>> i was wrong about it. >> reporter: the 39-year-old first rose to prominence with the publication of his best-selling memoir, "hillbilly elegy," later adapted to the big screen. >> you've got to decide if you want to be somebody or not. >> reporter: by the time he ran for the u.s. senate starting in 2021, he'd reconciled with trump, boosting his chances in a crowded gop primary and helping him win. vance is married with three children and becomes the first millennial on a major party presidential ticket, something the former president's oldest son, donald junior, considers a big plus. >> i love that j.d. is young. you know, my father built trump tower at 37. you can be young and accomplished. >> reporter: born into a family are appalachian roots, his parents divorced at a young age. he was raised mostly by his grandmother, who he called mamaw, as his mother struggled with addiction to opioids. ar high school, he joined the ma reefrns, served in the iraq war, and later attended ohio state university and yale law school. vance spent the last two days mostly at his home waiting for a decision.

he left this morning for milwaukee as the buckeye state's junior senator. this afternoon, with only 20 minutes' notice, trump named him his new partner. down here on the convention floor, delegates already making adjustments signaling they support the decision. now, on the issues, as a senator, vance is more conservative than trump on abortion rights, believing there should only be exceptions if the life of the mother is at risk. and he signaled earlier this year he would do something that mike pence wouldn't back on january 6th, 2021, allow challenges to the election results from 2020 in several states. both of those issues sure to be seized on by the biden campaign and democrats in the coming days. >> that was our ed o'keefe in milwaukee. the war in gaza will take center stage next week in china when beijing hosts the leaders of both hamas and fatah, rival palestinian factions who have long competed for power in gaza and the west bank. as cease-fire talks between israel and hamas continue, some

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>> i think it's pretty apt. the close range that we were to the enemy, the fact that we were employing, you know, self-defense strikes, this was not a long-range projection. this was right in our face. >> reporter: norah o'donnell was the first journalist to report from the red sea aboard the "eisenhower" since the conflict began. navy officials say the carrier strike group fired more than 400 air-to-surface missiles and 55 air-to-air missiles. >> we put a bomb down for every air-to-surface engagement and then a silhouette of an airborne target for every air to air engagement that we had. >> reporter: it is a fight that continues, and the intensity of the close combat fighting and repeated targeting of the carrier itself has taken its toll on returning service members. >> today is a very big day for everybody as we actually get to see our families again. but for us, reintegration is going to take a lot of time as we square with everything that we've been through. >> reporter: the carrieritself is due to arrive over the

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the attack on former president donald trump along with the ongoing gop convention in milwaukee has taken the spotlight off of what was the defining topic of this campaign, president biden's age. robert costa has more. >> let me say this as clearly as i can. i'm staying in the race! [ cheers and applause ] >> reporter: by now, you know where things stand.

president biden says he's all in, and no one -- well, almost no one can convince him otherwise. >> if you can be convinced that you can not defeat donald trump, will you stand down? >> well, it depends on what the lord almighty comes down and tells me that, i might do that. >> reporter: biden's decision comes as some democrats are urging the 81-year-old to get out following last month's debate. but beyond the headlines of hand-wringing in washington, this moment also has the whiff of history. >> doris, there's so much talk about politics in this moment, but what does history tell us? >> i think history gives us two ways of thinking about this extraordinary moment. >> reporter: two past presidents says historian doris cakearns goodwin offer a playbook about how to handle age, stam narks and politics in a re-election campaign.

in 1944, she notes, franklin roosevelt facing concerns about his health, was determined to stay in. >> he decided that he had to stay in the race for the good of the country because he felt that in a certain sense, that he was like a soldier who could not give up his post if the country decided they wanted him to run. >> reporter: fdr made an effort to show the country he had energy, though it wasn't always easy. >> he looked much older than he actually was. he was only 62 years old. the presidency ages everybody, but he knew what he was facing, and he made the decision that somehow, even with that ill health, that he was the one who was best equipped and he barreled through. so he made a decision that he was going to go out among the people. >> reporter: then in 1968, president lyndon johnson made the decision to withdraw as pressure mounted. >> and i will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president. >> reporter: goodwin worked with lbj in the white house, and he features in her latest book

about the 1960s. >> he decided for the good of the country that he was in such difficulty that he wanted to bring peace in vietnam. thunderstruck was the country by that decision, but it was for the good of the country, he believed, and there was an extraordinary reaction to it. >> reporter: as with fdr and lbj, biden's challenge, she says, is showing the american people he's up to it, not just with a single interview but by showing command of what is perhaps the hardest job in the world. >> president biden has a right to be proud of is that he has a character that has humility. he's had resilience. he has empathy toward other people, toward parts of the country, toward people in trouble, and he's had accountability and responsibility. so i think keeping that idea that what he wants most of all is for that character to be remaining and be part of his legacy will factor into how he decides this thing.

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to clean their bodies and soothe their souls. >> bathing has been at the center of urban life in japan, i think, for century rrz sam holden, originally from colorado, led the renovation of an old bathhouse in his tokyo neighborhood, including the repainting of a traditional mural of mount fuji. >> there's three castspeople nowadays in tokyo who can still paint these paintings. two of them are in their 70s or 80s. >> oh, my. >> and so it's really a dying craft. >> reporter: public baths or sentos, date back to the 16th century in tokyo. for rich and poor alike, they were key to hygiene, of course, but also the focus of community. and to this day, there's at least one sento tucked into virtually every tokyo neighborhood. >> if you have to go to a place every day to wash yourself -- >> and get naked. >> -- and get naked, you're going to get to know your neighbors. and also on the way to your bathhouse or on the way home, you're going to be stopping by

your vegetable grocer or your fishmonger or the local bar, and that's really the very sort of life of traditional japanese neighborhoods. >> reporter: as late as the 1950s, about half of tokyo's apartments had no baths or showers. some of those apartments still exist, and arata noguchi, an aspiring architect, lives in one of them. it's cheap, about $300 a month, minimalist and compact, and has a very basic washroom, which means noguchi is a regular at the local baths. "i stop in on my way home every day," he tells me. "bathing helps me to switch gears after work." there's a ritual to the sento. first a thorough scrub all over to get squeaky clean, in the buff, and then the utter bliss of unwinding with a hot soak and sometimes a chat. but thanks to indoor plumbing,

tokyo public bath owners have been pulling the plug. more than 400 sentos have closed since 2006, but the family that owns this one is the exception. right in the heart of tokyo's luxury shopping district, they're opening a new branch in a swanky shopping center with all the traditional fittings. and sam holden dares to hope we're now watching a sento revival. >> i think isolation is increasingly seen as a social problem in japan and big cities like tokyo, both for elderly people and for young people. >> so the bathhouse is the perfect solution? >> exactly, and it's sort of sitting right in front of everybody's eyes. it's nothing new. >> reporter: the restorative power of hot water is as old a

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>> reporter: for over five years, starting back in 2018, something mysterious was going on. >> it's a nearly billion dollar land purchase. >> reporter: just 90 minutes northeast of san francisco -- >> no one, not even the federal

government, can figure out who's behind it. >> reporter: -- a secretive group was purchasing farmland, lots of it, some 60,000 acres in rural solano county, california. many feared it might be a chinese government plot to try to set up shop near travis air force base. >> like a lot of people, i was chasing it around, running into the usual locked doors. >> reporter: but as "the new york times" connor doherty, who helped break the story, found out -- >> solano is a kind of unusual county. >> reporter: -- the truth was even stranger than the rumors. >> i got a tip from someone that what was behind the locked doors was the richest people in the world quietly buying all this farmland. reid hoffman, the founder of linkedin, laureen powell jobs, marc andreessen, just really a who's who of silicon valley was involved in this.

>> reporter: something else surprising. within hours of doherty's big scoop, this mysterious company launched a website and publicly identified itself as california forever, an ambitious plan to build a brand-new kind of city for as many as 400,000 residents. >> we knew this would be controversial when we announced the project. >> reporter: and this is the guy behind it. >> i had a hunch that this was a really good place to do something like this. >> reporter: jan sramek, a 37-year-old czech-born former goldman sachs trader turned aspiring city builder. >> you can see travis air force base is out here. >> reporter: who has to try to convince the public that the project isn't just an oasis for billionaires or some high-tech city of the future. >> so over there will be a downtown. >> reporter: his vision is to turn all of this into a walkable city in the mold of savannah, georgia, or philadelphia, pa, or new york's west village. >> so if you are successful with this, how will this still be a place that middle class people could even afford? >> by continuing to build for a long time. so if we look at why places have

become unaffordable, it's because they've just stopped building. instead of taking all of these well-paying jobs that are being created in northern california and sending them to texas or florida, let's create a place where we can send them to solano county. >> a place where our children's future can be bright. walkable middle-class neighborhoods with homes we can afford. >> reporter: the project's fate will ultimately be decided this november by the voters of solano county, who have to decide whether or not to overturn a three-decades-old law restricting where new development can go. >> we're going to have total gridlock. >> you need to work on your soft skills. don't insult us when you come to talk to us. >> reporter: sramek's charm offensive has been met with a healthy amount of skepticism by many locals. >> you're not going to answer that question because telling the truth is not in your nature. >> the current proposal is to build a city about two miles up this road.

>> reporter: locals like al medvitz and jeannie mccormack. they're some of the last holdouts here. most of their neighbors have sold to california forever at far over market value. but they've turned down millions to keep farming this 3,700-acre ranch, which has been in jeannie's family for more than a century. >> having developers come was always a fear my whole childhood because california was just changing so fast with development in farm areas. >> reporter: many of their neighbors who didn't sell have been sued by california forever, who has accused them of colluding to raise land prices in the area, a charge they deny. >> the housing is important. there's no question about it. but there are appropriate ways to do it. >> we're reaching out to voters because east solano plan was submitted as an initiative to the county. >> reporter: california forever is sparing no expense to try to win over county residents. >> welcome, everyone. thanks for joining us tonight. >> reporter: in what "the new york times" connor doherty says

could be the most expensive political campaign in the history of solano county. >> the idea that this tech money is being redirected to this very kind of brick and mortar thing as an investment is kind of weird to me. is it just that there's that much money to be made potentially? >> everyone thinks i'm crazy when i say this, but i just don't think it's principally about money. i think that many of the people involved are extremely frustrated that the pace of change in the physical world has lagged so far behind the pace of change in the digital world. if we could redesign everything and not have to deal with all the inherited problems that cities come with, that would make everything so much easier. >> reporter: california forever still has plenty of hurdles to clear, some that may prove impossible. >> most of the cities in america looked like this not that many years ago. >> reporter: but sramek insists this idea of designing and building a relatively

affordable, walkable city within the nation's most unaffordable and car-centric state is, in fact, possible. he says his company has the know-how, the patience, and, critically, the deep pockets to make it a reality. >> to me, success is that in 10 or 15 years, solano county is this incredible economic success story that people all over america are looking at and saying, can we replicate that here, where with good design and a good idea and the right partnerships locally, you can build something special. >> do you see yourself living there with your family? >> yeah, i'll be moving in the first house. my wife is already designing it in her head. >> that was luke burbank reporting, and this is "cbs news roundup."

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there has been a distinct change of tone at the gop convention in milwaukee. party leaders are now calling for national unity. major garrett assesses the possibility of a calmer campaign. [ sound of gunfire ] >> get down! >> reporter: and bullets pierced the air and donald trump pitched to the ground, america found itself on the precipice of political horror. then came the predictable sprint to our partisan corners, the breathless and fact-free race to lay blame for the work of a deranged individual.

"president biden sent the order" proclaimed a conservative georgia congressman. a staffer for mississippi democrat bennie thompson wished the shooter hadn't missed. by morning, though, as a dazed country groped for some alternate sounds and more was known about the shooter, words began to soften. house majority leader steve scalise. this hyper-charged rhetoric just needs to be dialed down. let's talk about our differences. we have big, big differences. >> reporter: pennsylvania governor josh shapiro. >> political disagreements can never, ever be addressed through violence. >> reporter: a top trump adviser who at first pointed blame at democrats deleted the post and sent a memo saying the campaign would tolerate no post-attack harangues. that staffer for mississippi democrat bennie thompson, she resigned. and trump implored the country to stand united. >> it's time to cool it down. >> reporter: president biden capped off a day of what sounded like the beginning of rhetorical reflection.

>> while unity is the most elusive of goals right now, nothing is more important for us now than standing together. we can do this. >> reporter: maybe, but political passions have already spawned violence. republicans wounded in the 2017 congressional baseball shooting. the january 6th riot. the shooting of congresswoman gabby giffords. >> drop the hammer. >> reporter: the hammer attack on house speaker nancy pelosi's husband. and the mockery that followed. >> how is her husband doing by the way? anybody know? >> reporter: partisanship remains our national reflex. politicians feed the hunger for combative language. mark robinson, a leading candidate for governor in north carolina, was free to sound like this. >> some folks need killing. >> reporter: can america cool down for more than a minute? if past is prologue, the answer is no. for now, political figures are offering a glimmer of light in an era of darkness.

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and we'll have the latest details on the investigation into the attempted assassination of donald trump. former president donald trump has now officially been named the republican nominee for president. with his ear bandaged from an assassin's bullet, trump made a dramatic, unscheduled appearance late in the evening on the opening day of the republican national convention. earlier, trump revealed his vice presidential running mate will be ohio senator j.d. vance. cbs's natalie brand has all the details from the convention center in milwaukee. >> reporter: after months of suspense and speculation, former president donald trump tapped ohio senator j.d. vance as his vice presidential running mate. vance, a relative newcomer to politics who first took office in 2022, is 39 years old. >> i love that j.d. is young. my father built trump tower at 37. you can be young and accomplished. >> reporter: vance was a harsh critic of trump during his white

house run back in 2016. but now he's one of his most vocal defenders in congress. he's also known for his memoir, "hillbilly elegy" about growing up in poverty. >> what does he bring to the ticket? >> he understands what working people go through from his background, and he will be a tremendous advocate for donald trump and donald trump's agenda. >> reporter: monday night's session is focused on the economy with speakers ranging from lawmakers to everyday americans, including this single mother. >> i know americans can relate when i say that every time i fill up my gas tank, go to the grocery store, and try to pay the bills, i think, who doesn't miss the trump days? >> reporter: monday's keynote speaker is teamsters union chief sean o'brien. earlier monday, there was the roll call of states. supporters still processing saturday's shooting. >> how do you think the tone

changes this week given saturday's attempted assassination? >> i think it's changed it a great deal, and especially because they tried to assassinate him, and he's still coming back fighting. >> reporter: delegates say this week they want to hear a message of unity. natalie brand, cbs news, milwaukee, wisconsin. donald trump is getting a big financial boost from one of america's wealthiest men. billionaire elon musk says he will donate around $45 million a month to a new super pac called america pac to fund trump's presidential bid. musk officially endorsed trump after saturday's assassination attempt against the former president. and that attempted assassination is overshadowing all proceedings at the republican convention. now cbs news has learned that just hours before the trump rally in pennsylvania, the shooter bought new ammunition for his father's ar-style assault rifle. as cbs's scott macfarlane

reports, questions are now mounting about the security breakdown. [ sound of gunfire ] >> reporter: cbs news has learned the secret service did not sweep the building the shooter used to fire on the former president even though it had a direct line of sight to the stage, it was outside the security perimeter. but a local sniper team was inside the building at the time of the shooting. >> there he is. >> reporter: new video shows people in the crowd were pointing to the man on the roof at least two minutes before the first shot was fired. >> get behind the tape. >> reporter: 13 seconds before the shooter opens fire, people run away from the building. former president trump was on the stage a little more than 400 feet away, where two sets of sniper teams behind him point their rifles in the direction of the shooter, appearing to spot something before the first shot rings out. the sniper teams opened fire, killing the would-be assassin. >> the entities, state and local, they are largely maybe operating on a different radio

channel than the secret service. >> reporter: the secret service was relying on local police to fill out part of its specialized protective units. >> when i looked up, i saw blood on the podium. >> reporter: john abel was in the stands behind former president trump when the shooting began. >> at any point in time since then, have you asked yourself, how could this possibly happen? how could this be such a failure? >> yeah, that was the only thing that's going through my mind for the last 48 hours. it just didn't make any sense to me, and it still doesn't make sense to me how they allowed this to happen at all. >> reporter: one person in the crowd was killed and two others critically injured. >> do you feel like somebody let you down? >> absolutely. absolutely. >> reporter: scott macfarlane, cbs news, butler, pennsylvania. the secretary of homeland security says someone outside the government will soon be appointed to lead an independent review of security failures at the trump rally. he also announced robert f.

kennedy jr., the independent party candidate, will get secret service protection. cbs's nancy cordes reports from the white house. >> adjustments have been made to the former president's detail, to the current president's detail. >> reporter: homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas called saturday's shooting a security failure though he insists he still has confidence in secret service director kimberly cheatle. >> is the secret service stretched too thin? >> we draw upon resources not only across the federal government but with state and local law enforcement, and i do intend to speak with members of the hill with respect to the resources that we need. >> reporter: as the republican convention gets under way, the biden team is moving cautiously to restart its own campaign advertising after pulling all ads this weekend as a sign of respect. they say the president's goal after the assassination attempt

is this. >> we need to lower the temperature, lower the temperature, bring the temperature down. >> reporter: it comes after a few republican lawmakers have baselessly suggested that trump's shooting was an inside job directed by democrats. >> how do you feel? how does the rank and file feel when they hear that? >> first of all, that is prepo preposterous, and it is also dangerous to propagate rumors that are so unequivocally false. >> reporter: in an interview with nbc, biden was asked about some of his own rhetoric, including his frequent claim that trump is a threat to democracy. >> how do you talk about the threat o democracy, which is real, when a president says things like he says? do you just not say anything because it may incite somebody? >> reporter: vice president harris reached out to trump's v.p. pick, senator j.d. vance, on monday afternoon. she left him a message welcoming him to the race and congratulating him. she also said she's looking forward to seeing him at the

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the ruling of the judge, who was appointed by trump after he lost the last presidential election, is sparking more political outrage. in milwaukee, tony dokoupil spoke to gop convention-goers, who say they feel the country's overheated political rhetoric set the stage for saturday's attack on the former president. >> reporter: as many convention-goers landed in milwaukee saturday, emotions ran wild. [ sound of gunfire ] >> get down, get down. >> sads state when people can't have civil discourse. >> reporter: but of the reactions we heard over two days of conversations -- >> were you surprised when you got the news yesterday? >> no, not at all. >> reporter: -- surprise at the violence has not been one of them. >> there's a lot of vitriol on both sides. it's not really political talk anymore. it all has so much battlefield sound to it. >> reporter: politicians on all sides of the aisle have called for national unity and cooler heads. >> i think what we have got to see is serious discussion of

serious issues and not this kind of harsh rhetoric. >> we settle those differences through political debates and through elections. we don't settle them through violence. >> reporter: but measure and calm haven't exactly defined american politics lately. >> donald trump's campaign is obsessed with the past, not the future. he's willing to sacrifice our democracy, put himself in power. >> reporter: many republicans blame the rhetoric of president biden and other democrats. >> who's responsible for this division? >> i think it's the fake news actually. >> not the politicians on either side, but the media? >> i think the media is -- is creating all this rhetoric. >> when you start convincing the public that trump is hitler, i mean who doesn't want to take out hitler, right? >> now, if i don't get elected, it's going to be a bloodbath. >> reporter: as for the former president's own history of divisive language -- >> all of us here today do not want to see our election victory

stolen by a bold and radical left democrats. >> reporter: including claims of a stolen election. supporters tend to hear him differently. >> there are people in the center and on the left who think donald trump is responsible for a lot of the political rhetoric and, in particular, violent rhetoric in this country. >> i believe he's waking up the people. >> reporter: there are some here in milwaukee who won't pin our extreme politics on any particular party. >> i see it as an issue with -- i'm not going to say both sides. i'm going to say all sides. and that's why i say we must get together and speak as a nation. >> reporter: but beyond how we got to now, there is concern that we haven't yet seen the worst. >> i'm scared what could potentially happen next. >> what is the scenario in your mind? >> something possibly against the democrat party, and we don't

need that in our society, you know. that's other countries. that shouldn't happen here in the united states. >> reporter: and the solution, at least for the moment, as elusive as it is obvious. >> how do we cool things off? >> well, we're in milwaukee, so have a beer. sit down and talk to the person sitting next to you. it's a matter of conversation and communication. >> that was tony

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