this is the "cbs overnight news." >> good evening and thanks for joining us tonight. the state of georgia is once again at the center of a pivotal battle in american politics. it's where the last undecided senate race of the midterm elections will be determined. in a runoff between incumbent democrat raphael warnock and republican challenger herschel walker. right now more than 1.8 million ballots have already been cast in early voting. tonight cbs' nikole killion is back on the campaign trail in athens, georgia, with more on what this race means for the u.s. senate. good evening. >> reporter: good evening,

jericka. this rinoff won't change the balance of power in the senate, but it will decide which party has greater influence in the chamber. and senator warnock and herschel walker are both making their closing cases to voters about why they deserve the job. after clinching the s.e.c. championship this weekend, legendary georgia running back herschel walker is hoping to follow the bulldogs' win over lsu with a victory of hi tuy. >>ou a lotf people get ere and , and thidit aone, they. that's what we've got to do right now, do it together, that's how we're going to win. >> reporter: georgia won by 20 points, but it's unlikely tuesday's senate election margin will be anywhere near that. neither candidate made the required 50% threshold on november 8th, forcing the race into overtime. >> my work is not done. >> reporter: since then the state's been bombarded with ads -- >> herschel walker will vote for georgia. >> reporter: campaign volunteers -- >> we need people to turn out, so far we have been turning out.

>> reporter: and out-of-town visitors. >> georgia needs herschel walker! >> reporter: the current president and his predecessor stayed away during the runoff. one president who did return to georgia, barack obama. >> you deserve a senator you can be proud of. somebody who will talk straight to you. >> reporter: but the race hasn't been without controversy, as both candidates have faced questions about their past.ec in tex, not and he will need those skills because come tuesday, we're going to send him running back to texas. >> reporter: in addition to this church event, senator warnock is getting some starpower support tonight from stevie wonder, who is phone banking for him. walker has multiple campaign

stops across the state monday. jericka? >> nikole killion for us tonight, thank you. president biden's plan to shake up the democrats' primary calendar in 2024 is drawing new scrutiny. the president and first lady returned to washington tonight after a weekend at camp david. cbs' natalie brand is at the white house with more on the impact this change could have. natalie, good evening to you. >> reporter: good evening, jericka. even though the 2022 midterm cycle is still playing out, already the parties and the president are planning for 2024 and what could be a major shakeup of the primary calendar. south carolina could replace iowa as the itntest to launchin ia is not aecti of by the demographics of this country as south carolina is. and you look at south carolina. it is a microcosm of this

country. >> reporter: a democratic national committee panel voted in favor of the calendar shuffle that would also include new hampshire, nevada, georgia, and michigan as early states. the changes, an effort to expand racial and geographic diversity. the rnc has voted to keep iowa first in the nation. the state's caucus is a tradition since the 1970s. >> i feel that democrats have really given middle america the middle finger. >> reporter: on capitol hill the political wrangling remains over who will be the next speaker of the u.s. house. california's kevin mccarthy, who is vying for the job, can only afford to lose a handful of gop votes. >> i'm hopeful everybody comes together, finds a way to govern together. this is what the american people want. otherwise, we'll be squandering this majority. >> he seems to be having a difficult te at this moment getting to 218, but we'll see what happens on january 3rd. >> reporter: now back to the potential primary calendar shakeup. the states involved and full dnc must still weigh in early next year.

if president biden runs for re-election, he will likely not face a primary challenge, but this is something that could be revisited in future cycles. jericka? >> we'll stay on it. natalie brand, thank you. overseas now. today in iran, a top government official said the country's morality police would be shut down. the move follows months of protests that erupted after the death of a young woman in custody for supposedly violating islamic dress rules. to china now. it is well known that suppressing civil disobedience, especially for any kind of protest against the government. but one crackdown eased this weekend as cbs' elizabeth palmer reports. >> reporter: a week ago, protesters were on the streets in at least 25 chinese cities, furious with china's zero covid restrictions. police flooded in and made some arrests, and by tuesday, it was all over. but the damage had been done. xi jinping's zero covid policy

with its mass testing and harsh lockdowns may have prevented millions of deaths, but it's now become dangerously unpopular. millions of chinese people simply want to rejoin a post-pandemic world. so the obvious question came up at the foreign ministry's regular media briefing. >> given the widespread display of frustration with the zero covid policy, is china considering ending it soon, and if so, when? >> reporter: the spokesman's uncomfortable nonanswer stretched on and on. china's government apparently had no plan. so it sent mixed signals. its covid czar said the country faced a new situation. some cities, including the industrial powerhouse of guangzhou, went ahead and eased

restrictions unilaterally, to widespread relief, life there snapped back to near normal. the state council announced a new push on vaccinations for the elderly. currently fewer than half of people over 80 have had a booster. but in beijing, there was massive confusion. thousands of covid testing booths abruptly closed on the weekend. some were actually lifted away in the dead of night. even though people still need them for the negative test results they have to show to get into public places. so in the bitter cold, long-suffering beijingers lined up for blocks beside the few testing centers that remained open, still playing by the old rules but hoping someone will tell them soon what the new ones are. elizabeth palmer, cbs news, tokyo. there's a lot more news ahead on the "cbs overnight news."

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♪ this is the "cbs overnight news." >> i'm jericka duncan in new york. thanks so much for staying with us. there was a major drug bust in mexico. police say they found 660 pounds of fentanyl packed inside coconuts in a truck headed toward the u.s. border. customs and border protection say mexico produces most of the fentanyl that reaches the united states, mostly with chemicals imported from china and elsewhere. the drug is blamed for tens of thousands of overdose deaths each year in the u.s. cpp says seizures of marijuana, cocaine, heroin, and meth have all fallen recently, but for

fentanyl, it's up. jeff gore has the story from the busiest border crossing in the world. >> hi, where you going today? >> chula vista. >> anything to declare today? >> no, ma'am. >> reporter: at the san ysidro port of entry in between san diego and tijuana, more than 65,000 vehicles cross every day. >> what are we passing through now? >> this is a piece of what we call our nonentry inspection technology. this enables us to scan as a driver drives his or her vehicle through, we're looking for packages concealed within that vehicle. >> reporter: port director mariza marin says by now, 60% of all the fentanyl seized in the united states is fouad at border crossings in southern california. when did fentanyl start becoming a big deal here? >> we first saw fentanyl in 2008. but really, we've seen a skyrocket in fentanyl since fiscal year 2019.

you'll see what the officer is doing. he's using what we call a fiberoptic scope. and so that has a camera at the end, and it enables him to look in the gas tank. >> they store the packages in gas tanks? >> shull. we've seen it in different ways. there could be packages floating in the gas tank, or they could build a separate compartment within the gas tank so that there's both gas and space for the narcotics. >> the packages of fentanyl we're talking about are typically yea big? >> yeah, i'd say the size maybe of a brick. could be a couple hundred thousand dollars' worth of fentanyl. >> do they hide stuff in the seats? >> they may hide stuff in the seats. i'm going to push on the seat to make sure it feels right. >> reporter: the officers who run the vehicle inspections search for signs of hidden drugs in places most would never think to look. >> sometimes they can create a compartment right here. and i don't see any new screws or anything.

it's all dirty, it hasn't been touched. put your feet over here, tap it this way to hear the i have a brace on the oerside t' a lot of stuff to search. >> reporter: assisted by trained k9s, they can search thousands of vehicles a day. >> a constant cat and mouse game here. they're trying to get better at what they're doing, you're trying to -- >> trying to counter those efforts. >> reporter: including not just where they hide the drugs but also who they use to carry them. >> right now we're seeing a trend in minors and young adolescents who come from less economic means being targeted in high schools, in junior highs. the smuggling organizations are offering them, for them what seems a lot of money, $500, $1,000, telling them, "put this in your pocket, in your backpack, cross the border with it." >> how long has that trend been going on for? >> it's increased in the last

months for juveniles smuggling across our ports of entry. i think the smuggling organizations are very agile. >> reporter: then the far more elaborate efforts. we're here just a stone's throw from the border. you can see part of the border wall across that parking lot. across this street, there's a warehouse building. looks like hundreds of other warehouse buildings along the u.s./mexico border here in san diego. but last may, authorities found underneath that building six stories underground, a tunnel that was 1,700 feet long, connecting the two countries. that was used for drug smuggling. that tunnel had electricity and small train tracks. and authorities have no idea how long it was in operation, who was running it, and how many others like it may be left. how many of these vehicles would you have to search to stop all the drugs from coming in? >> the ability to find every single piece of fentanyl that's

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to verify users are who they say they are. in the week since he purchased the company musk has fired hundreds of workers and continues to grapple with ways to make it profitable. conor knighton has more. >> reporter: twitter may not be the biggest social media platform out there, but it's certainly one of the most influential. >> with that single inflammatory tweet, roseanne's rising star imploded today. >> president trump apparently has a lot on his mind, at least according to his twitter account. >> i believe in twitter revolution. >> reporter: because what happens on twitter doesn't just stay on twitter, which might be why this guy, the world's richest man, elon musk, is such a fan. musk bought the company for an eye-popping $44 billion. despite the fact that twitter, which relies on advertising for much of its revenue, has turned a profit in only two of the last ten years. since his takeover, musk has fired or accepted resignations

from about two-thirds of twitter's staff. >> if you look at it as a business, you'd have to say, no, no, stay away from this. but it's sort of like buying a yacht or a baseball team for a rich person, this is interesting to him. >> reporter: cara swisher is a tech journalist and podcast host who's known musk for over 20 years and interviewed him extensively. lately, though, he hasn't been such a fan of her coverage of him. >> he thinks he can reform it. >> reporter: since buying the company, musk, a self-proclaimed free speech absolutist, has invited back some users who'd previously been banned or otherwise restricted. he's fired employees who have tweeted criticisms of him. and he posted and then deleted what one commentator called the most expensive tweet ever, a conspiracy theory about nancy pelosi's husband. expensive because there's speculation that that tweet and many others from musk have caused advertisers to flee twitter in droves.

>> though he's antagonizing advertisers and calling them woke, advertisers will advertise if it will sell a fate bit, honestly. >> reporter: a documented rise in hate speech since musk's takeover after the rapper formerly known as kanye west tweeted a photo of a swastika, prompting musk to suspend his account. but musk thinks twitter's prior management unfairly stifled conservative speech. on friday when reporter matt tibeby tweeted a trove of internal emails purporting to prove twitter's liberal bias, musk retweeted the thread approvingly. >> in the days before the 2020 election, twitter made the decision to not allow people to post the "new york post" story about hunter biden's laptop until they could try to figure out whether or not that was part of a government influence campaign. >> reporter: alex tam moles is the former chief security officer at facebook and says the

russian hacking of democratic national committee emails in 2016 made twitter wary of foreign influence campaigns. >> and then they decided, since it was going to get covered, they should allow it. they did make a mistake, but the idea it affected the election is just ludicrous. >> reporter: for some, twitter's suppression of that article became a first amendment issue. but cara swisher thinks that misses the point. >> it's gotten sucked up into a free speech or first amendment conversation, largely by people who have never read the first amendment, because it's about government shall make no law. that's all it says, folks. companies certainly can and they certainly do. >> reporter: speech on twitter can have real-world implications. for years twitter's blue check marks have verified that a user is who they say they are. but when musk started selling the check marks without actual verification, a slew of imposter accounts sprang up, like this one posing as eli lilly,

"insulin is free now," causing the pharmaceutical company's stock price to tumble. in fact, due to security concerns, cbs news briefly paused its twitter use two weeks ago. >> he said he wanted to experiment with low-inform content, content longer than a tweet. that was already launched and was available on the platform. and he fired the team that had developed it and launched it. >> reporter: this current twitter employee asked that we not identify him for fear of reprisal from musk and his online fans. like many, this unnamed, soon to be ex-employee believes musk is trying to reduce what he owes former twitter staff, in terms of severance and stock options. >> to be fair, elon musk bought the company. he can make any business decisions he wants to make. it's the nature in which we were let go and potentially even broken employment law. it's the hostile and almost cruel manner in which we've been let go in terms of no

communication, no direction. >> reporter: in response to a proposed class action lawsuit brought by its employees, twitter has said in court that allegations it broke u.s. employment law are baseless. >> he's actually a really bad manager. that's kind of shocking to me, how bad he is at the human management side of this. the odds of them being able to execute well over this next year i think are very long, unless he decides to bring in a ceo to calm things down. it's clear that's what he's going to have to do at twitter if they're going to stabilize and stop the bleeding of all of this talent that they need to be able to execute. >> reporter: we reached out to musk but did not receive a reply. how does he strike you as a person? >> depends on the day. i sometimes think of silicon valley as smart people working on stupid things, musk is working on smart things. >> reporter: spacex and tesla, companies that arguably revolutionized life on this planet. >> we have over comrs in- >>efn

1998 on this very tv show, rita braver talked to elon musk. >> how old were you when you started this company? >> 23. >> reporter: musk was working at his first startup, zip2, a city guide on a new thing called the internet. >> there's a level of freedom on the internet that really doesn't exist anywhere else. and there's no central, controlling entity that gets to decide, this content is good, this content is bad. >> reporter: but now musk is that controlling entity, at least when it comes to twitter. free to moderate or to allow the spread of misinformation as he sees fit. one person who understands twitter's power, that anonymous twitter employee. the one who may soon be downsized by the world's richest man. >> whether it's local to national politics, whether it's the conversation around important cultural events or

cultural issues, whether people use twitter or not, their lives are shaped by what happens on itter. >> and

finally this half hour, a college band from tennessee is marching into history. they've been nominated for two grammy awards. david begnaud has the story. ♪ >> reporter: have you ever heard a marching band sound like this? ♪ tennessee state university's marching band, known as the aristocrat of bands, teamed up with some of gospel's biggest stars. ♪ they created a soulful sound. ♪ on their debut album, "the urban hymnal." ♪ 21-year-old senior curtis olawumi called it monumental. what's your sound in the revival song?

♪ i >> in a sense, you're marrying two of the most iconic things in african american culture. >> that's right. >> the gospel music, the gospel church, and hbcu bands. perfect marriage. >> reporter: this was the moment the tsu band submitted the music for grammy consideration. ♪ they are now the first college marching band gospel album. so you think you've arrived? or you've got to keep going? >> no, this is only the beginning. there is no telling what's about to happen. >> reporter: making records and setting them. david begnaud, cbs news, nashville. >> and that is the "overnight news" for this monday. for some of you, the news continues. for others, check back later for "cbs mornings." and of course, follow us online any time at cbsnews.com. reporting from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm jericka duncan.

this is cbs news flash. i'm matt piper in new york. lgbtq protections are at the center of another supreme court case. the high court will hear oral arguments in a case involving a colorado graphic designer who says she has a first amendment right to refuse to create websites for same-sex weddings, despite a state anti-discrimination law. it marks the second time in five years that the supreme court has confronted a similar issue. days after a volcano began erupting in hawaii, residents in indonesia are evacuating as mount simeru, the country's highest volcano, has begun erupting. the last eruption was a year ago, killing 51 people. mcdonald's is testing an order ahead lane, a special pickup window that identifies when customers are nearby.

for more, download the cbs news app on your cell phone or connected tv. i'm matt piper, cbs news new york. georgia on their minds. democrats seek a crucial 51st vote in the senate and some breathing room. it's warnock versus walker in a final push to the polls. i'm nikole killion in loganville, georgia. republican herschel walker and democratic senator raphael warnock make their closing cases to voters ahead of tuesday's runoff. also, president biden's new 2024 nominating plan draws fire with south carolina in and iowa out. >> democrats have really given middle america the middle finger. suspension lifted. deshaun watson returns to the nfl after settling claims with 23 women accusing him of sexual misconduct.

under review. after months of protests, iran says it's shutting down the morality police. plus ukraine's big chill after vladimir putin takes aim. >> in ukraine, russia continues to weaponize winter. and later, help wanted. new york city is seeking someone to battle a longtime resident. the job, rodent hunter. a killer instinct required. this is the "cbs overnight news." good evening and thanks for joining us tonight. the state of georgia is once again at the center of a pivotal battle in american politics. it's where the last undecided senate race of the midterm elections will be determined. in a runoff between incumbent democrat raphael warnock and republican challenger herschel walker. right now, more than 1.8 million ballots have already been cast

in early voting. tonight, cbs' nikole killion is back on the campaign trail in athens, georgia, with more on what this race means for the u.s. senate. good evening. >> reporter: good evening, jericka. this runoff won't change the balance of power in the senate, but it will decide which party has greater influence in the chamber. senator warnock and herschel walker are both making their closing cases to voters about why they deserve the job. after clinching the s.e.c. championship this weekend, legendary georgia running back herschel walker is hoping to follow the bulldogs' win over lsu with a victory of his own tuesday. >> you saw a lot of people get out there and play, and they did it as one, they did it together. that's what we've got to do right now, do it together, that's how we're going to win. >> reporter: georgia won by 20 tuday'senate election margin will be anywhere near that. neither candidate made the required 50% threshold on

november 8th, forcing the race into overtime. >> my work is not done. >> reporter: since then the state's been bombarded with ads -- >> herschel walker will vote for georgia. >> reporter: campaign volunteers -- >> we need people to turn out, so far we have been turning out. >> reporter: and out-of-town visitors. >> georgia needs herschel walker! >> reporter: the current president and his predecessor stayed away during the runoff. one president who did return to georgia, barack obama. >> you deserve a senator you can be proud of. somebody who will talk straight to you. >> reporter: but the race hasn't been without controversy, as both candidates have faced questions about their past. most recently the republican challenger has been hit with new allegations of domestic abuse, to revelations of tax records indicating his primary home is in texas, not georgia. >> he was an amazing running back. and he will need those skills because come tuesday, we're

going to send him running back to texas. >> reporter: in addition to this church event senator warnock is getting some starpower support tonight from stevie wonder, who is phone banking for him. walker has multiple campaign stops across the state monday. jericka? >> nikole killion for us tonight, thank you. president biden's plan to shake up the democrats' primary calendar in 2024 is drawing new scrutiny. the president and first lady returned to washington tonight after a weekend at camp david. cbs' natalie brand is at the white house with more on the impact this change could have. natalie, good evening to you. >> reporter: good evening, jericka. even though the 2022 midterm cycle is still playing out, already the parties and the president are planning for 2024 and what could be a major shakeup of the primary calendar. south carolina could replace iowa as the critical first contest to launching the democratic nominating process for president, an idea backed by

president biden. >> iowa is not as reflective of the demographics of this country as south carolina is. and you look at south carolina. it is a microcosm of this country. >> reporter: a democratic national committee panel voted in favor of the calendar shuffle that would also include new hampshire, nevada, georgia, and michigan as early states. the changes, an effort to expand racial and geographic diversity. the rnc has voted to keep iowa first in the nation. the state's caucus is a tradition since the 1970s. >> i feel that democrats have really given middle america the middle finger. >> reporter: on capitol hill the political wrangling remains over who will be the next speaker of the u.s. house. california's kevin mccarthy, who is vying for the job, can only afford to lose a handful of gop votes. >> i'm hopeful everybody comes together, finds a way to govern together. this is what the american people want. otherwise, we'll be squandering this majority.

>> he seems to be having a difficult time getting to 218. we'll see what happens on january 3rd. >> reporter: now back to the potential primary calendar shakeup. the states involved and full dnc must still weigh in early next year. if president biden runs for re-election, he will likely not face a primary challenge, but this is something that could be revisited in future cycles. jericka? >> we'll stay on it. natalie brand, thank you. >>new tonight, a mandary curfew has been ordered in north carolina, a north carolina county about 30 miles from fort bragg. authorities say it's necessary after some 40,000 customers lost their electricity. police say two substations were damaged by gunfire. the utility company officials say restoring power could take days. in texas tonight, a fed ex driver is awaiting arraignment, accused of kidnapping and murdering a 7-year-old girl. the body of athena strand was found friday 40 miles northwest

of fort worth. she went missing near her home on wednesday, sparking a widespread search. the local sheriff says the 31-year-old suspect has confessed. soccer legend pele is reassuring fans about his health after reports surfaced he's in hospice care due to colon cancer. pele, now 82, led brazil to three world cup championships. on instagram this weekend, pele said, quote, he's strong with a lot of hope. overseas now, today in iran, a top government official said the country's morality police would be shut down. the move follows months of protests that erupted after the death of a young woman in custody for supposedly violating islamic dress rules. there's a lot more news ahead on the "cbs overnight news."

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♪ this is the "cbs overnight news." >> today in cleveland, cleveland browns quarterback deshaun watson returned to the field after serving an 11-game suspension from the nfl this season. the suspension was a result of the more than two dozen women who accused watson of sexual misconduct. here's cbs' omar villafranca. >> to the end zone, it's picked off -- >> reporter: heavy pressure on and off the field for cleveland browns quarterback deshaun watson in his first nfl game in almost two years. >> you hear a smattering of boos. >> reporter: some in the stands at houston's energy stadium booed their former quarterback as the browns beat the texas.

also in the crowd, ten women who accused watson of sexual misconduct. at practice thursday, the 27-year-old said his focus is on football. >> i'm not, you know, worried about the atmosphere. i've got to go in, make sure i execute the game plan. >> reporter: during his last two years with the houston texans, watson was named in more than two dozen civil lawsuits. many by massage therapists who claimed he pressured them into sexual activity. >> i feel a range of emotions. guilt, embarrassment, shame. >> reporter: all but one of those lawsuits has been settled. two texas grand juries declined to indict watson. in august, an independent disciplinary officer said watson violated the nfl's personal conduct policy. the qb was fined $5 million, suspended 11 games, and ordered to undergo treatment. >> look, i want to say that i'm truly sorry to all the women that i've impacted in this situation. >> reporter: watson maintains his innocence and is guaranteed his $230 million nfl salary.

omar villafranca, cbs news, dallas. to china, it is well known that suppressing civil disobedience, especially for any kind of protest against the government, but one crackdown eased this weekend as cbs' elizabeth palmer reports. >> reporter: a week ago, protesters were on the streets in at least 25 chinese cities, furious with china's zero covid restrictions. police flooded in and made some arrests, and by tuesday, it was all over. but the damage had been done. xi jinping's zero covid policy with its mass testing and harsh lockdowns may have prevented millions of deaths, but it's now become dangerously unpopular. millions of chinese people simply want to rejoin a post-pandemic world. so the obvious question came up at the foreign ministry's regular media briefing. >> given the widespread display

of frustration with the zero covid policy, is china considering ending it soon, and if so, when? >> reporter: the spokesman's uncomfortable nonanswer stretched on and on. china's government apparently had no plan. so it sent mixed signals. its covid czar said the country faced a new situation. some cities, including the industrial powerhouse of guangzhou, went ahead and eased restrictions unilaterally. to widespread relief, life there snapped back to near normal. the state council announced a new push on vaccinations for the elderly. currently fewer than half of people over 80 have had a booster. but in beijing, there was massive confusion. thousands of covid testing booths abruptly closed on the weekend.

some were actually lifted away in the dead of night. even though people still need them for the negative test results they have to show to get into public places. so in the bitter cold, long-suffering beijingers lined up for blocks beside the few testing centers that remained open, still playing by the old rules but hoping someone will tell them soon what the new ones are. elizabeth palmer, cbs news, tokyo. millions of ukrainians face a winter of extreme hardship as russia intensifies attacks on the country's energy infrastructure. nine months after the invasion, vladimir putin is now being accused of weaponizing the weather. cbs' imtiaz tyab is there. >> reporter: in kherson, liberation comes at a painful price. russia has been pounding the territory lost in humiliating defeat just three weeks ago, making lives a misery for

residents like mikaelo. "half my house doesn't exist anymore," he says. "even the roof was destroyed." the violence has only pushed people here deeper into hunger. residents rely on food aid from local agencies, who distribute parcels from this disused shopping mall. it's where we meet caterina and her 5-year-old daughter, angelina, who tell us they moved into a nearby apartment after their home was destroyed by russian shelling. how did you explain this to your daughter? "she still asks when we can go back home," she says, "but knows we can't." >> do you think you can rebuild your life? >> reporter: "no, i don't think so," she says. for kherson's remaining residents, staying warm is also getting harder as russia continues to pound the region's energy grid. warming stations like this one have become vital to escape the cold, recharge phones, and get badly needed medical supplies. while others are making the agonizing decision to leave,

because life in kherson has become unbearable, now that it's firmly in the kremlin's crosshairs, says 79-year-old ludmilla. "the bombings make me so scared," she says. "i was a child of war, now i'm a grandmother of war." corresponding to a leaked kremlin poll, over half of russians want to see peace talks with ukraine. but as moscow continues to target civilian infrastructure here, those talks seem very unlikely. imtiaz tyab, cbs news, kyiv. "the cbs overnight news" will be right back. [sfx: stomach gurgling] it's nothing... sounds like something. ♪ when you have nausea, heartburn, indigestion, ♪ ♪ upset stomach, diarrhea. ♪ pepto bismol coats and soothes for fast relief... when you need it most.

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>> when i got there, my luggage was not there. >> reporter: it's not hard to find folks who have lost their luggage. >> it's kind of a little bit to be expected. >> reporter: while the majority of passengers -- 99.5% -- do get their bags back -- >> it ended up taking four days to get our luggage back. >> reporter: have you ever wondered about that .5%? those bags may end up in scottsboro, alabama. here at the unclaimed baggage center. >> when millions of people are frf lldstot of unced >> reporter: you're looking at the contents of those bags right here at the nearly 50,000 square foot storefront which has become a tourist attraction to more than 1 million shoppers each year. >> oh, definitely. >> reporter: just like verla from ohio. >> this is exciting. >> reporter: who agreed to open an orphaned suitcase in something the company called "the baggage experience." >> look at this. the man's long-sleeve button-down shirt that looks good.

>> reporter: verla didn't find any emeralds or rubies -- >> oh my gosh, look at that! >> reporter: she did walk away with a nice souvenir. >> well, i love this. >> isn't that cool? >> reporter: so how exactly does a lost suitcase make its way here? well, the airline has 90 days to get the bag back to its rightful owner. if they don't, the unclaimed baggage center, which has contracts with all major airlines, comes into the picture. >> we have truck drivers that tp around the count to pick up these unclaimed bags from airlines. we bring them back here to scottsboro, alabama, and our operations facility where we sort and process these suitcases. >> reporter: then each item gets sorted into one of three categories. sell, donate, recycle. we wanted to show you that part of the process too, but the unclaimed baggage center wouldn't let us into their operations facility citing proprietary reasons. just like that secret area behind the luggage belt at the airport, there are some things we're just not allowed to see.

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looking to hire someone who is, quote, highly motivated and somewhat bloodthirsty to serve as its new director of rodent mitigation. >> the rats don't run this city, we do. >> reporter: rats don't only pose a problem in the big apple. cities like chicago, los angeles, and denver are also combating their own infestations. new york's sanitation commissioner is pushing the move from plastic garbage bags to rat-proof containers. >> those black bags with all the food in it, an all you can eat buffet for rats. one of the things we're doing is shutting down that all you can eat buffet. >> reporter: the city is hoping to make the streets safer for residents and visitors alike, while keeping tourists like 2018's famous pizza rat far away. elise preston, cbs news, new york. >> and that is the "overnight news" for this monday. for some of you, the news continues. for others, check back later for "cbs mornings." follow us online any time at cbsnews.com. reporting from the broadcast

center in new york city, i'm jericka duncan. this is "cbs news flash." i'm matt piper in new york. lgbtq protections are at the center of another supreme court case. the high court will hear oral arguments in a case involving a colorado graphic designer who says she has a first amendment right to refuse to create websites for same-sex weddings, despite a state anti-discrimination law. it marks the second time in five years that the supreme court has confrontednfronted a similar is days after a volcano began erupting in hawaii, residents in indonesia are evacuating as mount semeru, the country's highest volcano, has begun erupting. the last eruption was a year ago, killing 51 people. mcdonald's is testing an order ahead lane, a special pickup window that identifies when customers are nearby.

for more, download the cbs news app on your cell phone or connected tv. i'm matt piper. cbs news, new york. it's monday, december 5th, 2022. this is the "cbs morning news." the final stretch. it's the eve of the crucial georgia senate runoff. hear how each candidate spent their pivotal last weekend of campaigning. constitution controversy. former president trump is facing criticism from both parties after calling for the termination of parts of the constitution. see more of what he had to say. freedom of speech? the supreme court is set to start hearing arguments today on whether a colorado web designer can deny services to same-sex couples. well, good morning, and good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. we begin in georgia with the countdown to the last undecided senate race of the midterm el