tonight, balance of power. >> it's clear that we've been successful in this mission. >> democrats celebrating in arizona. now just one seat away from keeping control of the senate. also tonight, deadly crash. two vintage aircraft including a b-17 bomber collide midair at an air show in dallas. we'll have the latest. plus, whirlwind tour. president biden meets with asian leaders aiming to counter china's rise. in ukraine, russian troops blow up a vital dam as they retreat.% >> i'm chris livesay outside the newly liberated city of kherson where the celebrations continue. also, crypto company ftx

paid millions for its logo to be seen. in miami on the heat arena and in the world series, the latest fallout after the stunning implosion of the exchange. and later, a surgeon's second chance. how a career-ending injury created new opportunities to use his hands. >> you could live your life feeling sorry for yourself or you could take advantage of what you still have. >> announcer: this is the cbs weekend news from chicago with adriana diaz. good evening. ballots are still being counted in several states following this week's midterm elections leaving blockbuster races undecided. more on that in a moment, but first there is breaking news in texas. today two vintage warplanes collided midair. at least six people on board are feared dead. it happened outside dallas at an air show. cbs' omar villafranca has more.

>> reporter: a horrific scene in the skies above dallas after a midair collision. crowds watching the wings over dallas show recorded cell phone video as a world war ii era bomber was hit by another smaller plane sending both crashing down and exploding into a ball of fire. >> oh, my god. >> we had two aircraft flying. one is a b-17. one is a p-63. there was an incident. it is being investigated by the faa right now. >> reporter: the accident happened near dallas executive airport. but debris showered down on a nearby highway. the faa and ntsb are investigating. omar villafranca, cbs news, dallas. to the latest now on this week's midterms. tonight all eyes are on nevada. the race between incumbent senator catherine cortez masto and republican challenger adam laxalt is neck and neck. right now this is the balance of power in the senate.

after democrats in arizona celebrated a big win. cbs' christina ruffini is in phoenix tonight. christina. >> reporter: good evening, adriana. they just keep counting here in maricopa county where they've been releasing the results in batches. now, last night's numbers were enough to call the senate race here for the democrat but other tight races, both in this state and across the country were still waiting. >> thank you, everybody, for being here. what a great day today. [ cheers ] >> reporter: after four excruciating days of ballot counting and uncertainty senator mark kelly declared re-election victory. what is your response to the criticism we've heard of the election process. >> there's always room for improvement and nobody should think for a second that somebody is trying to cheat somebody else. >> reporter: his opponent blake masters has yet to concede tweeters voters decide, not the media. let's count the votes. and those votes are still being counted. statewide there are about 370,000 ballots left to process

in arizona. >> we've had such terrible elec elections. they're run poorry ripe with fraud. >> reporter: kari lake has not presented any evidence to back up those allegations. >> we're not doing anything wrong at all. and that someone from here would suggest that we are doing something wrong, that's frustrating. >> reporter: in nevada the governor's race was called last night for republican joseph lombardo while the senate race is still neck and neck. this as the georgia senate contest heads to a runoff. republicans seem likely to take a small majority in the house but across the country, many of those races are still too close to call. now, adding to this mix, former president trump is teasing a big announcement for next week. there's been some debate in republican circles about whether the former president's involvement in the race helped or hurt republican candidates but here in arizona most trump

supporters we spoke to said if he ran again they'd vote for him. adriana. >> christina ruffini in phoenix. thank you. overseas now, president biden is in cambodia tonight, attending a summit of south asian leaders. their meetings come ahead of his meeting monday with president xi jinping. cbs' elizabeth palmer is in pe phnom penh. >> reporter: president biden stepped off the plane to a warm welcome never mind he appeared to confuse his host's countries with one in south america. >> i want to thank the prime minister of -- for colombia by's leadership in the asean chair. >> reporter: the message clear america secrets to build alliances with asean countries. >> asean is the heart of my administration's pacific strategy. >> reporter: u.s. officials are offering support and investment to asean countries in a whole range of areas from digital

networks to policing illegal fishing but its rival china has been bankrolling huge infrastructure structures like dams and highways across the region for years. this is a race for influence that's heating up. and while asean leaders want to engage with america, they can't afford to alienate china which remains their biggest trading partner. cambodia is a good example of a country trying to have it both ways. it announced this summer that china would pay to help expand its naval base. u.s. officials fear china will then use the base for its own military. cambodia says that won't happen but president biden raised the issue here anyway. behind the courtesies and the smiles, applying a little pressure. from here president biden flies on to the g20 conference in indonesia and the most highly anticipated meeting of this whole ambitious trip. with tensions over taiwan and

north korea riding very high, he will sit down face-to-face with the chinese president xi jinping. elizabeth palmer, cbs news, phnom penh. now to the war in ukraine. today officials said celebrations in the newly liberated city of kherson are slowing down the effort to clear remnants of retreating russian troops. cbs' chris livesay is there. "chic simple." >> reporter: in a war marked by unspeakable sadness -- ♪ >> reporter: -- victory calls for singing. the air is so thick with celebration, it's slowing down the ukrainian army says this lawmaker. >> not because of russians we're attacking them but because people were attacking them with hugs and kisses. >> reporter: despite their first breath of freedom in nearly nine months, locals are still in harm's way. this is the road to kherson, but as you can see, not everybody gets there. the scene of a massive firefight

and the closer you get to the city, the more of this you're bound to see. >> there will be sad news from kherson for sure because every time we are liberating our towns, we are finding tortured people, raped people, killed people. >> reporter: there are also serious concerns about the already damaged nearby dam, russia is still in a position to blow it up completely killing untold civilians downstream. but for now, it's russia's losses that are mounting like these dozens of soldiers killed in donbas. >> sooner or later russian elite will understand that the risks of keeping putin on the president position are higher than the risk to remove him. that this moment is coming. >> reporter: meanwhile, adriana, russia continues to strike cities like this one, mykolaiv.

despite victories in nearby kherson people never feel safe. especially now that russia feels like a cornered animal, armed with nuclear weapons. >> chris livesay, thank you. also in ukraine, new art has appeared in the battle scarred country. several works by graffiti artsy banksy have turned up one depict a gymnast performing a handstand atop the rubble. dozens of sonic booms were heard over florida as nasa's x-37 plane returned. the aircraft is now crewed and spent a record 908 days in orbit conducting experiments. the reusable space plane has flown over a billion miles in all. there is new chaos in the world of cryptocurrency. ftx shocked investors by declaring bankruptcy this week. it spent millions making sure its name was seen and known. cbs' astrid martinez has more.

>> reporter: the impact of the ftx collapse has been immediate and extensive. >> ftx is the safest and easiest way to buy and sell crypto. >> reporter: the empire had made a number of expensive sports-related investments including with major league baseball whose umpires were the company's logo and despite a reported $135 million 19-year deal struck just last year the miami heat's ftx arena will soon have a new name. the team and miami-dade county saying the reports about ftx are extremely disappointing. >> we're not going to know the full impact of this for weeks, if not months, you know, i compare it to lehman brothers. >> reporter: the multibillion dollar company run by sam bankman-fried crashed. the company filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy friday with bankman-fried issuing a mea culpa on twitter. today u.s. treasury secretary janet yellen told bloomberg she's convinced this sector

demands very careful regulation. >> the proper place for this would be for congress to put some proper legislation in place to give guardrails for this. >> reporter: an industry that had boomed especially during the pandemic, now in freefall. and ftx put out a statement today that it was investigating unauthorized transactions flowing from its accounts. adriana. >> astrid, thank you. talk radio lost a legendary broadcaster today. ji jim bohanon was on stations for nearly 30 years. he retired last month, he was 78 years old. straight ahead on the cbs weekend evening news, how inflation is gobbling up your thanksgiving turkey dollars. also, a remote minnesota community confronts the environmental risks of green energy. and later, the wisconsin man who looked beyond an eye injury setting his sights on a new career.

the clock is ticking down to thanksgiving as prices tick up for turkeys. cbs' janet shamlian goes to an indiana turkey farm where it turns out inflation is not the only reason turkey prices are flying high. >> reporter: these are the last of more than 6,000 turkeys kyle becker raised on his rural indiana farm this year. >> so these are broad breasted white. >> reporter: even though he's charging more, his earnings will be half of last year. what are you facing in raising turkeys? >> feed is up, labor is up. processing, even the boxes that we put the turkeys in have increased in price. >> reporter: turkey prices are flying high. the average price of a whole frozen bird is $2.45 a pound. 70 cents higher per pound than in 2021.

a combination of inflation and bird flu which wiped out more than 7 million turkeys nationwide. how big of a hit has it taken? >> well, turkey production is down about 5% this year over the total year. >> reporter: grocers still often bargain birds to get shoppers in the door but other essentials are up, eggs more than 30% from last year, buster more than 26%. and baked goods like pumpkin pie more than 20%. at ragle's barbecue in katy, texas, there is a bounty of brisket but russell says he can't get turkey breasts. >> we ordered 200 cases in september and got about 50 and then we're told that's all we'll get for the rest of the year. >> reporter: how to save if you're willing to wait till the last minute. >> the day before thanksgiving there were pretty good deals. >> how much does she weigh? >> 25 pounds. >> reporter: free range turkeys do cost more. father of five kyle becker, woulds a second job as a vet to

make ends meet as higher costs ruffle feathers for farmers and the rest of us. janet shamlian, cbs news, moreland, indiana. still ahead on the cbs weekend evening news, why a proposed minsota produce nickel for ev batteries poses an environmental risk.

electric vehicle sales are in the fast lane but dependent on a battery component that's manufactured outside the u.s. now a major discovery, befeight the town of tamarack, minnesota, could change the road ahead. more from cbs' ben tracy. >> reporter: it's easy to imagine that tamarack, minnesota's best days have come and gone. there's just one store left in town and more hay bales than people but a huge nickel deposit discovered under this unassuming home has put them back on the map. how big of a deal is a nickel

deposit like this? >> this is a world class deposit. >> reporter: todd works for town and metals and his company hopes to turn farmland into the largest source of nicking. a mineral critical for electric car batteries. nickel makes the batteries last longer so the cars go farther. and it's expected the world will need 20 times more of it by 2040 to fuel ev production. currently the u.s. produces less than 1% of world supply. leaving american ev makers relying on supplies from places like russia, china, indonesia and australia. >> no country wants to be dependent on another country for a source of its energy. >> reporter: president biden put nickel on a list of minerals essential to national security and wants more of it mined domestically. he hopes to open the mine in 2026 when the only other nickel

mine closes. now it's up to the state of minnesota to approve the mine but some people who live here have a lot of questions. >> you don't chop, take the rights and hit it that way. >> reporter: brenda is an elder here and it would be used on tribal land. >> for generations, my ancestors and my grandparents, my family has raised on this lake. this lake in particular is sacred to us. >> reporter: the band is worried about pollution from the mine contaminating these waterways. >> the ancestors told us to tread lightly. i'd like to see those things preserved for the next seven generations and beyond so that my grandchildren can enjoy what i enjoyed. >> reporter: kelly applegate is director of natural resources for the millax band and cited a

recent study and think sear located within 35 miles of native lands. >> we're not in support of trading one source of pollution for another. >> reporter: tallinn says the mine will be deep underground. it plans to process the nickel in north dakota. but the need for mining like this raises an inconvenient truth. there is a dirty side to clean energy. >> so if you think about solar power, wind power, batteries, all of those are dependent on metallic minerals, instead of saying, yes or no about mining operations we should be transitioning to conversations about how and where. >> reporter: but if the where is where you live, that conversation is not so easy. ben tracy, cbs news, tamarack, minnesota. ahead on the cbs weekend news, college high tops on a navy flat top. we'll tell you why next.

a flyby kicked off a celebration on "uss abraham lincoln." the flight deck of the massive carrier was transformed into a college basketball arena for a game featuring michigan state against gonzaga. after tip-off, they launched free throws instead of fighter jets with the game coming down to a missed buzzer beater as gonzaga held on for the win, 64-63. when we return, a man with a vision to see beyond a life-altering injury.

finally tonight a wisconsin man has found a second career after a serious accident ended his first. an eye injury put a new vocation in his sights. jordan frimstade last the story.

>> reporter: when a light snaps on we can find meaning out of darkness. michael roscos knows the feeling. >> i was working on our family farm. >> reporter: mike suffered a career-ending injury. >> an injury that left me without vision in my right eye. >> reporter: two big surgeries and countless weeks of recovery later. >> so here we are. >> reporter: at 55 years old, he is back in the classroom just a mile down the road from his former office. >> i went from no vision, black, to in theory being able to see 20/20. >> welding was a no-brainer for mike. his last career was super hands-on. this former -- >> 22 years. >> reporter: -- surgeon chose a new path. >> you could live your life feeling sorry for yourself or

you could take advantage of what you still have. >> reporter: mike's former patient todd stinson. >> i remember his calmness. >> reporter: suffered a near-death weight lifting accident. >> i'm here today because of him and the team did an awful lot. >> reporter: mike, who for 22 years gave others second chances, received one himself. >> take a chance. >> i think it serves as a fantastic role model for anyone that sees it. >> reporter: a chance to mend his new life. >> get it closer. >> it's the ability to build new things. >> reporter: a new light in his life he can see with clear eyes. >> oh, there's to it. >> reporter: for cbs news, i'm jordan frimstead in la crosse, wisconsin. >> that is the news for this saturday. first thing tomorrow, "sunday morning with jane pauley" followed by "face the nation" with margaret brennan. i'm adriana diaz in chicago. good night.

. inflation may impact what you serve on thanksgiving day. good evening, i'm andrea nakano. it may not look like much in our skies right now, but the sierra is welcoming more snow as we speak. and, for more on that, we join darren peck in the weather center. it looks like it is coming down pretty well right now. >> the snow in the sierra will be about half a foot. that sounds a lot more dramatic in

terms of what we will experience. but you see why we talk about this. another weak cold front dragging light rain our way. most of that is weakening as it gets here. we woke up bay area wide. ground was damp. got a couple of hundredths of an inch of rain. that was in the first cold front of the predawn hours of saturday morning. this is the next one now. if we look at the futurecast, the models want to hold this together and give us a drop of rain. the bigger impact from this system is how cold it will be tomorrow morning. when you talk about the possibility for fog. and, yes. there is more snow coming to the sierra. we'll look at that as well. coming up in the complete first alert forecast for now. back to you. >> thanks darren. turning now to our election coverage. new numbers dropping earlier this evening in santa clara and san francisco counties. the san jose mayoral race is tightening. the latest return show county supervisor cindy chavez picked up a