>> axelrod: tonight, surveillance footage of the gunman in the lafayette, louisiana theater attack in his last hours. what was inside john houser's room at the motel 6, and what the owner says about the killer's behavior. scorched earth. driven by drought, the outbreak of wildfires spreads in california. missing at sea, two 14-year-old boys disappear after heading out alone on a fishing trip. and, managing the affects of autism with swimming. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news." >> axelrod: good evening, i'm jim axelrod. and this is the western edition of the broadcast. funeral services will be held tomorrow for the two young women

killed in the movie theater attack in lafayette, louisiana last week. in franklin, louisiana, tonight, a prayer service is being held for 21-year-old mayci breaux. earlier today friends and family of 33-year-old jillian johnson gathered at a funeral home in lafayette. one of our reporters on the ground in lafayette david begnaud, has exclusively obtained surveillance footage showing the gunman's final hours at a $40 a night motel. >> reporter: the video shows a lincoln town car leaving the motel 6 in lafayette, louisiana. authorities say that vehicle belonged to john houser, the man who opened fire inside the grand movie theater. hotel officials say john houser parked his lincoln town car right here in this stall in the backside of the hotel every night that he was here. it just so happened to be right in front of his hotel room door, number 129. the film train wreck started at 7:15 p.m. surveillance footage shows houser's car leaving the motel

at 6:41. it was only four miles to the theater. inside the room it is a mess. bottles of alcohol, clothes all over, and the tv still on. police say they found a wig and glasses here they believe houser used as a disguise. michael edmonson is the louisiana state police superintendent. >> we know he had been in other movie theaters across south louisiana, probably lake charles and baton rouge in a disguise and wig in baton rouge. somebody said we saw him and felt so uncomfortable we left. >> reporter: the 59-year-old drifter made a $100 deposit when he checked into the motel on july 3rd. he paid $286 a week for a room. surveillance video shows his final days walking through hallways, down the side of the building, even smiling as he stopped by the check-in desk. the owner says houser was polite and unremarkable. he was never threatening, rude. >> nothing like that, no. >> reporter: problematic. >> he mind his own business. he did what he had to do and that is basically it.

>> reporter: investigators will reenter the movie theater tomorrow. the crime scene is still marked with purses, popcorn and blood. more than 100 witnesses have already been interviewed. nicole zammit fuselier is one of them, she saw the gunman reload. >> ten rounds went off when i realized, you know, 6th or 7th round i drop and am looking at him. because i know guns i said he is reloading. so i screamed to everybody, he's reloading, get the hell out of here now. >> reporter: nicole said the gunman never said a word and walked casually as he shot randomly. the mother of three has had time to reflect on just how close she came to being a victim. >> just sitting there, so had i not been back, the way he was aiming, my head, my neck, my heart were exposed to him. so statistically, i shouldn't be sitting here. i'm here today by the grace of god. >> reporter: nicole says her

greatest fear was that the gunman was going to follow her and others into the lobby which at that time was packed with children. instead, police say the gunman went for an emergency exit, saw a police officer and then decided to take his own life. jim? >> axelrod: david, thank you. at least 14 active wildfires are burning in california tonight. they destroyed more than 190,000 acres. as carter evans reports, the latest fire east of sacramento is threatening nearly 2,000 homes. >> reporter: fast moving flames are burning through thick brush in california's sierra foothills. it's a remote region near the nevada border but hundreds of rural homes are in the fire's path. >> kind of scary. >> reporter: laura fellows and her family had little time to gather up valuables. >> the first thing that iwa grabbed was my kid's social security cards and birth certificates. >> reporter: the fire broke out saturday afternoon, and quickly burned through 1,500 acres. the terrain is steep so most of

the battle is from the air says call fire battalion chief. >> other than that, you really have no way of getting to the fires. a lot of our time is spent waiting for the dozers to build up rosed in. >> reporter: major fires continue to burn in five western states, as drought conditions worsen, so does the damage. by this time last year 1.6 million acres had burned in the u.s. this year it's more than tripled to nearly 5.6 million acres, fueled by exceptionally dry brush. it's already dead. >> absolutely. three months ahead of schedule. >> yes. >> reporter: orange county fire captain steve hurdle says californians are bracing for the worst. >> the fuel out here is dead, it it's not going to recover. it will either blow away or burn away. >> reporter: and with the forecast of more hot dry weather ahead, the concern continues to mount. carter evans, cbs news, los angeles. >> axelrod: today presidenty obama became the first sitting president of the united states to visit ethiopia.

he traveled there from his father's homeland kenya, where he spoke out against restrictive laws governing homosexuality and took on the illegal ivory trade. but his trip to africa has had plenty of lighter moments as well, as he reconnected with family and showed off some new moves on the dance floor. chief white house correspondent major garrett is with the president in africa. >> reporter: at the state dinner held to honor a u.s. president and his ancestral home, president obama said good evening in swahili. >> habari ya jioni. >> reporter: and joked about an issue that bedeviled the early years of his presidency. >> i suspect that some of my critics back home are suggesting that i am back here to look forf my birth certificate. (laughter) >> reporter: mr. obama capped off the evening with an impromptu session of line dancing with kenya's president uhuru kenyatta. before a group of cheering

kenyans the president's half sister auma called him the son of kenyan soil. >> he gets us. he is one of us but we're happy to share him with the world. >> reporter: as president mr. obama has never stepped so confidently in his kenyan past or reflected so publicly on its power. >> we know our history so we can learn from it. there was a proverb that said we have not inherited this land from our forebears but borrowed from our children. >> reporter: he told kenya we're 60% of the population is 25 or younger, his past need not be their future. >> a young ambitious kenyan today should not have to do what my grandfather did and serve a foreign master. you don't need to do what my father did and leave your home in order to get a good education. >> reporter: kenyans have embraced it all. the president's past, his presence and their future. all seeing through the arc of the american presidency and its trappings, especially air force one.

the president is in ethiopia now, but told a story in nairobi about his first trip to kenya nearly 25 years ago. the airlines lost his luggage. that doesn't happen on air force one, the president joked, making clear that little of anything he holds dear in kenya has been lost. jim? >> axelrod: major garrett traveling with the president in ethiopia tonight, thank you. turkey is asking for nato's help in dealing with isis. this comes after an isis bombing near the syrian border last week that killed 32 people and another attack that killed a turkish soldier. the meeting is set for tuesday in brussels. we have a grim discovery to report in the search for two 14- year-old boys missing in florida. they took off alone on a fishing trip in jupiter, florida, on friday. today their 19 foot boat was found capsized far offshore, nearly 200 miles up the coast. here's mark strassman. >> reporter: perry and austin

were last seen at this fueling station in jupiter, florida, at 1:30 friday afternoon. they had bought more than 100 dollars worth of gas for their single engine boat before they set out for the atlantic ocean. but the weather was turning stormy and hazardous. boater james doolin says he saw the teens as they left the inlet. >> everybody was racing towards the inlet and i do remember seeing a small boat going out the inlet with a couple kids on it. and saying to myself these kids are crazy. >> reporter: the families of the boys now believe they may have been trying to set out for the bahamas. the overturned boat was found 67 nautical miles east of an inlet. the 14-year-old were supposed to be fishing along the river near their home. perry's stepfather says he hopes other kids are paying attention. >> it is a learning lesson for all those children out there that if you make an agreement with your parents and you don't stick to it, this is what could happen. >> they were so fine, these two young fellows.

we just keep on praying, man. it's hard, it's so hard. >> reporter: family friend and nfl hall of famer joe namath is offering a $100,000 reward in the search. >> i'm not doing anything that millions of people don't do every day. it's love, compassion, respect for one another. >> reporter: dozens of private planes and boats have been searching 24/7. the families ask that only qualified boaters help with the search now which will prove even more challenging because the boys are likely in the open sea. mark strassman, cbs news atlanta. >> axelrod: health insurance giant anthem announced friday it will buy rival cigna for more than $54 billion. now this comes just weeks after aetna and humana announced their plans to consolidate potentially cutting the big five health insurance companies down to the big three depending on what regulators decide. here to explain what this means for insurance customers, cbs

news business analyst jill schlesinger, what is going on here. >> these deals have obviously been in the works for a long time but they came to fruition after the supreme court ruled favorably on the affordable care act. remember, the new law puts limits on the amount of premium health insurance can charge. that means under the new circumstances, the companies have to do three things. they've got to scale up, reduce their costs and they've got to actually figure out how to bring more customers under their umbrella. >> axelrod: a lot of consumers right now are wondering, so what does this mean to me. >> well, according to the companies, the health insurance companies, they say these costs are actually going to be ringing out of the system. it's what the law intended it do. the companies will have better bargaining power with doctors and hospitals and you'll have more doctors. unfortunately, if you look at research, when you look at the various health-care mergers that have occurred in the past, those costs rarely flow to the consumer. >> axelrod: so jury out there, but if you are a shareholder of one of these companies what can they expect?

>> well, in anticipation of the affordable care act passing through the supreme court, these stock prices have-- companies have gone up tremendously, 30 to 50% over the last year, compare that with a the 3 or 4% rise in the stock market and you can see that investors kind of figured out where the savings is going that is flowing to the shareholders. >> axelrod: jill schlesinger thank you. >> thank you. >> axelrod: tomorrow the boy scouts of america will reverse a long-standing policy banning gay scout leaders. but as contessa brewer tells us, gay rights advocates see it as an incomplete victory. >> reporter: zack wahls is a proud eagle scout but as the son of two moms, he's got a problem with the scout's ban on gay leaders. now as the executive director of scouts for equality, he is fighting hard. >> discrimination is wrong and it has no place in scouting. >> reporter: but in 2000 the supreme court ruled the scouts could fire gay leaders. that sparked a massive movement.

corporate sponsors fled, membership declined. just last year the boy scouts voluntarily began allowing gay kids to be members. still, it kept out gay leaders. this april, the new york chapter rebelled. it hired a young eagle scout to be a camp counselor. pascal tessier happens to be openly gay and ready to sue. it didn't come to that. in may at the annual meeting former defense secretary now boy scouts of america president bob gates lead the charge to change. >> we must deal with the world as it is, not as we might wish it would be. the status quo in our movement's membership standards cannot be sustained. >> reporter: this month an executive committee unanimously voted to end the ban. the entire board will vote to ratify that resolution tomorrow. for this eagle scout, it's a giant leap forward. >> it means that an organization that i love and of which i've

been a member since i was six years old is i think taking another step towards joining the rest of the country in the 21st century. >> reporter: but gay leaders won't be welcomed in every scout troop. the national organization tells cbs news churches can still choose leaders whose beliefs are consistent with theirs, jim. >> axelrod: contessa, thank you very much. a remarkable crime story in west virginia. a woman kills a man who may have been a serial killer himself. and a deadly plane crash in a crowded neighborhood when the "cbs evening news" continues. continues.

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evidence found with dismembered bodies outside of las vegas were falls used to live is similar to an item found in his car. and all the women were escorts. most of whom advertised online. steve cooper is with police. >> i believe she saved lives by shooting mr. falls. based on what he did to her and based on the items that were found in his car. >> reporter: police are not charging heather for the shooting which they say was in self-defense. >> i knew he was there to kill me. >> reporter: authorities will enter falls' dna in a national database to check for links to other crimes. falls was found with a list of names, ages and phone numbers of ten other women. all are still alive. jim? >> axelrod: mark albert in our washington newsroom tonight, thank you. up next, the importance of looking like earnest. g us those who want to feel well rested.

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>> reporter: it was a rough start for charles. diagnosed with autism at three he didn't speak until he was five. but his mom cheryl parris says everything changed when he started swimming. >> i noticed that after he got out of that pool, he was so calm. >> reporter: dr. john o'connor has worked with autistic children for more than 15 years and found aerobic activity repetitive in nature like swimming or running tends to reduce repetitive behaviors of autism. >> the autistic child is looking for repetitive activities that they can engage in because it will sometimes help them deal with sensory stimuli that they don't want to have to process. >> reporter: dr. o'connor says up to 30 minutes of aerobic exercise a day can decrease autistic behavior for up to 90 minutes post exercise. >> the hand slapping and jumping, the pacing, the repetition, along with that, he just somehow resolved itself. >> reporter: you mean it just went away? >> it decreased significantly.

i don't think that there is a cure, but it certainly helped decrease the behavior where it no longer interfered with his every day life. >> reporter: there are many articles supporting the benefits of swimming and autism, but no long-term studies. after 14 years of swimming charles is confident it worked for him. charles will swim at the college level this fall from for montclair state university as he pursues a major in theater. >> i always swim for life, it's my main sport. i always love it. >> reporter: do you feel calmer when you get out of the pool. >> yeah, i do, i just breathe, just in and out. >> reporter: a calm feeling he hopes he can turn into gold at nationals. >> good job. >> reporter: meg oliver, cbs news, montclair, new jersey. >> axelrod: and that's the "cbs evening news" for tonight. later on cbs, "60 minutes." for now, i'm jim axelrod in new york, and for all of us here at cbs news, thanks for joining us and good night. captioning sponsored by cbs

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