-lago. >> reporter: that's right, jericka. this week, a federal judge is going to consider whether or not to grant trump's request to appoint a special master. that's a third party to help oversee the review of those seized documents. >> we want to know whether or not it was justified or not. >> reporter: on face the nation governor larry hogan said the r affidavit didn't offer much clarity into the motive behind the fbi's actions. >> on the one hand, it could be,

as some republicans think, just an -- you know, just a political wtch hunt. on the other hand, it could be really serious. you know, federal felonies that we don't know about yet. >> reporter: the documents ordered released by a judge in florida friday said the fbi found 184 documents with classification markings and more than two dozen marked "top secret". >> he could be putting our national security at risk. he could be putting the lives of individual people who work for the united states at risk. >> reporter: a cbs news poll finds 85% of democrats but only 20% of republicans say the search of the former president's residence was about national security. and 90% of republicans think it was a political attempt to damage trump. >> this is disgusting in my mind. >> reporter: representative adam kinzinger is one of only two republicans on the january 6th select committee. >> the hypocrisy of folks in my party that spent years chanting "lock her up" about hillary clinton because of some deleted emails are now out there

defending a man who very clearly did not take the national security of the united states to heart. >> reporter: and of course with only about 70 days left until those midterm elections, jericka, we'll have to see what, if any, impact this has on voter turnout. >> we'll be there before we know it. thank you, kreents ruffini in washington. now to severe weather sweeping across this country. krx's danya back us is in los angeles with more on that tonight. danya, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, jericka. los angeles is bracing for a heat wave this week that will increase fire danger in the already wildfire-ravaged west. fueled by strong winds, the rum creek fire outside of medford, oregon, intensified overnight, nearly doubling in size and prompting the governor to declare a state of emergency. >> they've got a very, very difficult piece of ground to try to control a fire on. >> reporter: the wildfire has scorched more than 8,000 acres. >> oh! >> reporter: in the midwest, parts of minnesota are bracing for new thunderstorms after

severe weather, including a possible tornado, blew through saturday night. in jackson, mississippi, all eyes are on the pearl river, forecast to crest 36 feet early monday morning. several communities are at risk of flooding. >> if you are capable of getting out now, get out now. >> reporter: some residents aren't taking any chances. >> moving now just because whether we flood or not, we don't know. but we definitely won't have power in a few hours. >> reporter: and repairs are under way on busy interstate 10 near the california/arizona border after monsoon storms washed out a portion of the roadway. despite extreme drought and a summer of intense heat, the number of acres burned in california this year compared to last is only about 10% as much. jericka. >> danya bacchus for us in los angeles tonight, thank you. it's been a quiet storm season in the atlantic, but that could change this week. for the details, let's head over to hurricane specialist greg pose tell of our partners at the

weather chant. good evening. >> jericka, thank you very much. it's time to talk about the tropics was they're heating up. we're seeing a lot more activity out there, way more than we have all season long. look, the national hurricane center has outlined four areas of potential concern. i'll contend there are two of them that maybe stand out. one of them is that area to watch over parts of the caribbean. in the next five days, so not today or tomorrow, but over the next several days, maybe toward next weekend, we could see a system develop as it moves closer to parts of mexico and then thereafter perhaps the gulf of mexico. but there's more. there's another more likely candidate for tropical development, and that's out here in the middle of the atlantic ocean. that will be moving toward the west-northwest, and interest in the caribbean or even the southeastern u.s. needs to pay attention to this one. >> greg, thank you. speaking of weather right now, the weather is 80% favorable for tomorrow morning's launch of the most powerful rocket in nasa history. it stands tall on pad 39-b at

the kennedy space center. cbs's mark strassmann is there with more on the goal of this big mission. mark. >> reporter: hey, jericka. nasa's update here, everything seems good to go for launch. all the focus on the rocket you see behind me and the launch nasa hopes will lift everyone watching. on the eve of launch, some nasa engineers probably feel stress, but they intend to stress this s.o.s. rocket in a test flight more demanding than if astronauts were aboard. >> we are going to push this thing to the limit to see if everything is performing right so that it's as safe as possible when we put the crew on it. >> reporter: this rocket is a monster, ab322 feet tall and weighing almost 6,000 pounds when fully fueled. for nasa, the stakes are just as massive. art amiss i needs to work. after liftoff, artemis 1 will

push its orion capsule toward the moon for a three-week orbit before it returns splashdown in the pacific ocean. a 42-day flight covering 1.3 million miles. nasa's most ambitious moonshot since the apollo era. no one was hmoonwalked since 1972, the half century since apollo 17 ended lunar landings for americans for anyone. >> when this mission is over, you'll have a much better sense of what these guys went through. >> yes, absolutely. a whole new appreciation for it too, i'm sure, because i know it's not going to be easy. >> reporter: at liftoff, rick le bro takes charge of artemis i as its lead flight director. >> how hurtful to the program would it be if it doesn't go right? >> it conceivably could be -- it could end the program. i hope we don't have to worry about that. that's my goal. >> reporter: sometime later this decade, nasa intends to see astronauts moonwalking again, including an astronaut of color and a woman.

for many at nasa, the moon looks as close as it has in a half century. >> i do look at the moon differently. i'm sure we looked at it that way back when we were flying apollo, but it's been a long time. >> reporter: nasa will tell you that wait is almost over, but its lunar landing timeline hinges on meeting a series of bi one, tncthe first one is to a space succe stor mark, thah st calls a climate catastrophe. today raging floodwaters trapped this boy until he was pulled to safety by a helicopter crew. unrelenting rain, as you see there, has killed more than 1,000 people since june and displaced millions. in china, it's extreme drought and scorching heat waves that are proving crippling. he's cbs's rhamian ascencio. >> reporter: summer is the rainy season for china's southwest, but dry cracking riverbeds like this across the 4,000-mile

yangtze river question that fact. china's biggest fresh water lake, the parched poe on, has shrunk by 75%. that change clear in these satellite images taken in august of last year and now. falling rivers have revealed forgotten treasures. these buddhist statues from six centuries ago and so-called pagoda island, no longer an island but a mound of earth, where seemingly lost fishermen step out onto a desert landscape. >> they're calling it the worst in recorded history. >> reporter: david fishman is an energy expert in shanghai. talk to me about how frequency of droughts is changing in china. >> we see these events not happening once every 60 years anymore. maybe once every 15 years, maybe once every 10 years. >> reporter: shocks are rippling from countryside to coast. the heat is scorching my sweet potatoes to death, says this farmer, and many factories have been shutting down from a lack of hydro power.

volkswagen, toyota, and fox con, which makes parts for apple, have shortened or ceased production. government officials are doing what they can from seeding the clouds to force rain down, to releasing water from the world's biggest dam, the three gorgeos, and to switching off the lights in shanghai to save power. but it will not be enough. china's heat wave and drought are forecast to continue through the end of this month. with their frequency only surging in the future. ramy inocencio, cbs news, london. straight ahead on the cbs weekend news, how thousands of teenage girls are defying the taliban's school ban. and later, serena williams returns to the u.s. open for a final hurrah. final hooray.

it's been one year since teenage girls in afghanistan were allowed to set foot in government-run schools.

but as cbs's emtia tieia reports from kabul, those with a will to learn are enrolling in underground schools to evade the taliban's rule. >> reporter: in the taliban's afghanistan, this is what defiance looks like. since the group's decree barring 12 to 17-year-old girls from most government-run schools one year ago, a growing number are enrolling themselves into unofficial schools like this one, founded by dr. zaid imma homby. so you're paying for this all yourself. >> yes. >> that must be very difficult to do. >> yes. but i think it is my responsibility. >> you're doing this for the girls of afghanistan. >> yes. >> reporter: although the taliban formally forbids the he will indication of teenage girls, they turn a blind eye as long as girls are fully covered and men for the most part do not enter. so for now, her students can take classes in everything from religious studies to even

crochet. but it's english class that most look forward to. >> can i ask all your students, is it important that girls get an education? [ speaking non-english ] >> yes. >> reporter: and as strongly as these girls feel about being educated, coming here isn't easy. >> what does it feel like coming to a school like this where you have to dress very conservatively and hide to get an education? >> i feel bad. >> you feel bad? >> yes. >> reporter: it's a feeling she knows all too well. we met her last year just months after the taliban announced its ban on girls' education. one year later, and she's still out of school. >> what's it been like for you to basically be stuck at home for the last year? >> it was horrifying for me to stay at home and like not to go out whenever i wanted to. i don't know what's going to happen in the future. >> what do you want the world to

know about afghan girls who want an education? >> they should force the taliban's government to reopen these schools for girls, and like i don't think they will -- any country will recognize them until they reopen these schools. >> reporter: cbs news, kabul, afghanistan. still ahead on the cbs weekend news, more americans are rolling up their sleeves and squashing the financial stress of high food prices.

inflation has many americans feeling pinched. for instance, home-cooked meals cost 13% more than last year. that's got some seeking homegrown savings. in tonight's weekend journal, cbs's janet shanlian takes us on a dig in the backyard. >> reporter: when beth brown

needs groceries, she often does her shopping in her own backyard. what do you think you're saving on groceries? >> every month, probably $400. >> reporter: and it is like a well-stocked produce section. among what's growing, lettuce, squash, tomatoes, and cantaloupe. the nurse and single mom of two boys says she's trying to save everywhere she can as prices skyrocket. the average u.s. household in june spent $51 more on groceries than a year ago. >> the prices in food have really gone up just everywhere, and so i have been growing a lot more vegetables to kind of keep up with that. >> reporter: bartholomew sparrow is a professor at the university of texas. >> americans used to spend under 10% of their budget on food. this compares to maybe 15% to 20% or more in the rest of the world. now the united states is up to 12%. >> reporter: brown knows price hikes are sending people to

their backyards. she runs the central texas vegetable gardeners facebook group. what have you seen this year as inflation's been rising in terms of your membership? >> it's grown significantly, yeah. i think we're close to 20,000 members now. >> reporter: the texas woman says as many home gardeners know, the food she grows also tastes better than store bought. digging up new ways to save some green. janet shamlian, cbs news, austin. next on the cbs weekend news, the extraordinary record set by this mint mantle.

this wednesday marks 25 years since the death of princess diana. she along with her memorabilia hold enduring public appeal. in fact, this weekend a souped up ford escort she once owned sold at auction for more than $850,000 after a bidding war broke out. diana drove the car from 1985 to 1988, often using it to go shopping. a mint condition mickey mantle baseball card has sold at auction for $12.6 million. that's the most ever paid for sports memorabilia in the booming market. the 1952 tops mantle card was last sold for $50,000. that was back in 1991. well, the first round of the u.s. open starts tomorrow right here in new york. serena williams will play in what is likely to be her final tournament. the 40-year-old, who has won 23 grand slam singles titles, announced her plan in vogue magazine to, quote, evolve away from tennis.

and for the first time since 2018, a sister sequel, serena will play alongside her sister, venus, in the women's doubles after accepting a wild card draw. can't wait to see that. well, when we come back, how a marching band program has been instrumental in this texas teen's success. as been instrumental in this teen's success.

finally tonight, a north texas high school senior who is on the autism spectrum is overcoming challenges by marching to his own beat. keith russell of our cbs station ktbt in dallas-forth worth has his story. ♪ >> reporter: as brandon fisher ii marches into his senior year at desoto high school, he continues to play out his lifelong motto. >> to become the best person that i can ever be. i mean you only live once, so i have to make it great. >> reporter: just as unique as

brandon's story is his instrument, called the baritone euphonium. >> this is a valves instrument where it's similar to the tuba and the trumpet, french horn perhaps. >> reporter: an instrument brandon has mastered as he has everything else in life. >> i received a phone call from two college directors yesterday, from texas university and university of arkansas, and both of those schools offered brandon fisher a full-ride scholarship. [ cheers and applause ] >> he is easily the hardest-working student in our band program, easily. >> he just works like any other. he's a beast. that's the best way to put it. >> reporter: everything hasn't always been music to the ears of brandon fisher ii. on the autism spectrum since he was a child, and that's come with its own challenges. >> it's pretty much having extra intelligence at the cost of some scial ability, like tending to be socially awkward to some

people. >> reporter: but certainly not to the people who matter most. >> we didn't start with what you can't do. we started with what you can do. and if you apply yourself to do it, how everything could be possible. >> reporter: brandon has excelled in engineering, and he scored a 1290 on the s.a.t. his story will reverberate way beyond his time on the leadership team of the desoto high school band. ♪ >> it doesn't challenge you, it doesn't change you. like you have to be able to adapt to challenge. you've got to be able to overcome the challenge. and once you do, it will make you feel awesome. ♪ >> adapting is key. well, that was keith russell reporting. that is the cbs weekend news for this sunday. later on cbs, "60 minutes" investigates the vulnerabilities of america's electric grid. i'm jericka duncan in new york. from all of us here, we thank you for watching. have a great night.

>> a stabbing closes a troubled bart station, the violence unfolding this afternoon at applause unknown for open area drug use and illegal vending. >> >> if those come to san francisco we will see a loss of life worse than the it's up to epidemic. >> san francisco city leader who who once struggled with addiction himself now talking about the cost of not treating addiction. > >> temperatures begin their climb toward above 100 degrees later in the week. > >> since i can't be there, i'm going to give it my best. > >> celebrating independence with with their homeland in mind, the the festivities taking on new mg

new meeting for ukrainians in the bay area. we begin tonight with the air quality advisory across the bay area with a live look outside, the skies look fairly clear but the advisory is is still in effect through tomorrow because of smoke from two fires north of us number one one in humboldt county and the other in southern oregon. the fire in oregon has grown to seven times the size it was on friday. more than 8400 acres have burned with no containment. containment. firefighters are having a tough time because of strong winds, steep terrain and dry brush to fuel the flames. this is 400 miles north of us but our meteorologist is tracking the air quality as it is affecting us. >> it is, the camera we showed don't look quite as impressive as the one view from the top of the sales force tower looking south, you really good a good overview and that's what i want to start with. this is actually a time-lapse from the last hour, hour, there is a lot of haze out out there. air quality and it's