churches in houston. labonte says keller molested him when he was 16 years old. >> i shrank. i was like i'm not here. i left my body. you know, they say there's the flight and fright. well, i was like in the frozen. >> you've never shared your story publicly before. why did you decide to speak out? >> it's my duty as a catholic. not that i want to do it, but i have to. >> reporter: labonte brought his allegations to the archdiocese. in 2002 he says he told them that father keller plied him with alcohol and fondled him ini

well, i mean, you know, right here where it says "acted very inappropriate." >> reporter: a letter from the archdiocese says that father keller acknowledged "holding at denied any sexual intent. ultimately, the church could not conclude that what happened constituted sexual abuse. the church promised to put father keller into therapy and cardinal dinardo has kept him in active ministry. >> peace be with you. >> reporter: at prince of peace church where our cbs news cameras captured cardinal dinardo visiting recently. just last week we saw cardinal dinardo in father john keller's church. what does that tell you? >> if he knows, then he's a liar, and it makes me angry. and if he doesn't know, then he's a bad administrator and he needs to know. >> reporter: we pored over court records and turned up graphic allegations against a second active priest in houston.

in a sworn affidavit a victim accused father terrence brinkman of "wearing his priest collar as he sodomized me as a 12-year-old in the 1970s." attorneys for cardinal dinardo's archdiocese argued that the statute of limitations had passed and the case was thrown out of court. today father brinkman is a priest at st. john the evangelist. in a statement father brinkman denied any involvement. saying "i cannot tell you that these events did not take place. but i was not the person who did them to him." and the archdiocese says the victim "provided a physical description that does not match father brinkman." >> nikki battiste with cbs news. how are you? >> i'm doing fine. but i'm going to a meeting. >> reporter: we spent three months asking for a formal interview with cardinal dinardo. he never made himself available. so we caught up with him in the hallway during the conference of u.s. bishops in baltimore last week. are you aware that you have two priests with credible sexual abuse allegations currently in

active ministry in your diocese? >> it depends what names you're talking about. >> reporter: father john keller and reverend terrence brinkman -- >> that's not a credible one. and terry was never credible. >> reporter: are those two names going to be on your list of credibly accused priests you that release in january? >> we're working on the list. >> reporter: does the name john labonte sound familiar? >> yes. i would prefer to do this at another time. >> we've been requesting. we'd love to sit down. >> at another time, yeah. >> reporter: do you have anything to say to the survivors and victims? >> reporter: cbs news has spoken with more than 20 people with knowledge of allegations made against priests in the archdiocese of galveston-houston. not one has been contacted by church authorities or investigators. when cardinal dinardo releases his list of credibly accused priests in january -- >> as they say, see you in church. >> reporter: jump shot john tr john ill be watching for one

keller's name will be on that list? >> i don't think so. >> reporter: what would you say to father keller today? >> come clean. you step up. >> reporter: what would you say to cardinal dinardo? >> don't leave any stones unturned. put effort into it. fix the problem. >> reporter: the department of justice recently requested cardinal dinardo and every one of the nearly 200 catholic diocese across the country preserve their private internal documents as a wide-ranging federal investigation appears to be getting under way. in his statement to cbs news cardinal dinardo said that the church will cooperate fully with any investigation, jeff. >> nikki battiste, thank you. coming up next, huge lines for the first legal marijuana sale in the east. are you taking the tissue test?

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under gray skies it was a green day in massachusetts. there were huge lines as shops

began selling legal marijuana today. tony dokoupil is there. >> reporter: the land of the puritans went to pot on tuesday. [ cheers ] thousands got in line and stayed in line for up to five hours, all for a piece of the first legal recreational cannabis here in more than a century. how does it feel to know that what you buy today and you walk out of here with will not put you in jail? >> it's absolute freedom. >> reporter: massachusetts is the seventh state to open retail marijuana shops but the first to open them east of the mississippi. and it comes as the cannabis industry celebrates a series of new highs, including more than $1 billion in retail sales this year and an estimated $700 million more next year in massachusetts alone. but as more states see green, some critics see the potential for regret. >> next. >> you know, i hope it's not the case but it's possible that in 20 years or 30 years we really

look back and say wow, can you believe back in 2018 we just allowed people to sell this stuff? >> reporter: dr. sharon levy runs the adolescent substance use and addiction program at boston children's hospital. >> we have these available. >> reporter: she worries legalization could send kids the wrong message. is there a conflict between the profit you make here and the wider public health? >> the state has spent years making sure that businesses like ours can't, you know, be pushing out marketing material. >> reporter: sam barber is president of cultivate, one of the pot shops that opened today, putting an end to what he and his customers seem to agree is the most dangerous part of all esepl stin lin here tonight cuy uarijua o 100 milligrams of edible marijuana. that is now the law here in massachusetts.

of course if your family happens to find your new stash this the. jeff? >> okay. tony dokoupil, thank you very much. in massachusetts. still ahead here tonight, a new glimpse of the devastation in northern california. know what turns me on? my better half, hors d oeuvres and bubbly. and when i really want to take it up a notch we use k-y yours & mine. tingling for me, warming for him. wow! this holiday season get what you want you're going to do your thing. and no period is going to slow you down! with tampax, you get protection that moves with you for total comfort. choose pearl for your chill, pocket for your moves, and active for your hustle. do your thing with tampax.

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brush like a pro. president trump's lawyers said today they turned over to the special counsel's office written responses to questions on russian election interference. the questions were limited to whether there was collusion between the trump 2016 campaign and russia. in northern california cbs news today got a new look from the air at the vast damage from the camp fire that killed at least 79 people. tonight nearly 700 remain unaccounted for. heavy rains are expected by tomorrow, which could lead to mudslides. the president and first lady took part in a white house tradition today, the turkey pardon. a 40-pounder named peas won an online vote and will not appear on anyone's thanksgiving table.

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we end tonight with a thanksgiving story. emphasis on "gin"ff you.ar d go right up in there. >> reporter: scott mccauley hates eating alone. so when this vacuum cleaner repairman was faced with

spending thanksgiving by himself one year, he came up with a plan. >> i put free press" andouldsgivg dinner to 12 people. and that's what i did. and i've been doing it ever since. >> reporter: that was 33 years ago. and he's still hosting. about 50 people this year. >> this is not about food. this is about people having a place to go. i had a jay, him and his wife never had children, and she died. so he came to the dinner. and what he would do after the dinner was over was put on her old apron, to remember his wife and help me do the dishes. so that's how it works. >> reporter: mccallee doesn't have a computer or a cell phone. so he asked people to call him at his office to make a reservation. >> the first reservation this year came from a lady that doesn't have a phone. so she physically came here in august to make sure she was on the list. >> reporter: he hosts the meal at green street baptist church in melrose, massachusetts, just

north of boston. >> all right. so here's thanksgiving dinner in a whole laid-out order. so you've got your mixed nuts -- >> reporter: besides the spread he brings other touches, like art, rugs, evenfireplaces. but most importantly, he brings everyone together. >> i think each of us are called to brighten a corner where we are, and if everybody took care of their neighbor in their own neighborhood we'd have a much better world. and someday maybe nobody will call me up and say they're coming for thanksgiving dinner and i'll be really happy that everybody's got a place to go. >> that is the "overnight news" for this wednesday. for some of you the news continues. for others check back later for the morning news and "cbs this morning." from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm jeff glor. >> peas, i hereby grant you a full pardon. a famous washingto.

>> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." welcome to the "overnight news." i'm don dahler. get your appetite together because tomorrow is thanksgiving. and if you're not already where you want to be for the holiday meal, you can expect traffic on the roads and long lines at airport security gates and railroad ticket counters. aaa predicts more than 54 million americans will travel at fest of il it by car. kris van cleave found one family who's bringing the meal with them. >> the whole meal. >> reporter: michael vunda, his wife, this 2-year-old grandson anthony and a carload of food

hit the road to beat the thanksgiving rush on their drive from new jersey to leland, north carolina. >> if we waited till tuesday or wednesday, now you're starting to get the real nasty travel days. >> reporter: he's right. traffic is only going to get worse. 48.5 million americans are expected to drive this year. that's up about 5% and comes despite the highest gas prices since 2014. >> the economy is really spurring the increase in travel. we see that consumer confidence is at an 18-year high. we also see that wages are up, americans have more disposable income. they're taking additional money and putting it toward a trip with friends and family this year. >> reporter: aaa predicts tuesday and wednesday evening will be the worst times to start your holiday drive but it will be sunday where traffic misery will peak. >> not sunday. we made that mistake last year. won't do it again. >> reporter: the airports will be crowded too. airlines are expecting more than 2.5 million passengers a day during the holiday weekend. that's up from last year. >> oh, yeah, this is all honds on deck. >> reporter: all hands meant tsa administrator david pekosky

helping out at a reagan national airport checkpoint. >> there you go. >> reporter: sunday could set a record with the tsa potentially screening more than 3 million flyers. >> normally for us we're in the low 2 millionmillions. so 3 million is a significant search. >> reporter: but if like the la brundas you need to take an entire italian deli wu drive, which little anthony seems to like justfine. gas prices are a little higher than last year but have ticked down? 30 cents over the last month. for drivers if you are yet to leave thursday morning, thanksgiving morning is your best bet for light traffic. and flyers, the tsa says the most common mistake people make at the checkpoints that really slows them down is forgetting to take out your liquids. president trump delivered a thanksgiving gift to the saudi royal family. he says the united states will not impose any further sanctions on saudi arabia for the assassination of journalist jamal khashoggi. members of congress from both parties have a different view.

weijia jiang begins our coverage. >> it's a very complex situation. it's a shame. but it is what it is. >> reporter: that's how president trump described the killing of "washington post" contributor jamal khashoggi. just moments before taking off to spend thanksgiving at his florida resort. >> $3 billion. $533 million. >> reporter: the president said he will not scrap an arms deal with the saudis or punish its crown prince, mohammed bin salman. u.s. officials tell cbs news the cia concluded bin salman ordered the murder but mr. trump suggested today they were not certain. >> the cia has looked at it. they've studied it a lot. they have nothing definitive. >> reporter: earlier president trump said in a statement "it princewledgef l beha this tgicendid a maybe he didn't." adding "in any case, our relationship is with the kingdom of saudi arabia." khashoggi entered the saudi consulate in istanbul on october 2nd and was never seen again.

the saudis have since admitted he was killed while inside. despite the kingdom's role in the murder, the president defended his decision to maintain strong economic ties to saudi arabia. >> because it's america first for me. it's all about america first. we're not going to give up hundreds of billions of dollars in orders and let russia, china, and everybody else have them. >> it's a mean nasty world out there. the middle east in particular. >> reporter: today secretary of state mike pompeo echoed the message. >> this is a long, historic commitment and one that is absolutely vital to america's national security. massachusetts is now the only state east of the mississippi to allow recreational marijuana sales. that doesn't mean it's easy to get your weed. right now there are only two legal pot shops in the entire state. tony dokoupil reports from one outside northampton.

>> reporter: it is cold, it is wet, it is rainy, and marijuana is still very much illegal at a federal level, but take a look at that. those people have been building in that line since around midnight. they're hoping to make some of the first purchases in this state since 100 years ago when marijuana was prohibited, and you will never guess who the very first person is in line. it's another morning of long lines. >> i wanted to be the first person to buy weed east of the mississippi. >> reporter: for a drug that's come a long way. >> i've been waiting 38 years for this. >> reporter: and first in line, david narcowitz, the mayor of no northampton. is it only a symbolic purchase or will it be consumed as well? >> actually, people have asked me about that. and i am actually going to probably preserve it and display it because it is historically significant. >> reporter: massachusetts is the seventh state to open retail marijuana shops but the first to open them east of the mississippi. and it comes as the cannabis

industry celebrates a series of new highs. earlier this month michigan became the first midwestern state to approve recreational cannabis, joining ten other states and washington, d.c. and in october our neighbors to the north, canada, became the first major world economy to legalize recreational marijuana. but the steady march of marijuana legalization has dr. sharon levy concerned. she runs the adolescent substance use and addiction program at boston children's hospital. >> instead of saying, well, we'll assume these things are safe until they're proven harmful, maybe we should be saying these things might be harmful until they're proven safe. i don't think that's something we've done a very good job with. >> we've been preparing for adult use sales for many, many months now. >> reporter: amanda rositano is the director of operational compliance for new england treatment access, or neta, which as of today sells a range of cannabis products including prerolled joints, loose buds, oils, and edibles to anyone over the age of 21.

>> do you think dependence could be an issue for anybody? >> well, i mean, i think dependence could be an issue just like dependence could be an issue when it comes to ice cream. we will advocate using moderation, educate people about cannabis. >> reporter: under massachusetts law retail shops can sell each customer no more than an ounce of flower or 20 servings of edible, both in child-resistant packaging. for now those restrictions and others are good enough for mayor narcowitz. >> there has been marijuana going on in the commonwealth of massachusetts for a long, long time. what's changing is it's now being regulated, it's now being tested, it's now being strictly monitored. that's really the major change that's happening. >> reporter: and speaking of change, voters here in massachusetts actually legalized marijuana more than two years ago, but it took that long for regulations to be put in place and for shops like this to meet those regulations. so the pace of change can be surprising to some people. my own father, believe it or

not, stood federal trial for marijuana smuggling in this very state. today he feels

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>> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." tomorrow is thanksgiving, and the meal on your table may look so good that you just have to take a picture. david pogue found one man who goes out of his way to turn his food into a feast for the eyes. >> reporter: former microsoft executive nathan merevold is a man of many talents. >> i've got advanced degrees in many things. economics, geophysics and space physics. i was a post-doctoral researcher with stephen hawking. i publish on all aspects of dinosaurs. asve been doing a lot of m also the ceo at intellectual ventures. advanced new technology. try to help the developing tha

career path brought him to his latest passion. >> this whole camera system i built. >> reporter: taking eye-popping portraits. >> that's pretty good. >> reporter: of food. >> the first thing that surprise people is blueberries are not blue on the inside. >> reporter: the food photography is a spinoff of an earlier project, his 2011 magnum opus, a 50-pound, $625 encyclopedic cookbook called "modernist cuisine." >> after i retired from microsoft, i wanted to do more cooking. so i really naively thought, well there, must be some big book of modern cooking. no. so i ended up writing it. >>ghefs but a t people seemed most interested in the pictures. and when myhrvold researched

photography books he noticed something. >> there are some topics that are very well covered. so nude photography of women is a giant category. >> shocker. >> food photography is just not something that has been embraced in the same way. >> reporter: sure, plenty of people take pictures of their food. with their phones at lunch. >> this is the mayhem switch. >> reporter: but when nathan myhrvold takes pictures of food -- >> the idea here is someone is pounding their beer down onto the table and making a hell of a mess. >> reporter: normal photographers use tripods. myhrvold builds robots. >> because we want to control nt to photograph two liquids mixing in mid-air, there was only one solution. >> another bot.

>> yes. so here gravity causes this to fall, and then at just the right time this thing jams a needle into it, breaks the balloon, and you get pretty much a ball of liquid. >> reporter: so robots give you the repetition capability and the precision. >> that's right. >> reporter: the photos are in his new book, "the photograph yif modernist cuisine." and myhrvold also has art galleries just for his food photos, in las vegas, new orleans, and seattle. his photographs sell for as much as $1,000 each. but as myhrvold is the first to admit, it's not about profit. it's about passion. >> i think that food as art is tremendously underserved. so i'm going to make some that i love and i'm going to hope someone else agrees. maybe you're one of those people who likes food a little spicy. michelle miller went on a hunt

for the hottest peppers and sauces in all the land. and lived to tell the tale. >> reporter: celebrities like natalie portman. >> on top of it. okay. >> reporter: tyra banks. >> i've got supermodels for you too if you want to date any of those girls. >> reporter: and jeff goldblum. >> i like all your -- all your gestures. >> reporter: have tried to beat the heat on the hugely popular weekly web series "hot ones." >> i was fascinated by interview shows in general. it's the oldest construct in media. >> reporter: producer chris schennberger and host sean evans created the show. >> when he approached me he was like hey, what do you think bay show where we interview celebrities while eating violently hot chicken wings? ♪ >> oh. oh, that's terrible. >> we didn't really expect hot sauce to break down people the way that it does. >> very impressive. >> thanks. i mean, it's spicy, but -- >> i'm just trying to read your eyes on that. >> it's hot.

>> i think the mechanics of this show are just this one big trust exercise with sean. >> ah! >> there have been times i'm looking across the table and i'm like this person is up against the ropes, like i don't even know if they're going to make it. >> i need some ice cream. >> reporter: and at about 3 million views per episode, "hot ones" shows no sign of cooling off. >> michelle, you'll be on this side. >> okay. >> reporter: i even took a turn in the hot seat. you go from mild to double x. >> yeah. we're doing five wings, and it gets hot here in a hurry. >> cheers. >> cheers. >> what are the tips you give to folks on how to handle all this hotness? >> so this isblot there where goru of our ging tastes.

hot sauce sales are increasing faster than any other condiment. and the total hot sauce market is approaching $2 billion a year. and the source of some of the most intense heat is in this field in south carolina. you're with the what company? >> the pucker butt pepper company. >> reporter: smokin' ed curry is the founder of this creatively named pepper company. >> 95 countries get our products on a regular basis. >> reporter: and he thinks his product is downright addictive. >> when you eat super hot peppers, you get a endorphin rush. >> reporter: he's not just blowing smoke. a compound in chilies called capsaicin fools us into thinking our bodies are burning, prompting the release of pain-relieving endorphins, producing a natural high. >> i might have been catching a

little buzz eating peppers. >> reporter: and he's spreading that buzz through his prized pepper, the fearsome carolina reaper, currently ranked as the hottest pepper in the world. around 1,000 times hotter than a jalapeno. >> when we cut one in half, see all that oil in there? the glistening. >> yes. >> that's what hurts you. >> oh. >> cheers. >> then of course he wanted to share. >> you notice how it's hotter right away? that's the oil reacting with the receptors. >> have the endorphins kicked in yet? >> probably starting right now. >> reporter: they never did. >> do you want to here's a simple true-or-false quiz for you. if you're between age 50 and 85, it's important for you to know the truth, so please listen closely.

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address. >> scott kelly will begin a so good luck, captain. make sure to instagram it. [ applause ] >> and lift-off. a year in space starts now. kelly, corny and podanaka on their way now to the international space station. >> reporter: kelly would take the president's instagram challenge to heart. on his fourth mission into space from 250 miles up he would point his camera at the planet. >> you know, with that long lens it kind of helps you feel a little connected to the earth when you can see very -- almost see what's going on down there in some ways. >> reporter: kelly has collected those space photographs in his new book "infinite wonder." >> the reason i put that picture in there, i think it really gives a sense of perspective when you're in the -- on the wd how close the earth might appear. and then you see continents and countries without any political

borders. it gives you the impression that you know, we're all in this thing called humanity together. >> reporter: it offered a unique vantage point on the vastness of it all. from manhattan to the milky way. >> makes you feel kind of insignificant, doe? >> absolutely. actually, the whole experience makes you feel insignificant. >> reporter: on this mission kelly would spend 340 days in space. >> i believe in the importance of flying in space and, you know, the research we do. >> reporter: some of his photography was for scientific purposes. but most was for his own pleasure. >> but sometimes it was as simple as hey, that spot looks a little interesting down there. you know, some dry lake bed in iran as an example. let me take a picture of it and see what it looks like. >> reporter: through his lens he found a lake in bolivia. wetlands in brazil. mountain meeting desert in algeria. these valleys full of iron ore

and manganese in libya. a lake in western australia. >> some of the landscapes almost look like abstract paintings. >> yeah. that's kind of what i wanted them to look like. >> reporter: kelly became a master of microgravity photography. >> so you're looking at a small spot on the earth, and the earth is going back at five miles a second. you know, it takes a very steady tracking motion to be able to take a picture that's not blurry. a lot of people when they first get to space, you're very clumsy. it's interesting when you see a bunch of new astronauts show up there, like bouncing off the walls. stuff flying all over the place. >> reporter: the book also offers a look at life in space. >> you look very comfortable here. >> yeah, i'm floating. that's me outside the space station on a spacewalk. oh, look at this guy. this is my brother. this is my brother losing on "celebrity jeopardy" to aaron rodgers. >> and you're watching up in space. >> i'm watching.

>> reporter: kelly, who now has well over a million instagram otos online.hared many of his >> it was great because you could see the reaction you would get from people. you could see the comments. i would read the comments sometimes. >> reporter: one follower commented on the plants he was growing on the space station. >> some guy said, "you are no mark watney." >> referring to? >> the guy in "the martian," the botanist that saved himself by growing potatoes. and after that, you know, fight's on. i was going to do whatever it took to make those flowers look better. >> reporter: he succeeded and posted this picture to prove it. >> is this you coming back? >> this is coming back. looks pretty peaceful floating down to earth. until you crash into it. >> reporter: he returned with a new perspective on his home planet. >> scott kelly, back on mother earth after 340 dayse. >> reporter: as a fellow astronaut told him, the earth

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six weeks after hurricane michael devastated parts of the florida panhandle a lot of people will spend thanksgiving sleeping in tents, under tarps, and if they're lucky in motel rooms. omar villafranca was there when the storm came ashore and he returned this past week to give us an update. >> reporter: when hurricane michael made landfall in mexico beach, florida last month, the 155-mile-per-hour winds and more than 10-foot storm surge destroyed the resort town. aer . and these pictures are from this

week. just up the coast in panama city, cleanup is still under way. mayor greg brudniki says less than half of the debris has been picked up. >> do you still need help? >> you betcha we need help. >> how many? just one? >> reporter: even the city workers helping with the recovery are still rebuilding their own lives. >> well, water leaks and the whole roof fell. >> reporter: jorge del valle, adrian latour, and alan forbes are all working for the city while living in a hotel. their homes were destroyed. jorge lost all of his possessions in hurricane michael. but his family barely survived. >> jorge, your kids keep you going. >> yeah. we're survivors. we can go back now. >> reporter: we found more than 100 others living in this makeshift tent city outside of a church. struggling to get back to normal. for some of these people we've talked to, everything they own is in or outside of the tent covered in tarps, and some people have been here since the

day after the storm. the federal emergency management agency has been placing people in shelters and hotels, but so far haven't brought in any trailers. >> did you expect fema to have trailers here already? >> well, yes. okay? because i expected them to move as quickly as we move. >> reporter: spokeswoman renee mafaula says the agency is not stretched too thin. do you have enough workers on the ground here to facilitate these folks' requests? >> whatever the demand is we will have enough units to be able to serve these communities. >> reporter: but this recovery will take one thing that many people in need don't have. time. omar villafranca, panama city, florida. >> happy thanksgiving for them. that is the overnight news for this wednesday. for some of you the news continues. for others check back with us a little later for the morning news and of course "cbs this morning." from the broadcast center in new york city i'm don dahler.

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