Top republicans throw their hat into become the next speaker. What does the chaos in congress mean for the American People . The drama here at the capitol threatens to inflict some real pain in communities across america. A strike involving more than 75,000 Health Care Workers is indeed getting underway after Kaiser Permanente and a coalition of unions failed to strike a deal. This was the Largest Health care strike in u. S. History. Workers are telling us what they are looking for and how it could affect patients. Norah the Urgent Search Tonight as police look for who opened fire during a universitys homecoming week. The new details. The future of the Catholic Church. What pope francis is signaling after mass at the vatican. Bishops are meeting right behind me to discuss controversial topics, like blessing samesex unions. To the delight of some, but to the dread of others. At this facility in georgia, they are recycling used batteries from Electric Vehicle spirit is all part of a growing supply chain around evs in the u. S. We are going to show you how this socalled battery bolt is creating thousands of new jobs and a part of a country you might not expect. Apple says it is working on a System Update after owners have complained the new iphone 15 is, at times, too hot to handle. Norah simone biles does it again, leaving u. S. Gymnastics to its seventh straight gold at the World Championships. Good evening, and thank you for joining us on this wednesday night. We begin tonight with the political and realworld fallout from the historic removal of the speaker of the house. The unprecedented vote to vacate the chair leaves the House Of Representatives in a state of chaos and at a standstill. Interim speaker Patrick Mchenry of North Carolina upset at the far right faction of his own party, sent lawmakers home to cool off, with only about six weeks to prevent a government shutdown. Members will return to the capitol on tuesday with an expected vote for the next speaker taking place the following day. Two conservative hardliners have already thrown their hat into the ring. Majority leader Steve Scalise and ohio congressman jim jordan. Until then, the peoples house is closed for business. We have a lot of news to bring you tonight and cbss Scott Macfarlane will start us off tonight from capitol hill. Good evening, scott. Reporter good evening, norah. For a second day, half of the u. S. Congress is paralyzed and will remain so indefinitely, raising Fears Congress is barreling again toward a painful government shutdown. Kevin mccarthys name still hangs above the doorway, but the fight to replace him is on. Top republicans Steve Scalise and jim jordan both officially announced their candidacys today. I think i can. Reporter but whether they have the votes to succeed and when the house will eventually reopen for business are both open questions. Is there anything you can tell us about the schedule or wt happens next . The interim speaker, North Carolinas Patrick Mchenry, had no answers on the days ahead. The only certainty among most republicans today, their disdain for colleague matt gaetz, who led the charge to remove mccarthy. I think it was deplorable. I think it was disgraceful. And he put his own petty personal grievances ahead of the country. Reporter aides today continue to attack his colleagues. The nerve of these Establishment Republicans to have to take a week to go have a good cry, and then blame us for the work done. Reporter the Leadership Vacuum and overall paralysis in the house is raising new worries about crashing into the new November 17th Deadline to fund the government and avert a government shutdown. The lights are off. The doors are locked indefinitely. What should folks make of that . Yeah, they should be very concerned. I mean, the Average American should be very concerned. We need to change the poisonous atmosphere in washington. Reporter also endanger, funding for ukraine, which was left out of last weekends deal to avert a shutdown. The pentagon Warning Congress this week that it is runnin out of money to replace weapons it sent to ukraine. Any new speaker will have to contend with a growing number of House Republicans who think it is time to turn off the spigot. What happened sends a pretty troubling message to ukraine . Attend a troubling message around the world. Reporter there is another controversy. Former House Speaker nancy pelosi and democratic leader steny hoyer say they were evicted from their Capital Hideaway Offices for senior members. One of Kevin Mccarthys allies says republicans control the office space and it mccarthy now needs and is entitled to the space that has been used by pelosi, norah. Norah all right, Scott Macfarlane, thank you. Tonight, the Largest Health care strike in American History is underway after Tens Of Thousands of Kaiser Permanente workers walked off the job in five states and right here in d. C. The union is asking for higher pay and better staffing. Cbss jo ling kent talked to striking workers on the picket line. Reporter at dawn this morning, more than 75,000 workers at Kaiser Permanente walked out to. We are taking care of lives, you know. Health care workers should be valued. Reporter joining her on the picket lines, pharmacists, respiratory therapist, optometrist, and other technicians. The union is asking for better working conditions and a 25 an hour minimum wage. Kaiser has offered 21 23 an hour. That is just above what Fast Food Workers will soon make in california. We have a lot of people who leave, and they are like, you know, why would i work here for the same pay that i can make at burger king or target and not have to come in contact with Infectious Diseases . Reporter kaiser has a patient pool of nearly 13 Million People and more than 300,000 employees. Its profits so far this year tops 3 billion. Fighting for our patients reporter in a message to patients, kaiser said our hospitals, emergency departments, and pharmacies will remain open. We may need to reschedule certain nonurgent appointments and procedures. The threeday walkout began as negotiations intensify for unions striking in other industries. Today, autoworkers, culinary workers, and screen actors are all at the bargaining table. The Economic Impact has been profound. Strikes around the country so far this year have meant a loss of nearly 7. 5 million workdays. The most in a generation. What would you say to a kaiser executive if you could talk facetoface right now . Kaiser, do better. For your patience. And for your employees. What is this about . Patient care reporter the nurse we just heard from there tells me she takes about quitting the job that she loves every single day due to the current condition. Now, kaiser acknowledges the 5 million Health Care Workers across the industry have quit since the beginning of the pandemic and burnout is at a record high. Norah . Norah jo ling kent there on the picket lines, thank you. Well, there is Breaking News tonight after a mass shooting at a historically black university, including rather injuring five people. Morgan State University in baltimore is canceling its homecoming weekend for the first comes as cbss Nicole Sganga reports a suspect or suspects remain at large. A shooting . Issued in . Reporter a campuswide lockdown peered everybody good . Reporter for three hours from students sheltered in place as hot teams with guns drawn searched dorm rooms and swept hallways, looking for suspects. Speak i got a shot out window, it appears. Reporter after a flurry of gunfire sent Baltimore Police raising to the scene tuesday night. When it happened, it was just a frenzy. Reporter and students ducking for cover. Bullets hitting the glass behind my head. Reporter five people, including four students, were hit, but all expected to make full recoveries. Authorities found multiple guns at the scene, but havent made any arrests. We believe the five victims who were struck or unintended targets. Reporter the nations 5 30 first mass shooting this year came during the universities homecoming week. Today, classes are canceled on baltimore Officials Say enough is enough. Gun violence has been an epidemic in this country longer than i have been breathing oxygen, and we have had little to no action. Reporter at morgan State University, they have had three backtoback homecomings mired by gun violence. Is that acceptable . That is not acceptable anywhere. Reporter investigators say the incident likely stemmed from a dispute between two small groups. And an update on the victims tonight, three of the injured have already been released from hospital. Norah . Norah Nicole Sganga, thank you very much. There is more Breaking News with another shooting, this time in massachusetts. Police say several people were shot today in holyoke, including a pregnant woman who was riding by on a bus. Condition, but her baby died. Investigators say the shooting took place after there was a fight on the street. Three suspect are in custody at nearby hospitals. Now to the Murder Investigation of robert tupac shakur nearly 30 years after the music icons death. The man police and prosecutors say was behind in 1996 Las Vegas Shooting made his First Court Appearance today on murder charges. Cbss Elise Preston reports tonight from outside the courthouse. Reporter after Tupac Shakurs murder 27 years ago, today, the focus was on this las vegas courtroom. As a handcuffed Duane Keefe D Davis limped in, appearing before judge and the world for the First Time Since the selfproclaimed gang member and drug kingpin was charged with tupacs murder. This is such a highprofile case. 27 years in the making. We feel very confident that the criminal Justice System will work in this case. Reporter police just arrested 60yearold davis last week. Davis has admitted to being in my car at the time of the driveby shooting. Pending a 2019 memoir, and conducting several interviews, including with Vlad Lyubovny from vlad tv. They want to put me in jail for life, something i got to do. That i got scared of jail. Reporter do you think after all this time that it weighed on him . I dont think it really weighed on him. I think it has just been so l long, and, you know, you can normalize it. You can normalize murder. Reporter there was no plea entered. Davis appeared in court by himself. His attorney couldnt make it. The next hearing is set for two weeks. Norah . Norah Elise Preston, thank you very much. Lets turn now to the weather because more than 6 million americans are under severe thunderstorm watches tonight in east texas and oklahoma. Storms could produce baseballsize hail, damaging winds, and the possibility of floods. Flooding is also a concern in new england this weekend. Tropical storm philippe could make a landfall in maine on sunday, and it will bring at least 3 inches of rain from new york to maine. Data starting on saturday. Turning overseas now to the vatican, where pope francis opened an important meeting of Catholic Bishops today on the future of the church. Among the controversial topics, whether priests can marry, or women can become deacons, and priests can bless samesex marriages. Cbss Chris Livesay is in rome. Reporter from around the world, bishops gathering and sometimes clashing on hot button issues, but the biggest bombshell dropped before the synod even began, with francis this week publishing a Letter Opening the door for priests to bless samesex unions. We cannot be judges will only deny, reject, and exclude, declared the pontiff. As queer people, we want to believe that god blesses our love. Reporter jamie manson from a womens rights activist and devout catholic, says the change opens the church tent for lgbtq couples, like her and her partner of four years. Affirming and embracing evryone only makes the church stronger. It is a very slim minority of catholics who are opposed to samesex unions. Reporter but that is what they wish, but its not. Reporter father Gerald Murray is a concert of priest for manhattan. For the pope to say priests and bishops can find a way to do this, its wrong. He shouldnt do it. Reporter what is the harm in making this tent, so to speak, bigger for more people . The harm is that it contradicts catholic teaching. Reporter american conservative leaders in the Catholic Church have warned that if francis doesnt stick to doctrine, he could provoke a permanent split. In his homily to open the meeting, francis made it clear where his focus lies. Tutti, tutti. Reporter he said, everyone, everyone, everyone, must be allowed in. This summer, pope francis called some of his concert and trick my critics in the u. S. Backwards be of for blessing samesex unions, pope francis says this shouldnt give the impression that they are on par with heterosexual marriages. Still, the only marriage is the church recognizes. Norah . Norah quite a story. Chris livesay, thank you very much. Well, now to a horrific story out of iran. Human rights group is accusing iran so called morality of beating a teenage girl for not wearing a headscarf. Surveillance video appears to show a 16yearold girl being pulled unconscious from a train. Activist later posted a photo on social media, claiming the girl had been beaten into a coma. Cbs news has not been able to verify the video or the photo. The state departments as the u. S. Is alarmed by these reports and condemns irans treatment of its women and girls. Tonight, ford has announced more layoffs due to the ongoing uaw strike vehicle 400 workers were told not to report to work tomorrow at two michigan plants. One of the main sticking points of the strike is that the transition Electric Vehicles. Which have surged in production. Cbss ben tracy goes in depth for a where rare look inside the Manufacturing Boom Taking place across the country to build newv batteries. Reporter right now, this plant just opened around six months ago. By year end, this plant will be at capacity and we are going to need another plant. Reporter Mike Okronley is ceo of ascent elements. It recycles used ev batteries in covington, georgia. Extracting 98 of Critical Metals that can then be reused, a key part of the new ev supply chain. I am really proud to be part of that, and i know a lot of our team members are also very, very proud to be part of that. Reporter in the past three years, more than 90 billion in battery investments have been announced nationwide, creating an estimated 70,000 manufacturing jobs. Much of it in a stretch from michigan down to georgia, now being called the battery belt. So this is a better you sell . This is a cell. Reporter jae won cheys Executive Vice Chairman n of babattery makaker s ski, part oa south korean conglomerate. After decades of u. S. Jobs being offshored, Foreign Companies are opening thousands of new Battery Plants in the u. S. Sk plans to employ up to 15,000 people in five plants by 2026. Including this one in north georgia, the size of 13 football fields. It can produce enough batteries every year to power 400,000 vehicles. We are very happy that we chose georgia, kentucky, and tennessee. Reporter why did you say this is where we need to be . The u. S. Is the center of all industry. It is impossible not to consider this place as your investment. Reporter matt lauer left of the Poultry Industry for the battery plant. I love north georgia. I was very happy we got to build Something Like this year and that i got to be part of Something Like this. Reporter its also a new economic engine for the nearby town of commerce, population 7700. You know, when you have a Company Investing more tha