>> reporter: changing actual vote totals is difficult because most voting machines are not connected to the internet. but throwing confusion into an already contentious election, that's a lot easier. and scott, that's what officials believe the russians are trying to do. >> jeff pegues for us tonight. jeff, thank you. and another note. cbs news will be bringing you live coverage of the third and final clinton-trump debate. that's in las vegas next wednesday at 9:00 eastern, 8:00 central. today nicole hit bermuda as

a powerful category 3 hurricane, and don dahler is there. >> reporter: since 1851 bermuda has only had seven major hurricanes come close. number eight has just arrived. category 4 nicole has just gotten close enough for to us start experiencing the early rain bands and high winds. within hours nicole slammed ashore with a fury this island has rarely seen. huge waves crashed over the protective reef that cut the legs out from under what could have been a deadly storm surge of over 30 feet. even with the fierceness of this storm most of the damage was contained to downed trees and some flooding. one minor injury was reported. with the cleanup now under way, the people here count themselves lucky. don dahler, cbs news, bermuda. overnight u.s. warships fired missiles into rebel-controlled areas of yemen on the arabian peninsula. this was retaliation for missiles that were fired on a u.s. navy ship in the red sea. and david martin is at the

pentagon. >> reporter: it's an all too familiar sight. a u.s. navy ship launching missiles against targets in the middle east. but this was different. this was the first time the u.s. has fired at one of the warring sides in yemen's civil war, which pits rebels backed by iran against government forces backed by saudi arabia and the united arab emirates. the war has claimed an estimated 10,000 lives, many of them civilians, some of them killed by saudi airstrikes flown with the help of american aerial refueling and intelligence. the strike at 4:00 this morning local time came after the u.s. destroyer "mason" reported coming under attack by anti-ship missiles fired from territory held by the iranian-backed rebels. a second destroyer, the "uss nizze, launched cruise missiles at three unmanned radar stations u.s. officials believe to have been used in the attacks against the "mason."

knocking out the radars will severely degrade the accuracy of any future attacks. the weapon fired against the "mason" was an unsophisticated version of the silkworm anti-ship missile, which has poor accuracy to begin with but carries a large warhead. this video purports to show what happened when one of them hit a ship belonging to the united arab emirates earlier this month. none of the missiles fired at the "mason" reached their target. even without radar the rebels could still fire missiles aimed at american ships. and if they do, the pentagon has already vowed to retaliate again. scott? >> david martin at the pentagon for us this evening. david, thank you. coming up next, elizabeth palmer is inside aleppo, syria as a trip to school turns deadly. i'm here in bristol, virginia.

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should be in class right now, not lying in the razi hospital morgue. out in the parking lot lamar's grandfather is in shock. >> [ speaking foreign language ]. >> reporter: calling for god to punish her killers. but this is war. we'll never know which rebel fighter shot the mortar that ripped into 8-year-old zeina's body. surgeons did their best, but zeina died of devastating shrapnel wounds. and so did 5-year-old ismael, who never even made it out of intensive care. samir hellaq, deputy director of education in aleppo, was overcome by the senselessness of it all. "these kids committed no crime," he says. "they were unarmed. they just wanted to learn." this is exactly where that lethal mortar fell. 7:45 in the morning in a perfectly ordinary residential street in government-held aleppo. and the kids who were hurt and

killed? they were just walking along on their way to school. nearby, the men of telal neighborhood are clearing up after a rocket smashed into this street and killed another 5-year-old boy. it's been an especially violent 48 hours in aleppo, with bombs and artillery thundering down on the rebel-occupied east side of the city and return fire crashing into the west. samer samani's shop was destroyed in this lethal tit for tat. when you hear the bombing is heavy on the other side do you know it's going to start up here as well? >> yes, always. >> reporter: so when they're getting hit they hit back? >> they hit back. and they hit back on us, all civilians. >> reporter: civilians on both sides of this war who were never asked if they wanted to live on the battlefield.

and the hard truth is that no matter how many precautions people take, scott, there is no way to stay completely safe. >> war correspondent liz palmer for us in syria tonight. liz, thank you. and we'll be right back.

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not known. today the u.n. general assembly elected a new leader. portugal's former prime minister, antonio guterres, will become secretary-general january 1st. he succeeds ban-ki moon. president obama couldn't tell you how many hands he's shaken over the years but he'll remember this one. in pittsburgh fade the president met 28-year-old nathan copeland, who'd been paralyzed in a car accident. copeland used a mind-controlled robotic hand to fist bump the president. tiny chips implanted in copeland's brain allowed him to feel the president's touch. up next, a surprising twist of fate for a rock icon. how does it feel to be a nobel laureate? ♪ how does it feel ,,,,

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bob dylan is performing tonight in las vegas. maybe not the first place you'd imagine the winner of the nobel prize in literature would celebrate. but dylan, who took his stage name from the poet dylan thomas, is not your typical nobel laureate. anthony mason tells us why he is joining the ranks of hemingway, faulkner, and steinbeck. ♪ hey, mr. tambourine man ♪ play a song for me >> reporter: in his early appearances, this one at the newport folk festival in 1964, bob dylan quickly emerged as the most influential musician of his generation, though he could be as enigmatic as his own lyrics. >> do you think of yourself primarily as a singer or as a poet? >> i think of myself mostly as a song and dance man, you know.

[ laughter ] ♪ once upon a time you dressed so fine ♪ ♪ threw the bums a dime in your prime ♪ ♪ didn't you >> reporter: with songs like "like a rolling stone," the magazine "rolling stone" said dylan enlarged the vocabulary of popular music. >> the nobel prize in literature for -- >> reporter: in announcing the award the nobel committee praised dylan. >> for having created new poetic expressions within the great american song tradition. >> the words are just as important as the music. there would be no music without the words. ♪ johnny's in the basement mixing up the medicine ♪ ♪ i'm on the pavement thinking about the government ♪ >> reporter: dylan is the first singer-songwriter to be awarded the literature prize, a controversial decision. but the swedish academy said dylan has the status of an icon. ♪ helped her out of a jam i guess but he used a little too much force ♪ picasso fractured the art world and cracked it wide open, dylan

once wrote. "he was revolutionary. i wanted to be like that." ♪ how many roads must a man walk down ♪ ♪ before you call him a man first making his mark in the folk era with songs that became civil rights anthems, the 75-year-old artist has continually reinvented himself. ♪ the emptiness is endless ♪ cold as the clay ♪ you could always come back ♪ but you can't come back all the way ♪ >> reporter: but dylan has always downplayed his own influence. ♪ come gather round people wherever you roam ♪ if the if i wasn't bob dylan," the singer has said, "i'd probably think that bob dylan has a lot of answers myself." ♪ for the times, they are a changing ♪ anthony mason, cbs news, new york. and that's the overnight news for this friday. for some of you the news continues.

for others check back with us a little bit later for the morning news and be sure not to miss "cbs this morning." from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm scott pelley. >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." welcome to the overnight news. donald trump is threatening to sue "the new york times" for publishing the story two of women who claim he accosted them years ago. trump insists the claims are "fabricated, fiction and outright lies." the "times" stands by its story, and several other media outlets have published similar accounts. here's a visibly angry trump talking to supporters in florida. >> they will attack you. they will slander you. they will seek to destroy your career and your family. they will seek to destroy everything about you including your reputation. they will lie, lie, lie.

and then again, they will do worse than that. they will do whatever's necessary. the clintons are criminals. remember that. they're criminals. people who are capable of such crimes against our nation are capable of anything. and so now we address the slander and libels that was just last night thrown at me by the clinton machine and the "new york times" and other media outlets as part of a concerted, coordinated, and vicious attack. these vicious claims about me of inappropriate conduct with women are totally and absolutely fa e false. >> the avalanche of allegations against donald trump has gotten under the skin of first lady michelle obama. mrs. obama never mentioned trump

by name but there was no question who she was talking about at a campaign rally for hillary clinton in new hampshire. >> i can't stop thinking about this. it has shaken me to my core in a way that i couldn't have predicted. it's like that sick sinking feeling you get when you're walking down the street minding your own business and some guy yells out vulgar words about your body. or when you see that guy at work that stands just a little too close, stares a little too long and makes you feel uncomfortable in your own skin. it's that feeling of terror and violation that too many women have felt when someone has grabbed them or forced himself on them and they said no but he didn't listen. the shameful comments about our bodies. the disrespect of our ambitions and intellect. the belief that you can do anything you want to a woman?

it is cruel. it's frightening. and the truth is it hurts. this is not normal. this is not politics as usual. [ cheers and applause ] this is disgraceful. it is intolerable. and it doesn't matter what party you belong to, democrat, republican, independent. no woman deserves to be treated this way. none of us deserves this kind of abuse. >> more than a dozen states from coast to coast are asking the department of homeland security to help secure their voter databases. some states have already seen intrusions through the internet, and fingers are pointing at russia. jeff pegues reports. >> reporter: the hacking attempt on arizona's voter database started in rural gila county when an elections worker opened an e-mail attachment.

>> very scary stuff. >> reporter: michelle reagan, arizona's secretary of state, says it was malware meant to attack these servers holding the voter information of 4 million people. >> we had a cybersecurity team in place. >> reporter: reagan was alerted by the fbi. experts believe the russian government is to blame. what was your initial reaction? >> shock. and dismay obviously because we've never had to worry about foreign invaders coming in and trying to mess with our confidence in our election system. >> reporter: arizona, illinois, florida and nearly two dozen other states have seen similar scanning, probing or breaches of their election systems. >> the russians have a different doctrine than we do. >> reporter: for over a decade jim lewis has advised the u.s. government on cyberattacks. >> they're using information as a way to achieve their political goals. they don't need the red army anymore. they have the internet.

>> reporter: president vladimir putin and other senior russian officials have denied involvement, calling u.s. accusations nonsense. >> the biggest thing we were worried about was did they tack any information. >> reporter: reagan says she is confident the voter database wasn't compromised. but she says the attacks continue. in september alone officials here say that there were 192,000 intrusion attempts. about 11,000 of them posed a serious threat. reagan and 32 other secretaries of state have asked the department of homeland security for help. >> i liken it to when you're being invaded by russia you don't call in your national guard. at some point you have to say, you know, i need the army. syrian government forced backed by the russian air force renewed their assault on rebel-held neighborhoods in the city of aleppo. at least 150 people have been killed this week alone. but not all the shelling is

coming from the government side. rebel artillery landed near a school, and the casualties there were children. elizabeth palmer reports. >> reporter: lamar and henadi should be in class right now. not lying in the razi hospital morgue. out in the parking lot lamar's grandfather is in shock. calling for god to punish her killers. but this is war. we'll never know which rebel fighter shot the mortar that ripped into 8-year-old zeina's body. surgeons did their best, but zeina died of devastating shrapnel wounds. and so did 5-year-old ismael, who never even made it out of intensive care. samir hellaq, deputy director of education in aleppo, was overcome by the senselessness of it all. "these kids committed no crime," he says. "they were unarmed.

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tales of being sexually accosted by republican presidential candidate donald trump. "the new york times" printed the story of two of these women. cbs news hasn't confirmed their stories, but rachel crooks was a 22-year-old receptionist inside trump tower back in 2005. the "times" reports she introduced herself to trump and they shook hands. crooks told the "times" that shortly after he began kissing her cheek. then she said "he kissed me directly on the mouth." another accuser, jessica leeds, told the "times" trump's hands were all over me during an airplane flight. the 74-year-old says it happened more than three decades ago. >> he was like an octopus. it was like he had six arms. he was all over the place. and if he had stuck with the upper part of the body i might

not have gotten -- i might not have gotten that upset. so when he started putting his hand up my skirt, that was it. >> the trump campaign said the entire article is fiction. "this truly is nothing more than a political attack. this is a sad day for the times." the two reporters who wrote the story, michael barbero and megan tuohy discussed it on cbs this morning. >> tell us about these allegations made in your story, megan. >> jessica leeds is a story who shared her story with us. and said that a little over 30 years ago she was on a plane seated next to donald trump when he proceeded to grope her and put his hand up her skirt, forcing her to flee to the -- another seat on the plane. >> so that allegation comes forward. it's from 30 years ago. how do you verify it? how do you know something like that is worth putting in the paper? >> we can also -- we're happy to

discuss that. but the second allegation was made, dates back to 2005, from a young woman who was working in trump tower at the time. she was a 22-year-old reception for bayrock, a company located there. she says she bumped into trump outside an elevator and that she introduced herself, they shook hands, he kissed her on the cheek, and then proceeded to kiss her on the mouth and she felt uncomfortable about it. so what do you do when you get -- when two women come to you -- >> did they come to you? did you put out a call for them? >> they did. they reached out to us. >> and back to norah's question. how do you verify it? >> what we do is we interview the women, in both cases more than once, to make sure what they told us in their e-mails and, you know, lined up with what they told us in interviews. and then we also in both cases, these are women who had shared their stories with friends and family. in the case of the 22-year-old she immediately made a phone call to her sister right after this happened. she went home that night. she told her boyfriend. you know, so we talked to the

boyfriend. we talked to the sister. in the case of jessica, we talked to other people she had told as well. >> and did you talk to donald trump? >> yes. but before we get to that, we talked not just to the two women who went on the record and used their names. we talked to the people around them who went on the record and used their names. there are no anonymous quotations in this story. these are people who are putting their names and their reputations by the claims that were described in these stories. i think that's important. >> at the time that they allege these assaults they had told close friends and family who recall similar stories -- >> in the case of rachel crooks that's absolutely correct. in the case of jessica leeds she began about a year and a half ago she said to tell a widening circle of people including her son, her nephew, and more than two friends. but we talked to two friends as well as the nephew and son, who recall the details of what she told them, which lined up with what she told us. >> megan, you talked to donald trump, you said? >> right. absolutely. we would never just go ahead and publish these accounts without talking to the presidential

candidate himself. and so on tuesday night he got on the phone with me and i spelled out the allegations. and you know, gave him a chance to respond. >> what did he say? >> yeah. don't leave that line. >> he insisted that all of the allegations were a fabrication and that the "new york times" was making them up. and he got increasingly agitated as i continued my questions and started to yell at me and told me that i was a disgusting human being. washington, d.c. isn't noted for its fine dining but the latest michelin guide is out and it found some great food in our nation's capital. none of the restaurants were awarded the coveted three stars, but nine got one star and three of them received two. they are pineapple and pearls, the mini bar, and the inn at little washington, which is actually 90 minutes into the virginia countryside. jan crawford was inside mini bar when the good news came down. >> reporter: chef jose andres and his staff here at mini bar have been awarded two coveted

michelin stars. jose got the call this morning from the michelin inspector. and i think excitement may be an understatement, as he has said, this is the kind of thing chefs spend their entire careers hoping to achieve. >> not good enough. >> reporter: when mercurial celebrity chef gordon ramsay lost a coveted michelin star -- >> i started crying when i lost my stars. >> reporter: he told a norwegian television station for once he didn't scream. >> it's like losing a girlfriend. >> reporter: for nearly a century this red book has decreed the top restaurants in the world. this week after a years-long process shrouded in mystery michelin comes to washington with a new guide and for a few select chefs new stars. we sat down with michelin's top u.s. inspector at the tasting table test kitchen in new york with the promise not to blow her cover. >> it's an award they take seriously because they don't know we've been there, they can't influence our findings.

>> it strikes fear and awe in chefs' hearts. >> this is the holy grail for them. this is what they've been working toward their whole career. >> reporter: like all michelin inspectors she is strictly anonymous. even close friends don't know her real job. >> we're not trying to play tricks or hide from the chefs. what we are trying to do is have an honest experience the way a consumer does when they go to a restaurant. >> reporter: so you're not getting special treatment like oh, my gosh, there's the inspector. >> we sit on hold making reservations for a long time. we have to eat at 5:30 or 10:30. we get terrible tables. >> it's like you're in the cia. >> cia but much better food. >> reporter: in washington michelin found some great food. like the dishes coming from cutting edge filipino chef tom kunanen. >> this is our purgita. >> this is octopus? >> yes. >> reporter: we visited with d.c. food critic to find out why

it was included in michelin's list of 19 washington gourmands. >> kind of trendy. >> let's try it. >> oh, wow. >> you get all the textures. >> reporter: bib gourmands are the kind of moderately priced restaurants the inspectors might frequent on their night off. >> of course they meet the michelin guide criteria of quality and the cooking is excellent and the place like that is seen as a great bib gourmand. >> reporter: and one day they may get one, two, or even three elusive michelin stars. >> the best of a 3-star restaurant is it's once in a lifetime. it's something you're going to remember forever. >> reporter: but any star is an honor. of the restaurants that make it into the guide just 10% actually get a star rating. in the u.s. only 13 restaurants hold three michelin stars. places so exceptional they're worth a special journey. that was the purpose of the guide when it was founded in the early 1900s.

the french-based michelin, after all, is a tire company. in the early days of the automobile its founders wanted to encourage travel. and what better way than a guide to fine dining? it now has 27 guides worldwide, three in the u.s. washington, long seen as a town of steakhouses and expense accounts, this week will become america's fourth. >> in the last few years it's incredible what's gone on with the restaurants in washington, d.c. there are a lot of young chefs who are expressing a very unique and distinctive personality. and similarly the chefs and restaurants that have been around for a long time are evolving. >> reporter: one of those young chefs is aaron silverman whose restaurant rose's luxury is widely considered one of the city's best. customers stand in line for hours to get a table. >> at the end of the day our job is just to make people happy. whether you're a server or a bartender who's waiting on a

guest or whether you're a sous chef who's leading your cooks, like your job is to make them happy. >> reporter: but will rose's luxury get a star or will his new venture, the high-end pineapple and pearls which the "washington post" called the premier example of fine dining in the country? >> it's incredible. and i hope that we get something or multiple things from them. but the biggest benefit that i'm going to get out of that award is that hopefully we're busier and we can do more for our staff. >> now, pineapple and pearl is one of the restaurants awarded two stars. as for mini bar, if you want to eat there you better plan ahead. there's only room for a dozen customers. a tasting menu costs $275 a head. and that's without wine, taxes, or tip.

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specifically, a mister tree. i've come to pay my respects to the old man of the lake. >> it's an honor to meet you, sir. >> the old man of the lake was first discovered in 1896 by joseph diller, who was a geologist and explorer, and he described him as a spectacle, curious enough to excite the imagination. >> reporter: it may not look like much, but this part of a tree has been part of this park since its inception. a 30-foot-long log implausibly bobbing upright for 120 years. mark batenica is an aquatic ecologist for the park. as he monitors the water quality of crater lake he also ends up monitoring the movements of the old man. that's right. this seemingly unsinkable tree gets around. >> you would think that the four foot above the water would act

as a little sail, but sometimes he'll move all the way across the lake against the wind. >> reporter: it's as if he has a mind of his own. the old man can travel miles in a single day. today he's close to the shore. tomorrow he could be in the middle of the lake. in the 1930s the government commissioned a study of his movements. in their log of the log rangers observed the old man move over 60 miles in less than three months. and inquiring minds want to know, why hasn't the old man sunk? rocks may have once weighed down the roots, water loging the bottom while the sun dried out the top. but mark botenica isn't as concerned with the why. >> i think maybe some questions should remain unanswered, that maybe it's part of the human condition to believe in a little bit of mystery and the interconnectedness of all things. >> so as a scientist you're okay with maybe not knowing? >> i'm okay with not knowing.

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dozens of schools have canceled their homecoming dances this month. mireya villareal is at corona del mar high school outside los angeles. they were supposed to hold their homecoming dance last weekend. >> reporter: you know, administrators here say some of their students were drinking and being disruptive at a football game last month and that prompted the cancellation of corona del mar's homecoming dance but a lot of people are saying is this counterproductive to punish everyone for the bad behavior of just a few? corona del mar high school's homecoming football game went on as scheduled last week but this past weekend's homecoming dance was canceled. a casualty of alleged student drinking at a recent game.

>> whoo! >> the behavior of many of our student fans was despicable and deplorable. >> that's just out of control. you know, when you're under age you shouldn't be drinking anyways. >> reporter: the school decided to send a clear signal. >> as a consequence of extremely inappropriate and totally inexcusable behavior the homecoming activities have been canceled. >> you're punishing everybody because of a select bunch of idiots? i mean, come on. >> reporter: at walpole high school south of boston student drinking at school dances forced the principal to halt them all except for prom. >> kind of takes away from the other kids because they want to have fun at the dance too. >> reporter: walpole's principal issued a statement to cbs news, "we are working together to move forward and address this age-old but increasingly pervasive issue head on." >> i think some of the responsibility has to go to the parents. >> reporter: the national institutes of health says the percentage of high school students engaging in binge drinking has actually declined over the past decade. but the percentage of students drinking at levels far beyond the binge threshold is a growing

concern. rod pickell and his daughter sally who attends corona del mar high school understand why the homecoming dance was canceled. >> i think sometimes actions as big as that are necessary even though it's a real bummer for, you know, the students who weren't participating. >> if it actually facilitates something positive it was the right decision. and if that doesn't happen then you certainly could question whether it was the right call. >> reporter: high school officials in portland, maine say they defend their actions and they were worried about canceling most of their dances. a lot of the reason why was because they were worried about students being drunk, showing up drunk or under the influence of drugs. one of the superintendents that we spoke with, gail, actually said he's in the education business, not the nightclub business and he defends his actions. >> and that's the overnight news for this friday. for some of you the news continues. for others check back a little later for the morning news and "cbs this morning." from the broadcast center in new

york city i'm tony dokoupil. captioning funded by cbs it's friday, october 14th, 2016. this is the "cbs morning news." these claims are all fabricated. they are pure pickion and they are outright lies. >> after several women came forward, accusing donald trump of sexual assault, he is slamming back and slamming journalists and assaulting his accusers. >> take a look. you take a look. look at her. look at her words. you tell me what you think. i don't think so. i don't think so. an impassioned plea. first lady michelle obama