monday's apparent attack the latest in a busy season for new york beachgoers. five bite incidents already this summer, all in just 36 hours over the fourth of july weekend. >> i felt like i was in a trap. it was holding on to me. i didn't know it was a shark. >> reporter: scientists say while still extremely rare, cleaner and warmer wataters cou be contributing. >> we're seeing a lot more bony fishes close to shore than we're used to seeing, and with that come the predators that feed on them. >> reporter: rockaway beach remains closed to the public as officials investigate yesterday's incident. if confirmed, this would mark the first shark bite here since 1953. major. >> alice gainer, thank you. tonight, the city of stars is now a city on strike with thousands of los angeles workers joining an already crowded set of picket lines. government employees, traffic cops, and airport workers hope their one-day disruption of city services will draw attention to

their stalled contract negotiations. and it may be working. here's cbs's mark strassmann. >> reporter: l.a. is a city counting strikes like a bowling alley. 11,000 city employees, all union service workers, are staging a 24-hour walkout. they're indignant. contract talks with the city have sputtered. think of all this as a warning shot, a 24-hour reminder of what disruption feels like. >> here in l.a., it's the cost of living. >> reporter: custodian phyllis stringer echos the frustrations of hundreds rallying outside city hall. double trouble -- low wages, high inflation. >> we need some help. >> you're working too hard and making too little? >> yes, yes. you know, we need a lot more employees to come out to work with the city. >> reporter: more walkouts. two hollywood unions have struck

the set. without the more than 75,000 actors and writers, all studio production has stopped. what's scarce here, insight into an end in sight. l.a.'s labor actions just the latest in america's summer of strikes. widespread walkouts from nurses to baristas. nearly 340,000 union strikers this year, more than ten times the number just two years ago. one unusual demand here, fill existing job openings to ease workloads. >> this is a one-day strike. if you had to strike for real, would you do it? >> if i had to, yes. i'll sacrifice just like i'm sacrificing today. >> reporter: l.a. mayor karen bass is in a tough spot. she's pro-union but very much in the crosshairs of these strikers. she has said they deserve a fair contract, but defining fairness is always the great divide between managemet and workers. major. >> indeed. mark strassmann, thank you. damage from the mayhem in new york city's union square

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this is "cbs news flash." i'm shanelle kaul in new york. the associated press reports that ohio voters rejected a proposal that would have made it more difficult to change the state's constitution. te vote comes ahead of a referendum this november to amend ohio's constitution to protect the right to an abortion. espn is getting into the gambling game. the sports media brand signed a $2 billion licensing deal with gambling company penn entertainment to rebrand penn's current sports buk under the name espn bet. and mourners gathered tuesday as the funeral for singer sinéad o'connor was held in her hometown of brea, ireland. o'connor died last month at the age of 56. 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." good evening, everyone. thank you for joining us. i'm major garrett in for norah. we begin tonight with new details on that violent riverfront dock brawl in montgomery, alabama, that went viral and therefore has drawn nationwide attention. police say arrest warrants have been issued for three individuals on assault charges. this after a simple disagreement turned into a massive fight involving more than a dozen people. videos of this incident blew up on social media after a black boat captain was assaulted by a group of white men. many social media commentators noted the racial makeup of the alleged attackers, but police said today the fight did not fit the criteria of a hate crime. cbs's omar villafranca will start us off tonight from montgomery. omar, good evening. >> reporter: good evening. this is the boat that was trying

to dock but was blocked for more than 40 minutes, which led to what many people are calling the melee in montgomery. a viral boat side brawl that was all hands on deck. >> get out of the way! >> reporter: video taken by eyewitnesses show damien pickett, co-captain of a large riverboat, asking a group to move their pontoon so the riverboat could dock in its assigned space. they refused and attacked pickett, wrestling him to the ground while punching and kicking him. pickett's co-workers and others rushed to his aid, including 16-year-old aaron rudolph, who jumped into the water and swam to help. once the riverboat docked, the fight escalated. one woman was pushed into the river. this man uses a folding chair as a weapon and hits this woman. multiple people recorded the

brawl, including krista owen. >> i just wanted to make sure that the police knew when it came to the end who threw the first punches. >> reporter: today, authorities have charged three white men with third-degree assault and are looking to question the man who was wielding the chair. >> we did examine if there was enough to file hate crime charges on this case, and we've also looked at what it takes to elevate this to a riot. we worked with our local district attorney, and it didn't fit the criteria for that. >> reporter: montgomery's first black mayor, steven reed, says his city shouldn't be marred by this latest incident. >> this is not indicative of who we are, so i think it's important for us to address this as an isolated incident, one that was avoidable. >> reporter: police say this investigation is active and still ongoing and that more charges are expected. major. >> omar villafranca, thank you. tonight, thousands across the mid-atlantic are picking up the pieces and assessing damage

following a series of powerful storms overnight. at least two people were killed, one in alabama and one in south carolina. cbs's meg oliver is in white hall, maryland, where she's seeing some of the damage up close. >> reporter: powerful storms continued to pummel the northeast today with a tornado knocking down trees as it swept through mattapoisett, massachusetts. two days of raging storms caused flooding across the state, making some roads impassable. on monday, from new york to tennessee, the force of mother nature was evident. >> this had to be a tornado. >> reporter: the storms brought down trees and knocked out power for thousands around knoxville, tennessee. eye-opening scenes everywhere. frightened drivers in westminster, maryland, were caught in a dangerous thunderstorm monday as winds up to 80 miles per hour knocked down power lines like dominoes. nearly 50 people were rescued from their cars. the wild weather brought

airports across the east coast to a standstill. kris van cleave is at washington's reagan national airport. >> reporter: what a difference a day makes. only a handful of delays up on the board and just one cancellation here in washington as the nation's airlines recover from the storm that canceled more than 1,700 flights and delayed about 8,000 more. from new york to atlanta, travelers still found themselves camping out at airports, stranded by the storm, waiting for word on when they can finally get a flight home. >> it was hell. >> yeah, so you can just say we're very tired. >> reporter: here in white hall, maryland, a giant oak tree sliced open this house, trapping todd sexton's 76-year-old mother. >> what was she buried under? >> bricks from the chimney, drywall, tree limbs. >> reporter: firefighters quickly rescued her from the debris. >> does it feel like a miracle to you? >> it's -- there is -- there is definitely a guardian angel inside this residence.

>> reporter: today crews removed that big tree that split the house in two and boarded up the roof. meantime, power outages in the mid-atlantic and south have seen a dramatic improvement with less than 200,000 still without electricity. major. >> meg oliver, thank you. for more on the storms and the brutal heat, let's bring in meteorologist chris warren from our partners at the weather channel. chris, good evening. >> good evening, major. as meg showed us, trees are extremely dangerous when there are storms around, whether you're outside or even in your home, and there was a lot of strong winds creating a lot of damage. more than 600 storm reports widespread across the southeast all the way up to new england and the mid-atlantic. heat still a big concern across the southern plains and continuing to expand as well across the gulf coast. and around the gulf coast, you have a lot more access to humidity.

so temperatures, while we're going to see readings into the triple digits, you get close to the gulf and florida, some areas it's going to feel, major, like it's 110-plus. >> chris warren, we thank you. swimmers were kept out of the water today at a popular new york city beach after what's believed to have been an extremely rare shark attack. a 65-year-old woman was severely injured. we get the latest now from alice gainer of our cbs new york station. >> reporter: officials say the 65-year-old woman was about 10 feet into the water at rockaway beach in queens yesterday evening when she felt a pain in her left leg. >> it's crazy. i can't believe someone got attacked. >> reporter: lifeguards rushed in to help, carrying her to shore, applying a tourniquet and keeping her conscious before emts brought her to a local hospital. >> finding out about a shark bite blew my mind. >> reporter: the nypd quickly launched surveillance drones but were unable to spot any sharks. >> it's concerning, but at the end of the day, that's where sharks do live. >> reporter: today another popular beach nearby was closed after a shark sighting. monday's apparent attack the

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>> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." i'm olivia gazis in washington. thanks for staying with us. ukrainian officials are accusing russia of targeting rescue workers in two consecutive missile strikes. the first hit residential buildings in the eastern donetsk region, and shortly after, ukrainian fire and emergency crews arrived at the scene. that's when the second missile hit. at least 7 people were killed and more than 70 were injured. ramy inocencio has the latest from ukraine. > reporter: stutunned and stg at this apartment, its walls crumbling right after russia's strikes, residents of the town of pokrovsk, now turned rescuers, scrambled to help people on the ground. "the flames filled my eyes,"

said this bruised woman. >> the window fell on me, said her neighbor. i've got cuts on my back, knee, and legs. part of this hotel was also smashed, used by many journalists covering this war, including our own c cbs news colleagueses justin june, who sheltered in the hotel basement. ukraine's president volodymyr zelenskyy added we have to stop russian terror. new this morning, ukraine counterintelligence revealed the arrest of three more ukrainian women, also from the district of pokrovsk, alleged to be part of a russian agent network. transmitting movements of combat aircraft and armored vehicles. that claim just one day after the spy agency said another ukrainian woman had gathered intel on zelenskyy's july schedule to mykolaiv, a city near the southeast front line, forr a possible assassination attempt and, quote, massive air

strike on the region. and today's new claim, at least geographically, makes sense. this is in the eastern donetsk region, which borders russia. ukraine's security services says those women were a sleeper cell waiting to be woken up since before the war started. ramy inocencio, cbs news, ukraine. turning now to the women's world cup, france will advance to the quarterfinals after beating morocco 4-0. colombia also moves on after besting jamaica's team. jamaica's run had been one of the cinderella stories of the tournament. the team only made their world cup debut in 2019 and failed to win a single game then. nancy chen reports from melbourne, australia. >> it's now or never for jamaica. >> reporter: even before the reggae girls hit the pitch today, they had already surpassed the world's

expectations. >> here's a chance. >> reporter: their hopes of advancing in only their second world cup appearance dashed by colombia's team captain, whether she rocketed a shot to the back of the net. >> tucks it in so smoothly. >> reporter: along the way of their historic run, no one managed to score on them in the group stage, and they defeated panama while drawing with powerhouse france as well as brazil, who they sent packing. >> jamaica's story was really, really evocative of really just here to play the sport and do the best they can for themselves and their country. >> reporter: the country's soccer federation disbanded the team twice over the past 15 years due to lack of financial backing. this year, the team relied on two crowdfunding campaigns to help afford the trip, raising more than $125,000. >> it's really inspiring to see these women kind of take all the odds. >> reporter: nearly half of the jamaican squad who made the journey to australia and new zealand are american and

qualified for the team by having jamaican roots. that includes these sisters, who grew up in hartford, connecticut, and are playing in their second world cup match. >> you know, it doesn't matter where you come from, what country you come from, no matter how many resources you have, no matter how much support you have, you can do it. you can do anything you put your mind to. >> reporter: ahead of the game, we spoke to the sisters' parents, who hope the team's historic run will help expand women's soccer in jamaica. >> they want to be game changers. they're going to try to make a way that the program there is continued and to see the program move forward. >> reporter: it was a tough game, but historic nonetheless. jamaica is the first caribbean country to make it to the tournament's knockout rounds. colombia will now face england in the quarterfinals. nancy chen, cbs news, melbourne, australia. there's a lot more news ahead on the "cbs overnight news."

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recorded. july 6th was the hottest day. all over the planet, the heat broke temperature records, including in siberia, 103 degrees. more than half the u.s. population was subject to heat warnings in july. here in phoenix, arizona, the heat has broken all kinds of records, including the longest streak of consecutive days where the temperature hit 110 degrees or hotter. >> really cooking today in phoenix. 118 degrees. i think tomorrow will be even hotter. >> reporter: and it's not just the hot air that's dangerous. it's the surfaces. this steering wheel, 162.5. this sidewalk is 144 fahrenheit. that's hot enough to burn your dog's paws in 60 seconds. and this playground slide for children, 182.8 degrees. >> people say, oh, you live in phoenix. it's a dry heat. and honestly, 100, 105 is not

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well, allow me to introduce that breakout weather term of 2023, the heat dome. it's an area of high pressure way up high that traps the warm air like the lid on a pot. it traps the heat. it stops rain from moving in to cool us off. and it just sits there. unfortunately, not every area under the heat dome suffers equally. you want to know who gets the worst of it? >> cities. cities are where heat comes to stay and comes to live. >> reporter: becca benner is the director of climate issues at the nonprofit nature conservancy. >> cities on average are several degrees warmer than the surrounding areas. and just because of so much pavement, it tends to absorb heat better and reflect heat better. >> reporter: they call it the urban heat island effect. too much pavement, not enough trees and greenery to cool things off. the heat island effect is worse in the poorer areas of our cities where there aren't many

trees and even the bus stops don't always offer shade. carlos galvas lives in phoenix without air-conditioning, electricity, or even running water. the thermometer on his wall registers 109. >> are you able to sleep in this heat? [ speaking in a global language ] >> reporter: "if i sleep for half an hour, then i'll lie awake for an hour after that because it's just so hot." do you have some tricks to stay cool in here? [ speaking in a global language ] >> reporter: "i drink a lot of water, and twice a day, i pour a bucket of water on myself, and i just try to rest in the evening." in phoenix, you can get free transportation to the city's 90 cooling centers. >> more hot for me. >> reporter: but ever since he collapsed from the heat last month, galves is worried about leaving his house. "i'm afraid i could faint again if i go out during the day. so i wait till the sun is going down to go out to get ice or water." even for people who have

air-conditioning, not everyone can afford to use it. the average bill for a.c. in phoenix is over $450 a month. >> we have a group of people who have to make very difficult choices. do i pay for air-conditioning, or do i pay for my rent? this kind of heat wave is bringing up all the chinks in the infrastructure. >> reporter: last month, president biden announced some small steps toward adapting to dangerous heat, like expanding access to drinking water, improving weather forecasts, and setting up a heat alert system. >> we should be protecting workers from hazardous conditions, and we will. >> reporter: but gar dar romaine tans there's much more to be done. city planners should develop heat infrastructure, like cooling centers and strategic greenery, and the federal government should start taking heat as seriously as it treats other climate disasters. >> fema has never declared extreme heat as a disaster. >> wait, wait, wait. so flooding and hurricanes, all

those things can be designated federal disaster areas, but not heat? >> not heat. standing up more cooling centers, providing greater services for people. no, that is not reimbursed by the government because there has never been a fema extreme heat declared disaster. >> which climate crisis disaster kills the most people? >> extreme heat is the climate disaster that kills the most people. in fact, it kills more people than all of the other disasters combined. and we kind of have a joke here that we show a picture of before a heat wave, and then we show a picture after a heat wave, and it's the same picture. and that's part of the problem because people see tornadoes and houses are upended and hurricanes and trees and utility poles, and it's this invisible killer. >> so it sounds like heat, among the various climate disasters, does not get enough love from the media and the government. >> it absolutely does not get

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applications that we've received have gone up more than fourfold. >> right now there's not good evidence on the academic impacts of the four-day school week. >> reporter: aaron palace with teachers college columbia university is watching the trend and argues there are better ways to tackle a teacher shortage. >> the best way is to pay them better, and missouri as a state ranks basically last or next to last in the country in terms of teacher salaries. >> reporter: in independence, some parents have had concerns. >> it's a little bit of a shock. >> reporter: but hurl says it's a step they needed to take. >> this really needs to lead to a bigger discussion nationwide about what are we going to do to support the teaching profession? >> reporter: a conversation more districts are facing as students head back to school. bradley blackburn, cbs news, new york. and that's the overnight news for this wednesday. 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 associated press reports that ohio voters rejected a proposal that would have made it more difficult to change the state's constitution. the vote comes ahead of a referendum this november to amend ohio's constitution to protect the right to an abortion. espn is getting into the gambling game. the sports media brand signed a $2 billion licensing deal with gambling company penn entertainment to rebrand penn's current sportsbook under the name espn bet. and mourners gathered tuesday as the funeral for singer sinéad o'c nor was held in her hometown of bray, ireland. o'connor died last month at the age of 56. for more, download the cbs news app on your cell phone or connected tv le kaul, cbs news, w york.

tonight, the assault charges after a massive brawl breaks out at a dock in alabama. what police are saying tonight about whether or not the fight was racially motivated. here are tonight's headlines. the violent altercation caught on video. what sparked the fight and why more charges are expected. >> this is not indicative of who we are as a city. the city of montgomery is much better than that. we won't take it anymore! >> nearly 11,000 city workers are walking off the job in los angeles today, demanding higher pay and benefits. >> members of the union representing these employees are accusing the city of refusing to honor previous agreements and engaging in unfair labor practices. deadly storms sweep through the east coast, causing mayhem on the roads and in the sky. >> here in maryland, this tree sliced through this home, trapping the homeowner inside under a pile of debris. >> the nation's airlines are in recovery mode after the storm

canceled more than 1,700 flights and delayed nearly 8,000 more. breaking news. a divided supreme court allows president biden to regulate ghost guns. what it means for the country. >> these guns are weapons of choice for many criminals. rockaway beach remains closed after a woman was attacked by a shark. >> bitten so badly there, she was rushed to the hospital. a record jackpot. tonight's mega millions prize surpasses $1.5 billion. ♪ everybody clap your hands ♪ ♪ how low can you go ♪ and remembering the deejay who brought us the "cha-cha slide." ♪ i'm out of here, y'all ♪ ♪ peace ♪ >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." good evening, everyone.

thank you for joining us. i'm major garrett in for norah. we begin tonight with new details on that violent riverfront dock brawl in montgomery, alabama, that went viral and therefore has drawn nationwide attention. police say arrest warrants have been issued for three individuals on assault charges. this after a simple disagreement turned into a massive fight involving more than a dozen people. videos of this incident blew up on social media after a black boat captain was assaulted by a group of white men. many social media commentators noted the racial makeup of the alleged attackers, but police said today the fight did not fit the criteria of a hate crime. cbs's omar villafranca will start us off tonight from montgomery. omar, good evening. >> reporter: good evening. this is the boat that was trying to dock but was blocked for more than 40 minutes, which led to what many people are calling the melee in montgomery. a viral boat side brawl that was all hands on deck. >> get out of the way!

>> reporter: video taken by eyewitnesses show damien pickett, co-captain of a large riverboat, asking a group to move their pontoon so the riverboat could dock in its assigned space. they refused and attacked pickett, wrestling him to the ground while punching and kicking him. pickett's co-workers and others rushed to his aid, including 16-year-old aaron rudolph, who jumped into the water and swam to help. once the riverboat docked, the fight escalated. one woman was pushed into the river. this man uses a folding chair as a weapon and hits this woman. multiple people recorded the brawl, including krista owen. >> i just wanted to make sure that the police knew when it came to the end who threw the first punches. >> reporter: today, authorities have charged three white men

with third-degree assault and are looking to question the man who was wielding the chair. >> we did examine if there was enough to file hate crime charges on this case, and we've also looked at what it takes to elevate this to a riot. we worked with our local district attorney, and it didn't fit the criteria for that. >> reporter: montgomery's first black mayor, steven reed, says his city shouldn't be marred by this latest incident. >> this is not indicative of who we are, so i think it's important for us to address this as an isolated incident, one that was avoidable. >> reporter: police say this investigation is active and still ongoing and that more charges are expected. major. >> omar villafranca, thank you. tonight, thousands across the mid-atlantic are picking up the pieces and assessing damage following a series of powerful storms overnight. at least two people were killed, one in alabama and one in south carolina. cbs's meg oliver is in white hall, maryland, where she's seeing some of the damage up close.

>> reporter: powerful storms continued to pummel the northeast today with a tornado knocking down trees as it swept through mattapoisett, massachusetts. two days of raging storms caused flooding across the state, making some roads impassable. on monday, from new york to tennessee, the force of mother nature was evident. >> this had to be a tornado. >> reporter: the storms brought down trees and knocked out power for thousands around knoxville, tennessee. eye-opening scenes everywhere. >> aaron! >> reporter: frightened drivers in westminster, maryland, were caught in a dangerous thunderstorm monday as winds up to 80 miles per hour knocked down power lines like dominoes. nearly 50 people were rescued from their cars. the wild weather brought airports across the east coast to a standstill. kris van cleave is at washington's reagan national airport. >> reporter: what a difference a day makes. only a handful of delays up on the board and just one

cancellation here in washington as the nation's airlines recover from the storm that canceled more than 1,700 flights and delayed about 8,000 more. from new york to atlanta, travelers still found themselves camping out at airports, stranded by the storm, waiting for word on when they can finally get a flight home. >> it was hell. >> yeah, so you can just say we're very tired. >> reporter: here in white hall, maryland, a giant oak tree sliced open this house, trapping todd sexton's 76-year-old mother. >> what was she buried under? >> bricks from the chimney, drywall, tree limbs. >> reporter: firefighters quickly rescued her from the debris. >> does it feel like a miracle to you? >> it's -- there is -- there is definitely a guardian angel inside this residence. >> reporter: today crews removed that big tree that split the house in two and boarded up the roof. meantime, power outages in the mid-atlantic and south have seen a dramatic improvement with less than 200,000 still without electricity.

major. >> meg oliver, thank you. for more on the storms and the brutal heat, let's bring in meteorologist chris warren from our partners at the weather channel. chris, good evening. >> good evening, major. as meg showed us, trees are extremely dangerous when there are storms around, whether you're outside or even in your home, and there was a lot of strong winds creating a lot of damage. more than 600 storm reports widespread across the southeast all the way up to new england and the mid-atlantic. heat still a big concern across the southern plains and continuing to expand as well across the gulf coast. and around the gulf coast, you have a lot more access to humidity. so temperatures, while we're going to see readings into the triple digits, you get close to the gulf and florida, some areas it's going to feel, major, like it's 110-plus. >> chris warren, we thank you.

>> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." swimmers were kept out of the water today at a popular new york city beach after what's believed to have been an extremely rare shark attack. a 65-year-old woman was severely injured. we get the latest now from alice gainer of our cbs new york station. >> reporter: officials say the 65-year-old woman was about 10 feet into the water at rockaway beach in queens yesterday evening when she felt a pain in her left leg. >> it's crazy. i can't believe someone got attacked. >> reporter: lifeguards rushed in to help, carrying her to shore, applying a tourniquet and keeping her conscious before emts brought her to a local hospital. >> finding out about a shark bite blew my mind. >> reporter: the nypd quickly launched surveillance drones but were unable to spot any sharks. >> it's concerning, but at the end of the day, that's where sharks do live. >> reporter: today another popular beach nearby was closed after a shark sighting.

monday's apparent attack the latest in a busy season for new york beachgoers. five bite incidents already this summer, all in just 36 hours over the fourth of july weekend. >> i felt like i was in a trap. it was holding on to me. i didn't know it was a shark. >> reporter: scientists say while still extremely rare, cleaner and warmer waters could be contributing. >> we're seeing a lot more bony fishes close to shore than we're used to seeing, and with that come the predators that feed on them. >> reporter: rockaway beach remains closed to the public as officials investigate yesterday's incident. if confirmed, this would mark the first shark bite here since 1953. major. >> alice gainer, thank you. tonight, the city of stars is now a city on strike with thousands of los angeles workers joining an already crowded set of picket lines. government employees, traffic cops, and airport workers hope their one-day disruption of city services will draw attention to their stalled contract

negotiations. and it may be working. here's cbs's mark strassmann. >> reporter: l.a. is a city counting strikes like a bowling alley. 11,000 city employees, all union service workers, are staging a 24-hour walkout. they're indignant. contract talks with the city have sputtered. think of all this as a warning shot, a 24-hour reminder of what disruption feels like. >> here in l.a., it's the cost of living. >> reporter: custodian phyllis stringer echos the frustrations of hundreds rallying outside city hall. double trouble -- low wages, high inflation. >> we need some help. >> you're working too hard and making too little? >> yes, yes. you know, we need a lot more employees to come out to work with the city. >> reporter: more walkouts. two hollywood unions have struck the set.

without the more than 75,000 actors and writers, all studio production has stopped. what's scarce here, insight into an end in sight. l.a.'s labor actions just the latest in america's summer of strikes. widespread walkouts from nurses to baristas. nearly 340,000 union strikers this year, more than ten times the number just two years ago. one unusual demand here, fill existing job openings to ease workloads. >> this is a one-day strike. if you had to strike for real, would you do it? >> if i had to, yes. i'll sacrifice just like i'm sacrificing today. >> reporter: l.a. mayor karen bass is in a tough spot. she's pro-union but very much in the crosshairs of these strikers. she has said they deserve a fair contract, but defining fairness is always the great divide between management and workers. major. >> indeed. mark strassmann, thank you. damage from the mayhem in new york city's union square

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act where a person has to appear in person, present identification, and pass a background check. >> reporter: thomas chittum is the former number two at the atf and helped draft the regulations. >> increasingly what we've seen is that criminals turn to the internet, order these kits from the comfort of their home, assemble them, and have a firearm that is not easily detected by law enforcement. >> reporter: atf figures show the number of ghost guns recovered more than doubled from 2020 to 2021. police say it's led to violent crime like this incident in new york last month, when a 25-year-old man on a scooter allegedly shot up six locations across the city using a ghost gun. opponents to the new regulations argue in federal court atf doesn't have the legal authority to change gun laws on its own. the case could drag on for years. the white house says it will continue to use every tool available to stop gun violence in our country. major. >> ed o'keefe, thank you very much. there's been another big campaign shake-up in the 2024

race for president. republican candidate and florida governor ron desantis has demoted his campaign manager and put the chief of staff of his governor's office in charge of his 2024 bid. this move comes just weeks after desantis let go of about a third of his campaign workers. desantis has been struggling to gain traction against the front-runner for the gop nomination, former president trump. now to mega millions mania. the third largest jackpot in history is up for grabs tonight with an estimated $1.58 billion on the line, or a $783 million lump sum payout. now, the odds of winning, well, they're not in your favor. but as cbs's carter evans reports, all it takes is $2 and a dream. >> reporter: across the country, people are lining up to pay up. >> it's going to be a winner! >> reporter: for a minuscule chance at becoming a billionaire. >> if you don't play, you can't win. >> reporter: the lottery is the

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cars might fly one day, but we hope not like this. a home in central pennsylvania was badly damaged when a car crashed into the second floor. you can see here how it got wedged upstairs. police say the driver intentionally launched the car into the house, and, not surprisingly, will face criminal charges. no one inside was injured. dangerous currents were no match for the impressive teamwork displayed by a group of lifeguards in flagler beach, florida. drone video shot last weekend shows the lifeguards forming a perfectly choreographed human chain, connecting themselves with ropes and buoys to rescue a man on a boogie board who apparently ended up too far from shore. they got him back on dry land in no time. finally, we learned today that musician dj casper has died following a seven-year battle with cancer. you might not know his name, but you definitely followed his orders on the dance floor. ♪ right foot, let's stomp ♪ ♪ left foot, let's stomp ♪ ♪ cha cha now y'all ♪

>> the chicago native is best known as the creator of the world famous cha cha slide. the hit song, released in 1998, initially caught on at fitness centers around chicago before exploding on the radio -- yes, the radio -- two years later. cha cha slide became a staple at weddings, flash mobs, and sporting events. the infectious song even spent weeks on the u.s. and british music charts. dj casper, born william perry jr., was 58 years old. and that is the overnight news for this wednesday. for some of you, the news continues. for others, please check back later for "cbs mornings." and of course you can follow us online anytime at cbsnews.com. reporting from the nation's capital, i'm major garrett.

this is "cbs news flash." i'm shanelle kaul in new york. the associated press reports that ohio voters rejected a proposal that would have made it more difficult to change the state's constitution. the vote comes ahead of a referendum this november to amend ohio's constitution to protect the right to an abortion. espn is getting into the gambling game. the sports media brand signed a $2 billion licensing deal with gambling company penn entertainment to rebrand penn's current sportsbook under the name espn bet. and mourners gathered tuesday as the funeral for singer sinéad o'connor was held in her hometown of bray, ireland. o'connor died last month at the age of 56. for more, download the cbs news app on your cell phone or connected tv. i'm shanelle kaul, cbs news, new york.