it's one of them things. >> that again was ben tracy reporting. now, other farmers are moving even further north to alaska, and not everyone there is happy about that. jonathan vigliotti reports. >> reporter: alaska's northern lights are the color of opportunity, and in the state's pristine interior there's a new road for people to bet on. >> so we're traveling right now with the division of agriculture through what is alaska's borial forest. and if all goes according to their plan, this will be turned into farmland. >> reporter: the boreal forest is one of the largest trappers of carbon dioxide on earth. but as alaska warms twice as fast as the rest of the country, once frozen land is now thawed out and up for grabs. >> i see climate change in alaska as an opportunity to bring in more crops, to develop more land. >> reporter: eric johnson oversees the nanana agriculture project, which in october began auctioning off 140,000 acres of the forest divided into parcels to the highest bidders from all over the world. >> couldn't there be anywhere else

more from cbs' ben tracy. >> reporter: it's easy to imagine that tamarack, minnesota's best days haveome and gone. there's just one store left in town and more hay bales than people but a huge nickel deposit discovered under this unassuming home has put them back on the map. how big of a deal is a nickel deposit like this? >> this is a world class deposit. >> reporter: todd works for town and metals and his company hopes to turn farmland into the largest source of nicking. a mineral critical for electric car batteries. nickel makes the batteries last longer so the cars go farther. and it's expected the world will need 20 times more of it by 2040 to fuel ev production. currently the u.s. produces less than 1% of world supply. leaving american ev makers relying on supplies from places like russia, china, indonesia and australia. >> no country wants to be dependent on another country for a source of its energy. >> reporter: president biden put nickel on a list of minerals essential to national security and wants more of it mined domestically. he hopes to open the mine in 2026 when the on

i expect something good will come out. >> reporter: ben tracy, cbs news, new york. >> o'donnell: and "cbs evening news." and remember that if you can't watch us live, set your d.v.r. so you can watch us later. i'm norah o'donnell. good night. >> they needed a place to stay. >> judge judy: that was nice of you. >> announcer: lured into a house of horrors... >> i wasn't allowed to be a mom to my child. all these people are doing is making my life -- sorry for my language -- a living hell, and i can't be a mother. >> announcer: ...or an excuse to escape paying for damages? >> judge judy: you said to me you moved because they called child protective services on you. >> his girlfriend kept threatening it on me, but i didn't think they were going to go through with it. >> judge judy: you're pretty slick. >> announcer: "judge judy." you are about to enter the courtroom you are about to enter the courtroom of judge judith sheindlin. captions paid for by cbs television distribution 24-year-olds annie and james brown are suing annie's father, robert scharet, and their ex-roommate, 24-year-old

i expect something good will come out. >> reporter: ben tracy, cbs news, new york. >> o'donnell: andevening news." and remember that if you can't watch us live, set your d.v.r. so you can watch us later. i'm norah o'donnell. good night. captioning sponsored by cbs >>> a historic place in san mateo, people come together to celebrate their culture and heritage. >> it is a way i can still connect with the japanese american community. >> it won't be there for long. tonight, it is making way for new homes. >>> a horrific scene in a city struggling with road safety. tonight, police in san jose are investigating yet another fatality. >>> a growing gap in the oakland mares races, ballots are tallied under leases cities ranked choice system. the new numbers just in through the past hour. >>> i could not log into work chat or internal sites. >> he was one of 11,000 employees caught by surprise when he was cut from meta-. experts say the layoffs in the tech industry or a long time coming. >>> you're watching cbs news bay area with juliette goodrich. >>> thanks for joining us. it is one of the b

ben tracy has her story. >> climate change has got to go. >> we don't need any more words. we need real action. >> reporter: vanessa nakate benefits from the clarity of youth. the 25-year-old climate activist is tired of politicians saying a lot about the climate crisis and then doing too little about it. >> the climate crisis is impacting people right now, and yet we are still, you know, holding conferences. we are still holding summits, and yet people continue to suffer. >> and so your point is stop talking, start doing? >> exactly. >> reporter: scientists warn that the impacts of climate change are accelerating, and efforts to curb planet-warming pollution are not nearly enough. nakate, whose influential activism has landed her on the cover of "time" magazine, now finds herself in some ways representing a continent of 1.4 billion people that is uniquely vulnerable. >> we've seen some of the worst impacts of the climate crisis, you know, across africa. it is heartbreaking and frustrating because you didn't cause this crisis, but then you are suffering the impacts. >> repo

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. >> ben tracy, cbs news, new york. >>> that's the overnight news for this friday.or some of you, the news continues. but for others, check back later for cbs mornings. remember, you can follow us online anytime at cbsnews.com. reporting from here in the nation's capital, i'm norah o'donnell. >>> this is cbs news flash. i'm serena marshall in washington. a federal judge in texas has blocked president biden's student loan forgiveness program, saying it skirted congressional authority. the justice department has said it is appealing the decision, but it throws the program, which was already on hold due to a separate lieu suit, into more legal limbo. >>> and a scary new federal study on teen smoking shows that despite efforts to stop underage tobacco use, 1 in 6 high school students vape, smoke, or use tobacco. that's roughly 3 million middle and high school students in total. e-cigarettes are the most popular option. >>> and the long anticipated sequel to "black panther" is out in theaters right now, walk walk is expected to be a blockbuster and a tribute to late acto

ben tracy has a report on how climate change is changing where and what we plant. ♪ >> reporter: thething about joe franklin's 78-acre citrus farm is that it really shouldn't be here. >> when i first started, people couldn't believe me when i told them it was grown here in georgia. they didn't believe me. you can't grow that here. >> reporter: franklin now has 12,000 trees growing fruit in the middle of georgia. >> grapefruit, lemons, georgia kisses. >> reporter: you would normally expect to find hundreds of miles south in florida. i'm not going to find a georgia peach? >> afraid not. one of the main things that drove my decision to plant them was the fact it's so much warmer now than it was 30 years ago, 40 years ago. when i was growing up, golly, in october you always had a couple of frosts. november, usually had a freeze. that doesn't happen anymore. >> reporter: did you think of that as climate change, or did you just say something is different here? >> i thought of it as climate change. it's happening. there's no doubt about it. >> a month of rainless days and a temperature abov

ben tracy went to minnesota where one town aims to play a major role in the future of electric transportationota, withering winds have made it hard to age gracefully. you're likely to see more hay bales here than actual people. and the town's heyday seems to have played out long ago. but soon the trains that rumble through town could be stopping to pick up loads of much-needed metal, thanks to a massive deposit of nickel discovered underneath this unassuming home. >> how big of a deal is a nickel deposit like this? >> this is a world-class deposit. >> reporter: todd mailen works for talon metals. his company hopes to turn 100 acres of farmland into the nation's largest source of nickel, a mineral critical for electric car batteries. nickel makes the batteries last longer, so the cars go farther. and it's expected the world will need 20 times more of it by 2040. currently the u.s. produces less than 1% of world supply, leaving american ev makers reliant on supplies from places like russia, china, indonesia, and australia. >> no country wants to be dependent on another country for a source of i

trayvon martin and i was very much in the center of that case with sybrina fulton and tracy, that there would come with benmp i remember i went to a rally in florida, in sanford florida right after trayvon happened. and the girl had, a young lady had on a t-shirt saying this is not grandmas movement. and a lot of these civil rights guys say oh lord, what is this? and i walked over to i said let me ask you something. why do you wear that works we shall overcome generation. i said, it's obvious you are younger than we shall overcome generation. my generation was no justice to peace generation. you all are black lives matter i said but a wide you have ton grandma? who are you planning to? who are you asking to be accepted by to tell them grandma -- there wasn't no grandma, life generation or your generation. so why have you got to beat down grandma? chiloquin and she said, i said grandma generation, from the back of the bust to obama being president. why are we met at grandma? she said i never thought about that way. and it think of a got to all of this. every generation picks up the ball and visit further do

martin and i was very much in the center of that case with all sabrina fulton and tracy our parents had come to me again with ben trump, and i remember i went to a rally in florida. are in sanford florida right after trayvon have and a girl had a young lady had on a t-shirt saying this is not grandma's moving. and a lot of these civil rights guys with me said oh lord, what is what is this? and i walked over to us and let me ask you something. what what do you wear that what i want them to know this ain't no we shall overcome generation that i i said it was obvious you younger than the wish alone come generation. i'm not a wish i will come generation. my generation was the no justice. no peace generation. y'all look black ladder. i said, but why do you have to condemn grandma? who are you playing to? i mean, who are you have to be accepted by to tell them grandma wasn't it wasn't for grandma my generation or your generation being so while we got to be down grandma? she looked at me she said. i said grandma to generation brothers from the back of the bus to obama being president. why are we mad at grandma? he said

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