i m elise preston in santa monica, california, where crowds are coming to escape the extreme heat. also tonight, mixed signals. after a week filled with flight delays and cancellations, starting today, there s a new invisible threat that could cause more disruptions. i m michael george in new york. new, more powerful 5g wireless signals could make your flight delays even worse. plus, immigrant crackdown. florida s new law that takes aim at undocumented workers and their employers takes effect today. rage in the streets. as france struggles to quash days of violent protests. peach problem. what s eating into georgia s farmers profits, and impact k sweet treats? and later hog wild. we ll take you to the town that s squealing with pig pride. what do we have up here? this is a pork in the road. this is the cbs weekend news from chicago with adriana diaz. good evening. we begin this fourth of july weekend with severe heat scorching much of the country. and i
lukashenko, speaking out as prigozhin himself settles in. the wagner group leader is in belarus after a failed mutiny in russia. but he s not saying much and has no plans to. he doesn t want to, as you just heard there, speak to nobody including vladimir putin. prigozhin might want to lay low. david petraeus still recommends he be careful around open windows. the general is here. first, fox team coverage in kyiv on how ukraine is capitalizing on the chaos and jennifer griffin in washington on how the pentagon is responding to the chaos. welcome, everybody. i m neil cavuto. glad to have you. let s get to it with greg first in ukraine. greg? hi, neil. first, a reminder that russia is still very much in this war. the eastern ukrainian town slammed by a russian missile. big damage done. this as putin put a spin on it. he called the wagner mercenary group blackmail, doomed to failure. in belarus, president lukashenko who helped strike a deal in dark terms. if he said if russian
[national anthem] if. will: we begin this morning with a fox news alert, the wagner chief who threatened a march toes moscow, an open rebellion, has how now backed down. pete: belarus reportedly brokered the deal that will allow jeff again withny prigozhin to go into exile and end that internal conflict for now. rachel: alexandria hoff is live in washington, d.c. with the latest. good morning. reporter: well, good morning. prigozhin has been paired of the criminal mutiny charges that were against him, and russia avoided a rebellion that was on rack to spark a possible civil war. the wagner group had made it within 125 miles of moscow before prigozhin announced the group would pull back to avoid bloodshed. the kremlin later announced the warlord could leave for belarus without penalty for his mercenaries, and speaking out against russian military leadership. prigozhin formalized the withdrawal. translator: they regarded to dismantle pmc wagner. this a day we wa
reporter: a deal with the fcc allows wireless companies to start powering up new 5g our towers near major airports today. an altimeter bounces radio signals off the ground to determine how high the plane is flying. but 5g signals could potentially interfere with those readings, making landing in fog or other poor visibility conditions dangerous. cbs news travel editor peter greenberg explains, this has nothing to do with your phone or whether it s in airplane mode. those don t affect navigation, but a 5g tower can because it s sending a sill, not for the plane, but that signal can actually disrupt the readings you re going to get on the radio altimeter which will give the pilot a false altitude reading. reporter: most major u.s. airlines have fully upgraded to new altimeters that aren t affected by 5g signals. delta airlines told cbs news, due to supply chain problems, 190 of its planes aren t yet retrofitted. in a statement, delta says, some of our aircraft will have more restr
Aviation groups have warned for years that 5G signals could interfere with aircraft equipment, especially devices using radio waves to measure distance above the ground and which are critical when planes land in low visibility.