Meltdown. New details and cancellations for passengers. Luggage piling up. Is there a fast fix? i m elise preston in los angeles, where customers fear this could happen again. Also tonight, digging in. President biden fighting covid vows to return to campaigning, even as more democrats today urge him to drop out. While donald trump and j. D. Vance hit the trail in michigan for their first rally. Security is tight here in grand rapids, and people have been lined up fr hours to see the former president. Congresswoman sheila jackson lee remembered tonight as a fierce champion of people. Israel strikes back, after a deadly houthi rebel attack on tel aviv. Plus, the u. S. Navy exonerates 258 black sailors unjustly punished after a deadly world war ii blast. Why families say it was long overdue. And later, in our weekend journal, we meet tiki. Chatting up customers on the morning coffee run. This is the cbs weekend news from new york with adriana diaz. Good evening. We begin with the global
The glitches affected hospitals, and emergency call centers. We are going to keep at this until every computer system and every component of our i. T. Apparatus are working in exactly the should. The cbs evening news starts now. Good evening, i am in for norah o donnell. It s called the largest i. T. Outage in history and it could affect your flight, your surgery, your deliveries, even your paycheck. The cause, faulty software update. Millions of workers met with a blue screen of death when they turned on their computers today. Airports across the country and around the world were packed with stranded passengers. Planes were grounded by the thousands, not by the weather but by t the technical tsunami. More than 4,000 flights were canceled around the world today, more than 2600 of them in the u. S. , and hartsfieldjackson international airport, the world s busiest a quarter of all flights were canceled. Team coverage tonight with chris s bank leaf will start off from the phoenix airport
Very prevalent in the u. K. Duncan: plus, space race, an early morning spacewalk at theye international space station and new images of chinese astronauts building their own and later on this father s day, we have a v. I. P. On board. Duncan: a memorable moment for a veteran pilot. This is the cbs weekend news from new york, reporting from new york city. Here s jericka duncan, duncan: good evening and thanks for joining us tonight. Senate democrats go on the offense this week looking to expand voting rights and spend big on infrastructure. A number of republicans are said to be on board for a trimmed down half trillion dollar infrastructure bill. But voting rights, well that s a far different story. Christina ruffini is at the white house tonight with the latest on the impending battle. Good evening christina. Reporter: good evening, jerika. Jerika. The juneteenth celebrations over the weekend were, as one activist put it, a good start. But pressure is growing on congress to take actio
So it is probably going to become the dominant strain in the united states. This could spike a new epidemic. Barnett: plus heat wave danger, skyrocketing temperatures set to sear the west. Barnett: florida s manatees, big, beloved and now dying in alarming numbers. It is depressing. Barnett: and later pandemic project, one dad s big idea to get the kids out of the house. How cool is this. It s amazing. This is the cbs weekend news, from new yorork, here s jericka duncan. Barnett: good evening, everyone, i m errol barnett, jericka duncan is off tonight. President biden is in belgium tonight ahead of talks with nato and european leaders. It is the second stop on an eight day foreign trip, his first as president. But it s his face to face summit president vladimir putin that is attracting the most attention. America has an agenda of grievances for putin. Cbs ed o keefe is in brussels tonight with more, ed, good evening. Reporter: errol, good evening, the president is now here in brussels
media giant isn t doing enough to protect america s children. california s climate crisis: we re walking on a lake bed right now. we should be under water. o donnell: the drastic measures in a county of 200,000 people to save water, and the app that could help. eye on america. what one police department is doing to reduce crime and build trust in the community it serves. purple heart recognition. following a cbs news investigation, the army honors 39 soldiers with brain injuries after last year s iranian missile strike. tiger woods returns. his big announcement, tonight. and, season of giving. the father-and-daughter duo on a mission to help people who lost their homes in california wildfires. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting tonight from los angeles. o donnell: good evening to our viewers here in the west and thank you for joining us. we re going to begin with a key vaccination milestone here in the u.s. with new covid cases and hospital