pleasure of the president, d o recusal problem. i think the immigration issue, about the whole family was poorly handled. the see rolle toleranc-- tolera don't know where that came from. i think that blind sided the president. >> reporter: sessions recently fired back saying he took control of the justice department the day he was sworn in and will not be swayed by political considerations. tonight the justice department had no reaction to the president. john? >> paula reid. thanks, paula. a woman was sentenced to return to prison because she voted in the 2016 election. as maria villafranca reports, she used her name, but her voefting past made it a crime. >> she said put your hands behind your back, we have a warrant for your arrest. >> reporter: crystal mason still remembers the day she was arrested for voting in the last

presidential election. >> my mom kept nagging, go vote, go vote, go vote, i was like, okay, you did what she said, io >> reporter: the 43-year-old was on soup earn advised release when she was supervised for tax fraud. that was against the law. you think you should be able to cast a ballot? >> we pay taxes. that's what i believe. if i had a doubt i wouldn't have did it. >> reporter: here felons can't vote until they have completed their full sentence. now mace son faces five years in state prison for voter fraud and today was given ten months in federal prison for violating the terms of her supervised release. are you mentally ready for that? >> not at all. i'm not ready. >> reporter: nationwide, an estimated 6.1 million felons are restricted from voting. nearly half a million of them

are in texas. in 13 states felons lose the right to vote indefinitely. >> people indeed in the american democracy are being punished for voting. >> reporter: he could wrote the book on felony voting laws which date back to the 1870s. >> the united states is perhaps among the very few nations that disenfranchise everybody for committing a felony-level crime. >> reporter: he says the laws are meant to be more of a moral punishment, not a legal one. florida has one that could be overturned. more than 1 million people could get their voting rights back. as for crystal mason, she's headed back to federal prison next month. john? >> omar villafranca. thanks, omar. the united nations warned syria today, 3 million syrians could be at risk if assad launches a large scale attack.

violence could happen at a moment's notice in syria, but two americans have designed a way to warn civilians there before an air-strike. here's holly williams. >> reporter: john jaeger and dave lavine grew up in chicago and dallas. they worked high flying jobs in finance and consulting. but now they've become unlikely heroes in syria's seven-yearlong civil war where they save lives, perhaps thousands of them. >> these are preventable deaths and that's why we do what we do. >> reporter: back in 2012, john had taken a job with the state department, deployed to turkey to help syrians displaced by the civil war. but as he watched the carnage from the sidelines, he grew frustrated. >> the idea was essentially to tell people before an air-strike could reach them so that they could take mitigating action and save their lives. >> reporter: the idea was that simple as the syrian regime indiscriminately bombed civilians, john and dave wanted

to warn people that war planes were on the way so they could take cover in shelters and basements. there were already dozens of syrians who were spotting jets and helicopters and putting out alerts over waukee talkee talki. john and dave recruited them. combining that with their system that uses artificial intelligence, including data on aircraft speeds, weather and social media posts. >> and then that immediately feeds back into the algorithm to predict where planes are going to go. >> reporter: their computer generated alerts now reach more than 2 million syrians, they believe, via warnings on smartphones. >> it looks like the last warning was six minutes ago. >> reporter: and air raid sirens connected to their system. in the battle for syria's last major rebel strong hold, it will give civilians a chance of survival. but john and dave say the true heroes of this story are people like abdul razak, one of their

plane spotters and a former elementary school teacher. >> i did with happiness when i receive -- i saw civilians, of a child, of a woman. >> this is the most important thing i've ever done in my life and i think john would say the same. >> reporter: and as civilians brace for attack in idlib province, it could be the thing that saves many of their lives. holly williams, cbs news, in turkey. >> coming up next, a justice department backs a lawsuit that claims harvard discriminates are you taking the tissue test?

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its incoming classes, siding with asian american students who are suing the university. harvard's race-based submission process significantly disadvantages asian american applicants. the justice department said, compared to other applicants of other racial groups. the court filing comes as harvard is fighting to avoid a trial in the 2014 lawsuit which argues the university holds asian american students to higher academic standards than white and other minority students. allegations harvard denies. the filing was widely expected, as the justice department targets affirmative action in college admissions on multiple fronts. last month it reversed obama-era guidelines that encouraged schools to consider race in college admissions. >> it always takes courage to speak up against injustice. >> reporter: in recent years, asian americans have become vocal opponents of affirmative action. kelly is a junior at harvard.

>> harvard really only cares about diversity when it comes t people which is wrong. we can't set quotas on what percentage each race we admit. >> reporter: but civil rights attorney says all students would suffer without affirmative action. >> we have so many well documented racial disparities and access to educational opportunities in primary school and secondary school. colleges need to be able to have a way to take those things into account. >> reporter: now, affirmative action could be front and center in next week's supreme court confirmation hearings for judge brett kavanagh. he would be replacing justice anthony kennedy who is a key swing vote and had refused to end all affirmative action in college admissions. john? >> jan crawford for us in washington. thank you, jan. still ahead, the massive rescue operatio

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tony dokoupil has the tail. >> reporter: ron danta and shaw's home isn't for people. you live in a doghouse. >> yes, we are the guest. we have a king size bed that we share with about 15 to 18 dogs a night. >> reporter: actually, there are 86 dogs here right now. what's this dog's name. ? >> humphrey. >> this one? >> mona. >> this one? >> isabel. >> reporter: that means 86 different animals in need of daily care. >> we get up 5:30-ish. >> somebody will start singing. one of the dogs sleeping in the kitchen starts singing in the morning. >> reporter: i think some people call it howling. >> no. >> reporter: launched in 2005 when they decided to take in some dogs made homeless by hurricane katrina. how long were you planning to be involved? >> a couple weeks. >> reporter: but there was always another dog in need of rescue and they decided the best way to prepare any dog for a new

family was to welcome it into their own. >> by living in our house, number one, they get a lot of human contact. number two, they get pack contact from the other dogs. >> reporter: since 2005 danny and ron have taken in and adopted out more than 11,000 animals. sounds expensive. >> it's very expensive. >> reporter: which is why they also recently welcomed in some film makers. money from "life in the doghouse," the documentary, will go to shelters including their own. do you feel like you get as much from these dogs as they get from you? >> we get a lot more from them than i think we give them. >> reporter: turns out, not everything in the doghouse is for the dogs. tony dokoupil, cbs noorks, south carolina. >> that is the overnight news for this friday, august 31st. for some of you, the news continues. for others, check back with us a little later for the morning

news and you don't want to miss "cbs this morning." from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm john dickerson. >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." >> good morning. it's friday, the 31st of august. i'm jericka duncan with the overnight news. the flag draped casket of senator john mccain has returned to the nation's capital from phoenix, arizona. this after people in his adopted home state gathered to say a final good-bye. they recalled mccain's service to the country and his straight talk. nancy cordes was there. >> my name is joe biden. [ laughter ] i'm a democrat. [ laughter ] and i love john mccain.

>> reporter: in a church filled with thousands of mourners, the former vice-president described a bipartisan bond forged 40 years ago when a newly released p.o.w. began accompanying a young senator biden on diplomatic trips. >> we both cockeyed optimist and really believed there is not a single thing beyond the capacity of this country. >> reporter: he wasn't the only one to recount a seemingly unlikely friendship with mccain. >> i'm glak. -- black. he was white. [ laughter ] i'm young. he wasn't so young. [ laughter ] >> reporter: larry fitzgerald is a star wide receiver for the arizona cardinals. >> what made senator mccain so special was that he cared about the substance of my heart more so than where i came from. >> reporter: tommy espinosa is a local latino activist who met the republican lawmaker in the 1980s. >> john says, i want you to speak on my behalf at the republican convention.

[ laughter ] i said, senator, i want to remind you, i'm a democrat.% [ laughter ] >> reporter: there were readings by two of mccain's seven children. >> chapter 3 and verses 1 through 2. >> i have fought the good fight. i have finished the race. i have kept the faith. >> reporter: and a larger lesson, biden said, about putting principle before politics. >> reporter: he could not stand the abuse of power, wherever he saw it, in whatever form and whatever country. >> reporter: mccain has now left his beloved arizona for good. 300 national guard members saluting as his casket was loaded onto a government jet, bound for washington, d.c. where he will lie in state at the u.s. capital. >> that was nancy cordes recording.

president trump isn't hitting pause on politics even as the nation mourns senator john mccain. the president held a campaign rally in evansville, indiana last night. trn by name. the president is not expected to attend mccain's memorial service at the national cathedral later today or his funeral at annapolis on saturday. well, a 68-year-old california man has been charged with making multiple violent threats against workers at the boston globe. robert chain of encino was arrested yesterday. prosecutors say he threatened to travel to the newspaper's office and kill journalists whom he called, quote, the enemy of the people. here's nikki battiste. >> reporter: in the early morning hours, this california home was under siege. the focus was 68-year-old robert chain, who prosecutors say made 14 threatening phone calls to the boston globe's newsroom. are e of the peopl al eve 16th,,

you in the expletive head later today at 4:00. the call came the same day the boston newspaper published this full-page editorial, appealing to newspapers across the country to condemn president trump's constant attacks on the press. >> because they are the fake, fake, disgusting news. >> reporter: more than 400 newspapers answered the globe's call. alex king bury is on the paper's editorial board. >> the president says things liken am like enemies of the people. that should be deeply alarming to everyone. >> reporter: in another call six days later, chain said, as long as you keep attacking the president, i will continue to threat, harass, and annoy the boston globe. >> with a shotgun, green pants. >> reporter: chain's threats started just six weeks after a lone gunman shot and killed five employeest the "capital

gazette" newspaper in annapolis. records show chain owns multiple firearms and purchased a new 9 millimeter rifle in may. a family facebook page photo shows chain and his son holding guns. tim mcgowan has been their neighbor for nine years. >> i always thought he was a loud harmless guy. but apparently he talked a little too loud at the wrong people. >> reporter: a statement from the department of justice said chain's arrest should serve as a warning to others that making threats is not a prank, it's a federal crime. >> that was nikki battiste reporting. aretha franklin's funeral is set for today in detroit. yesterday workers carefully moved franklin's polished casket to her father's church where it lies in repose. thousands have paid their respects to the queen of soul since her death on august 16th. franklin was 76 years old. to florida now where it didn't take long for the state's governor's race to become heated

and personal. >> the last thing we need to do is to monkey this up by trying to embrace a socialist agenda -- >> reporter: that comment by ron desantis wednesday came in response to a question about his opponent, tallahassee mayor andrew gillum, florida's first black good to ubernatorial nomi. >> do you thinks his comments were racist? >> i've been in politics a long time. i've seen these kinds of ploys and tactics before. i think it is beneath the intelligence of floridians. >> reporter: he linked the language to his most high profile supporter. president donald trump. >> i believe that the citizens and the residents of this state are going to send a very convincing message on november 6, that we reject that kind of hatred. >> reporter: the president reiterated his support foredesantis on wednesday, but did not address desantis's controversial comments. >> ron desantis, the candidate you endorsed, he said it's not time to monkey around with the

economy down in florida. >> no, i didn't hear. >> i made an'ear that, jim. >> reporter: gillum is an outspoken progressive. >> the next governor of the state. >> reporter: endorsed by vermont senator bernie sanders. desantis said his comments were about just that. gillum's politics. >> it has zero to do with race, sean, it has everything to do with whether we want florida to continue to go in a good direction, building off the successor do we want to turn to left wing socialist policies. >> reporter: our request to interview desantis was declined. his campaign did say any attempts to characterize his comments as racist were, quote, absurd. there were 68 days until voters here head to the polls. manuel bojorquez, cbs news, tallahassee. >> in other news this morning, mission accomplished. nasa says a small air leak aboard the international space station has been fixed. it was detected wednesday night. the orbiting outpost is home to

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>> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news". >> the flag draped casket of senator john mccain has arrived in the nation's capital. today the one-time republican standard bearer war hero and p.o.w. will lie in state in the capital rotunda. he is only the 13th former u.s. senator granted this honor. yesterday in phoenix, arizona, people in his adopted home state said their final good-byes. speakers at a memorial service included family and friends. >> my name is joe biden. [ laughter ] i'm a democrat. [ laughter ]

and i love john mccain. john's story is the american story, grounded in respect and decency, basic fairness, the intolerance of the abuse of power. many of you have traveled the world. look how the rest of the world looks at us. they look at us as a little naive, we're so fair, we're so decent. we're the naive americans. but that's who we are. that's who john was. and he could not stand the abuse of power. >> many people might wonder what a young arp african-american kid from minnesota and a decorated war hero turned united states senator might have in common. well, i thought of a few. i'm black, he was white. [ laughter ]

i'm young. he wasn't so young. [ laughter ] he lived with physical limitations brought on by war. i'm a professional athlete. he ran for president. i run out of bounds. [ laughter ] >> that was larry fitzgerald of the arizona cardinals. for more on the friendship between the superstar and the maverick senator, here's jamie yuccas. >> do you consider john mccain ? >> absolutely. you look in the dictionary, it's him standing next to us. >> reporter: they were friend for more than a decade. but when the two first met, mccain had already been in the senate for almost 20 years while fitzgerald was an unknown rookie. >> i wasn't like any star by the imagination. i was just another player. >> reporter: there are some people who would say what an unlikely friendship with your two backgrounds. do you feel that way? >> yeah, i do.

and he wanted to know how i was doing, what my plans weredehip these things that i didn't necessarily think i needed. but he saw that i needed it and he took it upon himself to kind of impart some of that wisdom to me. >> reporter: fitzgerald was so moved by mccain's interest in him that he decided in 2013 to visit vietnam, to see where mccain was held as a prisoner of war for 5 1/2 years. >> to be able to see it personally, it made a profound impact on me. >> reporter: what are you going to miss most about him? >> just his charisma, his intelligence, his insightfulness, sacrifice, not only himself, his time, his health, his well-being for this country. he's going to leave a lasting legacy. >> reporter: they kept in close touch over the years. the senator praised fitzgerald when he introduced him at a mccain institute forum in 2015. >> one of the enduring heroes and role models, without further

ado, i'd like to introduce you to larry fitzgerald. >> reporter: the senator would often show up at arizona cardinals games. fitzgerald last visited mccain and his wife cindy at their home in sedona in february. >> why is this happening to me, larry? all the dedication, all the sacrifice i made, why me? he never said that. >> reporter: what was the lesson you learned? >> the thing i took away that always resonates with me is the strength he always showed. the strength of dealing with the ordeals of being a p.o.w., the strength of being graceful in defeat, the strength to overcome and to be classy and a good sport and just be respectful of other people's feelings. >> reporter: over the weekend fitzgerald joined his teammates in observing a moment of silence. he says he's tremendously humbled that his good friend wanted him to deliver one of today's eulogies. >> i don't think i'm worthy to be up there to be honest with

you. i'm really humbled by it. >> reporter: is there something within the speech that you're going to present and hope people think about? >> i think just embrace the differences, you know. there are so many differences between the two of us and it didn't matter, you know. it's about just loving people for who they are. and i think i'm going to do my best to convey that message. >> reporter: jamie yuccas, a women's natural lubrication varies throughout her cycle. this can effect how pleasurable sex can be.

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50 years ago this week, there was a political earthquake in chicago. it came at the end of a violent week in the summer of a violent year. chicago-born scott simon takes us back in time. >> the whole world is watching. >> reporter: worlds collided in the 1968 democratic convention in chicago. young and old. war and peace. law and order. >> you can't take that week in isolation. >> '68, one of the most dramatic and traumatic years in the nation's history. >> on to chicago and let's win there. >> it kind of all rolled in chicago, you could feel it coming. >> reporter: bill daily who

would become president obama's chief of staff was a college student and spent the convention at the side of his father, chicago mayor richard j. daily. >> we knew there was going to be an enormous challenge on the streets and my father believed that he was the defender of the city. >> no more war. >> the peace groups are demanding permission to march on convention hall the night they nominate their candidate for president. >> reporter: thousands of protesters expected, 12,000 chicago police officers were deployed along with the national guard. >> a democratic convention is about to begin in a police state. there just doesn't seem to be any other way to say it. >> the country was being torn apart by the vietnam war. >> reporter: not long before joining cbs news, bob schieffer was a young reporter in 1968 attending his first national convention. >> it was supposed to be a place where the democrats were going to get their business all together, but everybody knew it was going to be difficult. >> i will not accept the

nomination of my party for another term as your president. >> reporter: president johnson was forced out by the success of senator eugene mccarthy in new hampshire. robert kennedy was assassinated the night he won the california primary. vice-president hugh bert humphrey didn't enter any primaries, but was favored to win the nomination. >> hubert humphrey was the establishment and he represented the big bosses and the traditional democratic party, the politicians, the big city mayors. they were certainly not satisfied with gene mccarthy. his sole campaign was, i'll end the war in vietnam. >> reporter: the city said in a year of assassinations and riot it couldn't grant permits to protesters to march on the convention or sleep in city parks. >> we knew the convention was coming to town and we knew there was probably going to be some problems. we were getting pelted. >> reporter: bill was a rookie police man in 1968 hosted to the

protests in grant park. >> i had come home from korea. i was stationed on the dmz. and the next trip all my buddies went to vietnam. >> reporter: wednesday night, august 28th, the confrontation that had been building all week probably all year, burst open on the street between grant park and the convention headquarters hotel. >> the first step he said, clear the streets. after the final warning he said if you don't move out of the street, my officers are going to clear the street. and that's what we had to do on that night. >> they were just swinging their clubs like a bunch of idiots. >> the problem wasn't the regular people. the problem was the agitators and there were a lot of them. my partner next to me, he caught a house brick in the chest. they had to take him to the hospital. >> the notion that anybody came

to the party with the idea of a big fight is wrong. >> reporter: marilyn katz was the 23-year-old head of security for students for democratic society. >> i understand that they felt that, one, they should keep control of their city and the democratic party and the mayor was saying, we're counting on you to keep things in order. there was no excuse for beating us. >> reporter: did you ever see anyone throw anything at those o off ers? >> yes, i did. if i had something, i would have thrown it back, too. we did nothing. >> reporter: the violence was seen all over the world and at the convention. >> i just received some film of police and the demonstrators. >> reporter: where anti-war protesters erupted. >> we wouldn't have to have gestapo tactics in the streets of chicago. >> reporter: despite the uproar, humphrey won the democratic

nomination by more than a thousand votes. but -- >> once all these riots had broken out and all this trouble happened in chicago, the nomination wasn't worth the paper it was written on. >> when it goes that far, it's time to make a change. >> reporter: richard nixon ran on a law and order platform and won the presidency in a close election. at the end of 1968, a special commission called what happened that night on the streets of chicago a police riot. bill, who would be decorated in 1979 for taking two bullets to free 13 hostages says -- >> well, it wasn't the police riot. >> reporter: and marilyn katz, now a well connected public relations executive, agrees. >> i think it puts too much blame on the individual cops. i think that, that daily made a mistake. he really wanted to maintain

control of his city and demonstrate it. >> reporter: richard j. daily would be reelected twice after 1968, but his actions at the democratic convention he brought home that year would stain his image and history and the party and city he loved. did your father ever have second thoughts about his actions or anything he should have done differently? >> probably regret -- he said that. he was defensive around the police action because he thought that they were provoked, challenged. yeah, he wish it didn't happen. >> in the heat of emotion and riot, some policemen may have over reacted. >> but he was not something to go back and anguish over decisions made. in those times with the energy, things were black and white. there was good, there was bad. cops are bad, you know, demonstrators are good. >> reporter: i remember. >> yeah. but life's more gray. >> that was scott simon reporting for cbs sunday

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finally this half hour, 1968 was not only a year of upheaval and politics, it was also the year of the first u.s. open. and nothing has been the same since. >> you'veot to be versatile. you've got to be able to adjust to the conditions. it could be rain, humidity, wind. day session, night session, the crowds. the pressure. you've got to be tough. >> you have to dig in and find that extra gear when you really need it. you have the will to win. >> it looks too easy, doesn't it? he a you have to train. >> game, set mcenrow.

>> with this being the 5th year anniveopen, no one really knows what that means. arthur ashe winning the 1968, the very first open here. being the first african-american male to win a major right here in the united states of america. i'll never forget arthur on the court with his dad after the match. >> she's done it. >> winning the 2017 u.s. open is probably the best memory of my life. >> sloane stevens is the u.s. open champion. >> it's special. a win is incredible. >> my favorite thing about the u.s. open is the fans. i won the junior competition there in 2004, and that was a huge moment for me and i loved

having some of my family there. >> it's the biggest tennis stadium we have in the world of tennis, 23,000 people. [ cheers and applause ] >> when the stadium gets filled up, the night session, it's really quite unique. >> in new york city, i know i'm biased, the greatest city of the woumd. i have to tell you something, there's nothing like the energy here. the lows can be low, but there's nothing like the highs. >> a fantastic backhand down the line. >> caroline says, get up. >> the crowds in new york are rowdy, man. i love it here. >> new york is great for something to happen. and when you ignite the fire, they're all out and i love that about them. >> and that's the overnight news for this friday, the 31st of august. 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 jericka duncan. have a great weekend. ♪ it's id friday, august 31st, 2018. this is the cbs "morning news." tragedy on the interstate. a passenger bus crashes head-on into a semi truck in new mexico and the death toll is rising. plus, honoring a hero, senator john mccain will lie in state today in the u.s. capitol as reflt on rblelife.d colleagues and a night o m h al sce