including four students were hit, expected to make full recoveries. police found multiple guns at the scene. >> we blest five victims struck were unintended charges. >> reporter: the nation's 531st mass shooting this year came in ho homecoming week. >> gun violence has been an epidemic longer than i've been breathing oxygen and we have little to no action. >> reporter: the university has three back-to-back mired by gun violence. is that acceptable? >> it's not acceptable anywhere. >> reporter: the incident likely stemmed from a dispute between two small groups, investigators say, three victims have been released from the hospital. there's more breaking news with another shooting, this time

in massachusetts. several people were shot in holyoke, including a pregnant woman riding by on a bus. she's in critical condition, her baby died. it happened after a fight on the street, three suspects are in custody. now the murder investigation of rapper tupac shakir. the man police and prosecutors say was behind the las vegas shooting made his first court appearance on murder charges, elise preston reports. >> reporter: after tupac's murder 27 years ago, the focus was on the las vegas courtroom as the handcuffed man limped in, appearing before the judge and world for the first time since the self-proclaimed gang member and drug kingpin was charged with tupac's murder.

>> this is a high profile case, 25 years in the making. >> we feel confident the criminal justice system will work in this case. >> reporter: police just arrested 60-year-old davis last week. he has admitted to being in the car at the time of the shooting, penning a memoir and conducting interviews, including for vladtv. >> i'm not scared of jail or nothing. >> reporter: do you think it weighed on him? >> i don't think so. i think it just had been so long. and you can normalize anything. you can normalize murder. >> reporter: there was no plea entered, davis appeared in court by himself, his attorney couldn't make it. the next hearing is set for two weeks. norah. >> elise preston, thank you very much. to the vatican, pope francis opened an important meeting on

the future of the church. whether police can marry, women become deacons and priests bless same-sex marriages. chris livesay is in rome. >> reporter: clashing on hot button issues but the biggest bombshell dropped before it began, with francis opening the door for priests to bless same-sex unions. we cannot be judges declared the pontiff. >> as queer people we want to believe that god blesses our love. >> reporter: she says it opens tent for couples like hers. >> it is a very slim minority of catholics opposed to same-sex unions. >> that's what they wish, but it's not. >> reporter: a conservative priest from manhattan.

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another plant. >> reporter: ceo of ascend elements which recycles used batteries in covington, georgia, metals that can be reused, a key part of the ev supply chain. >> i'm proud to be part of that and a lot of our team members are proud. >> reporter: more than $90 billion in battery investments have been announced nationwide, creating estimated 70,000 manufacturing jobs, in a stretch from michigan to georgia, the battery belt. this is a battery cell? >> yes. >> reporter: executive vicee chchairman of batteryry maker s part of a conglomerate. foreign companies are opening dozens of battery plants in the u.s. they plan to employ up to 15,000 people in five plants by 2026. including this one in north

georgia, the size of 13 football fields. it can produce enough batteries every year to power 400,000 vehicles. >> we're very happy we chose georgia, kentucky and tennessee. >> reporter: why did you say it? >> it's not possible to not consider this place as your investment. >> reporter: matt lauer left the poultry industry for the battery plant. >> i'm happy i got to be part of something like this. >> reporter: it's also a new economic engine for the nearby town of commerce, population 7,700. >> when you have a company investing more than $2.5 billion in your community, it attracts a lot of attention. >> reporter: the mayor says his town will build a new school on the golf course with payments from the battery plant. >> we feel it's good for our citizens and also going to provide a better quality of life for the whole region. >> reporter: a region

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and that breaks the all-time record for men or women for consecutive titles in the history of the sport. biles was already the most decorated gymnast, male or female. 20 gold medals, she's incredible. congratulations to the entire time. that's the "overnight news," for some, news continues, follow us online any time at cbsnews.com. reporting from the nation's capital, i'm norah o'donnell. ♪ this is cbs news flash, i'm jared h hill in new yoyork. the whihite house cancelingng $ billioion inn student loan debt. it affects people eligible under

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and real world fallout from the historic removal of the speaker of the house. the unprecedented vote to vacate the chair leaves the house of representatives in a state of chaos and standstill. interim speaker patrick mchenry of north carolina is upset at the far right faction of his own party, sent lawmakers home to cool off with six weeks to prevent a government shutdown. members will return tuesday with an expected vote for the next speaker taking place the following day. two conservative hardliners have already thrown their hat in the ring, scalise jordan. until then, the people's house is closed for business. we have a lot of news to bring you tonight, and cbs' scott macfarlane will start from capitol hill. >> reporter: for a second day, half of the u.s. congress is paralyzed and will remain so indefinitely. raising fears that congress is barrelling again toward a painful government shutdown. kevin mccarthy's name still

hangs above the doorway. but the fight to replace him is on. top republicans steve scalise and jim jordan both officially announced candidacies today, but whether or not they have the votes to succeed and when the house will reopen for business are open questions. is there anything you can tell us about the schedule? what happens next? interim speaker mchenry had no answers on the days ahead. the only certainty among most republicans was their disdain for colleague matt gaetz who led the charge to remove mccarthy. >> i think it was deplorable, disgraceful. he put his own petty, personal grievances ahead of the country. >> reporter: gaetz continued to attack his colleagues. >> the nerve of the establishment republicans to have to have a week to have a good cry and then blame us for not getting the work

done. >> reporter: the overall paralysis in the house is raising new worries about funding the government to avert a shutdown. the lights are off, doors locked, what should folks make of that? >> they should be very concerned, the average american should be very concerned. >> we need to change the poisonous atmosphere in washington. >> reporter: also in danger, funding for ukraine, which was left out of last week's deal to avert a shutdown. pentagon saying it's running out of money to replace weapons sent to ukraine. any new speaker will have to contend with numbers of republicans who think it's time to turn off the spigot. you think what happened yesterday sends a troubling message to ukraine? >> it's a troubling message around the world. >> reporter: another controversy. former house speaker nancy pelosi and another democrat were evicted from the high capitol offices a perk for senior members. one of mccarthy's allies say

that republicans use that space and now needs it and is entitled to the space. the largest health care strike in american history is under way after tens of thousands of kaiser permanente workers walked off the job in five states and in d.c. the union is asking for higher pay and better staffing. cbs' jo ling kent talked to workers on the picket line. >> reporter: at dawn this morning, workers walked out. >> we're taking care of lives. health care workers should be valued. >> reporter: joining her, pharmacists, respiratory therapists, optometrists. and other technicians. the union is asking for better working conditions, and a $25 an hour minimum wage. kaiser has offered $21 to $23 an hour, just above what fast food workers will soon make in california. >> a lot of people leave, why should i work here for the pay i can make at burger king or target, and not come into contact with

infectious diseases. >> reporter: 13 million patients. more than 300,000 employees. this year, its profits top $3 billion. >> fighting for our patients. >> reporter: in a message, kaiser said the hospitals, emergency departments and pharmacies will remain open. we may need to reschedule nonurgent appointments and procedures. the walkout began as negotiations intensified in unions striking other industries. autoworkers, culinary workers and screen actors are all at the bargaining table. economic impact has been profound. strikes around the country this year have meant a loss of 7.4 million work days, the most in a generation. what would you say to a kaiser executive? if you could talk face-to-face now? >> do better, for your patients and your employees. >> reporter: the nurse we just heard from there also tells me she thinks about quitting the job she loves every single day

due to the current conditions. kaiser acknowledges that 5 million health care workers have quit since the beginning of the pandemic and burnout is at a record high. norah. >> jo ling kent on the picket lines, thank you. let's turn to the weather, more than 6 million americans are under severe thunderstorm watches tonight in east texas and oklahoma. storms could produce baseball sized hail, damaging winds and possibility of floods. flooding is also a concern in new england. tropical storm philippe could make landfall in maine sunday with at least 3 inches of rain new york to maine. that's starting saturday. to the vatican, pope francis opened an important meeting on the future of the church. among the controversial topics, whether police can marry, women become deacons and priests bless same-sex marriages. cbs' chris livesay is in rome.

>> reporter: from around the world, bishops gathering and sometimes clashing on hot button issues but the biggest bombshell dropped before it began, with francis opening the door for priests to bless same-sex unions. we cannot be judges who only deny, reject and exclude, declared the pontiff. >> as queer people we want to believe that god blesses our love. >> reporter: jamie manson, women's rights activist and devout catholic, say it opens the tent for lgbt companies, like hers. >> it is a very slim minority of catholics opposed to same-sex unions. >> that's what they wish, but it's not. >> reporter: father gerald murray, a conservative priest from manhattan. >> for the pope to say priests and bishops can find a way, it's wrong. he shouldn't do it. >> reporter: what's the harm in making the tent bigger for more people? >> the harm is it contradicts catholic teaching.

>> reporter: american conservative leaders in the catholic church have warned if he doesn't stick to doctrine he could provoke a permanent split. in his homily, he made it clear where his focus lies. [ speaking in a non-english language ] he said everyone, everyone, everyone must be allowed in. this summer pope francis called some of his conservative critics in the u.s. backwards. for blessing same-sex unions, said it shouldn't give the impression they're on par with heterosexual marriages, the only ones the church recognizes.

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washington, thanks for staying with us. the ouster of house speaker kevin mccarthy could have a crippling effect on funding ukraine. the stopgap measure has no money for kyiv, that includes the contractors helping train the pilots to fly the f-16 fighters. with the front lines frozen, the war has evolved into long-range drones and artillery. but there are troops on the ground in a key role. ramy inocencio met with some elite snipers who are playing a key role on the battlefield. >> reporter: american bullets from american rifles crack through the air near ukraine's frontline with russia. this sniper unit granted cbs news special access as they keep their skill to kill sharp. always working in teams of two, a spotter checks wind speed. his sniper adjusts angle. then between heartbeats, fires. [ gunfire ]

hitting a target nearly a quarter of a mile away. so is it easy to hit this target? >> yep. >> reporter: yeah? >> yep. >> reporter: you sound very confident. yep. >> yep. >> reporter: this young man is code named commissar. how important is your job as a sniper in the defense of ukraine? "we bridge the gaps where infantry can't," he says. "we liquidate top targets like commanders and machine gunners." with progress along the war's more than 600-mile front slow if not static, snipers have become more heralded. and in contrast to the high-tech war of high-flying drones and high-visibility hardware, the power of a sniper is low tech, low visibility, and relatively low cost. killing with a single bullet. everything about snipers is evn secretive. we can't even tell you where we are.

we can't even show you their faces. that's because they're high-value targets. an experienced sniper is priceless, says nikolai, their commander. a tank is just a bunch of metal and can be easily replaced, but it takes a lot of money and years to train a sniper. along with ukrainian firearms, american scopes and american 338-caliber rifles, 90% of their ammunition, they say, is also american. you have an american flag there. why? "americans have helped ukraine a lt. i wear this as a sign of respect." as for the u.s. funding freeze on ukraine, tony, the white house says that existing aid will only last about another couple months. president biden has called allied leaders and told them he is confident that bipartisan support for this country will stay strong. >> ramy inocencio for us in ukraine. closer to home, the uaw

strike in detroit against the big three automakers is in its third week. one issue is electric vehicle battery plants. they are largely in the south and ben tracy reports how it's transforming local communities. >> reporter: this is the kind of town that assumed its best days had rolled by. but commerce, georgia, 7,700 and climbing, finds itself back on track. >> i think money follows money. >> reporter: mayor clark hill says new businesses like this brewery are pouring into downtown. there's even something approaching rush hour on one sleepy street. >> when you have a company investing in your community, it attracts a lot of attention. >> reporter: that company is down the road inside this massive plant where they're

building battery cells for electric vehicles. how big is this? >> as large as 13 football fields and we make battery for over 400,000 cars. >> reporter: executive vice chairman of skon, sk for south korea. and after decades of u.s. jobs off to asia, it's flipped. foreign battery manufacturers are opening dozens of plants to be close to the auto makers they supply. they build many for ford. despite the recent job cuts, it currently employs more than 3,000 people at this plant. >> i live 20 minutes from here, it's a great opportunity to be part of this. >> reporter: sk plans to employ up to 15,000 people by 2026 in five battery plants across three u.s. states. >> one more in different

location in georgia, two in kentucky, one in tennessee. > reporter: in the past three years, more than $90 billion in battery investments have been announced nationwide, creating an estimated 70,000 manufacturing jobs, much of it clustered into eight states, michigan to the southeast, the part of the country now known as the battery belt. many are red statess where repupublican lawmakekers rarele memention climate change and oppose climate legislation that is supercharging the battery manufacturing. georgia, which has seen the most investment, imposed a new tax on public ev charging this summer. this opened six months ago, by year end it will be at capacity and we need another plant. >> reporter: ceo of ascend elements. in covington, georgia, it recycles used ev batteries,

recycling 98% of the metals inside. >> nickel, cobalt, lithium. >> reporter: this is another critical part of the supply chain. >> i'm proud to be part of that and a lot of our team are proud to be part of that. >> reporter: in towns like commerce where spotting an electric vehicle is rare, this means more than bragging rights. >> we feel it's good for citizens and going to provide a better quality of life for the whole region. >> >> reporter: i'm ben tracy in commerce, georgia. >> "the cbs overnight news" will be right back. (pensive music) (footsteps crunching) (pensive music) (birds tweeting) (pensive music) (broom sweeping)

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person to have completed a long distance swim in every ocean in the world. he's willing to test the waters no matter the adventure. over the past decade he's become the first athlete to swim across the north pole, the english channel, the red sea, and even under the antarctic ice sheet. when did swimming come into your life? >> when i was 17 years old. >> reporter: really? wow. >> good luck. >> reporter: when did it go from enjoying swimming to endurance? >> in 2007, i went to the north pole and did a swim there. this was across an open patch of sea. >> reporter: right. >> i remember going into that swim and coming out the other end and actually feeling i was a different person because i came out of that feeling, wow, you know, this place is melting so

quickly, i now have a big responsibility to share this message with the whole world. >> reporter: it changed your perspective, obviously. >> i think it changed me. >> reporter: since then, pugh has been on a mission to complete record-breaking swims in jaw-dropping places. not for titles or accolades, but to make waves in the conversation about ocean and now river preservation. his latest challenge turned quite a few heads, as he expected it would. in mid-august, he set out on a month-long journey never done before, swimming unassisted from the tip of the hudson river in the adirondacks to the very bottom in lower manhattan. that's 315 miles of the infamous river, contaminated by toxic waste in the last century before cleanup efforts began in the

1980s. >> i want people to know what has happened in the hudson river. i thinks it's a blueprint to people around the world, their rivers can be saved. >> reporter: something can be done. >> absolutely. people have heard about this around the world, an amazing story about a river so badly misused, and so badly polluted. one of the worst in america if not the world and things have turned around. >> reporter: enough that he spent 32 consecutive days in the river, swimming early in the morning and well into the night to align with the river's current. >> sometimes i would be swimming at night and turn on my back and do backstroke, look at the heavens, with the big blue moon, all these stars, and really, really comforting. you want to get in here, it's a lot cooler. >> reporter: i decided to jump in myself. all right, you convinced me.

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olympics. ian lee reports. >> reporter: as paris prepares to roll out the olympic welcoming mat, some unwelcome visitors are already in town. the entire city is infested with bed bugs. from people's living rooms -- this skermator says here we see the excrement of bed bugs, eggs stuck behind the seams. to the paris metro and trains. this commuter says i paid close attention stepping on the train today to see if there were crawlers on my seat. while another says she kept her luggage closed while traveling but is still paranoid. this is what one woman says the biting bugs did to her back while she watched a movie at a paris theater. for french officials, the invasion means war.

this lawmaker says as the olympics near we must raise awareness on the right ways to prevent and get rid of them. authorities are mobilizing the masses to eradicate the pests. this specialist says everyone is panicking a bit but people need to know we can get them under control with the right help. so parisians can sleep tight and not let the bed bugs bite. ian lee, cbs news. >> that's the "overnight news" for thursday, check back for "cbs mornings," reporting from the nation's capital. this is cbs news flash, i'm jarered hilill in newew york. the whitite house canceceling $ billion in student loan debt,

people under existing debt relief programs. it comes as the loan payments restart. brett favre will testify under oath in a welfare fraud case in mississippi. he's accused of redirecting money to an arena and a drug for concussions. he's denied wrongdoing. no jackpot winner in the powerball, saturday, $1.4 billion. downlo on your cell phone or connected tv. jared hill, cbs news, new york. ♪ tonight the battle for speaker begins. new details as the house of representatives is without a leader and closed for business. who could be second in line for the presidency?

here are tonight's headlines. top republicans throw their hat in to become the next speaker. what does the chaos in congress mean for the american people? >> it threatens to inflict pain in communities across america. a strike involving more than 75,000 health care works is indeed getting under way after kaiser permanente and a coalition of unions failed to strike a deal. >> the biggest health care strike in u.s. history. workers are telling us what they're looking for and how it could affect patients. the urgent search for who opened fire in a university's homecoming week. the new details. the future of the catholic church, what pope francis is signaling after mass at the vatican. >> they're meeting to discuss controversial topics like blessing same-sex unions to the delight of some and dread of others. at this facility in georgia,

they're recycling used batteries from electric vehicles, it's part of a growing supply chain around evs in the u.s. we'll show you how the battery belt is creating thousands of new jobs in a part of the country you might not expect. apple says it's working on a system update after owners complain the iphone 15 is at times too hot to handle. simone biles does it again, leading u.s. gymnastics to its seventh straight gold at the world championships. >> announcer: this is "the cbs overnight news." we begin with the political and real world fallout from the historic removal of the speaker of the house. the unprecedented vote to vacate the chair leaves the house of representatives in a state of chaos and standstill.

interim speaker mchenry upset about the far right faction of his own party, sent lawmakers home to cool off with six weeks to prevent a government shutdown. members will return tuesday with an expected vote taking place the next day. two conservative hardliners have already thrown their hat in the ring, scalise jordan. until then, the people's house is closed for business. we have a lot of news to bring you tonight, and cbs' statue of liberty starts off from capitol hill. >> reporter: for a second day, half of the u.s. congress is paralyzed and will remain so indefinitely. raising fears that congress is barrelling again toward a painful government shutdown. kevin mccarthy's name still hangs above the doorway. but the fight to replace him is on. top republicans steve scalise and jim jordan both officially announced candidacies today, but

whether they have the votes to succeed and when the house will reopen for business are open questions. is there anything you can tell us about the schedule? what happens next? interim speaker mchenry had no answers on the days ahead. the only certainty among most republicans was their disdain for colleague matt gaetz, who led the charge to remove mccarthy. >> it was deplorable, it was graceful. and he put his own petty personal grievances ahead of the country. >> reporter: gaetz continued to attack his colleagues. >> the nerve of these establishment republicans to have to take a week to have a good cry and then blame us for being the reason we can't get the work done. >> reporter: the overall paralysis in the house is raising new worries about crashing into the new november 17th deadline to fund the government and avert a government shutdown. the lights are off, doors locked, what should folks make of that? >> the average american should be concerned.

>> we need to change the poisonous atmosphere in washington. >> reporter: also in danger, funding for ukraine, which was left out of last week's deal. pentagon saying it's running out of money to replace weapons sent to ukraine. any new speaker will have to contend with a growing number of house republicans who think it's time to turn off the spigot. you think this is a troubling message to ukraine? >> it's a troubling message around the world. >> reporter: another controversy, pelosi and hoyer say they were evicted from the high capitol offices a perk for senior members. one of mccarthy's allies says he now needs and is entitled to the space used by pelosi. the largest health care strike in american history is under way after tens of thousands of kaiser permanente workers walked off the job in five states and in d.c.

the union is asking for better pay and staffing. cbs's jo ling kent talked to workers on the picket line. >> reporter: at dawn this morning, more than 75,000 workers at kaiser permanente walked out. >> we're taking care of lives. health care workers should be valued. >> reporter: joining her, pharmacists, respiratory therapists, optometrists. and other technicians. the union is asking for better working conditions and a $25 an hour minimum wage. kaiser has offered $21 to $23 an hour, just above what fast food workers will soon make in california. >> a lot of people leave, why should i work here for the pay i can make at burger king or target, and not come into contact with infectious diseases. >> reporter: patient pool is nearly 13 million people and more than 300,000 employees. profits top $3 billion. >> fighting for our patients. >> reporter: in a message,

kaiser said the hospitals, emergency departments and pharmacies will remain open. we may need to reschedule nonurgent appointments and procedures. the three-day walkout began as negotiations intensify for unions in other industries. autoworkers, culinary workers and screen actors are all at the bargaining table. economic impact has been profound. strikes around the country so far this year have meant a loss of 7.4 million work days, the most in a generation. what would you say to a kaiser executive? if you could talk face-to-face now? >> do better, for your patients and your employees. >> reporter: the nurse we just heard from there also tells me she thinks about quitting the job she loves every single day due to the current conditions. kaiser acknowledges that 5 million health care workers have quit since the beginning of the pandemic and burnout is at a record high. norah.

>> jo ling kent on the picket lines, thank you. let's turn to the weather, more than 6 million americans are under severe thunderstorm watch tonight, in east texas and oklahoma. storms could produce baseball sized hail, damaging winds and possibility of floods. flooding is also a concern in new england. tropical storm philippe could make a landfall in maine on sunday and will bring at least 3 inches of rain from new york to maine. that's starting saturday. there's a lot more news ahead on "the cbs overnight news."

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there's breaking news tonight after a mass shooting at a historically black university. including, rather injuring five people. morgan state university in baltimore is cancelling its homecoming weekend for the first time in the school's history, and it comes as cbs's nicole sganga reports the suspect or suspects remain at large. >> hear shooting? >> reporter: a campus wide lockdown. >> everybody good? need a medic? >> reporter: for three hours students sheltered in place as s.w.a.t. teams with guns drawn searched dorm rooms and swept hallways looking for suspects. >> i've got a shotout window, it appears. >> reporter: after a flurry of gunfire shattered windows and sent baltimore police racing to the scene. >> it was a frenzy. >> reporter: and students ducking for cover. >> get down! >> bullets hit the glass behind my head. >> reporter: five people including four students were

hit, expected to make full recoveries. authorities found multiple guns at the scene but haven't made any arrests. >> we believe the five victims struck were unintended charges. >> reporter: the nation's 531st mass shooting this year came in homecoming week. classes are canceled and baltimore officials say enough is enough. >> gun violence has been an epidemic longer than i've been breathing oxygen and we have little to no action. >> reporter: the university has three back-to-back homecomings mired by gun violence. is that acceptable? >> it's not acceptable anywhere. >> reporter: investers say the incident likely stemmed from a dispute between two small groups. an update on the victims, three of the injuries have been released from the hospital. there's more breaking news with another shooting, this time in massachusetts. several people were shot in

holyoke, including a pregnant woman riding by on a bus. the mother is in critical condition but her baby died. investigators say the shooting took place after a fight on the street, three suspects are in custody. now the murder investigation of rapper tupac shakur. nearly 30 years after the music icon's death. the man police and prosecutors say was behind the las vegas shooting made his first court appearance on murder charges, cbs' elise preston reports. ♪ >> reporter: after tupac's murder 27 years ago, the focus was on the las vegas courtroom as the handcuffed duane "keffe d" davis limped in, appearing before the judge and world for the first time since the self-proclaimed gang member and drug kingpin was charged with tupac's murder. >> this is a high profile case,

27 years in the making. >> we feel confident the criminal justice system will work in this case. >> reporter: police just arrested 60-year-old davis last week. davis has admitted to being in the car at the time of the shooting, penning a memoir and conducting several interviews, including for vladtv. >> they want to put me in jail for life? something i got to do. not like i'm scare of jail or nothing. >> reporter: do you think it weighed on him? >> i don't think so. i think it just had been so long. and you can normalize anything. you can normalize murder. >> reporter: there was no plea entered, davis appeared in court by himself, his attorney couldn't make it. the next hearing is set for two weeks. norah. >> elise preston, thank you very much. to the vatican, pope francis oened an important meeting on the future of the church. among the controversial

topics -- whether police can marry, women become deacons and priests bless same-sex marriages. cbs' chris livesay is in rome. >> reporter: from around the world, bishops gathering and sometimes clashing on hot button issues but the biggest bombshell dropped before it began, with francis opening the door for priests to bless same-sex unions. we cannot be judges who only deny, reject and exclude, declared the pontiff. >> as queer people we want to believe that god blesses our love. >> reporter: jamie manson, a women's rights activist and devout catholic says the change opens the church's tent for lgbtq couples like her and her partner. >> it only makes the church stronger. it is a very slim minority of catholics opposed to same-sex unions. >> that's what they wish, but it's not. >> reporter: father gerald

murray is a conservative priest from manhattan. >> for the pope to say priests and bishops can find a way, it's wrong. he shouldn't do it. >> reporter: what's the harm in making the tent bigger for more people? >> the harm is it contradicts catholic teaching. >> reporter: american conservative leaders in the catholic church have warned if he doesn't stick to doctrine he could provoke a permanent split. in his homily, he made it clear where his focus lies. [ speaking in a non-english language ] he said everyone, everyone, everyone must be allowed in. this summer pope francis called some of his conservative critics in the u.s. backwards. for blessing same-sex unions, pope francis said it shouldn't give the impression they're on par with heterosexual marriages, still the only marriages the catholic church recognizes. norah. now a horrific story out of iran, a human rights group is calling the so-called morality police of beating a girl not wearing a head scarf.

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batteries in covington, georgia, extracting 98% of critical metals that can be reused, a key part of the ev supply chain. >> i'm proud to be part of that and a lot of our team members are proud. >> reporter: in the past three years, more than $90 billion in battery investments have been announced nationwide, creating estimated 70,000 manufacturing jobs, in a stretch from michigan to georgia, the battery belt. this is a battery cell? >> yes. this is a cell. >> reporter: executive vice chairman of battery maker sk on, part of a south korean conglomerate. after dozens of years of being offshored, foreign companies are opening dozens of battery plants in the u.s. they plan to employ up to 15,000 people in five plants by 2026. including this one in north georgia, the size of 13 football fields. it can produce enough batteries

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consecutive team titles in the history of the sport. biles was already the most decorated gymnast, male or familiar, at the world championships. she was medals, 20 gold medals, she's incredible. congratulations to the entire team. that's the "overnight news," for some, news continues, follow us online any time at cbsnews.com. reporting from the nation's capital, i'm norah o'donnell. ♪ this is cbs news flash, i'm jarreded hill in new w york. the whitite house cacanceling $ billioion in studedent loan ded. it affects people eligible under existing debt relief programs.

it comes as student loan payments restart for the first time since the pandemic began. nfl icon brett favre will testify under oath in a welfare fraud case in the state of mississippi. the retired quarterback is accused of redirecting millions of dollars to a college arena and the development of a drug to treat concussions. he's denied any wrongdoing. no winner in the powerball. the estimated jackpot for saturday, $1.4 billion. for more, download the cbs news app on your cell phone or connected tv. i'm it's thursday, october 5th, 2023. this is the "cbs morning news." a house in turmoil.