>> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." tonight we begin with a new weather threat. an estimated 40 million people are at risk right now of severe storms tomorrow through wednesday, including what the national weather service warns could spawn intense tornadoes. this tornado tore through rural west texas on saturday.

the upcoming outbreak follows a busy april with more than 300 tornadoes reported across the u.s. that month. thunderstorms also dumped more rain on waterlogged texas this weekend, adding to the misery there. entire neighborhoods have been swamped, leading to hundreds of rescues. and moments ago emergency management crews report the death of a 5-year-old boy south of fort worth, texas who drowned. cbs's janet shamlian is in houston tonight and leads us off. janet, good evening. >> reporter: jericka, good evening to you. it's been a rough weekend here. for people in the flood zone and for first responders like houston police, who've been out in these boats in rough fast-moving water. and while the rain seems to be slowing down, tonight the threat is widening. a west texas twister. cars pummeled on the road south of midland. amid hail the size of tennis balls. severe storms thrashing an already soggy texas.

and now spreading beyond it. >> scary. because we don't know if the water's going to come in and just start taking over. >> reporter: in the houston area the san jacinto river is raging. >> hang tight. >> reporter: we rode along with the houston police department's marine division. >> you don't realize how much flood and how much current's going down. >> reporter: sergeant epigarz answering the call from a woman needing to evacuate with her pets amid treacherous conditions for everyone. >> hpd is working in teams on the san jacinto river because there are still people who want to get out as the water levels are so high. >> take a breath. >> reporter: this dog was rescued by an officer on a jet-ski. authorities say many abandoned pets have been rescued too. >> they don't want to leave without them. >> that's correct. and fortunately in this case we have enough time to be able to help them out. >> we still have that weather delay. >> reporter: houston's shell energy stadium was briefly evacuated during a women's soccer match due to the storm

threat. amid a region wet and weary. and it is not just texas. millions in the south are still under flood threats. houston police are hoping that this is the last day they will have to be out there in these rough waters making rescues. jericka? >> janet shamlian thank you, for your reporting all weekend. let's check in with meteorologist paul goodloe at our partners at the weather channel for more on the severe storms to come, starting tomorrow. paul? >> reporter: jericka, may is the most active month for tornadoes. and wow, do we have tornadoes, hail and a damaging wind threat here across the central plains as we head on toward our monday. monday afternoon, monday evening. it's not just risk for tornadoes. we have large hail, golf ball or larger size hail, and everyone has a wind threat. 40, 50, 60, 80-mile-per-hour winds with some of these storms. the timing of this is perhaps early afternoon right on through the overnight period, right across the midwest and also trailing into parts of oklahoma

and texas. and then after we have monday night's threat fire back up as we head on as early as tuesday morning, definitely tuesday evening, more energy comes through on wednesday. same real estate dealing with the risk of damage, wind, hail, and even tornadoes by mid-week. >> paul goodloe for us, thank you. tonight college administrators across this country are bracing for more protests as tensions over the war in gaza spill into graduation season. northeastern university and ohio state university held commencements today after student-led disruptions saturday in indiana and michigan. shanelle kaul has more on that story in new york city. good evening to you, shanelle. >> reporter: good evening, jericka. we now know both police and college officials say safety is a top priority as they brace for even more potential protests, now spilling into graduation season. >> free, free palestine! >> reporter: before sunup los angeles police armed in riot

gear peacefully cleared a pro-palestinian encampment at the university of southern california, capping off a busy weekend of protests. >> there was no warning. no one saw them coming in. >> reporter: this dueling protest now under scrutiny. the university of mississippi saying it is investigating student actions that were offensive, including actions that conveyed hostility and racist overtones. the controversial incident was praised by republican congressman mike collins of georgia, who posted on x, "ole miss taking care of business." saturday police arrested nearly 70 people at chicago's art institute. and at the university of virginia police there sprayed a chemical irritant to help arrest roughly 25 protesters and tore down tents. across the country more than 2,000 demonstrators have been arrested in recent weeks. that includes nearly 300 at two new york city campuses tuesday.

the city now says roughly half of those arrests were not students. >> when you're on college grounds and you do not attend that college, you are an outsider. and then when you train people to do destructive things, you are an agitator. >> reporter: of the hundreds arrested in new york we know the majority have been released on summonses as the d.a. now investigates. as for the investigation at the university of mississippi, the naacp is now requesting three students there be expelled. jericka? >> all right. shanelle kaul, thank you. now to the fallout from the war in gaza on presidential politics and the intensifying campaign. cbs's skyler henry is at the white house. skyler, we are six months away from the election. >> reporter: that's right, jericka. time is certainly flying by. that diplomatic tightrope in combination with the unrest happening on college campuses as the pressure mounts on the biden administration, as you pointed out, with just six months until the presidential election.

today democrats are rallying behind president biden's response to pro-palestinian student protests, saying dissent is essential for democracy but it must never lead to disorder. >> these kind of protests haven't been helpful. >> reporter: republicans have pounced on biden's position. >> it was two weeks after these pro-hamas fanatics have taken over a lot of campuses and set up these little gazas. >> reporter: former president donald trump also took aim saying on truth social that president biden, quote, doesn't know what to do. trump's critique comes as speculation grows over who he'll pick as a running mate. last night he hosted the rnc spring meeting at mar-a-lago. >> and i'm on it, who would know? but it's not why i'm out supporting the president right now. >> i certainly expect to have a decision from president trump in the next 60 days or so. >> reporter: as for the campaign trail, it will be a busy week. president biden is expected to make stops in wisconsin, illinois and the state of washington promoting his

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>> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." i'm jericka duncan in new york. thanks for staying with us. this could be an historic day in space exploration. boeing's starliner is scheduled to lift off tonight on its first crewed mission to the international space station. we say could be because earlier tests were plagued with computer

failures, stuck valves, bad wiring and trouble with the craft's landing parachute. all of that has led to starliner being seven years behind schedule and a billion and a half dollars over budget. mark strassmann reports. >> and our motto? know everything and perform it well. >> perform it well. >> reporter: butch wilmore and sunny williams, two of nasa's most seasoned astronauts. but even for them nothing compares to a flight assignment like this. >> never in my wildest dreams would i have imagined to be the crew for the first flight of a spacecraft. >> every now and then it's like wow, this is cool. >> are you ready? >> i'm ready. >> reporter: in this simulator we watch these former navy test pilots practice docking boeing starliner to the international space station. >> this is the automation right here that's happening. >> this is a risk and it's a higher risk than most flights. but what a great opportunity, risk being what it is, because of what the outcome could be. >> reporter: the outcome, nasa

hopes, is annual starliner flights to the space station. nasa wants redundancy and hired both boeing and spacex a decade ago. both companies face challenges. >> lift-off. as the falcon 9 and crew dragon -- >> reporter: but spacex has launched 50 people to orbit since 2020. boeing, none. starliner is seven years behind schedule. >> this isn't a race. this is all about doing it right and doing it safely. >> reporter: mark knappoee, starliner's program manager, is eager to course correct boeing's space odyssey. but this flight comes as boeing's commercial airplane business faces mounting scrutiny over its safety culture. especially after a door plug fell off a 737 max in january. >> i have full confidence that people are putting the vehicle together properly and that the processes are very robust to get a safe vehicle up into orbit

with people on board. >> reporter: for boeing it's been a long road to the launchpad, stung by a series of setbacks. >> and lift-off. the rise of starliner. >> reporter: on its first uncrewed test flight in 2019, starliner's mission timer, key to its automation, was off by 11 hours, dooming a planned meetup with the space station. >> and lift-off. starliner is headed back to space. >> reporter: boeing made it on a second try. >> contact. capture. >> reporter: but has had to conquer problems with flight software, jammed valves, parachutes and a worry that nearly a mile of protective tape wrapped throughout the capsule could be flammable. >> yeah, it's been a little bit frustrating. absolutely. because you wish everything would come together perfectly from the get-go. >> reporter: but williams and wilmore defend the delays as critical. boeing trying to get it right. >> i don't look at it as a setback. this is understanding our

spacecraft. you'd much rather be on earth wishing you're in space than in space wishing you're on earth, right? >> reporter: despite all the setbacks, full confidence in starliner? full confidence in boeing? >> yes. at this time absolutely. >> i know the flight directors cringe when we say this. but if we wanted to do barrel rolls around the space station, in this spacecraft you can. >> hey, mark. we're doing our barrel rolls. >> reporter: no one's looking for a barrel roll. just a safe successful trip to the space station and back. >> how important is it to the boeing brand that this flight go well? >> it's important to the crew, and it's important for our company because everybody in the company's behind it. >> reporter: they're behind what's ahead for starliner. a space shot at redemption. mark strassmann, at the kennedy space center. when the "overnight news" returns, we'll take you to mars for a bird's eye view of the red planet.

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stood the test of time on mars. >> and lift-off. as the countdown to mars continues. >> reporter: in 2020 nasa's perseverance rover launched for mars. >> and the vehicle's gone to closed loop guidance. >> reporter: with a stowaway. >> the helicopter, ingenuity, actually stowed away on the belly pan. i donate know if you can see it. >> reporter: it was a tiny four-pound drone, created by nasa's jet propulsion laboratory in pasadena, california. travis brown was its chief engineer. >> this is the solar panel. and then moving down we have what we call the web, or warm electronics box. >> reporter: i first met this machine in 2018, when it was still under development. >> why? what's it for? >> we as human beings have never flown in the atmosphere of mars. right? so this is like the wright brothers equivalent. right? on mars. >> reporter: according to then project manager mimi ong, mars

has only 1% of the atmosphere of earth. that's hard for a flying machine. >> and the entire vehicle has to be very light. >> oh, my gosh. it's like a dead leaf. i'm not kidding. this thing -- i could blow this thing like a kleenex. >> reporter: nasa classified ingenuity as a tech demo, a low-budget, high-risk side experiment incorporating off the shelf parts to save money. and was this idea of a stowaway technology demo under the rover universally enthusiastically embraced? >> no. no, it was not. there were definitely people against it. not just concerned but wholeheartedly against it and trying to prevent it from happening. >> reporter: project manager teddy zanetos. >> mars 2020 to be fair is a science mission. go get some samples and prepare to bring those samples back home. anything that's not that is taking away resources. >> reporter: in the end nasa

decided that "ingenuity" could fly briefly. five times tops. in the first 30 days. after that no more distraction from the main mission. by some miracle "ingenuity" survived the seven-month journey to mars. the landing sequence and the drop-off. now, mars is so far away that it takes up to 20 minutes for a signal to reach the helicopter. so every instruction would have to be transmitted in advance. >> we'll uplink a flight on monday, and if we're lucky we'll get the data on tuesday. sometimes it's longer. >> so for all you know it's a smoking heap of wreckage on mars and you won't know till the weekend's over? >> yep. that's right. that happens all the time. >> reporter: and so on april 19, 2021 the team waited for the news of the drone's very small first flight. >> altimeter data confirmed. the "ingenuity" has performed its first flight of an aircraft on another planet.

>> reporter: but the hardest part wasn't flying. it was surviving the frigid martian nights. 80 below zero fahrenheit. >> the joke is that "ingenuity" is a battery and a heater that happens to fly once in a while. most of the mass is battery. and most of that battery is actually spent heating. >> reporter: despite the cold, the helicopter flew four more times. five in all. mission complete. but then an administrative miracle. >> when people saw this thing flying and taking pictures, you know, i think everybody realized this is a real flying machine. >> reporter: hovard grip was the chief pilot. >> nasa told us hey, you guys get to continue. can you scout on behalf of the rover so we can see where the best ingress points are into this area? >> reporter: "ingenuity" was no longer a tech demo. nasa promoted it to be the rover's eye in the sky. scouting ahead to help the rover choose its routes and

destinations. so "ingenuity" kept flying. kept beating its own records. for distance, speed, altitude, duration, and not just for 30 days. for 100. 200. 400. through the long mars spring, summer and fall. but then winter came. >> tell us about mars day 427. >> radio silence. and so the first thing you're thinking is okay, well, battery froze, everything broke, we're probably dead. mission's over. right? >> reporter: for three days the team tried to get a response. and then, on the third day, another miracle. >> in the morning, when the sun rose and the system thawed and charged up enough, the electronics turned on. >> lo and behold, it came back and talked to us. >> and said here's your flight plan, go ahead and fly now late in the afternoon. and did that flight knowing well the controllers here on earth, that she would freeze again the next day. >> so the thing froze to death

every night all winter? >> yeah. >> and then thawed again in the morning? >> yeah. for like hundreds of times. it was like groundhog day. so until finally you got through winter and you got to spring again. >> reporter: but even "ingenuity" didn't have an infinite supply of miracles. >> the thing cannot last forever. i mean, so we were sort of ready. >> reporter: this past january nasa got the bad news. "ingenuity" had suffered a hard landing. >> the top blade is clipped on one side and completely missing on the other. we're missing enough of the rotor system there's no way she'll ever fly. >> right. >> but this thing is still ticking. >> you're using the present tense. this thing grounded. it's still alive in terms of sending you messages and data? >> yeah. i talked to it this morning. we can still collect solar data. we can take pictures still. >> we have a phrase on the team, wendy. we're not dead yet. >> reporter: it's true. three years after its mission was supposed to end the helicopter is still running, now as a ground station. we no longer receive its photos

and measurements because the rover was its relay station and the rover has driven on. but "ingenuity" could keep collecting data for decades, to be retrieved later. the little copter that could has changed nasa's thinking forever. >> we've been working on the next generation of helicopters for mars, larger, more capable helicopters, and go to irz ya like a cliff wall, fly down a lava tube, go to the poles, go to the equator. you name it. >> reporter: as for that wright brothers analogy, turns out the mars stowaway helicopter harbored a stowaway of its own. >> the fabric used for the wings on the wright brother flyer, we have a little piece about the size of a quarter underneath the solar panel of the helicopter, and it's our little good luck charm and ballast for the baby. >> and did everybody in the chain of command -- >> no. >> -- know this was there? >> no, no, no. i'm sworn to secrecy about certain details of that. but no, the entire chain was not aware of that. >> reporter: in all, "ingenuity" flew 72 times over the course of

1,000 days for a total of over two hours in the thin air of mars. >> it was a small scrappy team of engineers. right? very, very passionate about what they were doing. >> it has a special place in the history of nasa for being the first flight on another planet. right? >> we're all amazed. everybody here is amazed. we didn't expect

the art world is mourning the death of one of the most successful painters of his time. frank stella. jane pauley looks back on his life and groundbreaking work. >> reporter: world famous artist frank stella died in manhattan yesterday. a restless innovator who regularly reinvented himself, stella ushered in an era of cool minimalism, all but ending the art world's fixation with

abstract expressionism. in doing so he became a towering figure in post-war american art. moving from a palette of black to stripes of angular vibrant colors, stella consistently resisted being categorized or interpreted, famously saying "what you see is what you see." he talked with our martha teichner in 2021. >> i guess you'd say i'm restless up to a point. yeah. i can't help it. >> reporter: stella would restlessly abandon flat surfaces for assemble ajs and more. and when the whitney museum opened its new quarters in 2015, its inaugural retrospective was an exhibit of the works of frank stella. but stella wasn't looking back. he was moving on to star-shaped creations like this one he called jasper's split star. it stands in the plaza at new

york's rebuilt world trade center. the artist's wife told "the new york times" he died of lymphoma. the word for star in italian is stella. by any measure 87-year-old frank stella was a star. >> and that is the "overnight news" for this monday. reporting lfrom new york city, i'm jericka duncan. this is "cbs news flash." i'm matt pieper in new york. mexican authorities say relatives have identified the bodies of two australian surfers and one american who were found dead after going missing while on a surfing trip in the baja peninsula. officials believe they were killed by thieves. three suspects are in custody. the first crewed launch of the boeing starliner capsule is scheduled for tonight at florida's cape canaveral, coming

after years of delays and billions of dollars over budget. the launch will bring two nasa astronauts to the international space station. and it's the first monday in may. so that means tonight is the met gala in new york city. this year's theme, sleeping beauty's reawakening fashion. for more download the cbs news app on your cell phone or connected tv. i'm matt pieper, cbs news, new york. disaster as severe weather storms across texas. more rain, flash floods and scenes p despair from rural east texas to the houston suburbs. cbs's janet shamlian is there. >> reporter: we're riding with houston police department rescue teams today. people are still seeking shelter. >> tornadoes still a threat. so is huge hail. we'll have the very latest on the forecast. also, pomp and protests.

university graduations nationwide disrupted over gaza. with no breakthrough yet in mideast negotiations for a new cease-fire and hostage release -- >> i'm ramy inocencio in tel aviv. cbs news confirms the israel-hamas cease-fire talks are on the verge of collapse. >> as political pressure on president biden builds. >> i'm skyler henry at the white house. with just six months until election day the president facing fury on several fronts. plus, controversial book. south dakota governor kristi noem defends her words and actions. >> i made a difficult choice. i think you're a mother too and you have little kiddos. would you make a choice between your children or a dangerous animal? countdown to launch. boeing ready to send humans into space after years of delays. >> it's like wow, this is cool. and later -- he fled war to find peace. now a high school senior from

ukraine is headed to one of the most prestigious music schools in the country. >> i think that god gave me something. >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." tonight we begin with a new weather threat. an estimated 40 million people are at risk right now of severe storms tomorrow through wednesday including what the national weather service warns could spawn intense tornadoes. this tornado tore through rural west texas on saturday. the upcoming outbreak follows a busy april, with more than 300 tornadoes reported across the u.s. that month. thunderstorms also dumped more rain on waterlogged texas this weekend, adding to the misery there. entire neighborhoods have been swamped, leading to hundreds of rescues. and moments ago emergency management crews report the death of a 5-year-old boy south of fort worth, texas who

drowned. cbs's janet shamlian is in houston tonight and leads us off. janet, good evening. >> reporter: jericka, good evening to you. it's been a rough weekend here. for people in the flood zone and for first responders like houston police who've been out in these boats in rough, fast-moving water. and while the rain seems to be slowing down, tonight the threat is widening. a west texas twister. cars pummeled on the road south of midland. amid hail the size of tennis balls. severe storms thrashing an already soggy texas and now spreading beyond it. >> scary. because we don't know if the water's going to come in and just start taking over. >> reporter: in the houston area the san jacinto river is raging. >> hang tight. >> reporter: we rode along with the houston police department's marine division. >> they don't realize how much flood and how much current's going down. >> reporter: sergeant epigarz among the officers answering a

call from a woman needing to evacuate with her pets amid treacherous conditions for everyone. >> hpd is working in teams on the san jacinto river because there are still people who want to get out as the water levels are so high. >> take a breath. >> reporter: this dog was rescued by an officer on a jet-ski. authorities say many abandoned pets have been rescued too. >> they don't want to leave without them. >> that's correct. and fortunately in this case we have enough time to be able to help them out. >> we still have that weather delay. >> reporter: houston's shell energy stadium was briefly evacuated during a women's soccer match due to the storm threat. amid a region wet and weary. and it is not just texas. millions in the south are still under flood threats. houston police are hoping that this is the last day they will have to be out there in these rough waters making rescues. jericka? >> janet shamlian, thank you for your reporting all weekend. let's check in with meteorologist paul goodloe from

our weather -- at our partners at the weather channel for more on the severe storms to come starting tomorrow. paul? >> jericka, may is the most active month for tornadoes. and wow, do we have tornadoes, hail and a damaging wind threat here across the central plains as we head on towards our monday. it's monday afternoon, monday evening. i's not just the risk for tornadoes. we have large hail, golf ball or larger size hail. and everyone has a wind threat. 40, 50, 60, 80-mile-per-hour winds with some of these storms. the timing of this is perhaps early afternoon right on through the overnight period right across the midwest. and also trailing into parts of oklahoma and texas. and then after we have monday night's threat fire back up as we head on as early as tuesday morning, definitely tuesday evening. more energy comes through on wednesday. same real estate, dealing with the risk of damage with hail and even some tornadoes by mid-week. jericka? >> paul goodloe for us, thank you. tonight college administrators across this country are bracing for more

protests as tensions over the war in gaza spill into graduation season. northeastern university and ohio state university held commencements today after student-led disruptions saturday in indiana and michigan. shanelle kaul has more on that story in new york city. good evening to you, shanelle. >> reporter: good evening, jericka. we now know both police and college officials say safety is a top priority as they brace for even more potential protests now spilling into graduation season. before sunup los angeles police armed in riot gear peacefully cleared a pro-palestinian encampment at the university of southern california, capping off a busy week of protests. >> there was no warning. no one saw them coming in. >> reporter: this dueling protest now under scrutiny. the university of mississippi saying it is investigating student actions that were offensive including actions that

conveyed hostility and racist overtones. the controversial incident was praised by republican congressman mike collins of georgia, who posted on x "ole miss taking care of business." saturday police arrested nearly 70 people at chicago's art institute. and at the university of virginia police there sprayed a chemical irritant to help arrest roughly 25 protesters and tore down tents. across the country more than 2,000 demonstrators have been arrested in recent weeks. that includes nearly 300 at two new york city campuses tuesday. the city now says roughly half of those arrests were not students. >> when you're on college grounds and you do not attend that college, you are an outsider. and then when you train people to do destructive things, you are an agitator. >> reporter: of the hundreds arrested in new york we know the majority have been released on summonses as the d.a. now

investigates. as for the investigation at the university of mississippi, the naacp is now requesting three students there be expelled. jericka? >> shanelle kaul, thank you. there's a lot more news ahead on the "cbs overnight news."

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♪ >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." the campus protests around the country come amid negotiations this weekend to secure a deal for a cease-fire in gaza and the release of hostages held by hamas. there were new attacks in the territory today targeting one of the few routes to get humanitarian aid in. cbs's ramy inocencio is in tel aviv with the latest.

good evening. >> reporter: jericka, good evening. cbs news can confirm cease-fire talks are on the verge of collapse. that's from a source close to the negotiations. the cia director is meeting with qatar's prime minister in an emergency session. hamas's delegation is talking with its own leaders. and israel's prime minister says his government will not agree to hamas's demands. "israel is not willing to accept this," said benjamin netanyahu, listing hamas's demands he called extreme. pulling out israel's military from gaza, ending this war, and letting the militant group live on, now believed to be hunkered down in rafah. military action in rafah is expected soon, said israel's defense minister, yoav gallant, in gaza. both sides struck the other today. the number of dead rising again. in jerusalem israeli police ended all broadcasts of

qatari-based al jazeera news in the country, raiding their offices. >> if you're watching this prerecorded report, then al jazeera has been banned in the territory of israel. >> reporter: israel says the channel is a mouthpiece for hamas and harms national security. hamas says it's a violation of freedom of the press. tonight is the eve of israel's holocaust remembrance day. 85-year-old hannah broder is a canadian-israeli holocaust survivor. did you think that here in israel it was safe, you were secure? >> good question. yes. i thought so, yes. and then october the 7th was a big shock. >> how do you advise people to make sure they get the full picture, to make sure that the sins of the past, whether it's the holocaust or the sins happening now, stop? >> to tell you the truth, maybe i prefer not to think about these things because it's

depressing. i want to escape. when people ask me how i am, i say i'm fine. my children are fine. but my country is in deep [ bleep ], if you'll pardon the expression. >> reporter: and broder rolled her eyes when i brought up prime minister netanyahu. she said she doesn't approve of him at all and like a growing number of israelis, jericka, she wants a cease-fire now, the hostages home, and an end to this war. >> definitely a difficult situation. ramy inocencio, thank you. now to the fallout from the war in gaza on presidential politics and the intensifying campaign. cbs's skyler henry is at the white house. skyler, we are six months away from the election. >> reporter: that's right, jericka. time is certainly flying by. that diplomatic tightrope in combination with the unrest happening on college campuses as the pressure mounts on the biden administration, as you pointed out, with just six months until the presidential election. today democrats are rallying

behind president biden's response to pro-palestinian student protests, saying dissent is essential for democracy but it must never lead to disorder. >> these kind of protests haven't been helpful. >> reporter: republicans have pounced on biden's position. >> it was two weeks after these pro-hamas fanatics had taken over a lot of campuses and set up these little gazas. >> reporter: former president donald trump also took aim, saying on truth social that president biden "doesn't know what to do." trump's critique comes as speculation grows over who he'll pick as a running mate. last night he hosted the rnc spring meeting at mar-a-lago. >> if i'm on it, who would know? but it's not why i'm out supporting the president right now. >> i certainly expect to have a decision from president trump in the next 60 days or so. >> reporter: also on the rumored short list, south dakota governor kristi noem, appearing on "face the nation" today, promoting her controversial new memoir. she's come under fire after revealing she shot and killed

her 14-month-old puppy. she also told "face the nation" the book had to be edited after a claim about meeting kim jong un turned out to be false, though she declined to say that she never met the north korean leader. >> so you did not meet with kim jong un? that's what you're saying? >> i met with many, many world leaders. many world leaders. as soon as it was brought to my attention, i made sure that that was adjusted. >> as for the campaign trail, it will be a busy week. president biden is expected to make stops in wisconsin, illinois, and the state of washington, promoting his investing in america agenda. jericka? >> skyler henry at the white house. thank you. well, tonight the major roadway connecting new york city and new england opened once again. crews near norwalk, connecticut worked around the clock for 80 hours straight to reopen an overpass on i-95. it was demolished after being damaged when a gas line tanker trucker crashed and burst into flames on thursday. well, coming up, counting down to boeing's first human

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stumbles. cbs's mark strassmann is at the kennedy space center tonight with more. mark? >> reporter: good evening, jericka. after a series of setbacks that made starliner seem almost snake-bit, boeing desperately needs this test flight to be a win. >> and our motto? know everything and perform it well. >> perform it well. >> reporter: butch wilmore and sunny williams, two of nasa's most seasoned astronauts. but even for them nothing compares to a flight assignment like this. >> never in my wildest dreams would i have imagined to be the crew for the first flight of a spacecraft. >> every now and then it's like wow, this is cool. >> are you ready? >> i'm ready. >> reporter: in this simulator we watch these former navy test pilots practice docking boeing's starliner to the international space station. >> this is a risk, and it's a higher risk than most flights. but what a great opportunity, risk being what it is because of what the outcome could be.

>> reporter: the outcome, nasa hopes, is annual starliner flights to the space station. nasa wants redundancy, and hired both boeing and spacex a decade ago. both companies face challenges. >> lift-off as the falcon 9 and crew -- >> reporter: but spacex has launched 50 people to orbit since 2020. boeing, none. starliner is seven years behind schedule. and this flight comes as boeing's commercial airplane business faces mounting scrutiny over its safety culture, especially after a door plug fell off a 737 max in january. >> there's one priority, and it's to do this safely. >> reporter: mark knappe is starliner's program manager. >> i have full confidence that people are putting the vehicle together properly and that the processes are very robust to get a safe vehicle up into orbit with people on board. >> reporter: for boeing a long road to the launchpad stung by a series of setbacks. >> and lift-off. the rise of starliner.

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19 americans are the latest recipients of the nation's highest civilian honor, the medal of freedom. weijia jiang has more. >> reporter: the recipients represent many fields, from politics to sports to hollywood. but they share one thing in common. how much their work has impacted the nation. >> 19 incredible people whose relentless curiosity, inventiveness, ingenuity and hope have kept faith in a better tomorrow.

>> reporter: several of them broke barriers when they marked firsts in history. ellen ochoa was the first hispanic woman in space, a trip she's made four times. michelle yeoh recently became the first asian to win the academy award for best actress. >> you believe in the devil? >> darn right. >> reporter: journalist phil donahue pioneered the issue-oriented tv talk show. first female speaker of the house nancy pelosi, who held the leadership position for two terms. former vice president al gore, who also holds a nobel peace prize for his work on climate change. congressman jim clyburn and senator elizabeth dole. >> i have a dream that one day -- >> reporter: the civil rights activist who helped draft that historic speech, clarence b. jones, is among the recipients. so is opal lee, known for her efforts to make juneteenth a federally recognized holiday.

and medgar evers whose daughter accepted his award. evers was murdered after leading the fight against segregation in mississippi. all of them shaped america as we know it. weijia jiang, the white house. and that is the "overnight news" for this monday. reporting from new york city, i'm jericka duncan. this is "cbs news flash." i'm matt pieper in new york. mexican authorities say relatives have identified the bodies of two australian surfers and one american who were found dead after going missing while on a surfing trip in the baja peninsula. officials believe they were killed by thieves. three suspects are in custody. the first crewed launch of the boeing starliner capsule is scheduled for tonight at florida's cape canaveral, coming

after years of delays and billions of dollars over budget. the launch will bring two nasa astronauts to the international space station. and it's the first monday in may. so that means tonight is the met gala in new york city. this year's theme, sleeping beauty's reawakening fashion. for more download the cbs news app on your cell phone or connected tv. i'm matt pieper, cbs news, new york. it's monday, may 6th, 2024. this is "cbs news mornings." breaking overnight, israel begins it's monday, may 6th, 2024. this is "cbs news mornings." breaking overnight, israel begins evacuating palestinian civilians from rafah, a signal a ground invasion could be imminent. the move comes after the latest cease-fire talks end in another stalemate. waterlogged. more rain, flash floods, scenes of despair, and now a new threat is moving across the c