and i mean this sincerely. >> reporter: clinton spoke to that gathering earlier in the day. and then appeared on "saturday night live." >> you are really easy to talk to, val. >> well, thanks. you know, that's the first time i've ever heard that. >> reporter: where she used humor to tackle criticism that she is struggling to connect with voters. >> i wish you could be president. >> me too. >> reporter: biden has run for president twice before. but scott, he's dreamed of being president for decades. and simply put, it may not be easy to give up on that dream. >> julianna goldman reporting tonight. julianna, thanks. syria's civil war took another ominous turn when russian warplanes strayed into

turkish air space on saturday. russian jets began bombing syria last week to prop up the assad dictatorship while the u.s. is targeting the terrorist army known as isis. now two of the world's largest air forces are fighting on different sides, and keeping them separated is the job of u.s. commanders in the persian gulf. david martin has a rare look. >> scott, this is the nerve center for the air campaign against isis. and through this window is the operations floor where all the missions are being tracked, including the ones over syria, where russian aircraft are also operating. you can see it on the screen. the yellow aircraft are russian, the green american. u.s. pilots flying f-16s out of turkey first picked up the russian planes on radar. the russians closed to within 20 miles, at which point the american pilots could visually identify them on their targeting

cameras. lieutenant general charles brown, commander of the air campaign, says the russians have come even closer than that to his unmanned drones. >> the closest has been, you know, within a handful of miles into some of our remotely piloted aircraft. but for our manned aircraft, not closer than about 20 miles is about the closest we've seen. >> reporter: brown says he intends to just work around the russians. could they just crowd you out of syria? >> no. i don't think so. we're up a lot more often than they are. and so when they -- if we do have to move around for safe separation, it's for a small period of time compared to the hours and hours that we're airborne over iraq and syria. >> reporter: despite the russians general brown says he intends to increase strikes against isis sanctuaries in syria. many of those missions will be flown by the crews of these b-1 bombers, who now, scott, must also avoid run-ins with the russians. >> david martin reporting from qatar. david, thanks. that base also handles the

air war in afghanistan, where over the weekend a u.s. air strike destroyed a hospital, killing 22 civilians. the top u.s. general in afghanistan said today those responsible will be accountable. and mark phillips is following this. >> reporter: two days after the u.s. air strike that destroyed this hospital in afghanistan the pentagon has now changed its story on how and why the attack happened. it was not, as was first said, called in by u.s. forces under threat while working with afghan government troops trying to retake kunduz from the taliban. the air strike was called in, u.s. general john campbell said, by the afghans themselves. >> afghan forces advised that they were taking fire from enemy positions and asked for air support from u.s. forces. an air strike was then called to eliminate the taliban threat and several civilians were accidentally struck. >> reporter: by several he means 22.

10 patients and 12 staff members. killed by the devastating firepower of an ac-130 gunship like this one. the attack went on for an hour. the hospital is run by the international medical charity doctors without borders, which bravely operates in many of the world's war zones. and it insists it had specifically informed both u.s. and afghan authorities of the hospital's location. as for the kabul government's claim that the taliban were firing from around the hospital compound, the group's executive director, vickie hawkins, insists that was not the case. >> the comments coming from the afghan government are absolutely outrageous. they are to an extent justifying the destruction of a fully functioning hospital. >> reporter: the pentagon, nato, and the afghans themselves are now conducting investigations. doctors without borders says the only credible inquiry must be international and independent.

beyond the tragedy, the air strike raises questions about how u.s. air power in afghanistan is controlled, about the rules of engagement that are used and, scott, about whether designated like hospitals can become free fire zones. >> mark phillips in the london newsroom tonight. for generations taught to drive with their hands at 10:00 and 2:00. the times are about to change. airline workers attack their bosses. and this dog punches way above its weight. well, things in the bedroom have always been pretty good.

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with these mass shootings every couple of months, we're listening to a variety of ideas to end the bloodshed in a series

that we're calling "voices against violence." tonight, a man who lost two of his uncles to gun violence, a president and a senator. >> i'm patrick kennedy. i'm the author of the mental health parity and addiction equity act signed into law in 2008. one consistency in all the recent tragedies is that the perpetrator had untreated mental illness. the most basic thing we can do is wrap around services upon the first inside dennis of someone's psychosis, usually in their late teen years, early 20s. we know when to expect these, when they happen. we ought to wrap our arms around the people who are suffering from these illnesses and treat them early as opposed to ignoring them until they become pathological stage 4 illnesses. and that's what leads to these ultimate tragedies. if you do that, you change the permanent trajectory of the illness, thereby curbing the ultimate tragedies that have

taken place in almost every single one of the recent shootings. >> former congressman patrick kennedy. and we'll hear more ideas on gun violence in the days ahead. we'll be right back.

two air france executives ran into some turbulence today. union workers stormed the headquarters when the company said it was cutting nearly 3,000 jobs. the workers overpowered security

and grabbed the executives and ripped the suits off their backs. they got away by climbing a fence. another hasty exit was caught on tape in monrovia, california. two bears wandered into a yard and tried to make themselves at home. but little jules would have none of it. the 20-pound french bulldog leapt into action, chasing the bears over the fence. bringing to mind mark twain's line, "it's not the size of the dog in the fight but the size of the fight in the dog. and have a look at a car that the dog of the future may be chasing. we'll have that next. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

we end tonight in the world of tomorrow. many of you saw bill whitaker's "60 minutes" story about the driverless car. that's bill in a google car. well, tonight bill gives us a look at the mercedes fo-15 concept car and the new hands-off relationship between people and their automobiles. >> reporter: alex, this is like no dashboard i've ever seen before. >> it's fully digital. essentially, what we're using here is a technology that allows us to track your eye movement as well as your gestures and your hands. >> track your eye movement? >> what we're doing is natural interaction. you have all these different gauges. for example, we have the volume

knob here. what the car enables you to do is just look at any of these gauges you can see. for example, the volume gauge. >> it's picking up your eye movements? >> yeah. and it's picking up your hand. see, so i'm changing the volume right now. and it's pretty much very relaxed. i don't have to reach out. i can just do it just naturally. and now i'm talking to you and the car knows, okay, whatever i'm going to do now doesn't affect me. it also suggests, for example, coffee stopovers. >> reporter: and you notify the car, i want coffee, and it will pull over and stop at the next coffee shop? >> yes. >> reporter: unpleevl. what else? >> these are detected objects in our vicinity. >> reporter: so the car is seeing all of these dots. >> yeah. >> reporter: are things that this car might come into contact with. other cars, buildings, trees. >> correct. >> reporter: anything. >> but let me give you an overview of what we're actually looking at here. >> reporter: wow.

>> this is the bay area. these are all the detected objects that basically are reported back to the car. >> reporter: that's incredible. so all of those dots we were seeing before, this is the representation from a distance? >> yeah. we are just right now looking, for example, at the traffic at the bay bridge. >> reporter: unbelievable. how did you do that? >> just look at it, raise your left hand, and push or pull. in this case we can just get it back like that. >> and that's the "cbs overnight news" for this tuesday. for some of you the news continues. for others check back with us just a little later for the morning news and "cbs this morning." from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm scott pelley.

this is the "cbs overnight news." >> welcome to the overnight news. i'm elaine quijano. former congressman patrick kennedy is raising eyebrows with his tell-all memoir "a common struggle." the book details the kennedy family's battles with alcoholism, depression, and mental illness. patrick kennedy opened up for leslie stahl of "60 minutes." >> it's a conspiracy of silence, not only for the person who's suffering but for everyone else who's forced to interact with that person. that's why they call this a family disease. >> and you're trying to take the stigma away. >> well, i'm trying to figure out how do we move this away from shame and stigma into a

honest to god political movement. this isn't something esoteric about trying to take care of that alcoholic -- don't tell me those people spend money. it's about taking care of all of us because these are americans. they're dying every day and they're our brothers and sisters. >> reporter: he says there's a pathology of silence about mental illness and addiction within families, especially his. in his book he breaks what he calls the kennedy code of silence. >> i don't tell in this book about my family's stories as some way to talk about their story. this is my story. these experiences are embedded in me. they're who i am. >> you write, i'm going to quote you from the book, "my father went on in silent desperation for much of his life, self-medicating and unwittingly passing his unprocessed trauma

onto my sister, brother, and me. >> that's right. >> self-medicating. >> yeah. >> so that was the alcohol? >> yeah, that was the alcohol. >> do you think he was an alcoholic? >> you know, i think he definitely had a problem with acknowledge. i still right now, leslie, have trouble talking about this. this is like breaking the family code here. i am now outside the family line. >> reporter: outside the line talking about his dad but also about the silence surrounding his mother joan's alcoholism that he says he inherited. >> what was it like growing up with your mother? >> it was so tense. my mother clearly would be inebriated and under the influence. she would walk around in the middle of the day, you know, in a terry cloth bathrobe. and the amazing thing is here you have all of these leading

policy makers in the country in and out of the house, coming into the house, watching this, and no one saying a world. the shame just becomes -- >> you felt the shame. >> oh, my god. i felt like oh, my god, they're going to see. mom, quick, let's get back into your room. don't let any -- you know. i just understood this was not something you that want anyone to see. >> you write as a kennedy, and it's a unique position that you're in. i kept thinking, you know, probably most families would have acted the way your family did. >> oh. i know so many of them who can't talk about their own families' illnesses. you get infected by the pathology of silence. and that is sickening to your soul. >> he writes that while his mother was crippled by her drinking his father was reeling.

>> president kennedy died at 1:00 p.m. central standard time. >> teddy was devastated by the assassinations of his two brothers. >> when my uncle bobby was killed, it was like absolutely the floor dropped out for my father. absolutely the floor. because they got to be buddies in the united states senate. those were the glory days for my dad. you ever ask anyone, my dad was the happiest he ever was when he had his brother. then his brother was killed. boom. over. show over. >> those of us who loved him and who take him to his rest today pray that what he was to us and what he wished for others will someday come to pass for all the world. >> my dad never got to grieve. he had to be there for the country. he had to be there for my family. he had to be there for my uncle bobby's 11 children and john and

caroline. >> tell me what's welling up in you. you didn't know bobby. you were 1 years old. >> yeah. but i knew the pain that came from his having been killed because i saw my father kind of live in silent desperation. for most of his life. >> are you weeping for him? >> oh, of course i do. i absolutely grieve for him. >> to this minute. >> yes. >> reporter: as people across the country went for bobby, the second kennedy brother assassinated in five years, patrick writes that the family itself dealt with bobby's death the only way they knew how. >> if you think we couldn't talk about my mom, we couldn't talk about my uncle bobby. and the fact that his murder was still so present, you know, in all of our lives because it was unprocessed. >> you actually say that because

nobody talked about these things in the family you were all kind of like zombies. you use that word. "zombies." >> well, we were living in a limbo land where all of this chaos, this emotional turmoil was happening and we were expected just to live through it. >> this is the first time a kennedy has been this open about the family secrets. these particular secrets. are you worried about how the family's going to react? >> i know how some of them are going to react because i've already -- >> they've seen your book? >> yeah, i've shown them the book. >> they're not pleased. >> no. >> they're angry. >> they're angry. >> reporter: chappaquiddick was something else they couldn't talk about. a year after bobby's assassination teddy drove a car off a wooden bridge, drowning his young passenger, mary joe kopekny. he abandoned the scene and didn't tell authorities till the

next morning. this is where you had the conversation with your dad about chappaquiddick. >> this is where i had i guess could you call it a conversation. >> reporter: on the tenth anniversary of the tragedy teddy brought patrick, then 12, to this beach in hyannisport specifically to talk about chappaquiddick but then didn't. >> i learned more about this by, you know, looking in the books and newspapers and articles and on tv. >> do you think chappaquiddick had an impact on you? >> i couldn't even talk about it. i was hostage to the family code that no, don't say anything about it. anything you say, it's disloyal, it's against the family code, and it doesn't matter whether it's in a private therapy session. that psychiatrist could go out and tell somebody. >> reporter: the way patrick dealt with it was to drink. he was heavily into alcohol by

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more schools around the country are dropping their football programs for fear the kids can be badly injured or worse. three high school football players died from game-related injuries last month alone, and 16 have died since 2013. brian and kathy howgan lost their 15-year-old son taylor in 2008 when a hit caused his liver to rupture. the couple has been working to educate coaches and players ever since. mark strassmann reports from john's creek, georgia outside atlanta. >> reporter: player safety has been the focus from the nfl to pop warner for little kids. and with the emphasis on concussions and preventing helmet to helmet hits tacksaling now often lower between the shoulders and the knees. but that opens up a new

potentially fatal worry. watch as 15-year-old receiver taylor howgan reached for a pass in 2008. two tacklers hit him, one from the front, another from the back. he staggered off the florida field. >> they laid him down on the bench, and he was losing color. at that point. >> did you know that this was really bad? >> i was praying that it wasn't as bad as it was. >> reporter: taylor died the next day from a massive liver rupture. he was brian and kathy howgan only child. >> could you ever have imagined playing football? >> never. it was his passion. >> the risk of internal injuries was not even on your radar? >> no. it wasn't. now i look at it and it was like why did i not see this? it's an entire area of their body that has no protection of their body that has no

protection at all. >> reporter: abdominal injuries are a new wave of worry in a sport adapting to the threat of head injuries. >> so i think we're going to have the lower abdomen and the ribs and the chest be more targeted. >> reporter: at children's health care of atlanta dr. david marshall is a sports medicine specialist. >> so that's good for the head. that's good for concussions. but might not be so good for the liver and the spleen. >> make sure there's nothing to lift up on them. >> reporter: at john's creek high school the howgans handed out these protective shirts to the football team. the shirt, made by evo shield, molds a polymer padding around a player's midsection. >> you can throw the shirt in the washing machine. >> reporter: at john's creek all 107 players got a shirt. >> go. from the varsity starters to the third string freshmen. after their son died the howgans started a foundation to educate and equip high school teams. but they're frustrated that no one now tracks how often these injuries occur. kathy howgan has this message for football parents.

>> be our child's advocate because you cannot count on school administration, coaches, anyone. who's going to protect and have your child's best interests more than you are? >> reporter: this is the shirt, which retails for about 80 bucks. the padding is here and here to protect the midsection. the howgans and their foundation usually split the cost with schools 50-50. and so far they've given out 3,000 shirts to schools in seven states. the fast food chain chick-fil-a has more than 1900 restaurants nationwide but there was no chick-fil-a in new york city until now. the chain just opened its biggest score in the big city. but it's up against 7,000 other fast food joints. vladimir gutier went inside for a taste. >> reporter: it's the same

sandwich chick-fil-a invented 50 years ago, a bread fried chicken breast served on a bun with two pickles. it has a loyal, borderline obsessive following. it sounds so simple, but clearly if it were that simple there would be thousands of people replicating the flavor, the taste. >> they can try, but i don't think they can duplicate what we do right here. >> good morning efrks. >> reporter: oscar fitipaldi is a former ship captain. now he's in charge of running chick-fil-a's largest operation yet, right here in the middle of manhattan. if you had to say there was one thing people chick-fil-a, what do you think it is? >> i think they don't understand our culture. the food is just the vehicle we use, but through service we create memories worth repeating. >> reporter: that service started in 1967, when s. truitt kathy opened the first chick-fil-a in atlanta, georgia. truitt died last year but the company remained family owned and they still adhere to kathy

christian values. david farmer is chick-fil-a's vice president of product strategy. >> truitt used to say he thinks of chick-fil-a as a business that is consistent with biblical values and he would say those are good business values too. >> reporter: while chick-fil-a has a fraction of the number of restaurants mcdonald's does, they make a half million dollars more per average on store. they sell more chicken than kentucky fried chicken. >> we have to work really, really hard. we can never left on the success that we've had in the past. millions of transactions every day. we've got to get out there and earn it aum ovll over again. >> reporter: which they had to do in 2012 when those values ran afoul of public sentiment. in several interviews ceo dan kathy affirmed his support for frigsal marriage. he said on a conservative radio show -- >> i pray god's mercy on our generation that has such a prideful, arrogant attitude to think that we have the audacity to try to redefine what marriage is all about. >> reporter: marriage equality supporters staged protests and

boycotts. in response the company stopped donating to several conservative groups. >> we're really just trying to back away from politics and say there are people that are in a better position to do that. we'll stick to what we know. and that's what we're trying to practice now. >> so somebody who is a muslim or jewish could become an operator of a chick-fil-a? that's not an issue? >> oh, absolutely. what we want to know is do you love serving people? are you excited about getting out there and building a business? that's what we're interested in. >> reporter: even here in new york city, the city that never sleeps, this chick-fil-a will be closed on sundays just like all their other locations across the country, part of the core kathy christian values. >> the "cbs overnight news" will be right back. ♪

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for most men the last thing they want to do is laundry. bill geist found a group of guys who not only love washing clothes but they also love the

machines that do the washing. >> reporter: do you consider wash days as nothing more than a chore? maybe it's time you changed your attitude. try to be more positive, more enthusiastic. >> want to go down do laundry now. >> reporter: more like these guys. >> bring your dirties. >> yay. >> load me up. there you go. >> reporter: they love laundry. >> which way to the machines? >> reporter: they can't wait to wash. >> oh, my gosh. what's best for permanent press, john? >> oh, wow. you want to do this one, mark? >> go for it. >> get your laundry. >> reporter: they're members of the washing machine collectors club. >> so exciting. it's like christmas morning. >> reporter: really. >> so is this your treasure trove down here? >> yes. this is my treasure trove. come on in, bill. this is a top loader. this is a 57 speed queen. this is a dualmatic. it's a washer-dryer. it's a philco bendix. this is 1958. >> reporter: john charles was a founder of the group back in

1984. so how many members at that point? >> we had about six, i think. now we're up about 3,000 members worldwide. >> reporter: 3,000 washing machine collectors. >> oh, yeah. >> reporter: a staggering, some might say alarming figure. >> we have a collector in madagascar. we have our first russian member. we've got people in australia. we've got everywhere. >> here we are. you get to pick a machine now. >> oh, my gosh. >> reporter: members gather regularly. >> we should put some more dirty clothes in here. >> reporter: for what are called wash-ins, like this one at john's house near boston. >> that's like shaving cream now. anybody need to shave? >> it just is three days of crazy washing around the clock. i mean, at 4:00 in the morning you've got to say okay, guys, it's time to quit. >> i've waited my whole life for this. >> reporter: 15 of the faithful brought their dirty laundry from as far away as canada and nebraska. >> i love the sound that they make. >> reporter: to play with the 22 working machines in john's

basement. >> i thought i was the only person that was crazy for appliances like this. and come to find out when i came across the club, oh, my god, there's more people like me. you know. and it was really nice. >> this is the calvinator. that's rinsing action four. they have personalities. there's no burping action. for me i've always been fascinated with these machines. >> reporter: john loves them all. >> ooh. this is sleek and -- >> this is my pride and joy. >> reporter: but this combo is a favorite. >> wow. that's a bounder. >> that's a bounder. exactly. >> reporter: the 1957 blackstone be-250. in charcoal with a distinctive and very excellent control tower. >> looks like it's going to take off. >> oh, yeah. 1100 rpm. that's the fastest one that was ever made for a top loader. >> really? >> yeah. >> reporter: the two are believed to be the only pair in captivity. >> there we go.

that's pretty. >> reporter: john's other treasure is the 1938 bendix. >> it's the first time i've actually seen one of these run. this is like a lifetime moment. >> reporter: which always draws a crowd. they like to watch. and watch. and watch. >> everybody has their most favorite part of the cycle. and everybody's different. >> what's yours? >> i like the drama of spins. to me that's dramatic. i like that. it's dramatic. it's washer drama, we call it. >> much better color than gold. >> reporter: between loads these avid laundry men chat. >> matador red, but that was in the mid '60s. >> debate. >> two dozen machines in my collection. >> 20, 25. >> and compare collections. >> how many machines do you have? >> near 200. >> 16 washers, 14 dryers -- >> reporter: paul from canada collects but one color. >> turquoise is my color. that's my handle in the club.

turquoise dude. >> reporter: what draws seemingly normal people -- >> wow. >> reporter: -- to collect big old appliances and do their laundry in other people's basements? we'll let cal from maryland answer that. >> i have a good friend who's a child psychologist. and she's sort of been studying this. >> reporter: does she think it's a syndrome of some kind, something that can be treated? [ laughter ] >> we all know it can't. >> reporter: not to worry. >> bill spilled coffee on his shirt. >> oh, no. >> yeah. >> put that in there. >> reporter: there will always be loads and loads of dirty laundry in this world. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

the latest mass killing in oregon has reignited the debate over gun control. well, one city, san francisco, already has some of the strictest gun laws in the nation, so tough in fact the last gun shop in town is closing for good. john blackstone reports. >> reporter: the modest storefront in san francisco's mission district doesn't do justice to the iconic status of highbridge arms. as the last gun shop in san francisco, it does as brisk a business in souvenir shirts as it does in firearms. >> we've gotten a call from someone from minnesota yesterday. we sent two off to st. cloud. >> reporter: the shirts have been selling quickly since highbridge announced it's shutting down. >> at the end of october we'll

be done. >> reporter: general manager steven al cairo says the store is being pushed out of business by a proposed city law that would require every gun sale to be videotaped. >> when a customer takes delivery of their firearm, they want us to videotape that person doing that and to submit it to the police department. >> reporter: gun buyers already have to fill out a detailed form, go through a background check and a waiting period. but sending a videotape of the purchase to local police strikes al cairo as one regulation too many. >> the idea was just to announce. the following two weeks sales just dipped. it was like a ghost town. nobody was coming in. >> reporter: the legislation was proposed by mark farrell, a member of the city's board of supervisors. >> if i have to choose between a gun store and the public safety of our residents i'm going to choose the public safety of our residents. >> do you have any evidence

they've been supplying guns to people who shouldn't have guns? >> not in this storm in particular. and again, the target of this storm is not one store in particular. >> but it's the only store in town. >> right now it is. but we've heard other stores have been thinking of movie toing to san francisco and the residents of san francisco demands we do everything we can to make our streets safer. >> gun buyers won't have to go far. there's a gun store just south of san francisco's city limits. will san francisco be any safer when your door shuts permanently? >> and i don't think so. not at all. not in the very least. >> what will be lost if the store closes? >> i think a piece of san francisco's history. >> reporter: the gun racks are emptying fast at highbridge. for those just looking for a shirt, the only ones left are extra large. january blackstone, san francisco. that's the "cbs overnight news" for this tuesday. for some of you the news continues. for others check back with us a little later for the morning news and "cbs this morning."

from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm elaine quijano. it's tuesday, october 6, 2015. this is the "cbs morning news." the scope of the flood disaster in the southeast becomes clearer. at least 13 people are dead and thousands more are cut off after a week of heavy rain. in flight emergency. an american airlines jet diverts when the pilot falls ill and later dies in the cockpit. and they're growing in popularity. but are they fantasy or fiction?