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good evening and thank you so much for joining us. tonight millions are under flood alerts as life-threatening monsoons swamp the southwest. in nevada police are investigating the death of -- at one popular burning man festival where thousands are still stranded in the mud-soaked black rock city, where two months' days. organizers there warning people still in the desert area to conserve water and fuel. and in san bernardino, california several roads are impassable, even for big rigs like these after storms swept through that area. cbs's elise preston starts us off tonight from california. elise? >> reporter: jericka, the burning man festival is a celebration of art and creativity that happens every year. but heavy rain swamped the event, leaving many stuck and sheltering in place. tens of thousands stranded at the burning man festival, forced

to hunker down in the nevada desert as authorities tell them to conserve food and water. >> we are not allowed out of the playa. the gates are locked. we -- we're okay. we have enough tuna for a week. >> reporter: as crews work to clear a safe path out of the makeshift town, cell phone equipment is being brought in to help those who got stuck after heavy rain trapped them in flooded camp sites. >> this is my front door. these are my very, very muddy boots. >> reporter: justin schuman is one of the many trudging through the mud. he's on his tenth day at burning man. >> can you describe the mud? >> it was really, really wet and really, really slick. but it's also very alkaline. so you do have to be careful for no prolonged exposure of your skin to the mud because apparently it can actually start to really gently burn your skin. >> reporter: schum sxn his friends have enough supplies to make it through a few more days and are sharing whatever they can with others. >> what i have seen personally

is resilience. i've seen a huge amount of people coming together. i have seen strangers hugging strangers. i have seen people gifting things to others. >> reporter: more rain could hit the southwest deserts. thunderstorms already caused flash flooding in arizona, las vegas, and near the california-arizona border. now, some burning man festivalgoers are trying to slog their way out in pickup trucks and rvs. organizers say if they can clear the way tomorrow that traffic jam could be longer than 12 hours. jericka? >> elise preston for us. thank you. well, the flooding in the southwest is just one example of the extreme weather this holiday weekend. let's check in with meteorologist lynette charles from our partners at the weather channel. lynette, good evening. >> good evening, jericka. we are talking about the monsoon thunderstorms back off toward the west here. and with all that rain we do have some flood watches up for all these areas shaded in the

green coloring. we're also watching the tropics. yes, from the monsoons to the tropics, it is brewing. this has a few days to really .- get its act together. but again, we're going to continue to monitor that for you as well. and then we do have potential record highs across much of the nation as we head through the mid-week. so again, the heat is going to be quite dangerous in places like the mid-atlantic, down off toward the south as well. make sure everybody stays safe. jericka? >> lynette charles, thank you. the man who escaped from a prison in the suburbs of philadelphia has been spotted on camera. danelo cavalcante broke out from the chester state prison on thursday. yesterday he was spotted here on security cameras about a mile and a half from the prison. people in that area have been advised to remain indoors while the search is under way. now, last month he was convicted on first-degree murder for fatally stabbing his former girl girlfriend, debra brandao, 38 times in front of her two young

children. well, turning now to politics, lawmakers are worried fema and other federal agencies could run out of money by the end of this month. cbs's skyler henry is on capitol hill tonight with more on what's being done to provide funding that some lawmakers say is crucial. skyler, good evening. >> reporter: hey, jericka, good to see you. well, congress has that end of the month deadline to fund federal agencies including securing money for disaster relief as both time and resources are running out. in florida over the weekend president biden called on lawmakers to guarantee more funding to assist disaster response work. >> i'm confident because i can't imagine the congress saying we're not going to help. there are going to be fights about things that don't really to this, trying to connect this to other money or not. >> reporter: but the fight over spending will continue as congress returns to capitol hill, looking to avoid what could be a partial government shutdown when the current fiscal

year wraps up at the end of september. the white house wants a stopgap funding bill passed to temporarily keep the lights on at federal agencies. >> speaker mccarthy should have the independence to be able to make and negotiate with his team on that side and to bring together enough votes to pass it. what we do know is a government shutdown is not good for anybody. >> reporter: several house republicans insist there's a need for a slew of cuts in order for them to support a series of bills that would prevent a spending freeze. the most conservative are also pushing pressure on speaker kevin mccarthy, pushing for an impeachment inquiry into president biden and his ties to his son hunter's business dealings. >> if funding is stalled, if there's a government shutdown, that would stop all of these investigations. that's absolutely the wrong thing. >> reporter: now, to be clear, house committee chairmen have not uncovered any evidence showing that president biden benefited financially from his son hunter's businesses. as for the president, he heads

to india this week to take part in the g20 summit where he will meet with other world leader to discuss a range of issues including the global economy, climate change and ending poverty. jericka? >> skyler henry reporting tonight from capitol hill. thank you. pope francis became the first pontiff to celebrate a mass in mongolia. the pope presided over a ceremony attended by most of the central asian nation's 1,500 catholics. pope francis used the occasion to urge mongolia's neighbor china to relax restrictions on religious activity. dragon separation is confirmed. >> today a spacex crew began their journey back home. the spacex dragon undocked from the iss this morning. it spent six months at the space station and is expected to splash down overnight off the coast of florida and the atlantic ocean. well, we have a recall alert this labor day weekend. hillshire farms is recalling more than 15,000 pounds of its

ready to eat pork, turkey and beef smoked sausage. the company says the products, which were shipped to seven states including california and new york, could contain bone fragments. flamingos have a flamboyant return to florida. locals spotted as many as 70 of them on florida's west coast. some scientists believe the birds were traveling from mexico to cuba when hurricane idalia blew them off course. florida's wildlife officials say flamingos were once native to the state. however, they started to disappear in the 1920s. there's a lot more news ahead on the "cbs overnight news." p

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york. thanks so much for staying with us. the new academic year gets under way for america's 52 million public school students. warning of an uptick in covid cases. right now infections, hospitalizations and deaths are up more than 20% nationwide. in los angeles cases have doubled in the past month with nursing homes hit hard. on the east coast in new jersey one out of four nursing homes are reporting an outbreak. here's cbs's michael george. >> reporter: instead of handing out homework, multiple school districts in kentucky are handing out covid tests. >> a lot of them are testing positive we don't know about. but the ones we do know about. >> reporter: schools closed in at least two counties in kentucky as well as a small district in texas with students and staff out sick. >> it was a no-brainer that it was in the best interest of keeping everyone safe. >> reporter: the number of covid cases is edging up nationwide. hospitalizations jumped more than 21% in one week.

>> hospitalizations are up because covid transmission is up. but who's actually getting sick enough to end up in the hospital? it's the elderly. so really people 70 and up are driving most of that, almost the entire increase that we're seeing in hospitalizations right now. >> reporter: a hollywood studio and some academic and hospital settings are requiring masks again. health officials say while that's not expected to become a widespread practice high-risk individuals may want to consider wearing one. updated covid boosters will be available mid september, once the fda signs off and the cdc sets eligibility guidelines. the annual flu shot is out now. and best taken in october. you can get both at the same time. experts say if you do test positive for covid the best practice still stands. >> if you're able to stay home until you test negative on a rapid test for covid, that would be the ideal. >> reporter: the cdc expects this trending uptick to continue into the fall. michael george, cbs news, new york. if you've been following mortgage rates, you know they

dipped last week. 30-year fixed rate mortgages are now about 7 1/2%. that's still the highes in decades. well, if you're looking for a home in, say, jackson hole, wyoming you're probably not worried about the interest rate. ben tracy explains. >> reporter: jackson, wyoming is often called the last of the old west. its cowboy culture runs so deep it even rides along on the morning cup of coffee. and while some of the best things in life here may be free, you pay a steep price to live in this valley known as jackson hole. >> i love this community and i love the place where i live. but there is always that question in the back of your mind of are you going to be able to survive here. >> reporter: elizabeth hunchings moved here from massachusetts in 2018. for the first seven months the only place she could afford to live was in her van. >> between living in your van, your car, and various apartments how many places have you lived

here in four years? >> let's see. van. eight or nine. and in a lot of places there's been that question of oh, this is home but for how long. >> reporter: teton county is now home to a divide bigger than those mountains for which it's named. it is the wealthiest and most unequal in america. the average income here is $318,000. and the average single-family home price is now more than $5.5 million. that's left a food pantry overwhelmed by demand staring at $6 million townhomes rising across the street. >> the level of wealth you see and the level of disparity that you see, i mean, some people have more money than you can spend in ten lifetimes. >> reporter: there's a saying in town that you either have three homes or three jobs p many workers have been forced to che cheaper towns nearly 40 miles away over sometimes treacherous

roads. hutchings works at a local restaurant, and when we met last summer she shared this basement apartment with a roommate. since then she's had to move again. >> this area here is actually one of the holdovers in town that i imagine in five years even will look very different. >> reporter: yale school of the environment professor justin farrell grew up in wyoming and is author of the book "billionaire wilderness." he says the middle class here has been completely hollowed out. >> inequality is an issue playing out across the country. is it uniquely bad here? >> it is uniquely bad, actually. i's nation-leading bad. if you're making 40, 50, 60 thousand dollars you're likely living in your car or you're living 45 minutes away. for most people it's becoming unlivable. >> reporter: the reason, he says, is that the ultra wealthy find teton county very livable. their arrival here accelerated

during covid. the desire for multimillion-dollar mountain escapes has created a new land rush. >> americans have always looked west. it's always been the lode star of american identity. and probably jackson hole with the cowboy image and the tetons, it's i think what makes it so special for so many people. on top of that it's functionally a tax haven. so wyoming does not have a state income tax. it doesn't have a corporate tax. so it's a really great place to park your money legally. and so you have these millionaires, even billionaires dressing in wrangler jeans, dressing down, trying to avoid any sort of class indicators that might make them look wealthy. and i think it's really well intentioned. >> reporter: phil hartle is a private wealth adviser who moved here from high tax california. >> good girl. >> reporter: he and his wife monica relocated to jackson in late 2020. >> it was really about living in a different kind of place and really being closer to nature. and so it's tremendous to be a

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on this labor day there's a woman in kentucky who can teach us all an important lesson on how to find the joy in work. steve hartman found her story on the road. >> reporter: we set out this week to find someone who x exemplifies the spirit of the american worker and wound up here, in cleveland, tennessee at tenova health care, where 85-year-old doris caldwell holds one of the least glamorous, most physically challenging jobs in the hospital. >> hello. my name is doris. i'm the housekeeping. can i come in and clean your floor? >> reporter: she's been at this 50 years. >> okay. thank you. >> reporter: but what makes her special isn't just her longevity, her geniality or even her flexibility. >> could you bend over, touch your toes? >> you want to see me? >> reporter: instead, what makes doris remarkable is that cleaning rooms is and always has been her dream job. back in the '60s doris used to

pass by this hospital and say to herself, i'm going to work there someday. she didn't care if it was as a doctor or dishwasher. all she wanted was to play some role in making people better. >> i dreamed of helping people. and that dream is still going on. >> reporter: and her attitude still inspiring others. from the ceo -- >> her aura is something that you want to be around. >> reporter: -- to the doctors. >> i've never heard her have a single complaint. >> reporter: to the maintenance crews. >> she just likes to work. >> reporter: everyone is stumped by her stamina. >> i asked her one time when she was going to retire, and she said, no. just no. >> no. i think i would just dry up and fly away. >> reporter: her vow to stay on is reassuring to everyone at tenova. except maybe this one nurse. >> because i don't think i can retire and her still working. >> reporter: her daughter sharon

has been here 44 years. she's stuck. but feels blessed to be so. >> she's just an amazing lady. >> reporter: this labor day we celebrate all those dutiful inexhaustible american workers, those who cheerfully keep this country running, those who will enjoy monday, just not as much as tuesday. >> is there anything else i can do for you, sir? >> reporter: steve hartman on the road. >> you have a great day. >> reporter: in cleveland, tennessee. the singer who brought the carefree salt life of margaritaville to millions of americans passed away this weekend. jimmy buffett was 76 years old. his friend bill flanigan looks back on his life and remarkable career. ♪ changes in latitude ♪ ♪ changes in attitude ♪ ♪ nothing remains quite the same ♪ >> reporter: jimmy buffett was a good friend of mine, and i was not the only one. ♪ cheeseburger in paradise ♪

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jimmy allergic to taking himself seriously. he said his audience worked hard all week. he owed them a two-hour vacation. ♪ jimmy said he started his first margaritaville restaurant and bar in key west because he figured if he owned his own saloon he'd always have a place to play. it was a fallblback in casee hi musical career fizzled out. ♪ yes, i am a piratee ♪ jimmy buffett was the most positive person i ever knew. everything was an adventure. and if the adventure went sideways, well, we'd come home with a good story. in his final days he assured his friends he'd be back on his feet in a couple of weeks. jimmy buffett spent his

you don't need to see the devastation in parts of florida to know that hurricane season is in full swing. michael george has some simple preparations you can make before you find yourself in the crosshairs of a major storm.

>> reporter: hurricane victims are only starting to assess the damage that idalia left behind. the red cross says it's a reminder for us to take stock. >> it's important when you're talking about hurricane preparedness that it really is personalized to your individual family. >> reporter: jonathan mcnamara with the american red cross says everyone should have a kit ready in case they need to evacuate. that kit should include food, water, flashlights, cell phone chargers and medications. >> if you're forced from your home for a couple days or longer or if you're going to be coming to a red cross emergency shelter we also encourage people to bring copies of those important documents, your passports, insurance information. >> reporter: but even after the hurricane passes the danger isn't over. avoid returning to storm-damaged areas until emergency officials say it's safe. >> you could have downed power lines. you could have floodwaters that have animals and snakes as well as other chemicals and debris that could cause not only further harm to you but endanger pets and other families of your family. >> reporter: when you return

home to the devastated area there are essentials you should bring. >> it starts with making sure you have gloves on, protective gear, especiaially if you coulde dealing with homes that have mold. we encourage people to wear masks and eye protection. >> reporter: and take plenty of photos and videos of any damage both inside and outside your home for insurance claims. michael george, new york. >> and that is the "overnight news" for this monday. for some of you the news continues. for others check back later for "cbs mornings" and of course follow us online anytime at cbsnews.com. reporting from the broadcast center here in new york city, i'm jericka duncan. this is "cbs news flash." i'm matt pieper in new york. ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskykyy says he e is rerepl ththe coununtry's defense minis.

the move comes amid allllegatio of c corruption a against the ministstry of defense and just hours after russian drones attacked a port in the odesa region. two nasa astronauts, a russian cosmonaut and a united arab emirates astronaut who were all part of the spacex mission were now back on earth. their dragon capsule splashed down off the coast of florida overnight. the crew spent six months aboard the international space station. and thousands paraded through the streets of key west, florida in honor of jimmy buffett, who died on friday. he was 76 years old. for more download the cbs news app o n your tv. i'm matt pieper, cbs news, new rk. trapped in the desert. heavy rain and mud leaves thousands stranded at nevada's burning man festival. one death under investigation.

organizers tell attendees to conserve food and water. it could be days before roads are passable. >> can you set the mood as far as what it's like right there right now? >> there are people here who are really struggling and who are just itching and aching to get out. also, september sizzle. much of the country is in for a new round of potentially record-breaking heat. we'll have your labor day forecast. plus, manhunt update. a convicted murderer in pennsylvania spotted on this security camera less than two miles from the prison where he escaped. nationwide recall. the popular brand of meat products being pulled from store shelves. what you need to know. report card. many of america's children are playing catch-up in school. the post-pandemic challenges for educators, parents and students. and later, perfectly imperfect. a lesson for humans from pets commanding our attention. >> he's as happy as can be. so nobody has to feel sorry for

him. >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." good evening and thank you so much for joining us. tonight millions are under flood alerts as life-threatening monsoons swamp the southwest. in nevada police are investigating the death of -- at one popular burning man festival where thousands are still stranded in the mud-soaked black rock city where two months' worth of rain fell in just two days. organizers there warning people still in the desert area to conserve water and fuel. and in san bernardino, california several roads are impassable even for big rigs like these after storms swept through that area. cbs's elise preston starts us off tonight from california. elise? >> reporter: jericka, the burning man festival is a celebration of art and creativity that happens every year. but heavy rain swamped the

event, leaving many stuck and sheltering in place. tens of thousands stranded at the burning man festival, forced to hunker down in the nevada desert as authorities tell them to conserve food and water. >> we are not allowed out of the playa. the gates are locked. we -- we're okay. we have enough tuna for a week. >> reporter: as crews work to clear a safe path out of the makeshift town, cell phone equipment is being brought in to help those who got stuck after heavy rain trapped them in flooded camp sites. >> this is my front door. these are my very, very muddy boots. >> reporter: justin schuman is one of the many trudging through the mud. he's on his tenth day at burning man. can you describe the mud? >> it was really, really wet and really, really slick. but it's also very alkaline. so you do have to be careful for no prolonged exposure of your skin to the mud because

apparently it actually can start to really gently burn your skin. >> reporter: schuman and his friends have enough supplies to make it through a few more days and are sharing whatever they can with others. >> what i have seen personally is resilience. i've seen a huge amount of people coming together. i have seen strangers hugging strangers. i have seen people gifting things to others. >> reporter: more rain could hit the southwest desert. thunderstorms already caused flash flooding in arizona, las vegas and near the california-arizona border. now, some burning man festivalgoers are trying to slog their way out in pickup trucks and rvs. organizers say if they can clear the way tomorrow that traffic jam could be longer than 12 hours. jericka? >> elise preston for us. thank you. well, the flooding in the southwest is just one example of the extreme weather this holiday weekend. let's check in with meteorologist lynette charles from our partners at the weather channel. lynette, good evening.

>> good evening, jericka. we are talking about the monsoon thunderstorms back off toward the west here. and with that, all that rain, we do have some flood watches up for all these areas here shaded in the green coloring. we're also watching the tropics. yes, from the monsoons to the tropics it is brewing. we are watching invest 95l. this has a few days to really get its act together. but again, we're going to continue to monitor that for you as well. and then we do have potential record highs across much of the nation as we head through the mid-week. so again, the heat is going to be quite dangerous in places like the mid-atlantic down off toward the south as well. make sure everybody stays safe. jericka? >> lynette charles, thank you. the man who escaped from a prison in the sburbs of philadelphia has been spotted on camera. danelo cavalcante broke out from the chester state prison on thursday. yesterday he was spotted here on security cameras about a mile and a half from the prison.

people in that area have been advised to remain indoors while the search is under way. now, last month he was convicted on first degree murder for fatally stabbing his former girlfriend, debra brandao, 38 times in front of her two young children. well, turning now to politics, lawmakers are worried fema and other federal agencies could run out of money by the end of this month. cbs's skyler henry is on capitol hill tonight with more on what's being done to provide funding that some lawmakers say is crucial. skyler, good evening. >> reporter: hey, jericka, good to see you. well, congress has that end of the month deadline to fund federal agencies including securing money for disaster relief as both time and resources are running out. in florida over the weekend president biden called on lawmakers to guarantee more funding to assist disaster response work. >> i'm confident because i can't imagine the congress saying we're not going to help. there are going to be fights about things that don't relate to this, trying to connect this

to other money or not. >> reporter: but the fight over spending will continue as congress returns to capitol hill. looking to avoid what could be a partial government shutdown when the current fiscal year wraps up at the end of september. the white house wants a stopgap funding bill passed to temporarily keep the lights on at federal agencies. >> speaker mccarthy should have the independence to be able to make and negotiate with his team on that side and to bring together enough votes to pass it. what we do know is a government shutdown is not good for anybody. >> reporter: several house republicans insist there's a need for a slew of cuts in order for them to support a series of bills that would prevent a spending freeze. the most conservative are also putting pressure on speaker kevin mccarthy, pushing for an impeachment inquiry into president biden and his possible ties to his son hunter's business dealings. >> if funding is stalled, if there is a government shutdown, that would stop all of these investigations.

that's absolutely the wrong thing. >> reporter: now, to be clear, house committee chairmen have not uncovered any evidence showing that president biden benefited financially from his son hunter's businesses. as for the president, he heads to india this week to take part in the g20 summit where he will meet with other world leaders to discuss a range of issues including the global economy, climate change and ending poverty. jericka? >> skyler henry reporting tonight from capitol hill. thank you. there's a lot more news ahead on the "cbs overnight news."

>> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." now to the war in ukraine.

today several people were hurt after russia launched a drone attack in ukraine's odesa region. it comes a day before president putin is set to meet with turkey's president. they're expected to resume talks about a deal that could ease a growing food shortage impacting ukraine and other countries. cbs's debora patta is in kharkiv, where rows of graves are growing by the day as fighting intensifies. >> reporter: these young boys have come to bury their father. yevgeny huchnik, who died fighting in donetsk ten days ago. their grief is still so raw. it is hard to let go. his casket is lowered into the ground alongside other fallen soldiers from kharkiv. the piece of land carved out for them at the cemetery just keeps on growing. in the short space of time that

we've been here two new bodies were brought to be buried. and that's an almost daily occurrence here. ukraine never releases figures of their losses, but in the three months since their counteroffensive kicked off there's been a sharp increase. oksana's husband was taken out by an airstrike. "it's hard to accept he's gone," she says. "it's only when i am here that it sinks in. i feel as if he's still alive somewhere on a mission." she was married to pavlo for five years. they agreed if he was killed in action she'd take his place. now w she's fighting in bakhmum. hunting here for a russian anti-tank unit. this is just one mortuary near the front line, whwhere unknown soldiers are brought straight from the battlefield. it is margo's job to help put names to the fallen, until one day it was personal.

"the worst day was when they brought my husband here," she said. "it was the hardest day of my life." the trail of death passing through these doors seems neverending. and every day young children are learning that war is not some distant historical event. it's right on their doorstep. and they are living through it in the worst possible way. debora patta, cbs news, kharkiv. pope francis today became the first pontiff to celebrate a mass in mongolia. the pope presided over a ceremony attended by most of the central asian nation's 1,500 catholics. pope francis used the occasion to urge mongolia's neighbor china to relax restrictions on religious activity. well, as we celebrate labor day here's a new term to consider. companies are experiencing what some are calling the great gloom. according to a recent poll,

employee happiness dropped 16% since the height of the pandemic and this summer many workers hit the picket lines to express their dissatisfaction. cbs's astrid martinez has the very latest. >> what do we want? when do we want it? >> now! >> reporter: if 2023 is the summer of strikes, then we're now in the dog days. in the latest move by laborers one of america's biggest unions is ready to walk off the job. automakers gm, ford and stellantis have less than two weeks to strike a deal with workers. >> there's no excuse. at the end of this if we get to the 14th and they haven't delivered then we've got to do what we've got to do. >> reporter: the union is demanding significant pay raises to match the pay increases of corporate executives. >> when we go through these negotiation seasons, the reality is this. we're still wanting. >> reporter: in response gm released a two-minute video saying if the contract expires both sides can agree to extend the current contract to allow

more time for negotiations, an option rejected by the union's president. in hollywood the writers' strike is entering its fifth month. the dual protest along with screen actors is costing california's economy an estimated $3 billion. and oregon health and sciences university says it will keep working toward a new contract with nurses after they voted to authorize a strike of their own. >> you have an institution that wants to honor you and treat you like you're the best thing in the world and then turn around and tell you but you're not worth it in wages. >> reporter: here in new york city bus drivers with the nation's largest school district say they won't go on strike during the first few weeks of classes but they're still awaiting a long-term deal. jericka? >> so much to sort out. thank you. astrid martinez. there's a lot more news ahead on the "cbs overnight news."

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performers. >> i hope that results like these are that wake-up call. right? my kids, our kids weren't in school. >> reporter: harvard professor andrew ho is talking about widespread learning losses. in one study today's third through eighth-graders need roughly four months' more instruction in math and reading to catch up to pre-pandemic students. >> the declines that we saw because of the pandemic won't just automatically undo themselves. >> reporter: another post-pandemic issue, a doubling of chronic absenteeism in some states. after years of remote learning millions of parents and kids see little point in going to school. of particular concern -- >> how to make sure that extra inequality that the pandemic caused doesn't become permanent. >> reporter: for many schools it's shaping up as a daunting exercise in catching up. pressure on teachers, pressure on schools. because there's no way kids can learn if there's no one to teach them.

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they're growing an alternative to palm oil. >> palm oil is responsible for making hand soaps foam and cleanse. it makes the color stay on your lipstick and on your lips. and it helps create a smooth spreadable emulsion in peanut butters. >> reporter: but it can be as destructive as it is versatile. the world wildlife foundation says large-scale palm oil harvesting destroys rainforests and pollutes communities. still, it's found in half of all products on supermarket shelves. in a statement to cbs news a trade group for the palm oil industry says curbing the immediate impacts of palm oil production will require solutions that are already scalable. c16 biosciences won't give specifics but says it produces metric tons of palm oil every week. now it's partnering with beauty companies and hoping to expand to food. gernot wagner is a climate economist. could the solution to this be found in a lab? >> big question, of course, is

this sort of approach the one that will in fact be scalable and that doesn't have its own negative broader environmental, societal costs? >> reporter: for ticku the proof is in the process. >> our process today takes about six days from when we start the process until we extract the oil. if you plant that today, it takes seven years. >> seven years to six days. that's a huge speedup of this process. >> that's the power of biology. >> reporter: a power growing in potential. nancy chen, cbs news, new york. when we return, unleashing positivity. the picnic celebrating unique pups.

finally tonight, finding a loving home is often no walk in the park for shelter dogs,

especially those with disabilities. but being different is paying off for a group of resilient rovers. here's cbs's janet shamlian. >> reporter: with an impressive turnout this san francisco dog picnic is just about perfect, even if the dogs themselves are not. take a closer look. trip, scruffy, rocco, slow-mo, and luna beam, to name a few, are often referred to as tripods, dogs who on three legs live their best lives. >> even though they're three-legged they do everything we do. love to run, jump and play. >> reporter: the annual three-legged picnic is a celebration of uniqueness and inclusiveness. >> come on, big guy. >> reporter: deaf and blind pups are welcome. even like this good boy, the merely tri curious. >> george has like so many fans in our neighborhood. everyone wants to know about him. >> reporter: they may never win a fancy dog show award. >> he's as happy as can be. so nobody has to feel sorry for him.

>> reporter: but in a world where people are often excluded for shortcomings, perceived or otherwise, maybe we can all take a cue from these perfectly imperfect best friends. >> he means everything to us and inspires us to be far more positive than we would be otherwise. >> reporter: janet shamlian, cbs news. >> good job. >> and that is the "overnight news" for this monday. for some of you the news continues. for others check back later for "cbs mornings" and of course follow us online anytime at cbsnews.com. reporting from the broadcast center here in new york city, i'm jericka duncan. this is "cbs news flash." i'm matt pieper in new york. ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy sasays he is repeplac the countrtry's defense e minis. the move comes amid allegations

of c corruption agagainst the miministry of dedefense and juj hours afafter russian n drones attacked a a port in the odesa region. two nasa astronauts, a russian cosmonaut and a united arab emirates astronaut who were all part of the spacex crew mission are now back on earth. their spacex dragon capsule splashed down off the coast of florida overnight. the crew spent six months aboard the international space station. and thousands paraded through the streets of key west, florida in honor of jimmy buffett, who died on friday. he was 76 years old. for more download the cbs news app on your cell phone or connected tv. i'm matt pieper, cbs news, new york. it's monday, september 4th, 2023. this is the "cbs morning news." stranded at burning man. heavy rain turned an annual