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second annual pride drag brunch at levi stadium. >> friends of the derek chauvin community are at the event talking all things drag and football. >> we like to make sure that we celebrate our community. as someone who is a member of the lgbtq+ community, i love that they support my community. >> they had hats and jackets. >> it includes the pride colors and the event wrapped up with drag performances to the cheering crowds there. that is it for us at 5:00. we will see you back at 6:00 tonight. news updates are always available on tonight, gunfire strikes a
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southwest jet. >> 2494, we have to return to the gate. >> a bullet hits a 737 ready for takeoff in dallas. no one injured, but it's another troubling incident. [ screams ] >> in a week of problems on planes. >> reporter: i'm jason allen at love field. investigators are trying to figure out where that bullet came from. also tonight, spoiling for a fight. >> i'm ali bauman in new york where donald trump is expected to return with a spotlight on his provocative cabinet picks. final talks. presidents biden and xi of china meet as trump and uncertainty loom large. >> i would not want to invest too much in china. >> the play is america. >> that's right. plus, king tides in oregon nearly sweep someone away as several states set for a blast of winter. we'll have the forecast. later, driving on sunshine. >> how fast does this car go?
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>> cbs takes a spin in a car that's powered by the sun. >> this is the future. ♪ this is the "cbs weekend news." from new york with jericka duncan. >> good evening, jericka is off. i'm david wade. tonight we begin with rattled nerves on a runway in dallas. a bullet pierced a southwest jetliner feet from the cockpit as it taxied for takeoff. it is the latest incident in a week of problems for planes and passengers. cbs' jason allen leads us off tonight at love field. jason? >> reporter: david, you know that there are all kinds of sounds you hear when a plane is ready to take off. southwest airlines tells me in this case the crew of the plane heard something above all of that that was out of place. it turned out to be a bullet hitting the side of the plane as they were headed toward the runway about to take off. >> southwest 2494, we have to return to the gate.
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need to have an inspection on the aircraft. >> reporter: the passengers and crew on the 737 were moments from takeoff when a bullet hit the right side of the jetliner below the cockpit. the faa says no one was hurt. the aircraft returned to the gate, and passengers exit. a southwest source tells cbs news it appears to be a stray bullet. we asked travelers about it at love field today. does any of that cause you any hesitation before you're getting on a plane today? >> i know i ain't going to -- >> reporter: the faa stopped haiti this week after gangs shot three u.s. jets. former ntsb chair robert sumwalt spoke to my colleague kris van cleave. how dangerous is it for a plane to get struck by a bullet? >> obviously when you have people shooting at an airplane, it's not a good situation. >> go, go, go, go. >> reporter: in denver a rush to the exits. 108 passengers evacuated on this southwest flight friday. a cellphone battery caught fire as the plane was preparing to
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depart. >> we were delayed 30 minutes. if we hadn't been delayed, that phone would have caught on fire in the air. [ screams ] >> reporter: and trouble on a scandinavian airlines flight headed to miami. the jet with 254 passengers on board shaken by severe turbulence over greenland thursday. it turned around, landing in copenhagen. the plane that was hit by the bullet is still here. it's out of commission until it can be repaired. there is an approved repair process, believe it or not, for bullet holes in the body of a plane. aviation experts we talked to tell us it's important not to draw any links or conclusions between all of these events, but they are happening, david, just about a week before that very busy holiday travel season gets under way. >> jason allen in dallas. thank you. tonight president-elect donald trump is in new york city for a night out in his hometown. his picks for cabinet keep coming. trump revealed he wants chris wright, ceo of a fracking company, to be his energy secretary.
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cbs' ali bauman joins us live outside of trump tower in manhattan. >> reporter: president-elect donald trump is in the city tonight to attend an ultimate fighting championship event at madison square garden. the real fight is going on in d.c. where several lawmakers are raising concerns about his latest cabinet selections. as president-elect donald trump departs from florida for new york city saturday, many on capitol hill are spinning over his cabinet picks. >> i'm trying to be respectful. i believe in a smooth transition of government. his cabinet picks leave me worried. >> reporter: like marco rubio for secretary of state were expected, others are raising eyebrows including trump's pick for national intelligence, former congresswoman tulsi gabbard, rfk jr. to lead health and human services. fox news host pete hegseth for defense secretary, and former congressman matt gaetz for attorney general. gaetz had been the subject of a house ethics committee inquiry into allegations of sexual
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misconduct and elicit drug use before resigning wednesday. despite calls from senators on both sides of the aisle, house speaker mike johnson does think think the committee should release its findings. >> stick to the tradition and not release a report on a former member of the house because it would open a dangerous pandora's box. >> reporter: an attorney for two women who were witnesses in the investigation tell cbs news one of his clients testified she saw gaetz having sex with a minor at a party in orlando in 2017. gaetz denies the allegations. >> i am confident that all of the information that is in that ethics report will come out through the process. >> reporter: and cbs news has learned that vice president-elect j.d. vance has been speaking with senate republicans with the confirmation process and gauging support for trump's picks. now trump still has about a dozen more cabinet roles to decide on, and next week he's expected to choose his economic team which includes treasury secretary. david? >> ali bauman in new york city.
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thank you. to peru now and a meeting between president biden and china's president xi. it comes as relations between the rival superpowers face new uncertainty. the leaders gathered at a hotel on the sidelines of the apec summit. for biden it was the last chance to directly challenge xi after working to avoid open conflict with beijing these last four years. china's focus is less on the lame duck president and more on the next president. cbs' ramy inocencio is in hong kong where all the talk is about trump's tough talk on tariffs and taiwan. ♪ >> reporter: beijing is bracing for a new dawn in china-u.s. ties. wary about the second coming of an emboldened president donald trump. >> i'm doing the same thing with china. we're going to tariff the hell out of them. [ cheers ] >> reporter: last time trump was not friendly to china, this woman told cbs news in beijing.
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personally, i like trump, but he does things that are outrageous, said this man. trump's top threat is economic. eye-watering tariffs of 60% on all chinese imports to protect american manufacturing. >> in times of retaliation, choices for china, it's very limited. >> reporter: at hong kong university, he says because china relies on america for crops and semiconductors. >> i would not want to invest too much in china. >> reporter: the play is america. >> that's right. >> reporter: on top of china's slowing economic growth, its property market that crashed and youth unemployment that's hit the biggest high. the biggest flashpoint -- >> the sovereignty of taiwan is the red line of all the red lines. >> reporter: beijing says the democratic island of 23 million is a separatist province and has vowed to retake it. the u.s. is legally committed to
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supporting taiwan's defense, but many fear trump may not. to what extent is an isolationist america good for china? >> china does not want to replace united states as the top dog. >> china needs to put its own house in order. >> reporter: and xi jinping's job is looking more difficult with trump naming more china hawks to his cabinet like representative mike waltz for his national security adviser and senator marco rubio as secretary of state. rubio has called china the u.s.' most advanced adversary, and beijing has sanctioned him twice. ramy inocencio, cbs news, hong kong. to the middle east now. tonight hezbollah leaders in lebanon are reviewing a u.s. cease-fire proposal as israeli forces push deeper into that country. in gaza, the latest israeli strikes have claimed at least 26 lives, with no peace in sight for war-weary civilians. cbs' elizabeth palmer is in tel
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aviv. >> reporter: almost two million palestinian gazans have endured more than a year of violence and trauma. in desperation, they're looking to a new government in washington for help. >> the women of the -- to stop the war on the gaza strip and end our suffering. >> i'm going to stop wars. >> reporter: gazans palestinians know that in his victory speech donald trump said he'd stop wars, and they hope he means this one. "please send him a message," he says, "that we've had enough of killing, destruction, all the disasters afflicting palestinians." but mustav, a palestinian lawmaker in the west bank, warns be careful what you wish for. >> i think we're going through a very dangerous time for two reasons. first of all, you have very extreme israeli government, and from the other side you have
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president trump appointing one pro-israeli politician after the other. >> reporter: even if trump does convince israel to end this war, he says palestinians will be facing another long-standing battle. that is halting the expansion of jewish outposts on what was palestinian land in the west bank. and he's worried about pro-israeli officials in a trump cabinet like mike huckabee, his pick for u.s. ambassador, who said there's no such thing as palestine. but analysts and former diplomat michael orrin says it may not be so simple. just look at trump's first term. >> he was against unbridled, unfettered settlement expansion, and donald trump has signed on what he called the deal of the se century. a two-state deal. believe me, the israeli far right knew it then and rejected it. today they seem to forget it. >> reporter: the war here has to
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stop, almost everybody agrees on that. but what lies beyond, david, particularly whether or if the palestinians get independence is anybody's guess. >> elizabeth palmer in tel aviv, thank you. tonight there are winter weather warnings all across the u.s. with snow expected in several states and the first tides of the season have arrived on the west coast. take a look at this video. a woman in oregon lucky to be alive after getting caught in the dangerous high tide. the woman just walking along the beach when she was knocked off her feet and nearly swept away. fortunately she was able to pull herself out. from tides to storms, time to check in with cbs news meteorologist andrew kozak. an andrew? >> yeah, david, glad she is okay. a king tide, that's formed by several factors. let's talk about it. waxing gibbits phase of the moon, 98.3% full. that's what we saw thursday over
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oregon. we also were at perigee which means the orbit of the moon was closest to the earth. of course we also had strong cold fronts moving through. another just about to enter the pacific northwest with heavy rain across the coast and several areas under winter storm warnings and winter weather advisories. on sunday we could have a soaking rain from portland to seattle, higher elevations including idaho and montana could have an additional foot of snow. we're also watching the southern plains, oklahoma and texas could be looking at severe weather including isolated tornadoes and very dry once again up and down the east coast. elevated fire danger once again in the northeast. a lack of rain, low humidity, and continued gusty winds into the week ahead. david? >> all right. thank you. straight ahead on the "cbs weekend news," a lawsuit seeks to clarify a controversial abortion ban. and it's a fitting finish for an american skiing sensation.
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tonight emotional testimony in a lawsuit over idaho's strict abortion ban. but the legality of the ban itself is not the issue here. cbs' nicole valdez speaks with one of the plaintiffs who says she was forced to travel hundreds of miles even though her pregnancy and her life were in danger. >> reporter: 32-year-old kayla smith found out she was pregnant for a second time two years ago. >> i never thought i would need an abortion. it was the most traumatic experience i've had in my whole life. >> reporter: at 20 weeks, she learned the son she was expecting had little to no chance of survival. diagnosed with severa critical heart defects in the womb. in idaho, nearly all abortions are against the law except after rape, incest, or when it is necessary to prevent the death
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of the mother. >> the likelihood of me developing preeclampsia again was very high. i remember asking how sick do i have to be, right? and she couldn't give me an answer. >> reporter: so she drove over 500 miles from boise, idaho, to a hospital in seattle, washington, taking out a loan to pay for the trip and the procedure. >> i had an induction of labor with the same medication that they would give for a medical abortion. >> reporter: now she and five other women are suing the state of idaho, not to overturn the ban but to clarify and expand the exceptions. >> as a medical professional, they're not coached to go and ask, you know, legal advice and whether they could intervene. >> reporter: one of the plaintiffs is dr. emily corrigan, an idaho ob-gyn who admits she felt forced to turn patients away. >> i am weighing my own personal
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freedom to stay out of prison against the needs of my patient. >> reporter: the idaho attorney general's office has doubled down. >> unborn children have a fundamental right to life. how to best protect those lives through idaho's laws is a policy decision for the idaho legislature. >> reporter: we reached out to the attorney general's office, and it declined to comment on the case. we also reached out to several idaho state lawmakers, and none returned our requests. the trial is expected to last at least another week, and there's no timeline on the judge's decision. nicole valdez, cbs news, boise, idaho. still ahead on the "cbs weekend news," fight night. the netflix rumble in the ring and on screens.
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tonight american skiing star mikaela shiffrin is celebrating after winning the first women's world cup slalom of the season. the race in finland was her 98th career victory. she has reason to smile. no other skier male or female has ever won more than 86. tonight mike tyson and netflix are both bruised and battered after the 58-year-old made his much-anticipated return to the ring. the boxing legend lost to internet star-turned-boxer jake paul. a lot of rust on old iron mike. meanwhile, people watching live on netflix had their own battle with streaming issues. some posting pictures of their frozen screens on social media, netflix says the fight is now available to watch for everyone. i guess you just have to pretend that you don't know who won. next on the "cbs weekend news," runaway pig. and the police pursuit that followed. stay with us.
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you've heard of a suspect being on the lam. tonight we have a police chase for something on the ham. you see when a pig got loose and went hog wild in tacoma, washington, officers were sent on a comically mad scramble. the snorting suspect was dubbed the notorious p-i-g. police eventually cornered piggy smalls and took it into custody, and noted despite all the squealing, the pig is just fine, hanging out on a local farm. when we return, no gas pump, no problem. why sunshine is all you need for this ride.
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charged. in tonight's "weekend journal," cbs' itay hod in san francisco shows us a vehicle that's rolling into the future. >> reporter: it's a new twist on traditional travel. no gas or plug required. all this car needs is a tank full of sunshine. >> this is the future. >> reporter: called the aptera, the two seat, three-wheeled car looks more like a flying machine, especially when you open its doors. wait until you see how you do it. >> there you go. >> reporter: chris anthony is aptera's co-ceo. the car priced at about $35,000 is all about efficiency. >> there's combustion vehicles, there's electric vehicles, but there's no vehicle that creates its own fuel throughout the day. >> reporter: the global solar vehicle market is just revving up. from $450 million in 2024 to $2.5 billion in 2030.
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the aptera is covered in solar panels which can generate enough energy to drive up to 40 miles per day. for longer drives, it can be charged like a regular electric car. how fast does this car go? >> zero to 60 in about four seconds, and the top speed is 110 miles per hour. >> reporter: we took it for a spin to see how it handles san francisco's steep terrain. it's doing a pretty decent job. while these cars have plenty of fans, stephen zoepf, a former transportation official and stanford researcher, says they may not be for everyone. >> the tradeoffs, very small, very lightweight. limited carrying capacity. deal breakers for a lot of u.s. customers. >> reporter: then of course there's the weather. what happens if you are in a place like san francisco known for its fog? >> yeah, san francisco's a great use case for the aptera. in southern california we get about 11,000 miles of free driving a year. in san francisco, seattle, new
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york, you get more like 8,500 miles a year. >> reporter: solar cars steering people toward a brighter future where the best way to move forward is to look up. itay hod, cbs news, san francisco. >> and a whole new meaning to sunday drive. that's the "cbs weekend news" for this saturday. first thing tomorrow we have "sunday morning with jane pauley" followed by "face the nation." guests include kentucky governor andy beshear and dr. deborah birx and representative jim himes. i'm david wade in new york. i hope you have a great night. from cbs news bay area, this is the evening edition. >> now at 6:00, fans of the san
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jose spartan women's volleyball team are speaking out as the controversy over a trans player continues. prop k supporters taking a victory lap. wilson walker has more on the challenges they face. and cyclists and drivers at odds with the bridge. i'm brian hackney. >> i'm andrea nakano. i'm in san jose where the volleyball team is entrenched in the gender controversy. >> a cocaptain of the spartans is suing her coach and others to try to prevent a transgender teammate from playing in an upcoming tournament. da lin spoke to people on both sides of the issue. >> reportertw
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