million people a year, and will run for the next two weeks. october fest in september. does that make sense to you? >> no, but it's probably the ramp up. >> preview. the cbs evening weekend news is next. captioning sponsored by cbs >> reporter: ready to testify. lawyers say the story >> brett kavanaugh's alleged sexual misconduct. the terms of her testimony are still being negotiated. also tonight, new details about the man accused of a series of rapes in northern california. surveillance video shows him at an a.t.m., wairlg a mask, after an alleged attack. dozens are killed in an attack on a military parade in iran. south africa's black market

seafood industry, driven by poverty and run by organized crime. and the inspiring high school football star who runs on blind courage. >> well, he lost his eyesight, but he has a whole new vision for his life. >> ninan: good evening. i'm reena ninan. the woman who accused supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh of an attempted sexual assault decades ago agreed to tell her story to a senate committee. lawyers for dr. christine blasey ford sent a letter to the senate judiciary committee today requesting talks to work out exactly when and how dr. ford will testify. republicans are trying to get kavanaugh confirmed to the supreme court before its opening session on october 1. weijia jiang has more from president trump's weekend white house in new jersey. >> reporter: u.s. marshalls escorted judge brett kavanaugh out of his maryland home today, a rare glimpse of the supreme court nominee since dr. christine blasey ford accused him of sexual assault.

both say they've recently received death threats. this afternoon, dr. ford's attorney sent a letter to the senate judiciary committee agreeing to provide a firsthand account of her experience with kavanaugh next week. it is unclear what form any potential testimony would take. those terms are still under negotiation. >> he was born for the u.s. supreme court. >> reporter: even without a hearing, president trump has already indicated who he believes. >> we have to fight for him, not worry about the other side. and by the way, women are for that more than anybody would understand. >> reporter: the president unlooked liked his frustration toward ford on twitter friday writing, "if the allegation was as bad as thee says, either her or her loving parents would have filed charges immediately." mr. trump also criticized democrats for their handling of the claims, accusing them of trying to obstruct and resist and delay kavanaugh's

confirmation. today, vice president pence echoed the complaint. >> but, honestly, the way some democrats have conducted themselves during this process is a disgrace. and a disservice to the senate. and the american people. >> reporter: democrats are pushing back and blaming the g.o.p. for bullying ford. senator bob casey tweeted, "there should be a proper f.b.i. background investigation and then a hearing instead of this unnecessary rush." a white house official tells cbs news they do not view dr. ford's letter as an agreement to testify but, rather, another attempt to drag out the process, adding judge kavanaugh is "chomping at the bit" to testify. reena. >> ninan: weijia jiang traveling with the president. thank you, weijia. flash flood watches and warnings were posted today across north texas, oklahoma, and arkansas. in some areas nearly a foot of rain has fallen since friday morning. a 23-year-old man drowned after being swept off a bridge by

flasfloodwaters near the univery of texas at arlington friday night. a herd of cattle was swept away in oklahoma. the man who posted the video said he saw some of them make it to land downstream. the storms are pushing north tonight into ohio and the tennessee valley. dangerous floodwaters continue to threaten the carolinas more than a week after hurricane florence made landfall. at least 43 deaths are blamed on the storm. the waccamaw and cape fear rivers are still rising. manuel bojorquez is in the hard-hit town of conway, south carolina. >> reporter: hurricane florence's rain has become a slow-moving but destructive wall of water down the carolinas where hundreds are under evacuation orders. the only way to reach some homes is by boat. and there is a massive effort to protect what could become the only way in and out of town. >> this is what we call the water side of the dam. so as the water approacheses,

this polyurethane will help protect all the material, the earth material we have put underneath it. >> reporter: lieutenant colonel bill matheny with the national guard says 300 soldiers were part of the effort to build four miles of temporary dam in just one week. just over here is what you're worried about. >> that's right. so, coming in from our north is the waccamaw river. and what you see here is already in the low-lying areas. we're starting to get the increased water levels from the waccamaw. and then to our east, we've got the dike that typically separates the waccamaw river from lake busby, and that's already breached so we're dealing with woon body of water right now. >> reporter: residents are expressing their gratitude, like jennifer mullen, who is part of an effort to provide the soldiers homecooked meals. >> they say thank you. they are so gracious, and their gratitude is overwhelming from them for everything that has been done for them. >> reporter: upstream in north carolina, the cleanup evens 69,000 people there have applied

for fema assistance as their neighbors in south carolina, like those who live near the waccamaw, are anxiously watching the waters rise. people who live here have never seen the waccamaw river look quite like this. it is now surpassed the record set two years ago after hurricane matthew, and it's not expected to crest until early next week. reena. >> reporter: manuel bojorquez. manny, thank you. we're learning more about the man accused of a series of raeps in northern california, going back to the early 1990s. investigators used d.n.a. evidence and genealogy websites to track down 58-year-old roy waller. carter evans has the latest on the case. >> reporter: investigator says this is the face of a serial rapist who terrorized women for more than 15 years. >> the suspect in this case was a real-life bogeyman who crept into his victims' homes under the cover of darkness. >> reporter: police say 58-year-old roy waller,

blindfolded, tied up, and raped at least 10 women in northern california. the attacks began in 1991. >> he will not stop. >> reporter: this woman spoke out after she was raped at gunpoint in her sacramento home in 2006. >> this man is extremely careful and very smart. which is what is so terrifying to all of us. >> reporter: but investigators say waller made some mistakes during her attack. police released this sketch after one of his vps caught a glimpse of her attacker's face through her blindfold, and his car was recorded by a neighbor's security camera. after an earlier crime, the norcal rapist's masked face was captured by an a.t.m. camera, but more importantly, his d.n.a. was found at several crime scenes. >> i have often said in my career that d.n.a. is the silent witness to the truth. >> reporter: detectives were able to identify waller, using the same genetic genealogy database used to track down the golden state killer. waller was arrested thursday on his way to work at u.c. berkel

berkeley. >> no one else has to worry about him any more. >> reporter: investigators were able to link d.n.a. from the crime scenes to close relatives who were already in the database. from there, they built a family tree that led to waller, so they obtained his d.n.a. and found it matched the norcal rapist. reena. >> ninan: remarkable research. thank you so much. the university of maryland football team took on the university of minnesota today. maryland's head coach remains on administrative leave. he's accused of mental abuse and intimidation. a separate investigation into the death of a player last spring found that proper procedures were not followed when the defensive lineman collapsed during practice. kenneth craig is following this. >> reporter: the independent investigation into 19-year-old jordan mcnail's death revealed more than an hour passed between the time the university of maryland football player starting showing signs of heatstroke during the may 29

workout and when team trainers called 911. even then, there was confusion about where emergency responders were to go when they arrived. the report says the team was lacking or did not utilize crucial equipment, proper thermometers, and tubs used for ice baths. james brady is the chair of the school's board of directors. >> i wish we could say we could bring jordan mcnail back to life. nawould be the greatest thing that we could possibly do. that cannot be done. >> reporter: mcnair died on june 13, after two weeks in the hospital. university president wallace loh said the school accepts legal and moral responsibility for the mistakes that our training staff made. in all, the investigation made 27 recommendations to the university. >> we can use this experience to make stiewrnt safety of our student athletes much better and more focused than might have been in the past.

>> reporter: a football injury survey out earlier this year found 49 football players died from heatstroke nationwide between 2000 and 2017. the team's coach is out on leave pending the results of a second investigation. and, reena, mcnair's family is said to be preparing to sue. >> ninan: a lesson to all of us about just how significant heatstroke can be. >> reporter: dangerous and preventable. >> ninan: so true. dozens were killed today in an attack on a military parade in iran. it happened in a southwestern province that is home to iran's arab minority. jonathan vigliotti is following this from our london bureau. >> reporter: state television captured the moment the attack was launch. confused onlookers froze before running for cover. the attackers reportedly shot from a park near the annual parade and were wearing military uniforms to blend in. local media reported the dead and wounded were both military

personnel and civilians, including children who were watching the parade. we suddenly realized that armed people wearing fake military outfits had started attacking, this soldier said. they were just aimlessly shooting around and did not have a specific target. a spokesman for iran's armed forces said the attackers had hidden weapons in an area of the parade route several days in exprns said the four men believed to be responsible were killed at the scene. an antigovernment arab group ahvaz national resistance, and the islamic state have both claimed responsibility for the attack. the iranian foreign minister mohammad javad zarif wrote on twitter that "terrorists recruited by a foreign regime" were responsible. he said that "iran would hold it their u.s. masters responsible for the attack." jonathan vigliotti, cbs news, london. >> ninan: coming up next, puerto rico one year after hurricane maria. what happened to the hundreds of thousands who fled the

devastation?

>> ninan: one year ago this weekend, puerto rico was reeling in the immediate aftermath of hurricane maria. in the following months, an estimated 3,000 people would die from medical conditions that could not be treated in parts of the island where there was no electricity and running water. david begnau here when maria hit. tonight, he reports on the humanitarian crews the storm left in its wake. >> about 3100. >> reporter: mike byrne is one of fema's most seasoned leaders. he helped coordinate the responses to hurricanes sandy and harvey, and after maria, he was named the point man here. how much money has the federal government given to puerto rico? >> by the one-year anniversary it will be $14.2 billion that we will have spent, and that will just keep growing as time goes on. >> reporter: the governor wants about $100 billion. >> well, you don't need that $100 billion tomorrow. you need how much you can use deliberately to do the reconstruction effort right now.

we just need to set up the programs and then see what do we need year on year to be able to make sure we move forward with the reconstruction. >> reporter: the majority of people tell me fema's job here was a disaster. your response? >> i don't buy that. first of all, i think that's just not the right thing to say to the 17,000 people that came here to provide assistance to the commonwealth and to the people of the commonwealth. >> reporter: there was not a cot in the warehouse when maria made landfall, not one cot in the warehouse! >> that particular case, stuff wasn't in the warehouse, because we sent it to the virgin islands, because the virgin islands got hit by irma. >> reporter: a week before. >> right. am i in the same position? will i make that same mistake? no. i have five warehouses now. i had one then. >> reporter: stock full. >> stock full. we didn't have what we needed on the island. no doubt about it.

>> reporter: did the effort match the effectiveness? >> i think that in a lot of cases, it did. there were areas of shortfall that we've been honest about and we've identified, and we're going to work to get better. >> ninan: and, david, when you went back to puerto rico, you discovered that there's been an exodus of people leaving. how many people are we talking about? >> reporter: rowel 200,000 people, and that comes from the center for puerto rican studies of new york's hunter college. and of that number, reena, about 39,000 kids didn't re-register for schools. so that gives an idea the people who fled were young parents who moved their kids to the mainland, who felt it wasn't worth staying-- as much as i found people who loved their island and be so proud of it, they felt the only place life could be better was the mainland. >> ninan: terrific reporting. and "puerto rico, the chodus after hurricane maria is on cbs'

app or cbsnews.com. you can stream it tomorrow night on cbsn.

>> ninan: debris swirled in the sky as a tornado ripped through ottawa, canada, friday evening. it destroyed a number of homes and knocked power on to hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses. more than two dozen people were injured. all are expected to be okay. a large area along the northwest coast of mexico is under a state of emergency after torrential rains caused deadly floods. more than a foot of rain fell thursday night into friday. at least seven people were killed. a number were missing after being swept away. thousands have been evacuated from their homes. this was the dramatic scene that unfolded as a mother tried to pull a boy out of a fast-moving creek. she falls into the water, and they're both swept downstream. they struggle to get back on their feet but finally, staggered ashore to safety. in freeport, texas, on the gulf of mexico, a shipment of bananas

sat unclaimed at the port. when officials started loading up the boxes of bananas to haul them away, they discovered bundles of cokane. they found more than 500 packages of the drug with animated street value of nearly $18 million. still ahead, seafood industry driven by poverty and run by organized crime. .

>> ninan: we take you now to the tip of south africa where there's a booming black market for abalone. it's a sea snail regarded as a delicacy in china where it can be sold as $500 a plate. the poaching and illicit trade of abalone is a $6 million-a-year industry. >> reporter: once abundant in south africa, abalone has declined dramatically over the past two decades. every year, more than 2,000 tons of abalone are fished illegally by poachers like these.

at current poaching levels south africa's abalone population will become and i think. it is an illicit trade that is fueled by poverty. >> more than 25 years after apartheid, poverty is still persuasive. while we have some of the world's highest income inequality, in fishing communities marginalized by shrinking quotas, and still feeling the effects of apartheid, abalone became something rare, a sudden means to earn good money. >> reporter: that wealth gap could not be more apparent than here in the fishing community of hangberg, overlooking one of cape town's most affluent seaside neighbors. >> reporter: an entire economy has evolved around abalone poaching, and hundreds of people in this fishing community are dependent on it for an income.

>> we know that organized crime networks are directly involved and have been involved for-- for many, many years. so it is a very well-organized, well help established business. >> reporter: run by chinese and local gangs, the abalone is dried in illegal facilities, before being shimed off to hong kong. and while this police raid was successful, many are not. >> lie down! >> reporter: exacerbating the crisis is that abalone is often traded for crystal methamphetamine. and right now, organized crime is winning the war. abalone poaching has risen tots highest level in 20 years. debora patta, cbs news, scwo. johannesburg, south africa. >> ninan: and when we return, a brave and talented young football player guided by blind

courage.

>> ninan: we end tonight with an extraordinary high school football player in phoenix, arizona. he's embraced the biggest challenge of his life with what his mother calls blind courage. here's tony dokoupil. >> reporter: it's not every day that the crowd goes wild for a late touchdown in a blowout football game. but adonis watt, a freshman running back for the brophy broncos, is 6'2", 140 pounds and blind. >> my slight favorite part is winning. >> reporter: he has a rare form of glaucoma which at five years old took his sight but not his passion for the game. >> it's very enjoyable just to stand up and run someone over. >> reporter: what if anything can you see? >> i see pretty much nothing. you have to trust your ability, trust your linemen and trust the play that it will work. >> i believed in him. this is news to you, but this is

what-- what he does. >> reporter: when watt was a kid, his mom, "veronica, hoped he might try something safer. >> i said, "they're going to hit you on your blind side." and he said, "mom, all my sides are blind." >> i was fearful. this is a game people are afraid to play with their sight. >> reporter: which is why you may have noticed the defense give up a little in the first touchdown run, but two weeks later, something remarkable happened. that's watt in the end zone scoring the first two of touchdowns against a team that didn't know he was blind and couldn't stop him. how far do you want to taib this? >> i want to take it to the n.f.l. >> reporter: all the way. >> all the way. >> reporter: who needs sight with that kind of vision. tony dokoupil, cbs news, new york. >> ninan: and in addition to football, adonis is a pianest, a wrestler, and he helps raise money for charities benefiting other blind children. well, that's the cbs weekend

news for this saturday. later on cbs, "48 hours." for more news any time, download *and a debate over opening a pot distancery next to a youth center. >> what scientists learn here could help them better understand bigger versions in the wild. >> and a safe space to listen today. sexual abuse survivors describe what they went through to their catholic church. good evening. >> the diocese of san jose is confronting the scandal within the catholic church head on in a session, prisoner ins and victims got a chance to speak. kpix 5's devon feeley reports the next step will be

releasing the names of priests accused of sexual abuse. >> the priest that abused me was transferred from parish to parish even after i reported the abuse. >> reporter: no cameras were allowed in to record the painful experiences and raw emotions of people abused by catholic priests or whose faith had been shaken to the core by the church's cover up of the crimes. >> this needs to be addressed and hold the people accountable who have violated our laws. >> what would be more important for me to do today? , you know, go to safeway? i mean, it's now. it's on. and i love that it's listening. >> reporter: nearly a hundred people attended the first of three listening sessions hosted by bishop patrick mcgraw. >> i learned a lot a great deal from that, and it is to me the very beginning now of a process of where we hope it will lead us to some healing. >> reporter: the bishop has