change the lock and turn the tables on the squatter. >> they can't kick me out, because i have a lease. it's a game. it's a chess match. >> reporter: sometimes the squatter calls the cops. in this case, they quickly determined it's a matter for civil court, which still could take months to resolve with no guarantees. >> squatters are taking advantage of people. they just know that there is a system out there that allows them to live rent-free. >> if someone takes possession of a property illegally, they're in violation of the law. >> reporter: state senator archuleta pushed through a new law in california allowing property owners to file a no trespass notice with local police. >> it's good for a year. and it's there and on record. this way it gives authority to the officers to respond because it's already been registered that no one is allowed in that building. >> reporter: florida also has a new law allowing cops to evict squatters immediately when they don't have a valid lease, and several other states have passed or proposed tougher measures on squatting. but until there are new laws on the books -- >> they're just saying we're not leaving.

>> reporter: lando thomas and kimberly will confront squatters for a fee. >> knock knock! >> reporter: starting at $2500. >> how you doing? >> reporter: this time they're trying to get a 26-year-old named samjay to leave this airbnb rental along with his pregnant girlfriend and their five dogs. you were supposed to leave on the tenth. >> this property owner needs his property back. >> i would love to give it back to him. as i said, as soon as we can get a place. >> reporter: it's now a race against time. if samjay manages to say here for 30 days, they'll have to go to court to evict him where the law considers squatters with legitimate tenants with certain rights of their own. >> are you going to move out? >> it's not possible to get all my stuff out now. >> so where will you go when you leave here? >> we got nowhere to go. >> reporter: it sounds like you're saying you're on the verge of homelessness? >> um, you could say that, yeah. times are tough. >> reporter: the squad finally talks samjay into leaving with an offer to pay for a motel room and storage while he looks for a new place to live.

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more than six years after his death, the songs of rock superstar tom petty are again climbing the charts. this time it's a tribute album put together by some of country music's biggest acts. anthony mason has the story. ♪ there's a southern where i could be from ♪ >> reporter: dolly parton and tom petty go way back. he was on your tv show. >> a long time ago, back when we were both youngsters. >> what was his name again? >> tom petty and the heartbreakers. >> reporter: dolly recorded the lead single for the album "petty country." how did you pick southern accents? >> well, it picked me. i love tom petty, and that was not a song that was one of his big records, but he did it on stage, and it always tore the house down. people loved it because he was southern boy.

♪ where i come from ♪ >> reporter: petty's daughter, adria visited the set when dolly made the video. >> it's a pleasure. >> and who's this? >> my daughter everly. >> reporter: which features petty's home movies and heirlooms. >> i'm going to be singing your grandpa's song. >> they already had all those pieces, and then i just sang my song. i could feel and see all those things around me and all the artifacts that they had there, his guitar, his clothes. ♪ i got my own way of praying, and every prayer's begun with the southern accent where come from ♪ >> and i just felt well, i hope

he'd be proud of this. >> reporter: an all-star cast of country artists pays tribute to petty on the album, including dirks bentley. ♪ yes she was an american girl ♪ >> reporter: wynonna judd and lainey wilson. ♪ you don't have to live like a refugee ♪ ♪ don't have to live like a refugee ♪ >> reporter: and the great george strait. ♪ you wrecked me, baby, wrecked me into two, but you knew me, honey, yes, you do ♪ >> tom petty and the heartbreakers is an influence on every country act that has existed since they were a band. ♪ ou belong among the wildflowers ♪ >> reporter: chris stapleton was deeply influenced by petty's album wild flowers. what did you hear in it? >> there are no skips. it's kind of my barometer for this is the goal.

>> reporter: but for petty country, stapleton chose a song from the heartbreakers album mojo, called "i should have known it." ♪ i should have known it, hard to believe ♪ ♪ it was all right there in front of me ♪ >> it was quite a lot to learn, because it's not like an easily orchestrated thing necessarily. ♪ >> reporter: petty wrote it with the heartbreakers' mike campbell. >> it's a heavy guitar led zeppeliny kind of thing, which i had done the music, and tom wrote the words. for some reason, when tom sang it, he sang it a little understated, kind of going against the grain of the hard music. and this guy stepped up and just belts it out. and it took on a whole new life. >> reporter: stapleton met petty in 2017, the summer before he

died. you got to open for him? >> i did. we were at wrigley field. but we had to traipse through their dressing room to get to the stage. that was the first time i ever met mike. he was looking for a shirt or something. >> it's ironic that we met at wrigley field with him opening for the heartbreakers. and flash forward, the world turns around, and hey, i don't mean any disrespect, but you have a new band. i'm headlining wrigley field. maybe you'd like to come especially for us. yes, yes. >> i thought it was poetic in some way. >> it's beautifully poetic. >> reporter: i was struck when listening to the cuts on the album how easily tom petty translates into great country. >> a great song is a great song. >> and you can't ignore the twang in the voice. ♪ stand my ground, you won't be turned around ♪ >> reporter: tom petty and the heartbreakers came out of gainesville, florida. ♪ and i won't back down, hey,

baby ♪ >> there is country strains in our dna, the country music that influenced me and tom and ben and everyone, it was george jones, loretta lynn, dolly parton. >> reporter: mike campbell also performs on petty country with margo price, the song "ways to be wicked" which he cowrote. ♪ there is so many ways to be wicked ♪ >> i'm really proud of this song legacy, and that's why i'm glad they did a country album. it reminds people that hey, tom was a great writer. i do miss tom terribly. we were so close, but we wrote a lot of songs together. >> yep. >> and i'm proud of those as time goes on. refugee, it means as much now as it did when he wrote it. ♪ it don't really matter to me, baby, everybody's had to fight to be free ♪

>> reporter: how does it feel for you to perform those songs now? >> well, i love my brother, and he's always with me, you know. especially when i do his songs, i can hear him don't [ bleep ] it up. you got it now, that's the way. sell it, sell it. keep it alive. it's emotional. but it's good. it's healing. for the crowd too, i think. because we all miss him. >> that was anthony mason reporting. and while you're grooving to a new tom petty album you might want to crack open a beer. but what if that beer was brewed with recycled water, like recycled from your toilet? barry petersen got a taste. >> reporter: we presented the beer brewed from ultra purified water to our taste testers like jessica walsh. just taste and let me know. those are the ultra purified. >> i like both of these. this is really light, refreshing, crisp. it does not taste anything different. it tastes like regular -- >> reporter: beer. >> yeah, any beer.

>> reporter: except for ultra purified water is made from waste water and sewage. do you see a need. >> oh, definitely. >> reporter: for creating or using this kind of water? >> yes. we live in a desert. >> reporter: the scottsdale water department runs it through sophisticated membranes, osmosis filtration and ultraviolet light disinfection, used by breweries like desert mock brewing to make a point says summer decker an owner and partner. >> the people who say ugh and face contortion. are those who aren't willing to try it at all. >> so they'll do the yuck thing before they've even tasted it? >> yes. >> reporter: and then when they taste it, they say? >> this is great. this is fantastic beer. >> reporter: dubious earthlings can note that up on the space station almost all the water has been ultra purified for years. astronaut stephen bowen spent six months working inside and out. when you first tasted the water, the recycled water, do you remember what your reaction was?

>> yeah, it tastes very clean. we were joking yesterday's coffee is today's coffee because you just recycle it. >> reporter: and jessica may be right about our future. >> you go in, you're going to order what the flavor profile you're looking for. and i think that the water source makes no difference. >> reporter: so really, america, get your taste buds ready. >> yeah. >> and it's awesome. >> reporter: so forget the yuck and say a toast -- >> cheers. >> cheers. >> cheers. >> reporter: to yes. >> and cheers to all you have. barry petersen, cbs news, liz neeley: you know, you've probably heard it said that some people have to hit rock bottom before they really come to the lord and give him their life. and that's what happened. i probably had a lot of anxiety at that point about my future,

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well, first it was the oakland raiders moving to las vegas, and soon baseball's oakland a's will follow them. starting in 2028, the team will play in a brand-new stadium on the vegas strip. and to make way for that stadium, the iconic tropicana hotel will come tumbling down. mark strassmann has more. >> in las vegas itself, the

tourist doesn't have far to go for entertainment. >> reporter: 1957. >> a vigilant regard for human liberty. >> reporter: ike was president. elvis was king, and the new tropicana hotel the tiffany of the strip, kicked up a fuss for vegas show girls and suave secret agents. >> i hear the tropicana is quite comfortable. >> reporter: for decades, the trop drew in the famous and the infamous, from movie stars to mobsters. but now old vegas gives way to new vegas, and bally's, the owner has decided to cash in all its chips. >> it's quite dated now. there needs to be new blood and new life brought into it. >> reporter: suh kim ought to know. he is chairman of bally's. buyers of the trop last year, demolishers later this year. when you bought the property, was it a tough call to decide to close it? >> no, no, it wasn't actually. the current structure was

economic on on less sent. >> reporter: the money moved on. and a new vegas, old vegas often ends up here, the neon museum, a graveyard of gloried signage. some time this fall, with a howl and a roar, the tropicana will become another spectacular vegas implosion, the latest prime spot on the strip to collapse into an after thought. >> i thought the tropicana would always be here. >> okay, okay, gotcha, gotcha. >> reporter: impressionist rich little has played vegas since the rat pack '60s. >> it was mainly single acts, you know, like frank, dean, and sammy. >> reporter: and headlined the tropicana's comedy club for the last nine years. another old vegas landmark gone. >> i'll be sad when they blow it up. i hope i'm not on the stage at the time. >> reporter: replace with the

this, a $1.5 billion baseball stadium, the new home of the relocating oakland a's. bally's has big plans for the rest of the tropicana property too, but won't show its cards. bet on something audacious. it's vegas, baby. bally's says the tropicana will be imploded some time this fall. another piece of old las vegas left in the dust. mark strassmann, cbs news, las vegas. and that's today's "cbs news roundup." reporting from new york city, i'm shanelle kaul.

and then in a heart beat, it was gone. jenny barnes' childhood home and half a century of memories. >> this is our life. and it's such a beautiful place. just a loss of history and it's sad. >> reporter: the blue earth river continues to surge, and the ground is still giving way.

the threat remains very real to several communities downstream. the recent rains in the midwest 600% above normal. homes and crops, a way of life destroyed by record flooding. it's taken a toll on aging infrastructure as well, not just this dam, which is more than a century old, but also roads and bridges washed away. this was minnesota's governor after surveying a damaged highway. >> the engineers built that for a 500-year flood. that was 14 years ago. so the 500 year flood came in 14 years. >> reporter: the midwest is experiencing more days of extreme rainfall. events expected to be wetter and more intense due to climate change. just as sobering, only 4% of u.s. homeowners currently have flood insurance. in the midwest, it's less than 2%. catastrophic damage compounded by an insurance nightmare. back at rapidan dam, the bars family home is gone, their

business barely standing. and you can see just how close je jenny's family business is to the edge. we've been watching as the river bank has crept closer and closer to the store. and authorities are pushing the media back out of an abundance of caution just in case this side of the river bank also gives way. >> cbs' tom hanson, thank you. now to the presidential rematch debate between president biden and donald trump. cbs' nancy cordes reports from atlanta where the two rivals face off on the debate stage thursday night for the first time since october of 2020. >> reporter: the stage here is already set and the battle lines drawn. the democratic party erecting billboards across atlanta highlighting donald trump's recent conviction in new york. >> the number one mug shot of all time. >> reporter: trump sought to turn the conviction into a positive when he called into a campaign event at an atlanta black owned barbershop. >> since it happened, the

support among the black community and the hispanic community has skyrocketed. it's been amazing. >> reporter: according to a new cbs poll, most democratic voters want biden to strike a forceful tone, while most republican voters want trump to be polite. >> he is going to be so pumped up. >> reporter: in the run-up to this debate, trump has returned to a familiar playbook, suggesting biden plans to use drugs. >> they always use conspiracies, every time. >> reporter: former republican congressman adam kinzinger is a long-time trump critic, who formally endorsed biden. he remembers when trump made the same base klesse claims about biden in 2020. >> people say he was on performance-enhancing drugs. >> reporter: and even about hillary clinton in 2016. >> we should take a drug test. >> reporter: why do you think he does that? >> they're setting expectations that if joe biden does well and better than donald trump, it must be some outside influence

like drugs. it's asinine. it's insane. >> reporter: biden huddled with investigators at camp david for the sixth straight day, while trump insisted in a phone interview with newsmax that he doesn't need much prep. >> i'm not sure you can lock yourself into a room for two weeks or one week or two days and really learn what you have to know. >> reporter: biden aides are skeptical of that claim. they claim that trump who has been largely out of sight for the past four days is doing more pr prep than he is letting on. 24% of voters say they are tuning in to the debate first and foremost to see if these two men have the mental and cognitive capacity serve over the next four years. nancy cordes, cbs news, atlanta. and cbs news will have complete coverage of that presidential debate hosted by cnn thursday night starting at 8:00 p.m. eastern on our streaming network, cbs news

24/7. the live simulcast of this debate will be right here on cbs at 9:00 p.m. eastern followed by our expert analysis. a major new ruling on abortion was mistakenly uploaded to the supreme court's website wednesday before it was quickly removed. according to the document first reported by bloomberg news, the justices are poised to side with the biden administration by reinstating a lower court order that would allow hospitals in idaho to perform abortions during medical emergencies. cbs' jan crawford reports from washington. . >> reporter: the document indicates that the supreme court is prepared to allow emergency abortions to resume in idaho when a woman's health is at serious risk. that's based on a bloomberg news report which says it saw the opinion when it was inadvertently and briefly posted on the court's website. now if the decision stands as the final one, it would mean the doctors in idaho would not face criminal prosecution if they perform abortions in that rare situation when they believe it's

necessary to prevent a woman from suffering serious health complications, at least for the time being, while this case plays thought the lower courts. the biden administration has sued idaho after it passed what is one of the most restrictive abortion laws in america banning all abortion except to save a mother's life and in cases of rape or incest. and it argued that a federal law requiring emergency care to stabilize patients requires abortion in some situation, and that law should override idaho's strict ban. idaho officials say the laws don't conflict. doctors can perform those kind of abortions where a woman is facing dire health consequences, but doctors in the state said they've had to helicopter about two women a month to other states for abortions because it wasn't clear. now this is not a decision on the merits. if this is the decision, the case, once it goes through the lower courts, eventually could come right back to the supreme court. but for now, that would be the status on the ground in idaho and other states that have similar bans potentially. jan crawford, cbs news, washington.

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bans same-sex relationships. it comes after a year-long cbs news investigation that revealed how lgbtq veterans were still saddled with less than honorable discharges, and in some case, criminal convictions more than a decade after "don't ask, don't tell" was repealed. our chief investigative correspondent jim axelrod has been on this story from the start and has the latest. >> reporter: the white house said people who were convicted under article 125, a former military law that criminalized sodomy, even between consenting adults will now have the opportunity to apply for a pardon. the thousands who may be eligible include air force veteran steve morose, whom we first met and heard from last year. >> as my sexual identity blossomed, i battled with how to live the covert double life that was required of lgbtq military members at that time. >> reporter: steve morose was an air force officer in the late

1980s, before the military found out he was gay and put him on trial. you were looking at 17 years in prison. >> i was. five years per sodomy charge and a year for conduct unbecoming charge. >> reporter: he was sentenced to two years in a military prison. >> i thought my military life was over, but in that moment, i thought my life was over. >> reporter: last year, when we spoke, he was still hoping for the day when the government would make things right. >> they have the ability to look back and say people who are hanging under the weight of something that is no longer valid should be made whole. >> reporter: and today word of that long-awaited redemption arrived. president biden announced former service members who were convicted of crimes solely for being gay could apply for pardons, clearing their records and potentially having v.a. benefits restored. >> it is for many a lifetime that they have been carrying this. >> reporter: jocelyn larkin is

representing a group of lgbtq veterans suing the pentagon. >> it's a wonderful step forward, but there is so much more work to be done. but we welcome any recognition of the injustice that this group of people has been experiencing. >> reporter: for steve morose, it's recognition that is decades past due. what could be bigger than restoring someone's humanity? a sense of justice to somebody's life. >> especially if you're that person, nothing. >> reporter: steve morose tells us he hasn't been contacted by anyone yet, but that he is ecstatic to hear the news. the pardons are not automatic. veterans will have to apply to prove they're eligible. once they receive that certificate of pardon, they can good to their military branch and apply to have their discharge characterization changed, which the white house says should unlock access to critical v.a. benefits down the road. the white house could not say how long that process would take or exactly how many service or exactly how many service members this w

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thoughts on what we'll see and what we'll hear. >> reporter: presidential campaigns are sometimes compared to a job interview. voters are the hiring committee. debates the in-person office visit. but we already know joe biden and donald trump. to learn whether they will protect the constitution, how they manage a crisis, or whether they have the character and temperament, we can look to their records. in the office of the job that they want. so what is the point of this debate? first, debates showcase the job seekers' performance skills, presidential bearing, warmth, and command. even though we've seen these two perform a lot, it's a chance for candidates to reverse the stylistic misimpressions among voters who haven't paid much attention. plus, the context changes in a presidency. ronald reagan was a well-known incumbent in 1984, but at 73 years old, he was asked about his age, a concern voters tell pollsters they have about the 81-year-old joe biden.

>> i will not make age an issue of this campaign. i am not going to exploit for political purposes my opponent's youth and inexperience. >> reporter: the canned one-liner showed reagan could navigate the shifting public sentiment he faced in office. on substance, this debate can illuminate not just what these candidates believe, but what's at the core of those beliefs. circumstances will change when they're in office. what hard wire willing guide them? what values will guide them as they use the power that they've been given? will any? every candidate's nightmare the gaffe that becomes the story, like ford's claim in 1976. >> there is no soviet domination of eastern europe and there never will be under a ford administration. >> reporter: the soviets did dominate eastern europe. >> i don't believe that the poll -- >> reporter: ford seemed out of it and repeated himself,

insisting on something that was not so. >> they rigged the presidential election of 2020. >> reporter: donald trump also insists on something that is not so, that he won the 20 t20 election, which he lost. not a gaffe, but a lie. top republicans in the house and senate said that lie led to a violent attempt to block the will of the people. trump still tells this lie. can you have a debate built on reason to measure reason when a candidate insists on something beyond reason? the analogy collapses. not an interview anymore, but a hostile takeover where the majority of the hiring committee is pushed out of the room. >> all right. that was john dickerson, and this is "cbs news roundup."

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an ad or podcast saying things you never said before. that was the chilling reality for two professional voice actors who now say their voices were, quote, stolen and modified by an ai start-up called lovo, and now they're suing. >> artificial intelligence that makes it fast and easy to create voiceovers. >> reporter: for actors, paul sky lerman and lennaia sage, their voices are their calling cards. >> our voices is the foundation of our career and livelihood. without it, we don't have a career. we're not putting food on the table. >> reporter: the couple says that their livelihood was stolen by ai. both lerman and sage were hired for voice overwork by lovo, an ai company back in 2019 and 2020 to provide voice clips for what they were told would be internal research. why did you proceed and agree to it? >> because on three occasions in writing, they had given me assurances of how and where it would be used, for internal purposes only. and never forward-facing.

>> these urv are capable -- >> reporter: yet two years later lerman says he was shocked when he happened to hear his voice on a youtube video and later a podcast that he never recorded. >> my voice is out there saying things that iowa never said in places that i haven't agreed to be a part of. we are now in a science fiction come true, and we have a very real reality that we need to face. >> reporter: shock turned to outrage when the couple dug deeper. they say the start-up had cloned both lerman and sage's voices, breaching their respective contracts. now the actors are suing lovo in a proposed federal class action lawsuit for violating trademark laws to train their ai. >> so this is the ai synthetic version of my voice that they played at the pitch meetings. >> our certified teachers are ready to help conquer your fears of reading, arhythm matt and more. >> our certified teachers are ready to help your son or

daughter conquer their fears of reading, writing, arithmetic or more. >> it feels exactly the same. >> reporter: now lovo advertises an ai voice cloning tool where users can upload or record an audio sample that gets turned into a custom voice clone. currently experts say there are no federal laws covering the use of ai to mimic someone's voice. >> we need federal ai likeness protection, and we needed it yesterday. we need a uniform statutory scheme that's going to protect not only public figures and celebrities, but just about every person and citizen of america, because ai can clone and replicate anybody. >> reporter: how much of your future earnings do you think ai and this company have allegedly stole from you? >> unfortunately, i mean, have i such an incredibly pessimistic view of the future of voiceover. so far this year, to date i've lost 75% of the work that i would have normally done up

until now. and i am expecting that to get worse. >> reporter: a bleak outlook for so many in their profession and beyond. >> this is about protecting individuals who have a voice that can be exploited, and unfortunately, that's everyone and anyone. >> reporter: lovo the company did not respond to our multiple calls and emails asking them for comment, but this is not the first time ai has been an issue. as you might remember, ai was a big part of sag-aftra negotiations to protect actors likene es and

it's thursday, june 27th, 2024. this is "cbs news mornings." first faceoff. the countdown is on, and the debate stage is set as president biden and his predecessor donald trump prepare to do battle. major mistake. the nation's highest court briefly posts a draft opinion on line for a crucirt