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was it domestic terrorism? a federal civil rights investigation is under way after deadly violence rocked charlottesville, virginia. we're learning more about the young man accused of plowing into a crowd of protesters and the woman who was killed. president trump is being criticized for what he didn't say following the clashes. an organizer of the white nationalist rally is shouted down. also tonight, one year after riots erupted in milwaukee following a fatal police shooting we check in with the city's newest officers. >> do we want to fight with people? >> no. and a lesson in dog parenting. if you want your pup to be a good guide dog, don't baby them. >> good boy.
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>> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." welcome to the "overnight news." i'm elaine quijano. a federal civil rights investigation is under way after police say a young man rammed his car into a crowd of protesters in charlottesville, virginia. the deadly violence broke out at a white nationalist rally on saturday. clue clux clabz klansmen and neo nazis were among those fighting counterprotesters in the streets. the white supremacists came from across the country to rally against plans to remove a confederate statue from a park. a 32-year-old woman was killed in the apparent car attack. two state troopers died when their helicopter crashed while patrolling the rally. president trump is being criticized by members of his own party for not specifically denouncing white supremacists in the aftermath of the deadly clashes. today an organizer of the rally
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was jeered by a crowd. we have a team of reporters covering the chaos in charlottesville beginning with david begnaud. >> reporter: with police lined up as a barricade, there was a sniper on the roof lining up for his shot just in case. as jason kessler walked out from behind that tree and walked up to a podium that was here and he looked out at about 50 or so cameras and people started shouting him down almost immediately. and it went south quickly. >> my name is jason kessler. i was the organizer of the unite the right rally. >> reporter: it was like adding fuel to a fire. jason kessler chose to hold this press conference in front of city hall one day after the violence. >> what happened yesterday was a result of the charlottesville police officers refusing to do their job -- >> reporter: immediately following the speech kessler started backing away from the microphone. a mob of people surrounded him. police moved in, grabbed him. >> let him through. >> and hauled him off for his
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own safety. new video from saturday shows the driver racing down a side street and onto the crowded downtown mall, plowing into a crowd of people. 32-year-old heather heyer of charlottesville was killed. seconds after that impact the driver reverses. you see a red shoe fly out from underneath his car. police say 20-year-old james alex fields jr. of ohio was the man behind the wheel. this all follows tense protests that started friday night on the university of virginia campus. >> blood and soil! >> reporter: there white nationalists marched with tiki torches. saturday things got violent. protesters clashed with counterprotesters. police eventually declared the demonstration unlawful and told everyone to leave. >> this event has been declared an unlawful assembly. >> reporter: virginia governor terry mcauliffe said today police acted appropriately. >> not one single shot was fired. not one bit of property damage. i'm proud of law enforcement. >> reporter: back here at charlottesville city hall,
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things hcaite bit. police are still on guard. you've still got a group of protester that's are here. but everyone is being peaceful. elaine, i want to update you on the victims. 19 were transported to a local hospital. nine of them have been discharged. ten are now listed in good condition. >> david begnaud, thank you. alex james fields jr., the 20-year-old accused of plowing into the protesters, is being held without bail. kris van cleave has been looking into the suspect's background. >> reporter: video from a drone overhead shows one of the vehicles police say 20-year-old james alex fields jr. smashed into as it pushed into a crowd of counterprotesters in the heart of historic charlottesville. at least 19 were hurt, so many more could have been. investigators believe fields was behind the wheel of his dodge when he slammed into the crowd and two cars before backing up and fleeing the scene. he was arrested a short time later. >> running his car into a crowd of people? >> yes.
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>> did it hurt anybody? >> reporter: his mother, samantha bloom, learned of his arrest from a reporter. >> i just knew he was going to a rally. i mean, you know, i try to stay out of his political views. we don't -- you know, i don't really get too involved. i moved him out to his own apartment. i'm watching his cat. >> reporter: fields grew up in kentucky but moved to ohio with his mother about a year ago. his facebook page carried white supremacist and racist messages. shortly before the attack that killed 32-year-old heather heyer this was fields, dressed in the unofficial uniform of a white supremacist group and carrying a shield with racist symbols. >> he just looked off. he had that thousand-yard stare. it kind of grabbed me. >> reporter: kyle petroza took the picture. a photographer from charlottesville he went to the alt-right rally to capture pictures of hate. >> knowing what he did it's kind of haunting now. at the time i thought i was photographing someone who might just be a follower, just along
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for the march. but obviously not. >> reporter: fields is facing a number of charges, including second-degree murder. he's expected to be in court on monday. elaine? >> kris van cleave, thank you. paula reed now with more on those who were killed and injured in charlottesville. >> reporter: across the country people rallied for peace in honor of the victims of the violence in charlottesville. they carried signs and lit candles. >> i'm shocked and appalled that someone lost their life today when they came out to protest hate and lost their life protesting hate. it's just a real shame. >> reporter: this morning charlottesville resident my shirtleff laid a balloon and flowers at a makeshift memorial. >> my heart bleeds for this community right now. this isn't normal. this isn't right. this happened a long time ago. so why bring it up now? >> reporter: 32-year-old heather heyer was killed when this dodge challenger rammed into a crowd of counterprotesters saturday afternoon. a virginia native, she was a pair alegal at miller law group
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in charlottesville. in 2016 heyer posted this on her facebook page. "if you're not outraged you're not paying attention." just hours after heyer was killed smoke billowed from a nearby helicopter crash. police flew surveillance over protests all day but around 5:00 p.m. a virginia state police helicopter went down just miles from charlottesville. 48-year-old lieutenant h.j. cullen and trooper pilot burke m.m. bates were killed in the crash. >> i was close to both of those state troopers. >> reporter: governor terry mcauliffe remembered the fallen officers at a service this morning. >> but for this hatred and bigotry that occurred here yesterday, burke and jay would have been home with their families. heather would be getting up today enjoying life. >> reporter: the ntsb is investigating why the troopers' helicopter crashed in those woods. today would have been pilot trooper bates's 41st birthday. elaine? >> paula reid, thank you. the "cbs overnight news"
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and do your thing. the mayor of charlottesville says the heated rhetoric of donald trump's presidential campaign emboldened the white supremacists who rampaged in his city this weekend. meanwhile, mr. trump is being criticized by democrats and republicans for what he didn't say in the immediate aftermath of saturday's violence. here's errol barnett. >> reporter: president trump is being criticized by fellow republicans for being too vague in his initial response to the violence in charlottesville, virginia on saturday. >> we condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry, and violence on many sides. on many sides. >> reporter: he also refused an opportunity to call out white nationalists. >> mr. president, do you want the support of these white nationalist groups who say they support you, mr. president?
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>> i think the president can be clear when he wants to be. he needs to be clear here. >> reporter: today south carolina senator lindsey graham called neonazis domestic terrorists. >> i would urge the president to dissuade them of the fact that they're -- that he's sympathetic to their cause because their cause is hate. it is un-american. >> reporter: colorado senator cory gardner agrees. >> he should use this opportunity today to say this is terrorism, this is domestic terrorism, this is white nationalism and it has to stop. >> reporter: responding to pressure this morning, a white house spokesman offered a more specific rebuke, saying the president's condemnation "of course includes white supremacists, kkk, neo-nazi and all extremist groups." but it is clear leaders of right-wing ideology support the president. former kkk grand wizard david duke in charlottesville yesterday. >> we're going to fulfill the promises of donald trump. that's what we believed in. that's why we voted for donald
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trump. >> reporter: the president denies he has anything to do with the rise in confidence of white nationalists or racial division. >> not donald trump. not barack obama. this has been going on for a long, long time. >> reporter: now, to date president trump has not forcefully refused right-wing extremists' support on camera. and just a day after he called for national unity president trump's re-election campaign released an ad claiming his enemies do not want him to succeed. elaine? >> errol barnett, thanks. two u.s. soldiers were killed today in northern iraq. military officials say they were conducting combat operations but their deaths were not the result of enemy contact. five other soldiers were injured. seven members of syria's white helmets rescue team were killed this weekend. the volunteers were shot in the head during a raid on their base near the city of idlib. no one has claimed responsibility. the white helmets are famous for
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their daring rescues of civilians in rebel-held areas. they were nominated for the 2016 nobel peace prize. marshawn lynch sat out the national anthem last night before a preseason game between the oakland raiders and arizona cardinals. the former seattle running back who came out of retirement to sign with his hometown raiders remained seated while his teammates stood. lynch has voiced support for quarterback colin kaepernick's decision to take a knee during the anthem last year to protest police violence against minorities. lynch did not play last night. kaepernick is not on a team. one week before the solar eclipse, amazon has issued a recall for some eclipse glasses. the glasses are needed to safely watch the eclipse. but amazon says some of the glasses it has sold may not have come from a recommended manufacturer. if customers did not get a recall e-mail, there's no need to worry. we turn from a recall to a
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voluntary federal review of its policies, practices, and training. dean reynolds spent time with some of the city's newest recruits. >> i will never betray my badge, my integrity, my character, or the public trust. >> reporter: the 42 new recruits to the milwaukee police department were sworn in last august. cleared for 27 weeks of training to see if they're really cut out to be cops. >> good morning, sir. recruit officer gonzalez reporting for duty. >> reporter: we followed 26-year-old daniel gonzalez, 31-year-old angela clinker, 31-year-old lorenzo maholms, and 28-year-old ryan sharp. we wanted to know why in this highly charged environment between the police and those they have sworn to protect anyone would want such a demanding job. >> i like the idea of being able to help people when they're like in a crisis situation. >> whether it's protecting individuals or helping individuals, i think it all kind of melds together.
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it's really the same objective. >> so if you're fully trained, correctly trained, the fear factor is diminished? >> just a little bit. >> that, and it's also a confidence in yourself. you know, confidence in your training. >> reporter: training like this. >> back! back! >> you feel confident you can deliver an effective baton strike. i hope so. your face better show it. >> reporter: where whether >> good afternoon, sir. if you'd roll your window down for me. >> reporter: or entering empty rooms. the possibility of a dangerous encounter is always present. >> looking for dangerous people in dangerous places. you're never going to be able to get rid of the danger. you can mitigate it through training. >> we do our very, very best not to fight with people. we don't want to go hands on. >> reporter: stacey steen has been instructing recruits here for five years. >> ideally, we want as police officers to gain your cooperation through words.
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>> this is the remington 870 pump action shotgun. >> reporter: these recruits have to pass state tests covering more than 1,000 hours of training. >> i've got four rounds in it. what does that make it? squad ready. >> part of our job is to push their buttons. >> come on, guys. why are you walking back there? >> and to see what is your limit here? >> no. you've got to finish your stroke. >> are you going to be able to go out there and represent us as an organization and serve the city in a professional manner? i'd rather find out here. >> taser, taser, taser. >> ow! >> reporter: while the idea is to prepare them for what lies beyond the doors of the academy, fate is fate. >> let go of my gun! >> ultimately, i believe that god is the one in control and whatever's going to happen is going to happen. if it's my time to go, then you know, that's what it is. >> stay right there. do not move! >> reporter: dean reynolds, cbs news, milwaukee. still ahead, the branding
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valley an often underrated vegetable is having its moment in the sun. >> cauliflower's one of the hottest vegetables we sell today. >> reporter: jordan greenberg is vice president of green giant. >> i think you could use it as a main dish. you could use it as a side dish. >> reporter: it can be barbecued, baked, stir fried. now green giant is shredding cauliflower into tiny bits, creating a popular substitute for rice with less than 15% of the carbs. >> at the end of the day consumers want to eat healthier. >> reporter: but cauliflower is now the center of a controversy in a tale of rice and men. >> do we need to ca call cauliflower rice? >> reporter: rice farmer matthew sligar. >> riced cauliflower. i mean, why even call it riced cauliflower? you could call it bits of cauliflower or cauliflower crumbles. and secondly, when did riced become a verb? >> reporter: convinced americans should know more about where their food comes from -- >> these rice plants will be harvested before. >> reporter: sligar launched
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rice farming tv. >> we're about to fly the rice seed on this field right about now. >> reporter: sligar worries riced cauliflower is confusing consumers. do you think somebody calling cauliflower rice, that's going to have an impact on your sales? >> i think it will. >> reporter: but even a rice farmer admits he can't live by rice alone. >> there's cauliflower in our refrigerat refrigerator. it's just a head of cauliflower. >> and you eat the head. >> i'll eat that. i'm not too excited about it. but i'll eat that. >> reporter: what he won't do is call it rice. for this farmer that simply goes against the grain. tom blackstone, cbs news, gridly, california. when we return, why experts say tough love is sometimes better than puppy love.
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we end tonight with new evidence of the potential downfalls of helicopter parenting. a new study on guide dogs for the blind finds puppies with overbearing mothers are less suited for the job than those raised with tough love. cue the adorable pups. at just over seven weeks old these golden retrievers and
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these chocolate black and yellow labs are already in training as future guide dogs for the blind. here they learn to interact with others, adapt to new surroundings, and remain calm while under stress, skills that researchers have linked to how these puppies were raised. the new study finds more intense mothering was associated with program failure and mothers whose nursing style required greater effort were more likely to produce successful offspring. >> one of the findings was pups who were perhaps overly mothered, their moms were overly attentive to them, spending a lot of time with them, licking them copiously, that those pups were not as likely to be selected as guide. >> reporter: for example, here the more attentive mom is lying down alongside her sleeping pup. while in this one the mom taking a more tough love approach gives her puppies space to move around.
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the ability to overcome obstacles, whether it's to find food or navigate a street curb-s a key factor in the success of a seeing eye dog. >> good boy. >> reporter: instructor joan markey says dogs who exhibit a fear of the unknown don't make the cut. >> if they're afraid of the world, they're not going to be a good guide. if they get worried by loud traffic, people making loud noises, anything that makes them afraid to the point where they want to bolt and run, that would get them out of the program. >> around 70% of dogs who enter guide dog training programs are successful. and that number could go up should less attentive parenting styles be encouraged by the trainers and by the dogs themselves. that's the overnight news for this monday. 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.
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>> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." welcome to the "overnight news." i'm elaine quijano. a federal civil rights investigation is under way after police say a young man rammed his car into a crowd of protesters in charlottesville, virginia. the deadly violence broke out at a white nationalists' rally on saturday. ku klux klansmen and neo-nazis were among those fighting counterprotesters in the streets. the white supremacists came from across the country to rally against plans to remove a confederate statue from a park. a 32-year-old woman was killed in the apparent car attack. two state troopers died when their helicopter crashed while patrolling the rally. president trump is being criticized by members of his own party for not specifically
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denouncing white supremacists in the aftermath of the deadly clashes. today an organizer of the rally was jeered by a crowd. we have a team of reporters covering the chaos in charlottesville, beginning with david begnaud. >> reporter: with police lined up as a barricade, there was a sniper on the roof lining up for his shot just in case. as jason kessler walked out from behind that tree and walked up to a podium that was here and he looked out at about 50 or so cameras and people started shouting him down almost immediately. and it went south quickly. >> my name is jason kessler. i was the organizer of the unite the right rally. >> reporter: it was like adding fuel to a fire. jason kessler chose to hold this press conference in front of city hall one day after the violence. [ yelling ] what happened yesterday was a result of the charlottesville police officers refusing to do their job. >> reporter: immediately following his speech kessler started backing away from the microphone.
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a mob of people surrounded him. police moved in, grabbed him. >> let him through. >> reporter: and hauled him off for his own safety. new video from saturday shows the driver racing down a side street and onto the crowded downtown mall, plowing into a crowd of people. 32-year-old heather heyer of charlottesville was killed. seconds after that impact the driver reverses. you see a red shoe fly out from underneath his car. police say 20-year-old james alex fields jr. of ohio was the man behind the wheel. this all follows tense protests that started friday night on the university of virginia campus. >> blood and soil! >> reporter: there white nationalists marched with tiki torches. saturday things got violent. protesters clashed with counterprotesters. police eventually declared the demonstration unlawful and told everyone to leave. >> this event has been declared an unlawful assembly. >> reporter: virginia governor terry mcauliffe said today police acted appropriately.
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>> not one single shot was fired. not one bit of property damage. i'm proud of law enforcement. >> reporter: back here at charlottesville city hall, things have calmed down quite a bit. police are still on guard. you've still got a group of protesters that are here. but everyone is being peaceful. elaine-i want to update you on the victims. 19 were transported to a local hospital. nine of them have been discharged. ten are now listed in good condition. >> david begnaud, thank you. alex james fields jr., the 20-year-old accused of plowing into the protesters, is being held without bail. kris van cleave has been looking into the suspect's background. >> reporter: video from a drone overhead shows one of the vehicles police say 20-year-old james alex fields jr. smashed into as it pushed into a crowd of counterprotesters in the heart of historic charlottesville. at least 19 were hurt. so many more could have been. investigators believe fields was behind the wheel of his dodge when he slammed into the crowd and two cars before backing up
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and fleeing the scene. he was arrested a short time later. >> running his car into a crowd of people? >> yes. >> did it hurt anybody? >> yeah. >> reporter: his mother, samantha bloom, learned of his arrest from a reporter. >> i just knew he was going to a rally. i mean, you know, i try to stay out of his political views. he -- you know, we don't -- you know, you don't really get too involved. i moved him out to his own apartment. so we -- i'm watching his cat. >> reporter: fields grew up in kentucky but moved to ohio with his mother about a year ago. his facebook page carried white supremacist and racist messages. shortly before the attack that killed 32-year-old heather heyer this was fields, dressed in the unofficial uniform of a white supremist group and carrying a shield with racist symbols. >> he just looked off. he had that thousand-yard stare. just kind of grabbed me and -- >> reporter: kyle petroza took the picture. a photographer from charlottesville, he went to the alt-right rally to capture faces of hate. >> knowing what he did it's kind of haunting now.
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you know, at the time i thought i was photographing someone who might just be a follower or, you know, just along for the march. but obviously not. >> reporter: fields is facing a number of charges, including second-degree murder. he's expected to be in court on monday. elaine? >> kris van cleave, thank you. paula reid now with more on those who were killed and injured in charlottesville. >> reporter: across the country people rallied for peace in honor of the victims of the violence in charlottesville. they carried signs and lit candles. >> i'm shocked and appalled that someone lost their life today. when they came out to protest hate and lost their life protesting hate. it's just a real shame. >> reporter: this morning charlottesville resident mai shirtleff laid a balloon and flowers at a makeshift memorial. >> my heart bleeds for this community right now. this isn't normal. this isn't right. this happened a long time ago. so why bring it up now? >> reporter: 32-year-old heather heyer was killed when this dodge challenger rammed into a crowd
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of counterprotesters saturday afternoon. a virginia native, she was a paralegal at miller law group in charlottesville. in 2016 heyer posted in th on her facebook page, "if you're not outraged you're not paying attention." just hours after heyer was killed smoke billowed from a nearby helicopter crash. police flew surveillance over protests all day, but around 5:00 p.m. a virginia state police helicopter went down just miles from charlottesville. 48-year-old lieutenant h. jay cullen and trooper pilot berke m.m. bates were killed in the crash. >> i was close to both of those state troopers. >> reporter: governor terry mcauliffe remembered the fallen officers at a service this morning. >> but for this hatred and bigotry that occurred here yesterday, berke and jay would have been home with their families. heather would be getting up today enjoying life. >> reporter: the ntsb is investigating why the troopers' helicopter crashed in those
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woods. today would have been pilot trooper bates's 43rd birthday. elaine? >> paula reid, thank you. the mayor of charlottesville, democrat mike signer, discussed attack with john dickerson on "face the nation." >> i don't want to make this too much about donald trump. we have a lot of grieving, a lot of work to do as a city and as a country. but he should look in the mirror. he made a choice in his presidential campaign, the folks around with him, to go right to the gutter, to play on our worst prejudices. and i think you are seeing a direct line from what happened here this weekend to those choices. i mean, a lot of people were coming here this weekend saying this will be a shot heard round the world, this will be the alt-right's moment, this will be alt-right 2.0. you know, all that kind of rhetoric. and i think they were -- they're getting -- you know, they're getting okays for that because they were invited in to basically a presidential campaign. that has to stop, and it can stop now. what i did not hear if the president's statement yesterday as well-intentioned as it may have been is i didn't hear the words "white supremacy."
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>> announcer: this is the "thcb overnight news." the nuclear standoff with north korea is at the top of the agenda as the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, general joseph dunford, begins a tour of asia. dunford will meet with military leaders in china, south korea, and japan. he'll stress the u.s. commitment to our allies and insist a military confrontation can be avoided. david martin reports from the pentagon. >> reporter: behind the fire and fury rhetoric there is one very hard fact captured in this picture of the secretary of defense visiting the ballistic missile submarine "uss kentucky." if the u.s. were to unleash its military power against north korea, it would result in secretary mattis's words in the
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end of its regime and the destruction of its people. >> compare u.s. nuclear forces to korean nuclear forces. >> well, there's just no comparison whatsoever. >> reporter: before he retired, admiral james winterfeld was the vice chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. the number two man in uniform during the obama administration. he knows that one submarine like the "kentucky" can by itself carry enough nuclear weapons to annihilate north korea. >> were kim jong un for whatever reason to launch a nuclear weapon at the united states, would he in essence be committing suicide? >> absolutely. i mean, there's just no question that we would undertake a proportional response, but in the case of a nuclear weapon that proportional response would be overwhelming and would probably mean the end of the kim regime. and he knows it. >> people say this guy's different. young, brash, unpredictable.
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do you think the logic of overwhelming force really means much to him? >> i think it does. the people i've spoken to in the intelligence community and elsewhere and my own judgment is that even though he's young and he's brash he's not irrational. he's not suicidal. >> reporter: but kim knows one other thing. even in defeat he could cause horrendous destruction to his enemies in south korea. as defense secretary mattis made clear to john dickerson of "face the nation" in his only television interview. >> a conflict in north korea, john, would be probably the worst kind of fighting in most people's lifetimes. >> reporter: kim would take tens, perhaps hundreds of thousands of innocent people down with him. >> the north korean regime has hundreds of artillery cannons and rocket launchers within range of one of the most densely populated cities on earth, which is the capital of south korea. >> reporter: kim, like his father and grandfather before
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him, has lived under what he believes to be the constant threat of an attack from the south. that fear, some would call it paranoia, is what is driving his quest for a nuclear weapon. >> he wants to have what we would view as a credible nuclear threat so we won't attack him. which is sort of ludicrous because we don't have any intent to attack him in the first place. >> so this is his great equalizer against the great american superpower. >> it's his insurance policy. in his view. >> reporter: although kim has tested missiles with a range great enough to hit the united states and is credited with being able to produce a nuclear warhead small enough to go on top of those missiles, he is not yet insured. to have a reliable weapon his scientists still want to develop a nose cone that can shield that nose cone from the heat and vibration of entering the earth's atmosphere. the pentagon's defense intelligence agency estimates that could happen as soon as next year. >> eventually they're going to
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get there. they constantly test their systems. >> so the day is coming? >> it is. >> reporter: the u.s. military has been preparing for that day for the past 15 years. spending $40 billion on radars and interceptor missiles to shoot down an incoming north korean warhead. earlier this year the ballistic missile defense system shot down a mock north korean icbm launched from an atoll in the pacific. >> no system's perfect to be sure but i've got a lot of faith in that system. >> no system is perfect, but when you're dealing with nuclear weapons one getting through is an absolute catastrophe. >> it is. >> reporter: but look at it from kim's point of view. he could not be certain the nuclear-armed missile could get through but he could be certain if he tried it would be the end of his regime. >> it's very unlikely that he will ever willingly give up his program, but it's also very, very unlikely that he will ever use it. as long as we don't try to overthrow his regime.
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>> reporter: can the u.s. live with that? it's up to the commander in chief, who has said he will not allow north korea to threaten america or its allies. the tiny pacific island of guam finds itself in the crosshairs of the nuclear standoff. north korea has threatened to send missiles towards the u.s. territory as a show of force. the island is home to more than 6,000 american troops and a vast amount of military hardware. vladimir duthiers paid a visit to guam for our series cbsn on assignment. >> this wing is considered a power projection platform. we're about 2,100 miles away from north korea. but that doesn't really matter because this base can accept assets from anywhere in the world and launch them and take the fight to our enemies. >> reporter: this base has the largest stockpile of fuel, ammunition in the air force, can respond to threats from the middle east, asia, and across the pacific.
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colonel sam white has spent his career here among these bombers. in a worst case scenario how quickly can this air field get up to speed? >> so we stand ready to respond to a wide range of things at the president's call. that's the reason we have the continuous mission, is to give the president of the united states sovereign options against threats to the u.s. so we're ready today. >> reporter: and they've had to prove that multiple times in recent weeks. on july 29th, the day after north korea's latest successful icbm launch, two u.s. b-1 bombers took off from this airfield and flew over 2,000 miles to the north korean border in a show of force. the b-1, also known as the bone, is capable of carrying more arms than any other bomber in the air force. and as its air crews can attest, it's almost among the loudest. >> especially being out here you get to feel the rumble. >> wow.
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>> when a b-1 goes into a particular region, it sends a very strong message that the united states means business. >> our first step is deterrence, obviously. however, if the combatant commander calls upon us, we have incredibly lethal force. >> you're looking at what air men called hayes igloos stretching along this road for about half a mile. 15 million pounds of net explosive conventional munition ppz they're built by the 36th munitions squadron. >> bunker buster. it can actually penetrate concrete, reinforced even. >> what kind of force are we talking about? when we say 2,000 pounds, what kind of devastation are we looking at? >> if anything ever goes wrong for these, we evacuate for safety to 4,000 feet. >> 4,000 feet. >> yes, sir. >> due to north korea's difficult mountainous terrain and the bunkers these types of munitions could be of vital importance in the event of a
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♪ >> reporter: they've sold more than 100 million records since 1967. their sound has changed. so have the band members. but the chain has never been broken. ♪ and if you don't love me now ♪ you will never love me again fleetwood mac will mark its 50th anniversary tomorrow. ♪ you will never break the chain ♪ ♪ never break the chain >> i always looked at it and look at that date that it's been worth a damn. >> reporter: mick fleetwood's been there from the very beginning. >> this is the very first photo shoot. it's the very first press photograph. >> reporter: the drummer recounts the early days of the band in his new book "love that burns," a chronicle of fleetwood mac. a story that almost took a very different course. just two days after he joined fleetwood mac --
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>> phone rings in my flat, and it's jeff -- >> jeff beck. >> yeah. he says i'm thinking of putting a band together. and i said oh, i just committed. >> reporter: the jeff beck group would feature a young singer named rod stewart. >> could have been -- like two days. >> reporter: instead he joined another band of blues musicians. >> we had been in a band called john mayall's bleus breakers, john mcvie, peter green and myself. >> the name was kind of an accident in the middle of a recording session. >> correct. >> reporter: after they laid down this instrumental, their first unofficial track together, the engineer asked -- >> what are we going to put on the box? >> what's the name of it? >> peter goes call it fleetwood mac. john and mac are playing on it. ♪ got a black magic woman >> reporter: green, a guitar god, who'd replace eric clapton in the blues breakers work write
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the band's first british hit, "black magic woman." >> he had no interest in being a solo creature. >> he didn't even want to be a front man, did he? >> no. >> solo number. >> well, he called the band fleetwood mac for a reason. >> reporter: which is interesting because he didn't put his name in it. >> he says, well, i pretty much felt that one day i would leave and i wanted mick and john to have a band. ♪ >> reporter: in 1970 green did leave. >> when we survived peter leaving, in my mind i would always go back. i'd say, well, that was the most devastating thing that ever happened to me. >> if you can survive that, you can survive anything. >> for better or for worse. and the outcome has been this weird survival toir. later on all the love affairs and all the -- are you kidding me? ♪ loving you isn't the right thing to do ♪ >> reporter: their biggest
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album, 1977's "rumors," which sold 40 million copies,s wa the soundtrack of their break-up. ♪ go your own way guitarist lindsey buckingham splitting with stevie nicks. bassist john mcvie divorcing his keyboardist wife christine. ♪ go your own way yet the band endured, reaching for what fleetwood calls the elusive it. why are you guys still together? >> corny. it's because they get a dose of it. they definitely get a mega dose of it, which is challenging. you know, to be able to attain that with this gloriously dysfunctional story, which is us bunch, you know. >> us bunch. ♪ don't stop, it'll soon be here ♪ >> reporter: and when they're together, fleetwood mac has always come first. ♪ yesterday's gone, yesterday's
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it's one of life's enduring questions. what is the secret of a happy marriage? steve hartman may have found the answer on the road. >> reporter: we came to indiana looking for one of life's most elusive secrets. we'd heard that deep within knox county, indiana, back amongst these corn fields, there was a cluster of people who had all unlocked the mystery of a long and happy marriage. >> married 61 years. >> it will be 59 in december. >> 55 in november. >> soon be 53.
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>> 4. >> 54. okay. >> reporter: but here's what's even more remarkable. they're all related. together the eight clinkenbeard siblings have amassed nearly half a millennia of marriage. 449 years total. so i figured if anyone had the secret to wedded bliss it would have to be these couples. >> everybody just kind of gather in. >> reporter: so i gathered them for a series of interviews. and here's what i learned. >> big smiles. >> reporter: if you want to stay married forever, women, you need to speak your mind. >> i could tell when she was ticked. >> reporter: or not. >> i usually keep my mouth shut. >> reporter: and men, you need to be deferential. >> you treat a lady like a lady. >> reporter: or not. >> i said i love to fish and i'm not going to change that. >> reporter: unfortunately, almost everything i got was a contradiction. >> there is temptation. >> i never was tempted. >> reporter: really, the only thing the clinkenbeards could agree on was what their mother dorothy taught them and told them repeatedly.
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that except in very rare circumstances divorce should not be an option. >> she instilled that in us kids, you know. >> my mom was pretty stickler about that. >> when i said i do, to me that meant however long we lived. >> reporter: it meant suffering through some bumpy times. but the oldest brother, john, says it's well worth it in the end. >> well, i've been married 65 years. >> reporter: john sat on the couch alone because his wife lillian is in the hospital. >> i don't know how i'd get along without her. >> reporter: i never got my easy answer to what makes a happy marriage. >> we love one another. so. >> reporter: but i did get eight solid reasons to never give up looking. >> i couldn't imagine being -- life without her. >> reporter: steve hartman, "on the road," in knox county, indiana. that's the "overnight news" for this monday. 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.
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