skblr . >> reporter: that's why cook county sheriff neighboring chicago issued a task force to help seize those guns. how men a cases do you think of people who have had their cards revoked but still have them? >> oh, dozens. >> reporter: netina tonight the state department is looking to report as many as five americans are among the itoup of they're believed to be heavily armed.

thousands have demanded the president resign. and an extraordinary meeting on sexual abuse say this week could be a turning point. the conference begins thursday. . >> reporter: pope francis called more than 100 bishops around the world to discuss how to protect minors. and the vatican sent a signal by imposing its highest punishment by defrocking cardinal found guilty of sexually abusing a child. he's the most senior catholic official be to defrocked in modern times. the pope will take part. but the pontiff himself said expectations had been inflated. >> the church has been putting so much attention on this summit. how was it to hear the holy father say expectations should be deflated? >> the height aggravated the frustration.

if everybody thinks we're going to solve all the problems in a few days, that's not a good expectation because it's going to be efrustrating. >> i wonder what of substance is really going to come out of this summit? >> reporter: he was abused by his priest in the 1960s. he was later portrayed in the oscar-winning hollywood movie "spotlight." >> i was prayed upon by father david holly in wester. >> reporter: one skenlallschedu. >> i've been talking about this since 1992 and it's a little disappointing that progress is so slow. >> reporter: leaders hope this summit will mark a turning point but critics question if it's just public relgszs. thank you very much.

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>> i don't want other teachers to have to go through what i'm going through. up next here tonight we remember the sailer in one of the most famous photos of the 20th century.

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it happened here in new york more than 73 years ago. the kiss seen round the world. we learned today the sailer in this famous photo has passed away. >> reporter: time square, august 14th, 1945. the japanese had just surrendered when quarter master first class, george mendonsa,

grabbed a dental assistant and planted one on her. >> it was the excitement of the war being over, plus i had a few drinks. >> reporter: the snap shot caught the euphoria of the moment but it would take another 67 years and modern facial recognition technology to confirm it was the fisherman from rhode island. >> the best proof there is, is my date. her face is seen over the sailer's right shoeltder. nobody can deny that's not her. >> reporter: that's right george was on a date at the time. that's her, rita. she couldn't have been too upset. the nurse went on her way but jornl and rita were married for over 40 years. he died yesterday at 95 in rhode island. but he will live forever at 22 in time square.

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our final story begins with a chance discovery on the side of a road that lead to a very special mission. >> bentley. >> chevy. >> reporter: for as long as patch heardy could talk, he's been talking cars. patch took it for a treasure. why would she think you would want it? >> because i love cars. skblrks that's right. >> my husband and i thought this

is a great way to inkrnl him to read. >> reporter: so began the patch project. who's in your team? >> big sister and little brother. >> reporter: herdy on the hunt. who's the most helpful? >> my sister. all my brother did was maybe funny faces. >> reporter: okay. that's not good. >> he taped on coins and asked if they had any ---ing. >> decals from the ford. it would be my dream come true to collect all the car lego decals. >> reporter: the auto world found him as hard to resist as we did. decals and letters came from bmw, roles royce, even the most exotic. delorean. not everybody has a delor yon. >> i think they felt very happy that somebody loved what they

had. i'm a number one fan of cars. >> well, you're in the right place. >> reporter: in greenwich, connecticut. >> i'll show you a beautiful testau rosau. . >> reporter: michael is the owner. >> awesome. >> reporter: the project has become a two-way street because maybe all those grown-up car people saw a little bit of themselves in a 6-year-old named patch. >> the only difference between him and me is he has hair still and i don't. for some of you the news continues, for uth check back little later for the morning news and cbs this morning.

♪ this is the cbs overnight news. welcome to the over not to news. as the nation paused to honor president's day a battle over presidential power was on display. protests were held in dozens of cities. they're outraged by president trump's declaration of a national emergency. he said it's needed to secure funding to build a border wall. democrats are vowing to chalange mr. trump in court, calling it a power grab that violates the kaungs tuesday. >> see his people starve. >> reporter: as the president spoke out against a venezuelan

dictator, protesters from newark to denver said he's the one over stepping his authority. >> we've got to keep fighting against this emergency. >> reporter: the president's emergency declaration also became the target of a lawsuit being filed by roughly a dozen states. >> the president admitted there's not a basis for the declaration. he admitted there's no crisis at the border. >> i didn't need to do this. >> reporter: the declaration he signed on friday enabled mr. trump to seize property and redirect funds to build a border wall quickly. a couple hundred miles of wall by 2020 according to senior advisor, steven muller. >> the president cannot defend this country, then he can't fulfill his constitutional oath of office. >> reporter: the democrats plan to introduce a joint resolution of disapproval next week. it's likely to pass with help from republicans like will h

urbs rd. >> potentially oevver 1,000 ranchers. >> reporter: critics say that money was set aside fors and housing on military bases. >> i would say it's better for the middle school kids in kentucky to have a secure border. we'll get them the school they nide. >> reporter: even if they pass that joint resolution, it's unlikely to do much more than sunday message. that's because the president's aids say he'll veto the resolution. >> president trump is also taking aim at acting fbi directo director,a director, andrew mccabe, after a

interview with "60 minutes." he said justice department officials discussed thp 25th amendment to remove trump from office. mccabe said there were talks about secretly recording the president after the deputy attorney general offered to wear a wire. >> reporter: trump said nothing about mccabe's startling statements in florida but on dwiter so many lies, the president noted. noting that mccabe was fired for lying and calling it even more deranged. rosenstein, in the chaotic days after he fired comey suggested wearing a wire to record president trump as a possible investigation into obstruction of justice. >> he was absolutely serious and in fact brought it up in the

next meeting we had. >> reporter: he said how might use the 25th amendment to eare move in office. >> it's something he threw out in a very frenzied, chaotic conversation about where we were and what we needed to do next. >> reporter: vowed to call mccabe and rosenstein to testify under oath. >> was this an attempted bureaucratic coup? i don't know. >> reporter: mccabe referencing the conversation he ehad with an fbi official discounted u.s. intelligence on north korea. >> he said he didn't believe th because president putin told them they did not. >> the idea that the president of the u russia

over the head of the intelligence community is the height of irresponsibility. >> reporter: the justice department said rosenstein never authorized a wire recording of the president and was in no position to invoke the 25th amendment. frr at this point he accepted putin's word over that of u.s. intelligence. new questions of gunner are -- they say the scuspect used a gun he wasn't allowed to own anymore and was ordered to give up the wen years before the shooting. >> disgruntalled person walks in and had access to a firearm he shouldn't have had access to. >> reporter: she says gary martin should not have had the gunning he used to kill five

friday. pinkert's wife said i love you. i've been hot at parb. pinkard said it took me several times reading it to believe it. and another is vicente, a fork lift operator. >> he's never going to come can home, never. >> reporter: police say martin legally purchased a handgun in 2014 after passing a background check for a firearm's id card. should have shown up a mississippi femany even though his information was in the national and state data bases. >> once a felony conviction was discovered, the conseal permit was rejected and card was revoked. . >> reporter: should someone from state police go to the house?

>> it states that he needs to voluntarily relinquish the weapon. >> this is a bizarre honor system and it has not worked and never worked. >> reporter: that's why he launched a task force on the county level to pursue those guns. how many cases do you think where they still have their gun? >> hundreds. >> reporter: he says changes needed state wide to avoid another aurora. cbs news chicago.

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this is the "cbs overnight news." across the country got the day off for president's day. one thing we might be surprised to learn is the mysterious love story involving the country's first president. an intriguing new look at george washington. >> reporter: when it comes to the familiar portrait, the model of rt ruvnotell lie. >> he stroked the side of her face, >> reporter: it turns out a few years before martha.

>> mary elizza -- >> reporter: there was mary. this is a massive amount of land that mary owns. >> her family owned 1/4 acres of land ahudson river. . >> reporter: she writes a washington's first love. mary elizza phillips. couldn't tell a lie, delaware, martha. >> why has she been forgotten? in the 1800s, she's written in every book there is. george washington. and yet since then i feel like she's sort of been left out of history. >> reporter: she wants to put her back with a love story that

begins in 1756 as the newly minted french and indian hero, colonel george washington is passing through new york. he stops for a party in his honor, possibly atips manner, a man nger when he meets the heiress who lives there, sparks fire. was george washington sexy? >> george washington was a stud in the 1700s. are you can kidding me? women wanted a touch of him, it's said. >> reporter: if this guy has fallen for this heiress, why doesn't he make plans to take some leave, go check on this potential love of your life? >> george washington requests time off, 10 days, 12 days, 14 days and writes to his commander.

he's denied every time. >> reporter: when mary married a british officer, he quit his command, perhaps changing the course of history. >> they really took away his freedom to follow his heart. >> reporter: she grew up in yonkers and married to the mayor. >> i asked the question isn't it true that george washington once corted the heiress who lived here? and i said let me try to research on my own? >> reporter: for three and a half years she sorted through thousands of letters, publications and journal entries. in her spare time, since sheall red ea had a day job.

sheesz rr an anchor at the cbs station in new york. >> this is not what i do for a living. i had all of the research done and i thought let me give it a shot. >> reporter: she wanted work of fiction backed up by as many facts as she could find. like this mansion in harlem. in 1776, 20 years after george and mary's relationship failed to blossom, waurks out manned and underresourced fighting to deep the british from capturing manhattan. the mansion made a perfect head quarters. >> you'll see the harlem river, and hudson river. so if you're looking for the enemy, you'd see them coming from here. skblr

. >> reporter: and the mansion was owned by none other man mary phillips. where was marry phillips when jornl washingt george washington to muchk in? >> i don't know. >> reporter: things were getting complicated for both maries. martha washington was back in virginia for her own safety and that phillips' husband was in england. nobody know for sure where mary phillips was. >> it is possible that george washington moved into the mansion in harlem, in which his first love was living at the time. >> reporter: hang on. george washington is here, in a

bedroom down the hall at the same time his first love may very well be living in this houses? >> i know what you're saying and thinking and that's what i can see in the documents. >> reporter: if you're here t make as lot of sense as head quarters, right? >> reporter: one of the foremost george washington says while historical fiction is one thing -- is it possible they shared this house? >> we don't have any evidence of it. i think she's found a pausesabilipause possibility of good work of fiction. not saying it didn't happen, just saying we can't say it did. there are rigorous standards for

something to inner the historical record and this doesn't get over thbar? >> not yet. we can still look. >> reporter: as we mark the 287th birthday of george washington, a story that seeks to lickerate the marvel that incases his legacy. >> i was really in a bit of a quandary, truthfully, as to what to do with the information. >> reporter: because you didn't want to be the one to say what the father of our country was carrying on? >> because i'm the first one to say it, there's something really uncomfortable about that to me. >> reporter: the last small flame was burning out in the hearth. he walked theevr fireplace here's a simple true-or-false quiz for you.

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museum in italy. thomas is in charge of recording each note to create a dig data. each vi:produce 100,000 and note changes. >> we try to cap dhr entire range from the lowest note to the highest and from the softest note to the loudest. >> you can't just play with the volume? >> no. >> reporter: they're so rare that some of the most skilled musicians may never touch these instruments. the ideaed is to democ rus it them. allowing anyone with the software a chance to play, at least digitally. these are the notes sneer >> yes, exactly.

>> reporter: but the recording process is easily disrupted. when you're listening to your 32 microphones, what sounds have you picked up? >> that's almost everything. dog barking. sometimes we hear stulettos. if anybody would be it's here, birth place to famed violin marker the violin itself. frrms cramon has more than 50 vishops. being light footed is part of the daily activity here. he's in charge of moving this violin. sflrs are valued at more than $10 million. there's always a guard nearby.

time will obviously effect the akoousbes of the instrument, he explained. so they're recording them now with microphones so sense the ticking won't be eheard. and won't know what they twill and today in this hall. >> reporter: the challenge is to catch dhr pure sound of this instrument without any of the noise pollution of today.

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we end tonight with a neighborhood sign that's speaking much louder than words. here's steve hartman on the road. >> reporter: in newton, massachusetts live as little girl near and dear to the neighborhood. 2-year-old samantha is deaf but boy, does she love to talk to anyone who know sign language. >> she's super engaging. >> her whole personality, she just wants someone who commune quate her. >> reporter: and if someone can't, that makes her a little sad. her desire for engagement has been painfully obvious.

they find themselves add a frustrating loss for words. >> i didn't know what to say back. >> basic conversation one would have with a child. >> asking about her day. >> and make her feel she is part of the neighborhood. >> just be her friend. >> reporter: this isn't something you can solve with a casserole. you need whole community to learn sign language just for a little 2-year-old girl. you can't expect them to do that. you can only appreciate them when they do. sam's neighbors got together, hired an instructor and they're fully immersed in a sign language class. a lot of times even the parents of deaf children don't bother to learn sign language. >> but here sam has a full community that's sign communicating with her and her family and it's a beautiful story. >> reporter: and he says this

level of inclusion will almost certainly guarantee a happier, more well adjusted sam, which can is why her parents say there aren't words in any language to express their gratitude. >> it's -- yeah, it's really shocking and beautiful. >> we are so fortunate. >> reporter: in fact they say they're already seeing a difference in their daughter. >> you should see her at the end of class. >> the first thing she says to us is frentds. >> i think your heart would melt as mine did. >> reporter: sometimes it seems america is losing sense of community, then you hear of a place like this and here to remind us what make as good neighborhood is nothing more than good neighbors. steve hartman on the road in newton, massachusetts. >> and that's the over not to news for this tuesday.

for others the news continues and for th morng news and of course "cbs this morning." it's tuesday, february 19th, 2019. this is the "cbs morning news". president trump's emergency declaration may have hit a wall. 16 states are suing, but the president says he's more than ready for the fight. the latest twist in the jussie smollett case. two brothers say the actor orchestrated the alleged attack, the evidence found inside their apartment. and mega storm warning. scientists say a rare storm could bring rain of biblical proportions toos