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settlement he reached with epstein included an apology and confidential financial agreement. jeff, epstein had no comment today. >> okay, jericka duncan, thank you very much. returning now to our coverage of george h.w. bush and his many years of service to this country, david shares the story of how it all began for the former president as a young naval aviator in the pacific during world war ii. >> reporter: like many wartime pilots, lieutenant junior grade bush named his airplane after a girl back home. only he had to call it barbara iii because he lost his first two planes. one in training and one to enemy fire. that's how dangerous flying was in world war ii. there were 16 pilots in lieutenant j.j. bush's squadron according to retired admiral samuel cox, director ofal history. >> half of them were killed or captured bunch the end of the war. >> reporter: his service record showed cadet bush was average in flight school.

one instructor described him as somewhat eccentric. he flew the avenger with its three-man crew, the heaviest plane the navy dared to fly off a navy carrier. his target on september 2nd, 1944, was a japanese radio transmitter on the island. his plane was hit as he began his run into the target but staying with it until he dropped his bombs before trying to get back over water. what wrote happen to fliers who parachuted down onto the island? >> the japanese executed all of those who survived. >> reporter: held over the water he told his crew to bail out. >> two pair chutes came out of the aircraft. one opened which was presumably lieutenant j.g. bush. the other the parachute didn't open. >> reporter: neither was seen agnant g. bush swam to a

raft. >> some fighters from the flight were able to keep the japanese boats away during the full hours that bush was actually in the water. >> reporter: a u.s. submarine got to him before the japanese could. >> bush was actually surprised when out of nowhere, this submarine surfaces, you know, right next to him. >> reporter: 20-year-old george bush spent 30 days on that submarine thinking, as he later told the author james bradley, why had i been spared? what did god have am is store more me? david martin, cbs news, the pentagon. >> coming up, hundreds lost their homes because of a bank's computer error. wait till you hear what the bank told them.

the nation's third largest bank attracting attention. wells fargo revealed to federal regulators, those qualified for loan modifications instead lost their homes in part because of a computer error.

>> reporter: we went with jose to see the home his family lost to foreclosure. >> my kids have seen us up and down. >> reporter: it was 2015. aguilar said he and his then wife asked wells fargo for a loan modification to lower their mortgage payment because they had fallen behind. the bank turned them down. >> i gave up. >> reporter: he and his wife split up. the house went into foreclosure. with the blow to his credit, he hit rock bottom. >> my son and i had to move to the basement of a friend's house. i had a couch and my son had a bed. >> reporter: that was tough. >> i felt past september he got a letter from wells fargo. it read, we made a mistake. we're sorry. it blamed that mistake on a faulty calculation and said the loan should have been apprhe de

and my life, and they're sorry? >> reporter: wells fargo said the calculation error affected some 870 customers of one eight-year period. about 545 of those customers ultimately lost their homes to foreclosure. >> the question is how did this happen? >> reporter: elise cohen is with the national consumer law center. >> aren't they supposed to check their computer programs regularly to make sure they're accurate? >> reporter: wells fargo did send aguilar a $25,000 check and says it's work ing with each affected customer to resolve the issue and a no cost mediation. but aguilar said -- >> they need to know we're real people and not just money. >> reporter: cbs news, new york. >> great rortingy anna. ming gernmt nearly doubled the beef recall.

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finally here tonight, for so many, an old, famous back-and-forth between president george h.w. bush and dana carvey is so telling. here's major garrett. >> the way to the president is to start out with mr. rogers. it's a beautiful day in the neighborhood. then you add a little john wayne. here we go, let's go over the ridge. you put them together, you got george herbert walker bush. >> reporter: they carved an unexpected os h bid forlection in invited carvey to

white house as a pick-me-up for the staff. >> i was in the bedroom last night. i couldn't resist getting on the phone and call the secret service. well, i've gone jogging tonight. in the nude. >> reporter: carvy had questions -- so wonderful, mr. bush himself had to join in the fun. >> dat-dat-dat. >> i never once said not-not-not. >> reporter: he recount the a phone call to carvy. >> he said, i hope i've never crossed the line. and i knew exactly what he meant. and as far as i'm concerned, he never has. and the fact that we can laugh at each other isentang e ha so many war moments with them. >> reporter: in april carvy described his 25-year friendship with the bushes and how times

have coarse ened. upon mr. bush's death carvy wrote simply, i think of those times, what i remember most is how hard we would laugh. i will miss my friend. major garrett, cbs news, washington. >> that's the overnight news for this wednesday. we leave you tonight with images of former president george w. bush and wife laura paying respect, again, to his father. good night. we'll see you from washington tomorrow.

>> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." >> welcome to the overnight news. i'm david begnaud at cbs headquarters in new york. the grateful eyes of the nation will turn to the funeral of our 41st president, george h.w. bush. he pass away last friday in his home in houston. some professionmourners passed e capitol. a long-time friend of the former president, former senatorob o b to sate his former commander in chief.

here's nancy cordes. >> reporter: under the capitol's great dome, everyday americans and luminaries alike filed past in near silence, with a tear, a salute, or a prayer for the nation's 41st president. his long life of public service reflected in the faces of well-known aides, colleagues and friends like cindy mccain whose late husband, john mccain, was the last person to lie in state

here. president and mrs. trump visited the bushes for about 20 minutes at blair house today. clashed in the past, but appeared to have reached a detente. mr. trump will not have a speaking role at tomorrow's memorial service at the national cathedral. at a conference today, jeb bush explained why. >> what people want to talk about is, well, why isn't the president giving the eulogy. and it's because we have a unique circumstance here. my brother was president, you know. [ laughter ] i'm sorry. >> reporter: outside the capital, citizens from across the country waited to say good-bye. >> i just came from boston, massachusetts. >> reporter: irene schaefer of san francisco brought her 10-year-old granddaughter. >> maybe once in a lifetime that you would see that, everybody comes together. we're together, you know? we're not divided. po l like r: inside the rotunda,

peyton manning and people who benefited from the americans with disabilities act which mr. bush signed into law. the bush family visited, too, mingling with well-wishers. >> i nigh my dad's heart would have been warmed. ours clearly are. >> reporter: neal bush came last night and again today. >> it was more rarho were actua grieving and crying and to be able to share, i don't know, the strength that i know, that i get from being able to celebrate a life so well lived. >> reporter: the public viewing continues overnight at the capital. there are thousands of people waiting to get in. and tomorrow morning president bush's casket will be transferred via motorcade across the city to the national cathedral for a memorial service, but will be attended by every living president and by many foreign leaders, including german chancellor angela merkel and great britain's prince charles. >> reporter: --

>> perhaps the crucial moment for george bush came in world war ii. he was shot out of the sky while performing a bombing mission. david martin has that part of the story. >> reporter: like many war-time pilots, lieutenant junior grade bush named his airplane after a girl back home, only he had to call it barbara iii because he had lost his first two planes. one in training and one to enemy fire. that's how dangerous flying was in world war ii. there were 16 pilots in lieutenant j.g. bush's squadron according to admiral cox director of naval history. >> half of them were killed or captured before the end of the war. >> reporter: his service record showed cadet bush was average in flight school. one instructor described him as somewhat eccentric. he flew the avenger with its three-man crew, the heaviest plane the navy dared to fly off a navy carrier.

his target was a japanese radio transmitter on the island of chichijima. his plane was hit as he went into the target but stayed with it before dropping the bombs before trying to get back over water. what would happen to fliers who parachuted down onto the island? >> the japanese executed all of those who survived. >> reporter: out over the water, he told his crew to bail out. >> two pair chutes came out of the aircraft. one opened, which was presumably lieutenant j.g. bush. the other was called a streamer, the parachute didn't open. >> reporter: neither of the crew men were seen again. lieutenant j.g. bush landed in the water and swam to a life raft. >> the japanese came out after him, some fighters from the flight were able to stray the japanese boats and keep them away during the four hours that bush was actually in the water. >> reporter: a u.s. submarine

got to him before the japanese cou could. >> bush was actually surprised en, t of nowherhis submarine surfaces right next to him. >> reporter: 20-year-old george bush spent 30 days on that submarine, thinking as he later told the author james bradley, why had i been spared? what did god have in store for me? david martin, cbs news, the pentagon. >> earlier this week, president trump declared a 90-day cease-fire in his trade war with china. before he took to twitter and the markets went into the tank. here's jill schlesinger. >> reporter: at the final bell there was a sea of red on wall street. u.s. stock indexes tumbled. the dow jones industrial average fell by almost 800 points, losing 3% of its value today. shares of technology giants like apple, amazon and google fared even worse, pushing down the nasdaq 3.8%. it's off more than 10% from its august high.

stocks soared yesterday, but today, investors lost confidence in the u.s./china trade wartime o -- trade war time-out after trump referred to himself as tariff man. boeing and caterpillar had large losses. worries about a slow down in growth pushed companies in the banking, transportation and housing sectors. today's slump has some economists and ceos beginning to talk about the "r" word. jamie dimon is ceo of j.p. morgan chase. >> i don't look at recession as a bad thing. i mean, it's bad for people who are unemployed. >> stay with us. the overnight news coming right back.

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>> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." >> the body of george h.w. bush continues to lie in state this morning at the u.s. capitol. later today there will be an invitation-only funeral service at the national cathedral. mr. bush was the last living president who fought in world war ii, part of the greatest generation as it's known. norah o'donnell has that part of the story. >> i think we have to really think about this because george herbert walker bush was the last president of the world war ii generation. from roosevelt to truman to eisenhower to kennedy to nixon to ford to carter to reagan, they had all been shaped by the depression and the war.

>> reporter: historian john meacham spent about a decade interviewing president bush for his biography of the 41st president. >> to me, his story begins on his 18th birthday. three things happened. he turned 18. he graduated from andover. he drove to boston and took an oath as a naval enlistee. went to flight school. became the youngest flying officer in the navy. >> he makes up his mind that he wants to serve his country. even though his dad, who he loved dearly, suggested he go to college first. >> reporter: where did he get that sense of duty, honor, country? >> i think his father. his dad was in world war i. very confident that's where he got it. >> reporter: the only time he saw his own father cry was when he left. >> at the train station, that's right. turned 18 years old, right after his 18th birthday, goes in, his dad wept.

>> reporter: he flew a total of 58 missions in the pacific. september 2nd, 1944, was nearly his last and his two crew mates were shot out of the sky by the japanese. >> the plane is hit. the wings go up in flames. the cockpit fills with smoke. but he keeps going. he takes out the tower. he goes back out. he realizes he's about to go down. he tells his two crew mates to get out, and then he bails out. he gashes his head on the tail of the plane. comes up in sea water. he realizes his two crew mates have not made it. and to some extent, i think that every day since that saturday in the pacific, he has been trying to justify that he was spared when other men were fated to die. >> reporter: four hours after his plane went down, bush was plucked from the pacific by the f th ckptcue on

8 millimeter film. >> i say, dad, do you ever think about the war? this is much later. he said, i think about the lady in white all the time. >> reporter: his two crew members? >> yes. he wasn't the only guy, of course, who went through that experience. it kind of defined a generation, world war ii did. i think it enabled him to be a strong leader. >> reporter: after the war, bush went to yale university where he was a member of the skull and bones secret society and played first base on the baseball team. >> he was captain of a great baseball team. bunch of these world war ii guys came back to yale, they were in the ncaa finals twice >> reporter: could he play in the majors? >> good fielder, but he can't hit. if you don't hit, you don't go to the majors. >> reporter: but he did grad identi

phi beta cappa. >> he was a well qualified person. and i like doing it. nobody asked me to do it. that's what i do. i don't give advice. i don't take it very well either. >> reporter: when she died this past april, barbara bush had been married to george bush for 73 of her 92 years. it was the longest marriage between a president and first lady in american history. >> and they are probably both -- would hasten to say their lives, they both did more than they would have if they hadn't been together. i mean, there would have been an amazing partnership. >> this is a guy who goes to yale, is kind of the star at yale, baseball captain, phi beta cappa. was expected to go to wall street. he decides to move to augusta, texas. he goes out there and rents a

duplex. this is boom town in 1948. our neighbors in the duplex were hookers. >> reporter: really? >> yeah. we shared the bathroom with them. >> reporter: what did barbara pierce bush think about that? >> i don't know. i frankly wasn't old enough to know. >> reporter: when i talked to your mom last time, she said that he never says no to her. >> well, that's why they stayed married for 70 years. it's a true love story. his mother said it's the only man i ever kissed. >> reporter: in 1953, the bushes lost their second child, robin, to leukemia when she was only 3 years old. but the family continued to grow. george w. joined by jeb, neal, marvin and finally doro settled in houston in 1959. it was there james baker became almost like a member of the family. mr. baker lost his first wife tt join his campaign for the senate

in 1964. as a way to help him cope with his grief. >> george bush, republican president for the united states senate. >> reporter: george bush's father, prescott bush, was a senator from connecticut until 1963. >> impress cot bush, republican candidate for the united states senate. >> reporter: and approved of his son's decision to join the family business. >> he had pretty much in his blood. >> i had inculcated to be a fantastic father, a sense of service to my country. >> he used to go around in some of those early races. he would say, my dad inculcated in me an appreciation of public service. george, stop talking about inculcated. you're running in texas. nobody understands that down here. i think he probably intended to go into politics from the very beginning. >> reporter: he lost that first race for the senate in 1964, and another one in 1970. but never gave up on the idea he i'veor president.

competitive person in my life. very competitive. well, he ran for president of the united states when he was -- in the polls. nobody took it seriously. in '79, people laughed at us. i had people in texas saying, why are you doing this? i said, because this is my friend, and i think he will make an extraordinarily good president. >> every last thing has to be agreed to -- >> reporter: james baker is the only man in history to be the white house chief of staff, the secretary of the treasury, and the secretary of state. but the most important role in his life may have been that of friend to george h.w. bush. >> he's a huge -- he's a huge part of my life, and there were a lot of people who helped me along the way. but the guy who really gote g me

around at ae i my le icomecoli i and he's been there for me ever since. >> reporter: during the dispute james baker led the legal effort that ultimately won the white house for his old friend's eldest son. in the 241-year history of the republic, only two fathers and sons have become president, john adams and john quincey adams, and george herbert walker bush and george w. bush. >> that i will faithfully execute the office of president of the united states. >> reporter: how proud of you was he when you became president? >> oh, man, he was -- i had just

gotten sworn in and he said, why don't you go down in the oval and see what it feels like as president. and i said, okay. so i went down and was sitting down there and just kind of in. and in walks dad. so, andy had told dad that i was down there. he walks down. he said, mr. president, welcome. i said, thank you, mr. president. and that's pretty much all that was said for a while. it was a very profound moment for me. >> reporter: what did he say to you when you were president? what kind of -- >> i love you. you know, as corny as that sounds to some, it is the most important words you can hear in life. you don't hear a lot of people say "i love you" when you're president. >> you can see more of the reporting on the late president bush on the

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unlike other recent presidents, george h.w. bush did not publish a memoir after he left office, but his writings live on, a collection that date back decades. here is norah o'donnell. >> reporter: to understand president george h.w. bush, just look for that familiar handwriting. >> dear kids, this letter is about aging. last year there was only a tiny sense of "time-life." >> reporter: a letter to children in 1998, the father of

six reflected on getting old. >> i want to play golf with you w h when i say be there in the game, in the lineup. really involved in your lives even though i might be miles away. >> reporter: he didn't say those words for just family and friends. he also shared them with rivals. >> you'll be our president when you read this letter. i wish you well. >> reporter: on "60 minutes" president clinton read the letter from the man he beat in 1992. >> i'm rooting for you. good luck. >> there was a kindness about the man. >> reporter: during his remarks monday, vice-president mike pence shared a letter his son, a first lieutenant in the marines, received from president bush ahead of his ceremony aboard the uss george h.w. bush. >> congratulations on receiving your wings of gold, though we have not met, i share the pride your father has for you during this momentous occasion. >> reporter: his most heart felt letters, though. >> i love you, precious, with all my heart.

>> reporter: were written to the love of his life, barbara. he shared one of them while speaking to oprah in 2010. >> to know you love me means my life. how often haveught about the immeasurable joy that will be ours some day? >> reporter: the legacy through letters. >> i'll be ready when you are. there is so much excitement ahead, so many grand kids to watch grow. if you need me, i'm here. devotedly, dad. >> reporter: devotedly. president bush described all of these letters as a heartbeat rather than an historical documentation of his life. and sometimes the 41st president wasn't always known for his verbal he will kwens. in written word, he said so much. i was looking back through and not only the professional letters he wrote, but the personal letters. he once wrote a letter to

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the american christmas tree association, yes, there is one of those, says that more than three quarters of every home in america will have a christmas tree this year. haven't got mine yet, but i plan to. the trouble with those is 80% of those trees are actually artificial. so they put together a big ad campaign to convince you to go real. nikki battiste has the story from a tree farm in new jersey. >> reporter: oh, these merry, merry real christmas trees. >> the douglas fir is generally 6 to 7, 7 to 8 feet tall. >> reporter: are not just filling john wykof f's 7 acre farm. >> what are you doing out here? >> picking a tree. >> reporter: they're lighting up homes and hearts during the

holidays. >> i think it's memories. i think it's the joy of, you know, hearing mommy saying, we're going to cut a tree. >> what would the christmas be without a real christmas tree? >> reporter: a choice christmas tree million dollars social media campaign. >> there are many to choose from. >> reporter: is fighting to preserve -- >> christmas tree. >> reporter: by encouraging americans to keep it real. anyone who is thinking about going to buy an artificial tree, what do you say to them? >> i wouldn't give my wife fake roses on valentine's day. why would you want to have an artificial christmas tree in your house? we plan for 7 to 10 years down the road because that's how long it takes us to grow a christmas tree. >> reporter: during the recession ten years ago, farmers plant the fewer trees. that means this year supply is below demand, which has boosted business and prices. a real tree like this on average will cost you $75. or for anywhere from 9 to $19,000 you can buy an

artificial tree like this one and it will last you a lifetime. about 80% of u.s. households put up artificial trees. >> we'd like to have an artificial tree because i have allergies. so we've had them our whole life. >> the artificial tree is so convenient. they don't have bugs. you put them up and you're set. >> just this section and it goes right down in there. as soon as it goes in, it lights up. >> reporter: mack harman created them in 2006 when he was disappointed with the fake tree option. >> one of the great things about it is it comes prelit which is a huge advantage. also, you don't have to water it, you don't have to sweep up the needles. >> reporter: harman also enjoys real christmas trees. above all, it's about the holiday spirit. >> i think anything that helps promote christmas trees promotes christmas tree industry. fewer families are setting up christmas trees. keep it real focuses on a younger demographic and gets them excite ed about going to a

christmas tree farm and the experience that this is a family tradition we do together. >> i am definitely going real, but i don't know how to decorate. i have to find somebody to help me decorate. that is the overnight n it's wednesday, december 5, 2018. this is the "cbs morning news." national day of mourning. americans and world leaders pay tribute to president george h.w. bush at a state funeral today. no prison time. special counsel robert mueller says michael flynn has given substantial assistance in the russia probe and recommends he should not go to jail. and reported new developments in the investigation into former cbs

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