ca ♪ ♪ captioning sponsored by cbs >> i know that leaders aren't supposed to cry. >> mason: a cry for help from puerto rico. >> help needs to get into people's hands, now. not tomorrow, not later. now. >> mason: the president says he's on it. >> we've done a really good job. re're doing a great job. and it's amazing, the job that we've done in puerto rico. >> mason: also tonight-- >> boo! >> mason: the backlash against antional anthem protests. >> you crossed the line! >> goodbye, pittsburgh steelers. >> mason: cities court amazon. >> for reasons not immediately clear, tucson sent a 21-foot cactus. >> mason: and, honors for a forgotten philadelphian. >> he was the dr. king and jackie robinson of his day.

this is the "cbs evening news." >> mason: and this is our western edition. good evening. i'm anthony mason. puerto rico is pleading for help. food and water, gasoline and electricity, they are all needed desperately by the island's nearly 3.5 million residents devastated by hurricane maria. president trump today defended the federal response, and he'll soon see it for himself. he will visit puerto rico and the u.s. virgin islands next tuesday. we begin tonight with david begnaud in san juan. d reporter: six days after ancea hit with a vengeance, mayor yulin cruz is at her wit's end, trying to find help. >> i know that leaders aren't supposed to cry. and especially not on tv. but we are having a humanitarian crisis here.

>> reporter: some survivors, she says, are facing a second brush with death. like other hospitals on the island, the maestro has no power. a generator powers lights on justwo floors. there's no air conditioning. jesus garcessoto's cancer took a turn for the worst the same day maria hit. his wife, lyssette. >> i'm trying to help him, you know, just in the night, trying to, you know, open the doors, the windows, but itt it's not easy. >> reporter: roughly half of the island has no water, and the wait for essentials is excruciating. sma says it has the supplies it needs, with more aid arriving, but there are huge challenges to delivering it. alex de la campa is fema's director for the caribbean. >> and because we are an island, s ere's no trucks or roads that we can bring commodities. so everything had to be-- we need to bring everything via nerplane or via barge. >> reporter: but the mayor says

it's coming in too slowly. tly yesterday, she told us fema asked her to write a memo requesting what she needed. >> i don't have freaking energy to write a memo. >> reporter: or the time. there s i'm out there saving lives. so, we need to get our ( bleep ) together here. t d help needs to get into people's hands, now. not tomorrow, not later. now. >> reporter: help is on the way. e wau.s. military is sending the dival ship "comfort." it's a military hospital, but it might not be here until next week. tonight, puerto ricans continue o flock to service centers just like this one. it's the only place they can get a wifi signal, their only connection on an island without power. anthony. an mason: david begnaud in san juan. thanks, david. the president said today, next , esday is the earliest he can visit puerto rico without disrupting relief operations there. more now from white house correspondent margaret brennan. >> everybody has said it's amazing the job that we've done in puerto rico.

we're very proud of it. i think we're really getting really good marks for the work we're doing. so i think we've done a really good job. ep reporter: president trump said puerto rico'soverral rrenoe president had been noticeably silent about the worsening devastation. last nigmr first tweets on the crisis, pointing out that before the storms, puerto rico was "already suffering from broken infrastructure and massive debt." >> mr. president, these are american citizens. they desperately need our help. >> reporter: democratic senator chuck schumer of new york, the state with the largest puerto pucan population, said mr. trump was not doing enough. >> he insists that relief and recovery efforts are "doing well," are "doing great." sometimes it has no relationship to the facts on the ground, as if this is a public relations campaign. >> reporter: florida republican senator marco rubio visited puerto rico yesterday. >> every day that goes by, it's going to get worse, not better. >> this is an island sitting in of an ocean, and cean, and it's a big ocean. it's a very big ocean.

and, we're doing a really good job. >> reporter: fema administrator aiock long said local authorities must do more to prepare for natural disasters. >> we do not have a true culture of preparedness in this country, and we have a lot of work to do. >> reporter: fema says it already has ten ships and barges en route to the region over the next 48 hours to bring r,nerators, emergency power, food, and water. anthony. >> mason: can't get there soon n'ough. margaret brennan, thanks. north carolina is about to get a glancing blow from maria, now a tropical storm. the surf is kicking up in kill suvil hills. 10,000 visitors have been told to leave the outer banks. storm surge and tropical storm watches and warnings extend to the virginia coast. maria should make a turn to the east and head out to sea tomorrow. the latest attempt by senate republicans to repeal obamacare is dead. the g.o.p. leadership pulled the amug today when it became clear

they didn't have the votes to pass the bill sponsored by lindsey graham and bill cassidy. at his white house news conference today, the president again blasted n.f.l. players w anthem, saying they disrespect peocountry. a lot of people agree. in a reuters ipsos poll today, 58% said pro athletes should be required to stand for the national anthem. 37% said their view of the n.f.l. has become less favorable. jim axelrod got an earful in pittsburgh. >> reporter: when steelers lineman alejandro villaneuva, an army vet who served in afghanistan, stood at the edge of the field during the national anthem sunday, he was alone. the rest of his team stayed off ave field and out of sight to avoid controversy, the team owner says. >> i will no longer support this team or anybody else that does onis kind of crap. >> reporter: irate fans let the steelers have it, lighting their jerseys on fire to protest the

team not standing at attention on the sidelines during the anthem. >> you're not going to disrespect our country! you're not going to disrespect >> reporter: at this restaurant owned by retired steeler hall of famer jerome bettis, 40-year steeler fan allen everhart is upset with his team for what he sees as caving to political correctness. >> i don't think it's a racial issue, what's going on with the flag, okay? and i think it's-- i understand it's retaliation for what trump said, okay. that's probably what they're doing. not, you know, if you're an american, you stand for the flag. >> reporter: you have some professional athletes saying it's not about disrespecting the flag. it's about articulating our sense of injustice. >> i think it's blown out of proportion. you know, them guys are well- paid athletes, and they're just overblowing the issue. >> reporter: although this bar tells you everything about the divisions in this country.

e sth table is a former army reserve nurse, kelly allison. .> that is their right, their fod-given, military-fought-for right, to show what they want to. if they want to kneel, that's fine. >> reporter: among the 22 tweets from the president about this controversy, there is this one: "n.f.l. ratings and attendance are way down." he's half right. tv ratings are down 10% year to year, but actually, anthony, attendance last season was the highest in a decade. >> mason: jim axelrod in pittsburgh today. jim, thanks. the president will be watching the returns from today's republican runoff in alabama for the senate seat once held by his attorney general, jeff sessions. luther strange was appointed to arll the seat temporarily, but he's facing a challenge for the g.o.p. nomination to complete the term. here's chip reid. >> reporter: republican senate

candidate roy moore, a erntroversial former judge and far-right christian conservative, arrived at the polls on horseback this morning. >> we're ready to get it over with. t reporter: at 6'9", big luther strange, the establishment republican in the race, was also hard to miss. president trump tweeted his >>pport for strange today. >> i'm thrilled to be here. >> reporter: friday, he campaigned for him, but the president surprised many of strange's supporters by suggesting he's already prepared to regret it. >> and i'll be honest. i might have made a mistake. >> reporter: that's because the president fears he'll get the blame if strange loses. >> they're going to say, "donald trump, the president of the united states, was unable to pull his candidate across the line." >> reporter: to make matters worse for the president, his former chief strategist, steve bannon, is leading the charge for moore, who has the strong support of a large percentage of ame president's alabama republican base.

strange today brushed off the ident's comments.nts. the president said he supports you, but then he said he might have made a mistake by supporting you. does he help you or hurt you? >> well, the president supports me 100%. i think he said that about two dozen times. >> reporter: whoever wins here today will face off against a democrat in december. umesident trump says if it is amy moore, he will campaign for him, but he also says if it's moore, it's going to be a very tough race, even in this heavily republican state. y.thony. >> mason: chip reid at the primary in alabama. members of the trump administration are under fire for taking costly flights at taxpayer expense. anlianna goldman now has been looking into this. >> reporter: for e.p.a. administrator scott pruitt, june 7 was a busy day. first, a trip to cincinnati with president trump. then on to j.f.k. airport on an air force jet like this, leaving behind $350 commercial flights and sticking taxpayers with the bill for at least $20,000. then, he flew to italy for an

international summit that didn't start until three days later. and he left that meeting a day ayrly. it's unclear why he was in a rush. >> it's good to be back in the s good to be back i actually arrived back this morning at 1:00 from italy. >> reporter: separately, pruitt's frequent flights to his home state of oklahoma have attracted the attention of e.p.a.'s inspector general. cted, scott pruitt, do solemnly swear... >> reporter: it's not just pruitt. at treasury, the i.g. is looking re secretary steven mnuchin's air travel, and the health and seman services i.g. is reviewing secretary tom price's chartered flights that cost $400,000. >> they're conducting both an internal and an i.g. review, and all travels on private charter has been suspended until that is completed. n adeporter: in addition to boarding that more expensive tary aircraft int in june, cbs news has learned pruitt took nvis private plane from denver to durango and back on august 4 for a meeting that included state officials. an e.p.a. spokesperson told cbs that pruitt chartered the plane after his flight was significantly delayed, in order

to ensure he did not misa critical meeting, and ethics officials were consulted. the colorado governor's office orfered pruitt a ride on his government aircraft, but the e.p.a. declined. do there needs to be an explanation of what that cost and why it was necessary. >> reporter: eric schaeffer is a former director of e.p.a.'s office of civil enforcement and now runs the environmental integrity project. >> especially when the budget is shrinking for your agency, the expectation is that you will travel as economically as possible. generally, t generally, that does not include chartering private jets for your travel. >> reporter: we called and hailed the e.p.a. a half dozen times. we wanted to know why it was necessary to use a military jet, and also, why they turned down that invitation to fly with colorado's governor. an e.p.a. spokesperson declined to comment. anthony. >> mason: julianna goldman doing

fic traffic control for the administration. thanks. in a surprise today, saudi arabia's king ordered that women there finally be allowed to do something they do in every other country on earth-- drive cars. holly williams is in istanbul tonight. holly? >> reporter: for over two decades now, a determined group ave been arabian women have been protesting against the ban on them driving by illegally taking to the road. some of them posting videos of that online. semet with some of those women a saudi arabia in 2014, and they told me that the freedom to drive was symbolic in a country where they have very few rights. arudi arabia is, of course, an ultraconservative state. one muslim cleric claimed that iniving would harm women's reproductive organs. but things are very gradually changing for saudi women. they're now permitting to vote in local elections. , ey're allowed to play sport at school, and more and more of them are going to university. anthony. >> mason: holly williams in

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its river, and still others have recruited amazon's own alexa for help, including danbury, connecticut, mayor, mark onughton. >> i'm a proud amazon customer, so, alexa, where is the best place for amazon to locate its second world headquarters? >> danbury, connecticut. >> i told you so. >> reporter: while these towns ere hoping to replicate the y ccess story they see in aattle, where amazon has been headquartered for two decades, critics say buyer beware of side effects to that partnership. iseph parilla is with the brookings institution. h one concern with amazon inserting itself in a new city is that all of these kind of well-paid people would come in, bid up the price of housing, and make the region more unaffordable. >> reporter: he said because the fevered courtship is expected to t me with fat tax breaks and other incentives for amazon, some cities may be tempted to overpay. >> that money could be going to

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>> mason: philadelphia is the statue capital of america, but the statue unveiled there today was a first for the city. here's vladimir duthiers. >> reporter: for nearly three years, sculptor branly cadet's ssk has been putting an unknown legacy back together, detail by iltricate detail. >> if that could just come out, just an inch or two. >> reporter: and casting it in bronze. come out,f my job as a sculptor is to help, not only celebrate, but also acknowledge narratives that may have been lost in the past. >> reporter: octavius valentine catto's lost narrative began in philadelphia in the 1850s. a teacher turned activist, ngring the civil war, catto, along with frederic douglass,

helped recruit blacks to join the union army. in all the research that you did, did you get a sense of his personality? t he certainly was a compelling, magnetic, charismatic person. gn's not every personality that can go out and recruit, you know, hundreds of people to join f war effort. >> reporter: after the war, catto fought to desegregate philadelphia's horse-drawn street cars. he founded and served as the he founded a of a nn of a negro league baseball team and worked to pass the 15th amendment, giving black men the right to vote. but, he would not cast a ballot. ar assassin gunned the 32-year- old down in october, 1871. rs murder was reported in major newspapers. the "new york herald" called him a "pure-minded patriot, who died as he had lived, without fear." but his life has been erased .rom history. >> he was the dr. king and jackie robinson of his day. and i'm like, how in god's name did i not know this man? >> reporter: so now, this is the street, right? mayor jim kenny has spent 15 years trying to build a

s morial. there are 1,700 public space statues in philadelphia, the most of any u.s. city. ( applause ) today's unveiling makes octavius catto's the first of an african american. >> this was a tough guy. i mean, to do all that he did for 32 years, and then be gunned down in the street, that's a pretty amazing story. i'm surprised there's not a movie. >> reporter: when people observe this memorial, what do you hope they'll take away? >> it really is a testament to what one can do, even at a >> relatively young age. and the importance of engaging civically, to try and make a difference. >> reporter: because history doesn't just remind us of our past-- it helps shape our future. vladimir duthiers, cbs news, philadelphia. >> mason: octavius catto, a short but extraordinary life. 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.

the prominent anti-facist leader taken away in cuffs, after a rally gets rowdy on the cal kpix5 news begins with this berkeley middle schoolteacher arrested again. the anti-fascist leader is taken away in cuffs after a rally gets rowdy on cal campus. good evening. i'm allen martin. >> i'm veronica de la cruz. this is yvette felarca's latest mugshot, authorities facing a federal charge for punching a white nationalist last year. now there's new charges against the middle schoolteacher. >> reporter: that's right. she is a part-time middle school teacher at berkeley. she taught this morning and came to the rally this afternoon. now she's facing charges of battery and resisting arrest. this all was peaceful with the dialogue. everything was okay on campus. it's when the crowd moved off campus that things got unruly.

far right activists and leader of patriot prayer, joey gibson, drew an expected crowd at cal this afternoon. >> i guess one thing that i did was saying about you and this is about the only thing i really know is that people have complained that you're a white supremist. >> because people have showed up to earmark our rally and we kicked them out, but i don't care about the color of your skin. i care what's on the inside. >> reporter: and for the most part that's what happened, a controlled dialogue, but it was the out of control crowd that kept things unruly. >> hey, hey, hey. >> i've done everything i can for you. back off. >> hey, be nice. >> back off! >> be nice. what's going on? >> [ bleep ] [ bleep ]. [ shouting ] >> reporter: then far right activist gibson led the crowd from