news updates on cbsfs.com. rain on tuesday, what will they think of next? we'll see you at 6. captioning sponsored by cbs >> ninan: the supreme court clash intensifies. >> i am innocent of this charge. >> ninan: the f.b.i. reopens its background check into supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh following allegations of sexual assault. also tonight, an indonesian official warns the death toll could be in the thousands following a major earthquake and tsunami. maz're massive waves swept many to their deatha teenaged boy aia southern california beach after being attacked by a shark. years after they were sent to prison by a corrupt police sergeant, the charges are finally being dropped. >> he's a sergeant with a badge, so who will believe us? >> ninan: and an american flag

shredded by hurricane florence goes up for auction to help storm victims. >> ninan: good evening. i'm reena ninan. a new supreme court session begins monday with senate republicans trying to cement a 5-4 conservative majority on the bench by appointing president trump's nominee brett kavanaugh. the president yesterday ordered the f.b.i. to briefly reopen its background check into kavanaugh in light of sexual assault and misconduct allegations that have surfaced. the senate could vote on kavanaugh's confirmation as early as next week. it's five weeks before the midterm elections. here's errol barnett. >> actually, this could be a blessing in disguise. >> reporter: before departing for a rally in west virginia today, president trump expressed confidence over the new f.b.i. probe he approved investigating sexual assault allegations against judge brett kavanaugh. yesterday, trump said dr. christine blasey ford was credible in her testimony, recounting kavanaugh's alleged sexual assault against her.

you said dr. ford was a credible witness. why do you feel that way? >> oh, i think she was. we're going to have to find out. i think, frankly, the f.b.i. has a chance to reveal a lot of different things. i would expect it's going to turn out very well for the judge. >> reporter: cbs news has learned the narrow week-long probe will also include claims from a former yale classmate of kavanaugh, deborah ramirez. "the new yorker" wrote of ramirez's accusations that kavanaugh exposed himself at a drunken dormitory party and caused her to touch him without her consent as she pushed him away. in response, judge kavanaugh said, "this alleged event from 35 years ago did not happen." he also denies dr. ford's claims. >> you're telling me that my assault doesn't matter! >> reporter: the probe follows an emotional confrontation between survivors of sexual assault and republican senator jeff flake, whoedith democrats on the senate judiciary committee by agreeing to summit kavanaugh's nomination

only if the f.b.i. looked into allegations of sexual misconduct. now, dr. ford and miss ramirez are not the only women connected judge kavanaugh to alleged sexual misdeeds. cbs news has learned the f.b.i. will not interview a third woman making accusations against the judge, julie swetnick. the judiciary committee told the bureau to only look into "credible allegations." reena. >> ninan: errol barnett from the white house. thank you, errol. for more insight into the f.b.i. investigation, we turn to retired f.b.i. agent warren flagg. he's worked at the f.b.i. for 27 years. thank you very much, mr. flagg, for joining us. we know judge kavanaugh has undergone six background checks. how will this investigation be different? >> well, obviously, those background searches are specific as to his character, for the six times. everyone more extensive than the next as he moved up the ladder.

and this one, though, has to do with additional evidence that was presented at the hearing. ie-- people were named, a diary was used, there were other people that have come forward, other people who made allegations. all those people will be interviewed as soon as possible. >> ninan: we know that dr. ford was administered a polygraph test. is that something the f.b.i. will also administer? >> the f.b.i. will not administer polygraphs because it's not evidence. it can't be used in a criminal case. we don't use them in a criminal case. it's an investigative tool. she's already passed that polygraph, but we would ask those people who the particular polygrapher is. is this an expert? i don't know where this person was. i don't know who the polygrapher is. but, obviously, whatever was said, it's already been out there. it's something to look at, okay. but we would never use it. they're not going to use it in these interviews. they're going to go out and conduct this investigation in a thorough manner as quickly as

possible. and then they will report-- no opinion-- they will report that to the people who are on the committee. >> ninan: warren flagg, thank you very much for joining us. >> you're welcome. >> ninan: a teenaged boy was airlifted off a beach north of san diego today after he was attacked by a shark. it happened at beacons beach in encinitas. carter evans has the latest from our los angeles bureau. >> we have a shark attack. >> reporter: with divers on the beach waving frantically, and a 13-year-old boy bleeding profusely from a shark bite, a airlift arrives, and the call for help goes out. >> i'm asking for a hep. helicopter. >> and i hear screaming. >> reporter: chad hammel was in the water and helped reoy. >> once we got him on the kayak we could really see what happened. his whole clavicle was ripped open. you could see the ball and socket joint, everything. >> reporter: it happened just

north of san diego b150 yards offshore. the boy was bitten while diving for lobsters on opening day for the season. >> they weren't sure exactly what type of shark it was. it was in the 11-foot range. >> reporter: witnesses say there was a lot of blood in the water, and the shark remained nearby as they rushed the boy to the beach. >> i looked back, and a shark was behind the kayak. he didn't want to give up yet. >> reporter: the boy was airlifted to a hospital in critical condition, and the surrounding beach is now closed. >> we don't want anybody else getting injured, so that's why we're taking the precautions that we're doing. >> reporter: this is just the latest in a string of shark attacks in southern california over the last few years, and during that time, experts say they've seen an increase in the number of great white sharks in the area. reena. >> ninan: carter evans, thank you, carter. two police officers were shot and killed today in brookhaven, mississippi. officers james white was 35 years old. corporal zack moak, 31. police say both wereri

bulletproof vests when they were ambushed at a house where gunshots had been reported. they were the 41st and 42nd law enforcement officers to be fatally shot this year in the line of duty. an indonesian official warned today the death toll from friday's devastating earthquake and tsunami could be in the thousands. magnitude 7.5 earthquake sent giant waves slamming on to beaches. homes, cars, trees, and people were swept away. rebecca hench-key of bbc news has the more. >> reporter: this mobile phone footage captures the terrifying moment the three-meter-high waves hit, flooding houses close to the shore, and then rushing into the densely populated coastal city of pally. the waves and the powerful quake leaving a trail of destruction. this bridge is a main access road into the city. authorities issued a tsunami warning immediately after the

huge 7.7-magnitude quake hit. but residents didn't have long to get to higher land. rescue workers are now struggling to reach the area as two access roads are blocked, and the airport is now closed. the runway cracked in the quake. the military has been called in to help. the main hospital in the city was also damaged, and medical workers are now struggling to treat the injured in makeshift tents. the death toll is expected to continue to rise. aftershocks are still being felt in the area, and residents are being told to stay out in the open. indonesia is in the ring of fire and no stranger to natural disasters. earthquakes in july and august killed more than 500 people on the tourist island on after, authorities are once again struggling to cope with the scale of this disaster. rebecca hench-key, bbc sues, for

cbs news, sulawesi. >> ninan: pope francis today asked catholics to pray for the protection of the church from attacks by the devil and to pray that the church becomes more aware of its "guilts, errors, and abuses." the pope and other church officials are accused of covering up the sexual misconduct of american cardinal theodore mccarrick, who resigned over the summer. as seth doane reports, a catholic institute in rome is also accused of failing to act on the mccarrick allegations. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: the pontifical north american college, or nac, has turned out a who's who of u.s. church leaders. cardinals raymond burke, blase cupich, daniel dinardo, timothy dolan, and donald wuerl. a regular overnight visitor to this campus packed with americans was disgraced former cardinal theodore mccarrick, who visited as recently as may, only weeks before resigning. a former student at nac, bishop

steven lopes, said in a homily, he doesn't believe the parade of cardinals and bishops who denied knowing about the sexual misconduct allegations swirling around mccarrick. >> i was a seminarian when theodore mccarrick was named archbishop of newark, and he would visit the seminary often, and we all knew. >> reporter: a 2006 letter reveals the vatican's ambassador to the u.s. was informed back in 2000 of serious matters involving some of the students at a seminary in new jersey where mccarrick was archbishop. so why then was mccarrick, a known sexual predator whose actions some say were an open secret, allowed to repeatedly visit this elite seminary, potentially putting students at risk? archbishop john myers ran the newark archdiocese and oversaw the payout of settlements in 2005 and 2007 to quiet allegations involving

mccarrick. he's also been the chairman of the nac's board since 2006. he told cbs news he had informed the college about mccarrick, though would not say when. but both the former head of the nac, bishop james checchio, and its current head, father peter harman, told cbs news they were never warned. harm an wrote in an email, "the simple fact is no one was apprised. i saw it on the news this june." there are no public allegations that mccarrick abused anyone at the nac, but that a known predator was allowed to roam free is another example that despite evidence of a threat, the catholic hierarchy did not act. seth doane, cbs news, rome. >> ninan: elon musk is stepping down as chairman of tesla as part of a settlement with the securities and change commission. it was announced today the s.e.c. sued musk on thursday, accusing him of misleading

investors with a tweet last month, saying he had secured funding to take tesla's stock off the open market and go private. regulators say musk had not secured that funding. tesla and musk will each pay $20 million in penalties to investors. musk will remain c.e.o. of the company. coming up next, years after a police sergeant is convicted of shaking down and jailing innocent people, a wave of exonerations.

>> ninan: five years after a former chicago police sergeant was convicted of running an extortion ring, dozens of people he arrested for crimes they did not commit still remain in prison. 18 victims this week had their charges t at a mass exoneration hearing. here's dean reynolds. >> reporter: an empty lot now marks the spot of one of the

worst chicago police scandals in history, once the ida b. wells housing project, it was where a group of corrupt chicago cops preyed almost risk-free on residents for most of a decade. , is ronald watts was the ringleader. residents accused him and his squad of extortion, filing false police reports, planting evidence, and assault. >> if you didn't cooperate with him, you was going down. you was against him. you was against his operation and his way of getting money. >> i was terrified. i was trying to get away, get out of that neighborhood. i had nowhere to go. >> reporter: willie martin and cleon glover are two of 42 wrongly convicted people exonerated so far by states attorney kim foxx. >> reporter:yers fromhen things. foxx's conviction integrity unit are reviewing 30 to 40 additional cases connected to watts. >> the people in the neighborhood, you know, did they complain about this? >> yeah. everybody spoke up.

a lot of people spoke up. >> he's a sergeant with a badge. he has his own gang. so who will believe us? >> reporter: joshua tepfer of the university of chicago's exoneration project says the answer until recently was no one. >> they let it go on because they viewed these people as disposable, and they didn't care. these are black people in the housing projects who, in their minds, were guilty of something anyway. >> reporter: probably guilty of something. sergeant watts was sentenced to 22 months for trying to steal from an f.b.i. informant. >> anybody that know watts, he not reading you your rights. >> reporter: and martez wise went to prison, too, because of watts. >> during that time, i had my son. i was away from him for four years. he barely even knew who i was because he was just born. so i had to rebond with him. >> reporter: four years taken away for nothing. dean reynolds, cbs news, chicago. >> ninan: well, up n a isade inn

with a shooting death of a louisiana state university basketball player. .

>> ninan: a 20-year-old man is under arrest in baton rouge, louisiana accused of shooting and killing a basketball player at louisiana state university. wayde sims died hours before the first official practice. the coach of l.s.u. says simses was the team jokester who also had a smile. japan is getting hammered this weekend by a powerful typhoon. the storm is bringing heavy rain and gusts toppling 100 miles per hour. dozens of people have been injured by flying glass and debris. hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses are without

power. up for auction on ebay this weekend, an american flag that gained national attention as it was torn to shreds on a live cam during hurricane florence. the flag was battered in the wind at the frying pan light tower about 30 miles off the carolina coast. the owner of the tower says all proceeds from the auction will go to hurricane florence victims through the red cross. the bidding ends sunday night. still ahead, the race to save lives after a "48 hours" investigation uncovers dark web murder-for-hire plots.

>> ninan: the murder of a mother in the midwest led peter van sant of "48 hours" into the shadowy world of the dark web. the internet's evil twin.

the van sant investigation led to a number of scot murder-fe plots. >> my name is yura. >> reporter: he calls himself yura, and in this video diary, claims to run a murder-for-hire empire on the dark web. it's a kind of an internet hiding behind the one we know. yura has struck terror in the hearts of people all over the world..., including 43-year-old amy allwine in cottage grove, minnesota. >> they seemed like an all-american, church-going, caring, loving couple. >> reporter: prosecutor jamie kreuser says someone had placed a kill order for $12,000 on a dark web hit man site called besa mafia, using an anonymous screen name dogdaygod. dogdaygod says, "i need this (bleep) dead." november 13, 2016. sergeant gwenn martin was on the

night shift when police got a 911 call. >> i think my wife shot herself. there's blood all over. >> reporter: first responders to the scene were suspicious. amy had a single gunshot wound inside her right ear. >> it soon became clear someone had killed her. >> reporter: we found ourselves in the middle of an apparent live miles pe marketplr murder. and there was only one thing we could do. we contacted authorities. >> it's against a citizen of taiwan. >> reporter: so far, four arrests from our tips. do you understand the terror that you have caused with this murder-for-hire plot? >> ninan: peter van sant's investigation "click for killer" airs tonight on the season premiere of "48 hours." when we return, o, say can she sing. ♪ o, say can you see

with the performance of the "star spangled banner" by a little girl with tremendous spirit. here's jamie yuccas. ♪ o, say can you see >> reporter: it was clear from the opening notes that seven-year-old melaniseven-yeara tjandrawidjaja was nailing it. ♪ o'er the ramparts we watched i think you sounded amazing. everyone is talking about you today. >> thank you. >> repr:ed like any seven-year-old when she won a contest to sing the national anthem. what you don't expect is for her to sound like ha this: ♪ the bombs burstin bursting in♪ >> it's not really that easy. >> reporter: so it's work? >> yes. >> reporter: already, malea,

who began singing when she was one has performed at cawrn ghee hall. what are you going to be when you grow up? >> i'm going to be a singer, doctor, actress, violinist. >> reporter: at seven, she is already grown with a voice for the ages. ♪ o'er the land of the freeeeee and the home of the brave ♪ >> reporter: jericka duncan, cbs news, los angeles. >> ninan: i wish we could fast forward to the future to see what hers will be. that's the cbs weekend news for this saturday. for more news any time going to our streaming channel cbsn or downlooked like the cbs news app. i'm reena ninan in new york. thank you for joining us. good night.

people-- but a life s live, this is kpix 5 news. >> now at 6, marijuana at schools. a disturbing thought to a lot of people, but a lifesaver for one bay area kindergartner. >> two cracks on two beams. what's the fate of the san francisco trans bay transit center. >> wiping the slate clean. californians with minor criminal offenses getting a second chance at a fresh start. good evening. millions of californians have a criminal record, but for years they have stayed out of trouble. today they got a chance to get some legal advice on how to turn their lives around. >> reporter: jose ponte's past haunts him. he worries about a conviction for a minor drug offense when he was 22 years

old. he cam to richmond memorial auditorium today, hoping for a chance to clear his name >> there's always a second chance for everyone. mistakes in the past are mistakes in the past. so here i am, trying to see what i can do for myself. >> reporter: it's called clean slate day, a clinic for people who want to find out what's on their rap sheets, get legal advice, register to vote, and ultimately clear their names. jose was one of many people who just walked in, but hundreds of other people preregistered online. organizers say that shows just how strong demand is for these services. >> the need is great. the need is massive. >> reporter: richmond city council candidate dave shoenthal helped put the event on. many have no idea how to clean their records up. >> it's a myriad of things they have to go through in order to get an expungement done. it's very legal and