♪ ♪ captioning sponsored by cbs >> this is an industry that's out of control. >> mason: blowing the whistle on drug distributors. >> rannazzisi accuses the distributors of fueling the opioid epidemic. e> mason: with help from congress, including the president's nominee for drug czar. >> we're going to be looking into tom. >> mason: the fallout from a "60 minutes" investigation. also tonight, progress against the wildfires. the battle against isis. >> there's been no official declaration of victory, but these u.s.-backed fighters aren't waiting for one. >> my name is cat. it happened to me, too. >> mason: the weinstein scandal sets off a wave of "me too." >> this is a breaking news story every day. >> mason: and the call for a 2016 rerun.

>> hillary, please run again. this is the "cbs evening news." >> mason: good evening. i'm anthony mason. and this is our western edition. among the nearly 13 million people watching "60 minutes" last night was president trump, and what he saw has him taking a second look at his nominee for drug czar, pennsylvania congressman tom marino. in that report, former d.e.a. insider-turned whistle blower joseph rannazzisi accused drug distributors aided by congress and lobbyists, of fueling the opioid epidemic. have a look. this map shows drug overdose deaths in 1999. and this 16 years later in 2015, when opioid deaths alone topped 33,000. bill whitaker has more now from this joint investigation by "60 minutes" and the "washington post." >> this is an industry that's

out of control, that allowed millions and millions of drugs to go into bad pharmacies and doctors' offices that distributed them out to people who had no legitimate need for those drugs. >> reporter: one example, a pharmacy in kermit, west virginia, a town of just 392 people, ordered nine million hydrocodone pills over two years. >> these companies are a big reason for this epidemic? >> absolutely they are. and i can tell you with 100% accuracy that we were in there on multiple occasions trying to get them to change their behavior, and they just flat out ignored us. >> reporter: and then there was congress. a bill introduced in the house by pennsylvania congressman tom marino was promoted as a way to ensure that patients had access to the pain medication they needed. jonathan novak, who worked in the d.e.a.'s legal office, says what the bill really did was

strip the agency of its ability to immediately freeze suspicious shipments of prescription narcotics to keep the drugs off u.s. streets. >> they're ruthless. i don't know how they stop this now. it's a very sad state of affairs. >> reporter: last year the bill was presented to congress and ressed both houses through unanimous consent with no recorded votes. >> without objection the bill is read a third time and passed. >> i just don't understand why congress would pass a bill that strips us of our authority in the height of an opioid epidemic in places like congressman marino's district. >> i was a prosecutor and a united states attorney. >> reporter: congressman marino has been nominated to be the next drug czar. what was your reaction when you heard that? >> total disbelief. the bill was bad. him being the drug czar is a lot narse. >> reporter: today president

trump said he's going to "look into marino's nomination." the healthcare distribution alliance issued a statement today saying it recognizes the opioid epidemic as national crisis. it goes on to say: but tonight this legislation stands, and the d.e.a. says its hands are tied. anthony? >> mason: so, bill, what are the implications of this then? >> reporter: well, anthony, the diplications are that millions of pills are still ending up in bad pharmacies, and distributors have very little to worry that that the d.e.a. will shut them down. >> mason: bill whitaker of "60 minutes," thanks for being with us. bill's "60 minutes" report reverberated from the white house to capitol hill. chief congressional correspondent nancy cordes is there.

>> they made it and camouflaged it so well that all of us, all of us were fooled. nobody knew. >> reporter: west virginia democrat joe manchin says he's horrified that a bill everyone approved made the epidemic worse. >> there's no oversight now, the way-- that bill has to be retracted. it has to be repealed. >> reporter: the law sailed through the senate last spring. >> those in favor say aye. >> reporter: it had the backing of the justice department. it was sponsored by members of both parties, so no one in congress thought to question it. >> it's not unusual for something like this to roll through without much fanfare. >> reporter: missouri democrat claire mccaskill introduced a bill today to repeal last year's law. how realistic is that? >> i think it's realistic. i do sense that there is a bipartisan kind of "we've got a crisis" attitude about opioids now. >> reporter: one of the bill's authors tennessee republican marsha blackburn said via a spokesperson today, "if there

are any unintended consequences from this bipartisan legislation, they should be addressed immediately." >> d.e.a. has all the enforcement power it needs. >> reporter: but utah republican orrin hatch defended the law and the $177,000 in donations he got from the drug industry while he was pushing it through. >> heavens, no. heavens, no. my campaigns run about $10 million. frankly, frankly, i don't know who contributes to it at all. >> reporter: now some democrats are urging the president to drop his nomination of the bill's chief author, tom marino, to be the nation's drug czar. >> it's like putting the wolf in charge of the henhouse. >> reporter: many lawmakers are still trying to understand why d.e.a. dropped its initial opposition to the bill. that would have ensured a lot more scrutiny before a vote. and it's a sign, anthony, that even some in law enforcement may not have realized how much this

law would tie the d.e.a.'s hands. >> mason: nancy cordes at the capitol. thanks, nancy. and we'll have more on this tomorrow night. prw to the other end of pennsylvania avenue. the president called reporters into the rose garden today to watch him mend a fence. major garrett was there. >> probably now, despite what we read, we're probably now i think, at least as far as i'm concerned, closer than ever before. >> reporter: after a white house lunch, president trump and senate majority leader mitch o thnnell strolled to the rose garden to bury the hatchet. >> we have the same agenda. we've been friends and acquaintances for a long time. >> reporter: it was a change in tone from just 90 minutes earlier when mr. trump told his cabinet do-nothing republicans were to blame for his stalled legislative agenda. >> we're not getting the job done. and i'm not going to blame myself, i'll be honest. they are not getting the job done. >> reporter: mr. trump was in part echoing his former chief laretegist steve bannon, who this weekend declared mcconnell an enemy of grassroots >>nservatives.

>> and right now it's a season of war against a g.o.p. establishment. >> reporter: bannon vowed to back challengers to senate e.o.p. incumbents. >> the day of taking a few nice conservative votes and hiding is over. >> reporter: today the president sent mixed messages about that strategy. >> so i can understand fully how steve bannon feels. i'm going to see if we can talk him out of that, because frankly they're great people. >> reporter: and the president also looked ahead to his 2020 reelection campaign and said he was hoping for a sequel. >> oh, i hope hillary runs. is she going to run? i hope. hillary, please run again. >> reporter: mr. trump was also asked why he had not yet commented on the four u.s. soldiers killed 12 days ago in niger. he said he had written to the families and would call them soon. >> if you look at president obama and other presidents, most of them didn't make calls. a lot of them didn't make calls. >> reporter: officials with ntrmer president clinton, george w. bush, and obama said they all called families of the fallen.

mr. obama's deputy chief of staff said more on twitter, calling mr. trump's statement "an (expletive) lie," adding that the current commander-in- chief is "a deranged animal." anthony? >> mason: major garrett with the president's day in the rose garden. thank you, major. firefighters battling the california wildfires are making progress. winds that fanned the flames are dying down, but today a driver e livering water to the fire lines was killed when his truck flipped. there are now 41 deaths in the 21res. 213,000 acres have burned, and nearly 6,000 buildings were destroyed. some evacuees are heading home to see if they still have one. here's mireya villarreal. >> reporter: when the fire came racing down into santa rosa, an assistant firefighter, paul lowenthal, was called into service. >> i wouldn't imagine we'd have something that big all of a sudden right here. >> reporter: and as the fire igntinues to burn, officials are now turning their attention to

making these neighborhoods safer. santa rosa's ana grove neighborhood has been designated by the state as a very high fire hazard zone, requiring homeowners to clear brush and use fire resistant materials on their roofs, but coffee park, a dense neighborhood, is considered a safe area with limited requirements. it now looks like this. neither neighborhood could withstand a fire fueled by 80mph winds. >> there's a lot of systems and codes that have been put in place to make it safer, to make it a safer environment, but mother nature brought wind. >> reporter: this neighborhood is woven within california's wildland, a prime example of the state's suburban sprawl. in 1960, there were 766 homes within the perimeter of the tubbs fire compared to more than 6,000 in 2010. >> i don't think anyone would have ever guessed we'd have a wildfire that would move through the volume of hotels, commercial buildings, restaurants, areas where there's little to no

landscaping. it burned through all that. >> reporter: thousands of evacuation orders have been lifted, but in wildland areas like this, it could take days if not weeks before the rebuilding can start. there is rain expected later this week, which fire crews are hoping will help them reach their containment goals of 100% by this friday. anthony? >> mason: mireya villarreal in santa rosa. thanks, mireya. smy sergeant bowe bergdahl pleaded guilty today in military court to desertion and misbehavior toward the enemy. the latter charge could put him behind wars for life. bergdahl walked off his post in afghanistan in 2009 and was held by the taliban for five years. he was freed in a prisoner swap approved by president obama. at least two american service members were seriously wounded while searching for bergdahl. time is just about up for isis in raqqa. the syrian city it conquered in

2014 and considered its capital. the four-month battle to retake raqqa has been fierce, and holly williams, one of the few western journalists to report from inside the city, wasn't expecting what she saw today. >> reporter: there has been no 'tficial declaration of victory, but these u.s.-backed fighters aren't waiting for one. isis is finished in raqqa, they told us, after hundreds of isis extremists surrendered over the weekend. they've had some help from u.s. air strikes, but these syrian militiamen did the fighting on the ground, the very definition of a ragtag army. shia kaghaki showed us his homemade hand grenades, held together with scotch tape. as they clear the city, isis gunmen still lurk in tunnels and buildings. au thought it was clear, and now you think there is a sniper left there? >> yeah, we think, we think.

>> reporter: isis claimed to be men of god when they seized raqqa over three years ago. in truth, they were bloodthirsty thugs, beheading their enemies and selling women as sex slaves. what's left is the carcass of a city, pulverized by artillery, flattened by air strikes, and deserted by its people. we've been in so many houses like this one during the battle for raqqa. they've been turned into fighting positions and completely destroyed. yunus omar and his family finally escaped raqqa today, some of the last to get out. like other civilians, they were used by the extremists as human shields. "they tried to leave twice before and were shot at by isis fighters," yunus said, but today they didn't see any. clearing raqqa of explosives laid by isis could take months, but the city is no longer a

stronghold for terrorists. ivose isis leaders that are still alive are thought to have fled south toward the border with iraq months ago. anthony? >> mason: holly williams continuing her exceptional reporting from raqqa. the terror group al-shabaab, which has links to al qaeda, is suspected in saturday's massive attack in somalia. more than 300 were killed, more than 400 hurt when a truck bomb went off in the heart of mogadishu. foctims were flown as far away as turkey for treatment. ene somali government, backed by the u.s., has been fighting al- shabaab for a decade. coming up next on the "cbs evening news," why a background check law for gun buyers in nevada is not being enforced. ...it starts a chain reaction... ...that's heard throughout the connected business world. at&t network security helps protect business, from the largest financial markets to the smallest transactions,

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laxalt, who campaigned against the measure for the n.r.a.-- >> question one is a sloppy legal disaster. >> reporter: --initially argued it isn't enforceable because the law explicitly says the f.b.i. has to conduct the background checks, not the state. he cited this letter from the f.b.i. that says nevada law cannot dictate how federal resources are applied. >> the people of nevada spoke. they voted on this measure. >> reporter: but john feinblatt, the president of "every town," says laxalt and nevada's governor, bryan sandoval, should negotiate a solution. >> if they need to get on the phone with f.b.i. and work it out, they should do that today. the governor and the attorney general are turning this into a political football. >> reporter: after the las vegas massacre, governor sandoval asked attorney general laxalt to re-examine the question. the attorney general responded with an opinion last week saying the governor has the authority fo work it out with the f.b.i., setting the stage for this to be fought out in the courts.

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and they're speaking out using the hashtag "me too." >> i'm a survivor, not a victim. >> it happened to me, too. ul me, too. >> sexual assault happens to everyone. >> i was told not to talk about it. i was told that it wasn't that bad. and i was told to get over it. >> the weinstein case has brought to light something that we really should have been talking about for a long time. >> and when we were in the elevator on the way back up to the rooms, he asked if he could join me in my room and then proceeded to try to grope me. >> there were office parties. set up is one thing, but the cleanup is always after-hours. you always hoped there would be another woman there to clean up with you so you wouldn't get stuck in the room with some guy. in it's taken me 34 years to talk about it in a public forum. >> no matter how small the act, whether you're catcalling a woman on the street or you seek to physically assault them

because you feel like you have the right to do that, you are damaging another human being. >> i just never felt a movement before that made it important enough to me to come out publicly. that's the first time i've ever posted or said it. >> i survived several very violent rapes. i was four and five years old. >> it breaks my heart knowing that this will soon disappear from the news cycle. for so many of us around the world, this is our breaking news story every single day. >> there is power in sharing our stories, in that when we share what happened to us, we let other survivors know that they are not alone. >> mason: some of the very powerful voices, the "me too" voices on social media today protesting sexual assault. that's the "cbs evening news." i'm anthony mason in new york. thanks for watching. good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by

firefight. thousands of evacu home.. kpix5 news begins with progress and challenges in the wine country firefight. thousands of evacuees going home, but it could be days, even weeks before others get that chance. good evening. i'm allen martin. >> i'm veronica de la cruz. what we know right now, firefighters have beat back the spread of the biggest wildfires. more evacuation orders have been lifted including berryessa, highlands and napa and in sonoma parts of kenwood, boyes hot springs and glen ellen, but it's not all clear everywhere and authorities are pleading for patience as they painstakingly check every block to insure it's safe. >> here are the fires still burning, good progress on most fronts, but north of the stubborn nuns fire, the oakmont fire is keeping crews occupied. the tubbs fire in napa is 70% contained. the pocket fire in sonoma

county is 40% surrounded, the nuns 50% contained and the atlas touching both counties has reached now nearly 70% containment. kpix5's joe vazquez begins our team coverage on the eastern flank of the nuns fire in oakville. >> reporter: i'm standing along the oakville grade and behind me is highway 29 which winds northward into napa valley. people in this immediate vicinity have been advised to evacuate. we talked to some folks who stayed and have been watching quite a slow. >> you have moments of panic and you have moments of everything is okay. >> reporter: it's been a tough couple of nights. >> you feel comfortable, go to bed, wake up, look out my bedroom window and i see flames again. >> reporter: she's watching the northeastern edge of the nuns fire which has proven troublesome. all day cal fire has been attacking the flames by air. officials say they dug containment lines along the western edge of napa valley and when the fire occasionally runs down the