aids. the disease that has claimed so many lives here has also come to dominate the lives of many who are not infected. diaz: border nurses: battling covid and a closed crossing just to get to work. and later, a photographer gets up close and creative with cicadas. i feel like people should embrace nature. this is the cbs weekend news. from chicago, here s adriana diaz. diaz: good evening. so much for spring. tonight, millions of americans are feeling the heat from the west to here in the midwest, and into the northeast. it was just last weekend, the so-called unofficial start of summer, that we were reporting on rain and record cold. but this weekend, weather isn t just hot it s dangerous. and the wildfire threat in the west extreme. cbs news meteorologist jeff berardelli joins us now with more. jeff, good evening. reporter: good evening, adriana. good evening, everybody. so we have widespread and intense sweltering heat all the way up to the canadian border.
vaccination site just to be turned away? vaccine passports: the new covid flashpoint. some sports venues, cruiselines, and colleges see proof of a vaccine as the key to getting back to normal faster. what about the legal and privacy concerns? how fast was tiger woods driving? police say the legendary golfer lost control of his luxury s.u.v. while speeding with his foot on the gas, not the brake, as he crashed his car. gaetz under fire: cbs news investigates the republican congressman s relationship with a political donor and the bahamas trip they took with female escorts. plus, the blanket pardon that congressman gaetz requested from the trump white house. the border crisis: is climate change forcing central americans to flee to the u.s.? and when congress is out, the doctor is in. the lawmaker saving lives in his spare time. and tonight, the c.d.c. is warning that students shouldn t be playing indoor sports or holding large gatherings, even as they are returning to school. w
warns millions to evacuate. it is not necessary to try to outrun the storm. just get to higher ground. norah: breaking news. armed and dangerous, chaos on campus at the university of north carolina at chapel hill as police searched for a gunman. a federal hate crime investigation now underway after police say a racist gunman killed three people at a store in jacksonville, florida. we cannot tolerate hate against our black community. norah: a helicopter on fire spins out of control and crashes into an apartment building. a firefighter captain among those killed. a judge set the trial date in the federal 2020 election conspiracy case for march 4th, 2024. one day before super tuesday. norah: we have all sat on the tarmac for too long. tonight, the record fine facing american airlines. from art class to social studies, we will show you how these kids in georgia are going back to school with a lesson in ai. do you know what ai stands for?
payback. here are tonight s headlines. video tonight of a plane falling out of the sky. the russian mercenary once known as putin s butcher listed as a passenger. was he killed two months to the day after he led a march to moscow? rudy giuliani once america s mayor, surrenders to a georgia dale, let out on $150,000 bond. justice. norah: the special counsel reveals an mar-a-lago i.t. employee is flipping on donald trump. plus, america decides. the first g.o.p. debate. missing its front-runner. we are in milwaukee. it s a stunning reversal from philadelphia police. officers are now seeing the man who was killed never lunged at police from outside of his vehicles. hundreds of billions of dollars in international trade passes through the panama canal every year. but the canal is now being threatened by a severe drought. we will tell you what that means for the goods that we all rely on and what they may have to do to secure the future of this critical wa
wildfires. only 3% of the disaster has even been searched. the governor calling it a fire hurricane that spread faster than a mile a minute. now a new lawsuit gets the state s main electric provider. hours from now the district attorney set to begin presenting her case to a grand jury in the georgia election subversion case. this means a potential fourth indictment looms over former president trump. cnn learns about key evidence obtained by prosecutors. and a home explodes outside of pittsburgh. gas systems were operating as designed, according to officials. it could take months or years to figure out why. the raid of a newspaper head quarters in kansas is raising serious concerns over first amendment rights. police seizing everything. also the lapd says a mob of people stole $100,000 worth of merchandise during a daytime robbery. we ll show you what was caught on camera. cnn this morning starts right now. good morning, thank you for joining us. there s a lot of n