over. [ cheers ] >> reporter: but democrats question how barr reached a conclusion mueller himself could not make. barr has defended himself and promised to release a fuller version of the report by mid-april. today the justice department said every page of the report "may contain material protected under law" such as confidential grand jury information and must be reviewed. at the white house press secretary sarah sanders dismissed the democrats' backlash as sour grapes. >> they've lost in 2016. they lost on the collusion battle. and now they're look for any and everything they can to continue to attack this president because they have no message. >> reporter: house judiciary committee chairman jerry nadler

has asked the attorney general for all communication between the justice department and the special counsel. barr is unlikely to comply, but lawmakers can ask him about it next week when he testifies on capitol hill. jeff? >> paula, thank you very much. the president today backed off his threat to immediately close the southern border to stop migrants and drugs from entering the u.s. some white house advisers and republican senators warned the closure would hurt the u.s. economy. mr. trump told reporters before shutting the border he would slap a 25% tariffn cars coming into the united states. severe weather is rumbling through the southeast. louisiana's getting the worst of it tonight. at least six inches of rain has fallen in some areas, triggering flash flooding. there was also hail. a new outbreak of storms including tornadoes threaten the southern plains this weekend. gation into nves hidden health costs. in this case the unexpected bills that sometimes come after a miscarriage. about 10% of known pregnancies end in miscarriage.

anna werner looks into the financial and emotional toll in our series "your money, your health." >> this is the ultrasound from when we saw his heartbeat. >> reporter: lauren dill lost her son, simon augustus, last year, four months before his due date. >> my mid-wife came in and she said, you know, what we have here is a perfect little baby without a heartbeat. and those words are just etched into my memory. >> reporter: dill had what's called a silent miscarriage, possibly caused by a blood clot in the umbilical cord. she was induced and spent the next nine hours in labor. >> i knew that once i delivered him i wouldn't have long before i had to say good-bye. it was hard. >> reporter: not long after, the medical bills started pouring in. for ultrasounds, medical tests, and parts of the labor and delivery not covered by her insurer. the couple's total out-of-pocket spending? some $4,500. more than the cost of her other son's full-term birth.

about nine months later as we sit here you are still paying for the pregnancy loss. >> yeah. i am paying for delivery of my baby who had died. and that's hard. >> reporter: it's not uncommon for women to have out-of-pocket expenses for miscarriage procedures because costs for vaginal deliveries, c-sections or surgical d & cs can vary depending on the location, level of anesthesia and the different co-pays and deductibles. but for grieving families it's often too much. >> i didn't feel like we were going to lose her that day. >> reporter: jodi and alex loughlin lost the baby girl they named noelle in the seventh month of pregnancy. she lived 32 minutes. ? almost $30,000 for those procedures. >> reporter: then came the insurance company denials for two in uto surgeries performed to try to save the baby's life, costing some $42,000. they fought the bills but paid

$5,000 in the end. >> you come back with a box of belongings and no baby. you come home to bills. and that's -- that's what you're getting out of what you've just been through. >> reporter: they now have a 1-year-old daughter but are setting up a foundation called noel's light to help other families. >> because we know it can be a really, really difficult road. >> say hi to simon. >> hi, simon. >> reporter: lauren dill has two other children but says the loss of simon never really goes away. >> we don't want to forget him. he lived, and he's part of our family. >> reporter: part of the problem is that surgical and other costs can vary depending on how a miscarriage or a loss happens. efforts to save a baby as happened in the loughlins' case, can also drive up costs and leave grieving mothers and fathers with more unexpected financial pain. but jeff, that's why the couple that we featured has -- the

loughlins, has been starting this foundation to try to help other families. >> it's good to hear they're trying do something, something better to improve everyone. this should not happen. anna, thanks very much. coming um, the search for an american tourist kidnapped at gunpoint while an starri in africa. also a standoff with a man suspected of shooting two officers.

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an intense search is under way to find an american tourist kidnapped by armed men in uganda. the woman was on safari when her group was ambushed on tuesday. roxana saberi has this story. >> reporter: authorities in uganda tell cbs news they're expanding their search beyond the country's most popular wildlife park in hopes of rescuing the two hostages. police say american kimberly sue endicott and her local driver jean-paul mirenge remezo were on a safari with two elderly tourists in queen elizabeth national park on tuesday evening when four gunmen ambushed their car. >> the unknown gunmen put the

tourists on gunpoint and grabbed two of the tourists before disappearing with them. >> reporter: police say the elderly couple were left behind and raised the alarm and that the kidnappers later used endicott's cell phone to demand a $500,000 ransom. but america's official policy is not to pay hostage takers, a point secretary of state mike pompeo emphasized at an unrelated event earlier this week. >> please leb that any payment to a terrorist or terrorist regime gives money so they can seize more of our people. >> reporter: with 10 national parks and wildlife including more than half the world's endangered mountain gorillas, uganda attracts hundreds of thousands of tourists a year. but now authorities worry the booming industry will suffer. the u.s. embassy in kampala is warning americans to exercise caution in the area. and tourism operators tell cbs news cancellations are flooding in. roxana saberi, cbs news, london. still ahead here tonight, a controversial pick for the federal reserve. choosing my car insurance was the easiest decision ever.

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a home after allegedly shooting two officers responding to a 911 call. both are reported in serious condition. ohio congressman tim ryan said today he's running for president. ryan is the 16th democrat to officially enter the 2020 primary race. he is 45 and in 2016 made an unsuccessful bid to replace nancy pelosi as house democratic leader. president trump said today he is recommending herman cain for a seat on the federal reserve board, which sets interest rates. cain is a political ally of the president, a one-time ceo of godfather's pizza. he also ran for president in 2012. some republicans including mitt romney are criticizing the choice. pope francis today appointed archbishop wilton grgry as the first african-american archbishop of washington, d.c. his predecessors, cardinals mccarrick and wuerl, were both caught up in the clergy sex abuse scandal. gregory is 71, from chicago, and has been atlanta's archbishop

since 2005. up next, where you can find tomorrow's scientists and engineers. how about riding dirt bikes? we'll explain.

you might not think riding dirt bikes would help with math class. chip reid is about to change

your mind. >> reporter: racing down city streets on dirt bikes while doing wheelies has been popular in baltimore for decades. about 20 years ago it was outlawed, but it's so much a part of the culture in some neighborhoods it's been impossible to eliminate. >> what's the machine again? >> reporter: brittany young grew up watching dirt bikers. now as a former teacher of technology with an engineering degree she's always looking for ways to get young students interested in stem, short for science, technology, engineering, and math. >> for me i heard stem is boring, it's hard. and i was like no, we just haven't put it in context in ways that people understand. >> reporter: and what even young kids here understand is dirt bikes. so she created an organization called b360 to channel that passion. >> is everybody excited? >> yes! >> reporter: we met young and a group of baltimore public school students at the imaging research center at the university of maryland, baltimore county. >> two, one.

>> good job. >> reporter: where they learned how a 3-d scan of one of the students on a dirt bike will be turned into a digital image and then into a 12-foot statue using 3-d printing. if that sounds complicated, it is. but it appeared to inspired some young minds. >> my dream is to become an engineer so i can make one of the fastest dirt bikes in the world. >> reporter: the students also learn exactly how their bikes work and how to ride them safely. >> when you look at the faces of your students, do you see future engineers? >> yes. i see actually myself in each one. >> reporter: brittany young, turning what was seen as a street nuisance into an on-ramp to the technology highway. chip reid, cbs news, baltimore. >> that is the "overnight news" for this friday. 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.

>> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." hi, everyone and welcome to the "overnight news." i'm demarco morgan. attorney general william barr is coming under fire for his handling of the final report of the mueller investigation. some of the lawyers and fbi agents who spent two years on the case say barr whitewashed their findings. they say his four-page summary of their 400-page report is misleading and that their findings were much more troubling for president trump than barr has indicated. paula reid has the story. >> there's an easy answer to this. release the mueller report. as soon as possible.

>> reporter: democrats on capitol hill today seized on news reports that some special counsel investigators are unhappy with the attorney general's summary of their work. >> the public needs to see the whole report. no executive privilege, no redacting. eventually it all comes out. >> reporter: cbs news has confirmed the special counsel team was split on whether the president obstructed justice, with some investigators believing mr. trump had committed a crime. several news outlets cited anonymous sources, claiming some of the more than a dozen special counsel prosecutors felt barr did not accurately convey their findings to congress. barr received mueller's report on friday march 22nd and two days later sent a four-page letter to lawmakers summarizing the principal conclusions of the investigation. he revealed "the investigation did not establish that members of the trump campaign conspired or coordinated with the russian government," but mueller could

not exonerate the president on obstruction. barr and deputy attorney general rod rosenstein then concluded that the evidence was not stuff to establish that the president committed an obstruction of justice offense. president trump declared total victory. >> the collusion delusion is over. >> reporter: but democrats question how barr reached a conclusion mueller himself could not make. barr has defended himself and promised to release a fuller version of the report by mid april. today the justice department said every page of the report may contain material protected under law such as confidential grand jury information that must be reviewed. at the white house press secretary sarah sanders dismissed the democrats' backlash as sour grapes. >> they lost in 2016. they lost on the collusion battle. and now they're looking for any and everything they can to continue to attack this president because they have no message. >> reporter: house judiciary committee chairman jerry nadler has asked the attorney general

for all communication between the justice department and the special counsel. barr's unlikely to comply but lawmakers can ask him about it next week when he testifies on capitol hill. investigators in ethiopia have released their preliminary report on last month's crash of a boeing 787 max 8 jetliner. they found the pilots followed all of boeing's emergency procedures to regain control of the plane but couldn't keep it from diving into the ground. kris van cleave has the latest. >> we're deeply saddened by and we're sorry for the pain these accidents have caused worldwide. >> reporter: for the first time boeing's ceo dennis muilenburg is acknowledging that the flight control system on the 737 max may be to blame in both deadly crashes. >> it's our responsibility to eliminate this risk. we own it and we know how to do it. >> reporter: the mea culpa followed the release of a preliminary report into the crash of ethiopian flight 302, which shows striking similarities to the lion air io crash in october. within 44 seconds of flight 302

taking off a sensor malfunctioned activating the anti-stall system mcas two minutes into the flight. 20 seconds later it went off again putting the plane into a dive. the pilots were able to pull up some before turning mcas off as boeing instructed. but it was too late. the plane was losing altitude and gaining speed. the pilots were unable to regain control of the aircraft. about 30 seconds before the end they turned the system back on. mcas fired again, putting the plane into a 40 degree nose dive that reached 575 miles an hour. >> with an mcas failure such as they suffered the nose pitching down radically multiple times would create literally the most difficult situation i can imagine in an aircraft. >> reporter: 24-year-old samya stumo was one of the eight americans killed on flight 302. >> obviously this could have been prevented. and that's what makes me cry. >> reporter: samya's family announced a lawsuit today against boeing. >> this is not an accident.

this is something that could have been prevented and should have been prevented. >> reporter: boeing believes it has a software update that fixes the issues with mcas. but during the testing of that update they found an issue with how it integrates with other systems. that's going to take a couple of more weeks to fix before the faa can begin its approval process. the search is on in uganda for an american woman who was kidnapped while on safari. roxana saberi has the story. >> reporter: authorities in uganda tell cbs news they're expanding their search beyond the country's most popular wildlife park. in hopes of rescuing the two hostages. police say american kimberly sue endicott and her local driver jean-paul mirenge remezo were on a safari with two elderly tourists in queen elizabeth national park on tuesday evening when four gunmen ambushed their car. >> the unknown gunmen put the tourists on gunpoint and grabbed two of the tourists before disappearing with them.

>> reporter: police say the elderly couple were left behind and raised the alarm and that the kidnappers later used endicott's cell phone to demand a $500,000 ransom. but america's official policy is not to pay hostage takers. a point secretary of state mike pompeo emphasized at an unrelated event earlier this week. >> please remember that any payment to a terrorist or terrorist regime gives money so they can seize more of our people. >> with ten national parks and wildlife including more than half of the world's endangered mountain gorillas, uganda attracts hundreds of thousands of tourists a year. but now authorities worry the booming industry will suffer. the u.s. embassy in kampala is warning americans to exercise caution in the area. and tourism operators told cbs news cancellations are flooding in. roxana saberi, cbs news, london. billionaire couple jeff and mckenzie bezos have agreed to a divorce settlement and it will make the former mrs. bezos one

of the richest women in the world. jericka duncan has the story. >> reporter: in her first and only tweet mckenzie bezos posted today that she was "grateful to have finished the process of dissolving my marriage with jeff." the 48-year-old went on to say she was giving all her interest in the "washington post" and rocket company blue origin to her soon-to-be ex-husband as well as 75% of their amazon stock. jeff bezos will also keep all the voting rights. mckenzie bezos's stake in amazon is said to be worth roughly $35 billion making her one of the top five richest women in the world. 55-year-old jeff bezos retweeted mckenzie's message ading she has been an extraordinary partner, ally and mother. the couple first announced their plans to divorce back in january. at the time jeff bezos posted on twitter that "after a long period of loving exploration and trial separation we have decided to divorce." soon after the "national enquirer" published alleged

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>> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." for 30 years china was the biggest importer of recycled materials, bottles, cans, tires, and especially plastic. but when china stopped accepting most plastic waste last year it threw the u.s. recycling industry into disarray. janet shamlian reports now on a high-tech plant outside portland, oregon that may have the answer to one big recycling problem. >> reporter: had could be any recycling center in america. but what's happening inside is different than any other plant and could be a game changer for the entire industry. >> this will all be processed by

tomorrow morning. >> reporter: bill cooper is the cfo of edgeless, a company recycling products chemically. what actually is chemical recycling? >> so with chemical recycling we break down plastic toyotas core building blocks, down to the molecular level. unlike mechanical recycling, which take the plastic and reforms it into a usable pellet again. >> reporter: in other words, taking used plastics, melting them down into a liquid, and turning them back into new plastic. most plastic we toss in a recycling bin actually can't be recycled, a staggering 91%. anything dirty or contaminated by food usually gets sent to a landfill. >> we can handle meat packaging, fish packaging. the level of contamination doesn't affect our process. >> reporter: and that means a whopping 95% of what comes in here can be reprocessed. it's one of only a handful of plants doing this in the united states. here's why it matters. a dead whale found in the philippines earlier this month

filled with plastic. 88 pounds of it. another washed ashore in italy last week with almost 50 pounds. the world's oceans are becoming poll loout e plukted by plastic. nick malice is with the advocacy group ocean conservancy. what's the impact on marine life? >> we know that more than 800 ocean animals are affected by plastics in our ocean. almost every single sea bird on this planet has been found with plastics in its gut. >> reporter: how do we stop it? many experts believe that dredging the ocean is impossible, that preventing what gets into it in the first place is the only real solution. >> we also need to look at reducing the amount of single use plastics that are being produced and consumed globally. >> reporter: some states are trying to regulate a cleaner environment. in 2018 more than 30 bills in nine states proposed limiting food packaging and the use of straws. most of them failed. california lawmaker lorena gonzalez wants to phase out all

single-use plastics in her state by 2030. >> we end up eating these fish that have microplastics in them and end up digesting them ton our own bodies as well. >> reporter: plastic producers are starting to take ownership of the problem. coca-cola recently admitted it produces 3 million tons of plastic each year. reportedly more than 20% of the world's bottles. the company says it will create packaging made of at least 50% recycled material by 2030, in part using chemical recycling. at edgeless there's no such thing as too much plastic. the company says almost all of it can be reused an infinite number of times. and recently it started processing something most people thought couldn't be recycled, styrofoam. >> we call this a coffee cup, but in the recycling world it's a single-use product that usually ends up in a landfill. but not here. it will be crushed. it will be densified. and eventually it will become a new coffee cup. >> reporter: not just food and drink containers but all those

giant pieces used for shipping big screen tvs and other electronics. environmentalists might say you're turning it back into another plastic, it's not really solving the problem. >> we're not turning it intoing? bad. we're taking a single use item and we're making it polyusable. we're making it usable multiple times over and over and over again. >> reporter: a new method for recycling amid new hope of turning 'tide on plastic in our oceans. janet shamlian, haggard, oregon. every spring millions of monarch butterflies migrate into the united states. it's part of their incredible 3,000-mile journey from mexico to canada and back again. the monarch is a tough bug, but climate change is taking a toll and come june it might be added to the endangered species list. tony dokoupil traveled to the center of the monarchs' great migration to check out the problem. >> reporter: 100 miles from mexico city, 9,000 feet above

sea level, you'll find what at first seems to be nothing at all. if you came to see the butterflies, well, the skies here are empty. but look closer. the trees in this forest are dripping with monarchs. millions huddled together for warmth until the sun hits. and one by one they fly. >> how does it feel to see them for the first time each year? >> i feel like a newborn. >> reporter: eduardo rendon directs the world wildlife fund's monarch butterfly program in mexico. inside the country's butterfly reserve scientists measure the monarchs by area. 15 acres of coverage this year is the largest population in more than a decade. up 144% over last year. >> the monarch butterflies everybody's into saving it. >> reporter: a senior scientist with the center for biological diversity made a special trip to see the monarchs this year. >> i am scared that this is the

last big bumper year. because this year is because of perfect weather last year. it was like a cinderella year. everything that could go right did. so this is the most monarchs that we may see for a while. >> reporter: to appreciate the sheer scale of this year's migration rendon led us into a restricted area of the reserve. a clearing where monarchs filled the air like confetti. >> what they are thinking right now? >> what are they thinking? >> yeah. >> what do you think they're thinking? >> they are thinking we must back. >> we must get back? >> yeah. >> the hour is late and we have many miles to travel. >> yeah. >> reporter: the monarchs we saw were likely on their way to america that very day, rendon believes. by late march the species had been sighted in a dozen states as far north as oklahoma. later this spring and summer three generations of monarchs should blanket the entire united states east of the rockies.

then in mid august a special super generation will fly all the way back to mexico to these very same mountains. >> so these butterflies are the great, great grandchildren of the butterflies that were here last winter? >> yeah. this is the fifth generation. >> reporter: just a few years ago rendon worried he might be seeing the last generation. between 1994 and 2016 this eastern monarch population plunged more than 80%. and a federal review found a substantial probability of collapse in the next two decades. >> this year was a fluke due to weather p. >> reporter: curry authored the petition to register monarchs as an endangered species. >> in the united states monarchs are threatened by climate change because of more severe storms when they're migrating in the spring and in the fall. >> so the bigger storms just blow them out of the air? >> blow them out of the air, disrupt the migration, cause them to get stuck in places or if it's too cold they get stuck

too long and they die. >> reporter: 40% of all insect species are in decline. a dieoff that threatens an animal much higher on the food chain. >> the human being eat biodiversity. >> our presence on the planet is dependent on their presence on the planet. >> exactly. that is my point. >> in the u.s. they represent summer

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skateboarders in the world practiced their craft along venice beach in california. most of them are boys or young men. but lately the skate parks have played host to a growing number of young women. jamie yuccas went for a ride with girl swirl. >> reporter: it may not look like it, but these women are on their way to a board meeting. and yes, that pun is intentional. they call themselves girl swirl, and their mission is simple. change the way the sport of skateboarding sees women. >> can we do tippy's parking lot? >> yeah. >> and vice versa. it all started about a year ago. on the bike path and side alleys of venice, california, the mecca of male-dominated skateboard culture. >> i was on the venice boardwalk

and as a woman without a skateboard it is a very intense place. you have just a lot of cat calls and just it's not very comfortable. >> so tight. >> reporter: growing up, lucy osinski always felt empowered when she rode a skateboard, but she also felt alone. >> i just didn't feel supported in the same way that i wish i was. so i started skating with another girl. >> reporter: that one other girl turned into three other girls. >> i'm julia. >> reporter: including julia ama. >> those three other girls knew four other girls. and long story short they said how fun would it be if we got everybody together to skate at once? >> reporter: they ended up with nine women in the group, and they knew they needed a name. >> i thought of like an ice cream swirl. there's different colors and ages and types of people and they're just swirling together. and i just said girl swirl. >> reporter: at first they stayed in touch informally with text messages. but mariah marquez says they

quickly outgrew that. >> we went to instagram and that kind of exploded overnight with other girls being stoked on it. >> it's not just look a few other girls stoked on it. there's almost 50,000 instagram followers. >> girl power is real. we got this. >> reporter: but it's not just online. twice a month girl swirl hosts a group skate in venice where dozens of women show up, many for their very first time on wheels. >> we never actually know how many girls are going to show up to each free skate and we're constantly blown away by the girls that do show up. >> you feel safe as a woman. and for us to have created that space is i think like -- that's what i love the most. >> bye. >> most of these gierrls are in the venice area. the fact we were all in a couple-mile radius and didn't know about each other and now we just like come together, it's just -- it's amazing. >> reporter: the group attracts all ages, from grown women to the youngest, 5-year-old kenny pollard.

>> how fast do you think you can go on a skateboard? >> pretty fast. >> pretty fast? >> reporter: if penny could do it -- there's no way i could resist. >> how do i stop? >> you don't have to do tricks. we're just asking to support you in it. the whole idea is we're trying to make this less intimidating for women. when you're a woman alone on a skateboard it's very different than when you're a woman together with all these other people. you really create girl power. girl power is real. you can change things in your community. >> what's up, girl swirl? >> reporter: that community is now global. the group has gotten messages from women as far away as italy and dubai all wanting to start chapters of their own. and now girl swirl even has the ultimate symbol of skater. a board of its own built by iconic skateboard brand carver. >> only pro athletes get their own skateboards. sought fact our group is getting to launch one with them is amazing. >> it's beautiful.

>> it is beautiful. >> reporter: but not nearly as beautiful as a sunset skate along the venice boardwalk. >> whoo! >> reporter: possible only because of nine women determined to get everyone else o

the u.s. marines run one of the toughest boot camps in the world. but for one recruit basic training was just the latest obstacle in a life filled with them. david martin explains. >> he's right there. >> reporter: michael campofiore going through one of this country's great rites of passage. marine boot camp at paris island. the final test is called the crucible. 54 hours on very little food or sleep. ending with a nine-mile hike carrying a 60-pound pack. >> the hike back is really where it hit me. i did want to be quit, to be honest. >> reporter: but he didn't. and his drill instructor

presented him the emblem of the marine corps. >> what did you say to him? >> i told him that this is the second hardest thing that he's done his entire life. >> i was diagnosed with leukemia, cancer to be exact. >> reporter: diagnosed at the age of 11. and put through five years of chemotherapy. >> they gave me like a 40% chance of survival. >> how bad was the side effects from the chemo? >> they actually described my bones as like swiss cheese. because i could easily break a bone. >> reporter: his parents, maria and robert, were powerless. >> that's all we could do, is watch. just be there for hem. >> reporter: he's been cancer-free for nine years. >> you got your son back. >> i got my son back. >> then he tells you he wants to go in the military. >> i wasn't happy with it. we fought so hard, the battle, and won. and now he wanted to fight a new battle. >> did you think in the back of your head, let him try because nobody's going to take him with

that health history? >> he was determined. he clearly was. >> so then you get a phone call, i got accepted into the marines? >> he was ecstatic. screaming on the phone, "i did it. i did it." as soon as the phone call ended i cried because i can't bear to lose him again. i can't. >> reporter: paris island is a shock to every recruit. >> it started getting to me. doubting myself a little bit. >> reporter: sew told his drill instructor staff sergeant roy covington about his battle against cancer. >> when he told me initially, i was shocked. >> what exactly shocked you about it? >> just the mental and moral courage that it takes to be a cancer survivor and then still decide that he wants to serve in a branch such as the marine corps. ♪ the united states marines >> reporter: michael campofiore is now a private in the united states marine corps. one of 20,000 who make it through paris island every year.

for the campofiores, well, just watch. david martin, cbs news, parris island, south rolina. >> that is the overnight news r this friday. from the cbs broadcast center from the cbs broadcast center here in new york captioning funded by cbs captioning funded by cbs it's friday, april 5th, 2019. this is the "cbs morning news." presidential visit. the terror threat president trump just issued as he prepares to visit the southern border today. questioning the mueller report summary. the special counsel's team said they could not agree on whether presen