norah. >> o'donnell: chris livesay, thank you. well, in south carolina tonight, an army trainee at fort jackson is facing multiple counts of kidnapping after hijacking a bus filled with children on the way to school. he was carrying a rifle and looking for a way out. here is cbs's david martin. >> reporter: a security camera captured the moment when a runaway recruit from fort jackson, south carolina, boarded the bus, brandishing his rifle. >> a school bus has been hijacked. with kids on it, and someone with a gun. and that is what we had this morning. >> reporter: the recruit was in his third week of basic training and made a reckless break for home. brigadier general milford beagle said he jumped the fence. >> his weapon did not have ammunition, but for those on the bus, would not have been aware of that. >> reporter: the 18 elementary school students on the bus were more than he could handle. >> the kids started asking millions of questions. he got a little frustrated. >> reporter: he let the kids and driver off and drove the b

norah. >> o'donnell: chris livesay in new delhi. thank you, chris. a judge in north carolina ruled the family of andrew brown, jr.0 tes ofearly two hoof body cam video from his deadly encounter with police. brown was shot dead in his car last month when deputies tried to execute warrants. his family is expected to see the video next tuesday, but it's unclear if the footage will ever be made public. all right, all eyes will be on the sky this weekend as a large section of a chinese rocket tumbles back to earth. it's hoped that pieces of china's 20-ton rocket will splash down in the ocean, but no one knows exactly where the space junk will hit. here's cbs' david martin. >> reporter: you can see the chinese rocket, all 20 tons of it, flashing in the sunlight as it tumbles through space at 18,000 miles an hour, orbiting closer and closer to earth. >> we think that will happen sometime between early saturday and midday sunday. >> reporter: the u.s. military is tracking it, but that's all. >> we don't have a plan to shoot the rocket down. we're hopeful tha

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cbs' chris livesay has that story from new delhi.f >> reporter: it is the shortages that are killingans, no from del thi. >> it is the shortages that are vaccine, no oxygen, no hospital beds. but the government found no shortage of funds to rebuild the parliament building over the next several years, along with a residence for prime minister narendra moid, nearly $2 billion. >> reporter: for such a costly public expenditure during a time of national crisis modi's critics are calling him a modern day emperor nero fiddling while modi's critics are calling him a mo rome burns. for the same money the government could have vaccinated 450 million people. or purchased 10 million oxygen cylinders, estimates one opposition lawmaker. lawmaker. >> mohammed j hangir says it mohammed j hangir says it is an insult, while the government has done nothing to help him and his five children on the brink of starvation as covid restrictions shut down his restaurant. police are now forcibly removing people from the streets of old deli, the beating heart of this metropolis as it enters another week of lock

norah. >> o'donnell: chris livesay, thank you. well, tonight, a major reversal in atlanta. a white officer who was fired after shooting a black man to death is suddenly back in the department. cbs' jeff pegues has this update in a case that led to widespread unrest last year. >> reporter: rayshard brooks was shot twice in the back by atlanta police officer garrett rolfe. and while rolfe was charged with felony murder last summer, today, he was officially reinstated after atlanta's civil service board ruled that his firing so soon after the shooting violated his right to due process. rolfe's attorney said the ruling is the first step in the total vindication of officer garrett rolfe. chris stewart represents the brooks family. >> it appears that rayshard brooks' life didn't really matter, and that the world has moved on. >> reporter: brooks was asleep in his car at a wendy's drive- through when he was approached by rolfe and his partner. >> can you see the tip of my finger? >> yes, sir. >> reporter: the officers tried to arrest brooks after he allegedly failed a sobriety tes

has been hell, _ around where livesay this has been hell. some — around where livesay this has beening money, _ hell, some of them are haemorrhaging money, they— hell, some of them are haemorrhaging money, they are open, but they are not making — money, they are open, but they are not making any money. they are facing _ not making any money. they are facing real, — not making any money. they are facing real, real hardship and financial— facing real, real hardship and financial problems after the worst year they— financial problems after the worst year they have ever experienced in their entire — year they have ever experienced in their entire professional lives. having — their entire professional lives. having said all doubts, if we, you know, _ having said all doubts, if we, you know. if— having said all doubts, if we, you know. if we — having said all doubts, if we, you know, if we do go ahead with easing restrictions— know, if we do go ahead with easing restrictions onjune the know, if we do go ahead with easing restrictions on june the 21st and everything is hunky—dory again, pe

chris livesay reports on delhi, one of india's largest city. >> reporter: good morning, sikh temples like this are being converted into clinics but what the country really needs is oxygen and private donors are flying it to the rescue. they're infected with covid but it's a lack of oxygen that's killing them. family members so desperate they line up for hours or more,y will leave empty-handed. american donors are helping fill the gap. free of charge, united airlines has thrown 1 us,000 oxygen concentrators from new york to delhi. ramanan laxminarayan has hung up his lap today for oxygenforindia. >> 72 hours ago, these containers were sitting in a warehouse in arkansas. now, they're here in new delhi. >> reporter: in layman's terms this is converting ambient air into oxygen. >> quartthat's right. >> reporter: those little bubbles, those are going to save someone's life. >> that's going to save lives. >> reporter: this retails for $500 but for somebody with covid it's literally gasping for air, it's priceless. this 64-year-old has been struggling to breathe for days but now -- how do y

chris livesay visited a hospital in new delhi. good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning. as the covid surge continues to kill indians in record numbers, hospitals like this one are struggling desperately just to have enough beds. as we're witnessing, are having to turn the sick away. short of breath, desperate for oxygen and a bed, but here at the private hospital with some of the best resources in new delhi, there are none left. so they send her away. dr. nabil rahmad runs this emergency room converted into extra space for an icu, absolutely crushed with patients. he said they resorted to purchasing their own oxygen privately at exorbitantly high prices amid a shortage nationwide. >> patients come to hospital because they're seriously sick. they need ventilator support. >> reporter: these patients are extremely sick, but also extremely lucky. lucky to have oxygen. lucky to have access to doctors. lucky just to have a bed in a hospital that's already over capacity, and in a country that's desperately waging a war and losing to covid-19. many of india's victims got infecte

f chris livesay, new delhi. >>> our medical contributor, dr. david agus, joins us now.irst time back in the studio with us. glad to see you. we know that the numbers are going down here in the united states. i want to talk about india for a moment. new variant there. should we be tracking using more resources to track new variants and ensure that they get vaccines and more of it? >> we have no choice. i mean, we literally have no choice but to track vaccines. we announced yesterday a new consortium of tony blair institute, oxford and our institute, which is literally going to track variants around the globe. we need to know what is happening in real time so we can prepare for new vaccines, potentially new boosters, and also obviously with travel restrictions. and where to get the vaccines. the more people we vaccinate, the less more variants are going to come. we have to help people around the globe. it's horrible what's going on in india right now. >> it is pretty remarkable to think that here in the united states at least a third of the population is now fully vaccina

for "cbs this morning," chris livesay, new delhi. >>> in texas, legislators worked through the night on a bill to rewrite the state's voting laws. texas is already rated as one of the hardest states to vote in and election experts say this bill would it even harder. florida's governor signed a similar bill yesterday in a republican-led effort to target an issue, widespread voting fraud that simply doesn't exist. ed o'keefe is in washington. ed, good morning. >> anthony, good morning. one of the streets that stretched into the early morning is democrats are threatening to propose hundreds of amendments and ended up cutting a deal with republicans to water down some of the more controversial proposals. make no mistake, texas is poised to be the largest state yet to enact changes to election law that critics say amount to voter suppression and aren't necessary. >> there are being 88 ais nays >> reporter: hours before they passed legislation passing new voting restrictions on the lone star state. the new bill lowers initially proposed criminal penalties for voting errors, gives partisan