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>> you smell that? >> reporter: ramses alvarez's team just found their treasure. >> looks like some w-2s. >> reporter: a name with an address. >> what you're doing is building a case. >> this is our evidence. >> reporter: san francisco is like much of america, blighted by litter. alvarez supervises these public works employees. think of them as trash detectives, rooting through mounds of rubbish block by block, bag by bag, trying to tie the trash to the trasher. >> what did you find? >> it's like credit card applications. >> it happens 24/7/365. there's always illegal dumping in this city. >> reporter: surveillance video shows this guy unloading his truck onto the sidewalk. fines can hit $1,000. >> the goal of the program is more than cleanup. it's accountability. >> yes. it's not okay to use the city as your trash can. >> reporter: talking trash nationally. there are an estimated 50 billion pieces of litter lying around on u.s. roads and waterways.

that comes out to roughly 150 pieces of litter for every person living in this country. >> a trashed environment sends a powerful message, and it's not a pleasant one psychologically or socially or physically. >> reporter: david spiegel, a psychiatry professor at stanford, says the trashing of america, images like this, breeds social isolation. >> social isolation is bad for your mental health. it's bad for your physical health. and they've actually linked it to depression. >> reporter: san francisco alone generates 5,000 tons of trash a day. recology, one of the city's waste disposal companies, collects and separates most of it into three categories -- landfill, recycling, and compost sold to fertilize nearby farms. but 18,000 tons of trash a year gets dumped on city streets. >> you walk out here every day -- >> man, and it's going to be garbage. >> reporter: geoffrey simpson lives on this corner. it's one of 30 hot spots for dumping just in this one neighborhood. >> who is doing this, do you

know? >> i wouldn't know, man. >> but it ticks you off? >> constantly. >> reporter: in a 2024 lawnstarter survey of america's dirtiest cities, new york city's living conditions came out first, which means worst. san francisco second. jersey city third. >> he's calling our packer truck. >> reporter: in san francisco, many people dump to dodge trash collection fees paid by most owners and renters here. >> we want to recycle and compost as much as possible. >> reporter: recology's robert reed has this reminder. do your part. >> we all generate garbage. we all have a personal responsibility to take care of it, to put it in the right place. >> people are good. >> reporter: in this trash, no leads. all the personal mail torn to pieces. >> so that person's getting away with it? >> yeah, until next time. >> reporter: and next time could be right around the corner. mark strassmann in san francisco. and there's a lot more just

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one competition you won't see, though, cornhole. the beanbag toss game is the most played sport in america, and the american cornhole league is now pushing to make it an olympic sport by 2032. cbs's brook silva-braga has more on the game's rapid rise in popularity. >> reporter: for decades, cornhole has been the game you play on one side of a bar while the other side is line dancing. the game you play before going into a football stadium. the game you play before sleeping in a tent. >> took boards out while we were camping. we would have like little family tournaments. >> reporter: doug and jennifer hamann have run barn night cornhole just outside denver for years. >> a lot of it is the people. it's really fun to be able to just get to drink beer and just hang out with your friends. >> reporter: but cornhole is attempting an unlikely toss into the mainstream. >> goes way up top and hits it. >> reporter: turn on espn these days or cbs sports network -- >> this is going to be a fun

one. >> reporter: -- and you might spot trey ryder. >> we had the first wave in 2017. we got on tv for the first time, and that was like, oh, my gosh, we're on tv. like espn2 on a saturday at 2:00 p.m. and then the pandemic hits a couple years later. then we're like doom and gloom. we think the world is ending, and we were able to put on professional tournaments live on espn. >> gets them both to drop. what a shot. >> and we were the only sport on television. the only sport that beat cornhole on television in the pandemic was korean baseball. that was it. the women's game is really interesting right now. >> reporter: when he's not broadcasting, ryder is the chief marketing officer of the acl, or american cornhole league, the biggest force in the game's corporate push. today more than a million dollars in prize money is shared by 250 acl pros. the top players make low six figures. >> this is my favorite story of the day. >> reporter: but the game's biggest burst of publicity has shined on two amateurs. >> gavin hamann and jaxson

remmick. >> reporter: with the head scratching news of college scholarships -- >> to play cornhole. >> reporter: -- being bestowed on a pair of colorado teens. >> we were just -- i mean we were gist shock -- just shocked. >> too good of an opportunity not to take. >> reporter: yes, gavin hamann and jaxson remmick are getting not quite full scholarships to play cornhole at winthrop university. that's a first. gavin is jen and doug's son. he first grabbed a bag during those camping trips. jaxson started playing more recently when the pandemic shut down his baseball season. they started winning before they started shaving. >> and i was like, okay, i kind of like that. i like beating up on these old dudes and like showing that the kids can win. >> and you're playing against, like, adults drinking a miller lite? >> oh, yeah, 100%. >> how did people treat you when you're the 13-year-old winning? >> they would talk so much crap and all that but -- >> that's just how it is. >> what did they say? >> go back to school. >> all these like weak, weak

comebacks. >> yeah, very weak. >> reporter: mastery came from constant practice, made possible even in the colorado winter by the conversion of the hamann home into a cornhole court. >> whose idea was this? >> yeah, me. >> did it take some convincing of mom and dad? >> yeah, it took a little bit. he was like, i'm not letting my house be a cornhole house. i'm not letting people walk in the front. but i convinced him. >> can dayton weber take advantage here? bag two is going to be good. >> reporter: part of cornhole's appeal is the idea almost anyone can play and win. dayton weber may be the most striking example but also consider the doubles team of deborah odom and isabella saprenin. >> there's literally 50 years difference in our age. >> almost exactly. >> almost exhibit. >> reporter: saprenin, now 17, turned pro at 13. >> do you mind me asking how much money you've made through these tournaments? >> it's got to be over 50 grand.

>> i would say maybe over 100. >> reporter: odom had been one of the world's top horseshoe players. an injury pushed her toward cornhole, which is easier on the body. plus -- >> in horseshoes, there's no strategy. you just got to throw a ringer. >> so roll or airmail? >> reporter: cornhole, believe it or not, has a lot of strategy. pro ryan smith explained how one side of the bag is made sticky, the other slick, allowing for different types of shots. >> i'm going to try to throw a block and basically try to land it here and mess up your lanes. >> reporter: those blocks lead to an array of responses. >> intentional block. >> reporter: it's a big part of what makes cornhole good tv. >> he's got to complete the push, and he does, jeff. >> reporter: and a big part of hamann and remmick's success. >> oh, my goodness. >> so that's a push. >> reporter: specifically they've perfected a shot called the roll. setting a block that stops their opponents from scoring. >> let's see if i can hit this roll.

>> reporter: but then expertly bouncing their own bag in. >> oh, my god. >> they are the best of the best when it comes to high school players. >> reporter: dusty thompson is the guy who picked gavin and jaxson for the first ever scholarships. >> most people put their opposite foot forward. >> reporter: he's winthrop university's new cornhole coach and a former pro. >> you come. you're coming up like this. then when you're releasing, the pin should be facing that way. >> reporter: thompson is trying to copy what's been built down the hall at winthrop, a big-time e-sports team. these are cheaper ways to get attention than a basketball or football program. and it's all part of a grander play by the acl to build college and even high school competition across the country. >> tennessee with the win. >> reporter: not necessarily as part of the ncaa, but their own for-profit business. it's seeming less farfetched by the day. >> would you like to play in college? >> yeah, i would. i'd go to winthrop university and then try to go pro. >> okay. that's a goal? >> uh-huh.

>> reporter: is cornhole a sport? >> oh, that's pretty. >> reporter: who's to say? but what game is more american than finding something people love and turning it into a business? >> that was brook silva-braga reporting, and this is "cbs news roundup."

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spectators. covid restrictions kept them away for the last two games. cbs's jamie yuccas talked to oh link -- olympians who can't wait for this jolt of fan energy. >> reporter: for many athletes, the tokyo olympics were memorable for all the wrong reasons. crowdless venues, forced isolation, mask mandates, and the potential for a positive covid test. paris promises to be different, especially for paralympic sitting volleyball player nicky nieves. >> i got sick three days before we left for tokyo. fortunately my team did pull out the gold medal, so now i'm literally so excited to get there and be able to compete with my teammates. >> reporter: soccer star rose lavelle, a key figure on the u.s. bronze medal winning team in 2021, says the return of fans is a game-changer. >> it will make it like that much more exciting. obviously like still tokyo was so exciting and cool to be a part of. but i think having fans will just elevate that feeling like tenfold. >> reporter: unlike tokyo, athletes are not required to take daily covid tests. they can gather together in the

olympic village and are allowed to stick around after their events conclude, giving many their first opportunity to explore the host city. >> hopefully this go-around, it's more normal, a little more like festival atmosphere, and it's in paris this. is one of the world's great cities. >> i think for us it's about taking advantage of the energy and the opportunity that's given in paris and also to just enjoy this. >> reporter: first up, the opening ceremony on friday, a moment of glory for olympians lucky enough to make their national team. but in tokyo, only a select few were able to attend due to covid restrictions. track and field sprinter kenny bednarek found himself in a new role, spectator. >> tokyo is just kind of like dead. i'm just going to be excited for the whole olympic experience, going to opening ceremony and closing ceremony because we didn't get that opportunity last time. >> reporter: his mom, mary ann, missed out on watching his silver medal performance in tokyo. she was left shouting her support at the tv. >> what will it be like this time to actually be able to be

there and see him? >> i scream. i scream just as loud as i can. i'm going to be screaming and holler. >> reporter: bmx cyclist hannah roberts will have an even louder cheering section with her eight family members planning to pack up and head to paris. it will be her mom, betty's first time at the olympic games. >> being able to see all of the people that come out to support all the athletes, i think that's really important. >> reporter: even for those of us covering the games, it's a very different experience. like the athletes, there's no more mandatory testing, and we as a crew can actually hang out together, even have a meal without that plexiglas partition in the middle. in paris, jamie yuccas, cbs news. and that's today's "cbs news roundup." reporting from new york city, i'm shanelle kaul. ♪

hello and thanks so much for staying up with us. i'm shanelle kaul in new york, and here are some of the top stories on "cbs news roundup." battle lines are being drawn as donald trump says he is not ready to agree to a presidential debate. new police video shows that rooftop just moments after a sniper took aim at donald trump. and one suspect is under arrest, accused of starting california's largest wildfire of the year. late thursday, republican presidential candidate donald trump rejected a scheduled debate with kamala harris, saying she has not been officially named the democratic challenger. with president joe biden now officially out of the race, both sides are sharply increasing attacks. cbs's skyler henry has more from washington. >> i am running to become president of the united states of america. >> reporter: after speaking to one of the nation's largest

teachers unions, vice president kamala harris says she's ready to take on former president donald trump. >> i think the voters deserve to see the split screen that exists in this race on a debate stage, and so i'm ready. let's go. >> reporter: trump has said he would prefer to shift to debate previously set for september 10th on abc to fox, but indicated he would be willing to face off with harris more than once. as next month's democratic convention in chicago fast approaches, vice president harris is pondering her choice for a running mate. >> the only way that i would consider accepting anything else is if i believed that i could help this state and this country more in a different way. >> reporter: kentucky governor andy beshear is believed to be among the key contenders. voters in the state reflected on te importance of the november election. >> let your voice be heard because voting is important. i know a lot of people are, oh, my vote don't count. >> reporter: former president donald trump railed against harris in a tv interview.

>> she's the most radical person probably that we've had in office, let alone the office of the presidency. >> there are some people who think we should be a country of chaos, of fear, of hate. but us, we choose something different. >> reporter: while the harris for president campaign released its first official video thursday, featuring beyoncé's song "freedom," in it harris says freedom is what is at stake in this election. skyler henry, cbs news, washington. we have some new police footage showing officers storming onto the rooftop where a gunman fired at former president donald trump during a rally in butler, pennsylvania. as cbs's scott macfarlane reports, trump's doctor is defending his assessment that the former president was, in fact, hit in the ear by a bullet. >> reporter: newly released police video shows a local pennsylvania s.w.a.t. team trying to find a way to the roof used by the gunman who tried to kill former president donald trump. >> there's a ladder right here. >> reporter: seeking a ladder, then climbing.

one responder is heard noting -- >> these on the roof outside of the fence. >> reporter: finding the trail of shell casings. >> one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. at least eight. >> reporter: and the ar-style rifle near the shooter's body, then a suspected detonator. >> it is a remote controlled device that is gray in color. >> reporter: republican dan muser who was near trump during the rally says he wants more answers about the response. >> i don't think there was a high sense of seriousness and urgency frankly. >> reporter: a day after fbi director christopher wray raised questions about whether trump was actually hit by a bullet -- >> there's some question about whether or not it's a bullet or shrapnel, you know, that hit his ear. >> reporter: democrats pounced. >> and if he's lying about whether he was actually shot, that's something that the american people should know. >> reporter: the only medical statement released about trump's injury wasn't from the hospital that treated him but by his political ally and former white house doctor, ronny jackson, who defended his argument it was a

bullet. >> if it wasn't a bullet, i ask you what was it, right? a piece of glass? where did the glass come from? i've been told the teleprompters are completely intact. >> reporter: trump called for the fbi director's resignation after he raised that question about the bullet. the fbi in a statement to cbs news says it is devoting enormous resources to learning everything possible about the shooter. scott macfarlane, cbs news, the capitol. more than 3,500 northern california residents have fled their homes in the face of a fast-spreading wildfire. the park fire has burned through more than 100,000 acres in just over 24 hours. intense flames are devouring buildings, cars, anything in their path in chico, north of sacramento. and investigators say all of it was started by a suspected arsonist. he is being charged with causing the state's largest wildfire of the year. cbs's jonathan vigliotti is there. >> reporter: in northern

california, this wildfire pushed by powerful winds ripped through a community near the city of chico as thousands evacuated, the fire engulfed everything in its path. leaving a trail of devastation. julia yar bow watched her house burn on her home security camera. we were with her as she returned for the first time. >> you know, we're just -- we're shell-shocked right now. it really is surreal. >> reporter: this time-lapse video shows the fire's astonishing growth. starting small, growing into the evening, and overnight exploding, first to 45,000 and now more than 70,000 acres, all in less than 24 hours. it's by far california's largest wildfire this year. and investigators arrested a 42-year-old man on suspicion of arson. witnesses say they saw him with his car already burning in a ditch. >> then he got out of the car, kind of looked at it. when i turned back, he was gone.

>> reporter: and in western canada, a massive forest fire is now burning in accomplish columbia, while in alberta, the tourist town of jasper has suffered what authorities call a significant loss. back in california, life went from normal to heartbreak in an instant. >> what does home mean to you now? >> um, i think home really means the people that you care about and who cares about you. >> reporter: more than a dozen homes look like this one, charred down to their foundation. 1,100 firefighters are now battling this fire and for good reason. we're just 14 miles away from the town of paradise, which was destroyed by fire in 2018. jonathan vigliotti, cbs news, chico, california. and another potentially dangerous fire in southern california has sparked a shelter-in-place order. take a look at this blaze here burning its way now through a large scrap yard in lancaster about 50 miles north of los

angeles. l.a. county fire department says more than 1,000 cars have burned so far with high heat and strong winds fanning the flames. the justice department says it has arrested two high-ranking leaders in one of mexico's most dangerous drug cartels. ismael zam ba ta garcia, also known as al mayo and joaquin guzman lopez, son of imprisoned gang leader el chapo, were both arrested in el paso, texas. they're accused of leading the sinaloa cartel, a massive criminal enterprise suspected of trafficking cocaine and fentanyl to the u.s. and elsewhere around the world. when "cbs news roundup" continues, california's governor orders state officials to begin clearing out homeless

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♪ this is "cbs news roundup." i'm shanelle kaul in new york. california's democratic governor has ordered state agencies to start removing homeless encampments on state land. the public policy institute of california now estimates more than 180,000 people are homeless in the golden state, and 70% of them live on streets and sidewalks. the order follows a u.s. supreme court ruling allowing cities to enforce bans on sleeping outside in public spaces. cbs's elise preston has more. >> reporter: this order directs state agencies on how to remove homeless encampments, but it's up to local authorities to take action. >> there are no longer any excuses. a billion dollars this state has invested to support communities that clean up these encampments. >> reporter: newsom called the situation a crisis. this order comes a month after the supreme court ruled to allow

cities to enforce bans on sleeping outside in public places. elise preston, cbs news, los angeles. southwest airlines is dumping its open seating policy. the low-fare air carrier announced it will now switch to assigned seats but didn't say when the change would go into effect. cbs's kris van cleave explains the move is breaking with more than 50 years of tradition. >> reporter: going to assigned seating allows southwest to add extra leg room seating to its planes, something it will be able to charge a premium for. the airline has struggled post-pandemic and is under intense pressure to increase revenue. >> 80% of customers that fly southwest today want an assigned seat. 86% of customers that don't fly southwest want an assigned seat. and when a customer defects from southwest to another competitor, it's the number one reason. >> reporter: southwest will also start flying overnight redeyes for the first time next year. kris van cleave, cbs news, burbank airport.

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terrorist acts. cbs's dana jacobson has more. >> reporter: more than 45,000 police and military have been deployed to keep the olympic kickoff safe. and with more than 10,000 athletes competing and millions of fans attending the games, securing the olympics has been a top priority. >> it's impossible to eliminate risks, but what the authorities have been trying to do is to minimize those threats. >> that was dana jacobson reporting. our elaine cobbe is also in paris with more on how locals feel about the games that stretch in the middle of august. >> hey, if you're planning on coming to paris for the olympic games, do not come. the city of paris is making it hell on earth. >> reporter: pa rischens have been using social media for months to complain about the state of the french capital has construction linked to the games has made moving around the city harder and more expensive. prices to ride the metro have doubled. students have been kicked off campuses. and rents have soared.

city officials promise the paris games will be a huge success, but not everyone here is convinced it's worth the disruption. parisians are fleeing the city in droves, and tourism is down. >> people that are thinking about coming to paris for holidays, most of them decided not to come because, number one, the city is very congested. number two, the prices are really high. the tourists just simply don't want to deal with it. >> reporter: rental manager gayle says some tourists chose to visit paris before the games. >> i know it's within a certain amount of the city, but there is quite a lot blocked off down here. if you want to walk down the seine, a lot of obstructions really. >> i think it would be better to come here next year, not this year. >> reporter: high prices for accommodation are also keeping tourists away. >> people were thinking, oh, four times as much, five times as much, who knows? we can retire on the income

we'll earn for 2 1/2 weeks during the olympics. >> reporter: that gamble hasn't paid off. tens of thousands of apartments and hotel rooms lie empty. the paris games are expected to cost $12 billion. but many in paris feel they've paid far more in other ways. elaine kosh, cbs news, paris. up next, a dispute over suspected doping is casting a shadow over the olympics. stay with us. this is "cbs news roundup."

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they're now being allowed to compete in paris anyway. now the president of wada is demanding the u.s. stop investigating or risk losing the 2034 winter games in salt lake city. cbs's holly williams hasmore. >> reporter: china's reputation as a sporting power is tarnished. 23 of its swimmers tested positive for the same controlled substance, trimetazidine, just months before the tokyo olympics in 2021. chinese officials say the athletes unintentionally ingested the drug and did not ban them. 11 of the athletes who tested positive will compete in paris, and it's angered american swimmers. >> everything that we do to compete with a level playing field, it's extremely frustrating to not have faith that others are doing the same thing. >> people are just getting away with everything. there are people who are still testing positive, that are still

having the opportunity to compete internationally. what? >> reporter: this woman is a retired doctor who says she has firsthand knowledge of doping in china's state-run sports system. [ speaking in a global language ] she says she was a physician for china's general administration of sport, treating elite athletes from the 1960s until 1989, the period when she alleges chinese doping began, ordered by senior government officials. >> did the athletes have a choice about whether or not to use the banned substances? [ speaking in a global language ] "if they refused to use them, they'd be sent home, she told us. the doctor says she opposed doping but witnessed the impact of drugs, including steroids and human growth hormone, on athletes as young as 11. [ speaking in a global language ] "the boys started growing breasts," she told us," and they

asked me what to do." unlike in the u.s., many young chinese athletes are trained in state-run sports schools. they've been described as an assembly line where athletes are cr recruited in early childhood to win glory for their nation, whatever the cost. the chinese government said in june that it has a zero-tolerance attitude towards doping and is committed to ensuring fair competition. the doctor was granted political asylum in germany in 2017 and gave evidence to wada, the world anti-doping agency. cbs news has obtained this document showing wada found dr. hsieh a credible witness, yet decided there was insufficient evidence to substantiate a large-scale doping scheme. dr. hsieh's allegations mainly date back to the 1980s. are they still relevant? >> well, listen, if there's a

pattern -- and obviously there's been proof over the years. there was 23 positives again. so it fits like a glove. >> reporter: travis tie got is the head of the u.s. anti-doping agency and led the investigation into cyclist lance armstrong's doping operation. he's frustrated that dr. hsieh's claims haven't been taken more seriously. >> is there good reason to suspect at this point that china is engaged in systemic doping? >> listen, we know the history. i think you have to look at the evidence. but the evidence is there to be investigated in a serious way, and i think that's what athletes around the world and anti-doping experts around the world are expecting. the olympic games themselves deserves that. >> reporter: the world anti-doping agency told cbs news that it did launch a formal investigation following the doctor's allegations, including retesting samples from the 2008 and 2012 olympics, but did not

find anything to corroborate her claims. wada also points out that the doctor did not actually witness the alleged doping taking place, though that's a point she readily admits. "cbs news roundup" will be right back.

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