former vice president mike pence. >> when the american people see president biden receiving one form of treatment with the discovery of classified documents that were retained after he left the office of the vice president, and they see president trump treated in an entirely different way, again, the handling of classified materials is a very serious issue for our nation, and we ought to take it seriously. but there ought to be equal treatment under the law. >> reporter: a source tells cbs news that the justice department's review led by u.s. attorney john lausch, a trump appointee, is largely done. but there are still inquiries about whether any classified documents might be at other locations. today former president trump questioned, why didn't the justice department announce the highly classified documents found in the biden office before the election? democrats pushed back against any wrongdoing by mr. biden. >> should the discovery of

president biden's classified documents been disclosed before the midterms? >> what president biden did was disclose this to the archives, let law enforcement know. that is exactly the way that you should handle this. >> reporter: republicans have also asked the director of national intelligence for a damage assessment to see if any national security secrets were exposed. the incoming chairman of the house intelligence committee said biden could be in violation of the presidential records act and the espionage act, norah. >> adriana diaz with all that new reporting, thank you so much. well, back here in washington, a rare sign of bipartisanship in congress. today republicans and democrats voted to create a committee focused on competing with china. newly elected house speaker kevin mccarthy said the era of trusting communist china is over. lawmakers voted 365-65 in favor to investigate the military, check, and technological threats posed by china. and this just in. we learned today that ukrainian

troops are being brought to the u.s. to train on the patriot missile system before it's used to shoot down incoming russian missiles in ukraine. the training of about 100 ukrainian soldiers will begin at early as next week at fort sill, oklahoma. about 90 troops are needed to maintain and operate the highly advanced air defense system. now we've got some breaking news coming in from orange county, california. a cross country delta airlines flight from john wayne airport to elephant was forced to abort takeoff at the last second. look at this. when the flames shot out of an engine. the pilot returned to the gate with this thick smoke billowing from the plane's wing. delta airlines says it was an apparent engine maintenance issue. there were 164 passengers on the plane, but no one was hurt. the "cbs overnight news" will be right back.

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to plagiarize a written assi assignment. >> this was a very well written essay, but the things they said were just thoroughly wrong. >> reporter: he ran the essay through a detexz program to see if the paper was written by a human. >> i was now 99.whatever confident that this was written by a.i. and luckily the student copped to it. they admitted they used chat gpt. >> reporter: new york city's department of education recently safety and accuracy of content. open a.i., the creators of chat gpt say the program should not be used for misleading purposes, and they're developing ways to identify text generated by its system. what makes chatgpt different than other a.i. systems is its ability to learn and respond to unique conversations. i'm going to ask chatgpt to write me a 300-word essay on the impact of technology's evolution on society. in less than a minute, i had my

300-word essay written entirely by artificial intelligence. princeton student edward tien is also working on a program to outsmart the artificial intelligence. what are your tips for parents who want to make sure their children are doing their own homework? >> students should try out these new technologies because it also benefits them to learn what's out there. but at the same time, education is something we take into our own hands, and we learn the most by actually doing things ourselves. >> reporter: nikki battiste, cbs news, new york. well, tonight there are new calls for a congressional investigation into republican george santos' personal finances and his campaign. those details next.

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the collapse of buffalo bills safety damar hamlin has put renewed attention on keeping young athletes safe. helen henry from our cbs station wcco tells us how a minnesota family turned their own tragedy into helping others. >> reporter: for the parents of athletes, the unthinkable question. can what happened to damar hamlin happen to their child too? mike skoon over's 14-year-old son patrick collapsed during a hockey game in 2014. >> he actually scored the game's first goal, and a few moments later, he was carrying the puck and got checked and suffered sudden cardiac arrest on the ice and passed away. >> reporter: his family wanted to make sure no other children suffered the same fate. patrick had undetected heart defects, so they started a foundation which offers heart screenings to young people. bailey mccuddin's screening in

2018 may have saved her life. >> he text me from across the roonl and she says, mom, my sheet says abnormal on the top. my sheet looks different than the girl next to me. >> we're just really grateful for it because we could have never known, and something bad could have happened. >> reporter: they've screened thousands of kids, finding more than 260 with electrical or structural heart defects. >> we find one, then we did our job, you know. but we're finding many. you know, today's screen, we've already had two significant finds of some heart defects. >> reporter: more families grateful from the bottom of their hearts. alan henry, cbs news, apple valley, minnesota. >> it is such important work they are doing. with this renewed spliethsd on protecting kids who play sports, we went to learn how to use an aed. we'll have that story for you tomorrow. well, that's the overnight news for this wednesday. for some of you, the news continues. for others, check back later for cbs mornings.

remember you can follow us online anytime at cbsnews.com. reporting from here in the nation's capital, i'm norah o'donnell. this is cbs news flash. i'm shanelle kaul in new york. president biden spoke to reporters for the first time since documents with classification markings were found at a former office. mr. biden said he was surprised in that his attorneys, quote, followed protocol by reporting the documents right away. the doj is investigating. australian cardinal george pell, whose conviction on child abuse charges shocked the catholic church, has died at 81 after undergoing hip surgery in rome. pell's abuse convictions were later overturned. the 80th golden globes were back on the airwaves and the fabelmans took home the award

for best drama motion picture. for more, download the app on your cell phone or connected tv. i'm shanelle kaul, cbs news, new york. >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." tonight, there is new fallout from what cbs news first reported about those biden documents. house republicans have just launched an investigation. we've got more on that in just a moment. plus, this just coming in. look at this video. smoke pouring out of the wing of this delta flight. we've got more on that in just a moment. but first more deadly storms have slammed the california coast with torrential rains and thunderstorms causing massive flooding, landslides, and widespread power outages. at least 25 million residents are under flood advisories while

more than 145,000 still without power. and as the rains move inland, yet another major storm system will move in right behind it. the governor of california just announced 17 people have died. we have team coverage of this deadly storm, and cbs's carter evans will start us off from hard-hit santa cruz county. good evening, carter. >> reporter: good evening, norah. the water in this neighborhood is finally starting to recede. only a couple of inches right here. but to give you some context, the amount of rainfall we've received and what's in the forecast, well, it's enough to cover the entire state of california with 15 inches of water. the procession of storms is relentless and unforgiving, flooding homes and roads with each new torrential downpour. in los angeles, a massive cleanup is under way. overnight, up to eight inches of rain triggered landslides, leaving behind a pile of mud in valley neighborhoods. >> we're asking residents of los angeles and all of california to stay off the roadways as much as possible.

>> reporter: a large sinkhole created by the rainfall swallowed two cars. a mother and daughter had to be rescued. even train commuters had to navigate floodwaters inside union station. in northern california, this is what a stretch of the busy 101 freeway near san francisco looked like. meanwhile, a rising sacramento river heightened concerns as crews patrolled levees around the clock looking for any signs of trouble. the record weather is also wreaking havoc on the central coast. cbs's elise preston is near montecito tonight, where evacuation orders have been lifted. >> reporter: the heavy rains have eased for now, but the hillsides are so saturated, this is the result. one of several rockslides and mudslides along with flooding that forced many here in santa barbara to stay in shelters. the hills above santa barbara recorded 12 to 15 inches of rain, prompting evacuations and rescues overnight. it will take some time to clean up messes like this one. >> reporter: some forecasters

are predicting as much as 22 trillion gallons of water will fall on drought-stricken california when these storms are finally over. that's more than enough water to fill two major reservoirs -- >> can't we just save a fraction of that? >> that is the hope, but it's a lot more complicated unfortunately. >> reporter: most of the water isn't captured. it's lost to runoff that goes into the ocean. >> the challenge there is getting the water from outfalls like this one or rivers and into the groundwater, and we just don't quite have the infrastructure for that. >> reporter: and with all the sewage, bacteria, and debris in the storm runoff, the water before it could be used, and, in this case, norah, it's just too much, too fast. >> carter evans, thank you so much.

here in washington, we've got some new reporting tonight on those biden documents. today we learned some were marked highly classified. republican lawmakers are now demanding answers after cbs news first reported that roughly ten documents with classification markings were found at an office that biden once used. the justice department has launched a review. here's cbs's adriana diaz with the new reporting.xi today, president biden ignored questions about his management of classified materials. this comes one day after cbs news was first to report that roughly ten documents marked classified from his time as vice president were discovered on november 2nd. they were inside this building ten blocks from the white house where biden had an office after his vice presidency. a source tells cbs news the documents, which were found inside a box in a locked closet, had multiple levels of classification and included highly classified material. today the republican-led house oversight committee announced it's launching an nvestigation and asked the white house for all documents retrieved from president biden's personal office and a list of who had access to that office.

>> those classified documents were known before the election, and was intentionally concealed to the americans. i think that's wrong. >> reporter: the inquiry is drawing comparisons to the investigation into former president trump's handling of classified documents. in that case, more than 300 were recovered from mar-a-lago last year after trump resisted multiple requests to turn them over. cbs's robert costa spoke to former vice president mike pence. >> when the american people see president biden receiving one form of treatment with the discovery of classified documents that were retained after he left the office of the vice president, and they see president trump treated in an entirely different way, again, the handling of classified materials is a very serious issue for our nation, and we ought to take it seriously. but there ought to be equal treatment under the law. >> reporter: a source tells cbs news that the justice

department's review led by u.s. attorney john lausch, a trump appointee, is largely done. but there are still inquiries about whether any classified documents might be at other locations. today former president trump questioned, why didn't the justice department announce the highly classified documents found in the biden office before the election? democrats pushed back against any wrongdoing by mr. biden. >> should the discovery of president biden's classified documents have been disclosed before the midterms? >> what president biden did was disclose this to the archives, let law enforcement know. that is exactly the way that you should handle this. >> reporter: republicans have also asked the director of national intelligence for a damage assessment to see if any national security secrets were exposed. the incoming chairman of the house intelligence committee said biden could be in violation of the presidential records act and the espionage act, norah. >> adriana diaz with all that new reporting, thank you so much.

well, back here in washington, a rare sign of bipartisanship in congress. today republicans and democrats voted to create a committee focused on competing with china. newly elected house speaker kevin mccarthy said the era of trusting communist china is over. lawmakers voted 365-65 in favor to investigate the military, economic, and technological threats posed by china. and this just in. we learned today that ukrainian troops are being brought to the u.s. to train on the patriot missile system before it's used to shoot down incoming russian missiles in ukraine. the training of about 100 ukrainian soldiers will begin at early as next week at fort sill, oklahoma. about 90 troops are needed to maintain and operate the highly advanced air defense system. there's a lot more new ahead on the "cbs overnight news."

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overnight news." i'm caitlin huey-burns in washington. thanks for staying with us. on capitol hill, the political backlash against disgraced new york congressman george santos has begun. two democratic lawmakers of the new york delegation filed an ethics complaint against the freshman republican. santos admits to making a long list of false statements about his life and finances during the campaign, and it's the possible violation of campaign finance laws that could get him into legal trouble. scott macfarlane reports. >> reporter: george santos is facing a lot of questions, but

he's giving no answers. >> mr. santos, there's some campaign finance concerns. can you answer the campaign finance concerns? >> a little personal space, please. >> why won't you answer our questions? >> you seem to be dodging questions about your finances. >> reporter: santos has already been accused of lying about key parts of his life story, including his education, work history, and claim his grandparents survived the holocaust is now the subject of a formal civil complaint to the federal election commission. a nonpartisan d.c. watchdog group, the campaign legal center, filed the complaint, questioning how santos made a $700,000 contribution to his campaign considering he previously reported earning about $50,000 a year. >> your complaint says something pretty bold. there's a possibility there was a foreign actor that was funding this campaign? >> i think it's always a possibility when someone appears to be going to great lengths to mask the true sources of their campaign's funds.

that possibility is doubly the case here because as we know, mr. santos is wanted by brazilian authorities. so he has some connection overseas. >> reporter: meanwhile, santos is one of the needed yes votes in the u.s. house to approve new rules to govern the house, now under republican control. >> the yeas are 220. the nays are 213. the resolution is agreed to. >> reporter: another narrow margesen victory for kevin mccarthy on his first order of business as speaker. >> the house will be in order. >> reporter: the new rules give more members of the key committee positions to members of the house freedom caucus, the conservative members of the republican conference. it also makes it easier to potentially oust speaker mccarthy. regarding that criminal investigation in brazil of congressman santos, it's tied to an alleged incident of check fraud. >> scott macfarlane on capitol hill. prosecutors in brazil have more on their plate than george santos' 13-year-old fake check accusations. they're vowing to bring to justice all of the thousands of

supporters of former president jair boelsonaro, who stormed th country's government buildings over the weekend. bolsonaro wasn't in the country at the time. he's vacationing in a gated community in orlando and later checked himself into a hospital. christina ruffini reports. >> reporter: while some u.s. lawmakers are already called for bolsonaro to be expelled from the u.s., on monday the former president tweeted a picture of himself in a hospital gown, in a hospital bed in orlando, saying he's being treated for injuries to do with an old stabbing, and it doesn't look like he's going anywhere anytime soon. to an american audience, what happened in brazil sunday might seem eerily familiar. an angry mob, false accusations of a stolen election, and incalculable damage to institutions as well as the government they represent. the protests were in support of jair bolsonaro, who lost the presidential election last year to leftist lula da silva.

>> terrific man. he's done a fantastic job. >> reporter: sometimes called the trump of the tropics, bolsonaro was an acolyte of the former u.s. president, both in manner and strategy, making false accusations of election fraud and calling his opponents criminals. >> in brazil, it's gone beyond the bolsonaros. >> reporter: he's also received strong support and as "the washington post" reports, even advice from trump ally steve bannon. >> you use these machines, use the judiciary to shut us down in the media and we're not going to tolerate it. >> reporter: bolsonaro is currently in florida, having left brazil for a gated orlando vacation home just two days before president lula's inauguration. as events unfolded, he denied encouraging the attacks, tweeting that while peaceful protests are part of the democratic process, destruction and invasion of public buildings are not. >> there's no question that extremism is a factor in brazilian politics just as it is here. >> reporter: mike mckinley was a career diplomat and served as

ambassador to brazil in the trump administration. >> there's a strong foundation for boels nar he's mow as they're calling it to have a second life across the coming years. >> reporter: is boels nar he's ma is the brazilian equivalent of trumpism? >> it absolutely is. >> reporter: as for bolsonaro himself, the u.s. state department says it has not received any requests for action from brazil. >> brazil's democratic institutions have our full support. >> reporter: but members of congress, including texas representative joaquin castro, are already on thing to bolsonaro's u.s. stay. >> the united states should not be a refuge for this authoritarian who has inspired domestic terrorism in brazil. >> reporter: now, the state department wouldn't comment directly on bolsonaro's case, but said in general diplomats are here under a 30-day visa, and after that time period, woe have to reapply to dhs in order to stay in the country. >> christina ruffini in washington.

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striking new tribute to the nancy giles has a look >> reporter: this past summer, workers at the walla walla foundry in the state of washington fashioned s, arms, hands, and a bracelet to capture a shining moment in history. all the pieces are now assembled, and this friday, one of the largest memorials dedicated to racial equality will be unveiled in america's oldest public park, boston common. ♪ >> i had a vision frankly. >> reporter: it's called "the embrace." and to design it, hank willis thomas poured over hundreds of images of dr. martin luther king jr. and his wife, coretta scott king. >> there was an intimacy that i saw that wasn't really highlighted often, you know.

often when you do look closely at pictures, they're holding each other's hands. >> reporter: one photo in particular got the sculptor's attention. the reaction when reverend king was awarded the nobel peace prize in 1964. >> i just love that image, him hugging her with such glee and such joy and such pride, and i saw the pride on her face. and i recognized that this was teamwork, and all of his weight in that picture is like on her. >> reporter: and so hank willis thomas, along with architects from the mass. design group, rather than depicting whole figures, decided to represent a specific moment of intimacy. >> i'm kind of scared because representing the kings without their faces is a bold move. >> why did you choose bronze? >> it's one of the materials that we know can last and stand the test of time. >> reporter: and thomas says it was important to represent both

husband and wife. >> i was not alive when he was alive. so she was the symbol, her grace, her presence was palpable. >> reporter: after dr. king was shot and killed in 1968, it was coretta scott king who continued his work. >> and i thought that was a pretty powerful metaphor for their legacy, that she put his legacy on her shoulders and carried it for almost half a century. >> people underestimate the power of women and underestimate the power of black women and their influence on society. >> reporter: imari paris jeffries leads embrace boston, the nonprofit that raised $8 million to create the sculpture and an additional $2.5 million to preserve it. >> it will be a symbol of boston. it will be a symbol of love, belonging, and hope. >> coming to boston -- >> reporter: boston is where king met coretta scott in the

1950s and where he earned his ph.d. in theology at boston university. >> boston must become a testing ground for the ideals of freedom. >> reporter: king preached in boston, and in 1965, led a civil rights march from the roxbury neighborhood to boston common, where "the embrace" now stands. >> and to have it be some beautiful brown people who are putting it together, just thank you. thank you [ applause ] >> reporter: community organizer malia lazou visited the foundry as a supporter of the memorial. >> you know, in boston, we just had a white supremacist march. like there's just a lot about race in boston. so to see something this large and this beautiful being done for us in boston was very touching. >> reporter: the process began six years ago with a national call for proposals. there were 126 submissions and 5

finalists. embrace boston did consult with the king family, but the people of boston chose thomas' idea. >> there were voting booths in post offices, libraries, city hall -- >> for the public? >> for the public. >> to vote? >> to vote. >> every picture is a window. >> reporter: spend time with hank willis thomas, and you discover he's influenced not only by history but by his own family. his mother, deborah willis, is a photographer and photo historian. >> oh, my god. >> reporter: and hank is known for canvases that come alive when you shine a light on them. this is amazing. wow. he also loves metal hands that reach up or point to the sky and the classic bill withers song "grandma's hands kwgsz. >> it's a short song, and it says so much. ♪ grandma's hands ♪ ♪ pick me up each time i fail ♪

♪ oh, grandma's hands ♪ >> my grandmother, ruth willis, just passed away. >> i'm sorry. >> no, don't be sorry. she lived to be 100. >> oh, my god. that's so cool. >> and she lived a masterful life. she was and is a divine spirit who has been my guide. and so when i think about my grandmother's hands, which were so warm and so powerful, it's the spirit that is in this work. >> reporter: hank willis thomas has designed a memorial that is 20 feet high. >> this is a big thing. >> reporter: meaning visitors will be able to walk through "the embrace" and experience that spirit themselves. >> when you're standing inside the sculpture, you will be in the heart of their embrace. and when you really think about what happens when two people embrace one another, their hearts -- >> line up. >> yes. you're inside the love of these

two people. there are so many monuments to victims of war. there are very, very few

finally this half hour, david begnaud has the story of a family in st. louis that turned an unimaginable tragedy into unconditional love with a little help from their friends. >> reporter: three, six, nine were the ages of gregory hop's children when he was diagnosed with colon cancer. ♪ three six nine ♪ >> reporter: what greg didn't know when he wrote that song was that he and his wife, megan, were both running out of time. krista lieber is megan's twin sister. what happened? >> she was sitting on the couch, and she just took her last breath and died. >> reporter: megan had an undiagnosed heart condition and died four months after greg. krista and her husband, dave,

went from three children to six. >> complete chaos! >> reporter: as they prioritized their blended family, they prioritized their health too. both had been feeling a little off. that's when dave was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease, and then came krista's shock. like her sister, she had a heart condition that if left untreated could be fatal. >> my sister saved my life. i say her death was not in vain. >> reporter: in the months since megan died, the community near st. louis, missouri, has stepped in to help this little family. >> there was this village of people who came together and said what to new. >> do you need food? can i come take the kids out of the house? do you and dave need a break? >> reporter: the help of a village and unwavering love. david begnaud, cbs news, st. louis. and that's the overnight news for this wednesday. for some of you, the news continues, and for others, check back later for cbs mornings.

and follow us online anytime at cbsnews.com. reporting from the nation's capital, i'm caitlin huey-burns. this is cbs news flash. i'm shanelle kaul in new york. president biden spoke to reporters for the first time since documents with classification markings were found at a former office. mr. biden said he was surpried and that his attorneys, quote, followed protocol by reporting the documents right away. the doj is investigating. australian cardinal george pell, whose conviction on child abuse charges shocked the catholic church, has died at 81 after undergoing hip surgery in rome. pell's abuse convictions were later overturned. the 80th golden globes were back on the fabelmans took home the award for best drama motion picture.

for more, download the cbs news app on your cell phone or connected tv. i'm shanelle kaul, cbs news, new york. tonight as we come on the air, the relentless and unforgiving storms that are hitting the west coasth newshat severe weather coming later this week. plus, what cbs news is learning tonight about those biden documents, that some were marked highly classified. tonight, catastrophic flooding hits the west coast. look at this large sinkhole that swallowed two cars. tonight the rescue of a mother and daughter. cbs's carter evans is in northern california. the biden documents. cbs news first reporting tonight that house republicans have launched an investigation. and the news that some of them are among some of the nation's most closely guarded secrets. new york nurses on strike. >> mighty, mighty nurses!

>> patients including nicu babies transferred to different hospitals as america's health care workers demand more pay and more help. attention, parents. have you heard about the new website that does your kids' homework for them? well, tonight we'll tell you about the new artificial intelligence taking the internet and the classroom by storm. the latest on the mega millions $1.1 billion jackpot. and tonight, play for patrick. the minnesota family helping young athletes after the loss of their own son. >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." tonight, there is new fallout from what cbs news first reported about those biden documents. house republicans have just launched an investigation. we've got more on that in just a moment. plus, this just coming in. look at this video. smoke pouring out of the wing of

this delta flight. we've got more on that in just a moment. but first more deadly storms have slammed the california coast with torrential rains and thunderstorms causing massive flooding, landslides, and widespread power outages. at least 25 million residents are under flood advisories while more than 145,000 still without power. and as the rains move inland, yet another major storm system will move in right behind it. the governor of california just announced 17 people have died. we have team coverage of this deadly storm, and cbs's carter evans will start us off from hard-hit santa cruz county. good evening, carter. >> reporter: good evening, norah. the water in this neighborhood is finally starting to recede. only a couple of inches right here. but to give you some context, the amount of rainfall we've received and what's in the forecast, well, it's enough to cover the entire state of california with 15 inches of water. the procession of storms is relentless and unforgiving,

flooding homes and roads with each new torrential downpour. in los angeles, a massive cleanup is under way. overnight, up to eight inches of rain triggered landslides, leaving behind a pile of mud in valley neighborhoods. >> we're asking residents of los angeles and all of california to stay off the roadways as much as possible. >> reporter: a large sinkhole created by the rainfall swallowed two cars. a mother and daughter had to be rescued. even train commuters had to navigate floodwaters inside union station. in northern california, this is what a stretch of the busy 101 freeway near san francisco looked like. meanwhile, a rising sacramento river heightened concerns as crews patrolled levees around the clock looking for any signs of trouble. the record weather is also wreaking havoc on the central coast. cbs's elise preston is near montecito tonight, where evacuation orders have been lifted. >> reporter: the heavy rains have eased for now, but the hillsides are so saturated, this is the result. one of several rockslides and

mudslides along with flooding that forced many here in santa barbara to stay in shelters. the hills above santa barbara recorded 12 to 15 inches of rain, prompting evacuations and rescues overnight. it will take some time to clean up messes like this one. >> reporter: some forecasters are predicting as much as 22 trillion gallons of water will fall on drought-stricken california when these storms are finally over. that's more than enough water to fill two major reservoirs -- lake powell and lake mead. can't we just save a fraction of that? >> that is the hope, but it's a lot more complicated unfortunately. >> reporter: most of the water isn't captured. it's lost to runoff that goes into the ocean. >> the challenge there is getting the water from outfalls like this one or rivers and into the groundwater, and we just don't quite have the infrastructure for that. >> reporter: and with all the sewage, bacteria, and debris in

the storm runoff, the water would also have to be treated before it could be used and in this case, norah, it's just too much, too fast. >> carter evans, thank you so much. and there is no relief in sight for california. let's bring in meteorologist mike bettes from our partners at the weather channel. good evening, mike. >> norah, good evening. as carter was mentioning, heavy rain, monumental rain in the forecast over the next six days and beyond. northern california the target. a foot of rain still on the way, but some of that heavy rain will migrate down towards southern california going into the weekend. short-term, thunderstorms even in our forecast here from san jose down to san diego. winds could gust 60 miles an hour. increased power outages overnight tonight could be a factor. over the next three days, now through friday, we think that northern california is the primary focus of the heavy rain. but eventually going into the weekend, a lot of that rain will force its way down into southern california. as we know, norah, some of these areas around santa barbara down to l.a., very susceptible to flash flooding and mudslides because of recent wildfire burn scars. >> mike, thanks so much.

it's day two of a new york city nurses strike, and it is showing no signs of coming to an end anytime soon. cbs's meg oliver reports the main sticking point remains safe staffing levels. >> reporter: bundled up in the icy cold, nurses at new york city's mount sinai hospital are not backing down. >> we want more staff there. no one's happy. no one's staying. people don't like coming to work here because of the conditions. >> reporter: thousands of nurses here and at montefiore hospital were offered a 19% pay raise, but they still want the hospital to hire more staff. the strike forced mount sinai tow transfer hundreds of patients like these nicu babies to nearby hospitals. the strike comes during a historic staffing shortage nationwide of nearly 250,000 registered nurses. in places like florida, they need 24,000 rns. in new york, about 13,000. and in california, that number jumps to 65,000. fran cartwright is the chief

nursing officer at mount sinai hospital. >> our o.r. is open, but that is open only also for urgent. so we're not providing the community with the care that we promised them. >> reporter: but union president nancy hagen says the concern over working conditions and patient care remains. >> how do you defend a strike from a moral standpoint when the country is suffering from a historic nursing shortage? >> we are asking for better patient care. we are sounding the alarm. we cannot continue to work in these dangerous situations. >> reporter: nurses here at mount sinai say they have too many patients to take care of, which could compromise care. meantime, the hospital says they're spending millions of dollars to hire travel nurses during the strike. and tonight negotiations have stopped. both sides are telling me they're waiting for the other to call them back to the table. norah. >> wow, this is such a big story. meg oliver, thank you so much.

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>> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." here in washington, we've got some new reporting tonight on those biden documents. today we learned some were marked highly classified. republican lawmakers are now demanding answers after cbs news first reported that roughly ten documents with classification markings were found at an office that biden once used. the justice department has launched a review. here's cbs's adriana diaz with the new reporting. >> reporter: in mexico city today, president biden ignored questions about his management of classified materials. this comes one day after cbs news was first to report that

roughly ten documents marked classified from his time as vice president were discovered on november 2nd. they were inside this building ten blocks from the white house where biden had an office after his vice presidency. a source tells cbs news the documents, which were found inside a box in a locked closet, had multiple levels of classification and included highly classified material. today the republican-led house oversight committee announced it's launching an investigation and asked the white house for all documents retrieved from president biden's personal office and a list of who had access to that office. >> those classified documents were known before the election and was intentionally concealed to the americans. i think that's wrong. >> reporter: the inquiry is drawing comparisons to the investigation into former president trump's handling of classified documents. in that case, more than 300 were recovered from mar-a-lago last year after trump resisted multiple requests to turn them over. cbs's robert costa spoke to

former vice president mike pence. >> when the american people see president biden receiving one form of treatment with the discovery of classified documents that were retained after he left the office of the vice president, and they see president trump treated in an entirely different way, again, the handling of classified materials is a very serious issue for our nation, and we ought to take it seriously. but there ought to be equal treatment under the law. >> reporter: a source tells cbs news that the justice department's review led by u.s. attorney john lausch, a trump appointee, is largely done. but there are still inquiries about whether any classified documents might be at other locations. today former president trump questioned, why didn't the justice department announce the highly classified documents found in the biden office before the election? democrats pushed back against any wrongdoing by mr. biden. >> should the discovery of president biden's classified

documents been disclosed before the midterms? >> what president biden did was disclose this to the archives, let law enforcement know. that is exactly the way that you should handle this. >> reporter: republicans have also asked the director of national intelligence for a damage assessment to see if any national security secrets were exposed. the incoming chairman of the house intelligence committee said biden could be in violation of the presidential records act and the espionage act, norah. >> adriana diaz with all that new reporting, thank you so much. well, back here in washington, a rare sign of bipartisanship in congress. today republicans and democrats voted to create a committee focused on competing with china. newly elected house speaker kevin mccarthy said the era of trusting communist china is over. lawmakers voted 365-65 in favor to investigate the military, economic, and technological threats posed by china. and this just in. we learned today that ukrainian

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2018 may have saved her life. >> she text me from across the room, and she says, "mom, my sheet says abnormal on the top. my sheet looks different than the girl next to me." >> at play for patrick, we're really grateful for it because we could have never known, and something bad could have happened. >> reporter: they've screened thousands of kids, finding more than 260 with electrical or structural heart defects. >> if we find one, then we did our job, you know. but we're finding many. you know, today's screen, we've already had two significant finds of some heart defects. >> reporter: more families grateful from the bottom of their hearts. alan henry, cbs news, apple valley, minnesota. >> it is such important work that they are doing. and with this renewed spotlight on protecting kids who play sports, we wanted to find out what parents can do, and we went to learn how to use an aed. we'll have that story for you tomorrow. well, that's the overnight news for this wednesday. for some of you, the news continues. for others, check back later for

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