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lviii. the super bowl will be on february 11th and you can catch it right here on cbs. >> we'll be tuning in. >> i'm sure you will be. that's it for us at 5:00. we'll see you in about an hour. >> cbs weekend news is next ♪ tonight, storm surge. ophelia packing drenching rain and high winds battering the upper east coast, the impact reaching more than 10 million people. we'll have the latest on the storm track. also tonight, countdown to a shutdown. paychehecks for mimillions of f government workers hang in the balance if congress fails to pass a funding bill. the military and air traffic controllers among those workers who could be affected. plus, border breaking point.
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tonight the mayor of el paso, texas, has a warning to the nation. his city is running out of room and resources for the more than 2,000 migrants arriving each day. >> i'm in el paso where officials say the only option is to continue moving migrants north. nasa's seven-year mission to obtain a rare asteroid lands in the utah desert. what scientists hope it will reveal. it's not about me, it's you're doing the super bowl. >> halftime hire. the superstar who will make his way to the nfl super bowl stage. later, family matters, the efforts to keep loved ones together, despite life's challenges. >> our goal is to keep people with their pets. ♪ >> announcer: this is the "cbs weekend news" from new york with jericka duncan. goal evening. thank you for joining us on this sunday.
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tonight, what's left of tropical storm ophelia is slowly creeping up the east coast bringing drenching rains and pounding winds. in north carolina, much of the town of bel haven was left devastated as water crashed into fr front yards. along the jersey shore, roads were submerged stranding some in their homes. astrid martinez starts us off tonight from new york. >> reporter: good evening. the remnants of ophelia still impacting the east coast. nearly million under alerts. tens of thousands along the east coast are still without power after dealing with destructive winds, heavy rains and severe flooding. in virginia, a state of emergency was declared. overnight in north carolina, roads were submerged. more than 40 car accidents reported in raleigh, the most
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serious when a tree fell on this car, the driver crashed, now hospitalized with a head injury. in greenville, a small pitbull terrier found tied to a fence was rescued. just in time from rising waters. another dramatic rescue in cape lookout. a helicopteri looking to rescue five people, including three children, stranded on a catamaran. residents worried about what's happening next. >> i'm looking at the radar on my phone, and there is heavy showers moving in. >> astrid martinez for us in new york tonight, thank you. the remnants of ophelia are still packing a punch. let's bring in molly mccollum with our partners at the weather channel for more on what to expect this week. >> good evening. it is still very active in the
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tropics. two new areas we're watching tropical storm phillip. but we're still watching post-tropical ophelia. we don't need anymore rain. hartford at 11 1/2 inches above average. in texas, we could use some rain. dallas 11 inches below average for yearly rainfall. we could see beneficial rainfall at the cost of overnight storms. hail, damaging winds the primary concerns. even as we turn our attention to tomorrow, we're still tracking severe weather in parts of texas. for more in-depth coverage watch the weather channel on cable or your favorite streaming devices. jericka? >> thank you. time is running out to avoid a shutdown of the federal government. the deadline is midnight saturday. the white house is warning federal agencies to prepare to close. skyler henry joins us with more on what a shutdown would entail. skyler, the last and longest was
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back in 2018? >> reporter: that's right, jericka. good to see you. the congressional budget office said it cost some $3 billion. in terms of what would be impacted, government services would be disrupted, millions of federal workers would go without pay as democrats are blaming republican infighting for failure to reach a deal. >> it is time for republicans to start doing the job america elected them to do. >> reporter: house republicans are scrambling to find a path forward on house appropriaiatio billlls this weeeek. susupport for r a continuiuing resolution, giving a short-term breather which would keep the lightsts on a and paychecks com for federal workers around the country like air traffic controllers and the roughly 2
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million military personnel, including border patrol agents facing the current crisis at the u.s./mexico border. >> are the border patrol agents in your district prepared to show up at work at a time of a migrant strike and not get paid? >> you know, that's the ugly part of a shutdown. you'll have real people get hurd. >> reporter: speaker mccarthy worked through the weekend and is optimistic, although hard line conservatives say they're not interested in a stop-gap measure. as the gop-led house failed to reach a consensus on a short-term funding bill several times last week. democrats say they have held up their end of the bargain. >> the conference seems to be backing away from the deal because five to six people on their side of the aisle seem to be calling the shots. the tail wagging the dog is not the way to do this. >> skyler, we'll be watching as the deadline inches closer. there have been growing calls for new jersey senator robert
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menendez after he was indicted on bribery charges last week. what more do we know about that? >> reporter: he says he's not going anywhere, despite members of his own party calling on him to step down, following allegations he accepted bribes including gold bars, money, even mortgage payments. menendez did decide to give up his post as chair of the senate foreign relations committee. andy kim of new jersey announced he will challenge menendez for his seat in the democratic primary next year. jericka? >> skyler henry on capitol hill, thank you. the mayor of el paso, texas, says his city is reaching a breaking point over the droves of asylum seekers. as many as 8,000 migrants are crossing into the united states every day. manny has more on that. manny, good evening. >> reporter: good evening. the mayo says as many as 2,000 migrants enter in just one day. now mexico says it's reached an agreement with the u.s. to
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deport some migrants from its northern cities to try to aye le alleviate the sharp increase here. in eagle pass, texas, men, women and children arrived by the hundreds. [ speaking in global language ] thank got we're here, says this man from venezuela. the mayor says his community is overwhelmed. >> it's not normal. the people here are frustrated. >> reporter: el paso's mayor expected another 2,000 migrants today. >> the city of el paso has only so many resources. we have come to a breaking point right now. >> reporter: republican congressman tony gonzalez of texas blamed the biden administration for the crisis. >> this border crisis is like a category 4 hurricane. >> reporter: homeland secretary blamed congress. >> our immigration system is
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absolutely broken. a fact on which everyone agrees. congress needs to fix it. >> reporter: at the root of it all is a mass displacement of people, due to political and economic crises. more than 7 million venezuelans have left their homeland in recent years. many heading to central and north america. that presents a unique challenge says ruben garcia who runs an el paso shelter. >> we do not have diplomatic relations between the united states and venezuela, so you cannot remove, deport them back to venezuela. >> reporter: texas governor gregg abbott said he would send buses to the border to continue to send more migrants to democratic-led cities. el paso is also bussing migrants to other destinations to ease overcrowding here. jericka? >> manny, thank you. the united auto workers walkout is now in the tenth today. today ford announced an agreement had been reached at the canadian plant. talks with ford on the u.s. side
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were also making progress. meanwhile, the hollywood writers strike may be nearing an end. elise preston joins us from los angeles. negotiations are currently under way. good evening. >> reporter: good evening. hollywood has been talking about an imminent deal for several days, this as studio heads from warner brothers, disney and netflix are part of ongoing discussions. a hollywood ending? that's the hope in tinseltown, as negotiations between the writers guild of america and television and film producers continue for the fifth consecutive day today. >> fingers, toes, eyes, everything crossed for a resolution. >> reporter: following a marathon negotiation session saturday, media outlets including variety reporting that producers presented the wga with their best and final offer. >> we're hearing that they're close, but perhaps not as close as some of the press reports, which have suggested this is down to a drafting of the lawyers. >> reporter: unresolved issues
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are the regulation of artificial intelligence, staffing minimums for writers rooms and the distribution of resill yules. >> we're prepared to stay out and keep staying out, but, yes, i hope it's over. >> reporter: this strike has put more than 11,000 tv and film scribes on the sidelines. once this deal is struck, studios will then need to make a deal with the actors who have been on strike since july. the combined stoppages have cost the california economy an estimated $5 billion. it's only once when both strikes are settled that everyone can proclaim the end and the business of show can go on. right now the strike is the second longest work stoppage for hollywood writers ever. if a deal isn't struck this week, it could become the longest. jericka? >> elise, thank you.
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some are calling it the biggest breakthrough in stroke treatment in decades. consider this. every 40 seconds someone in the u.s. has a stroke. cbs's chief medical correspondent dr. john lapook has the details on mobile stroke units and how they're helping patients. >> reporter: richard janelle was on vacation in 2018 when he lost straight in his right head. >> i dropped my phone. i wasn't able to grab the phone off the floor. >> reporter: at age 41, he was having a stroke. blood flow to his brain was blocked by a clot. >> i had problems speaking. it went really fast. >> reporter: he said if he had to have a stroke, it couldn't have happened in a better place. >> it was a mri call for sure. >> reporter: he was treated by the mobile stroke unit, a special aambulance equipped
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with clot-busting medication that allows doctors to treat remotely. a patient loses nearly 2 million neurons in their brain every time a stroke happens. a study found that mobile stroke units for the of were able to deliver medication 45 minutes erlier. >> this is one of the most exciting things that's come out. >> reporter: the mobile stroke unit is one of just 20 nationwide. chris bossert is one of the paramedics who treated richard janelle that day, administering the crucial medication. >> how quickly did it work? >> maybe five, ten minutes, i would say. it was very apparent he was gaining function back. it was amazing. >> reporter: he met up with the team that saved his life a year later at the same bar. and now he's a father. >> another miracle that happened because of the first one where i was saved in new york.
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♪ for years, american farmers have been restricted from making repairs to the tractors, combines and other equipment they own. as barry petersen reports, new laws are forcing changes. >> reporter: zach wood has tens of thousands of high-tech farm equipment, like a gps guided planter that won't seed the same row twice, but a computer glitch can shut it all down, and then farmers in rural areas can wait days for a dealer's service
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call. >> is that going to increase the risk you will lose a crop? >> yeah. having cut most of the field, before it hails it off you can lose the whole thing. >> reporter: zach's father testified for the right to repair law, so farmers can get the information from dealer to do the own repair work. he was there when the bill was signed into law. farmers around the country are supportive of this idea of the farmers' right to repair. >> tell me why is it such resonance to farmers. >> farmers are not people that like to rely on others. >> reporter: some dealers for john deere, america's biggest farm machinery maker, opposed the bill. they declined an interview, sending an e-mail, saying in part, john deere supports a customer's decision to repair their own products, utilize a separate repair service or have repairs completed by an authorized dealer. this state representative was
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among the law's sponsors and says right to repair addresses wider issues. >> it comes down to a lot of the environmental issues around the consumer products that are just thrown away, the planned ob so he sense of the equipment that goes into the trash heap. >> reporter: one study said if we repaired cell phones for another year, it will be the same environment benefit as taking more than 600,000 cars off the road. back in colorado, population, 200. danny's wife lorrie works at the town's only restaurant. she knows well the challenges for farm families. >> if we don't have crops in the elevator and we don't sell them to have money. we don't have money, we don't live. >> reporter: right to repair will help farmers keep their equipment running, critical, they say, to keeping them in business.
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by building something known as pallet shelters. we visited a nearby community of them, providing a safe space for people and their pets. for 45-year-old phoebe welte and her dog jazzy finding a home hasn't been easy. she's among the more than 500,000 people in this country experiencing homelessness. she says she and her husband could have found a shelter sooner if not for their dog. >> how comforting is it to have jazz with you? >> incredible. >> reporter: for years they lived in tents until they learned about the salvation army housing community near denver made up of pallet shelters. >> our goal is to keep people with their pets. >> reporter: kristen is the director of social services. >> people don't want to be separated from their pets. they would rather sleep on the street than enter a shelter and have to leave their pet behind. it's a huge source of mental health stability for folks and we don't want to separate them
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from their babies. >> reporter: each shelter can house two people, has a door that locks, electricity, heat, air conditioning and accommodations for pets. >> how important is it to this this type of shelter and independence if you will? >> it's very important. it really is. for jazzy it was vital. >> reporter: between 5 and 10% of people experiencing homelessness have pets. most shelters lack the infrastructure to address the needs of that group. >> there's no denying that homelessness is increasing. we're housing people left and right and working magic, but the number of people entering into homelessness is increasing at a faster rate than we can house. >> what do you want people to know about your situation and others like yourself? >> don't judge my story by the chapter you walked in on. that's the "cbs weekend
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news" for sunday. 60 minutes investigates how money is being used in ukraine. i'm jericka duncan. thank you for watching. have a great night. from cbs news bay area, this is the evening edition. dozens of cars disappearing off the streets of oakland every day and even if the stolen cars are found, they might not work. >> everything was burnt to a crisp, no steering column, no seats. it was down to the wire. smoke moved out, but could rain be moving in? driving down memory lane, san francisco celebrating muni heritage weekend while transit gets ready to possibly drive off a fiscal cliff. live from the cbs studios
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in san francisco, i'm brian hackney. >> i'm andrea nakano. so far this year between january and september 17th, more than 10,000 vehicles have been stolen according to the oakland police. da lin talks to those impacted by the crimes, including a woman on the verge of homelessness. >> reporter: this car owner is in tears. she just filed a police report. someone stole her 2001 chevy suburban in front of her apartment sunday morning. what does that car mean to you? >> a lot, you know, because that car, i buy it with collecting bottles from the street. >> reporter: jasmine cabrera collected bottles and cans a year to save up $3,000 to buy the suv. now she feels like the world around her is collapsing. >> my kids go to fremont, so i have to drive every day here from oakland to take them
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