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we were taught to, oh, there's a god. i tried to kill myself over this when i was 24, legit.
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>> when you first started having those feelings, did you feel like, should i talk to someone? or -- there were ten of us. >> but who? if there is something that you see as a problem, it's not the same thing where you go to call the bishop up and say anything about it because then -- >> it's good, thank you. >> then you run the risk of being dismissed or whatever. >> is this something you would have confessed in a confessional? >> oh, i have, yeah. >> do you think that's forgiven you? >> yeah, but i understand god's forgiveness to be -- >> maybe with god. i can't. i have to carry this the rest of my life and -- >> reporter: as buried emotions surfaced, sabo needed a moment to himself.
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>> i came to tell you, i don't want to think about you any more. i can't forgive you. >> reporter: dougherty and sabo ended the meeting nearly 90 minutes later. we gave koharchik another opportunity to speak after he declined our request for an interview. nikki battiste, cbs news. why did you come to meet with shaun and brian? nothing? nothing you want to say to your victims? >> i just got to successfully meet with the guy that abused me, get it off my chest, and i'm at peace right now. >> i made sure i told him the pain you caused, i'm giving it
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back to you. for whatever it's worth, it meant a lot to me to tell him that. >> reporter: why was it so important to you that you talk to him on camera in a way that other people could see, a way that other victims could hear? >> so they could see the other victims who were betrayed and who were vulnerable, to see his vulnerability. and it's a long darn road, but you can -- can regain your control. over your own life. >> reporter: dougherty and sabo told us they were frustrated that george ka har chick would not address whether or not he knew why he was moved from parish to parish seven times. or, jeff, if the church knew about his abusive behavior. >> where is george koharchik now? >> he is living freely at home. he was removed from ministry, but he has never been charged because the statute of limitation has run out. >> nikki battiste with our eye on america. thank you. still ahead, why most burger
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president trump today presented the nation's highest military honor to a vietnam veteran who risked his life to save fellow marines. david martin has his story. >> reporter: 80 years old and looking as though he could still lead marines into combat, retired sergeant major john kanley received the medal of honor for his actions in the 1968 battle of whey. we'll get to the details in a moment. but here's what you really need to know about what happened. >> i can't think of any other way or reason of where i would rather die than with my marines. >> reporter: did you think you >> that never crossed my mind. >> reporter: cannily was reading his marines into the teeth of a north vietnamese ambush on the southern outskirts of whe. >> my troops would follow me to death. so if they are in a position whereas they might die, what am i supposed to do?
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>> reporter: according to statements submitted by his men, what he did was repeatedly expose himself to enemy fire to pull wounded marines to safety. >> they're still alive, right? so i'm going to try to get to them. >> reporter: eyewitnesses saw him pull at least ten wounded marines to safety, charge a machine gun that had them pinned down, and deliberately expose himself to fire in order to pinpoint enemy locations. but he hates being singled out from all the other marines who did their time in nom. >> when you look at what type of a war to what type of recognition they received, it's nothing. that really offends me. >> reporter: the marines who followed him into battle, canley, says, were the source of his courage. >> knowing that they were 100% behind me, fear never existed. >> reporter: david martin, cbs news, washington. >> coming up next here, what's behind these skyrocketing number
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a number of migrant families entering the u.s. illegally surged last month to record levels. nearly 17,000 families were arrested, according to government figures obtained by the washington post. the increase began when the trump administration stopped separating migrant families entering illegally. chances are that fast food burger you like is loaded with antibiotics that were fed to cattle, and could cause drug-resistant infections in humans. a report today by consumer groups found burgers at 22 of the top 25 chains, including mcdonald's and burger king, contain antibiotics and, thus, were given failing grades, fs. wendy's got a d-minus for partially removing antibiotics. shake shack and burger fi were the only chains. three of them got an a. tonight's powerball jackpot is at least $345 million. that is not bad, but how about 900 million? that is the jackpot for megamillions. that is the second largest
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jackpot in u.s. history. up next here, the biggest tv star you've never seen is waiting in the wings.
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his voice is instantly recognizable, so is the suit he wears to work. but most folks couldn't tell you his name or pick him out of a lineup. now he's retiring.
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so maybe it's time you met him. here's tony dokoupil. ♪ sunny day ♪ >> i bet today will be a perfect day. >> reporter: he's had one of the longest runs in television history. >> i'm a very good bird. >> reporter: and, no, we're not talking about the eight-foot bird, but the voice inside him. >> i just go a couple okinactav higher. it sounds cuter without me trying. >> reporter: since 1969 it's been puppeteer carol spinl spin giving life too big byrd. >> they say, what do you do? have you heard of "sesame street"? i'm big bird. no! >> reporter: he changed big bird from a goofy adult into america's most innocent 6-year-old. >> i love to move to the music, love to tap out a beat. >> i think we should play him like he's a kid, just a really tall kid. >> reporter: the job has taken
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him around the world. >> this is the great wall of china. >> reporter: and into our living rooms. >> anyone around the base is it. >> reporter: you play another memorable character, oscar the grouch. >> who is kicking my can? >> reporter: both roles will be taken over by under studies. and spinney, now 84, will be left to look back on his success. he still pinches himself. >> that's what hurt, it doesn't have to. it puts a smile on my face. >> reporter: and ours. as big bird my said, tootloo, mr. spinney. tony dokoupil, 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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♪ and that's cooperation ♪ co-op, co-op, cooperation ♪ /s >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." >> welcome to the overnight news. i'm don dahler. secretary of state mike pompeo is on his way back to washington after his trip to the middle east to investigate the disappearance of saudi journalist jamal khashoggi. in riyadh, pompeo met with the saudi king and crown prince who claim they know nothing about it. in turkey, he met with president erdogan amid reports turkey has audio evidence of khashoggi's brutal execution. pompeo wouldn't say whether he heard the tape. meanwhile, president trump doesn't want the incident to complicate u.s./saudi relations. holly williams reports from istanbul. >> i want to find out what
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happened, where is the fault, and we will probably know that by the end of the week. >> reporter: today president trump denied giving cover to saudi arabia in the disappearance of jamal khashoggi. once again, playing up the lucrative economic relationship. >> when i went there, they committed to purchase $450 billion worth of things, and $110 billion worth of military. >> reporter: but it was only today, more than two weeks africa shogi disappeared, that saudi arabia finally gave turkish forensics investigators access to the saudi consul general's residence in istanbul. khashoggi visited the saudi consulate on october 2nd and then went missing. turkish officials have told journalists they believe he was killed inside the consulate. unverified reports have suggested that khashoggi's body may have been disposed of at the consul general's residence. turkish officials also reportedly have an audio recording from inside the
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consulate of khashoggi being killed. some reports, which we cannot verify, include grisly details of him being dismembered. >> i just want to find out -- >> reporter: president trump confirmed today that the u.s. has asked to hear it. >> i'm not sure yet that it exists. probably does, possibly does. >> reporter: "the new york times" reported that one of the suspects is a forensics doctor, and another has links to saudi arabia's crown prince mohammed bin salman. but the crown prince and secretary of state mike pompeo were all smiles when they met yesterday. pompeo said today that saudi leaders had given him their word they'll fully investigate khashoggi's disappearance. an editorial in the washington post, the paper for which jamal khashoggi wrote, accused the trump administration of a, quote, diplomatic clean-up operation. >> state lawmakers in pennsylvania rejected a key recommendation of the grand jury that revealed decades of sexual
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abuse of children by catholic priests. it would have opened a two-year window for anyone now over 30 who suffered abuse as a child. that includes the two men you are about to meet. our under cover cameras captured their extraordinary confrontation with the priest they say abused them as children. the two survivors asked us to record it to help other abuse victims. nikki battiste has the story and the video in tonight's eye on america. >> reporter: hi, nikki battiste with cbs news. this former priest wasn't interesting in talking to cbs. nothing, nothing to say to your victims? you don't want to apologize? >> reporter: but our cameras were rolling minutes earlier when george koharchik faced two of the men who say he molested them as boys.
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>> reporter: nearly four decades ago here in johnstown pennsylvania, koharchik was teaching at school. is this around the age began? >> yes. >> reporter: that's when he took an interest in a pair of ten-year-old friends. this is the first time you're talking about it publicly. what's the process that got you to this point? >> i think just the support of family, my wife, just constantly reassuring me i haven't done anything wrong. >> we were confused. i mean, he's the priest. not that any other adults at your age would bathe you in a shower, but he did it like in a
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joking way. yeah, let me get your back. so, i mean, there are certain things that you just keep private. >> reporter: but they wanted everything to be public now as they contacted koharchik to arrange a sit-down. >> what does he hope to gain from meeting shaun and i after all these years? i hope it's not to ask for forgiveness. i don't think his soul can be saved now. >> reporter: is there any part of you that forgives him? >> um, no. >> i forgive him. if he's willing to -- >> reporter: you forgive him? >> i've forgiven him a long time ago. >> reporter: is that for you or for him? >> i think both. i think tonight is for me. >> how are you doing? have a seat. >> reporter: as they met face to face with the admitted child
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abuser, both had plenty of questions. >> at any point when you first started having those feelings, did you feel like, should i talk to someone or -- >> it's not the sort of thing where you're going to call the bishop up and say anything about it because then -- >> thank you. >> then you run the risk of, you know, being, you know, dismissed or whatever. >> was there something else about shaun and i that made us a target? >> well, familiarity maybe. you were close, involved in the things that were going on at the church. >> is this something you would have confessed in a confessional? >> oh, i have, yeah, certainly. >> do you think god's forgiven
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you? >> yeah. >> reporter: koharchik claimed he didn't know who in the church may have been aware of his behavior. >> you didn't get transferred for sexually abusing kids? >> i don't think so. >> i felt like it was a lot of dancing. >> dancing, feeling out. >> he just would not admit that there's any kind of cover up at all. >> reporter: how are you feeling? >> good, yeah. that was hard. it was really hard. i came here not knowing what to expect, but when i wake up tomorrow morning, i'm going to feel really glad i did this. >> reporter: relieved? >> yeah. >> i got a lot off my chest that i never thought that i'd get off my chest. i just successfully met with the guy that abused me and got to say everything i wanted to say to him. got it off my chest, and i'm at peace right now. i'm completely at peace. >> reporter: dougherty and sabo
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>> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." >> hard to believe it was 40 years ago that a pair of stoner comedians who called themselves cheech and chong made the big jump from vinyl to the silver screen. up in smoke was the surprise movie hit of 1978, and it said cheech marin and tommy chong on their way to stardom. john blackstone caught up with the pair for a little chat. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: when "up in smoke" went up on the big screen 40 years ago, it turned out to be the perfect vehicle for the humor of cheech maron and tommy chong. >> it looks like a tooth pick,
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man. >> it's not a tooth pick. >> it is a tooth pick, man. >> reporter: and their vehicle of choice as they searched los angeles for marijuana was a low rider named "the love machine." snoet i ♪ i'm just a love machine, and i won't work for nobody but you ♪ ♪ >> reporter: were you ever under the influence when you were -- >> no, sir. >> no, officer. >> i used it for medical purposes only. >> that's it. >> reporter: that "up in smoke" would be recommended four decades later seems unlikely when it was released. it was a low-budget movie starring two guys who had never before been in a movie. >> at that time we were just trying to figure out -- >> which end of the camera to use. >> i swear to god. >> reporter: and they weren't the only beginners on the set. >> we edited "up in smoke here." >> reporter: so was lou adler.
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>> i could sum up we were pretty much ready to go, and everybody was waiting. and the first director leans over to me and says, "say action." i forgot to say" action." >> reporter: together these first-time film makers were looking for laughs. >> is that a joint, man? >> reporter: from a subject that until then had been depicted on screen as aimen as. >> marijuana, the burning weed with its roots in hell. >> reporter: the 1936 movie "refer madness" helped lead to the first federal laws criminalizing marijuana. >> you mind if i have a bite of your hot dog? >> reporter: "up in smoke" was all about evading those laws. >> your license, where is your license? >> reporter: it's on the bumper, man, back there. >> no, i mean your driver's license. >> reporter: that routine
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started on stage in the los angeles music club in the early '70s. one night lou adler was in the crowd. >> that's the first time i saw tommy and cheech. basically i said to the guy that was with me at the time, i'd like to record these guys. and he just looked at me and said, i think you're crazy. how are you going to record them? >> reporter: adler was already a successful music producer with big hits and big stars. >> he was the most successful record producer in the world at the time he met us. >> that i didn't know about. who is lou adler? sounds like a lawyer. >> went to his office the next day. what do you want to do? i don't know, he looked around. gold records everywhere. make a record. what kind? gold. >> what do you need? i said a thousand dollars and a little tape recorder. and he said, okay, you got it. cheech jumped in. >> and i said, what did i say? >> there's two of us. >> oh, there's two of us. that's right. so we need $2,000.
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>> i don't know. >> reporter: with adler, they started thinking about making a movie. >> i think it was tommy. he wrote a song called "up in smoke." that's the title. ♪ up in smoke, that's where my money goes ♪ ♪ >> reporter: for the 40th anniversary, they added some updated lyrics. ♪ up in smoke, it's been a very quick 40 years ♪ ♪ >> reporter: acknowledging that marijuana is now legal for recreational or medicinal use in more than half the states. ♪ in every storm you see -- >> it's like prohibition before. the boat is rolling downhill right now. so you can stand in front of it. >> reporter: 40 years later is up in smoke as relevant as it was 40 years ago? >> probably more relevant than right now because all the kids that see it for the first time go, oracle that's what's happening. when did they make this? this is what's happening today.
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sign of a classic. >> reporter: it's a classic because of the comedy, says lou adler, not because of the pot. >> i decided early -- i'm saying i, but it's we. but decided early not to carry a banner for marijuana. >> but then perhaps why not make it about something other than marijuana at a time when marijuana was frowned upon? >> that was their material. i was looking to make a film with these two comedians, and their routine was not based -- all of it was marijuana. >> take these. this will mellow you out, man. >> what is this, man? >> just take them, man. hey, hey, don't take those, man. >> reporter: their routine provided plenty of raw material for the movie. >> this is busy for about a month. >> reporter: when you showed them the first time, what did you think? >> hysterical laughter.
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>> keep knock being, bing but y come in. >> reporter: it's the same today. cheech and chong are still drawing
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the current thaw in relations between the united states and north korea has a lot of people in asia hopeful that a treaty can be struck to formally
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end the korean war. general douglas macarthur thought he had the war won in 1950 when he sent u.s. marines to chase north korean troops up into china. he was wrong. david martin looks back on the battle of chosen reservoir. >> reporter: you may have seen these pictures before. american fighting men pushed to their limits and beyond. >> we took turns sleeping in the daytime. it was too cold at night. >> reporter: but unless you were there, you have no idea. >> most reliable was the strongest of our instincts. we all just did what we had to do to survive. >> reporter: now 90, warren was a young marine at the reservoir in north korea in the brutal winter of 1950. >> people can't imagine 40, 50 below zero. everything froze. vehicles froze, rifles froze, people froze. if you got wounded, you couldn't walk, you froze to death. >> turkey and the trimmings,
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courtesy of the u.s. air force. >> reporter: it was thanksgiving and the legendary general douglas macarthur had turned the tide of battle. >> barrel northward against the enemy. >> reporter: north korean troops who had invaded the south were in full retreat. they were in hot pursuit pushing toward the river in china. >> macarthur said he would have the marines home by christmas. >> reporter: and you believed it? >> we believed it. >> what he really wanted to do was cap off his military career with this great victory uniting all of korea. >> reporter: in his new book on desperate ground, hampton sides calls chosen reservoir the korean war's greatest battle. >> it's a battle that really asked the question, how much can a human being endure. >> reporter: it's a human endurance story that begins with human folly. >> human folly and human arrogance. >> reporter: macarthur ignored intelligence reports that tens of thousands of chinese troops
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had infiltrated into north korea and were laying in wait for the americans. >> the chinese were so good at this, traveling only at night. they would literally strap themselves to trees and nap during the day so that they couldn't be seen. >> reporter: the marines were moving north along a single road that twisted higher into the mountains, up to the chosen reservoir, which was supposed to be just a weigh station on their way to the yaloo. >> this was kind of a perfect trap because they had to go single file up this very narrow road. any commander knows this is a terrible way to move, because you're strung out. >> reporter: the chinese sprang the trap on the night of november 27th. >> we heard bugles and whistles. and the chinese came pouring over the mountain in front of us, thousands firing and shooting, coming down into the valley towards us. every weapon we had was firing at the chinese.
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nothing stopped them. they just kept coming. >> reporter: it sounds like the classic human wave. >> they overwhelmed the weapons that we had, and pretty soon we ran out of ammunition. >> reporter: the marines had air cover, so during the day the chinese would retreat back into the hills to avoid the bombs. >> but as soon as night comes, here come the chinese all over again. >> their job was to annihilate us. every night, as soon as it got dark, they attacked. in mass, right into the lines. hand to hand fighting. >> reporter: general oliver smith, the marine commander, estimated his 13,000 men were surrounded by 100,000 chinese troops. >> they have to begin to think about a word that the marines do not like, which is the word withdraw or retreat. >> we didn't call it retreat, we never called it retreat. >> reporter: when general smith asked if he was retreating. >> he said, retreat, hell, we're just advancing in another direction. but the point was to put the field with honor. i think that's why the marines
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to this day view the chosen reservoir as one of the great battles in their history, because they had been put into an impossible position, and they had to extricate themselves from this trap. >> reporter: the marines retraced their route to the sea along that single winding road, with chinese shooting down on them. they carried their casualties with them. but as the number of wounded continued to pile up, they had to make room on the trucks by burying the dead. what kind of shape were these guys in? >> they hadn't slept in days. they're dirty, they're hairy. they're shell shocked. all of them are wounded by battle wounds and frostbite. >> reporter: general joseph dumb ford keeps a picture of one of those marines on his office wall. >> that's my dad. he was a 19-year-old private first class. >> reporter: a 19-year-old who was already a combat veteran by the time his unit reached chosen reservoir. >> he turned 20 the night of 27 november, 1950.
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>> the night of the attack. >> reporter: you then me. >> that's when he turned 20 years old. >> reporter: along with the rest of the marines, dunford's father held on through five nights of chinese human wave attacks, and then made the bitter march out. >> he suffered a severe case of gang green and frostbite. >> reporter: you have these pictures watching you as you do 'job. >> deliberately so. particularly my dad apartments picture, it's personal. reminds me of the responsibility we have to the young men and women that are out there. >> reporter: it's been 68 years since the baltimoreful ttle of reservoir. and it like dunford's father still lives. >> there is something spiritual about chosen reservoir. >> reporter: spiritual, that's not what i a wordy would associate with the battle. >> it's a battle that kind of characterizes what marines have been through hichtestory and wh they ought to be in the future. >> reporter: marines suffered
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1,000 dead and wounded. a battle that drove american forces out of north korea. do you think the sacrifices they made at chosen mattered? >> i can tell
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astronaut nick haig is thankful to be alive this morning. he and his cosmo naught partner were aboard the rocket that self-destructed. tony dokoupil got to speak to them about it. >> reporter: he had close calls bunch but nothing like this. he had been training for the mission to the space station the last two years. his wife and children were there to watch what was to be his first trip into space. things did not go as planned. >> i imagined that my first trip to outer space was going to be a memorable one. i didn't expect it to be quite this memorable. >> reporter: astronaut nick haik and cosmo naught alexi were two
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minutes into their climb when the soyuz rocket failed. >> it went from normal to something was wrong pretty quick. >> reporter: a strap-on booster apparently crashed into the side of the central booster and burst into a a cloud of debris. it detected trouble and threw the crew's cap tewell up asule . >> you're a little bit startled, and then i saw the booster failure light inside the capsule, and at that point, you know, i realized, hey, we're not going to make it to orbit today. your training kicks in and you're ready to respond. and so alexi and i changed gears. >> reporter: a crew member aboard the space station caught the moment on camera. if you look closely, you can see the soyuz capsule nearly reaching the edge of space before gravity pulled it back down to earth. >> there was a point where i looked out the window and i saw the curve of the earth out there
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and the blackness of space. and it was bitter/sweet, fleeting moment knowing that i got that close. what can you do? sometimes huh-you don't get a v. >> reporter: haig and he landed safely 250 miles from the launch side. they hung upside down in their capsule waiting for help. >> we looked at each other. we had grins from ears to ears. he holds out his hand. i shake his hand and we start cracking a few jokes between us about how short our flight was. >> reporter: the two were treated to a snack and a medical checkup before being reunited with their families, including haig's wife katie. >> i have to tell you when we finally got to hug e other coming off the plane, it was a bit of release for both of us. holding back about the situation. my youngest, god bless him, he looks at me and says, dad, when are you going back to space? >> that's the overnight for this thursday. for some of you the news continues. check back with us later for the
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morning news and of course "cbs this morning." from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm don dahler. it's thursday, october 18th, 2018. this is the "cbs morning news." the last column written by missing journalist jamal khashoggi is published, this as secretary of state mike pompeo prepares to tell president trump what he learned during his fact-finding mission. the latest on the investigation. breaking overnight, the former president of usa gymnastics has been arrested. what he allegedly did. and waterlogged. with more days of rain

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