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that size, whether it's in the air or on the sea, and they're operating that close together, it wouldn't take much for an error in judgment or a mistake to get made, and somebody could get hurt. >> reporter: in his speech at the singapore conference, the chinese defense minister accused the u.s. of a cold war mentality and said relations between the two countries are at a record low. norah. >> david martin at the pentagon, thank you. now to the site of the partially collapsed apartment building in davenport, iowa. today authorities say the bodies of three men who had been missing since last week's collapse have all been recovered. no one else is believed to be missing. this is one of the injured residents has filed a lawsuit against the city and the building's current and former owners, alleging they knew of the building's conditions and failed to warn residents. turning overseas to the war in ukraine, there are signs tonight that ukrainian forces may have begun their much anticipated spring offensive to
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take back territory seized by the russians. the fighting is mostly taking place in eastern ukraine, and cbs's debora patta is there. >> reporter: russia's ministry of defense claims this video shows its troops repelling a major ukrainian advance in the eastern donetsk region. we can't verify this, and kyiv's denied it, doing its best to keep the kremlin off balance, sending mixed signals instead. the latest was this. >> shh. >> reporter: a video with the tag line "plans love silence," where ukrainian soldiers are seen urging operational secrecy around any talk of a counteroffensive. but just ten days ago, a different video showed ground troops preparing for battle, armed with western weapons under the banner "it's time to take back what is ours." what kyiv will say is that ukrainian forces have advanced
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once again on bakhmut and retaken territory on the outskirts of the city while just across the border in russia, a new front line has opened up. anti-kremlin militia backed by ukraine have stepped up attacks on villages in the belgorod region. kyiv's silence on its counteroffensive has not stopped intense speculation over whether it's officially begun. what we do know is that its troops are intensifying operations on the eastern front line, possibly looking for russian weaknesses, and ukraine's defense ministry describes this, norah, as moving into offensive actions in some areas. >> debora patta there in ukraine, thank you. the tech world was abuzz today ahead of apple's move, jumping into the world of virtual reality. cbs's carter evans takes a closer look at its vision pro headset and whether it can succeed where others have
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failed. >> reporter: this is a day that's been years in the making. >> reporter: apple's vision pro headset is essentially a wearable computer. >> it's the first apple product you looked through and not at. >> reporter: it can be used as a virtual desktop or even a giant movie screen. the only controllers are your eyes, voice, and hands. >> you can see, hear, and interact with digital content just like it's in your physical space. >> reporter: the starting price, $3,500, several times more than its closer competitors. >> when you're trying to convince people to wear a computer literally on their face, i think that it can be a much more challenging sell. >> reporter: other vr headsets have had mixed results. facebook, now meta, introduced its first model years ago, and its metaverse is still sparsely populated. apple is not targeting families with this just yet. >> right now, developers because developers ultimately need to build the applications and the use cases. this is really the appetizer
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before the main entree. >> reporter: now, apple says it's not going to release its vision pro until early next year. that will give developers plenty of time to come up with some apps for it. the question is, as prices begin to come down over the years, do people even want or need it? well, norah, a lot of people asked that question about a phone with no keyboard back in 2007. >> i remember it well. >> i remember it well. carter evans, thank you so america, klondike® wants to know what your hometown would do for a klondike®. let's see what's up with hilldale. [cheering and applause] ♪ [♪♪] did you know, unless you treat dandruff regularly, [cheering and applause]
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we want to turn now to the growing child care crisis in america. it is a problem not just for parents but the country. a recent study reveals the economy loses $122 billion a year because of lost earnings, productivity, and taxes. cbs's meg oliver goes in depth with one mother's journey. >> i start my day between 4:30 and 5:00. >> reporter: amelia emanuel is like so many single mothers. >> other foot. >> i am a single parent. i kind of explain to her, we have to share the responsibilities in the morning. it gets really difficult just because i can move, she can't move fast. >> reporter: the 33-year-old working mom and college student commutes an hour every morning. >> we normally take a bus, and we go on the train. i walk her to school.
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>> reporter: so her 4-year-old eliana can go to this day care on the south side of boston. >> if you don't have child care, then you now have to stay home. if you have to stay home, then you can't work. if you can't work, you have no income. if you have no income, you can't give back to the community. >> reporter: spplied for a acs.w instead of25 $ ■w the weor re, s ps $11.35. >> because i was struggling to pay everything else. the list takes over a year before you can even get a voucher. there's thousands of children on the wait list, and i was getting a little scared because i knew i was going to be a single mom. so i knew i needed to skbrump back into work. >> reporter: massachusetts leads the country with the most expensive child care among all 50 states. for an average family with an infant, it's pricier than some colleges at more than $20,000 a year. here at early learning, they have 250 children enrolled. two-thirds receive subsidies and they have more than 900 families on a wait list.
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>> as soon as i got the voucher, i knew exactly what locations i wanted my daughter to be in. not every location in the better neighborhoods will accept your voucher. >> think about some of the things we saw today. >> we really want to see congress invest in child care. >> reporter: michelle mcgreedy works for the national nonprofit child care ware of america. they're urging congress to pass the child care for working families act. >> what the child care for working families act does is make sure that no family pays more than 7% of their income towards child care. >> where are we going? >> home. >> reporter: and for families like emanuel's, who make less than 85% of the state's median income, they wouldn't have to pay for day care at all. meg oliver, cbs news, boston. and tomorrow we'll continue with part two of our series with a focus on the struggle to even find child care. we'll take a look at what one group of mothers is doing to help solve the problem.
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wildfires continue to rage tonight across eastern canada, and we're feeling the effects right here in the u.s. so far this year, more than 8 million acres have burned, mostly in the provinces of quebec and nova scotia. smoke is drifting south, prompting air quality alerts in parts of minnesota, michigan, and wisconsin. tomorrow dangerous air is expected in the northeast. there's news tonight about one of the most notorious spies one of the most notorious spies in if you've had sensitivity, those zingers can really cause some of that jolting pain. there is one great solution out there with sensodyne. it creates a protective barrier, and now they get to feel like, 'oh, this is a product that actually works. ♪ charmin ultra soft has so much cushiony softness, it's hard for your family to remember they can use less. sweet pillows of softness! this is soft! holy charmin! oh! excuse me! roll it back, everybody! - sorry! - sorry! - sorry! charmin ultra soft is now even softer, so you'll want more!
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robert hansen once called the most damaging spy in fbi history for selling national security secrets to russia, died today in a colorado prison. officials say hansen was found unresponsive in his cell, and he couldn't be saved. hansen pleaded guilty more than 20 years ago to 15 counts of espionage after raking in nearly $1.5 million in cash and di diamonds. he was 79. britain's prince harry prepares to do something a royal hasn't done in over a hundred years. that's next.
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prince harry is set to testify in a london courtroom tomorrow, becoming the first member of the royal family to do so since the 1890s. the prince was a no show for day one of his trial against the publisher of the daily mirror and the judge was not happy. a lawyer explained that the prince was in los angeles on sunday for the second birthday of his daughter, lilibet. the prince has sued several tabloid publishers, claiming they illegally spied on him. >> a golf phenom makes history on the lpga tour. we'll tell you how. that's next.
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we want to end tonight with some history because history was made this weekend on the lpga tour thanks to rookie sensation rose zhang. a week after turning pro, the two-time ncaa champion became the first woman in 72 years to win her first professional tournament at the mizuho americas open. >> i'm so blessed. i feel like i've been given this platform to try to do the best i can, be an influence to younger generations. >> the former stanford star received congratulations from fellow cardinal tiger woods. so how will the golf superstar celebrate? she said she's returning to college for finals. and that's the overnight news for this tuesday. for some of you, the news continues. for others, check back later for
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"cbs mornings." and remember you can cbsnews.co. reporting from the nation's capital, i'm norah o'donnell. this is "cbs news flash." i'm shanelle kaul in new york. the lawyer for joran van der sloot, the suspect in the 2005 disappearance of natalee holloway, said his client will challenge his extradition to the u.s. van der sloot was set to be extradited from peru on thursday to face extortion and wire fraud charges tide to the disappearance. the fda will allow a chinese drugmaker to import the cancer drug cisplatin amid widespread drug shortages in the u.s. platinum-based drugs such as cisplatin are prescribed for 10% to 20% of all cancer patients. and the super bowl champion kansas city chiefs visited the white house on monday.
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president biden praised the team's unity and commitment to community service. 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." we want to begin tonight with the sonic boom that shook the ground and frightened residents across the washington, d.c. area on sunday. the military scrambled six f-16 fighter jets to intercept an unresponsive plane that had entered restricted airspace over the nation's capital. president biden was not at the white house at the time. the small plane eventually crashed in a rural wooded area in western virginia. ntsb investigators are on the scene, but they say it could take several days to collect all the evidence. four people were killed. cbs news has learned the victims included 49-year-old adina
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azarian, her 2-year-old daughter, their nanny, and the pilot. the u.s. capitol complex was placed on an elevated alert. cbs's jeff pegues will start us off tonight from near the crash site in greenville, virginia. good evening, jeff. >> reporter: norah, we're getting new information tonight from the faa. faa officials tell us that air traffic controllers lost contact with that small plane about 14 minutes into the flight. that flight came to an end here. you see this hilly terrain behind me. you can imagine how treacherous it is for investigators, who are out here trying to sift through the wreckage. but getting to the wreckage is a problem all unto itself. the wreckage is about a mile and a half out, but it takes about 3 1/2 hours to hike there. from above, a large crater scars the terrain where the cessna plane crashed. today the ntsb was at the scene,
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looking for evidence. >> basically everything is on the table until we slowly and methodically remove different components and elements that will be relevant for this safety investigation. >> reporter: the plane took off in tennessee yesterday afternoon, flying to long island, new york, at 34,000 feet, where it made a u-turn. a half hour later, six f-16 fighter jets intercepted the plane as it illegally breached washington's airspace, crashing minutes later. >> national guard fighter on guard. if you hear this transmission, contact us on 121.5. >> reporter: the pilot did not respond to repeated calls from air traffic controllers and flares from the fighter jets. cbs news has learned that one of the f-16 pilots saw the cessna pilot slumped over and unresponsive. ♪ the sonic boom of the jets breaking the sound barrier startled millions around the capital.
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robert sumwalt, a former chairman of the ntsb, says the plane's cabin may have lost pressure. >> the pilots become hypoxic, meaning of course lack of oxygen. they fall asleep, as do the passengers, and then they -- because of lack of oxygen, they perish. >> reporter: john rumpel, who owned the plane, said his daughter, adina azarian, along with her 2-year-old, her nanny, and the pilot were on the plane. on facebook, barbara rumpel posted a photo and wrote about losing her daughter and granddaughter, saying, quote, my family is gone. the primary objective now for investigators is trying to figure out why that plane went off-course. of course, in investigations like this, the ntsb relies on black boxes, the voice data recorder, but they're not sure whether this plane had one. it wasn't required to have one. also the ntsb says it should have a report later on this
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month as it tries to figure out what went wrong. norah. >> so many questions. jeff pegues, thank you. now to the political drama unfolding here in washington, first reported by cbs news. attorneys for former president donald trump met with justice department officials this morning. the meeting lasted just under two hours. here's cbs's robert costa. >> reporter: former president donald trump's attorneys argued privately to justice department officials today that no charges should be brought against trump in the case involving classified documents, citing unfair treatment by special counsel jack smith. >> this is kind of the last page in the defense attorney's playbook to avoid indictment. it's usually not successful, but it almost always means an indictment is imminent. >> reporter: trump has denied doing anything wrong. >> all i know is this. everything i did was right. >> reporter: sources say a charging decision in the case is imminent and comes as the 2024 race is heating up. trump's own former vice
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president mike pence filed his candidacy days after taking aim at trump for praising north korean leader kim jong-un and russian president vladimir putin. >> no one should be praising the dictator in north korea or -- or praising the leader of russia. >> reporter: with former new jersey governor chris christie and north dakota governor doug burgum also set to join the race this week, republican candidates are seeking a breakthrough. former south carolina governor nikki haley took a swipe at florida governor ron desantis for picking a fight with disney after they opposed his so-called "don't say gay" bill. >> because they went and criticized him, now he's going to spend taxpayer dollars on a lawsuit. it's just like all this vendetta stuff, we've been down that road. >> reporter: desantis called the attack bizarre and focused his attention on trump, whom he trails by double-digit margins. >> i think that there's a lot of voters who just aren't going to vote for him.
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i think it's ripe for us to bring new people into the party. >> reporter: on that meeting at the justice department, cbs news has learned that special counsel jack smith was there, underscoring the seriousness of the discussion. smith has not spoken publicly about the case but has been moving aggressively behind the scenes to secure testimony from dozens of people close to the former president. norah. >> an important development. robert costa, thank you so much. the tech world was abuzz today ahead of apple's move jumping into the world of virtual reality. cbs's carter evans takes a closer look at its vision pro headset and whether it can succeed with others have failed. >> this is a day that's been years in the making. >> reporter: apple's vision pro headset is essentially a wearable computer. >> it's the first apple product you look through and not at. >> reporter: it can be used as a virtual desktop or even a giant
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movie screen. the only controllers are your eyes, voice, and hands. >> you can see, hear, and interact with digital content just like it's in your physical space. >> reporter: the starting price, $3,500, several times more than its closer competitors. >> when you're trying to convince people to wear a computer literally on their face, i think that it can be a much more challenging sell. >> reporter: other vr headsets have had mixed results. facebook, now meta, introduced its first model years ago, and its metaverse is still sparsely populated. apple is not targeting families with this just yet. >> right now, developers because developers ultimately need to build the applications and the use cases. this is really the appetizer before the main entree. >> reporter: now, apple says it's not going to release its vision pro until early next year. that will give developers plenty of time to come up with some apps for it. the question is, as prices begin to come down over the years, do people even want or need it? well, norah, a lot of people asked that question about a phone with no keyboard back in 2007. >> i remember it well.
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>> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." i'm olivia gazis in washington. thanks for staying with us. the summer vacation season is under way, and so far there have been no major disruptions in air travel. that's a far cry from last year when about 55,000 flights were canceled and many more delayed. the faa is still searching for another 300 air traffic controllers and pilots for several carriers have been picketing for new contracts. still the tsa managed to screen 12 million people over memorial day, some with controversial
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facial recognition technology. kris van cleave reports. >> good morning. >> good morning. >> reporter: at the world's busiest airport in atlanta -- >> all right. you're fully verified. you can step around. have a great day. >> reporter: the tsa checkpoint has gotten a high-tech upgrade, using this facial recognition camera system to compare a flyer's face to their picture on their i.d. in seconds. >> all right, ma'am. you're verified. thank you very much. you can step around. >> reporter: if there's not a match, like here in this demonstration, the tsa officer is alerted for further review. >> showing that the i.d. is a valid i.d. it's showing non-matching because those are two different people. >> we view this as better for security, much more efficient, because the image captures fast, and you'll save several seconds if not a minute. >> reporter: tsa administrator david pick oski. >> how does that speed things up? >> facial recognition is much more accurate, and we've tests this extensively, so we know it brings the accuracy level close to 100% from mid-80% with just a human looking at a facial match.
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>> reporter: the program has been rolled out to more than two dozen airports nationwide since 2020. but is currently voluntary for flyers. most images are deleted after use, but some information is encrypted and retained for up to 24 months as part of the ongoing review of how the technology performs. there are skeptics. five u.s. senators sent this lefrt demanding tsa halt the program. >> you don't have to compromise people's biometric security in order to provide physical security at airports. >> reporter: and privacy advocates worry about the lack of regulations around facial recognition and its tendency to be less accurate with people of color. >> you have five senators that have called on tsa to stop the program. why continue moving forward with it? >> i agree with them in that i want to protect privacy for every passenger, and i want to deploy technology that's accurate and doesn't disadvantage anybody. >> reporter: as for passengers opting to use it -- >> got nothing to hide so no
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concerns here. i think it's great. >> reporter: tsa plans to add the technology to at least three more airports by the end of the year. i'm kris van cleave in atlanta. overseas, there are still more questions than answers in india after a devastating train crash left nearly 300 people dead. holly williams reports. >> reporter: a trail of carnage extending hundreds of yards down the tracks. the survivors of this nightmare crawl to safety through twisted metal. the express passenger train was traveling at around 80 miles an hour when it slammed into a stationary freight train, derailing multiple cars before striking a second passenger train. it's india's worst rail disaster this century. officials say it was probably a signal failure, and many people are angry. the country has a massive rail network relied on by over 20
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million passengers a day. families are still searching for their loved arim trawl ne andhng r. son. "i haven't told our mother," he says. "she won't be able to handle this news." and for some, the search has so far been fruitless. "my husband has not been found yet," said this woman. "my husband has not been found." holly williams, london. the "cbs overnight news" the "cbs overnight news" will be right back. america, klondike® wants to know what your hometown would do for a klondike®. let's see what's up with hilldale. [cheering and applause] ♪ (tap, tap) listen, your deodorant just has to work. i use secret aluminum free.
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now we want to see what your hometown would do for a klondike®, so get together, and go for the bar, sandwich, or cone. go for the glory! ♪ well, these days you have a lot of options if you want to get a package someplace overnight, but there was a time when it was all but impossible, and then came fedex. the overnight shipping giant is celebrating 50 years in the sky, and david martin paid a visit to the man who made it happen. >> reporter: once you see it, you will never again take overnight delivery for granted. the sorting center at fedex headquarters in memphis. elbow grease and computerized conveyor belts routing packages around the world. >> are you fred smith? >> well, i am. >> reporter: here's the man behind it all.
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>> good to see you. >> good to see you. >> reporter: fred smith founded the company that revolutionized business 50 years ago. >> i expected you somewhere to be following your planes around the world. >> well, i can. i've got a map right there, and i can pull it up. there they are, heading across the pacific. >> is that what it looks like every day? >> yeah. we serve 220 countries around the world. >> reporter: today fedex employs more than 530,000 people and moves 15 million packages a day aboard a fleet of 700 airplanes, including the wide-bodied boeing 777. >> how many of these guys do you own? >> we have 59 either on hand or on order. >> reporter: the engine of a 777 would not fit inside the cargo hold of his first plane, now on display at the smithsonian air and space museum, it is the flagship of the air express industry smith created to meet the needs of the coming
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information age. >> your computer goes down, you have to have the part to fix it or you're out of business. that's the whole principle of fedex. >> reporter: smith saw the future when he was still an undergraduate at yale, moonlighting as a charter pilot flying computer parts. >> when i was looking at was the first stages of automation of our society, moving to a computer-based society. it was just the recognition society was automating. >> did it feel like an a-ha moment to you at the time? > i suppose that would be a good way to describe it. >> reporter: but first there was vietnam, two combat tours, a silver star, bronze star, and two purple hearts. >> looking around here, it looks a little more military than it does fedex. >> people don't come back here very often, so i guess this is more personal than the frons office is there. >> this is you in the marines in. >> that's me and my platoon leaders. >> reporter: two of them didn't come back. smith rose to the rank of captain and came home a changed.
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the v th d of my life. everything i ever accomplished in business is mostly what i learned in the marine corps, particularly about leading people. >> are you still captain smith? >> he comes out every once in a while if necessary. i found out only in the last three years that all my children call me behind my back stalin. i didn't know that. so i'm sure there were a couple of disciplinary episodes there. >> so we saw some of your frontline troops at the sorting center. >> oh, did you? >> your vast network couldn't function without them. >> absolutely. >> how do you reward them? >> well, the most important way we reward them is good pay and benefits. so if you work for us, we'll put you through college. >> i thought those were part-time workers. >> well, they are, but they still get medical benefits and
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tuition refund. >> reporter: say fred around >> you hardly ages at all. i look 100 years -- >> reporter: audrey pfeiffer went to work for him in year one. >> fred came to this computer training school i had begun taking. he came himself and talked about his dream, and it was so vivid and so real that i said, mm, went the next day and got hired on the spot. >> what year did you start delivering? >> we started april 17th 50 years ago. i think we had 189 pieces that day. >> did you deliver all of those packages overnight? >> oh, 100%, yeah. it was pretty -- pretty easy when there were only 189. >> reporter: in the first three years, the company lost $29 million. >> so there's stories from the early days where he had to ask employees not to cash their
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paycheck. >> yes. i was one of them. you know, it happened a couple of times that we had to hold our checks. >> reporter: but his hub and spoke system, planes flying into a central location and back out to their final destination, proved overnight delivery was possible. >> it was just stunning to people that you could do that. >> reporter: within months, there was a tenfold increase in the number of packages. keeping track of them became the next hurdle. >> the problem was that there was no technology that did that. >> reporter: this was the solution, a small scanning device he calls the super tracker. >> and you scan the package upon delivery or upon pickup, transmitted the information back into our computer system. >> reporter: the barcodes on the outside of the package became as important as what was inside. that flashing blue light scans those codes and tells the conveyor belt where to drop off the packages.
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>> so it changed the logistics forever. >> reporter: on the night we visited the memphis hub, planes wre landing at one-minute f cargo handlers.ne met by a >> how long does it take to unload a plane like this? >> if we're doing really well, probably about 35, 40 minutes. >> reporter: joshua rhodes is the team leader. >> there are days where it can be a little stressful, but that's every job. >> you feel leek you're always working against the clock? >> but i mean that is the life of fedex. >> crunch time! >> reporter: the fedex life came to the big screen in the person of tom hanks. >> that's how much time we have. >> reporter: who played a time-obsessed manager in the movie "cast away". >> oh, wait a minute. wilson. >> wilson. that's wilson, a replica of wilson. >> you still awake? >> reporter: wilson, hanks' best and only friend marooned on a desert island.
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>> they may never find .>> i'll name was everywhere, but the plot had public relations disaster written all over it. >> when i told our senior vp of marketing that i'd agreed to let a fedex plane be crashed with tom hanks in it, he almost passed out. >> reporter: it became what smith calls a $100 million infomercial for a company that is always racing the clock. >> those packages just don't stop moving. >> you don't want them to sit there because that's just idle cost. >> reporter: within hours of landing, the planes are loaded and ready to take off again. in the control tower, al coleman needs to get each one airborne within 15 minutes of pushing back from the gate. >> we like burning our fuel inflight and not taxiing. >> is there a difference between controlling cargo planes and
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passenger planes? >> no, sir. the only differences is packages don't complain. >> reporter: that much was true be female: my husband worked on a strip job for a number of years, got black lung. a little over three years ago he quickly started declining and started asking for my help. since jerry got sick and i've taken on the extra work here it's been wonderful to know that i can still hear the word with
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the national weather service is predicting a su that's good news if you're a mosquito. nikki battiste reports.hey' pesky and persistent. >> i go outside. a mosquito already bit me. >> reporter: and they're attracted to humans likely because the females need blood to reproduce. >> they're very sophisticated little bugs. >> reporter: katherine roberts is a health and science editor for consumer reports. >> what attracts mosquitoed to us? >> it really can depend on what you're wearing, your skin. >> reporter: a recent preliminary study by virginia tech found that certain soaps with a floral or fruity scent made people even more attractive to mosquitos. and on average, more than 60% of what a mosquito smells after you
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wash comes from soap rather than natural body odors. >> what can we do to keep mosquitos away? >> use an effective insect repe repellent. we found in our tests repellents that have deet tend to b t most. >> citronella candles are not very effective. instead try using a fan. mosquitos aren't very good flyers. eliminate standing water, which attracts them. and wear long pants and sleeves that are loose-fitting. >> the more it rains, the more mosquitos you find around. >> reporter: and climate change may be why you're feeling more bites this summer. >> climate change is going to increase the number of mosquitos around, but it's also going to increase the number of places where mosquitos can be. >> reporter: if you do get bitten, wash the area, apply an ice pack, and use an antihistamine cream to reduce any itching. nikki battiste, new york. that is the overnight news
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for this tuesday. be sure to check back later for "cbs mornings." reporting from the nation's capital, i'm olivia gazis. this is "cbs news flash." i'm shanelle kaul in new york. the lawyer for joran van der sloot, the suspect in the 2005 disappearance of natalee holloway, said his client will challenge his extradition to the u.s. van der sloot was set to be extradited from peru on thursday to face extortion and wire fraud charges tied to the disappearance. the fda will allow a chinese drugmaker to import the cancer drug cisplatin amid widespread drug shortages in the u.s. platinum-based drugs such as cisplatin are prescribed for 10% to 20% of all cancer patients. and the super bowl champion kansas city chiefs visited the white house on monday. president biden praised the team's unity and commitment to
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community service. for more, download the cbs news app on your cell phone or connected tv. i'm shanelle kaul, cbs news, new york. tonight, new details after six fighter jets intercepted a private plane flying in restricted d.c. airspace. the pilot of that cessna slumped over and unresponsive. the mystery.ouldavpp? here are tonight's headlines. the tragic ending for four people on board after a small plane crashes. we're on the scene. >> investigators have been scouring the wreckage, trying to figure out why the pilot was unresponsive. attorneys for former president donald trump meet with top federal officials at the justice department. >> it almost always means an indictment is imminent. rising tensions between the united states and china highlighted in two recent close
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calls. a chinese warship crossed in front of an american destroyer in the taiwan strait. >> it won't be long before somebody gets hurt. new fighting around the eastern city of bakhmut, and russia is claiming to have repelled a large ukrainian attack in the eastern part of the country. apple's big product announcement and vision for the future. all the new details, including the big price tag. >> this is a day that's been years in the making. bye, love you. >> child care in america. what can be done to bring down the rising cost of child care? >> i was struggling to pay everything else. rose zhang is here, and she is here to stay. in her first start as a professional, she wins the mizuho americas open. >> this is just amazing. hope you guys enjoyed the show.
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>> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." we want to begin tonight with the sonic boom that shook the ground and frightened residents across the washington, d.c. area on sunday. the military scrambled six f-16 fighter jets to intercept an unresponsive plane that had entered restricted airspace over the the smplane entuly ashed in a rural wooded area in western virginia. ntsb investigators are on the scene, but they say it could take several days to collect all the evidence. four people were killed. cbs news has learned the victims included 49-year-old adina azarian, her 2-year-old daughter, their nanny, and the pilot. the u.s. capitol complex was placed on an elevated alert. cbs's jeff pegues will start us off tonight from near the crash site in greenville, virginia. good evening, jeff. >> reporter: and, norah, we're
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getting new information tonight from the faa. faa officials tell us that air traffic controllers lost contact with that small plane about 14 minutes into the flight. that flight came to an end here. you see this hilly terrain behind me. you can imagine how treacherous it is for investigators, who are out here trying to sift through the wreckage. but getting to the wreckage is a problem all unto itself. the wreckage is about a mile and a half out, but it takes about 3 1/2 hours to hike there. from above, a large crater scars the terrain where the cessna plane crashed. today the ntsb was at the scene, looking for evidence. >> basically everything is on the table until we slowly and methodically remove different components and elements that will be relevant for this safety investigation. >> reporter: the plane took off in tennessee yesterday afternoon, flying to long island, new york, at
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34,000 feet, where it made a u-turn. a half hour later, six f-16 fighter jets intercepted the plane as it illegally breached washington's airspace, crashing minutes later. >> national guard fighter on guard. if you hear this transmission, contact us on 121.5. >> reporter: the pilot did not sptoead cafr air affic controll flares from the fighter jets. cbs news has learned that one of the f-16 pilots saw the cessna pilot slumped over and unresponsive. ♪ the sonic boom of the jets bertwa, former the chairman of thsb plane's cabin may have lost pressure. >> the pilots become hypoxic, meaning of course lack of oxygen. they fall asleep, as do the passengers, and then they -- because of lack of oxygen, they
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perish. >> john rumpel, who owned the plane, said his daughter, adina, azarian, along with her 2-year-old, her nanny, and the pilot were on the plane. on facebook, barbara rumpel posted a photo and wrote about losing her daughter and granddaughter, saying, quote, my family is gone. the primary objective now for investigators is trying to figure out why that plane went off-course. of course, in investigations like this, the ntsb relies on black boxes, the voice data recorder, but they're not sure whether this plane had one. it wasn't required to have one. also the ntsb says it should have a report later on this month as it tries to figure out what went wrong. norah. >> so many questions. jeff pegues, thank you. now to the political drama unfolding here in washington, first reported by cbs news. attorneys for former president donald trump met with justice department officials this
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morning. the meeting lasted just under two hours. here's cbs's robert costa. >> reporter: former president donald trump's attorneys argued privately to justice department officials today that no charges should be brought against trump in the case involving classified documents, citing unfair treatment by special counsel jack smith. >> this is kind of the last page in the defense attorney's playbook to avoid indictment. it's usually not successful, but it almost always means an indictment is imminent. >> reporter: trump has denied doing anything wrong. >> all i know is this. everything i did was right. >> reporter: sources say a charging decision in the case is imminent and comes as the 2024 race is heating up. trump's own former vice president, mike pence, filed his candidacy days after taking aim at trump for praising north korean leader kim jong-un and russian president vladimir putin. >> no one should be praising the dictator in north korea or -- or
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praising the leader of russia. >> reporter: with former new jersey governor chris christie and north dakota governor doug burgum also set to join the race this week, republican candidates are seeking a breakthrough. former south carolina governor nikki haley took a swipe at florida governor ron desantis for picking a fight with disney after they opposed his so-called "don't say gay" bill. >> because they went and criticized him, now he's going to spend taxpayer dollars on a lawsuit. it's just like all this vendetta stuff, we've been down that road. >> reporter: desantis called the attack bizarre and focused his attention on trump, whom he trails by double-digit margins. >> i think that there's a lot of voters who just aren't going to vote for him. i think it's ripe for us to bring new people into the party. >> reporter: on that meeting at the justice department, cbs news has learned that special counsel jack smith was there, underscoring the seriousness of the discussion. smith has not spoken publicly about the case but has been moving aggressively behind the
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news." well, tonight tensions remain high between the united states and china following yet another close call between the nation's two high-powered militaries. cbs's david martin reports the latest incident took place in the taiwan strait between a chinese warship and a u.s. destroyer. >> reporter: a chinese warship cuts across the bow of an american destroyer in the taiwan strait. the pentagon says the chinese ship came within 150 yards of the u.s. ship, which had to cut its speed to avoid a collision. >> this is just part, again, of a growing aggressiveness by the prc that we're dealing with.
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>> reporter: the incident with the prc, people's republic of china, was witnessed by a canadian ship trailing the american destroyer. it happened while defense secretary austin was attending an international conference in singapore. >> that's extremely dangerous. so, you know, i call upon the prc's leadership to really do the right things to rein in that kind of conduct. >> reporter: but when he tried to meet with the chinese defense minister, all he got was a handshake and a speech vowing to use force against anyone who tries to come between china and taiwan. 11 days ago, a chinese jet cut across the nose of a u.s. reconnaissance plane over the south china sea, jostling the crew with its wake. in december, another chinese jet intercepted this electronic surveillance plane, and the american crew had to change course to avoid a midair when the chinese plane came within 20 feet. >> when you have pieces of metal
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that size, whether it's in the air or on the sea, and they're operating that close together, it wouldn't take much for an error in judgment or a mistake to get made, and somebody could get hurt. >> reporter: in his speech at the singapore conference, the chinese defense minister accused the u.s. of a cold war mentalit two countries are at a record low. norah. >> david martin at the pentagon, thank you. now to the site of the y co building in davenport, iowa. today authorities say the bodies of three men who had been missing since last week's collapse have all been recovered. no one else is believed to be missing. this as one of the injured residents has filed a lawsuit against the city and the building's current and former owners, alleging they knew of the building's conditions and failed to warn residents. turning overseas to the war in ukraine, there are signs tonight that ukrainian forces may have begun their much anticipated spring offensive to take back territory seized by
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the russians. the fighting is mostly taking place in eastern ukraine, and cbs's debora patta is there. >> reporter: russia's ministry of defense claims this video shows its troops repelling a major ukrainian advance in the eastern donetsk region. we can't verify this, and kyiv's denied it, doing its best to keep the kremlin off balance, sending mixed signals instead. the latest was this. >> shh. >> reporter: a video with the tag line "plans love silence," where ukrainian soldiers are seen urging operational secrecy around any talk of a counteroffensive. but just ten days ago, a different video showed ground troops preparing for battle, armed with western weapons under the banner "it's time to take back what is ours." what kyiv will say is that ukrainian forces have advanced
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once again on bakhmut and retaken territory on the outskirts of the city while just across the border in russia, a new front line has opened up. anti-kremlin militia backed by ukraine have stepped up attacks on villages in the belgorod region. kyiv's silence on its counteroffensive has not stopped intense speculation over whether it's officially begun. what we do know is that its troops are intensifying operations on the eastern front line, possibly looking for russian weaknesses, and ukraine's defense ministry describes this, norah, as moving into offensive actions in some areas. >> debora patta there in ukraine, thank you. the tech world was abuzz today ahead of apple's move, jumping into the world of virtual reality. cbs's carter evans takes a closer look at its vision pro headset and whether it can succeed where others have failed.
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>> this is a day that's been years in the making. >> reporter: apple's vision pro headset is essentially a wearable computer. >> it's the first apple product you look through and not at. >> reporter: it can be used as a virtual desktop or even a giant movie screen. the only controllers are your eyes, voice, and hands. >> you can see, hear, and interact with digital content just like it's in your physical space. >> reporter: the starting price, $3,500, several times more than its closest competitors. >> when you're trying to convince people to wear a computer literally on their face, i think that it can be a much more challenging sell. >> reporter: other vr headsets have had mixed results. facebook, now meta, introduced its first model years ago, and its metaverse is still sparsely populated. apple is not targeting families with this just yet? >> right now, developers because developers ultimately need to build the applications and the use cases. this is really the appetizer before the main entree.
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>> reporter: now, apple says it's not going to release its vision pro until early next year. that will give developers plenty of time to come up with some apps for it. the question is, as prices begin to come down over the years, do people even want or need it? well, norah, a lot of people asked that question about a phone with no keyboard back in 2007. >> i remember it well. carter evans, thank you so much. carter evans, thank you so much. the "cbs overnight news" strong enamel is your best defense against acid erosion and cavities; that's why i recommend new pronamel active shield, because it will strengthen your enamel and create that shield around it. i'm excited for this product- i think patients are really going to like it. after cooking a delicious chicken cheddar broccoli recipe, you will want to delete all your delivery apps. because nothing beats a perfect combo of sweet tomatoes and smooth, silky zucchini. knorr taste combos. it's not fast food, but it's soooo good. ♪ ♪
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we want to turn now to the growing child care crisis in america. it is a problem not just for parents but the country. a recent study reveals the economy loses $122 billion a year because of lost earnings, productivity, and taxes. cbs's meg oliver goes in depth with one mother's journey. >> i start my day between 4:30 and 5:00. >> reporter: amelia emanuel is like so many single mothers. >> other foot. >> i am a single parent. i kind of explain to her, we have to share the responsibilities in the morning. it gets really difficult. just because i can move fast, she can't move fast. >> reporter: the 33-year-old working mom and college student commutes an hour every morning. >> we normally take a bus, and we go on the train. i walk her to school.
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>> reporter: so her 4-year-old daughter eliana can go to this day care on the south side of boston. >> if you don't have child care, then you now have to stay home. if you have to stay home, then you can't work. if you can't work, you have no income. if you have no income, you can't give back to the community. >> reporter: she applied for a low-income voucher through the state of massachusetts. now instead of paying $250 a week for day care, she pays $11.35. >> because i was struggling to pay everything else. the list takes over a year before you can even get a voucher. there's thousands of children on the wait list, and i was getting a little scared because i knew i was going to be a single mom. so i knew i needed to jump back into work. >> reporter: massachusetts leads the country with the most expensive child care among all 50 states. for an average family with an infant, it's pricier than some colleges at more than $20,000 a year. here and elise early learning, they have 250 children enrolled. two-thirds receive subsidies and they have more than 900 families on a wait list.
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>> as soon as i got the voucher, i knew exactly what locations i wanted my daughter to be in. not every location in the better neighborhoods will accept your voucher. >> think about some of the things that we saw today. >> we really want to see congress invest in child care. >> reporter: michelle mccready works for the national nonprofit child care aware of america. they're urging congress to pass the child care for working families act. >> what the child care for working families act does is makes sure that no family pays more than 7% of their income towards child care. >> where are we going? >> home. >> reporter: and for families like emanuel's, who make less than 85% of the state's median income, they wouldn't have to pay for day care at all. meg oliver, cbs news, boston. >> and tomorrow we'll continue with part two of our series with a focus on the struggle to even find child care. we'll take a look at what one group of mothers is doing to help solve the problem. wildfires continue to rage
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robert hanssen, once called the most damaging spy in fbi history for selling national today in a colorado prison. officials say hanssen was found unresponsive in his cell, and he couldn't be saved. hanssen pleaded guilty more than 20 years ago to 15 counts of espionage after raking in nearly $1.5 million in cash and diamonds. he was 79. britain's prince harry prepares to do something a royal hasn't done in over a hundred years. that's next.
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prince harry is set to testify in a london courtroom tomorrow, becoming the first member of the royal family to do so since the 1890s. the prince was a no-show for day one of his trial against the publisr of "the day and the judge was not happy. a lawyer explained that the prince was in los angeles on sunday for the 2nd birthday of his daughter, lilibet. the prince has sued several tabloid publishers, claiming they illegally spied on him. a golf phenom makes history on the lpga tour. we'll tell you how. that's next.
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we want to end tonight with some history because history was made this weekend on the lpga tour thanks to rookie sensation rose zhang. a week after turning pro, the two-time ncaa champion became the first woman in 72 years to win her first professional tournament at the mizuho americas open. >> i'm so blessed. i feel like i've been given this platform to try to do the best i can, be an influence to younger generations. >> the former stanford star received congratulations from fellow cardinal tiger woods. so how will the golf superstar celebrate? she said she's returning to college for finals. 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 remember you can follow us online anytime at cbsnews.com.
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reporting from the nation's capital, i'm norah o'donnell. this is "cbs news flash." i'm shanelle kaul in new york. the lawyer for joran van der sloot, the suspect in the 2005 disappearance of natalee holloway, said his client will challenge his extradition to the u.s. van der sloot was set to be extradited from peru on thursday to face extortion and wire fraud charges tied to the disappearance. the fda will allow a chinese drugmaker to import the cancer drug cisplatin amid widespread drug shortages in the u.s. platinum-based drugs such as csplatin are prescribed for 10% to 20% of all cancer patients. and the super bowl champion kansas city chiefs visited the white house on monday. president biden praised the team's unity and commitment to
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community service. for more, download the cbs news app on your cell phone or connected tv. i'm shanelle kaul, it's tuesday, june 6th, 2023. this is the "cbs morning news." new details in a deadly plane crash, cbs news learning the pilot was slumped over. what one expert says may have caused the tragedy. classified document probe. donald trump's lawyers meeting with the special counsel. what they're asking the officials to do as the investigation draws to a close. immigration showdown. another chartered flight drops migrants off in sacramento, california. what the state's governor is now threatening to do. well, good morning and good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. an investigation is underway into a small plane that crashed in a remote part of west virginia.
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