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topped 1400. a humanitarian catastrophe is playing out in the city of palu which bore the brunt of the magnitude 7.5 earthquake and tsunami. ben tracy is on the ground. >> reporter: gas stations in palu are running on empty. this man named ari waited 14 hours only to find out there won't be any fuel deliveries today. how hard is it to live in this town right now? >> i don't know, maybe it's chaos. >> reporter: the indonesian military has been moving people out of the disaster zone, but there is growing criticism they have been too slow to move in supplies for survivors. this city of more than 350,000 people has no running water or electricity. food is scarce and so are the
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tools to recover the dead. this is one the areas that was hardest hit by the tsunami and five days after that happened, you don't see heavy machinery here. you see people just using their bare hands to dig through debris trying to find bodies. as we watched, rescue workers found two more victims. they tell us this is the body of a 12-year-old boy. >> i can't swim. i can't swim. water here. >> reporter: nearby we met this woman. she survived the tsunami that devastated palu's beachfront. but she lost five family members including her father and mother. >> i lost my family. i love you. i really love him. i love her. >> reporter: she says the 20-foot tall tsunami wave came without warning and all she has left now is her faith.
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>> my jesus christ is strong. my jesus christ my hope. >> reporter: the situation here in palu is increasingly desperate. the red cross tells us that a ship full of supplies should arrive on friday. jeff? >> ben tracy in palu. ben, thank you. catholic church leaders from around the world were summoned from the vatican today to start a month-long meeting on the future of the catholic church. outside the gates were survivors of abuse by priests demanding justice. seth doane is there. >> reporter: pope francis prayed today with bishops who gathered from nearly 125 countries. their goal? making the church more appealing to youth. topics range from migration to lgbt issues to video games. but there is a major one missing. sex abuse is not officially on the docket in this meeting with bishops, but the sex abuse survivors are trying to make sure it is part of the discussion. protesters gathered near the
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vatican this afternoon. about two dozen of them from a catholic school for the hearing impaired. even when i sleep i'm not tranquil, johnny said. he and three other sex abuse survivors from the antonio provolo in italy pointed to their priest abusers. i would scream and cry out because of the pain,al sandro told us, but no one could hear me because everyone was deaf. in 2013 and 2014 they wrote to the pope warning of pedophile priests at the school, asking how they could live in tranquility. in 2016 they got a response from the vatican noting how much the holy see has done and continues to do in relation to clerical to aabuse.rrols to one of the priests who abused johnny bisoli was transferred to
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another institute for the hearing impaired in argentina where he abused more kids. in 2016 he was arrested on allegations he'd abused 22 deaf/mute children over 30 years. seth doane, cbs news, rome. >> coming up next, a rare moment of national unity. a presidential text to the masses. and later, for the first time in decades there is a new number one on forbes' list of the rich est mernds. americans.
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obvious in places like santa monica and at new york's grand central station where this couple said they knew it was coming. >> we were forewarned about it. it had been in the paper and everything, so it was no big shock. >> there it is. >> reporter: but it became a moment on tv. >> it's very quiet. >> reporter: and on twitter where the hashtag presidential alert was trending and generated jokes and memes with the houston zoo sending a cute baby elephant alert and the new york met saying, this is not a test. jacob de gram is the best pitcher in baseball. today's alert actually was a test of an alert that would be sent by the president to give advance warning of a national crisis like a terror attack or a missile about to hit the united states. it's similar to the local amber and weather alerts sent to mobile phones. planning for the alert system began in 2006. but some people said their phones didn't go off. 12 minutes after the alert, we asked the duncans, did you get
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the alert? >> no. >> reporter: you didn't. what service are you on? >> t-mobile. >> t-mobile. >> reporter: officials say if you ever do see a real presidential alert, pay attention. fema's antoine johnson. >> take those things very seriously when they come across your mobile device or it appears on radio or television. they're not the type of alerts that should be ignored at any time. >> reporter: fema said today the test was successful. phone carriers, including t-mobile told us it may have taken up to 30 minutes for alerts to go through, but t-mobile said it had no problems outside of that. now, jeff, if you were on an active phone call at the time you would not have gotten it. you cannot opt out. we heard anecdotal reports of people having some problems or not getting the alert. so some of those things are not entirely -- >> it came a couple minutes later, at different times. >> some people got>>nna, thank . coming up next, deputy goes the extra mile to help an elderly woman. sleep disturbances keep 1 in 3 adults up at night.
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high -- >> we did it, baby, we got the w. >> reporter: no one loved it more than senior running back jamal speaks. >> happy to be here. >> reporter: not just because he rushed for one td and set up the game winner with this great catch. but because this was speaks' first game in two seasons. teammate. >> it was fun having my brother back. >> reporter: speaks wasn't injured. that would be easy to understand. he'd been ruled ineligible to play, not because of bad grades. he's a good student. or discipline issues. he's a great kid. but because with his father dead and his mother not in his life, he was homeless, bouncing from friends' house to friends' house. the school ruled no permanent address meant he couldn't play. in this, are you kidding me
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scenario, the adults may not have had a clue, but the kids did. last game they refused to take the field for 45 minutes in protest. taje ruffin played safety. >> if anybody was in his shoes, we would have did the same thing for anybody. >> reporter: with the light now shining on jamal's situation, he's allowed to play, at least for the time being. >> people accept me for who i am, what i'm doing, like i appreciate. it's just a lot of love. temple university sure did, giving him a football scholarship. and the rest of us a running back to root hard for in the seasons to come. jim axelrod, cbs news, new york. >> that is the overnight news for this thursday. 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.
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>> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." >> hi, everyone, and welcome to the overnight news. i'm demarco morgan. the white house is not backing down after president trump mocked christine blasey ford at a rally in mississippi. dr. ford is one of at least three women who accused supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh of sexual misconduct. the white house insists the president was simply stating the facts of the kavanaugh nomination remains on the fast track. weijia jiang begins our coverage. >> reporter: president trump repeatedly imitated christine blasey ford during a campaign rally in mississippi last night. >> i had one beer. well, do you think -- nope, it was one beer. oh, good. how did you get home? i don't remember. how did you get there? i don't remember. where is the place? i don't remember. how many years ago was it? i don't know. i don't know. [ cheers and applause ]
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i don't know! i don't know! what neighborhood was it in? i don't know. where's the house? i don't know. >> reporter: the performance did not sit well with three republican senators who will make or break judge brett kavanaugh's confirmation. arizona's jeff flake. >> it's kind of appalling. >> reporter: maine's susan collins. >> the comments were just plain wrong. >> reporter: and alaska's lisa murkowski who called the president's words wholly inappropriate and unacceptable. the gop can only afford to lose one of their votes if all the democrats reject kavanaugh. but all three senators are undecided after hearing ford's testimony, which did include some gaps. >> i don't have all the answers and i don't remember as much as i would like to. >> reporter: mr. trump's portrayal of ford contradicts what he said just five days ago. like a very fine woman to me.s
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she was a very credible witness. >> reporter: white house aides insisted president trump was not mocking ford. >> it seemed to me that he was stating facts that dr. ford herself laid out in her testimony. >> excuse me, she's been treated like a faberge by all of us by me and the president. he's poiptding out factual inconsistencies. >> reporter: at the mississippi rally, the president said it was fathers and sons who have been mistreated. >> so, a person i never met said i did things that are horrible and and they're firing me from my job, mom, i don't know what to do. >> reporter: undecided senator susan collins was surrounded for the first time by a police detail as other republicans tried to shrug off the protesters. >> would you please leave me alone? >> reporter: trailed them everywhere as they await the fbi's findings. >> i don't care how many members they chase, how many people they harass here in the halls. i want to make one thing perfectly clear.
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we will not be intimidated by these people. >> reporter: so far the fbi has interviewed mark judge, leland keyser and patrick smith. the people christine blasey ford says were at the house the night she was sexually assaulted. agents have also spoken to the friends kavanaugh referred to as timmy and squee in his high school calendars. but the white house has reportedly blocked the fbi from talking to the two key players, ford and kavanaugh. >> you would not block -- >> the senate judiciary committee -- >> reporter: white house officials were vague when asked about that today. >> you'd have to talk with the fbi. >> did you dictate the terms -- >> we're not micro managing anything. >> reporter: republicans meanwhile have stepped up their scrutiny of blasey ford, releasing this sworn statement from a man who said he was ford's boyfriend for six years. he claims that despite her testimony, ford never expressed a fear of closed quarters to him, and that he once witnessed dr. ford help her roommate
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prepare for a potential polygraph exam. >> have you ever given tips or advice to somebody who was looking to take a polygraph test? >> never. >> reporter: ford's former roommate quickly issued this statement. "i have never had christine blasey ford or anybody else help with any polygraph exam i have taken at any time." >> overseas, the desperation continues to grow in indonesia. nearly a week after an earthquake and tsunami devastated coastal communities. about 1500 bodies have been recovered. many more are believed to be either trapped beneath crumbled buildings or washed out to see. ben tracy has the story. >> reporter: gas stations in palu are running on empty. this man named ari waited 14 hours only to find out there won't be any fuel deliveries today. how hard is it to live in this town right now? >> i don't know, maybe it's chaos. >> reporter: the indonesian military has been moving people out of the disaster zone, but there is growing criticism they have been too slow to move in
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supplies for survivors. this city of more than 350,000 people has no running water or electricity. food is scarce, and so are the tools to recover the dead. this is one of the areas that was hardest hit by the tsunami and five days after that happened, you don't see heavy machinery here. you see people just using their bare hands to dig through debris trying to find bodies. as we watched, rescue workers found two more victims. they tell us this is the body of a 12-year-old boy. >> i can't swim. i can't swim. water here. >> reporter: nearby we met this woman. she survived the tsunami that devastated palu's beachfront. but she lost five family members, including her father and mother. >> i lost my family. i love you. i really love him.
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i very, very love her. >> reporter: she says the 20 foot tall tsunami wave came without warning and all she has left now is her faith. >> jesus christ is here. my jesus christ is strong. my jesus christ my hope. >> reporter: the situation here in palu is inbe creasingly desperate. the red cross tells us a ship full of supplies should arrive on friday. >> turns out there was no poison in those suspicious packages sent to pentagon leaders. jeff pegues has this story. >> reporter: the house in logan utah, arrested a man in part of an investigation of threatening letters sent to the white house and pentagon. u.s. attorney in utah says william clyde allen is being held in investigation. there are potentially hazardous chemicals in his house and are asking the public to stay away. the mail sent to the pentagon was address today defense secretary james mattis and the chief of naval operations john
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richardson. but was intercepted at the pentagon's mail delivery center before it could be delivered. the letter addressed to the white house was also intercepted. the two letters sent to the pentagon initially tested positive for the poison ricin, but today law enforcement officials said that was a false alarm after an fbi lab found the suspicious substances was castor seeds. it would take a deliberate act to produce it. it is unclear if the suspect tried to make ricin and failed or if he wanted to send a message. frank is a former homeland security official. >> ricin is incredibly toxic. the smallest amounts either inhaled or ingested or injected could be truly fatal. >> reporter: allen served in the navy four years leaving the service in 2002. he has not yet been charged and the motive remains under the motive remains under investigatiok.
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>> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." >> a lot of people who want to learn computer coding are enrolling in online classes and one of the most famous schools is wozu. it's the brain child of steve woz any acwho cofounded apple. some students say wozu is a rip off. our own tony dokoupil taekd to him who was -- >> reporter: some people flock to wozu, it promises to temprature skills that help change the rules. that is far from what was delivered. last fall apple co-founder steve wozniak rode a segue into a packed room.
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>> arizona, let's change the world again. >> reporter: an online education company promising education reprogrammed. >> check us out at woz-u.com. >> is that steve wozniak? >> i think it is. >> the great and powerful woz. >> reporter: the bona fide silicon valley celebrity. >> steve wozniak. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: generated thousands of inquiries from potential students. among them bill dor. >> this is the woz. you get caught up in the excitement of that. >> reporter: a former nuclear specialist with the navy, dor came in contact with the website. >> contact wozu about your dreams. >> reporter: what's the pitch like after that? >> we're excited getting ready to launch this. you can't feel how excited we are here, but let me tell you. >> reporter: the 33-week program wasn't cheap at $13,200
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including more than $7,000 in federal student loans. at that price, dor says he expected quality, but that's not what he got. >> when you're doing code and you're following along, and there's a typo and you get an error, you don't have any idea why you got the error. and you're like, how can -- did somebody not proofread this, did somebody not not make sure it worked? >> reporter: course content were one of many problems. so-called live lectures were pre-recorded and out of date. student mentors were unqualified and at 1.1 of his courses didn't even have an instructor. >> i feel like this is a $13,000 e-book, you know, this is supposed to be a program written >> >> reporter: tech minds of a time. >> exactly. esstimes there's hypero mit s,o wikipedia. >> reporter: cbs news spoke with more than two dozen current and former wozu students with
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similar complaints about the program. we also reviewed complaints posted by students on the wozu slack channel. i do not understand why we can't get good quality for what we are paying for, reads one message. the lessons are extremely flawed, says another. >> it is drive, drive, drive the sales. >> reporter: tim was one of the enrollment counselors charged with selling wozu to prospective students. how did people respond when you would tell them, well, i work for wozu. do you know who steve wozniak is? >> a lot of folks who who he is and folks don't know who he is. then you can give them the excitement of who he was. >> reporter: after the 4r67 the sales force expanded from 16 to 60 and management ratcheted up pressure to enroll students. >> your job is on the line. >> reporter: so even when you started to have qualms and e.stions and concerns about the >>teits enrollment laid off last june. do you regret doing the work
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for wozu? >> i regret in the aspect to where they're spending this money for -- it's like rolling the dice but on the riverside. that's for my family. >> reporter: in this case do you feel like you had to do something that wasn't right? >> at times i did. >> reporter: we wanted to talk to steve wozniak about all of this but he declined multiple requests for an interview. >> tony dokoupil with cbs news. so we tracked him down at a conference. >> i'm in a busy part of the speakers. >> reporter: there are very serious concerns. how involved are you -- >> step away. >> reporter: no one is responding. >> step back. >> reporter: it's very important. no one is responding to our requests for an interview. i would expect steve is going to see this piece. what do you want steve wozniak to hear and to know?
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>> i would want him to look more into is this really education or is this really about profit? >> reporter: now, in a statement wozu president said they implemented a quality control system to catch them. he said steve wozniak reviews the content. they are not pressured to enroll. >> 150 million americans play video games and 60% of them do it every day. colleges are getting in on the act with coding classes and even video game leagues. but is there a danger in spending too much time with the console in your hand? meg oliver has the story. >> reporter: as universities embrace this new generation of e-sport athletes, some worry too many students are choosing gaming over academics. research is in its infancy about how these games affect everyone from the elite to the casual gamer. >> joe tried to go over some time crazy --
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>> this is our super bowl, our world series, our world cup. this is where it all boils down to. >> he's going to come back around. >> reporter: at the call of duty world championships, elite gamers from around the worldcom pete for a prize of a million and a half dollars. >> go beiack, go back. >> reporter: 26-year-old james eubands works six hours a day. >> it has to do with us growing up and being gamers staying up all night. >> reporter: e-sports have exploded in popularity at college campuses across the nation, raising long-term physical and mental health concerns. >> i'm going to put a sensor here, here. >> reporter: to learn more about the impact researchers at ohio state university are wiring e-sport athletes up. performing e,egs and stress tes s to find out what happens during gaming. >> we see some of their stress levels go up higher, their heart
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rates get up higher. >> reporter: is it healthy for them to be playing that many hours a week? >> that's what we don't know yet. from the brain standpoint we don't know. we have a snapshot. they have higher cognitive capabilities than what we call general population. their ability to sustain attention and dual task is a little bit higher. >> reporter: they are hoping their findings can help improve computerized technology used for injury rehabilitation and stroke recovery. while some elite gamers may be able to handle long hours of practice, some of the medical community say extensive gaming can cause negative repercussions. >> compared to five years ago the number of students i'm seeing this year from college has more than doubled in that time. >> reporter: psychologist dr. michael frazier says high school students who suffer from anxiety, depression, learning disorders, or have a hard time turning the game off are most at risk in college. >> if you're noticing that they're having those kinds of difficulties in high school and
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they have any of those conditions, then i would say you have someone who is really at risk for struggling when they go away. >> it's like watching a football game. >> reporter: 26-year-old adam broker failed out his freshl man year after his gaming spiraled out of control. >> i would be laying in bed, i'd be like oh, my gosh, like i can't -- i just can't do it. i can't go to class. i'm just going to play video games. >> reporter: adams mother wasn't concerned because he excelled academically in high school. >> i thought college was going to cure him from his hobby or his addiction. but it didn't cure him. it made it worse. >> reporter: did you ever think you needed to go for help? >> oh, yeah. during that time, absolutely. i knew that something was wrong. i was like, i can't keep doing this and then the next day i would wake up and i'd do the same thing again. >> reporter: after failing out, adam enlisted in the army. five years later and a tour of duty in iraq behind him, adam is back at nc state as a junior.
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he's hoping more research like the study at ohio state will help prevent those at risk from falling prey to video games. ause you're just the silent sufferer and you overcome it. you've got this information, so why not share it with people and help other people? >> the cbs overnight news will be right back. 'saved money on motorcycle insurance with geico. goin' up the country. later, gary' i have a motorcycle! wonderful. ♪ ♪ i'm goin' up the country, baby don't you wanna go? ♪ ♪ i'm goin' up the country, babo rcn't you wanna go? ♪ great rates for great rides.
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federal agents are still pouring over documents seized in the raid of the e cigarette maker juul. they control 70% of the market. the fda wants to know if it's targeting kids. anna warner reports. >> reporter: the fda requested information from juul in april. they dropped in unannounced. it is part of the agency's investigation into the epidemic of teen e-cigarette use. the xda wants to clear the air on what's driving teenage vaping and agency officials showed up without warning friday at juul's offices in san francisco. their goal? they say to gather information about juul's sales and marketing practices to determine whether the company is deliberately targeting minors. the company says it wants to be part of the solution in preventing under age use and has released over 50,000 pages of documents to the fda since april.
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>> vaping can deliver nicotine to your brain, reprogramming you to create more and more. >> reporter: the fda will also be looking at prior social media campaigns by juul that show young models in bright colors. the study published tuesday by the center for disease prevention found juul sales increased 600% last year. from 2.2 million in 2016 to 16.2 million in 2017. >> we believe it holds huge promise for public health. >> reporter: we spoke with jurks u, l's ashley gould in june who said its product is intended for adult smokers to switch to something safer and healthier. >> it impedes our mission of reaching the adult smokers with all of the youth usage. we don't want it at all. >> reporter: but aren't they going to lose a lot of market share and sales if they do manage to stop kids from using their product?
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>> there are a billion smokers. we don't want or need youth using this product. >> reporter: a rand corporation study showed teens who vape are more likely to go on to smoke traditional cigarettes. >> this problem is a result both of the irresponsible marketing by juul and the failure of the fda to effectively regulate e-cigarette. >> reporter: wince will more is with tobacco free kids. >> the key is for the fda to move from this information gathering to taking real concrete actions to addss the problem. >> reporter: the fda has given y jull and others to show how they will curb sales to teenagers. on tuesday a senate and republican called on the fda to immediately ban child friendly e-cigarette flavorings and restrict online sales of nicotine products.
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john blackstone now with how a story of medical marijuana opened the school door for a 5-year-old girl to attend kindergarten. >> reporter: at the village school? santa rosa, california, 5-year-old brook adams is thriving in kindergarten. that's a huge breakthrough, says her mother, jenna adams. >> she's playing. she's learning. she counts to 20. she knows her kohl ertz. she knows her letters. >> reporter: brook's success comes in spite of a debilitating medical condition, a form of epilepsy that causes violent seizures that her family once recorded on video. >> her seizures would be lasting hours and even in the hospital, trying to get them to stop was very hard.>>o medication worked until they tried an oil derived from marijuana. >> we started to explore thc, which is the psycho active part
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of marijuana. but that is actually what her body needs to stop the seizures. >> reporter: but when it came time for brook to go to kindergarten, the school district put up a roadblock. >> our concerns really were more from both state and federal government levels, were we breaking any laws in having her medication on campus. >> cannabis that she takes is an oil tincture. it's just a few drops that we put in her mouth and it absorbs. >> reporter: while california is one of 31 states that has legalized marijuana, it is not one of the three states to specificall allow medical use of marijuana on a school campus. medical marijuana is legal in california. why did the school district say no, you can't have this medication in school? >> the school distrhe position that essentially both california state law and federal law prohibited the use of cannabis on campus. >> reporter: attorney joe rogoy who specializes in marijuana law
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represented brook's family in a lawsuit challenging the school's ban on her medication. >> if the judge didn't rule in our favor,e cld have h to pull her out of school. >> reporter: the school district was caught between one federal law that says all marijuana is illegal. and another federal law, the individuals with disabilities education act. >> and federal law prioritizes children with disabilities and ensuring that they are able to have access to education more so than other things that the district was holding onto. >> reporter: the california judge ruled that under both federal law and california law, brook must be allowed to be treated th medical mararijuana in school. >> i mean, she's learning and she's growing. and without cannabis, she would not be that way today. >> reporter: a drug many still consider a danger is seen by brook's family as a life saver. john blackstone, santa rosa, california. >> that's the c"cbs overnight news" for this thursday. from the cbs broadcast center in
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new york city, i'm demarco warner. it's thursday, october 4th, 2018. this is the cbs morning news. today an fbi report on supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh will be delivered to the senate. this as the senate moves toward a vote to confirm him. in south carolina, police officers walk into an ambush leaving one dead and several wounded. the shoot out and standoff. and hundreds of thousands of immigrants are kept from being deported following a judge's

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