>> reporter: sarah korenblit rushed her 4-year-old daughter to the hospital on sunday with rsv. how bad did the symptoms get? >> she started having fevers a few days after she started getting sick, and then on thursday afternoon, her oxygen started going down. >> reporter: right after our interview, sarah's daughter was taken off oxygen and allowed to go home. while there's no vaccine for rsv, dr. slavin said october is the month to get your flu shot to protect you through march, typically the end of flu season. norah. >> good information, meg. i'm going to get my flu shot tomorrow. thank you. well, american basketball star brittney griner suffered a major setback today in her battle for freedom from a russian jail. a court outside moscow rejected the two-time olympic champion's appeal, upholding her nine-year sentence on drug charges. cbs's weijia jiang asked president biden today about his next move. >> i want to also apologize for this mistake.

>> reporter: appearing from her jail cell in a live video, brittney griner pleaded with a russian appeals court to reconsider her prison sentence. >> i've been here almost eight months, and people with more severe crimes have gotten less than what i was given. >> reporter: griner will now be sent to a penal colony, a type of labor camp known for brutal conditions. >> what is your next move now that brittney griner lost her appeal, mr. president? >> we're in constant contact with russian authorities to get brittney and others out, and so far we've not been meeting with much positive response. we're not stopping. >> reporter: over the summer, the biden administration proposed a prisoner swap, possibly involving russian arms dealer victor boot in exchange for griner and another american, paul whelan. but kremlin officials would not

discuss a deal until the judicial process played out. griner was arrested at a moscow airport for carrying vape cartridges filled with hashish oil just days before russia invaded ukraine. griner's wife, cherrelle, told gayle king the thought of b.g., as she calls her, going to a labor camp is hard to stomach. >> me and b.g. are operating in a position where, like, we have to prepare for the worst. >> reporter: president biden has said he would meet with vladimir putin next month at the g20 summit in indonesia if putin approved him to talk about griner's release. tonight the white house says there are no plans for the two leaders to meet. norah. >> weijia jiang at the white house, thank you. and as if the tension between washington and moscow isn't high enough, today russia notified the u.s. that it's begun its annual nuclear drills that include the launch of missiles. and this comes as nato is conducting its own military drills.

tonight cbs's chris livesay reports exclusively from on board a u.s. aircraft carrier taking part in those drills in the mediterranean sea. >> reporter: a heart-thumping show of force. aboard one of the world's biggest warships, the uss h.w. bush. we fly at dawn from the south coast of italy to join the aircraft carrier and more than 80 allied aircraft in international waters for nato training, all set against the backdrop of russia's war in ukraine and vladimir putin's repeated threats to fire nuclear weapons. the secretary-general of nato has come aboard with a warning. >> there will be severe consequences. it will be absolutely wrong if i went into the exact way we will react, but russia knows that there will be severe consequences. >> reporter: for now, nato says its best weapon is deterrence. with an overwhelming display of

firepower, from fighter jets and helicopters to unparalleled surveillance, all within striking distance of the russian military with tensions in the region at a fever pitch. this may only be combat training, but if called upon, these fighters say they're ready to strike. now, today's drills were planned before the invasion, and tonight president biden is once again warning vladimir putin not to use a tactical nuclear weapon in ukraine, saying it would be an incredibly serious mistake. norah. >> chris livesay, thank

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tonight, there's a high-stakes face-off in one of the nation's most closely watched midterm election races. that's the senate race in pennsylvania. a new cbs news battleground tracker out today shows it's a toss-up with democrat john fetterman just two points ahead of republican mehmet oz. cbs's robert costa is in harrisburg for the candidates' only debate as america decides. >> reporter: tonight, a showdown between the tv doctor and the sweatshirt-wearing lieutenant governor. voters here in pennsylvania, according to the latest cbs news poll, want answers on the eonomy. >> who wants to pay $4 for gas? >> reporter: plus gas prices,

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tonight we continue our coverage of breast cancer awareness month with a look at a glaring racial disparity. black women are far more likely to die of breast cancer than white women. in tonight's "health watch," cbs's elise preston on what can be done to eliminate this gap. >> reporter: spending time with her beloved dog comforts latoya wil williams, who has had a long journey after finding a lump in her breast. >> i was actually misdiagnosed at the age of 29 and accurately diagnosed at the age of 30, only because i was not taken serious. >> reporter: williams, now 45, says doctors ignored her concerns and delayed treatment for six months while the lump in her breast grew. >> what does it feel like when you don't trust the doctors who are providing care? >> i felt like i was at the mercy of the health system and that i did not have a voice, and i just have to kind of go with this and just hope that i live. >> reporter: breast cancer is the leading cause of cancer death for black women, who are

41% more likely to die than white women, in part due to higher rates of obesity and other health disparities. >> it's still a public health problem. >> reporter: dr. kathy joseph works to tackle health inequities impacting women of color. >> what barriers do black women face? >> there are structural barriers. whether it's access to care. not all care is equal. your zip code is really going to dictate your ultimate outcomes. >> reporter: black women are also more likely to be diagnosed at a younger age in comparison to white women. and with triple negative breast cancer, a more aggressive subtype. in a new study, dr. joseph argues that black women should undergo a breast cancer assessment risk by age 25. >> if you don't have a good rapport with your doctor, it's okay to shop around for a new one. >> reporter: now, dr. joseph recommends that women who feel they are not being heard by their doctors go get a second, third, or even fourth opinion with a breast specialist. and because of significant

underrepresentation in clinical trials, there is now a push to include more black women. that could improve outcomes. norah. >> elise preston with such good information. thank you so much. a special onor 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.

we learned today that former defendant secretary ashton carter died of a heart attack. a rhodes scholar and physicist by training, carter saw the opening of combat roles to women during his tenure in the obama administration. ash carter was 68. and we'll be right back.

we wanted to end tonight with a new honor for the late supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg. the u.s. postal service unveiled a forever postage stamp that will be available next year. the portrait shows ginsburg in a black robe with her trademark intricate white collar. the post office calls ginsburg an icon of american culture. we agree. and that's the overnight news for this wednesday. for some of you, the news continues. for others, check back later for krt cbs mornings." and remember you can follow us online anytime at cbsnews.com.

reporting from here in the nation's capital, i'm norah o'donnell. this is cbs news flash. i'm dan lieberman in new york. in pennsylvania, democrat john fetterman and republican dr. mehmet oz faced off in the one and only high-stakes debate that could determine critical control of the senate. the two sparred over crime rates, the economy, fracking, and abortion. polls showing a tightening race. in los angeles, police are investigating whether the recording of city council members' racist remarks from a private meeting in 2021 resulting in a citywide scandal was recorded illegally. the fallout led to the resignation of council president nury martinez. in a powerball lottery drawing with a $700 million jackpot is set for tonight after

35 drawings in a row with no grand prize riner. it ranks the fifth largest powerball jackpot in history. for more news, download the cbs news app on your cell phone or connected tv. i'm dan lieberman, cbs news, new york. >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." law enforcement is on alert tonight after we learned disturbing new details from the deadly shooting monday at a high school in st. louis. police found a notebook in the gunman's car. inside, a handwritten note and ultimately a window into his motive. the 19-year-old shooter was a former student. he managed to get inside even though the building was locked with seven security guards on duty. two people were killed, including a 15-year-old student and a teacher who was getting ready to retire. several others were wounded

before the gunman was killed by police. tonight the school remains closed and riddled with bullets. the community is in mourning as survivors deal with the trauma. cbs's jeff pegues is going to lead us off tonight with all this new information, and it is scary and chilling to hear this. good evening. >> it really is. norah, the st. louis police commissioner said that shooting could have been so much worse because the gunman entered the school fully loaded. police say that he had ammunition strapped to his chest, and they even found magazine clips in the stairwells of the school. police sources say that the evidence collected suggests a high level of pre-planning. tonight, police say the gunman was carrying an arsenal that could have caused much more damage and death. >> we know now that he had in his possession one rifle, an ar-15-style rifle, .223 caliber. >> reporter: police identified the shooter as 19-year-old orlando harris. he was also armed with more than

600 rounds of ammunition. >> the threat here is over. however, we are going to continue to be vigilant in our schools and in our neighborhoods. >> police identified the two victims as tenth rader alexzandria bell and 61-year-old gym teacher jean kuczka. police say they killed the gunman. >> we heard these gunshots and the windows just rattling. we see people jumping out the windows and stuff. >> authorities say they found a handwritten note in the gunman's car with a list of school shootings across the country, adding that he wanted to be the next national school shooter. >> he wrote, quote, i don't have any friends. i don't have any family. i've never had a girlfriend. i've never had a social life. i've been an isolated loner my entire life. this was the perfect storm for a mass shooter. >> police are urging the public to stay alert to the next potential threat. >> so it is really important that if you see someone walking down that path toward violence,

whether it's in their writings, they're researching weapons, they're researching other school shootings, that you really speak up and let somebody know so that we can look into this and give them an off-ramp off of that path to violence. >> law enforcement officials are concerned about the potential for copycats, and that's why they're asking the public that if you see something, say something. according to the fbi, in the majority of these cases, people who see signs of trouble before mass shootings, norah, often they don't call police. >> so speak up. jeff pegues, thank you. well, tonight a growing number of companies are cutting ties with kanye west over the hip-hop mogul's offensive and anti-semitic remarks. adidas and the gap weighed in today, knocking him off the list of forbes billionaires. cbs's jonathan vigliotti has more now on the rapper's deeply hurtful comments and the consequences that followed. >> reporter: rapapper and dedesr kanye e west thougught he was s untotouchable. ninene days he s said this.. >> i couldld say anti-i-semitic

things, , and adidasas can't dr meme. now what? now what? >> reporter: but today, amid tumbling stocks, the german sneaker giant severed ties with the artist, now known as ye, saying in a statement it does not tolerate anti-semitism and any other sort of hate speech, and it will stop all payments to ye and his companies. west's yeezy brand once brought adidas nearly $2 billion in annual sales. critics say adidas was putting profit ahead of ethics. >> did adidas make the right decision here, and was it quick enough? >> adidas made the right decision. i think three weeks is way too late. they should have done so within the first day. >> reporter: earlier this month, west tweeted he would "go death con 3 on jewish people." instagram and twitter quickly suspended his accounts. companies like fashion house balenciaga, vogue, the gap, foot locker, and even his talent agency have parted ways. the controversy apparently sparked this anti-semitic

demonstration this past weekend on an overpass in los angeles. >> it just takes one deranged person of his 31 million followers on twitter, or, again, his hundreds of millions of fans around the world to say "if the jews are out to get kanye, i'm going to get them." >> reporter: tonight, there's a harsh new spotlight on brands and the real cost of staying silent. and the anti-defamation league says anti-semitic incidents are up 40% this year compared to this time last year. meanwhile, the holocaust museum here in los angeles has invited west for a private tour. norah, he turned down that offer. >> jonathan, thank you. we should note we condemn anti-semitism. we stand with our jewish colleagues and jewish people everywhere. a magnitude 5.1 earthquake shook the san francisco bay area today. it was the strongest they've seen in eight years. it was centered in the hills east of san jose, about 40 miles southeast of downtown sasan francisco.o. there e are no repeports of ana

seriouous injurieses or damage. tonight, children's hospitals across the country are seeing a surge in an illness that makes it hard for kids to breathe. nationwide, rsv cases are up 143% since last month, and that is now adding to concern tonight about a triple threat of viruses sweeping the united states very early. cbs's meg oliver reports on how to keep your family safe. >> can you spell your last name for me? >> reporter: covid-19, the flu, and rsv already causing severe illness ahead of normal peaks. >> we're here with a simple message. get vaccinated. >> reporter: today, the white house sounding the alarm for everyone over 5 to get a flu and covid vaccine. >> the thing we always are paying attention to is making sure there's plenty of hospital capacity. right now our focus is get people vaccinated, get people treated, and keep people out of the hospital. >> reporter: walgreens reports flu cases have doubled over the past two weeks and are spreading at a high rate across the south.

this as the cdc reports 3 million fewer flu shots than at this time last year. >> what are you concerned about? >> i think with the combined rsv, flu, a potential covid surge, i think children's hospitals and pediatrics in general are going to experience a lot of what the adult hospitals experienced in march and april of 2020 when covid first hit. >> reporter: in new jersey, covid hospitalizations are up slightly compared to last week, and rsv cases are rising across the country. >> i was worried, and i also knew that the hospital was the only place that she would get the support she needed. >> reporter: sarah korenblit rushed her 4-year-old daughter to the hospital on sunday with rsv. >> how bad did the symptoms get? >> she started having fevers a few days after she started getting sick, and then on thursday afternoon, her oxygen started going down. >> reporter: right after our interview, sarah's daughter was taken off oxygen and allowed to go home. while there's no vaccine for

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>> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." i'm caitlin huey-burns in washington. thanks for staying with us. there are calls for accountability in the capital of mississippi, where the 150,000 residents have been struggling with a faulty water system for decades. things got worse in august when flooding knocked out the city's water treatment plant. but a cbs news investigation found the lingering problems include a $90 million contract with the international company siemens that was supposed to fix the system.

jim axelrod has the story. >> imagine this. a state capital city in america had no running water at all, not for an hour, not for an overnight, but for nearly a week. that's what jackson, mississippi, faced last month, leaving the city's most vulnerable desperate. >> our facility had absolutely no water. we were at zero water pressure. >> reporter: sydney howard manages the hope lodge in jackson, where the american cancer society puts up patients at no cost while they're being treated. >> i walked in here to see that that gauge was at a zero. what do you do? >> reporter: last month when the city's water system failed, howard had to scramble to evacuate 11 cancer patients to facilities where the taps and toilets actually worked. >> did you have 30 seconds to think, what is going on in jackson, mississippi, where the hope lodge doesn't have water?

>> yeah, but at the end of the day, i'm here to take care of lives and save lives. >> reporter: at the end of august, floods drowned jackson's aging water treatment plant, crippling the system across the city. faucets ran with colors you never want to see, and the people of jackson rushed frantically to find whatever was fresh enough to drink. >> we do not have reliable running water at scale. >> reporter: it was exactly the kind of crisis the city hoped to avert a decade earlier, when it made a deal with the siemens corporation. >> it was ridiculous to even support. >> reporter: dekiefer stamps was elected to the jackson city council the same year the city signed the contract with siemens, which he opposed. >> what went wrong? >> everything. everything went wrong. >> reporter: siemens came to jackson with a promise to upgrade the city's water system. the upgrades would generate enough revenue, they said, to

make jackson's water system sustainable for years to come. >> all the commercial meters are in stock with the city. >> reporter: other cities typically paid for projects like this with a cut of the money saved on the back end. but jackson agreed to pay the full cost for those promises upfront. the city took out a loan for $90 million. >> did siemens keep those promises? >> no. >> reporter: the biggest piece of the plan, replacing water meters across the city, was also the source of the biggest problem. thousands of the new meters didn't work. >> some meters measuring in gallons when they were supposed to be measuring in cubic feet. >> reporter: meaning people in jackson were being charged as much as 7 1/2 times what they should have been. throw in computer systems that didn't operate as promised -- >> the bill was more than $11,000. >> reporter: and people in this largely african american city with a per capita income of $22,000 were suddenly facing water bills they had no hope of

paying. >> it's a done deal now, and we the one that got to bear the cost. >> reporter: the city sued siemens and some subcontractors alleging in part a massive fraud orchestrated by siemens that caused more than $450 million in losses to jackson. >> promise made. promise kept. >> reporter: the mayor claimed victory when siemens and the subcontractor settled even though they did not admit wrongdoing. siemens essentially paid back the $90 million. the company sent us a short statement saying the agreement settled the issue, and the project did not end as either party hoped. >> is it fair to assume thatt made the city wholole? >> oh, no. even that was a sham job. >> reporter: after the law firm took a $30 million cut and tens of millions more went to pay back loans needed to keep the water running, the city did not have nearly enough to fund the much-needed repairirs. accordrding to this c city audi jackson will be paying back

millions on the siemens deal at 6% interest until the year 2040. >> sad. sometimes i got to laugh to keep from crying. >> there are just lots of problems in the city of jackson. >> reporter: michael regan runs the u.s. vieshltle protection agency in washington. >> as it relates to siemens and the water meters and the billing, we understand that that's a part of the problem. >> reporter: regan has traveled twice to jackson in the last month as he focuses on cities where he says chronic underinvestment has led to infrastructure problems. >> how many other jacksons exist in our country right now? >> dozens, if not more. when you look at the data, black and brown communities and low-income communities have been disproportionately impacted by environmental hazard and harm because of a lack of investment. >> reporter: jackson's water is back up and running again for now. as for solutions, now it's up to the city, the state of

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jordan won an emmy for his role as the lovable beverley leslie in "will & grace" but in recent years he became a star in nashville. that's where anthony mason caught up with him just two weeks ago. >> this is not the way we planned to tell leslie jordan's story when we met him in nashville earlier this month. like so many, i felt i'd come to know him during covid when my daughter sent one of his videos one day and said, you have to watch this. >> well, hello fellow hunker downers. >> reporter: leslie jordan had long been a well-known character actor. >> so it has come to this. >> but the pandemic made him a star. >> what are y'all doing? this is awful. oh, it's exhausting being viral. >> you like blew up. >> give me a good pandemic, and i flourish. >> it's still march. how many days in march?

>> i started posting on instagram, and i did two posts a day, i think, for 80 days. >> yeah. >> and then i don't know what happened. people have said to me, what's the secret? i have no idea. it would jump a million a day. >> reporter: he went from 80,000 followers to nearly 6 million. >> what were you thinking at that point? >> well, i was just thinking, my gosh, who are these people that want to hear what i have to say? it was just the innocence of it, i guess. >> reporter: for decades, he'd worked steadily as an actor. >> okay, miss feelen, let's see what you got. >> playing emma stone's newspaper boss in "the help". >> then the black veil was lifted. >> reporter: starring opposite lady gaga in "american horror story". >> karen walker, i thought i smelled gin and regret. >> reporter: and sparring mem raably with megan mulally on

"will & grace." >> well, well, well. >> reporter: that won him an emmy. >> whatever that is, i don't know. >> i was going to -- what is it? >> well, it's just bright and bubbly. >> reporter: he'd always been that way, growing up in chattanooga, tennessee, a popular kid but with a secret. >> i was a sissy, you know. i wasn't good at sports. my dad was a lieutenant colonel in the army. he was a man's man, and his, you know, group of guys would come home, and i'd be twirling a baton in the front yard. you know, my mother taught me. she was a champion baton twirler. daddy, watch me twirl. my mother, i told her when i was about 12. she said, i think you'll be subject to ridicule, and i couldn't bear that. and so just why don't you just live quietly? so here i am. >> reporter: he caught the acting bug in college at the university of tennessee at chattanooga. >> i was not one who did plays in high school. you know, i was always funny,

but that was to keep the bullies at bay. and i got up in that intro to theater class, and it just hit me like a drug. i mean, i went -- i went to the head of the department, and i said, tell me what to do. and he said, well, first let's learn how to pronounce it. it's not thee a ter. it's theater. >> reporter: in 1982, jordan headed out to hollywood. >> i got a couple of commercials and got on a kind of a roll with that. i was the pip printing guy. i was the elevator operator to hamburger hell, or taco bell where you go if you don't eat hamburgers. >> i guess the name stuck in my head. >> reporter: the tv roles soon followed, from an early part as candice bergen's inept secretary on "murphy brown". >> kyle, when they taught you typing in prison, did they mention that the process tends to go faster if you use both hands. >> yeah, but big eddie only taught us this way? >> big ed day? >> mm-hmm. big eddie one arm.

>> reporter: to his latest sitcom, call me kat, with mayim bialik. >> i saw it winkin' at me in women's petites. needless to say, i winked back. >> reporter: in nashville, earlier this month, we watched him at work on a new project. >> the signs all say tiny terror productions. is that you? >> no, no. it ought to be. >> reporter: a music video. ♪ >> reporter: with the country duo low cash and blanco brown. it was a late and unexpected career turn. >> when did you decide you wanted to make records? >> i had a -- a sunday instagram hymn singin' where we would just sing these old hymns that i grew up with. and people started tunin' in, and so somehow from that, we decided to make an album.

♪ >> it seems like you're having a lot of fun with it? >> oh, my gosh. so unexpected just to happen, you know, in my 60s. i'm a country music singer now. i love nashville and the way that nashville embraced me. >> yeah. >> you know? and to be taken kind of serious. >> yeah. >> and to have made, you know, an album with dolly parton, chris stapleton. >> yeah. >> brandi carlile. >> yeah. >> you know, that's something. >> reporter: it sure was. ♪ when the trumpets of the lord shall sound and time shall be no more ♪ >> reporter: the last moment we captured with leslie jordan, he sang for us with producer danny myrick. ♪ when the road is called up yonder ♪ >> reporter: a favorite hymn,

when the role is called up yonder. >> i've been baptized 13 times just to make sure, so i'm gonna be there. >> that was anthony m on jim mansfield: my job was more important to me than my family, and i started drinking a lot, staying out of town. it took a toll on me. dr. charles stanley: you may be as low as the prodigal, but you are not hopelessly, helplessly lost if you will listen to what i'm about to say. jim: sitting on that couch, watching that sermon, something had happened to us. i'm talking about the joy and love in our hearts. i want more of that.

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and what that means for your life. tune in to dr. jeremiah's new series, "christ above all", on the next "turning point", right here on this station. dozen of masterpieces from the collection of the late microsoft founder paul allen are going on the auction block next month. ian lee is in london with a preview. >> reporter: the art world is abuzz. rarely does a billionaire's bounty go up for sale. >> well, this will be a historic moment for the art world. >> reporter: 150 pieces from microsoft co-founder paul allen's estate will be put under the hammer. >> he bought with an extremely careful eye. he was a man who really understood the artworks and the individual significance. >> reporter: it's being described as the sale of the century, featuring artworks spanning 500 years. >> it's by value the greatest

auction ever put on in terms of the range and quality of the masterpieces. it's the greatest ever put on. >> reporter: and they won't go cheap. some pieces, like this se zahn landscape, are expected to fetch over $100 million. >> it's going to be a sale which we assume will make well in excess of a billion dollars. >> reporter: another capturing attention is this boat chellie. >> it's the most fascinating because it's the only painting from before 1700 in the whole collection. it's the only renaissance work, and it's one of the greatest renaissance paintings in private hands. >> reporter: for folks with a little less pocket change, there are some pieces ranging in the low millions. collectors from around the world are expected to bid on the billionaire's treasures when they're sold on november 9th. ian lee, cbs news, london. and that's the overnight news for this wednesday. for some of you, the news continues. for others, check back later for cbs mornings. and follow us online anytime at cbsnews.com.

reporting from the nation's capital, i'm caitlin huey-burns. this is cbs news flash. i'm dan lieberman in new york. in pennsylvania, democrat john fetterman and republican dr. mehmet oz faced off in the one and only high-stakes debate that could determine critical control of the senate. the two sparred over crime rates, the economy, fracking, and abortion. polls showing a tightening race. in los angeles, police are investigating whether the recording of city council members' racist remarks from a private meeting in 2021 resulting in a citywide scandal was recorded illegally. the fallout led to the resignation of council president nury martinez. and a powerball lottery drawing with a $700 million jackpot is set for tonight after 35 drawings in a row ith no

grand prize winner. it ranks as the fifth largest powerball jackpot in history. for more news, download the cbs news app on your cell phone or connected tv. york. the chilling evidence left behind by the school shooter in st. louis and a warning from police that the deadly rampage could have been worse. the new details tonight as we learn the 19-year-old gunman was armed with an ar-15-style rifle and more than 600 rounds of ammunition. cbs's jeff pegues reports on the disturbing handwritten note found as we learn more about the victims. show of force. a cbs news exclusive. chris livesay goes aboard a u.s. aircraft carrier as american troops participate in a training exercise with nato, sending a clear message to putin. >> fighter jets and helicopters to guided missiles. all of them within striking

distance of the russian military. adidas drops kanye west weeks after the rapper's anti-semitic and hateful rant. cbs's jonathan vigliotti reports tonight on the rise of crimes against jewish people. and health watch. cbs's meg oliver on the triple threat. the nation's top doctors sound the alarm about a possible surge of covid, flu, and rsv all at the same time. >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." law enforcement is on alert tonight after we learned disturbing new details from the deadly shooting monday at a high school in st. louis. police found a notebook in the gunman's car. inside, a handwritten note and ultimately a window into his motive. the 19-year-old shooter was a former student.

he managed to get inside even though the building was locked with seven security guards on duty. two people were killed, including a 15-year-old student and a teacher who was getting ready to retire. several others were wounded before the gunman was killed by police. tonight the school remains closed and riddled with bullets. the community is in mourning as survivors deal with the trauma. cbs's jeff pegues is going to lead us off tonight with all this new information, and it is scary and chilling to hear this. good evening. >> it really is. norah, the st. louis police commissioner said that shooting could have been so much worse because the gunman entered the school fully loaded. police say that he had ammunition strapped to his chest, and they even found magazine clips in the stairwells of the school. police sources say that the evidence collected suggests a high level of pre-planning. tonight, police say the gunman was carrying an arsenal that could have caused much more damage and death. >> we know now that he had in his possession one rifle, an ar-15-style rifle, .223 caliber.

>> police identified the shooter as 19-year-old orlando harris. he was also armed with more than 600 rounds of ammunition. >> the threat here is over. however, we are going to continue to be vigilant in our schools and in our neighborhoods. >> police identified the two victims as tenth grader alexzandria bell and 61-year-old gym teacher jean kuczka. police say they killed the gunman. >> we heard these gunshots and the windows just rattling. and we see people jumping out the windows and stuff. >> authorities say they found a handwritten note in the gunman's car with a list of school shootings across the country, adding that he wanted to be the next national school shooter. >> he wrote, quote, i don't have any friends. i don't have any family. i've never had a girlfriend. i've never had a social life. i've been an isolated loner my entire life. this was the perfect storm for a

mass shooter. >> police are urging the public to stay alert to the next potential threat. >> so it is really important that if you see someone walking down that path toward violence, whether it's in their writings, they're researching weapons, they're researching other school shootings, that you really speak up and let somebody know so that we can look into this and give them an off-ramp off of that path to violence. >> law enforcement officials are concerned about the potential for copycats, and that's why they're asking the public that if you see something, say something. according to the fbi, in the majority of these cases, people who see signs of trouble before mass shootings, norah, often they don't call police. >> so speak up. jeff pegues, thank you. well, tonight a growing number of companies are cutting ties with kanye west over the hip-hop mogul's offensive and anti-semitic remarks. adidas and the gap weighed in today, knocking him off the list of forbes billionaires. cbs's jonathan vigliotti has

more now on the rapper's deeply hurtful comments and the consequences that followed. >> reporter: rapper and designer kanye west thought he was untouchable. nine d days ago, h he saiaid th. >> i couldld say anti-i-semitic things, , and adidasas can't dr me. now what? now what? >> reporter: but today, amid tumbling stocks, the german sneaker giant severed ties with the artist, now known as ye, saying in a statement it does not tolerate anti-semitism and any other sort of hate speech, and it will stop all payments to ye and his companies. west's yeezy brand once brought adidas nearly $2 billion in annual sales. critics say adidas was putting profit ahead of ethics. >> did adidas make the right decision here, and was it quick enough? >> adidas made the right decision. i think three weeks is way too late. they should have done so within the first day. >> reporter: earlier this month, west tweeted he would "go death con 3 on jewish people." instagram and twitter quickly suspended his accounts.

companies like fashion house balenciaga, vogue, the gap, foot locker, and even his talent agency have parted ways. the controversy apparently sparked this anti-semitic demonstration this past weekend on an overpass in los angeles. >> it just takes one deranged person of his 31 million followers on twitter, or, again, his hundreds of millions of fans around the world to say, "if the jews are out to get kanye, i'm going to get them." >> reporter: tonight, there's a harsh new spotlight on brands and the real cost of staying silent. and the anti-defamation league says anti-semitic incidents are up 40% this year compared to this time last year. meanwhile, the holocaust museum here in los angeles has invited west for a private tour. norah, he turned down that offer. >> jonathan, thank you. we should note we condemn anti-semitism. we stand with our jewish colleagues and jewish people everywhere. a magnitude 5.1 earthquake shook the san francisco bay area

today. it was the strongest they've seen in eight years. it was centered in the hills east of san jose, about 40 miles southeast of downtown san n frfrancisco. there are no reports of any serious injuries or damage. a group of grand canyon tourists is sharing a terrifying story tonight after they were stranded about 200 feet underground for about 30 hours. they got stuck inside the caverns on sunday when the tourist attraction's only elevator broke down. we can report everyone's okay. there's a lot more news ahead on the "cbs overnight news."

>> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." tonight, children's hospitals across the country are seeing a surge in an illness that makes it hard for kids to breathe. nationwide, rsv cases are up 143% since last month, and that is now adding to concern tonight about a triple threat of viruses sweeping the united states very early. cbs's meg oliver reports on how to keep your family safe. >> can you spell your last name for me? >> reporter: covid-19, the flu, and rsv already causing severe illness ahead of normal peaks. >> we're here with a simple

message. get vaccinated. >> reporter: today, the white house sounding the alarm for everyone over 5 to get a flu and covid vaccine. >> the thing that we always are paying attention to is making sure there's plenty of hospital capacity. right now our focus is get people vaccinated, get people treated, and keep people out of the hospital. >> reporter: walgreens reports flu cases have doubled over the past two weeks and are spreading at a high rate across the south. this as the cdc reports 3 million fewer flu shots than at this time last year. >> what are you concerned about? >> i think with the combined rsv, flu, a potential covid surge, i think children's hospitals and pediatrics in general are going to experience a lot of what the adult hospitals experienced in march and april of 2020 when covid first hit. >> reporter: in new jersey, covid hospitalizations are up slightly compared to last week, and rsv cases are rising across the country. >> i was worried, and i also knew that the hospital was the only place that she would get the support she needed.

>> reporter: sarah korenblit rushed her 4-year-old daughter to the hospital on sunday with rsv. >> how bad did the symptoms get? >> she started having fevers a few days after she started getting sick, and then on thursday afternoon, her oxygen started going down. >> reporter: right after our interview, sarah's daughter was taken off oxygen and allowed to go home. while there's no vaccine for rsv, dr. slav insays october is the month to get your flu shot to protect you through march, typically the end of flu season. norah. >> good information, meg. i'm going to get my flu shot tomorrow. thank you. well, american basketball star brittney griner suffered a major setback today in her battle for freedom from a russian jail. a court outside moscow rejected the two-time olympic champion's appeal, upholding her nine-year sentence on drug charges. cbs's weijia jiang asked president biden today about his next move. >> i want to also apologize for this mistake. >> reporter: appearing from her

jail cell in a live video, brittney griner pleaded with a russian appeals court to reconsider her prison sentence. >> i've been here almost eight months, and people with more severe crimes have gotten less than what i was given. >> reporter: griner will now be sent to a penal colony, a type of labor camp known for brutal conditions. >> what is your next move now that brittney griner lost her appeal, mr. president? >> we're in constant contact with russian authorities to get brittney and others out, and so far we've not been meeting with much positive response. but wire not -- but we're not stopping. >> reporter: over the summer, the biden administration proposed a prisoner swap, possibly involving russian arms dealer viktor bout in exchange for griner and another american, paul whelan. but kremlin officials would not

discuss a deal until the judicial process played out. griner was arrested at a moscow airport for carrying vape cartridges filled with hashish oil just days before russia invaded ukraine. griner's wife, cherrelle, told gayle king the thought of b.g., as she calls her, going to a labor camp is hard to stomach. >> me and b.g. are operating in a position where, like, we have to prepare for the worst. >> reporter: president biden has said he would meet with vladimir putin next month at the g20 summit in indonesia if putin approved him to talk about griner's release. tonight the white house says there are no plans for the two leaders to meet. norah. >> weijia jiang at the white house, thank you. and as if the tension between washington and moscow isn't high enough, today russia notified the u.s. that it's begun its annual nuclear drills that include the launch of missiles. and this comes as nato is conducting its own military drills. tonight cbs's chris livesay

reports exclusively from on board a u.s. aircraft carrier taking part in those drills in the mediterranean sea. >> reporter: a heart-thumping show of force aboard one of the world's biggest warships, the "uss h.w. bush." we fly at dawn from the southern coast of italy to join the aircraft carrier and more than 80 allied aircraft in international waters for nato training, all set against the backdrop of russia's war in ukraine and vladimir putin's repeated threats to fire nuclear weapons. the secretary-general of nato has come aboard with a warning. >> there will be severe consequences. it would be absolutely wrong if i went into the exact way we will react, but russia knows that there will be severe consequences. >> reporter: for now, nato says its best weapon is deterrence. with an overwhelming display of

firepower, from fighter jets and helicopters to unparalleled surveillance, all within striking distance of the russian military with tensions in the region at a fever pitch. this may only be combat training, but if called upon, these fighters say they're ready to strike. now, today's drills were planned before the invasion, and tonight president biden is once again warning vladimir putin not to use a tactical nuclear weapon in ukraine, saying it would be an incredibly serious mistake. norah. >> chris livesay, thank you. the "cbs overnight new

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crime, and abortion rights. another issue hovers. >> i think that people are wondering, you know, can he handle the job? >> reporter: it is what democrat john fetterman, who suffered a stroke in may, has described as the elephant in the room -- his health. >> i had a stroke. he's never let me forget that. and i might miss some words during this debate, mush two words together, but it knocked me down, but i'm going to keep coming back up. >> reporter: recovering from a stroke in may, the lieutenant governor has lingering auditory processing issues. so fetterman tonight used a closed captioning device and two 70-inch monitors with the questions typed out by stenographers and displayed. the same will be done for dr. oz's answers. >> i'm the only person on this stage right now that has -- that has successful about pushing back against gun violence and being the community more safe. >> reporter: fetterman talked up his record, and republican mehmet oz continued to press his core issues of crime and the economy. >> and i can make the difficult

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coverage of breast cancer awareness month with a look at a glaring racial disparity. black women are far more likely to die of breast cancer than white women. in tonight's "health watch," cbs's elise preston on what can be done to eliminate this gap. >> reporter: spending time with her beloved dog comforts latoya williams, who has had a long journey after finding a lump in her breast. >> i was actually misdiagnosed at the age of 29 and accurately diagnosed at the age of 30, only because i was not taken serious. >> reporter: williams, now 45, says doctors ignored her concerns and delayed treatment for six months while the lump in her breast grew. >> what does it feel like when you don't trust the doctors who are providing care? >> i felt like i was at the mercy of the health system and that i did not have a voice, and i just have to kind of go with this and just hope that i live. >> reporter: breast cancer is the leading cause of cancer death for black women, who are 41% more likely to die than

white women, in part due to higher rates of obesity and other health disparities. >> it's still a public health problem. >> reporter: dr. kathie-ann joseph works to tackle health inequities impacting women of color. >> what barriers do black women face? >> there are structural barriers. whether it's access to care. not all care is equal. your zip code is really going to dictate your ultimate outcomes. >> reporter: black women are also more likely to be diagnosed at a younger age in comparison to white women. and with triple negative breast cancer, a more aggressive subtype. in a new study, dr. joseph argues that black women should undergo a breast cancer assessment risk by age 25. >> if you don't have a good rapport with your doctor, it's okay to shop around for a new one. >> reporter: now, dr. joseph recommends that women who feel they are not being heard by their doctors go get a second, third, or even fourth opinion with a breast specialist. and because of significant

underrepresentation in clinical trials, there is now a push to include more black women. that could improve outcomes. norah. >> elise preston with such good information. thank you so much. a special honor unveiled for the late supreme court justice

we learned today that former defense secretary ashton carter died of a heart attack. a rhodes scholar and physicist by training, carter oversaw the opening of combat roles to women during his tenure in the obama administration. ash carter was 68. and we'll be right back.

we wanted to end tonight with a new honor for the late supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg. the u.s. postal service unveiled a forever postage stamp that will be available next year. the portrait shows ginsburg in a black robe with her trademark intricate white collar. the post office calls ginsburg an icon of american culture. we agree. and that's the overnight news for this wednesday. for some of you, the news continues. for others, check back later for "cbs mornings." and remember you can follow us online anytime at cbsnews.com. reporting from here in the

nation's capital, i'm norah o'donnell. this is cbs news flash. i'm dan lieberman in new york. in pennsylvania, democrat john fetterman and republican dr. mehmet oz faced off in the one and only high-stakes debate that could determine critical control of the senate. the two sparred over crime rates, the economy, fracking, and abortion. polls showing a tightening race. in los angeles, police are investigating whether the recording of city council members' racist remarks from a private meeting in 2021 resulting in a citywide scandal was recorded illegally. the fallout led to the resignation of council president nury martinez. and a powerball lottery drawing with a $700 million jackpot is set for tonight after

35 drawings in a row with no grand prize winner. it ranks as the fifth largest powerball jackpot in history. for more news, download the cbs news app on your cell phone or connected tv. i'm dan lieberman, cbs news, new york. it's wednesday, october 26th, 2022. this is the "cbs morning news." >> this campaign is all about, to me, about fighting for everyone in pennsylvania. >> washington keeps getting it wrong with extreme positions. >> high-stakes debate. john fetterman and dr. mehmet oz square off. we'll show you how fetterman struggled at times as he recovers from a stroke. president biden reacts after brittney griner's appeal is denied by russia. what he's saying about a possible meeting with vladimir putin. new backlash. how athletes are now cutting ties with rapper kanye west after a series of anti-semitic remarks.