0 >> cbs weekend news is next. captioning sponsored by cbs . >> duncan: tonight a major oil spill off southern california. crews scramble to contain the crude after an offshore pipeline ruptured. at least 126,000 gallons pour into the ocean. beaches are fouled, wildlife killed. >> the impact to the environment is irreversible. >> also tonight vaccination or suspension for not getting shots. some as early as tomorrow. the crackdown rejected in some states. >> i truly believe that the mandate only divides us and only divides us more. >> duncan: overseas, covid contradiction. poor countries still bait for vaccines but in europe the virus' retreat marks the return to old customs. >> plus divided democrats, the latest on a showdown putting the president's agenda in doubt. >> eye on america, what climate change is doing to the great lakes region. >> so this is the road to nowhere. >> it is. >> and later, we cruise to san francisco to celebrate the culture of low-riding. >> we've got heart, we've got soul. we've got spirits. >> this is the cbs weekend news from new york, with jericka duncan. >> good evening and thanks for joining us. california officials and cleanup crews are trying to limit the damage from a major offshore oil spill south of los angeles. the kreut has-- crude has spoiled beaches, killed fish and birds and threatens local wetland ksz right now the cause of the spill is under investigation. it's connected to an off-shore oil platform known as elly. cbs's lilia luciano is in newport beach tonight with the very latest. lilia, what are you seeing? >> jericka, the good flus is we have just learned that the leak has been stopped. the bad news is all around here, all along the shore you see these balls of tar. it smells like you are in the middle of a gas station. behind me you can see some of that contained crude that has been stopped by that berm so it wouldn't get into the river that goes upstream into very delicate wild land. the work is on to stop the impact of this massive spill by sunrise the soil started washing a shore in huntington beach, about 40 miles south of l.a the crude killing wildlife and threatening nearby wetlands. >> our local response efforts have been focused on two major priorities. first protecting the health and safety of our residents and visitors. and second, preventing an eke cloj-- ecological disaster. >> the coast gawd deploys skimming equipment and booms to slow the spread. a ruptured pipe-line from an offshore oil rig spewed at least 126,000 gallons of oil into the ocean, some five miles offshore. >> when did you realize that something was going on? >> so yesterday i came out and there were a lot of fish just like swarming everywhere, jumping out of the water. >> the smell hits you and we are just looking at in our beautiful ocean, this is our home. and there is just gunk everywhere. >> beaches are closed for cleanup but that didn't stop people from heading there to see the damage. this area is home to about 90 species of birds, some endangered, some of them now dead or coated with the slick tar. >> it is really heartbreaking to see something like this. >> it is hard to assess the true environmental and economic impact to the area. this weekend they had to cancel an airshow so the people, the species, everybody is being affected. but the crews are working around the clock to stop the spill. and clean it up, jericka. >> and good thing they were able to stop that leak as you reported, lilia luciano in newport beach, thank you. millions of americans are facing deadlines as vaccine mandates take effect. as of today about 67 percent of a cult ms. this country are fully vaccinated. cbs's tom hanson is in new york where jobs are on the line, right, tom. >> yeah, that's right, jericka. here at the nation's largest school system one out of every ten teaches in new york city is unvaccinated but tomorrow will be the first day that every teacher will be required to have at least one dose. >> when schools open monday roxanne rizi could face suspension from her teaching job. >> i liken this to psychological warfare. >> all 148,000 new york city school employees were required to get their first shot by last friday, eral appeals. >> if i do decide to do this, i will never stop fighting unless i am dead. >> i will never stop fighting for my coworkers who won't do it. >> in washington monday is the deadline for state workers to show they have had their shots and a similar deadline past in connecticut, a new study found unvaccinated americans eight times more likely to test positive for covid. dr. anthony fauci said on "face the nation," mandates make sense. >> i think that the emergent nature of what we are dealing with actually does justify that. >> west virginia is struggling with one of the highest infection rates in the country. but when it comes to vaccine mandates for school children, governor jim justice says not a chance. >> from the standpoint of mandates, i don't believe in imposing upon our pree domes overs and over and over. >> new york school mandate goes into effect as children are increasingly at risk. the cdc says hospitalization of patients four years and under is at the highest rate so far in the pandemic. >> and states and cities are bracing for potential fallout in the form of worker shortages. the state of connecticut even deploying the national guard as potential replacements for unvaccinated workers, jericka. >> tom hanson for us tonight, thank you. >> only about a third of the world's population is fully vaccinated against covid-19. developing countries lag far behind. cbs's elizabeth palmer explains why and reports from london tonight. >> in britain this morning more than 40,000 runners came out to the london marathon. the first in two years. there is growing confidence that lethal covid is in retreat, at least in the developed world. in israel too. vaccines, that is stlee of them including the booster-- booster are the new normal for everyone over 12. >> that coverage the developing world can only dream of. many countries especially in africa still don't have nearly enough. and their leaders blame trade and export restrictions in the developed world. >> african union enjoys masiyiwa. >> we want to buy from their same manufacturers but to be fair those manufacturers know very well that they never gave us proper access. >> the world passed another milestone in the pandemic this week. five million people have now died from the virus, 700,000 of them in the united states. there is a similarly high death rate in russia. only a third of russians have had a shot of locally developed sputnik v vaccine and this weekend a record number of them, 1700 died from the virus. australia too is wrestling with a covid surge. the city of melbourne has rolled out a huge testing program as the country prepares to reopen foreign travel. and people in melbourne will tomorrow when the dub-- win the cubious honor of having spent the most number of days under lockdown on the planet. 246 and counting. >> elizabeth palmer, cbs news, london. >> duncan: president biden faces new pressure this week to unite his party. budget battles among democrats have reached new lows and tensions are high. cbs's christina ruffini is at the white house where the attention remains on two bills and really two democrats. christina, good evening. >> good evening, jericka. the senate passed that bipartisan infrastructure bill almost two months ago but it still hasn't become law and that's due to objectors in the president's own party. >> we want to make sure that we're fighting for all of us, not just for some of us. >> house progressive democrats are adamant they won't compromise policy goals to cut down a proposed multitrillion dollar social spending bill. >> i think that one of the ideas that is out there is fully fund what we can fully fund, but maybe instead of doing it for ten years, you fully fund it for >> the debate is over a 3.5 trillion dollar social spending measure, without which some how democrats say they won't support the smaller 1.2 trillion dollar infrastructure bill that passed the senate in august. >> 3.5 trillion should be a minimum. but i accept that there is going to have to be give and take. >> but two democratic senators, joe minchen and kyrsten sinema want a smaller, less expensive bill. >> mr. president. >> away at his home in wilmington, the white house says president biden remains engaged with lawmakers. but the democratic infighting poses a risk to his domestic agenda. >> mr. president! >> after meeting with the president on the hill last week some house democrats say they are willing to negotiate. >> we don't want to pit roads and bridges against child care. >> but today pramila jayapal head of the progressive caucus wouldn't give a bottomline. >> it is going to be somewhere between 1.5 and 3.5, and i think the white house is working on that right now. >> president biden will trasm to michigan on tuesday to try to build support for the infrastructure plan and that spending program also known as the build back better plan. jericka. >> duncan: christina ruffin-- ruffina from d.c., thank you. in asian cha-- dozens of chinese fighter jets and bombers have flown toward the island in two waves, since friday. china claims tie want has its territory, but the two have been split since 1949. in texas a small plane came crashing down on to a highway about 60 miles west of houston and it was all got on video. the plane was trying to take off when it clipped a light pole. luckily no one including the pilot was hurt. >> and also in the sky over all we ker keer-- all but ker key, take a look, hot air la balloons captivated the crowds for thelo. last year's gathering cancelled by covid but not this year. the weather picture perfect. straight ahead on the cbs weekend news, changing times, how our in-- increasingly cashless economy means fewer coins in your pocket. >> also the highs and lows of climate change along the great lakes.