meg oliver, thank you.ht, airlines are working to get back on track after another weekend of travel nightmares due to weather and staffing shortages. airlines have canceled more than sh 5300 flights and delayed more than 32,000 others since thursday, leaving passengers frustrated and looking for answers. cbs' michael george is at new airport with the latest. >> it's terrible to fly now. >> reporter: mackenzie roberts should have spent her holiday weekend in las vegas, celebrating a wedding, two birthdays and father's day.hday instead, she and her boyfriend spent it sleeping on the philadelphia airport's floor after their american airlinesire flight was canceled, rebooked then canceled again. >> we cried, we were frustrated. it was terrible. i mean, we went home. we had no other choice. >> reporter: boston's logan airport and new york's la guardia saw some of the worst cancellations. among the airlines, delta topped the list, canceling over 900 flights, more than it canceled all of last summer. but it seems

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norah. >> o'donnell: meg oliver, thank you. now to the war in ukraine. the country's eastern donbas region as ukrainian troops are holding out inside a key industrial city. russian forces have blown up the bridges and ordered those remaining to "surrender or die." cbs' chris livesay is on the ground in ukraine. >> reporter: with russian forces closing in, the people of donbas flee for their lives. "when will putin be satisfied?" oksana cries. in severodonetsk, a linchpin in the region, the russian military blew up this bridge, trapping around 10,000 people inside. to save them and others, ukraine is pleading for more weapons, 1,000 drones, 500 tanks, and 1,000 howitzers. heavy artillery to tip the balance, says joe goddard, a former british soldier now training ukrainians. >> the ukrainians are running out of the artillery. russia can keep it up longer than the ukrainians can, we could start to see the front lines come back the other way. >> reporter: that long-range artillery is also critical to protecting ukraine's food. russia continues to attack the

meg oliver, thank you. now to the weather, where dangerously hot and humid conditions remain in place tonight from wisconsin to florida. the record temperatures are now blamed for two deaths in milwaukee. also in wisconsin, a tornado watch is in effect for more than 5.5 million people with several confirmed tornadoes already touching down in the eastern ous coons conte. farther west tonmontana's governer unprecede flooding at yellowstone national park. the northern half of the park got the worst of the damage and may not reopen for months. cbs' jonathan vigliotti reports tonight from montana. >> reporter: tonight, yellowstone national park remains closed after historic flooding driven by climate change washed away roads and trapped residents in rising floodwaters. >> we've been spending most of the day today helping people that have been strandednby rb the flooding. >> reporter: officials say search-and-rescue operations are ongoing. the montana national guard has rescued 87 people by helicopter. others are

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meg oliver has the story from a school in little falls, new jersey. >> it's crazy to know when i comeday i'm lucky that i get to come home. i think that's not something that i should be feeling is, i'm glad i was able to come home from school today. >> that goes through your mind that you feel lucky to come home? >> yeah. that it's just something to live with and it's hard to accept. >> this 12-year-old is one of the millions of kids across the country shaken after the school shooting in uvalde high school. >> it could have been our school shooting in uvalde. >> it could have been our school. >> how do you deal with that? >> it's a i lot to take in definitely and after hearing what happened almost feels like surreal whether school is a live or a place to die i'm praying for all of the families. intercan a even math i can't even imagine what it's like. there's no words for it. those kids could have changed the world and then they're just gone, can't bring them back. that's hard. and some of them had passions. >> no child or anybody in school should have to live in fear of something hap

ahead on "cbs mornings," meg oliver looks at school safety from the perspective of students. sat down with a panel of kids to talk about the emotional toll of mass shootings and why all of them said nonetheless, they feel safe at their school. >>> also we talk with royal editor roy anika about the significance of queen elizabeth missing a service this morning in her own honor and prince harry and meghan are getting along with the rest of the family. >>> and the national spelling bee ended with an unprecedented tie-breaking spell off, that is the official term. we'll show you the highs and the lows of that historic night and the gigantic trophy, like the pg&e trophy. all that and more coming up at 7:00. >> thank you so much. we'll see you coming up at 7:00. >>> it is now 6:37. the warriors moving on and getting ready for game two of the nba finals sunday. coming up, 95.7 host daryl "the guru" johnson will join us for its game time segment to give us his insight into what he saw during game one. >>> plus the may jobs report released this morning, what it tells us about the econ

meg oliver visits one school district that's going above and beyond to keep kids engaged in school.we'll talk with nba hall of famer grant hill about his new autobiography "game" and his love of basketball. he describes his journey from shy kid to star player and only on "cbs mornings," oprah winfrey shares the >>> i'm anne makovec with your "moneywatch" report. the dow is down this morning and has been since the opening bell about a half an hour ago now. about 200 points, after a bump up yesterday, so we'll keep watching. >>> tesla's ceo elon musk backtracking about comments he made about possible staffing reductions, in hay leaked company email he was quoted as saying tesla will increase hourly head count but reduce salaried employees by 10%. after shares dropped total head count will be increasing but salaries should be fairly flat. >>> a new day for kohl's, the department store chain entered into exclusive negotiations with retail holding company franchise group, which is proposing to buy the retailer for 60 bucks per share. such a price tag wouldical kohl's at about $8 billion,