norah. >> o'donnell: meg oliver, thank you. and tonight, the cost of living is on the rise and so are fears of inflation. the labor department says consumer prices jumped 5% in may from a year earlier. that's actually the biggest gain in nearly 13 years. we get more now from cbs' carter evans. >> pork chops-- through the roof. >> reporter: with inflation hitting want grocery store, kenneth weinstein had to figure out ways to stretch his dollar. >> you learn to make due. i never used to eat ramen noodles. but now, probably 2 to 3 times a week. >> reporter: nationwide shoppers are paying more. whole milk up 7% from a year ago, citrus fruit up 9%, bacon 13%. when you see prices rise this quick, does it concern you? >> if it continues to rise this quickly, yes, but we don't expect that to be the case. >> reporter: u.c.l.a. senior economist leo felers says many companies are still recovering from pandemic-related shortages at the same time many americans are flush with stimulus cash. >> people are going out and they're buying things

cbs' meg oliver has the story. >> this is it, people. >> reporter: gotham city has a new bat girl. >>a bounce in your step. >> reporter: gwen goldman is the cape cod crusader and this is her cave at yankee stadium. she's dreamed of this since she was 10, when g.m. roy hammy denied her a chance to break the grass ceiling on the field where so many yankee legends played iy wrote "a young lady such as yourself would feel out of place in a dugout." the goldmans struck out. she kept the letter for 60 years. why did you keep this? >> dreams and hopes. >> reporter: then her daughter abbey decided to send a copy of the letter to the 2021 yankees. >> "some dreams take longer than they should to be realized." >> reporter: current g.m., brian cashman, invited goldman, now 70 years old to suit up. >> i'm going to put on the pinstripes. >> reporter: for one kay she was the honorary bat girl. what was going through your mind as you stepped out on the diamond? >> i wish i had practiced my throwing so i could have thrown out better balls. >> reporter: never give up on your dreams. as yogi beara once

stephanopoulos myself and my family, it was what we felt we had to do at that time. >> that was meg oliver> in the battle against the coronavirus, president biden is warning those who have not been vaccinated that they could be in danger from new variants, bring springing up around the world. for instance, the delta variant is traveling fast through india and other countries. it's more transmissible than the original covid strain and is especially dangerous for young people. it turns out the race to update vaccines to combat the new variants is revolutionizing the battle against other diseases as well. here's alison auberry. >> reporter: back in january, just one month after moderna vaccine's was authorized for emergency use -- >> mutations not only spread faster than the original virus. they may also be more deadly. >> reporter: fears about a more contagious strain began to grip the nation. >> the variant of covid-19 first identified in south africa has now been found in the u.s. >> reporter: and scientists at moderna immediately realized this could be a threat. >> we didn't think we had

meg oliver, thank you.anhunt for three masked gunmen who opened fire and killing people and wounding 20 others. here's cbs' manuel bojorquez. >> reporter: tonight, newly released surveillance video shows three men wearing ski masks and hoodies jumping ought of a white nissan pathfinder. in the roughly 11 seconds before they leaped back into the s.u.v. they unleashed a hail of gunfire using assault-style rifles and handguns leaving two people dead and 21 injured. >> we're going to need as many rescues as you've got. >> these are acts of domestic terrorism. >> reporter: the shooting happened outside a banquet hall in northwest miami-dade county as a rap concert ended sunday. police say some in the crowd fired back. evidence markers littered the pavement. >> we have intelligence information this resulted in an ongoing rivalry from two different groups. >> reporter: clayton dillard, whose son was killed, could not contain his grief in a news conference. >> you all killed my kid! you must burn! >> that is the pa

cbs' meg oliver will lead off our coverage from the busy newark liberty international airport. meg, good evening. >> reporter: major, good evening. after more than a year of not going anywhere millions of americans are traveling againywf tonight though max are still required in airports, some are celebrating their first maskless holiday since the pandemic began. tonight, americans are returning from the busiest holiday travel weekend since the pandemic began, with more than 37 million people taking to the skies and roads to see family and friends, up 60% from this time last year. over the long weekend, more than seven million have passed through he nation's airports. with long overdue reunions on full display. >> it's been over a year since we've seen them. ♪ it's been a long, long time ♪o >> reporter: as vaccinated americans embark on the first maskless holidays, for many families for the first time in more than a year. ♪ ♪ ♪ honoring fallen heroes. families returning to familiar rituals as they remember the sacrifices of our soldiers. ( ♪ "taps" ♪ ) sacrifices that unite us as

meg oliver, thank you. and we have some disturbing video showing a florida state trooper tasing a 16-year-old boy who was standing outside his girlfriend's home. cbs' manuel bojorquez is following the case. >> i didn't do nothing. >> reporter: this surveillance video shows 16-year-old jack rodeman outside his girlfriend's back door last week as a florida state trooper approaches him with his taser drawn. >> put your hands behind your back. >> i didn't do nothing. >> reporter: moments later, the trooper tases him and he falls hard. kristina rodeman is jack's mother. >> i don't feel like my son deservd that. >> put your hands behind your back. i'm going to do it again. >> reporter: some people would ask, if he complied, it wouldn't have escalated. >> probably, and i agree, he should have cropped his phone. he's a good kid but he's refiant with law enforcement a little bit. >> reporter: rodeman says she's outragedly the trooper repeatedly tased her son while he was on the ground writhing in pain. >> i think he

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meg oliver spoke with the recent graduate and his parents. >> 2021 but we're still dealing with this18-year-old bryce dursham said his principal cut his mike less than a minute into his speech. >> after i came out as queer freshman year, i felt so alone. i didn't know who to turn to for support. >> and then just silence and then the principal came up onto the stage and he took the paper, the speech that i brought with me to read and he crumbled it. >> reporter: he said he was repeatedly to take out references about his sexuality and struggles with mental health in multiple revisions of his speech. he had spent six months in treatment for anorexia during his senior year and didn't even know if he'd be able to graduate, let alone at the top of his class. >> i want people to start having honest conversations about mental illness, about the struggles different groups face in school and society. >> reporter: how did you feel as a father watching your son go through that? >> first i was like, he has more courage than i would ever have. then for him -- and all i did, i remember yelling out,

meg oliver is there when she's talking to some of those people. sing things are not as fun as they were last night, meg. good morning to you. >> reporter: no, but it certainly was exciting, tony. it felt like old times. after more than 200 remote episodes, "the late show" is welcoming back live audiences, including jon staewart, and the audience's energy was off the charts from the moment colbert stepped on stage. when a clearly elated stephen colbert walked on the stage at the ed sullivan theater after more than 400 days away, he was greeted by a nearly minute-long standing ovation. >> i don't know if i even remember how to pander to the most beautiful crowd in the world. [ cheers and applause ] >> reporter: hundreds waited in line for hours monday after snagging tickets online. are you ready for a laugh? >> i'm ready for a real laugh. i'm ready to see him in person. >> reporter: audience members had to show proof of full vaccinations to attend the show. guest jon stewart said we owe a debt of gratitude to science. >> science has in many ways help

meg oliver looks at what's behind the problem and how it might be fixed. >> reporter: these days scotte-falling. but that wasn't always the case, especially this last year. how hard was it to say goodbye to your students? >> it was extremely difficult to say goodbye to my students. >> reporter: the 55-year-old spent 29 years teaching science in livonia, michigan. but after contracting covid and increased demands of work, it pushed him into january, the middle of the school year. >> reporter: did you ever feel like you were letting your students down, retiring in the middle of the year? >> yes, very much so. it was an extremely tough decision. >> reporter: if the pandemic hadn't happened, would you have retired early? >> reporter: defini . >> definitely not. >> reporter: many districts are having trouble finding teachers to fill vacancies, many offering signing bonuses to recruit them. >> have you ever had this many teachers retire in one year? >> no. >> reporter: will you be able to fill these positions? >> we'll work very hard to fill these positions. i'm worried. >> reporter: in new

meg oliver is here with us, and she spoke to a mom from new jersey about how she hopes to get her kidsthis summer. rachel wyman had a problem. after a year of remote learning, two of her kids brought home a bevy of failing grades. >> straight f's. >> wyman said she had trouble helping her kids through school. >> i'm not a high earner, so i don't have resources to pay for private teachers or pods or private school like a lot of people in my community do. >> reporter: so after a frustrating year, her 11-year-old son keegan trudged off to his first day of summer school on monday. >> i definitely need it, so i don't have that much of a bad opinion about it, but i prefer not going but i know that i need to. >> reporter: he and his 13-year-old sister josie had tried to keep up with virtual school while workin at their mom's shop. >> are you ready to go on to eighth grade? >> i don't know. i think mentally yes, but, like, academically, maybe not. >> reporter: and while their mother is glad they have a summer school option, she doesn't know how effective it will be. >> reporter: is summer scho

. >> reporter: for "cbs this morning," i'm meg oliver. >>> athletes are sharing messages of support for tennis star naomi osaka after she withdrew from the french open. the four-time grand slam winner pulled out yesterday revealing she has struggled with depression since 2018. tennis greats, martina navratilova and billie jean king as well as nba star steph curry phrased osaka for that. >> osaka surprised tournament officials and the media when she announced last week that she wouldn't be participating in mandatory press conferences at the french open. she was fined $15,000 and threatened with expulsion from the tournament after skipping the first one on sunday. some in the sport say, though, her departure could have been avoid. >> naomi osaka! >> reporter: the world's number two tennis player says she's taking time away from the court, withdrawing from the french open after a first round win. >> but she got the job done. >> reporter: on a message on twitter, osaka said she was feeling vulnerable and anxious. and shared she suffered long bouts of depression since the u.s. open in 2018.