mark strassmann has the latest. >> good morning. sorry for the early call.tly informed of a satellite breakup. >> reporter: that was the call received aboard the international space station monday morning, just five days after the arrival of four new astronauts, the station was under threat. mission control asked the astronauts to close the hatches and shelter in their docked spacecraft. according to u.s. officials, a russians weapons test of an anti-satellite missile destroyed an old russian satellite in low earth orbit that reportedly created more than 1500 pieces of orbital debris, crossing paths with the iss about every hour and a half. roughly 20,000 pieces of space debris are monitored by u.s. space command, mote of it moving at speeds above 17,000 miles per hour. at that speed, a collision can be catastrophic. state department spokesman ned price slammed the russian test, calling it reckless and dangerous. >> with these 1500 pieces of tractable orbital debris pose as risk not only to those astronauts, not only to those cosmonauts, but to satellites to

cbs's mark strassmann has the made for hollywood details. >> we're coming in hot! >> reporter: here's hollywood's plan. when an asteroid threatens earth. >> you're going to remote detonate the bomb. >> reporter: send bruce willis. but nasa calls lindley johnson. >> well, i'm the real bruce willis. >> reporter: johnson is nasa's real-life planetary defense officer. responsible for mapping thousands of near-earth asteroids, seen here in blue, that could threaten earth. so far 10,000 seem big enough to cause a calamity if they were to hit our planet. in 2013 a small asteroid roughly 60 feet across exploded over russia, injuring more than 1,600 people. >> if they were to impact particularly in a populated area, it would be a natural disaster on the order of anything that we've ever dealt with. >> reporter: houp vulnerable is the earth to one of these objects? >> if it's a large object, there's currently nothing to stop it. >> lift-off. >> reporter: nasa just launched earth's first planetary defense mission, d.a.r.t., the double asteroid redirection test. the spacecraft

mark strassmann explains. ♪ the first ♪ >> reporter: like thousands of american public servants, choira felt betrayed. >> it's just wrong. it's wrong on so many levels. >> reporter: the villain -- her own government as she tearfully told us in 2019. in 1999, baker borrowed $35,000 in student loans, but her loan balance has more than doubled despite years of payments due to fees, interest, penalties. a crisis for more than a half million public servants. military members, teachers, and nurses buried in student debt. >> we had a student loan industry who had no problems ripping off dedicated public servants. >> reporter: the d.o.e. failed to police and often predatory industry. anher sh- the vernme ten years of service the debts wiped clean. the program had a 98% rejection rate for applicants like debbie baker. >> you kind of feel like nobody cares. i'm a nobody, i'm a little person out here, and i'm just getting squashed by big monster. >> reporter: but now new relief. the d.o.e. pressured by the american federation of teachers agreed to overhaul its loan forgiveness program. it will cr

mark strassmann, cbs news at the kennedy space center. >> cool stuff. >>> we have one final check of your weather coming up. >>> a birth story one mom will never forget. what happened when >>> today's tip of the day will be the italian parsley. i love it this time of year more because i cook a little bit more because it is cooler and nice. i use it for garnish. i with garlic and olive oil, put a little in to release those oils. you can't beat it. selection and storage is important. make sure they're green all the way around. it's very important, free from any yellowing whatsoever. they have to feel nice and fresh, the big leaf or italian. when you put it in the plastic bag at the store, open the plastic bag at home so they can breathe. keep them nice and fresh. i love italian parsley. >>> bpe helped keep us safe throughout the pandemic but in turn is damaging our oceans. that story and more at 3:00. >>> a beautiful live look with our roof cam on this veterans day, plenty sunshine. temperatures are warmer compared to yesterday at this time. we will continue with above average temperat

mark strassmann, waverly, tennessee. up. >> duncan: and what a great note to end on.hat's the "cbs weekend news." i'm jericka duncan. thanks for watching. have a great singh. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >>> live from the cbsn bay area studios, this is kpix 5 news . >>> we have never experienced anything like this in a long time. >> a community shaken after a vandal targets san francisco's oldest smock and why the attack is a different meeting to the community. >> we're live at the scene of a neighborhood bear standoff. the bear won't budge and now that the sun has gone down, what will he do next? >> i'm spending easily over 800 or $900 every month on gas. >> if you didn't think the pain at the pump could get worse, think again. gas pr ights d new rds. od eving and thank you for joining us. >>> we start tonight with an act of vandalism at the oldest mosque in san francisco. >>li frcisco with the investigation and how the community is reacting. >> reporter: you can understand why members of this mosque are still on

he's mark strassmann. >> reporter: brouhaha in omaha. >> you got that? loads of replacement workers. >> no future here. >> reporter: around the clock, two-month labor stare-down at kellogg's. makers of corn flakes and rice krispies. is this hardball? >> absolutely hardball. >> reporter: this mechanic is among 1,400 striking workers. [ chants ] at kellogg's four u.s. plants, they demand an end to a two-tiered pay structure that the union conceded to in 2015. new hires make less indefinitely. >> we're professionals, and they're not going to get anybody better than that. >> reporter: part of america's great resignation is a great repudiation. workers rising up, demanding better. >> no contract -- >> no coal! >> reporter: ongoing walkouts by alabama coal miners, health care workers in northern california, john deere recently settled with 10,000 striking workers as did mercy hospital in buffalo. it's brought out the tiger in these makers of frosted flakes. >> i feel we have the upper hand -- >> reporter: striking workers james jackson and robert jensen point

he's cbs' mark strassmann. >> reporter: atlanta's mcnair middle school teaches about struggle.of kids come from single-parent homes. they're old enough to realize what families like theirs live without. >> they're mad. and they're not mad at us. they're just mad at the situation that they just left. >> reporter: principal john madden told us every student here qualifies for free or assisted meals. you have a number of families barely hanging on? >> we have over 900 students, and over 900 struggles. we have to deal with that. >> reporter: right next to the gym, this space softens the stress. it opened this fall, gunna's drip closet, stocked with groceries, snacks, new sneakers and clothes, all free. >> i have heard it gone through my children. i have heard of gunna. i did hear of gunna. >> reporter: kids will keep you connected. >> almost definitely. yes. you have to stay connected in middle school. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> reporter: gunna is a grammy-nominated atlanta rapper. when his mother told him, "never forget where you come from," he listened. >> i was a cool kid. >> reporter: oh, you we

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cbs news senior national correspondent mark strassmann is in cocoa beach, florida, with a look at howarents across the country are reacting. >> there you go. you're welcome. >> reporter: halloween 2021's real scare: the next dog fight in covid america's divide. as soon as tuesday, the c.d.c. could join the f.d.a., approving the pfizer vaccine for young children, ages five to 11. >> we've been waiting for this, parents have been waiting for this, schools have been waiting for this. this is really a breakthrough. >> reporter: smaller arms, smaller doses. pfizer's pediatric vaccine has two shots, each one-third its regular dose. clinical trials showed efficacy rates above 90%. there are enough doses to vaccinate 28 million eligible children. one in four new cases were children. vaccinating young kids could help keep them in classes, protecting them, their families, and their friends. >> we'll be ready immediately following the f.d.a. and c.d.c.'s decisions so that parents can get their kids vaccinated quickly, easily, and conveniently. [yelling] >> reporter: but amicably? fat chance. mil

mark strassmann has more. >>> three, two -- >> reporter: against florida's night sky, four astronauts blasted off late wednesday -- >> and lift off -- >> reporter: their crew dragon spacecraft headed for the international space station and a six-month stay. weather and an undisclosed medical issue with a crew member delayed the nasa and spacex crew three launch atop the falcon 9 rocket for nearly two weeks. on board, three nasa astronauts, flight attendant commander raja chari and crewmates tom mashburn and kayla barron, barron also a navy submarine warfare officer. >> does it feel as though you're going from living in a metal can under water to living in a metal can up in space? >> i look at the space station -- what other people think about, but i go that's a submarine in space. upade. >> reporter: before the flight, he's iace. >> then i'll have a chance to sit back and say, okay, this is actually real. >> crew three is on their way to the international space station. [ cheers ] >> reporter: crew dragon will be in position to rendezvous and dock autonomously with the space station t

mark strassmann, thank you so much for being here. >> reporter: you bet. >> brennan: on friday, we went to the treasury department here in washington and sat down with secretary janet yellen. she told us, unsurprisingly, that our economic stability depends on the pandemic. you have said that inflation is likely to be with us until the second half of next year. are you confident that prices for the average american will be down by the time we head into next november and election day? >> the pandemic has been calling want shots for the economy and for inflation. and if we want to get inflation down, i think continuing to make progress against the pandemic is the most important thing we can do. i think it's-- it's important to realize that because of this inflation, the cause of this inflation is the pandemic. led to a dramatic increase in demand for products. households were unable to spend on surfaces, going out to eat and traveling. they shifted as they stayed at home, worked more from home. they shifted their spending on to goods that led to a surge in the demand for products. and alth

mark strassmann cbs news cocoa beach florida. >> duncan: actor alec baldwin made his first on-camerants this weekend. cbs' lilia luciano joins us in hollywood with more on what baldwin had to say. lilia. >> reporter: good evening, jericka. baldwin said he could not speak about the shooting, he was ordered not to, the one issue he addressed was gun control on set. >> there are incidental accidents, on film sets from time to time, but nothing like this. this is a one in a trillion episode, a one in a trillion case. >> reporter: alec baldwin spoke to paparazzi in vermont, with his wife also recording. >> we have to realize when it does go wrong this horrible catastrophic thing, some things have to take place, plastic guns. >> that shot killed hutchins and wounded are director joel souza. gun was cold, meaning safe. >> reporter: baldwin, who is also a producer on the film, addressed calls for stronger on- set safety measures. >> i do know that an ongoing effort to limit the use of firearms on film sets is something i'm extremely interested in. >> reporter baldwin said, authorities ordere

mark strassmann reports from atlanta. >> reporter: kyle rittenhouse, not guilty, sparked protests fromea now. >> reporter: ...to portland, oregon, which police therea rio. but in the divided states of america, that verdict from wisconsin means both redemption... >> it's nice to know when individuals take a stand to defend themselves that the jury system in this country will recognize the right of self-defense. >> reporter: ...and repudiation. >> you can't tell me these institutions are not sick. you cannot tell me that these institutions are not tainted with racism. >> reporter: in the chaos of kenosha last august, rittenhouse, then 17, killed two men with his ar-15-style assault rifle. he claimed self-defense. rittenhouse drove in from illinois armed for battle. he knew outage already ran high. two days earlier, a white cop had shot a black man seven times in the back. the officer was never charged. jacob blake remains paralyzed from the waist down. justin blake, his uncle, angry about the rittenhouse verdict. >> we knew he wasn't going to jail for life. but we thought he'd go to jail

mark strassmann, cbs news, bloomington, indiana. >> o'donnell: well, for parents who want a baby anduggle to conceive, it can be an motivational rollercoaster, and or two couples that journey took an unthinkable turn. cbs's mireya villarreal has the story of an i.v.f. mixup. >> we kind of dreamed of two girls, but, you know -- >> reporter: for three years, daphna and alexander cardinale tried to have a second child, finally with i.v.f., they were thrilled to welcome a baby girl in '19 but immediately alexander felt something was wrong. when was the point where you said something's not right? >> i had a weird sort of gut reaction when she was born. it wasn't anything logical. it was just like an instinct. >> reporter: two months later a dna test confirmed their worst fear, the infant was not their biological daughter. daphna was implanted with a stranger's embryo who, in turn, received theirs. that woman who wishes to remain anonymous gave birth a week earlier to the cardinale's daughter. >> when i found out she wasn't mine, i poured more love into her. i don't know, maybe i was just

cbs' mark strassmann has the made-for-hollywood details. >> we're coming in hot! >> reporter: here's hollywood's plan when an asteroid threatens earth. >> you are going to remote detonate the bomb. >> reporter: send bruce willis. but nasa calls lindley johnson. >> i'm the real bruce willis. >> reporter: johnson is nasa's real-life planetary defense officer, responsible for mapping thousands of near-earth asteroids, seen here in blue, that could threaten earth. so far, 10,000 seem big enough to cause a calamity if they were to hit our planet. in 2013, a small asteroid, roughly 60 feet across, exploded over russia, injuring more than 1600 people. >> if they were to impact, particularly in a populated area, it would be a natural disaster on the order of anything that we've ever dealt with. >> reporter: how vulnerable is the earth to one were these objects? >> if it's a large object, currently nothing to stop it. >> liftoff. >> reporter: nasa just launched earth's first planetary defense mission, dart, the double asteroid redirection test. the spacecraft will target t

here's cbs' mark strassmann. >> reporter: by coincidence, nathalie stutzmann introduction as conductorra played tchaikovsky's 5th. it has a recurring theme just like america's major symphonies, the maestro invariably is a man. ♪ ♪ ♪ ...until now. >> i am nathalie stutmann. i'm a conductor. >> reporter: also a renowned contralto, a female singer with the lowest vocal range. as a young musician in europe she also dreamed of conducting, her music teacher refused to consider it. >> i found it magic. i mean it was just the repertoire and the voices that you can have, when you conduct. >> reporter: you were told directly this is no place for a woman? >> oh, they didn't need to say anything. i thought myself it is not a place for a woman, it was clear. >> reporter: atlanta's orchestra interviewed 80 conductor candidates before hiring its first female leader. stutzman's charisma and commitment stood out. >> we think we have found probably one of the most inspiring musicians on thebly planet. >> reporter: jennifer barlament led the search committee. why does it matter that the person holding th

here's cbs' mark strassmann. >> reporter: brouhaha in omaha. >> you got that?porter: striking union workers, bus loads of replacement workers. >> you have no future here! >> reporter: around the clock, two-month labor stare-down at kelloggs, makers of corn flakes and rice krispies. is this hardball? >> it's absolutely hardball. >> reporter: this mechanic is among 1,400 striking workers. >> union power! >> reporter: kellogs plant they demand an end to two-tier pay structure the union conceded to in 2015. new hires make less indefinitely. >> we're professional cereal makers. we've been doing it our whole lives and they're not going to get anybody better than that. >> this is what democracy looks like! >> reporter: part of america's great resignation is a great repudiation, workers rises up, demanding better. >> no contract! >> no coal! >> reporter: ongoing walkouts by alabama coal miners, healthcare workers in northern california. john deere recently settled with 10,000 striking workers, as did mercy hospital in buffalo. it's brought out the tiger in these makers

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here's cbs' mark strassmann. >> reporter: kindness has an unmistakable shine, like the brass of thesetruments. they're a surprise gift for 40 members of the waverly junior high band. in deadly flooding, many of them lost their homes, their instruments, the rhythm of normal. harmony sanders' family lived here. the seventh grader is sleeping in a borrowed bed playing a borrowed clarinet. >> it just doesn't have that same good vibe that i had from my old one. >> we're going to be able to donate all these instruments. >> reporter: country star vince gill presented the donation from nucthsanc.m.a. foundation, a $100,000 gift that brought an overdue change in tempo here. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> it takes every single one of them to make a band be a band. it's the best feeling in the world to feel connected to something, you know. it's beautiful when you watch it happen. >> reporter: harmony sanders already feels different. >> i think that everybody can just be happier now and have less weight on their shoulders. >> reporter: kindness hit a high note in a community that needed to hear one. mark strass

mark strassmann has the story. >> reporter: outside food pantry 279, they wait for a weekly food box a year ago. but retirees elaine and marilou shields bring gratitude, not attitude. how much of a difference does this make? >> a lot. >> a lot. >> it's hard to make it if you don't compare. >> reporter: founder sieve cindy chavez feeds about 6,000 people a month, their last link in a supply chain crisis. >> it's not as much as normal, but it's something. they're going get something. >> reporter: better than nothing? >> absolutely. better than nothing. >> reporter: hoosier hills provides local food pantries. almost everything is down. federal commodity, retail donations, cash donations, down by half. what's up, prices. overall, a one-year drop in supplies of 22%. >> all those sources that we relied on dried up. >> reporter: so for every five pounds of food you need, you're getting four. >> that's accurate, yeah. >> reporter: we followed this truck heading to pantry 279. >> well, bless your heart. >> reporter: where people live in america's shadow. compared to a year ago, is feeding you

mark strassmann, at the kennedy space center. >>> millions of acres of u.s.oke every year due to wildfires. in many cases the charred landscape makes it difficult for nature to recover and regrow. anthony pura shows us how drones are now being used to restore those areas. >> reporter: as the country experiences more large and destructive wildfires, it's become harder for nature to bounce back. >> u.s. forests are really at a crisis point. we have seen catastrophic wildfires. >> reporter: david lidle with the u.s. forest service says some forests need help to regrow. the process usually demands crews hand-planting lab-grown seedlings in scorched areas. it's be labor intensive and time-consuming. but some are speeding up the process with drones. >> if natural regeneration is occurring less and less because the fires are high severity, what we need to do is we need to be able to step up and be able to as humans reforest faster. >> reporter: grant canary is ceo of drone seed, a company in washington state. workers deploy swarms of drones in fire-devastated areas

our senior national correspondent mark strassmann reports about the optimism that some are feeling, and it starts with our nation's children. >> put your hands up in the air? >> yay! >> halfway there! >> reporter: one shot down, one to go as pfizer's pediatric vaccine sinks into the arms of kids 5-11. >> awesome job! >> i thought it would hurt, but it didn't. >> reporter: that rollon the boosted a 72-hour, good-news cycle, an overall overdue sense of breakthrough. >> this is going to be the end of the pandemic. the moment that we get the kids vaccinated. >> reporter: surveys show most parents want someone else's kid to go first, but to others, their child gets the shot. they get relief. >> i've just been so scared, so, sorry, i'm a little emotional. i just-- i just wanted him to be safe. >> reporter: more progress, experimental antiviral pills to treat covid patients. merck and pfizer have drugging in last-stage trials that stop the virus from replicating. both need f.d.a. approval. but pfizer says even among high-risk patients, its pill reduces by 89% the chance of hospitalization or d