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baton rouge after 11 years ago and finds herself flooded out again. >> what i learned it is not about the material things, it is about the soul of louisiana. and that's what they have got. they have got a real big, healthy heart. lisa wellmeier explaned to us how the city of baton rouge welcomed her family and others from new orleans after katrina. she said now it is time for her to repay the favor by helping those who cam to her rescue nearly 11 years ago. >> the "cbs overnight news" will
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a french catholic priest on a mission to find the forgotten victims of the holocaust. nearly half of the 6 million jewish victims were executed in fields and forests and buried in mass unmarked graves. for the past 15 years, father patrick dubois has been tracking down burial sites and looking for witnesses who are still alive. laura logan reports in a story for "60 minutes." >> the general order was to eliminate the last jew, even the baby, even the oldom they never left any body. >> a policy of total annihilation. >> annihilation. if hitler did not lose the war, i don't think today one jew would be alive. >> father patrick dubois is on a motion to find hitler's hidden killing fields. before him lies a continent of extermination. these mass graves and extermination sites, many of them are invisible. >> yeah, totally invisible. and under corn fields.
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under a field. yeah, yeah. >> many would never be recorded? >> never be recorded and still buried like animals. >> reporter: we traveled with the father to the former soviet republic of moldova where in one day he took us to four unmarked mass graves. in this field, he toemd us, 60 jews. beneath this farm, 100. above this city, under this hill, 1,000. 1,000 body. do you think they're still here? >> yeah. yeah, they're still here. >> reporter: thousand of eyewitnesses, millions of documents, and 15 years of investigating have led him to more than 1700 execution sites. once in ukraine, under the supervision of a rabbi, and the
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>> officially a place where no jew had been killed. we found 17 mass graves. >> what did you find? >> you find everything. you see a mover with, holding his boy until the end. the boy tried to go out. you see thatanother one was, was buried alive. she had the mouth open. she was buried with the earth. >> reporter: in june 1941, hilt hitler invaded the soviet union behind his front line troops were mobile death squads, whose job was to hunt down every last jew. they methodically entered villages, rounded up jewish families, and marched them to freshly dug graves. some of the remains buried here in lithuania. the assassins reached remote corners, like a tiny village in moldova. when the killers came here they really had one purpose? >> only one goal.
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one goal always. >> reporter: the village is virtuallyunchanged since the nazis stormed through here. the team had gone ahead of us, searching for eyewitnesss to a 70-year-old crime. they were led to a 85-year-old, gior gi working in the vineyard. the first question they ask is always the sam were you here during the war? and if the person says, yes. oh, you can help us. >> ready? >> giorgi was 11 years old then.
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witnessed. >> translator: as soon as they came they locked everyone up. saw them taking them away. >> he asked where the jews were killed. a ravine over there. come and see if you want. >> what you are learning is unrecorded? >> if we had never come. we would never have known. >> reporter: giorgi brought us down the road where he said all the jewish families from the village were taken. he told us the day of the nearby. now, 70 years later, we watched as he traced the victims' steps to the edge of the ravine. >> translator: the jews were facing the ditch so they were shooting them in the back of their heads or backs to fall into the ditch. they were shooting them as if they were dogs. >> he said it was a beautiful day like this one. >> like today.
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>> with the sunshine. >> reporter: when you are doing this here in a place like this, do you ever stop and think, how did i get here? >> no, always i say to the people. finally we foundy. we came back. >> father dubois lead no congregation and considers his search for the jewish victim for his calling. >> you are not a typical priest? >> i think everybody has to make his way. the pope also its not a typical pope. but he is a pope. and i am not a typical priest. but i am a priest. >> reporter: with the blessing of the cardinal and vatican he created in 2004, the organization, yahad in unum. together as one. >> we will begin and first look at the map. >> reporter: based in paris his team begins by combing through millions of pages of german documents. archives that only became available after the collapse of the soviet union. they search for clues that lead
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they record and archive the witness testimonies. to date they have recorded over 4,000 witnesses. who were children at the time. many were recruited by the nazis or local police to dig the mass graves. or to take the gold teeth, jewelry and clothing of the victims. >> what have we learned about the holocaust that we didn't know before you began your investigations? >> i learned a lot about humanity. i learned everybody can be a killer, any bed can be a victim. i learned that you like to see other people dying in front of you, killed by other people when you are sure you will not be
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>> reporter: it was a dramatic finding. that villages chose to watch people being leaned up and murdered. a revelation he would have never have come to were it not for his gr claudius dubois, held as prisoner of war in a nazi camp in rawa-ruska. but he never wanted to talk about it. farther dubois was drawn to the village to find out what happened there.
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until one night, when the mayor took him to the edge of the forest, where 50 elderly villagers were waiting. >> he said, patrick, i bring you at the mass grave of the last 1,500 jews of rawa-ruska. like in a movie. >> to watch the report go to cbsnews.com and click on 60 i asked my dentist if an electric toothbrush was going to clean better than a manual. he said sure...but don't get just any one. get one inspired by dentists, with a round brush head. go pro with oral-b. oral-b's rounded brush head cups your teeth to break up plaque and rotates to sweep it away. n superior clean versus sonicare diamondclean. my mouth feels super clean! oral-b. know you're getting a superior clean.
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talking to an actual person. elaine quijano shows us how the library remains a trusted source for research. >> reporter: librarians at new york public library have been called the human google. they may not be as fast as your favorite search engine they're as reliable as ever. the fifth avenue branch of the new york public library attracts about 2.5 million visitors each year. many pose with the lions named patience aor hall, and pass through the reading rooms without cracking a book. but the tables are full here. shushing happens as much as you may remember. and the phones keep ringing for researchers. one of the number one comments that we get from callers is thank god a reached a human being. even on chat some times. people will say is this a robot or person. we have to laugh and say, yeah,
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new york public library ask desk. which receives about 300 inquiries a day. >> we answer telephone, e-mail, chat, text, facebook, twitter, snail mail queries from new yorkers and people around the world. this is our library. our personal reference library. >> researchers here can access materials not available to the general public. but google and even wikipedia >> we love the fact that more and more things are on line. the computer is a tool for us. faster we can find an answer for somebody. the better. >> while the average google search takes .2 second. this human search engine is a bit slower. five minutes per call is typical. >>:00 in the search box, upper right corner. such a thing as a typical question?
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reference. ? ? >> reporter: here are some recent questions as read by our cbs this morning summer interns. >> i need to know the exterior dimensions of radio city music hall. >> i'm looking for a new york city law that -- >> i'm looking for information history of black lipstick? >> inspired subject, more or less. >> bernard van marseeven keeps a file card on han i >> a neighborhood nickname that didn't quite pan out. lowbro. lowbro, orders noho, soho, and little italy. >> lowbro sound insulting. what's the most interesting question you ever received? >> usually like the last one that i have gotten. there is this one caller that find out their street is wider than the ordinary treat. i didn't believe them at first. i want up to their block, and i, measured it out. and it is true. it's about 7-feet wider than the
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>> wow. >> bernard you are awfully dedicated? >> you know, i'm glad that i am able to do this job. it's, you know, don't, don't tell the management, but it is kind of like always amazed i get paid to do this work. so. >> i love this collection. >> reporter: surprising as it may sound that sentiment is shared on this floor. where people proudly answer whatever is on your mind. >> let me place the hold for >> what is it that you are able to discern after you answered a question. >> i think gratitude. also that moment, ah-ha. that moment. hearing the joy in their voice. check mark goes off. i managed to accomplish that. >> reporter: so, in case you are wondering. the lions named patience and fortitude are larger than life size. that law prohibits monkeys from soliciting money dates back to 1887. and black lipstick first came in vogue in the 1930s.
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a recent wave of car thefts in texas part of a high tech trend. some car thieves are giving up on hot wiring and turning to hacking. here's kris van cleave. >> reporter: point. click. steal. security camera video outside of a houston home shows this guy, getting into a jeep wrangler and breaking out his laptop. board computer diagnostic port to trick it into accepting a key that he brought with him and then, just driving off. who needs to hot wire when you got a laptop. that jeep belonged to david payne's daughter. >> my daughter was sleeping in the room above it. her dog was sleeping with her. the dog slept through it. she slept through it. nobody ever heard a thing. like being invaded, the guy is
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in your driveway. >> reporter: typically thieves target older cars because of the value of their parts. but not these two. working always at night. they struck again. using a laptop to take this jeep grand cherokee. police arrested michael arsey and jesse solea, and believe the pair made off with 100 vehicles smuggled into mexico. >> if it is this easy to steal or some one has the knowledge and ability, and knows how to utilize that ability to be able to commit the theft. it is a scary situation. of jeep thefts are under investigation in california. the national insurance crime bureau which investigates stolen car claims for the insurance industry noticed an uptick in newer harder to steal vehicles being taken. >> which sort of surprised us, because they have all of this new technology. >> spokeswoman, carol caplan. >> reporter: almost like cyberhot wiring. >> yes. in the old days thieves could hot wire a car. when the new technology came along it was no longer possible to hotwire a car.
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fire and floods. as firefighters risk their lives in california, police arrest an arsonist. and the death toll rises in the louisiana flood. >> this is my entire life that i worked my entire life just washed away. ? >> also tonight the runaway cost of epipens is forcing patients to choose. >> this could mean life or death. >> we'll remember, john mclaughlin who raised the decibels of debate. >> and, drop and give me 22. the great pushup challenge, putting muscle into saving the lives of veterans.
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>> this is the "cbs overnight news." more than 8,000 firefighters are battling eight large wildfires in california. and a suspect has been arrested for allegedly starting a fire that destroyed 175 homes and businesses north of san francisco. in southern california, the entire mountain town of wrightwood all 4,500 people were ordered to evacuate. carter evans is on the scene that fire. >> in less than four hours, a five-acre fire became a 5,500 acre monster trapping fire fighters. >> we have a run over, i need you to start one asl ambulance. >> cbs news confirmed at least two firefighters were injured. the fast-moving flames have destroyed several buildings, paralyzed rail traffic including this freight train, shuttle down the main highway linking los angeles to las vegas. and threatened power lines near
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mark peebles with san bernardino fire. >> when this started it took off? >> correct. it is intense, grueling and demanding on the ground. >> reporter: it is this gusty wind, the hot temperatures and the ex-fre the extremely dry conditions driving this fast moving fire now. as it burns through construction equipment behind me, the concern is the fire is moving towards more populated areas. >> carter evans on the fire thank you. now we will go to mireya villarreal in northern cal chal where investigators say arson sparked a tragedy. >> it was crazy how fast it went through town. >> reporter: the clayton fire its 20% contained. today, residents are slowly beginning to pick up the pieces. when wade holly pulled up to his family's mechanic shop sunday night the fire just ripped through downtown and was making its way towards nearby homes. you guys are lucky? >> yeah, extremely lucky.
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several cars and got up to this wall before firefighters swooped in. 175 other homes and businesses in lower lake weren't as lucky. >> it is my pleasure to announce the arrest of damin pashilk. age 40 of clear lake. [ applause ] [ cheers and applause ] >> law enforcement believes 40-year-old california resident, damin pashilk is responsible for the clayton fire and several smaller fires. they have been investigating him for the past been prevented? >> the clayton fire could have been prevented had this individual not started it. >> cal fire chief ken pimlot confirms pashilk was in cars traited when he received fire fighting training from his agency. selected nonviolent inmates can some times be called on to help containment efforts. pashilk in the program two months before being paroled. damin pashilk will go before a judge tomorrow.
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got no response. the governor declared this state of emergency. victims will get much needed funding to start picking up the pieces. >> mireya villarreal, thanks. now to louisiana, the flooding death toll rose today to 11. more than 30,000 people have been rescued. more than 11,000 are in shelters tonight. have a look at this. this is a school in hammond, louisiana, before the floods. this its the school now. surrounded. omar villfranca has the the latest. >> reporter: the historic flooding continues to spread throughout the state. nearly 90% of the homes in denim springs suffered flood damage. as the the water flows downstream, towns like sorrento are submerged. still looking for stranded residents. >> this is our low spot. tanya whitney, sorrento street
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>> very long road ahead. we fry to do the best we can do. a lot of the local people, you know, we band together. you know we ftry to help each other out. we're all in the same boat. >> even though the storm wasn't a hurricane, louisiana governor john bell edward says it has been a challenge. >> we asked people to evacuate as soon as we knew that we were going to see record levels of water. >> reporter: was it too late by then? >> well you can't give the warning and so, you know, obviously, there are lessons that we are learning. i am not going to say it has been mistake free. but we issued a declaration of emergency here in the state that included the entire state. i think in a timely fashion. >> sunday, volunteers rescued adam albright and family from the rising floodwaters in baton rouge. today, the father of two is cleaning out his flood damaged home. >> i knew it was affecting a lot of people out there.
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hit us, you know? >> reporter: in the last few hours, the water here has risen several inches in sorrento, scott if the water keeps rising, residents may start evacuating. >> omar villfranca covering the story in louisiana. thank you. well donald trump said this afternoon he will not change his style. though no candidate in 60 years has won the presidency from this far behind. but there are 12 weeks to go. d with trump. >> donald trump met today with milwaukee area law enforcement amid unrest and violent street protests following the police shooting of an armed black man on saturday. two days of riots subsided monday. but republican governor scott walker who will attend trump events here, has the national guard on stand by. trump told lacrosse, wisconsin, cbs affiliate, wkbt, the street
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investment. >> you see what is happening on television. you don't want to go develop there. they hurt themselves in a certain way. >> trump dismissed claims his campaign is falling behind. the latest wisconsin poll shows him trailing hillary clinton by 15 points. among likely voters. trump sees no reason to change. >> it's me. i don't want to change. everybody talks well are you going to pivot. i don't want to pivot. you have to be you. if you start pivoting you are not being hes >> trump said his experience in the republican primaries taught him how to win even after losing in wisconsin. >> i have gotten here in a landslide. we'll see what happens. in the send. don't forget when i lost wisconsin, it was over for trump. except for one problem, i then went on a very good run. >> trump spokeswoman said today, roger ailes, former chairman of the fox news channel has no formal role with the campaign
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today the fbi gave a republican controlled congressional committee notes from its investigation of hillary clinton's private e-mail servers. the fbi has said that a few of the e-mails on the unsecured servers contain classified information. republicans say they want to know why the fbi did not recommend criminal nancy cordes is covering the campaign. >> reporter: as clinton campaigned in philadelphia today, fbi agents were handing lawmakers material they classified as secret. with the expectation it will not be disseminated or closed. democrats worry, the documents will selectively be leaked by republicans. just yesterday they sent a letter to d.c. u.s. attorney
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statements by clinton. when she testified about her e-mail server last october. >> they also went through every single e-mail. >> reporter: clinton for instance insisted her lawyers examined all 60,000 pages of her e-mails to determine which were work related. fbi director james comey disputed that last month. >> the lawyers doing the sorting for secretary clinton in 2014 did not individually read the content of all of her e-mails. >> reporter: clinton herself >> i have nothing to say. >> but her aide said that they would prefer the fbi report be released to the public and not to partisan lawmakers. adding this is an extraordinarily rare step that was sought solely by republicans for the purposes of further second-guessing the career professionals at the fbi. >> republicans are especially eager to get a look at the fbi's notes on its interview with clinton to see if what she told agents differs from what she told congress.
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perjury accusation, scott, which its the latest front in this ongoing battle. >> nancy cordes in philadelphia. thank you. en our special series, we have been hearing from experts about the critical issues that the next president will face. the moment he or she takes the oath. tonight, margaret bren nonis with retired general and former cia director, david petraeus, talking about the dangers of iraq on day one. >> reporter: what concerns you the most about iraq right now? we'll defeat the islamic state that is going to thap pen. just a question of how long it takes. it is iraqi politics that have to become more inclusive if you are to cement the gains on the battlefield. >> when the next president takes office what's the best case scenario he or she will face in iraq? >> best case scenario will be one in which the islamic state has been defeated on the battlefield and its terrorist cells have been reduced
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guerrillas insurgents are on the run. then most importantly, that politics in baghdad have been sufficiently inclusive so that the sunni arabs of iraq feel a stake in the success of new iraq rather than in its failure. >> what's the worst case scenario for the u.s.? >> the worst case scenario for the u.s. is if the situation goes seriously south for some reason. all of a sudden we find ourselves having to really augment our forces a even get them more into the actual fighting to forestall the possibility of a collapse of iraq and perhaps the resumption of the kind of very near civil war that we saw back in 2006. >> how thin is that line between success and failure? >> well, the line between success and failure is all about baghdad politics. that's where this will play out. >> for the next president, will
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dying in combat in iraq once again? >> i fear that that probably is the case. that future presidents will have americans dying in places like iraq. this is really a generational struggle. >> here is where the canned tats stand. hillary clinton plans to strengthen the iraqi government, boost support to local fors fighting isis, and increase air strikes. donald trump has said heou bomb isis more, but has the said contradictory things about ground forces. he said that he would send 20,000 to 30,000 forces if required. but also that the number is too high. >> margaret brennan with the security challenges of day one. margaret, thank you. today, another major health insurer said it is substantially dropping out of obamacare. aetna decision further limits choice and price competition
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>> reporter: more than 900,000 people signed up for aetna insurance under health care law in 15 states. but next year the company says it will offer affordable care act coverage in four of the states. effectively pulling out of 70% of the counties where it offered coverage. and leaving one arizona county near phoenix without any insurers offering obamacare. aetna said a simple question of math. with obamacare enrollment company reported more than $430 million in losses since the health care exchanges opened in january of 2014. in part because not enough healthy people are signing up. aetna is just the latest of the major national health insurers to announce a pull back. united health care and humana unveiled major cuts. >> this is a red flag for the future of obamacare. >> larry leavitt with kietzer
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pivotal. if enrollment grows, concerns will fade away. but if enrollment stag nats. likely to trigger a debate. >> administration official said aetna's withdrawal does not change the fundamental fact that the obamacare marketplace will continue to bring quality coverage to millions of americans next year and every year after that. >> another official said no county would be without insurance options when open enme fall. the beg cig concern for consumes choice. in some areas if people will have one or two insurers to pick from. >> jan crawford in the washington newsroom. thank you. coming up next, why the cost of this life saving device shot up 500%.
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she wasn't able to breathe. >> reporter: the cause, a severe allergic reaction to certain foods. elli among one in 13 children affect by food allergies. >> just a fear we live in every time. every time we leave the house do. you have your epipen? >> reporter: injectors need to be replaced each year. and those costs are soaring. the henegers remember paying $100 for a two back six years ago. today the same pack costs as much as $600. a 500% increase. all of it for a drug that delivers just one or $2 of the life saving hormone epinephrine. >> i don't think it is fair for the pashen. >> the owner of a pharmacy. >> the price hike began in 2007. just after the drugmakerer mylan acquired the product quickly
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tv host john mclaughlin died today, the former jesuit priest and pioneered the talk show format. the mclaughlin group has been a fixture on sunday morning for 34 years. mclaughlin had a distinctive a panel of journalists. >> has the time come for george bush to reach for the telephone and -- say get me john tower. say to john, your time has come. and interest of the party, yourself, republic, you ought to withdraw your nomination? has the time come? >> mclaughlin's place in culture was secured when he was spoofed on "saturday night live" by dana carvey.
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pat buchanan? >> john mclaughlin who was 89, had never missed a broadcast until this past sunday. he always had the final word. >> bye-bye. ? >> the talk at the olympic tuesday involved a dive nowhere near the swimming pool. american allison feel eks was going for the gold in the 400 meter when shawneee miller of diving skills. she got the medal. felix got the silver.
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we end with the latest internet craze. jim axelrod has the pushup challenge. >> 22 pushups here we go. >> move over ice buckets, there is a new challenge rippling through social media. pushups. 22, in fact. knocking them out, and it. >> i am taking the 22 pushup challenge. >> from stars like john kryzinski to a class of troops. it is not about pumping up pecs, designed to focus attention on a tragedy. for years it was estimated 22 veterans committed suicide each day. retired marine don dewinn is
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organization behind the challenge. >> when the statistic came out 22 veterans a day are committing suicide. almost unbelievable. we wanted to find out more about where this number came from. >> two summers ago, the ice bucket challenge raised $115 million. but the group behind this challenge, 22 kill, says its primary goal is to raise awareness, not money. rusty carter is an army vet. who fried to kill himself after coming home from iraq in 2011. at the time that was doing what we do at 22 kill, i don't feel that i would have attempted suicide. >> recently the department of veteran affairs adjusted the number down to 20 veterans a day who take their own lives. the numbers may have changed, but the mission has not. >> we are not going to be done until it is zero, not going to change our name because of a new study. but, what matters is the number is going down and not up. >> the hope now is to keep that
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