tonight, morocco races to dig out survivors after the strongest earthquake in 100

years. rescue efforts stiff eintensify as the death toll surpasses 2,000. cbs news is there. >> reporter: i'm chris livesay in morocco where the destruction and death toll continue to mount. also tonight, president biden forges new ties with an old enemy. president biden visits vietnam on a weekend trip to asia as new polling gives him poor marks on foreign policy. plus hurricane lee poised to power up. while the west roasts. phoenix setting a new heat record. covid boosts, a new shot expected this week. new sightings. the manhunt for a convicted killer intensifies in pennsylvania. >> i'm not going to make an excuse for you. no perimeter is 100% secure ever. >> re and the future arrives at

the u.s. open. coco gauff makes history after a comeback thriller. >> coco gauff! this is the cbs weekend news from new york. with jericka duncan. >> thank you for joining us. tonight the pictures from morocco are astonishing, even at scope of friday's earthquake disaster is still unfolding. today president biden expressed his condolences to the north african country. secretary of state antony blinken said the oust is ready to help. the death toll now at 2100 is expected to rise as rescuers desperately try to find survivors in the rubble. the u.s. geological survey put the quake that struck friday at 6.8 in magagnitude. homes s and buildings collllaps including in the old city of marrakech. chris livesay is there.

first f first, if could you tell us what you're seeing right now. >> reporter: people are forced to sleep outside for the third night in a row at death toll around the country is climbing. the jolting moment the quake rips through the country. cctv footage shows terrified moroccans fleeing for their lives as buildings, ancient and new, collapse all around them. the worst devastation in the scenic hyatt lass mountains where are rescuers are racing to rescue survivors trapped beneath the debris. others are less fortunate. i lost my two daughters. may god have mercy on them, he says. they were sleeping and the ceiling fell on them. untold victims remain trapped in areas cut off from aid, where winding roads and landslides mke much of the quake zone difficult and in some cases

impossible to reach so far. many of those within reach have sustained serious injuries. an estimated 2,000 people, like this man, who can barely move or speak. we can't go back home because of the danger of collapse, says his wife. i have two kids, 4 and 5 years old. if he can't work, we are going to go hungry. while in cities like marrakech and its famed casbah, buildings that have stood for a millennium could topple at any moment if they haven't already. here in marrakech, these ancient walls made of mud and brick, one of the very things that make this city so picturesque make it so dangerous. >> everything started moving. we grabbed some clothes.

>> reporter: loikscals like the now homeless, have nowhere to go but the street. you're afraid this roof could collapse at any moment we're, we're afraid, she says, we just want a place to stay. the oust embassy tells us they're aware of a small number of injured americans but no deaths. a team of u.s. disaster experts has just arrived to help determine how america can also help in the humanitarian effort. >> the devastation truly unimaginable. chris livesay in morocco, thank you. tonight president biden hided to the ed headed to the united states after a four-day trip. ed o'keefe is traveling with the president. >> reporter: well, jericka. good evening. the white house says this is

president biden's first trip ever to vietnam. leaders here invited him as they see closer ties to the united states. it's invitation the president eagerly accepted as he's trying to counter the growing threats from chinana. vivietnam wantnts what it calls cocomprehensivive partnership w the united states, twhauone thas it on par with russia and china. it's a notable upgrade of a years of war here that left more than 58,000 americans dead. >> we can trace 50 years, a 50-year arc in progress in the relationship between our nations from conflict. >> reporter: the president described vietnam as a bellwether, strategically placed. a the president made clear he didn't visit vietnam to bully china. >> i am sincere about getting

the relationship right. >> reporter: but a new cbs poll shows 57% of americans believe mr. 3w50 biden is being too soft on china. >> we're not looking to hurt china, sincerely. we're all better off if china does well. >> this was the wrong message to send. not one of deterrence. >> reporter: the new poll finds 50% of americans believe the president is making the u.s. weaker around the world. he began the weekend in india, the annual g-20 summit. but vladimir putin and xi jinping skipped the talks. and those countries blocked the summit from taking a firmer stance against the war in ukraine. a joint statement only mentioned, the quote, suffering, of the ukrainian people. the president is set to visit a memorial to the late john mccain who was held as a prisoner of

war. he then fleiss ies home by way alaska and will address troops on the eve of the 9/11 attacks. now to a hot streak in phoenix. they broke a heat record. the temperature at sky harbor airport reached 113 degrees, the 55th day their year the mercury has been 110 degrees or higher. and in the atlantic, hurricane lee is again powering up. let's bring in meteorologist molly mccollum. >> today is the peak of hurricane season. tan is certainly busy in the atlantic. all eyes are on hurricane lee. big currents. the question is where is lee going to end up? a cold front moving across the lower 48 should keep lee out to sea. and speaking of the cold fron,

it will bring our first taste of fall, fall. >> thank you. tonight an escaped murderer remains on the run in pennsylvania, but he's been spotted again, looking somewhat different. authorities released these new images of clean-shaven danilo cavalcante. they also believe he briefly stole a van saturday, despite a massive police manhunt. >> no perimeter is 100% secure, ever. there are a number of reasons. new covid booster shots are expected to be approved by the ever fda this week. hospitalizations climbed to 17,000 last month.

>> reporter: good evening to you, jericka. dr. anthony fauci says the new booster should protect against all the circulating sub variants, but adds we need to be prepared for an uptiktock in ca this cases are on the rise. > >>ly a few colleagues sick with covid this summer. >> reporter: it's prompting this san francisco food bank to sound the alarm. >> people are concerned because there are people who never got vaccinated. overall, health experts say the country is better equipped to handle a winter outbreak thanks to vaccines and natural immunity. many don't expect to return to mandatory masking. >> if the cases go up, that

there might be recommendations, not mandates. >> reporter: in l.a. county, masks are recommended but not required, despite outbreaks in schools jumping 43% in the last week and tripling in a month at workplaces. for those without insurance, the cdc continues to operate 10,000 testing sites. but for home tests, many insurance providers are no longer covering the cost for kids or adults. >> elise preston for us this los angeles, thank you. an influx of new arrivals is putting the nation's largest public school system to the test. they're the children of asylum seekers. astrid martinez has more on that. good evening, astrid. >> reporter: good evening. a dual crisis is unfolding in new york. school officials are scrambling to enroll the children of asylum seekers, while the city is struggling to find them steady housing. jessica and her two daughters

are adjusting to a new life in a new country. it's not been easy. [speaking in a global language] she says one day she sleeps here and the next somewhere else. the country is from honduras and counted among the 100,000 asylum seekers who have relocated to new york that the city is struggling to house. they have moved from shelters and hotels four times. four schools in one year, because they had to be moved around? this family is also from honduras. she says adapting has been hard. [speaking in a global language] she says two days before starting school, the family was given two hours' notice to pack and leave their shelter. her son derrick now one of the nearly 20,000 migrant students enrolled in new york city public schools. city officials are working to help the new arrivals get settled. >> we making sure that they have the language access that they need, and we're helping them t

transition to their new school environments. >> reporter: the migrant advocates want more resources dedicated to the new students. >> even before asylum seekers started arriving last year, one in two students in the new york city public school system was the child of a immigrant family. it is critical that we support them. >> reporter: new york has responded to the migrant influx by opening up more than 200 emergency shelters, and the schools have fihired 3400 teachers. today in new york t was game, set, rematch at the u.s. open. novak djokovic defeated danil medvedev winning the men's singles title. it's his fourth u.s. open title. and 19-year-old coco gauff was crowned america's new tennis queen. she beat the soon-to-be number

one player to win her first grand slam title. >> literally up until the match i was raiding ceading comments e saying i wasn't going to win today. and that just put the fire in me. >> well, it worked. >> america's growing homeless crisis and the court ruling that critics say is not helping. and later how a colorado animal shelter is helping keep people and their petets under o roroof. stay with h us.

an alarming 31% of america's homeless population live ms. california. it is the largest of any state. but a ruling from the most powerful court in the west has created a bitter divide on how to deal with the crisis. our cbs bay area station has more. >> reporter: the ninth circuit court of appeals in san francisco, known for liberal rulings is under fire.

angry citizens, along with san francisco's mayor claim the court has exacerbated homelessness. >> and the fact that the courts have crippled our ability to do our job to help get people into shelter is ciriminal! >> reporter: at issue the ruling that blocked city officials from removing a single homeless person unless there were enough shelter beds for a city's entire homeless population. that decision known at martin decision for a man living in boise, idaho affected nine western states in the ninth circuit's jurisdiction where 42.5% of the nation's homeless population lives. in oregon, they are challenging the ninth circuit with a closely-watched case, aimed at getting the supreme court to overturn the martin decision. >> the cities in the ninth circuit are having troubles with navigating when that's cleaning

up encampments, finding safe places for people to go, when it's handling drugs. >> reporter: grants pass cannot provide enough shelter for the 256 homeless people live inning the area. consider what.stiff los angeles is up against with a homeless population of 46,013,000 shelter beds available on a single night. and another city short 4,000 shelter beds. >> there's a sense of liberal san francisco welcoming place to all. you know, in fact, san francisco has more ordinances criminalizing homelessness than almost any other city in the united states. all right ninth circuit agreed with the lead attorney for the lawyer's committee for civil rights and issued an injunction against san francisco. this week the ninth circuit

court of appeals reaffirmed its position that moving people from living on the street without shelter for all homeless people in the city violates the eighth amendment that protects people from yueill and unusual punishment. cbs news, san francisco. >> such a complicated and important issue. still ahead on the cbs weekend news, the latest efforts to rescue an americacan e explorer trappeped in a tururkish cave.e.

today in turkey. international rescue teams managed to move an ailing american explorer stuck deep inside a cave system up nearly 2,000 feet. but there is still a long way to go. mark dickie is now about halfway to the surface. experts say the rescue could still take several days. more than 140,000 ah uto

workers are expected to strike. they want demands for pay raises and restoration of traditional pensions as well as a shorter workweek. next on the cbs weekend news, how a denver animal shelter is going the extra mile to keep pets and owners together.

america's animal shelters are in crisis. many are at capacity, understaffed and dealing with a dramatic drop in adoptions after a pandemic boom. but one colorado shelter has enlisted new help to keep pets in their forever homes. tory mason from our cbs denver station shows us a proactive approach that's working. >> reporter: you never forget the day you bring a new family member home, and you never forget leaving one behind.

there are many reasons to surrender a pet. the most selfless being, you can't provide the life they deserve. >> it's either behavioral or financial. >> reporter: josie pigeons has a masters in social work and works at a shelter. >> issues with food or financial assistance or keeping their home. pets are going to go through the exact same thing. >> reporter: denver animal shelter is helping pets stay home. they offer low-cost care while connecting owners to resource like food and housing support. >> since they're more likely to get help for their pets, we're going to give them help while they're here. >> reporter: targeting underserved areas. >> oftentimes they can't afford the deposit or pet rent. >> reporter: marissa vasquez is the manager of community engagement. >> we hope to do a lot more work in the area of prevention so people don't even have to come to our doors.

>> reporter: as kennels continue to fill, shelters insist that we adopt. and keeping pets like that where they belong, at home. >> we want to make sure we're keeping families together. >> reporter: tory mason, cbs news, denver. when we return we remember the liveves lost on one o of amamerica's dadarkest daysys.

we end tonight remembering 9/11. tomorrow marks 22 years since islamic terrorists targeted the world sttrade center and pentag while a plane crashed in a pennsylvania field. in all, nearly 3,000 people were killed that day. on friday, the new york city medical examiner positively identified the remains of two more people. dna sequencing techniques have linked human remains to over 1600 victims. 22 years later, victim advocates

say more than 5,000 people have died from ill thnesses related the attacks. and new york city's fire department add the name of 43 first responders to the world trade center memorial wall. all of them died in relation to their work in the rescue and recovery efforts at ground zero. coming up on 60 minute, remembering the firefighter who were sent into the world trade center on september 11. we thank you so much for watching. have a good night. now at 6:00, thieves in the east bay making bigger and bigger scores on the water. why residents say they're on their own when it comes to pirates.

big changes are coming to bart. what you need to know about the new schedule and what to expect when you arrive. >> this is our love story. >> local couple ties the knot in the san francisco calf u fay where they first met. weeks after the owner nearly closed it down for good. >> and it's only week one, but the 49ers already look like they're in mid season form. we'll show you how they cruise to a win in pittsburgh. >> live from san francisco, i'm brian hackney. >> i'm andrea nakano. we begin in oakland in the estuary where the threats of pirates have risen to a new level. >> thieves are becoming more brazen, and the thefts more costly as residents say they have given up relying on the police for help. john ramos has the story. >> reporter: a couple weeks ago, we brought you a story about pirates coming in