>> jiang: charlie, thank you.e with us now is sue on, former deputy director of national intelligence. >> great to see you. >> jiang: as we heard from charlie, there are americans and afghans still trying to get out. the biden administration has repeatedly said that their ability to carry out an attack like the one we saw at the airport is very didifferent from their capability of striking the homeland. is that true? >> it is. i think one of the things to understand is the 20 years of our counterterrorism efforts, including that time in afghanistan, has seriously degraded the ability of extremist forces to rally, gather their resources, and then to operate at distance. that does not mean that they can't create havoc within afghanistan, disrupt the formation of any new kind of government, and over time reconstitute themselves in a way that could be problematic for us. >> jiang: so 20 years later, can you answer if we are safer or not? >> oh, i think from a counterterrorism perspective, we are decidedly safer. we ha

i'm weijia jiang. texas now has the strictest anti-abortion law in the country.ure after the sixth week of pregnancy and provides a $10,000 incentive to the public to police abortion. last week in a 5-4 decision, the u.s. supreme court declined to block that law from taking affect, and now lawmakers in at least six states are considering enacting similar laws. texas congresswoman veronica escobar condemned the supreme court's decision. she joins us now from el paso, texas. good morning, congresswoman. >> good morning, a pleasure to be with you. >> jiang: it is great to have you. you called the new law one of the most draconian state laws to date.

norah. >> o'donnell: weijia jiang, thank you. is news about covid boosters for millions of americans who got moderna shots. the f.d.a. is reportedly leaning towards authorizing half doses for those third moderna shots. in another big development, youtube says it is banning users who spread vaccine misinformation, and that include anti-vaccine activist robert f. kennedy jr. but tonight, our reporting on the pandemic takes us to an overrun hospital in montana, where cbs' marga cbs' meg olivee access. >> what we're seeing right now say they% of the covid patients we have are unvaccinated. >> reporter: in billings, montana, emergency room doctor jaimee belsky can barely keep up with the surge of new covid patients. have you run out of beds? >> so we are, we're getting short on beds. we're running out of beds, took frank with you. >> reporter: here in billings clinic, the largest hospital in the state, the i.c.u. is running at 150% capacity with younger and sicker patients admitted daily. the national guard is on hand to help care for

norah. >> o'donnell: weijia jiang, thank you.e want to turn now to shanksville, pennsvania, a tiny town where a hijacked plane, believed to be headed for the nation's capitol, was brought down after dozens of passengers and crew members took heroic action. cbs' nikole killion spoke with a woman who's keeping their memory alive. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> 20 years later, it's one of those things where it feels like it's been a really long time-- and then, on the other hand, it feels like it's only been a few minutes. >> reporter: time knows no bounds for emily schenkel, who lost her godmother, lorraine bay, two decades ago when united flight 93 came hurtling to the ground in this pastoral pennsylvania field. >> she was a flight attendant for 37 years. if you can think of somebody who just absolutely loved their job, that was her. >> reporter: emily will never know if lorraine was part of the arduous struggle between the passengers and crew and the hijackers that ultimately prevented another attack, but their heroism was enough to inspire emily to n

norah. >> o'donnell: weijia jiang, thank you. to los angeles now, where america's second largest school district just approved a new effort to protect students. it comes as covid cases among america's kids are soaring. we get more now from cbs's jonathan vigliotti. >> and it passes. >> thank you. ( applause ) >> reporter: tonight, los angeles school board members voted to make covid vaccines mandatory for all eligible students. >> when we look at other immunization requirements-- polio, rubella, hepatitis-- that we've had in schools for generations, we are going to see other districts follow l.a. unified's lead. >> i have a number! >> reporter: the nation's second largest school system will now require kids 12 and older to get vaccinated by thanksgiving, if they want to attend in-person classes. board member nick melvoin says too many school administrators are overwhelmed. what has their workload been like through covid thus far? >> well, according to this principal, about 90% of his schedule over the last month of school has bee

norah. >> o'donnell: all right, weijia jiang at the white house. thank you. and tonight, just a week after floods and tornadoes slammed the northeast, the hard-hit region is facing the threat of more severe storms. tornadoes could pop up tonight from maryland to philadelphia. a flash flood watch is in place from pennsylvania to new york city. the florida panhandle tonight is bracing for tropical storm mindy, which formed a short time ago. some areas could get half a foot of rain and gusts topping 40 miles per hour. all right, tonight, the f.b.i. has released new video of the suspect who planted pipe bombs outside the republican and democratic national committee buildings before that deadly january 6 assault on the u.s. capitol. eight months later, the bomber's identity, it's still a mystery. here's cbs' errol barnett. >> reporter: tonight, newly released video footage shows the suspected pipe bomber, seen here in a gray hooded sweatshirt sitting on a park bench near democratic party headquarters on capitol hill. they placed one explosive device and another se

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brian jiang is describing the anguish some tenants may be feeling as the eviction moratorium nears its end. he helped organize a car caravan in san francisco, part of nationwide demonstrations put together by cancel the rents dot org. ultimately, our goal is to generating a popular support agitate enough of the working class to get the people in congress. these people that are supposed to represent the interests of us, right? to pass an indefinite eviction moratorium. they also want congress to eliminate all rent and mortgage debt accumulated during the pandemic and are calling for easier, faster access to the billions of already approved rental relief funds. of which only a small fraction has been distributed to landlords and tenants, some hearsay language issues, technology barriers, and a complicated process has made it difficult for some tenants to access rent relief money. we can help people navigate those systems that are. designed i think in a way to be opaque so that more people are caught off and. unaware jeffrey phillips is with san francisco's westside tenants association, o

steven jiang is following this for us in beijing. so there is plenty of reasons why the two leaders might cross swords. what did they have to say to each other. >> >> reporter: well, according to a senior u.s. official, their tone was actually respectful, familiar and candid during their 90 minute phone conversation. neither was trying to lecture the other. actually both kept referring back to their previous personal encounters and recalling old conversations and old stories. so this obviously is in sharp contrast to what we have seen in some of the more recent high level official meetings between the two sides where things became so contentious it actually spilled out into the open. and indeed some of the u.s. officials sensed that there was this sense of chinese officials have been playing for the press or even propagandizing some of the previous talks. that is why they say this latest phone call was notable because to allowed both leaders to have this private moment to talk about things when this overall relationship has become so

steven jiang is live for us. what else do we know about this call? >> reporter: we have learned from a senior u.s. official that the tone was respectful, familiar during their 90 minute phone call and neither apparently was trying to lecture the other and they kept referring back to their previous encounters recalling old conversations and old stories. so this is in sharp contrast it what we have seen during some of the more recent official meetings between the two sides when things became so contentious it actually spilled out into the open. so u.s. officials say this is why it was notable because to allowed the two leaders to have a private moment to discuss a whole range of things without the chinese having to play for the press. but of course one phone call is not going to magically resolve all the issue and there are so many contentious issues, but it is likely that it will help set a new tone for not only the overall relationship but also working level meetings. and u.s. officials actually have become increasingly frustrated over the lack of su

china sent a very clear message to biden if you keep talking us about, you know, the genocide in jing jiangare going to be doing zoom calls with him and humiliating him when he comes over here. that's probably one of the biggest strategic challenges they face. >> bret: leslie, it's been a bumpy few days maybe few weeks for the biden administration. for the president on foreign policy but domestically as well. what about this speech? >> i actually thought it was strong. i thought it was forceful. i thought it had hope. i like a lot of things he discussed regarding diplomacy. i like that he pretty much put it out there, bret, that we, the united states, are the ones that are going to lead the rest of the world. this is so true through climate change and through covid. in other words, we need to work together. we don't need to have these unnecessary wars. we're going to be your leader and in a sense, you need us. and they do. the world does need the united states and the world does need our leadership. i loved the fact that he talked about sudan and bell areduce and he talked about protesters

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brian jiang is describing the anguish some tenants may be feeling as the eviction moratorium nears its end. he helped organize a car caravan in san francisco, part of nationwide demonstrations put together by cancel the rents dot org. ultimately, our goal is to generating a popular support agitate enough of the working class to get the people in congress. these people that are supposed to represent the interests of us, right? to pass an indefinite eviction moratorium. they also want congress to eliminate all rent and mortgage debt accumulated during the pandemic and are calling for easier, faster access to the billions of already approved rental relief funds. of which only a small fraction has been distributed to landlords and tenants, some hearsay language issues, technology barriers, and a complicated process has made it difficult for some tenants to access rent relief money. we can help people navigate those systems that are. designed i think, in a way to be opaque so that more people are caught off and unaware. jeffrey phillips is with san francisco's westside tenants association,

emergency a sense of crisis in a lot of the more working class neighborhoods in the barrier, brian jiang is describing the anguish some tenants may be feeling as the eviction moratorium nears its end. he helped organize a car caravan in san francisco, part of nationwide demonstrations put together by cancel the rents dot org. ultimately, our goal is to generating a popular support agitate enough of the working class to get the people in congress. these people that are supposed to represent the interests of us, right? to pass an indefinite eviction moratorium. they also want congress to eliminate all rent and mortgage debt accumulated during the pandemic and are calling for easier, faster access to the billions of already approved rental relief funds. of which only a small fraction has been distributed to landlords and tenants, some hearsay language issues technology barriers, and a complicated process has made it difficult for some tenants to access rent relief money. we can help people navigate those systems that are. designed i think in a way to be opaque so that more people are caught

president repeated his side of the story in a defiant address to the nation yesterday and as weijia jiang reports, mr. biden said this was the right time to end america's longest war. > i was not going to extend this forever war and i was not extending a forever exit. >> reporter: president biden praised the u.s. military for its final mission in afghanistan, calling the airlift of more than 120,000 people an extraordinary success. but more than 100 u.s. citizens are still trying to evacuate, even though the president made this promise two weeks ago. >> if there's american citizens left, we're going to stay until we get them all out. >> reporter: administration officials said since then, growing threats in kabul from isis-k changed the timeline, pointing to a suicide bombing that killed 13 service members last week. president biden also said his decision to leave afghanistan serves another purpose. >> this decision about afghanistan is not just about afghanistan. it's about ending an era of major military operations to remake other countries. >> reporter: that declaration helps to define

now, president biden did mention the, quote, targeting and oppression of minorities in jing jiang provincein china's northwest. yet he left mysteriously vague who is responsible for all the targeting and oppression. he blithely lumped in xinjiang with other abuses around the world as if it's one area of deep concern among many. but the concentration camps in xinjiang are not just another problem. perpetrated by one of the most advanced and powerful regimes on earth, personally approved by the chinese communist leader xi ping. it's made clear that he's responsible for the ethnic cleansing. let me explain how brutal it is. the chinese communist party are sterilizing women in xinjiang province so they cannot procreate and create more of their ethnic minority. if they can't do that, then they are being brutally raped by chinese men. that's what's happening in xinjing province. in addition to the internment of millions of ethnic minorities. it's not just your run of the mill targeting and oppression. president biden also referred to china implicitly since he didn't say the word on another occas