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CBS Evening News With Norah ODonnell

thanks so much. we turn now to the steepest drop in life expectancy here in the u.s. since world war ii. largely driven by the pandemic, life expectancy has dropped by a year and a half. for hispanic and black populations, it's down by as much as three years.an staggering number of children without a parent. we get more on this from cbs's mireya villarreal. >> i feel like i just should have done more. >> reporter: alyssa quarles is overwhelmed by guilt that she couldn't save her 48-year-old father theodis after he got covid. >> as days passed, he started to say, like, help me, please don't let me die. i don't know what to say to him, i don't think he going to die but he kept saying it. so, it was hard. >> reporter: he died just before christmas. the tree still stands-- a sign the family can't let go. >> this is what it is like when you have all girls. >> reporter: the quarles girls are among at least 113,000

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CBS Evening News With Norah ODonnell

and now, vaccine hesitancy is meeting covid reality. did you get to a point when you were scared? >> i'm still scared. >> reporter: p.j. perry says he and most of his family had refused to get the covid vaccine. where have you gotten most of your news from, regarding the vaccine? >> saw it on facebook, and you know, people saying stuff. >> reporter: now, this 48-year- old father says as soon as he leaves this hospital, he is getting vaccinated. >> i don't care if anybody is mad at me, they say "i don't want to take it." i don't care anymore. i don't want to feel like this. >> reporter: across this country, 100 million people remain unvaccinated, including some health care workers. today, the mayor of new york city said anyone working in a public hospital or clinic must get vaccinated, or get weekly testing. >> this is about keeping people safe and stopping the delta variant. >> reporter: in louisiana... >> we need to be patient- centered, and that requires us as health care professionals to take the first leap. and that first leap is to get vaccinated. >> reporter: scott row, a >> reporter: scott row, a

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CBS Evening News With Norah ODonnell

says it will bury 10,000 miles of power lines, in what is being described as the largest infrastructure project in california history. here's cbs's jonathan vigliotti. >> reporter: crews are fighting the flames of the tamarack fire from the ground and sky. located south of lake tahoe, the blaze is zero-percent contained, and has grown, crossing state lines into nevada. >> we got ten minutes to get in and get what we could get, and then it's time to leave. >> reporter: extreme heat and drought have also created tinderbox conditions in southwest oregon, where the bootleg fire has burned more than 394,000 acres. crews from arkansas, nevada, and alaska are joining more than 2,000 personnel battling the fire there. today, california utility pg & e pledged to bury 10,000 miles of its power lines, after itseqpmtd the dixie fire, tn of paradise. 78 active wildfires are burning in the west.

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CBS Evening News With Norah ODonnell

patient we met in the hospital, was discharged today, and he left thinking this: >> am i going to get a vaccine? no. >> reporter: why not? >> because there's too many issues with these vaccines. >> we are either going to get vaccinated and end the pandemic, or we are going to accept death. >> reporter: that patient, scott row, said "i don't want to take the vaccine because it's not fully approved. it's only under emergency-use authorization." so i asked the doctor, who said, "well, yeah-- so is the medicine that we use to treat it." so, if you are willing to take that, you ought to consider taking the vaccine, too. norah? >> o'donnell: an excellent point. david begnaud, thank you. well, there was quite a bit of drama on capitol hill today. it started with speaker nancy pelosi blocking two republicans from a special committee to investigate the deadly attack on the u.s. capitol, and what unfolded may have put the january 6th congressional probe in jeopardy. cbs's nikole killion reports. >>eporr: more th six

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in the closeout game. ( cheers and applause ) otional talking about his family. >> this is fr my mom, she wo extremhard ery day for me to bin this position. s haimmigrated from nigeria to provide a better life for their sons. giannis used his talent to repay the favor. >> so i started playing basketball just to, you know, help my family. >> reporter: he credits his success to those who believed in him, including the late kobe bryant. this twitter challenge from the laker legend to become m.v.p., then win a title-- now, a reality. >> this should be, should make every person, every kid, anybody around the world, to believe in their dreams. >> reporter: dana jacobson, cbs news, new york. >> o'donnell: such a great message: if you can dream it,

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CBS Evening News With Norah ODonnell

capitol, there is a new battle over the fate of a select committee established to investigate the attack. >> read my statement. >> reporter: in a bold move, house speaker nancy pelosi rejected two of the five republicans on the panel: ohio's jim jordan and indiana's jim banks. the speaker suggested the two staunch allies of the former president, who voted against certifying the election, would "jeopardize the integrity of the investigation." house minority leader kevin mccarthy shot back immediately, threatening to pull all five members. >> it's an egregious abuse of power. pelosi has broken this institution. >> reporter: but congressmen jordan and banks had both criticized the panel yesterday, calling it another attempt to impeach mr. trump. >> this is "impeachment round three" for t dra >> reporter: wyoming republican liz cheney, appointed by democrats, remains on the committee. >> the rhetoric around this, from the minority leader and from those two members, has been disgraceful. this must be an investigation that is focused on facts.

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CBS Evening News With Norah ODonnell

american children struggling with pandemic grief after losing a parent or caregiver to the virus. a quarter of them are younger than ten, and 20% are black. minorities are disproportionately affected. >> in my head, i feel like it was my fault. >> reporter: what was your fault? >> that he passed. >> reporter: every day is a challenge for mom vickie and her five daughters.... >> the hardest time is like, when i see my girls cry. >> reporter: ...each grieving in her own way. ania is 14. >> i really just shut down sometimes, and i stay in my room, i don't want to talk to anybody. >> i'm sad because i don't get to see him any more, physically. >> reporter: today, the younger >> reporter: today, the younger girls are in therapy. aja turned 11 without her dad. >> when you look at my kids, you can tell that something is missing. missing. >> reporter: researchers see an increase in depression and p.t.s.d. in children who lose a parent. it can leave them traumatized, confused, angry. >> grief is just all of the thoughts and feelings that we

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>> reporter: as the games begin, covid infections continue. u.s. volleyballer taylor crabb reportedly tested positive after landing in tokyo, bringing to five the total number of americans knocked out of the olympics by the virus. in all, more than 70 people connected to the 2020 games have tested positive. the first matches of the tokyo games started with players on five women's soccer teams, including the americans, taking a knee before kickoffs, to protest racial inequality worldwide-- all permitted under new olympic rules. >> this is no violation of the rule 50. this is expressly what has been mentioned in these guidelines. >> reporter: the u.s. suffered a crushing loss to sweden, the same team that kept team u.s.a. from gold at the last olympics. . >> reporter: meanwhile, the f.b.i. today put out a general warning against potential cyberattacks at the games-- that could include threats to block

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or disrupt live broadcasts-- but said there has been no specific threat. with tokyo covid cases the highest since january, the head of the world health organization today called the games a celebration of hope. >> may the message of hope resound from tokyo around the world. >> reporter: with games beginning ahead of opening ceremonies on friday, the focus is turning to competition, which officials hope will not get overshadowed by covid. norah. >> o'donnell: jamie yuccas, thank you. tonight, a landmark settlement agreement in the opioid epidemic. a group of state attorneys general reached a $26 billion settlement with johnson &johnson and three other american companies that distributed opioid painkillers, even as addiction and overdose deaths skyrocketed. states now have 30 days to states now have 30 days to decide whether to agree to the deal, and local governments will have 150 days to sign on. we want to turn now to a cbs news investigation into the spike in edible marijuana overdoses among children.

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