towns and army bases. people in gaza celebrate. prime minister benjamin netanyahu says israel is at war. president biden and other western leaders condemning the attacks. >> let there be no mistake. the united states stands with the state of israel. >> we'll have the latest. also tonight, striking california health care workers return to work with no deal, even as the job market booms. plus, migrant message. new york city's mayor and latin america warns his city has no more room as the crisis intensifying. washington's national cathedral has a new view. the story behind this stained glass and the stain on history it replaced. >> pretty brilliant. pretty bright. >> it's glowing. this is the "cbs weekend news" from washington with adriana diaz. >> good evening. today israel battled to repel an invasion of its territory after palestinian militants launched highly coordinated attacks from gaza. thousands of rockets were fired into israel as gunmen infiltrated several border towns and bases, kidnapping civilians and soldiers. israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu declared the country was, quote, at war. he said the enemy would pay an unprecedented price. among the targets hit, this high rise, which was reduced to rubble. hundreds have been killed on both sides, and it is a sharp escalation of violence for a region that bears the scars of centuries of conflict. cbs in tel-aviv leads us off. >> reporter: tonight a fresh wave of rockets has hit tel-aviv with the israeli military say it's fighting in 22 locations after the government confirms over 250 israelis are now dead, over 600 injured and unknown number remain in captivity. how? how was hamas able to carry out such a massive attack? remember, israel ashbly has the best intelligence agencies in the middle east. it spends millions to prevent something like this from happening. and, yet, hamas fighters were able to carry out such a catastrophic attack. what it's calling operation imtiaz tyab will see a spiral as israel continues to retaliate. over 1,600 wounded in a series of strikes as armed palestinian group have vowed tonight to join hamas in its ongoing assault. an unprecedented price on hamas, this is uncharted territory for israel, which now finds itself in a full scale war. >> imtiaz tyab in tel-aviv, thank you. exploded on a major jewish holiday catching the israeli military off guard. >> reporter: gaza militants started their surprise attack this morning, launching thousands of rockets into israel. following it up with an invasion by land, sea and even air. social media showed them quickly sweeping into israeli military bases and communities, killing hundreds and injuring hundreds more. this israeli woman says she was able to escape an outdoor party attacked by gunmen. palestinian militants attacked on multiple fronts. videos of the aftermath show bodies of israeli civilians scattered across the streets. during the assault, hamas used drones to target machine guns, soldiers and to even hit a tank. while captured israeli equipment was paraded through the streets of gaza. videos and photos show gaza militants abducted an unknown number of israelis, including children and the elderly and taking them back into gaza. with the country in shock, the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu declared war. he told his security cabinet the first objective is to clear out enemy forces and restore security. the second is to exact an immense price from the enemy. and the third is to reinforce other fronts so nobody mistakenly joins this war. already israeli has responded with air strikes, targeting what they say are hamas targets. palestinian officials in gaza say hundreds of people have been killed. a hamas commander called on palestinians everywhere to rise up against israel. israeli soldiers are fighting to re-take captured ground while tens of thousands of soldiers are being called up for duty. tensions have been building for months between palestinians and israelis in the west bank and jerusalem. many in the international community have been quick to condemn today's attack. but the scale, sophistication and complexity of the attack have left many stunned, comparing it to the surprise attack by egyptians during the i don't mean kip por war 50 years ago. tonight many are wondering how israeli intelligence could fail to detect such a vicious attack. i have been on both sides of the border. it is heavily monitored and fortified. but getting to the bottom of those questions might have to wait as the country prepares for what is shaping up to be a long and bloody war. >> today president biden condemned the attacks against israel, reaffirming the united states' commitment to the jewish state security. christina riffini is at the white house. >> reporter: senior staff worked through the night. the white house is also pushing back against republican claims that this attack has anything to do with assets that were unfrozen during the recent release of detained americans from tyron. >> the united states stands with israel in the face of these assaults. israel has the right to defend itself and its people. >> reporter: speaking to benjamin netanyahu, president biden says america's commitment is unwavering. >> this is not a moment for any party hostile to israel to exploit these attacks to seek advantage. the world is watching. >> reporter: but domestic political divisions could complicate that commitment. >> there is nothing the house can do until they elect a speaker. >> reporter: members of the congress, including kevin mccarthy are warning the lack of a house speaker will hinder americans responsibility to respond. >> we have to come together to deliver emergency aid to israel. we don't even have a speaker in place to do that right now. >> reporter: it is even complicating national security briefings for congress. >> reporter: on the campaign trail, a prisoner exchange the white house negotiated in september, which unfroze $6 billion in iranian assets. >> i would not be at all surprised if part of that tremendous wealth went into all of a sudden watching this level of aggression. >> reporter: but the white house pushed back hard saying not a penny of the money has been spent and these funds have absolutely nothing to do with the horrific attacks today, and this is not a time to spread disinformation. a senior white house official says it is still too soon to say if iran was directly involved in this hamas assault, but tyron has funded the group in the past. >> thank you. today striking health care workers in five states and the district of columbia returned to work after a three-day walk out. cbs is in los angeles tonight as economic forces push unions to the picket lines. >> reporter: adriana, more than 450,000 people have walked off their jobs this year. many who were still striking say they will keep fighting for higher wages. 75,000 kaiser permanente workers are back at work today after a three-day strike failed to reach a day. >> we are not done. we are yready to go next week. >> reporter: auto workers rallied today after a concession from general motors decided not to expand its walkouts, while ford announced more strike-related layoffs, now totaling 1,800 employees. the workers are among the millions of americans feeling the sting of inflation. the surpriingly strong u.s. jobs report with 336,000 added to payrolls could leave the federal reserve to raise interest rates again next month. >> higher interest rates are designed to reduce demand in the economy so that inflation comes down and we can get prices back under control. >> reporter: borrowing money is more expensive, with mortgage rates nearing 8% and interest for credit cards soaring to 22%, a number not seen in 30 years. also straining household budgets, the price of gas and groceries. >> even though household costs aren't going up as much as they have been, they're still a lot higher than they were two or three years ago and the income hasn't kept up. >> reporter: the economy is proving strong, despite some challenges. expert advise now is a good time to pay down credit card debt and ramp up your emergency savings. adriana? >> good advice. thank you. today new york city mayor eric adams ended a four-day trip to latin america, urging countries in the region to find solutions to the migrant crisis being felt across the americas. cbs' michael george is in new york with the latest. michael? >> reporter: adriana, good evening. we're outside the roosevelt hotel. it is a temporary home for many asylum seekers. discourage migrants from coming to the city. new york city mayor eric adams is wrapping up a tour of mexico, ecuador and columbia, key points on the migrants' dangerous journey to america. he says asylum seekers are being misled information. but the city has run out of both. >> we want every single person who is thinking about risking their lives and their childrens' lives to come to new york city to know the truth about what we are dealing with. >> reporter: still, hundreds more migrants are bussed from border states to northern cities every week. in chicago, thousands including children, are sleeping on the street inside police stations or the airport as that city hurries to build more shelters before winter. >> the concern is how are they going to be able to withstand the cold? >> reporter: there were more than 200,00000 an pprehensions migrantsts. aiaid workers say the influx is draining resources. >> we're running out of money faster than we had anticipated. >> reporter: with calls growing louder, the biden administration announced it will build a 20 mile section of border wall along the rio grande. the president says he has no choice. >> congress passes legislation to build something, whether it is an aircraft carrier, wall or provide for a tax cut. i can't say i don't like it. i'm not going to do it. >> reporter: adams will now return to new york city. he recently thigtenned shelter rules to element adults to just 30 days in city-run facilities. he calls it a necessary step to reduce overcrowding. >> thank you so much. tonight people across the country are facing a wide variety of weather risks including a blistering heat wave and sudden cold snap. the latest from our partners at the weather channel. >> good evening, adriana. it is going to be quite chilly out there, especially across the east coast. we can see the temperatures in the 40s and 50s. as we go into tomorrow morning and afternoon across the west, yeah, we're looking at these temperatures a little bit warmer. look at sacramento. temperatures in the 90s. l.a. in the 80s. we can see seattle down off toward the south. 71 million people above average as we move into your tomorrow. more of the same as we head into your monday. and then we also do have some rain to talk about as well across the west here. plenty of rain. in the higher elevations, yeah, mountain snow out there as well. adriana, back to you. tonight powerball jackpot is standing at an astounding $1.4 bllion. the big prize is drawing big lines for tickets. power ball has not had a grand prize winner since july. a streak of 33 drawings, $1.4 billion will be the fifth largest payout in u.s. lottery history. straight ahead on the cbs weekend news, a new take on space tourism that leaves the rockets on earth. and a disturbing discovery at a colorado funeral home. and the effort to right a wrong at one of our nation's most importantnt c churches. a new space tourism venture is aiming high, promising to send people into space, but they won't get there on markets. mark straussman in tucson, arizona has more on the next great leap. >> it is a set of technologies that includes a lift balloon, a ballast balloon andryan's compas high altitude helium balloons to collect data and images from the stratosphere. but he has other inspirations, to send up not just tools but balloons, too. >> this is the balloon farm where we manufacture all of our balloons. it will be the strength of this table. two football fields long. when we bring space tourism to the market space at scale, we'll do 500 to 700 flights per year. >> reporter: 500 to 700 flights? >> yes. >> reporter: wow. >> this is a full-size mockup of the explorer space capsule. what we're selling is a view, right? so the window has to be perfect. you have to be able to design a window that is safe for operating in space, but also delivers the promise of an inspired perspective. >> reporter: world view plans to launch seven destinations to send tourists high above seven unique wonders of the world. the price $50,000. >> our approach is to deliver something that is more attainable from the point of view that it's available to a larger age range of people and it is something that feels more, i'll say, doable for people that it's a safer way to experience viewing our earth from up high. >> reporter: cbs news tucson. still ahead on the "cbs weekend news," what colorado police found when responding to a foul smell. the hunt is on for a killer in vermont. a retired vermont state university dean was shot dead on a trail in the town of castleton. police are lookin for a dark-haired man carrying a gray backpack seen in the area shortly after gunfire was herd. fleming was the wife of best-selling author ron powers. now to a grim discovery in rural colorado. 115 decaying bodies were found at the return to nature funeral home. the company specialized the performing green burials that used bio degradable caskets and no em balming fluid. the competitition flying g in the s sky. balming flfluid. the e competitioion flying in the skyky. balmining fluid. > the competetition flyiyin in thehe sky. e,e,balming flflui the e competitioion flying in the skyky. balmining fluid. > the competetition flyiyin in thehe sky. mbmbalming fluluid the cocompetition n flying inin the sky.. tonight what's being called a balloon fiesta in albuquerque, new mexico. among those gathers, crews from all around the world who are racing in one of the most prestigious events in aviation. the competition is expected to last three days and could stretch all the way into canada. when we return, correcting a national stain in stainined gla. we end tonight in washington where the national cathedral is shining a new light for the fight for racial justice by removing part of its own dark past. if the walls could talk at washington's national cathedral, they would recount some of our nation's most profound moments. but these walls have also upheld a stain in stained glass. tributes to robert e. lee, thomas stonewall jackson and their flag. they have been replaced with protesters marching for equality. >> wanted to be here to witness it. >> i have never seen anything like it, so i'm like wow. >> it is pretty brilliant, pretty bright. >> it's growing. >> reporter: it is the work of kerry james marshall, whose pieces can go for millions. his price for this, $18.65, a nod to slavery's end. >> i think these windows simply announce themselves to the passerby in a way that most of the other windows in the cathedral won't. >> there is a wheelchair, no faces and -- in a church you are so used to looking up and seeing white skin. you have to almost do a double take. >> i don't think these windows exclude anybody because i think the activity they are engaged in is something everybody can partake in. >> reporter: below are words by a poet who performed at president obama's first inauguration. >> in the final line of the poem, may this portal be where the light comes in that can illuminate the beauty of the past and also sometimes the untruths of the past. >> reporter: what does it mean to you that your words are here represented in such a historical place? >> they will outlive me by a very, very, very, very long measure. and what that means is actually beyond words for me right now. >> i don't think i could have asked for anything more meaningful to have done in my life as a kind of gift to the nation as a whole. >> reporter: an incredible gift. that is the "cbs weekend news" for this saturday. among margaret brennan's guests, secretary of state anthony blinking and the israeli em ambassador. i'm adriana diaz. good night. from cbs news bay area, this is the evening addition. >> what happened to him was not right so we are here to support him. >> now at 6:00, some coming together. they are showing their support for a street vendor whose card was flipped over last weekend. >> i feel thankful for all the support after this event. i feel like a completely different person. and the sounds and sights of fleet week showing no signs of slowing down. the very special tribute today for the late senator dianne feinstein, the woman who started it all. and warm out there today. but starting tomorrow and definitely by earlier this week, a chance of rain. i will show you, coming up, quick. and a deadly and unprecedented attack between israel and hamas. dozens that. good evening, everybody. i am reed cowan. we start in the middle east.