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benevolently defiant. with his life he brought america's pastime to life. endless smiles and joyful tears, we will never forget his 93 years because when it came to baseball, no one could amaze like the mighty willie mays. >> he will be missed by many here in the bay area and far beyond. the cbs evening news with norah o'donnell is next here on kpix. local news continues on our streaming service, cbs news bay area. we're back here in just 30 minutes with cbs news bay area at 7:00. i'll see you then. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> capitol hill, time 6:00 p.m. >> norah: tonight, chilling never-before-seen video of the nation's capitol shot before the deadliest terror attacks on u.s. soil. why 9/11 families want you to see it. >> this seems like a really big
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thing to just being made public. >> norah: "60 minutes" reports who is the man behind the camera and why it raises new questions about if al qaeda acted alone. the "cbs evening news" starts now. ♪ ♪ we start with a cbs news exclusive. the unnerving video outside the u.s. capitol filmed two years before the 9/11 attacks. good evening. i'm norah o'donnell, and thank you for being with us. two decades ago, the 9/11 commission found that al qaeda acted alone, but victims' families say that is not true, pointing to this video and other evidence as proof. they are suing saudi arabia, claiming its government provided crucial assistance to the hijackers and planners behind the september 11th attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people. "60 minutes" correspondent cecilia vega reports. >> [speaking arabic] >> reporter: a voice on the
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video says in arabic, "i am transmitting these scenes to you from the heart of the american capital, washington." this video, unsealed in federal court this week and obtained by "60 minutes," was recorded in the summer of 1999. the man behind the camera is omar al-bayoumi, who the fbi says was an operative of the saudi intelligence service with close ties to two of the 9/11 hijackers. >> capitol hill, time 6:00 p.m. >> reporter: the video was filmed over several days. bayoumi recorded entrances and exits of the capitol, security posts, a model of the building, and nearby landmarks. in this portion of the video, bayoumi points out the washington monument and says, "i will get over there and report t you in detail what is there." he also notes the airport is not far away. >> what i see bayoumi doing is
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going out and making a detailed video record of the capitol, from all its sides, and then conducting that 360-degree panoramic view. >> reporter: richard lambert is a retired fbi agent who led the initial 9/11 investigation in san diego, where bayoumi and the two hijackers lived temporarily before the attacks. he's now a consultant on the case filed by the 9/11 families. >> if you've ever flown into washington, d.c., one of the first things you see on the horizon is the washington monument, so if you know where your other targets are in terms of the washington monument, it helps guide you to your intended target. >> reporter: federal investigators believe the hijackers on flight 93, which crashed near shanksville, pennsylvania, had the u.s. capitol as their likely target. the lawyers for the 9/11 families and former intelligence analysts we spoke to believe portions of the video show bayoumi surveilling the capitol
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as part of that plan. and in the video, he references a "plan." >> you said that, "in the plan." what plan? who is he talking to? >> reporter: what do you think he is talking about? >> i think he is talking to the al qaeda planners who tasked him to take the preoperational surveillance video of the intended target. >> reporter: so this video is taken in late june and early july of 1999. what does that timing tell you? >> well, that means it was taken within 90 days of the time when senior al qaeda planners reached the decision that the capitol would be a target of the 9/11 attacks. >> reporter: that's when osama bin laden decided to approve khalid sheikh mohammed's so-called planes operation. in the days after 9/11, british police discovered the video during a raid on bayoumi's u.k. apartment. they also seized bayoumi's handwritten address book that the lawyers for the 9/11
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families say was filled with numerous phone numbers of numerous senior saudi officials who were in the government at the time. and when bayoumi filmed the washington video, he was often with two saudi diplomats who the fbi says had ties to al qaeda, a finding the saudi government disputes. >> well, it is another very large brick in a massive wall of evidence that at this point indicates the saudi government was complicit in the 9/11 attacks. >> reporter: ken williams is a retired fbi agent who led the 9/11 investigation in phoenix, where one of the hijackers attended flight school. he's also a consultant on the case filed by the 9/11 families. in terms of all the revelations that have come out as part of this 9/11 lawsuit, where does this video rank? >> i think it ranks right at the top of the pile. >> reporter: the government of saudi arabia says, nothing to see here, this is a tourist video. this is a guy out looking at the sites in washington, d.c. >> i would vehemently disagree with that.
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this is not tourist video. >> reporter: the british police are believed to have turned over the video to the fbi shortly after 9/11. which raises the question: why, after more than 20 years, is it just now surfacing? did somebody really mess this up? this seems like a really big thing to just being made public. >> if that was missed, then shame on us for missing it. if it wasn't missed, then i would have to ask the question, what was done with it? >> norah: that was cecilia vega reporting, and cbs news reached out to the fbi, which says it will not comment about ongoing litigation. both the saudi government and omar al-bayoumi deny any involvement in 9/11, and lawyers for the government have filed a motion to dismiss the case. oral arguments are scheduled for later this summer. "60 minutes" will have more on this story in the fall. turning now to the dangerous weather, nearly 100 million americans from coast to coast are suffering under dangerous
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heat conditions, while parts of texas are underwater from heavy rains and storm surge, from what was tropical storm alberto. that's the first named storm of the hurricane season, and it is being blamed for at least three deaths in mexico. cbs's dave malkoff reports on the damage. >> reporter: tonight, alberto is no more, but not before devastating parts of mexico and the texas coast. in northern mexico, the city of monterrey, first responders rescued this stranded driver trapped near an underpass. here in the u.s., alberto brought heavy rain and storm surge flooding to parts of texas, including the beach community of surfside, where neighborhood streets were underwater. in galveston, the storm surge was over 4 feet, inundating blocks and blocks of the beachside community. the flooding in jamaica beach caught patrick wilson off guard. >> they said jamaica beach was one of the worst, i guess.
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>> reporter: in nearby san leon, neighbors say this storm is bringing out the best in people. >> we keep an eye on each other and take care of one another. >> reporter: here in corpus christi, this rv park was a few feet above sea level on tuesday. this is what it looks like after alberto. residents who rode it out here ended up isolated on an island. this family was making the most of it in a raft, while tourists stuck in high water pushed their family van up hill. are you stalled out here? >> stalled out. and i can't even put it into drive. >> reporter: this as americans in 18 states are under heat alerts. records broken in several northeast cities. the high temperatures forcing some schools to close early. the sun was way too hot for high school graduation in clifton, new jersey, so students had to wait until night. not a bad idea. >> i'm actually so happy about it because it was going to be like 90 degrees out at 3:00 p.m. >> reporter: with the tropical storm gone, the heat and humidity have returned here to texas, as well, but you can see the wind is still here.
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part of the reason why we are still getting a lot of this storm surge pushing onshore.% and norah, that means that a lot of people here in corpus christi will have to spend another night stranded in the flood. >> norah: dave malkoff, thank you for all your reporting. the empire state strikes a major blow to social media companies. new york governor kathy hochul signed a landmark bill into law that restricts tech companies from targeting children with addictive feeds. the governor sat down for an exclusive interview with cbs news senior business and tech correspondent jo ling kent, to discuss this revolutionary measure. >> reporter: with the flick of a pen, new york governor kathy hochul cemented a new law today, restricting social media companies from using addictive algorithms in feeds targeting kids. >> we are seeing the effects in suicide rates, teenagers who are in the throws of depression. >> reporter: she sat down with cbs news for an exclusive interview.
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why did new york choose to target the algorithm? >> for the most important part. in order to liberate our children, we have to get right to the source of the trauma that's being inflicted on them. >> reporter: in this first-of-a-kind state law, no suggested posts will be allowed in kids' feeds. no related notifications from midnight to 6:00 a.m. without parental consent. and new age verification tools will be set by the state attorney general. if the social media platforms do not comply, they can be fined up to $5,000 per violation. mom bernice tsai is cautiously optimistic. >> now, there is a conversation of actually we can try to take a crack at this. we can try to change it. it doesn't go far enough, but i it doesn't go far enough, but i think they are opening >> reporter: netchoice, which represents major tech companies like meta and google, says the new law violates the first amendment by censoring content. >> at the end of the day, that's a decision that should be left up to parents, not government, and not silicon valley.
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>> reporter: what's your response to that? >> you know what? our kids are in a special category. we don't let them buy cigarettes. we have guardrails to protect our young people before they become young adults and can make their own decisions. >> reporter: the new york law is set to go in effect 180 days after the state attorney general determines the exact guidelines. we reached out to all the major social media platform, and meta, the parent company of facebook and instagram, said, while it does not agree with every aspect of this bill, it does support legislation requiring parental approval to download apps. norah? >> norah: jo ling kent with this important story, thank you so much. tonight, hollywood has lost a legend with the death of actor donald sutherland at the age of 88. the towering performer starred in a wide range of movies, from "mash" and "ordinary people" to "national lampoon's animal house" and "the hunger games." "entertainment tonight"'s kevin frazier takes a look at his remarkable career. >> i'm not apologizing. i am trying to damn understand
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it! >> reporter: donald sutherland was no ordinary actor. he was a cinema legend, playing a villain in "the hunger games." >> we have both been played for fools. >> reporter: and the leading man in "klute." >> he didn't take the plane. he canceled out. >> reporter: sutherland was versatile. he could play any role. his big break came in 1967, when he starred in the war film "the dirty dozen." >> what do i have to do? >> reporter: which he would follow up with another standout performance as "hawkeye pierce" in the 1970 film "mash," which helped catapult him to fame. >> i've seen you somewhere before. >> reporter: born in saint john, new brunswick, canada, in 1935, sutherland says he wasn't interested in acting until he became a teenager. >> when i was 16 years old, i had never seen a play. i said to my dad that i wanted to be an actor. >> reporter: and he became a great one, with nearly 200 film and tv credits over his 60-year career. >> you really do love him, don't you? >> reporter: sutherland won an emmy and a golden globe for his role as a russian colonel in
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"citizen x." >> it will take all our strength to suffer these outrageous, but suffer them we must. >> reporter: and received an honorary oscar in 2017. today, his son, actor kiefer sutherland, said his father was "never daunted by a role, good, bad, or ugly. he loved what he did." and we loved watching him. kevin frazier, cbs news, los angeles. >> norah: tonight, we are taking a close look at the potential impacts of donald trump's campaign promise to get rid of federal taxes on tips and the hundreds of billions of dollars of tax revenue that would be lost. that's next. ♪ ♪ ext. ♪ ♪
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♪ ♪ ♪ >> norah: in the age of e-reading, technology has created a new set of challenges for the modern library. as cbs's meg oliver shows us in tonight's "eye on america," several libraries across the country are writing the book on innovation. >> reporter: take a guess where this is. shop class? guess again. the kitchen in a fancy five-star restaurant? >> can't be sticking, now. >> reporter: hm, not quite. if you are in columbia, south carolina, you are in the richland public library, a national leader in reimagining libraries place in our community, where card catalogs now hold gardening seeds. so what's in here? >> this is our library of things.
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>> reporter: and you can check out just about anything. so what do you have? >> we've got a little bit of everything. we've got a ukulele for the music lover. games and toys like a kite. >> reporter: executive director melanie huggin has pioneered this extraordinary evolution. >> we have always been in the business of making people's lives better. i think that is the history of public libraries across the globe. >> reporter: that history dates back to 1895 and the founding of columbia's first library branch. but an economic ebb and flow combined with advancements in technology led huggin and her team to write a new chapter for a community in need. >> we think of our spaces as places to learn, to share, to create, and we create quiet spaces, and let the rest of the library just be vibrant and active. >> [speaking spanish] >> reporter: here, jobseekers can lean on career counselors. social workers help the homeless and people suffering
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from food insecurity. education is also a top priority. >> i didn't know how libraries contribute to us getting our education. you know, i just thought you come here and get a book. >> reporter: now people like letita miller can take free online classes and earn a high school diploma. the 40-year-old single mom of four dropped out of high school after having her first baby at 14. how rough was that? >> it was very, very difficult. because i had to grow up early. had to learn more responsibility at that age. >> reporter: after years of struggling and working multiple jobs, she went back to high school through the library's program in 2022. >> i wouldn't have ever known about it if i had not came through here nd found out.
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right here in the bay area, the mayor's home swarmed today by the f.b.i. what we are learning about the raid targeting the mayor as well as two other locations. that is a bold move. it
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says a couple things, they have enough probable cause to go in the house. >> we are getting reaction from community leaders who are expressing concern about the future of the city. what is going on in the city of oakland? i think it is something very, very bizarre. and all of this happened just a few hours after 15 people were shot after a juneteenth event. >> bullets started flying, people started running. this is cbs news bay area. with juliette goodrich. >> hello, i'm sara donchey in for juliette. oak land has been shaken after the fbi raided the mayor's house. we don't know if she is the target of this investigation but it could have huge political implications for the mayor who is already facing this recall. agents served a search warrant at 5:30 at a home which she shares with

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