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saudi arabia of deception and lies. what the president says he's seen no evidence that the crown prince ordered the killing of a jushlist. u.s. lawmakers are not buying the shifting stories. also to be the russia fires back against president trump's plan to pull out of a landmark nuclear weapons treaty. >> russia has violated the agreement. they have been violating it for many years. >> desperate and defiant, a a ka va van of migrants pushes north seeking asylum. >> do you know where you're going? >> the united states.
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>> a college homecoming party crashes to a close as the floor suddenly collapses. and we go inside operation find and fix. a new program to repair or replace deadly air bags. welcome to the overnight news. deception and lies, president trump is now using those words to describe saudi arabia's ever shifting story about the killing of a journalist. the president is not ready us to accuse the crown prince of the death of the journalist. we have more from the white house. >> this is a mistake. >> reporter: new surveillance images show jamal entering the consulate in turkey, where saudi officials now claim he died in a fistfight with agents. today the foreign it was a rogue operation and those responsible would be punished. >> there obviously was a
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tremendous mistake made and. >> reporter: the foreign m minister says he does not know where the body is and he rejected involvement from crown prince. >> the crown prince is not aware us of this. >> reporter: brittany, germany and france pushed back issuing a joint statement pressing for clarification of what happened. in an interview with "the washington post", president trump refused to say if he believes the crown prince is behind the death and told reporters he plans to talk with him. some key u.s. lawmakers are not ready to take the saudis at their word. >> do i think he did it, yes. let's finish this investigation. >> the crown prince has his fingers a all over this. >> saudi has a lot of explaining to do.
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>> law mmakers demanding they punish saudi arabia. so far trump is refusing to cab sell a major arms sale, but may consider sanctions. tur ski say it is plans to release detail l itsation this . breaking the pact would be a dangerous step. >> reporter: as worries about a new arms race intensify, the treaty requiring the two countries to eliminate missiles like these could be coming to an end. >> russia has not unfortunately honored the agreement. so we're going to terminate the re pull out. >> reporter: after a rally in nevada saturday, prumesident trp says he wants to withdraw from the agreement if they don't comply. >> if russia is doing it and china is doing it and we're
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adhering to the agreement, that's unacceptable. >> reporter: it was signed in 1987 by president reagan. president trump can pull the u.s. out of the pact unilaterally, but some lawmakers, including senator rand paul, say it's a bad idea. >> it's a big, big mistake to flippantly get out of this agreement that they signed. >> reporter:. senator corker says the announcement could be a negotiating tactic. >> maybe this is just a move that says if you don't straighten up, we're moving out of this. i hope that's the case. >> reporter: since 2014 the u.s. has declared russia in violation of the treaty by developing probabilitied weapons. russia denies that charge and has accused the u.s. of breaching the agreement. national security adviser john bolton is many in moscow to
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discuss the treaty while america's european allies seem split. germ gany expressed concerns. tony? >> thanks. a caravan of migrants is about 5,000 strong and on the move after being blocked at mexico's southern border. they are determined to make it to the u.s. to seem asylum despite president trump's warning they will be turned away. adriana diaz is traveling with them. >> are you tired? >> yes. >> are you hungry? >> yes. >> reporter: we found this woman and two young daughters resting just ahead of the caravan. >> she said so many people have been helping them here that mor honduras. >> reporter: they were overtaken by a sea of migrants. streaming from mexico's southdu
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poverty and gang violence. karen scanned the crowd for her son who was walking separately. once reunited, he couldn't go on. it's been a a grueling ten days for this family to get to this point. >> you know where you're going? >> the united states. she knows clearly. do you know why? >> your mama wants to go. >> reporter: under blackhawk helicopters, those who could scrambled on to trucks, but most were on foot. >> whose child is this? >> reporter: like these men traveling with a baby. >> they have diapers, they have milk that people have been helping them get. who has been helping you? in guatemala they lot a lot o help hhelp.hy you decide to com? it's so dangerous.
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he says to give her a better life. he said we have no option. i heard the word necessary, people have just said it's necessary. this is a necessity for us to do this. one woman told me i don't want to leave home. who in their right mind would want to leave their home, but this is a necessity for the survival of myself and my family. >> thank you. a wave of deadly terror attacks did not stop 4 million people from voting this weekend in afghanistan. nearly 200 attacks including suicide bombings left more than 50 people dead. the rurlts of the parliamentary elections are still being tall lid. four american men and their guide were killed when their raft flipped in a fast-moving river. the americanscoming wedding. a police officer was shot and kiln ed this weekend near
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a clemson university home coming party came crashing to a close when the floor suddenly collapsed. we have the doctormatic video. >> reporter: this cell phone footage shows the moment the floor collapses. and captures the chaos and destruction when dozens of party goers plunged to the floor below in a massive crush of bodies. >> the floor broke. >> i'm jumping, i have my hands in the air and then i feel myself falling like this.
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and then i wake up because i blacked out and see like girl. s everywhere with blood all over their face. >> reporter: it started as a home coming celebration organized by the fra teternity. but us early sunday morning, the thumping music of a private dance party in the clubhouse of an apartment complex near the university had revelers jumping up and down in unison. that proved too much for the floor. >> the fact that you see big football players in there crying and stuff like that because they are asking for help, that's something i don't wish on anybody. >> reporter: at least 30 people were taken to hospitals. 25 of them clemson students target universiaccording to uni officials. >> we're thankful it wasn't worse than it was. meaning there's no deaths involved and there was no entrapments involved. >> the president of the building's management says the
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complex has no violations he's aware of. he also says the clubhouse has a posted occupancy limit. in his opinion aexceeded. >> it's amazing it wasn't worse looking at that video. more than $2 billion in lottery jackpots are up for grab this is week. tuesday night's mega millions has soared to $1.6 billion, the lar largest in u.s. history. wednesday night's paubl is around $620 million. it's estimated about 3,000 lives are saved each year by properly functioning air bags. now a new program called operation find and fix aims to repair or replace those air bags defective and potentially deadly. >> et we checked this and it has two recalls. >> roger is scanning vehicles in this los angeles swap meet. the area is a priority for the nonprofit known as operation find and fix. it has oneover the highest concentrations of vehicles withr bags.
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>> some of the cars are secondhand cars and then the dealer has no way of informing them. that's where we come in. >> reporter: there's an estimated 14 million vehicles with defective air bags. volunteers are using grass roots efforts where there are over 4 million vehicles with unrep unrepaired, potentially deadly air bags. so far they have checked more than 30,000 vehicles. >> the takata air bag deployed, scrap metal hit her artery. >> do you feel like these grass roots organizations have had to step in because there's a lack of taking responsibility from the auto maker industry?ou have assertive. you can't just rely on them. they are not necessarily honest all the time, and that concerns
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me. they are not forthright. >> reporter: they are partnering with the program. >> when you tell customers their car has recalled air bags, what's their first reaction? >> oh, my goodness, i can't believe that. the first thing is we're trying to upsell them something. we say we don't fix that. you have to go to the auto maker to get it fixed and it's a free repair. >> they have checked 10,000 vehicles discovering 700 on the recall list. the number is a reality check that this problem is far from being fixed. cbs news, los angeles. at least 18 people were killed and more than 150 injured when a passenger train derailed in taiwan. the train was heading from a suburb of the capital to another city along the coast when it jumped the tracks. the cause of the accident is under investigation. it was a wild and woolly t. thousands of sheep paraded through the spanish capital. it's an annual festival where
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shepards move their flocks for the winter using ancient migration routes. up next, hot climate science in the world's coldest place.
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temperatures caused ice shelves to thin and collapse at an alarming rate. mark phillips traveled to the bottom of the world flying with operation ice bridge. >> this is not just a joyride over some spectacular scenery. >> too low terrain. >> this is the low level in a new kind of information war. nasa is here in antarctica gatt. ering ammunition, otherwise known as scientific data in the battle over lit us mat change. >> we need to know what's happening to the climate. >> reporter: john has been flying these missions since they started ten years ago. >> we already know that large parts of antarctica have been thinning in the last 20 years. but not only that, they are poised to thin at a faster rate in the future. >> reporter: these flights are part of nasa's annual campaign
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that flies at the southern tip of chile. use iing an old dch and the new scientific instruments and the scientists to run them. they fly at just 1500 feet using lasers, radar, photography, even gravity sensors to measure the volume and the mass of the ice. instruments that tell scientists what is happening below. >> presently, the ice sheet is discharging more than two olympic sized swimming pools worth of ice into the ocean every second. >> every second? >> reporter: at that rate, it's now feared antarctica alone could cause 6 inches of sea level rise this century making flooding in places like miami or new orleans or new york worse and much more frequent. why is that happening? it may look cold down there, but the seas are warming. this expansive icebergs and thin ice used to be a solid ice shelf
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hold iing back a glacier until warmer water broke it up us. >> what happens is is the cork is out of the bottle and the ice can accelerate for awhile. so the melt rate increases. >> reporter: that glacier is now racing into the ocean at twice the speed. this plane is doing some of the hottest climate science on the planet in the coldst place on earth. and the general conclusion after a decade is is what used to seem frozen and permanent is now fluid and changing. and changing fast. mark phillips, cbs news, over antarctica. still ahead, a pup named patches undergoes a pioneering surgery.
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>> reporter: four years ago when her owner noticed a small bump on top of her dog's head, she took her to the vet. >> they didn't et know what it was. we basically came to the if it doesn't grow, we're not going to worry about it. >> reporter: the bump continued to grow at an alarming rate. it was a life threatening tumor. a veterinarian oncologist. >> we were going to have to take 70% of her skull. >> reporter: so a team from cornell university tried something never before done in the u.s. using a 3-d printer, they created a replacement skull that fit over patch's brain perfe perfectly. >> you can feel it's hard. it's all the way around and goes down around her nose. >> reporter: except for a few scars, the new skull is unnoticeable. but its implications are huge. not just for dogs, but people too. >> instead of having to take an implant off the shelf, we could
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take an implant we have designed perfectly for that patient and a human surgeon could do the same thing. >> was there a moment when you said, you know what, she's had a good life. maybe we need to put her down? >> no, because other than having this big bump on her head was a completely healthy dog. >> reporter: a little dog that just opened up a big world of possibilities. don dahler, cbs news, pennsylvania. when we return, the rise of roller derby in america.
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roller derby has been around for 100 years, but the sport is making a big comeback not just in the u.s. but around the world. >> reporter: under the night lights, risky business is getting out some of her aggression. how did you come up with that? >> because skating at my age is risky business. >> reporter: for this 45-year-old, it's a risk worth taking. more than a quarter of players are now over 35. >> this is not book club. you guys aren't soccer moms.
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>> nope. we might soccer mom on the side, but we skate derby. >> reporter: the team is made up of nurses, waitresses, software engineers and full-time moms. this 52-year-old is is on her ninth pair of skates. >> the fact that me taking up more space in the world was a valuable thing on this track was very attractive to me. i never played a sport before. >> reporter: tonight is fresh meat night. >> i'm really going to fall. >> reporter: for those who have never done derby are invited to try and try us again. >> this is the slowest pain train you have ever been on. >> what does skating derby mean? >> falling a lot and getting up time and time again. et with always tell skaters, you can't do it yet. >> reporter: it's easier to get people excited now that the 1970s version of roller derby is gone. no more fake brawls.
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>> the popularity started to die down. they moved away from the theet yatices and turned it into a legitimate sport that showcases the athleticism of the skaters. >> win or lose for these women, girl power is more than just a saying. it's how you roll. what goes around, comes around. that's the overnight news for this monday. for some of you, the news continues. for others check back for the morning news and "cbs this morning." from new york city, i'm tony dekople.
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this is the "cbs overnight news." president trump is using those words to describe the shifting story about the killin. nicole is at the white house. >> new surveillance images show jamal khashoggi entering the consulate in turkey where officials now claim he died in a fistt wi as. thosresponsible would be punished. >> what compounded the mistake was the attempt to try to cover
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up. >> reporter: he does know where the body is and rejected involvement from the crown prince. >> the crown prince denied this. >> reporter: today britain, germany and france pushed back against the kingdom issue iing joint statement pressing for clarification of what happened. in an interview with "the washington post," president trump again refused to say if he believes the crown prince is behind the journalist's death, but told reporters he plans to talk with him. >> i'll be speaking to him soon, very soon. >> reporter: some key u.s. lawmakers are not ready to take the saudis at their word. >> i think he did it. let's finish this investigation. >> the crown prince has his fringts all over this. the fact he's heading up the investigation makes it totally incredible. >> lawmakers are demanding the president punish saudi arabia. so far trump is refusing to cancel a major arms sale, but
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may consider sanctions. turkey plans to release details of the investigation this week. russia is firing back at president trump's new threat to pull out of a landmark nuclear weapons treaty. breaking the pact would be a dangerous step. >> reporter: as worries about a new arms race intensify, the treaty requiring the two countries to eliminate missiles like these could be coming to an end. >> russia has not unfortunately honored the agreement. so we're going to terminate the agreement and pull out. >> reporter: after a rally in nevada saturday, president trump said he wants to withdraw from the agreement if they don't comply. >> if russia is doing it and china is doing it and we're adhering to the agreement, that's unacceptable. >> reporter: it was signed in
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1987 by president ronald reagan. it bans the u.s. and soviet union from testing missiles at the range of 300 to 3400 miles. president trump can pull the u.s. out of the pact unilaterally, but some lawmakers, including senator rand paul, say it's a bad idea. >> i think it's a big, big mistake to flippantly get out of this agreement that they signed. >> reporter: senator corker says the announcement could be a negotiating tactic. >> maybe this is just a move that says if you don't straighten up, we' t has declared russia inlation russia dies athargd has accused the u.s. of breaching the agreement. national security adviser john bolton is in moscow to discuss the treaty while america's european allies seem split.
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germany expressed concerns. but britain's defense secretary told the financial times that his country stands, quote, absolutely resolute with the u.s. tony? >> thanks. a caravan of migrants is about 5,000 strong and on the move after being blocked at mexico's southern border. they are determined to make it to the u.s. to seem asylum despite president trump's warning they will be turned away. adriana diaz is traveling with them. >> are you tired? >> yes. >> are you hungry? >> yes. >> reporter: we found this woman and two young daughters resting just ahead of the caravan. >> she said so many people have been helping them here that they are eating more here than honduras. >> reporter: they were overtaken by a sea of migrants. streaming from mexico's southern border heading north. most are from honduras fleeing poverty and gang violence.
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karen scanned the crowd for her son who was walking separately. once reunited, he couldn't go on. it's been a grueling ten days for this family to get to this point. >> do you know where you're going? >> the united states. she knows clearly. do you know why? >> your mama wants to go. >> reporter: under blackhawk helicopters, those who could scrambled on to trucks, but most were on foot. >> whose child is this? >> reporter: like these men travelin with a baby. >> they have diapers, they have milk that people have been helping them get. who has been helping you? in guatemala they lot a a lot of help and here they have got an lot of help. >> why did you decide to come? it's so dangerous. he says to give her a better life. he said we have no option. i heard the word necessary,
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people have just said it's necessary. this is a necessity for us to do this. a >> thank you. a wave of deadly terror this cell phone footage shows the moment the floor collapses. and captures the chaos and destruction when dozens of party goers plunged to the floor below in a massive crush of bodies. >> the floor broke. >> i'm jumping, i have my hands in the air and then i feel myself falling like this. and then i wake up because i blacked out and see like girl. s everywhere with blood all over their face. >> reporter: it started as a homecoming celebration organized by the fraternity. but early sunday morning, the thumping music of a private
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dance party in the clubhouse of an apartment complex near the university had revelers jumping up and down in unison. that proved too much for the floor. >> the fact that you see big football players in there crying and stuff like that because they are asking for help, that's something i don't wish on anybody. >> reporter: at least 30 people were taken to hospitals. 25 of them clemson students according to university officials. >> we're just thankful it wasn't worse than it was. meaning there's no deaths involved and there was no entrapments involved. >> the president of the building's management company says the complex has no violations he's aware of. he also says the clubhouse has a posted occupancy limit. and in his opinion after reviewing the video, the limit was well exceeded. >> it's amazing it wasn't worse looking at that video.
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some democratic senators are demanding an explanation from the ep ara after the woman in charge of protecting children was shown the door. dr. ruth edsell was puthoeit se story and bring. s us up to date. >> since ourers and view aired on monday, many people have spoken out to support her. some calling her a hero for going public with her concerns about what's happening at the office of children's health protection. some members of congress are speaking up too. >> it's absolute ly outrageous what's happening. >> reporter: that's the reaction of democratic senator chris van
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hollen of maryland to the sidelining of dr. ruth, the director of epa's office of protection. >> here's somebody who has been the champion for children at the epa, who all of a sudden without any notice is put on administrative leave. >> reporter: she's a top expert whose job is to advise the epa on how its regulations might affect children. us be she says in the current administration -- >> our message is no longer welcome. >> reporter: over three weeks ago officials put her on paid leave, she says, without exmr. nation. >> it's about balancing me because i know how to protect children and i have a track record of doing it for 35 years. >> reporter: epa later said there were serious reports made against her by staff regarding her ability to effectively lead. but this former epa regional administrator doesn't buy it. >> she was widely respected as
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competent leader within the environmental protection agency. >> reporter: judith angst says she worked closely us with the doctor during the obama administration. >> she's just a tremendous expert and advocate for children. everyone who has a child or a grandchild in the united states should be concerned about this move. >> reporter: in a response to senators, the epa did not give further explanation for its actions regarding dr. etsell. >> what's happened is unfortunately aar la story of what's hng the eici science. >> epa also told the senators there are no plans to cut funding or resources from the children's health office, but these democratic senators tell us they are not comfortable with what they see happening at the epa. the united states is is the second largest consumer of seafood after china. about 20% of american adults are
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eating fish at least twice a week. but a lot of times you're not getting the fish you pay for. meg oliver reports. >> recent investigations and studies have shown mislabeling sometimes due to error, but often the result of outright fraud is rampant in the industry. showing up at both in the marketplace and on restaurant menus. i spoke to local merchants who told us exactly us what to look for. >> there's no antibiotics. there's none of that. >> reporter: every week lisa peppers her local seafood market with plenty of questions. >> from salmon and scallops to shrimp, she want s s to know wh and where erg came from. >> just knowing that the seafood we're getting is fresh and coming from a country that has shipped it in a timely manner and markets it and is honest
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with their marketing practices. >> reporter: those practices have come under fire around the globe with rampant fraud in all stages of the seafood industry. one study of retailers found seafood like grouper, cod and snapper maybe mislaibled up to 87% of the time. swapped out for less desirable and cheaper varieties. for example, only 7 of the 120 samples of red snapper were actually red snapper. >> it's a very big problem. once it's prepared, there's no way to which can it other than dna testing, which a lot of companies are t doing. >> reporter: vinnie hails from a long line of fishermen. the company in new york specializes in local, domestic and traceable species. his store front acts as a fish market and. >> where do you buy your fish? >> i have a network of small
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boat fishermen all over the country that are shipping to me daily through the air or by truck and we are processing every single day to bring in high quality fresh seafood. this is a beautiful steel head trout. >> reporter: he not only knows where his fish come from, he can tell a tale about each one. >> this came from massachusetts from a fishing vessel named stanley by a guy i know named seth. >> reporter: the personal connection is is hard to find. it's estimates more than 90% of the seafood is imported and less than 1% is tested by the government. >> is it better to buy organic? >> not really. in this country there's no legal standard for organic seafood. >> no legal standard? >> no, when they did the organic standards for meat and poultry and chicken, they excluded seafood. so when you see organic, it's not a legally enforceable standard so they can put that on
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in white us plains, new york. she is used to being the lone female in a profession dominated by men. >> gosh, i have been through a lot. i have dealt with assault, physical assault genociinside te in front of hundreds of people. >> did you ever find out why? >> because i was a woman. they will go behind my back and say we don't want her. >> i think to myself i'm not going to let anyone make me feel like i'm not supposed to be here. >> reporter: ufc, the elite in mixed martial arts. four and a half years ago, she became the promotion's first female cut man. >> when did you get the call? >> it was february 22nd, 2014. that was incredible. you can't get any higher than that. and the fact that i made it there after everything i have been through, i was so thank fu that they us decided to take a chance on me. >> her job as a cut woman is to protect a fighter's hands before
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a bout and then to stop any bleeding once it's underway. >> i have 45 seconds to get that fight tore the next round. if for any reason a doctor says he's not good enough to fight, it's on me. >> did she not fix that cut because it's a she and not a he. >> very possible. >> reporter: when she decided she had to be a part of mma, she knew she would have to break down some gender stereotypes. >> so you decided you need ed t have that as part of your life. what did you do? >> after that show, i us went down and found someone. i'm like i really want to do something with your show. do? he says why don't you be a ring girl. >> you did a couple days as a ring girl and thought what out there in front of the crowd? >> it was not for me. it was not for me. that was too little clothes in front of that many people. >> reporter: but it was there in the cage that she found what she could do. >> that's where i saw all the fighters and the coaches and
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getting their hands wrapped. there's no greater honor in this sport than to be the person to wrap that fighter's hands. >> we're going to be going into the mma wrap. >> knowing the what but not the how, she googled hand wraps and found videos from a legendary cut man. >> i started watching them and i'm like i'll practice on myself. when i got a little confident, i found a local gym and i just drove out there every day us and asked, can i wrap your fighter's hands. >> how do you get them to trust you to do that? >> that was pretty hard. i just knew my goal and kept practicing and every day i would drive to the gym, i'm repeating four over the knuckle, four over the wrus, two over the thumb. >> reporter: from determined to confident, she slowly started building her career in the amateur ranks add iing gyms and fighters all while balancing two kids as a sung tingle mom. >> it took a lot of years. this isn't a job you do for the money. i worked a lot of years for
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free. i was thinking where can i go to really expand. i thought las vegas. it's the fight capital of the world. >> reporter: but getting there from washington state wasn't cheap. >> i didn't have a lot of money so i donated blood or plasma and got money and drove eight hours. >> you were donating blood and plasma to afford to go do this thing that wasn't going to make you a lot of money any us way us. >> i don't have an answer for what drove me to do it. i just had a deep desire of it's going to work out. just keep going. >> reporter: her gut was right. all that sacrifice paid off when she got that first call from the u.fc. >> can you explain what it's like during a fight. >> it's really actually indescribable. i'm excited, i'm nervous. i get most comfortable when i us finally sit down and get my sheet and shows who i'm going to wrap and when i meet the fighter, i shake everyone's hand and that totally brings me down. >> the bigger stage is still not enough to pay the bills. so she works all the hat her
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local post office six days a week. comp and vacation time allows her to take off for ufc matches. >> do your employees know what you do in your spare time? >> they us do. >> what do they think? >> alove it. they are like it's so dangerous. are you safe? i'm like ab they are soup r proud of me and love hearing when's my next show. they are super supportive. >> it's something she passes along simply by being that lone female face. >> what message do you have to some little girl that says there's only one. i don't know if i us could do that. >> now i know after being the first that there are many more women following my path already. i just hope that any little girl that sees that shows you can achieve your dreams whether you're the first or the 15th on the 30th. you do what you want to do and love every second of it. many people living with diabetes
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more than a week after hurricane michael devastate ed parts the florida panhandle many families are without a place to stay. david begno has the story of one family's strutting until this morning's eye on america. >> this is the first hurricane i have been a part of. . me or my family. >> i departmeidn't know it was o be this bad. >> we can't let them sleep on the floor. we're cramming in this one apartme apartment. it's just sad. >> hurricane michael causear en. >> we have no water, no power, but we all have life. >> reporter: the residents of this 100-unit apartment complex had been told it was too dangerous to stay here. but a lot of them more than a
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week after the storm were still wondering where to go next. porsha lives here with her mother and ten family members. six of them are children. nights are spent in the dark. most days the tile toil et doesn't work. >> this place smells like total sewage. >> the complex management gave her and her family and the people still here an ultimatum. they had to be out by today. >> where can you go? >> well, we called fema. they are going to put us up in a hotel. now we have to figure out how we're going to get there. >> why not leave two days ago? >> no money, no gas. >> you look tired. >> a big issue is it's hard to find a fema shelter for 12 people. on this strip, porsha went to three hotels she heard were fema approved, but they didn't have room.
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in bayounty that uncluds panama city, more than 36,000 families have calle fema for help. more than 1300 people are currently living in fema's temporary housing. back in the apartment complex, she spends a lot of time at the car. it's the only place she can charge her cell phone and she's been desperately trying to find a u-haul truck and finally found one. >> i feel good about it. i have some positive vibes. my family is coming out of here, we're moving on. >> reporter: in the last few hours, we got word they found hotel rooms in panama city beach for tonight. >> i definitely want to come back here. i do. >> they will sleep a lot better. tonight drier and pama city. >> that's the overnight news for this monday. from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm tony dekople. 2018, this is the
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