kaely, cbs news, new york. >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." roughly 55 million of you traveled this holiday weekend, and today is expected to be one of the busiest travel days of the year. air travel reached prepan democratic levels again. on saturday alone the tsa screened more than 2.2 million people. you can see flight aware's misery map showing trouble spots in red. so far today there have been more than 100 cancellations and at least 4,200 delays across the country. for those of you behind the wheel right now you're probably taking it slow. some wet roads there we saw

earlier in d.c. today. but we want to start off in new york with cbs's elise preston at a very busy laguardia airport. good evening, elise. >> reporter: good evening, jericka. with a record number of travelers and nasty weather along the east coast new york's laguardia is one of several airports warning passengers to get to the airport early today. mom kate cantrell and her 4-year-old daughter elmsly arrived to new york's laguardia airport three hours ahead of their six-hours-long journey home to new mexico. >> i'm hoping we get out of new york on time because of the weather. >> reporter: the tsa predicted today would be on par with the sunday after thanksgiving in 2019, which was the busiest day in tsa history. for paul and victoria vestuto it's the first time they've traveled for the holiday since 2019. >> i'm getting nervous about the weather, but -- >> but if we get stuck we'll just find a sports bar. >> reporter: airport workers in philadelphia -- ♪ -- tried to lighten the mood for

travelers stuck in long lines. >> flight doesn't board for another hour but i had to be here extra early just in case, you know, that line takes about two hours. >> reporter: most americans traveled by car sunday. in the northeast drivers were forced to dodge rain as they returned home. aaa says this year was the third busiest ever for thanksgiving travel. >> we're anticipating a very busy holiday season for travelers but also a very busy 2023 for travel. >> reporter: and now aaa's anticipating an explosion of what it's calling revenge travel. >> they're ready to go. and they're spending more money on vacations. they're traveling to farther distances. >> reporter: while many people are returning home today, travel has changed since the pandemic and aaa expects more people to continue returning home today and throughout the week. jerick liter jus got something on my phone telling me my flight out tonight is delayed. we'll see what happens. elise preston, thank you.

rain and snow in some parts of the country are expected to cause slick travel for millions of you heading back home. for more on that let's turn to paul goodloe from our partners at the weather channel nor more on what you can expect. good evening. >> good evening, jericka. today's rain causing problems, starts to exit monday. if you're not traveling till monday looking pretty good. maybe some lingering scattered showers but now the northwest more snow for you monday. watching that system, because that is going to bring severe weather including tornado risk going sky high as we head on toward tuesday and wednesday across parts of the lower mississippi river valley. east texas, louisiana, arkansas, mississippi in the zone for severe weather and looming tornadoes but also snow. maybe even the twin cities pretty close to maybe three to six inches of snow. heavier snow in the western great lakes and the mountains getting clobbered. but the concern here is weather including tornadoes on tuesday evening. tuesday overnight across parts of the lower mississippi river valley. >> all right, paul goodloe for us. thank you. well, there has been unprecedented pushback in china

against the government's covid restrictions over the weekend. in several cities demonstrators gathered to protest against a renewed round of lockdowns following a spike in coronavirus infections. cbs's elizabeth palmer reports. >> reporter: he shouds what until now would have been unthinkable. "down with xi jinping. down with the communist party." the protests in shanghai and other cities were sparked by a tragedy. thousands of miles away in xinjiang, western china. ten people burned to death in an apartment fire last week. a furious crowd gathered around local government offices, convinced that covid restrictions had stopped the fire engines from reaching the blaze. authorities denied that. but the story brought people into the streets, in sympathy with the victims and in anger with the government's heavy-handed covid rules.

at the vigil in shanghai they held up blank sheets of paper to symbolize the way critics of the government are routinely silenced. and by sunday night another vigil under way in beijing had spun off even more protests. some of the pushback against zero covid may have its roots in chinese viewers seeing crowds at the world cup, unmasked and unafraid. but by today it appeared state tv was censoring yijds images oe barefaced spectators. all part of xi jinping's plan to double down on his zero covid policy. and the sight of citizens chanting "lift lockdowns" isn't likely to change his mind. elizabeth palmer, cbs news, tokyo. the recent mass shootings has congressional democrats reigniting their push for gun control legislation. president biden returned to washington this evening.

the president has said he'll try to move on stricter gun laws before the year is over. cbs's nancy cordes has the very latest on this. nancy, good evening to you. >> reporter: good evening, jericka. the issue is important enough to the president that he took a break from his vacation here to talk to reporters about it. but the legislative reality has not changed. his party does not have the votes for major new gun laws and it's only going to get harder for them once republicans take control of the house in january. >> that is what we need to do in this lame duck session. >> reporter: top democrats argued sunday the time is right for a return to the assault weapons ban. but even the biggest gun safety advocates admitted the numbers just aren't there. >> does it have 60 votes in the senate right now? probably not. >> reporter: republicans who take over the house in january argued there are enough gun laws already on the books. >> if passing a bill would simply end gun violence, then i think you would have

overwhelming support in congress for that. >> it saves lives. >> reporter: here on nantucket president biden lamented the fact that some laws just weren't enforced in recent mass shootings, including a red flag law that could have kept guns out of the hands of a man who killed five and injured dozens more at an lgbtq nightclub in colorado springs last week. >> in this case it wasn't pursued by the local sheriff agency. >> reporter: on "face the nation" colorado governor jared polis said he wants to see his state's red flag law expanded so local prosecutors as well as family members can petition to have guns confiscated from troubled individuals. >> we also need to make sure that we publicize the law and make sure that the tools are in people's hands when they need >> reporter: congress last passed an assault weapons ban back in 1994 but allowed it to lapse ten years later. and house democrats have passed similar bans repeatedly since, as recently as this july.

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♪ >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." i'm jericka duncan in new york. thanks for staying with us. the holidays are a time for families and friends to gather. but during the pandemic those celebrations helped touch off waves of covid-19. now, it's too soon to know if this past thanksgiving will lead to an increase in infections. however, health officials fear what they're calling a tripledemic. that's covid, influenza and the respiratory infection rsv all striking at the same time. now, the flu bug is already raging across the nation, and the pediatric units in many hospitals are filled with children suffering from rsv.

manuel bojorquez reports. >> reporter: as viral infections continue to rise nationwide, people like sherri wharton are vocal about vaccines. on facebook she wrote, "i hesitated getting my covid shot this time. but i thought of our dear friends we lost before vaccines were available." >> i don't want to lose any of my children or my grandchildren or my friends. >> reporter: but the message is lost on even some of her loved ones. >> my children are all four very outspoken. i have one in particular that will not take the booster, but that's his choice. and that's just how i have to leave it. >> reporter: doctors are concerned holiday gatherings may accelerate a so-called tripledemic, a convergence of flu, rsv and covid cases. while covid cases declind slightly from the previous week, hospitalizations for the flu are at the highest level for this time of year in more than a decade. at least 36 states are seeing elevated levels of rsv cases

compared to this time last year. dr. eileen marty, of florida international university, warns against taking the threat of illness lightly. >> if they've had covid, their risk for a worse outcome from the other viruses is increased. >> reporter: still, there are things everyone can do. >> hand sanitizer, wash your hands. and if you're feeling ill, separate yourself or wear a mask. >> it's common sense. >> reporter: despite public health campaigns urging vaccination, just over a quarter of adults have gotten their flu shot. even fewer have received the latest covid booster. there is still no vaccine for rsv. >> that again was manuel bojorquez reporting. compounding the health issues facing the nation, a shortage of nurses. it's estimated the country needs about 200,000 new registered nurses every year to meet the demand. instead, thousands are actually leaving the profession. norah o'donnell has more.

>> are you in any pain right now? >> reporter: jimmy alverson has been in and out of children's hospital in d.c. for more than seven years battling brain cancer. the nurses here are like family. >> they do an amazing job of making me feel better. >> reporter: among them is kaitlyn hall. >> i absolutely love this job. i wouldn't do anything else. i feel like just coming in every day helping these families just really brightening their day has just been amazing. >> reporter: but with the pandemic the last few years haven't been easy. ever thought about quitting? >> every day. >> reporter: what do you think people don't appreciate about nurses? >> the idea that it's a lot more than nursing. we end up doing engineering and plumbing and sanitary and a lot of other things that we're not necessarily in the job description. >> do you think there's a lot of burnout? >> i do. i think people are really exhausted. we've been relying on a lot of of overtime these last few years

to really fill kind of the holes on the unit. >> reporter: nation wilde, about 1 in 5 full-time registered nursing jobs are unfilled. between the toll of the pandemic, retirements and an aging population in need of more care, the shortage is only getting worse. linda tally is chief nursing officer at children's national. >> how's the morale among nursing staff? >> i think it waxes and wanes. early on in the pandemic we all kept saying to ourselves like when do we get back to normal? now we realize normal is a thing of the past. >> reporter: what's not in the past, nursing schools turning away tens of thousands of students because there isn't enough faculty to teach them. but one who is enrolled in nursing school, jimmy's older sister. >> they are truly like the silent unsung heroes. but we get to see that every day. >> that again was norah suffering from sinus congestion, especially at night? try vicks sinex for instant relief that lasts up to 12 hours.

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as the national symphony orchestra and conductor steven reineke shared the spotlight. >> please welcome to the stage the wolf bros and bobby weir! >> reporter: with grateful dead co-founder bob weir and his band wolf bros. it's a combination more than a decade in the make ing where grateful dead classics -- ♪ -- are reimagined as classical music. in preparation weir and his core band don was, jay lane and jeff kamedy, spent weeks rehearsing in california. who's going to be more intimidated going into this thing, the band or the symphony orchestra? >> that's an excellent question. i don't know. i'm not sure that the orchestral players know what they're walking into. boy, this is going to be

interesting. ♪ >> reporter: and so it was. four nights the audience was on its feet. to the consternation of ushers unfamiliar with jam band etiquette. ♪ a triumph for orchestra and band. >> i think it's probably going to go on for the rest of my lifetime. >> reporter: and it was a triumph for the music professor who brought cultur and counterculture together. giancarlo aquilan tachlt e, an italian composer at stanford university, had never paid much attention to the grateful dead before meeting bob weir in 2009. but working with weir, he's now as dedicated to the music as any deadhead. >> the music of the grateful dead, there is so much material that somehow once you get into it, once you get deeper oin

thtinto that, understanding how they work, musically, counterpoint, harmony, rhythm, i found that it translate into the orchestra in a very natural way. >> it feels like it's faster than usual but it might be too much coffee for me this morning. >> we could certainly slow it down. i have nothing against that. >> reporter: aquilante studied the improvisation that was part of every grateful dead show. and he saw the influence of weir's long-time partner, jerry garcia. >> in the grateful dead he sang his songs, you sang your songs. you now sing his songs as well. >> yeah. i can't sing them his way and i'm not even going to try. but yeah, those songs need to live and they need to live and breathe and grow. a song is a living critter. if i may wax hippie met aphysical for you, the characters in those songs are real. they live in some other world and they come and visit us through the musicians, through the artists who have dedicated their lives to being that medium and inviting those critters from

other worlds to come and visit our world. and entertain the folks because that's all they want to do is they want to meet us and we meet them. that's what we do. >> reporter: jerry garcia met weir in 1963 in palo alto, california. ♪ around the world ♪ weir was 16, struggling in school but showing promise on the guitar. ♪ the grateful dead grew into a touring powerhouse, playing for an army of loyal fans. ♪ i will get by ♪ a trip that seemed to end when garcia died in 1995 at the age of 53. is any of this at all related to the fact that jerry left so soon? >> well, he left some unfinished business. we were partners. i'm going to do my best to tidy some stuff up for him. that's what you do for your

friends. >> reporter: composer giancarlo aquilante. >> i have some recordings of jerry garcia playing these guitars. it took me days, months sometimes to get one section, to say this is it. ♪ so for me it was like getting the soul of these men and revisiting him and giving him an opportunity to be alive again into these orchestrations. ♪ one, two, three, four ♪ >> giancarlo has managed to put on a page what it was we he were reaching for. because we always had this philharmonic notion of what we were up to. it was always going on. i was thinking, this is a horn line. and jerry would hear it that way. but now we can actually assign it to horns. ♪ playing ♪ ♪ playing in the band ♪ >> i understand you don't read music. >> right.

>> you have to remember everything. >> i put some work into this. i have to because i'm dyslexic in the extreme and i have to commit all this to memory. >> forgive me but i can say this. as a fellow man in his 70s, your memory may be fine but it takes a little bit more time to recall sometimes. >> so i have to get it in my bones. it's not a matter of memory so much as a matter of feeling it. >> why do you want to work so hard these days when you could be just outside enjoying the hiking? >> well, you know, i love doing what i do and it gives my nose to the grindstone. >> reporter: weir and his wife natasha have two daughters, monet and chloe, both now in their 20s. to keep up with them weir is an avid fitness buff, something he shares on social media. his workouts keep him road ready. ♪ for a concert schedule that includes next summer's final tour with dead & company.

a collaboration with guitarist john mayer that's been one of the top grossing acts in the nation. ♪ weir is also releasing live albums with wolf bros. ♪ and this coming february they'll join the atlanta symphony orchestra for another three nights of truly classic rock. for bob weir it seems keeping the music of the dead alive is nothing less than his life's work. is it one of your hopes from all this that the songs, your music is going to live long after you're not here? >> my major consideration is what are people going to say about what i'm doing in 300 years? because a lot more doors are open to me now. and i'll be stir fried if i'm just going to walk past that. if you've worked for your entire life to be able to work with a symphony orchestra on a meaningful level, how can you

pass that up? ♪

well, a police officer in cleveland, ohio has made it his duty to spread joy this holiday season, and it's turned him into an internet sensation. michael george has his story. >> good morning! welcome to the cleveland clinic! >> reporter: every morning outside the cleveland clinic there's an impromptu dance party, and leading the way, corporal eric hudson. ♪ i love ya ♪ >> y'all need a little positivity. >> reporter: while directing traffic hudson plays music on his bluetooth radio and hypes up passersby, whether they're medical workers, patients, or complete strangers. people give him high fives, hugs or just join in themselves. in just two weeks corporal hudson has become a sensation. were you surprised by how big

this became? >> yes. yes. yes! and it's still surreal. ♪ so this is what we do ♪ ♪ from me to you ♪ >> reporter: hudson says he lets his mood pick the music for the day. >> so i like going back to the '80s. i could go from bon jovi to earth wind & fire to boy george to cyndi lauper. >> reporter: hudson is actually a police supervisor. he says he volunteered for crossing guard duty because he was feeling a little down himself and wanted a change. it feels like people need and want a little positivity lately. >> people come talk, thank you, i needed this. and just to see the caregivers walking to work energetic, it's nothing like it. it's nothing like it. >> come on now! >> reporter: it turns out positivity is contagious. michael george, cbs news. >> that is the overnight news for this monday. reporting from the cbs broadcast center in new york city, i'm

jericka duncan. this is "cbs news flash." i'm courtney kealy in new york. the man accused of shooting and killing ten people in a tops supermarket in buffalo last may will appear in court on monday. 19-year-old payton gendron is expected to plead guilty to state charges. nfl wide receiver odell beckham jr. was escorted off a plane at the miami miami internl airport on sunday. police say the nfl star was slipping in and out of consciousness, then refused to leave the plane. beckham's attorney said his client had been sleeping. and with the u.s. set to play a critical match against iran on tuesday, the u.s. soccer federation has deleted social media posts showing an iranian flag with a symbol removed associated with iran's leaders.

it was meant to show support for iranian protesters. iran wants the u.s. suspended over it. for more dwnload the cbs cbs news app o your cell phone or connected tv. i'm courtney kealy, bs news, new rk. pack your patience.ealy. pack your patience. this could be one of the busiest travel days of the year. weather and crowded airports impacting driving and flying.yot also, police vs. protesters. thousands take to the streets in several cities in china amid covid lockdowns, with dangerous and unprecedented calls for president xi to resign. plus, belgium burning. furious world cup fans turn violent after a stunning upset. paper trail. from al capone to jfk. how robots are helping the fbi keep track of some of its most

important case files. plus bridging a divide. >> what spans nearly a quarter mile, is over 100 feet off the ground, and is held up by 100 tons of timber? i'm charlie demar. that story ahead. and later -- his story made it to the big screen. meet one of the men who inspired the movie "devotion" and the actors who brought it to it life. >> announcer: this is the "cbs and today is expected to be one of the busiest travel days of the year. air travel reached pre-pandemic levels again. on saturday alone the tsa screened more than 2.2 million people. you can see flight aware's misery map showing trouble spots in red.

so far today there have been more than 100 cancellations and at least 4,200 delays across the country. for those of you behind the wheel right now you're probably taking it slow. some wet roads there that we saw earlier in d.c. today. but we want to start off in new york with cbs's elise preston at a very busy laguardia airport. good evening, elise. >> reporter: good evening, jericka. with a record number of travelers and nasty weather along the east coast, new york's laguardia is one of several airports warning passengers to get to the airport early today. mom kate cantrell and her 4-year-old daughter elmsly arrived to new york's laguardia airport three hours ahead of their six-hours-long journey home to new mexico. >> i'm hoping we get out of new york on time because of the weather. >> reporter: the tsa predicted today would be on par with the 20, which wathe busiest day

tsa history. for paul and victoria vestuto it's the first time they've traveled for the holidays since 2019. >> i'm getting nervous about the weather. but -- >> if we get stuck we'll just find a sports bar. >> reporter: airport workers in philadelphia -- ♪ -- tried to lighten the mood for travelers stuck in long lines. >> flight doesn't board for another hour but i had to be here extra early just in case, you know, that line takes about two hours. >> reporter: most americans traveled by car sunday. in the northeast drivers were forced to dodge rain as they returned home. aaa says this year was the third busiest ever for thanksgiving travel. >> we're anticipating a very busy holiday season for travelers but also a very busy 2023 for travel. >> reporter: and now aaa's anticipating an explosion of what it's calling revenge travel. >> they're ready to go. and they're spending more money

on vacations. they're traveling to farther distances. >> reporter: while many people are returning home today, travel has changed since the pandemic and aaa expects more people to continue returning home today and throughout the week. jericka? >> elise, i literally just got something on my phone telling me my flight out tonight is delayed. we'll see what happens. elise preston, thank you. well, rain and know in some parts of the country are expected to cause slick travel for millions of you heading back home. for more on that let's turn to paul goodloe from our partners at the weather channel on what you can expect. paul, good evening. >> good evening, jericka. well, today's rain causing problems. starts to exit for monday. if you're not traveling till monday looking pretty good. maybe some lingering scattered showers. but now the northwest more snow there for you monday. but watching that system because that is going to bring severe weather including tornado risk going sky high as we head on toward tuesday and wednesday across parts of the lower mississippi river valley. east texas, louisiana, arkansas, mississippi in the zone for severe weather and tornadoes but also snow. maybe even the twin cities pretty close to maybe three to six inches of snow.

heavier snow in the western great lakes and the mountains getting clobbered. but the concern here is weather including tornadoes on tuesday evening. tuesday overnight across parts of the lower mississippi river valley. >> all right, paul goodloe for us. thank you. well, there has been unprecedented pushback in china airnmeovid restrictions over the weekend. in several cities demonstrators gathered to protest against a renewed round of lockdowns following a spike in coronavirus infections. cbs's elizabeth palmer reports. >> reporter: he shouts what until now would have been unthinkable. "down with xi jinping. down with the communist party." the protests in shanghai and other cities were sparked by a tragedy thousands of miles away in xinjiang, western china. ten people burned to death in an apartment fire last week. a furious crowd gathered around local government offices convinced that covid

restrictions had stopped the fire engines from reaching the blaze. authorities denied that. but the story brought people into the streets in sympathy with the victims and in anger with the government's heavy-handed covid rules. at the vigil in shanghai they held up blank sheets of paper to symbolize the way critics of the government are routinely silenced. ♪ and by sunday night another vigil under way in beijing had spun off even more protests. some of the pushback against zero covid may have its roots in chinese viewers seeing crowds at the world cup, unmasked and unafraid. but by today it appeared state tv was censoring images of those bare-faced spectators. all part of xi jinping's plan to double down on his zero covid policy.

and the sight of citizens chanting "lift lockdowns" isn't likely to change his mind. elizabeth palmer, cbs news, tokyo. the u.s. soccer team is showing solidarity with protesters in iran ahead of its world cup match. the u.s. soccer federation initially posted iran's national flag without the emblem. those posts have since been removed on social media. but officials confirmed the altered flag postings were intentional and were a show of support for women in iran fighting for basic human rights. the u.s. faces iran on tuesday. well, an upset at the world cup today led to riots in brussels. belgium lost a crucial match to morocco 2-0. rioters hurled rocks and set cars on fire. police in belgium's capital used tear gas and water cannons to break up the crowds. there's a lot more news ahead on the "cbs overnight news."

>> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." well, tonight investigators are searching for the person who shot and killed a 12-year-old in downtown atlanta. police say a dispute led to the shooting near the popular atlantic station shopping center saturday night. five teenagers were injured including one who is in critical condition. well, the buffalo mass shooting suspect is expected to plead guilty to state charges tomorrow morning. the 19-year-old gunman accused of killing ten people at a top supermarket in may, he's also facing federal hate crime charges. his court appearance comes a day after survivors and loved ones gathered to remember the victims

killed in shooting massacres across this country. cbs's danya bacchus has more. ♪ >> reporter: vigils for victims, makeshift memorials and communities nationwide coming together to pay tribute to those killed in mass shootings at a virginia walmart and a colorado lgbtq nightclub. >> whenever there's situations like this that happen, we all feel so helpless. >> reporter: five people died and dozens were injured more than a week ago when a gunman opened fire at colorado springs club q. police credit two heroes for taking down the shooter and potentially saving lives. richard fierro and thomas james. james, who is still hospitalized, released his first statement sunday including "if i had my way, i would shield everything i could from the nonsensical acts of hate in the world." at fierro's brewery customers are waiting for hours in line to

show their gratitude. >> we are overwhelmed by the love and support everyone is giving us, and we feel it. >> reporter: today survivors of other mass shootings pushed to get donated money flowing to victims. >> the money can help give the restart that all victims need. >> reporter: after the violence hope to heal. danya bacchus, cbs news, los angeles. the recent mass shootings has congressional democrats reigniting their push for gun control legislation. president biden returned to washington this evening. the president has said he'll try to move on stricter gun laws before the year is over. cbs's nancy cordes has the very latest on this. nancy, good evening to you. >> reporter: good evening, jericka. yeah, the issue is important enough to the president that he took a break from his vacation here to talk to reporters t but the slival not changed. his party oing get harder

for them once republicans take control of the house in january. >> that is what we need to do in this lame duck seson. y e time ight r a return to the assault but even the biggest gun safety advocates admitted the numbers just aren't there. >> does it have 60 votes in the senate right now? probably not. >> reporter: republicans who take over the house in january argued there are enough gun laws already on the books. >> if passing a bill would simply end gun violence, then i think you would have overwhelming support in congress for that. >> it saves lives. >> reporter: here on nantucket president biden lamented the fact that some laws just weren't enforced in recent mass shootings, including a red flag law that could have kept guns out of the hands of a man who killed five and injured dozens more at an lgbtq nightclub in colorado springs last week. >> in this case it wasn't pursued by th local sheriff agency.

>> reporter: on "face the nation" colorado governor jared polis said he wants to see his state's red flag elo faly memrs can petition to have troubled individuals. >> we also need to make sure that we publicize the law and mapeople's hands when they need it. >> reporter: congress last passed an assault weapons ban back in 1994 but allowed it to lapse ten years later. and house democrats have passed similar bans repeatedly since, as recently as this july. and they want to do it again next month. but that ban has never been able to pass in a closely divided senate. jericka? >> very complicated and complex issue. nancy, thank you very much. today the spacex dragon cargo ship docked successfully at the international space station. the cargo included more than 7,000 pounds of science experiments and thanksgiving meals. the food was supposed to arrive before the holiday but was delayed because of bad weather.

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century has uncovered crime and secrets has built a home for all the fbi files detailing those crimes and secrets. >> it's just a little bit smaller than two football fields. >> reporter: full of records. >> yes. >> reporter: that's a lot. >> yeah. 7.4 million. >> reporter: and to move the unparalleled piles of paper they've built and set in motion a team of more than 100 robotic helpers. it sounds like the world's biggest library. >> in some instances it is. we have a lot of information here. >> reporter: a major investment and upgrade for the bureau, which previously kept its piles of files in storage rooms and locked boxes at its dozens of field offices nationwide. they now have one clearinghouse with hard copies of the files from thousands of cases from probes of al capone to the olympic park bombing, 9/11, to the assassination of jfk. these case files have been collected from every community in america, every fbi field office across the u.s. and there are a lot of them. they fill 360,000 of these gray crates. and as more cases close the files come here. >> we designed this to work just as simple as self-check-out at the grocery store. >> reporter: for bar coding,

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this is not a buddy film. this is a film about fate and legacy. >> reporter: "devotion" was first a book released in 2015. that same year i interviewed the real tom hudner. at age 90 he described his memories of jesse brown. >> he was a very positive personality and was a friend to everybody. >> reporter: the son of a sharecropper, brown grew up picking cotton in hattiesburg, mississippi. you were out here before the sun came out. his brother fletcher took us back to the field where the seeds to jesse's pilot dreams were planted. what was jesse's reaction when those planes would get so close to you? >> he'd be telling me he's going to do that. that's what he's going to do. >> reporter: hudner had a far different experience. he grew up in massachusetts, joined the naval academy and says he became a pilot at the urging of his friends. but it's what happened on one

mission in 1950 that bonded these two men forever. after brown's plane was shot down in korea, hudner intentionally crash-landed his to try to save his friend. >> he was pinned in. first thing he said was, "tom, we've got to figure out a way to get out of here." >> reporter: in the end there was nothing hudner could do. >> jesse wanted his wife to kno. and that was the message i gave to her. >> reporter: brown's wife, daisy, would later stand by hudner's side. president harry truman, who signed an executive order ending racial segregation in the u.s. armed forces, awarded hudner with the congressional medal of honor for his efforts to save brown. hudner died in 2017, but before his death actor glen powell promised him that his story would make it to the big screen. what do you think tom hudner and jesse brown would say if they could see this movie? >> i feel like our brother and friend ensign jesse leroy brown

from mississippi, from the mud to the sky, would probably be saying thank you. very simply, thank you. still ahead, it's a sky-high adventure for nature lovers and thrill seekers.

it took nearly two years to design and build and now a new michigan attraction is taking adventures to unforgettable heights. in tonight's "weekend journal" charlie de mar takes us on a journey to the spectacular sky bridge that's smashing records. >> reporter: for some it's breathtaking. >> it really is spectacular. >> reporter: for others it's gut-wrenching. >> that made my stomach go a little queasy. not going to lie. >> reporter: the world's largest timber-towered suspension bridge just opened at boyne mountain in northern michigan. it sways as glass panels below allow thrill seekers to look straight down more than 115 feet. the stunning views and turning leaves provide a picture perfect taste of fall in northern michigan.

>> each one of the towers has about 110,000 pounds of timber. >> reporter: todd daumic designed sky bridge michigan which spans nearly a quarter mile. it took about a year to construct. >> by the very nature of bridges they bring people together and they have for thousands of years. >> reporter: in a post-pandemic world high-profile attractions like these are becoming increasingly important as people continue to seek out outdoor activities. >> the amount of people it could bring together from all walks of life. >> reporter: jason pearl is boyne mountain's general manager. while skiing is the big attraction at his resort, the bridge, which requires a ski lift to access, should provide another source of year-round revenue. >> i think post-pandemic and just in general there's that desire to be outside, experience nature. >> reporter: a bridge that has shattered world records has also connected people from all over the country and world to a small town in northern michigan. charlie de mar, cbs news, bowen falls, michigan. >> that is the overnight news for this monday.

reporting from the cbs broadcast center in new york city, i'm jericka duncan. this is "cbs news flash." i'm courtney kealy in new york. the man accused of shooting and killing ten people in a tops supermarket in buffalo last may will appear in court on monday. 19-year-old payton gendron is expected to plead guilty to state charges. nfl wide receiver odell beckham jr. was escorted off a plane at the miami international airport on sunday. police say the nfl star was slipping in and out of consciousness, then refused to leave the plane. beckham's attorney said his client had been sleeping. and with the u.s. set to play a critical match against iran on tuesday the u.s. soccer federation has deleted social media posts showing an iranian flag with a symbol removed associated with iran's leaders. it was meant to show support for iranian protesters.

iran wants the u.s. suspended over it. for more download the cbs news it's monday, november 28th, 2022. this is the "cbs morning news." plane into power lines. a scary scene in maryland as a small plane with two people on board dangles in midair. what we know right now. holiday travel headaches as millions of americans head home after the holiday. the rush comes to a halt thanks to thousands of delays at our nation's airports. and world cup controversy. why iran is calling on the u.s. to be suspended from the tournament. good morning. i'm bradley blackburn in for anne-marie green. we begin with breaking news overnight. a small plane is stuck after slamming into power lines in maryland.