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in arkansas, lightning struck a plane at little rock airport, and strong winds knocked down trees. one of those fallen trees killed a mother and son. severe weather has also left hundreds of thousands without power in arkansas, tennessee, kentucky, and georgia. and as the storm cleanup continues, several states in the south are prepping for dangerously high temperatures. >> please do what you can to conserve energy. conservation helps the grid. >> reporter: in texas, a 14-year-old hiker died after temperatures reached 119 degrees. his stepfather also died in a car accident as he was going for help. this is center grove, a community about 15 miles south of indianapolis, where that cleanup effort continues tonight. as you can see, tornadoes tore through homes, ripped off roofs, and took down trees and power lines. right now thousands remain in the dark, but everybody out here telling me they are really just thankful to be alive. norah. >> no doubt. max lewis, thank you very much. well, for more on tonight's storms and the record heat
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expected later in the week, let's turn to meteorologist jackie jar as from our partners at the weather channel. good evening, jackie. >> good evening, norah. severe storms still breaking out from the carolinas all the way up into parts of vermont. damaging winds and large hail can be expected as these storms track from the west towards the east. it's all part of the same storm system that produced tornadoes in indiana over the weekend. these will continue into the nighttime hours tonight. a break in the action in the morning on your tuesday, and then storms will fire up again, especially east of interstate 95. the air behind that cold front will be cool with this upper low, but the heat persists with this heat dome into the southern plain states. that heat dome will expand over the next couple of days with more millions of americans getting in on triple digits. norah. >> jackie jar as, thank you. we learned today that prosecutors will seek the death penalty against bryan kohberger, the suspect in the murders last
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year of four university of idaho students. prosecutors say the killings were especially heinous, and kohberger exhibited, quote, utter disregard for human life. defense attorneys claim there is no connection between kohberger and the victims and that dna from three other males was found at the scene. kohberger, a 28-year-old former ph.d. student, is expected to appear in court tomorrow. tonight, three san antonio police officers are out on bond after being charged with murder for the fatal shooting of a woman inside her own home on friday. she appeared to be suffering a mental health crisis. cbs's omar villafranca reports why the police chief called the use of deadly force, quote, not reasonable. [ sound of gunfire ] >> reporter: three san antonio police officers fired a barrage of bullets at 46-year-old melissa pettis in her own home early friday morning. the three, including a 14-year veteran of the force, had been suspended without pay. body camera video edited by the
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police shows an officer approaching pettis after she was suspected of cutting wires to an apartment fire alarm system. >> hey, lady, get over here. >> reporter: pettis ran into her first-floor apartment and refused to come out. the officer went to her back patio and removed the window screen. that's when police say she threw a glass candle, hittings a arm. >> you're going to get shot. >> shoot me. >> reporter: police say they communicated with pettis through the window for more than 30 minutes. additional officers arrived and hopped onto her patio. investigators say she then shattered the glass with a hammer. that's when the first shots were fired. police claim pettis still came towards the door again with the hammer. two more officers begin shooting. pettis was hit at least twice and pronounced dead at the scene. >> i had to plan my mom's funeral. >> reporter: alexis tovar said her mom had a history of mental
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health problems. >> what do you think police officers should have done? >> they should have said, hey, hey, don't be scared. we're here to help you. >> reporter: police chief william mcmanus says the shooting was not consistent with the department's training. >> they used deadly force, which was not reasonable given all the circumstances as we now understand them. >> reporter: pet isz' daughter said her mother did have schizophrenia and that she did have several run-ins with police in the past but was trying to get better. her family says they plan to file a civil suit against the police department and the city very soon. norah. >> omar villafranca in san antonio, thanks. the shooter who killed five people and wounded 17 others at a colorado springs lgbtq nightclub last november pleaded guilty today in the mass shooting. 23-year-old anderson lee al driven was then sentenced to life in prison. the guilty plea spares victims' families and survivors a painful trial. al driven may also face federal hate crime charges for the
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>> the sentence, we lost comm, i think that would be a sentence i would never want to hear in my life again. >> reporter: when the submersible titan lost contact on its way to the "titanic," christine dawood was waiting on the surface for her husband, shahzada, and son, suleman, to return. >> i think i lost hope when we passed the 96 hours mark. >> reporter: in an interview with our partners at the bbc, she said she'd given 19-year-old suleman a rubik's cube wiz, her spot on the vessel. >> he wanted to solve the rubik's cube at the deepest point at the "titanic." he was so excited about this. >> reporter: the coast guard is now leadin an investigation to piece together how the titan imploded, killing all five passengers. the dawoods from a prominent pakistani british family. british billionaire hamish harding. french explorer paul-henri nargeolet, and stockton rush,
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oceangate's american ceo, who piloted the titan. >> it's an opportunity to learn from the incident and then work with our international partners worldwide to prevent a similar occurrence. >> reporter: the investigation is multinational, involving canada as well as the uk and france. now questions are being raised about who should pay for the massive search and recovery. >> the coast guard doesn't charge for search and rescue, nor do we associate a cost with human life. we always answer the call. >> reporter: the coast guard has not given a timeline yet for the investigation. it did say, though, that it could recommend that authorities pursue civil or criminal charges as necessary. norah. >> roxana saberi, thanks. those popular diabetes and weight loss shots could soon be available as a p
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finally tonight, the dream of owning your own home seems out of reach for millions of americans, including those in the lgbtq+ community. in this pride month, cbs's lilia luciano shows us how the dream is becoming a reality in peoria, illinois. >> reporter: at 30 years old, alex martin owns a home, something she never thought was
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single-handedly grown peoria's population by about 360 in three years. >> people are relocating here more for survival, and that's such a different conversation. >> do you hope to have that kind of contagion effect? >> i love the idea of shaking up that big cities are the only places that lgbtq+ people can thrive. >> reporter: pride in homeownership and building a more inclusive community. lilia luciano, cbs news, peoria, illinois. this is "cbs news flash." i'm shanelle kaul in new york. susan lawrence, the florida woman who shot her neighbor,age i ca owens, last month, will be charged with manslaughter and assault. prosecutors said there was not enough evidence to file a murder chcharge. lawrencece shot o owens t throu fronont door afterer a d disput the victim's children. she faces up to 30 years in
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a sense of calm, but the extent of the damage to the dictator's standing among the russian people is still unknown. tonight we're hearing for the first time from the mercenary leader since he led the uprising. he claims the mutiny was never an attempt to overthrow the government in moscow. in a meeting with russian security officials tonight, putin thanked them for their support, including the defense minister, who the wagner group wanted to be removed. president biden today breaking his silence, saying the west played no role in the mutiny. nato allies and the world are closely monitoring the situation. we have team coverage starting with cbs's ian lee, who is inside ukraine. good evening, ian. >> reporter: good evening, norah. the man behind russia's rebellion is offering his own reason for backing down, saying tonight that he wanted to avoid major bloodshed. yevgeny prigozhin broke his silence today, releasing an audio message for the first time since agreeing to exile after
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his failed insurrection. the wagner leader denied trying to overthrow russian president vladimir putin and said his fight was with the country's military leaders. bt hours later, the russian president responded, calling wagner's actions a rebellion and vowing to bring its organizers to justice. u.s. officials tell cbs news they believe prigozhin was still in russia as of this morning, but his current whereabouts are unknown. the revolt began friday evening when prigozhin blamed a russian air strike for killing a large number of his fighters. in retaliation, the mercenary boss marched his troops into russia and seized the city of rostov, home to russia's southern military command. prigozhin then directed them toward moscow to deal, he said, with defense minister sergei shoigu and his top general. social media captured the death and destruction along the way. president vladimir putin began to lock down the capital as
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soldiers took up defensive positions. heavy equipment ripped up the roads leading to the city. on state tv, president putin attacked prigozhin as a traitor. but with wagner troops less than 150 miles from moscow, the krkremlin seemeded to have cutu deal. wagner troops would be pardoned and returned to their bases. criminal charges against prigozhin would be dropped and he'd go into exile in belarus. that agreement tonight now looks in doubt. by the end of the day saturday, wagner forces and prigozhin left rostov to a hero's goodbye, ending the mutiny. this afternoon, president biden distanced the united states from the insurrection. >> we made clear that we were not involved. we had nothing to do with it. this was part of a struggle within the russian system. >> reporter: ukraine eagerly exploited that struggle by stepping up offensive operations, making gains in the east around the town of bakhmut
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and taking another village in the south. tonight, president putin took aim at the west, telling his people that russia's enemies wanted them to choke on a bloody civil strife, and he offered wagner soldiers an option -- join the russian army or choose exile in belarus. norah. >> ian lee with those new developments in ukraine, thank you. and while the mutiny came to an abrupt end after 36 hours, the ramifications are far from over. cbs's ramy inocencio has more on what this means for the future of president vladimir putin and the russian government. >> reporter: invincibility, stability, control. the veneer vladimir putin has built in more than two decades in power until now. an angry yevgeny prigozhin, founder of the wagner mercenary group, launching an unprecedented military challenge to putin. is there blood in the water? >> it's wishful thinking. >> reporter: sergei markov is a
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former adviser to vladimir putin in moscow. >> i suppose he has some kind of existential crisis because the stability looks like it doesn't exist. >> reporter: now a mix of reactions from moscow streets. "everyone's confused. we need someone to explain what's going on." "i knew our government would sort everything out." "it's normal. we live in russia. we're used to being stressed." the u.s. trying to stay out of the fray. >> regime change is not our polcy. we've been very, very clear about that. >> reporter: yet china, mere months after putin and president xi jinping met in moscow, weighing in. china's state run "the global times" saying russia's situation was trending in the direction the west and ukraine would prefer. putin's invasion of ukraine hasn't gone to plan from the start. russia's losses, more than 200,000 killed or wounded. could this be the beginning of the end for putin?
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>> for sure not. >> reporter: and that former adviser to putin claims that russian support is actually even increasing. he says his truce with prigozhin is more a sign of wisdom and not weakness, potentially setting himself up for next year's presidential election. norah. >> everyone watching closely. ramy inocencio, thank you so much. back here at home, severe weather is taking aim at the northeast and causing havoc for travelers at major airports. more than 6,000 flights have been delayed, and more than 1,700 canceled across the country today. now, this same system produced deadly tornadoes and thunderstorms in america's heartland on sunday. reporter max lewis from our cbs affi affiliate, wttv, has seen some of the devastation up close outside indianapolis. >> reporter: residents are now surveying the devastation after a tornado ravaged their neighborhood south of indianapolis. families watched in horror as the twister tore apart houses and hurled debris while it carved an unforgiving three-mile path through johnson county on
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sunday. at least 75 homes were badly damaged. >> you could hear the house coming apart. it was a nightmare. >> reporter: john keith says he saw his walls and windows crumble around him. >> it was overwhelming to see your house and see the outside and know that you were just sitting there, and you could have been dead. >> there is it right there. >> oh, my gosh. >> reporter: three tornadoes were confirmed in indiana, including one that killed a man trapped inside his rural home. multiple tornadoes also wreaked havoc across minnesota. in arkansas, lightning struck a plane at little rock airport, and strong winds knocked down trees. one of those fallen trees killed a mother and son. severe weather has also left hundreds of thousands without power in arkansas, tennessee, kentucky, and georgia. and as the storm cleanup continues, several states in the south are prepping for dangerously high temperatures. >> please do what you can to conserve energy. conservation helps the grid. >> reporter: in texas, a 14-year-old hiker died after temperatures reached 119
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degrees. his stepfather also died in a car accident as he was going for help. this is center grove, a community about 15 miles south of indianapolis, where that cleanup effort continues tonight. as you can see, tornadoes tore through homes, ripped off roofs, and took down trees and power lines. right now thousands remain in the dark, but everybody out here telling me they are really just thankful to be alive. norah. norah. >> no doubt. this is a call to women, to appreciate our bodies, to care for all parts, even those hidden, like our armpits. because perfect armpits, do exist! they are stubbly, with marks or shaved, all beautiful and each unique. dove cares for all armpits, it dries instantly and is kind on skin, protecting you all day long. try dove advance care for effective protection that is kind on skin. that's why i choose dove!
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doorstep of moscow. prigozhin released an audio message saying his movement was not a coup but a protest, and he wasn't trying to topple the regime of vladimir putin. the mutiny ended when prigozhin accepted exile in belarus, but there's no indication he's there, and there are questions about what happens to his mercenary force. charlie d'agata reports. >> reporter: he was a petty chief who came to run a restaurant chain. yet the past few days he led an apparent coup attempt in the greatest threat to president putin's 24-year rule. yevgeny prigozhin rose to prominence on the bloodiest battlefields of ukraine, rallying his wagner mercenary group to territorial victories where the regular russian military fell in defeat. most notably in the fiercest fight of the war so far, bakhmut. but the 62-year-old's shady criminal career began with a 12-year jail term for robbery
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and assault. he went on to run a string of restaurants in st. petersburg where he befriended vladimir putin and got the nickname "putin's chef." jeff hahn is a russian expert at the london school of economics. >> in st. petersburg in the niernts where there were open bombings and assassinations, you were not a successful businessman unless you were able to offer protection or buy protection, and he seems to be someone who was offering protection. >> reporter: from running crime rackets back then to troll farms now, accused of meddling in the u.s. presidential elections, prigozhin, the fbi's most wanted since 2018. his wagner group of mercenaries has established a reputation for brutality, accused of atrocities around the globe. deployed to syria to fight alongside the forces of president bashar al assad. as reported by cbs's debora patta, providing security for the president of the central african republic for gold mining
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contracts. >> the department of treasury will be designating -- >> reporter: things turned sour in ukraine between prigozhin and the russian military elite in the late spring. calling out the russian defense minister and a top general of starting his forces of ammunition and equipment, costing the lives of thousands. now after squaring off against putin himself, banished to belarus, what next for yevgeny prigozhin? >> people keep saying that he's marked for assassination. there's a very good chance. i don't think it might come from the kremlin. i think it might come from the ministry of defense because he embarrassed them hugely. but then again, he's been marked for assassination since the '90s. >> so he's not the kind of character to go into hiding but he's now a warlord forced into early retirement. another big question is what becomes of the wagner group without its leader in regions like africa and the middle east. >> that was charlie d'agata
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reporting. the ukrainian army is working to take advantage of the chaos in the russian military, but the counteroffensive is running into stiff russian resistancece. ian n lee went o on patrol witi ukrarainian troops. > reporter: first u ukrainia artillery softens the target. this donated german h howitzer firess on russian positions. the crew shoots, reloloads, and shoots again before moving to avoid returning fire. this soldier says, "we didn't start the war, but we'll end it." after the artillery, the infantry moves in, winding through the thickets to avoid detection, but meets stiff resistance and a fierce gunfight breaks out. this battle took place on the outskirts of bakhmut in the donetsk region. once known for sparkling wine, it's now infamous for the war's fiercest fighting and utter destruction. drones keep an eye on the assault. >> okay. switch on mode.
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>> reporter: operators on the ground direct the troops. >> we think they're weak, but we're getting stronger in my opinion. these two, three months will be very important for our independence. >> reporter: anxiously watching ukraine's counteroffensive is igor. he works for the donetsk regional government, exiled since russia took the area in 2014. are you working with the government to implement a plan for once the soldiers retake donetsk to bring a government back into service? "yes," he told us. "such a plan is being prepared right now for when the ukrainian government returns to its legal territory." >> are you in close contact with the military about them taking donetsk? "right now our work is humanitarian" igor says. but we have departments directly in contact with the military. destruction lines the road to va lee canova silica. all that remains of this frontline town is rubble and
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memories. sounds of nearby fighting echo down the streets. you can get a sense of the intensity of the fighting with the smell of gunpowder in the air. nearby, ukrainian soldiers wait for orders. >> how intense has the fighting been around here? "very. very intense," he tells me. "they're throwing everything at us, helicopters, artillery, bombs." how difficult has it been, then, to be pushing forward against them? "it's been very difficult," he says. "we pray to god for more ammunition, weapons, and men." a u.s. official tells cbs news that ukraine's counteroffensive has been slow and uneven because they're facing stiffer resistance than expected. just down the road, a squad of soldiers shoot mortars at russian positions. frontline troops calling the cord natds of their target to yor and his men. then they fire. "i'm not so good," he says. "i'm a littltle afraidid, b butp
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going." the success of ukraine's southern counteroffensive is measured by the russian bodies along the road and newly liberated villages. close by, the 68th yeager brigade waits to be called into action. they operate american max pro armored fighting vehicles. "you can see the shattered glass and shrapnel damage from shelling and rockets that targeted us," says this driver. and it's kept you safe? "me and my team," he tells me. how has the russian defense been compared to what you expected? "they defend pretty well and know how to fight, but our guys are better," he says. the calm is suddenly pierced by a call for help. they're needed at the front and are quickly off. >> that was ian lee reporting from ukraine, and this is the "cbs overnight news."
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a lot of the new electric vehicles are getting rid of their old-school a.m. radios. that's got many radio stations up in arms, claiming their signals help save lives in an emergency. now congress is stepping in, and kris van cleave reports. >> as you approach the mcluggage bridge. >> reporter: for nearly 100 years, wmbd has been covering and talking about the news in central illinois from 1470 on the a.m. dial. but not anymore for drivers of a number of new electric vehicles. a host of automakers have pulled a.m. radio tuners from their cars, saying the ev batteries
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can interfere with reception. >> it's no coincidence that the first two letters of america are a-m. >> they've been around a long time. >> reporter: greg badden is the greg in the dan and greg show heard mornings on wmbd for nearly 20 years. >> i'm not worried that we can't adapt to those changes, but it doesn't help when you yank away a few million radios and say, well, those folks can't listen to you ever. >> reporter: he was there when a vicious ef-4 tornado tore a 46-mile path through washington county, illinois, killing 3 and injuring 125 while causing $800 million in damage and sending debris as far as chicago. >> we were immediately on the air and stayed on the air nonstop for days. >> reporter: there are nearly 45:00 a.m. radio stations across the country heard by about 82 million people a week. the a.m. signal tends to reach further than fm radio, often stretching deep into rural america. it is typically home to news and
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talk radio. you take away the a.m. radio from cars. what does that do to your business? >> the quick answer is it could be disastrous to our business, no question. >> reporter: during a hearing on capitol hill this month, first responders argued a.m. radio serves as the backbone of the nation's emergency alert system. >> our belief is that a.m. radio is a critical source of information to our citizens during a crisis. when disaster strikes, no one should lose access to essential information because the vehicle being driven buzz not have a.m. radio. >> our members view that there are more options ■for delivering content and alerts now in vehicles than there ever were. >> reporter: scott schmidt from the trade association representing automakers told congress the vast majority of cars still have a.m. radio and the decision to pull it from some evs was not made lightly. >> this has been something that manufacturers look at customer preferences very closely, and so they do a lot of market research and try to determine how to deliver the most value to their customers. >> reporter: but that drive to tune out a.m. radio is prompting
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unusual bipartisan agreement between the very liberal senator ed markey and the very conservative senator ted cruz. >> you know, i'm pretty sure that's one of the signs of the apocalypse. >> reporter: kidding aside, they are now co-sponsoring a bill to require a.m. radio stay in vehicles. >> if elon musk can brag that he can send rockets into space, then he should be able to figure out how to keep a.m. radio in passenger vehicles. >> a.m. radio is the lifeline to people who are in crisis, so it's an integral part of keeping americans safe. >> reporter: while automakers call the proposed legislation distinctly nonessential, ford reversed course, dropping plans to remove a.m. radio from all its new vehicles and will return it to all 2023 evs in the coming weeks. ford's donna dixon is the lead engineer for the electric mustang mach e. >> we talked and listened to our customers. just the customers telling us,
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if your summer vacation plans include a trip to europe, you're not alone. tourist sites are being swamped by visitors, and some cities are working to stem the tide. raleigh carlson reports from london. >> reporter: the famed acropolis seems to stand alone above athens, but a visit here means plenty of company. >> the wait definitely and the amount of people that are here was definitely a little bit overwhelming.
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>> reporter: more than 14,000 visitors came to the acropolis in may, 70% more than may of last year. tourists have been flocking to some of europe's most famous landmarks at numbers matching or exceeding pre-pandemic levels. >> i did not expect this many people in june. i thought july would be peak and busier. >> reporter: the soaring numbers prompted the ministry of culture to introduce a pilot program where timed entries can be booked online. due brov nick, croatia's popular "game of thrones" town has started tapping the number of visitors and added a tourist tax. france's famed ca lonk national park is keeping a pandemic-era reservation system, allowing just 400 visitors a day compared to the previous 2,500. small towns are also experiencing the onslaught like et tra at that time, a french town of just 1,200 people that sees as many as 10,000 tourists a day in the high season. you won't be able to park potentially. you won't be able to eat in the
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restaurant. and on top of that, the impact on the environment is greater, she says. for many countries, it's a delicate balance between protecting treasured sites and cashing in on the tourist dollars, reilly carlson, cbs news, london. 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 cbsnews.com. reporting from the nation's capital, i'm erica brown. this is "cbs news flash." i'm shanelle kaul in new york. susan lorincz, the florida woman who shot her neighbor, ajike owens, last month, will be charged with manslaughter and assault. prososecutors sasaid there w wa enough evividence to f file a mr chcharge. loririncz shot o owens thrououg front t door afterer a dispute the vivictim's children. she faces up to 30 years in prison if convicted.
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a district court judge in new york gave preliminary approval monday to a $290 million settlement between jpmorgan chase and the women who said jeffrey epstein abused them. epstein was a client at the bank from 1998 through 2013. and this year's honorary oscar award winners have been announced. angela bassett and mel brooks are among the honorees. for more, download the cbs news app on your cell pho or d tv. i'm shanelle kaul, cbs news, new york. tonight, the rebellion in russia and now the kremlin in crisis as we're hearing from vladimir putin and the leader of the revolt for the first time since the armed mutiny. what it means for the war in ukraine. here are tonight's headlines. putin meets with his top security officials tonight. what the unprecedented challenge to the russian president's
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authority means for the dictator. >> we're all concerned by any potential for instability in russia. deadly storms and tornadoes hit the south and midwest as 57 million americans brace for more dangerous weather. >> large hail, wind damage with power outages and the flood threat. >> the excessive heat watches and warnings have expanded. three san antonio police officers have been charged with murder. >> for the way they handled a call involving 46-year-old melissa pettis. >> the shooting officers' actions were not consistent with sapd's policy and training. somebody came down and said, we lost comm. >> for the first time, we're hearing from a family member who lost both her son and her husband on the titan submersible. >> both of them, they really, really wanted to do that for a very long time. the drugmakers behind ozempic are now racing to
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develop a daily people for people who want to lose weight. and how one tiktok creator helped a community. >> in peoria, illinois, many lgbtq and people of color statistically less likely to own homes because of discrimination and wealth gaps are moving here. >> when you really believe you can make a difference, that's life-changing. you feel purpose. >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." we want to begin tonight with the aftermath of the short-lived rebellion that pushed russia to the brink of civil war and also bringing new questions. is vladimir putin's iron grip on power in peril? the kremlin is trying to project a sense of calm, but the extent of the damage to the dictator's standing among the russian people is still unknown. tonight we're hearing for the first time from the mercenary leader since he led the uprising.
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he claims the mutiny was never an attempt to overthrow the government in moscow. in a meeting with russian security officials tonight, putin thanked them for their support, including the defense minister, who the wagner group wanted to be removed. president biden today breaking his silence, saying the west played no role in the mutiny. nato allies and the world are closely monitoring the situation. we have team coverage starting with cbs's ian lee, who is inside ukraine. good evening, ian. >> reporter: good evening, norah. the man behind russia's rebellion is offering his own reason for backing down, saying tonight that he wanted to avoid major bloodshed. yevgeny prigozhin broke his silence today, releasing an audio message for the first time since agreeing to exile after his failed insurrection. the wagner leader denied trying to overthrow russian president vladimir putin and said his fight was with the country's military leaders. but hours later, the russian
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president responded, calling wagner's actions a rebellion and vowing to bring its organizers to justice. u.s. officials tell cbs news they believe prigozhin was still in russia as of this morning, but his current whereabouts are unknown. the revolt began friday evening when prigozhin blamed a russian air strike for killing a large number of his fighters. in retaliation, the mercenary boss marched his troops into russia and seized the city of rostov, home to russia's southern military command. prigozhin then directed them toward moscow to deal, he said, with defense minister sergei shoigu and his top general. social media captured the death and destruction along the way. president vladimir putin began to lock down the capital as soldiers took up defensive positions. heavy equipment ripped up the roads leading to the city. on state tv, president putin attacked prigozhin as a traitor. but with wagner troops less than
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150 miles from moscow, the kremlin seemed to o have cut a deal. wagner troops would be pardoned and return to their bases. criminal charges against prigozhin would be dropped and he'd go into exile in belarus. that agreement tonight now looks in doubt. by the end of the day saturday, wagner forces and prigozhin left rostov to a hero's goodbye, ending the mutiny. this afternoon, president biden distanced the united states from the insurrection. >> we made clear that we were not involved. we had nothing to do with it. this was part of a struggle within the russian system. >> reporter: ukraine eagerly exploited that struggle by stepping up offensive operations, making gains in the east around the town of bakhmut and taking another village in the south. tonight, president putin took aim at the west, telling his people that russia's enemies wanted them to choke on a bloody civil strife, and he offered
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wagner soldiers an option -- join the russian army or choose exile in belarus. norah. >> ian lee with those new developments in ukraine, thank you. and while the mutiny came to an abrupt end after 36 hours, the ramifications are far from over. cbs's ramy inocencio has more on what this means for the future of president vladimir putin and the russian government. >> reporter: invincibility, stability, control. the veneer vladimir putin has built in more than two decades in power until now. an angry yevgeny prigozhin, founder of the wagner mercenary group, launching an unprecedented military challenge to putin. is there blood in the water? >> it's wishful thinking. >> reporter: sergei markov is a former adviser to vladimir putin in moscow. >> i suppose he has some kind of existential crisis because the stability looks like it doesn't exist.
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>> reporter: now, a mix of reaction from moscow streets. "everyone's confused. we need someone to explain what's going on." "i knew our government would sort everything out." "it's normal. we live in russia. we're used to being stressed." the u.s. trying to stay out of the fray. >> regime change is not our policy. we've been very, very clear about that. >> reporter: yet china, mere months after putin and president xi jinping met in moscow, weighing in. china's state-run "the global times" saying russia's situation was trending in the direction the west and ukraine would prefer. putin's invasion of ukraine hasn't gone to plan from the start. russia's losses, more than 200,000 killed or wounded. could this be the beginning of the end for putin? >> for sure not. >> reporter: that former adviser to putin claims that russian support is actually even increasing. he says his truce with prigozhin is more a sign of wisdom and not weakness, potentially setting himself up for next year's presidential election.
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now, this same system produced deadly tornadoes and thunderstorms in america's heartland on sunday. reporter max lewis from our cbs affiliate, wttv, has seen some of the devastation up close outside indianapolis. >> reporter: residents are now surveying the devastation after a tornado ravaged their neighborhood south of indianapolis. families watched in horror as the twister tore apart houses and hurled debris while it carved an unforgiving three-mile path through johnson county on sunday. at least 75 homes were badly damaged. >> you could hear the house coming apart. it was a nightmare. >> reporter: john keith says he saw his walls and windows crumble around him. >> it was overwhelming to see your house and see the outside and know that you were just sitting there, and you could have been dead. >> there is it right there. >> oh, my gosh. >> reporter: three tornadoes were confirmed in indiana, including one that killed a man trapped inside his rural home. multiple tornadoes also wreaked havoc across minnesota.
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in arkansas, lightning struck a plane at little rock airport, and strong winds knocked down trees. one of those fallen trees killed a mother and son. severe weather has also left hundreds of thousands without power in arkansas, tennessee, kentucky, and georgia. and as the storm cleanup continues, several states in the south are prepping for dangerously high temperatures. >> please do what you can to conserve energy. conservation helps the grid. >> reporter: in texas, a 14-year-old hiker died after temperatures reached 119 degrees. his stepfather also died in a car accident as he was going for help. this is center grove, a community about 15 miles south of indianapolis, where that cleanup effort continues tonight. as you can see, tornadoes tore through homes, ripped off roofs, and took down trees and power lines. right now thousands remain in the dark, but everybody out here telling me they are really just thankful to be alive. norah. >> no doubt. max lewis, thank you very much. well, for more on tonight's storms and the record heat expected later in the week,
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let's turn to meteorologist jacqui jeras from our partners at the weather channel. good evening, jacqui. >> good evening, norah. severe storms still breaking out from the carolinas all the way up into parts of vermont. damaging winds and large hail can be expected as these storms track from the west towards the east. it's all part of the same storm system that produced tornadoes in indiana over the weekend. these will continue into the nighttime hours tonight. a break in the action in the morning on your tuesday, and then storms will fire up again, especially east of interstate 95. the air behind that cold front will be cool with this upper low, but the heat persists with this heat dome into the southern plain states. that heat dome will expand over the next couple of days with more millions of americans getting in on triple digits. norah. >> jacqui jeras, thank you. we learned today that prosecutors will seek the death penalty against bryan kohberger, the suspect in the murders last year of four university of idaho
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students. prosecutors say the killings were especially heinous, and kohberger exhibited, quote, utter disregard for human life. defense attorneys claim there is no connection between kohberger and the victims and that dna from three other males was found at the scene. kohberger, a 28-year-old former ph.d. student, is expected to appear in court tomorrow. tonight, three san antonio police officers are out on bond after being charged with murder for the fatal shooting of a woman inside her own home on friday. she appeared to be suffering a mental health crisis. cbs's omar villafranca reports why the police chief called the use of deadly force, quote, not reasonable. [ sound of gunfire ] >> reporter: three san antonio police officers fired a barrage of bullets at 46-year-old melissa pettis in her own home early friday morning. the three, including a 14-year veteran of the force, have been suspended without pay. body camera video edited by the
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police shows an officer approaching pettis after she was suspected of cutting wires to an apartment fire alarm system. >> hey, lady, get over here. >> reporter: pettis ran into her first-floor apartment and refused to come out. the officer went to her back patio and removed the window screen. that's when police say she threw a glass candle, hitting his arm. >> you're going to get shot. >> shoot me. >> reporter: police say they communicated with pettis through the window for more than 30 minutes. additional officers arrived and hopped onto her patio. investigators say she then shattered the glass with a hammer. that's when the first shots were fired. police claim pettis still came towards the door again with the hammer. two more officers began shooting. pettis was hit at least twice and pronounced dead at the scene. >> i had to plan my mom's funeral. >> reporter: alexis tovar says
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her mom had a history of mental health problems. >> what do you think police officers should have done? >> they should have said, hey, hey, don't be scared. we're here to help you. >> reporter: police chief william mcmanus says the shooting was not consistent with the department's training. >> they used deadly force, which was not reasonable given all the circumstances as we now understand them. >> reporter: pettis' daughter said her mother did have schizophrenia and that she did have several run-ins with police in the past but was trying to get better. her family says they plan to file a civil suit against the police department and the city very soon. norah. >> omar villafranca in san antonio, thanks. the shooter who killed 5 people and wounded 17 others at a colorado springs lgbtq nightclub last november pleaded guilty today in the mass shooting. 23-year-old anderson lee aldrich was then sentenced to life in prison. the guilty plea spares victims' families and survivors a painful trial. aldrich may also face federal hate crime charges for the attack at club q.
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officials in montana are monitoring the air and water in the area where a freight train derailed and plunged into the yellowstone river on saturday after a bridge collapsed. nine cars that were carrying hot asphalt and molten sulfur went into the river. officials say so far there's no threat to the public. a crane has been brought in to remove the cars while a dive team assesses the damage underwater. members of the lgbtq+ community have found a way to call home in one midwestern city.
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finally tonight, the dream of owning your own home seems out of reach for millions of americans, including those in the lgbtq+ community. in this pride month, cbs's lilia luciano shows us how the dream is becoming a reality in peoria, illinois. >> reporter: at 30 years old, alex martin owns a home, something she never thought was possible. >> i get a little bit emotional
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