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this. >> reporter: "60 minutes" found between january 1st, 2016 and the end of last october more than 100 serious mechanical incidents including mid-air engine failures and flight control malfunctions. last july flight 533 experienced an engine issue on takeoff caught on video. mercedes weller was on board. >> and there was smoke in the cabin and fire coming out of that engine. and i just remember thinking that i would never see my daughter again. >> reporter: the "60 minutes" report questioned the faa's 2015 adoption of its compliance philosophy, which aims to work with airlines to foster improved compliance and reporting of issues. the faa disputes the report and says it heightened its oversight of allegiant that year. but as "60 minutes" reported,

when a near crash happened due to a missing component that was missed by allegiant's contractor in 2015, the faa investigator recommended strong enforcement and maximum fines. instead the agency closed the case and ignored the recommendations. florida senator bill nelson saw the "60 minutes" report and wants the department of transportation inspector general to investigate. >> whatever has happened, we want this out into the full light of day, and we want the faa to crack down to make sure that the airlines, all of them, are safe. >> reporter: the faa says it is committed to pursuing the highest levels of aviation safety, and it welcomes any outside review. allegiant is also disputing the "60 minutes" report. the airline says it complies with all faa regulations and requirements. allegiant has reported fewer mechanical incidents as the airline is replacing its aging fleet of md-80 aircraft. jeff? >> kris van cleave, thanks. an american christian pastor

went on trial today in turkey. turkey says he's helped terror groups, but many believe that's a manufactured charge, and the pastor who faces 35 years in prison has the u.s. government's support. holly williams is following this case. >> reporter: after 18 months behind bars pastor andrew brunson was finally brought before this court today, arrested after living in turkey for over two decades, where he ministered to the country's small christian minority in this church in a majority muslim nation. in 2016 he was caught up in the aftermath of a failed military coup. fearful of its political enemies, the turkish government rounded up tens of thousands. pastor brunson was accused of spying and bizarrely of links to the islamic group that turkey says was behind the attempted coup. >> it's not possible -- >> reporter: the u.s. ambassador at large for religious freedom, sam brownback, told us this is a

case of religious persecution. >> these are completely false charges. >> reporter: brunson's indictment relies partly on the testimony of secret, unnamed witnesses. andrew brunson testified for several hours today, speaking in fluent turkish. more than once he became emotional and said he was traumatized by his time in prison. senator thom tillis of north carolina was in court today, and tonight he told us he was disappointed that pastor brunson wasn't released. >> and i don't believe that justice was properly served. >> reporter: the next hearing is scheduled for may, and andrew brunson's lawyer told us tonight that this case could potentially last for years. jeff? >> holly williams in turkey tonight. coming up next, police say she killed her husband and her foaming body wash.

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there is a nationwide manhunt tonight for a grandmother. police say she has killed twice and should be considered armed and dangerous. here's mark strassmann. >> reporter: police say this surveillance video shows a cunning killer on the prowl. 56-year-old grandmother lois reiss targeting 59-year-old pamela hutchinson in a fort myers bar. the two women looked alike, a fatal coincidence for hutchinson.

she was later found shot to death in her condo. detectives say reiss murdered her, then stole her white acura, credit cards, and her identity. lee county undersheriff carmine marceno. >> suspect reiss although she may look like anybody's mother or grandmother, she's an absolutely cold-blooded murderer. >> reporter: reiss is also suspected in her husband's shooting death in minnesota in late march. david reiss was found murdered in the couple's home. reiss, who police say loves to gamble, stopped at different casinos before driving to fort myers earlier this month and meeting hutchinson. dan gel jeffreys is hutchinson's cousin. >> it's just evil. because how can you doe around killing people for no other good reason other than to keep yourself out of prison? >> reporter: investigators say reiss has since driven 1,300 miles along the gulf coast until her last known sighting in corpus christi, texas. >> as her resources go away, that she will become more desperate and god forbid may

strike again. >> reporter: jeff, we dug into her criminal history, and in her home state of minnesota there's nothing more than a traffic ticket. >> wow. mark strassmann for us. mark, thank you. up next here,

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needs have taken priority over retirement. but bickle plans to enroll in the company 401(k) this summer. given that i'm a certified financial planner, he had this question for me. >> what percentage of my pay should i start out investing into the plan? >> reporter: that's a great question. well, given that velvet ice cream matches up to 5%, i think it's a great idea to start there. your contribution, $125 a month, plus the match, you grow it over 40 years, you end up with over $300,000. and if you're one of the many americans who are getting a tax refund, the average this year is just under 2,900 bucks, you can use these two pieces to really jumpstart your retirement. >> not a bad idea to try to put in as much as you possibly can. >> as early as you can. >> all right, jill, thanks. up next here tonight, a marathon win has never been sweeter. but first, stocks surged today on wall street.

five years after the boston marathon's darkest day there was a very big reason to celebrate today. for the first time in more than three decades an american woman broke the tape. don dahler is in boston. >> reporter: it was less a race than an epic test of will. 30,000 runners battled frigid temperatures, driving rain, and fierce headwinds. but one woman, two-time olympian des linden, would not be denied. not again. >> i think that's why i've had success here, is because i can kind of tough it out through anything. >> reporter: anything, including the pain of nearly winning this race in 2011, only to run out of gas at the last block and lose by two seconds. today the 34-year-old took the lead at 21 miles on heartbreak hill and never let go.

>> and des linden wins the boston marathon! >> reporter: yet so unsure was she of her chances to win, midway through the race she slowed down while her friend, shalane flanagan, took a restroom break. linden offered to help the hometown favorite any way she could. but it was the michigan native who would pull ahead. >> feeling like i lost the biggest opportunity of my career keeps me coming back. and i know it's super hard, but when you put it all together, all of the work is worth it. >> reporter: the last time an american woman won the boston marathon linden was a toddler. today she's a champion. don dahler, cbs news, boston. that is the "overnight news" for this tuesday. for some of you the news continues. for others check back later for the morning news and "cbs this morning." from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm jeff glor.

>> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." welcome to the "overnight news." i'm tony dokoupil. the latest chapter in the story of the president and the porn star was set in federal court in manhattan. president trump's personal lawyer, michael cohen, tried to convince a judge that his records, seized in an fbi raid, are protected by attorney-client privilege. some of the files deal with a payment cohen made to stormy daniels, who made it a point to be in the courtroom. here's jeff pegues. >> any comment? any comment on the allegations against you? >> reporter: michael cohen was peppered with questions as he arrived at the federal courthouse in lower manhattan. he and his lawyers as well as attorneys for president trump told judge kimba wood that documents and data seized in fbi

raids last week are protected by attorney-client privilege and should not be read by prosecutors. so this is what it looks like in lower manhattan outside the federal courthouse. you have dozens of news cameras here. you have print journalists here. all waiting for michael cohen to come out and stormy daniels, who is also in the courtroom. daniels, an adult film star, says cohen arranged a $130,000 payment to her in exchange for staying quiet about an alleged sexual relationship with president trump. >> stormy! >> reporter: she appeared at the courthouse despite not being directly involved in today's proceedings. >> so for years mr. cohen has acted like he is above the law. that ends now. >> reporter: after the hearing cohen did not comment. in a bit of courthouse drama cohen was forced to reveal his client list, which last year consisted of just three people -- president trump, top gop fund-raiser elliott broidy, and an unnamed person he was

trying to protect. to audible gasps in the courtroom cohen's lawyer said that client was fox news host and staunch trump supporter sean hannity. late today on his radio show hannity denied doing anything improper. >> i never paid legal fees to michael. but i have occasionally had brief discussions with him about legal questions about which i wanted his input and perspective. >> reporter: the president and his legal team have not commented on today's hearing, but in a tweet yesterday the president said that attorney-client privilege is now a thing of the past, and he added that his other lawyers are probably wondering when they too will be raided. the white house says president trump caught only bits and pieces of fired fbi director james comey's bombshell interview. comey had a lot to say about the president, including that he's unfit for office. paula reid reports. >> reporter: in this interview the former fbi chief described the first time that he met the

president and his staff, saying that they reminded him of mobsters that he used to track as a young prosecutor. and while he says he does believe mr. trump is intelligent enough to be president, he does not believe that that is enough to make you fit to lead. >> i think he's morally unfit to be president. >> reporter: former fbi director james comey took aim at president trump, who fired him last may, unleash k a stream of attacks on the president's character. >> a person who sees moral equivalence in charlottesville, who talks about and treats women like they're pieces of meat, who lies constantly about matters big and small and insists the american people believe it, that person is not fit to be president of the united states on moral grounds. >> are you thinking president trump's a liar? >> yes. >> reporter: the president tried to get ahead of the interview, tweeting sunday morning that comey was slippery and a slimeball that he hardly even knew. in his most explosive charge comey said the president could have obstructed justice when he asked him to let go of the investigation into former

national security adviser mike flynn. >> he's asking me to drop the criminal investigation of his now former national security adviser. >> the president says he didn't say that. >> yeah. what am i going to do? he did. >> was president trump obstructing justice? >> possibly., it's certainly so evidence of obstruction of justice. >> reporter: comey said that his belief that hillary clinton would win the election played a role in how he handled the fbi investigation into her personal e-mail servers. >> as hillary clinton wrote in her book, i schiffed her? that sounds like i was trying to knife somebody, i was out to get her. and it's an illustration of our polarization here that you've got the trump camp which i guess thinks i was trying to save hillary clinton -- >> if you knew that letter would have elected donald trump you'd still send it? >> i would. >> reporter: in their first meeting comey briefed the president-elect on evidence showing russian interference in the 2016 election. >> president-elect trump's first question was to confirm that it had no impact on the election.

no one to my recollection asked, so what's coming next from the russians, how we might we stop, it what's the future look like? there was none of that. >> reporter: the former fbi director said he could not rule out the possibility that mr. trump has been compromised by the russians. >> it is stunning. and i wish i wasn't saying it. but it's the truth. there are conflicting reports surrounding president trump's missile strike on syria. the pentagon insists all of its missiles hit their targets. but russia claims its air defenses knocked 3/4 of the missiles out of the sky. seth doane is inside syria. >> reporter: this was rebel territory until two days ago. and today we made it to the very house where that suspected chemical attack took place. "all of a sudden some gas spread around us," this neighborhood recounted. "we couldn't breathe. it smelled like chlorine." syrian forces recaptured this area from rebels over the

weekend. that means they now control this building where this video was taken. >> this is your brother here? >> nasr hanan's brother hamzeh is seen in that activist video, lifeless and foaming at the mouth. in the kitchen he told us how his brother had tried to wash off the chemicals. >> how did the chemicals get here? "the missile up there," he pointed, "on the roof." >> we asked him to take us to where the missile allegedly hit, and he took us up here and pointed there. >> where we found a missile neatly resting. syria insists there was no chemical attack, while the u.s., france, and uk blame syria. since those coalition air strikes bashar al assad's government has tried to show it was unaffected. today highlighting their military gains. this is exactly what the syrian government wants us to see, syrian forces here in douma and back in control.

rebels had run this damascus suburb since 2012, and the intense campaign to recapture it started in february with russia's help. this was apparently a bomb-making factory for rebels here in the heart of douma. you can see the makings of fins for mortars, mortars over here. take a look down here. you see this bin. it appears to be homemade grenades. the human toll of the fighting was evident in the main square this afternoon. hundreds of thousands of civilians have been living here, many without food, for months. you can see the desperation here. people just hoping for some bread. we asked this mother of five why she didn't leave if the fighting had been so bad. "we tried more than once," she told us, "but the rebels wouldn't let us go." nine days have already passed since that suspected chemical attack, and if weapons experts

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>> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." a sixth grade boy from texas is on a world tour sounding the alarm about how easy it is to hack into public wi-fi. the young cyber ninja took time out from his computer wizardry to give a lesson to our own david begnaud. >> hi, everybody. >> reporter: ruben paul is 12 years old. and he's helping to lead the conversation on cyber security. presenting in the netherlands. advising at a tech conference in singapore. >> that was an amazing presentation. >> reporter: and wowing a crowd full of executives in texas. >> obviously what we have invented so far is clearly not working. >> reporter: this cyber ninja,

as he calls himself, has a second degree black belt in kung fu sxeerksz on a mission to show how hacking is child's play. >> if a 12-year-old can do it, what makes it that somebody who is a skilled actual cyber terrorist, what makes it that they can't do it? this bluetooth is going into new autonomous cars, autonomous drones. it's going into medical devices. >> reporter: paul says that the bluetooth and wi-fi connections that we use almost every day are extremely vulnerable to hacking. >> i'll never connect to a public wi-fi that i don't know. >> really? >> somebody can just hack into that wi-fi network and poison it. >> reporter: he showed me firsthand how a hacker's poison can spread from a wi-fi signal. >> i successfully know your password. >> how do you know my password? >> and i've hacked you. your log-in was david [ bleep ] [ bleep ].com and -- >> yes. yes. >> [ bleep ]. >> yep. let's bleep that out. wow. so call me gullible. you got me.

>> reporter: it took seconds. he had my twitter user name and password using a fake page that he'd cloned after i connected to his public wi-fi network. >> it's that easy. >> mm-hmm. >> so in other words, if i was sitting at a starbucks, i went to sign in to twitter, i put it in, they got it. >> mm-hmm. >> now staying in touch is -- >> paul also hacked cloud pets teddy bear. it uses bluetooth technology allowing traveling parents to send messages back to their kids. >> what did you do that turns that into a threat? >> without any notification or any knowledge of the user i could turn it on from my computer. which only has to be in a 30-foot radius of the bear. so i could stand outside somebody's house -- >> that's crazy. >> reporter: he turned the bear into a secret recording device. >> how do you get this name cyber ninja? >> who's the smartest one in the family? >> reporter: the paul family of four is hopeful about the future of cyber security.

ruben's parents, manu and sangita, both work in technology. and his 6-year-old brother etai is even joining him on stage now. >> can you show us this? >> sure. >> they shine at it, liking what they do. it gives you a feeling of contentment. >> with ruben speaking at these conferences and being paid thousands of dollars to travel there and sometimes a speaker's fee, do you worry that it gets a little out of control for a 12-year-old? >> first and foremost, the kids o'do it because they have a passion for it. it should never become a job for them. so if tomorrow they come back and say not interested in doing this, it's perfectly fine with my wife and i. >> reporter: ruben says in the future he wants to work for the nsa or the fbi, protecting the country against foreign and domestic cyber threats. >> has anyone called you? i feel like they should be recruiting you now. >> i've had some offers from the government of the netherlands

and even the department of defense. >> did you tell them, what, i've got to graduate first? >> yeah. i want to get done with sixth grade first before i start thinking about jobs. >> reporter: i'm david begnaud. this may sound like a scene from a bad cartoon. let's say you have a stack of money in your pocketbook and you hide the pocketbook in the oven. then someone turns on the oven. believe it or not, this stuff really happens, and so what do you do with all that burnt money? rita braver found the answer. >> this is the famous tess. >> that is her. the famous tess. >> reporter: it was the dog ate our rent money story. and it started when mark bun of greensboro, north carolina walked into his bedroom run afternoon. >> i just happened to glance down at my bed, and i saw a piece about maybe the size of my thumb of a $20 bill and another little piece -- >> reporter: that's when he decided to call housemate scott reinecke. >> and mark says, did you leave

out rent money? >> yeah. i left out $400 in increments of 20s and 10s. >> i put two and two together and came up with tess. >> reporter: that's when mark remembered hearing about a u.s. government agency that might come to the rescue. >> you put in the call the dog ate my money? >> actually, a person answered. he was like, if you feel like you would have the patience and the time to follow your dog around for the next two to three days, you will find your money. >> reporter: yes, since the 1860s the u.s. bureau of engraving and printing has had a program that replaces severely damaged money. >> a lot of people store money in their house, store it in the drywall, put it in their attic, and mice will get into it, termites will get into it. >> reporter: eric walsh is the assistant manager of the mutilated currency division. >> we typically process about 23,000 cases a year.

and doing so we're somewhere between 30 to 40 million. >> wait a minute. 23,000 people send in damaged currency and you send out 30 to $40 million dollars? >> correct. our most common are burned currency through fires, water damage, either through floods or being buried. >> reporter: in fact, the man who sends this package, one of about 100 that arrive each day, wrote that water had leaked into a money-filled jar buried at his deceased parent's home. >> this is one of our worst cases. >> does it say how much money is -- >> 63,000. >> reporter: 12 full-time examiners piece together the bills. some have been accidentally shredded. and sharon williams still remembers recovering $1,000 for a woman who stored her purse in the oven. >> the husband end up turning on

the oven and it was like what is that smell? it was a foul odor. and the wife was like, my purse is in the oven! >> reporter: many packages arrive with detailed letters. but often examiners like lawan ellerby are left to guess how money got destroyed. i wonder what happened to that wallet. >> you can tell it was water damage, they buried it somewhere and the water just got to it, deteriorated, stuck together. so i'm trying to pull it apart. >> what makes you do this? >> i like to help people, though. when you talk to a customer and they're crying like this is my life savings, i don't know what else i can do, and you feel really bad. so you try to do the best you can. >> as for mark and scott, they dutifully followed tess the dog around for a few days and sent in a bag full of, well, let's not go there. but a few weeks later they got back a check for $400.

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starring roles in instagram ad campaigns for stainmaster carpet cleaner and olympus cameras. when each one of the 117,000 people who follow atticus logged on, they saw these pictures. >> he's camera shy. >> reporter: and stephanie zang and her hedgehog were in business. >> there were definitely a lot of benefits to getting an agent. the biggest thing is the fact they can read over the contracts for you and negotiate on your behalf. >> reporter: tens of thousands, sometimes hundreds of thousands, and sometimes more than a million people follow some of the animals whose pictures are posted on the social network. a popular animal becomes what's called a pet influencer. and few pets have as much influence as diddy kong and yeti kong, two monkeys from miami.

gabriela katya and her boyfriend matt crown started posting pictures of their monkeys for their friends. >> come on. >> reporter: and then the monkeys went viral. >> we had no idea they were going to become so famous. and it's exciting. i mean, we've never seen a famous monkey like this on instagram. >> reporter: laugh if you will, but sponsors are willing to pay for pets and the eyeballs they attract. turns out edwards has the perfect pedigree to figure out how to make good money off of them. >> i went to andover for boarding school, cornell for college, and harvard for law school. >> is this what you envisioned doing when you were in harvard law school? and i don't mean any disrespect. it's just so unusual. >> no, not at all. at the end of the day i wanted something more fun and more creative. i got the entrepreneurial bug. >> reporter: this business is not just creative. it's lucrative. >> just ballpark numbers, influencers with millions of followers are getting around $10,000 to $15,000 per piece of

sponsored content. some campaigns have many pieces of sponsored content. >> that's a lot of money. >> it is a lot of money. >> reporter: just this month the miami monkeys became paid spokesprimates for two hats beer. it's their first sponsorship. and it could be the start of something big. >> campaigns with diddy kong can go into the hundreds of thousands for sure. >> this is mac bean, and she has about 47,000 followers. >> reporter: lonnie edwards had a party recently at her office in manhattan. >> so this is pistachio and she has 290,000 followers. >> reporter: it was a raucous affair for some of her more popular, less exotic clients. >> this is walter cronkite, and he has 90,000 followers. >> reporter: and that's the way it is for lonnie edwards, who's doing just fine, a world away from her roots at harvard.

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steve hartman found the keys to success can sometimes be found on the road to the pool. >> reporter: they were the bad news bears of swimming. >> yellow in two minutes. >> reporter: coach alex wedeman of seguin high school in arlington, texas says you can't overstate their underachievement. >> our goal every meet was to finish the race. >> just get across the pool? >> get across the pool. really. we measured our success on not getting disqualified. >> reporter: and because that was the standard four years ago gerald hodges made the team. perhaps the only kid to ever make a high school swim team without a clue how to swim. >> we had to get anybody. it didn't matter. >> he didn't know how to swim. >> he couldn't get across five yards, let alone 25 yards. >> was there really nobody better? >> no. >> come on, gerald.

come on. >> reporter: eventually he at least learned how to not drown and even finish some races, albeit long after the other competitors were done and toweled off. >> push it. come on. >> yes, he was that bad. which is interesting. because on dry land gerald is a remarkable athlete. >> could you have made the basketball team? >> i think so. >> could you have made the football team? >> i'm pretty sure. >> soccer team? >> pretty positive. >> so why swimming? >> i felt like if i can handle not being good at something then how could i consider myself a successful person? >> that quote bears repeating. "if i couldn't handle not being good at something, then how could i consider myself a successful person?" to gerald setting yourself up for failure is actually the key to future success, especially if you can somehow manage to master your weakness. and by the start of his senior year gerald had actually improved. a lot. but no one really knew how much he'd improved until a big

regional meet earlier this year. it was the 200-yard medley relay. top two teams qualified for state. and as usual, seguin was pretty much in last place, with 50 yards to go. and that's when gerald jumped in the water. keep in mind at this level making up any significant time is nearly impossible. unless maybe you've got something to prove. unless maybe there's an extra drive deep within anyone who knows what it's like to be dismissed. whatever it was, the kid who couldn't swim just sent his team to state. >> man, we were ecstatic. i could barely contain my energy as i was trying to go get this medal. i'm sitting here freaking out. >> you're having a hard time now. >> i've come so far. >> reporter: from now on whenever you think anything is impossible think of gerald. whenever you think america has lost its heart, think of gerald.

steve hartman, on the road in arlington, texas. captioning funded by cbs it's tuesday, april 17th, 2018. this is the "cbs morning news." president trump's personal attorney suffers a legal blow, and a revelation in court has fox news host sean hannity making a public denial. and no new sanctions. president trump rejects a plan to impose additional economic penalties against russia for now. a "60 minutes" report on the safety record of allegiant air triggers a call for an investigation by federal lawmakers. des linden wins the boston