nikki battiste, thank you. taking to the streets to protest police-involved shootings, including in brooklyn center, minnesota. >> justice now! >> reporter: nearly 500 people gathered for a sixth night in the wake of the fatal police shooting of daunte wright. police say about 100 people were arrested. and in chicago, hundreds turned out to demand justice for the shooting death of 13-year-old adam toledo last month. protests were mostly peaceful, but there were some clashes with police. the world's covid-19 death toll reached a staggering new milestone today. more than three million lives now taken by the virus. for context, that's more than the population of houston. for the latest, tom hanson joins us now in new york. tom, good evening. >> reporter: hey, there, adriana. well, health officials are concerned over a spring surge. the united states has reported nearly a quarter of a million covid cases in the last week alone, even as vaccinations accelerate. tonight, cases on the rise, with several states across

norah. >> o'donnell: nikki battiste, thank you. tonight the census bureau says in the last decade the u.s. population grew at the slowest rate since the 1930s and because of population shifts texas will pick up two seats in congress. florida, north carolina,ts in cn montana, colorado and oregon get one more and, for the first time, california is losing a seat as are illinois, michigan, ohio, pennsylvania, west virginia and new york, which get this, was just 89 people short people short of keeping all of its sea of keeping all of its seats. it's a big change. all right, tonight, president biden is taking steps to help some of the countries that are still being hard hit by the virus including india which has shattered global records for new infections in a week. tens of millions of vaccine doses bought by the u.s. can soon be shipping overseas. cbs' ed o'keefe joins us from the white house. this was a big development today.h, praring to share as many as with the rest of the world, world, most notably india, the doses two months away

cbs' nikki battiste is following all of these new developments. she's going to lead off our coverage tonight from new york where infections are rising again. good evening, nikki. >> reporter: norah, good evening. new york is one of just five states making up about half of the country's new covid cases. that's why communities are adding mobile clinics, like these buses behind me, in a rush to vaccinate more americans. tonight, the fourth surge, driven by variants and attacking kids, with 44% of all new covid cases found in just five state. the highest positivity rate-- children 12-17. and that highly contagious u.k. variant now the nation's dominant strain. >> across the country, we are hearing reports of clusters of cases associated with day care centers and youth sports. >> reporter: public health experts say the variants are more transmissible among kids who in the early days of the pandemic were not seen as high risk for infection or serious illness. in europe, new concerns over the astrazeneca vaccine, not yet approved in the u.s. regulators in

cbs' nikki battiste is in indianapolis tonight and is going to lead off coverage from outside that fedex facility. good evening, nikki. >> reporter: norah, good evening. tonight, police tell us this is still an active crime scene and they are working to identify bodies inside. we're also learning the suspect's mother warned policewe about her son last year. about 100 employees were inside this fedex building when he opened fire. ( sirens ) first responders raced to thee. ( sirens ) chaotic scene, finding the wounded and the witnesses running for cover. >> we have an active shooter currently at fedex. >> reporter: police say a man armed with a rifle got out of his car, se at was there, there was no disturbance, there was no argument, he just appeared to randomly start shooting. >> reporter: the massacre lasting just minutes. the gunman killing four people in the parking lot, then going inside the building he killed four more, before taking his own life. >> the suspect took his life very shortly before officers actually entered the facility. did not last very long. >> reporter: police say

nikki battiste has been there all weekend and has more. good evening, nikki. >> jericka, good evening, police tell us they are still trying to determine why branden hole killed eight people here at his former employer but we have learned how he was able to get two assault style rifles he used as murder weapons. >> investigators say branden hole purchased two rifles he used in the fedex rampage legally even though police seized a shotgun from his home just a few months earlier after his moth are reported her son might try to die by suicide by cop. >> we were still working the scene. >> the deputy chief of the indianapolis metropolitan police department says authorities have not deemed hole subject to inaw.>> it starts with thecutor d maly subt it to the courts and to a judge. >> and it was never submitted. >> that is correct. it did not get into court, he did not make it into that red flag system, although we kept the gun that we seized, he was still able to go out and legally purchase other fire arms. >> at least 17 states have red flag law

norah. >> o'donnell: nikki battiste tonight. thank you. also tonight, we're learning new details of a horrifying attack in frederick, maryland, not far from here. a navy medic shot two sailors at a business park. he then drove to nearby fort detrick, where his rampage came to a violent end. cbs' jeff pegues has the details. >> reporter: the first shots were fired inside a military storage facility shortly before 8:20 a.m. in this frederick business park. >> we have a male subject in an army-type suit with an ar-15. >> reporter: investigators say workers ran for cover as the navy medic, armed with a rifle, shot and wounded two fellow sailors. one of them stumbled into a nearby business. >> he said he had been shot. he needed our help, and there was an active shooter, and he thinks he is chasing him. >> reporter: the wounded man told wagner he knew the shooter office his way to his base, fort was on his way to his base, fort detrick, just a 10-minute drive away. >> suspect vehicle, black nissan with virginia tags. >> reporter: he was able to

but first, cbs' nikki battiste is going to lead off our coverage from new york. vening, nikki. >> reporter: norah, good evening. in new york, anyone 16 and over who wants a shot can get a shot, and officials are hoping the chance to be vaccinated here, inside the american museum of natural history, will convince more people to show up, especially those hesitant afterr a pause in the johnson & johnson vaccine. tonight, a c.d.c. advisory committee is recommending the johnson & johnson shot rejoin the mix of covid-fighting vaccines. but unlike the pfizer and moderna shots, j&j's will likely come with a warning about the potential risk of rare, but highly dangerous, brain blood clots. both agencies have full confidence the benefits outweigh the risks. >> the committee concluded the >> reporter: the committee concluded the benefits of getting the shot outweigh the possible risks, pointing out that as many as 45 adults could suffer a clot, but up to 1,400 lives might be saved. tonight's vote comes just 10 days after the c.d.c. suggested pulling the vaccine to investigat

norah. >> o'donnell: nikki battiste, thank you. well, tonight a fierce debate is raging over the safety of certain peloton treadmills. a government agency is out with a warning to people who have small children or pets, but peloton is defending its product. here's cbs' anna werner. >> reporter: this is what federal regulators are warning can happen when a child gets too close to the peloton tread+. here in northern virginia in february, the belt pulled this two-year-old boy under the 455-pound machine. he survived, but the u.s. consumer products safety commission is urging consumers with children at home to stop using the product immediately. >> the children involved here have ended up with abrasions, fractures, multiple fractures, one with a brain injury, and most sadly, a fatality. >> reporter: peloton called the commission's statement inaccurate and misleading and said there is no reason to stopu using the tread+ as long as all warnings and safety instructions are followed, including removing the safety key. but government data

norah. >> o'donnell: nikki battiste, thank you.ve got an update on our lead story last night. the man charged in a deadly shooting rampage in texas is being held on more than $2 million bond. police say 27-year-old larry bollin worked at kent moore cabinets in bryan, texas, and killed one person and injured five others there thursday afternoon. bollin is accused of wounding a trooper before he was arrested at his home. tonight that trooper is in stable condition. all right, now to testimony from a key witness at derek chauvin's murder trial: the medical examiner who ruled george floyd's death a homicide. now, his testimony is important because chuvin's lawyers were hoping it would bolster their claim that drugs and heart issues were to blame for floyd's death. cbs' jamie yuccas reports from minneapolis. >> reporter: tonight, the medical examiner who performed the autopsy on george floyd took the stand. dr. andrew baker told jurorsr that while heart disease and drugs played a role, it was the interaction with police that caused floy

norah. >> o'donnell: all right, nikki battiste, thank you. in north carolina tonight, the watauga county, sheriff's department is mourning two deputies who were ambushed by a gunman and killed on wednesday when they end a hoo check on a family that hadn't been seen or heard from. sta well, after a day-long standoff, police discovered three more bodies inside the house, including the gunman's. in ohio tonight, eight young men are facing criminal charges in the death of a 20-year-old student at bowling green state university. officials say it was the result of a booze-fueled fraternity hazing party, of a booze-fueled fraternity hazing party, a problem that has plagued colleges for decades. we get more now from cbs' mola lenghi. >> reporter: tonight, prosecutors announced the indictment of eight current and former bowling green state university students for a hazing ritual that went too far. >> the result of this event was catastrophic. >> reporter: the young men foltz. the charges inc were charged in the death of 20-year-old sophomore stone fol

here's cbs' nikki battiste. >> reporter: tonight, theway. >> we are ready to bring new york city back on july 1. >> reporter: in just two months, new york city's restaurants, theaters, and stadiums will be allowed to reopen at 100% capacity. >> you've gotten vaccinated. you've done so much to fight through this crisis. >> reporter: but across the country, there are worries tonight about the decline in vaccinations. nearly 62% of adults are still without a shot. the risk is being felt in washington state, the first to be hit when the pandemic began, now seeing another surge with hospitalizations up 15%. in neighboring oregon, hospitalizations are up 18%. the governor there now extending the state of emergency for another 60 days, saying "lives are at stake" as the battle with vaccine hesitancy continues. we're sort of at a vaccine cliff, where supply is outweighing demand. what's happening? >> you know, we knew that this would happen eventually, when the vaccine first rolled out. one was the last mile, getting the vaccine to the locations that it needed to be, so that it cope gwe many