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freedom caucus who wanted deeper spending cuts and are vowing to vote no. >> do you have a sense that it's the entire freedom caucus, more than 20 members who are going to be opposed to this? >> i think you're going to see there are people across the political spectrum that are opposed to this. >> reporter: with only one week until the deadline for default, a key u.s. house committee meets to vote on this compromise tomorrow afternoon with a full vote possible in the u.s. house as early as wednesday. jericka. >> scott macfarlane on capitol hill tonight, thank you. the historic impeachment of texas attorney general ken paxton is expected to head to trial in the coming weeks. the scandal-plagued republican has been temporarily suspended from office as he faces 20 articles of impeachment, including allegations of bribery and obstruction of justice. paxton is just the third sitting texas official to be impeached in the state's nearly 200-year history. he denies any wrongdoing. well, overseas, russia today
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ched a r dayme missile attack o kyiv.uk authorities cln cbs's debora patta reports from ukraine on how western technology is making a big difference in the war. >> reporter: explosions across kyiv today sent children screaming in terror as a barrage of russian missiles were all shot down. for two nights in a row, the menacing sound of air raid sirens followed by swarms of exploding drones, many heading straight for the capital. nearly all were taken out. it's not just state-of-the-art, high-tech defense systems being deployed. ukrainians are quite happy to use good old-fashioned technology like this. at an undisclosed military site, we saw troops testing powerful searchlights that help target and destroy the iranian-made drones. but it is the arrival of the american-built patriot system
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this spring that's enabled ukraine to intercept more powerful aerial threats. just as well, kyiv's chief forensic investigator told us, as the attacks have become far more frequent. "either they're trying to deplete our air defense system kwx, he said" or demoralize civilians." this graveyard of destroyed russian munitions evidence for the massive war crimes dossier he's compiling. among them, the hypersonic russian missile, a weapon the kremlin boasted was unstoppable. but thanks to the u.s. patriot system, he said, they've shown that's not true. an airfield and several planes were hit in the recent strikes. ukraine is working to restore that damaged runway ahead of its looming counteroffensive. jericka. >> debora patta in ukraine, thank you. well, all this week, cbs news is honoring our heroes.
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on this memorial day, president biden laid a wreath at the tomb of the unknown soldier in honor of the nation"e on america," cbs's mark strassmann takes a look at the incredible work being done to bring those missing service members home and give their families some closure. >> reporter: decades delayed, an american homecoming. u.s. soldiers, their remains missing since world war ii. their names lost to history. until now. >> immense pride that our country is going to go to such great lengths. >> reporter: carrie brown is a forensic anthropologist. at this military lab near omaha and another on oahu. this painstaking process relies on dna, dental records, sinus records, and chest x-rays. they give names to the unknowns. a pictureemisng frodwar. weave you be dsn't mat if it'y
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that promise to you. >> reporter: an american promise kept. since 2015, they've identified nearly 1,200 soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines, including u.s. army corporal luther story. >> what does that mean to you? >> it means that i get to welcome him back. >> reporter: judy wade never met her uncle luther, a true war hero. during one battle in korea, his army citation says he killed or wounded 100 enemy soldiers. the 18-year-old died protecting his unit, the bravest soldier they ever met was awarded the medal of honor. general omar bradley presented it to story's father. but the family always felt more pain than pride until a phone call last month. he had been identified. >> you must have been blown away. >> i was.
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it was like every brain cell i had went -- like that and exploded in my head. >> did your heart skip a beat? >> my whole body did. >> reporter: painstaking detective work in this lab brought luther story's family resolution, recognition from two presidents, the u.s. and south korea, and relief. >> now that he's back, will the pride outweigh the pain? >> yes, sir, it does for me. it really does. even though he died 73 years ago, it's not as bad when you know where he is. and it's -- he's not lost anymore. he's not missing anymore. he's coming home. >> reporter: nameless often for decades but never forgotten. for "eye on america," i'm mark strassmann. >> finally home. well, giant waves and flooded hallways. a sea cruise that gave passengers the fright of their lives. that's next.
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officials say they have not seen any pattern in those recent deaths. well, a group of young musicians honor memorial day with a t (male) there are many voices in today's world. everyone is voicing their opinions about everything, and jesus is no exception to that. what if there was a clear voice telling you exactly who jesus is? (male announcer) join dr. david jeremiah as he teaches who jesus is and what that means for your life. tune in to dr. jeremiah's new series, "christ above all", on the next "turning point", right here on this station. when you humble yourself under the mighty hand of god, in due time he will
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meet us in the middle of the mother road. we're in the middle of dinosaurs! welcome to the middle of everything. finally tonight on this memorial day, cbs's jan crawford highlights a group of young people honoring the fallen through song. ♪ >> reporter: the musicians greeting these veterans at dulles international airport sound like professionals. ♪ but they're just kids as young as 6 years old, carrying on a tradition that goes back to the american revolution. they're from the fief and drum corps at linton hall school, an independent catholic school just outside d.c. ♪ 10-year-old luke mcgee hee is the fife captain. >> how did you decide you wanted to play the fife in the fife and
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drum corps? >> i saw people playing, and i thought it looked really fun. >> reporter: founded in 2000, the corps performs patriotic music all over town. ♪ like at george washington's home, mount vernon, and the national portrait gallery. 13-year-old xavier williams is drum captain. >> normally when we hear and see fife and drum, it's grown-ups. what do they say to you when they think you're 10, you're 13? >> they're not going to do well at all. >> people are doubting you at first? >> yeah. >> once we start playing, they're, like, amazed. ♪ >> reporter: amazed that a group of kids so young can be so powerful. jan crawford, cbs news, bristow, virginia. and that's the overnight news for this tuesday. for some of you, the news continues. for others, check back later for "cbs mornings." and of course follow us online
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anytime at cbsnew.com. reporting from our nation's capital, i'm jericka duncan. this is "cbs news flash." i'm shanelle kaul in new york. nine people, including four children, were shot monday night in hollywood, florida. one victim is in surgery, and the rest are in stable condition. police say the shooting stemmed from an altercation between two groups. the michigan civil service commission is considering ending marijuana testing for newly hired state employees. the commission says 350 people have had job offers rescinded after positive tests since 2018 when recreational marijuana use was legalized in the state. and the nba finals are set after the miami heat beat the boston celtics in game seven of the eastern conference finals. miami will take on the denver
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nuggets beginning thursday night. 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." i'm jericka duncan in for norah. we begin tonight with the partial collapse of a six-story, 84-unit apartment building in davenport, iowa. tonight first responders are being hailed as heroes after rushing into the unstable building to rescue eight people. k-9 units spent last night going through the building in search of additional victims. incredibly, no deaths or serious injuries have been reported, and authorities believe everyone in the building has been accounted for. now, the frightening scene unfolded on sunday evening in the downtown area of iowa's
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third largest city. right now officials are working to determine the cause of the collapse and have ordered the demolition of the apartment. current and former residents say they had long complained about poor maintenance conditions in the building and that issues were rarely fixed. reporter neta sham from our cbs afit yat kgan will start us off tonight from the scene. good evening, netta. >> reporter: good evening. officials say they do not have credible information that anyone is still missing, but family members and a co-worker we spoke to say that they have belief that there are still people that are trapped inside that have not been accounted for. >> the frickin' building just collapsed. >> reporter: when first responders arrived at the scene just before 5:00 p.m. yesterday, they found part of the building's back section had detached and collapsed. >> we've got a building collapse, considerable damage. >> reporter: they rushed in, the mayor says, at great risk to their own lives. >> because of that, they saved
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lives. they saved lives. >> reporter: davenport's fire chief says his crews rescued at least eight people, including one overnight. >> we were able to locate one victim, and we were able to extract him from the building. >> reporter: caleb twite captured the scene. >> a cloud of smoke and dust filling the streets. there was a few people running away. it was an unbelievable sight to see just half of a building gone, just crumbled to the ground in front of you. >> reporter: now, the walls are stripped away, revealing remnants of residents' lives. authorities say they don't know yet what caused the collapse, but it set off natural gas and water leaks. officials say they received several complaints over the past few years about needed repairs and work was being done on the exterior with some reports of bricks falling. >> we'll be working with getting information from the engineer group that the building owner hired to direct the repairs. >> reporter: fred vorhees served in the u.s. army for 21 years.
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he says every piece of memorabilia he has is gone. >> i heard a great big noise, and i opened up the door to my apartment, and it was like daylight, daylight. it was like -- it was supposed to be a hallway. >> reporter: now, the cause of the collapse is still under investigation, and demolition for the building is expected to happen tuesday morning. jericka. >> neta shama for us tonight, thank you. as we wrap up one of the busiest memorial day travel weekends on record, millions of you are now facing heavy traffic on the roads and long lines at the airports nationwide. cbs's kris van cleave has more. >> reporter: tonight the great return is full speed ahead. after screening over 12.2 million since wednesday, the tsa expects to see another 2.6 million flyers today tracking ahead of pre-pandemic levels. in seattle, that meant lines over an hour long on friday.
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>> it's the worst time getting to disney world. >> reporter: but overall, this memorial day has been relatively smooth flying. welcome news for u.s. airlines after a brutal summer travel season in 2022. >> demand is back, bigger, better than ever. it's going to be an incredibly busy summer. >> reporter: american airlines senior vice president brady burns. >> is there a pressure that things go better this year than last year? >> yes. so we took a lot of, you know, effort and investment and making sure that we've got the right people at the right place with the right tools, and we feel really, really good. >> reporter: on the ramp at phoenix sky harbor, every flight is a game of beat the clock, unloading full planes, all the bags, then prepping and fueling the aircraft before loading it with more bags bound for its next destination, usually in less than an hour. >> these peak travel seasons, is that -- does that pressure ramp up a little bit? >> yes, it does. i know in summertime, the heat is on, and we do the best we could to make sure that flights get out on time and everybody
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has their luggages for their vacations. >> reporter: passengers are hoping this is a sign of smooth travels all summer. >> hopefully it will be all like this, as easy as this. >> reporter: the tsa expects today will be the busiest of the week, but tuesday and wednesday will stay busy. tsa expects about another 4 million flyers yet to be screened before the sun totally sets on this memorial day weekend travel window. jericka. >> all right. kris van cleave with an optimistic outlook. thank you. the historic impeachment of texas attorney general ken paxton is expected to head to trial in the coming weeks. the scandal-plagued republican has been temporarily suspended from office as he faces 20 articles of impeachment, including allegations of bribery and obstruction of justice. paxton is just the third sitting texas official to be impeached in the state's nearly 200-year history. he denies any wrongdoing. well, overseas, russia today launched a rare daytime missile attack on kyiv. ukrainian authorities claim they
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shot all the missiles down. cbs's debora patta reports from ukraine on how western technology is making a bdifferc. >> reporter: explosions across kyiv today sent children screaming in terror as a barrage of russian missiles were all shot down. for two nights in a row, the menacing sound of air raid sirens followed by swarms of exploding drones, many heading straight for the capital. nearly all were taken out. it's not just state-of-the-art, high-tech defense systems being deployed. ukrainians are quite happy to use good old-fashioned technology like this. at an undisclosed military site, we saw troops testing powerful searchlights that help target and destroy the iranian-made drones. but it is the arrival of the american-built patriot system this spring that's enabled ukraine to intercept more
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powerful aerial threats. just as well, kyiv's chief forensic investigator told us, as this month, the attacks have become far more frequent. "either they're trying to deplete our air defense system," he said, "or demoralize ci civilians." this graveyard of destroyed russian munitions evidence for the massive war crimes dossier he's compiling. among them, the hypersonic russian kinzhal missile, a weapon the kremlin boasted was unstoppable. but thanks to the u.s. patriot system, he said, they've shown that's not true. an airfield and several planes were hit in the recent strikes. ukraine is working to restore that damaged runway ahead of its looming counteroffensive. jericka. >> debora patta in ukraine, thank you. there's a lot more news ahead on the "cbs overnight news."
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>> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." i'm nicole sganga in washington. thanks for staying with us. americans marked memorial day this week with heartfelt ceremonies to honor those who sacrificed everything for our country. those sacrifices are still a vivid memory for veterans captured during the vietnam war. 50 years ago this month, nearly 600 newly returned p.o.w.s were the special guests of president richard nixon at the white house. many of them gathered again last week at the nixon presidential
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library near los angeles. some say it could be their last reunion, and carter evans was there. >> reporter: each one of these men was a prisoner of war in vietnam. >> three, two, one! >> reporter: together again at a reunion half a century in the making. a parade of veterans hailed as heroes, a word that still makes them uncomfortable. >> p.o.w.s, we don't want people to honor us or call us heroes. we're not heroes. we just served our country, and we got back with our families. >> reporter: lieutenant commander mike mcgrath was a navy pilot when he was shot down over vietnam. he spent six years in captivity at the infamous hanoi hilton, enduring brutal interrogations. >> they tortured us. they broke every single one of us. >> i had a wife and three little girls back home. i certainly wanted to see them again. >> reporter: when navy pilot lieutenant jack inch was shot down, a captor amputate the his injured thumb with no anesthesia. >> no need for that. you have caused pain in our
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country. now it's time for you to suffer. >> the torture was just too painful, and so i gave in. and i felt very guilty about that. >> did you feel like you betrayed your country? >> i did. i did. >> reporter: devastated, lieutenant commander charlie plum eventually confessed to a higher ranking prisoner. the response? >> hell. everybody broke. there's not a man in this prison camp who was as strong as he wanted to be. >> reporter: they communicated at great risk through sign language and a complex morse code. >> that's us tapping in tap code through the walls. that was our line of resistance. >> that's what got us through. one guy would be down, and you'd pick him up. >> reporter: when the surviving 591 vietnam p.o.w.s were released in 1973, they came home to ticker tape parades, much to their surprise. >> it was somewhat confusing, you know, because we were the guys that didn't accomplish our mission. >> never has the white house
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been more proud than it is tonight because of the guests we have tonight. >> reporter: president nixon invited all of them to a party in washington, still the largest dinner ever held at the white house. ♪ recreated right down to the china and silverware this month at the nixon library in california. >> this is the book i gave president nixon personally. >> reporter: now a retired captain, mcgrat documented his time as a p.o.w. withdrawings that he turned into a book displayed with other memories. >> this is the actual uniform you wore. >> this is the actual uniform. >> reporter: after returning home, 90% of the p.o.w.s stayed in the military, and many found success is in civilian life. now mostly in their 80s, they worry about a country divided once again, repeating mistakes. >> didn't we learn anything from vietnam? >> reporter: their lesson -- >> we are certainly much stronger collectively than we are individually. >> so here we are 50 years
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later, we're still sticking together. >> you didn't give up. >> we didn't give up. >> reporter: i'm carter evans in yorba linda, california. congress is considering legislation that would rein in the emerging field of artificial intelligence. trouble is not many in congress have an understanding of the technology. well, one congressman from virginia is going to class to change that. scott macfarlane reports. wh >> reporter: don buyer carries his textbook on the quad and even sports a traditional college sweater. >> the education is more important, although i am striving for the degree. >> reporter: he's not the age of your typical student at george mason university in fairfax, virginia. >> i hope in three years perhaps to have a master's in machine learning, subset of computer science. then we'll see where it goes from there. >> reporter: considering what he does for a living, he's not a typical student at all. the 72-year-old goes by another title, congressman, who now spends free possibilities of time at the capitol cramming for
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calculus tests. >> we're just trying to make it happen as quickly as we can. >> reporter: jugally his day job with his pursuit of a zeg in machine learning. >> how do you balance that? how do you get college work done? >> i have to get up earlier and go to bed later. it tends to consume lots of saturday mornings and sunday evenings. >> reporter: beyer says he recognized congress is about to be called on to create the laws that govern the emerging and for some frightening artificial intelligence technology, in which machines and computer systems perform tasks normally requiring human intelligence. >> although i'm much more excited than concerned, but it's naive not to be concerned. >> reporter: and this economist and onetime member of the house science committee says he decided to get a degree so that he'd actually understand it. >> with the explosive chatgpt and gpt 4, this is very much a topical thing. >> reporter: washington has already been grappling with artificial intelligence, dealing with a sea of new proposed legislation. one piece would restrict the use of ai at nuclear facilities. another would restrict its use
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in campaign ads. >> how many numbers are there between 100 and 999 that have no repeated digits? >> reporter: meanwhile college courses in machine learning and advanced math are burgeoning at colleges nationwide. >> math 125 is required for the degree that i am taking, which is cybersecurity. >> reporter: as for the senior student at george mason university -- >> he's a very good student. he's very studious. he makes sure he gets his stuff done. >> reporter: he's pursuing his own version of advanced intelligence. scott macfarlane, fairfax, virginia. the "cbs overnight news" will be right back. dove 0% with coconut and jasmine is aluminum free and kind to skin. it dries instantly, with no visible residue. with 48 hour odor protection, nobody's coconuts work harder. (peaceful music)
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rebound of fishery since protections were enacted in the 1990s. >> we're seeing an ocean teeming with life like we haven't seen since the 40s or 50s. >> reporter: and he says the increase in the number of atlantic great white sharks is proof. >> move your leg! >> reporter: cbs news was there wen they tagged their very first one in 2012. >> male or female? female? >> reporter: they've now captured, tested, and released more than 90 great white sharks and tracked their migration patterns for years. >> we know almost everything except for proving where they mate. >> so this location is that key area? >> yes. we believe that mating is likely going on somewhere in this region about now, and that's why we're here. >> reporter: with the bait in the water, the sharks emerge. >> right over here. >> reporter: they appear to be curious but also cautious. >> at this point, we are literally surrounded by sharks. they are circling the boat. that's the big one.
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that's what scientists want to catch. finally one takes the bait. >> 15 foot-ish. best guess is female. >> 15 foot, that's exactly what we're looking for. >> slow down! >> reporter: like a dog on a leash, the team leads the shark onto a submered platform, and the research team springs into action. they're working like a nascar pit crew out here, fast, trying to get these satellite tags installed because they've only got 15 minutes they can keep this animal out of the water. they take blood samples and even perform an ultrasound all while the shark is awake and unsedated. >> i just want to get right in here and get a look. oh, my gosh. i mean i've never been this close to such a massive animal before. >> seawater is pumped through her gils to keep her breathing. >> can i touch one of her teeth? oh, my god. >> reporter: within minutes, samples are collected for 24 different scientific studies, including one testing hormone
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levels to see if she's mating. >> 13'3". >> she's a 13-foot female great white shark. >> reporter: chief scientist dr. bob pewter says finding the sharks' breeding ground will lead to a better understanding of how we can protect them. >> we bring them back and then we set the ocean back into balance and reset the system so that we have the best health not only for the sharks but for ourselves. >> reporter: and now that there are more of these predators swimming among us -- >> we actually need to retrain ourselves on how to play and enjoy and recreate and embrace a more wild, abundant ocean. look at the ocean before you walk into it. you don't want to walk into a paint ball with. certainly if you saw a mountain lion putting a stalk on anallying, you wouldn't walk into the middle of the elk herd. we need to approach the water the same which we approach the land. >> common sense goes a long way. i'm carter evans off the outer banks of north carolina.
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europe's most prestigious garden show just wrapped up in london, and for the first time in its 110-year history, the chelsea flower show put weeds in the spotlight. ramy inocencio reports. >> reporter: award-winning gardens to inspire better well-being and a better planet. these are some of the three dozen best in show at the uk's most prestigious garden event. >> the chelsea flower show is a really kind of mad, very british, i think, eccentric mix. >> reporter: designer tom massey wants us to see the world through an insect's point of view. >> the world is an insect's arma armageddon. >> reporter: these pollinators need flowering plants, not just beautiful blooms, but weeds, he says, that should be welcomed. >> it's a term that it's essentially just saying a plant that's growing in the wrong place. but it really is a plant growing in the right place. >> reporter: and needed now, a new frame of mind, from weeds as enemies of perfection to heroes for biodiversity.
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>> it's amazing the kind of ecosystems that emerge and develop if you just leave things. >> reporter: king charles might agree. a champion of conservation, he attended the chelsea flower show for the first time as monarch. >> queen elizabeth opens the chelsea flower show. >> reporter: following a long traditio designer g.a. wong's stressed a return to nature and reliance on herbal healing. before modern medicine, the mountain was our pharmacy, she said, just like the native americans. and jill an ricard's silver mald winning garden of bamboo and meddis unanimous plants reminds us no action is too small. >> people think i've only got a small garden. it doesn't make any difference. but if you talk to your neighbor and your neighbor and your neighbor and you all start thinking about what you can do plant-wise to increase your -- you've created a green corridor. and these are the things that make a difference. >> reporter: and there is power in the people for positive
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history is being made in oakland, where sheng thao is the first hmong american to lead a major american city. nancy chen has her story of perseverance. >> reporter: one of the first things you notice about sheng thao is her enthusiasm. >> and the charter of the city of oakland! >> reporter: a swearing-in ceremony she could never have imagined. >> congratulations. [ applause ] >> what were you thinking about? >> hmong people flew in from all over the country to join me on inauguration day. it was a journey that i took with the whole hmong community. >> reporter: her family's journey began when her parents fled laos in 1975. >> my parents are refugees, and all i , and i was rr: thiduatio
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oter thao abusive relationship, lived in a car with her young son, and stood in line for free food. >> you always hear about starving students, but what do people actually do about it? >> reporter: what she did was run for city council. >> you can't do this work without feeling empathy, and you shouldn't do this work if you don't have that empathy. >> reporter: today as mayor, the 37-year-old is leading a large and troubled city. her mission, to make it better for the next generation. ♪ that includes her son, ben, now 16, he performed at her inauguration. >> what message do you hope that people take away from your story? >> mainly that hope is everything. i mean look at me. i'm standing up here. >> reporter: nancy chen, cbs news. and that's the overnight news for this tuesday. for some of you, the news continues. for others, check back later for "cbs mornings." and follow us online anytime at
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cbsnews.com. reporting from the nation's capital, i'm nicole sganga. this is "cbs news flash." i'm shanelle kaul in new york. nine people, including four children, were shot monday night in hollywood, florida. one victim is in surgery, and the rest are in stable condition. police say the shooting stemmed from an altercation between two groups. the michigan civil service commission is considering ending marijuana testing for newly hired state employees. the commission says 350 people have had job offers rescinded after positive tests since 2018 when recreational marijuana use was legalized in the state. and the nba finals are set after the miami heat beat the boston celtics in game seven of the eastern conference finals. miami will take on the denver nuggets beginning thursday
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night. for more, download the cbs news app on your cell phone or connected tv. i'm shanelle kaul, cbs news, new york. tonight, a terrifying apartment collapse in iowa. the building partially crumbles as first responders race to pull survivors from the rubble. here are tonight's headlines. >> the frickin' building just collapsed. >> eight people rescued from the wreckage, and amazingly no one was killed. officials still investigating the cause. >> the entire thing shook. >> there was a lot of screams. >> it just came down like a an explosion, like a bomb. airports packed to pre-pandemic levels with americans on the move for memorial day weekend. how airlines are gearing up for the summer travel season. >> the entire summer season is our super bowl. negotiators who worked out a
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deal to raise the debt limit plan to spend the rest of the hectic holiday weekend promoting >> the agreement prevents the worst possible crisis. >> this is going to be transformational. this is and always will be the greatest spectacle in racing. kirkwood upside down. josef newgarden finally wins the indianapolis 500. in this nebraska lab, america fulfills our nation's promise to never leave service members behind. >> it doesn't matter if it's been 80 years or yesterday. we make that promise to you. and on this memorial day, we meet a group of young musicians following in the footsteps of the past. >> people are doubting you at first? >> yeah. >> once we start playing, they're amazed. >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news."
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i'm jericka duncan in for norah. we begin tonight with the partial collapse of a six-story, 84-unit apartment building in davenport, iowa. tonight first responders are being hailed as heroes after rushing into the unstable building to rescue eight people. k-9 units spent last night going through the building in search of additional victims. incredibly, no deaths or serious injuries have been reported, and authorities believe everyone in the building has been accounted for. now, the frightening scene unfolded on sunday evening in the downtown area of iowa's third largest city. right now officials are working to determine the cause of the collapse and have ordered the demolition of the apartment. current and former residents say they had long complained about poor maintenance conditions in the building and that issues were rarely fixed. reporter nada shamah from our cbs affiliate kgan will start us off tonight from the scene. good evening, nada.
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>> reporter: good evening. officials say they do not have credible information that anyone is still missing, but family mmbers and a co-worker we spoke to say that they have belief that there are still people that are trapped inside that have no. >> t frickin' building just collapsed. >> reporter: when first responders arrived at the scene just before 5:00 p.m. yesterday, they found part of the building's back section had detached and collapsed. >> we've got a building collapse, considerable damage. >> reporter: they rushed in, the mayor says, at great risk to their own lives. >> because of that, they saved lives. they saved lives. >> reporter: davenport's fire chief says his crews rescued at least eight people, including one overnight. >> we were able to locate one victim, and we were able to extract him from the building. >> reporter: caleb twite captured the scene. >> a cloud of smoke and dust filling the streets. there was a few people running away.
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it was an unbelievable sight to see just half of a building gone, just crumbled to the ground in front of you. >> reporter: now, the walls are stripped away, revealing remnants of residents' lives. authorities say they don't know yet what caused the collapse, but it set off natural gas and water leaks. officials say they received several complaints over the past few years about needed repairs and work was being done on the exterior with some reports of bricks falling. >> we'll be working with getting information from the engineer group that the building owner hired to direct the repairs. >> reporter: fred vorhees served in the u.s. army for 21 years. he says every piece of memorabilia he has is gone. >> i heard a great big noise, and i opened up the door to my apartment, and it was like daylight, daylight. it was like -- it was supposed to be a hallway. >> reporter: now, the cause of the collapse is still under investigation, and demolition for the building is expected to
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happen tuesday morning. jericka. >> nada shamah for us tonight. thank you. as we wrap up one of the busiest memorial day travel weekends on record, millions of you are now facing heavy traffic on the roads and long lines at the airports nationwide. cbs's kris van cleave has more. >> reporter: tonight the great return is full speed ahead. after screening over 12.2 milli s the tsa expects to see another 2.6 million flyers today tracking ahead of pre-pandemic levels. in seattle, that meant lines over an hour long on friday. >> it is the worst time getting to disney world. >> reporter: but overall, this memorial day has been relatively smooth flying. welcome news for u.s. airlines after a brutal summer travel season in 2022. >> demand is back, bigger, better than ever. it's going to be an incredibly busy summer. >> reporter: american airlines senior vice president brady burns. >> is there a pressure that things go better this year than last year? >> yes.
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so we took a lot of, you know, effort and investment and making sure that we've got the right people at the right place with the right tools, and we feel really, really good. >> reporter: on the ramp at phoenix sky harbor, every flight is a game of beat the clock, unloading full planes, all the bags, then prepping and fueling the aircraft before loading it with more bags bound for its next destination, usually in less than an hour. that -- does that pressure ramp up a little bit? >> yes, it does. i know in summertime, the heat is on, and we do the best we could to make sure that flights get out on time and everybody has their luggages for their vacations. >> reporter: passengers are hoping this is a sign of smooth travels all summer. >> hopefully it will be all like this, as easy as this. >> reporter: the tsa expects today will be the busiest of the week, but tuesday and wednesday will stay busy. tsa expects about another 4 million flyers yet to be screened before the sun totally sets on this memorial day weekend travel window.
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jericka. >> all right. kris van cleave with an optimistic outlook. thank you. with the summer travel season under way, the weather is also heating up. more than 230 million americans will feel temperatures above 80 degrees by the end of this week. for details on that, let'sng in meteorologist alex wilson from our partners at the weather channel. alex, good evening. >> jericka, as we finish up our holiday, close the book on the month of may, the big story will be temperatures. they are on the rise. thursday, 225 million people with above 80-degree high temperatures. nearly 240 million people by friday. we're going to get ourselves into record territory as well. let's take a peek at the reason why. well, it's that big ridge in the jet stream. that's going to allow temperatures to warm up well above average as it surges up over the canadian border. highs 5, 10, even 15 degrees above average across the great lakes and into the northeast. look at friday high temperatures, well into the 80s and 90s, including potential records.
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jericka, a place like buffalo could be around 88 degrees by friday. >> i'm sure they're excited about that. thank you.
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>> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." well, back here in washington, the last-minute deal to raise our country's debt limit now faces its toughest battle yet, approval by a closely divided congress. president biden and house speaker kevin mccarthy are busy getting lawmakers on board before the federal government runs out of money. cbs's scott macfarlane reports on what's actually in the deal. >> and it feels good. we'll see when the vote starts. >> reporter: president biden today sounded optimistic about the two-year deal he brokered with speaker kevin mccarthy to
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lift the debt ceiling by an estimated $4 trillion, extending it until after the 2024 election. >> i feel very good about it. i've spoken with a number of the members. >> reporter: mr. biden and speaker mccarthy spent the weekend trying to secure enough support to guarantee passage by the june 5th deadline to avoid default. >> it doesn't get everything everybody wanted, but that's -- in divided government, that's where we end up. >> reporter: the deal prevents cuts to social security and medicare as well as military and veterans programs. it also claws back funding from the irs and takes back the unspent money from covid relief funds. it loosens some environmental rules and temporarily adds work requirements for some social safety net programs, including food stamps. the compromise has upset some progressive democrats and hard-line conservatives, putting a potential wednesday vote in question. democrat summer lee of pennsylvania. >> compromise means sacrifice for the most marginalized and the most vulnerable. we are not seeing our ultra rich, our corporations make any sacrifices at all. >> reporter: for republicans, it's members of the conservative
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freedom caucus who wanted deeper spending cuts and are vowing to vote no. >> do you have a sense that it's the entire freedom caucus, more than 20 members who are going to be opposed to this? >> i think you're going to see that there's people across the political spectrum that are opposed to this. >> reporter: with only one week until the deadline for default, a key u.s. house committee meets to vote on this compromise tomorrow afternoon with a full vote possible in the u.s. house as early as wednesday. jericka. >> scott macfarlane on capitol hill tonight, thank you. the historic impeachment of texas attorney general ken paxton is expected to head to trial in the coming weeks. the scandal-plagued republican has been temporarily suspended from office as he faces 20 articles of impeachment, including allegations of bribery and obstruction of justice. paxton is just the third sitting texas official to be impeached in the state's nearly 200-year history. he denies any wrongdoing. well, overseas, russia today launched a rare daytime missile
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attack on kyiv. ukrainian authorities claim they shot all the missiles down. cbs's debora patta reports from ukraine on how western technology is making a big difference in the war. >> reporter: explosions across kyiv today sent children screaming in terror as a barrage of russian missiles were all shot down. for two nights in a row, the menacing sound of air raid sirens followed by swarms of exploding drones, many heading straight for the capital. nearly all were taken out. it's not just state-of-the-art, high-tech defense systems being deployed. ukrainians are quite happy to use good old-fashioned technology like this. at an undisclosed military site, we saw troops testing powerful searchlights that help target and destroy the iranian-made drones. but it is the arrival of the american-built patriot system this spring that's enabled
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ukraine to intercept more powerful aerial threats. just as well, kyiv's chief forensic investigator told us, as this month, the attacks have become far more frequent. "either they're trying to deplete our air defense system," he said, "or demoralize civilians." this graveyard of destroyed russian munitions evidence for the massive war crimes dossier he's compiling. among them, the hypersonic russian kinzhal missile, a weapon the kremlin boasted was unstoppable. but thanks to the u.s. patriot system, he said, they've shown that's not true. an airfield and several planes were hit in the recent strikes. ukraine is working to restore that damaged runway ahead of its looming counteroffensive. jericka. >> debora patta in ukraine, thank you. well, all this week, cbs news is honoring our heroes. on this memorial day, president
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n laid wreath at the tomb of the unknown soldier in honor of the nation's fallen, including those who remain missing. in tonight's "eye on america," cbs's mark strassmann takes a look at the incredible work being done to bring those missing service members home and give their families some closure. >> reporter: decades delayed, an american homecoming. u.s. soldiers, their remains missing since world war ii. their names lost to history, until now. >> immense pride that our country is going to go to such great lengths. >> reporter: carrie brown is a forensic anthropologist at this military lab near omaha and another on oahu. this painstaking process relies on dna, dental records, sinus records, and chest x-rays. they give names to the unknowns. a picture emerges. the missing from world war ii through the cold war. >> we won't leave you behind. it doesn't matter if it's been
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80 years or yesterday. we make that promise to you. >> reporter: an american promise kept. since 2015, they've identified nearly 1,200 soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines, including u.s. army corporal luther story. >> what does that mean to you? >> it means that i get to welcome him back. >> reporter: judy wade never met her uncle luther, a true war hero. during one battle in korea, his army citation says he killed or wounded 100 enemy soldiers. the 18-year-old died protecting his unit. the bravest soldier they ever met was awarded the medal of honor. general omar bradley presented it to story's father. but the family always felt more pain than pride until a phone call last month. he had been identified. >> you must have been blown away. >> i was.
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it was like every brain cell i had went -- like that and exploded in my head. >> did your heart skip a beat? >> my whole body did. >> reporter: painstaking detective work in this lab brought luther story's family resolution, recognition from two presidents, the u.s. and south korea, and relief. >> now that he's back, will the pride outweigh the pain? >> yes, sir, it does for me. it really does. even though he died 73 years ago, it's not as bad when you know where he is. and it's -- he's not lost anymore. he's not missing anymore. he's coming home. >> reporter: nameless often for decades but never forgotten. for "eye on america," i'm mark strassmann. >> finally home. well, giant waves and flooded hallways. a sea cruise that gave passengers the fright of their lives. that's next.
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officials say they have not seen any pattern in those recent deaths. well, a group of young musicians honor memorial day with a tradition that dates back to the american revolution
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finally tonight on this memorial day, cbs's jan crawford highlights a group of young people honoring the fallen through song. ♪ >> reporter: the musicians greeting these veterans at dulles international airport sound like professionals. ♪ but they're just kids as young as 6 years old, carrying on a tradition that goes back to the american revolution. they're from the fife and drum corps at linton hall school, an independent catholic school just outside d.c. ♪ 10-year-old luke mcgehee is the fife captain. >> how did you decide you wanted to play the fife in the fife and drum corps? >> i saw people playin a fun
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>> reporter: founded in 2000, the corps performs patriotic music all over town. ♪tos home, mount vernon, and the national portrait gallery. 13-year-old xavier williams is drum captain. >> normally when we hear and see fife and drum, it's grown-ups. what do they say to you when they think you're 10, you're 13? >> "they're not going to do well at all." >> people are doubting you at first? >> yeah. >> once we start playing, they're, like, amazed. ♪ >> reporter: amazed that a group of kids so young can be so powerful. jan crawford, cbs news, bristow, virginia. and that's the overnight news for this tuesday. for some of you, the news continues. for others, check back later for "cbs mornings." and of course follow us online
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anytime at cbsnews.com. reporting from natio capital, i'm jerickaca this is "cbs news flash." i'm shanelle kaul in new york. nine people, including four children, were shot monday night in hollywood, florida. one victim is in surgery, and the rest are in stable condition. police say the shooting stemmed from an altercation between two groups. the michigan civil service commission is considering ending marijuana testing for newly hired state employees. the commission says 350 people have had job offers rescinded after positive tests since 2018 when recreational marijuana use was legalized in the state. and the nba finals are set after the miami heat beat the boston celtics in game seven of the eastern conference finals. miami will take on the denver nuggets beginning thursday
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night. for more, download the cbs news app on your cell phone or connected tv. i'm shanelle kaul,bs ns, new york. it's it's tuesday, may 30th, 2023. this is the "cbs morning news." panic at the boardwalk. gunfire erupts at a florida beach. nine people are injured including children. we're going to take you live to the scene. > r p >> wr. p aas the as the presid spep spespeaker return, w dodoip doing doing to gath debt limit deal. cruise ship chaos. terrified passengers share videos of big waves and flooded hallways and a storm rocks a carnival cruise ship. >

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