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police say the gun. man shot his grandmother before taking hostages. the supermarket manager was killed. employees helped co-workers and shoppers escape. we're object the scene. more heart et rowing stories from the missouri tour et boat tragedy. the mother and daughter in shock. >> who is going to take care of the kids? >> demands for charges after a stand your ground. shooting. carter p foreign power.
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>> this is so ridiculous. it's beyond words. >> and israe syria to rescue wo known as the white helmets. hi, everyone, welcome to the overnight news. a 28-year-old man is in custody after a deadly sootout with police at trader joes. police say the gunman shot his grandmother and wounded a young woman before taking hostages at gunpoint inside the supermarket. the manager of the storewas kill in the shootout. brave employees helped coworkers and shoppers ep escape. millions including president trump watched the standoff unfold on television and social media.ea surded supermarket negotiating with a gunman while inside 50 shoppers and employees had held hostage huddled in the aisles, hid in the freezer section and locked
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bathrooms. several employees got the okay from the s.w.a.t. team to escape out a window while the gunman was still inside. >> gave me the thumbs up and three co-workers came out and we ran to safety. >> reporter: 28-year-old jeanne atkins, the gunman released hostages one by one starting with the youngest first. >> we're sitting in this trail of blood. we're sitting around it. >> reporter: several times she felt her life was in danger. >> the longer this went on the worse it was going to get because he was bleeding and he was getting agitated. >> the trouble began in los angeles when the gunman first shot his grandmother seven times during an argument over the tv. she's in the hospital being treated.was so wounded. police chased his car to the silver lake neighborhood trader joes where he began shooting at
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officers. a bullet hit store manager. she was dragged out to safety. >> our officers rescued that woman from homicide and attend inside and attempted to provide aid. >> reporter: families tried to contact family members including her brother. my sister works at the trader joes. i can't get ahold of her and i'm not sure if she was able to get out or is one of the hostages. i feel helpless and scare d for my sister. the drama ended with atkins handcuffing himself and surrendering to police. atkins is being held on $2 million bail as police continue can to investigate here at the trader joe's. it's not clear if the employee who died was shot by the suspect or by police in the cross fire. >> thank you for that report. investigators retrieved the black box from the tour boat that capsized and sank thursday night near. brans branson, missouri. a recording device was sent to a
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lab in washington, d.c. for analysis. we have more from the lake where 17 people were killed. >> reporter: this quarter of table rock lake has been closed off cincinnati friday. divers are working 80 feet under water to salvage the duck boat. 17 people died on thursday when a storm sank the vessel. federal investigator rs are now focused on the duck boat's black box and video from inside the boat. the ntsb wants to know about what the captain knew about the forecasted weather and when et he knew it. >> objective is going to be to find out what kind of information they had on board when they made the decision to go out. >> before we left, they just said there's a storm coming so go to the water first to avoid it. >> reporter: tia is one of the 14 survivors. she lost her three children,s .
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>> if i was able to get a life jacket, i could have saved my babies. they could have floated up to the topd em. i wasn't able to do that. >> reporter: she's haunted by what the captain said as the tour bolt went on the lake. >> he said above you are your life jackets. there's three sizes. he said i'm going to show you where they are, but you won't need them. so no need to worry. so ween didn't grab them. >> reporter: the safety of budu boat was called into et question after an accident in arkansas killed 13 people. investigators back then said the boats were not originally designed for passenger service and do not have adequate buoyancy to remain afloat in the event of a breach. the missouri attorney general says the state highway patrol is is also conducting an investigation to see if there was criminal negligence. so far, no charges have been filed. >> what a heartbreaking story.
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thank you. a father and son from arkansas were among the dead. 14-year-old survived and she and her mother who was not on board the boat spoke about their loss. . >> i know it's difficult, but take me back to that day and to that boat ride. >> it started off all sunny. barely any clouds in the sky. when we got half way done with the duck boat, there was evil clouds. the wind started picking up. pit saw a tree fall down in the background and told my brother. i was freaking out. the boat started leaning towards the right. and my mom called right before it happened. >> just to check in? >> i was away from. i knew where they were.
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so i called shortly after 7:00. just to check on them. i said are you on the lake? yes. and i said why? and he says it wasn't bad when we left. it's gotten bad. he said it's not good, pam. i told him i love you. he told me he loved me. and i was going to take care of the kids. >> going o to take a lot of love and support to help the families involved in this tragic incident get through this. you can et see more of the emotional interview with pam and lauren smith on "cbs this morning." the cbs overnight news will be right back.
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former campaign adviser carter page says he was never an agent of a foreign power. documents allege the opposite. we have more from new jersey where the president spent the weekend. >> waking up in his bed minister golf course, president trump fought off a series of tweets. after it released more than 400 pages related to foreign surveillance warrants targeting carter page. it describes the former campaign adviser as an agent of a foreign state, quote, the fbi believes that page has been collaborating and conspireing with the russian government. >> this is so ridiculous. it's just beyond words.
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>> reporter: page responded this morning. >> i have never been an agent of the foreign power in any stretch of the imagination. >> reporter: the president tweeted the ri ddiculously heavy et redacted documents prove the fbi mist led the courts. gop senator marco rubio told cbs the surveillance was justified. >> they did not spy on the campaign from anything i have seen. you have an individual who has bragged about his ties to russia and russians. >> reporter: the doj release comes as the commander-in-chief faces criticism for not backing u.s. intelligence on election interference while standing next to russia's president. today the president reiterated his meeting with vladimir putin was great. former secretary of state john kerry said it was unleanything . >> i found it to be shocking. i found it to be one of the most disgraceful, remarkable moments of kowtowing to a foreign leader
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that anyone has ever witnessed. >> we should not that the doj's inspector general already agreed to investigate how the warrants object carter page were approved to make sure proper procedures had been followed. >> any us sign this administration is taking a harder line against russia in the wake of this? >> et yes, but only slightly. secretary of state mike pompeo in a call with russia's foreign minister did call out russia for breaking its cease-fire agreement in syria launching airstrikes that killed civilians in the southwest of the country. >> thank you. a tornado touched down saturday evening in alabama. it damaged mobile homes and knocked down trees and power lines. no serious injuries were report ed. severe storms are expected tonight across the southeast and up the coast in several midatlantic and northeast states.
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the a sketch is released of a man accused of killing a ca cardiologi cardiologst. the gunman has been on the run since friday morning. police say the gunman and doctor were riding bicycles. investigators are asking businesses in the area for surveillance video. and clearwater, florida, a deadly shooting. the gunman would not be charge canned because of florida's stand your ground law. meg oliver has this story. >> all he did was try to protect his faem. he didn't do nothing wrong. >> reporter: the shooting death of brittany jacob's boyfriend and father of three was caught on this convenience store video thursday afternoon. it starts with the couple parking illegally in a handicap spot. you can see him walk inside with his 5-year-old son. shortly after, this man con h
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permit. >> he was saying i need to move the car. he got family that's handicap and i need to move the car>> re returns and slams him to the ground. he fires a single shot into the chest. the 28-year-old stumbled back into the store and collapsed in front of his son. he died later at the hospital. >> we believe that he was going to come back at him and he fired in a very short amount of time, a few seconds, 4 seconds probably, somewhere in that range. that is whereithin the bookends stand your ground. >> reporter: florida's stand your ground law allows residents to use deadly force if they reasonably believe they are at risk of death or great bodily harm. he can't comprehend how he walked away a free man. >> i'm doing the best i can for my kids. i'm trying to be as strong as i can, but this is not over at
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all. this is not over. >> that was meg oliver reporting. brittany jacobs says plis wouldn't let her ride in the ambulance. police took her to the station for questioning ask that's where she learned he was pronounced dead. his us funeral is planned for some time next saturday. israeli troops swooped into syria this weekend to evacuate war zone rescue workers known as the white helmets. >> reporter: the israeli military said the operation was an exceptional humanitarian gesture done at the request of the united states and its european allies. overnight the military evacuated hundreds of white helmets and their families from southwest syria. they were then transported to jordan in a convoy of buss. the white helmets have been celebrated by the best for their volunteer work rescue iing tens thousands of people during the seven-year conflict. the government has claimed they
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are terrorists helping rebels. over the years the government has launched targeted attacks on the group and their facilities. as the government regains control of the country, there's been growing concern about the white helmets safety. last night's rescue operation was the only intervention in the war. the white helmets will remain in jordan for a few months before being relocated to the uk, germany and canada. the u.s. will not be taking in any of the families but will assist in the vetting process. >> jonathan, thank you. coming up next, happy campers and concerned parents in the digital age. and later, a battle against a massive tide of trash. why did i want a crest 3d white smile?
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data securityoncerns. >> reporter: at rolling river n are using facial recognition to keepyen in daily lives. if they can have a software program to send them a text alert when pictures go. up, it make it is more convenient for them and makes the experience a lot better for them. >> reporter: the technology used at rolling river is called waldo photos. the software uses a family provided selfie of a camper. it scans photos and uploaded to waldo. the software matches those images to the selfie and sends the camp pictures in text messages to parents. >> if not for this, what would you use? >> i would scan through hundreds of pictures until i found hymn. >> when they hear facial recognition, they think this company has run facial recognition on me or one of my family hebs. now they have this stored
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somewhere. >> reporter: rodney is founder and ce ox of waldo photos. >> all we collect is the image to use with the facial recognition and your mobile number and your name. we don't collect your addresses or e-mail. >> the senior writer says there are still risks. >> you have a parent at one of these camps, i'm going to want to know how are the photos being stored. >> reporter: it's an entirely volunteer application. you need to opt in if you want to use the service and the ceo says if you don't want to leverage the technology, just don't bother to opt in. cbs news, new york. still ahead, he set the gold standard for restaurant reviews. we remember jonathan gold. ♪
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the latest version of falcon 9 rocket lifted off this morning. this was the second successful launch of the more powerful and reusable block 5 falcon 9. minutes after, the rocket stuck a perfect land iing aboard a dre ship miles off the florida coast. farther south in the caribbean, the beautiful beaches of the dominican republic are
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being invaded by trash. waves of plastics have been washing ashore. val volunteers have joined to clean it up. they have scooped up 120,000 pounds, that's 60 tons of plastic. los angeles times restaurant critic jonathan gold died this weekend after pancreatic cancer. he wrote about fine dining and everything from bush administration. else shops to taco trucks and every year his 101 best restaurants list suggested hole in the wall joints may not have tried yet but ought to. jonathan gold was the only food writer ever to receive the pul itser prize. walk a short distance in someone else's story and see how it changes your perceptions.
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>> dr. stanley: remember this: cannot change the laws of god. when he has visited you in some form of adversity and he brings you through that, that's like he has increased the strength of the foundation of your life and your faith in him. [music]
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we end tonight a ga global push to break down barriers and find common ground. it's a simple concept someone you perceive to be different than you, hear their story and retell it as if it's your own. making the world a better place one story at a time. >> everybody has scooters. i'm on one. >> i was a foot soldier. >> i have a best friend and we have been friends for like two years. >> how dramatic i am. >> one afternoon at university heights high school in the south bronx, students and police officers swapped lives. the idea is to bridge a divide beyond the classroom. >> most of us grew up where you grew up. so we have more in common than
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you think. >> reporter: because on the streets of one of new york city's most dangerous precincts, kids don't trust police. >> i walk across the street and see them, i will go the other way. >> reporter: this had junior says she usually keeps her fits tans from the nypd. >> because of the way they are perceived on tv, i feel a little bit afraid of them. i want to get a new perception of them. >> reporter: the new york-based group organized dozens of gathers like this one across the u.s. to get people who normally never interact to pair off and tell stories that define them. >> this was my first time chi c kayaking. >> i was graduating high school and i enlisted in the army. >> after i get off the phone -- sglsh each pers >> eechb person has to recount the story as if it were they own
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to build trust and empathy. >> i wanted to tell you this story about me versus nature. >> my name is erika. i'm a police officer. >> how many of you think this exercise helped break down barriers? how? >> it helped us see them as who they are out of the uniform. >> so she's not just officer. she's a human being. >> you guys connected. is that enough? >> no, we have to keep doing this and keconnect with other students. >> reporter: sharing stories is just the first step in writing a new chapter together. cbs news. that's the overnight news for this monday. for some of yourks the news continues. lateor the morningews an newyor.
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welcome to the overnight news. oops i'm demarco morgan. a 28-year-old man is in custody after a deadly shootout. the gunman shot his grandmother and wounded a young woman before taking hostage as a gun pointed inside the supermarket. millions watched the standoff unfold. jamie hughes has the lrom ound the gotiating withsi 5pps a employes
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held hostage huddled in the seve employees got the oy from the s.w.a.t. team to escape out a window while the gunman was still inside. >> they gave me a thumbs pup three more co-workers came out ask we ran to safety. >> the gunman released hostages one by one start iing with the youngest first. >> blood everywhere. the worse it was going to get. because he was bleeding and he was getting agitated. >> the trouble began in los angeles when the gunman first shot his grandmother seven times during an argument over the tv. she's in the hospital being treated. a young woman was also wounded. police chased his car to the silver lake neighborhood trader
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joe's where he began shooting at officers. a bullet hit store manager. she was dragged out to safety. >> our officers rescued that woman from homicide and attend inside and attempted to provide ub fortunate ly unfortunately w were unable to revive her. >> reporter: families tried to contact family members including her brother. my sister works at the trader joe's. i can't get ahold of her and i'm not sure if she was able to get out or is one of the hostages. i feel helpless and scared for my sister. the drama ended with atkins handcuffing himself and surrendering to police. atkins is being held on $2 million bail as police continue can to investigate here at the trader joe's. it's not clear if the employee who died was shot by the suspect or by police in the cross fire. >> thank you for that report.
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investigators this weekend retrieved the black box from the tour boat that capsized and sank thursday night near. branson, missouri. a recording device was sent to a lab in washington, d.c. for analysis. we have more from the lake where 17 people were killed. >> reporter: this quarter of table rock lake has been closed off since friday. divers are working 80 feet under water to salvage the duck boat. 17 people died on thursday when a storm sank the vessel. federal investigators are now focused on the duck boat's black box and video from inside the boat. the ntsb wants to know about what the captain knew about the forecasted weather and when he knew it. >> our objective is going to be to find out whatd adbod when they made the decision to go out. >> before we left, they just said there's a storm coming so go to the water first to avoid it. >> reporter: tia is one of the 14 survivors.
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she lost her three children, her husband and five other family members on the boat. >> if i was able to get a life jacket, i could have saved my babies. thou the top and somebody could have grabbed them. and i wasn't able to do that. >> reporter: she's haunted by what the captain said as the tour bolt went on the lake. >> he said above you are your life jackets. there's three sizes. he said i'm going to show you where they are, but you won't need them. so no need to worry. so we didn't grab them. >> reporter: the safety of duck boat was called into question after an accident in arkansas killed 13 people. investigators back then said the boats were not originally designed for passenger service and do not have adequate reserve buoyancy to remain afloat in the event of a breach. the missouri attorney general says the state highway patrol is is also conducting an investigation to see if there was criminal negligence.
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so far, no charges have been filed., ank you. carter page insist he was never an aid to a foreign power. but documents allege the opposite. we have more from new jersey where the president spent the weekend. >> waking up in his bed minister golf course, president trump fought off a series of tweets. after it released more than 400 pages related to foreign surveillance warrants targeting carter page. it describes the former campaign adviser as an agent of a foreign power and states, quote, the fbi believes that page has been collaborating and conspireing with the russian government. >> this is so ridiculous. it's just beyond words. >> reporter: page responded this morning. >> i have never been an agent of the foreign power in any stretch of the tweeted the ridiculously heavily redacted documents prove the fbi misled the courts.
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gop senator marco rubio told cbs the surveillance was justified. >> they did not spy on the campaign from anything i have seen. you have an individual who has openly bragged about his ties to russia and russians. >> reporter: the doj release comes as the commander-in-chief faces criticism for not backing u.s. intelligence on election interference while standing next to russia's president. today the president reiterated his meeting with vladimir putin was great. former secretary of state john kerry said it was anything but. >> i found it to be shocking. i found it to be one of the most disgraceful, remarkable moments of kowtowing to a foreign leader by an american president that anyone has ever witnessed. >> we should not that the doj's inspector general already agreed to investigate how the warrants on carter page were approved to make sure proper procedures had been followed. >> president trump invited
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vladimir putin to the white house this fall in the middle of the midterm election isn't. lindsey graham, on the armed services committee, offered his assessment on "face the nation." >> et we need new sanctions over oout pooen's head. you need to get with rubio, myself and others and come up with a set of sanctions that would be a hammer over russia's head if they continue to interfere in the 2018 election. >> aren't they? >> they are. just have sanctions that can fall on russia like a hammer. do not meet with this guy. from a position of weak neness. you need too harden our lek trorl infrastructure and be the leader of that movement and work with congress to come up with new sanctions because pooulten is not getting the message. you have been tougher than obama, but it's not working. if you were really tough with putin, he would not be doing what he's doing. so being tougher than obama doesn't get me where i want to fwo. fwo. i want this man to quit so you just walk around telling people geico
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billy joel wrapped up an historic week. he was the first artist to perform 100 shows at madison square garden. the singer discussed his life and his career with anthony mason. >> on the back lawn of his estate on oyster bay, long island, billy joel saw a chance tennis. a transportation there was an h in the middle of the tennis court. pit said helipad. >> reporter: that's how he arrived with his wife, where his landmark 100th concert at
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madison square garden. he sold out every show. more than 2 million tickets. ♪ >> what does it say to you personally that you're playing your 100th show here? >> it's a crazy life. i remember the first night i played here in 1978. this was like the pinnacle of my career. i'm headlining at madison square garden. >> 40 years ago in december of 1978 joel played his first gigs at the garden. he had broken. out the year before with h >> for a kid from long island, what did it mean to be here in 1978? >> this is t ark of the
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covena covenant. >> reporter: his concert "the new york times" review read reaffirmed his stature as a craftsman like pop composer. but he falls short of the committed passion of great rock. >> often you have been beaten up from critics. >> a lot of that was self-induced because i went to war with these guys. i didn't agree with something they wrote, i would call them out on stage. that doesn't help things. >> why did you go to war with them? >> because they were wrong. >> his guard. en -- garden gigs have proven him right. even some of his songs that weren't big hits in the beginning have become standards. >> "piano man" we do every
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night. butt audience is singing along. >> they are doing a lot of the work. >> when i'm doing the song, i'm not thinking about what i'm doing. i'm listening to the audience singing. not bad, ya know? >> joel began playing the garden monthly in january of 2014. >> when you started it, you never thought it was going to last this long, did you. >> no. they presented it you're going to do a residenresidency. like a sports team. >> how did it you feel about that? >> i was flattered, flabbergasted. >> he sold out 54 straight shows. joined almost every month by us special guests. sting, paul simon and miley cyrus, tony bennett.
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and for his 100th show, bruce. >> of the shows you played at the guard. en, any particularly memorable moments for you? >> i remember the nights that my daughter was there. knowing that she was dancing around. this past year or so, there was the night i wore the star of david after the charlottesville incident. >> you don't usually get political. >> i don't think it's right to get up on a soap box because that's not why people are there. >> but you had to do something that night? >> i had to do something. the president said there's some good people. nazis aren't good people. it really engaraged me. my old man, his father was wiped out. him and his parents were able to get out. but he was in the u.s. army during the war. he fought with patton and was
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shot at by nazis. but my family suffered. i think i actually have a right to do that. he wte seemingly a lifetime gs ago. >> do they sound different to you now? >> some sound betters than others. they are miclike my kids. some grow up to be doctors and lawyers. some a couple bums, ya know? >> his first huge hit "just the way you are" is not one of the singers favorites. >> it's a song i wrote for my first ex-wife. and it was a gift. and when i showed it to her, she said does that mean i get the publishing too? it took the shine off the thing. >> joel was also annoyed when
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the sheet music was first published. >> the first publishing that they did of it was the wrong chords. i'll show you. i can move this thing? the original chords are like this. that's the suspension. and these guys play it like this. it drives me fricking nuts. it's stupid. so i got to go over and i us got to correct the guy. ♪ >> he wrote 33 top 40 hits. then after his river of dreams album in 1993, joel suddenly
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stopped. >> what was the main reason you stopped writing songs? >> i couldn't be as good as i wanted to be. it was driving me crazy. it was wrecking my personal life. not being able to be satisfied. and drinking became a problem because of that. to try to drown my frustration with it. >> if you looked at what you have written, you have written some great songs. >> look at 25% of what i wrote and throw it out and not miss it. >> i bet most artists would say the same thing. >> that's what drives good art. i wanted a personal life. i had been married and divorced a couple times. i said when are you going to be content with yourself. there's a quote from neil diamond. et had said i have forgiven myself for not being beethoven. i said that's my problem. i have not forgiven myself. and i still to this day haven't.
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>> but beethoven never sold out the garden 100 times. >> after 100 shows, does this feel like your living room? >> it does. yeah, it's our office. i see everybody and we're all in our cubicles and that's our office. >> reporter: when billy joel's name was hoisted on a ban. er into the guaarden rafters wednesday with those three imposing digits, even the piano man was impressed. >> this is beyond my wildest expectations. i want to thank you all for coming to our shows. >> is it a big deal for you? >> yeah. 100, i'm still trying to get my head around it. it looks like there's no end to it looks like there's no end to this
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drones unveiled mysterious crop circles in a field. it turns out they weren't made by aliens and only came to light in the wake of a terrible drought. jonathan vigliotti has the story. >> reporter: farmers consider a curse some are calling a blessing. the drought revealed what only can be seen from a bird's eye view. if you look closely across this field of wheat, ms e of a pctcl a not extraterrestrial but they are to another world. hidden in an irish farmer's field, a discovery that's grabbed the world's attention. after a drone photographer captured this just over a week
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ago. a perfect circle as wide as one and a half football fields. >> when you first saw the aerials o of these markings, what went on in your mind? >> my first thought was, well, my second was what is it? >> reporter: as steven explains, it is not alien but the remnants of a kind of ancient community center built around 5,000 years ago. >> it was absolutely hopping. there were louads of people her doing things. >> reporter: it's similar to stone heng. this was likely built using wood to create two fence-like structures. over thousands of years, they decomposed leaving footprints of fertilized soil visible only when a heat wave wilts the crops around them. he's a world heritage site known
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for archaeological treasures. like this ancient burial site with rare examples of art. >> you can imagine the person actually sitting there patiently carving it out. >> it's a tomb but it's also a time capsule. >> it is. >> reporter: more time capsules have been revealed. remnants of a ghost town and airfield were discovered. >> it's amazing it took a drought to unlock this secret. does it make you wonder? >> we know there aer secrets out there. >> reporter: out there and like ireland's hen j, hidden in plain sight. this came just in time. rain is in the forecast meaning this it treasure chest will be closed again for now. that's the overnight news for this month monday. for some of you the news continues. for others, check back for "cbs this morning." from the broadcast center in new york cyork city, i'm demarco mo.
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captioning funded by cbs it's monday, july 23rd, 2018. this is the "cbs morning news." breaking overnight, a deadly shooting spree. a gunman opened fire on a busy street in toronto, wounding more than a dozen people. >> rapidfire, and then he'd pause it, and then some more fire. in missouri, what did the duck boat captain know. the investigation into a deadly boat disaster as we remember the victims shoo they came on vacation to enjoy themselves and have fun, and now they're gone. and threats of war.

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