traditional therapies and anti-depressants like zoloft were useless. >> so i went home and loaded a beretta .9 millimeter and put it to my temple and pulled the trigger. >> fully hoping that you would kill yourself? >> the greatest piece i've ever felt was the microsecond that the hammer felt. >> reporter: why peace? >> i knew it was over. >> reporter: no more pain? >> no more pain. >> reporter: that gun malfunctioned, but he would try again and again. his desperation led him here to this therapy room. >> you ready to take your first cap actual? >> sure. >> reporter: for three sessions six to eight hours apiece under

mdma the active ingredient in ecstasy. finally job lubec-- jon lubecky able to talk about his trauma. >> he was one of my guys. >> reporter: and make progress dealing with it. >> i don't know, i feel normal again if it makes any sense? >> do you feel relaxed? >> i feel mentally relaxed, how about that. >> reporter: i spent eight years planning my own suicide every day and that's gone now, completely gone. >> reporter: and that's because of this therapy? >> absolutely. no other therapy work. >> how is your head feeling, jon? >> fine. >> reporter: ricardo blynn runs maps, a nonprofit advocating for mdma-assisted psychotherapy. what does mdma do? >> starts by reducing activity in the amygdala which is the fear prosying portion of the

brain so people's emotions linked to trauma can be more easily recalled and processed. >> reporter: while one in three vets found bills like zoloft and paxil effective in treating their ptsd the study that included 24 veterans showed ptsd was eliminated in 68% of vets elated treated with the therapy and significantly reduced in the other 32%. >> it's not the mdma and the psychotherapy, a synergistic effect between the third. >> reporter: 16 months after the therapy began it was adma therapy was completed. >> things you eat with a spoon. >> chocolate ice cream. >> reporter: so don't talk to jon lubecky if you think that mdma's classification as a controlled substance renders it inappropriate for treating people with ptsd. when people say it's illegal,

what do you say to that? >> if i told you that i have a treatment that eliminates tumors in 68% cancer patients they would pass a bill legalizing it. >> reporter: mdma-assisted therapy is about to begin its phase three testing. that will involve three more years and 200 to 300 more subjects, but if all goes all adma will be available by prescription as early as 2021. >> i feel like totally normal. >> reporte: jim action rod, cbs news, charleston, south carolina. coming up next, an historic golfer is murdered as she plays a practice round near her school. so you just walk around telling people geico

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>> reporter: she was not only a top amateur golfer from spain who played in the u.s. open in june and named the top female athlete here at iowa state university, but she also found time to major in civil engineering. >> yeah. i want to study engineering. go for it, it's all got. christie martens was her coach. >> she's really special it me, and i really -- i love her a lot and her family so it's really hard to believe. >> reporter: all that promise came to a violent end on monday when police say her body was found about 11 a.m. near the water hazard of the 9th tee of the coldwater golf course. she had been stabbed repeatedly in broad daylight, her golf bag rest on the fairway. police dogs focused on a wooded area nearby and a tent camp of drifters amid the trees. >> officers were in the area of

the camp when they encountered colin daniel richards who had several scratches on his face consistent with a knife. >> reporter: bloody clothes and a knife were also at the campsite. he also has a history of violence and drug use and essentially homeless at the time of his arrest he now lives in jail. investigators say the suspect who just got out of prison in june told an acquaintance he had an urge to rape and kill a woman as he and that acquaintance walked near the golf course. jeff? >> horribly said story, dean reynolds, thank you. when we come back here, why elizabeth smart says she

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elizabeth smart says she has been riding a roller coaster of emotions since learning one of her kidnappers wanda barzee will go free tomorrow after utah officials realized they miscalculated her sentence. her husband brian mitchell is serving life. they held smart for nine months in the early 2000s. in an exclusive interview smart now 30 years old talked to gayle king. >> you said she's showed no remorse to you at all? >> part of her plea deal back when her case came up, it was required for her to write an apology to me, but it was just a very brief i'm sorry for what i've done. the end kind of thing. >> and you felt nothing from

that? >> no, i don't think can you just kidnap a 14-year-old girl and, you know, in the only sit by her while she's being raped but encourage the rapist to continue and do that for nine months with other countless atrocities and then just at the end of it say i'm sorry and really mean it. >> you know, just hearing you say that, you know, as a woman, as a mother, you're a woman and a mother, too, to think that a woman, and she's a mother of six, can encourage a man, her husband, to rape you. i can't even wrap my brain around what that was like or what that did to you. >> from everything that i learned through the trial and everything that i learned being around here, i don't think she deserves that mark of respect to have the title of mother, so she may have birthed six children, but she was certainly no mother. tesla confirmed today the justice department has begun a criminal investigation of the electric carmaker. that is after ceo elon musk

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the emmy awards raft night was interrupted by be a unscheduled romantic comedy starring glenn weiss. here's kevin frazier with more of the story. >> glenn weiss. >> reporter: it began the way most acceptance speeches do. paying tribute to those held dear. >> the person most proud would be my mom and she passed away two weeks ago. >> reporter: and then glenn weiss who won his award for directing the oscars went off script. >> mom always believed in finding the sun shine in things and she adored my girlfriend jan. jan, you wonder why i don't like to call you my girlfriend, because i want to call you my wife. >> reporter: it was hard to tell

who was most shock but as jan benson made his way on stage weiss took out his mother's wedding ring. >> and with moy mom and my parents watching from above, will you marry me? everybody was on their feet yelling and screaming which was great. i'm so happy. >> i didn't see any of that. >> i didn't realize anybody was standing and clapping because i literally just saw you. >> reporter: moments after the big moment that glenn admitted that the stars to align for his primetime proposal. >> real quick, if you didn't win, what was the backup plan? was there a plan "b?" >> the there is no plan "b." our life is a plan "a." >> reporter: which makes this fairy tale ending that much sweeter. kevin frazier, los angeles. >> that makes it for the overnight news for this wednesday. for others the news continues. from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm jeff glor.

♪ this is the "cbs overnight news." welcome to the overnight news. i'm michelle miller. judge brett kavanaugh's nomination to the u.s. supreme court will be must-see ttv on monday when a woman who accuse asked him of sexual assault have been invited to tell their stories to the senate judiciary committee. kavanaugh denies the charges, but senate democrats are calling for an fbi investigation. president trump says the fbi, quote, doesn't want to be involved, and he says he fully supports his nominee. >> hopefully the woman will come forward, state her case. he will state his case before

representatives of the united states senate and then they will vote. >> reporter: nancy cordes begins our coverage. >> reporter: president trump expressed sympathy for his supreme court nominee today but said there's no need to rush his confirmation. >> so we have time available. we will delay the process until it's finished out. >> reporter: as he spoke, the entire senate was in a senate of suspense waiting to see if dr. christine blasey ford would agree to appear next week. >> these are emotional tough things. i'm not going to make her come and testify. >> reporter: democrats want the fbi to examine blasey's allegations before she's grilled by the senate. >> and what republicans are doing to her today is exactly why so many survivors do not come forward. >> reporter: republicans argued democrats are just trying to stall the nomination because the balance of the supreme court is at stake. >> judge kavanaugh has been

through six fbi investigations in the course of his lengthy public career. >> but there's been no investigation into this. should there be one? >> she's going have an opportunity to be heard monday. >> reporter: as kavanaugh huddled again today with white house aides, senators also clashed over who should testify. democrats want to hear from the therapist who blasey confided in six years ago and from mark judge, kavanaugh's high school classmate who blasey says was in the room that night. judge sent a letter to the judiciary committee today to say i never saw brett act in the manner dr. ford describes and do not wish to speak pubically. republicans said they will try to talk to him and others behind closed doors. >> we don't want this to be a three-ring circus. >> reporter: some senators wondered whether dignity is even possible in a hearing this fraught. 21 senators questioning the accuser and the accused about an alleged attempted rape 36 years

ago. hawaii democrat mazie hirono. you're one of four women on the committee. how does that impact the proceedings, if at all? >> of course it helps that there are women on that committee but really, guess who is perpetuating all of these kinds of actions? it's the men in this country and i just want to say to the men of the country just shut up and step up. do the right thing for a change. >> reporter: committee chairman chuck grassley says he has reached out to blasey's attorney more than once about the monday hearing and has gotten no response. gop aides tell cbs news even if blasey decides not to testify judge kavanaugh still wants an opportunity to defend himself before congress and the nation. the remnants of hurricane florence have moved on but the flooding in the carolinas continues, and it's only going to get worse. dozens of rivers are at or near major flood stage, and some

towns are already completely cut it off. dimarco morgan has the story from fayetteville, north carolina. >> reporter: the cape fear river's slow and steady rise continues. it's expected to crest near 62 feet before officials close the person street bridge this evening. onlookers flocked to watch the nearby railroad bridge which might not hold under pressure. >> all that debris is backing up on that bridge. it's going to be a strain on those trusses. >> reporter: but some of the state's infrastructure is holding. >> right here behind me you have the brand-new hope mills dam that controls the water coming from the lake. had it failed it would have sent water rushing downstream flooding homes and businesses, but it appears it's done its job. james gray today removed plywood from the local oppenheimertomete office next to the dem. being this close to a body of water, it would have been worse. >> the creek behind us comes up into our parking lot. >> reporter: five days after

florence made landfall, parts of more than a dozen rivers in the state have reached a stage of major flooding with three more expected to peak in the next two days. >> thank you very much. >> reporter: in wilmington, many residents remain displaced and took advantage of relief distribution centers for supplies in a city that for days had been largely isolated. others are adjusting to the fifth day of floodwaters where this row boat is still the only way for nurse iris locklear to get to work. >> i'll be glad when i can just drive home. >> reporter: you can see behind me the bridge is closed but believe is or not the city is getting back to normal. the night life curfew has ended but the river's crest is expected to come and go so they can get back to the daunting task of recovery. elizabeth smart was 14 years old in 1939 when she was kidnapped and repeatedly raped hover nine months. smart was eventually rescued, and her captors wanda barzee and brian david mitchell were sent to prison. barzee, now 72 years old, is set

to be released today. smart sat down with gayle king to explain why she thinks this woman should remain behind bars. >> you still believe that she's a danger. why do you feel that way? >> i do believe she is still a danger. through my sources i've heard that she's still carrying around this book of revelations that brian mitchell wrote that said that he should kidnap me and not just me but six other young girls and that we would all be his wives. clearly she hasn't threat go. >> reporter: according to the justice system she has served her time, despite the miscalculation that was made and people could say but that's the way our justice system works. she did a terrible crime. she has paid the price. what do you say about that? >> i would say this whole situation, circumstance has really given me a greater appreciation and understanding

for how all of those thousands of victims whose cases never even make it to court, whose perpetrators are walking free from the day that they violated them or raped them or kidnapped them or hurt them in any way and nothing was ever done, and this case did. this case did receive some measure of justice, but i think it's given me a greater compassion and understanding for how all of those victims and survivors must feel and it makes me really think that i don't think that this justice system is a victim's system. >> reporter: you've also said that you're grateful for the experience. help us understand that. >> i mean, it changed me as a person. i wouldn't have the voice that i have today. i wouldn't have the compassion or the empathy that i have

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the new call year is well underway, and some students and former students in detroit are paying close attention to a lawsuit winding its way through the federal appeals process. it claims access to literacy is a constitutional right and that many minority kids in detroit were denied that right. >> everybody ready? >> there is no escaping the alarming fact that person formance at many detroit public schools is sagging. >> i've often had a conversation with my students. they will say, you know, we feel like people don't care about us. we have a book from when bill clinton was president and it's actually the same book i used

when i was in middle school? >> reporter: you're kidding. >> no. >> reporter: although relocated to another detroit school rodney fresh used to teach at one of the schools named in a class action lawsuit which accuses the state of systemic, persistent and deliberate failure to deliver instruction and tools essential for access to literacy which serve almost exclusively low-income children of color. >> it wasn't just like one or two students. >> reporter: how many students are we talking? >> 40 to 50 students anywhere between a first grade and sixth grade level in the tenth or 12th grade. >> reporter: you welcome this lawsuit? >> yes. >> reporter: superintendent of detroit public schools nikolay beatty who was appointed just last year is attempting an overhaul. >> walking into a system that was not run appropriately gives me evidence that decisions were made not in the best interest of children. >> reporter: but you've gone one

step farther. you said that the policies in place were racist? >> i have, and they are, because -- because the governance system that existed in detroit would never ever have been acceptable in any suburban district in this country anywhere. >> reporter: government figures suggest detroit children are falling behind. only 5% of the city's fourth grade students can read at or above a proficient level. for detroit's eighth graders that number rises to only 7%. how does this happen? i mean, students are saying that they were denied their basic constitutional rights? >> a student in kindergarten, for example, wasn't even exposed to kindergarten standards so we're setting children up for failure. >> reporter: jamarye hall says he was one of the children set up to fail, one of the original members of the plaintiff class. >> coming from detroit they always say nine times out of tenure barely going to graduate high school. you're going to end up in jail,

things of that nature so i just don't want to be a statistic. >> reporter: hall now lives in tallahassee attending community college hoping to get into florida a&m university. just how far behind are you? >> makes me feel like i'm dumb sometimes or i'm not as smart as i need to be, but i know it's not my fault. i know it's the school system that i came from. >> reporter: do you know what reading level you're reading at now? >> i'm probably just getting to about a junior or senior in high school. >> reporter: so when you think about the possibilities out there, do you feel cheated? >> yes, always. like we were ten steps behind, like we're always trying to catch up. >> reporter: i mean, if this case goes all the way to the supreme court and it's struck down or it's not even heard, what then? >> at least we tried. because at the end of the day that's all you can do is say that i tried. >> reporter: f for more than 50 years designer ralph lauren has been

wearing the styles for millions. he invited jane pauley out to his ranch, are lucky girl, to discuss his life and his career. >> some day you have to pave this way. >> i like this road. >> reporter: ralph lauren's colorado ranch has an old west feel. >> it goes all the way up that way. >> reporter: where the designer gets to be a real life cowboy. >> and i guess i'm wearing the right james stewart hat to go with the terrain because i always thought that this was a cowboy movie. >> this 20,000-acre expansion, over 30 square miles, has been a second home to lauren and his wife rikki for over 50 years. >> this is where rikki and i fell in love with the west. this is a really romantic, beautiful location. >> reporter: and it's just one of the many romantic, beautiful locations that have helped shape the ralph lauren aesthetic, from the english aristocracy to the

nautical to african safaris, but lauren's own beginnings in the bronx were far less exotic. >> you know, as a kid, i wore a lot of my older brother's hand me downs. i thought i like wearing the clothes. >> reporter: you liked wearing hand me downs. >> i did. well, i never had a lot, but i -- >> reporter: but kids in hand me downs are resent it? >> i didn't resent it, and i -- my brothers were cool and they had good stuff. >> reporter: and lauren says it wasn't really about the clothes. >> when you put on something you really like, you feel like you are that person or the person you want to be. >> reporter: working as a tie salesman in his early 20s with no formal fashion training, ralph lauren had an epiphany, a new take on a men's wear staple. >> and i went to my boss and i said can i make these ties, and he said, ralph, no one is going to wear them. the world is not ready for ralph

lauren. >> reporter: did he say it respectfully or not so much? >> no he said it saying forget, it kid, you're not going to do anything. >> reporter: but lauren made his ties wider, bolder, pricier. >> and then i made shirts to go with the ties, and i made suits, and they were different and they were high quality. >> reporter: today ralph lauren's company is valued at some $10 billion. >> the american man and woman as time has gone in the last 50 years, i've watched them and helped them change. i've helped them develop their tastes. >> reporter: ralph lauren who is on several awards and fashion dismissed him as a curator and he shrugs it off but criticism about his name which he changed at age 19 seems more personal. >> in the world i was growing up the word [ bleep ] was a tough word in my name so that name change was not about being

jewish or not jewish or being something else. >> reporter: and though his name is now one of the most recognizable brands in the world lauren isn't too hung up on labels. >> you don't have to wear a label to be important. >> reporter: and if you presumed that ralph lauren was wearing ralph lauren. >> the shirt. >> reporter: we would both have been wrong. >> well, this shirt i bought at kmart. this is living proof of what i believe in. i love the aging of it. i love the rips and love it all. >> reporter: you didn't design it? >> i didn't design it. >> reporter: i assumed it was -- >> no, i happened to like this because this is the one that i have memories of. >> reporter: and how come you chose it for this conversation today? >> i wanted to look great. >> reporter: and at 78, ralph lauren looks pretty great. but, remember, it's how the clothes make you feel. >> i feel cooler now than ever.

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weather, meals served in their own katurteria, occasional ma samgs and a steady influx of adoring fans ready to give them all the love happened attention they could want. >> the cats are loved. they are so friendly and enjoy being here. >> reporter: this is the least visited of the pubically accessible hawaiian islands. overnight guests come to stay ton the fancy four seasons resort down on the coast. >> so pretty. >> reporter: the tourists with a cat fancy have started flying over just to spend time at a rustic outdoor sanctuary known locally as the fur seasons. >> 95% of the cats that we bring into the sanctuary are completely farrell meaning they were born in the wild and they have never had any human interaction until us. there's enough for everybody. >> reporter: keeney vaughn is the executive director of the cat sanctuary created to help address the island's farrell cat

problem. >> i'm a 45-year-old male that runs a 600-cat sainctry. i don't mind being labeled a crazy cat guy. >> reporter: the cat lady is getting a bad raft. never hear about the crazy cat guy. >> i'll break the mold. >> reporter: it was a lady named cat that got this project off the ground. >> my name is kathy but people call me kat and i've always had an affinity since i was little. always had a cat, one or two, not 600. >> reporter: she moved to lana'i in 2001 to open a art gallery with her husband and she was surprised when there were so many starving cats roaming around the island. >> as you look around the sanctuary today, all the cats you see here were roaming in town or down at the resort, at the golf course, and in pretty sad shape, either very hungry homeless cats? cats were originally brought to a to hawaii long ago.

on the cliffs besides the for you seasons cats were running wild and destroying the wildlife. the cats began to prey on native birds like the wedge-tailed shearwater which nests right into the sand. >> the higher elevations cats discovered the endangered petrol, a hawaiian bird that's especially vulnerable. since the cats are an invasive species in hawaii there was a fear they might be euthanized but this cat had a different idea. >> those birds are protected by state law and federal law, and we wanted to find a way to love and protect the cats, love and protect the birds and help the community. >> reporter: now the cats that are trapped on the island are brought to this enclosed sanctuary. there's no vet so twice a month

one flies over from honolulu. >> reporter: while some of the farrell cats spend all day in hiding those who do venture out receive no lack of attention. >> we stay here for like an hour, two hours at a time. the kids just love it. >> reporter: the fur seasons has turned into a surprisingly popular a, tra. only 3,000 or so people live on lana'i so the sanctuary depends on donations from outside visitors. >> people from all over the world of all ages come here and it's really, really nice to see the smiles on their face, and it's really great that all these cats are getting the attention. >> reporter: today there are definitely still farrell cats roaming wild on lana'i, but i didn't see any. maybe the word is starting to get out. >> if i was a cat i would be knocking on the door saying how do i get into this place. >> reporter: a place the humans seem to enjoy just as much as the felines.

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steve hartman was there for the cease-fire in a war between neighbors. is the truce holding? steve went back on the road to find out. >> reporter: even though this neighborhood in summerville, south carolina is predominantly black, no one really noticed when annie cadell moved in seven years ago. >> i loved the house. >> reporter: at least when we reported a few months ago. no one noticed at first. >> when hoe first came here she seemed to be night. >> reporter: until? >> a little bit later she put up confederate national. >> reporter: and so began a very public fight. when the neighbors protested in front of her house, annie invited counterprotesters to stand in her yard. when the neighbors put up walls

on both sides of her property to block the view, annie put up a taller flag pole. >> once you get my hackles raised i don't back down. >> reporter: eventually the war settled into a stalemate of sorts. there were no mar marches, no bigger walls, no taller flag poles. just a quiet bitterness on both sides until annie had a change of heart, quite literally. >> when you have a heart attack and you're being told you're not going to live very long, you're facing your mortality. i needed to clean up the messes that i made by being so stubborn. >> reporter: she started with one of her fiercest critics, director of the local community resource center louis smith. >> and she said i have decided to take down the flag. i said huh? >> reporter: not long after she presented him with the flag. >> and miss anne, we thank you. >> reporter: annie says before her health scare, she only saw the confederate flag through her

eyes as a way to honor relatives who fought for the south, but after she says that argument seemed so petty. we get people to be less stubborn without the heart attack part? >> that would be lovely, but sometimes it takes a serious action to have to you before you see your actions on others. >> reporter: since this story first aired, things have only gotten better. last month annie's neighbors returned the favor by taking down the walls. >> hallelujah. the fence is down. thank you, miss annie. >> i feel like they welcomed me with open arms today. i've never felt so much love and care. >> reporter: in america some people love to build walls, but if this one block of this great country shows us anything, it's that we love tearing them down even more. steve hartman on the road in summerville, south carolina.

>> thank you. >> we'll come together. >> and that is the overnight news for this wednesday. from the cbs broadcast center right here in new york city, i'm michelle miller. it's wednesday, september 19th, 2018. this is the cbs morning news. >> another twist in the confirmation process of supreme court justice nominee brett kavanaugh. now the woman who claimed he assaulted her when they were teens is making a new request. the death toll climbs in the aftermath of hurricane florence. rivers are still rising and there is more danger ahead.