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♪ ♪ captioning sponsored by cbs >> quijano: a supersonic show of force. united states responds korea's latest missile test with a pair of b-1 bombers. president trump points the blame at china but he's got other battles closer to home after a shakeup in his inner circle. >> reince was a good man. john kelly will do a fantastic job. >> quijano: also tonight venezuelans head to the poles hoping to improve their lives but some fear the beginning of the end of democracy. and this is no child's play, we head to the beach with a new york artist whose sand castles give new meaning to shorefront property. >> i've had some wonderful encounters with people. and that's definitely nice. but if they weren't here, i would still be here doing this. this is the "cbs weekend news."
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>> quijano: good evening, i'm elaine quijano. this is our western edition. the u.s. flexed its military muscle blasting a pair of bombers over the korean peninsula. the show of force was in reply to north korea launching a ballistic missile on friday. analysts say this one had the range to hit los angeles, possibly even chicago or new york. danielle nottingham reports on how washington is facing this newest challenge. >> reporter: the united states flew two supersonic bombers over the korean peninsula today escorted by south korea and japanese fighter jets, a direct response to north korea's most advanced missile test to date. overnight the u.s. demonstrated its ability to intercept ballistic missiles in a planned test of the thaad missile defense program in alaska. michael genovese is president of the global policy institute at loyola marymount university. >> these small little steps fly
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over joint military activities, all are designed to let the adversary, maybe the opponent know, we are ready, prepared we've got our eyes open. >> reporter: north korea reacted on state run television saying if the u.s. "continues to resort to military adventure and further sanctions, the dprk will respond with its resolute act of justice." the white house is pressing the global community to act. president trump tweeted, i am very disappointed in china. they do nothing for us with north korea. during a trip to estonia vice president pence echoed the president's frustration. >> we believe china should do more. >> the united states calling on china, other countries saying this isn't just our problem? >> it's true we need international support but you also need american leadership. we are whether we like it or not, whether we want to be or not, whether donald trump wants to be or not, we're the leader in the west and in fact the leader of the world.
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we need to take leadership. if we don't lead, this doesn't get solved. >> reporter: north korea's sole ally china condemned the launches saying they violated u.n. security resolutions but say the u.s. does not hold the key to resolving in the issues in the u.s. peninsula. >> quijano: danielle nottingham, thanks. russian president putin says the u.s. will have to cut 755 staffers from diplomatic posts in russia by september 1st. the foreign ministry first revealed the evictions on friday in reaction to new sanctions passed by congress. while the white house watches the trouble overseas, it's also watching to see how the shakeup in the president's inner circle will affect the administration's to-do list. at the top of that list is health care as errol barnett reports from washington. >> the current law right now is failing the american people. >> reporter: with the implosion of republican efforts to repeal obamacare last week, president trump's health secretary emphasized some things still need to be done.
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>> our goal is to put in place as well as the president's goal is to put in place a law, a system that actually works for patients. >> reporter: but democrats want republicans to come to the negotiating table and find ways to stabilize the existing framework. republican senator susan collins who voted down the so-called "skinny repeal" supports that idea. >> what we need to do is to go through the normal process, identify the problems, have hearings, hear from the experts, hear from all the stakeholders, and produce a series of bills to fix the very real flaws in the affordable care act. >> reporter: a new cbs news nation tracker poll found americans prefer a bipartisan approach to fix obamacare over a full repeal. and 62% disapprove of how the president is handling the issue. the poll also found more than half of respondents describe mr. trump's presidency as chaotic. adding to that uncertainty is
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president trump's decision to change his chief of staff and communications director, as well as concerns he may fire his attorney general jeff sessions or robert mueller, the special counsel investigating russian interference in the 2016 election. democratic senator dianne feinstein. >> i think there has been sufficient opposition for the president not to do so, unless, of course, what he really intends is to end up firing mueller, which could well be the beginning of the end of his presidency. >> reporter: now today president trump spent time at his virginia golf property as his administration prepares for another themed week of events. next week the focus is "american dreams." and on monday the new chief of staff general john kelly will be sworn in, elaine? >> quijano: errol barnett, thanks. for more insight we turn to our chief washington correspondent and "face the nation" host john dickerson. so, john, homeland security secretary john kelly starts his
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new jobs achieve of staff on monday replacing reince priebus, will he be able to restore order in the white house within >> the route to order in the white house for a chief of staff usually relies on two important things. one is limiting the number of people who have access to the president. you do that because the more people that have access, the more it upends the plans that the rest of the executive branch have put in place. so you need to be a gatekeeper. on the other hand the second important skill is telling the president no, or convincing the president to do things he doesn't want to do. if general kelly or secretary kelly can do those things, then the white house will be back on path in terms of helping the president's agenda. if not, there may be more chaos. >> quijano: relations between the president and senate republicans seem to be deteriorating. how will that affect the president's legislative agenda? >> if the president keeps attacking republicans, that didn't work in getting health care passed. and so it's difficult to see how more abuse from the president
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will help with republicans, in part because of his approval ratings which are quite low. the president does have another option which is to be as much of a risk-taker and gambler as he was during the campaign and upend and break out of the washington way, make deals with democrats and republicans, build a new coalition. that would be in keeping with his kind of razzle-dazzle approach. it would alienate some republicans but it might get him the results that he really wants. >> quijano: john dickerson, thanks. >> thanks, elaine. >> quijano: australia's airports are on high alert after the first known terror threat against that country's airline industry. police have arrested four men in raids around sydney, they are suspected of plotting to bring down an airplane. the federal police commissioner said details are scarce but that the plot appears to be inspired by islamic terrorism. voters headed to the polls in venezuela but if they had hoped for a fresh start, this wasn't the day for it, manuel bojorquez reports from caracas.
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>> reporter: election day erupted again into violent clashes between antigovernment protestors and the national police. the opposition did all it could to block roads to polling stations and otherwise disrupt the voting. they see president maduro's effort to rewrite the constitution as yet another power grab. >> nope, no passo. >> reporter: there are people who think this is a step towards dictatorship, what do you think? "no, not a step," said this man, "we are in a dictatorship." the president went to vote early and called this the most important vote in the nation's history. "a move to restore law and order," he said. and he thumbed his nose at international opposition to the vote. the u.s. is among those threatening further sanctions. "if you do not decide, who decides for you," he said. "donald trump? if you the venezuela people do the no decide, who will decide."
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in some pro-maduro areas voting was largely uneventful. but in the streets over the past four months, more than 100 people have been killed at least two today, in violent skirmishes. the anti-maduro movement believes the socialist policies are to blame for the country's spiraling economy, with skyrocketing inflation and shortages of food and medicine. the opposition boycotted today's election. they felt it was rigged heavily on the favor of maduro's party. so regardless of the outcome, this type of turmoil is likely to continue. elaine? >> quijano: manuel, thanks, a wide spread power outage drained what should have been a busy summer weekend on north carolina's outer banks. tens of thousands of tourists were ordered to evacuate from cape hatteras and ocracoke islands. as roxana saberi reports, we have this report, the exodus is a giant hit to the local economy.
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>> reporter: tens of thousands of visitors too took to ferries and road this weekend, evacuating two islands off north carolina's coast. >> we didn't get to do everything we wanted to, we thought we would have more time. >> reporter: that's because crews work on a new bridge damaged three electrical cables cutting off power as across the islands. it is not clear how long it will take to prepare the underground lines, it could be days, even weeks. that is bad news for business owners like sherman goodwin who are bracing for big losses at the height of the tourism season. >> this is summer time, right in the peak of summer time, it definitely affects. >> reporter: across both islands millions of dollars in revenue could be lost. local electric companies are bringing in backup generators but authorities are asking people to turn off air conditioners and use less water. >> we're not showering, there is a hose outside. >> reporter: some are making the most of an unexpected situation. >> i treated it like camping, you know, you go to the beach, you hang out, you don't spend much time in the house.
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you figure out ways to make food with what you've got. >> reporter: north carolina governor roy cooper has declared a state of emergency for the two islands. elaine, he also says the company that cut the cables, pcl construction, has admitted responsibility and will have pay for damages. >> quijano: roxana saberi, thanks. for the second time in two days a baby has died in phoenix, arizona, after being left in a hot car. police believe the one-year old boy had been forgotten for about two hours. they're calling it an accident. just a day earlier a seven month old died in a car in triple digit weather. crowds returned to the ohio state fair. most of the rides reopened after investigators finished new inspections. the fair had been closed since the fireball broke apart on wednesday killing an 18-year-old high school student. the manufacturer has ordered similar rides around the world to shut down. the youngest victims, children as yougn as five.
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>> quijano: tonight a look at how isis has brought misery to its youngest victims, not just those killed or injured in terror attacks but the children recruited to inflict violence on others. charlie d'agata reports on how five year olds are trained to be killers. >> reporter: adiba kassam is a 22-year-old yazidi narrowly escaped isis twice, she lost countless friends when isis took large swaths of iraq. >> they made me this way. >> look at his eyes, he doesn't know what it is he is doing. >> they're victims. >> the kids are victims.
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>> reporter: show me what you found. we met a former journalist who found isis text books that reveal their methods to indoctrine ate kids as young as five. >> this is an english book by isis, they are teaching, they are brainwashing children with these books. i can shoot, yes, you can. he can bomb. >> reporter: this is first grade. >> yeah. >> reporter: so from the age of five or six this is what kids are exposed to. >> this is crazy here. how to tell the i am time in english rather than just having a regular clock, it's a time bomb, it's like a timer on a bomb. >> quijano: and charlie d'agata joins me now. so charlie, since mosul has been liberated, where are these kids now? >> reporter: elaine, they're everywhere. they are in refugee camps, some are returning home. some have been placed into other housing. a lot of them are orphaned so
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they are sort of scattered. and that's one of the important things here. we've got broken families, you have seen the damage that happened inside the city itself. we have to remember these are families that are broken up. so that is one of the biggest concerns because they remain vulnerable because the family units have been broken up. >> quijano: charlie, can these children can return to some normality after what they have seen and in some cases done. >> reporter: elaine, i think the idea of normality may be ambitious. because of what they have seen and in some cases what they have been trained to do. first of all, the level of violence just being in a war zone itself, the young people that have been indoctrinated trained to fight, trained to believe in isis, trained to believe in extremism, that is going to take some time to reverse. if there is any hope of reversing that, it's going to take professional child therapy, professional child therapists. and that is a need that is simply not being addressed now.
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>> quijano: charlie d'agata, coming to us tonight from moscow, thanks so much. >> reporter: thank you. >> quijano: charlie d'agata's report the children of isis will air on the premier broadcast of "cbsn on assignment," monday night at 10:00, 9:00 central on the cbs television station. still ahead, a fish fight. the battle of a red snapper and what it could mean for american restaurants. mean for american restaurants. hospitalizations. to in a key study, neulasta reduced the risk of infection from 17% to 1%... ...a 94% decrease. applied the day of chemo, neulasta onpro is designed to deliver neulasta the next day, so you can stay home. neulasta is for certain cancer patients receiving strong chemotherapy. do not take neulasta if you're allergic to neulasta or neupogen (filgrastim).
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>> quijano: fishermen are snapping up red snapper in the gulf of mexico. demand is so high it has become a battle between commercial boats and recreational, with the trump administration right in the middle of the fight. omar villafranca has the story from dulac, louisiana. >> reporter: dale beebe is a fisherman who just returned from the louisiana shore with almost 6,000 pounds of one of the most sought after fish in the gulf of mexico. red snapper. >> we have had the best snapper fish in the last two or three or four years that we've had in 25 years. >> reporter: the snapper is prized in restaurants as flaky and full of flavor. >> fantastic. >> reporter: and on fishing boats, it's renowned for its fight. >> hold on. >> reporter: this year the department of commerce extended
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the red snapper season for recreational fishing in federal waters from just three days to 42. the department said the three day season was hurting businesses that depend on sport fishing. but commercial fishermen worry longer seasons could threaten the red snapper population. over-fishing caused the gulf's red snapper population to plummet in the mid 1980s. >> the huge driver for tourism here. >> david of the coastal conservation association of louisiana says the red snapper population has largely recovered. and a three-day fishing season is too short for recreational anglers. >> two of those days here in louisiana were unfishable. the weather was too rough. >> reporter: this year the government set a quota of just over 13 million pounds of red snapper to be pulled from the water. 51% for commercial fisherman, 49% for recreational but in 2016, recreational anglers exceeded that limit by 65 tons. >> if you are not going to
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adhere to the law, why have regulations. >> reporter: david kreebs owns ariel seafood, a large sea food supply chain. >> we can all go back to the wild wild west and it is going to damage the resource. >> right now we're in a federal season. >> reporter: jp brooker is an attorney for the ocean conservancy, a group suing the federal government to limit the extended fishing season. >> it is unfair to commercial fisherman, unfair to the long- term vy label of the recreational fish ree as well. >> reporter: what is happening on the gulf coast with the red snapper is part of a series of changes in the trump administration that is being challenged by environmental groups. over in yellowstone national park, the grizzly bear is expected to be removed from the endangered species list. if the government doesn't abandon their plans to remove the bear from the list, environmental groups say they will sue. omar villafranca, cbs news, dulac, louisiana. >> quijano: up next, sand castles fit for a king. a tour of shoreline properties on rockaway beach. on rockaway beach.
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for a king but as don dahler reports from rockaway beach, each creation is at the mercy of the elements. >> reporter: the daily commute for calvin seibert is a long one. over an hour from his manhattan home to long island's rockaway beach. so this is your office. >> this is my office. >> reporter: not bad. with homemade tools, water, imagination and considerable skill, he turns one of the most common things in the world into structures that are anything but. >> i can't think of another art form that is more impermanent. even if it falls, it could collapse now, you know, right behind us and. >> reporter: you're okay with that. >> you got to be. >> reporter: the 59-year-old artist has been creating sand castles since he was a small boy. he almost chose a career in architecture, until he had a sudden realization. >> i don't really care so much about what is inside this thing. i like the outside as an object.
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>> reporter: so too do the children who gather around while he works. >> are you going to round off the edges. >> i have had some wonderful encounters with people, and that is definitely nice. but if they weren't here, i would still be here doing this. >> reporter: art for art's sake. seibert who earns his living as an artist assistant will occasionally sell a photograph of his work here and there but money has never been his motivation. >> i want to do something all the time and be creative. and if nobody ever knew about it i would still be building a sand castle. >> reporter: summer or winter, calvin seibert is a constant presence on rockaway beach. his creations may disappear, but not the beautiful memories given to those lucky enough to see them. don dahler, cbs news, long island. >> quijano: that's the cbs weekend news for this sunday. later on cbs, "60 minutes." i'm elaine quijano in new york. for all of us at cbs news, thank you for joining us, and good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by
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surgical masks clean out the cases.. then make a cl way. now at 6:00, a brazen jewelry heist at a bay area costco. thieves in surgical masks clean out the cases and then make a clean getaway. >> reporter: juliette, i just spoke with a police spokesman, and he tells me that indeed this latest smash and grab was caught on surveillance video, and they're trying to access that video right now, so they can catch the men responsible for this crime. the group of robbers struck at 10:11 a.m. just after the costco in novato opened its doors. police say three men, all wearing surgical masks went straight for the jewelry
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section. used a hammer and began grabbing merchandise. one says they took loads of jewelry. back on may 19, a group of masked robbers cracked the jewelry display case with a hammer and took off with jewelry. just 11 days previous, a group of robbers hit that same costco in danville. in that case, an employee tackled one of the robbers, he was arrested. in today's robbery in novato, no one was arrested. no weapons were seen, nobody got hurt. they got away in a car that had paper plates. a sedan with paper plates, which is a similar getaway car to the incident in danville. so police tell me they're looking into the very real possibility that these incidents are in fact related. stay
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