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to their properties in lahaina. cbs's jonathan vigliotti was back in the disaster zone today along with families struggling to cope with their loss. >> reporter: it's been nearly seven weeks since residets in lahaina's fire ravaged disaster zone have been allowed to return home. >> pretty bad. after so many years living here. >> reporter: for many like noreen wells and her granddaughter, tani, was overwhelming. >> we need to see it in person. we need to go and stand on our property and see, you know, what's left and process it. >> reporter: at least a dozen people returned home today. many discovering scenes like this. but they were the lucky ones. we're told at least one person in the neighborhood was unable to escape the flames alive. chuck hogan's home survived. >> sorry. i get a little choked up sometimes about it. >> i understand. >> just because it's just so horrible. and the fact that i made it is,
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you know, just the luck, the way the wind was blowing basically. >> reporter: hogan, a contractor by trade, estimates it will take at least a decade to rebuild the town. a long row of crosses, each one a family member lost in the fire. pegdalao who was partially paralyzed. died while trying to flee in the car. the flames blocked their exit. >> unfortunately, the fire got really close, and my grandma did whatever she could. she did not give up. but my grandpa told her, go. just leave me. just go find the family and go take care of yourself and them. >> reporter: heartbreak and a long road to recovery aheadi. officials say it it could take a year alone to remove all of the rubble. it's about half the amount
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removed from the world trade center site after 9/11, norah. >> jonathan vigliotti, thank you for all your reporting from there. turning now to the crisis at the border. tonight cbs news can report that more than 9,000 migrants were apprehended at the border just yesterday. the mayor of el paso says his city is reaching a breaking point with more than 2,000 migrants arriving per day. a dozen buses of migrants pulled into chicago over the weekend. america's third largest city is now spending $29 million to set up winterized tent camps for the migrants. turning overseas, ukraine says it killed the commande of russia's black sea fleet in a missile strike last week. the attack targeted the russian navy's headquarters in crimea. the claim comes as president zelenskyy announced today that his forces have received much-needed u.s. abrams tanks, saying they're being prepared for battle. back here at home, time is running out to avoid a government shutdown. house speaker kevin mccarthy is facing an uphill battle with his
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own fellow republicans while president biden says the gop should live up to its budget deal. cbs's weijia jiang is at the white house. she's got the latest. good evening, weijia. >> reporter: good evening, norah. tonight the white house is calling this a republican shutdown and warns that without a solution, at least 4 million federal workers won't get paid. food safety inspections could be delayed. and cancer research could be stalled. this afternoon, president biden said the cuts would disproportionately impact the black community and put food assistance to 7 million women and children at risk. he also put the blame squarely on the group of far-right republicans who are holding out on funding the government because they want deep spending cuts. house speaker kevin mccarthy has failed numerous times now to convince those lawmakers to compromise, a task that may be even tougher now that former president donald trump is urging conservatives today to shut down the government if they don't
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tonight, the national transportation safety board is looking into a hidden danger on america's highways. the nationwide shortage of rest stop space for large trucks results in many drivers parking on the sides of off-ramps, sometimes with deadly consequences. cbs's kris van cleave goes in depth on the dangers and the
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calls for change. >> reporter: mario gonzalez died on his way home from visiting family in july when his pickup slammed into the back of a semi parked on the side of the road through a rest stop off interstate 37, south of san antonio. it was dark, and the truck did not have lights on. his daughter, laurie. >> losing him has left a hole in our family, a hole that nothing's going to fill. >> reporter: gonzalez was speeding before hitting the brakes seconds before the impact. his family is now suing the trucking company, which denies any wrongdoing. >> it doesn't take a lot of professional experience to understand the dangers of an 18-wheeler parked on a roadway at night in the dark. >> reporter: gonzalez died two days after a hauntingly similar crash in illinois killed three when a greyhound bus hit several big rigs parked along a rest stop access road. the trucking industry says drivers are forced to park in such places because there's only one parking space for every 11 trucks on the nation's roads. cbs news found big rigs parked
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on free way and rest stop shoulders across the country and crowding roads into rest stops already full of parked trucks. investigators for the gonzalez family shot this video of the rest stop where mario died jammed with trucks on both sides of the road. laws vary by state, but texas does not prohibit parking on the shoulder. >> how hard is it to find a place to park for one of these things? >> it can be from easy a small percent of the time to impossible a large percent of the time. >> reporter: danny sha nouts president of clark freight lines in houston, says the lack of parking accompanied with strict drive time rules forces truckers into unsafe situations. >> what do you tell your drivers about this issue of parking like on an off-ramp? >> first of all, we have to be safe. so we tell drivers to reaealize that cutting their dayay short better thann putting someone in an unsauf position. >> reporter: nationally in 2020, there were 4 4,000 injuryy accidents involving big rigs near interstate on and off-ramps. another 55 were fatal.
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transportation sect pete buttigieg. >> this is not just a quality of life for truck drivers, but also it's a safety issue for the entire system. >> reporter: the department of transportation is providing grants to expand truck parking in several states while a bill giving states an additional 755 million to expand existing park trucking languishes. >> he had so much life to live, and he died way too young, and it was preventable. >> reporter: now the gonzalez family wants parking on the side of the road banned. kris van cleave, cbs news, san antonio. caught on camera, a small plane crashes into a soccer plane crashes into a soccer field in southern california. try y killing bubugs the worry-y-free way.. not ththe other waway. zevo t traps use l light to attraract and trarap flying insnsects wiwith no odoror and no meme. ththey work cocontinuouslyl, so y you don't have t to. zezevo. peopople-friendly. bug-deadadly. ththis delectatable ramen noododle recipee will put a an end to y your drdrive-througugh dinner r rit.
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amusement park when a ride unexpectedly stops, leaving these riders upside down foror minutes. how itit all endeded, next. an amusement park ride was anything but amusing when it took a frightening turn when it suddenly stopped, leaving passengers dangling upside down, screaming for help. the lumberjack ride at canada's wonderland theme park was stuck for nearly 30 minutes saturday night. a park official says after the maintenance team fixed the problem, two people had to be treated for chest pains. a historic haul of asteroid dust was shipped to the johnson space center today for testing. the largest asteroid sample ever
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collected from space arrived in the utah desert inside a nasa capsule following a seven-year, nearly 4 billion mile mission. nasa says the nine ounces of dust scraped up by a probe will give scientists an extraordinary glimpse into the beginnings of our solar system. pretty cool. which one of the when you humble yourself under the mighty hand of god, in due time he will exalt you. hi, i'm joel osteen. i'm excited about being with you every week. i hope you'll tune in. you'll be inspired, you'll be encouraged. i'm looking forward to seeing you right here. you are fully loaded and completely equipped for the race that's been designed for you.
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finally tonight, the defending super bowl champion kansas city chiefs' newest fan is causing quite a stir and a swift reaction. cbs's jo ling kent reports on the enchanting details. >> i think the secret's out. >> reporter: taylor swift has entered her football era. >> if we play like this every time taylor is in the building, then she needs to be here every week. >> reporter: swift made her fearless return to kansas city's arrowhead stadium, which she sold out twice last summer, to cheer on nfl tight end travis kelce. >> i told her i've seen you rock
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the stage in arrowhead. >> reporter: wearing red, of course, next to kelce's mom, donna. >> touchdown! >> reporter: the reaction, beyond the nfl's wildest dreams. >> travis kelce has had a lot of big catches in his career. this would be the biggest. >> reporter: the women's editions of his jersey are selling fast online. the company behind kelce's outfit capitalizing, calming it the 1989 and sources touting the new balance shoes she wore to the game a hot commodity. swifties know all too well she's a mastermind of her business reputation. her tour alone expected to add an estimated $5 billion to the global economy, more than the gdp of at least 50 countries. >> welcome to the eras tour. >> reporter: and now her fans suddenly paying attention to the nfl and the players are ready for it. >> i heard she was in the house, and so i knew i had to give it to travis. >> reporter: and that's the overnight news for this tuesday. for some of you, the news continues. for others, check back later for
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"cbs mornings" and follow us online anytime at cbsnews.com. reporting from the nation's capital, i'm norah o'donnell. this is "cbs news flash." i'm shanelle kaul in new york. the gop has announced the seven participant fozer tomorrow night's second republican presidential debate. former president donald trump will skip the debate. former arkansas governor asa hutchinson did not reach the polling threshold required to qualify. the governor of louisiana has requested a federal emergency declaration to help fight a salt water intrusion in the mississippi river.
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low water levels are making the river less resistant to salt water from the gulf of mexico, which is threatening the state's drinking water supply. and dave mccallum, known from hit tv shows like "the man from u.n.c.l.e." and "ncis" has died. he was 90. for more, download the cbs news app on your cell phone or connected tv. i'm shanelle kaul, cbs news, new york. >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." we want to begin tonight with one of the longest hollywood strikes in history coming to a possible end with the writers guild of america and the major studios agreeing to a tentative deal. the potential agreement announced late last night comes nearly five months since production came to a standstill. what followed was months of bitter talks, picket lines, and round-the-clock negotiations over demands, including
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residuals and the use of artificial intelligence. now, the terms are not yet known. but in an email to members, the wga said the deal had meaningful gains and protections for the writers. members of the union still need to ratify the new contract so writers won't be returning to work immediately. attention now turns to the ongoing strike of members of the screen actors guild with many of the same issues on the line. cbs's elise preston will start us off tonight from a studio lot in los angeles. good evening, elise. >> reporter: norah, good evening to you. after 146 days of walking the picket line, writers are expected to ratify this deal within the coming weeks. but with actors on strike, there's still no hollywood ending. picket signs are coming down, but don't expect the curtain to rise anytime soon for your favorite shows. while the writers have reached a deal, it still must be ratified by the guild's 11,000 members, and more than 160,000 actors are
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still without a contract. the wga calls its three-year deal exceptional. it includes concessions on royalty payments for streaming and protecting writers from being replaced by a.i., two of the main sticking points of a strike that has cost the industry more than $5 billion. the first shows forced off the air, late-night talk shows, will likely be the first programs to return, perhaps as early as next week. >> what do we want? >> contracts! >> reporter: the writers and actors walkouts have shown strong solidarity, notably in the many job actions seen in this summer of strikes. >> what does this mean for everyone else? >> we are in a labor moment. we had dual hollywood strikes for the first time in 63 years. we had the autoworkers out. we almost had ups out. workers, even non-unionized workers, are sick and tired and have found a straw that broke their back in terms of income inequality. >> reporter: it was only last
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week that studio heads were brought in to try to end the strike that lasted nearly five months. >> are you surprised that it took this long? >> it really is a dereliction of duty. the studio heads sat on their yachts. they went to billionaire summer camps, and they allowed working people to go without jobs, to walk on the picket line, and to wonder how they were going to put food on the table. that's outrageous. >> reporter: now, with the ongoing actors strike, your favorite shows may not return until next year, and even then, there still could be more trouble ahead. labor actions for other industry jobs are looming. norah. >> elise preston with this important story, thank you. we are hearing tonight for the first time from senator robert menendez just days after he was indicted for a wide-ranging corruption scheme. the powerful democrat is accused of taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash and luxury gifts to help new jersey businessmen and the government of egypt. cbs's nikole killion spoke with his constituents as calls for his resignation are growing today.
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>> reporter: tonight new jersey senator bob menendez says he's bracing for his biggest fight yet and showed no signs of backing down. >> i firmly believe that when all the facts are presented, not only will i be exonerated, but i still will be the new jersey's senior senator. >> reporter: flanked by a handful of supporters, the democratic lawmaker took no questions. >> are you running for re-election? >> are you running for re-election? >> reporter: as he responded publicly to a three-count indictment filed last week against the senator, his wife, and three new jersey business associates. the senator is accused of using his political influence on the powerful foreign relations committee to take thousands of dollars in bribes, including mortgage payments to his wife, a luxury car, 13 bars of gold, and around $500,000 in cash with some of the money stuffed in congressional jackets bearing his name. >> for 30 years, i have withdrawn thousands of dollars in cash from my personal savings
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account, which i have kept for emergencies and because of the history of my family facing confiscation in cuba. reporter: menendez claimed over the weekend that his critics were rushing to judge a latino, something disputed by fellow democratic congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez. >> as a latina, there are absolutely ways in which there is systemic bias, but i think what is here in this indictment is quite clear. >> reporter: new jersey governor phil murphy has called for menendez's immediate resignation, and close to half of new jersey's congressional delegation believes he should step down. that includes congressman andy kim, who announced he will primary the three-term senator next year. >> i am very concerned that if senator menendez continues on, that he could put this seat in jeopardy. >> reporter: at least two senate democrats say menendez should leave office. the white house stopped short of calling for his resignation. and here in new jersey, fellow senator cory booker has not
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weighed in. norah. >> nikole killion, thank you. there were some terrifying moments today aboard a jetblue flight from ecuador to ft. lauderdale when it hit severe turbulence. the flight landed safely, but seven passengers and a crew member were sent to the hospital for evaluation and treatment. the plane was taken out of service for inspection. turning now to the crisis at the border, tonight cbs news can report that more than 9,000 migrants were apprehended at the border just yesterday. the mayor of el paso says his city is reaching a breaking point with more than 2,000 migrants arriving per day. a dozen buses of migrants pulled into chicago over the weekend. america's third largest city is now spending $29 million to set up winterized tent camps for the migrants. turning overseas, ukraine says it killed the commander of russia's black sea fleet in a missile strike last week. the attack targeted the russian navy's headquarters in crimea. the claim comes as president
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zelenskyy announced today that his forces have received much-needed u.s. abrams tanks, saying they're being prepared for battle. back here at home, time is running out to avoid a government shutdown. house speaker kevin mccarthy is facing an uphill battle with his own fellow republicans while president biden says the gop should live up to its budget deal. cbs's weijia jiang is at the white house. she's got the latest. good evening, weijia. what did we learn? >> reporter: good evening, norah. tonight the white house is calling this a republican shutdown and warns that without a solution, at least 4 million federal workers won't get paid. food safety inspections could be delayed, and cancer research could be stalled. this afternoon, president biden said the cuts would disproportionately impact the black community and put food assistance to 7 million women and children at risk. he also put the blame squarely on the group of far-right republicans who are holding out on funding the government because they want deep spending
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cuts. house speaker kevin mccarthy has failed numerous times now to convince those lawmakers to compromise, a task that may be even tougher now that former president donald trump is urging conservatives today to shut down the government if they don't get, quote, everything they want. norah. >> weijia jiang, thank you very much. much. the "cbs overnight news" feelining sluggishsh or weieighed down?n? could d be a sign n that your digigestive sysystem isn't at i its best. but a littttle metamucucil everyday c can help. metatamucil's pspsyllium fiber r gels to trtrap and remomove the wasaste that weighghs you downwn and d also helpsps lolower cholesesterol and slowows sugar ababsorn toto promote healalthy blood d sugar levev. so y you can feeeel lighter and morere energeticic. lilighten everery day the memetamucil waway. and for r a delicious way to promote digestive health try metatamucil fibeber t. it's because ofof tiktok that i i had to gogo out and get t a website.e. i'm at a p point now wherere i'veve outgrown n my h.
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>> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." i'm nicole sganga in washington. thanks for staying with us. president biden will travel to michigan today to visit striking autoworkers manning the picket lines against detroit's big three carmakers. the uaw launched a limited walkout earlier this month, but that grew friday when 5,600
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members walked out on 38 parts and distribution plants. the strike is already taking a toll on car dealers in communities around the idle plants. bradley blackburn reports. >> reporter: at central avenue jeep in yonkers, new york, the lot is packed with new cars, but dealer jonathan grant says a sustained strike by united auto workers could change that. >> i'm afraid if the strike lasts very long, it could really impact our availability. >> and that would affect your bottom line. >> yes, it would. >> reporter: the plant that builds the popular wrangler is currently shut down. ford and gm dealerships could face the same problem if assembly lines sit idle for a prolonged period. >> if it goes beyond 60 or 90 days or grows to other plants, i think the impact could be much more severe. >> reporter: a lack of supply could lead to higher prices for new cars. dealers are concerned about more than just inventory on the lot. the strikes could also impact availability of replacement parts for service. >> as a dealer, we get a nightly
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delivery of parts. >> reporter: he owns celebrity ford in new jersey and worries those deliveries c could end in the coming weeks if the strike continues. >> we could have the brakekes i stock, but if we don't havave a spring that't's needed in the brake pads, we can't finish the job and we can't get your car on the road. >> reporter: may olli says if he can't fix cars and doesn't have vehicles to sell, he may need to lay off employees. the auto makers are also laking off workers, impacting local businesses. >> if you have less money to end and, you're going to really hold on to what you have, and that reduction in spending could curb economic growth in those local communities. >> reporter: experts say the strike could have an impact on the entire u.s. economy if it continues into next year. bradley blackburn, cbs news, yonkers, new york. striking hollywood writers have reached a tentative deal with entertainment companies to end their walkout. details of the agreement still have to be ironed out. but with 11,000 actors still on the picket lines, it could be a
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while before you get any new episodes of your favorite shows. and while production here in the u.s. ground to a halt, tv and movies produced overseas are still drawing millions of viewers, including many here in the u.s. seth doane reports. >> reporter: turn on the tv in korea, the production powerhouse of asia, and you can find dance troupes battling each other. in israel, it's a local take on "dancing with the stars," while in south africa, shaka e lem bay about the rise of a zulu king, has been likened to an african ""game of thrones."" and in the united kingdom, the about, bc period drama called the midwife still rules supreme after 12 seasons. [ speaking in a global language ] in italy, the show of the moment is mary forry, or the sea beyond. it's a steamy coming of age drama unfolding among young
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prisoners in naples. we were on-set earlier this month with director ivan silva steeny. >> they had to somehow portray these characters and their inner feelings. >> reporter: and notably in their own dialect, blended with the italian language is neapolitan, mainly spoken in naples. it's a familiar mix for one of the stars, mass mill llano kai at sew. >> for me, it's simple to ask in na pal ta know language because i was from here, and my emotions was grounded, was more grounded. naples is a character, a fundamental character of the story. >> reporter: this producer says the sense of place grounds the story too. >> it's a star. >> reporter: while producer maria p. am raty notes young people watching across platforms are driving the show's popularity. >> and i think that we speaking their language. >> international tv is where you should be paying attention these
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days as an american viewer. >> reporter: mike hale is a tv critic for "the new york times." he says foreign television has been strong for some time, but now we're more aware of it. >> there are a lot of shows that we know from american tv that really were reboots from another country. >> that's so true. some of the most popular shows on american tv were actually based on shows from britain. >> do you want the doctor? >> reporter: for example, all in the family. >> and then we'll have a little fun. ♪ come and knock on our door ♪ >> three's company was also based on a british show. >> and the office. hale says for americans, it all changed about a decade ago. >> netflix starts showing things with subtitles, and people -- people watch. i have a feeling that the trend is going to be toward homojen aty in the sense that people want their shows to be able to be seen and sold all over the
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world. >> we don't make global shows. we make local shows and local films that we launch to a global audience. >> reporter: bella ba jaria is netflix chief content officer. she notes 70% of viewing on netflix comes from members watching a title from a country other than their own. >> is there a hoe meteorologinization of the product because there's a netflix style or expectation? >> you know, i think the netflix style or expectation is that you're getting a really specific, authentic version of that story. so i think it's the opposite of that actually. i think when you look at something like "squid game," which a lot of people know, that was made in korea, by koreans, for the korean audience. and then it really spoke to people around the world and became the biggest tv show ever. >> reporter: netflix is also seeing tv viewing drive travel trends, as did hbo max. a trip to sicily after "white
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lotus," anyone? as streaming operations invest billions, paramount+, which, like cbs, is owned by paramount global, is eyeing 150 original foreign programs by 2025. back in naples, mar ray forry is benefiting from those audiences who are increasingly drawn to stories that take them far from home. >> when you're telling a true story and you are realistic and you speak with your heart, then probably you can reach, you know, the world. >> that was seth doane reporting from italy. in hawaii, residents of maui are finally being allowed back to their devastated properties in lahaina. the historic town was all but destroyed by a wildfire last month. at least 97 people perished in the smoke and flames. jonathan vigliotti spoke with locals still coming to grips with their loss. >> reporter: it's been nearly seven weeks since the pagdilao
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family has walked around their hometown of lahaina. their painful first steps were made here at this memorial to pay respect to their patriarch. pablo pagdilao iii, another name added to a long row of crosses. each one a family member lost to the lahaina fire. the family ended their visit together in prayer. grateful for what is left. >> a lot of us have not been able to come back. to see someone go in an unexpected way, it kind of hurts. >> reporter: pagdilao, who was partially paralyzed, died while trying to flee the fire by car with his wife, nelda. the flames politicked their exit on front street, and nelda couldn't carry her husband over the seawall to safety. >> when she went over the wall, she tried to pull him down, but unfortunately the fire got really close, and my grandma did whatever she could.
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mission, an engineering marvel launched in 2016. two years later, it caught up with benu, a near earth asteroid the size of the empire state building. the spacecraft spent a year and a half mapping benu, searching for a safe place to collect a sample. then finally dodging boulders, briefly plunged its arm into a small crater. >> and we have touchdown! [ applause ] >> reporter: like a vacuum cleaner, the spacecraft sucked up asteroid rocks and dust about a half pound's worth and locked it away for the 1.2 billion-mile journey back to earth. >> this is the largest sample of extraterrestrial material that will be brought back to earth since apollo. >> reporter: laurie glaze is nasa's head of planetary science. >> the challenge is to keep the sample as pristine as possible. >> we've got to keep that sample uncontaminated by us.
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>> reporter: to protect the samples, nasa build an ultra clean state of the art lab at the johnson space center in houston. it's the same building that houses the apollo moon rocks. deputy curator christopher sneeds already imagining opening the benu samples in this lab. >> it's going to be an incredible, wild moment. we're going to learn a lot of new things. they're going to be unexpected surprises. >> reporter: benu is rich in carbon and could contain the chemical building blocks of life. nasa's new samples 4.5 billion years old could provide clues about how planets like ours formed. >> these samples are very small, but they could answer some of the fundamental questions about the formation of our solar system, where the ingredients from life came, and perhaps how common that might be in the universe. >> reporter: benu has intrigued nasa for another reason. there's a chance, a remote 1 in
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2,700 possibility, the asteroid could collide with earth in the year 2182. >> it's worth tracking. >> it's absolutely worth tracking. >> but not necessarily worrying about? >> i wouldn't worry about it. i'm not losing any sleep over it. >> okay. >> reporter: the better odds, benu will tell us more about our solar system's beginnings and ♪ ♪ everery day, bususinesses everywhehere are asksking: is it t possible?? with comcacast bubusiness... . it is. is it possible t to help kekeep our onlnline platfofm safe f from cybertrthreats? absolutelyly. can we p provide heaealth carere virtuallyly anywhere? we canan help with thahat. is it popossible to o use prpredictive m monitoringg to addreress opererations issssues? we can helelp withth that, toooo. with the a advanced connecectivity and inintelligencece of globl secucure networkrking
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wine tourism is now a $50 billion a year business, and it's not only in california. wendy gillette reports. >> reporter: wine enthusiasts know napa valley. the region boasts about a third of california's wineries. some now high tech like ink grade's 360 degree video projection and tasting. others feature epic views like ar tee sa or high end food and wine pairing. but far from california, the wine world is welcoming newcomers in texas hill country west of austin.
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at farris and fletch in picturesque fredericksburg. rick devorrek recently stopped by for a tasting. >> i enjoy any wine, but some of these wines are really good. >> reporter: sprinkled among quaint hotels like hill country herb garden, eno files find more than 100 wineries from the small batch wine producer narrow path to the much larger becker vineyards. >> the industry is fairly young by comparison to other wine growing regions in the country. >> reporter: after a mere four decades of serious grape growing, texas has the fifth most wineries in the nation, behind new york, oregon, washington, and california. another big slice of wine country is here in virginia. the state ranks sixth in the nation for the number of wineries, around 300. the omni homestead, one of the hotels we stayed at for a special rate, capitalizes on the winery's popularity with virginia wine weekends, showcasing local winemakers and pairing bottles with multi-course dinners.
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23 u.s. presidents have stayed at the resort and bathed in its mineral springs and perhaps sipped a little virginia wine produced from more than 4,000 acres. wendy gillette, cbs news. and that's the overnight news for this tuesday. reporting from the nation's capital, i'm nicole sganga. this is "cbs news flash." i'm shanelle kaul in new york. the gop has announced the seven payment ants for tomorrow night's second republican presidential debate. former president donald trump will again skip the debate. he'll instead hold a campaign event in michigan. former arkansas governor asa hutchinson did not reach the polling threshold required to qualify. the governor of louisiana has requested a federal emergency declaration to help fight a saltwater intrusion in the mississippi river. low water levels are making the
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river less resistant to saltwater from the gulf of mexico, which is threatening the state's drinking water supply. and david mccallum, known from hit tv shows like "the man from u.n.c.l.e." and "ncis" has di . he was 90. more, download the cbs news app on your cell phone or connected tv. i'm shanelle kaul, cbs news, new york. tonight, the end of the hollywood writers strike. the new details we're learning about the tentative deal and why it doesn't mean your favorite shows are coming back so fast. here are tonight's headlines.
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that's outrageous. >> reporter: now, with the ongoing actors strike, your favorite shows may not return until next year. and even then, there still could be more trouble ahead. labor actions for other industry jobs are looming. norah. >> elise preston with this important story, thank you. we are hearing tonight for the first time from senator robert menendez just days after he was indicted for a wide-ranging corruption scheme. the powerful democrat is accused of taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash and luxury gifts to help new jersey businessmen and the government of egypt. cbs's nikole killion spoke with his constituents as calls for his resignation are growing today. >> reporter: tonight new jersey senator bob menendez says he's bracing for his biggest fight yet and showed no signs of backing down. >> i firmly believe that when
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all the facts are presented, not only will i be exonerated, but i will still will be the new jersey's senior senator. >> reporter: flanked by a handful of supporters, the democratic lawmaker took no questions. >> are you running for re-el re-election? >> reporter: as he stopped publicly to a three-count indictment filed last week against the senator, his wife, and three new jersey business associates. the senator is accused of using his political influence on the powerful foreign relations committee to take thousands of dollars in bribes, including mortgage payments to his wife, a luxury car, 13 bars of gold, and around $500,000 in cash with some of the money stuffed in congressional jackets bearing his name. >> for 30 years, i have withdrawn thousands of dollars in cash from my personal savings account, which i have kept for emergencies and because of the history of my family facing confiscation in cuba. >> reporter: menendez claimed over the weekend that his
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critics were rushing to judge a latino, something disputed by fellow democratic congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez. >> you know, at a latina, there are absolutely ways in which there is systemic bias, but i think what is here in this indictment is quite clear. >> reporter: new jersey governor phil murphy has called for menendez' immediate resignation and close to half of new jersey's congressional delegation believes he should step down. that includes congressman andy kim, who announced he will primary the three-term senator next year. >> i am very concerned that if senator menendez continues on, that he could put this seat in jeopardy. >> reporter: at least two senate democrats say menendez should leave office. the white house stopped short of calling for his resignation. and here in new jersey, fellow senator cory booker has not weighed in. norah. >> nikole killion, thank you. there were some terrifying moments today aboard a jetblue flight from ecuador to ft. lauderdale when it hit severe turbulence.
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>> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." now to some lingering weather problems caused by the remnants of tropical storm ophelia. the storm lashed the east coast over the weekend with strong winds and up to 10 inches of rain from north carolina to the jersey shore. while the worst is behind us, states up and down the coast are in store for more stormy
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weather. so for all that, let's bring in meteorologist alex wilson from our partners at the weather channel. good evening, alex. >> norah, it's going to be a pretty tough week on the east coast as conditions remain unsettled, particularly at those areas along the beaches. we've got the remnants circulation of ophelia that will linger, keep rain showers around. stronger high pressure to the north. that's going to lead to an increasing pressure gradient, strong winds, and an onshore flow. you can expect increased waves, dangerous rip currents, and gusty winds to continue along the east coast, up and down the east coast along with rain showers through the middle, even end part of the week. so wet weather will linger along with those winds. expect dreary weather, again, from the mid-atlantic to the northeast. even the ohio valley getting in on some of those showers and thunderstorms towards the second half of the week. atmospheric river event setting up. this is going to bring some much needed rain to parts of the pacific northwest where they've been dealing with drought and fires. >> alex, thank you. some residents of the hardest hit part of maui are finally being allowed to return
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to their properties in lahaina more than a month after catastrophic wildfires destroyed the area and left at least 97 people dead. cbs's jonathan vigliotti was back in the disaster zone today along with families struggling to cope with their loss. >> reporter: it's been nearly seven weeks since residents in lahaina's fire-ravaged disaster zone have been allowed to return home. >> pretty bad after so many years living here. >> reporter: for many, like noreen wells and her granddaughter, tani, to be back was overwhelming. >> we need to see it in person. we need to go and stand on our property and see, you know, what's left and process it. >> reporter: at least a dozen people returned home today, many discovering scenes like this. but they were the lucky ones. we're told at least one person in the neighborhood was unable to escape the flames alive. chuck hogan's home survived. >> sorry. i get a little choked up sometimes about it. >> i understand. >> just because it's just so horrible. and the fact that i made it is,
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you know, just the luck, the way the wind was blowing basically. >> reporter: hogan, a contractor by trade, estimates it will take at least a decade to rebuild the town. pablo pagdilao iii among the names added to the long row of crosses, each one a family member lost in the fire. pagdilao, who was partially paralyzed, died while trying to flee the fire by car with his wife, nelda. the flames blocked their exit on front street, and nelda couldn't carry her husband over the seawall to safety. >> unfortunately the fire got really close, and my grandma did whatever she could. she did not give up. but my grandpa told her, go. just leave me. just go find the family and go take care of yourself and them. >> reporter: heartbreak and a long road to recovery ahead. officials say it could take just a year alone to remove all of the rubble. 700,000 tons. and to give you some perspective, that's about half the amount removed from the
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world trade center site after 9/11, norah. >> jonathan vigliotti, thank you for all your reporting from there. turning to the crisis at the border, cbs news can report more than 9,000 migrants were apprehended at the border just yesterday. the mayor of el paso says his city is reaching a breaking point with more than 2,000 migrants arriving per day. a dozen buses of migrants pulled into chicago over the weekend. america's third largest city is now spending $29 million to set up winterized tent camps for the migrants. turning overseas, ukraine says it killed the commander of russia's black sea fleet in a missile strike last week. the attack targeted the russian navy's headquarters in crimea. the claim comes as president zelenskyy announced today that his forces have received much needed u.s. abrams tanks, saying they're being prepared for battle. back here at home, time is running out to avoid a government shutdown. house speaker kevin mccarthy is
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facing an uphill battle with his own fellow republicans while president biden says the gop should live up to its budget deal. cbs's weijia jiang is at the white house. she's got the latest. good evening, weijia. what did we learn? >> reporter: good evening, norah. tonight the white house is calling this a republican shutdown and warns that without a solution, at least 4 million federal workers won't get paid, food safety inspections could be delayed, and cancer research could be stalled. this afternoon, president biden said the cuts would disproportionately impact the black community and put food assistance to 7 million women and children at risk. he also put the blame squarely on the group of far-right republicans who are holding out on funding the government because they want deep spending cuts. house speaker kevin mccarthy has failed numerous times now to convince those lawmakers to compromise, a task that may be even tougher now that former president donald trump is urging conservatives today to shut down the government if they don't
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calls for change. >> reporter: mario gonzalez died on his way home from visiting family in july when his pickup slammed into the back of a semi parked on the side of a road through a rest stop off interstate 37 south of san antonio. it was dark, and the truck did not have lights on. his daughter, laurie. >> losing him has left a hole in our family, a hole that nothing is going to fill. >> reporter: gonzalez was speeding before hitting the brakes seconds before the impact. his family is now suing the trucking company, which denies any wrongdoing. >> it doesn't take a lot of professional experience to understand the dangers of an 18-wheeler parked on a roadway at night in the dark. >> reporter: gonzalez died two days after a hauntingly similar crash in illinois killed three when a greyhound bus hit several big rigs parked along a rest stop access road. the trucking industry says drivers are forced to park in such places because there's only one parking space for every 11 trucks on the nation's roads. cbs news found big rigs parked
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on freeway and rest stop shoulders across the country, and crowding roads into rest stops already full of parked trucks. investigators for the gonzalez family shot this video of the rest stop where mario died jammed with trucks on both sides of the road. laws vary by state, but texas does not prohibit parking on the shoulder. >> how hard is it to find a place to park for one of these things? >> it can be from easy a small percent of the time to impossible a large percent of the time. >> reporter: danny schnautz, president of clark freight lines, says the lack of parking coupled with strict drive time rules forces truckers into uns unsafe situations. >> first of all, we have to be safe. so we tell drivers to realize that cutting theheir day short better t than putting someonene an unsafe position. >> reporter: nationaly in 2020, there e were 4,000 i injury accidentss involving b big rigs near interstate on and off-ramps, another 55 were
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fatal. transportation secretary pete buttigieg. >> this is not just a quality of life issue for truck drivers, who deserve a good, convenient, safe place to park, but it's a safety issue for the entire system. >> reporter: the department of transportation is providing grants to expand truck parking in several states while a bill giving states an additional $755 million to expand existing truck parking languishes. >> he had so much life to live, and he died way too young, and it was preventable. >> reporter: now the gonzalez family wants parking on the side of the road banned. kris van cleave, cbs news, san antonio. caught on camera, a small plane crashes into a soccer field in southern california. we'v ah, these bills are crazy. she has no idea she's sitting on a goldmine. well she doesn't know that if she owns a life insurance policy of $100,000 or more she can sell all or part of it to coventry for cash. even a term policy. even a term policy? even a term
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dramatic video shows a small plane crashing into a soccer park called the field of dreams today in southern california. this happened in san pedro just south of los angeles. both people on board were critically injured. the plane nearly broken in half. the cause of the crash tonight under investigation. also tonight, a cleanup is under way in oklahoma city after workers accidentally broke a pipe, causing crude oil to gush out of the ground. the 16 inch line was quickly shut down while workers scrambled to contain the spill. the fire chief says there's significant environmental impact with oil flowing into an area where the storm drains are located. it's not clear yet how much oil actually leaked out. terrifying moments at an
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amusement park when a ride unexpectedly stops, leaving these riders upside down for almost 30 minutes. how w it all endeded, next. 6789. . an amusement park ride suddenly stopped, leaving passengers dangling upside down screaming for help. the lumberjack ride at canada's wonderland theme park was stuck for nearly 30 minutes saturday night. a park official says after the maintenance team fixed the problem, two people had to be treated for chest pains. a historic haul of asteroid dust was shipped to the johnson space center in houston today for testing. the largest asteroid sample ever
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collected from space arrived in the utah desert inside a nasa capsule following a seven-year, nearly 4 billion-mile mission. nasa says the nine ounces of dust scraped up by a probe will give scientists an extraordinary glimpse into the beginnings of our solar system. pretty cool. which one of the biggest pop music tars
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finally tonight, the defending super bowl champion kansas city chiefs' newest fan is causing quite a stir and a swift reaction. cbs's jo ling kent reports on the enchanting details. >> i think the secret's out. >> reporter: taylor swift has entered her football era. >> if we play like this every time taylor's in the building, then she needs to be here every week. >> reporter: swift made her fearless return to kansas city's arrowhead stadium which she sold out twice last summer to cheer on travis kelce.
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wearing red, of course, next to kelce's mom, donna. >> touchdown! >> reporter: the reaction, beyond the nfl's wildest dreams. >> travis kelce has had a lot of big catches in his career. this would be the biggest. >> reporter: the women's editions of his jersey are selling fast online. the company behind kelce's outfit capitalizing, calling it the 1989, and stores touting the new balance shoes she wore to the game a hot commodity. swifties know all too well she's a mastermind of her business reputation. her tour alone expected to add an estimated $5 billion to the global economy, more than the gdp of at least 50 countries. >> welcome to the eras tour. >> reporter: and now her fans suddenly paying attention to the nfl and the players are ready for it. >> i heard she was in the house, and so i nye you had to get up to travis. >> reporter: jo ling kent, cbs news, los angeles. and that's the overnight news for this tuesday. for some of you, the news continues, for others, check back later for "cbs mornings"
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and follow us online anytime at cbsnews.com. reporting from the nation's capital, i'm norah o'donnell. this is "cbs overnight news." i'm shanelle kaul in new york. the gop has announced the seven participants for tomorrow night's second republican presidential debate. former president donald trump will again skip the debate. he'll instead hold a campaign event in michigan. former arkansas governor asa hutchinson did not reach the polling threshold required to qualify. the governor of louisiana has requested a federal emergency declaration to help fight a saltwater intrusion in the mississippi river. low water levels are making the
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river less resistant to saltwater from the gulf of mexico, which is threatening the state's drinking water supply. and david mccallum, known from hit tv shows like "the man from u.n.c.l.e." and ncis has died. he was 90. for more, download the cbs news app on your cell phone o it's tuesday, september 26th, 2023. this is the "cbs morning news." biden visits strikers. the president is headed to michigan today to join the picket lines with striking autoworkers. how the white house pressure is impacting negotiations. menendez speaks. the new jersey senator indicted on federal bribery charges defends himself amid growing calls for his resignation. his explanation for the cash and gifts authorities say they found stashed in his home. and heartbreaking return.
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