>> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." we begin with a major break in one of the deadliest acts of international terrorism. tonight a former libyan intelligence officer accused of making the bomb that brought down pan-am flight 103 over lockerbie, scotland is now in american custody. it happened december 21st 1988. the jumbo jet was flying from london to new york. 259 people on board and 11 on the ground were killed. cbs's christina ruffini is at our washington bureau with more on the suspect abu agilla mohammad masud. christina, good evening. >> reporter: good evening,

jericka. the fact the suspected bombmaker is now in u.s. custody marks a major milestone in a prosecution that has been going on for decades. >> a quiet night in a scottish village shattered. >> reporter: this was the aftermath of the bomb. stashed in a luggage compartment of pan-am flight 103. four days before christmas. among the victims 35 students from syracuse university returning home after a semester abroad. >> no amount of time or distance will stop the united states and our scottish partners from pursuing justice in this case. >> reporter: two years ago the justice department brought charges against the man they say built the bomb, abu agila masud, a libyan national. last month he was reportedly detained in libya, leading to speculation he would be handed over to u.s. authorities to stand trial. now the justice department says he's in u.s. custody. the 1988 bombing was the deadliest mass murder in british

legal history bringing the threat of international terrorism to the global consciousness. attempts to prosecute those responsible for the attack has been a decades-long multinational battle. one other man, an alleged libyan intelligence officer, was convicted for his involvement in the bombing. he maintained his innocence until his death in 2012. >> he just loved life. he loved his family. >> reporter: kara weipz lost her brother rick minetti 34 years ago. >> the fact the united states has custody of the alleged bombmaker is -- it's huge. it's a gigantic step. >> reporter: and jericka, the suspect is expected to appear in u.s. district court here in d.c. as soon as tomorrow. >> christina, thank you. let's turn to a monstrous storm to start off the week. it slammed into california with seven inches of rain and triggered whiteout conditions in some areas of the mountains. it's now set to sweep east with warnings it could deliver blizzard conditions to the plains and even life-threatening

tornadoes in the south. cbs's danya bacchus is covering it all. dania, good evening to you. >> reporter: good evening, jericka. this is only the beginning of the blockbuster storm with california joining more than a dozen other states under a winter weather alert. the powerful cross-country storm dumping snow throughout the sierra nevada, with up to six inches an hour. winds causing dangerous whiteout conditions on roads spreading avalanche warnings and whipping lifts at ski resorts. heavy rains also pummeling the golden state, knocking out power, downing trees, and triggering new fears of landslides like this one friday in los angeles county. in neighboring orange county a swift water rescue this morning at a rain-swollen river. crews hoisted the man to safety. as california's storm system moves east -- >> oh! >> reporter: -- a rare weather phenomenon in iowa. thundersnow. the storm set to impact much of the country with blizzard

conditions expected from colorado to minnesota with thunderstorms and tornado warnings in the south. while the storm is bringing much-needed rain and snow, california reservoirs are just over half full not enough yet to pull the state out of its historic drought. >> important to know. thank you. tonight the ukrainian city of odesa is in the dark. 1.5 million people in the city are without heat and electricity after russian drones hit two power plants this weekend. as imtiaz tyab reports, fighting also rages in the country's east. >> reporter: the sound of war crackles across the streets of bakhmut as russian forces lay waste to the eastern city once home to 70,000. a small group of civilians still living here tell a passing ukrainian soldier "we'll still be here when you liberate us." such defiance amid such

devastation is a feeling oleksandr hanzachuk knows well. he's from borodianka northwest of kyiv which was brutally occupied by russian forces early in the war. this apartment building was once his home and is now unlivable. so you were in the building when this happened? "we were sheltering in the basement and the building started shaking," he says. "it was terrifying." hanzachuk takes us inside the apartment he used to share with his mother, a place they both called home since 1975. how do you feel seeing it like this? >> no cry. i smile. >> reporter: "i try not to cry," he says. "i try to smile and hope for a new life, a new home." in the shadows of hanzachuk's apartment building is one of the latest works by renowned graffiti artist banksy of a uk yain child defeating vladimir putin at judo. a defeat so many across this

war-ravaged country are fighting so hard for. imtiaz tyab, cbs news, kyiv, ukraine. well, today a successful splashdown for nasa's artemis 1 moon mission ship. the uncrewed orion capsule was guided into the pacific ocean about 350 miles south of san diego. the 25-day test flight cost billions but the payoff, astronauts could be next. cbs's mark strassmann has more. >> splashdown. >> reporter: a homcoming splashdown. the first of many that nasa imagines in its lunar dreams. >> orion is in great shape. >> reporter: recovery teams pulled the orion capsule from the pacific. >> i don't think any one of us could have imagined the mission this successful. >> and lift-off of artemis 1. >> reporter: 25 days ago nasa launched the artemis 1 test flight. in all a 1.4 million-mile lunar round trip. from deep space orion beamed back spectacular imagery of the moon and earth. twice the capsule flew within 80

miles of the moon's surface. but the mission's biggest test came during sunday's return. orion slammed into the earth's atmosphere at 25,000 miles per hour. the heat shield had to hold up against temperatures of 5,000 degrees, half as hot as the surface of the sun. >> we're going to look at the data very carefully but i would say very happy with what we've seen so far on the heat shield. >> reporter: sunday's splashdown 50 years to the day after another landing. >> contact. >> reporter: apollo 17 touching down on the lunar surface. >> the challenger has landed. >> reporter: the last time humans moonwalked. nasa wants to return with the artemis program. a crude test flight around the moon in 2024. a moon landing later this decade. >> it is the beginning of the new beginning. and that is to explore the heavens.

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i'm jericka duncan in new york. thanks for staying with us. according to the federal communications commission about 19 million americans or 6% of the u.s. population do not have broadband service to connect to the internet. the biden administration's infrastructure act has allocated $65 billion to fix that. but in new mexico one man isn't waiting. he's floating his own solution to bring the internet to hard to reach places. john blackstone has that story. >> reporter: in roswell, new mexico the launch of an enormous silver air ship doesn't have the roar of a rocket, but in mission control chief of operations stephanie luongo finds plenty of excitement in what's being tested. >> i like the idea we're going

to change the world and we're going to revolutionize earth observation and providing broadband to the underserved. >> reporter: this test flight is an attempt to show that a big balloon can do things that rockets and satellites can't do. >> we are going to disrupt the satellite industry once we get this operational. >> reporter: inside its hangar before the launch the huge aircraft towers over everything and everyone. but please, don't call it a blimp. >> is this a blimp? >> this is not a blimp. >> reporter: mikkel and his company designed and built it. >> we refer to as a happs, high altitude platform station. the purpose is to go to the stratosphere above 60,000 feet above the controlled air space and stay over an area of operation. >> reporter: his high altitude platform is meant to stay in the stratosphere above where airplanes fly but far below

where satellites orbit. this aircraft will go up and basically hang in the air over one spot in the earth? >> absolutely. we are filled with helium for the lift. we have solar panels on the top side of it. we have batteries on the bottom. and we use that thee nd sta ove ns westergrd has high hopes for what his happs can do when it's equipped with cameras, remotes sensor instruments and a broadband antenna. >> whether that is human trafficking prevention or illegal fishing prevention, oaths conservation, methane leaks monitoring, protection of wildfire, rural connectivity, there's huge need. >> reporter: those are lofty goals, but westergaard has a track record for developing life-changing and life-saving technology. >> i've built companies in public health, in food security, in safe drinking water. >> reporter: his company lifestraw developed a water purifying filter providing clean drinking water to millions.

and a mosquito-killing bed nets produced by westergaard have helped reduce malaria deaths by more than half. >> by may of next year we will have distributed a million nets and seen malaria rates go down from 1.3 million people mainly children dying every year to last year less than 500,000. >> reporter: his newest project also aims to help people in need. this time in need of internet underconnected be included in the advantages of a network world, whether that is education, online banking, online health. >> there's a whole lot of navajo nation out there. >> there's a whole lot of there out there. >> reporter: john badao the founder of sacred wind communications is working to provide internet access on sparsely populated tribal land in the southwest. >> on the navajo reservation itself in a three-state area the availability of broadband is very low. i would estimate it's probably

no more than 40%. and even at that 40% the speeds are not that high. >> reporter: in tribal meetings badel has heard many stories of the need for connection. >> and one grandfather stood up and he said i don't know what this internet thing is all about but my grandchildren do, and he says my grandchildren won't come and visit me on weekends anymore because i don't have internet. >> reporter: but providing internet access throughout the navajo nation's 25,000 square miles is a colossal task. >> it would require companies to install 200 to 300 towers. how long would that take? maybe ten years or more. and the cost would be enormous. >> reporter: enter mikkel westergaard's high altitude platform station. sitting at about 65,000 feet over new mexico, it's designed to deliver broadband internet connection over hundreds of square miles. >> he is using a technology that he has come up with himself to

reinvent an airship to provide broadband services over wide swaths of the earth. this can not only be used in new mexico. of course it has usefulness worldwide in the third world. >> you've done many projects. this seems different. what led you to this project? >> well, it's not all that different because most of what i've done in life has been building companies that have all the same technology platforms essentially, which has been around material science. >> do you see a time, then, when airships like this will be around the earth in many places, that this will be the standard, replacing what many satellites do today? >> i absolutely envision a future where this will be as normal as seeing ships in the port, as normal as seeing cars on the road, and as normal as seeing trains on the tracks. >> reporter: and as normal as having access to the internet. john blackstone, roswell, new mexico. the "cbs overnight news" will be right back.

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nashville. 19 people were killed, including the kimberlan family, josh, aaron, and 2-year-old sawyer. david recently returned to visit family members of the victims to see how the community is honoring their memories. >> reporter: our trip back to cookville, tennessee began with a door knock. at the home of pastor rodney pitts -- >> there he is. >> reporter: -- and his wife trisha. >> nice to meet you. >> hey, nice to meet you. wow, it's been a long time coming. >> reporter: it has been nearly three years since we reported on that tornado. which killed their daughter erin kimberlan, her husband josh, and their 2-year-old son sawyer. he loved the church hymnal. one song in particular. >> that was his song. >> that was his song. >> he couldn't read other places that had a different songbook. he would look through it and find that because he knew what it looked like. >> reporter: the pitts took us to where the kimberlanss home

once stood until the tornado ripped it off its foundation. that sacred ground where they died is now a living memorial. >> this was the area where sawyer played a lot. and they've made just a beautiful park out of that. to make it a happy place for kids. we can come out and smile. you know. it's good. >> reporter: and where the children now play trisha and rodney pitts often come to pray. and just reflect. >> i'm not the same person i used to be. that's for sure. >> what's changed? >> oh, man. man, everything. you know, you preach about how life is a vapor, that it's just -- it's come and gone and it's -- you tell people all along how fragile and uncertain it is. now i know it is. >> reporter: in march 2020 in the dark of night while so many

people were asleep the tornado blasted through with 175-mile-per-hour winds and destroyed 170 homes. >> there were just big, tall piles of just rubble everywhere. and it was the oddest thing, david. there was no grass. it actually -- it pulled the grass out. and i just remember trisha just kept saying there's nothing here. there's nothing left. and in your mind you're thinking, well, they're somewhere. they weren't here. you know. but they were. >> how does it feel to have people still thinking about them? and talking about them. and checking up on y'all. >> it means so much to know that their memory's still alive and the impact that they had on people was enough that they still think of them.

>> reporter: the community also built a memorial garden for the five children who died -- sawyer, hattie jo collins, dawson curtis, bridget ann marie mccormick phillips, and harlan marsh. >> eventually it will be a nice shady spot. >> yeah. >> reporter: they also planted tree fll 19 people d that night. like leisha ritenberry, who loved karaoke. sue and todd koehler, who married in 2017. amanda cole was the live-in nanny for the curtis family. she died along with terry curtis and his son dawson. and three trees for the kimberlin family. >> they died on march 3rd. the next day is what? march 4th. and that's what we're doing. we're marching forward. >> mm. >> day at a time. >> reporter: kim cantly is josh kimberlin's mom.

how do you describe how much you miss him? >> he was my peter pan. he just brought laughter and just did it so -- just so naturally. god made erin for josh. >> beep beep. >> there's a lot of tragedy in the story of march 3rd but there's a lot of beauty too. they would have never made it -- if one made it and the other didn't. god took them together. all three. i hear their laughter, and it is a beautiful story. >> kim doesn't know if you've been a good boy or a bad boy this year. can you enlighten us? >> the sound. >> that's a pretty strong case. >> reporter: the memories. all bittersweet. well, we came back to really check on those left behind. to just see how you're doing. >> because of their faith,

because of god's word, we're doing -- we're doing good. we are doing good. it gives us hope. yeah. death is something we'll all experience, but it's not the end. it's not the end. i know. i know i'll see them again. >> reporter: erin and sawyer are buried together. josh is right beside them. this is the photo that tells the story of those who rest here. >> we couldn't ask for any better. we're very blessed. all of our children have married, really into some wonderful families. but these -- this is deeper. >> reporter: you may be wondering, how do they deal with the unbearable pain? >> happy birthday, daddy. we love you and we're ready to see you this afternoon. >> reporter: well -- >> they're the lucky ones. >> yes. >> reporter: with unshakeable

faith. >> god's been very good to us to give us everything we've needed through this process. >> and he's put up

with the flu spreading rapidly nationwide anti-viral medications are in mie demand. cbs's bradley blackburn takes a closer look at what families should know before heading to the pharmacy. >> reporter: flu cases are increasing around the country, with 47 states or jurisdictions reporting very high or high flu activity. that's driving up the demand for anti-viral medications to treat the flu. >> if you're somebody who's older, if you have underlying medical conditions, you really should consider getting a prescription for an anti-viral drug if you you get the flu. these drugs have been shown to reduce the duration of illness but really importantly to reduce your likelihood of ending up in the hospital or even dying. >> reporter: tamiflu is one of the most commonly prescribed

anti-virals. the pill or liquid is taken for five days. the newest anti-viral zofluza is a single dose. cbs medical contributor dr. celine gounder says start the course as soon as possible for the biggest benefits, usually within about two days of getting sick. >> if you stop too soon, you can have a rebound of the virus. you can have a rebound of symptoms. and so it's really important to complete that course. if you don't complete the course, you're also at more risk for the virus developing resistance. >> reporter: side effects can vary. nausea and vomiting are the most common with tamiflu. diarrhea is most common with xofluza. >> you can get side effects with really any medication. and sometimes those can be allergic reactions, a rash. sometimes that can be g.i. upset. but what's really important to understand is these side effects are rare, they're mild. >> reporter: and with covid-19 cases on the rise anti-viral medications like paxlovid can help people at high risk of

developing severe illness. bradley blackburn, cbs news, new york. >> that is the"overnight news" t ce new york city, i'm jericka duncan. this is "cbs news flash." i'm matt pieper in new york. a sigh of relief on hawaii's big island. scientists say the eruption of the mauna loa volcano is easing and may soon end. it began spewing molten rock more than two weeks ago after being quiet for nearly 40 years. they now lowered the alert level from a warning to a watch. 'tis the season to travel. aaa is estimating that about 113 million people will go 50 miles or more away from home from december 23rd through january 2nd. most will drive with more than 2 million more expected this year compared to last. and the group thinks air travel will increase 14% from last year. and for a fifth weekend in a row bl"black panther wakanda

forever" topped the box office. it is the sixthhest grossing movie is year. i'm ma pieper, cbs news, new york. breaking news. in one of the deadliest terror attacks targeting americans. nearly 34 years after pan-am flight 103 was blown out of the sky, the accused bomb maker now set to appear in a u.s. courtroom. >> this was an attack against america. an it's only right that it be prosecuted in the united states. also, wild weather. a big storm crashes into the west. deep snow, torrential rain making travel treacherous. the system now set to sweep across the country threatening blizzard conditions and even tornadoes. plus battle for ukraine. >> i'm imtiaz tyab in ukraine where despite russia's bombing campaign many defiant ukrainians refuse to leave their homes. plus, splashdown.

nasa's historic artemis mission ends with a successful return to earth. keystone cleanup. a pipeline rupture in rural kansas sparks new environmental concerns. with the flu and covid surging, could masks make a comeback? we'll get a checkup from our dr. david agus. finally, a sweet treat from colorado. meet the woman improving lives one caramel apple at a time. >> there's no calories in an apple when you do it for charity. >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." we begin with a major break in one of the deadliest acts of international terrorism. tonight a former libyan intelligence officer accused of making the bomb that brought down pan-am flight 103 over lockerbie, scotland is now in american custody. it happened december 21st, 1988. the jumbo jet was flying from

london to new york. 259 people on board and 11 on the ground were killed. cbs's christina ruffini is at our washington bureau with more on the suspect, abu agila mohammad masud. christina, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, jericka. the fact the suspected bomb maker is now in u.s. custody marks a major milestone in a prosecution that has been going on for decades. >> a quiet night in a scottish village shattered. >> reporter: this was the aftermath of the bomb. stashed in a luggage compartment of pan-am flight 103 four days before christmas. among the victims, 35 students from syracuse university returning home after a semester abroad. >> no amount of time or distance will stop the united states and our scottish partners from pursuing justice in this case. >> reporter: two years ago the justice department brought charges against the man they say built the bomb, abu agila masud, a libyan national. last month he was reportedly

detained in libya, leading to speculation he would be handed over to u.s. authorities to stand trial. now the justice department says he's in u.s. custody. the 1988 bombing was the deadliest mass murder in british legal history, bringing the threat of international terrorism to the global consciousness. attempts to prosecute those responsible for the attack has been a decades-long multinational battle. one other man, an alleged libyan intelligence officer, was convicted for his involvement in the bombing. he maintained his innocence until his death in 2012. >> he just loved life. he loved his family. >> reporter: kara weipz lost her brother, rick minetti, 34 years ago. >> the fact the united states has custody of the alleged bomb maker is -- it's huge. it's a gigantic step. >> and jericka, the suspect is expected to appear in u.s. district court here in d.c. as soon as tomorrow. >> christina, thank you.

let's turn now to a monstrous storm to start off the week. it slammed into california today with seven inches of rain and triggered whiteout conditions in some areas of the mountains. it's now set to sweep east with warnings it could deliver blizzard conditions to the plains and even life-threatening tornadoes in the south. cbs's danya bacchus is covering it all. danya, good evening to you. >> reporter: good evening, jericka. this is only the beginning of the blockbuster storm, with california joining more than a dozen other states under a winter weather alert. the powerful cross-country storm dumping snow throughout the sierra nevada with up to six inches an hour. winds causing dangerous whiteout conditions on roads, spreading avalanche warnngs and whipping lifts at ski resorts. heavy rains also pummeling the golden state, knocking out power, downing trees and triggering new fears of landslides like this one friday

in los angeles county. in neighboring orange county a swift water rescue this morning at a rain-swollen river. crews hoisted the man to safety. as california's storm system moves east -- >> oh! >> reporter: -- a rare weather phenomenon in iowa. thundersnow. the storm set to impact much of the country with blizzard conditions expected from colorado to minnesota with thunderstorms and tornado warnings in the south. while the storm is bringing much-needed rain and snow, california reservoirs are just over half full. not enough yet to pull the state out of its historic drought. jericka? >> important to note. danya, thank you. tonight the ukrainian city of odesa is in the dark. 1.5 million people in the city are without heat and electricity after russian drones hit two power plants this weekend. as imtiaz tyab reports, fighting also rages in the country's east. >> reporter: the sound of war

crackles across the streets of bakhmut as russian forces lay waste to the eastern city once hom to 70,000. a small group of civilians still living here tell a passing ukrainian soldier "we'll still be here when you liberate us." such defiance amid such devastation is a feel oleksandr hanz a hanzachuk knows well. he's from borodianka northwest of kyiv which was brutally occupied by russian forces early in the war. this apartment building was once his home and is now unlivable. >> reporter: so you were in the building when this happened. "we were sheltering in the basement and the building started shaking," he says. "it was terrifying." hanzachuk takes us inside the apartment he used to share with his mother, a place they both called home since 1975. how do you feel seeing it like this? >> no cry. i smile. >> reporter: "i try not to cry," he says. "i try to smile.

and hope for a new life, a new home." intmuildin is o of thelaks byd ukrainian child defeating vladimir putin at judo. a defeat so many across this war-ravaged country are fighting so hard for. imtiaz tyab, cbs news, kyiv, ukraine. >> the "cbs overnight news" will be right back.

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>> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." well, today a successful splashdown for nasa's artemis 1 moon mission ship. the uncrewed orion capsule was guided into the pacific ocean about 350 miles south of san diego. the 25-day test flight cost billions. but the payoff, astronauts could be next. cbs's mark strassmann has more. >> splashdown. >> reporter: a homecoming splashdown. the first of many that nasa imagines in its lunar dreams. >> orion is in great shape. >> reporter: recovery teams pulled the orion capsule from the pacific. >> i don't think any one of us could have imagined the mission this successful. >> and lift-off of artemis 1!

>> reporter: 25 days ago nasa launched the artemis 1 test flight. in all a 1.4 million-mile lunar round trip. from deep space orion beamed back spectacular imagery of the moon and earth. twice the capsule flew within 80 miles of the moon's surface. but the mission's biggest test came during sunday's return. orion slammed into the earth's atmosphere at 25,000 miles per hour. the heat shield had to hold up against temperatures of 5,000 degrees, half as hot as the surface of the sun. >> we're going to look at the data very carefully, but i would say very happy with what we've seen so far on the heat shield. >> reporter: sunday's splashdown 50 years to the day after another landing. >> contact. >> reporter: apollo 17 touching. >> okaou the chnger has landed. last tim.

nasa wantso re w artemis program, a crewed test flight around the moon in 2024, a moon landing later this decade. >> it is the beginning of the new beginning. and that is to explore the heavens. >> reporter: a new era in moon voyaging just moved one test flight closer. mark strassmann, cbs news, atlanta. to kansas now where there's a rush to repair and clean up a ruptured part of the keystone pipeline. as cbs's elise preston reports, it's the largest onshore spill in nearly a decade. >> reporter: images from chris pannbacker's family farm in washington county, kansas show a slick of crude oil coating their land. >> we know we have pasture grass that's black that probably will have to be removed. >> reporter: the pipeline ruptured 20 miles south of the kansas-nebraska state line last week. the owner, canada's tc energy, shut it down after 588,000

gallons poured into a local creek. the same company abandoned plans for a larger keystone xl pipeline last year after president biden canceled a permit. environmentalist bill mckibbin says the type of oil that keystone carries could make the cleanup effort more complex. >> it will be many, many years and many, many millions of dollars before it's even close to being remediated. >> reporter: the epa said no drinking water wells were affected and oil removal efforts will continue into next week. for pannbacker's family time is crucial. >> our family's worked hard to be good stewards of the land. so we just -- we want to do whatever we can to restore it. >> reporter: generations of her family's history now at stake. elise preston, cbs news, new york. york. the "cbs overnight news" (pensive music) (footsteps crunching)

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>> so they're recommending, they're not mandating indoor masking. and what we're seeing is a 50% increase over the last several weeks of both the flu as well as covid-19, with the stabilization of rsv respiratory syncitial virus. so we have to use caution. when hospital beds start to fill up, that's when masking starts to get recommended. and in both l.a. and new york you're seeing significant increase in hospitalizations and in many hospitals elective cases are being canceled. so in that case we have to recommend masks. >> so it helps to protect us. but does masking impact our immunity? >> well, over the last three years we've been masked and we've been exposed to no viruses. and so because of that it is a very bad flu season as well as rsv, especially in children and the elderly. so going forward, we have to protect ourselves. that is the flu vaccine, and there will be an rsv vaccine announced in the next several months. >> all right. dr. agus, we thank you. and you can go to paramount plus

for a new series "the checkup" with our dr. david agus. the first three episodes are now available to stream. history was made in los angeles. democrat karen bass was sworn in as the city's 43rd mayor. bass is the first woman and the city's second black mayor. she now has the daunting task of working with a deeply divided city council. on friday an activist confronted council member kevin de leon at what wasup mi-friy hoday event. but many have been calling on council member de leon to resign over alleged racist remarks. well, a pioneering black feminist and child welfare advocate has died.ty she toured the country speaking with social activist gloria steinem. this iconic 1971 photo of the two raising their right arm in a black power salute sits in the national portrait gallery. dorothy pitman hughes was 84. and the sports world is

mourning the loss of three-time nba champion and long-time beloved coach paul silas. as a player the rebounding and defensive giant won three titles including two with the boston celtics. he was lebron james' first nba coach. paul silas was 79. straight ahead on the "cbs weekend news," tesla may own the ev market right now. why the road ahead appears bumpy. plus how a sweet treat is going a long way to help create a life sharing community.

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as elon musk focuses on recently purchased twitter, tesla's stock is tumbling. it's actually down 50% for the year. driving the electric vehicle maker's troubles, a road full of new competition. here's cbs's kris van cleave. >> i go home, i plug it in. that's it. >> reporter: chris ashley is so happy with his electric ford f-150, he's looking for an ev to replace his other car. why do you want to go with two electrics? >> i think i'm really just tired of buying gas, to be honest with you. >> reporter: but he's not seriously considering the market he and leader, tesla. >> seeing all the other options coming on the market as well definitely made a difference. akes ieasier to not feel like you're pigeonholed into certain decision. >> reporter: and ashley is not alone.

while tesla makes up an enormous 65% of the u.s. ev market now, their share has dropped steadily, down 6% from last year and off 14% from 2020. >> tesla has two problems. they need to get their cars more affordable and they need to get more fresh cars to the market as well. they don't really seem to have any product in the pipeline that can fix that. >> reporter: tim stevens is a world car award judge who tracks the auto industry. >> they still stand to grow as a business overall but in terms of being the global market leader it's hard to imagine them being in that position in 2025, at least the way their current portfolio is going. >> reporter: electric vehicles' share of the auto market has doubled since 2021. experts estimate within three years there will be 159 different ev models with ford and general motors forecast to pass tesla in market share by 2025. kris van cleave, cbs news, frederick, maryland. the holidays are typically a time to reflect and to give. well, one colorado woman is giving in ways that most couldn't imagine. cbs's barry petersen explains. >> so this land is where we're going to build our community.

t's where we're going to build tall tales ranch. >> reporter: susan mooney has a dream called tall tales ranch where adults with intellectual and developmental differences like her son ross can live and work. and she's getting charitable help from apples. >> it takes all of us to do something like this and to really affect people's lives. so yeah, it's terrific. >> reporter: one apple at a time. >> one apple at a time. >> reporter: these apples. >> on a busy day i do about 200 to 300. >> reporter: out of her denver kitchen megan fonte makes up to 2,000 chocolate-covered caramel apples every holiday season. >> so i'm hand dipping the caramel apples in a milk chocolate and then i'm putting them in almonds and toffee. >> reporter: over two decades -- >> put a little white chocolate on it. >> reporter: she has raised as much as $18,000 a year. >> i'm a big cook. >> reporter: donated to schools, a hospice, and this year tall tales ranch. bought by people who pay all of

10 bucks an apple. >> how are you? >> reporter: like tracy mchugh. >> i'm excited to pick up my apple. >> reporter: a long-time friend. >> she's just very giving and always looking to do something nice for someone. and give up her time. >> reporter: husband rob donates the supplies and pushes sticks into the apples. a bit different from his day job as an oculofacial plastic surgeon. >> i feel like i'm just the supporter of someone who has a wonderful idea and a big heart and i feel fortunate to just be in her orbit. >> it's a family project, which is nice. they all support me. and then it spreads joy and makes money. so it's just kind of a win across the board. >> chocolate. sprinkles. >> almonds. >> very tart apple. >> mm-hmm. >> lovely caramel. >> reporter: and here's one more slightly dubious surprise. >> there's no calories in an apple when you do it for charity. it's really nice to make the finished product as beautiful as we can. because people are paying $10 for the apple.

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the winners of the comedy wildlife photography awards are out, and they are of course naturally funny. this photo of a lion cub fallinu won the top prize. runner-ups includesa

the face in alaska. and a hippo yawning next to a heron. and a waving raccoon of course on a florida beach. very interesting. well, france was in the holiday spirit as thousands celebrated the return of santa run. today near paris more than 13,000 people put on their best santa suits, as you see there, and dashed across the city. no snow needed. and that is the overnight news for this monday. for some of you the news continues. for others make sure you check back later for "cbs mornings" and of course follow us online anytime at cbsnews.com. reporting from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm jericka duncan.

this is cbs news flash. i'm matt pieper in new york. a sigh of relief on hawaii's big island. scientists say the eruption of the mauna loa volcano is easing and may soon end. it began spewing molten rock more than two weeks ago after being quiet for nearly 40 years. they now lowered the alert level from a warning to a watch. 'tis the season to travel. aaa is estimating that about 113 million people will go 50 miles or more away from home from december 23rd through january 2nd. most will drive with more than 2 million more expected this year compared to last. and the group thinks air travel increased 14% from last year. and for a fifth weekend in a row "black panther: wakanda

forever" topped the box office. it is so far the sixth highest grossing movie this year. for more download the cbs news app on your cell phone or connected tv. i'm matt pieper, cbs news, new it's monday, december 12th, 2022. this is the "cbs morning news." blockbuster storm. the west gets walloped with heavy rain and snow as the weather system moves east. when the rest of the country could see the effects. bombing suspect in u.s. custody. a man accused in the deadly 1988 bombing of pan am flight 103 is in american hands. how the victims' families are reacting. griner release details. we're learning more about what brittney griner did in her first moments of freedom following her prisoner swap last week. what she wanted to do immediately after her release. well, good morning, and good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. we begin with a monster storm that's making its way across the