gift tax and that would be of interest to the federal tax authorities and the new york tax authorities. >> president trump's political opponents have long called on him to release his tax returns but he refuses, citing an ongoing audit. the "new york times" says that article is based on extensive reporting and more than 100,000 pages of other financial documents. jeff? >> glor: thank you, weijia jiang on tour with the president. the already desperateon one o i are. the confirmed death toll now

tops 12,000. ben tracy has made it >> reporter: the rescue operation is increasingly a recovery operation. the earthquake was so stloong in in part of the town it turned the ground into quicksand, swallowing everything that was on top of it. we're told this house moved more than a mile from pits fashion h foundation. authorities fear more bodies may be buried under the debris. twin disasters, first the quake and the tsunami wave it triggered continue to exact toll on the city of palau. >> 14. >> reporter: 14? >> yes, 14. >> reporter: they mark down each

victim they find. at 9:00, you found two bodies? yes. >> reporter: the government is slowly bringing in supplies. many in palau wa palu want to g. families are being grown to nearby cities. >> why are you leaving your town? >> reporter: this woman has been waiting with her baby girl. how is your daughter doing? while we were talking a strong after shock hit. that's an earthquake, stay away from that. are you ok? don't be under there. are you ok? you're ok. the worry on their faces is clear. they know that back in town, the search for family and friends continues. i talked to one rescue worker who said that he alone had covered 20 bodies and it clearly was taking a toll on him. he was happy to say he found two

people who were still alive. jeff? >> glor: thanks. a white police officer charged with murdering a black teenager took the stand in his defense today. video appears to show the man moving away but there's a different story. >> reporter: jason van dyke told the jury what he saw and why he shot la kwoquan mcdonald four y ago in october. >> his eyes were bugging out of his head. he had these huge white eyes staring right through me. >> reporter: he also had a knife with a three-inch blade. in this dashcam video he's seen leading a police pursuit when van dyke takes dead yam. defense attorney attorney walked

him through what happened? >> i yelled drop the night. >> did he keep advancing toward you? >> he never stopped. >> reporter: neither the defense animation shows mcdonald advancing. >> what if anything did he do with the knife? >> he waved the knife from his lower right side upwards across his body toward my left shoulder. >> reporter: also not seep in the videos. why shoot 16 times? >> i could see him starting to push up with his left-hand off the ground. i shot at that knife. i wanted him to get rid of that knife. >> reporter: the prosecutor was itch credulous. >> you you're not trachbd to shoot at somebody's knife, are you? >> no you're not. >> reporter: van dyke was one o.

public outcry led to mass protests, the dismissal of the police superintendent and the election defeat of the state's attorney who charmed varn dike only after the video was released. the prosecution argues that van dyke was enramgd that a black boy, as they put it, had the audacity to ignore police commands. van dyke is facing two counts of first-degree murder that, if convicted, could land him in jail for life. closing arguments are expected this week. jeff? >> glor: dean reynolds, thank you. rescues as floodwaters rise in arizona.

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>> reporter: rescue crews prukd drivers from their cars one by one after floodwater swachd this road in east teens. >> there's a car floating. roicht many tried but failed to make it through. dani dnla was among those trapped. >> you don't know what to do. >> reporter: thewater came up very fast. it caught a lot of drivers off guard, many cars stalled. at one point the water was above the hoods. the remnants of tropical storm rosa are having an impact across much of arson. airport runways were soaked. for some, just getting around became a nautical nightmare. >> the most rain i've seep in m. >> reporter: more than two inches of fell by mid morning, already making it one of the wettest octobers this 12i has

seen, and we're only two days in. carter evans, cbs news, phoenix. >> glor: up next, a political shocker. why a rising democratic star is bowing out of his campaign. when i was shopping fothe choice was easy. i switched to geico and saved hundreds. excuse me... winner! that's a win. but it's not the only reason i switched. hi! geico has licensed agents who i can reach 24/7.

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>> glor: a rising star in democratic politics announced he's dropping out for mayor of kansas city. jason kander cited post draw maccic stress disorder. he was seen as a potential presidential candidate in 2020. melania trump is on a five united nations tour of africa. first stop, fanna. where she was greeted by school children. don't be surprised if you get a presidential alert on your cell phone tomorrow. it's the first test of an alert system that's been in the works since 2006. it's advance warping of a national crisis. it will be sent out at:18 p.m. eastern. you have cannot opt out. up next, a new mission on the bottom of the ocean.

. >> glor: we end with a group of veterans on a new mission. they become eco warriors out to save coral reeves, and in some cases, themselves. manu here's the story. >> reporter: with an oldies sound track, a dive vote slices through the waters off key largo. meet the force blue dive team. a dozen of america's very best. all former marines, navy seals and special ops guys on a mission to save the nation's

largest reef track. >> this is ground zero. if we want to protect the planet. >> reporter: 47-year-old rudy reyes fought in three wars as part of a super elite usa marine recon unit. >> it's real warrer in stuff. that's what we're doing here. >> reporter: irma wrecked the reef. mopping the fixes, the delicate work of transplanting coral seedlings, creating an underwater forrest of baby coral. there's plenty of heavy lifting like this centuries-old 800 pound coral ripped off its face by hurricane irma. the team sprupg into action. >> you're talking about marines who lifted predator drones off the bottom of the ocean. so they figured out we get six air bags under this, we can get it and cement it back on and almost instantly, the color came

back. >> reporter: there is perhaps more important restoration work going on. >> i was struggling with alcohol and substance abuse and massive amounts of depression. >> reporter: adjusting to post war life is a challenge for a lot of veterans. >> deep down inside they're hurting. you h. >> reporter: you put these guys in the right situation and there's no stopping them. >> where i started and where i'm at now, it's 180 degrees and i'm only getting better. >> reporter: admittedly 12 guys won't save the reeves on their own. to them, it's a fight for something important, something bigger than themselves. cbs news off key largo. >> glor: that is the overnight news for this wednesday. for some of you the news continues. for others check back later for the morning news and cbs this

morning. from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm jeff glor. . i'm michelle miller, welcome to the overnight news. a humanitarian disaster is emerging in indonesia. bodies are being loaded on to trucks and buried in mass graves. there's little food, clean water, or electricity and desperate people have taken to looting just to survive. bridges, roads, and thousands of homes are destroyed and at this point there's little hope of finding more survivors. ben tracy is there. >> reporter: the rescue effort is increasing the grim recovery operation. on tuesday, heavy machinery was

brought in to p a wha the 7.5-magnitude earthquake violently shook together. the quaketur the ground into quicksand, swallowing everything that was on the top of it. we're told that this house moved more that a mile from its foundation. authorities fear more than 0 bodies may be buried under all the debris. twin disasters, first the quake and the 20-foot tall wave it triggered continues to take their toll on the city of palu. >> 14. >> reporter: 1? >> yes, 14. >> reporter: he showed me where he marked them down. at 9:00 you found two bodies. >> yes. >> reporter: the government is slowly bringing in supplies but many in palu want to get out. >> i don't feel safe.

>> reporter: you don't feel safe. families are being flown to nearby cities. why are you leaving your town? this woman has been waiting on the tarmac for three days with her 8-month-old daughter. how is your daughter doing? an after shock hit while we were talking. you ok? don't be under there. you ok? you're ok. the worry on their faces is clear. they know that pack in town, the search for family and friends continues. i talked to one rescue worker who said that he alone had recovered 20 bodies from the rubble and it was taking a toll on him. he was happy to tell us that he had found two people who were still alive. >> scores of fbi agents are fanned out across the country conducting interviews and investigations into supreme court nominee bret kavanagh. the probe and allegations of sexual assault could be complete today, but the public may never

see it and senate republicans are promising a vote on kavanagh by the end of the week. nancy cordes begins our coverage. >> reporter: in a letter to the fbi's top brass today, the lawyers for christine blasey ford complained we have received no response to a series of e-mails and letters in which we identified witnesses and evidence that would likely assist the fbi in its investigation. the agency hasn't responded but it has now interviewed several people ford says were at the high school party where she was allegedly groped against her will by kavanagh. today, republican leaders laughed off another kavanagh story.k about a bottom shell. >> reporter: that police report on taped by the "new york times" about a bar fight at yale in 1985. >> get this. judge kavanagh may been accused

of throwing ice across a college bar. >> reporter: cbs news have confirmed his drinking habits will not be the focus of the one-week fbi investigation. democrats argue kavanagh's answers were misleading. >> the quote that jumped out to me was bret was a sloppy drunk and i know because i drank with him. >> i do not think that's a fair characterization. >> reporter: the fbi is under orders to complete the probe this week. his nomination may hinge on the findings. leader mcconnell is vowing to vote this week, too. how much time do you plan to give them to read and digest the findings? >> it shouldn't take long. >> reporter: hours, a day? >> they'll read it as quickly as they can. it will not be used as another reason for delay, i tell you that. >> reporter: president trump

says this sends the wrong message to the next gen race. >> it's a scary time for young men in america when you can be guilty of something that you may not be guilty of. >> reporter: cell phones will be blaring at 2:18 eastern time. it's the first test of the nationwide presidential alert. anna warner has that story. >> reporter: you're probably familiar with the wireless emergency alert system that generates amber alerts to your phone. fema says people don't like them but you shouldn't ignore them. especially the newest ones. >> reporter: it's the alert that if it's real, you don't want to get again. >> when those messages appear, people should take them extremely seriously. it has some direct impact on either life or safety. >> reporter: antoine johnson directs the system that will send out the nationwide tegs of the presidential alert on wednesday. >> if we have something that's

of national significance, we could rapidly notify the american public of that event. >> reporter: government agencies have issued more than 40,000 alerts to cell phones since 2007. but the amber and weather alerts only cover a certain area and this is for nags crises. >> it should be reserved for when we need to get the public's attention. >> reporter: jeh johnson says it's designed to be specifically and rarely. >> this is something that should not billion used for a political agenda. >> reporter: he says that's especially important because no one can opt out. you say presidential alert and some people are thinking, oh, man, i see president trump sending out twitter messages all day along. does that mean i'm going to get every message he wants to sent out through the alert system

now? >> not at all. one thing we need to make clear is that there are laws, policies, and procedures in place to ensure that that system is used in accordance with its intended use as defined by the law. >> reporter: somebody would stop him if he wanted to send out an alert other than that? >> someone would giet him along the path of not sending the message. >> reporter: alerts are not foolproof. in january, hawaii's emergency management agency mistakenly sent out an alert warning of a ballistic missile threat to more that a million cell phones. mistakes like that could make people nervous about this new alert. >> the fact that you can't turn this alert off will be something that will arrive on your phone whether you like it or not was

perhaps upsetting and kerpg to some people. >> reporter: the test will set off the

. it was 50 years ago next month that the beatles white album was released. a half century later one of the master minds behind the music, paul mccartney is still going strong with a new album and a world tour. sharon alfonzi sat down with sir paul for 60 minutes. >> it's embarrassing. >> reporter: that true? >> i don't read or write music. nobody did in the beatles. we did some good stuff. but none of it was written down by us. it's notation. that's the bitty can't do. i don't see music like that. i don't -- >> reporter: you don't see music like that? >> yeah.

i don't see music as dots on a page. it's something in my head that goes on. ♪ >> reporter: from his first koupd on their first song off their first album, that something has translated globally and across generations. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: today mckacartkarc still sipping music in his head. how do you feel about it? >> i'm proud of it. i like this one. >> reporter: this one, mckacarts latest album just debuted at number one. who are you trying to impress when you're writing these songs? ah-ha. everybody, i suppose. >> reporter: that's a tall order. >> it's an impossible order, you're right. it doesn't stop me. don't people always say i love it, paul.

>> that is an occupational hazard. >> reporter: we visited him on the south english coast. >> that was abby road and this is the fireman rushes in, like that. >> reporter: we were surprised to find mccartney at 76 seems to have the same need to prove him as he did when he was a teenager. >> people worry about things and it doesn't matter howell vated you get or your reputation gets. you still worry about things. >> reporter: what are you worried about? what else do you have to prove? >> i've heard people say he just wants to be liked. and i'm going, doesn't everyone? >> reporter: do you know now more than you did then? >> no. when we were famous with the beatles and we did revolver,y.

i thought it was out of tune. i thought the whole album was out of tune. i listened to it. for some reason, i went to the guys and i said, it's out of tune, i don't know what we're going to do. you know. they said -- they got a bit worried. listened to it. they said no it isn't. i go, ok. ♪ ♪ r0i >> reporter: we were with mccartney preparing to tour. the beatles played this club almost 300 times and while mccartney's fans know every word to hey jude, yesterday, and band on the run, we were surprised who didn't. >> what i'm doing shows i listen to a lot of music, beatles music, wings music to see what ones we're going to do and to

learn them. >> reporter: what do you mean? you've forgotten them? >> yeah. >> reporter: really? >> it's too many. too many words, too many notes. they're very hard. it's not like they're all three cords. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: mccarty is at least a co-arthur of rock 'n' roll constitution. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: mccartney's work has been covered by icons from almost every musical genre. famously, john lennon and paul mccartney became song writing partners as teenager, one a rock 'n' roller, the other a music poli mack. ♪

♪ those first notes on strawberry fields were paul mccartney's idea. ♪ ♪ were you competitive writing with each other? >> me and john? >> yeah. they were competitive. not openly, but we later admitted, yeah, you know, paul's wrip a good one there. i better get going. i would similarly, hmm, that's a good one. write. here we go, come on. he'd write strawberry fields. i'd write penny lane. he's remembering his old area, so i'll remember mine. >> reporter: did you compliment each other? >> once. >> reporter: in how many years? >> not one time. no. i think it was revolver. here, there, and everywhere was one of my songs on it. ♪

♪ snend snepd. >> and that's a really good song there, i love that song. i was like, yes! he likes it. you know, i remembered it to this day. it's pathetic, really. >> reporter: did you ever heap praise on him? >> yeah. i'd tell him he was great. you had to be drupg. it helped. >> reporter: you don't need to be a beatle fan to appreciate this part of london. for tourists it rivals big bend or trying to get a glimpse of the grandkids. first with harmonies. ♪ ♪ and later by exploring and defining music ♪

during ten sessions for what would become the white album a 50 years ig, the beatles again breaking apart. ♪ ♪ >> i love this picture. this is very special for me. this series. because after beatles broke up, i kind of got accused of being the one that broke them up and that we always had a terrible relationships, so this always reminds me of how happy we were together. i'm checking some lyrics or something. it's just great the way john sort of just smiling. we're obviously, just two mates, you know. >> reporter: taking the pictures was paul's first wife, the late linda mccartney. her photos from life in photographs are intimate and historic. >> we were in the studio downstairs putting finishing touches to the album and we had another title going on that we

really didn't like, so i just said, hey, why don't we just call it "abby road." we just go right outside walk across the crossing and it's done. yeah, ok. everyone agreed. >> reporter: where were your shoes? >> i left them on the road. this is outside abby road after we laid the crossing picture. i remember talking to john about his taxes. somebody said you better warn him. >> reporter: that's why you have the glum look? >> i've got the i need to talk to you about your taxes look. he's got the glum look. >> reporter: what about this one? >> this is in our back garden, and yoko's in it, and you can see by the looks on our faces, looks like john, we're all kind of going, why is she in the beat

lgs photo? >> reporter: how did it happen? that she was allowed in the photo? >> because they were madly in love. i think none of us dared say, john. it was a bit awkward for us, i must admit. >> reporter: this is my very favorite photograph. >> a little baby in my jacket has four children of her own. >> reporter: his father jim raised paul after his mother died when he was 14. today the man who wrote mother nature's son has four grown children and eight grandchildren. we showed mccartney what amounted to home videos. >> it's cold and we're coming out. >> reporter: from their last live performance together. >> this is me testing the stage.

this is the thing. good little band. ♪ ♪ pretty good. >> it does, huh? >> reporter: million dollars business conflicts and creati differences were carrying a lot of weight. watch them try and hold back smiles as they wrong through a smile they wrote as teenagers. i think you see it here. ♪ move over move over twice come on baby don't be cold as ice ♪ >> reporter: that look. >> it's funny, yeah. >> you can see the full

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your fascination with pools started. >> how do you paint water. >> reporter: a bigger splash, an eight-foot square canvas was painted in 16. >> i spent nearly two weeks painting this. >> reporter: another image, beverly hills housewife. it set a record when it sold for nearly $8 million in 2009. but in november, hock any could set an even bigger record when his portrait of an artist pool with two figures will go up for auction at kristie's in new york. $80 million dollars would mash jeff coon's balloon going which sold for $58.4 million in 2018. why do you think you've been so

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. his valor under enemy fire earned ronald shore, the medal of honor. now back from afghanistan he faces an even greater battle. david martin has his story. >> reporter: the meddle of honor will humble anyone, but no more than staff sergeant shore. >> to be singled out doesn't make sense. >> reporter: you seem almost embarra embarrassed. >> a little bit. >> reporter: his contributions in the mountains of afghanistan are now front and center. remarkably parts of it were caught on video. here's the team of green berets and commandos coming off their helicopter. >> i remember being rocky and

cold and as soon as you look out, it was just kind of straight up everywhere you looked. >> reporter: their objective was one of georgia's many terror groups. the enemy saw the green berets coming and opened up on them. >> that shot out from every direction. >> reporter: shore was the medic. >> i heard the call for medic and at that point, worked my way over to the first person who needed help. >> reporter: dove to expose yourself to fire to get there? >> yes. >> reporter: did you get there? >> i was shot in the helmet. >> reporter: were you ok? >> felt like somebody hit me in the helmet with a baseball bat. >> reporter: jets dropped bombs within dangerous raping of the green berets, sure kept crawling across open ground to treat the

wounded. medevacs braved the firestorm. >> i'm hit, i'm hit. >> reporter: four kritly wounded americans and two dead afghan commanders. >> we got everybody out. >> reporter: sure left the army and joined the secret service. you might think he can breathe easy now and go back to guarding the president. not so. i understand you're fighting a different battles. >> unfortunately, yes. >> reporter: what have the doctors told you? >> diagnosed with lung cancer last year. >> reporter: what's the prognosis? >> faking it one day at a time. >> reporter: having faced death before ronald sure knows exactly what he has to do. >> we're giving this fight everything we can, just like the last one. >> reporter: david martin krksz. >> that does it for us.

from the broadcast center ♪ it's wednesday, october 3, 2018. this is the "cbs morning news." the fbi inquiry into the supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh could end sooner than expected. this as president trump mocked one of kavanaugh's accusers. >> where is the place? i don't remember. how many years ago was it? i don't know. i don't know. also a shocking new report claims president trump's wealth is built on fraud. the white house is reacting. and the death tolls jump in