captioning sponsored by cbs >> quijano: a horrifying limousine crash. in upstate new york, at least 20 people are dead after an s.u.v./limo plows through an intersection and crashes outside a country store. >> there was this loud bang. i came out and i saw a lot of people up here at the apple barrel, out in the parking lot. and then i heardrd screaming. >> quijano: also tonight, the political fallout from the kavanaugh confirmation. the bitter supreme court battle inflames the congressional midterm elections-- now a month away. tropical storm michael threatens the gulf coast from texas to florida. it could become a hurricane by mid-week. health officials warn doctors to be on the lookout after six children are diagnosed with a rare paralyzing disorder.

and bad blood between two u.f.c. superstars comes to a boil, erupting into an all-out brawl. >> total chaos here! >> quijano: good evening, i'm elaine quijano. a winery tour this weekend in upstate new york ended in tragedy. it happened in the rolling hills of apple orchards and vineyards, near the state capitol, albany. an s.u.v./limousine plowed through an intersection, and crashed outside a country store in the t town of schoharie. the limo was mangled. at least 20 people are dead. tony dokoupil is at the scene. but first, here's meg oliver with the latest on the investigation. >> reporter: first responders raced to the desperate scene in upstate new york saturday

afternoon, a catastrophic limousine crash killed 20 people. >> first responders broke windows to try to get people out. i believe the jaws of life were here on the side of one the fire trucks. >> reporter: it happened about 30 miles west of albany in schoharie, new york. state police say the limo was driving on route 30, when it ran a stop sign and plowed into the parking lot of the apple barrel country store. the limo hit a parked car and struck and killed two people standing outside. there were 18 people, including the driver, touring wineries inside the limo. no one survived. >> 20 fatalities is just horrific. i've been on the board for 12 years, and this was one of the biggest losses of life-- loss of lives that we've seen in a long, long time. >> reporter: stories of the victims are slowly emerging. among the limo passengers were newlyweds axel and amy steenburg, who tied the knot last june. a day before the crash, amy posted on facebook, "axel

steenburg, i love you more than words can say. you are such an amazing man and entertain all of my crazy ideas. thank you for being so kind and loving." family members tell me that axel's brother, richie steenburg, was also killed in the limo, but his wife kimberly decided at the last minute to stay home with their daughter. the n.t.s.b. expects to be on the scene for at least five days, as they piece together exactly how this tragedy unfolded. elaine? >> quijano: meg, thank you. now let's go to tony dokoupil at the scene of the accident. tony? >> hey elaine, we just got here a few moments ago, we're at the head of that t intersection. and i want to he show you where the vehicle came to a final resting spot. it's right here in this little creek behind me. you can see the tree that it struck was cut into, as first responders tried to make their way to the vehicle.lioutore in schoharie. people have been going in and l day long buying flowers

and creating this little memorial here. if you take a little bit of a look over to my left, you can see a gash in the earth. that is a skidmark or a mark made by first responders, when they pulled that vehicle out of the little creek. one of the questions that investigators are going to be looking at is, did the vehicle try to stop? and if not, why not? i can tell you we do not see any skidmarks on the road, which leads directly into this creek. the n.t.s.b. is here on scene, they've begun their investigation, they're expected to be here for about five days. new york state police will also be investigating. one of the questions that has arisen already among residents is, just how dangerous was this intersection? how come no one knew about it? why wasn't something done before? it's a major road here. the posted speed limit is 50 miles an hour and elaine there have been concerns for a long time. >> quijano: tony dokoupil, thank you. another major story this weekend was the confirmation of justice brett kavanaugh to the u.s. supreme court. kavanaugh was sworn in by chief

justice john roberts and retired justice anthony kennedy saturday evening. president trump will hold another ceremony for kavanaugh at the white house monday night. nikole killion is there. >> i stand before you today on the heels of a tremendous victory for our nation, our people, and our beloved constitution. >> reporter: president trump was in a celebratory mood in kansas shortly after brett kavanaugh was confirmed as the newest supreme court justice. >> on this vote: the ayes are 50, the nays are 48. >> reporter: it was one of the senate's closest supreme court confirmations in more than a century, made possible with the support of west virginia democrat joe manchin. and maine republican susan collins. collins said the f.b.i. report on dr. christine blasey ford's allegations of sexual assault. was a factor. >> when i looked at the lack of any corroborating evidence, i could not conclude that brett kavanaugh was her assailant.

>> reporter: but collins says she does believe dr. ford experienced some kind of trauma. >> i do believe that she was assaulted. i don't know by whom. and i'm not certain when. >> reporter: a suggestion democrat mazie hirono called insulting. >> well to say that she thinks that dr. ford thinks that she was assaulted, what is that? >> november is coming! >> reporter: with just a month to go before the midterms, both parties say the bitter confirmation fight is helping to galvanize their supporters. >> change must come from where change in america always begins: the ballot box. >> i want to thank the other side for the tactics that have allowed us to kind of energize and get involved our own voters. >> reporter: a senior white house official tells cbs news the president sees the importance of the kavanaugh confirmation, which will be a theme in the run-up to the election and beyond. elaine? >> quijano: thanks nikole.

john dickerson joins me now from washington. so john, what affect will this acrimonious battle have on the senate itself moving forward? >> well, we'll have to see. democrats certainly feel like the republicans gamed the system with the f.b.i. investigation, that it was not thorough, that it didn't really look into the questions that were at issue. they also have that building upon the animosity they have about merrick garland's nomination being blocked by mitch mcconnell. so, there is certainly a lot of anger and it is on an issue where people get quite exercised. and we'll have to see how that really plays out. we'll see, certainly in a month when there is an election. and whether democratic voters respond to this current moment. and that will gage, or that will give us some sense of whether then democratic leaders respond in a way that keeps this alive beyond the current moment. >> quijano: for the senators who crossed party lines, what drove

them to do it? >> well, i think that they-- basically, local politics. and so for senator lisa murkowski there a lot-- first of all, she is quite independent. she was able to win re-election to her office, after losing in a republican primary. she also has a number of local issues, where people are-- have reason to be suspicious of judge kavanaugh. the opposite is true for joe manchin in west virginia, the democrat who crossed over and voted with the republicans. he's in a state that all of the counties went to president trump in the last election. they also went to mitt romney in the previous one. so, this is a very red state and so, for him, there is no reason to not do anything to make too angry, some of those republican voters, who might vote for the republican at the top of the ticket, but vote for joe manchin, their former governor in the senate race. >> quijano: john dickerson in washington, thank you. >> thanks elaine. >> quijano: in an act of twitter diplomacy today, president trump said he is looking forward to meeting again with north korea

leader kim jong-un in the near future. this follows word from secretary of state mike pompeo that he had a productive meeting with kim in north korea. errol barnett is traveling with secretary pompeo. >> thank you for hosting us. president trump sends his regards. >> reporter: by the time secretary of state mike pompeo met with north korean dictator kim jung-un for lunch on sunday, the two and their delegations had already spent two hours working toward a second summit between president trump and chairman kim. pompeo was touting the ongoing dialogue between the two countries as an achievement. even though north korea has yet to share its plans for potential denuclearization. >> and then we fell in love, okay? >> reporter: president trump has been boasting of his warm relationship with kim, and has also spoken fondly of letters sent to him from the person he used to call "little rocket man." it remains unclear how their bond gets either country closer to an agreement. the u.s. wants pyongyang to

irreversibly denuclearize in a way that can be verified, while north korea wants u.s. sanctions lifted and a declaration to the end of the korean war. a second time and location for a president trump/chairman kim meeting is how significant? >> not much. >> reporter: professor andrei lankov, the director of the korea risk group, says north korea's real aim is to delay denuclearization indefinitely. >> you are in the summit. north koreans will say a lot of sweet stuff to donald trump. they'll make a lot of promises, probably not intending to keep many of these promises at all. >> reporter: so, do you worry the u.s. is getting played? >> i'm very sure it's getting played. >> reporter: now before secretary pompeo returns to washington, he wraps up this tour through east asia and beijing. there he will encourage president xi jinping to keep up pressure on north korea through sanctions, while attempting to smooth over tensions stemming

from the ongoing trade war with china. elaine? >> quijano: errol barnett, thank you. tropical storm michael gained strength in the caribbean today off mexico's yucatan peninsula. it's threatening to hit the gulf coast of the u.s. by mid-week, possibly as a category one hurricane. michael is currently expected to make landfall late wednesday along the alabama coast or florida panhandle. off the pacific coast of mexico, hurricane sergio is threatening the southwestern u.s. with heavy rain this week. it's already sending powerful waves crashing on the southern california coast. here's john blackstone. >> oh my god! >> reporter: overnight, high surf pounded this beachside community in long beach. residents watched on as the ocean water overtook their boardwalk. >> straight on from the first floor, you could see that the waves were tumbling. >> reporter: homeowner marisol carl fears the water could cause significant flooding. >> it look likes like it will come into our first floor, so without having any type of berms or support.

>> are the conditions scary? >> very scary, actually. >> reporter: before the expected large swells arrived, crews used heavy equipment to move tons of sand into place, doubling the defensive sand berm height from four to eight feet. city workers even put up a wooden barrier along the boardwalk, hoping to stop the swells, in case the berm was breached. as a last defense, sandbags were placed at the thresholds of these homes. ron salk is a 50 year resident of the area. he has never seen waves as aggressive as these. >> it was churning, big waves. i would say eight-to-ten feet. and wiping away the berm. >> reporter: the hurricane, currently 100 miles off the coast of baja, california, is expected to barrel into mexico. long beach crews will continue to fortify the threatened sand berm until tuesday. john blackstone, cbs news, san francisco. >> quijano: the state department is looking into accusations that saudi arabia was involved in the alleged murder of a prominent saudi journalist.

jamal khashoggi disappeared last week in turkey. as a columnist for "the washington post," khashoggi often criticized the saudi royal family. roxana saberi is following this. >> reporter: days after saudi journalist, jamal khashoggi, vanished while visiting the saudi consulate in istanbul, his friends feared the worst. turan kislakci says turkish officials told him khashoggi was killed at the consulate, adding, "his body was dismembered." khashoggi's fiancé says he entered the consulate on tuesday to get a marriage document and never came out. but saudi officials say they have nothing to do with the journalist's disappearance, and even took a tv crew on a tour of the consulate to show he isn't there. khashoggi is a high profile saudi dissident living in self- imposed exile in the u.s. since last year. in november, he warned about what he called "one-man rule," referring to saudi arabia's newly appointed crown prince mohammed bin salman.

>> but one male rule, as i said earlier, is bad. it always goes wrong in any country. >> reporter: khashoggi also wrote for publications like "the guardian" and "the washington post," which on friday left a blank space where his column should have appeared, along with the headline: "a missing voice." turkey's president says his country is studying cctv footage taken at the consulate and airport. and crown prince mohammed bin salman told "bloomberg news saudi arabia" has "nothing to hide." elaine? >> quijano: roxana, thank you. coming up next: health officials in minnesota sound the alarm after six children are diagnosed with a rare paralyzing disorder. and later, the cage could not contain their rage. a brawl breaks out at a u.f.c. fight. u.. is krvment fight.

>> quijano: health officials in minnesota are telling doctors to be on the lookout for a rare disorder called acute flaccid myelitis, or a.f.m.

it attacks the nervous system and can cause paralysis. there are no known treatments. 38 cases have been confirmed in the u.s. this year. six children were recently diagnosed in minnesota. here's kate raddatz of our minneapolis station, wcco. >> we usually would see, you know, zero-to-one case in a year. >> reporter: state health officials are trying to figure out why there has been a surge in cases of a.f.m. in the last month. the disease was originally discovered in 2014, but typically affects fewer than one in a million children. >> we're not clear what is the cause. we know that viruses have been associated with it. >> reporter: viruses, like those that can cause west nile. but it is unknown if it could be linked to genetics, environment, or if it is contagious. all six victims in minnesota have been under the age of ten. >> it was september 9th, it was sunday. we left church a little early, because he was just getting some cold symptoms. >> reporter: james hill's son had symptoms that got aggressively worse, until his neck and left arm were stiff.

the seven-year-old quinton spent two weeks in the hospital getting m.r.i.'s and a spinal tap before receiving the a.f.m. diagnosis. >> extremely emotional. obviously the world seemed like it was crashing down. >> reporter: there is currently no cure for a.f.m., and while the symptoms mimic polio, it's not the same. because health officials know the disease can be associated with viruses, they recommend parents take precautions. >> good hand washing. coughing into your elbow, covering your cough, making sure if you are sick, you stay home. making sure that you are up to date on your vaccinations. >> reporter: the minnesota department of health will study the current cases to try to determine if there is any link to a cause. >> quijano: still ahead, a u.f.c. grudge match erupts into a wild brawl. >> oh no! a wild drawl.

>> quijano: israeli officials say a palestinian gunman shot and killed two israelis today at a factory in the west bank. a 28-year-old woman and a 35- year-old man were killed. officials are trying to find the 23-year-old suspected gunman. israeli authorities say it was a terror attack, but workers in the area where israelis and palestinians work side-by-side, say the gunman was a disgruntled employee. as the death toll continues to climb from a devastating earthquake and tsunami in indonesia, officials say the search and rescue effort will be called off on thursday. more than a week after the disaster, more than 1700 are dead and 5,000 are unaccounted for.

at a saturday night fight in las vegas, u.f.c. champ khabib nurmagomedov from russia defeated his archrival, conor mcgregor of ireland, with a choke hold. then, a wild brawl broke out. >> he jumps the fence! >> no, no! >> whoa. >> no, no, no! >> quijano: nurmagomedov jumped into the stands to punch one of mcgregor's partners, while his entourage entered the cage and punched mcgregor. the fighting spilled into the ringside area, as police restrained fans who jumped the barricade. the champ later apologized for starting the brawl. >> i want to say sorry to the athletic commission, nevada, sorry to vegas. i know this is not my best side. >> quijano: nurmagomedov's guaranteed pay of $2 million is being withheld, pending an investigation. he also faces suspension and could lose his title. up next, we'll spend a few minutes with wally, a world war

ii veteran on a mission to spread warmth and wisdom. wisdom. blaj blank blah han 18, it may harm them. do not take linzess if you have a bowel blockage. get immediate help if you develop unusual or severe stomach pain, especially with bloody or black stools. the most common side effect is diarrhea, sometimes severe. if it's severe, stop taking linzess and call your doctor right away. other side effects include gas, stomach-area pain, and swelling. so say yesss! to help for recurring constipation. yesss! to help for belly pain. talk to your doctor

and say yesss! linzess. walking a dog can add thouswalking this many?our day. that can be rough on pam's feet, knees, and lower back. that's why she wears dr. scholl's orthotics. they relieve pain and give her the comfort to move more so she can keep up with all of her best friends. dr. scholl's. born to move. moving? that's harder now because of psoriatic arthritis. but you're still moved by moments like this. don't let psoriatic arthritis take them away. taltz reduces joint pain and stiffness and helps stop the progression of joint damage. for people with moderate to severe psoriasis, 90% saw significant improvement. taltz even gives you a chance at completely clear skin. don't use if you're allergic to taltz. before starting, you should be checked for tuberculosis. taltz may increase risk of infections and lower your ability to fight them. tell your doctor if you have an infection, symptoms, or received a vaccine or plan to. inflammatory bowel disease can happen with taltz, including worsening of symptoms. serious allergic reactions can occur. for all the things that move you.

ask your doctor about taltz. that last place was pretty nice. i don't like this whole thing. i think we can do better. change is hard. try to keep an open mind. come on, dad. principal. we can help you plan for that. this is for me, son? >> quijano: we end tonight with a world war ii veteran who has made it his mission to spread good cheer and kindness in his california neighborhood. carter evans has more on the wisdom of wally. >> oh! >> reporter: the first lesson of the day for students at marina village middle school happens well before class. >> give me a smile.

>> repr:very morning, 94- year-old wally richardson greets parents with a wave... >> good morning! yay! >> reporter: ...and their kids with what he calls "wally-isms." >> okay, be kind whenever possible. >> it's always possible. >> reporter: you give these kids a fist bump every day? >> yeah, i call it a ka-nuckle. some of them do it like this. they'll go-- po! >> reporter: after the ka- nuckles, the 80-year age difference seems to disappear. >> judging others does not define who they are. >> it defines who you are. >> a ship in the harbor is safe, but that's not what ships were built for, right? >> reporter: what's the point of getting them to participate? >> oh, i want them to retain something that they can take on in life later on. >> reporter: but his own life experiences make him an expert on what kids won't find in a textbook. he joined the navy in world war ii, was a fighter pilot in the korean war, then flew for united airlines. but this is wally's work now. >> he's like one of the nicest adults that i've ever met. ( laughs )

>> reporter: it all started 15 years ago when wally was on his daily walk. he likes to teach life lessons to kids this age before they become "too cool" to listen. >> all it takes is one significant adult in someone's life, and you can impact them forever. and wally is that person for a lot of kids. >> be kind whenever possible. >> it's always possible. >> if they can be kind and loving to other people throughout life, they won't have any trouble getting by. >> reporter: it's a labor of love. >> never look down on anyone. >> unless you are helping them back up. >> have a wonderful day. >> reporter: and as wally would say, "knowing what's right doesn't mean much, unless you do what's right." >> thank you. >> bye, wally. >> reporter: carter evans, cbs news, el dorado hills, california. >> have a wonderful day! >> you, too. >> quijano: wally turns 95 on october 19. happy birthday, wally. and that is the "cbs weekend news" for this sunday. later on cbs, "60 minutes." i'm elaine quijano in new york. for all of us, thank you for joining us, and good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org

leiva from the studios. this is kpix news. >> thousands of acres have been destroyed in a few hours. there are some -- there is still no sign of containment. the flames mark -- sparked around 1 pm. >> it has a really burned 4000 acres in highway 12 east tulsa suisun city. that is where we find joe vazquez live with details. >> big fire and it is still going. it has eaten up a lot of landscape. has moved across this road. you can see what firefighters are up against. very heavy winds. dry visitation. that is what is making this

fire so difficult to contain. >> it is a full aerial attack on the brands gone fire which is out of control right now. fire crews in the air and on the ground are trying to surround this fire which is burning through a sparsely populated marsh area not far from travis air force base. there are a few homes and other buildings. we are awaiting details. in this particular area there are duck clubs where hunters set up and wait for the ducks. at least one building associated with that has burned down. >> travis air force base officials say they are trying to determine the origin of the fire. they want to know if it started at or near the base. it jumped over highway 12 and went all the way over the ridge. >> smoke from the fire was all the way down to alameda county. what is burning here is grass and. it has been very dry. with the wind pushing it it burns very hot and