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news updates on www.cbssf.com. we will show you a beautiful finish to a sunday as we look towards the golden gate bridge. we will see you in 30 minutes. ♪ ♪ captioning sponsored by cbs >> quijano: a treacherous journey to safety. in thailand, four boys are now free and recovering at a hospital. but the rescue mission is on hold, as crews reset, leaving the other eight boys and their coach anxiously waiting. also tonight, a diver who specializes in cave rescue missions explains just how complicated the operation is. >> you can't make a horror movie that would even compare. >> quijano: and the rush by president trump's legal team to resolve a possible interview with special counsel robert mueller, before paul manafort or michael cohen flip. >> i have no concerns that michael cohen is going to do anything but tell the truth. >> quijano: there are now more than 70 wildfires burning in the western states, but the weather is cooperating.
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allowing firefighters to get many under control. and, one of the victims of the newspaper shooting in annapolis, maryland is being remembered as a hero. ♪ let it be how wendi winters charged the shooter and saved many lives. >> quijano: good evening, i'm wiaine quijano. officials in thailand say the operation to rescue the 12 boys and their coach is going better than expected. so far, four boys have been taken out of that flooded cave. in this photo, emergency earsonnel appear to be taking one of the boys to the helicopter on the left. there were several ambulances at the scene. emergency personnel were lined up, ready to help. the ambulances later arrived at a hospital in chiang-rai. ben tracy is there and is following the latest developments. >> reporter: elaine, those four boys that were rescued from the cave are now here at this
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hospital in chiang-rai, where they will be evaluated for the next three to five days. this is also where they are going to be reunited with their families. now as soon as they got out of the cave, they were first put on helicopters and airlifted from the scene. they were then transferred to ambulances and brought here to this hospital where they will be medically evaluated. now, the head of this rescue operation says that all of this went very smoothly, that it went better than they had even expected. he said that now the next part of the operation is that they have to go back into the cave. they have to replace all of the oxygen tanks that line the evacuation route so they can do this again. keep in mind, they have four boys out of the cave, but there are still eight boys left in there, plus their soccer coach. they tell us that roughly within the next ten hours we could see the next batch of young boys come out of that cave, if everything goes smoothly. so, so far so good. they feel very confident that they have gotten through this first phase of this operation,
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but they know there is a lot of work to do and they say they are still racing time and the weather, because they don't want that cave to flood again before they get everyone out. elaine? >> quijano: ben tracy, thank you. meg oliver spoke with a cave- diving expert about why the thai rescue mission is considered one m the most complicated ever. >> reporter: after more than two weeks trapped in this dark cave, eight boys and their soccer coach are waiting their turn for the risky escape. >> this is the most scary situation that i think a person could go through. r: aar mirza is the national coordinator of the national cave rescue mission. >> you can't make a horror movie that would even compare, and i have been involved in cave rescue for 30 years. and i cannot even think of one that was this complicated. >> reporter: the path out is a dangerous one. 13 foreign and five thai divers have to navigate dark and tight passageways filled with murky water and strong currents.
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two divers will accompany one child as they stick to a cave line that stretches the entire mile-and-a-half distance. divers have trained the boys with scuba equipment for the areas they must swim underwater for extended periods. >> the trust factor between the children and the divers makes it. it's probably, you know, 90% of what gets them out of the cave. >> reporter: an international team has taken shifts bringing them food, medical supplies, and comforting letters from their parents. >> well, the good news is that the first phase was successful. they've had an opportunity to show it works. it's still dangerous, but it's much better odds for the remaining kids to come out now because of those initial ones. >> reporter: after pumping out water for days, experts say the window to rescue the boys is closing and it is now or never. it's possible that everyone could be rescued within 48 hours. >> quijano: such a perilous operation, meg oliver, thank you. president trump's legal team is
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once again attacking special counsel robert mueller's investigation. they're also saying they're notn flipping. here's errol barnett. >> reporter: as president trump's three day visit to his new jersey golf club wraps up, his legal team is pushing the special counsel investigation to also come to an end. >> this is the most corrupt investigation i have ever seen. >> reporter: rudy giuliani, the president's personal lawyer, publicly slammed the probe on three networks sunday, while pressuring robert mueller to show his hand in order to speak with the president. >> we would not recommend an interview for the president unless they can satisfy us that there is some... some basis for this investigation. >> reporter: giuliani has cited concern that an interview with the special counsel may be a perjury trap, should president trump's answers contradict any existing testimony. the push for a resolution comes as two trump associates face their own separate legal problems.
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former campaign manager paul manafort is in solitary confinement as he fights charges of financial crimes in virginia. and the president's former lawyer, michael cohen, scrubbed all mention of president trump on his twitter profile last week, as his business is investigated in new york. giuliani was asked if he thinks cohen will flip on the president. >> if he tells the truth, we're home free. >> reporter: giuliani also cites anti-trump texts from investigators dismissed from the special counsel's team last year as proof of its current bias. and should president trump be compelled to testify via a subpoena from robert mueller's team, giuliani said today that without showing a particularized need, "we could easily have a subpoena squashed." elaine? >> quijano: errol barnett, thank you. the president says he will be introducing his supreme court nominee monday evening. jeff glor will anchor our live coverage of that announcement right here on cbs at 9:00 eastern time.
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in england, the woman who was exposed to the nerve agent novichok has died. 44 year old dawn sturgess and her partner were hospitalized in amesbury last week. 45 year old charlie rowley remains in critical condition. novichok was made in the soviet union during the cold war. british officials believe the two were exposed after an ex- russian spy and his daughter were attacked in march. now to the wildfires in the west. more than 2,300 firefighters are battling a huge blaze on the california-oregon border that has killed one person. there are currently more than 60 wildfires burning across the western states. here's manuel bojorquez. >> reporter: the fast moving klamathon fire near the oregon border has now destroyed 72 structures and is threatening hundreds more as it spreads over 30,000 acres. the flames killed one person and injured two firefighters, including brandon feller, who
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suffered severe burns when his engine caught fire. this blaze near san diego burned captain mike vacio's ears. >> as soon as that wall of heat hit me, i knew i was burned. but, it wasn't that bad to where i was going to go down. >> reporter: he returned to the firefight in alpine, where the flames destroyed homes and triggered evacuations. more than a dozen wildfires are burning in california, and there are spot fires like this, too. sparked under oppressive heat and dry conditions. >> i was in the house and all of a sudden i saw flames rise above the golf course and we were scared to death. the flames came right up to my back lawn. >> reporter: near santa barbara, where flames destroyed at least ten homes, residents of goleta returned to almost ghostly scenes. others recounted the rush to save their animals. >> we were driving through a wall of flames and every time i see a fire i get the horses in the trailer out early. >> reporter: as if the flames weren't enough, heavy rains
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triggered mudslides like this one in san bernardino county, where the scorched earth couldn't hold back the water. and across the region, the weekend's triple-digit heat overwhelmed the power grid, leaving crews scrambling to control electricity to thousands. those record-breaking temperatures subsided today, but not by much, and there are red flag warnings across much of the west, including nevada and oregon. elaine? >> quijano: manuel bojorquez, thank you. in annapolis, maryland, services were held for three of the five victims of the deadly shooting at the "capital gazette" newspaper. friends and families paid their respect to rebecca smith and gerald fischman. and at a memorial yesterday, wendi winters was remembered as a passionate reporter and a hero for her actions on that terrible day. here's demarco morgan. >> ♪ let it be let it be ♪ >> reporter: wendi winters is not only being remembered for her love, faith, family, and community, while reporting for
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the "capital gazette," but also for her final acts the day police say gunman jarrod ramos stormed into the newspaper's newsroom beginning his killing spree. employees who were inside during the attack, say it was winters who charged at the gunmen and may have saved more lives. winter's coworker janel cooley, who survived the attack, told the "capital gazette" that she watched from under her desk as winters confronted the man using a trash can, shouting something like, "no! you stop that!" and, "you get out of here." the woman's daughter, montana geimer, spoke about that gruesome day before singing at her mother's service saturday. >> on thursday, june 28th, 2018 there was no song in the world that could have captured how i felt. today, even though i'm sad and confused and angry and devastated... how can i keep from singing?
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♪ ♪ >> reporter: cbs news has confirmed tonight with winter's church, that she did, in fact, take part in an active shooter training course just weeks before the shooting rampage that cost her her own life. elaine? >> quijano: demarco morgan, thank you. coming up, the at-home fertility test for women who waited to have children. does it work? and later, a look at "the a- team," the cave divers thai officials called as soon as they heard the soccer team was missing.
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>> quijano: c.d.c. figures show, for the first time ever, women in their 30s are having more children than those in their 20s. but putting off child bearing
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can affect a woman's chances of getting pregnant. so, a san francisco bay startup launched an at-home hormone test. mireya villarreal shows us how they work. >> reporter: lauren denham is a lifestyle blogger and actress. >> you know what? if you won't do it, i will. >> reporter: denham says she was so focused on her career that having children didn't cross her mind until she turned 30 last year. >> and that is when i started thinking, "oh, maybe i should freeze my eggs, look at my options." >> reporter: because eggs decrease in both quantity and quality with age, an increasing number of women are choosing to freeze their eggs during their prime reproductive years. denham wanted to know whether she should move forward now or wait, which is what led her to modern fertility, the company referred us to denham to hear her story. after a woman orders the test online, she pricks her finger, places drops of blood on a test strip, and sends it back to an accredited lab, where it's tested for nine hormones. the company then sends back a physician-reviewed online profile.
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it explains how her hormone levels may affect the number of eggs she has left, if she is ovulating normally, and potential red flags that could affect her fertile window. >> what about these cards? >> reporter: carly leahy cofounded "modern fertility" last year. they wanted to make testing done at fertility clinics easily available to women everywhere. >> we're really speaking to women much earlier in life when they know a career may be important and they may want to have children down the road but want to be able to check in proactively. >> reporter: why use this product? why not just go to a fertility clinic then? >> we're really working with women before they get to a doctor's office. and giving them this information so they can have a more informed conversation with the doctor. >> reporter: industry experts say getting this testing done and consulting with a doctor through a clinic costs an average of $600 compared to the $199 test offered by modern fertility. doctor aldo palmieri is the director of ob-gyn at u.c.l.a. medical center santa monica. he says it's important to
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remember that hormone levels alone cannot predict whether a woman will be able to conceive naturally, and worries women may misinterpret their test results. >> patients will be lead to conclusions that may be incorrect, because if the test results show all the levels are normal it doesn't mean that they are fertile, necessarily. >> reporter: there are critics that will say you are not doctors. this could give people a false sense of hope. how do you respond to them? >> there are many things required for a successful pregnancy, and at modern fertility we're focused on fertility education. the only way that you can tell if you're fertile is to have a baby, but there are tests that you can take where you can get more information about what is going on in your body so that you can make the decisions that are right for you. >> reporter: both doctor palmieri and the company recommend consulting with the doctor about the test results. denham's profile showed low levels of a key hormone that affects the number of eggs she is producing, prompting her to meet with her gynecologist who recommended retesting her
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hormones in a few months. she has chosen to increase certain vitamins and supplements and is researching freezing her eggs within the next three months. >> i still don't know if i want kids, but i know that i want the choice. so, this is me being proactive to hopefully have that choice. >> reporter: mireya villarreal, cbs news, san francisco. >> quijano: coming up, the first divers to make contact with the missing soccer team inside that flooded cavern in thailand. why the british duo is called "the a-team." who governed thousands... ...commanded armies... ...yielded to no one. when i found you in my dna, i learned where my strength comes from. my name is courtney mckinney, and this is my ancestrydna story. now with 2 times more geographic detail than other dna tests. order your kit at ancestrydna.com.
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>> quijano: the world knows the young soccer players in thailand are alive, because of two men who rescue people all over the globe. here's jonathan vigliotti with their story. >> reporter: their flashlights broke nine days of darkness, their distinct british accents broke the silence. >> how many of you? >> 13. >> 13? >> yeah, 13. >> brilliant.>>r: that's the vof john volanthen, he and partner rick stanton, pictured here in 2004, may have looked and
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sounded more alien than hero, but the 12 boys and their coach knew help had arrived. out of their wetsuits, 47 year old john is an i.t. consultant. 57 year old rick, a retired firefighter. >> when people landed on the moon, they had a map, they knew where they were going. but, in a cave, if you're beyond the known limit of the cave, nobody knows where it goes. you never know what will happen around the corner. >> reporter: together they designed their own equipment and use it to assist rescues in france and even mexico, where rick helped save six people trapped in a cave by teaching some how to dive. it's an achievement later honored by the queen. when the soccer team first went tissing last month, thai officials called on "the a-team" to assist in the search. >> they're very organized, extremely disciplined, and consummate professionals. >> reporter: but this rescue is far from over. jonathan vigliotti, cbs news, london. >> quijano: up next, the wounded warrior who turned tragedy into
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his injuries helped him discover a talent he never knew he had. and lead him to a world he never would have imagined. david martin has the portrait of the artist. >> reporter: peter damon turns out about 30 paintings a year, and sells them for between $250 and $1,500. that's not enough to make ends meet. but it has made him whole again. >> painting with my left hook here. >> reporter: after he lost both arms in iraq. >> having this skill of even able-bodied people find difficult is something that really sort of gave me a boost, and sort of made me feel like i fit in more with the world. >> reporter: he was an army helicopter mechanic working on a landing gear in 2003 when pressurized gas blew it apart, killing one soldier and gravely injuring him. >> i lost my right arm above the elbow, about three inches above the elbow. and my left, about six inches below. >> reporter: he was a blue
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collar guy who had been an electrician before he joined the army. >> how am i going to make a living and take care of my family? i've always worked with my hands. >> reporter: then, with this simple little drawing, a new future opened up. >> that was done right after i lost my arms, i was still at walter reed. >> reporter: what was it like discovering that you had this way out? >> it was kind of miraculous, in a way, something was telling me to focus on this and everything will be all right. >> reporter: notice he doesn't have a state of the art prosthetic arm, just a plain old hook, which he finds works best. i'm still struck by your prosthetic, which seems like a fairly crude device, and what you can produce with it. >> it may be crude, but it's some of the best technology i think there is out there. this just feels like it's more of a part of me. >> reporter: he and his wife jen run an art gallery in a small new england town, where he showcases the work of local artists.
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with his disability check from the v.a., he can afford to be a starving artist. >> it had a lot of the elements that i like to paint. >> reporter: he is a man doing what he wants with his life. most people who saw you on the street would say, "boy, that guy got a tough break." >> yeah, i don't see it that way. suffering an injury like this sort of has a way of making you focus on what's important in life. late winter sunshine. >> reporter: he believes his best work is still ahead of him, but with his depictions of simple american scenes, peter damon has already produced his most extraordinary work. david martin, cbs news, at the true grit gallery in middleboro, massachusetts. >> quijano: true inspiration. that's the "cbs weekend news" for this sunday. staming news channel cbsn atour cbsnews.com. i'm elaine quijano in new york. thank you for joining us and good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org
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live from the cbs bay area studios this is kpix5 news. now at 6:00 two people are dead and a vta train has run off the tracks after a violent collision at a crossing san jose. good evening. i'm juliette goodrich. >> i'm brian hackney. it happened around midday at lincoln and auzerais avenues when the light rail train hit a car that didn't make it across the tracks in time. kpix5's katie nielsen is at the scene now with surveillance video of the crash. katie? >> reporter: yeah, that's right, brian. if you look back behind me, you can actually see still , e scen crash. the san mateo county coroner's office just took away both victims. a surveillance video camera at a nearby brewing company recorded the whole crash. you look at the surveillance video, you can see a car stopped at the light rail
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crossing. then a couple seconds later another car coming from the other direction drives straight through. the light rail slammed into the side of it. both the car and train careened down the tracks. the light rail derails and hits a pole tearing down the wires that power the train. >> i felt the shaking. i heard the rumbling and then you hear a crash. >> reporter: it happened around 12:30 this afternoon. eyewitnesses said it looked like the car tried to beat the train and the train crossing lights were flashing. >> it sounded like a car crash, but i kind of assumed it was two cars. it's a busy street on lincoln, but when we realized it was the light rail, we started to think about everybody's safety in the car and on the light rail. >> reporter: according to vta, 20 passengers were on the light rail at the time of the crash. none of them were hurt, but the train operator was taken to the hospital as a precaution. both the driver and passenger in the car died at the scene. >> it's a pretty scary

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