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thanks to both of you today. in iowa today, investigators say they recovered a body
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believed to be that of missing college student mollie tibbetts. and police now say a man who was in the u.s. illegally has been charged with her murder. adriana diaz islowing this story. >> a first-degree murder charge was filed today in connection with the disappearance of mollie tibbetts. >> reporter: investigators charged 24-year-old cristhian bahena rivera, an undocumented immigrant, for the abduction and murder of mollie tibbetts. the 20-year-old disappeared july 18th after going on her daily jog. >> at one point he tells us that mollie grabbed a hold of her phone and said, you need to leave me alone. i'm going to call the police. and then he tells us that at some point in time he blacks out, and then he comes to near an intersection in which we believe he then placed mollie. >> he said surveillance video th took tmollie's bodyvera who investigators
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why di it take the suspect to lead you to her body? >> in this particular case, she was found in a cornfield, and there were cornstalks placed over the top of her. so we just weren't able to locate her. >> reporter: investigators say rivera lived and worked in the area for years. they wouldn't release a motive or any information about how tibbetts was killed. more than a dozen fbi agents helped in the search. they used location data from the fitbit tibbetts was wearing and pored over thousands of leads. earlier this month, her parents told us their daughter had so much to look forward to, including her first trip abroad. > she couldn't have been any happier. this had been the summer of a lifetime. she was the best man at my wedding. she's had an incredible summer. she was as happy as i've ever seen her. >> what do you make of the outpouring of support from coast to coast? >> i think mollie's smile has, you know, grabbed the collective soul of this world. >> reporter: for many in this small town, the pain of tibbetts' disappearance will
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endure. how are people feeling now that this news is out? >> well, they didn't expect it. they expected that she would be found. let's put it that way. it's going to hurt them a lot. >> reporter: we asked investigators if there was any sign of a struggle. they said they couldn't comment on that until the autopsy results came in. the autopsy is scheduled for tomorrow, but the results could take weeks. what we've learned from the affidavit is that the suspect allegedly told police that he blacked out after running alongside tibbetts. the next thing he remembers is being in his car, finding tibbetts in his trunk, and she was bleeding from her head. that's when he took her into the cornfield. jeff. >> chilling case. adriana diaz, thank you. actress asia argento today denied having a sexual relationship with an underage actor. argento, one of the leading voices of the "me too" movement admits paying000seimmy bennett. in a statement, she says they were just friends, and she made
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the payment at the urging of her boyfriend, celebrity chef anthony bourdain, to keep the matter private and to help bennett economically. bourdain took his own life in june. parts of hawaii are under a hurricane watch tonight. hurricane lane, a category-4 storm with winds of 155 miles an hour, is expected to pass close to the big island and maui on thursday. residents and tourists are being told to prepare for heavy surf and potentially flash flooding. up next tonight, relatives overcome with emotion as a father accused of murdering his family appears in court in colorado. and later, students topple a confederate statue.
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shackles. the 33-year-old accused of killing his pregnant wife, shanann, and their two daughters showed no emotions as judge marcelo cap cow read off his nine felony charges. >> that crime is classified as murder in the first degree, a class one felony. >> reporter: sitting in the first row, shanann's father broke down as his son frankie tried to console him. in an affidavit released yesterday, watts admits he killed his pregnant wife but says he did not kill his children. watts admitted to having an affair with a co-worker after initially denying it. shortly after telsepa, wat monito celeste. watts said he saw his other daughter sprawled out
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ultimately strangled shanann to death. watts didn't explain to police why he loaded the bodies into his truck and buried his wife, shanann, in a shallow grave and daughters in oil tanks. kelley trippy was friends with shanann and says she doesn't believe watts' story. >> what do you think he should have done? >> he should have said, i did it. he should have said, i'm an [ bleep ]. i'm completely a monster. >> omar, so hard to hear about this case, but still so much police work that needs to be done. what is next here? >> reporter: watts will be back in court in november. he's expected to enter a plea. but, jeff, we still do not know if the district attorney plans to pursue the death penalty in this case. >> omar villafranca, thank you very much. still ahead here tonight, a midwestern city hit by nearly a foot of rain. sleep disturbances keep 1 in 3 adults up at night.
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floodwaters. top administrators in the university of north carolina today condemned the actions of protesters who brought down a confederate memorial known as "silent sam." that statue stood for more than a century. it was seen by many as a tribute to white supremacy. universityic they were prevented by law from removing it. they have promised a full criminal investigation. in chicago, a young hospital patient had her birthday wish granted. >> oh, my god! >> you asked me to come. i'm here. what's up? >> pretty cool. sofia sanchez was nearly speechless when the rapper drake stopped by yesterday. sofia is awaiting a heart transplant. she recently made a video asking drake to come and wish her a happy 11th birthday. how could he refuse? he did not. that's pretty cool. congrats, sofia and drake. up next, truckers and bubba's birthday.
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we end here tonight with a young man who turned 16 the other day and got the surprise of his life. dakota cadd, or bubba, often sits in his backyard along wisconsin state highway 26 hoping truckers will blow their horns for him. on saturday, those truckers went the extra mile to give him a birthday surprise. bubba has cerebral palsy and dandy-walker syndrome. peck cadd is his mom. >> i can't imagine what it's going to be like when we pull
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into the park. >> look. do you think they came to your birthday? yeah, for you. >> are you ready? okay. come on down. oh, lookit. >> happy birthday! here's a hug for you, buddy. >> they're singing happy birthday too. ♪ happy birthday, dear bubba ♪ happy birthday to you >> say thank you. >> happy birthday. >> reporter: the story of how hundreds of trucks and more than 1,000 people came together to celebrate bubba's birthday started with one small act of kindness. >> dakota was out in his normal spot sitting there, pumping his arm. and i noticed there was a bag on the ground, and it was a little semi-truck. and i realized that somebody had taken the time to stop on the highway and throw this package for my son over the five-foot fence. >> reporter: bubba's mom posted
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about finding the present on facebook, writing, please if you know ch hall trucking, telling them whoever did this is awesome. it went viral and finally led to truck driver mark king. >> i've always had a soft spot for children in wheelchairs, probably because i grew up with a sister in our home that she was handicapped. >> did you have fun today, bubba? >> yeah. >> what child ever gets something so special like this? to see people embrace my son, giving him hugs and wishing him happy birthday, it's amazing that there are folks like that out there. [ horn honking ] >> that is the ov"overnight new for this wednesday. from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm jeff glor.
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>> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." welcome to the "overnight news." i'm don dahler. there were two legal bombshells that could rain political fallout down on the white house. first, president trump's longtime lawyer and legal fixer, michael cohen, agreed to a plea deal that includes prison time. next, president trump's former campaign chairman paul manafort was found guilty on eight counts of bank and tax fraud. paula reid begins our coverage. >> reporter: paul manafort showed no emotion in court this afternoon as a jury handed special counsel robert mueller his first conviction in the ongoing investigation into russian meddling in the 2016 campaign. the jury found manafort guilty on eight of 18 charges.
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manafort was indicted by special counsel robert mueller in february of 2018. after deliberating for four days, the jury found manafort guilty of five counts of filing false tax returns, guilty on one count of not filing financial accounts, and guilty on two counts of misleading lenders for loans he applied for. the jury, however, could not come to a unanimous verdict on ten charges. most of those involve other loan fraud charges and failures to file financial reports. >> should you have put on a defense for your client? >> reporter: manafort's attorneys did not present any witnesses or evidence in defense of their client, saying the government had not proved its case. manafort served as president trump's campaign manager for several months. sources close to manafort say he chose not to cooperate with special counsel because he is banking on a presidential pardon to keep him out of jail. president trump weighed in today after the verdict. >> i feel very sad about that. it doesn't involve me, but i still feel -- you know, it's a very sad thing that happened.
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this has nothing to do with russian collusion. this started as russian collusion. this has absolutely nothing to do -- this is a witch hunt, and it's a disgrace. >> reporter: special counsel will return at the end of the month to announce whether they will retry manafort on those ten counts where the jury couldn't reach a consensus. manafort faces a second trial related to his foreign lobbying work in washington next week. now to the plea settlement with president trump's longtime lawyer and legal fixer, michael cohen. weijia jiang has that. >> reporter: michael cohen left manhattan federal court late this evening after pleading guilty to eight felony charges and admitting he and then-candidate trump worked to cover up his alleged affairs during the 2016 campaign. at times emotional, cohen told the judge that ind two women hush money in coordination and at the direction of a candidate for federal office for the principal purpose of influencing the election.
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he also admitted to bank fraud and tax evasion. deputy u.s. attorney robert khuzami spoke soon after. >> these are very serious charges and reflect a pattern of lies and dishonesty over an extended period of time. they are significant in their own rights. they are particularly significant when done by a lawyer. >> reporter: cohen is at the center of the stormy daniels controversy. he admitted to paying the adult film star $130,000 right before the 2016 election to keep her quiet about an alleged affair with president trump. the president initially denied knowing about the payment. >> did you know about the $130,000 payment to stormy daniels? >> no. no. >> reporter: but later the president disclosed he reimbursed cohen. in june, mr. trump reacted to the possibility of pardoning cohen if he ever faced charges. >> it certainly is far too early
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to be thinking about that. >> reporter: and he criticized the fbi for raiding cohen's home and office in new york, seizing thousands of materials and documents. >> i think that was unfortunate that they broke into a lawyer's office. not a good practice. >> reporter: cohen had worked as the president's attorney and fixer for more than a decade and was known for his fierce loyalty. >> and i will do anything to protect mr. trump. >> reporter: but their relationship took a dark turn in july when cohen released a secret recording of his conversation with then-candidate trump about payments related to a "playboy" model who claims she also had an affair with mr. trump. >> what financing? >> we'll have to pay him something. >> inaudible cash. >> no, no, no. >> reporter: the president tweeted what kind of lawyer to tape a client? so sad. under the plea deal, cohen faces up to five years and three months in prison. if he chooses to cooperate in
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other cases, that could help him out when it comes to sentencing, which is set for december. one of the loudest voices of the "me too" movement is denying allegations she sexually assaulted a 17-year-old actor. asia argento claims a $380,000 payment to the young man was put together by her late boyfriend, celebrity chef anthony bourdain. jericka duncan has details. >> reporter: do you remember the first words that harvey weinstein uttered when you called him and told him about this "new york times" article? >> i don't remember the first words. i remember the tenor of the conversation was almost relief. >> reporter: wieharvey weinstei attorney said his client was not surprised by "the new york times" report that asia argento was accused of sexual harassment. >> the degree of hypocrisy that this development demonstrates is beyond stunning. >> reporter: in october, argento told the in 1997, a
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month after making those accusations, "the new york times" reports argento arranged a $380,000 payment to 22-year-old actor jimmy bennett after bennett accused her of sexually assaulting him in 2013. at the time, bennett was 17, a year younger than california's age of consent. >> no! >> in 2004, bennett, then 7 years old, played argento's son in "the heart is deceitful above all things," a film argento co-wrote and directed. do you think the developments with argento's case call into question the validity of other weinstein accusers? >> i know for certain other weinstein accusers will be outed, if you will, as not having told the truth based on the investigation we have done to date. mr. weinstein, i think, will acknowledge that there are times in the course of his life when he may have acted inappropriately. but there is a huge difference between acting inappropriately
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criminal conduct. >> reporter: more than 80 women have come forward to accuse weinstein of sexual harassment, assault, and rape. >> there are those who still have to be held accountable for their conduct against women. >> reporter: argento has been one of the most vocal supporters of the "me too" movement. do you think this hurts the "me too" movement at all? >> it certainly complicates it. >> reporter: "new york times" investigative reporter and cbs news contributor jody cantor helped break the weinstein story. >> knowing that this woman who was a leading voice has this very complicated story in her past certainly makes everybody think differently of her as a characteep soi viral inspired women around the world to publicly speak out about their mistreatment by powerful men. >> all the women who have come out to tell their stories is that there was a pattern there that transcended race or nationality or different places
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>> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." when you purchase airline tickets, do you also buy the travel insurance that's offered? a lot of people do. consumers spent nearly $3 billion on travel insurance in 2016. but a report by massachusetts senator ed markey warns that you may not be getting the protection you think you've paid for. kris van cleave reports from reagan national airport. >> reporter: senator markey is sending these letters to two insurers today. this as new research from triple-a finds as many as 40% of americans are likely to buy travel insurance for an international trip. the number one reason is cancellation protection. travel insurance can cover the cost of a trip if you're suddenly too sick to fly, if you lose your job, if you get
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injured while you're traveling. you can even kick in money if a bag is lost, but it does not cover everything. >> i could just feel my blood boiling. >> reporter: l spent nearly her and her husband, matt, a marine veteran who did tours in iraq and afghanistan, to celebrate their second anniversary. with the trip ten months away, she bought travel insurance through the airline. >> i just had a feeling that this time we'd need it, and it wasn't that expensive. >> you booked the trip. you've got this great plan. what happens? >> so about a month after we booked the trip, i find out that i'm pregnant with my daughter. and she's due october 21st, and our flight to come back from europe was october 19th. so naturally you can't fly when you're that pregnant. >> reporter: while the insurance covered illness, it did not cover pregnancy. her claim was denied. >> the only thing skimpier than airplane leg room is the coverage of these insurance policies. >> reporter: a review by senator ed markey's office found nearly ne booking sites sell travel
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insurance, typically requiring customers to click yes or no to purchasing before being allowed to book a trip. the report found what it calls questionable travel insurance marketing practices for policies that offer minimal coverage and often erect hurdles to the payment of claims. >> consumers are being tipped upside down. money is shaken out of their pockets and it's split between the airlines and insurance companies and it's just plain wrong. >> reporter: just two companies underwrite all those policies. in a statement, the u.s. travel insurance association said the industry was not contact the by senator markey, adding travel insurance is a valuable product that protects consumers' financial investment. the group recommends that travelers fully understand the coverage options they are purchasing to make sure it fits their needs. the purchase of travel insurance is voluntary. the better business bureau says complaints are on the rise, on pace to exceed 700 this year, more than double the 342 in 2015. >> you don't even know what
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you're getting sometimes. >> reporter: chris elliott runs a consumer advocacy website that tracks the travel industry. >> the solution is better disclose ush by the travel insurance companies, by the airlines and online travel agencies who are selling these products, and the solution ultimately is a more informed consumer, by which i mean people actually reading the fine print. >> reporter: for laura and matt, the airline refunded the taxes on their canceled trip, but they were out more than 700 bucks. when you come up to that travel insurance box now, what do you do? >> ignore it. >> you click no? >> mm-hmm. yep. no, thank you. i'll be out the money anyway. >> reporter: and the report found that often similarly priced travel insurance plans not offered by the airlines or those third-party booking sites provided better coverage. we reached out to norwegian, the airline that laura was flying. it tells us the airline believes its cancellation and trip protection policies are clear
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and were properly followed in this case but is going to offer a onetime courtesy refund to laura for the remainder of her airfare. the toxic red tide algae that continues to clog the waterways of southwest florida is taking a toll on marine life in the sunshine state. about 100 manatees have already died along with countless fish, birds, and sea turtles. but the endangered green sea turtle faces an even bigger threat. climate change. mark strassmann has the story from the beach of boca raton. >> reporter: both of these are sea turtle nest as the height of hatching season. under the sand of each nest like this, you might find 100 eggs or more. and for five miles up and down this beach, there are more than 650 sea turtle nests, greens, leatherbacks, and loggerheads. sea turtles are an endangered species, and the males in particular seem to be disappearing. in a beachfront ritual that dack 100 million years, we came upon this
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300-pound green sea turtle covering her beach nest, burying maybe 100 eggs or more. >> this is what that turtle's babies will look like. >> reporter: biologist jeanette directs florida atlantic university's marine lab and has studied florida's sea turtle population since 2002. she's alarmed by what she doesn't see in her tanks of hatchlings. >> we're seeing fewer and fewer and fewer years where we find males. so seven out of the last ten years, we have not found any males in our -- >> not a single one? >> not a single one. not a single one. >> they'll get up to 300 pounds, at least the species we're excavating today. >> reporter: research on why male sea turtles seem to be disappearing. >> looks like we might have close to over 100 empty shells, which means those hatchlings made it out and went to the water. >> reporter: it's not genetics that determine a sea turtle's sex. it's the sand's temperature. the tipping point is roughly 85
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degrees for a species that is predominantly female. >> if it's too warm, you don't get boys. if it's too cool, you don't get girls. so it's the hot chicks and cool dudes. >> what explains why these nests keep getting warmer? >> certainly weather. >> climate change? >> climate change. >> reporter: as florida's beaches get hotter, species are showing signs of shutting down. sea turtles and possibly also alligators. another reptile whose eggs skew female and whose sex is determined by nest temperatures. on this rooftop at the university of north florida, biologist adam rosenblatt has built 20 nests of 20 alligator eggs apiece. this plastic will artificially warm the nests by 5.5 degrees. that's how much hotter north florida is expected to be by the end of the century. >> if it's happening in sea turtles, my thought was it could be happening in alligators as well and throw off that balance between males and females. >> reporter: she uses a mini
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camera to determine their sex after they reach six weeks old. >> i have to wait until they're big enough for me to sort of look under their skirts. >> reporter: last night, her team released hundreds of hatchlings into the sea to the admiration of dozens of turtle fans. she knows the odds are already long for this prehistoric species, more so now that climate change is in play. >> there's some resilience in there that we as scientists may not have discovered. and then there's part of us that says, things are changing so fast compared to what's happened in the past. that resilience may not be enough. >> reporter: they're something to see. sea turtles don't real sexual maturity until they're at least 25 years old. maturity until they're at least 25 years old. so the impact of these a women's natural lubrication varies throughout her cycle. this can effect how pleasurable sex can be. to supplement your lubrication for even better sex try ky natural feeling. the lubrication you want, nothing you don't. ky natural feeling
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anywhere, for 500 years. >> reporter: governor lisa honan is the queen's representative in st. helena, a british island over 4,500 miles south of great britain. commercial flights started arriving in october. before that, the only way in or out was on a boat. the royal male ship, the rms st. helena, sailed its final voyage earlier this year. >> there wasn't a dry eye in the island when the ship salils. people were crying, waving. >> reporter: now it's up to a controversial $400 million airport to serve as the life line for the 4,000 people who live here. >> well, the locals call ourselves saints. >> that's not a bad path to sainthood. >> i'm glad i'm a saint. >> by birth you're a saint. >> reporter: gisele was born here and is the owner of a small shop selling handmade jewelry as unique as the saints themselves.
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>> you look at five different saint helens. we look completely different. we ha >> reporter: originally discovered by the portuguese, st. helena received its first british settlers in 1659, when the east india company took possession. it became a vital, heavily fort fied trading stop. the residents today are the descendants of the soldiers, settlers and slaves who came to the island. but st. helena's most famous resident came to the island over 200 years ago. he was sent here. napoleon bonaparte was exiled. a year later, he escaped from exile. this time, the british weren't taking any chances. >> then they decided to send him to the only place which can
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guarantee his no return ticket. >> this individual is the director of longwood house, the home where napoleon lived and died while on st. helena. napoleon rarely left longwood and cut holes in the shutters so he could stay inside and spy on the people who were assigned to watch him. >> so one meter 69 was his height. his eye level would be here. >> so he could peep out and look at the world? that's sort of sad he kept himself enclosed in here. >> reporter: outside the stunning landscape looks nothing like what you might find back in the uk. but in the capital city of jamestown, sandwiched into a volcanic valley, the narrow streets and colorful buildings feel as if they could exist on the outskirts of london. >> we still feel that we are british through and through, you know? my grandmother still has all the commemorative plates of the queen in her house, you know. every wedding, we get all of the merchandise, you know.
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>> aaron lang is a tour guide on the island, a job which right now gets him just a few customers a week. in 2016, officials discovered it was too windy for larger planes to safely land on st. helena's clifftop. a miscalculation that meant instead of an optimistic 30,000 tourists a year, the island is now hoping for just 3,000. those few who do make the journey are generally pretty easy to spot. >> you can tell which are the tourists because they don't wave. everyone else waves. >> i'm too afraid of driving on the other side of the road. don't blame me for not waving. >> reporter: on a small island where everyone knows everyone, there's no room for any stereotypical british reserve. >> we've always been told that we're friendly and welcoming, and it's not until you get here that you. lena is hoping the ref the world might finally come to enjoy what this remote island has to offer. a place that was
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if you've ever dreamed of flying around like a superhero, say superman or iron man, you are now in luck. an inventor in london has come up with an iron man suit. you can buy one, but as charlie d'agata reports, they are not cheap. >> reporter: it's not a sight you'd expect to see on the streets of london. but few are more blown away by the jet suit than the man who invented it, richard browning. >> you're off the ground and suddenly it's really quite liberating, almost like that dream most people seem to have mewhere a fly ar to think served with the royal marines, 39-year-old browning quit his day job as an oil trader, he ir
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invention off the ground wasn't easy. it can reach speeds of 32 miles an hour and an altitude of 12,000 feet. anyone can fly it with training and insurance. it's made up of five mini jet engines, one on the back and two on each arm, which control direction. >> in a strange way, a bit like riding a bike. >> reporter: browning swears he didn't set out to copy the suit made famous in the "iron man" movies though admits there were some wonderful parallels. >> actually what the guys had done to think up that character and then do all the cgi around it was actually really quite accurate. >> reporter: the dream of designing a jet suit is nothing new, but never before has it been so real. how real? you can actually buy this one if you've got a spare $450,000 rattling around in your pocket. that's right. on display right there at the selfridges department store alongside a virtual reality version of how it works. oh, you have got to love
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heights. at the moment, it's just for fun. i'm not at all sick. but browning says he foresees some practical uses too. >> for niche military applications, it turns out we do have some capability they didn't think was possible. >> reporter: for now the fuel pack limits the suit to only three or four minutes of flight. but as the engines become more efficient, the only direction this jet suit is headed is up. charlie d'agata, cbs news, on. and that's the "overnight news" for this wednesday. for some of you, the news continues. for others, check back with us a little later for the morning news and, of course, cbs this morning. from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm don dahler.
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♪ it's wednesday, august 22nd, 2018. this the cbs morning news. president trump's ex-lawyer pleads guilty. michael cohen says he was ordered to illegally influence the 2016 election. what other charges he's coughing to. and a jury finds president trump's former campaign chair, paul manafort guilty of a slew of financial crimes. how the president is responding. plus a heart breaking end to

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