i think you should have done a story about that. captioning sponsored by cbs ♪ >> quijano: released. an american woman and her safari guide, abducted in uganda, are safe, after a random is paid to free them. breaking news-- homeland security secretary kirstjen nielsen is leaving her post. also tonight, severe weather. storms thunder across the country, with damaging hail, rain and wind. millions are threatened. israel's embattled prime minister faces voters this week. will benjamin netanyahu's controversial plans get him re-elected? and, puppy-palooza. the giant litter born to a single great dane-- 19 dogs in all. >> does it ever get old to hold a puppy? >> never. >> never.

>> quijano: good evening. i'm elaine quijano. an american tourist kidnapped at gunpoint in uganda is free and safe tonight. kimberly endicott of costa mesa, california enjoyed what is described as a square meal and hot shower at a camp after her release. endicott was abducted along with her driver on tuesday in queen elizabeth national park, where they had gone to look at wildlife. both were freed after a ransom was paid. meg oliver has the story. >> reporter: after five days with their captors in the congo, american kimberly sue endicott and her local driver, jean-paul mirenge remezo, were rescued sunday night. this photo shows endicott moments after she was taken to safety. >> we were all really concerned about what had happened to her. >> reporter: andrea glasgow calls endicott a free spirit, saying the skin spa owner is known to travel alone. >> i want to hear about what happened, you know. you are so independent, you go over there by yourself.

scary. 56-year-old californian was on safari in uganda's queen elizabeth national park, when four kidnappers ambushed their car. f.b.i. and c.i.a. officials, including hostage negotiators, had been trying to secure their release. initially, the gunmen demanded a half million dollars ransom. u.s. government policy is not to pay hostage takers, and ugandan authorities insisted they would not pay it. cbs news is told the tour group, wild frontiers, ultimately paid money to secure their release, though it was a significantly lower amount. california resident bill toone was also touring the park at the time of endicott's abduction. >> it very well could have been us. and it is a bit shocking. we have been working in uganda for quite a long time, as well as in kenya, and we have come to be very comfortable here. >> reporter: hundreds of thousands of tourists visit uganda's ten national parks each year. there hadn't been an abductionen

exception. >> we have seen where the lapses are, we will ensure those are closed. we can assure everyone that comes to visit, that uganda is safe, that our parks are safe. they can continue coming. >> reporter: cbs news confirmed endicott and her driver were immediately taken to the lodge. they are expected to fly out first thing in the morning. but paying the ransom now has some questioning if this puts a price on americans who are traveling abroad. elaine? >> quijano: all right, meg oliver, thank you. there is breaking news tonight. president trump has announced that homeland security secretary kirstjen nielsen is being replaced. it happened late today, after mr. trump met with nielsen at the white house. errol barnett is there. >> in her resignation letter, secretary neilsen wrote she had quote work tirelessly to advance the goals's missions of the department. and adding that now is the right

time for her to step aside. neilsen was next to president trump in california friday as the president highlighted two miles of newly renovated fence. >> our >> our systems are full, the country is full-- can't come in, our country is full. >> reporter: on saturday, the president repeated his claims that the immigration system is overloaded, and recently threatened to shut down the asylum process altogether. >> we face a crisis. a real, serious and sustained crisis at our borders. >> reporter: in her 16 months as head of the department of homeland security, nielsen has found herself between a president adamant for dramatic change, and a congress eager for oversight. >> it's totally unacceptable. >> reporter: in march, secretary nielsen was grilled in front of the house homeland security committee for the perceived poor treatment of migrants. >> and as a member of this committee, you are darn right i am going to hold this-- you, accountable, for knowing what is happening at the bottom. >> reporter: now, nielsen had been in many ways the face of the trump administration's efforts to curb illegal immigration, which includes child separations.

in announcing her departure today, president trump thanked nielsen for her service, and said kevin mcaleenan, the commissioner of customs and border protection, now becomes acting secretary of d.h.s. elaine? >> quijano: errol barnett, thank you. a new round of severe weather is sweeping across the country today in the south. thunderstorms rumbled over texas, dropping heavy rain in houston and beyond. yesterday, a suspected tornado left a trail of destruction after touching down in the small town of san gabriel, texas. meteorologist jeff berardelli is here with what is still to come. jeff? >> elaine, it is going to be a very busy weather week ahead. there are two areas that we are watching, one for tonight and tomorrow in the southeast, in this area. flash flooding with very heavy rainfall, and the probability of some scattered severe weather. the biggest story this week, a big blockbuster blizzard. this storm will be comparable to the bomb cyclone that happened just three weeks ago for the upper midwest. but first things first. in the southeast, generally,

about one to three inches of rain, some places a little bit more than that. flash flooding especially in localized areas. here is the storm as we head into wednesday and thursday, very heavy snow, south dakota into parts of especially minnesota and wisconsin. wind gusts over 60 miles an hour. this is going to drop a lot of heavy snow. it is a wet, saturated, heavy snowfall, about one to two feet of snow possible right in this general area. could be further south or north. and eventually as we head into next weekend, a lot of that snow is likely to melt into rivers. that runoff could complicate flooding situations in the upper midwest. >> quijano: all right, jeff, thanks. israelis go to the polls tuesday in a national election seen as a referendum on its embattled prime minister. benjamin netanyahu is seeking his fourth term. in a new and controversial move, he issued a new campaign promise to annex jewish settlements in the occupied west bank. seth doane is in tel aviv. >> i brought you a case of the

finest wine from the golan heights. >> reporter: prime minister benjamin netanyahu has turned state visits into campaign photo ops, and used this tv appearance over the weekend to win votes. "i'm going to extend israeli sovereignty," he said. that means annexing settlements in the west bank, and in effect, permanently claiming land that most of the world considers occupied territory. about half a million israeli settlers live on land claimed by palestinians. just beyond the fence is a palestinian town. here, in one of the settlements, an israeli community carved into palestinian territories. one of the biggest election issues is the land itself. >> it's our land, and it is our right to live here. >> reporter: in the el kana settlement east of tel aviv, we found there is another leader figuring prominently in this election. >> they work really good together. trump is like the koresh of these days. if you know who is koresh? like, the king that helped the jews before, a hundred years

ago. >> reporter: using the biblical name for the persian king cyrus who helped the jewish people more than two millennia ago, yala ayyubi says jews have a biblical claim to this land, a duty to live on it and now, a powerful ally. >> it's not so common to have a big leader that helps israel. >> reporter: last month, president trump reversed decades of u.s. policy by recognizing israeli sovereignty over the golan heights, a strategic land seized from syria in the 1967 six-day war. and last year, the u.s. recognized jerusalem as israel's capitol by moving its embassy there. netanyahu has featured these coups, and his relationships with the u.s. president, in this election. he has turned white house videos into campaign spots, hoping to gain both political and actual geographic ground. seth doane, cbs news, tel aviv. >> quijano: american airlines

said today, it will keep canceling 90 flights a day through june 5 because it can't fly its 737 max jetliners. the aircraft is grounded worldwide following two deadly crashes. american has 24 max jets in its fleet. boeing is racing to finalize a software fix that would get the troubled aircraft cleared to fly again. nike says it won't respond to new accusations leveled at the company by attorney michael avenatti. they include claims the oregon- based company allegedly bribed the mother of college basketball's biggest star. here's tony dokoupil. >> williamson! >> reporter: zion williamson dunked his way into the national n.b.a.'s top overall draft pick. but embattled attorney michael avenatti alleged that williamson's family has already been getting paid... ( cheers ) ...as part of a scheme he recently described to our jericka duncan. >> the truth is, for years, nike

and its executives have been funneling payments to amateur players, high school players, and to their handlers and family members, in an effort to get them to go to colleges that were nike colleges, and ultimately, hopefully, to the n.b.a., so they could sign a shoe deal with nike. >> reporter: on twitter saturday, avenatti dropped 41 pages of documents supposedly related to other top recruits, claiming it was "evidence showing nike bribed players to attend nike colleges." avenatti suggested that in williamson's case, his mother, sharonda sampson, "was paid by nike for bogus consulting services." williamson's mother has not commented. duke says it is fully committed to compliance with all n.c.a.a. rules and regulations, and is looking into the allegations. nike in a statement accused avenatti of "disgraceful attempts to distract from the athletes on the court at the height of the n.c.a.a. tournament." last month, avenatti was charged

in new york with attempting to extort $20 million from nike with threats of exactly this sort of bad publicity. >> did you try to extort nike for millions of dollars? >> no, and any suggestion is absolutely absurd. >> reporter: in a statement, nike said it also "firmly believes in ethical and fair play, both in business and sports, and will continue its cooperation with the government's investigation into grass roots basketball and the related extortion case." elaine, avenatti, for his part, says is he still waiting for nike to directly deny the allegations. >> quijano: all right, we will continue to watch it. tony, thank you. the c.d.c. says it is investigating a new e. coli outbreak. right now, it affects more than 70 people in five states. the outbreak was first reported in kentucky. at least 46 people there have been sickened, the most of any state. health officials say, so far, the source of the infection remains a mystery. you may not recognize his name, but for the last two years, scott gottlieb has lead the government's charge against

the tobacco industry and e-cigarettes. friday was his last day as commissioner of the f.d.a. here is dr. jon lapook. >> you are going to see f.d.a. taking some aggressive steps. >> reporter: when scott gottlieb became f.d.a. commissioner, he believed e-cigarettes could be a valuable tool to help people stop smoking. >> we think that these products can offer an alternative for currently-addicted adult smokers to migrate off of combustible tobacco on to something that doesn't have the same risks associated with it. not safe, but less harmful than combustible tobacco. >> reporter: he still believes that, but alarm bells went off last year when he saw a new national youth tobacco survey. the report found a 78% increase in high-school students using e-cigarettes in one year, tt cat everyone by surprise. we see another 30% to 40% increase this year. on top of that, we will be at youth tobacco use rates of 40% to 45% in this country. there is nothing compared to that. >> reporter: and in response to that data, you thought, "well,

we have to regulate this more. we have get our arms around this," right? >> right. if we see another sharp increase in the youth rates this year, we're going to have to look at more draconian measures, like potentially taking these pod- based products off the market entirely. >> reporter: like juul. >> like juul, exactly. it's the cartridge-based products the kids are using. like i said to the companies, if youth data goes up again sharply, we will have to consider the market ability of this entire category of product. and i told them that. >> reporter: this is an administration that doesn't love big time regulation. have you had any pushback from the administration about your proposals? >> generally speaking, i have received no pushback from the white house with respect to what we are trying to do, to address the youth addiction crisis. i don't think anyone in this administration, certainly no one i have encountered, wants to see a generation of kids become addicted to nicotine through e-cigarettes, and everyone who i needed help from in order to advance these policies has been fully supportive of what we are doing here. >> reporter: during his tenure, gottlieb also made efforts to

lower prescription drug prices. he plans to return to the american enterprise institute to continue that work, including making generic drugs more accessible. dr. jon lapook, cbs news, new york. >> quijano: coming up on the "cbs weekend news," correspondent bill whitaker goes into the deep with billionaire investor ray dalio. and, wrestling legend brett hart gets hit by a man rushing the ring.

>> quijano: hedge fund titan ray dalio is living the american dream. but most people will never realize his wealth, because dalio believes capitalism needs to be reformed. he spoke to "60 minutes's" bill whitaker from the depths of the caribbean. >> reporter: this is otherworldly. >> shipwreck over there. >> reporter: the shipwreck. look at that. whether it is investing or exploration, dalio goes his own way. while your fellow billionaires--

bezos, branson, elon musk-- they are all going to outer space, they are headed towards mars and the moon. you choose to go down. why is that? >> well, as i say, i find ocean exploration a lot more exciting, a lot more important than space exploration, right. and then, you think about it, it affects our lives so much more. >> reporter: dalio routinely hosts scientists who have found new creatures in the deep, such as these, that generate their own light. there was also this off the coast of japan, a live 26-foot- long giant squid. >> oh, that's great. >> reporter: we didn't have that kind of luck. but we had plenty of company. >> so they all have tiger sharks, bull sharks. >> reporter: what kind is this? >> that is a caribbean reef shark. >> reporter: caribbean reef shark. >> yeah. >> sharks are beautiful, powerful machines.

>> reporter: wow. look at this. >> i don't understand the resource allocation of space to the ocean. really, in terms of return on investment-- and i think about return on investment. the return on investment down here is fabulous. >> reporter: as we went deeper, the ocean became barren. the coral once here was gone, a symptom of nature out of balance. and, dalio says, a metaphor for what has happened to economic opportunity. >> if i come down here and i see the coral reefs are dying and the population is dying, i know that we're out of balance. and it doesn't take a genius to know that you are out of balance and you should do something. >> quijano: you can watch bill whitaker's full report with hedge fund titan ray dalio tonight on "60 minutes." still ahead on the "cb

>> quijano: there were some tense moments at the w.w.e. hall of fame ceremony in brooklyn saturday night. it happened while former wrestler brett "the hitman" hart was giving his induction speech. a spectator jumped into the ring and punched him. the man was then tackled. he is now in custody and charges

have been filed. hart wasn't injured, and the ceremony continued. a record-setting python has been captured in florida. officials at big cyprus natural preserve posted this photo of the female reptile on friday. it's more than 17 feet long, weighing 140 pounds. the burmese python is an invasive species in florida. this big snake had 73 developing eggs. at the final four, it is now just two. virginia shocked auburn last night, 63-62. winning with three straight free throws, after a controversial foul with less than a second left in the game. then, texas tech shut down michigan state, 61-51. it is the first time either men's team has made it to the n.c.a.a. final. they will play for the national championship tomorrow night here on cbs. next on the "cbs weekend news," who doesn't love puppies?

a lot of puppies.

>> quija >> quijano: can there really be such a thing is too many puppies? the answer appears to be no.

jamie yuccas shows us a litter for the record books. >> reporter: if cleo looks proud, it's because this four- year-old great dane just produced 19 puppies. >> but man, this is a lot. it's never-ending. >> reporter: for erika angone, owner and lead surgeon at kingman animal hospital in arizona, it was a saturday morning scramble. >> we just started calling up staff and family members. >> well, we didn't know there were this many. we thought there were, like, eight to ten. >> reporter: much more. the delivery room became a war room; a team of 11 doctors and volunteers pulling out puppies. and when you see what is in front of you? >> holy smokes. >> reporter: is that you what something along those lines, yeah. >> they have gotten so big! >> they just kept shooting out, one after the other, and i was handing them off to technician after technician. >> i didn't know how many umbilicals i tied. >> and there was 19 puppies. and we're like, that's got to be a record.

>> reporter: in fact, it ties the american record. the 17 survivors are all healthy. and cleo's owner says, all are spoken for. >> i have this one right here is going to be going to new york. this one is going to pennsylvania. this one is going to illinois. they're going to see places i've never seen! >> reporter: and in just a few short months, they will be fully grown. does it ever get old to hold a puppy? >> oh no. >> never. >> never! >> reporter: who can argue with that? jamie yuccas, cbs news, kingman, arizona. >> quijano: cuteness overload. that is the "cbs weekend news" for this sunday. later on cbs, "60 minutes." i'm elaine quijano in new york..

imagine a sunday in san francisco without the farmers market. the new plan that could shut it down when wildfires flare up. >> i'm juliette goodrich. >> i'm brian hackney. it is part of the new emergency plan to protect people when it is unsafe to be outside. that could include times of extreme heat or hazardous air like we saw during the recent wildfires. we find the conditions get bad enough even big events like concerts could be called amer absolute worst. >> for 13 days after the camp fire consumed most of the town of paradise, thick acrid smoke hung over the bay area like a funeral paul the but it wasn't enough to cancel the farmers market at un pleasant even though some there today thought it should have double >> i think it should have been shut down, really because a lot

of people were still grasping for air. >> it was really bad, 50% of the people had masks covering their faces. you could hardly breathe. >> michael works as an unofficial parking guide for tips. he said it seemed crazy that people were still coming to the outdoor event that week. the department of public health agrees, they developed a set up set of proposals for days with extreme bad air an ace extreme heat and including canceling permitted outside events like farmers markets and vegetable. >> one that was happening did you feel like you shouldn't be outside at all? >> yes, should not be outside at all. at home, the library, somewhere