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. tonight, breaking news, the search is over for a mass shooting suspect in california. at least ten people killed in monterey park near downtown los angeles. ten others injured, some critically. gunfire erupting on a night celebrating the lunar new year. >> who walks into a dance hall and guns down 20 people? also tonight, fbi agents seize more documents, some marked classified in a new search of president biden's delaware home. adrianna diaz on the growing controversy. stormy sunday. snow, rain, and wind for millions of americans with a new system set to blow in this week. we'll have the latest forecast.
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emergency landing. a small plane crashes onto a houston highway, clipping an 18-wheeler. plus family and friends gather to mourn lisa marie presley. >> i'm alise preston with a look at tributes to rock and roll royalty. and later this 9-year-old has a bug for science. her efforts to catch an invasive insect captured national attention. >> how does it make you feel to know these bugs are going to be in this museum? >> happy and proud. >> announcer: this is the cbs weekend news from new york with jericka duncan. good evening and thanks for joining us tonight. a lunar new year celebration in a california city erupted into chaos overnight. the festive atmosphere shattered by yet another mass shooting in this country. this time police say ten people
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were killed and ten more injured at a ballroom dance studio in monterey park. it's about 7 miles from los angeles. the gunman fled the scene leading to a massive manhunt and s.w.a.t. team members surrounding this white van. investigators released a photo of the suspect but have yet to release his name or a motive for the attack. cbs has been following the developments all day. what more do we know at this hour, dania? >> reporter: good evening, jericka. there are two active crime scenes. one at the park and another in torrance where a white van believed to be significant to this case has been discovered. >> i've got approximately ten deceased. >> reporter: a hail of gunfire, a race to save lives and a manhunt. the shooting at a monterey park dance club saturday night came as the community celebrated the lunar new year.
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>> we don't know if this is specifically a hate crime defined by law, but who walks into a dance hall and guns down 20 people? >> reporter: authorities say five women and five men were killed when the gunman opened fire on the crowd. >> it hit us home now. a lot of dead people in there, and it's sad. but this is the -- the horrible reality in america, these mass shootings. >> additional units requested. multiple victims, gunshot wounds. >> reporter: dozens inside scramble to the exits. many thought the shots were fireworks. >> i heard what to me sounded like fireworks. then shortly i heard the police, i heard the helicopter. >> reporter: the gunman fled in what sheriff officials say was a white van. reports that a group of people managed to disarm a gunman at a dance studio there. about 12 hours later and 27 miles away in the city of torrance a s.w.a.t. team surrounded and eventually entered this white van where a man's body was discovered.
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>> we will not forget the victims and survivors. it's our responsibility to wrap our arms around them. >> danya joins us now again from monterey park. and just how many agencies were involved in this investigation today? >> reporter: right now there are several agencies involved in this investigation. the fbi is assisting local and state police in trying to piece together a motive and what connection the suspect may have had to this dance hall. jericka? >> danya bacchus, thank you. the biden administration is also reacting to this recent mass shooting. cbs skyler henry is in washington with more on that. skyler? >> reporter: hey, jericka. president biden directed the fbi to provide full support to local authorities in california along with help from the atf, that's the bureau of alcohol, tobacco, firearms, and explosives. he also tweeted he and the first lady were praying for those killed and injured in last night's shooting in monterey
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park. the research group gun violence archive that tracks the number of mass shootings in the country shows this is the 33rd mass shooting this year. the deadliest since last year's shooting in uvalde, texas, that killed 19 students and two teachers. vice president harris spoke about the shooting this afternoon during her remarks in florida, saying at a time of cultural celebration another community has been torn apart by senseless gun violence. now, the white house is scheduled to hold a lunar new year celebration this thursday evening in the east room. officials have yet to say how last night's shooting will impact the event. jericka? >> skyler, thank you. there are new developments this weekend into the investigation of president joe biden's handling of classified documents. a new fbi search of his delaware home friday in which the bidens were not there turned up even more items. adianna diaz first broke this story and she joins us from chicago with more on that.
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adrianna, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, jericka. sources tell cbs news the fbi search was agreed upon ahead of time, and a written consent form was even signed by a representative of the president. we're told a form is a standard practice for a search of this kind. now we're told the total number of classified documents is between 25 and 30. the fbi search lasted nearly 13 hours friday. in a statement the president's personal attorney, bob bower, said investigators had full access to the president's home including personally hand written notes, papers, and memorabilia. they took six items consisting of documents with classification markings and surrounding materials from his time as vice president and senator. it's yet another political blow for the president who said thursday -- >> there's no there there. >> this has gone from just simply being irresponsible to down right scary. >> reporter: republican james homer chairs the house oversight committee and wants records from the secret service. >> any type of documentation
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that would help us determine who actually had access to those documents. >> reporter: he and other republicans allege a double standard between presidents biden and trump. but in trump's case the fbi executed a search warrant at mar-a-lago after he refused repeated requests for more than a year to turn over all his classified material. in all more than 300 classified documents were recovered. so far for president biden 25 to 30 known classified items have been discovered in his possession. no search warrant was necessary because the white house says the president has been cooperating. and as the president says, no there there, adrianna, can we expect more fbi searches of mr. biden's properties? >> reporter: sources tell us the justice department is considering searching other locations. now, this investigation remains under the authority of u.s. attorney john loush, but the
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council is expected to take over at the end of the month. today activists rallied for abortion rights at womens marches across the country. the biggest was in washington, d.c. 50 years marked the decision. well, millions of americans this weekend are bracing for a one-two punch of winter weather. this is worthington, ohio, just north of columbus. the storm is spreading snow from the midwest into the northeast. up to 10 inches could fall in some areas. and another storm is on the way this week. let's check in with meteorologist molly mccollum from our partners at the weather center. >> good evening, jericka. another winter storm is taking aim at the lower 48. this time heavy snow from the southern plains all the way into the ohio valley. it really starts to take shape tuesday into wednesday, laying snow across oklahoma to arkansas and parts of the midwest. as always these systems have two sides to them, and we could see
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severe weather on tuesday, louisiana, mississippi, into alabama. eventually this starts to exit into the northeast. once again this is going to be another interior system bringing heavy snow to some of our ski resorts in the northeast. and all rain to some of our major cities on the i-95 corridor. and jericka, between the rain and severe weather and the snow, it will likely be a difficult week of travel ahead. >> molly mccollum at the weather channel, thank you. the pilot of a small plane made an emergency landing today on a busy houston highway. take a look. disaster was averted, but the aircraft did clip an 18-wheeler on the road sparking a fire. remarkably no one was hurt. the pilot reportedly lost engine power. well, today in memphis family and friends gathered at elvis presley's historic home for a final farewell to his only child, lisa marie presley. among the hundreds of mourners at graceland her 77-year-old mother.
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cbs's elise preston is there tonight. >> reporter: a gospel choir soulfully belted "amazing grace" as hundreds gathered at graceland with the family and friends of lisa marie presley to celebrate her life. the family told mourners presley did not want her funeral to be sad. but those who knew her well couldn't hold back tears. >> my dad sang at elvis' funeral as well, so this is kind of full circle. >> reporter: angela lewis from memphis lined up for today's memorial at 2:00 a.m. she said she always felt a connection to presley. >> they made us feel like we were their family. >> reporter: the 54-year-old died after being hospitalized following a cardiac arrest january 12th. her family believes her heart couldn't survive losing her only son to suicide in 2020. >> some would say that a broken
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heart was the doing of her death. >> reporter: her final resting place, the home where she grew up and inherited from her father. after the service mourners pay their respects in graceland's meditation garden where leasy marie, her father, and son are all laid to rest. lisa marie dedicated her life to preserving elvis' legacy. she's survived by her mother and three daughters. >> elise preston, thank you. today people across china rang in the lunar new year with mostly covid rules lifted. this is the year of the rabbit and the biggest celebration since the start of the pandemic. here's cbs' elizabeth palmer. >> reporter: president xi jinping's new year's video featured medical workers and even a recovering covid patient. in it he admitted china's
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coronavirus surge had become fierce and fast. china national health commission has so far confirmed just under 80,000 covid deaths, but that's only patients who died in hospitals. western analysts think it's a wild understatement. of the health analytics firm airfinity. >> we expect the number of deaths will peak in around one week ahead and it'll reach the 1 million mark. >> reporter: we may never know for sure especially as chinese doctors are under pressure not to list covid on death certificates. this week millions of people have been traveling back to their villages and towns for the lunar new year. analysts had warned they'd kick off a second covid wave in rural areas. the cbs team headed more than 1,000 miles from beijing to provincial yunan to check. shooting surrepitiously as
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covid's a sensitive subject they found the virus had already arrived. the covid ward was full. and when a woman explained her mother tested positive, a man nearby added, oh, almost everyone around here has tested positive, like 80%. it may well be as health officials insist that china's covid outbreak has peaked and has started to decline. if that's true and the economy begins to pick up, it really will be a happy new year for xi jinping. elizabeth palmer, cbs news, tokyo. straight ahead on the cbs weekend news billionaire elon musk returns to a san francisco court to defend what could be a costly tweet. plus it's hands up for damar hamlin and his return to the buffalo bills stadium. right before mike decided to say yes... he learned he had ibs-c and could treat it with linzess. it explained why his constipation with belly pain wouldn't go away.
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secured or not? so it's much simpler than the tip of a securities fraud case. >> reporter: the investor lawsuit claims musk never did have funding secured. and the lawsuit suggests musk set the price as part of a joke, claiming musk rounded the price up to $420 per share because he thought his girlfriend at the time, the singer known as grimes, would find it funny due to the significance of the number to marijuana users. >> 420 is a code for marijuana. could he say it was a joke, they shouldn't have taken it seriously? >> the reality is it drove the price way up. >> one of those investors was glenn littleton, the first witness in the case who testified musk's tweets cost him more than $3 million. as tesla's share price soared and then dropped as it became evident that musk did not have funding to take the company private. in his opening statement tesla's
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attorney said musk had simply used the wrong words in his tweet. what are the risks for testifying? >> ultimately this is going to come down to credibility? like i said we already know from the court that this tweet is misleading. it's really what was his intent behind it? >> reporter: it will be up to the nine members of the jury to decide how much investors were harmed in the ten days after the tweet. but as more and more cars rolled off the tesla assembly line over the next year's the stock backing up the successful company remain volatile, even hitting historic highs that could now complicate the legal dispute over losses. >> the big issue is how much were investor losses? and if you look at the longer term tesla stock price skyrocketed in the months and years after these tweets. so you could say, well, people who were misled by these tweets and decided to buy tesla stock ended up doing okay as a result. >> reporter: musk and tesla have
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wings in the world of science but not before an alarming encounter that captured national attention. cbs' bradley blackburn has more. >> reporter: it has red and brown wings with black spots and 9-year-old bobbie wilson can tell you exactly what it is. >> a spider that can fly. >> reporter: last fall she learned about this invasive species in school and wanted to help. >> i mixed water, dish soap, and apple cider vinegar. >> reporter: she was using it outside her new jersey home when a neighbor called the police. >> a little black woman walking and spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees. i don't know what the hell she's doing. scares me, though. >> reporter: bobby's mom says it was racial profiling. >> those exact words in another town, another state i could be grieving. >> reporter: gale university assistant professor heard her story and decided to take this
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young entmologist under her wing. >> bobby belongs her. >> reporter: she invited her on campus to meet scientists who look like her, and friday bobby was back to see the first spotted lantern fly specimens added to the national museum history collection. those insects were gathered by bobby herself. how does it make you feel to know these bugs are going to be in this museum? >> happy and proud. >> reporter: a young girl who's flying high and now has the bug for a career in science. bradley blackburn, cbs news, new haven, connecticut. >> bobby, congratulations. tomorrow cbs mornings will have the very latest on the monterey park mass shootings and norra o'donnell will anchor from there tomorrow night. from all of us in new york, i'm jericka duncan. we thank you so much for watching.
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now at 6:00, new information about the manhunt for the gunman accused of killing ten people at an asian dance club in l. a. county. >> i'm john ramos in san francisco's chinatown. the lunar new year celebration was as planned but the violent attack in southern california was on the mind of everyone here. we'll have that story coming up. plus pg&e customers experiencing sticker shock when they get a look at their bills. why they say the utility company's explanation just doesn't add up. live from the cbs studios in san francisco this sunday evening i'm brian hackney. >> i'm andrea nakano. we begin tonight with a mass shooting that left ten people dead and ten others wounded at a dance club in l. a. county. the
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sheriff just confirmed moments ago the gunman died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. he opened fire at a dance club in monterey park officials say. just east of downtown l. a.. s.w.a.t. teams eventually surrounded his white van about 20 miles away in the city of torrance. that's where he took his own life. >> reporter danya bacchus is live in monterey park with the latest. >> reporter: good evening to you both. los angeles county sheriff says that threat to the community has been eliminated as you mentioned that suspect apparently shot and killed himself. there are still two very active crime scenes here in los angeles and the shooting scene here in monterey park and then another scene just about 30 miles away from here in torrance where that suspect took his life. monterey park is in mourning after deadly violence shocked the southern california community as it celebrated the lunar new year. >> when the fire department did get into the business, they did pronounce ten of the victims deceased at the scene.

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