cbs' jeff pegues has late details. >> reporter: tonight, the world's largest meat processor, j.b.s., is still trying to get fully up and running again following the weekend hack. at its plant across the country, many of which were forced to close yesterday, some shifts today were canceled, while others were delayed, and that's meant lost pay for some workers, cattle farmers and the truckers that handle the cattle. it is expected to have an effect on grocery store prices, too. >> that impacts the drivers, the trucking companies, the large companies like j.b.s. and some of the other large meat packers, and then ultimately, that will trickle down to the everyday consumer. >> reporter: cbs news has confirmed that p he j.btack i ssian-based group called pinc spi using mal wea on'tay up, the private information is leaked. so far, there's been no leak in the j.b.s. case. so what does that suggest to you? >> a lot of times if you don't see a leak but you know that there's an incident, it could mean that there's a negotiation going on-- pay the ransom or the ransom has been paid. >> reporter:

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here's cbs' jeff pegues. >> reporter: tonight, a possible threat to the u.s.supply as a ransomwear attack hit the operations of the world's largest meat supplier. brazil-based j.b.s., was forced to cease cattle slaughtering operations today at 13 of its meat processing plant in the united states. the company is the top beef producer in the u.s. and the number two producer of pork and poultry. you think the average american is going to see prices rise? >> i think a lot of that depends upon how long this lasts. if j.b.s. is unable to slaughter cattle or hogs over a sustained period, and really even a matter of days, then, yes. >> reporter: j.b.s. told the white house a criminal group, likely based in russia, was responsible. the f.b.i. is now leading the investigation and administration officials are asking the russian government for an government for an explanation. this latest incident follows last month's ransomware attack on colonial pipeline that led to gas shortages in multiple states. russian hacking group the dark side claimed responsibility and walked a

cbs' jeff pegues is following the latest and is going to lead off our coverage from here in washington. good evening, jeff. >> reporter: norah, today, the justice department making it clear that it will use all the tools it has to counter this growing threat. in an internal call to arms, the justice department's second in command pressing investigators to step up efforts to track down and prosecute the criminal gangs carrying out these attacks. tonight, the justice department taking aim at ransomware attackers, vowing to target them like terrorists, noting the destructive and devastating consequences the attacks are having on critical infrastructure, like the j.b.s. meat plant this week, and colonial pipeline last month. >> we recognize this is an increasing threat. >> reporter: the white house, too, with an extraordinary warning today to american companies to beef up their cybersecurity because no company is safe. president biden will take up the recent attacks with vladimir putin during their summit in a few weeks. both darkside, and revil, two of the groups responsible for the lates

norah. >> o'donnell: all right, jeff pegues, thank you. and the number of americans filing unemployment claims dropped to a new pacemaker low. those new numbers come as it hit 9.3 million in april. cbs' omar villafranca reports on the struggle to fill those jobs. >> reporter: at greenville avenue pizza in dallas, business is cooking. but owner sammy manedll can't hire enough workers. ads weren't working, so he's offering something extra. >> now we're doing $200 after they completed six weeks of work. we actually just gave out our first check. >> reporter: in a post-pandemic economy, employers are having to offer creative incentives. waste management now offers workers and their families academic scholarships. new employees for omni hotels can get a signing bonus and three free nights at a hotel of their choice if they stay through labor day. >> the long-term, decades-long trend where the employer held so much power, that dynamic is shifting. >> reporter: cbs news business analyst jill schlesinger says new employee incentives might become t

we'll see if that happens. >> o'donnell: all right, jeff pegues, thank you. well, tonight, the u.s.proaching 600,000 confirmed covid deaths and could hit that milestone this weekend. there's also been another major setback for johnson & johnson's covid vaccine. we get more now from cbs' omar villafranca. >> reporter: tonight, more troubling news for johnson & johnson. the f.d.a. reportedly telling j&j, 60 million doses produced at the emergent biosolutions factory are possibly contaminated and need to be thrown out. j&j had promised to deliver 100 million doses by the end of may, but as of mid-june, fewer than 22 million have actually shipped. states haven't received anything in a month. vaccine supply, though, not a problem. millions of pfizer and moderna vaccines are available, but demand is way down, like in oklahoma. >> we were able to get up to about 15,000 vaccines a day, and now we're right around 2,000 a day. so, we are so much farther below capacity. >> reporter: in the race to vaccinate, oklahoma ranks near the bottom. just 54% of adults have had at least one dose. nationw

norah. >> o'donnell: jeff pegues, thank you. well, tonight there is a new weapon in the fight against alzheimer disease. the f.d.a. just approved a new t al drug to fight the major cause of alzheimer despite concerns about the cost and its effectiveness. here's cbs' dr. jon lapook. >> reporter: it is the first drug for alzheimer approved in the nearly two decades. the f.d.a. saying it is urgently needed to treat the devastating disease affecting more than 6 million americans. the drug, called aduhelm clears away clumps of protein in the brain, so-called "amyloid plaques" that are characteristic of the disease. >> this treatment ushers in a nenew era in alzheimer treatmen. going beyond just that symptom treatment to underlying biology. >> reporter: the f.d.a. said in a statement that the reduction in plaques is reasonably likely to predict a clinical benefit. but, today's announcement is controversy because previous studies have found that reducing plaque does not necessarily help patients with alzheimer's. last november dr. cale

cbs' jeff pegues is at the justice department tonight and is going to lead off our coverage. good evening, jeff. what an operation this was. >> reporter: it certainly was, norah. the f.b.i. taking a page out of silicon valley's playbook by designing an app, but in this case, that app turned out to be the trap that agents used to bring down numerous criminal organizations. ( sirens ) the global police dragnet was still sweeping up suspectsts in the hohours before invesestigats went public with "operation trojan shield." it was a colossall t takedown tt included seizures of luxury cars, motorcycles, and drugs which were concealed in everything from shipments of pineapples to cans of tuna fish, all made possible by devices loaded with software, specifically created by the f.b.i. to lure suspects from the shadows. >> the very devices that the criminals used to hide their crimes are were actually a beacon for law enforcement. >> reporter: the program was called "anom," and according to investigators, it was distributed to 12,000 users in about 100 countries. >> the amount of intell

norah. >> o'donnell: all right, jeff pegues, thank you. well tonight, president biden is hailing the may jobs report as a sign that america is on the move again. hiring did pick up with 559,000 jobs created. that's about double the april figure. and the unemployment rate dipped .3% of a point to 5.8%, the lowest since the pandemic began. but the u.s. still has nearly eight million fewer jobs than before. all right, tonight, the dangerous record-breaking heat that's been broiling the west is moving into the midwest and northeast. let's get the weekend forecast from cbs' lonnie quinn. i feel like, lonnie, it's going to be really a difference from last weekend. >> this is going to be two different ends of the spectrum i'll tell you. right now, here on the east coast, we're catching some rain. by this weekend it will be hots and sunny, t-shirts at best. radar picture right no if you take a look at the radar picture right now, heaviest rain is actually not in the northeast. it's down around texas, pushing to new orleans, but it's the northeast

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. >>> reporting from the nations's capitol, i'm jeff pegues. >>> it's wednesday, june 2nd, 2021. this is the "cbs morning news." ransomware attack. production for the largest meat producing company gets disrupted. what this means for consumers and who the white house is blaming. >>> dramatic footage. body camera video released showing authorities closing in on a gunman who killed nine people at a california rail yard. >>> search intensifies. an 11-year-old boy goes missing in iowa. why his disappearance has rattled police and the rattled police and the community. captioning funded by cbs >>> good morning. good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. we begin with a second major cyberattack impacting american

reporting from the nation's capitol, i'm jeff pegues, enjoy your weekend. >>> it's friday, june 4th,1. this is the "cbs morning news." covid vaccine drop-off. the number of americans getting a shot is slowing down. concerns about one region in particular that's falling far behind. >>> ransomware attacks. the justice department announces a major change as the white house issues a warning for all american companies. >>> aliens or not? the first details emerge from a highly anticipated report about mysterious flying objects mysterious flying objects witnessed by the military. captioning funded by cbs

capitol, i'm jeff pegues, enjoy your weekend. >>> it's friday, june 4th, 2021. this is the "cbs morning news." covid vaccine drop-off. the number of americans getting a shot is slowing down. concerns about one region in particular that's falling far behind. >>> ransomware attacks. the justice department announces a major change as the white house issues a warning for all american companies. >>> aliens or not? the first details emerge from a highly anticipated report about mysterious flying objects mysterious flying objects witnessed by the military. captioning funded by cbs >>> good morning. good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. we begin this morning with the white house push to improve vaccination rates. the latest data coming out of the cdc shows a dramatic drop-off in the number of new people getting a shot over the past few weeks. 63% of american adults are partially vaccinated. but president biden wants to hit 70% in exactly one month. so laura podesta is in new york following this story for us. laura, there is one region that is kind of slipping behin

jeff pegues talks with officers about whether they think cameras improve policing. >>> and as we mark of lgbtq-plus children about why they are proud. >>> that's the "cbs morning news" for this friday. thanks for watching. i'm anne-marie green. have a great weekend.

we have more now from cbs' jeff pegues. >> reporter: j.b.s. usasp c.e.o. andre nogeira, sails the decision to pay the $11 million ransom was very difficult but it had to be made. the meat distributor business nearly ground to a halt with plant shutting down, impacting thousand of workers and contractors across the country. >> aren't we just inviting more attacks when pay off these thugs? >> reporter: today on capitol hill, lawmakers pressed f.b.i. director christopher wray on what companies should do in these situations. >> it is our policy, it is our guidance from the f.b.i. that companies should not pay the ransom. >> reporter: but they are. when ransomware attacks shut down its operations last month, gasoline supplier colonial pipeline also says it paid off the hackers. >> it was the hardest decision i made in my 39 years in the energy industry. >> reporter: the number of organizations paying ransom has risen to 32% so far this year. 46% of companies that paid the ransom did receive access to their data, but the data was corrupted. 3% of companies paid

here's cbs' jeff pegues. >> reporter: tonight, the hackers linked to the ransomware attack on j.b.s.ng a bold message to u.s. law enforcement in russian, revil saying it chose the meat distributor for the revenue, and because the parent company is located in brazil, where the attack was directed, adding, >> the gloves are off. >> reporter: adam myers tracks cyber-attacks and the groups behind them. it also looks like that they like the attention. >> i think that they don't necessarily like the attention, necessarily like the attention, but they hav but they have the attention, so they're going to use it in the way that they think will benefit them the most. >> reporter: f.b.i. director christopher wray comparing the bureau's response to the ransomware attacks to how the bureau evolved after september bureau evolved after september 11 to c 11 to confront terrorism. >> there's a model in place for this, and they are pulling out all stops. it's not just a bureaucratic gesture. >> reporter: the f.b.i. is investigating about 100 different types of ransomware. one of the latest ransomware

. >>> i'm jeff pegues in washington, thanks for staying with us.l day weekend. time set aside to honor the memory of those who made the ultimate sacrifice to defend the freedom that we all hold dear. one american hero who pays his respects daily is a survivor of the world war ii battle for -- >> he is literally one of a kind. at the age of 97 he is the last living recipient of the medal of honor from world war ii, but it's the way he lived all those years since that really sets him apart. >> i felt that i owed back more than i could ever possibly give. >> reporter: he grew up on a farm in west virginia in the great depression. >> there were 11 born to my family. only five of us survived to adulthood. >> the attack on pearl harbor united americans as never before in american history. >> reporter: after pearl harbor he tried to enlist in the marines and was rejected as too short when the marines took horrible casualties the height limit was eased and he ended up a marine. what was your first taste of combat like? >> exceedingly scary. >> reporter: in

jeff pegues is at the justice department. od morning. >> reporter: anthony, those secret subpoenas didn't just target journalists and democrats, but according tomorrow "the new york times" they also targeted the electronic devices of former white house counsel, don mcgahn. now lawmakers here in washington manding answers. >> the notion that any president, be it political appointees could manipulate our democratic system to tap into personal data has the fingerprints of a dictatorship. a dictatorship all over it. >> reporter: lawmakers on capitol hill clashed over investigations into the trump justice department's secret subpoenas of members of congress and the media. >> there's no need for partisan circus here in the congress. >> reporter: in a statement announcing the house judiciary committee investigation monday, chairman jerrold nadler alleged that the department of justice used criminal investigations as a pretext to spy on president trump's perceived political enemies. federal prosecutors secretly subpoenaed phone inform

and jeff pegues is following it for us. jeff, this seems very unusual and rare. >> it is a win for the department of justice, that just last week announced it would be treating these ransomware cases like they do terrorism cases here. this announcement yesterday is perhaps proof this new change in approach is paying off. case. the fbi announced the new change is paying off. >> the old adage follow the money still applies. follow the money is exactly what the fbi did last month when colonial pipeline paid $4.3 million of bitcoin to the russian hacking group darkside after the malware as used to hold the company hostage. >> sophisticated use of technology to hold businesses and whole cities hostage for profit is decidedly a 21st century challenge. >> reporter: newly released court documents showed that investigators used digital fingerprints to track those funds to an online wallet for darkside. the fbi then obtained the wallet's private key to recover about $2.3 million. >> extortionists will never see this money. >> reporter

jeff pegues reports now on the growing pressure for the u.s. to strike back. >> reporter: less than two weeks from a summit with russian president vladimir putin, the white house says that all retaliatory options are on the table. >> mr. president, will you retaliate against russia for this latest ransomware attack? >> we're looking closely at that. >> reporter: meat processing company jbs is trying to get fully up and running after the cyberattack which the fbi attributed to a russia-linked ransomware operation known as revil. the fbi says agents are working diligent three bring the threat actors to -- diligently to bring the threat actors on justice. this after an attack on the colonial pipeline which led to the shutdown of the largest fuel pipeline and sparked panic buying at gas stations. another ransomware attack wednesday hit massachusetts steam ship authority which runs ferries to nantucket and martha's vineyard. and the new york subway system confirmed that it suffered a cyberattack in april. "the new york times" reports the hack was li

for "cbs this morning saturday," jeff pegues in washington. >>> california is just days from announcing it is dropping all of its mask and social distancing requirements for fully vaccinated people. turning the page on the coronavirus comes with risks, example two vaccinated passengers a cruise ship tested positive for covid. it comes as 52% of the country has received at least one dose of the covid-19 vaccine, and 43% of adults in the u.s. are now fully vaccinated. michael george is here with the latest. michael, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, jeff. as masks come off and many places reopen, there are reminders that the world is still in a pandemic, and the signs of risk keep resurfacing. aboard the "celebrity millennium," two passengers tested positive, causing a ship-wide safety check. the cruise company, which requires proof of vaccinations, told cbs news this demonstrates safety protocols work. the cdc recommends 95% of crew and passengers be vaccinated. on shore, people are still getting sick. variants are looming. >> one of the things that covid has proven, it's really g

jeff pegues, cbs news, washington. >>> bill barr said friday he did not recall being briefed on movesow under scrutiny. so far apple has not offered any comment either. >>> a shocking find at the bottom of lake fulsome. a plane missing for five decades now possibly discovered. what two men found by chance. >> reporter: a deep water discovery. images show a fully intact airplane taken from under water sonar equipment. it may have just solved a 56- year-old mystery. atkinson and riley with sea floor systems know fulsome lake like it's their backyard. on this day as they surveyed the water something unusual stood out. >> i saw something that was not normal. >> lights on the rv allow me to identify and say there is no way that's a rock. >> reporter: low lake levels made it easier for sonar technology to get a clear image and they saw the tail and propeller, matching description of the piper 250 that crashed in 1955. >> he sees something on the bottom that looks man made and that's when we decide there is something down there. maybe it's the plane. >> reporter: new year's day that plane cr

jeff pegues is in washington and he's tracking the investigation. , good morning. >> reporter: good morning, and this is a big deal and that is why the white house has gotten involved in this early. the white house has been in contact with jbs, a company that says it was this victim of a ransomware attack. it took immediate action once it realized that its systems were compromised and that it's doing all that it can right now to restore its systems. >> jbs is the second largest producer of beef, por and chicken in the united states, after the company told white house officials it suffered a cyber attack from hackers likely linked to rushsia, u.s. officias are asking the russian govern the for an explanation. >> this is a national security issue. we have to approach it on that level? former cia director leon panetta warned in 2012 that the u.s. could face the possibility of a cyber pearl harbor attack. he says critical infrastructure systems are increasingly vulnerable. >> do you think there is a connection to the kremlin ultimately? >> i don't think

jeff pegues spoke to officers about body cameras and whether they think the recordings improved policingined 56 years and are leaders in the black police association of greater dallas. >> we represent the change in law enforcement. we first acknowledge that there are some problems and that we need to move forward with, you know, positive solutions, not just the same old historic, you know, we're the police, and this is the way it is. that's not good. we are for change in a positive manner. >> reporter: among the change we spoke about was the push in recent years for police-worn body cameras. mary, what do you think the opinion is among rank and file officers of body cameras? >> well, i think in 2021, i think that they believe it's a good idea. body-worn cameras have saved a lot of officers' jobs. >> it works both ways. it can protect you and save if you you're doing your job the right way. if you're doing it the end of you, and it should be. >> reporter: like this 2019 incident in north carolina where a 66-year-old woman was dragged out of her car by her hair when she didn't immediate st

jeff pegues has more. >> this morning more than 800 criminals across 16 countries have been arrested in a sting operation. law enforcement seized 30 tons of drugs, some hidden in everything from pineapples to cans of tuna fish, 250 firearms, luxury cars and nearly $50 million in cash and cryptocurrency. the fbi says operation trojan shield also disrupted more than 150 planned killings. >> the amount of intelligence that we received was staggering. >> the historic operation was made possible by an app called anim designed by the fbi to lure suspects from the shadows. the agency made 12,000 devices with the software available on the black market advertising them as secure, encrypted devices. >> the criminals using these devices believed they were secretly planning crimes far beneath the radar of law enforcement, but in reality the criminals were not underneath the radar, they were on it. the fbi was monitoring those conversations. >> while the criminals messaged each other, they were unknowingly sending carb