cbs' janet shamlian is going to lead off our coverage tonight in beaumont, texas, good evening, janeteporter: hurricane nicholas was a rainmaker and there are areas of high water throughout southeast texas, but for the most part, damage was minimal, and storm-weary communities are breathing a sigh of relief. nicholas roared ashore along the texas coast as a category 1 hurricane overnight with winds gusting to 95 miles an hour. a path of destruction was left behind, damaged buildings and stranded drivers. south of houston, low-lying areas flooded after a nearly- five-foot storm surge and heavy rain. but the city itself was spared. >> this storm could have been a lot worse for the city of houston. i think we fared fairly well from-- from hurricane nicholas. >> reporter: nicholas was downgraded to a tropical storm by daybreak. but the damage was done. this is jamaica beach under water. parts of homes in another coastal community, surfside beach, were reduced to rubble. and trees are down everywhere. a large tree crushed this trailer and r.v. in the city of brazoria.u no one was hurt. thi

janet shamlian has that story. >> okay. are you currently pregnant? >> reporter: this is a rare look inside a clinic performing abortions. >> i am booked for the rest of this week. >> reporter: comprehensive women's health has been inundated with calls from women who live in texas but want to come here. even though it's located hundreds of miles from texas. in denver, colorado. >> why are they coming to colorado? >> reporter: dr. rebecca cohen is the clinic director. >> many of the clinics in surrounding states face restrictions on the number of appointments that someone needs, on waiting periods. on other barriers to care. >> reporter: the appointments are back-to-back all day. >> 10:00 km is a 6-week surgical with sedation. no records. 10:30, jt. >> reporter: since the texas ban, as many as 40% of patients here are from the lone star state. including a woman who traveled more than 1600 miles round trip for an abortion. we've conseemed her identity. >> when you realized you could not get the procedure in texas, what did you think? >> i cried. i cried

cbs' janet shamlian reports. >> reporter: getting books into the hands of children. >> fresh shipmentr: hundreds of titles given away at this fort worth book fair. >> well, we just got a donation, a generous donation of books. >> reporter: by a child himself. >> i want to be able to share my love of literacy with as many people as possible. >> reporter: this is orion gene. he is 10. but the number on his mind is 500,000. the number of books he is hoping to get donated into children in need. >> even just for a moment to go into a new story or a new world and go to places and meet people they never would have. >> if we are willing to. so why not start today? because right now it's what we need more than ever. >> reporter: that speech won orion a 2020 student kindness contest, inspiring his own personal campaign of compassion. >> the speech contest was really just the catalyst to something so much bigger. >> reporter: with 120,000 books collected so far, orion is asking people across the country to give away their used books to hit his goal. >> they can give that book away to another chi

janet shamlian, cbs news, sclefer port. >> yuccas: still ahead, wooden wonders.n ancient building material is modernizing construction methods. >> yuccas: the construction and operation of buildings makes up much of the world's carbon emissions. to curb this growing problem, architectch tects and engineers are using a natural, old material in a new way. cbs' roxana saberi has more in tonight's "eye on earth." >> reporter: at this construction site in london, you may notice something missing. >> we have a lot less concrete and steel here. >> reporter: that's because es archict aw ugh rels alostirely on at's called mass tiber- pl of wd glued together and stacked perpendicular to hold greater weight at higher heights. when he finished this other 10-story complex four years ago, it was the world's tallest building made of mass timber. >> the timber holds everything up. the brick is just to look nice. >> reporter: but now it's getting dwarfed by other projects, from norway to canada and the u.s. why is timber? >> it's about climate change. for us, it's about reducing

first janet shamlian leads off coverage in galveston, texas. good evening, janet. >> reporter: norah, good evening. the outer bands of tropical storm nicholas are churning up the texas coast tonight. you can see the winds and the heavy rain kind of bringing and churning up the surf right now, and it's only expected to get worse in the next couple of hours. across the region, they are preparing for potentially life- threatening flooding. here in galveston, the storm is treacherous. in louisiana, communities are preparing for days of heavy rain. the gulf coast is under threat once again tonight. two weeks after the death and devastation of hurricane ida. tropical storm nicholas could deliver catastrophic rainfall. now there are watches, warnings and worry. the louisiana coast through southeast texas, including galveston and houston, down to corpus christi. >> there are people who do drive into high water, and they sometimes lose their vehicles n mes, lose their lives. >> reporter: nicholas could dump as much as two feet of rain even as recovery fr

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janet shamlian, thank you. tonight, the republican- led review of the 2020 election in arizona is in, and it confirms president biden's victory there by an even larger margin. it also comes as the house committee investigating the january 6 riot has subpoenaed four associates of former president trump. here's cbs' ed o'keefe. >> reporter: tonight, a republican push to overturn november's election results in arizna hit a snag. it turns out, president biden did win, and then some. a months-long review of ballots in maricopa county, 2.1 million in all, found that president biden's 45,000-vote victory grew slightly. it found him 99 more votes and 261 fewer for former president trump. what, if any, comment does the white house have of the apparent results of the new g.o.p.-backed review of ballots in maricopa county? >> it confirmed what we have all known for some time and what millions and millions of peoplef in the country know. >> reporter: the review, funded by nearly $6 million from trump supporters, was run by

it now looms over janet shamlian like a shimmering space ship. >> i like. >> i like it. >> i go downthe champs elysees, and never see the arc de triomphe. today i see the arc de triomphe. >> reporter: it was conceived in 1962 by the artist christo and his partner, jean claude. they also wrapped the reichstag building in berlin, the sydney coastline, and 11 islands off miami. christo famously said art is irrational and useless, its only point to delight the senses. >> it's a source of excitement. >> reporter: jean claude passed away in 2009, followed by christo last year. his nephew, vladimir javacheff, oversaw this project and told us criticism is normal. >> i mean, it's very human for not all of us to agree, and everybody's opinion and interpretation is legitimate. they can-- it's a work of art. you can take it in so many ways. >> reporter: when you think of a french architectural icon, the eiffel tower may spring to mind. but for many french people it's this place, the arc de triomphe, that symbolizes their national identity. it was built as a memorial to fallen french soldiers, an

cbs's janet shamlian joins us now from new orleans, goodia evening, janet. >> reporter: norah, good evening, we have new information on the depth of the suffering of hundreds of nursing home patients and others with nowhere to go.wh there are horrific reports tonight of more than 800 louisiana nursing home patients evacuated ahead of the storm to a warehouse. the state health department is reporting four have since died. rescues of the rest are ongoing. across the region, more than 800,000 are still without power. lines for food and fuel are hours long, and tempers are rising as fast as the heat index.the hea >> we were at the gas station and somebody stole a police car so they shut it all down and we've got to come back tomorrow. >> reporter: the president scheduled to visit the region tomorrow, has ordered the nation's strategic reserves to keep gas stations stocked. >> it is a matter of life-and- death, and we are all in this together. >> reporter: tens of thousands are now in their fourth day without running water. >> i'm 73 years old. we just don't need to be in thi. kind of an environ