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u.s. lost more than 4 million days of work due to strikes and lockouts last month. it is the highest level in more than 20 years. cbs's kris van cleave leads us off tonight from wayne, michigan. good evening, chris. >> reporter: the uaw confirms a meeting with general motors today and called a negotiating session with ford saturday reasonably productive. but jericka, no deal yet, which means these workers remain on strike. >> uaw in the house right now? >>. [ cheers ] >> reporter: rallying the troops on day 3 of the united auto workers strike against detroiting big three carmakers. >> we just want to get what's owed to us. >> reporter: negotiations resumed saturday, yielding some progress, but so far no deal to get any of the nearly 13,000 striking workers off the picket line and back on the production line. >> reporter: uaw president shawn fain on "face the nation." >> these companies have made a quarter of a trillion dollars in the last ten years. $21 billion in the last six months alone.
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and our workers' wages and conditions have went backwards. >> reporter: the union is currently seeking at least a 36% raise, cost of living and job protections as well as an unwinding of concessions made during the great recession back in 2007. automaker offers center on a raise of about 20%. gm ceo mary barra friday. >> how does this end? >> problem solving and getting what is the right deal for employees that recognizes their hard work. we want to make sure we have job security by having great products people want to buy over the next handful of years. >> reporter: friday at midnight workers at plants belonging to ford, general motors and chrysler parent stellantis walked off the job when the union contract expired. >> if we don't get better offers and dent get down to taking care of members' needs we're going to amp this thing up even more. >> reporter: maria nudlei worries that could cause her motor city bahr and grill to sputter. the stellantis plant across the street drives nearly 80% of her
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business. >> it's very scary. you've got bills, you've got payments, you've got mortgages to pay. kids to feed. >> reporter: citing the ripple effect of the strike, ford says it has had to temporarily lay off about 600 workers at this plant. and jericka, general motors says it expects to have to idle a plant in kansas that employs more than 2,000 people as soon as monday. >> that's huge. kris van cleave, thank you. now to a change of heart for drew barrymore. today the tv host announced in a social media post that she would in fact stop production of her daytime talk show until the writers' strike is over. last week she announced the show would go on but faced backlash. "the drew barrymore show" is part of cbs's parent company, paramount global. to politics now. president biden has a busy week ahead. today he left the white house for new york, where he'll meet with other world leaders at the united nations general assembly. cbs's skyler henry is at the white house tonight with more including some of that new
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polling, that new cbs news polling. skyler? >> reporter: hey, jericka, good to see you. well, the glaring concern facing this president and lawmakers for that matter is the possibility of a government shutdown less than two weeks away. president biden yet again brushing off house republicans launching a formal impeachment inquiry into him, alleging he benefited from his son hunter's business dealings. the move comes as speaker kevin mcmccarthy is s looking toto sh votetes to keeeep the g governm open.. asas hard-line conservatives sa meet their list of demands or embrace a shutdown. >> i want to make sure we don't shut down. i don't think that is a win for the american public. >> reporter: some of the farthest right members in the house say one of their sticking points, no more funding for ukraine. the country's president, volodymyr zelenskyy, is set to travel to d.c. this week. >> having him here is going to be very, very persuasive. the last time we had votes on the house floor on the issue of aid for ukraine, nearly 300
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members voted in the affirmative out of 435. a majority of the republicans voted in the achltive. >> reporter: as concerns grow over the looming shutdown, voters are uncertain about the looming economic fallout and their finances. new cbs news polling shows nearly half of registered voters say they're worse off now than before the start of the pandemic. far outpacing those who are better off. of those who say they're doing worse voters in large part are backing former president trump. now, that cbs news polling also says that it's unclear to registered voters whether they could get a full second term from either president biden or former president trump, though we should mention that i amajority of those voters think that former president trump could serve all four years. jericka? >> skyler henry at the white house. thank you. tonight police in los angeles county are searching for the gunman who murdered a sheriff's deputy. security video shared with cbs news shows a car pulling up behind the deputy's cruiser and pausing at the driver's side door, then speeding off.
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sheriff robert luna called it a targeted attack. >> he ambushed and killed, murd murdered one of our deputies. we need your help to get him off the street. >> the 30-year-old deputy ryan clinkunbroomer was engaged to be married last week. a new battlefield breakthrough on the war front lines in ukraine. but as cbs's imtiaz tyab reports from kyiv, the next enemy may be time. >> reporter: this is what liberation looks like as ukraine's counteroffensive grinds on. the village of enrivka now just a wasteland after ukrainian forces claim they seize td back, ururging the few reremaining rn fighters to surrender or be killed. in a recorded message played from one of its surveillance drones. capturing tiny andreev ka is a big win for ukraine.
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it sits just eight miles from bakhmut the industrial city which was captured by kremlin-backed mercenaries in may. now three months into its p punishingly slow counteroroffensive ukrkraine sa it's incrcreasingly b breaking russia's offensive lines as russian fighters based in ukraine threaten to launch fresh attacks inside russia. the two groups consisting of hundreds of recruits are called the freedom of russia legion and the russian volunteer corps. they're responsible for the biggest incursions inside russia. alexander, who's originally from siberia, is a commander for the rvc. "we don't fight against the russian people. we fight against the existing kremlin regime," he says. "because some of us were tortured by them. some of our friends were disappeared or killed or given long prison sentenced by them. moscow accuses the anti-regime groups of being neo-nazis, something alexander denies. >> are you a neo-nazi? "no, i am not a neo-nazi.
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yes, of course we have guys who are right-wing radicals," he says, "but we are not neo-nazis. we are a militia fighting against the current russian regime." a fight nato chief jens stoltenberg is warning won't end anytime soon. saying tonight, jericka, the world must prepare itself for a, quote, long war in ukraine. >> imtiaz tyab in kyiv, thank >> imtiaz tyab in kyiv, thank you know that feeling of having to rewash dishes that didn't get clean? i don't.t. cascade e platinum p plus... with d double the dawn greasae fighting powower and double the scrubbing power. for a no rewash clean... and a cabinet ready shine. upgrade to cascade platinum plus. dare to dish differently. do your armpits need extra care? ( ♪ ♪ ) try dove dry spray. with 1/4 moisturizers.
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>> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." i'm jericka duncan in new york. thanks for staying with us. the leading republican presidential candidates will gather in california next week for their second debate of the nominating season. now, so far seven candidates have qualified to be on stage, but former president donald trump said he would not attend. most of the gop contenders have
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steered clear of criticizing trump. instead they are focusing on president biden, his policies and his age. a recent poll found nearly 80% say there should be an age limit for elected officials. and just last week utah senator mitt romney announced he would not seek re-election. romney said it's time for a new generation of he leaders. nikole killion has more. >> reporter: senator mitt romney's decision not to run for re-election in the senate caught? by surprise on capitol hill. >> at the end of a second term i would be in my mid 80s, and i think it's time for guys like me to get out of the way and have people in the next generation step forward. >> reporter: it's reviving an age-old debate. >> the presidency's not a job for someone that's 80 years old. >> i'm completely for mental competency tests for anyone over the age of 75. >> reporter: from the campaign trail to congress. wyoming senator cynthia lummis is one of several lawmakers who supports amending the constitution to require term limits in the house and senate,
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where a growing number of members are over the age of 75. >> i think it's fair for everyone who is in that age group to self-assess in an honest way whether they can go forward with the same vigor. >> 100% in favor of term limits. i'm concerned about the health issues we see in leadership across the federal government. this isn't confined to one branch or one party. >> reporter: others say it should be up to voters. >> every two years in the house, every six years in the senate each member is up in front of their own people and those individuals decide whether or not they think they're too old or not. >> reporter: according to a cbs news poll, 77% of americans surveyed believe there should be age limits. over half think the job of president or senator is too demanding for older elected officials. this week in a stinging op-ed "washington post" columnist david ignatius said president biden should not run again in
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2024, writing his age isn't just a fox news trope, it's been the subject of dinner table conversations across america. mr. biden, who is 80, defended criticisms earlier this year. >> one of the things that people are going to find out, they're going to see a race and they're going to judge whether or not i have it or don't have it. >> reporter: former president trump is 77. three years younger than biden. >> he's not too old. he's incompetent. and age is interesting because some people are very sharp and some people do lose it. >> reporter: at 83 former house speaker nancy pelosi recently announced she plans to seek another term. >> let's be in a very positive vein about age. it is about judgment. >> reporter: and in this era of politics more than just a number pf nikole killion, washington.
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superstar guitarist carlos santana has been recording for more than half a century. he's won ten grammys and three latin grammys. he was inducted into the rock and roll hall of fame about a quarter century ago, and "rolling stone" magazine named him number 20 on their list of 100 greatest guitarists. well, now a new documentary called "carlos" debuts this week. santana took time from his current nationwide tour for a chat with lee cowan. >> yo, vegas! keep your hands in the air! santana's in the house! ♪ >> reporter: for carlos santana music is a kind of witchcraft. an alchemy that transforms his guitar into something you might think he's trying to tame. but taming it, he says, isn't the goal. seducing it is.
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>> when you get inside the note, it's like the most beautiful woman in the room gives you a french kiss. you know, when you get a french kiss, it always gets your attention. ♪ >> reporter: he's been getting that kind of attention for decades. sustaining a long career just like he can sustain a note. >> a mother who can show up at any stage and bring things to a whole other energy. >> reporter: he was 22 when he blew away fans at woodstock. ♪ you've got to change your evil ways, baby ♪ his solo? ♪ announcing the arrival of another '60s guitar god. to this day he remains a forever
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hippie. >> everybody was going home, putting on bob dylan and smoking weed. >> reporter: what do you think people do when they're putting on your music? >> make sex. ♪ >> reporter: at 52 he was still having that effect. his album "supernatural" tied michael jackson for the most grammys ever won in a single night. >> i'd love to thank mr. carlos santana for giving an opportunity to me like this. >> reporter: "smooth" topped the charts for 12 weeks. >> in the middle of the song i felt like uh-oh, this is different. you know, that one and "maria maria." ♪ oh maria maria ♪ >> reporter: it's the kind of life they make movies about. and hollywood has certainly asked but santana has usually said no. >> i don't want to come to you to borrow my life so i can show it to someone else. this is what i want or you can walk out.
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>> reporter: but executive producers ron howard and brian grazer with imagine documentaries came to santana with a different offer, one that allowed him to have a say. ♪ the result is this. "carlos," which debuts this week, starts w where hee did. >> att first everythining was mechanicalal for me. my father taught me how to read and how to play mariachi music. >> reporter: the young boy in mexico began playing the violin with his dad's mariachi band. he switched to guitar. and when he was barely 13, he was playing it in the backstreet nightclubs of tijuana. usually surrounded by strippers. >> when i first started working in there, it was like discovering the cirque du soleil or something, only it was more fun. i'd never seen anyone do -- >> reporter: and we'll stop that memory right there. it's clear adulthood came pretty fast. but in some cases adulthood was
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forced on him. one of his earliest encounters with sexuality came at the hands of an abuser. a secret he first revealed to "rolling stone" back in 2000. >> i wanted to come clean with that because at that time there was a lot of people who were having that experience. and a lot of people -- with suicide and stuff like that. a lot of people wrote letters like man, carlos, thanks for saying that. >> helped a lot of people. >> it did help a lot of people psychologically, emotionally, and it was like good medicine. you know? >> did it help you too? >> oh, yes. i really let go of the experience and i stopped being so angry and so mean. you know, it was just a natural way of like cleansing the palate. >> reporter: there was another cleansing he needed too. drugs, alcohol and the rock and roll lifestyle started to do what they do to most people. but unlike most people santana realized his music was suffering. so he began following an indian
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guru, who taught him meditation. >> i cut my hair, dressed all in white and just became a disciple. >> and did that spiritual high replace the high from drugs? >> oh, yeah. because there's nothing higher than god. >> reporter: that's not to say he doesn't stray from the path of peace. he came under fire after a concert in new jersey this past july when he seemed to target the trans and non-binary communities. >> a woman is a woman and a man is a man. and that's it. [ cheers and applause ] whatever you want to do in the closet, that's your business. so i'm okay with that. >> reporter: it stuck out. a rare thorn in his otherwise rosy message of spirituality and oneness. what did you mean by that? >> i didn't mean it to be offensive to anybody. i'm not against anybody. i'm not trying to demean you or -- i don't really know what it's like to be discriminated since i was a child being next
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quan. so i don't want to put that on you or anybody. be happy and have fun. >> there's a littar in there in the trunk. > reporter: when we met up with him at the house of blues at mandalay bay in las vegas -- ♪ -- his focus was back on the music. >> people everywhere you go need healing. that's what we do. ♪ you don't think ♪ ♪ whatever it is ♪ this is the 11th year of his residency hear, and for all that time he's been playing to the veteran drummer cindy blackmon. >> he's a great band leader. i keep telling him that. he's a great band leader. he knows what he's hearing, he knows what he wants, and he knows how to get it. >> reporter: she made a name for herself playing for a host of artists including lenny kravitz. but in 2010 she joined santana's
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band. and a few months later she married him. >> did you really propose to her on stage during the show? >> i did. it was in chicago at that big place. and i remember her father was in the audience, you know. ♪ >> we have our instruments with us all the time. we're admitting music, talking about music, breathing music and if there's no music playing it's playing up here always. ♪ >> reporter: playing together, he says, has helped make this the most delicious part of his life. giving him renewed energy to create, to not just recreate. >> i'm not interested in becoming a ghost on a jukebox. and that's all i am, a ghost on the jukebox of the past. ♪ give me your heart make it real ♪ ♪ you must forget about it ♪ >> reporter: at 76 he hopes he's
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still on the popular pulse. carlos santana may have been shaped by his times, but through all of those years he's also done his part to shape our times as well. >> i feel really clear, strong. and happy. >> that again was
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in the low country of south carolina a nearly forgotten crop is making a big comeback. mark strassmann explains. >> reporter: sheena meyers makes her indigo soap knowing nothing can scrub away south carolina's past. >> it's a whole history behind what i'm doing. >> it's deep. >> yeah, it's real deep. >> reporter: indigo dye's beautiful color comes shrubbed and shrouded by an ugly history. in the mid 1700s wealthy south carolina planters called it blue gold, a labor-intensive cash
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crop produced by the sweat of enslaved people. for meyers it's personal. among those enslaved, indigo workers, her great, great grandmother. >> i don't think they would ever have thought in a million years they'd have a descendant creating things like this. >> reporter: her company, genotype, says indigo-based sin care and medicinal products for psoriasis, peptic ulcers, bronchitis. annual sales top $1 million. >> immerse it. >> immerse it down in. >> reporter: down the road precious jennings grows indigo to process its natural dye powder. think of it as farm to fabric. digging for healing in the dirt of a former plantation. >> every day i come on to this land i honor and think about and give gratitude to the people that were here and enslaved on this land. >> reporter: meyers wants to pass her business and family history to her three sons. >> if they keep this business alive, it won't disappear. >> reporter: keep growing the
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in indigo, the history stays alive. >> it will continue. it will continue. >> reporter: growing a new indigo legacy rich in humility. for "eye on america," mark strassmann, charleston, south carolina. and that is the overnight news for this monday. reporting from the cbs broadcast center in new york city, i'm jericka duncan. this is "cbs news flash." i'm matt pieper in new york. two pilots have been killed after their planes collide at the national championship air races in reno, nevada. the faa says the planes hit as one of the races was ending and the wreckage of each plane came to rest a half mile apart. no one on the ground was hurt. nine juveniles escaped from a detention center in pennsylvania after a riot at the facility last night. the center is less than an hour away from where convicted
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murderer danelo cavalcante escaped last month, leading to a two-week manhunt. and it's a virtual tie at what's shaping up to be a scary box office. the agatha christie adaptation of "a haunting in venice," and the horror movie "the nun 2" each took in about $14 million over the weekend. for more d on your cell phone o connected tv. i'm matt pieper, cbs news, new york. strike strategy. tough talk, new negotiations. uaw walkouts go on with picket lines, rallies and uncertainty. >> we're prepared to do whatever we have to do. the membership is fed up. >> off the production line and on the picket line. day 3 of the auto workers strike. i'm kris van cleave in wayne, michigan. barrymore reversal. the tv host hits pause on her talk show's return after the writers strike backlash. also, biden troubles.
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cbs news polling reveals how voters are thinking about the president's economic agenda, age and performance. murder charges. two people arrested after a suspected fentanyl poisoning that killed one toddler and sickened three children at a new york city daycare. in ukraine fighting amid a race for battlefield breakthroughs. >> i'm imtiaz tyab in kyiv. months into ukraine's punishingly slow counteroffensive against russia they may have made an important breakthrough on the eastern front. plus the co-founder of "rolling stone" magazine facing the music after controversial comments on black and female musicians. and later, a 49ers hall of famer gets back in the game. >> rip it. >> why steve young is coaching this high school team. >> go, go, go! >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news."
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good evening and thank you for joining us. tonight the head of the united auto workers tells cbs news that the historic strike could soon spread to other plants. right now thousands are on the picket lines at three factories in michigan, missouri and ohio. that could slam the brakes on the economy. the labor department reports the u.s. lost more than 4 million days of work due to strikes and lockouts last month. it is the highest level in more than 20 years. cbs's kris van cleave leads us off tonight from wayne, michigan. good evening, kris. >> reporter: uaw confirms a meeting with general motors today and called a negotiating session with ford saturday reasonably productive. but jericka, no deal yet, which means these workers remain on strike. >> uaw in the house right now? >> reporter: rallying the troops on day 3 of the united auto workers strike against detroit's big three carmakers.
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>> we just want to get what's owed to us. >> reporter: negotiations resumed saturday, yielding some progress. but so far no deal to get any of the nearly 13,000 striking workers off the picket line and back on the production line. uaw president shawn fain on "face the nation." >> these companies have made a quarter of a trillion dollars in the last ten years. $21 billion in the last six months alone. and our workers' wages and conditions have went backwards. >> reporter: the union is currently seeking at least a 36% raise, cost of living and job protections, as well as an unwinding of concessions made during the great recession back in 2007. automaker offers center around a raise of about 20%. gm ceo mary barra friday. >> how does this end? >> problem solving and getting what is the right deal for employees that recognizes their hard work. we want to make sure we have job security by having great products people want to buy over the next handful of years. >> reporter: friday at midnight
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workers at plants belonging to ford, general motors and chrysler parent stellantis in michigan, missouri and ohio walked off the job when the union contract expired. >> if we don't get better offers and don't get down to taking care of the members' needs we're going to amp this thing up even more. >> reporter: maria worries that could cause her motor city bar and grill to sputter. the stellantis plant acoss the street drives nearly 80% of her business. >> it's very scary. you know, you've got bills, you've got payments, you've got mortgages to pay. kids to feed. >> reporter: citing the ripple effect of the strike, ford says it has had to temporarily lay off about 600 workers at this plant. and jericka, general motors says it expects to have to idle a plant in kansas that employs more than 2,000 people as soon as monday. >> wow, that's huge. kris van cleave, thank you. now to a change of heart for drew barrymore. today the tv host announced in a social media post that she would in fact stop production of her daytime talk show until the
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writers strike is over. last week she announced the show would go on but faced backlash. "the drew barrymore show" is part of cbs's parent company, paramount global. to politics now. president biden has a busy week ahead. today he left the white house for new york, where he'll meet with other world leaders at the united nations general assembly. cbs's skyler henry is at the white house tonight with more including some of that new polling, that new cbs news polling. skyler? >> reporter: yeah, jericka, good to see you. well, the glaring concern facing this president and lawmakers for that matter is the possibility of a government shutdown less than two weeks away. president biden yet again brushing off house republicans launching a formal impeachment inquiry into him, alleging he benefited from his son hunter's business dealings. the move comes as speaker kevin mccarthy is looking to shore up votes s to keep ththe governmem openen. as harard-line conservativives meet their list of demands or embrace a shutdown.
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>> i want to make sure we don't shut down. i don't think that is a win for the american public. >> reporter: some of the farthest right members in the house say one of their sticking points, no more funding for ukraine. the country's president, volodymyr zelenskyy, is set to travel to d.c. this week. >> having him here is going to be very, very persuasive. the last time we had votes on the house floor on the issue of aid for ukraine nearly 300 members voted in the affirmative out of 435. a majority of the republicans voted in the affirmative. >> reporter: as concerns grow over the looming shutdown, voters are uncertain about the economic fallout and their finances. new cbs news polling shows nearly half of registered voters say they're worse off now than before the start of the pandemic. far outpacing those who are better off. of those who say they're doing worse voters in large part are backing former president trump. >> reporter: now, that cbs news polling also says it's unclear to registered voters whether
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they could get a full second term from either president biden or former president trump, though we should mention that a majority of those voters think that former president trump could serve all four years. jericka? >> skyler henry at the white house. thank you. tonight police in los angeles county are searching for the gunman who murdered a sheriff's deputy. security video shared with cbs news shows a car pulling up behind the deputy's cruiser and pausing at the driver's side door, then speeding off. sheriff robert luna called it a targeted attack. >> he ambushed and killed, murdered one of our deputies. we need your help to get him off the street. >> the 30-year-old deputy ryan clinkunbroomer was engaged to be married last week. there's a lot more news ahead on the "cbs overnight news."
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♪ >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." well, here in new york two people face murder charges after four children at a licensed daycare were exposed to lethal doses of what is believed to be fentanyl, killing one of them. cbs's astrid martinez is outside the home-based center tonight. astrid, good evening.
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>> reporter: jericka, good evening. state officials recently conducted a surprise inspection of the daycare and found no violations. now medical examiners working to determine the exact cause of death of the toddler. te parents of 1-year-old nicholas dominici say they can't imagine life without their son, who died at a licensed home-based daycare just a week after they enrolled him. first responders found nicholas and two other children unconscious at the divino nino daycare friday. police say narcan was used to revive them in an apparent fentanyl exposure. a fourth child picked up earlier was rushed to the hospital by his mother after looking lethargic. >> the nypd executed a search warrant at this daycare center, where we discovered a kilo press. this is an item that is commonly used by drug dealers when packaging large quantities of drugs. >> reporter: daycare owner grei mendez and building tenant
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carlisto brito each face nearly a dozen charges including murder, assault and child endangerment. they are expected to be arraigned in a bronx criminal court late sunday night. new york city's mayor visited the children and spoke on the nation's opioid crisis. >> it is a real wake-up call for individuals who have opioids or fentanyl in their homes. >> reporter: and three children remain hospitalized, one in critical condition. jericka? >> it truly is a wake-up call as the mayor stated. astrid martinez thank you. tonight a new battlefield breakthrough on the war front lines in ukraine. but as cbs's imtiaz tyab reports from kyiv, the next enemy may be time. >> reporter:r: this is whahat libeberation looksks like as ukraine's counteroffensive grinds on. the village of andriivka now just a wasteland after ukrainian
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forces claim they seized it back, urgrging the fewew remaia russian fighters to surrender or be killed. in a recorded message e played from one of f its surveillllanc drones. capturing tiny andriivka is a big win for ukraine. it sits just eight miles from bakhmut, the industrial city which was captured by kremlin-backed mercenaries in may. >> bakhmut! >> reporter: now three months into its punishingly sloww counteroffffensive u ukraine sa it's's inincreasingly breaking througugh russia's d defensive lines. advances which come as anti-kremlin russian fighters based in ukraine threaten to launch fresh attacks inside russia. the two groups consisting of hundreds of recruits are called the freedom of russia legion and the russian volunteer corps. they are responsible for the biggest incursions inside russia. alexander, who's originally from siberia, is a commander for the rbc. "we don't fight against the russian people. we fight against the existing kremlin regime," he says. "because some of us were tortured by them. some of our friends were
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disappeared or killed or given long prison sentenced by them." moscow accuses the anti-regime groups of being neo-nazis, something alexander denies. are you a neo-nazi? "no, i am not a neo-nazi. yes, of course we have guys who are right-wing radicals," he says, "but we are not neo-nazis. we are a militia fighting against the current russian regime." a fight nato chief jens stoltenberg is warning won't end anytime soon saying tonight, jericka, the world must prepare itself for a, quote, long war in ukraine. >> imtiaz tyab in kyiv. thank you. this weekend a founder of the "rolling stone" magazine jann wenner is under fire for remarks criticizing african americans and women. cbs's elise preston joins us with more on what wenner had to say. elise? >> reporter: good evening, jericka. wenner is now apologizing for
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what he calls badly chosen words about black and female musicians. >> just for public relations' sake maybe i should have gone and found one black and one woman artist to include here that didn't measure up to that same historical standards. >> reporter: in a "new york times" interview promoting his new book "the masters," jann wenner discussed his decision to only include his conversations with seven white male artists, who he believes shaped rock and roll. >> insofar as women there were just none of them that were as articulate enough on this intellectual level. >> oh, stop it. you can't say that. >> joni was not a philosopher of rock and roll. ♪ they paved paradise, put up a parking lot ♪ >> reporter: joni mitchell is a legendary singer-songwriter who inspired generations of female artists. wenner also claimed certain black artists were not articulate enough. >> these are genius artists. i suppose when you use a word as broad as the masters, maybe marvin gaye. i could cut curtis mayfield or -- i mean, they just didn't articulate at that level.
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♪ what's going on ♪ >> reporter: rock and roll hall of fame inductees gaye and mayfield are also considered some of the most influential songwriters. ♪ keep on pushing ♪ with mayfield credited as among the first musicians to introduce social consciousness into black american music during the civil rights era. in an apology wenner acknowledged his comments diminished the contributions genius and impact of black and women artists. before making that apology wenner was removed from the rock and roll hall of fame foundation, which he also co-founded. jericka? >> elise preston, thank you. sudan in flames as war rages on in the capital. plus, centuries-old looted relics returned. and the girls on the gridiron sharing the sideline with their famous father.
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today fire engulfed a landmark skyscraper in the conflict-ridden part of sudan. video shows the 18-story tower engulfed in flames after heavy fighting between the army and rival forces in the capital of khartoum. more than 5 million people have fled sudan since fighting between rival generals erupted back in april. well, tonight an investigation is under way after a deadly plane crash in the amazon. it happened saturday as the plane tried to land in heavy rain. 14 people were on board. most of them tourists headed to a fish expedition. a fish expedition. there were
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it's also the site of an epic theft. thousands of people visit these ruins every day. and yet look closely at some of the temples, especially the lesser known ones, and you'll notice that something vital is missing. exquisitely carved stone statues of hindu gods and buddhas. >> and better appreciation for -- >> reporter: american lawyer brad gordon has made it his mission to track them down. >> many of these statues have spiritual qualities. and the cambodians regard them as their ancestors. they believe that they're living. >> reporter: in decades of lawlessness after cambodia's civil war looters raided these sites and made off with priceless artifacts but left traces of their theft. one was this pedestal. another the fragment of a foot. gordon's research shows they're part of this. standing female deity, currently in new york's metropolitan museum of art.
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>> we have a french archaeologist who uses 3-d imaging, and he's been able to match the body at the met to the foot that's here. >> reporter: looted artifacts have been trickling back to cambodia, part of the worldwide move to send cultural treasures home. the met has joined in. it returned two sculptures, the kneeling attendants in 2013. but so far it's not budging on the standing female deity. our request to the museum for comment went unanswered. but gordon isn't giving up. >> if it was illegal, can it not be fixed in the courts? >> at the moment we have been working with the u.s. government providing them information on the collection, and the u.s. government has their own investigation going on. if it doesn't work out to our satisfaction, we are confident
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we end tonight in california where for the first time girls' flag football is an official varsity sport. in tonight's weekend journal vern glenn from our cbs station in san francisco shows us why a football legend was prompted to get back in the game. >> we have strength! [ cheers ] we have smarts! [ cheers ] we have that dog! [ cheers ] >> reporter: menlo's girls' flag football team also has a hall of famer on their coaching staff.
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>> everybody else can freak out. you've got to be peaceful. get in here and rip it. > reporter: steve young is an assistant coach for the first-year program. he's helping out his long-time friend and former 49er teammate john paye. >> john said you want to come help out? and i've got a full-time job, so it's not like i can -- but i come over a few times a week and try to help out. we're running the old 49er, you know, plays and the signals. so if you have the 49er signals you can steal our signals. but it's easy for me to come in jump in and help out john because we learned it 30 years ago. >> one of the girls somehow turned on the nfl network and saw a super bowl xxiii highlight film and they heard some of the plays. the nfl network last night. coach paye, i heard the play on the nfl network last night. >> reporter: most of the girls are playing organized football for the first time. young and paye are having a blast teaching them the game. >> short passes, you need to be crisp. >> that's a good play. >> reporter: it also has been a perfect chance for steve to
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connect with his two daughters following in dad's footsteps. >> my boys didn't play football. so my two girls are out here playing with john the head coach. and i'm loving that they're learning about the game and why it's so cool. >> reporter: vern glenn, cbs news, san francisco. >> and that is the overnight news for this monday. reporting from the cbs broadcast center in new york city, i'm jericka duncan. this is "cbs news flash." i'm matt pieper in new york. two pilots have been killed after their planes collide at the national championship air races in reno, nevada. the faa says the planes hit as one of the races was ending and the wreckage of each plane came to rest a half mile apart. no one on the ground was hurt. nine juveniles escaped from a detention in pennsylvania after a riot at the facility last night. the center is less than an hour away from where convicted murderer danelo cavalcante
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escaped last month, leading to a two-week manhunt. and it's a virtual tie at what's shaping up to be a scary box office. the agatha christie adaptation of "a haunting in venice" and the horror movie "the nun 2" each took in about $14 million over the weekend. it's monday, september 18th, 2023. this is the "cbs morning news." uaw walkout. united auto workers get a boost from some top lawmakers as their strike begins to cause some ripple effects in the industry. day care tragedy. two people are charged with murder in the death of a toddler who police say was exposed to fentanyl. and ambush killing. an l.a. sheriff's deputy is shot dead while sitting in his patrol car. the huge reward being offered

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