the president calls it a battle between good and evil many in his highly anticipated first speech overseas, president trump urges muslim leaders to stand with the u.s. to wipe out terrorism. >> drive them out of your praisplaces of worship. drive them out of your holy land, and drive them out of this earth. also tonight shall t, the v inside iran. did china jail and kill cia operatives working in their country? a nba star claims he was detained overseas for criticizing turkey's leader. and tonight the curtain closes on the greatest show on

earth. >> future generations will never get to have those memories. this is the "cbs overnight news." welcome to the overnight news. i'm elaine quijano. in saudi arabia sunday, president trump cast the fight against terrorism as a choice between good and evil. it was his first overseas speech as president. mr. trump addressed a summit of muslim leaders, calling on them to stand with the u.s. in the fight against, quote, islamic extremism. meanwhile, the president's problems back home are not going away. ousted fbi director james comey will testify before the senate intelligence committee after the memorial day holiday next week. americans approve of how the president has handled matters involving the fbi investigation into his campaign's possible ties to russia. 60% say comey should not have been fired. 6700 miles in washington this weekend, president trump was warmly received in saudi arabia.

white house and senior affairs correspondent margaret brennan is traveling with the president. >> this is a battle between good and evil. >> reporter: today president trump called leaders from more than 50 muslim-majority countries partners in the fight against extremism and urged them to battle terror e at home. >> drive them out. drive them out! of your places of worship. drive them out of your communities. drive them out of your holy land! and drive them out of this earth. >> reporter: mr. trump also helped to inaugurate a center to counter extremist messaging and online recruitment. standing beside the king of saudi arabia, the president abandoned the rhetoric of his campaign platform. >> donald j. trump is calling for a total and complete

shutdown of muslims entering the united states. >> reporter: while he softened that language, president trump did offer a gentle nudge to the mostly-male leaders that he hoped for a bright future for both men and women. >> when young muslim men and women should have the chance to build a new era of prosperity for themselves, it has to be done. >> reporter: first lady melania trump spent the day at events focussed on women's empowerment in the conservative kingdom. but from the podium, the president firmly said they were not here to criticize human rights abuses. >> we are not here to lecture. >> reporter: and just a day after signing a $110 billion arms deal with saudi arabia, touted as the biggest sale in u.s. history he promised more transaction with the leader of qatar. >> one of the things is we will talk about the purchase of beautiful military equipment,

because nobody makes it like the united states. >> reporter: mr. trump said that economic interests topped his agenda and suggested that obama administration policies will no longer affect u.s. relations. >> our countries have a wonderful relationship together that has been a little strained, but it won't be strained with this administration. we're going to have a very, very long-term, great relationship. >> reporter: the president also repeatedly referenced the threat posed by iran and its sponsorship of terrorist groups like hezbollah, a common enemy here in the area worab world an israel where he heads tomorrow. many of the president's weekend meetings focussed on saudi arabia's neighbor iran. they elected their president on friday and we have a view from the capital tehran.

>> reporter: there's been such a mood of joy and optimism here in tehran ever since president rouhani's electoral victory on friday. but that mood was shattered today when president trump called for iran's isolation. president rouhani won the election because he'd promised his base, millions of young people, that he'd pursue an agenda of what he called engagement with the world. moderate iranians who suffered under sanctions for more than a deb aid hoped that western businesses would begin to invest here and that they'd be able to travel abroad without being treated as international pariahs. president trump's speech sends a strong signal that america will do whatever it can to block that. there is a faction inside iran's complex power structure that may be celebrating tonight. the hardliners, including iran's powerful revolutionary guard and their followers.

closer ties with the west would have threatened their influence and control. and isolated iran is exactly what they want. moderate iranians, who are looking for a shred of hope to cling to tonight will have noticed a press conference given also in saudi arabia by secretary of state rex tillerson in which he said that although he had no plans to call iran's foreign minister, he did think they would talk at what he called the right time. elaine? >> elizabeth palmer, thank you. a new report suggests a violent crackdown by the chinese government on spies working for the cia. the "new york times" says at least a dozen informants were killed between 2010 and 2012, crippling the u.s. spy network in the country. and the u.s. intelligence community still doesn't know how it happened. gordon chang is the author of "nuclear showdown." north korea takes on the world. he joins us now.

what's your reaction to this report? >> this is shocking. we got to remember as we step back that the chinese regime does kill people. kills dissidents. it kills babies who don't have birth permits. in a sense, this is not as bad as you would think, but nonetheless, i was surprised. because, you know, the chinese of course see the u.s. as a competitor. but nonetheless, this is behavior that goes beyond the bounds. >> and do we know what impact this has had on u.s./china relations? >> it probably hasn't had much impact at all because the united states is looking at more important goals. president trump is looking to the chinese to disarm the north koreans for us. he probably is not going to let this interfere. but if he decides china is not helping this could be one of the things that could fuel a downturn in the relations. >> gordabon chang, thank you so much. the "cbs overnight news" will be right back.

the united nations security council will meet on tuesday at the request of the u.s., japan and south korea. after yet another missile launch by north korea. the defiant dictatorship fired a medium-range missile today. it landed more than 300 miles away in the sea of japan. this is the second successful test of what the u.s. calls a kn-15 missile. north korea's continued to ignore diplomatic and economic pressure to suspend its missile program. secretary of state tillerson says it's too soon to know if sanctions are working. if his speech today, president trump mentioned the battle for mosul in iraq where

american troops are helping kurds, shias and sunnis in the fight against isis. our charlie d'agata visited today. >> reporter: iraqi forces now claim they've recaptured nearly all of mosul and there's a plan in place to liberate the old city, but this will be the toughest phase of the battle, and it calls for a change in tactics, guerilla warfare at its very worst. because the old city has narrow streets and alley ways, so airstrikes, armored vehicles and tanks become objection leet. this is going to be done foot by foot, rifle by rifle. and this gives isis the advantage. we've seen holes knocked through walls so isis fighters can go from one house to another. and residents in that area have been told to take their front doors off their homes so isis can dart inside and out giving them fighting positions unhindered. hundreds of isis fighters remain. hundreds of thousands of

civilians are packed into this area that's less than five square miles. now iraqi commanders said they'd hoped isis would be entirely defeated by the beginning of ramadan. that's this coming thursday or friday. that may be wishful thinking, elaine, but isis fighters are surrounded. they only have two choices, to give themselves up or fight to the death. >> charlie d'agata, thank you. a turkish nba star is back in the u.s. after be being detained in romania this weekend. cantor of the oklahoma city thunder says the nba helped him out of his passport jam. >> we are in romania. and they is said they'd cancel my passport. >> reporter: turkish nba star cantor says they were holding him for hours at the bucharest airport. he says the turkish government canceled his passport, blocking

him from entering romania. >> the reason behind it is my views. >> reporter: he says on turkey's president erdogan seen in this footage tuesday watching members of his security team attack protesters in washington. he has supported fethullah gulen. despite being stuck at the airport, cantor appeared upbeat in his twitter photos, posing with officers, using the #free ennis. a spokesman later said his travel documents were not valid. but after about four hours he was allowed to leave for london. on sunday he tweeted this photo back in the u.s. they have reportedly canceled or confiscated passports of critics in the past and have declined to comment on this case. cantor has lots of what he calls

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after 146 years, the ring li ringling brothers and bacircus up. >> reporter: it's older than baseball, coca-cola and disney. and when they take their final bow in that ring behind me, they leave a mile wide hole in american culture. for one last night, the acrobats will swing and soar. the animals will gallop and roar. and come monday, the greatest show on earth will be no more. >> it's dangerous. it's exciting. it's awe inspiring all at once. and so you have that sense of sadness that you're not going to be able to give that to children of all ages on such a massive

scale. >> reporter: people poured in for the final shows. they came for a glimpse of their childhood or to give their own children a taste of the world's largest circus before it's gone. >> there are future generations that will never get to have those memories. >> reporter: jean walters and her mother kay traveled more than 300 miles to see one of the last performances. >> let's hope that the smaller circuses that are around the country are still able to survive. >> reporter: ticket sales have been falling for years before feld entertainment, the company that owns ringling brothers, announced that they'd be ending their elephant act under pressure from animal rights activists. the following january he announced that this year would be the last. one of the clowns, davis masallo says the beginning of the end was smartphones. >> i have a daughter, and she's always on the phone. time is changing.

>> now that it's going to be gone, we'll regret it. >> reporter: for more than 100 performers, it's the end of an era and the end of a job. most of the animals belong to the trainers, so they'll be looking for work too. rather than cry, many performers have decided to smile because it happened. >> tony, thanks. still ahead. a high school puts a positive spin on the controversial series "13 reasons why." stains happen...

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the netflix show "13 reasons why" has been criticized for gloshfying suicide. the fictional series features a high school girl who sends tapes to 13 students detailing how they wronged her. a school in michigan gave that concept a positive spin. >> hi, i'm morgan abbott, younger sister of megan abbott. i know a lot of you didn't know my sister. >> reporter: for 16 year old morgan, this project was deeply personal. >> my sister ended her life on

may 31st, 2013, while she was a freshman here at oxford high school. >> reporter: she's one of the students who broadcast their stories for 13 days. >> this is for you, and all who will go after me today. thank you for doing this project. thank you for stepping up to prevent suicide. >> hi, it's hannah. >> reporter: the project was inspired by the controversial netfl netflix show "13 reasons why." students at oxford recorded tapes calling out people who gave them hope. they named the project "13 reasons why not." >> listening to morgan tell the story, it was heartbreaking for me as a mom. to hear that your daughter has to tell your first daughter's story, because she's not here to do it herself.

>> reporter: amy is the mother of morgan and megan. megan committed suicide four years ago just outside the school. but the project isn't limited to people with suicidal thoughts. many stuntds faced down all sorts of despair. >> someone made the comment about how you're the goal lady because you're the biggest one on the team. >> reporter: this senior alexa al bin wanted to reach people who look like her. >> it felt like a weight had been lifted off my shoulder. but the person who said something to you could be within the school. someone who said something to me could be sitting in a chair listening. >> reporter: this 18-year-old says he was shaking as he wrote down what he was going to say. >> i had been told that i had touched kids inappropriately, especially like mostly by the male students, and then this year someone had told me not to rape them.

>> reporter: so this was the first time that you reported the story. >> yeah. very powerful for me. >> reporter: what's been the reaction from the community? >> fantastic. >> reporter: todd dunkly is the principal of oxford high school. >> the safe harbor is such that for example one young man this morning came forward saying i went home and talked to my parents. i've been hiding from them that i attempted suicide myself. they didn't know that, and i couldn't find a place for my feelings. >> reporter: amy is grateful the school decided to honor her daughter again. >> i wish we had it years ago. "13 reasons why", regardless of anyone's opinion of it is bringing out this project and getting people it talk. >> reporter: the last tape was broadcast on wednesday, but the school wants to build on momentum, even if the next

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whether you like bats or not, these fellow mammals live just about everywhere that humans do. in some places, bats are becoming endangered. that's a problem because most bats eat insects and provide natural pest control for crops. but what happens when endangered bats become pests.

we found out at churches across england. >> reporter: for 700 years, st. andrews church has with stood the bubonic plague and monarchs. but this bat could lead to its demise. >> you come in on a sunday morning and it can be quite smelly when you open the door. >> reporter: they have sharing the space with 300 bats. parishioners say the waste bats leave behind ask sometimes seem of biblical proportions. >> so we have to cover the bibles up. >> reporter: the vicar says much of the damage to the 15th century pews and floors is irreparable. and it is chasing would-be worshippers away. >> the bats may be an endangered species, but i think my worshippers are an endangered species as well. >> reporter: they roost in dark church crevices at night.

and because they are endangered, the uk law prohibits their removal. >> it is illegal to disturb or harm a bat. >> reporter: decades of lost woodland have forced bats to seek refuge in a new habitat. 6,000 uk churches now have bat populations, so widespread that a $5 million plan has been approved to help man and beast coexist in these houses of worship. parishioners say they'll be praying for divine interconvention. 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 elaine quijano.

this is the "cbs overnight news." welcome to the overnight news. i'm elaine quijano. in saudi arabia sunday president trump cast the fight against terrorism as a choice between good and evil. it was his first overseas speech as president. mr. trump addressed a summit of muslim leaders, calling on them to stand with the u.s. in the fight against, quote, islamic extremism. meanwhile, the president's problems back home are not going away. ousted fbi director james comey will testify before the senate intelligence committee after the memorial day holiday next week. a new cbs poll shows only 37% of americans approve of how the president has handled matters

involving the fbi's investigation into his possible campaign ties to russia. 60% say comey should not have been fired. 6700 miles away, president trump was hailed by saudi arabia. ma margar margaret brennan is traveling with the president. >> reporter: today mr. trump called them partners againin th fight against extremism. >> drive them out. drive them out of your places of worship! drive them out of your communities. drive them out of your holy lands! and drive them out of this earth. >> reporter: mr. trump also helped to inaugurate a center to counter extremist messaging and. standing beside the king of saudi arabia, the president

abandoned the heated campaign rhetoric that characterized his lek election-winning platform, one built on his view that islam hates us. >> donald j. trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of muslims entering the united states. >> reporter: while he softened that language, president trump did offer a gentle nudge to the mostly-male leaders that he hopes for a bright future for both men and women. >> when young muslim men and women should have the chance to build a new era of prosperity for themselves. it has to be done. >> reporter: first lady melania trump spent the day at events focussed on women's empowerment in the conservative kingdom. but from the podium, the president pointedly referenced his policy not to criticize human rights abuses. >> we are not here to lecture. >> reporter: and just a day after signing a $110 billion arms deal with saudi arabia, touted as the biggest u.s. sale

in history, he promised more transactions with the leader of qatar. >> one of the things that we will discuss is the purchase of lots of beautiful military equipment, because nobody makes it like the united states. >> reporter: mr. trump underscored that economic and security interests top his agenda and suggested that obama-era rejections to policies in bahrain would no longer affect u.s. relations. >> our countries have a wonderful relationship together that has been a little strained. but there won't be strain with this administration. we're going to have a very, very long-term, great relationship. >> reporter: the president also repeatedly referenced the threat posed by iran and its sponsorship of terrorist groups like hezbollah, a common enemy here in the arab world and in israel where he heads tomorrow. elaine? >> margaret brennan, thank you. many of the president's weekend meetings focussed on saudi arabia's regional

neighbor, iran which was not invited to the summit. iran elected its president on friday and we have the view from tehran. >> reporter: there's been such a mood of joy and optimism here in tay round since rouhani's victory on friday. but that mood was shattered today when president trump called for iran's isolation. president rouhani won the election because he'd promised his base, millions of young people, that he'd pursue an agenda of what he calls engagement with the world. moderate iranians who suffered under sanctions for more than a decade hoped that western businesses would begin to invest here and that they'd be able to travel abroad without being treated as international pariahs. president trump's speech sends a strong signal that america will do whatever it can to block that. there is a faction inside iran's complex power structure that may be celebrating tonight.

the hardliners, including iran's powerful revolutionary guard and their followers. closer ties with the west would have threatened their influence and control. and isolated iran is exactly what they want. moderate iranians, who are looking for a shred of hope to cling to tonight will have noticed a press conference given also in saudi arabia by secretary of state rex tillerson in which he said that although he had no plans to call iran's foreign minister, he did think they would talk at what he called the right time. elaine? >> elizabeth palmer, thank you. in many ways, president trump's first overseas trip is being overshadowed by the political firestorm he left behind in washington. from the kremlin's meddling in the presidential election to the firing of comey to the leaks of intelligence to russian

officials. director comey has agreed to testify before a congressional committee. we spoke with marco rubio and dianne feinstein. >> what do you want to know from director comey? >> look, these media reports raise questions that demand answers. what did the president say? did you keep memos? what did they say and why did you write them. and the american public deserves to know the answers. i think that's fair to the president, fair to director comey and fair to the country. >> what did you make of the "new york times" report which apparently came just from the notes taken by white house note takers in the meeting between the president and the russians in which he said i just fired the director of the fbi and that he was a real nut job. >> i had a conversation with the white house. people that were in that meeting. they denied that anything had been said in that meeting that could compromise sources,

methods or information with rega regards to intelligence. they said there were no transcripts, there were notes. i encouraged them to make those notes available to the committees. apparently someone has discussed them or leaked them, what have you, but we haven't seen them. i don't know that that's an accurate description of what's in the notes. that's why it's necessary that the intelligence committee look at them. >> i really think that rather than have all these memorandums and issues circulating around, that we need to put the facts before the american people. and did, the big fact is, did the president fire comey because of his investigation and he was worried about what the investigation might conclude? that, if so, that borders on a very serious charge. so we need to flesh that out. we need to see what the response is and it's got to come from director comey himself. the "cbs overnight news"

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scientists say climate change is causing sea levels to rise around the world. and that has a lot of coastal cities in the united states searching for answers. one place that's getting a lot of attention? the netherlands. they've been beating back the sea for hundreds of years. martha tish nur reports. >> reporter: these windmills were built nearly 300 years ago, to pump water out of the surrounding farmland. but the dutch have been outsmarting the water that's everywhere around them for 1,000 years. it is a matter of survival, 26% of the country is below sea level. this massive storm surge barrier was completed in 1997.

it protects rotterdam, europe's largest port. >> they're as big as an eiffel tower. >> reporter: the man describing this colossus. >> it means water ambassador. >> reporter: the dutch are the world's go-to water management experts. he spent two years in the united states working in areas hit by superstorm sandy. >> could you think about preventing the disaster? and it was like, preventing the disaster? no. we couldn't. no, we have to make sure that we respond faster. and i said, but suppose that there is no disaster, because you prepared better. >> reporter: who doesn't know the fable about the little dutch boy who plugged the hole in a dike with his finger and saved his country? what really happened taught the netherlands about preparedness. a ferocious north sea storm in

january 1953 flooded 500 square miles and killed more than 1800 people. the dutch built themselves a fortress of flood protection. today the netherlands considers itself protected against a 10,000-year storm. in part thanks to research done by deltaress, a gee wiz kind of place with the largest wave machine in the world. >> in is an experiment where we can test coastal structures. >> reporter: this is a coastal flood expert with deltarris which has worked with clients in 140 different countries. >> california is a big project for us. >> reporter: including the united states. in all of the designs that you're doing, are you assuming sea level rise?

>> yes, we are. and that will come with higher waves, so you have to figure that all into your design. >> reporter: whatever the reasons, sea levels here are expected to rise more than three feet by the end of the century. this projection prompted the dutch government, so used to walling water out at all costs, to rethink and let the water in instead. for the dutch, this is a revolution. the idea that you're safer by lowering the dikes? this is extraordinary. in her latest book, tracy metz, a long time netherlands resident tells the story of how the farmers voluntarily agreed to give up their land so that it could become a spillway for a nearby river when it floods, in order to protect cities and towns downstream. >> the old farm starts there. >> reporter: there.

>> and the river is there. >> reporter: for noll, it was a sacrifice with a silver lining. huge mounds were constructed so that he and a few of his neighbors were able to build brand-new farms, high above the floodplain. so you're happy, not angry. >> everybody is happy. yes. >> reporter: learning to accommodate water has led to innovation. for example a 24 million ton pile of sand, nature was the engine that spread it into a flood barrier and a beach. is the dutch model applicable? >> oh, i think parts of the dutch model are. >> reporter: jim murly is the man confronted with miami dade's water issues and his

construction engineers. >> just the way they think about water, how they use their land creates a mind set. >> reporter: in south florida, flooding has become a regular occurrence. according to estimates, sea levels here will rise as much as six feet by the end of the century. at stake, trillions of dollars of real estate and more than 7 million lives. >> we want to be sure that this facility will withstand a storm surge. >> reporter: at a vulnerable miami area treatment waste plant, it is being built higher. in miami beach, streets are being raised two and a half feet. an art museum is designed so floodwater can flush through its foundation. >> we are starting to think about how we might develop in the future if we are having to live with water like the dutch are. >> reporter: like rotterdam, where there's a floating conference center, surrounded by

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just months later, joey lost her two-year battle with cancer. to keep her legacy alive, rory has released a solo album of his wife's songs. anthony mason reports. ♪ ♪ you learn the difference between right and wrong ♪ >> reporter: joey feek made her solo album back in 2005. >> we recorded it a couple years after joey and i got married. she was still an aspiring singer on her own, and i was long way from ever thinking about singing with her. ♪ >> reporter: released on a small label, it got little attention at the time. >> nothing was going her way, you know. it just wasn't happening. >> reporter: right. >> so it just pretty much sat on the shelf for the last, how long, ten, 12 years. it's been sitting there for a moment when someone might care.

>> reporter: it finally did. >> yes, sir, it did. >> reporter: it debuted at number six on the country chart. >> it's the joey and rory show. >> reporter: joey and rory were rising stars on the country scene with their own tv show. then, in 2014, just after their baby indiana was born, joey was diagnosed with cervical cancer. two years later, the illness would take her at the age of 40. we first met rory last august on a family farm in potsville, tennessee for cbs sunday morning. >> are you still writing muse snick. >> i don't want to be on the stage without her. >> reporter: at the back of their 60 acres, joey feek had been laid to rest under a cluster of sassafras trees. >> you got a bench here. >> i got a beverage. >> -- bench. >> do you come out here every

day? >> i come out here almost every day. i have a place for coffee and we have coffee together. >> reporter: where are you these days? >> i'm still at this farm, raising indiana and trying to see where i go from here. the baby's doing amazing. she just learned to walk. >> reporter: and you got her a piano for her birthday. >> we did. sort of, we got our family a piano. and i try to play with her, but she mostly grabs my hands and stops me. she wants me to hear her play. but there's a little benefit mus -- bit of music in the house once again. i'm really thinking about it for the first time. and i'm staying pretty open to the possibilities. that's, i haven't been very open to the possibilities. >> reporter: no, you haven't. >> no, i haven't. >> reporter: that's a change. >> yeah, that's a change. ♪ a home within the heart of those old trees ♪ >> reporter: recently, he heard a church group play a joey and rory song and wondered how it

would sound if he sang it alone. ♪ ♪ and who'd hang on that tree >> and so later that night, when the baby was in bed, i got my wife's guitar down off the wall. pretty soon, an hour had gone by, and i'd probably sang about a dozen songs i hadn't sang in a year or so. and it felt pretty good. and i just hung it back up. >> reporter: was that the first time you'd really played in a long time? >> oh, yeah. yeah. i've had someone hand me a guitar from time to time, but i begrudgingly pass it on to the next person. >> reporter: so, as our interview was ending, this came as a surprise. >> would you like for me to play a song? >> reporter: do you want to play a song? >> yeah, i'll play a song. >> reporter: with a borrowed guitar, rory feek gave us a song. ♪ you say you see a house

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steve hartman now with the story of a guardian angel that he found on the road. >> reporter: used to be when ginger sprouse came across homeless people, she would often give them something, her two cents. >> i would say, why don't you get a job? or what's your problem? it made me very uncomfortable. i didn't want anything to do with it. i've been that way my whole life. >> reporter: but about a year ago, ginger, who owns a cooking school outside houston decided she didn't like that about herself and would at least try to change. >> he would stand right here on the corner. >> reporter: she began by approaching a guy she used to see all all tthe time on the wa work. his name was victor hubbard. he says ginger listened to his story and went on her way.

>> then i couldn't get him out of my mind. and so i was like, okay, fine, i'll go back. but what really got me. this was probably after the third time i met him. he said when are you coming back >> people would come by, and i'd say, i have a friend ginger, she's on my way. >> reporter: she was watching out for you. this continued for a few months until the day ginger realized she couldn't keep going on like this. it was a cold december night. and although victor had food and blankets, there's only such comfort you can pass through a car window. so ginger did something. something the old ginger would have never dreamed of doing. >> i could not leave him there. >> reporter: she went to her husband with a request. >> i asked dean, would it be okay with you if i went and got him. and i said, if he could just say one night, because it's raining. >> reporter: stop right there. >> i had to think about it, you

know. >> reporter: i'm sure you did. i'm starting to recognize a slippery slope here. >> honestly. when she said i felt compelled to help this guy, how could i say no to that? >> reporter: and that's how victor hubbard found his stieco family. they helped to get social services and doctor appointments. introduced him to the community and helped him become a part of t he works two jobs now. one at a burger joint and another at a cooking school where he has one of the most compassionate bosses in south texas. >> that looks good. life is messy, but if you are willing to love other people, you have to step into their mess. my whole life i've avoided that and that's why i rolled the window up. >> reporter: that's why she now rolls it down, to let the blessings roll in. steve hartman, on the road in houston, texas. that's overnight news for this monday. from the cbs broadcast center in new york city, i'm elaine

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