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cadets. more than two dozen were injured. five critically. overseas, about 10 million ukrainians were plunged into darkness after another barrage of russian air strikes targeted the country's energy grid. cbs's chris livesay witnessed the panicked aftermath of one attack in dnipro. >> reporter: it was a morning like any other for commuters in dnipro, ukraine. until it was shattered by vladimir putin's war. among the wounded, a 15-year-old girl. astonishingly, those aboard the bus were unscathed, said the driver, viacheslav, still sitting behind the wheel in shock. "i saw the missile strike right in front of me," he says. "the passengers ran and tried to hide." just imagine what it's like. you're on your way to work in the morning or about to drop off your kids at school, and then
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this happens. but this is the reality for millions of ukrainians just trying to live their lives during a war. ukrainians now forced to pick up the broken pieces, like natalya, who had to remove shards of her apartment windows from her face. >> my mother russian. my father ukrainian. i live all my life in ukrainian. >> reporter: and ga lena, who is begging for it all to end. >> please close the sky for ukrainian people. please. >> reporter: many of the survivors we spoke to no longer have windows or doors. all of them shattered by the blast. this on the first day of snow in much of the country as russia continues to target water, electricity, and heating. norah. >> tough, tough situation. chris livesay, thank you. thanksgiving is just one week away, and inflation is unfortunately on the menu. sticker shock is forcing some
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shoppers to visit multiple stores to find deals. cbs's carter evans shows us how you can save this holiday season. >> reporter: these days, a big chunk of charlie heydt's budget goes into his shopping cart. >> how much are you spending? >> between 300 and 400 bucks, seriously. >> reporter: it's a week of groceries for his family of four. >> when your grocery bill is more than your car payment, it's crazy. >> reporter: julie chambers has her thanksgiving shopping list, following deals from store to store. >> i'm doing it in stages because i don't want the shock and awe of the price at the end. >> reporter: the average american family paid $445 more in september for the same goods and services they bought last year. in october, grocery prices were up almost 12.5%. and just this week, the farm bureau said thanksgiving dinner is going to cost 20% more this year. >> five or more. >> to get the good sale. >> reporter: and it's having an impact. many holiday hosts are now telling guests to bring a dish to dinner.
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>> just because the prices have gone up so much. >> re >> consumers have started buying fewer items overall. they are shopping at less expensive stores. >> reporter: here's a money saving tip. using grocery store apps can unlock hidden discounts. >> what's kind of unknown to folks is that there's coupons in there that are very specific to you and your shopping behaviors. >> reporter: to compete for your dollars, walmart is rolling back some thanksgiving prices to last year's levels. and not to be outdone, aldi's dialing them back to 2019. for charlie heydt, the total still stings. you broke 500. $549. >> yeah. setting a record. >> reporter: and he'll be back again next week. carter suffering from sinus congestion, especially at night? try vicks sinex for instant relief that lasts up to 12 hours. vicks sinex targets congestion at the source, relieving nasal congestion and sinus pressure by reducing swelling in the sinuses. try vicks sinex.
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their plan, this will be turned into farmland. the boreal forest is one of the largest trappers of carbon dioxide on earth. but as alaska warms twice as fast as the rest of the kcountr, once frozen land is now thawed out and up for grabs. >> i see climate change in alaska as an opportunity to bring in more crops, to develop more land. >> reporter: eric johnson oversees the nana na agriculture project, which in october began auctionsing off 140,000 acres of the forest, divided in parcels, to the highest bidders from all over the world. >> couldn't there be anywhere else to develop land for farming and not here? >> this is the most suitable land for agriculture development. this is only 140,000 acres. >> reporter: but statewide, the rsh for land is on. the number of farms here have grown 44%, making alaska the state with the most amount of new farms in the country.
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native tribes who live off the land in the boreal forest worry the project will be abused and cause pollution. >> what did this land mean to you? >> this is our grocery store. this is how we grew up learning how to live off of this land. >> reporter: the state says bidders are required to submit development plans but acknowledges they're not strict. >> we want real farmers. we want to provide opportunities. we can't tell them exactly how to use that opportunity. i see the lower 48 as getting hotter and drier, and we've got a lot of water, and we've got a lot of clean land. >> reporter: it's a new gamble for alaska. >> is the last frontier the new frontier for farming in america? >> i believe it is. >> reporter: a risk not everyone is willing to take. >> agriculture is probably something we need to get into. but what does it look like? it doesn't look like this. >> reporter: for eye on america, i'm jonathan vigliotti in alaska's boreal forest. >> just fascinating.
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become more like ticket mess for die hard taylor swift fans. lindsay rutland tried to buy tickets online two days ago. >> pretty much once we were in the queue, they stopped and said, like, your queue has been paused. >> reporter: swift hasn't toured since 2018, so demand had reached a fever pitch. late today, ticketmaster blamed the cancellation on extraordinarily high demands on ticketing systems and insufficient remaining ticket inventory to meet that demand. earlier in the day, ticketmaster's parent company said swift's unmatched popularity and a so-called pre-sale opportunity overloaded the system. >> we had 14 million people hit the site, including bots. >> reporter: now ticketmaster and brokenhearted fans, known as swifties, are locked in a battle. >> i literally feel like i'm about to burst into tears right now. >> reporter: for now, swifties might have to wait for the next era. nikki battiste, cbs news, new york.
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>> we need more concerts, taylor. all right. there's new video of jay leno during his treatment for serious burns. we'll have that when we return. tonight, comedian jay leno is awaiting a second surgery to treat serious burns to his face, chest, and hands. inside edition obtained video of leno wrapped in bandages insud a hyperbaric oxygen chamber. the burn unit says the treatment heals wounds by increasing oxygen supply to injured areas
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finally tonight, the smallest gestures can sometimes make a world of difference. cbs's david begnaud introduces us to a minnesota barber who's a cut above the rest. >> reporter: in the basement of a minnesota retirement home, in a workshop turned barbershop, tom gorski is doing what he's done for 70 years. the haircuts are free, but tips are expected and appreciated. gorski learned to cut hair in the navy, then perfected his skills over 36 years in his minneapolis shop. and now he uses them to help the poorest people of south africa. >> there's a need, and i have resources. that's what you do. >> reporter: gorski and his wife, mary, saw that need firsthand ten years ago with the organization arm and arm. he was determined to help.
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>> give it to people that need it more than we do. >> instead of just dropping the ball like the rest of us all did, he keeps cutting hair to do some good in the world. and we all appreciate that. >>best thing we ever did. >> reporter: in five years, gorski has raised $13,000 cutting hair, and he's donated thousands more. >> as long as my hands are steady, i'll just keep doing it. one person can make a difference. you just roll up your sleeve and you do what the heck you can. >> reporter: tom the barber, using his skill to make the world a more beautiful place. david begnaud, cbs news. that is the overnight news for this friday. for some of you, the news continues. and for others, check back later for "cbs mornings." remember, you can follow us online anytime at cbsnews.com. reporting from here in the nation's capital, i'm norah o'donnell.
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this is cbs news flash. i'm dan lieberman in new york. the family of gabby petito, the 22-year-old found dead last year in wyoming, was awarded $3 million in a wrongful death lawsuit against the estate of her fiance, brian laundrie, who died by suicide. any money will go to the gabby petito foundation. a federal judge in california will decide today the fate of elizabeth holmes, the 38-year-old founder of the blood testing start-up theranos. ms. holmes faces a maximum of 20 years in prison, but her lawyers have expected 18 months of house arrest. the man charged with killing ten people and injuring more than a dozen others at a buffalo supermarket is expected to plead guilty to all 25 counts and
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state charges. he also faces federal hate crime charges. 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." tonight, the political landscape here in washington is on the verge of very big change. house speaker nancy pelosi is stepping down from leadership after a historic 20 years. the longest-serving democratic leader in the house, pelosi became the first woman to wield the speaker's gavel back in 2007. first elected to congress in 1987, she's been a trailblazer but also a lightning rod for republican critics. and the announcement comes after her husband was brutally attacked last month, and she was allegedly the intended target. there's bipartisan agreement about her legacy too. president biden called pelosi the most consequential speaker
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in history. even former republican speaker newt gingrich said you could argue she's been the strongest speaker in history. cbs's scott macfarlane will start us off tonight from capitol hill. good evening, scott. >> reporter: good evening, norah. speaker pelosi says she will continue representing san francisco in congress next year. but for the first time in two decades, she will not be a party leader. it's an historic announcement but also one with a profound, immediate impact here. with republicans set to take control of the u.s. house in january, nancy pelosi, the outsized political force for a generation, said it was time for her to step back. >> for me, the hour has come for a new generation to lead the democratic caucus that i so deeply respect. >> reporter: the announcement comes just weeks after a violent attack against her 82-year-old husband, paul pelosi, in san francisco, allegedly by a conspiracy theorist who was targeting her. >> for my dear husband, paul, who has been my beloved partner in life and my pillar of
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support, thank you. we're all grateful for all the prayers and well wishes as he continues his recovery. >> reporter: the current democratic leadership, all in their 80s, are now making room for a new generation of leaders, potentially including hakeem jeffries of new york city, who could become the first african american party leader in congressional history. >> it's always good for a party to have new blood and new invigoration. >> reporter: he'll have to contend with a republican majority which plans to aggressively investigate the biden administration, including what they see is a politicized justice department as well as the president's family. >> was joe biden directly involved with hunter biden's business deals, and is he compromised? that's our investigation. >> reporter: pelosi, who has led house democrats since 2003, was swarmed by colleagues, some in tears. the first-ever female speaker elected twice is a prolific fund-raiser and vote counter, having steered passage of then-president obama's
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affordable care act and key parts of the biden agenda. she also famously clashed with donald trump. >> that's not the point, mr. president. >> reporter: once mocking his state of the union address and tearing up his speech to the delight of fellow democrats. congresswoman jackie speier said the party's leadership was losing an incredible talent. >> she will go down in history as the greatest speaker that this house has ever had. >> reporter: republican leader kevin mccarthy, who is seeking to be the next speaker of the house and who has frequently clashed with pelosi, was not in the chamber as pelosi gave her remarks today. norah. >> interesting. scott macfarlane, thank you. we're just getting some breaking news in the case of those four college students who were murdered in idaho. the autopsy report was just released and reveals the victims were stabbed to death. the county coroner tells cbs news that the killer likely used the same large knife to attack all four students. cbs's christina ruffini is there. she spoke with the coroner, who says the nature of the crime seems personal.
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>> reporter: more than four days since the gruesome murders at a house off campus at the university of idaho, the town of moscow remains in shock. the campus is deserted. the murders are still unsolved. this social media video shows two of the victims at a food truck just hours before they died. today the county coroner released the cause of death. >> they were all murdered through stabbing with -- with some kind of a -- probably a larger knife. >> reporter: many students have already packed up and left early for the thanksgiving break, but classes are still in session. the sister of victim kaylee goncalves posted a stark warning on instagram. to the students of the university of idaho still staying around campus, leave. your grades are severely less important than your lives. and mounting frustration about the police investigation. >> we're not getting any answers, and we're not going to settle for that. >> reporter: as this close-knit community still tries to process the unthinkable. >> to us, this crime and the loss of these young lives is
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just simply beyond comprehension. >> we just want justice for these victims. >> reporter: now, police say there was no forced entry in this house behind me, and the county prosecutor says there could be more than one suspect. this as the fbi has now joined the investigation, helping local law enforcement. norah. >> christina ruffini with those new details, thank you. well, turning now to some dangerous weather. a state of emergency has been declared for 11 counties in new york ahead of a potentially historic lake-effect snow storm. the system is already causing headaches on the roadways in erie, pennsylvania. and in buffalo, the nfl has moved sunday's game between the cleveland browns and buffalo blls to detroit. let's bring in meteorologist mike bettes from our partners at the weather channel. good evening, mike. >> norah, good evening. a very serious lake-effect snow event is playing out right now. it only gets more intense the next few days. the virtual view of buffalo will show you how much snow, two to four inches an hour leading up to a three to four-foot snow total rivaling some of the
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biggest snowstorms in buffalo and south town history. you can see the long fetch of lake erie. the wind direction sets up perfectly for a huge snow event friday, saturday, ending finally on sunday. of drerbehi irtind colair.ti in nnpolis mor. aturdaorah, egrees in houston when they typically expect temperatures in the 70s. >> that's cold for texas. mike bettes, thank you. well, a u.s. customs and border protection agent was killed in a shoot-out at sea with suspected drug smugglers. two other agents suffered grave injuries and it happened off the coast of puerto rico. cbs's jeff pegues has the details. >> reporter: the injured agents were airlifted to a trauma center in puerto rico while federal investigators scoured one of the vessels involved for evidence. the shoot-out happened 14 miles off the coast where u.s. officials say three cbp agents approached the suspected drug smuggling vessel.
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there was a shoot-out in which three agents were wounded. one later died. one of the smugglers was also killed. >> we pray for the family of the officer who lost his life, and we pray for the swift recovery of those who have been injured. >> reporter: drug interdictions are among the most dangerous law enforcement missions. cbp and coast guard patrols go through regular training exercises to try to prevent injuries or fatalities during encounters with smugglers. cbp officials tell us that there were two smuggling boats intercepted. typically the drugs are transferred from one boat to another. today cbp appears to have disrupted the operation, norah, and the three suspects, they are i custody. >> jeff pegues with all those details, i really appreciate it. thank you. well, tonight, the 22-year-old man who allegedly drove his car into a group of l.a. county sheriff's cadets who were out jogging is facing attempted murder charges. investigators say nicholas
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>> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." i'm caitlin huey-burns in washington. thanks for staying with us. fomer first lady michelle obama's book, the light we carry, continues to top the best-seller list on amazon. the book details how mrs. obama would cope with the daily stresses of being a mother in the white house, surrounded by secret service agents and seeing daily criticism online and in the press. number three on that best-seller list, former vice president mike pence's book called "so help me god." pence details some of the
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stresses he endured, especially on january 6th when a mob of trump supporters rampaged through the capitol, some calling for him to be hanged. margaret brennan spoke with pence about january 6th and the direction of the republican party. >> you had such an eyewitness view, sir, for four years. >> i did. >> you have the credibility to say to the american public whether there is a risk or not of him being commander in chief. >> well, margaret, look, january 6th was a tragic day. i've been very clear as i am in my book that the president's words and actions in and around ary 6t ckless the twe tha he t day that i was i below the united states senate endangered my family and endangered people that were in the capitol and was indefensible. >> the idea of relitigating the
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2020 election continues to circulate as you know that amongst members of your party. do you think that continuing to push these claims, as the former president does, is a direct threat? >> the 2020 election was not stolen. we have a process in this country where states conduct elections. questions of irregularities or fraud are then adjudicated in the courts. the states then certify electoral votes. and as we did on january 6th, in the wake of that terrible violence, the role of the congress is to open and count those votes and to certify the election, and we did that. and joe biden was elected president of the united states of america. >> i want to ask you, though, do you intend to ever sit and answer questions, written, in person, for the january 6th committee? >> i served for 12 years in the congress. it's inconceivable to me that one party would appoint every member of a committee in congress. that's antithetical to the whole
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idea of the committee system. that being said, i never stood in the way of senior members of my team cooperating with the committee and testifying. but congress has no right to my testimony. >> you're closing the door on that entirely? >> i'm closing the door on that. >> to be clear, there are two republicans on the january 6th committee, and republican leadership chose not to appoint more. the former vice president is threading a needle here. he is condemning the actions of the former president, calling him reckless, calling him part of the problem, but not separating himself entirely from the former president, the administration, and the trump movement. this is going to be something we follow closely a mik pence i20. aret brn, cbsnews, n york. means a of shopping and a lot of packaging in the mail. the u.s. postal service has launched a hiring spree.
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it's trying to avoid the disruptions that plagued the mail during the height of the pandemic. how is it going? well, scott macfarlane has the latest. >> reporter: one month from today is the deadline to ensure packages arrive by december 25th. a new congressional review is issuing some warnings of possible nighttime deliveries at your mailbox between now and then. staffing issues and backups too. at her clothing business in los angeles, boanaloha says holiday mail delivers keep her store afloat. >> if i don't have timely delivery, it impacts my business because my staff is working harder. my staff is working longer hours, and then myself as well. >> reporter: the u.s. postal service says it's adding more package processing machines and is trying to hire approximately 28,000 seasonal workers to prevent a holiday crush and delays. >> we'll hear from postal service officials dr. >> reporter: but testifying before a congressional panel, a
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representative of managers and postmasters warrants hiring won't be easy. he says recruitment efforts are already sluggish nationwide including in california, plus new england and the midwest, in a tight labor market. >> postmasters that are short-staffed in many areas of the country are personally delivering mail on some routes in order to fulfill that mission. in some regions, advertised vacancies get no applicants. >> reporter: a new congressional investigation also found recent absenteeism problems at postal centers in chicago, philadelphia, and baltimore, exacerbating worker shortages. >> if there's an absenteeism problem, what happens to delivery or performance? >> it slows down everything, and it affects obviously reliability for customers. we need to make sure that the postal service is reliable and that people are on deck doing their jobs. >> reporter: and aloha is encouraging her customers to shop early. >> we're starting to take our packages for christmas delivery. we don't want to see, so we want to be proactive and guarantee
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those pieces to get there well before the time that they're needed. >> reporter: postal worker representatives say the end result could be after dark, even nighttime deliveries at your mailbox between now and the end of the holidays. in the mean time, here are the deadlines recommended by the postal service for december 25th delivery. first class mail, send it by december 17th. priority mail by the 19th. and express mail by the 23rd. the advice remains the same. don't cut it too close if you don't have to. >> good advice from scott macfarlane. the overnight news is back in two minutes.
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state to recognize all legal marriages, including people of the same sex or different races. interracial marriage was once outlawed in many parts of the country. mo rocca reports on how that's started to change. >> you're supposed to break the glass that you're drinking from. >> reporter: to margaret "peggy" smith, it was just an ordinary wedding, except that it wasn't. >> this is very heavy. this is because "time" magazine was a big deal back then. you're on the cover of it. >> yeah. >> did you know you were going to be on the cover? >> oh, no. we had no idea. >> reporter: this was the marriage between 22-year-old guy gibson smith and 18-year-old margaret elizabeth rusk, and they didn't make headlines just because peggy was the daughter of dean rusk, the secretary of state during two administrations. >> ms. rusk and mr. smith had obviously thought long and hard about the consequences of a mixed marriage. >> reporter: the coverage spells
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it out. an interracial wedding. out to be a big year for the ed- topic. >> what has been the worst part of this for you? >> well, i guess the worst thing was spending a little time in jail. that's the worst thing. >> reporter: only months before, in loving versus virginia, the supreme court unanimously struck down laws that banned interracial marriage. before that ruling, 16 states had laws against racially mixed marriages. >> the loving v. virginia case, were you following that at all? >> no. >> were you even aware of it? >> vaguely. >> reporter: peggy and guy married that september, but the subject was so controversial that before the wedding bells rang, dean rusk made his own proposal to president lyndon johnson. >> is it true that your father
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offered his resignation? >> he did. pop was concerned that my marriage was going to make things more difficult for president johnson, and johnson said forget it. pit didn't bother johnson at al. >> reporter: peggy had grown up in scarsdale, new york, until her father was approached to work for president john f. kennedy and moved the whole family to washington, d.c. a 14-year-old peggy spent many of her afternoons riding horses in rock creek park. the assistant instructor, a georgetown university freshman named guy smith. >> he was cute as a bug, so we all had a crush on him. >> reporter: but it was peggy id, he to ked to a dinner mo then held ie alt i i came to house tomorrow afternoon and i asked your mother if i can take you to the dance? >> this way, there would be no surprises. >> right. >> your mother would know that
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she was saying yes to you going to a banquet with a black man. >> right. i thought it was brilliant. >> dr. prentiss, i'm so pleased to meet you. >> i'm pleased to meet you, mrs. drayton. >> reporter: only months after peggy and guy married "guess who's coming to dinner" opened in theaters. >> he thinks you're going to faint because he's a negro. >> well, i don't think i'm going to faint. >> reporter: sidney poitier plays the black fiance to katherine houghton's character, with katharine hepburn and spencer tracy as her mom and dad. >> would you think it was some kind of cowardice if i told you that no matter how confident you two are, i'm just a little scared? >> no, it wouldn't. but you never know. things are changing. >> i think i only saw the movie once, and i was actually kind of bored.
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this is the picture that guy kept on his instrument panel the whole time he was in vietnam. >> reporter: shortly after guy and peggy got hitched, guy shipped off for vietnam. mr. and mrs. smith would eventually settle down on a farm, raise a daughter, and enjoy the company of horses for 44 years until guy passed away in 2012 at the age of 67. >> i was holding him, and his last conscious words were to apologize for leaving me alone. >> you can see the press here? >> reporter: to this day, peggy says she still doesn't get what all the fuss was about. after all, hers was just an ordinary wedding, even if it wasn't. >> we didn't get married for any reason other than the fact we loved each other. we weren't trying to prove
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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.
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i'm talking about the joy and love in our hearts. i want more of that. a company in japan has turned to extreme recycling to transform a garbage dump into a playground. lucy craft reports. >> reporter: this might look like just another serene patch of wootland with a pond full of tadpoles and turtles, an organic vegetable farm, and a flock of free range chickens. but this 42 acre oasis actually belongs to an industrial waste treatment plant, where garbage gets a new lease on life. it all starts with truckloads of concrete, mountains of lumber, and other debris hauled in from building demolition sites. this is the guts of the operation, sorting down and sorting down the trash until there's very little left that has to be incinerated or put into a landfill. call it extremert
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ash i separated sorte ai and again and again. handing garbage this way is expensive and slow, but it's enabled the company to achieve a recycling rate of 98% while staying in the black, says president noriko. our green initiatives have won us supporters and new customers. it wasn't always so. back in the 1990s, ishizaka incinerated its trash. residents threatened to drive the company out of town. so the company embraced recycling with a vengeance, building a kind of green theme park. visitors stroll on crushed orange roof tiles and soft tufts of pulverized lumber. this carefully tended landscape used to be an illegal trash dump. when it comes to garbage plants, homeowners usually say not in my back yard. but ishizaka has built its own backyard, one that its neighbors
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can get behind. lucy craft, cbs news, saitama, japan. and that's the overnight news for this friday. reporting from the nation's capital, i'm caitlin huey-burns. this is cbs news flash. i'm dan lieberman in new york. the family of gabby petito, the 22-year-old found dead last year in wyoming, was awarded $3 million in a wrongful death lawsuit against the estate of her fiance, brian laundrie, who died by suicide. petito's family says any money will go to the gabby petito foundation. a federal judge in california will decide today the fate of elizabeth holmes, the 38-year-old founder of the failed blood testing start-up theranos. ms. holmes faces a maximum of 20 years in prison, but her lawyers have requested 18 months of house arrest. the man charged with killing ten people and injuring more than a dozen others at a buffalo supermarket earlier this year is expected to plead guilty to all 25 counts and state charges. he also faces federal hate crime
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charges. for more news, download the cbs news app on your cell phone. i'm dan lieberman, cbs news, new york. tonight, the big changes coming to congress as nancy pelosi, the first woman to be elected speaker of the house, announces she'll step aside. plus, the history-making lawmaker who could succeed her. >> when i came to the congress in 1987, there were 12 democratic women. now there are over 90, and we want more. >> for years, the most powerful woman in washington. tonight, the end of an era. college murder mystery. after four friends were brutally stabbed, what the coroner is saying about the knife. border agents attacked. a federal officer is killed in a shoot-out with suspected drug smugglers. frigid forecast. the treacherous roadside conditions ahead of a busy
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holiday weekend. bad blood between taylor swift fans and ticketmaster after the site cancels tomorrow's ticket sales. thanksgiving turkey with a side of sticker shock. cbs's carter evans tonight on rising prices. >> but there are still some ways to save. we'll show you. and "eye on america." how climate change is turning alaska into america's fastest growing farmland. >> is the last frontier the new frontier for farming in america? >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." tonight, the political landscape here in washington is on the verge of very big change. house speaker nancy pelosi is stepping down from leadership after a historic 20 years. the longest-serving democratic leader in the house, pelosi became the first woman to wield the speaker's gavel back in
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2007. first elected to congress in 1987, she's been a trailblazer but also a lightning rod for republican critics. and the announcement comes after her husband was brutally attacked last month, and she was allegedly the intended target. there's bipartisan agreement about her legacy too. president biden called pelosi the most consequential speaker in history. even former republican speaker newt gingrich said you could argue she's been the strongest speaker in history. cbs's scott macfarlane will start us off tonight from capitol hill. good evening, scott. >> reporter: good evening, norah. speaker pelosi says she will continue representing san francisco in congress next year. but for the first time in two decades, she will not be a party leader. it's an historic announcement but also one with a profound, immediate impact here. with republicans set to take control of the u.s. house in january, nancy pelosi, the outsized political force for a generation, said it as time for her to step back.
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>> for me, the hour has come for a new generation to lead the democratic caucus that i so deeply respect. >> reporter: the announcement comes just weeks after a violent attack against her 82-year-old husband, paul pelosi, in san francisco, allegedly by a conspiracy theorist who was targeting her. >> for my dear husband, paul, who has been my beloved partner in life and my pillar of support, thank you. we're all grateful for all the prayers and well wishes as he continues his recovery. >> reporter: the current democratic leadership, all in their 80s, are now making room for a new generation of leaders, potentially including hakeem jeffries of new york city, who could become the first african american party leader in congressional history. >> it's always good for a party to have new blood and new invigoration. >> reporter: he'll have to contend with a republican majority which plans to aggressively investigate the biden administration, including what they see is a politicized justice department as well as the president's family. >> was joe biden directly involved with hunter biden's
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business deals, and is he compromised? that's our investigation. >> reporter: pelosi, who has led house democrats since 2003, was swarmed by colleagues, some in tears. the first-ever female speaker elected twice is a prolific fund-raiser and vote counter, having steered passage of then-president obama's affordable care act and key parts of the biden agenda. she also famously clashed with donald trump. >> that's not the point, mr. president. >> reporter: once mocking his state of the union address and tearing up his speech to the delight of fellow democrats. congresswoman jackie speier said the party's leadership was losing an incredible talent. >> she will go down in history as the greatest speaker that this house has ever had. >> reporter: republican leader kevin mccarthy, who is seeking to be the next speaker of the house and who has frequently clashed with pelosi, was not in the chamber as pelosi gave her remarks today. norah. >> interesting. scott macfarlane, thank you.
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well, we're just getting some breaking news in the case of those four college students who were murdered in idaho. the autopsy report was just released and reveals the victims were stabbed to death. the county coroner tells cbs news that the killer likely used the same large knife to attack all four students. cbs's christina ruffini is there. she spoke with the coroner, who says the nature of the crime seems personal. >> reporter: more than four days since the gruesome murders at a house off campus at the university of idaho, the town of moscow remains in shock. the campus is deserted. the murders are still unsolved. this social media video shows two of the victims at a food truck just hours before they died. today the county coroner released the cause of death. >> they were all murdered through stabbing with -- with some kind of a -- probably a larger knife. >> reporter: outside the home, just across the street from the university, police tape and a small memorial. many students have already packed up and left early for the thanksgiving break, but classes are still in session.
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the sister of victim kaylee goncalves posted a stark warning on instagram. "to the students of the university of idaho still staying around campus, leave. your grades are severely less important than your lives." and from grieving family members, mounting frustration about the police investigation. >> we're not getting any answers, and we're not going to settle for that. >> reporter: as this close-knit community still tries to process the unthinkable. >> to us, this crime and the loss of these young lives is just simply beyond comprehension. we just want justice for these victims. >> reporter: now, police say there was no forced entry in this house behind me, and the county prosecutor says there could be more than one suspect. this as the fbi has now joined the investigation, helping local law enforcement. norah. >> christina ruffini with those new details, thank you. well, turning now to some dangerous weather. a state of emergency has been declared for 11 counties in new york ahead of a potentially historic lake-effect snow storm. the system is already causing
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headaches on the roadways in erie, pennsylvania. and in buffalo, the nfl has moved sunday's game between the cleveland browns and buffalo bills to detroit. let's bring in meteorologist mike bettes from our partners at the weather channel. good evening, mike. >> norah, good evening. a very serious lake-effect snow event is playing out right now. it only gets more intense the next two days. our virtual view of buffalo shows you just how much snow will be coming down here. and the snowfall rates, two to four inches an hour, eventually leading up to a three to four foot snow total, rivaling some of the biggest snowstorms in buffalo and south town history. you can see the long fetch of lake erie. the wind direction sets up perfectly for a huge snow event friday, saturday, ending finally on sunday. some of the drivers behind this, wind direction and cold air. biting in minneapolis tomorrow at just 18 degrees. doesn't get any better into the weekend. on saturday, norah, 46 degrees in houston when they typically expect temperatures in the 70s. >> that's cold for texas. mike bettes, thank you.
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>> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." well, a u.s. customs and border protection agent was killed in a shoot-out at sea with suspected drug smugglers. two other agents suffered grave injuries, and it happened off the coast of puerto rico. cbs's jeff pegues has the details. >> reporter: the injured agents were airlifted to a trauma center in puerto rico while federal investigators scoured one of the vessels involved for evidence. the shoot-out happened 14 miles off the coast where u.s. officials say three cbp agents approached the suspected drug smuggling vessel. there was a shoot-out in which
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three agents were wounded. one later died. one of the smugglers was also killed. >> we pray for the family of the officer who lost his life, and we pray for the swift recovery of those who have been injured. >> reporter: drug interdictions are among the most dangerous law enforcement missions. cbp and coast guard patrols go through regular training exercises to try to prevent injuries or fatalities during encounters with smugglers. cbp officials tell us that there were two smuggling boats intercepted. typically the drugs are transferred from one boat to another. today cbp appears to have disrupted the operation, norah, and the three suspects, they are in custody. >> jeff pegues with all those details, i really appreciate it. thank you. well, tonight, the 22-year-old man who allegedly drove his car into a group of l.a. county sheriff's cadets who were out jogging is facing attempted murder charges. investigators say nicholas gutierrez was driving on the wrong said of the road wednesday
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morning when he swerved into the cadets. more than two dozen were injured, five critically. overseas, about 10 million ukrainians were plunged into darkness after another barrage of russian air strikes targeted the country's energy grid. cbs's chris livesay witnessed the panicked aftermath of one attack in dnipro. >> reporter: it was a morning like any other for commuters in dnipro, ukraine, until it was shattered by vladimir putin's war. among the wounded, a 15-year-old girl. astonishingly, those aboard the bus were unscathed, says the driver, viacheslav, still sitting behind the wheel in shock. "i saw the missile strike right in front of me," he says. "the passengers ran and tried to hide." just imagine what it's like. you're on your way to work in the morning or about to drop off your kids at school, and then this happens.
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but this is the reality for millions of ukrainians just du war.to live t l ukrainians now forced to pick up the broken pieces, like natalya, who had to remove shards of her apartment windows from her face. >> my mother russian. my father ukrainian. i live all my life in ukrainian. >> reporter: and galyna, who's begging for it all to end. >> please close the sky for ukrainian people. please. >> reporter: many of the survivors we spoke to no longer have windows or doors. all of them shattered by the blast. this on the first day of snow in much of the country as russia continues to target water, electricity, and heating. norah. >> tough, tough situation. chris livesay, thank you. thanksgiving is just one week away, and inflation is unfortunately on the menu. sticker shock is forcing some shoppers to visit multiple
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stores to find deals. cbs's carter evans shows us how you can save this holiday season. >> reporter: these days, a big chunk of charlie heydt's budget goes into his shopping cart. >> how much are you spending? >> between 300 and 400 bucks, seriously. >> reporter: it's a week of groceries for his family of four. >> when your grocery bill is more than your car payment, it's crazy. >> reporter: julie chambers has her thanksgiving shopping list, following deals from store to store. >> i'm doing it in stages because i don't want the shock and awe of the price at the end. >> reporter: the average american family paid $445 more in september for the same goods and services they bought last year. in october, grocery prices were up almost 12.5%. and just this week, the farm bureau said thanksgiving dinner is going to cost 20% more this year. >> five or more. >> to get the good sale. >> reporter: and it's having an impact. many holiday hosts are now telling guests to bring a dish to dinner. >> just because the prices have
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gone up so much. >> consumers have started buying expensees, buyinall. and br don't tend to buy. >> reporter: here's a money saving tip. using grocery store apps can unlock hidden discounts. >> what's kind of unknown to folks is that there's coupons in there that are very specific to you and your shopping behaviors. >> reporter: to compete for your dollars, walmart is rolling back some thanksgiving prices to last year's levels. and not to be outdone, aldi's dialing them back to 2019. for charlie heydt, the total still stings. you broke 500. $549. >> yeah. setting a record. >> reporter: and he'll be back again next week. carter evans, cbs news, los angeles. when you really need to sleep. you reach for the really good stuff. zzzquil ultra helps you sleep better and longer when you need it most. its non-habit forming and powered by the makers of nyquil.
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their plan, this will be turned into farmland. the boreal forest is one of the largest trappers of carbon dioxide on earth. but as alaska warms twice as fast as the rest of the country, once frozen land is now thawed out and up for grabs. >> i see climate change in alaska as an opportunity to bring in more crops, to develop more land. >> reporter: eric johnson oversees the nenana agriculture project, which in october began auctioning off 140,000 acres of the forest, divided into parcels, to the highest bidders from all over the world. >> couldn't there be anything else you could look to develop land for farming and not here? >> this is the most suitable land for agriculture development. this is only 140,000 acres. >> reporter: but statewide, the rush for land is on. the number of farms here have grown 44%, making alaska the state with the most amount of new farms in the country. native tribes who live off the
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land in the boreal forest worry the project will be abused and cause pollution. >> what did this land mean to you? >> this is our grocery store. this is how we grew up, learning how to live off of this land. >> reporter: the state says bidders are required to submit development plans but acknowledges they're not strict. >> we want real farmers. we want to provide opportunities. we can't tell them exactly how to use that opportunity. i see the lower 48 as getting hotter and drier, and we've got a lot of water, and we've got a lot of clean land. >> reporter: it's a new gamble for alaska. >> is the last frontier the new frontier for farming in america? >> i believe it is. >> reporter: a risk not everyone is willing to take. >> agriculture is probably something we need to get into. but what does it look like? it doesn't look like this. >> reporter: for "eye on america," i'm jonathan vigliotti in alaska's boreal forest. >> just fascinating. all right.
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become more like ticket mess for diehard taylor swift fans. lindsay rutland tried to buy tickets online two days ago. >> pretty much once we were in the queue, they stopped and said, like, your queue has been paused. >> reporter: swift hasn't toured since 2018, so demand had reached a fever pitch. late today, ticketmaster blamed the cancellation on extraordinarily high demands on ticketing systems and insufficient remaining ticket inventory to meet that demand. earlier in the day, ticketmaster's parent company said swift's unmatched popularity and a so-called pre-sale opportunity overloaded the system. >> we had 14 million people hit the site, including bots. >> reporter: now ticketmaster and brokenhearted fans, known as swifties, are locked in a battle. >> i literally feel like i'm about to burst into tears right now. >> reporter: for now, swifties might have to wait for the next era. nikki battiste, cbs news, new york. >> we need more concerts,
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taylor. all right. there's new video of jay leno during his treatment for serious burns. we'll have that when we return. tonight, comedian jay leno is awaiting a second surgery to treat serious burns to his face, chest, and hands. "inside edition" obtained video of leno wrapped in bandages inside a hyperbaric oxygen chamber. the burn unit says the treatment heals wounds by increasing
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we are grocery outlet and we are your bargain bliss market. what's bargain bliss? you know that feeling you get when you find the name brands you love, but for way, way less? that's bargain bliss. and with thanksgiving right around the corner, we want you to save big. that's why at grocery outlet, we are offering you $21 off your holiday turkey with in-store coupon. that's as low as .53 cents a pound. now, that's savings to be thankful for.
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so hurry in because this deal is only available while supplies last. ♪ grocery outlet bargain market ♪ finally tonight, the smallest gestures can sometimes make a world of difference. cbs's david begnaud introduces us to a minnesota barber who's a cut above the rest. >> reporter: in the basement of a minnesota retirement home, in a workshop turned barbershop, tom gorski is doing what he's done for 70 years. the haircuts are free, but tips are expected and appreciated. gorski learned to cut hair in the navy, then perfected his skills over 36 years in his minneapolis shop. and now he uses them to help the poorest people of south africa. >> there's a need, and i have resources. that's what you do. >> reporter: gorski and his wife, mary, saw that need firsthand ten years ago with the organization arm and arm.
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he was determined to help. >> give it to people that need it more than we do. >> instead of just dropping the ball like the rest of us all did, he keeps cutting hair to do some good in the world. and we all appreciate that. >> best thing we ever did. >> reporter: in five years, gorski has raised $13,000 cutting hair, and he's donated thousands more. >> as long as my hands are steady, i'll just keep doing it. one person can make a difference. you just roll up your sleeve and you do what the heck you can. >> reporter: tom the barber, using his skill to make the world a more beautiful place. david begnaud, cbs news. that is the overnight news for this friday. for some of you, the news continues. and for others, check back later for "cbs mornings." remember, you can follow us online anytime at cbsnews.com. reporting from here in the nation's capital, i'm norah o'donnell.
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this is cbs news flash. i'm dan lieberman in new york. the family of gabby petito, the 22-year-old found dead last year in wyoming, was awarded $3 million in a wrongful death lawsuit against the estate of her fiance, brian laundrie, who died by suicide. petito's family says any money will go to the gabby petito foundation. a federal judge in california will decide todayde e fate of elizabeth holmes, the 38-year-old founder of the failed blood testing start-up theranos. ms. holmes faces a maximum of 20 years in prison, but her lawyers have requested 18 months of house arrest. the man charged with killing ten people and injuring more than a dozen others at a buffalo supermarket earlier this year is expected to plead guilty to all 25 counts and state charges.
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he also faces federal hate crime charges. for more news, download the cbs news app on your cell phone or connected tv. it's friday, november 18th, 2022. this is the "cbs morning news." paralyzing storm. western new york and the great lakes region brace for possible feet of snow. what one governor is saying about the seriousness of the storm. stepping down. nancy pelosi announces she will not seek re-election as leader of democrats in the house. hear who could be the next leader. idaho murder mystery. the autopsies of four idaho college students who were brutally murdered in their apartment are now complete. what the coroner is saying was the cause of death. good morning, and good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. we begin with a state of
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