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>> reporter: the closer than anticipated finish here led one big republican group spending millions of dollars on tv ads across the country to warn gop congressional candidates they face a tough political environment and can't expect to win unless they start raising more money against their democratic opponents. jeff? >> ed o'keefe in ohio's 12th tonight, thanks. in southern california, a man was arrested today, charged with setting a wildfire south of los angeles. the holy fire named for holy jim canyon, where it started. forrest clark allegedly sent an e-mail warning "this place will burn" before the fire broke out on monday. it is one of 15 large fires burning in california. today we learned july was the hottest month on record in >> rorter: on the is little re more pain as more land is consumed by flames.

firefighters had hoped to contain the fast-growing holy fire in southern california, even when massive drops of retardant slowed the spread in one area, embers stretch of hillside. >> it could jump over a quarter mile and start a whole new fire in a new area. >> reporter: this is what nearby residents are facing, a giant wall of claims perilously close to neighborhoods. it's a scene played out over and over throughout california. especially in mendocino, with the largest wildfire in state history continues to rage. this is the nerve center at the mendocino complex fire base camp, where technology now helps pinpoint hot spots so that more than 4,000 firefighters know exactly where to deploy. how has it changed in 30 years? >> the technology has helped us out in the field a lot more. it's kind of information that i never had access to 30 years ago. >> reporter: and there are signs of progress. this is one place where fire crews have been victorious, cutting a firebreak, stopping these flames as they came down this ridge.

but they'll need many more of these victories before this fire is out. until then, all the smoke now covers 3/4 of california. and there is another toll for thousands of evacuees. >> right now it's pretty much just day by day. pray that, you know, tomorrow will bring more containment. >> reporter: the thick smoke pouring out of the mendocino complex fire here today is actually doing some good, providing some shade, helping to keep the temperature down, and suppress the fire. but the experts here warn those conditions can change quickly for the worse. jeff? >> john blackstone in the middle of what may be the worst wildfire season in california history. coming up next, new concerns about asbestos. will it be cleared for use in new products? and later, how america's biggest city is putting the brakes on companies like uber and lyft. so you just walk around telling people geico

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new products to contain asbestos. anna werner has more on this. >> reporter: asbestos was used in many products up through the 1970s, but after being linked to health concerns and liability, many manufacturers in the u.s. dropped it out of their products. however, the u.s. never banned it outright. now the substance is one of ten being reviewed by the epa. groups such as the environmental working group are concerned the epa is actually moving to weaken protections and possibly make consumers less safe. >> it's really cooking the books on the level of risks that epa is able the identify. >> reporter: ewg attorney melanie benesh says the epa won't be taking a comprehensive review in evaluating the risks of past asbestos use in some places like home, work, and school environments. >> if you're ignoring major ways that people are exposed to a toxic substance, you may dramatically underestimate the risks. >> so in other words, you're saying they might come out making asbestos look not as

dangerous as it really is in their evaluation? >> exactly. >> reporter: epa officials told us that's not true. in a phone interview, nancy beck, the trump administration appointee who oversees the agency's toxic chemical unit told us the criticism just makes me sad. she said the agency is working hard to put in place a program grounded in science. beck says current epa proposals would amount to new regulations, that we're putting in place a hammer, a prohibition that doesn't exist today. so the epa says under their proposal that manufacturers who want to apply for some new uses of asbestos under this proposed rule would need epa approval. jeff? >> a story and a subject that people are paying very close attention to, anna. thanks. still ahead here, a milestone for the mustang. sleep disturbances keep 1 in 3 adults up at night.

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we end here tonight with a little boy from kansas, who has become an inspiration around the world. you might say a walking miracle. >> are these your sticks? you want to hold them? >> yes. >> roman dinkel was diagnosed with spina bifida, a defect in an embryo's developing spine during an ultrasound at 20 weeks. >> one, two, three, go! >> we just expected to hear the

normal things, this is the size of the head, this is, you know, the size of his feet, all those fun things. but what we heard was that he had extra fluid on his brain and extra fluid on his spine. >> reporter: despite the odds, his parents, whitney and adam, were determined to continue on. >> what is this? >> reporter: roman was actually operated on before he was born, increasing his chances of potentially being able to walk. >> is that fun? >> i had to let him fall a few times so he knew i wasn't going to be there to catch him and he had to learn to catch himself. >> reporter: after lots of practice, roman finally did this. >> i'm walking! he was ec ecstatic to share with the family dog, maggie. >> i'm walking, maggie. >> his moms we ecstatic too. so she posted on facebook. >> he touched a lot of people.

>> reporter: mom and dad have received nonstop messages. >> from random people telling us their story, how they were depressed or suicidal or they were going through all these medical situations and to see that he influenced them in a positive way to change their mind-set and to change their view is so heartwarming. it feels like he just gave hope to so many people with a seven-second clip. >> i'm walking, maggie! >> reporter: a seven-second reminder to never give up, courtesy of 2-year-old roman dinkel. >> i love you. >> i love you. >> bye. >> i love you. >> that the overnight news for this thursday. for some of you, the news continues. for over, check back for morning news and cbs this morning. from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm jeff glor. >> you're so fast! >> look at him go.

this is "cbs overnight news." >> welcome to the overnight news. i'm jericka duncan. it looks like president trump won't be answering questions from special counsel robert mueller any time soon. the president's lawyers rejected the latest proposal for an interview in the russia election probe. they apparently don't want the president answering questions about his possible attempts to obstruct justice. major garrett has that story. >> reporter: the sanctions penalize russia for a nerve agent attack against a former russian military officer turned british spy and his daughter. both were sickened but survived. the attack happened in march in salisbury, england. russia has denied responsibility.chake effect august 22nd, block russia from purchasing potentially hundreds of millions of dollars

in weapons, electronics and aviation-related equipment from the u.s. in march, the u. russian diplomats for the poisoning. >> there has never been a president as tough on russia as i have been. >> reporter: but even as his administration has taken action, the presidenthimself continues to make overtures to the kremlin. today he sent a letter to president vladimir putin introducing kentucky republican senator rand paul, who was visiting moscow. >> we want to have open lines of communication. >> reporter: last week at a campaign rally in pennsylvania, mr. trump touted his relationship with the russian president. >> but i got along great with putin. >> reporter: but earlier that day, top administration officials said russian attacks on u.s. elections are continuing. >> we continue to see a pervasive messaging campaign by russia to try to weaken and divide the united states. >> the most closely watched special election in the nation

is still too close to call. ohio republican troy balderson leads his democratic opponent by less than 1% of the vote. the bad omen for republicans is that the district hasn't sent a democrat to congress in 35 years. ed o'keefe reports. >> when you do the math and you look at traditional, it's not going to change. >> reporter: with roughly 8,000 votes yet to be counted, republican troy balderson is barely leading democrat danny o'connor after yesterday's special election. the margin is far narrower than usual in this conservative district, and that has some republicans worried. john kasich is ohio's outgoing republican governor. what happened yesterday? >> well, the voters here sent a message to the republicans to knock it off. stop the chaos, the division. you know, more of this family separation that we see at the border or taking people's health care away. i think people basically have had enough. >> reporter: but president trump doesn't seem worried. on twitter he said his endorsement gave balderson a boost and predicted a red wave in november.

o'connor disagrees. he'll face balderson in a rematch this fall. >> how do you end up finding more people to vote for you in november when you know you're going to have far more republicans. >> i got three more months. i just showed you if we have three months to sprint across this district what we can do. >> reporter: there are dozens of districts around the country that look like ohio's 12th. traditionally republican areas in the shadows of big cities where working class people and retirees are fed up with washington. control of the house will likely be determined by which party can win over voters like angie wright, who says she wants to keep an open mind. >> i truly don't trust any of them anymore. >> reporter: why is that? >> they -- they don't keep promises. t hingpening for the middle class. >> reporter: the closer than anticipated finish here led one big republican group spending millions of dollars on tv ads across the country to warn gop congressional candidates they face a tough political

environment and can't expect to win unless they start raising more money. a republican congressman from western new york was hauled into a manhattan courtroom. chris collins, an early supporter of president trump, was indicted in an insider trading scandal. tony dokoupil has the details. >> reporter: in this video from last year's white house congressional picnic, you can see representative chris collins there in a white polo shirt, talking on his cell phone instead of enjoying the festivities. the footage uncovered by cbs news appears to show the moment the fbi says the three-term congressman passed along information about a multibillion biotech company that ultimately led to $750,000 in insider trading. >> congressman collins had an obligation, a legal duty to keep that information secret until that information was released by the company to the public. but he didn't keep it secret. >> reporter: at the time of the

alleged crime, collins was on the board of an australian any immunotherapy. while at the white house picnic in june 2017, collins got an e-mail from the company's ceo conveying extremely bad news. a clinical failure for one of its most important drugs. one minute after receiving the e-mail, he dialed his son, cameron collins. authorities say after six missed calls, they finally connected, and collins allegedly tipped his son off about the disastrous drug trial. almost immediately, the fbi says cameron started trying to sell his stake in the company, passing the tip to his fiancee, her father and at least six co-conspirators. on june 27th, when news of the drug failure finally broke publicly, shares in innate immunotherapeutics dropped 92%. >> i have the honor of seconding the nomination of donald j. trump. >> reporter: collins was the first member of congress to endeers president trump. today he plead not guilty in

federal court. in a statement, his attorney pointed out collins himself is not accused of trading any stock. we are confident he will be completely vindicated and exonerated. the largest fire in california history continues to burn out of control. the mendocino complex plays is just one of 18 large fires that have engulfed nearly the entire state in choking smoke. john blackstone is there. >> reporter: on the fire lines, there is little relief, just more pain as more land is consumed by flames. firefighters had hoped to contain the fast-growing holy fire in southern california, even when massive drops of retardant slowed the spread in one area, embers ignite a new stretch of hillside. >> it could jump over a quarter mile and start a whole new fire in a new area. >> reporter: this is what nearby residents are facing, a giant wall of flames perilously close to neighborhoods. it's a scene played out over and over throughout california. especially in mendocino, with the largest wildfire in state history continues to rage.

this is the nerve center at the mendocino complex fire base camp, where technology now helps pinpoint hot spots so that more than 4,000 firefighters know exactly where to deploy. how has it changed in 30 years? >> the technology has helped us out in the field a lot more. it's kind of information that i never had access to 30 years ago. >> reporter: and there are signs of progress. this is one place where fire crews have been victorious, cutting a firebreak, stopping these flames as they came down this ridge. but they'll need many more of these victories before this fire is out. until then, all the smoke now covers 3/4 of california. and there is another toll for thousands of evacuees. >> right now it's pretty much just day by day. pray that, you know, tomorrow will bring more containment. >> reporter: the thick smoke pouring out of the mendocino complex fire here today is actually doing some good, providing some shade, helping to keep the temperature down, and

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this is "the cbs overnight news." >> president trump's trade war with china continues to squeeze many american businesses. a 25% import tax on another $16 billion in chinese imports takes us back later this month. china announced a similar tariff on u.s. cars and medical equipment. one industry already feeling the pinch. the maine lobster business. don dahler reports. >> reporter: it's just after sunrise in the gulf of maine, and lobster fisherman steve train is preparing for catch. >> reporter: train has harvested lobster from these waters for over 45 years. a livelihood made viable in part

buzz of trade relationships with countries like china, where north atlantic lobster is popular. i market. we're making less every year than we did years ago. and now we've got another something else hanging over our head. >> reporter: in june, the trump administration announced a 25% tariff on chinese goods. beijing responded with its own 25% tariff on a list of goods that includes live lobster. at the same time, china has lowered its tariff on canadian lobster imports to 7%, making them more attractive to chinese buyers. stephanie nado distributes lobster caught by fishermen like steve train. she says chinese buyers used to account for 35% of her sales. but since the tariffs have come into effect, that market has virtually dried up. >> there are no lobsters going to mainland china. >> reporter: they've stopped? >> they've >> yes. havehe identical producttax, a

insurmountable difference. >> reporter: maine currently produces more lobster than any other u.s. state or canadian province. and for now most of steve train's lobster can still be sold domestically. but as the trump administration takes aim at chinese import, many here feel that the lobster industry has become collateral damage. >> they've taken our business, and i don't know how we'll ever get it back. the longer this goes on, the more difficult it will make it for us to resume our relationships with our customers. >> reporter: don dahler, long island, maine. tesla's board of directors is still evaluating founder elon musk's proposal to take the electric car company private. the $72 billion deal would be u.s. history. tony dokoupil was outside a tesla dealership in manhattan with details.

>> reporter: high profile announcements are nothing new for elon musk. >> unlike any truck that you've ever driven. >> reporter: and after wall street's opening on tuesday, musk delivered another stunner. the unconventional ceo tweeted he was considering taking tesla private at $420 a share. musk elaborated in a letter to employees, saying he'd like to free tesla from the, quote, distraction of being a publicly traded company, including swings in stock price, quarterly earnings pressure and people incentivized to attack company. >> he wants the freedom to take risks and not be punished in the market for it. taking it private would allow him to do that. >> much of lesa's problem investors have revolved around the model 3 sedan which only recently resumed shipping after months of delays. >> i feel good where things are headed. >> reporter: musk addressed critics when he sat down with

gayle king in april. >> why people have underestimated tesla, because they would look at tesla's -- what tesla has done in the past and use that as proxy for what we're able to do in the future. >> if elon musk is facing scrutiny and pressure when he is operating out in public, what confidence could anyone have that he could do it better in a private company? >> you have to believe in elon musk the genius. >> reporter: oh, you must believe? >> he has many private companies and has done it before. he has spacex which may be the first company that takes people to mars. this something people believe in him to innovate and grow the company. for centuries, pubs have been a central part of life in britain, but for recent years they been disappearing, replaced by condos and coffee shops. here is a taste of change. >> reporter: in the outside bath, this pub has served the community for 1 in fact years.

you might say brian perkins goes way back. so you were born in this pub? >> yes, that's right, in the room upstairs above the lounge here. >> reporter: 87 years ago. >> that's correct, yes. >> reporter: but six years ago, he and the town got some bad news. when you heard that the pub was going to be closed, what did you think? >> well, i was disappointed, obviously. i didn't think in my lifetime i'd see it open again. we thought well, that's it. that's the end of the line. >> reporter: for more and more pubs across britain, it's last call. >> the decline in pubs has been very dramatic. there is no getting away from that. in the last ten years alone, we've lost 10,000 pubs. we used to have about 65,000. we're getting to a point where we're now at 50,000. this is the georgian. the building we're here in was built in 1677 which is impressive. >> reporter: pete brown has written more than half a dozen books on pubs and beers. >> cheers! >> reporter: he says there is a lot at stake here. >> i think pubs are an essential

factor of british life. i think it defines what being british is to some extent. >> reporter: for centuries, pubs have been a place to mingle, read a book, and these day, even take the kids. >> the british have a famous reserve when it comes to being sociable. and everything about the pub is microengineered to break down those social barriers so we talk to each other. >> because you wanted a chair, didn't you, darling. >> reporter: roxy -- >> this place fits all types. >> reporter: has presided at her pub, the seven star, for 20 years. >> inn keeping is a nurturing career. >> do you want some fresh air? >> i mean, cooking and providing vittles and drink to people of good quality is a great pleasure. it's a great pleasure if they appreciate it. >> reporter: and her regulars do. what do you like about it? >> that it hasn't changed. >> reporter: but if pubs aren't

changing, britain is. >> you've got changing british social habits, people drinking less generally, really steep hikes in taxation. the smoking ban in 2007. >> reporter: to this brew add real estate. pub buildings are getting carved up. when a developer announced his plans, the residents were stunned. >> it was almost the metaphorical pitchfork rebellion. posters went up all over the village and around the area, essentially trying to be as loud as possible to say this just can't happen. >> reporter: and thanks to dom moorhouse and others, it didn't. here in england, if a pub is declared an asset of community value, patrons are given time to bid on the property. >> we were given three months to raise over half a million pounds. >> reporter: and they did. >> so this pub is so important to the community that it

actually bought it back? >> absolutely. i mean, it's a really unique story. we have now over 430 shareholders. not only do we raise the half million plus pounds for the building, we have to raise another equivalent sum of money just to refurbish it. >> reporter: they reopened in march. >> one! >> reporter: brian perkins poured the first pint. when we visited, the new owners and their kids were savoring their investment. do you guys want to work here one day? >> yeah. >> reporter: really? what do you want to do here? >> anything but the washing up. ♪ >> reporter: no one in britain expects all pubs to disappear. here's a simple true-or-false quiz for you. if you're between age 50 and 85, it's important for you to know the truth, so please listen closely.

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in the winter, colorado has some of the best skiing and snowboarding in the world. but what does a border do in the summer? barry petersen found one answer. >> reporter: at first glance, you might think these sand dunes belong to a desert. or ocean beach, but neither is the case. these dunes are part of colorado's great sand dunes national park, dropped right in the middle of miles of lush farmland. it's an unusual slice of nature.

but more than that, it's home to an unusual sport. sand boarding, using the sand like snowboarders slide down snow. i know the answer to why people climb mountains, but why do people slide down hills? >> because it's fun. i mean, it's exhilarating. think of you can go snowboard or ski all winter long. but in the summer time, what's your opportunity? this is something that we enjoy doing. >> reporter: raleigh burk helps run a shop that rends sand boards. and he says more than 3,000 visitors a year just fine. you say to yourself oh my word, they're going to ruin the sand dunes, but you don't. >> no. you really don't. i mean, the footprints that we're putting into the sand right now give it a couple of rain storms and some wind and they're going to be gone. the sand dunes are always morphing and changing.

>> reporter: in prehistoric times, this valle was a lake but dried up. and park ranger said all it took roughly was 440 million more years to make this. >> with that comes winds and different atmospheric conditions that have allowed sand to continue to push its way towards this beautiful mountain range called the sangre de christo mountains. >> so the sand was there and the wind pushed it here? >> correct. and sand particles are eroded rock steelers they have traveled to from the san juan mountain ranges 70 to 80 miles away from here. >> reporter: all of those particles create one huge sandbox that kelsey horton confesses bring out the kid in me. don't you ever yell doing down? >> absolutely, yeah. >> reporter: there are other places to sand board. from america's great lakes to

the great rides of new zealand. but these dunes in the heart of colorado are the tallest in north america with sand pile as much as 750 feet high. and something else. forget spending big bucks like on the ski slopes. >> it's not like skiing or kn snowboarding and take two days of lessons and buy lift ticket and you might start having fun. grab one of these and start having a blast. >> reporter: fair warning. there is a lot of eating sand to get the hang of this. and even the best take an >> it,buddy. ty foivin hurre ted >> reporter: but as everyone soon discovers, it's like learning to ride a bicycle. oops. oop. sure there is a fall or two. once you get the hang of it, all

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all of america's national parks have park range. >> but only one has dark rangers. connor barton paid a visit to great basin national park. >> reporter: great basin national park isn't really on the way to anywhere. head to this remote stretch of nevada desert, and you could easily spend the entire day wandering the pines by yourself. but if you go home when the sun goes down, you'll have missed one of great basin's greatest attractions. as they're fond of saying, half of this park is after dark. this is what great basin looks like at night. the stars shine so brightly here because this place is so unbelievably dark. >> we're pretty rare. this is one of if not the darkest place in the lower 48.

>> reporter: amy gilland iland part of a special team. >> we're the dark rangers, yes, i do love telling people i'm a dark ranger. >> reporter: the dark rangers lead nighttime programs, setting up telescopes and showing off distant galaxies to people who may be seeing them for the very first time. what's it like seeing something like this? >> it makes me think our world is so small and the galaxy out there is so big, our minds can't even imagine. >> reporter: great basin is less than 300 miles away from the las vegas strip, the brightest spot on earth when viewed from space. protecting the skies out here has become a priority for the park. >> having a dark night very different from the daylight matters to all the wildlife here, the plants and trees as well and human health. >> reporter: this year after redoing all of its lighting, the park was certified as one of just a handful of international dark sky parks and has been promoting itself as one of the last places to see what's

>> all aboard! >> reporter: during the summer -- >> what's your name? >> reporter: visitors can join a ranger on star trains, hopping into historic railcars and heading out into the desert to see what the night sky would have looked like across most of america 100 years ago. today over two-thirds of americans can't see the milky way from their backyards. >> light could reach us from millions and millions and millions of miles away and traveling forever. it's suddenly getting to me as one person on the planet, backwater telephone galaxy, and yeah, it's kind of amazing. >> reporter: it's hard not to have that reaction when you look up to the heavens. as a wise man or two or three once said, there are stars of wonder, stars of night. >> well, that is "the overnight news" for this thursday. for some of you, the news continue. for other, check back with us later for the morning news, and

later for the morning news, and of course "cbs this morning" captioning funded by cbs later for the morning news, and of course "cbs this morning" it's thursday, august 9th, 2018. this is the "cbs morning news." vowing to clear his name, congressman chris collins who was accused of insider trading says he is innocent. >> i acted properly and within the law at all times. >> there's been an arrest in a suspicious blaze as crews make progress against a historic california wildfire. and an alleged plot to train future school shooters.