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the world but also in this country. and i don't want to see it. in arizona congresswoman martha mcsally won the republican nomatnate sea h by rg
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naref flake. she'll face democratic congresswoman krystin sign sine ma in november. so arizona will have its first woman in the senate. and florida could have its first african-american govern if democrat andrew gillum the mayor of tallahassee defeats republican congressman ron desantis, the primary winner last night on the republican side. here's manuel bojorquez. >> as the mayor of florida's capital city, i humbly accept the democratic nomination. >> reporter: andrew gillum seized the nomination for governor despite being third in the polls just a week ago and outspent by tens of millions. he has emphasized his unlikely rise. >> what's impossible? the son of a bus driver becoming mayor of the capital city? >> i was the only non-millionaire in the race. and that was no slight to any of my opponents but to simply say that it means something to have father trade between which bills
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they could pay before something got cut off. >> reporter: in picking gillum, florida democratic voters abandoned the traditional strategy of playing to the center and took a hard left. gillum supports medicare for all, abolishing immigration and customs enforcement, and impeaching president trump. >> next governor of this state! >> reporter: his big endorsement, senator bernie sanders. a complete 180 from the man who helped propel ron desantis to the republican nomination, the president himself. >> ron loves playing with the kids. >> build the wall. >> reporter: whose policies desantis has fully embraced. >> our taxes have been cut and the red tape has been reduced. i'd say that's pretty good work for a year and a half. so let's keep it going. >> reporter: the gloves are already off. president trump called gillum a failed socialist on twitter today. republicans plan to use an fbi investigation of tallahassee's mu though he's not directly been named a subject. democrats will likely use this -- a comment by desantis today some call racist.
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>> the last thing we need to do is to monkey this up by trying to embrace a socialist agenda. >> reporter: today his campaign said it would be "absurd" to characterize those comments as racist. our request to interview desantis was declined. gillum called those remarks beneath the intelligence of floridians. john? >> manuel bojorquez for us. thanks, manuel. at his weekly audience at the vatican pope francis spoke of his recent trip to ireland and lamented the pain caused by the church's sex abuse scandal. he did not mention allegations by the vatican's former ambassador to the u.s. that francis knew of sex abuse by cardinal theodore mccarrick but did nothing. today the former ambassador, archbishop carlo vigano, said he made the accusation not out of revenge against the pope but out of love for the church. coming up, a battle on the high seas.
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and britain have fought more than two dozen wars, usually over land and money. after a lengthy peace hostilities have again broken out. elizabeth palmer reports this time the malice is over mollusks. >> reporter: there was ramming on the high seas last night as the dispute over shellfish turned ugly. english fishermen say a flotilla of french boats swarmed them and the french hurled insults and rocks to drive them off the scallop beds. >> before we knew it we had around 10, maybe 15 other french boats surrounding us, throwing rocks at us, flares lightinghe sky up with flares so other boats could see us. it was -- it was quite an intense moment. >> reporter: this stretch of
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water may be called the english channel, but some of the richest scallop fishing is on the french side. it attracts fishermen from bdel. but clashing international rules say the english boats can fish anytime while the french are forced to wait until the 1st of october. it makes french fishermen like anthony canal furious. "we're trying to get rid of the english," he said, "because if we let them get away with this they're going to clear out the whole area." in the end the english boats retreated, home to port. but the english fishermen say if negotiations don't solve this standoff in the coming days they'll be back next week for round two. elizabeth palmer, cbs news, london. when we come back, blown to bits. why the navy and the coast guard sprang into action near seattle. ♪
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tested buildings. bottled water will be provided at all 106 detroit schools, serving more than 50,000 students, until the problem is fixed. two workers were killed today when scaffolding colpsed disneyororo. h wer pouri concrete on the si new hotel. a third worker was able to pull himself to safety. the cause of the collapse is still under investigation. the coast guard and the navy were taking no chances when an old mine was spotted floating yesterday in puget sound near seattle. they kept ships and people away while they blew it up. technicians believe it was inert. where it came from is still a mystery. up next, it happened in chicago when the whole world was watching. the nature of a virus is to change. move. mutate.
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i proudly accept the nomination of our party. >> 50 years ago tonight vice president hubert humphrey accepted the democratic nomination for president. it came at the end of a violent week in chicago in the summer of a violent year in america. dean reynolds is in chicago tonight. >> reporter: on a quiet august day in chicago's grant park it's hard to imagine this spot was once a bloody battlefield. 50 years ago was the time when
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civil rights were legal but the resistance was lethal. a time of war and body counts and assassinations. mike james was in chicago. >> we were for peace. we were for ending the war. i'm the guy in the black leather jacket with the blond hair, longer blond hair. >> reporter: he was one of about 10,000 demonstrators, yippies, hippies and others, who int sected with thousands of chicago cops and national guardsmen, a flammable mix on michigan avenue that would later be called a police riot. cbs news cameraman del hall wasn't doing anything wrong during a march. filming? >> yes, filming. >> reporter: but he wound up on the wrong end of a police baton. >> i really believe i was the first person hit. i was not the last person. >> reporter: at the democrats' convention five miles away, reporters were roughed up. >> take your hands off of me unless you plan to arrest me. >> reporter: and anchors were ruffled. >> i think we've got a bunch of thugs here, dan.
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the. >> reporter: chicago alderman ed burke was a cop inside the convention hall. >> a tea kettle has to let off steam someplace, and i think the nation let off that steam here in the heartland in chicago. >> reporter: for many chicago in the summer of '68 was a lesson in bad behavior on both sides. >> it was a, in a sense, a watershed year, never to be repeated hopefully. >> reporter: it may be worth thinking about 1968 amid today's deep divisions and remember how the country once looked when the whole world was watching. >> the whole world is watching! >> reporter: dean reynolds, cbs news, chicago. that is the "overnight news" for this thursday. for some of you the news continues. for others check back with us a little later for theorning news and of course "cbs this morning." from the nation's capital, i'm john dickerson.
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>> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." welcome to the "overnight news." i'm adriana diaz. solemn tributes to the late senator john mccain continued today at the arizona capitol, where his body is lying in state. hundreds waited outside in the searing heat for a chance to file past his coffin and pay their final respects. perhaps the most emotional scene was mccain's children, sobbing over his flag-draped casket. nancy cordes is in phoenix. >> reporter: arizonans lined the streets on this steamy august day. some taking to rooftops to bid farewell to their six-term senator. walking behind mccain's casket into the state capitol was his
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wife of 38 years, cindy, escorted by their two sons, who have both followed their father into the armed forces. hundreds of service members and veterans too stood at attention for the former naval aviator and p.o.w. inside, our first glimpse of the family in mourning. >> let these tears bring blooms in the desert he loved, in the country he served. >> gathered in this spot we are especially grateful that john made arizona his home. >> imagining arizona without john mccain is like picturing an arizona without the grand canyon. it's just not natural. >> so the woman who brought john mccain to arizona, cindy, thank you. the hearts and prayersar not only angela and i but our entire state and nation are with you and your family.
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>> reporter: after they left the rotunda was opened to the public. just as mccain had wanted. becky levine is a state worker and a democrat. >> actually, it's got me more emotional than i thought it would. the minute i walked through the doors and i just -- it was kind of like tears of joy because he's in a good place. you know. but tears of sadness because -- you know, for his family and for those he's left behind. there's never going to be another john mccain. another presidential adviser is heading out the door. president trump tweeted that white house counsel don mcgahn will be leaving sometime this fall. that was apparently news to mcgahn. paula reid reports. >> don mcgahn's a really good guy -- >> reporter: this morning president trump announced on twitter that white house counsel don mcgahn will leave his position in the fall after the confirmation hopefully of judge brett kavanaugh. his departure has been rumored for months but mcgahn was surprised by the president's tweet because the two men had
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not directly discussed it. mcgahn was a lead attorney for the trump campaign, but the relationship between the president and his top lawyer has been rocky. mcgahn threatened to resign in june 2017 over stress and frustration with the president. he also spent roughly 30 hours over nine months being interviewed by special counsel robert mueller's team. today the president said he approved mcgahn's cooperation and isn't worried about what he may have revealed. >> any concern about what he said to the mueller team? >> no. never. not at all. >> reporter: one reason mcgahn hung on, his role in helping to confirm 60 conservative judges to the federal courts, including supreme court justice neil gorsuch. in february mcgahn reflected on his vast responsibilities at the white house. >> where i advise the president on a range of issues from constitutional law, executive power. >> and that involves you in just about everything. >> unfortunately, yes. >> reporter: mcgahn joins a long list of high-profile white house departures including white house communications director hope hicks, the president's chief strategist steve bannon, and his
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first chief of staff reince priebus. the stage is set for two historic elections in november after tuesday's primaries. in arizona a pair of congresswomen won their senate primaries. republican martha mcsally and democrat kristen sinema. and in florida republican ron desantis will be up against tallahassee mayor andrew gillum for governor. manuel bojorquez reports. >> as the mayor of florida's capital city i humbly accept the democratic nomination. >> andrew gillum seized the nomination for governor despite being third in the polls just a week ago and outspent by tens of millions. he has emphasized his unlikely rise. >> what's impossible? the son of a bus driver becoming mayor of the capital city? >> i was the only non-millionaire in the race, and that was no slight to any of my
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opponents but to simply say it means something to have had the experience of what it meant to watch your mother and father trade between which bills they could pay before something got cut off. >> reporter: in picking gillum florida democratic voters banded the traditional strategy of playing to the center and took a hard left. gillum supports medicare for all, abolishing immigration and customs enforcement, and impeaching president trump. >> next governor of the state! >> reporter: his big endorsement, senator bernie sanders. a complete 180 from the man who helped propel ron desantis to the republican nomination, the president himself. >> ron loves praying with the kids. >> build the wall. >> reporter: whose policies desantis has completely embraced. >> our taxes have been cut and the red tape has been reduced. i'd say that's pretty good work for a year and a half. so let's keep it going. >> reporter: the gloves are already off. president trump called gillum a failed socialist on twitter today. republicans plan to use an fbi investigation of tallahassee's municipal government against gillum though he's not directly
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been named a subject. democrats will likely use this, a comment by desantis today some call racist. >> the last thing we need to do is to monkey this up by trying to embrace a socialist agenda. a dangerous heat wave has much of the nation in its sweltering group. records were set frt from the ohio river valleys through new england. it was so hot in boston that nearly two dozen school districts sent their students home. michelle miller has that story from new york. >> reporter: the heat was so oppressive. 114 degrees on the court. that tennis officials were forced to change the state of play. >> the heat is one of the players today here at the u.s. open. >> reporter: on day three of the u.s. open in queens it was survival of the fittest for both players and fans. >> how do you stand it? >> well, lots of water. they give out free ice at the store, so. >> reporter: the tournament announced a new heat policy for men, allowing for ten minute
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breaks between sets. in coram, new york the heat turned deadly when an 11-year-old girl was pulled unconscious from this car parked in a driveway. by the time an ambulance got the girl to the hospital she was pronounced daeds. the hot weather has become business as usual in washington, d.c. today's high of 94 degrees meant the nation's capital has had 37 90-degree days this summer. >> we can't be outside for too long. we're slowly melting. >> reporter: in boston, where today's high was a record 98 degrees, not only has this been the hottest august on record, it has the chance to be the hottest summer as well. up and down the east coast, stepping outside this week has meant finding any way to kick off. temperatures in the 90s combined with high humidity are pushing the heat index past 100 throughout the region. the first day of school in wyndham, maine today quickly became a very short day as many
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this is the "cbs overnight news." nearly a year after hurricane maria devastated puerto rico, the storm is now classified as the deadliest natural disaster to hit the u.s. in the last century. until now the official death toll from the hurricane stood at 64. but after months of research the puerto rican government now says nearly 3,000 people were killed by the storm and its aftermath. the island's governor's promising it to hold people accountable, but fingers are pointing at him. david begnaud is there. >> reporter: there's a lot of puerto rico whonz think this story should be getting a lot more attention than it is but here we are on the hour to tell you this. one of the most glaring findings in that report is that doctors
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did not have the proper training to know how to classify a death as being storm-related. no one in the government had the experience in that either. so when the government was telling us there were 64 people who died, they were talking about direct deaths like flying debris or drowning. but they weren't accounting for people who died because of things like the fact that the power went out. >> it just got me sad. >> reporter: nicole cordero told us her 47-year-old mother wanda indirectly died as a result of hurricane maria. wanda had pancreatitis and needed oxygen. when the power went out at the hospital where she was being treated. >> i wish the hospitals were more prepared. >> reporter: a government commission review done by george washington university researchers, looked at the six months after hurricane maria and compared the number of deaths to the same time period in seven previous years. the findings bumped the official death toll fran estimated 64 to 2,975. the mayor of san juan called the new report painful and shameful. and said the governor should
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take more responsibility. >> when i saw people dying i opted to shout it. i opted to ask for help. when others saw people dying, they opted to shut up. >> reporter: governor ricardo rossello acknowledged tuesday that he's made mistakes. >> focus shouldn't be hey, let's blame all these folks. the focus should be who's going to be accountable and who's going to take the action so this doesn't happen again? >> reporter: researchers found that the government and hospitals were inadequately prepared for the category 4 storm. they also found that the risk of death was 45% higher for those living in low-income areas on the island and that elderly men were at the greatest risk of dying. but there were young people who were otherwise healthy like 29-year-old ramsey romero who also died. his brother christian told us ramsey contracted a treatable bacteria disease. he had been helping his community clean up after the hurricane. "i think the government was negligent," christian told us.
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what does your brother deserve? "i think my brother deserves justice." president trump has not directly commented on the new death toll or tweeted about it, but the white house says he is proud of the federal government's response here. air bnb is no longer a website 20 find a room. the company is getting into the adventure business in a big way. jamie yuccas explains. >> takeoff to your right. >> here we go. >> whoo-hoo! >> a big smile on your face. >> reporter: arizona pilot craig judd is giving me the ride of a lifetime in his 1943 open cockpit biplane or as the air bnb platform calls it an experience. >> i'm going to do a hammerhead stall. you've got to open your eyes. we're going to bring it straight up slowly, full power.
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>> ah! >> slow down. and we go over. >> oh, my god! >> reporter: judd is one of almost 15,000 people around the world sharing their skill, hobby, or passion with paying customers who find them listed on air bnb. >> 3 out of 4 millennialmillenng people, said they'd rather buy an experience than a physical good. i think the experience is a huge wave. >> reporter: air bnb's ceo launched the experience feature on his platform two years ago. he says it's now growing ten times faster than the company's core home rental business. >> we want the experience to be so good that you do them even if you live in the city. >> reporter: i live in the same city as burlesque performer cat lecoey, but i never would have imagined doing this. >> yes! >> oh, my god. you are a rock star. >> it makes air bnb a one-stop shop for a traveler because they're going to stay somewhere
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and then they're going to see what else can i do? >> i'm nervous. >> reporter: or in my case what else can i try to do? >> yes! >> reporter: with some of these experiences you're taking a great risk. how do you kind of vet these people? >> we'll have a very specific protocol to make sure it's safe, make sure people have the licenses, the regulations to be able to do this. >> reporter: terry lockwood already had years of experience as a master falconer before she and antonella zampoli started offering this experience. >> i talked to so many people that loved falconry and i wanted them to get a taste of it. >> shoulders toward burt. oh, wow. >> to compete with anybody you must be different and you must be better. >> reporter: air bnb's competition for the experiences market include legacy hotel chains like marriott, which launched its moments program last spring. >> for every dollar that a customer spends on the hotel and the airfare they spend $3 in the
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city. and so it's an attempt to capture some of that. >> reporter: "fortune" senior editor lee gallagher says air bnb is banking part of its future on a market still in its infancy. >> an experience isn't something everyone needs. you need a hotel. you need a place to stay. you don't need an experience. so they have to in some ways manufacture the demand. and that's not easy to do. >> now can i show you how to roll? >> reporter: but neither is learning how to maneuver a world war ii era biplane. and air bnb's philosophy is why not give it a trial? >> there you go. >> we don't travel to sleep in a house or a hotel. we travel to have experiences. >> this is specta
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americans have ever actually seen a prairie. yes, there really is a place just like that song from the late 1800s we all know by heart. ♪ oh give me a home ♪ where the buffalo roam ♪ where the deer and the antelope play ♪ >> reporter: to find it go to northeastern montana and get ready to be caught up in a dream. this is really the prairie. this is what we're standing on here, right? >> yes. >> hundreds of years ago, thousands of years ago this is what it looked like? >> yeah. >> reporter: allison fox is president of the american prairie reserve. >> what i find humbling about all of this is that we once had millions and millions and millions of acres of this and
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now we're down to not very much. >> we refer to our national parks as america's best idea, and we sort of skipped over the grasslands. we never -- we never preserved a big grassland park. >> reporter: which is why for the past 17 years the non-profit american prairie foundation has been working to preserve this vanishing home on the range, by buying up as many cattle ranches as it can. so far they've acquired a patchwork of land adjacent to land that is federally protected. the goal is to xlien it all and create 3.5 million acres of open land. it would be the largest wildlife reserve in america outside of alaska. is this literally going to be a chance to step into the past? >> i think so. to see what this country was like at the time of our founding.
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>> reporter: it seems a romantic, maybe even patriotic mission. and yet some say bringing back one way of life might mean destroying another. >> the land is better than it was. and that's what the ranchers have done over the years. they have made this land what it is. >> you can hit the crossing and come over and go to the right. >> reporter: connie and craig french are fifth generation cattle ranchers. connie's original homestead house from 1910 still stands. >> to the corner where it turns into metal. >> reporter: and their children help run their ranch. the hope is that someone in the family will someday carry on what they have built. >> it's almost like a preacher has a calling. we almost feel like this is our calling, and it's our responsibility to hand it down to the people that come after us. >> the american prairie people and you talk eloquently about a
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love for the land. where does it diverge? >> maybe when they want to buy our land and we can't be here. the part that is disheartening about when it comes to the pamerican prairie reserve is tht it's gone. it won't ever come back into ranching. >> reporter: the frenches and also other cattle ranchers are under no obligation to sell, but on the highest bidder for any property is the american prairie reserve. and many argue that we all have a stake here. this is one of just four intact grasslands that still exist in the world. >> grasslands are the most endangered ecosystem on the planet. >> reporter: martha kaufman heads the northern great plains program at the world wildlife fund. >> we're losing 1 million acres per year. that's faster than the deforestation of the amazon. >> faster? >> faster. more acres of prairie are lost
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every year than acres of amazon rainforest. >> reporter: and that can have real consequences. last summer hurricane harvey caused catastrophic flooding in houston, where in the last few decades 3/4 of the prairie surrounding the city has been develop developed, leaving little grassland to soak up historic amounts of rainfall. >> when the grasses are intact and they're holding all this soil, they're a big sponge. when it's been is sawed off it runs at the top. just imagine you change a sponge to a hard surface. flood events become much more intense. >> reporter: kaufman hopes people can one day appreciate the prairie the same way they treasure those other endangered comes true, this will become a living postcard of our own history. >> there's this one great quote that
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and we end this half hour with the story of a wounded warrior who came home from iraq with a grievous injury, but as david martin reports it helped him unlock a skill and passion he never knew he had. >> reporter: peter damon turns out about 30 paintings a year and sells them for between $250 and $1,500. that's not enough to make ends meet but it has made him whole again. >> painting with my left hook -- >> reporter: after he lost both arms in iraq. >> having this skill that even able-bodied people find difficult was something that really sort of gave me a boost. sort of made me feel like i fit in more in the world. >> reporter: he was an army helicopter mechanic working on a landing gear in 2003 when pressurized gas blew it apart,
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killing one soldier and gravely injuring him. >> i lost my right arm above the elbow, about three inches above the elbow. and my left about six inches below. >> reporter: he was a blue-collar guy who had been an electrician before he joined the army. >> how am i going to make a living and take care of my family? i always worked with my hands. >> reporter: then with this simple little drawing a new future opened up. >> that was done very -- right after i lost my arms. so walter reed. >> what was it like discovering that you had this way out? >> it was kind of miraculous in a way. something was telling me to focus on this and everything will be all right. >> reporter: notice, he doesn't have a state-of-the-art prosthetic arm, just a plain old hook which he finds works best. i'm still struggling with your prosthetic, which seems like a pretty crude device, and what you can produce with it. >> it may be crude, but it's some of the best technology i think there is out there.
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this just feels like it's more of a part of me. >> reporter: he and his wife, jen, run an art gallery in a small new england town where he showcases the work of local artists. with his disability check from the va he can afford to be a starving artist. >> it had a lot of the elements i like to paint. >> reporter: he is a man doing what he wants with his life. most people who saw you on the street would say boy, that guy got a tough break. >> yeah, i don't see it that th way. suffering an injury like this sort of has a way of making you focus on what's important in life. >> late winter, sunshine -- >> reporter: he believes his best work is still ahead of him, but with his depictions of simple american scenes peter damon has already produced his most extraordinary work. david martin, cbs news, at the true grit gallery in middleboro, massachusetts. and that's the "overnight news" for this thursday. for some of you the news continues. for others check with us a little later for the morning
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news and of course it's thursday, august 30th, 2018, this is the cbs morning news. the outpouring of love and respect continues for the american hero who served his country with all his heart. more on the tributes and tears for the late senator john mccain. and a former police officer learns his fate after being convicted of murdering an unarmed black teenager. why some are criticizing the sentence. plus caught on camera, a florida sheriff said the uber driver had the right to use deadly force during a road rage confrontation.

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