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>> reporter: believe it or not, this is main street hamburg. you get an even better idea of the scope of the damage from the air. hamburg built a secondary levee before a major flood in 2011. it kept this area dry. problem is the army corps of engin engineers asked them to lower it to 5 feet high to meet federal regulations and this flood was 9 feet. jeff? >> don, incredible pictures from iowa. don dahler, thank you. a mother in arizona is accused of horrible abuse behind the scenes of her family's popular youtube series. videos of her seven adopted children have been viewed millions of times. but the mother was arrested days ago and charged with a sickening series of crimes. here is jamie yuccas. >> reporter: the videos are
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called fantastic adventures and they've been viewed more than 250 million times, but according to police, the kids who performed in them lived in a haas of horrors. the contrast is mind-boggling. >> whoa, whoa, whoa. >> reporter: for youtube viewers, it all seemed so wholesome, but behind the scenes a mother was allegedly starving her seven adopted children. >> when police officers arrived at the home, how did they describe the children? >> malnourished. they were extremely hungry. >> reporter: 48-year-old ma shell hobson is charged with child abuse, unlawful imprisonment, child me neglect and molestation of a child. police say hobson's 19-year-old biological daughter tipped them off. >> one of the female victims in this matter was pepper sprayed in her vagina. >> that sounds horrific. >> it is. >> reporter: all the alleged attacks occurred inside this home. this video escaping the babysitter may have been art imitating life. >> we got to get out of here.
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>> reporter: they were made to stay in a locked closet for days on end. not receiving water. not receiving food. having to wear adult-style diapers. so it's heartbreaking. >> reporter: it's estimated hobson may have earned $2.5 million from the videos. google owns youtube and initially said it would not remove them unless hobson pled guilty or was convicted, but just late today they were taken down. >> all right. jamie yuccas, thank you. in new zealand, the first victims of last friday's mosque attacks were buried today. among them two men who fled civil war in syria. one of the mosques is being cleaned so friday prayers can be held. ben tracy met one worshipper in christchurch who lost so much. >> i have faith and i have love in my heart, so i'm happy and contented. you can't see me crying.
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>> reporter: it would be more than understandable in ambreen rashid did cry. when a man gain his hate-filled rampage in christchurch friday, ambreen's son tall ha was insid theal noor moving praying. >> tell me about your son. what was he like? >> he was such a kind, gentle person. always really helpful. >> reporter: talha was 21, had just graduated from college and was working as an engineer. he was one of 50 people killed that day. >> he will live forever because beautiful things never die. >> reporter: but ambreen lost something else beautiful. her husband of 22 years, naem. >> it appears that your husband tried to tackle the gunman to save other people. >> he had a strong faith and he had love. so it made him so strong that he could confront a man with a
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weapon. >> reporter: ambreen has found strength in something she saw at this ever-growing memorial in christchurch, a sign on the fence with just eight words. >> those people with hate, they will never be successful. my son, my husband and all those people who gave up their lives, they have just brought all the humans together. >> reporter: because to her this is not a sea of pain, it is a rapidly rising tide of love. ben tracy, cbs news, christchurch. uninntligirits. says a ban on
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in northern kentucky, an outbreak of more than 30 cases of chicken pox prompted health officials to ban unvaccinated students from school. now one student's family is suing. dean reynolds is in walton. >> reporter: students at assumption academy went to school today but jerome kunkel stayed home again. >> i'm missing the next two weeks. that's what the health department says, that i'm not allowed to go to school. >> reporter: because jerome, a senior on the basketball team, has refused to get vaccinated on religious grounds despite a chicken pox outbreak at his catholic school. >> it's derived from aborted fetal cells. as a catholic, we do not believe in abortion. we believe that's morally wrong and it would go against my conscience. >> reporter: the chicken pox vaccine relies on cell lines from two fetuses aborted in the
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1960s. no abortions were involved in vatican has given the vaccine its blessing. the northern kentucky health department has banned unvaccinated students until the outbreak is contained, and that could be up to three weeks after the last case is diagnosed. >> reporter: ridiculous says bill kunkel, jerome's dad. >> do you think this is just sort of a big unfeeling government? >> they -- they act as tyrants. >> reporter: so the kunkels are suing. jerome, they say, is a victim of government overreach. >> well, i mean, we're just talking about the chicken pox here. this isn't some deadly disease. >> reporter: but pediatrician christopher bolling says the vaccines are necessary for public health. >> before the vaccine was e .und, hundreds of people would >> reporter: and when it comes to health, the doctor says this is not a close call. dean reynolds, cbs news, walton, kentucky. up next here, the latest on
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again today after being put out. it started sunday morning and damaged 11 storage tanks. the epa continues to check air and water in that area. the supreme court heard arguments today in a case involving a death row inmate in mississippi. curtis flowers, who is black, was prosecuted six times for the shooting deaths of four people. he claims he was denied a fair trial because the prosecutor repeatedly excluded black jurors. a study out today says drinking very hot tea increases the risk of getting cancer. very hot means 140 degrees or above and they are talking about cancer of the esophagus. this study says those who drink two large cups a day have a 90% greater risk but they caution more research is needed. >> up next here, a new honor for a classic song. ♪
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there is no mistaking the intro to "soul man" and today the song joined an elite club. jim axelrod met one of the men behind it. >> reporter: at 83, sam moore is still recording. but good as his new stuff is, as the surviving half of the great r & b duo sam and dave, it will be tough for him to top what he did 52 years ago. ♪ i'm a soul man >> reporter: don't take our word for it, take the library of congress', which is adding sam and dave's all-time classic "soul man" to its national recording registry. >> library of congress. >> library of congress.
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>> they really seem to be watching over you. >> can you believe that? god damn, man ♪ that's what i got. >> reporter: written by isaac hayes in the summer of 1967 as he watched the rioting in detroit on tv and saw the word "soul" spray painted on buildings to mark black-owned property to be spared. the song introduced a new phrase into the culture ♪ i'm a soul man. >> what makes someone a soul man? >> what you do to the song. it identifies what -- what i believe and hear. >> reporter: recorded at the historic stacks studio in memphis, the first take delivered the song's iconic moment. >> play it, steve. >> reporter: when he called out the guitarist at the urge of the producer to break up a long guitar riff. >> i turned around and i said,
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play it, steve. >> such a perfect moment. >> they questioned me all afternoon about it. ♪ i'm a soul man come on, steve. >> reporter: sam had his own questions about the song that would become their signature. >> if i told you the day you recorded this song it was going to change your life -- >> i wouldn't have believed. i never had the notion it was going to be -- >> what it blew up into being. >> a classic. >> reporter: number one on the r & b charts, number two on the pop charts, "soul man" would go on to win a grammy. more than half a century later, this recording's given moore an honor he never dreamed of and affirmation he always wanted. >> i'm a bad man, jim. oh, my god. >> reporter: and fittingly, it's touching the original soul man deeply just where you'd expect it to. >> there might be artist that can do more than i do, but they're not in the library of
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congress. i am. ♪ soul, baby >> reporter: jim axelrod, cbs news, miami. ♪ soul, baby this is the "cbs overnight news." welcome to the overnight news. i'm ian lee. there were prayers in the cockpit of the doomed lion air 737 that fell from the sky in indonesia last october. the black box voice recorder tells the story of a flight crew fighting to keep the jet aloft as the on-board computer repeatedly pointed the jet down towards the earth. the crash of a second 737 max 8 jet in ethiopia has kicked off several investigations and critics say those investigations are taking too long. kris van cleave has the latest. >> reporter: its pilots rushed to identify the source of the problem with their 737 max,
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according to published reports. a sensor malfunction has triggered a new anti-stall system, pushing the nose of the plane down nearly two dozen times. minutes from disaster, the captain ask the first officer to take the controls while he checked the flight manual for a solution. just before the crash, the first officer is saying allahu akbar, god is great, and praying for a miracle. pflight instructor. ilot and >> well, the training is inefficient. it's clear that it's insufficient. pilots should be reactive to emergencies based on their training. it should be almost automatic. >> reporter: on that same plane's previous flight the day before the same malfunction occurred. as those pilots fought for control, bloomberg reports a third pilot hitching a ride in the jump seat correctly identified the problem and told the crew how to stabilize the plane. >> the jump seat pilot can see the action they're taking and has a more diagnostic role so
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it's very fortune that he was present. >> reporter: investigators say that crew did not fully report the issues upon landy. jeff is the recently retired investigator of accident investigations at faa. >> some sort of problem with air speed, with altitude, so the airplane really should have been taken out of service. >> reporter: the defense department's inspector general has now launched an ethics investigation into the acting defense secretary over allegations that he essentially lobbied for boeing while on the job. he's a former boeing executive. we've also learned that current boeing executives are expected to be called to testify about the 737 max before the senate next week. swamped by some of the worst flooding in decades. but elsewhere the worst is yet to come. more than a dozen levees have been breached in missouri, iowa and nebraska and the missouri river is still rising. don dahler is in the disaster zone. >> reporter: the army corps of
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engineers took to the air to get a look at the flooding in hamburg, iowa. what they saw stunned them. the entire town of 600 homes covered in water. major general scott spellmon. >> what did you see on your site assessment? >> a system was was overwhelmed. this levee system was built back in the 1950s and 1960s, and it's completely inundated. >> reporter: according to the army corps, 200 miles of levees across four states were compromised by this flooding. repairing them could cost billions. sin >> since the levees failed, is that a failure in design or are we seeing a weather system we haven't seen before? >> reporter: hamburg is six miles from the missouri river so minor flooding is common. this is not. >> this isn't flooding. this is something else. >> reporter: katherine crane has been hamburg's mayor for 12 years. >> we are not wealthy. we are not wealthy. >> how are you going to rebound
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from this? >> we're asking for help and we're going to build that levee the way we want to build it, and it will be 14 feet tall. and this ain't gonna happen again. >> reporter: believe it or not, this is main street hamburg. you get an even better idea of the scope of the damage from the air. hamburg built a secondary levee before major flood in 2011. it kept this area dry. problem is, the army corps of engineers asked them to lower it to 5 feet high to meet federal regulations and this flood was 9 feet. president trump is taking fire from both veterans' groups and republicans on capitol hill over his continued criticism of the late senator john mccain. mccain died seven months ago. major garrett reports. >> i've never liked him much. hasn't been for me. >> reporter: in ohio today, president trump tried to explain the inexplicable, a running feud with revered republican senator
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john mccain, who has been dead for seven months. >> mccain didn't get the job done for our great vets. >> reporter: as if to justify the attacks that have rankled top republicans, mr. trump repeatedly faulted mccain on policy. >> and the other thing is, we're in a war in the middle east that mccain pushed so hard. when he finally had the chance to do it, he voted against repeal and replace. >> reporter: and this -- >> and i gave him the kind of funeral that he wanted, which as president i had to approve. i don't care about this, i didn't get thank yous. >> reporter: earlier in the day, mccain's daughter meghan, a co-host of "the view" said it was bizarre. >> he would think that it was hilarious that our president was so jealous of him that he was dominating the news cycle in death as well. >> reporter: top senate republicans came to mccain's defense today.
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georgia's johnny isakson said, "nobody, regardless of their position, is above common decency." >> it's deplorable what he said. it will be deplorable seven months from now if he says it again and i will continue to speak out. >> reporter: on twitter, senate majority leader called mccain a rare patriot and genuine american hero. mccain friend and trump confidant, lindsey graham. >> i think the president's comments about senator mccain hurt him more than they hurt the legacy of senator mccain. a woman who made millions posting videos of her adopted kids on youtube is now under arrest. prosecutors say she turned her home into a house of horrors, disciplining the kids with pepper spray and locking them in a closet for days. jamie yuccas reports. >> reporter: the videos are called "fantastic adventures" we than 250libut according to poli
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kids who performed in them lived in a house of horrors. the contrast is mind-boggling. >> whoa, whoa, whoa. >> reporter: for youtube viewers it all seemed so wholesome, but behind the scenes a mother was allegedly starving her seven adopted children. >> when police officers arrived at the home, how did they describe the children? >> malnourished. they were extremely hungry. >> reporter: 48-year-old machelle hobson is charged with child abuse, unlawful imprisonment, child me neglect and molestation of a child. police say hobson's 19-year-old biological daughter tipped them off. >> one of the female victims in this was pepper sprayed is in her vagina. >> reporter: >> that sounds horrific. >> it was is in this video "escaping the babysitter" have been art imitating life. >> we got to get out of here.
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this is the "cbs overnight news." the new head of the environmental protection agency andrew wheeler says unsafe drinking water is the greatest health threat facing the nation and the world. in his first interview since being confirmed, wheeler discussed his views on water and climate change with major garrett. >> reporter: the senate confirmed wheeler last month. not a single democrat supported him and general republicans support his deregulatory agenda at the epa and the economic benefits they say it brings. democrats and environmentalists say whatever the, environmenta risks will be imposed by that new deregulatory agenda and they accuse wheeler of refusing to
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take action on climate change. >> the drinking water today worldwide is probably the biggest environmental threat we have. >> if i hear you correctly, you're saying all this tension, energy, politics, over on climate change is essentially misguided. >> we have 1,000 children die every day worldwide because they don't have safe drinking water. that's a crisis that i think we can solve. most of the threats from climate change are 50 to 75 years out. what we need to do is make sure that the people who are dying today from lack of having drinking water in third-world countries, that problem is addressed. >> reporter: wheeler wants to drive a global debate on clean water, even though water woes continue here at home in flint, michigan and elsewhere. >> baltimore, milwaukee, newark, chicago, detroit, cities not named flint also have deep problems with public water supply. >> i want to make sure the american public understands 92% of the water every day meets all the epa requirements for safe
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drinking water. >> what can you tell people in those impacted areas? it's going to change under your watch and give them a greater sense of confidence about the water either they consume or their children consume. >> again, 92% of the water in the country. >> that's cold comfort in some parts, mr. administrator. >> i understand that. >> it does no good for people who live in flint, michigan. >> well, it does. we've been working with flint. >> reporter: wheeler supports president trump's 38% cut to the epa and his downplaying of climate change is sure to anger democrats. >> climate change is not a hoax but is a massive unprecedented threat. >> you hear democrats running for the nomination in 2020 saying we're in a catastrophic situation. is there anything unreasonable about those impressio >> yes, i think it is unreasonable. all the environmental indicators continue to get better. >> reporter: air pollution did decrease here in the united states from 2005 to 2017, but it rose last year. as far as clean water, government investigators have told the epa that cities
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routinely misreport and cover up their lack of compliance with clean water standards, making that 92% figure less reliable than it sounds. and environmentalists warn that deregulatory actions taken at the epa could increase water pollution, not decrease it. for the first time ever, the fda has approved a new drug to treat postpartum depression. the condition affects more than 400,000 women every year. that's about 20% of all new moms in the u.s. so far the drug has only been given to a handful of women, but the results have been dramatic. dr. tara narula spoke to one of the satisfied patients. >> postpartum depression can strike out of the blue during what is supposed to be a special time. it's estimated that half of cases go undiagnosed. current treatments can take weeks or months to bridge release. now a fast-acting infusion given in the hospital may offer new
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hope to families affected by postpartum depression. >> i remember being in that picture. >> reporter: stephanie and adam hathaway had just moved to china when they became parents for the first time. >> she was the same size as monkey. >> reporter: shortly after daughter hadley was born, stephanie started sliding into depression. >> i had intrusive thoughts. it was your husband deserves a better wife. your children deserve a better mom. >> what had you expected to feel when the baby was born? >> instant love and connection, and they put her on my chest and i felt nothing. ♪ you can do anything >> reporter: when hadley was just a few weeks old, adam got a frightening call at work. >> she said, i need you to come home. >> there was this very real fear of what i might do when i put the baby down. >> i think that's when we had to go and ask for help. >> reporter: symptoms of postpartum depression can include sadness, anxiety, irritability, loss of appetite, self-harm, including suicide and
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loss of interest in the new baby. >> what did postpartum depression take away from you? >> it took everything. it took my hope. it stole my joy. it stole time. those precious newborn months, i don't remember them at all. >> reporter: after three months on anti-depressants, stephanie was feeling more like her old self. she and adam relocated to connecticut and moved forward with their plans for a larger family. when she became pregnant with daughter brenly, stephanie went back on medication as a predaugs. >> how soon after your second child did you start to feel those second symptoms? >> inten and the fear of what i might do -- >> stephanie signed up for a clinical trial of a new medicine. it targets specific brain receptors to rebalance the
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hormones that spike during pregnancy and plummet after birth. dr. samantha brody chief of paranatal psychology at the university of north carolina led the trials and said fast-acting relief is vital. >> the current treatments are not going to work for generally a month or more. that's really hard to look at someone and say, i know you're suffering tremendously and we're going to start treatment and maybe a month from now you'll feel better. >> reporter: the new medicine is a one time intra-venus treatment that requires a three-night hospital stay. in clinical kriels of more than 200 william, 70% -- >> between hours 12 and 18, i noticed a huge difference. those intrusive thoughts i told you about were gone and they never came back. and so i called my husband and tell him about it. he says, stephanie, i haven't heard the you in your voice in so long. >> the same wonderful woman i
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heat waves don't only happen on land. believe it or not, they occur underwater as well. sometimes with disastrous effects. experts say these deep sea infernos can be damaging as a forest fire. keeping track of the health of all 150,000 coral reeves on earth just got a bit easier. mark phillips tells us how in his series "the climate diaries." >> good morning. welcome to the great barrier reef and to the world's biggest reef mapping project. if you want to know how the reefs of the world are doing, you got to map them. >> reporter: this is how research on the world's threatened coral reef systems has traditionally been done. a team of machine scientists
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flies out. the destination this time, lady elliot island, a speck of coral on australia's 1,400-mile-long great barrier reef. >> welcome to the great barrier reef. >> reporter: the team inspects the coral. this particular patch seems to be doing okay. the coral seeps stable and the local wildlife seems oh be holding its own, but the team, including marine biologist emma kennedy knows they're getting a close-up view of not always a happy picture. >> we can only cover very little ground going out with our scuba diving kits in an area the size of japan is huge. >> reporter: but a new tool is being developed to provide that bigger picture. this is lady elliot island reef up close. this is it from space. and these are other reefs all over the world.
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subsea science has met outer space science. >> we have lift-off of the "falcon 9". >> reporter: to look down, you've got to go up. a new system has been launched where swarmed of shoe box sized mini satellites have been deployed to orbit over the north and south poles and takes pictures as the earth spins underneath. >> that mean, by the way, we see every field, every tree, every reef, everywhere, every day. >> we're going to right into lady elliot island where you were located. >> reporter: and that says planet labs' andrew zoley means -- >> because we can see them every day, we can see how they're changing. >> reporter: changing, too often in these global warming days from healthy organisms to dead ones. rising ocean temperatures have been killing coral, leaving a white skeleton behind. they call it bleaching. nobody knows exactly how much of it has actually been happening, but they soon will.
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>> the planet imagery is coming over on a daily basis. we finally can get a good eye on where it's changing and where not. >> reporter: chris is another marine scientist who has spent a career studying reeves up close. >> this is what's mapped. >> reporter: along with partners at arizona state university, he's using his knowledge to develop software to turn the satellite pictures into a diagnosis of reef health or sickness. >> the point you'll be able to do this -- >> on every reef in the world. >> that's the idea. >> yep. >> reporter: and that information is being assembled by f for the first time in a worldwide living coral atlas at the estate run by the late microsoft co-founder paul allen. the marine scientists and space scientists are pulled together by project coordinator lauren.
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>> my excitement comes when i share this with the people in the field that are actually going to be using it. they're just amazed. that sort of response, you know, makes you feel pretty good. >> i feel emotional. >> reporter: the world's coral reefs are not important just because they're nice to look at. they're important for what they tell us about what's happening to the planet. the turtles may not give interviews -- >> and then the one here -- >> reporter: but geology professor stewart finn does. >> why is it important to pay attention to the health of the world's reeves? are the reeves, to kind of phrase, the canary in the cole mine? >> they are the canary in the co coal mine. >> reporter: monitoring how the oceans are changing, how that affects the reefs, the climate and otherultimately us will nowa little easier. >> it's going to be a faevgt for scientists to understand what's happening.
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we end this half hour at the starting line of a runner's long-distance journey. steve hartman has met him before on the road. >> reporter: no one wants to feel like old news, like their glory days are gone, but ernie says that's exactly how he felt in the months after his celebrated record-breaking run. back in 2016, then 93-year-old ernie andres became the oldest person ever to run across america. >> you got this. you got this. >> reporter: from san diego, california, all the way to saint simon's island, georgia. a huge crowd joined him at the end as this world war ii sailor stormed the beach one last time to fervent chants and flying colors. it was pure joy. that all happened about 2 1/2
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years ago. today, ernie still runs for exercise and still dreams of the >> i was running three days a week. but it's the same old thing. and i just got a little bored. >> reporter: he recently got so restless, he decided to do something remarkable, and i don't use that word lightly. if he pulls this off, this would be truly remarkable. tomorrow at the age of 95, ernie will return to the georgia beach where his run ended to start a new run back across the country again. >> reporter: his last run took three years. he expects this one to take a bit longer. hoping to reach san diego some time after his 100th birthday. the man is nothing if not an optimist. >> i've got all the runs planned
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clear up 2025. >> you plan to get there one way or another. >> if it's not in a coffin. >> reporter: just like last time, ernie is dedicating his run to the lst, the same kind of ship ernie served on in the war. there's one left and it's open for tours in evansville, indiana. he's running to raise money and awareness. >> this shouldn't be forgotten. the ship is like a person to you. we call it "the gray lady." >> sounds like you're in love with this lady. >> oh, yeah, it's part of my soul. >> reporter: honoring his naval past by steaming ahead toward the pacific, and in his wake ernie will leave behind all the proof you need, that you can sail into the sunset without ever surrendering. steve hartman, on the road in saint simon's island, georgia. >> what an incredible story. we witch him all the luck. and that's the "overnight news" for this thursday. for some of you, the news
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continues. for others, check back with u a little litter for "morning news" little litter for "morning news" and, of course, captioning funded by cbs it's thursday, march 21st, 2019. this is the "cbs morning news." swift action. less than a week after the deadliest terror attack in new zealand history a new weapons ban is announced. carrying on a feud. president trump continues his attacks on the late senator john mccain. >> i've never liked him much. and boeing 737 max jets will likely be grounded a little ng

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