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forces because they're being trained to think and fight like americans. if only there were more of them. they're stretched beyond the limit. this elite squad of about 50 is about all there is to take care of kabul. the regular afghan army numbering more than 200,000, has suffered from a series of taliban surprise attacks. in just one week last month, the taliban killed 200 afghan soldiers and police. the taliban is now openly active in 70% of afghanistan, far more than when the majority of american and nato combat troops left in 2014. there are only around 14,000 u.s. troops left primarily to train and advise afghan forces.

the taliban have also reached the outskirts of the capital where a cbs local cameraman conducted a rare interview yesterday. our 17-year islamic war will turn to terror. if they don't leave we have 1 sthou suicide bombers to sacrifice their lives. we traveled to the one district in kabul that comes under attack more than any other. this tiny office is actually the nerve center where police chief bez mill a taban keeps track of the map with post-it notes and christmas lights. >> three suicide attacks in one day. one here, here and here. >> reporter: and a reminder of the dangers he faces coming to work every day sits on his desk, the photo of his former commander. >> he was killed. >> reporter: he was killed? >> yes. >> reporter: so your commander was killed? >> yes, in a suicide bomb. >> reporter: now it's your job?

>> yes. >> reporter: it may be america's longest war, but it's one being fought over here on afghan soil. and nobody is more tired of the fighting than the afghans themselves. charlie d'agata, cbs news, kabul, afghanistan. >> the 9/11 attacks ushered in a new era of security at airports. new facial technology is showing early signs of success, but there are critics. here's chris van cleave. >> reporter: in the last three weeks, new facial recognition technology at washington's dulles airport has caught two imposters trying to illegally enter the u.s. yesterday it was a woman from ghana with someone else's passport. last month with his real identification hidden in his shoe, a 26-year-old man from the republic of congo tried to enter with a french passport. >> we're using it for security purposes, to make sure visitors actually depart the country timely, but also trying to make sure we avoid any i am pos torz, someone using a document that doesn't belong to them to enter the u.s.

>> reporter: customs border protection is testing the system at 17 airports nationwide. the technology takes a picture of the tropical storm laner and compares it against a database, pass tort or visa pictures belonging to people scheduled to fly that day. it is optional for u.s. citizens. pictures are stored for no more than 14 days. >> the facial recognition is very accurate. even an older photograph we're seeing very, very high match rates, 99% plus if you have a photograph of that traveler. >> reporter: but there are concerns that may not be true and could lead to technology falsely flagging minorities more frequently. the aclu put every member of congress through a different racial recognition system. 28 lawmakers were misidentified as people who had been arrested. a disproportionate number of those were people of color. another was senator ed markey. >> go slow, build in the protections. it's better to be able to ensure americans that their privacy, the privacy of innocent americans is not beingay t stem can worko second w should

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property. bobbitt had filed suit, claiming the couple spent more than half the money. last month on nbc, mark d'amico and kate mcclure denied it. >> have you spent $1 of that on yourselves? >> no. >> reporter: they said they spent some of the money on drugs and now they are getting death threats. >> i think we did the right thing. >> reporter: adrian gonzalez runs a website called go fraud me. everything from faking cancer to lying about funeral expenses. >> i don't believe this will happen again, but i believe it happens on a very small scale pretty regularly on the platform. >> reporter: gofundme tonight confirms that bobbitt will get the total $400,000. they say they will make up whatever he did not receive. jeff, new jersey prosecutors did confirm to me today a criminal investigation is underway, but no charges so we'll see what happens. >> lot of questions here.

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we end here this september 11th in pennsylvania, the site of a new memorial to the heroes of united flight 93. chip reid is there. >> reporter: the names of the 40 passengers and crew members of flight 93 were solemnly read aloud today near the field where their lives were lost. soon after flight 93 took off, it was high-jacked by terrorists. passengers and crew members phoned loved ones and learned

that two planes had already struck the world trade towers. they voted and decided to act. >> they bravely charged the cockpit. they attacked the enemy. they fought until the very end. >> reporter: on sunday, the tower of voices was dedicated here. the final piece of the memorial. when finished it will contain 40 wind chimes that will sound like this. they are intended to recall the voices of the passengers and crew in their final heart breaking calls and voice mails. >> please tell my children that i love them very much. i hope to be able to see your face again, baby. >> reporter: gordon phelp is president of the passengers of flight 93. his brother was on the plane. what does the tower of voices add to this memorial? >> to me the tower of voices is

a symbol of defiance. 93 feet tall standing at the entrance of this memorial defiantly speaking for our loved ones. >> reporter: loved ones who found heroes within and who will be honored here for countless generations to come. chip reid, cbs news, shanksville, pennsylvania. >> that is the overnight news for this wednesday. for some of you, the news continues. for others, check back later for the morning news and "cbs this morning." from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm jeff glor.

>> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." >> welcome to the overnight news. i'm michelle miller. people who live along the carolina coast are boarding up and getting out. powerful hurricane florence is on a collision course with the outer banks and by the time it hits, most likely friday morning, it's expected to be a monster. evacuation orders have been issued for coastal north and south carolina, and schools and government offices there are already closed. meteorologist megan glaros begins our coverage. massive ir waters. may even potentially get close to category 5 status sometime tomorrow. we're likely looking at a

landfall along the carolina coast line sometime first half of the day on friday, at least as it stands right now. the track has it riding underneath the big bermuda high, and that's steering it west. there is a little low pressure, though, that's managed to develop down in the caribbean and the gulf of mexico that could potentially steer this and turn it a little bit more on off to the west which would change that track pushing it farther south. and these steering currents are expected to sort of collapse over maybe three, four, five days out. that would essentially slow this down as well. essentially what we're looking at, if it does make that sharp kind of turn to the left, then it rides the coast line for longer. it keeps the storm surge going for longer. it keeps those hurricane force winds gng f d an distanc alo the coast lihethere, now, we look at a direct landfall moving inland. here we still have massive rainfall numbers on that, especially as it gets into the north carolina mountains and up into the virginia mountainous

areas as well. best scenario it rides north keeping it up the atlantic. none of the scenarios look good. >> reporter: by early morning in myrtle beach hours before it went into effect, traffic was bumper to bumper. locals and tourists were fleeing the coast. but by afternoon it was flowing smoothly. after officials reversed the eastbound lane directing both lanes west, away from the ocean. this mother from ashboro, north carolina was told the leave the breakers hotel where she had been vacationing it family. >> the only reason we're style here, we have a 7 month 0 old baby. they're giving us a few minutes. >> reporter: did the hotel tell you to get out? >> get out, yes. >> reporter: myrtle beach is a hot spot for tourists. it looks like most have left. the locals are not leaving. i assume you're staying with

these groceries. >> we are. >> reporter: that's where we met mike white. >> make sure we have the bases covered. >> reporter: might be a wild ride. >> we have two generators, gasoline, everything is filled up. if i need more gas i'll take it out of the vehicle. >> reporter: for people who decide to stay, emergency officials are warning them of the risk. >> hurricane storm will target the carolinas, it's been decades. >> reporter: tonight along ocean boulevard in myrtle beach, it is eerily quiet. look, if you decide to stay behind you're not going to get arrested or ticketed. there is no penalty for that here in south carolina. but know this, when that storm makes landfall, if you get into trouble you may be on your own because first responders may not be able to respond to you for their own safety. so if you stay, there could be moments where you're on your own. >> the safety of american people is my absolute highest priority. we are sparing no expense. we are totally prepared.

we're ready. we're as ready as anybody has ever been. >> reporter: all day we've watched people scramble out of the outer banks. a quarter million people have been ordered inland. yes, as always there are hold outs. we've met them. but along a coast line often battered by hurricanes, florence looks scary. governor cooper urged everyone to take it seriously saying, this is a monster storm. it is big and it is vicious. one worry with florence, the storm surge here could reach 12 feet. another worry, if florence stalls off the coast and dumps heavy rains as hurricane matthew did two years ago, inland flooding typically a hurricane's top killer then becomes a major worry. many evacuees plan to head hundreds of miles inland to feel safe. as of 7:00 a.m. tomorrow, the major bridge to this part of the outer banks becomes one way. jeff, deputies will be posted to stop anyone from coming onto this barrier island except emergency crews.

>> in other news this morning, americans mark 17 years since the attacks of september 11th. there were solemn remembrances in lower manhattan, the pentagon and shanksville, pennsylvania. the terrorist strikes touched off what is now the longest war in u.s. history. charlie d'agata is in afghanistan. >> reporter: they're afghanistan's most powerful weapon in the fight against taliban and isis militants. a s.w.a.t. team off the leash, crisis responding swarms onto the scene at the first sign of trouble. when a terrorist attack -- this unit is the one to stop it. they react within five minutes of getting the call. we watched as these u.s.-trained counterterrorism forces responded to a simulated complex attack. it's exactly the kind of training you'd see with u.s. forces because they're being trained to think and fight like americans.

if only there were more of them. they're stracetched beyond the limit. this elite squad of 50 is all there is to take care of kabul. the regular afghan army numbering more than 200,000 has suffered from a series of taliban surprise attacks. in just one week last month, the taliban killed 200 afghan soldiers and police. the taliban is now openly active in 70% of afghanistan, far more than when the majority of american and nato combat troops left in 2014. there are only around 14,000 u.s. troops left primarily to train and advise afghan forces. the taliban have also reached the outskirts of the capital where a cbs local cameraman conducted a rare interview yesterday. our 17-year war will return islamic law to power, said one fighter, if the foreigners don't leave we have a thousand suicide bombers ready to sacrifice their lives.

we traveled to the one district in kabul that comes under attack more than any other. this tiny office is actually the nerve center where police chief bez mill a taban keeps track of the map, post it notes and christmas lights. >> suicide tack in one day. >> reporter: three suicide tax in one day? >> one day. one here, here and here. >> reporter: and a reminder of the dangers he faces coming to work every day sits on his desk. the photo of his former commander. >> commander. >> reporter: commander? >> he also was killed here. >> reporter: so your commander was killed? >> yes, in suicide bomb. >> reporter: now it's your job? >> yeah. >> reporter: it may be america's longest war, but it's one being fought over here on afghan soil. and nobody is more tired of the fighting than the afghans themselves. charlie d'agata, cbs news, kabul, afghanistan. >> the cbs overnight news will be right back. ♪

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>> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." >> the largest trash dump on earth is about twice the size of texas, and it's floating in the ocean between california and hawaii. the great pacific garbage patch contains an estimated 80,000 tons of litter. now there is an effort underway to clean up at least some of it. carter evans has that story. >> reporter: when the ocean clean up project set sale from the coast of san francisco on saturday, boyan slat was there to see the maiden voyage. the dutch entrepreneur came up with it when he was 16 years old. >> i saw more plastic bags than fish and i thought why can't we just clean this up? >> reporter: years of research and development resulted in

this, a 2000 foot-long waste .t much of the 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic floating in an area known as the great pacific garbage patch. why not just take a big ship out there and scoop all this stuff up? >> this area is twice the size of texas. if you were to skim that with boats and nets, it would take around 79,000 years. >> reporter: ahead of the launch, slat took us out on the water to show us how the device was inspired by trash-covered beaches. >> coast lines are very effective ways of catching plastic, but the thing is that in those vast ocean garbage bags there is no coast line to catch any plastics. >> reporter: so you built one is this >> we built our own art firgt collection. >> reporter: it forms a u-shape to corral the litter. it will catch the plastic like a giant trash bag and a ship will then collect it for recycling into products like these sunglasses. the system will be tested in the

next two weeks and if all goes well, the device is expected to arrive at the ctobere frames are the stabilizeers to prevent it from running over. >> reporter: the system is fitted with solar power lights and anticollision systems to keep any ships from running into it. ocean experts are hopeful about the project but quick to point out that plastic is constantly pouring into the world's oceans. >> i think it's very much an idea worth testing. but if we clean that up and don't stop the plastics at the source, we have an even bigger problem. >> reporter: by 2020, slat hopes to deploy 60 of these systems with the goal of removing half of the garbage patch's plastic within five years. but for now he's focused on the system's first haul. >> to finally see it go out is super exciting, but it's nerve racking. we have to prove the technology, the moment of truth is see the first plastic coming back. >> reporter: carter evans,

alameda, california. >> much of the trash in our oceans and land fills is plastic. what can we do about that? here's david pogue. >> reporter: in the 1950s, a new material burst onto the scene that would change the world forever. >> the genius alchemy of coal, it presses the material into a wide variety of materials. >> reporter: yes, it was plastic, cheap, durable, sanitary, strong and light. after 65 years of making plastic, we've pretty much mastered the art. what we haven't yet figured out is what to do with plastic once we're done with it. >> it lasts a really long time. it doesn't biodegrade, so it just sits there. >> reporter: roland guyer, professor of environmental science at u.c. santa barbara has studied how much plastic we throw away. >> we have statistics reaching all the way back to the dawn of

plastic mass production, 1950, and if we add it all together, it's 8.3 billion metric tons. so, if we take that and spread it out evenly over california, the entire state of california would be covered and that would be an ugly sight. >> reporter: about 70% of our discarded plastic winds up in open dumps or landfills like this one. so plastic bag probably used once between the cash register and the car and then how long will it be here in the landfill? >> it will be with us for hundreds of years. >> reporter: but some plastic winds up in an even worse place. the ocean. >> every single year somewhere between 5 and 12 million metric tons of plastic waste enters the ocean. plastic in the ocean has a tendency to break down into other smaller pieces. and these tiny pieces then get taken up even lower down in the food chain. so we know that it ends up on our dinner plates.

>> reporter: there's plastic in my food? >> there is plastic in your food, plastic in your sea salt, plaic your tap. >> reporter: in fact, at this rate, the world economic forum predicts by 2050, our oceans will contain more plastic than fish. but, wait a minute. don't most people recycle plastic? not exactly. guyer says as of 2017, the world recycles oly about 9% of all our plastic. even if you're good about using your recycling bin, your plastic may never actually get recycled. its first stop is a material recovery facility where glass and plastic get sorted. >> we sort everything, so we will sort hangers, we sort plastic film. we will sort soda bottles, pill bottles, and make individual bales of each plastic. >> reporter: oh, okay.

he's the co-founder of gdb international, a corporate recycling facility in new jersey. >> then it is going to another factory, which is washing it, grinding it, pellet izing it. from there it will go to another company which will make another product or maybe blow another bottle. >> reporter: it's easy and economical to recycle clean, pure plastic. but well over half the plastic we throw in our bins is contaminated by food or paper labels or other materials. for 30 years, we've had an easy solution for disposing of that dirty plastic. and what is the role of china in all of this? >> ah, that is the million dollars question. china was buying 50% of all plastic scrap in the world. that continued for, say, 20, 30 years. and then there was i think a

>> reporter: the 2017 documentary plastic china illustrated the brutale contami that developed nations were selling to china. it showed a desperately poor chinese family eking out a living by hand sorting these mountains of plastic trash. >> the chinese government, the communist party is looking and saying, why are we doing this? >> reporter: there's some national pride. we don't want to be the world's dumping ground. >> yes. >> reporter: so the chinese government announced a new policy. starting on january 1st this year, china stopped accepting other country's plastic unless it's i it's impossibly pure. >> it should not have more than 4% of foreign -- >> reporter: has to be 99.5% pure. >> pure plastic. and then that was obviously unattainable. >> reporter: in his plant, he showed me why. >> right here you have like four

or five different types of plastic. >> reporter: a lot of plastic comes to recyclersogher, imposs separate cost-effectively. so what happens now to the plastic we used to ship to china? not much. a lot of it's just piling up here in the states. >> we still have large volumes of the types of plastic nobody will buy, sitting waiting for somebody to buy them. >> reporter: clay warner is the recycling manager at garden services in salem, oregon. >> and then you have to decide how long are you going to hold onto it before you end up throwing it away. >> reporter: the town had to ask the public to stop putting certain plastic types into their recycling bins. >> first initial reaction from the public was outrage. what do you mean we can't recycle these plastics? >> reporter: meanwhile, smaller recycling centers are simply going out of business. >> if you were selling it to china, there was some revenue coming. now if you're selling it to land fills, sending it to land fills cost money.

so not only now you're not earning, now you are paying to get rid of it. >> reporter: still, roland guyer points out we have overcome environmental nightmares before. >> we banned leaded gasoline. we managed to tackle ozone depletion. i think human kind has a long history of creating big environmental problems, but i think we are also starting to have a track record of solving environmental problems. >> reporter: some larger facilities, like this, have decided to procession the contaminated plastic themselves. >> every year we were making money by selling it to china. now we are making more money by keeping this here, sorting it and making plastic pellets out of it. this china problem is a blessing in disguise. >> reporter: in the big picture, though, it will take effort from every stakeholder to fix the plastics problem. recycler clay warner says the government should play a part. >> i do think, in my own

opinion, that we do need to ban certain plastics and packaging. >> reporter: he says corporations play a part. >> mcdonald's announced by 2025, all our packaging will be made from recycled plastic. >> reporter: and plastic parts maker fred beck says plastic managers themselves play a part. >> yes, the industry is trying to address it. the knives and spoons and forks we see at some of the fast foods, they've gone to those polymers which are biodegradable. it has to happen. i mean, this is all we've got, right? >> reporter: yeah, that's right. >> we cannot imagine life without plastics, but we cannot continue to live our life the way we are. it's not like oh, let's use this planet earth, then we will move to another planet. this is what we have. we need to take care of this.

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this weekend's u.s. open tennis championship may best be remembered for the serena williams controversy. but it was naomi osaka who won and it came on the 50th anniversary of an historic u.s. open. when arthur ashe became the first african-american champion. ashe who died in 1993 may not have gotten that chance if not for his brother's sacrifice. here's james brown. >> reporter: vietnam was an ugly war. >> reporter: in 1967 johnny ashe was a marine fighting in the jungles of vietnam while his older brother arthur was in the army stationed at westpoint. in may they wrote to each other. >> i had said to him in the letter, you know, i got only a couple months left. how much time you got left?

he said, well, i'll have 15 months left when you get back home. so i started thinking about it. >> reporter: he was thinking about protecting his brother from combat. given the military's desire to avoid deploying siblings to a war zone at the same time. >> i went to the first sergeant and said, look, i want to extend my tour in vietnam. i don't want my brother to have to do a tour. and he sat back in his chair and said, well, who is your brother? i said, arthur ashe, jr. >> in addition to being a young army officer, his brother was one of the top amateur tennis players in the world. >> in vietnam, they didn't shoot any bullets with your name on them. they were all sent, to whom it may concern. >> reporter: why were you better situated to handle that than ro >> i wasn't concerned about what happened to me. and de i hn e summer

of 1968, just to time to watch arthur make history as the first african-american man to win a major tennis championship. johnny never told his brother what he did. he only told their father arthur, senior, a widower who raised both boys by himself. >> that picture was evidence of the pride that daddy had. >> reporter: years later arthur senior told his eldest son about his brother's sacrifice. at the u.s. open on monday in arthur ashe stadium, retired captain johnny ashe accepted a westpoint flag in his family's honor. >> i know that they're up there somewhere. the only thing arthur would say is, not bad. >> reporter: not bad at all. james brown, cbs news, new york.

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