francisco had barely 7 inches of rain. this year, more than 27 inches, nearly a foot above normal. back in pajaro, anais rodrigo has spent five days in a shelter with hundreds of people. what's it like not knowing when you're going to be able to go home? >> you get mad, frustrated. >> reporter: now this may look like a lake behind me, but it's actually a strawberry farm, and floodwaters can contaminate fields. so that's a big problem, and that's going to put farm workers out of business. the governor announced today they're all eligible for $600 relief checks. norah? >> looks like water forever in those strawberry fields. carter evans, thank you. back here in washington, the faa held a long-awaited safety summit today following a series of near collisions at airports across the country. transportation secretary pete buttigieg said there have been more mistakes than usual, but added u.s. aviation remains

exceptionally safe. cbs' kris van cleave is at reagan national airport with more. >> reporter: tonight, looking for answers after months of scares in the air. from a disruptive passenger attacking a flight attendant with a spoon to more than two dozen injured in severe turbulence. >> continuesle takeoff plans! >> reporter: and a series of at least seven close calls on runways in the last three months alone. the faa held its first emergency safety summit in 14 years. >> i think i speak for all of us when i say that and certainly the traveling public, that these events are concerning. >> reporter: the most recent close call at washington reagan last week where a regional jet taxied across a runway another plane was about to take off on. >> aborting takeoff, aborting takeoff, 2003. >> this recent incident must serve as a wake-up call for every single one of us before something more catastrophic occurs.

>> reporter: national transportation safety board chair jennifer homd homendi. >> we're coming out of the pandemic. we're experiencing a time where we have a lot of new staffing, and that requires training. for these incidents -- >> reporter: is the system stretched to its limits? >> it could be. certainly it's a concern. >> reporter: other concerns include increasing faa funding and the need for more air traffic controllers. miracle on the hudson pilot captain sully sullenberger. >> certainly during covid, the aviation industry was really affected greatly. so now we're short-staffed. we're playing catch-up. when the system is under pressure, we're seeing these kind of things pop up as warnings to not try to fly more than we should. >> reporter: the ntsb has made seven safety recommendations around preventing runway collisions dating back 23 years. so far none have been fully implemented. that includes an early warning system for air traffic controllers.

it's been installed at about only 40 u.s. airports. norah? >> that's interesting. kris van cleave, thank you so much. now to the biggest challenge to abortion rights since roe v. wade was overturned in june. a federal judge in amarillo, texas heard arguments today in a case that seeks to overturn the fda's approval of the widely used abortion pill mifepristone and remove it from the market. more than half of all abortions in the u.s. are medication abortions. cbs' kristina ruffini is at the courthouse. >> reporter: members of the public and press lined up before dawn outside the courthouse. hamper metcalf was one of a handful of pro-abortion rights demonstrators. >> millions of women have lost access to abortion care, especially here in texas. so the access to medication abortion is one of the last options that we have. >> reporter: federal judge matthew kaczmarek, a trump appointee, heard from an anti-abortion rights organization that argued the fda improperly approved mifepristone, posing risk to patients. the judge appeared sympathetic

in his questioning, asking the group's lawyers if there is precedent for a court to withdraw fda approval of a drug. the fda argued the drug is safe and effective, approved up to the tenth week of pregnancy, and has been on the market for more than 20 years. the drug is available by mail, even in states where abortion is illegal. >> in some ways this could be a bigger deal than the reversal of roe v. wade was because it could have ripple effects in every state, not just states that want to ban abortion. >> reporter: john sego says the goal is to protect americans from unsafe products. is there a concern that could expand far beyond this issue and have unforeseen ramifications? >> no. i think this is absolutely appropriate there has to be some kind of check on the fda and on a pro-abortion administration. >> reporter: the judge says he hopes to make a decision in this case as soon as possible. as for safety, norah, two major american medical groups filed briefs in support of the fda, saying the drug is safe and

effective. >> kristina ruffini at the courthouse, thank you. the "cbs overnight news" will be pright back.

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>> absolutely not. >> reporter: markham is now one of many users suing philips, saying the company had been told about foam degradation inside solve some of its ventilators but did not initiate a recall until 2021. two years later some patients on social media complain they still have not gotten a replacement machine from philips. >> i think this recall shows us how bad things can go when we don't get it right. >> reporter: dr. rathy studies medical device regulation. >> you basically bought a device. you find out that actually it could harm you, and then you struggle to find a replacement device. if i were a patient, i would be livid. >> reporter: philips says has jan it has replaced 95% of devices needed to be replaced. i has shipped replacements to 2.5 million. the company says its latest testing shows foam degradation is low and within applicable safety limits and ex-pposure is

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finally tonight, an inspiring lesson from one of the world's leading polar explorers, who was told at the age of 49 he had a terminal illness. here is cbs' david begnaud. >> reporter: eric larsen lives for adventure. >> i think with the windchill it was close to 60 below. >> reporter: he's touched the south pole and the north pole six times each. he's the only person to journey to both and mount everest, all in the same year. you keep going back. is it ever going to be enough? >> my old answer would have been a very robust no way, it was never enough. i'm not so sure now. >> reporter: because of the cancer? >> yeah. >> reporter: in 2021, larsen was diagnosed with colon cancer. they told him it was terminal.

>> trying to think about what those few years would be like with my family and my young kids. to say it was difficult is an extreme understatement. >> reporter: but the prognosis was wrong. he needed chemo, radiation, and had 14 inches of his colon removed. he never thought he would live to do this again, pack his bags and head back to the north pole. why put your body through that again? >> to see it again when i thought i would never do anything again. for me, it feels like the right thing to do. >> reporter: because when you've touched the top of the world and survived the predicted end of yours, risk is only opportunity to live wildly. david begnaud, cbs news, los angeles. and that's the "overnight news" for this thursday. for some of you, the news continues. and for others, check back later for "cbs mornings." remember, you can follow us

online any time 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. north korea tested an intercontinental ballistic missile on thursday. it's the north's third weapons test this week and fourth icbm launch in less than a year. it came hours before japan and south korea were set to meet for their first summit in 12 years. a troubling new cdc report reveals the maternal mortality rate rose by 39% from 2020 to 2021. it also found rates for black women were higher compared to white and hispanic women. and after 18 seasons in green bay, aaron rodgers says he intends to play for the new york jets in 2023.

the 39-year-old quarterback is waiting to be traded. for more, download the cbs news app on your cell phone or connected tv. i'm shanelle kaul, cbs news, new york. ♪ >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." the rising tensions tonight after that confrontation between a u.s. drone and russian fighter jets over the black sea. it led to a phone call between the secretary of defense and his counterpart in moscow. it's the first time they've spoken in nearly five months. the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff general mark milley said recovering what's left of the surveillance drone would be difficult. it's likely thousands of feet deep under water. but that isn't stopping russia from trying. cbs' ed o'keefe is traveling with the president and is going to start us off tonight from las vegas. good evening, ed.

>> good evening, norah. president biden was briefed again today on the downed drone, while here on the road the russians say relations between the two countries are at a low point, while white house officials warn all of this increases the risk of miscalculation. in the race to reach the debris of the downed drone, u.s. officials say the russians arrived at the scene first, about 60 miles southwest of the crimean peninsula. but getting to it will be a challenge. >> probably about 4,000 or 5,000 feet of water. something like that. so any recovery operation is going to be very difficult at this depth by anyone. >> reporter: officials say the russians will probably be able to collect some pieces of the unmanned mq-9 reaper like metal chunks, but the drone's software was wiped to ensure nothing valuable was collected. >> we're quite confident whatever was of value is no longer a value. >> reporter: the u.s. has no presence in the black sea, but chairman of the joint chiefs of staff mark milley says allies could help with recovery. former acting director of the cia michael morell says the russians might not glean much from a drone loaded mostly with cameras, but they would still want to recover it.

>> to simply see if there is anything they can learn from it about u.s. capabilities, about possibly defeating those capabilities, or something that they can bring into their own arsenal. >> reporter: the russians claim the americans' increased spying operation is what led to the incident. but defense secretary lloyd austin says it's because of russian aggression. >> it's part of a pattern of aggressive, risky and unsafe actions by russian pilots in international airspace. >> reporter: and in a rare phone call with his russian counterpart today, austin made clear -- >> the united states will continue to fly and to operate wherever international law allows. >> reporter: with both sides trying to ratchet down tensions, general milley stopped short of calling it an act of war. >> i'm not going to go there. >> reporter: now u.s. officials are still reviewing photo and video that was transmitted by the drone before it crashed to get a better sense of what happened, and say they eventually plan to release what they can. norah? >> ed o'keefe traveling with the president, thank you so much. on wall street, stocks took

another nosedive today over fears in the banking sector. the dow was down more than 700 points, or more than 2% before recovering some of the losses late in the day. the head of the senate banking committee says he plans to hold hearings on the problems in the banking industry. we get more now from cbs' errol barnett. >> reporter: it was another volatile day on wall street. stocks tumbled, dragged down by losses from the big four u.s. banks following more troubling financial news, this time involving one of europe's largest banks. credit suisse shares fell 24% today over funding concerns and the discovery of material weaknesses in its business. how concerned should americans be based on what they're seeing happening in europe right now? >> the issue with banking is that so much of it is relying on confidence. and we have to really look out for what are the other potential dominos that could tumble if

credit suisse comes under continued pressure. >> reporter: larger u.s. banks have been flooded with new deposits after the sudden collapse of svb. bank of america reportedly received more than $15 billion. jp morgan has seen billions flowing in as well. >> i immediately looked at a larger bank. >> reporter: anthony coombs, who founded a mail order underwear company in santa monica moved most of his money out of svb to a bank he says is too big to fail. >> the first thing i did, and i'd never done this before, and went online and saw the total amount of assets each bank held. because really, the end goal here is do we think this bank will go under. >> reporter: while in washington, lawmakers want svb's executives to be held accountable. >> well while they almost cratered our entire banking system, they paid themselves bonuses, even as their bank was collapsing. >> reporter: channeling that frustration, senator blumenthal and other democrats have

introduced legislation aimed at failing banks. if passed, it would claw back any bonuses and profits earned from stock sales within 60 days of a financial firm's collapse. norah? >> errol barnett, thank you so much. well, there is an update tonight on former president trump's legal troubles. former porn star stormy daniels met today with prosecutors investigating alleged hush money payments that she received on behalf of the former president. daniels' attorney says she's willing to testify in the case. trump's former attorney michael cohen testified before a grand jury today. he says trump directed him to pay daniels $130,000 in 2016 to cover up a sexual encounter with trump in 2006. trump says it never happened and that the payment was extorted. now to the biggest challenge to abortion rights since roe v. wade was overturned in june. a federal judge in amarillo, texas heard arguments today in a case that seeks to overturn the fda's approval of the widely used abortion pill mifepristone

and remove it from the market. more than half of all abortions in the u.s. are medication abortions. cbs' kristina ruffini is at the courthouse. >> reporter: members of the public and press lined up before dawn outside the courthouse. harper metcalf was one of a handful of pro-abortion rights demonstrators. >> millions of women have lost access to abortion care, especially here in texas. so the access to medication abortion is one of the last options that we have. >> reporter: federal judge matthew kaczmarek, a trump appointee, heard from an anti-abortion rights organization that argued the fda improperly approved mifepristone, posing risk to patients. the judge appeared sympathetic in his questioning, asking the group's lawyers if there is precedent for a court to withdraw fda approval of a drug. the fda argued the drug is safe and effective, approved up to the tenth week of pregnancy, and has been on the market for more than 20 years. the drug is available by mail, even in states where abortion is illegal. >> in some ways this could be a bigger deal than the reversal of

roe v. wade was because it could have ripple effects in every state, not just states that want to ban abortion. >> reporter: john sego, president of the texas right to life says the goal is to protect americans from unsafe products. is there a concern that could expand far beyond ths issue and have unforeseen ramifications? >> no. i think this is absolutely appropriate there has to be some kind of check on the fda and on a pro-abortion administration. >> reporter: the judge says he hopes to make a decision in this case as soon as possible. as for safety, norah, two major american medical groups filed briefs in support of the fda, saying the drug is safe and effective. >> kristina ruffini at the courthouse, thank you. the "cbs overnight news" will be right back.

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♪ >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." >> i'm catherine herridge in washington. thanks for staying with us. we have an update this morning on our joint investigation with kaiser health into a dental device that's been marketed as being able to cure tmj and sleep apnea. some patients told cbs news the unproven device left them with mangled mouths and lost teeth. we've also learned the fda, which regulates medical and dental devices has launched its own investigation. and we found there is another similar device on the market as well. our consumer investigative correspondent anna werner has more. >> reporter: a former agency

official tells us after seeing reports about the dental device called an anterior growth guide dance device, or aga, some fda officials told her they're very concerned. patient after patient told us they were left with pain and loose teeth from an unproven dental device, a device they were shocked to learn later had no government approval. >> i thought if an appliance was sold at a dentist's office, that it had to go through some sort of fda approval. >> having learned that it was just not is pretty shocking. >> this appliance needs to be pulled off the market. it shouldn't even be out there. >> reporter: the device, what's called the anterior growth guidance appliance, or aga, a retainer like appliance that could expand the upper jaw without surgery. >> it's predictable, it's stable an it's safe. >> reporter: the agga's inventor, tennessee inventor steve go gull leyla has claimed the agga could cure things like

tmj and sleep apnea. >> can you tmj? yes. >> reporter: he says the device has been used on more than 10,000 people. but a joint cbs news/khn investigation found at least 20 people have sued dr. galella over their treatment. all said he consulted on their treatment plans with their dentists. one of those people severe thunderstormer professional told us after her aga treatment, her front teeth flared out and were loose and painful, and doctors she consulted later had to remove her four front teeth. >> they're really gone, you know, and to see yourself without teeth is a bizarre experience. >> reporter: dental specialists we interviewed who have seen former agga patients told us the device pushes teeth out of the bone. >> i've not seen one patient that has had anything good come from this device, nothing. this is snake oil. this is -- this is crazy.

>> reporter: yet we foundiden t regulates dental devices, was even aware of the agga. it wasn't registered in fda's medical device database. now? >> i'm hearing the fda is very interested, very concerned about this device. >> reporter: former fda senior policy adviser cara tenenbaum says almost immediately after our reports aired, fda officials reached out to her. >> my understanding is that fda is looking into this device to see what kind of regulatory and the device and what actually the device does to people. >> reporter: manufacturers are supposed to register devices with the fda, but in court, the agga's manager says it has no record of communicating with the agency about the device before making or selling it. it claimed the agga falls into the least risky class of devices, similar to a dental retainer, and is exempt from a premarket review under an exemption for dental labs. analel

th fda's jurisdiction. >> dr. galella? >> reporter: he declined to answer questions last month. >> i want to ask you about your device. >> reporter: the fda is evaluating whether it wants to investigate the agga device. but the las vegas institute, a training company that previously taught dentists to use the agga now trains dentists to use the an tearia remodeling appliance, or ara, which its ceo has described in facebook posts as almost exactly the same appliance. and dental specialists we spoke to say they are similarly concerned than device too. former patient hopes the fda will look into not just the agga, but other devices as well. >> i think people deserve to know what it is they're buying into and what it is exactly it's going to do for them or not do for them so they can weigh the benefits and risks. >> reporter: dr. galella through

his attorney again declined to answer questions for this story. his attorney previously told us the device, now called thes owe restoration appliance, when properly used is safe and can achieve beneficial results for the patient. he said dr. galella had no complaints prior to the lawsuits. >> that's anna werner reporting. now to a scientific advance that actually works and could help save the plant. ben tracy reports on what they're calling safe glass. >> reporter: inside this factory near memphis, they're making an unlikely weapon in the fight against climate change, a smarter window. so if you call these smart windows, i assume you think most windows these days are pretty dumb? >> like everything in life. we look back after you experienced the modern thing and you go well, that was pretty dumb. >> reporter: ceo of base view. its windows are like sunglasses for buildings. >> let me show you. get ready. it will be that. >> a little bright.

>> it's extremely deceiving. >> reporter: they track the sun throughout the day, automatically tinting to regulate light and heat, allowing buildings to use less electricity for heating and cooling. >> buildings consumer about 40% of all energy. they consume about 70% of all electricity. and if you want to solve for carbon and climate change, you have to solve for buildings. >> reporter: operating buildings accounts for about 27% of annual carbon emissions. the department of energy says smart glass can help reduce a building's needs by about 20%. the recent reduction act includes tax credits to boost the technology which currently costs about 50% more than regular windows. it looks and feels just like any other window until you plug it in. >> reporter: smart windows have a microscopic coating and can be controlled by an app. they're now installed in hotels, hospital, office buildings, apartments, and a dozen u.s. airports, including this new terminal in san francisco.

>> you don't feel the heat beating on you, especially when you want to provide an environment that has a lot of natural light. >> reporter: at dallas-fort worth international airport, tess found that smartview windows kept nearby seats 20% cooler than conventional glass. in the future, do you see this on every building and in every sonoma. >> yeah, every window should be smart. once you experience it, you can't think of life another way. >> reporter: a smarter future, even if it's not quite as bright. ben tracy, san jose, california. i get bladder leaks. it's just a new way of life for me. the always discreet pad is super comfortable. it feels like it's barely there. look at how much it holds, and it still stays thin! i've looked at myself in the mirror

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new chapter. wellness, well done. there is a professor in texas who is making science fun for hundreds of students, and especially young women. it turns out women only a quarter of the bachelor degrees in physics each year. and for women's history month, jamie wax traveled to texas a&m university to meet someone who is working to change that by sharing the joy of science. >> ready, go! >> reporter: the way dr. tatiana s magic. >> this is awesome!

>> reporter: and with a little training -- >> all right, next! >> reporter: anyone can become a real world magician. >> feel the potato drop? let's check. >> reporter: videos of her experiments have ignited people's curiosity online, racking up tens of millions of views over the past few years. >> you cannot explain much in this short clips, but you can get people interested. >> reporter: to start. you start a fire. >> yes. you can inspire, the spark. i will tell you, we filmed our demonstrations, and i never, ever put myself there. i speak funny. what's the point? >> reporter: people love the way you speak? >> what's the point? no. i never wanted to be in this video. students were thinking how to explain it. students started this video showing this demonstration. >> she always wants eveg m herrmer twof wm i theorldf

today. they all share a special connection to the woman they affectionately call dr. tatiana. >> you walk into dr. tatiana's classroom, and you can tell she wants you to be there. and not only, that she wants to be there. she cares and she wants you to learn. and that makes you want to learn. >> she never makes you feel like you to listen, i know everything. she wants to hear everything that you have to say. so that way you can create something together. >> reporter: dr. tatiana's own story starts thousands of miles away about six hours northeast of moscow before the breakup of the soviet union. she was raised by two phys physicists, and she married, you guessed it, a physicist. in 1999, she and her husband alexei moved to college station, texas, where they both teach today. was it just complete culture shock, or did you know you were home? >> of course i didn't feel home, but you make it home. >> pressure from inside, pressure! >> reporter: over the past 20

years, that home has sounded a lot like this. [ cheering ] when she isn't teaching, dr. tatiana is doing outreach. blowing the minds of future scientists. >> unexpected and it's very excited. >> reporter: you were part of this study with 10,000 students, physicists and people in sciences. and the result was that men are no better acclimated towards this than women. >> over ten years, there were no consistent difference between a male and female performance on this exam scores. i felt that this is a very important message for my students. >> she is one of my role models. >> reporter: students like afia who came to a&m after seeing dr.

tatiana's videos. >> watching dr. tatiana do the experiments online, especially since she was a female leader was more inspiring for me to even go into physics. >> my very first semester, i wasn't at class that morning, and she looked at the people that were sitting next to me. where is cali? you need to call her right now and make sure that she is okay. i just overslept past my alarm. i was wow, she knows when -- she notices when you're not there. >> reporter: what you want her to know about what she has done for you? >> everything that she did to push me through all my undergrad, i sort of learned how to do that for myself. so i can be my own advocate now because of her. >> reporter: what would you like to do that you haven't done? >> to start new programs. >> reporter: to just is not stop? >> not stop, no. not stop. >> the next item on dr. tatiana's agenda is the university's physics and engineering festival next month. it attracts thousands to campus

next year, and all are welcome. as she puts it, you don't need to be a musician to go to a music festival. so why w bill loveless: i came to the lord at the age of about 42. dr. charles stanley has been so important in my life, just his teachings. one of the life principles is that brokenness is a requirement for god to use you greatly, is when you can become that conduit of what god wants to do through you to get to other people.

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if you're not into skiing or snowmobiles, there is a new winter sport that's all the rage in one minnesota town. john lordson report. >> i don't go anywheres in the wintertime. i stick around here. >> reporter: he is talking about long prairie, population 730. and like many other places in minnesota, finding things to do here in the winter can be a bit of a challenge. but lucky for this team, they have lest levine. >> tell us about the ball. that's the prettiest ball in the league right now. >> yeah. it weighs maybe 2 1/2, maybe 5 pounds. i don't know. >> reporter: about ten years ago, les came upon ice bowling. he when he sold it to anna petron, she kept the tradition

rolling. so every winter just above the walleyes and northerns, they plow 60-foot bowling lines on the lake and build up the sides with snowbanks. otherwise, your ball might just keep rolling until spring time. >> there is no such thing as a gutter ball. >> there is not a gutter ball, n. >> reporter: and no such thing as a 7-10 split either. >> hey, all right! well done. >> reporter: instead of pin, les and his crew drill three-inch holes under the ice. if you land in one of the holes, you get points. players use regular bowling balls, which is a much better option than what they used to use. >> the first year we used turkey, frozen turkey. but they don't slide very good on the ice. >> reporter: show me how it's done here, brian, show me how it's done. as you might have guessed, winning isn't nearly as important as just being out here. >> come back. just like i planned it. >> reporter: john lordson, cbs news, long prairie, minnesota. >> and that's the "overnight news" for this thursday.

ca i'm crineridghe nation's this is cbs news flash. i'm shanelle kaul in new york. north korea tested an intercontinental ballistic missile on thursday. it's the north's third weapons test this week and fourth icbm launch in less than a year. it came hours before japan and south korea were set to meet for their first summit in 12 years. a tr> a troubling new cdc r reveals the maternal mortality rate rose by 39% from 2020 to 2021. it also found rates for black women were higher compared to > d after 18 seasonsn baaron roe intends to play for the new york jets in 2023. the 39-year-old quarterback is waiting to be traded.

for more, download the cbs news app on your cell phone or i'm shanelle kaul, cbs news, new york. ♪ tonight, the race to recover a u.s. reaper drone as russia reaches the wreckage of the downed aircraft. top u.s. military officials say they wiped the drone of any valuable intelligence. here are tonight's top headlines. the new details about what happened in the skies over the black sea. america's top general has a clear message. >> we know that the intercept was intentional. we know that the aggressive behavior was intentional. stocks tumbled today as fears grow over the stability of the banking industry. >> it's following markets in europe which fell sharply today as shares of credit suisse tumbled to a record low. the faa's emergency meeting about airline safety after a string of close calls.

>> the absence of a fatality or an accident doesn't mean the presence of safety. the future of abortion pills in america could be hanging in the balance. this case could have profound implications throughout the entire united states. my god! >> the cleanup from feet of snow across new york and new england to the mud slides and heavy rain in california that destroyed homes. >> you get the knock at the door, and you get told it's safety and get in your car and go. and the dramatic rescue. a toddler saved from a sinking car. >> it was the best cry i've ever heard in my life. ♪ >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." >> tonight, an important consumer alert about the recall of millions of sleep apnea machines and the potential

health risks to users. plus, the inspiring story of one of the world's best polar explorers, whose toughest journey was a battle with cancer. but first, the rising tensions tonight after that confrontation between a u.s. surveillance drone and russian fighter jets over the black sea. the incident led to a rare phone call between the secretary of defense and his counterpart in moscow. it's the first time they've spoken in nearly five months. the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff general mark milley said recovering what's left of the surveillance drone would be difficult. it's likely thousands of feet deep under water, but that isn't stopping russia from trying. cbs' ed o'keefe is traveling with the president and is going to start us off tonight from las vegas. good evening, ed. >> good evening, norah. president biden was briefed again today on the downed drone, while here on the road the russians say relations between the two countries are at a low point, while white house officials warn all of this increases the risk of miscalculation. in the race to reach the debris

of the downed drone, u.s. officials say the russians arrived at the scene first, about 60 miles southwest of the crimean peninsula. but getting to it will be a challenge. >> probably about 4,000 or 5,000 feet of water. something like that. so any recovery operation is going to be very difficult at this depth by anyone. >> reporter: officials say the russians will probably be able to collect some pieces of the unmanned mq-9 reaper like metal chunks, but the drone's software was wiped to ensure nothing valuable was collected. >> we're quite confident whatever was of value is no longer a value. >> reporter: the u.s. has no presence in the black sea, but chairman of the joint chiefs of staff general mark milley says allies could help with recovery. former acting director of the cia michael morell says the russians might not glean much from a drone loaded mostly with cameras, but they would still want to recover it. >> to simply see if there is anything they can learn from it about u.s. capabilities, about possibly defeating those capabilities, or something that they can bring into their own arsenal. >> reporter: the russians claim

the americans' increased spying operation is what led to the incident. but defense secretary lloyd austin says it's because of russian aggression. >> it's part of a pattern of aggressive, risky and unsafe actions by russian pilots in international airspace. >> reporter: and in a rare phone call with his russian counterpart today, austin made clear -- >> the united states will continue to fly and to operate wherever international law allows. >> reporter: with both sides trying to ratchet down tensions, general milley stopped short of calling it an act of war. >> i'm not going to go there. >> reporter: now u.s. officials are still reviewing photo and video that was transmitted by the drone before it crashed to a beer senf what ened, and say they eventuallyn can nora >> ed o'keefe traveling with the president, thank you so much. on wall street, stocks took another nosedive over fears in the banking sector. the dow was down more than 700 points, or more than 2% before recovering some of the losses late in the day. the head of the senate banking committee says he plans to hold hearings on the problems in the

banking industry. we get more now from cbs' errol barnett. >> reporter: it was another volatile day on wall street. stocks tumbled, dragged down by losses from the big four u.s. banks following more troubling financial news, this time involving one of europe's largest banks. credit suisse shares fell 24% today over funding concerns and the discovery of material weaknesses in its business. how concerned should americans be based on what they're seeing happening in europe right now? >> the issue with banking is that so much of it is relying on confidence. and we have to really look out for what are the other potential dominos that could tumble if credit suisse comes under continued pressure. >> reporter: larger u.s. banks have been flooded with new deposits after the sudden collapse of svb. bank of america reportedly received more than $15 billion. jp morgan has seen billions

flowing in as well. >> i immediately looked at a larger bank. >> reporter: anthony coombs, who founded a mail order underwear company in santa monica moved most of his money out of svb to a bank he says is too big to fail. >> the first thing i did, and i'd never done this before, and went online and saw the total amount of assets each bank held. because really, the end goal here is do we think this bank will go under. >> reporter: while in washington, lawmakers want svb's executives to be held accountable. >> while they almost cratered our entire banking system, they paid themselves bonuses, even as their bank was collapsing. >> reporter: channeling that frustration, senator blumenthal and other democrats have introduced legislation aimed at failing banks. if passed, it would claw back any bonuses and profits earned from stock sales within 60 days of a financial firm's collapse. norah? >> errol barnett, thank you so

much. well, there is an update tonight on former president trump's legal troubles. former porn star stormy daniels met today with prosecutors investigating alleged hush money payments that she received on behalf of the former president. daniels' attorney says she's willing to testify in the case. trump's former attorney michael cohen testified before a grand jury today. he says trump directed him to pay daniels $130,000 in 2016 to cover up a sexual encounter with trump in 2006. trump says it never happened and that the payment was extorted. there is a lot more news ahead on the "cbs overnight news."

♪ >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." >> residents across new york and new england are digging out after the first nor'easter of the wintum of n some areas. out west, the latest atmospheric river has moved out of california, but millions of residents are still assessing the damage, while more than 100,000 are without power. cbs' carter evans is in monterey county, where thousands are still evacuated due to a levee breach. >> reporter: storm battered california has endured yet another pounding. today governor gavin newsom toured hard-hit monterey county. >> one of my responsibilities to be here for people that are

underserved and underrepresented, and we'll be back many times to get the work done. >> reporter: statewide after this massive storm, oversaturated hillsides gave way, sending a wall of mud into this northern california home. south of los angeles, mud shut down the pacific coast highway. the rain and wind toppling trees everywhere. >> there it goes. there it goes, oh my god. oh! >> reporter: an all too common sight throughout the bay area. the high winds and then high water flooded the first floor of maria cid medina's home. >> you just can't get a contractor out here right now with the rain. >> reporter: and more rain is in the forecast. all these rivers are currently above flood stage. in the san bernardino mountains, two much snow in recent weeks turned overnight into too much rain. the warm atmospheric river rapidly melting the snow, the latest threat in a state that had been in extreme drought.

just two years ago, san francisco had barely 7 inches of rain. this year, more than 27 inches, nearly a foot above normal. back in pajaro, anais rodrigo rodriguez has spent five days in a shelter with hundreds of people. what's it like not knowing when you're going to be able to go home? >> you get mad, frustrated. >> reporter: now this may look like a lake behind me, but it's actually a strawberry farm, and floodwaters can contaminate fields. so that's a big problem, and that's going to put farm workers out of business. the governor announced today they're all eligible for $600 relief checks. norah? >> looks like water forever in those strawberry fields. carter evans, thank you. back here in washington, the faa held a long-awaited safety summit today following a series of near collisions at airports across the country. transportation secretary pete buttigieg said there have been more mistakes than usual, but added u.s. aviation remains exceptionally safe. cbs' kris van cleave is at

reagan national airport with more. >> reporter: tonight, looking for answers after months of scares in the air. from a disruptive passenger attacking a flight attendant with a spoon to more than two dozen injured in severe turbulence. >> 943, cancel takeoff plans! >> reporter: and a series of at least seven close calls on runways in the last three months alone. the faa held its first emergency safety summit in 14 years. >> i think i speak for all of us when i say that and certainly the traveling public, that these events are concerning. >> reporter: the most recent close call at washington reagan last week where a regional jet taxied across a runway another plane was about to take off on. >> aborting takeoff, aborting takeoff, 2003. >> this recent incident must serve as a wake-up call for every single one of us before something more catastrophic occurs. >> reporter: national transportation safety board chair jennifer homendy.

>> we're coming out of the pandemic. we are experiencing a time where we have a lot of new staffing, and that requires training. for these incidents -- >> reporter: is the system stretche to its limits? >> it could be. certainly it's a concern. >> reporter: other concerns include increasing faa funding and the need for more air traffic controllers. miracle on the hudson pilot captain sully sullenberger. >> certainly during covid, the aviation industry was really affected greatly. so now we're short-staffed. we're playing catch-up. when the system is under pressure, we're seeing these kind of things pop up as warnings to not try to fly more than we should. >> reporter: the ntsb has made seven safety recommendations around preventing runway collisions dating back 23 years. so far none have been fully implemented. that includes an early warning system for air traffic controllers. it's been installed at about

only 40 u.s. airports. norah? >> that's interesting. kris van cleave, thank you so much. now to the biggest challenge to abortion rights since roe v. wade was overturned in june. a federal judge in amarillo, texas heard arguments today in a case that seeks to overturn the fda's approval of the widely used abortion pill mifepristone and remove it from the market. more than half of all abortions in the u.s. are medication abortions. cbs' kristina ruffini is at the courthouse. >> reporter: members of the public and press lined up before dawn outside the courthouse. harper metcalf was one of a handful of pro-abortion rights demonstrators. >> millions of women have lost access to abortion care, especially here in texas. so the access to medication abortion is one of the last options that we have. >> reporter: federal judge matthew kaczmarek, a trump appointee, heard from an anti-abortion rights organization that argued the fda improperly approved mifepristone, posing risk to patients. the judge appeared sympathetic in his questioning, asking the group's lawyers if there is

precedent for a court to withdraw fda approval of a drug. the fda argued the drug is safe and effective, approved up to the tenth week of pregnancy, and has been on the market for more than 20 years. the drug is available by mail, even in states where abortion is illegal. >> in some ways this could be a bigger deal than the reversal of roe v. wade was because it could have ripple effects in every state, not just states that want to ban abortion. >> reporter: john seago, president of the texas right to life says the goal is to protect americans from unsafe products. is there a concern that could expand far beyond this issue and have unforeseen ramifications? >> no. i think this is absolutely appropriate there has to be some kind of check on the fda and on a pro-abortion administration. >> reporter: the judge says he hopes to make a decision in this case as soon as possible. as for safety, norah, two major american medical groups filed briefs in support of the fda, saying the drug is safe and effective. >> kristina ruffini at the courthouse, thank you.

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finally tonight, an inspiring lesson from one of the world's leading polar explorers, who was told at the age of 49 he had a terminal illness. here is cbs' david begnaud. >> reporter: eric larsen lives for adventure. >> i think with the windchill it ws close to 60 below. >> reporter: he's touched the south pole and the north pole six times each. he's the only person to journey to both and mount everest, all in the same year. you keep going back. is it ever going to be enough? >> my old answer would have been a very robust no way, it was never enough. i'm not so sure now. >> reporter: because of the cancer? >> yeah. >> reporter: in 2021, larsen was diagnosed with colon cancer. they told him it was terminal. >> trying to think about what

those few years would be like with my family and my young kids. to say it was difficult is an extreme understatement. >> reporter: but the prognosis was wrong. he needed chemo, radiation, and had 14 inches of his colon removed. he never thought he would live to do this again, pack his bags and head back to the north pole. why put your body through that again? >> to see it again when i thought i would never do anything again. for me, it feels like the right thing to do. >> reporter: because when you've touched the top of the world and survived the predicted end of yours, risk is only opportunity to live wildly. david begnaud, cbs news, los angeles. and that's the "overnight news" for this thursday. for some of you, the news continues. and for others, check back later for "cbs mornings." remember, you can follow us online any time 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. north korea tested an intercontinental ballistic missile on thursday. it's the north's third weapons test this week and fourth icbm launch in less than a year. it came hours before japan and south korea were set to meet for their first summit in 12 years. a troubling new cdc report reveals the maternal mortality rate rose by 39% from 2020 to 2021. it also found rates for black women were higher compared to white and hispanic women. and after 18 seasons in green bay, aaron rodgers says he intends to play for the new york jets in 2023. the 39-year-old quarterback is waiting to be traded.

for more, download the cbs news app on your cell phone or connected tv. i'm shanelle kaul, cbs news, new it's thursday, march 16th, 2023. this is the "cbs morning news." financial lifeline. days after two u.s. banks collapsed one of europe's biggest lenders gets help as investor fears drag down world markets. risky rescue. a man hangs on for dear life, trapped in a california river. how the recent storms made the lifesaving airlift especially dangerous. targeting tiktok. the white house takes a harder stance on a possible nationwide ban of the popular app. good morning, and good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. we begin with renewed concerns about the strength of the nations's banking industry. today treasury secretary janet