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be fair in covering the story. my language was harsh. cbs did not like it." i am that reporter. since jeff fager publicly referred to our exchange today, i want to be transparent about it. first, here's some background. sunday evening i reached out to fager for comment on the articles alleging he groped or touched cbs employees at company parties. in addition to denying these charges, fager in a text said to me, "if you repeat these false accusations without any of your own reporting to back them up, you will be held responsible for harming me." he went on to say, "be careful. there are people who lost their jobs trying to harm me, and if you pass on these damaging claims without your own reporting to back them up that will become a serious problem." "60 minutes" will enter its 5 ason uhershi ece pducer begins.

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or face the possibility of the fda pulling flavored products, which experts say appeal to teens, off the market. >> i'm deeply disturbed by what i see as an epidemic of nicotine use among teenagers. >> reporter: the most popular product by far, the juul e-cigarettes. since april the fda has been monitoring juul's advertising. critics say an earlier marketing campaign that featured young people in groups with bright colors echoed past campaigns by big tobacco companies. in an interview earlier this year juul executive ashley gould denied it. >> i will take the criticism that we should have known. i will take that criticism. but we now know we're working very hard and we are committed. >> reporter: data from neelsn shows juul e-cigarettes hold over 72% of the market. matt meyers with the campaign for tobacco-free kids is skeptical that purely voluntary efforts by industry will work. >> fda's announcement has the potential to be a dramatic sea change but only if fda itself

now follows this up with mandatory rules to require tobacco companies to fundamentally change how they're operating. >> reporter: juul says tonight it will work proactively with fda in response to its request and is committed to preventing underaged use of its products. jeff, retail sales for e-cigarettes are expected to reach $3.8 billion by the end of this year. >> all right, anna, thank you very much. and here comes florence as the rain begins during evening news. we're going to be right back with more. sleep disturbances keep 1 in 3 adults up at night. only remfresh uses ion-powered melatonin to deliver up to 7 hours of sleep support. number 1 sleep doctor recommended remfresh --

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there were more protests in dallas today over the fatal shooting of a black man inside his home by a white police officer. demonstrators shut down a city council meeting. the family of the victim gave an exclusive interview today to omar villafranca. >> i am still in denial. i cannot believe that my boy is not here. >> reporter: all bertram and allison jean want to know is why dallas police officer amber guyger shot and killed their son, botham, in his own apartment. >> one of the things i would

like is for amber to just come clean. just surrender. >> reporter: according to the manslaughter arrest warrant, the 30-year-old officer told detectives she returned to what she thought was her third-floor apartment just before 10:00 p.m. on thursday. she noticed the door was ajar and in the dark apartment she saw a large silhouette inside. she thought it was a burglar. after she gave verbal commands that were ignored, she fired her gun twice and killed botham. >> to hear that, you know, his door was open, he would never -- and have the lights off. he would never do that. >> reporter: botham grew up in st. lucia, but the jean family says he was fully aware of the strained relationship between the black community in america and police. >> botham died in a way that he himself had calculated he could never die in. botham's funeral s tomorrow. but rumors of what really happened still haven't been laid to rest. omar villafranca, cbs news,

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director christopher wray is defending the fbi against an onslaught of criticism, including from the president, over its handling of the russia investigation. wray spoke exclusively with "cbs this morning's" norah o'donnell. >> why do you think there are some questions about the reputation of the fbi? >> well, i think sometimes watching the news, and certainly trolling the internet, you would think that the fbi has only had two investigations over the last three years. but i will tell you that when you get out into real america, people know differently. >> you can see norah's interview with wray, including how he deals with criticism from the white house, on "cbs this morning." country.here, as residents race

many have fled the carolina coast in advance of florence, while farther inland rescue teams from around the country are gathering in raleigh. elaine quijano is there.

>> reporter: after 20 hours and two flat tires captain mike jaimieson and his fellow firefighters from south bend, indiana rolled in just after midnight. >> everybody got a cot, n beuse weter going to make it. and we didn't want to come in here dragging. >> reporter: like in hurricane harvey, seeing volunteers come to the rescue has become routine. mike cannon from vermont says hazards will be everywhere. >> there's always something underneath the surface of the water that's potentially going to damage it. so we'd like to be able to stay operational. >> reporter: the call for personnel went out last week. officials are expecting about 1,000 rescue personnel here at this one location in raleigh alone. also en route, 82 members of new york task force one, who were on the road to rescue others as their city marked the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. now comes the part that can sometimes be the hardest, bracing for the unknown. elaine quijano, cbs news, raleigh, north carolina. all right. as we keep watching florence here in the hours and days

ahead, i'm jeff glor in wrightsville beach, north carolina. i'll see you tomorrow morning and tomorrow night. good night. >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." welcome to the "overnight news." i'm vladimir duthiers. the countdown has begun for the millions of people living in the path of hurricane florence. the storm is on a collision course with the carolina coast, and powerful winds are expected to start lashing the shoreline later today. florence is expected to slow down before it makes landfall and possibly stall offshore. dumping up to two feet of rain on coastal communities. as it moves inland, forecasters predict flash floods and widespread power outages. and states of emergency have been declared from georgia to virginia. jeff glor in wrightsville beach, north carolina, begins our coverage. >> as the evacuation orders throughout the region were about to take effect, we found doug

gillstrap, who's ridden out every hurricane here for the last 30 years. >> fran, bertha, floyd, all of them. >> but this could be the worst? >> it has the potential. yep. >> reporter: he told us once his boat is secured, as secure as anything can be in a storm like florence, he's heading a few miles inland, where as of now he's hoping for the best. >> if it comes ashore 4 or plus -- 4 plus or 5, i'm leaving. >> reporter: florence is bearing down with such strength, forecasters say she may literally reshape the carolina coastline. >> i'll be headed to kinston a little later on today. >> reporter: our day began if raleigh, north carolina where we met governor roy cooper at the state's emergency operations center. how worried are you right now? >> oh, i'm very concerned about this storm. >> reporter: the governor wants to avoid a repeat of hurricane matthew two years ago, which killed 26 north carolinians. predictions are for florence to be a far more violent storm. >> are you ready? >> we're ready. we're trying to get those last

stragglers off of the barrier islands. this is what many of the roads look like in north carolina. look at this. on the other side of the highway it's close to bumper to bumper traffic. tochb is in ma it often is in many of these spots. just ahead of us hardly any vehicles. we found ronald bass gassing up then planning to stay put. the 81-year-old barber closed his shop and is planning on hunkering down at home with his disabled 77-year-old wife. >> i feel just as safe at home as i would at a shelter. >> reporter: and just in the path of where florngs is expected to make landfall gordon reddick, also a hurricane veteran, believes he can wait out yet another storm. >> you've got the names of all the hurricanes here. bertha. >> since '93. >> fran, bonnie. how much does this one scare you compared to the other ones? >> well, we've had so many, i mean, i'm not scared. >> you're not? >> no. >> all residents must be off the island by 8:00 p.m. >> when we arrived on carolina beach, the fire department was sounding the alarm.

>> the bridge will be closed to inbound traffic. >> reporter: they passed right by dolly whittington's house. so we stopped by to see if she was evacuating. she is not. >> we have been in some other hurricanes. we're not trying to be heroic or anything like that. but we feel we have just as good a chance here as we would in town. >> reporter: by in town she means wilmington, which is 13 miles away across the snow's cut bridge that will be shut down once winds reach 45 miles per hour. that will essentially leave people like dolly cut off. you know they're talking about potentially a 13 feet storm surge. >> i do. >> reporter: that surge is predicted to hit carolina beach before, during, and after florence makes landfall. battering and inundating low-lying homes with water. storm surge occurs when the force of hurricane winds push ocean water ashore. it's why hanover county commissioner woody white is very worried. >> as you know, most loss of life and threats to life are

from the surge. >> reporter: back here on carolina beach, the evacuation order goes into effect at 8:00 p.m. listen, it's a crime here in north carolina to not follow an evacuation order. but i asked the county executive a short time ago, the county commissioner, are you going to enforce the law, and he said no, we're not. that's where ms. dolly lives. she hasn't changed her mind. she's still inside. in fact, jeff, i talked to her neighbor and i said are you going to stay tuned? he said yeah, i am. he said if it gets bat enough i'll just get my boat. a lot of people in this area are deciding to stay. in other news this morning, another top executive here at cbs is out. "60 minutes" executive producer jeff fager. jericka duncan has the details. >> reporter: jeff fager, the executive producer of the oldest and most successful news magazine program in history, "60 minutes," was fired from news tte in its more than 50 years on air only two people have led that broadcast. fager succeed the show'sreator don hewitt in 2004.

fager also recently served as the chairman of the thbs news division. >> when we cover a story and report it on sunday night and it has impact on monday morning, that's what you hope for. >> reporter: fager hired charlie rose for multiple roles at the network. in november rose was terminated. this july six female former cbs employees told the "new yorker" fager would touch employees in ways that made them uncomfortable after drinking at office parties. 19 current and former employees told "the new yorker" fager allowed harassment in the division. fager vehemently denied all of those claims. fager continued to come to work. on sunday "the new yorker" reported a new accuser said she felt compelled to speak because she simply can't believe fager is back there. the article described her as a producer who was an intern at cbs in the early 2000s who said that he groped her at a work party. in response to that allegation fager told cbs news, "this is an outrageous claim and it didn't

happen. it is wrong." fager's departure comes days after cbs chairman and ceo leslie moonves resigned following allegations of sexual assault and harassment. we caught up with cbs news president david rhodes today after he briefed the "60 minutes" staff. >> i can't talk to you guys about this today. >> reporter: in a statement today, rhodes said, "fager's dismissal is not directly related to the allegations surfaced in press reports, which continue to be investigated independently. however, he violated company policy and it is our commitment to uphold those policies." through his attorney fager told cbs news, "they terminated my contract early because i sent a text message to one of our own cbs reporters demanding that sh. my language was harsh. cbs did not like it." i am that reporter. since jeff fager publicly referred to our exchange today, i want to be transparent about

it. first, here's some background. sunday evening i reached out to fager for comment on the articles alleging he groped or touched cbs employees at company parties. in addition to denying these charges, fager in a text said to me, "if you repeat these false accusations without any of your own reporting to back them up, you will be held responsible for harming me." he went on to say, "be careful. there are people who lost their jobs trying to harm me and if you pass on these damaging claims without your own reporting to back them up that will become a serious problem." "60 minutes" will enter its 51st season under the leadership of executive editor bill owens while the search for a new executive producer begins. will be right back.

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>> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." the citadel in south carolina is one of the nation's premier military academies. it took a federal court order in 1995 for the school to begin admitting women. but they now make up 9% of the student body. and one young woman is head and shoulders above all her classmates. norah o'donnell introduces us to the citadel's first female regimental commander, sarah zorn. >> my full title is cadet colonel sarah zorn, regimental commander of the south carolina core cadets. >> and no woman in the history of the citadel, the 175 years, has ever held that title. >> no, ma'am. >> cadet command sergeant major sarah zorn.

>> reporter: sarah zorn might be a historical first, but in her mind what's first are her fellow cadets. >> i didn't want to do it because i wanted to be this shatterer of glass ceilings or things like that. i wanted to provide the best opportunity to leave the corps better for tomorrow. >> reporter: she grew up in a small south carolina town, in a give the shirt off your back kind of household. the selflessness and determination she developed carried her to the citadel. >> i'm proud to have that title, and i'm humbled to have that title. but i always try to keep in the back of my mind that it's not about what i am, it's about what i do. service to me is selfless. >> i know you've used the word being a servant leader. what does that mean? >> to be a servant leader is to put others' needs before your own. i believe servant leadership is the only successful leadership because no matter your decisions you are making decisions as a

leader on behalf of others. >> reporter: it's that very kind of focus that's earned zorn respect. >> her drive and grace and elegance has just been inspirational to anybody on this campus. >> reporter: but she did face some initial resistance from the long gray line. >> there was a small amount of cadets who were questioning what she would do simply because she was a woman, not because of any of her merit. you about i think as we've progressed throughout -- from last spring till now more and more people have gotten behind her. >> right. >> reporter: and yet zorn's rise to top cadet is remarkable. >> ready. >> reporter: given that a little more than 20 years ago she wouldn't have even been welcome in the corps. in south carolina this is the day shannon faulkner says she has been waiting for. >> reporter: after a legal battle shannon faulkner won the right to become the first woman to join the citadel. she left after five days. are women treated equally here? >> yes. i would definitely say so. >> but that wasn't always the

case at the citadel. >> no, it wasn't. there is a long and lengthy history of the struggles women felt here. >> left. >> i feel like we've come 180 degrees from where we were 20 years ago. >> this is where you do a lot of your marching? >> yes. this is where we do a lot of our training throughout the day. ♪ >> reporter: each day begins at 5:00 a.m. >> medical review -- >> reporter: -- with a full course load, regimental commander duties, and workouts sometimes twice a day. zorn performs at the very top of the corps in physical fitness. >> you want to break the 90 degree. >> reporter: and can do 65 push-ups in two minutes. more than three times the minimum for women. >> wow. >> reporter: and she has been training in karate since she was 10. >> so do you have a black belt? >> i do. i have three. >> you have how many? >> three. >> reporter: martial arts, she says, teaches her patience and self-discipline. >> your sensei, your teacher,

said that you are the most motivated person that he has ever met. >> motivation is a desire not to disappoint. you don't want to disappoint yourself. because you realize what you're capable of. >> reporter: zorn gets her mental toughness from her mother, who died when sarah was 16. she credits her mom, an air force veteran, for instilling in her a strong sense of patriotism. >> what would she think of you being here at the citadel? >> she'd be immensely proud of me. immensely pr lly proud of me. >> i'm proud of everybody here. >> i hope to be a person of service, empathy, kindness, because i think those are some of the fundamental things that people need in this world right now. >> whoo! >> a little moreleership. >> a little moreleership. a little more e when your blanket's freshness fades before the binge-watching begins...

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business or financial assistance that will help empower me." to which ben insincerely responded, "how can i help?" >> you didn't mean that? >> well, i wanted to see how does this whole scam operation work and how do they bait people? >> you were just curious? >> i just wanted to go down this rabbit hole and see what are the tricks they use to get people? >> and there's no way you could have guessed where that rabbit hole was going to go. >> there's no way i could have guessed. >> reporter: the journey began when joel in africa proposed a business partnership. he asked ben to mail used electronics to someplace in new jersey. supposedly, the electronics would be resold and the profits split. >> i looked it up on google earth. it was just in a sketchy part of town. broken down cars every place. >> reporter: street view even had a cop checking out the joint. still joel insisted he would never take advantage of anyone. bible says in proverbs 22 a good name is better than silver and gold joel wrote. of course ben didn't buy a word of it. so he proposed a different

partnership. he lied to joel, told him he owned a photography business and could use some pretty pictures. >> how about a sunset? how about a nice liberian sunset? >> you were going to pay him for the pictures? >> yeah. if i like it, sure. >> you're just trying to keep him busy so he doesn't rip off somebody else. >> i figured the more time of theirs i could waste the less time they'd spend ripping me or other people off. >> reporter: eventually joel sent two sunset photos. we think. >> i think there's a sun somewhere in there. >> reporter: turns out scenic photography wasn't exactly joel's strong suit. >> that could be a pupil. >> reporter: not that it mattered. and i told him hey, this is great. good job. but you need a little bit better of a camera. >> reporter: so ben actually spent 60 bucks to buy and mail him this shiny red one. >> now, this has gone beyond wasting his time. now you're wasting your time. >> yeah. i'm investing my money, my family thinks i'm crazy. because i'm interacting with this guy in liberia. >> reporter: but joel didn't think it was crazy at all. he wrote, "i've decided to

really commit and devote myself to this business. what other pictures you want me to take?" ben replied, "we've got to work on your photography." and eventually, joel did get better. >> yeah, these are actually pretty good. >> reporter: which posed a big problem. >> when he put in the work, i thought, oh, no, now i've got to figure out a way to compensate joel for these pictures or i'm going to be the scammer. >> well, the final copies are in -- >> reporter: so ben took to youtube to sell a booklet he made using the pictures. he called it "by de grace of god," a phrase borrowed from joel's messages. the plan was to sell a few dozen copies to friends and family. until sales exploded. >> people from around the world in places i never even heard of were buying joel's book. >> reporter: soon they raised $1,000. ben told joel he could have half. and the rest, well, joel would get that too. but with a catch. ben told him he had to donate . and so with that intention in

mind ben wired the money. at this point you need to know, $500 is like a year's salary in liberia. so really, it's kind of ridiculous to expect an unemployed impoverished hustler to just give all that money away. the fact is ben never thought he would. until another batch of pictures arrived. there were book bags, notebooks. he cleaned out the market, rented a cap to haul the loot, and blessed five schools with abundance. joel, seen here with a crown inadvertently overhead, turned out to be more savior than scammer. >> he came through. >> you were wrong about him. >> he showed me that there was a different side to him. >> reporter: for ben it was such a revelation. >> so here we are. >> reporter: he did something he could have never imagined just a few months earlier. he traveled to monrovia, liberia, set aside his doubt and

distrust, and opened his mind to the very real possibility that someone he thought was a bitter enemy -- >> i know you. >> reporter: -- might actually be a friend in disguise. >> joel. how are you doing, man? it's good to see you. >> good to see you. >> reporter: first thing ben learned was that joel never saw himself as a scammer. >> yeah, yeah. >> reporter: joel saw his trolling more like a friend search. >> were you looking for a friend or were you looking for somebody to give you some money? >> person's got to be my friend before -- >> before they'll give you some money. >> before they're going to give me some money, yeah. >> reporter: somehow you found ben on this phone? >> on that old dinosaur. >> facebook on there. >> yes. >> reporter: joel used to send facebook messages to strangers, hoping to find some way, someone to help him out of poverty. >> how desperate were you? >> more than desperate, steve. because i'm a family -- i'm a father of seven. to feed a kid, a lot of things go into your mind. >> like what? >> go and do this. the wrong thing. >> there it is. >> reporter: fortunately, by de grace of god, it never came to

that. >> here's the book that made it all happen. >> reporter: they've now sold nearly 6,000 copies, which means this unlikely pair must now come up with a plan for their publishing enterprise. some of the profits will go toward scrolljoel's basic needs. clieng rain out. >> brand new roof. >> that looks good, man. >> reporter: but they decided most of the money should be reinvested in the community. liberia is one of the poorest nations in the world. half the country survives on less than $2 a day. ben and joel want to continue helping the most vulnerable. these are the children who got those school supplies. >> hello. >> reporter: they would like to do more for them. >> we appreciate it so much. thank you. >> joel had to do a lot of work to make it happen. >> reporter: they're also granting micro loans to young entrepreneurs in joel's neighborhood. >> you're going to keep helping them, right? >> and hope to do a whole lot more. >> i want to come back. >> reporter: because ben is no longer the cynic who started all this. >> that's just not me.

i've changed. i set out to embarrass the guy. i end up helping a guy. i would much rather continue to help people. you feel good when you help others. >> reporter: and as for joel, he says he's changed too. >> bedroom. >> reporter: although he still has to support his wife and seven kids on what most of us spend at starbucks. >> they share this area here? >> yeah. >> reporter: joel says he's okay using much of the money to help others. in fact, he says the opportunity to be charitable may be the best thing to come from this. >> i'm the one that's giving now. >> yeah. at one point he sent you $500 and he told you to spend the money not on yourself but on others. >> yeah. >> why didn't you keep that money? >> it's stealing. and that would be dishonest. when you are truthful, you are honest, from nobody you can be somebody. from zero to be a hero. i have found from zero to hero.

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>> i was standing on the field, and i closed my eyes and a breeze came by and i heard the crowd roar, and i was like, ah. >> reporter: the los angeles rams tell us tryouts have always been open to everyone but quinton and napoleon, both classically trained dancers, were the only men who ever showed up. and the ladies say the guys fit right in. >> we all get along really well on this team. we call ourselves a ramily for a reason. >> ramily. >> yeah. it's a thing. >> it is a thing. >> to have the first male cheerleaders officially on an nfl team, that's huge. rams, we're making some moves. >> reporter: the move toward gender inclusion comes after a season of lawsuits and complaints filed on behalf of nfl cheerleaders. six former houston texans cheerleaders claim they endured brutal working conditions. >> we were bullied and we were body-shamed for $7.25 an hour. >> reporter: and a former miami dolphins cheerleader claims she was discriminated against based

on her religion. others are fighting double standards tied to their weight and wardrobe. >> i felt humiliated and ashamed of my own body. >> i quickly just ran to twitter and there are people that think you guys shouldn't be out there, that it's about the girls and it's about them being sexy and out there. >> yeah. >> how do you take that? >> i don't. i don't take that. i don't have to. being an artist you have to have tough skin. if someone says anything negative it's nothing new. you brush it off. >> there's nothing you can tell me that's going to hurt because i have the and family and my team. >> quinton, who teaches dance, is proud to be making room on the sidelines for a new generation of cheerleaders. >> for me to be able to inspire my kids and say honestly you can really do anything because if i can do this the world is yours, take it. take a risk. >> reporter: and that is something to root for.

jamie yuccas, los angeles. >> whoo! >> leave those moves to the professionals. that's the overnight news for th it's thursday, september 13th, 2018, this is the k morning news. hurricane florence is closing in on the carolinas. the extremely dangerous storm is set to strike but not everyone has evacuated. a mass shooting in california leaves half a dozen dead. now investigators are trying to figure out why. and another shake-up at cbs as the executive producer of 60 minutes is fired.