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>> reporter: some witnesses say both of the boats had their lights off during the time of the accident. maurice, investigators would not confirm that information, but they did tell us right now their priority is finding those missing boaters. >> mireya villarreal, thank you. pope francis today called for silence in response to allegations that he kept quiet when told that a cardinal was guilty of sex abuse.

battiste. >> reporter: silence and prayers. that's what pope francis recommended to followers monday at a daily mass as a response to those who only seek scandal, who seek only division, who seek only destruction even within the family. his comments come after a former vatican official, archbishop carlo maria vig ann oh, claims the pope was aware of sexual abuse allegations against former washington cardinal theodore mccarrick for five years before asking him to resign in july. >> shame on you! >> reporter: silence and prayer clearly isn't enough for some catholics. a protester interrupted washington archbishop donald wuerla wuerl's sunday mass as the po. wuerl came under fire after a grand jury report last month revealed more than 300 catholic priests abused more than 1,000

children over seven years across six state dioceses. wuerl oversaw the pittsburgh diocese during the time several abuses occurred but he was nota month. what does pope francis need to do to purify the catholic church. >> there was an abuse -- too many abuses, but i think they're being dealt with. what we just saw here was an extremely rapid response by pope francis. >> reporter: university of birmingham theology professor candida moss. >> discontent and ill feeling in the church has gotten to such a fever pitch that people are discussing this as a potential moment of civil war in the american church. >> reporter: in a press release, cardinal wuerl says the pope is the object of ace maurice the pope has not responded to

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on this labor day, there's a fierce reaction to a picture showing an actor at work, not on stage but apparently a hotherjo. here's tony dokoupil. >> reporter: it might have been the stains on his shirt or the name tag or the look of concentration as he priced a shopper's bag of potatoes. but pictures of former "cosby show" star geoffrey owens, cliff huxtable's son-in-law for five seasons, now working as a cashier in clifton, new jersey, stirred people this labor day weekend starting with the customer who snapped these photos and sent them to a tabloid. from learning lines to serving the long line, read the headline. wow, added the picture taker, you ended up as a cashier. actually these pictures tell us almost nothing about where mr. owens ended up or where his long acting career may be headed now. but the reaction to these photos

tells us a lot about what we think of hourly work in this country, and it turns out we're a lot prouder than you might expect. thousands of fans and fellow actors rallied to owens' defense. a fantastic, hilarious actor, tweeted director judd apatow. a fine man willing to work, added fellow actor james woods. people defended not only owens the artist but owens the laborer. a man working as producer emerson collins put it. "family ties" star jusz justine bateman called his cashier job an honest living. and people perhaps more typically attacking each other's views suddenly agreed. there is pride in every job, wrote conservalaura aham. for him. by the way, owens is a yale strained stage actor who has been quoted in the past talking about gaps in jobs much as for the shopper who recognized owens, she's been sharply criticized for sharing his

picture but not by owens himself, maurice. he apparently told her as a cashier, have a nice day. >> very nice. he just might open some doors here. you think? >> some people dangling jobs online. >> tony, thank you. still ahead here, why the man charged in this convenience store killing says he would do it again. what do you mean it's not working out, craig? i just introduced you to my parents. psst! craig and sheila broke up. what, really? craig and shelia broke up!? no, craig!? what happened?

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stand your ground law, but the state attorney later charged him with manslaughter. newly released video of a texas carjacking has an unusual twist. it shows a woman driving a stolen vehicle down a san antonio highway and crashing into a pickup before making a run for it, though, she heads around the car and grabs a baby, car seat and all, from the back. she crosses a street, tries to carjack another vehicle, but police quickly show up. the woman was arrested. the baby was not hurt. colin kaepernick is not on an nfl roster but he does have a he'l campai for the 30th slogan. with the san francisco 49ers, kaepernick sparked the debate over kneeling and protesting during the national anthem. espn reports nike continued paying him even after he left the nfl. up next, the ultimate stress buster. jamie yuccas takes us for a spin.

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>> this is not book club. >> nope. >> you guys aren't soccer moms. >> we might soccer mom on the side, but we skate derby. >> reporter: the team is made up of nurses, waitresses, software engineers, and full-time moms. 52-year-old elianna jameson or foxxy bloxxy brown is on her ninth pair of skates. >> the fact that me taking up more space in the world was a valuable thing on this track was very attractive to me. i'd never played a sport before. >> reporter: tonight is fresh meat night. where those who have never done derby are invited to try and try uuyve bn . d skang derby mean in. >> falling a lot and getting up time and time again. we always tell skaters when they say, i can't do it, we tell them, you can't do it yet. t ge people excited now that the 1970s version of roller derby is

gone. no more fake brawls, fake falls, and trick skating. >> the popularity started to die down. they moved away from the theatrics, and they really turned it into a legitimate sport that showcases the athleticism of the skaters. >> reporter: win or lose for these women, girl power is more than just a saying. it's how you roll. >> good job, guys. >> reporter: jamie yuccas, cbs news, temecula, california. and that is the "overnight news" for this tuesday. for some of you the news continues. for others, check back with us a little bit later for the morning news and of course "cbs this morning." from the broadcast center iew m.

>> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." welcome to the "overnight news." i'm nikki battiste. confirmation hearings get under way today in the u.s. senate for supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh. kavanaugh a staunch conservative would replace justice anthony kennedy, considered a swing vote and moves the high court to the right. dp democrats are already crying foul over being denied access to some of kavanaugh's writings. pareports. >> reporter: president trump was briefly seen at the white house today. his staff said he is working ahead of a busy week in washington. on tuesday, the senate judiciary committee will begin hearings on his second supreme court nominee, brett kavanaugh. he is expected to face questions on abortion, guns, health care, and the president himself. >> we're going to be thorough, and i want it to be done right.

>> reporter: kavanaugh has an extensive paper trail from his decades in public service. he was part of the investigation into president bill clinton and worked in the second bush administration. the white house has provided a record number of documents on kavanaugh but announced late friday that it will withhold 100,000 pages, citing presidential privilege. senator amy klobuchar sits on the senate judiciary committee and claims withholding these documents is highly unusual, and it raised alarm bells among democrats who said such documents provide context into an important part of kavanaugh's career. >> this is a guy that says, one, a president should be able to declare a statute constitutional all by himself, that he's in w out the special couns statute. this is all very relevant and, no, it's not normal. >> reporter: republicans hold a razor thin 50 to 49 majority with one vacancy. senators susan collins and lisa murkowski, both moderate republicans who support abortion rights, could help democrats gain the vote they need to

stonewall this nomination but have signaled they will likely support kavanaugh. the hearing is expected to last three or four days and that leaves republicans with a tight window to get him confirmed before the supreme court term begins in early october. the flags are up along the gulf coast for tropical storm gordon. hurricane watches and tropical storm warnings stretch from south florida all the way tomae from key biscayne, florida. >> reporter: labor day in south florida was a wash. soon after forming off the f u officials to issue warnings about street flooding and shut down some beaches due to dangerous rip currents. typically bustling south beach was empty save for a few drench the tourists like gerry and nicola matthews from ireland. >> we're used to this weather. >> you don't want it on your vacation?

>> no, we don't. >> reporter: the storm also caused more than 375 flights out of south florida to be delayed and canceled more than a dozen. as gordon moves into the warm waters of the gulf of mexico, the concern is it could strengthen before making landfall again. warnings are now up for coastal sections of the florida panhandle, alabama, mississippi, and louisiana. new orleans mayor latoya cantrell says emergency response plans have been activated. >> we've got the pumps and power safe and protect our residents. >> reporter: even as gordon pushes away from south florida, there are still red flag warnings along the beaches here and a flood watch remains in effect until late g is expected to bring more wet misery to thentire neighborhoodo swamps. demarco morgan has the story.

>> reporter: it's being called a 500-year rain occurrence that quickly turned towns into lakes in riley county, kansas. >> it was one of the most significant events that we've experienced. >> reporter: ron fehr is the city manager of manhattan, kansas. >> things got flooded this time that have never been flooded before. >> reporter: hundreds had to be rescued by both when wildcat creek flooded 21 feet above crest. jacob wiener escaped just in time. >> just trying to get all my belongings together. just took the baby and dog and wallet and keys and that's it. >> reporter: more than 300 people have been displayed. floodwaters have ravaged homes and businesses in the area. hundreds are still without power. jason hudson is with the manhattan fire and ht they're il mode. whatever they could carry out on a boat, in a bag, one or two bags, has been kind of the state of mind here. >> reporter: wisconsin is seeing its record with emergency officials putting the damage at $44 million. >> just sounded like a real huge

wind. >> reporter: three tornadoes even touched down in michigan, destroying everything in their paths. that same system was enough for officials to cancel the football game at the university of nebraska's football stadium in lincoln, the first time in school history. each year, about 11,000 americans die from stomach cancer. genetic testing can help identify those most at risk, but then it's up to the patient to decide what to do. dr. jon lapook reports. >> reporter: when erin rosenberg's aunt alice grossman was diagnosed with a genetic form of stomach cancer two years ago, a look at his family tree set off alarm bells. >> you know what, there was that there's a third cousin and another third cousin. all of a sudden, it's a whoa. >> reporter: genetic testing revealed he carried a rare mutation that gave him a 55% to 70% chance of devopcancer s mother, alice, also carries

the mutation. >> you know, my mom -- when i found out the news about me, my mother was very emotional and basically said to me that she was very sorry for passing this on to me. >> reporter: rosenberg then faced a decision. do nothing and hope for the best or do something dramatic just like angelina jolie, who underwent a double mastectomy after testing positive for a gene that carries breast cancer. with a husband and two young boys at home, rosenberg chose not to roll the dice. last august, surgeons his stomach and connected his esophagus to the small intestine. even though his stomach looked normal to the eye, a microscopic examination showed a surprise. >> there were 14 sites of what was described to me asa canc. >> you were going to get stomach cancer. you were in fact developing it.

>> right. once the news sunk in, i literally just thought about the fact that my aunt had saved my life. >> reporter: his aunt died in january. he's doing well but has lost 30 pounds on a restricted diet of seven or eight small meals a day. you normally would have had this. this used to be his typical lunch, a salad platter with a whole bagel. today it's just a scoop of tuna fish. when you look at this, is it like seeing a long lost friend? >> seeing that favorite old pair of jeans. >> yeah. >> kinda. >> yeah. are you going to eat that pickle? >> reporter: dr. jon lapook, cbs news, los angeles. the "cbs overnight news" will be right back. ♪

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>> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." postal workers in a palestinian territory spent labor day working overtime. they were sorting through eight years' worth of mail that was being held by israel. jon vigliotti has the story. >> reporter: a dusty mail room in jericho is buzzing back to life. everything from letters to wheelchairs. thousands of mail sacks from all over the world sifted through and sorted, then loaded on scooters like this individual's and ferried through the winding streets of ramallah to their final destination. recipients look like they've just receive aid messad a messa bottle. in a way, this now old back to school backpack for his daughter

has survived stormy seas. for the first time in eight years, palestinians are receiving international mail. more than ten tons of it have been held in jordan since 2010 because israel, who controls the west bank's border, wouldn't allow its transfer. >> some of them were damaged. some of them have no addresses. >> reporter: this postman now acts as an investigator, piecing together addresses faded by time. >> it takes for me maybe two weeks. >> reporter: israel calls the mail transfer a onetime gesture as it worked to implement a 2016 agreement that would allow a direct delivery between the west bank and jordan. for now, extra post-men have been hired to handle this backlog. in the west bank, progress like these deliveries is a long time

coming. jonathan vigliotti, london. the first grizzly bear hunt in decades has been put on hold by a federal judge. interior secretary ryan zinke pulled the bears off the endangered species list just last year and authorities in wyoming and idaho wanted to start issuing big game licenses. stan bush of our denver station has the story. >> reporter: these are the grizzlies caught in the crosshairs between hunters and environmentists in northern wyoming. >> there's going to be cubs that are orphaned. >> reporter: wildlife photographer tom mangleson secured one of the 22 wyoming permits granted to hunters. his goal, to prevent at least one hunter from killing the animals. >> bears are so special to all these people. this may be the only bear they get to see their whole lives. now, if a hunter takes that bear, he robs that experience from literally millions of people. >> reporter: last week, two days before wyoming and idaho were set to open their first grizzly hunts in more than 40 years, a federal judge issued a 14-day

restraining order saying the threat of death to individual grizzly bears posed by the scheduled hunt is sufficient to justify delay. wildlife managers are asking the judge to allow the killing of 22 bears in wyoming and one in idaho to control the population and eliminate what they say is a threat to humans and livestock. >> the truth about these bears is, i mean, they are very dangerous, and they can do a lot of damage. >> reporter: taylor ingham is a licensed guide for the grizzly hunts. he argues that because of successful conservation efforts there are now too many grizzlies in the wild. >> since the 1970s, the state of wyoming has spent tens of millions of dollars to bring these bears back to the population they are, and it's a success story that we can have a hunting season based on the strong population that we have now. >> reporter: the national park service estimates that the grizzly bear population in and around yellowstone increased from 136 in 1975 to an estimated

757 in 2014. but recently the number has dropped to around 700. mangleson argues the population has not grown significantly due in part to climate change's effect on habitat. he and other environmentalists want the bears to be put back on the endangered species list much the animals were removed last year. >> predators kill the weak and the sick, and we don't. we take the biggest bucks and the biggest bears, and it's sort of anti-natural selection. >> reporter: a decision on the fate of the hunt could come by mid-september. stan bush, jackn,wyoming. in colorado, there's a project under way to save the trout. a disease in the water is threatening to wipe out all the rainbow trout in the state. barry petersen has the story from the black canyon of the gunnison river. >> reporter: joel evans has been fishing this stretch of the gunnison river in western colorado for more than 40 years. like most anglers in these

parts, for him, one species of fish is king. the rainbow trout. what's it like to have a rainbow at the end of this line? >> oh, they're fun. they tend to be more active. they jump more. >> reporter: but in the 1990s, that fight shifted to one between rainbow trout and a parasite that invaded colorado rivers. it causes an aquatic plague where young fish are deformed, swim in circles, and die of starvation. what kind of numbers in decrease did you see? >> literally a tenfold decrease. >> reporter: ever since, colorado fish and wildlife manager renzo has been working to keep the rainbow trout alive through various breeding programs, but at great cost and with only limited success. >> the rainbow trout is hugely important to this state. >> how important? is there a dollar number? es $2 billion to thel, it's

economy. >> reporter: scientists got a major break when they discovered a small, isolated group of rainbow trout immune to the disease in this remote part of the gunnison. there's disagreement over where they came from, but researchers now agree that their mission is almost biblical. turn these few fish into many. >> nice work. >> reporter: that's why biologist eric gardunio is cruising these waters where the immune trout were discovered. capturing healthy female fish and using them to bring tens of thousands of offspring that are also immune to the illness. >> usually we're going to have about a day when thosefemales's here kind of looking for a needle in a haystack. >> reporter: they use this spindly apparatus to send a weak electric current through the water that attracts and then stuns the trout. >> then it's just up to our

netters to be quick with their net and get those fish out of the water as quick as possible. >> reporter: the process depends on touch and time. the touch for getting the eggs out of a female. >> usually it will be about 1,000 eggs per female. >> reporter: and the time, less than a minute to use the male trout to fertilize the eggs. >> the process of life is going at that point. >> reporter: the fertilized eggs are brought to a nearby hatchery where they are cultivated and raised into healthy rainbow trout, ready to stock rivers all over colorado. >> we're starting to develop wild fisheries of fish that can reproduce and survive on their own without our help. we know these fparasite, and we actually seen a threefold increase in the number of rainbows we have since we started doing that. >> reporter: while that's good news for colorado's economy, it means even more to fishermen like joel evans, who know the true value of the sport.

>> it's where it takes you to, places like this canyon. it's the fun of going. it's the adventure. sometimes fishing is just kind of part of it. >> reporter: so with a little luck and a lot of science, they'll be telling fish stories around here for decades to come. barry petersen in the black canyon of the gunnison river, colorado. the "cbs overnight news" will be right back.

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>> reporter: as rod stewart raced to rock and roll stardom, his goal was simple. as he wrote in his autobiography, i wanted to get enough money to buy a car, pure and simple. i could only do two things, sing and play football. and i was too lazy to play football professionally, so music it was. ♪ it all worked out, and in 1971, stewart purchased this rare lamborghini mura. sticker price, a hefty $20,000. ♪ i love you honey >> reporter: next week, that sports car could sell for more than $1.5 million at an auction by r.m. sotheby's in london. >> people are looking for a murex, they're looking for the best one out there. why not buy one that wasac ac i

in the very height of his career in the early '70s? ♪ let it be >> reporter: long before paul mccarthy sang carpool karaoke with james corden, he's believed to have been the original owner of this lamborghini 400 gt, also on the auction block next week. ♪ you were only waiting for this moment to arrive ♪ >> reporter: the former beatle owned the car around the same time the band was working on one of its seminal albums. >> the car was delivered to paul mccarney in march '68, when he was making the white album. >> reporter: the cars themselves are extremely valuable. but when you add the fame of their former owners. ban drive my car ♪ >> reporter: the amount people pay can set records.

♪ beep, beep, beep, beep, yeah ♪ oh, lord, won't you buy me a mercedes-benz ♪ ♪ my friends all drive porsches ♪ ♪ i must make amends >> reporter: while janis joplin prayed for a mercedes, it was her custom-painted porsche that sold for nearly $1.8 million in 2015. ♪ start me up >> reporter: rolling stones guitarist keith richards kept his 1983 ferrari for 34 years before auctioning it off last year for nearly a half million dollars despite one minor flaw. >> a car that is maybe worth $500 the ke ist evete that you smoked tenom yr lifends it to keith richards. well, the car was completel

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many ways of getting in touch with someone instantly that the old snail mail seems to be going the way of the pony express. well, there's one man dedicated to the vintage art of the postcard. steve hartman found his story on the road. >> reporter: generally speaking, postcards are for braggarts. write what you will, but the core message is always the me i'm on vacation. you're not. nah, nah. wish you were here. they really wished you were there, they wouldn't have left you behind. but in valdosta, georgia, we found a man who is bringing a certain sincerity to the petty postcard. his dam pacampaign started in 1. david lassiter had just drped off his oldest daughter at college. she was going to notre dame, and he was going to mush. >> i cried from south bend, indiana, to louisiana with the whole family in the car when i left her, and i missed her. >> reporter: that night he sent

her a postcard. >> then i quit. >> reporter: just as he has done virtually every day sense for all four of his kids. any day they're not with him, he sends cards. nearly 20,000 over 20 years. his daughter, sarah, who lives in savannah, georgia, has actually saved them all on strings and racks and crammed in cabinets. >> there's nothing i love more than just a picture of a building. >> reporter: and almost every card is unique. >> they'll mail anything. >> reporter: on front and back. >> uncle ben's rice box. >> reporter: what did he found to say? >> there's a whole lot of talk about gardening and football. >> apologies to your dad, but that sounds boring. >> reporter: i mean, come on. >> i need a hard laceup shoe. >> reporter: who really cares what happened at the podiatrist. >> he taped my foot and said for me to wear my shoes all the time. >> i don't even know if they read the cards anymore. >> reporter: and he doesn't mind if they don't. david says this was never about conveying new information. this was always about repeating

the same messagever a over and over again. >> when i'm gone, they'll know their daddy loved them. >> reporter: i think they know that now. >> you know, life gets tough, and it's nice to know somebody loves you no matter what. >> reporter: a good reminder to tell your kids you love them as daily and creatively as you possibly can. steve hartman, on the road in valdosta, georgia. and that's the "overnight news" for this tuesday. 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 nikki battiste.

it's tuesday, september 4th, 2018. this is the "cbs morning news." tropical storm gordon lashes florida and takes aim at the gulf coast. today supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh will be in the senate hot seat. democrats are expected to grill the conservative on hot-button issues and how much he could swing the court to the right. and nike makes a controversial move, signing a high-profile new deal with the former nfl player now known more for taking a knee