been quite the nightmare. we'll have that story coming up in 30 minutes. ♪[ music ] captioning sponsored by cbs >> mason: warnings about a russian threat. from an american czar. >> reporter: would you advise your family, your parents to use it? >> i wouldn't. >> mason: the white house cyber- security czar raises a red flag about antivirus software linked to russian intelligence. also tonight, the president visits the border, but before he can plug the gaps, he has to fill some openings. >> are you interested in the border patrol? >> mason: colin kaepernick took a knee. now he can't get a job. >> reporter: would you hire kaepernick? >> i wouldn't want him on my team. i wouldn't. >> mason: and no end to the honeymoon. america still basks in the afterglow of the eclipse of 2017. >> i'm speechless. i'm literally speechless.

this is the "cbs eve n >> mason: and this is our western edition. good evening. i'm anthony mason. we begin tonight with a threat to america's security from hackers sponsored by foreign governments. in an exclusive interview today, cyber-security czar rob joyce told us the u.s. is lacking 300,000 cyber-security experts needed to defend the country. and he had a warning for the public about using software from kaspersky labs. u.s. officials believe the company has ties to the kremlin, and the federal government has vowed not to use its products. more now from homeland security correspondent jeff pegues. >> reporter: cbs news has confirmed that f.b.i. officials have met with private industry representatives to relay concerns about kaspersky lab, a moscow-based cyber-security company with suspected ties to russian intelligence.

f.b.i. agents have interviewed kaspersky employees working in the u.s. >> i don't use kaspersky lab products. >> reporter: you don't. rob joyce, the nation's cyber- security czar, is warning consumers against using the company's popular antivirus software. would you advise your family, your parents to use it? >> i wouldn't. you know, i-- i worry that as a nation state, russia really hasn't done the right things for this country, and they have a lot of control and latitude over the information that goes to companies in russia. so i worry about that. >> reporter: mike morrell is a former assistant director of the c.i.a. >> there is a connection between kaspersky and russian intelligence, and i'm absolutely certain that russian intelligence would want to use that connection to their advantage. >> reporter: the u.s. government already prohibits its use, but local and state governments make extensive use of the russian software.

in fact, there are more than 400 million users worldwide. the fear is kaspersky's antivirus software, which is supposed to protect users from malicious activity, would actually provide russian intelligence with valuable information. and as this certificate shows, the company is registered with the f.s.b., one of russia's intelligence agencies. >> this is the most important room. >> reporter: the company's founder, eugene kaspersky, once served in russia's ministry of defense and is a graduate of a computer school tied to russian intelligence. the company denies the accusations, calling them "false allegations." a spokesperson said in an email, "the company has never helped nor will it help any government in the world." u.s. officials dismiss the denials and continue to warn about the software. as cyber czar, do you think more should be done to get the word out to the public not to use it? >> i think they should look at the decisions the government's making and then make their own

decisions. >> reporter: the f.b.i. says that it regularly meets with private-sector organizations to share security concerns, but it doesn't tell companies what business decisions to make. kaspersky, meanwhile, is preparing a free version of its software. anthony. >> mason: jeff pegues, thank you, jeff. the national weather service issued a flash flood emergency this morning in kansas city after summer storms brought as much as nine inches of rain. as least one person was killed, and first responders made dozens of rescues. adriana diaz has more. >> go back! go back! >> go back! >> reporter: hours of rainfall forced creeks to swell, rising to over 17 feet in five hours, setting a new record, and flooding roads and neighborhoods. the influx of water turned deadly when a local driver hydroplaned into a ditch. the fast-rising water forced this family of seven to their roof. authorities had told them to

wait until the water receded, but two locals used their own military-style vehicle to rescue them. >> drove this, which cyrus owns, and we went and rescued that family that i think this morning they were stuck on the roof. >> reporter: officials responded to more than 272 water-related calls, 62 of which were for rescues. the kansas city police and fire departments went door to door asking residents in the flood area to evacuate voluntarily. more than 6,000 people lost power today, and the force of the water was so strong, that it washed out part of this road. the level of the water was up to here earlier today. the water has started to recede. it is being flushed out through drains in this ditch that have created whirlpools. anthony. >> mason: adriana diaz in overland park, kansas. thank you, adriana. today, president trump paid a visit to the border he vowed to secure. more on that now from chip reid. >> reporter: in yuma, arizona,

today, president trump toured an operation center on the mexican border, where immigration officials showed off state-of- the-art equipment, including a predator drone. building a wall on the border was the president's top promise during the campaign. >> we will build a great wall. >> reporter: but so far, mr. trump has failed to convince the republican congress to pay for it. >> build that wall! >> build that wall! >> reporter: tonight, the president will hold a rally in phoenix, and it's generating controversy even before it begins. democratic mayor greg stanton asked the president to postpone his trip here. he worries that feelings about the president's comments last week about neo-nazi protests in charlottesville are still so raw that protests could turn violent here, too. >> i believe the true intention is to really inflame people's passion to further divide the country. >> reporter: some republicans worry that the president will use tonight's rally to further divide the party. arizona republican senator jeff flake has frequently criticized the president, and mr. trump has fired back.

in a tweet last week, the president supported flake's republican primary opponent and called flake "weak on borders, crime, and a non-factor in the senate. he's toxic." some here are concerned that mr. trump might follow through on his recent suggestion that he's seriously considering a pardon for controversial former sheriff joe arpaio, who was recently convicted of criminal contempt for defying a judge's order to stop racial profiling of latino suspects. press secretary sarah sanders said late today that the president will not be announcing a pardon for sheriff arpaio when the president appears here at a rally later today, but that leaves open the possibility, anthony, that he could do it some time in the future. >> mason: chip reid in phoenix tonight, thanks. the "help wanted" sign is up for border patrol agents but finding takers is a challenge so the government is getting creative. here's don dahler.

>> reporter: tens of thousands of fans came to the detroit lakes, minnesota. for the country music. customs and border agent tony thornson came to the weedfest for the tens of thousands of fans. >> you will visit c.b.p..gov. >> reporter: crystal bridgers was intrigued. >> i never really thought i would get a job here-- >> reporter: at a music festival. >> yeah. >> reporter: the agency has struggled to hire the 5,000 agents president trump requested to help secure the mexican border. so the c.b.p. got creative. county fairs, and country music festivals. >> that's your base pay. >> that's pretty good. >> reporter: former army infantryman shane flodeen said it makes sense. >> a lot of people here love this country. >> reporter: but the agency is also having a hard time finding applicants who can pass a

polygraph test. by its own admission, 75% of them failed. the agency now offers a shorter polygraph test, and allows waivers from the test for law enforcement and the military. >> we've looked at all the steps in the hiring process. >> reporter: acting deputy c.b.p. commissioner ronald vitiello. >> we're looking for people to make it through the hiring steps, which if we find the right kind of people, it will be easy for them. >> reporter: but the last time the border patrol aggressively increased recruiting after 9/11, the c.b.p. didn't have polygraph tests. it was plagued by corrupt and violent agents. matt vitiello says that's why finding the right recruits is crucial. >> we have to make sure we're attracting the right kind of people who can make it through the vetting process so when they're out there doing their work on behalf of america, we can trust them. >> reporter: don dahler, cbs news, detroit lakes, minnesota. >> mason: navy divers today found remains of some of the 10 sailors feared dead after the u.s.s. "john s. mccain." collided with a tanker.

the sailors were trapped in a flooded compartment. here's david martin. >> reporter: what you see at the waterline of the "mccain" offers only a hint of the damage divers found below. the bulbous bow of the tanker tore a 28-foot-wide hull in the ship's hull. four sleeping compartments were completely flooded, their insides turned into such a twisted, tangled mess, that divers could not recover all the bodies they located. admiral scott swift is commander of the pacific fleet. >> the damage to the ship is quite significant. the water-tight integrity was compromised. many of the spaces were flooded. >> reporter: the only clue to what caused the accident is an initial report from the scene that the "mccain" lost steering three minutes before the collision. if confirmed, that would help explain why the ship was unable to avoid the much larger tanker. although, loss of steering is an

emergency navy crews are trained to deal with. the training and qualification of crews has become a growing concern within the navy since the fatal collision of the u.s.s. "fitzgerald" with a container ship in june. an accident blamed on mistakes made by a dozen officers and men from the captain on down. the fatal collisions involving the "mccain" and "fitzgerald" followed two other less- disastrous accidents. the cruiser "antietam" ran aground in tokyo bay, and another cruiser, the u.s.s. "lake champlain" collided with a south korean fishing boat. when you add it up, anthony, 17 sailors have been lost, three frontline warships knocked out of commission, and every other ship in the navy ordered to take a day off from scheduled operations to go over basic seamanship. >> mason: a heavy toll. david martin at the pentagon, thanks. the war president obama wanted to end, the war president trump wanted to end, will go on indefinitely.

more u.s. troops could soon be heading to afghanistan. major garrett is at the white house. charlie d'agata in kabul. major, let me start with you. the white house is working overtime to say this strategy is new. how much of it really is different? >> reporter: much of it is the same. so what is new? the emphasis on counter- terrorism. the use of special operators, air assets and the c.i.a. to relentlessly attack the enemy wherever it is, even that includes pakistan. rebuilding afghanistan is not central. it may not even be incidental to this mission. >> mason: major, we had as many as 100,000 troops in afghanistan, couldn't seem to reach our objective. can we win this way? >> reporter: secretary of state rex tillerson had a revealing answer to that very question contradicting president trump's assessment that this could end in total victory. >> this entire effort is intended to put pressure on the taliban to have the taliban understand you will not win a battlefield victory. we may not win one, but neither will you.

>> reporter: the president thought long and hard about ending all this by withdrawing, but he did not, because the military assured him progress can and will be made. but what progress looks like? well, the white house still will not define. >> mason: charlie, so how will this translate on the ground in the war against the taliban? >> reporter: well, anthony, the majority of u.s. forces currently are in a non-combat role here in afghanistan. but the possibility of u.s. soldiers fighting on the front line caught the attention of abdullah abdullah, second in command of the afghan government who we spoke to earlier today. now, are you hoping, expecting that american forces will take more of a combat role here? >> i will say that with the new policy, with the removal of limitations, they will be in much, much better position to make an impact. u.s. forces will be much, much more activity on the ground.

>> reporter: now, it's been around three years since combat operations formally came to an end. special forces operations continue, but if president trump's loosening of restrictions means now that regular u.s. soldiers can now join in, well, anthony, that marks a significant change in tactics. >> mason: charlie d'agata in kabul, major garrett at the white house. thank you, both. and coming up next on the "cbs evening news," he quarterbacked a team to the super bowl, but now, he can't find a job. c

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>> kaepernick to throw. >> reporter: the n.f.l. covets quarterbacks for their arms, but colin kaepernick's marketability may start with his knee, and his pregame protest last season. all 32 n.f.l. teams have at least two quarterbacks, and despite leading a team to the super bowl, kaepernick remains unemployed. any chance he's being blackballed? >> blackballed is a very strong word. >> reporter: cbs sports analyst boomer esiason is a former n.f.l. m.v.p. >> they would have a tough time, i think, signing somebody who protested the american flag and the national anthem. >> reporter: already this pre- season, protests have continued on n.f.l. sidelines, and for the first time, some white players are standing and kneeling alongside their teammates. 70% of n.f.l. players are african american. many see a racial injustice with kaepernick. to seattle defensive back richard sherman, the league's

message is, "boy, stay in your place." the eagles' malcolm jenkins called teams "cowards." dr. harry edwards, a kaepernick adviser, agrees. >> you have people who came back after being associated with drugs, rape charges, and so forth, but a man who violated no league rule, who committed no crime, cannot play in the league. that's not kaepernick's problem. that's the league's problem. >> reporter: n.f.l. commissioner roger goodell denies the quarterback is being blackballed. oode >> reporter: kaepernick's protests clearly offended many in the n.f.l. >> hey, kaepernick! >> kaepernick! >> reporter: including boomer esiason. >> whatever political views you have, you don't take to the n.f.l. field. >> reporter: would you hire kaepernick? >> no, and i said it last year. i wouldn't want him on my team. i wouldn't.

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still over the moon over the eclipse. here's jamie yuccas. ( cheers and applause ) >> oh, my gosh! there it goes! >> reporter: the eclipse may have had all eyes on the sky, but some of the most stunning images came from above the ground. nasa caught the international space station photo-bombing the eclipse. a "wired" magazine reporter caught totality after jumping out of a plane. and from an alaska airline plane cruising at 40,000 feet-- >> five, four-- corona-- three, two, one, there it is! >> reporter: vivid memories remain from the farm fields of madras, oregon. >> yeah, you can see that. >> reporter: ...to carbondale, illinois. >> look at that! >> i'm so glad we got to see it. >> reporter: and on to charleston, south carolina. >> i'm speechless. i'm literally speechless. >> reporter: hardly speechless? social media. the eclipse generated 240 million likes and shares on facebook, 160 million on instagram, more than this year's

super bowl. on #eclipse, more than 2.5 million posted photos. it eclipsed netflix viewership, which dropped 10% during totality. as for music, a song recorded 34 years ago, bonnie tyler's "total eclipse of the heart," became the number one pop song in the country yesterday. in madras, oregon, louis valencia's heart was hardly eclipsed. >> and it was just like something you've never seen before. >> reporter: i had so much fun yesterday. >> so you saw it? >> yeah. >> right on. >> it was breathtaking, huh. >> reporter: and hang on to the solar eclipse glasses. in just seven years, totality will hit the u.s. once more. jamie yuccas, cbs news, madras, oregon. >> mason: wherever you saw it, it was something special. that's the "cbs evening news." i'm anthony mason in new york, thanks for watching. good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org

through the hands of immigration agents. a family says this woman would kpix 5 news at 6:00 begins with new questions about how a murder suspect slipped through the hands of immigration agents. a family said this woman would still be alive if feds were begin more warning. good evening, i'm juliette goodrich. >> i'm elizabeth cook. allen and veronica are off tonight. a mother murdered and her family says someone in law enforcement made a mistake. the suspect was want by i.c.e. agents. kpix 5's emily turner explains the feds missed a chance to pick him up. emily. >> reporter: i.c.e. says sonoma county didn't give them enough time and the sheriff's department says they didn't show up. amongst all the finger- pointing, this family wants to know what happened and why. veronica cabrera ramirez was the mother of two teenage girls well loved and now very missed.

but her murder, her family say, could have been avoided if only immigration agents had enough time. >> this shouldn't have happened, that's for sure. but, you know, someone makes a mistake and he was here and he killed her. >> reporter: veronica's boyfriend is accused of beating her to death. he was arraigned today on that murder charge just weeks earlier arrested for beating cabrera ramirez and was released after making bail. the man is undocumented from guatemala. ice wanted sonoma county to alert them when he bailed out but the county says they didn't show up. >> if they come or choose to pick somebody up, that's's ice's responsibility knows ours. >> reporter: i.c.e. says sonoma county did call to say they would be released estrada mar goes at 8:20 p.m. but sheriff's deputies released