good job. thank you for watching. we will see you back here at 6:00. don't try that at home. captioning sponsored by cbs >> morgan: an airline worker's deadly joyride. a man described as "suicidal" steals a plane from the seattle airport and performs dangerous stunts in the sky. >> i've got a lot of people that care about me. just a broken guy, got a few screws loose, i guess. >> morgan: military jets chase down the plane -- but the flight ends in disaster. also tonight, three of the largest wildfires in california history continue to burn. thick smoke prompts a health warning. >> oh my god! >> morgan: a republican congressman accused much "insider trading" suspends his campaign for re-election. on the eve of a white

nationalist rally in washington, d.c. president trump condemns racism. and, a retiring police officer's final radio call -- and emotional send-off. >> thank you. >> morgan: good evening and thanks a lot for joining us. i'm demarco morgan. nearly 24 hours after an airline ground worker stole a plane - and crashed it - his motives are not known. 29-year-old richard russell took off last night from the seattle-tacoma airport and was seen performing dangerous maneuvers in the sky. over the radio, russell called himself "a broken guy." he worried about his fuel level and wondered if he would be sent to jail. military jets trailed the plane before it crashed into an island. the rogue flier was killed. here's jamie yuccas. >> reporter: this amateur video, taken in washington state friday night, shows how the horizon air turbo prop plane -- known as a q400 -- inverts in mid-air, then drops down. it nearly hits the water. the 76 seat bombardier was

stolen around 8 p.m. -- then piloted by a horizon airlines employee, richard russell -- whose job should have kept him on the ground. brad tilden is ceo of alaska air group: >> he worked his shift yesterday, we believe he was in uniform, his job is to be around airplanes. >> reporter: as the plane flew erratically, an air traffic controller referred to the man flying the plane as "rich." >> hey, yoin successfully, alaska will give me a job as a pilot? >> you know, i think they would give you a job doing anything if you could pull this off. >> damn it, andrew, people's lives are at stake here. >> now rich don't say stuff like that. >> nah i told u t say stuff like >> reporter: within minutes, two f-15 military fighter jets, scrambled from a base in portland, intercepted the plane. about an hour after it was stolen, the saga ended in a fiery crash. no passengers were on board. the wreckage is about 40 miles southwest of the airport, on the isolated ketron island off the

southern part of washington's puget sound. debra eckrote is with the ntsb: >> we're lucky that it went on a very unpopulated island. it's actually on the island and not in the puget sound. that would have made it a lot more difficult. >> reporter: the brazen act has raised serious security concerns. >> how did he learn to fly this thing? how did he learn to start the engines? >> this is not the act of a sane, logically, rationally thinking person." >> reporter: alaska and horizon say at the time the plane was flots scheduled to fly. we now know the deceased suspect, richard russell, was "tow certified" -- had full security access and had been with the company for three and a half years. demarco, russell has no known pilot license but did back the plane out and turn it 180 degrees before getting into the cockpit to take off. >> morgan: both fascinating and disturbing. jamie thank you for that report.

three of the largest wildfires in california history are still burning tonight. they have burned more than half a million acres. farther south, what officials call the "holy fire" is threatening thousands of homes. jonathan vigliotti is there. >> reporter: a break in the weather is giving firefighters relief for the first time in 6 days. low winds - and dipping temperatures held back most of the holy fire's fury. yesterday the blaze moved in neighborhoods doublings in just 24 hours. >> it seems as soon as one fire is put out, another one starts right back up. this one being carried by the wind over this highway and up into this mountain. this area is so bone dry firefighters worry it could explode like a powder keg. >> reporter: that's exactly what happened in another valley as wind swept flames rapidly down hill. >> it came so fast it was like a tidal wave - a whole wall of acknowledge all you saw on the back wall was just flames. >> reporter: that fire never reached john carrington's home but powerful winds did. >>none of this is scorched in

any single way. this is all wind.ù it was all wind. it was like a tornado. it was like a hurricane with fire and ash. >> reporter: with today's tamer weather, fire crews have the upper hand - even lifting some mandatory evacuations. still some people are staying clear for health concerns. >> it's also what comes with the fire. it's the smoke, the ash. the poor air quality. >> reporter: and where there's smoke, there could be more fire. its roared back to life before and could again. it only took about an hour for those flames to rip through this entire valley. and that's why firefighters say they're prepared to stay here for weeks until every single holt spot is put out. demarco. >> thank you, jonathan vigliotti. a republican congressman from upstate new york suspended his re-election campaign today -- days after he was arrested for insider trading. as errol barnett reports, congressman chris collins was an early supporter of president trump. >> i will remain on the ballot

running for re-election this november. >> reporter: despite his wednesday pledge to stay in the race for new york's 27th congressional district, republican chris collins announced this morning a change of plans. in a statement, he wrote, "after extensive discussions with my family and my friends.ù i have decided to suspend my campaign." pledging to "fill out the remaining few months of term." the first congressional supporter of president trump was arrested and charged this past week with securities fraud and other crimes. prosecutors allege collins, who sits on the board of an australian pharmaceutical company, tipped off his son who in turn told other investors about the company's failed clinical trial for an experimental drug. helping them avoid more than $760,000 in losses. the three-term republican says he's innocent, but is seen in this video speaking on the phone at a white house picnic, at the exact moment prosecutors say he shared the private information with his son. >> it's surprising it took representative collins this long to see the writing on the wall,

and this is one of the most republican districts in the state of new york that no one wants to lose. >> reporter: republicans could nominate congressman collins for a different local post - like town clerkship for example - which would allow the gop to remove him from the ballot and hand-pick a replacement. house minority leader nancy pelosi is calling on house speaker paul ryan to force collins to resign instead. demarco? >> morgan: traveling with the president, errol barnett thank you. hundreds of white nationalists are expected to rally in washington, d.c. sunday -- one year after deadly violence erupted in charlottesville, virginia. both cities are bracing for dueling demonstrations tonight. in a tweet today, president trump condemned, quote "all types of racism and acts of violence." here the tony dokoupil. >> reporter: tonight the city of charlottesville under a state of emergency, the streets closed to cars, and all pedestrians forced through just two security checkpoints. police say they've already

confiscated brass knuckles, a razor and a multi-purpose knife. >> nothing would excite us any better than for this to be non-eventful and folks to go home and it be a peaceful weekend for all. >> reporter: the fear? a repeat of this: white supremecists marching through the university of virgina campus like they did one year ago tonight. and a torrent of violence the following day - as white nationalists clashed with counter-protesters. heather heyer was killed when a car driven by what police say was a white supremacist plowed into demonstrators. susan bro is heather's mother. >> this is a lot to do. just because it happened in the 1920s doesn't mean it's over.

>> reporter: white nationlist jason kessler who organized last year's rally has a new rally planned for sunday in washington, d.c., touting, quote, "white civil rights." at least five counter-protest groups were also granted permits and washington, d.c. itself is planning a series of events called "united to love." back in charlottesville, university virginia students and others. gathered to demonstrate against supremacy. they are allowed in other part of charlottesville, while items like metal pipes, fireworks and skateboards will be banned. demarco? >> morgan: thank you. race in america will be the focus of tomorrow's "face the nation." margaret brennan's guests will include senators tim kaine and tim scott -- and the mayor of charlottesville, nikuyah walker. u.s. officials are still trying to reunite as many as 386 children who were separated from their parents at the border under president trump's "zero tolerance" immigration policy. their parents have been deported -- but officials say they have been able to reach most of them. officials meanwhile are investigating the death of a child recently released from the nation's largest immigration

detention center in dilley, texas. here's mireya villarreal. >> reporter: cbs news has confirmed the texas department of family and protective services is actively investigating the death of a migrant child shortly after her release from the south texas family residential center in dilley. attorneys for the child's mother cite "neglect and unsanitary conditions" as possible factors. we were given a rare look inside the detention center that only houses mothers and children. right now more than 1500 are staying here. but the facility has room for up to 2400. as soon as you get past the security gates you see dozens of strollers parked outside the buildings. after toourk the site, we asked ice field director daniel bible about the allegations of unsanitary conditions. >> our place is very sterile. you guys all walked through the facility. it's a clean facility. we have people on site daily that go through daily to make sure that sanitary conditions are kept. >> reporter: dilley is just one of several immigrant detention facilities under fire over severe allegations of abuse

and mistreatment of migrant children. a report by pro-publica revealed over the last 5 years police responded to at least 125 calls reporting sex offenses at shelters that primarily serve immigrant children. in a lawsuit filed against the shiloh facility south of houston several immigrants minors describe being forced to take prescription drugs without parental consent. levian pacheco, a former hhs shelter employee in mesa, arizona, is accused of sexually assaulting eight teenage boys. health and human services says that any allegation of abuse or neglect is taken seriously. katy murdza is a legal advocate with the dilley pro bono advocacy project. they work closely with familiesy reporting any type of issues regarding access to medical care isn't easy. >> the moms keep taking them to the medical facility and they keep being told, 'oh that's normal for a kid not to eat for a week,' or just giving them, telling them to drink more wate

>> reporter: for thes immigrant advocates groups, the focus remains on the treatment while in custody. mireya villarreal, cbs news. dilley texas. >> morgan: coming up next: a warning about cars with autonomous driving systems.

>> morgan: a new report from the auto insurance industry warns cars that have driver assistance systems still require people at the wheel to pay close attention to the roads. the study looked at several makes and models including tesla's autopilot. kris van cleave took a test drive. >> if i wanna start the autopilot what do i do? >> just tape down that your going into drive again and then you'll hear that noise. >> reporter: it's my first time behind the wheel of a tesla.ùand my first trip with autopilot. the driver assistance technology that has suffered a series of high profile accidents including

this fatal crash outside san francisco in march. >> it tells me to keep my hands on the wheel.ù >> right and that's, i think a message that a lot of people miss unfortunately. >>reporter: that's tim stevens, cnet's road show. >> autopilot's basically a suite of driver assistance systems, all based on camera and radar sensors built into the car. particular on the highway it'll stay within its lane, it'll speed up or slow down based on traffic and make it so that the car kinda takes some of the drudgery out of driving. >> reporter: tesla says the amped-up cruise control should only be used on divided highways because it requires clearly marked lanes and does not respond to traffic signals or stop signs. >> i feel like there's this perception that this is-- a self-driving car, which it very much is not. >> reporter: that misperception or what the ntsb called "overreliance on vehicle automation" factored heavily in this crash in florida in 2016 that killed 40 year old joshua brown. during our drive autopilot generally performed well on this busy stretch of new jersey highway. (chime) woah.ù. >> reporter: but when two lanes merged together -- >> it-nearly drove us into the subaru there

>> not quite a perfect system. the car was not aware that there was another car that was about to steer into us. >> reporter: jake fisher is consumer report's director of auto testing. >> it's unclear if there's any safety benefit from these systems-and there very well might be a safety problem with these systems. >> reporter: on the magazine's test track fisher showed us how the tesla's autopilot struggled to navigate turns when the road lines faded. >> oh.ùdidn't get that one. didn't get that one. to be clear we are intentionally misusing this system. but so are drivers. every day. >> reporter: he says auto-pilot can't monitor how the technology is used or a driver's attention to the road. >> we're raising to the end of the void. i hit the brakes because i didn't want us to get hurt. >>reporter: tesla stresses that

autopilot was intended for an attentive driver. if you use it properly it's safe. kr irvetions van kleave, washington. f. >> morgan: we'll be right back.

>> morgan: less than two minutes before blast off -- nasa had to scrub the launch of the "parker solar probe" this morning because of a technical problem. if the weather holds up, nasa will try again tomorrow. the probe will fly closer to the sun than any other spacecraft. it's named after university of chicago physicist eugene parker -- who predicted the existence of solar wind 60 years ago. he's 91 years old now -- and standing by at cape canaveral to watch the launch. the death toll from the devastating earthquake in indonesia last weekend has climbed to almost 390 people. the magnitude 7 earthquake destroyed nearly 70,000 homes. the red cross says the full impact of the quake is still not known because rescue teams have not reached parts of the island where it was centered. scientists say the quake raised

the surface of the island nearly a foot in some places, and lowered it half a foot in other areas. still ahead: the impact of the trade war with china -- on the new england lobster industry.

are. >> morgan: as the trump administration trade war hits up lobster to china last year but, nearly doubled tariffs on live u.s. seafood. don dahler visited a lobster company in maine that's feeling the pinch. >> that's a pleasant surprise. >> reporter: it's just after sunrise in the gulf of maine- and lobster fisherman steve train is preparing for today's catch. train has harvested lobster from these waters for over forty years--- a livelihood made viable, in part, because of

trade relationships with countries like china- where north atlantic lobster is popular. >> it's going to hurt our market. we're making less every year than we did years ago and now we got another something else hanging over our head. >> reporter: in june, the trump administration announced a 25 percent tariff on chinese goods. beijing responded with its own 25 percent 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 percent, making them more attractive to chinese buyers. stephanie nadeau distributes the lobster caught by fishermen like steve train. she says that chinese buyers used to account for 35 percent of her sales. but since the tariffs have came into effect, that market has virutally dried up. >> there are no lobster going to mainland china.

>> reporter: threaf stopped. >> they've stopped. >> reporter: because the price went up because of the tariffs? >> we have the identical product to canada, my lobsters have a 25 percent tax, which, at a $2 difference, is an 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 imports, 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 relationship with our customers. >> reporter: don dahler, long island, main maine. >> morgan: when we return an emotional send-off for a retiring police officer.

>> morgan: we end tonight with a police officer's last day on the job. as michelle miller reports -- it

was an emotional farewell. >> it's a great pleasure to announce that as of 1116 hours this date, retiring and given his final code 5. >> reporter: on the southbridge massachusetts police force, code 5 means an officer has wrapped the scene. for officer duane ledoux , it means retirement after 31 years on the job. >> thank you. >> reporter: but he never expected this kind of sendoff. >> it is my honor to acknowledge this code 5. to acknowledge an officer who sacrificed so much of his life -- >> reporter: it took more than a few seconds before he caught the voice.ù his son nathan. >> most important of all, chasing glory fches. >> when nathan said chasing glory and then dad, it gave it away more or less, i had a feeling. but i just didn't expect him and what he said and how well he

said it which was just phenomenal. >> reporter: to understand the bond between this father and son.ù you have to go back.u. >> i had two sons, and 15 years ago i lost one of them in a car accident along with his mother and grandmother and he's a gift so it made the emotions that much more just to have him ther >> reporter: even after such loss, to have his son beside him .ù on this day, is a prayer answered. >> just to have him there, is everything is all right. chasing glory, is nathan, i'm going to end up chasing nathan around the country. looking forward to chasing him. >> reporter: michel miller, cbs news, new york. be. >> morgan: a special bond between father and son. thank you for your service. that's it for

hot seat. and now at 6:00 the two men who might go trial for the ghost ship fire are not the only ones in the hot seat. now the victims' families say they want the city of oakland the take responsibility -- to take responsibility as well. good evening, i'm rich rich. >> and i'm -- juliette goodrich. >> and i'm brian hackney. kpix 5's da lin has that story. >> reporter: the victims' families believe a full trial will not only hold derrick al henna and max harris accountable. also show the city of oakland is just as culpable for the death of 36 people. >> we would start getting the answers and we would be able to take those answers and hold our city accountable for very specific things. right now, we only have vague generalizations that we can try to hold them accountable for. >> reporter: some of the

families flew in from as far as way at south korea -- as south korea. they say they forced landlord to speak for the first time about what she knew. and also include chest cam footage from officers who had visited the warehouse multiple times and knew about the illegal conversion. >> we'll report this to the city. i have a person that told me that you guys are carjacking $25 to -- charging $25 do get in. i imagine -- to get in. i imagine you have to have a permit. >> they live there and they rent here. okay? that's a fact. >> reporter: teen though the city did nothing to shut the place down, mayor schaaf rejects any responsibility. >> we do not believe we bear any liability. >> reporter: she hopes a criminal trial will provide some measure of justice for the families. >> these two individuals who knowingly did things to this building to make it unsafe, that is where the focus of the trial should lie. >> reporter: some