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>>elcome to the overnight . re at theroadca center n it was a stormy mother's day efor millions of americans. it was the worst in the south though where they've been slammed by dangerous turengzal rains. >> reporter: closing roads and sh shutting down public transportation. it sent water to bubble out of sewers. here in church point, louisiana, flooding shut down neighborhoods. >> we get water inch our house. not too much we can do. just wait for the water to go down. >> the storm system started a week ago, drenching multiple states from texas to virginia.

in water logged stone county, mississippi, flash floods trapped more than a dozen people in rv parks. >> i just over took the park. nothing more we could do. i lost everything, sir. i lost everything. >> nearby highways were over flowing from torrential rain. in dolphin island, alabama, the storm ripped roofs off of buildings. in gulf, shores, alabama, they saw through debris after strong winds toppled trees on to cars at local zoo. no animals were hurt. in mississippi severe weather derailed a fraigt rain, no one was injured. and a tornado touched down, dock knocking down frees and power lains.

>> at least mondays evening. david. the warnings. the rivers are still swollen. right against their banks and so while the rain has moved out, we're dealing with river flooding for a couple more days. we can see the rain has moved to the east so we're drying out nicely in texas, louisiana and into mississippi. however, there's the lingering strong severe threat up through the carolinas. as megjust mentioned, it's going to be a somewhat miserable day with rain and showers. bit of a kbrak tomorrow in the big cities. however, the next system moves in the afternoon and evening. heavy rain and stays in the 40s for a lot of folks. looking at the water vapor loop

it measures how much vapor is in the atmosphere. much dryer air is going to move in coast to coast as we head through the upcoming middle of week. dryer times are mving in. the white house says it does expect china to retaliate over new tariffs. tweeting it will be far worse for them in his seconds term. mr. trump today also took a new hit at an old target. nicole killian's at the white house. >> reporter: lashing out over the mueller probe. he called it a sick and unlawful investigation, claimed his campaign was seriously spied upon and then declared this must never be allowed to happen again. >> i think it is fair to say we're looking at crisis, not only of confidence but potentially a constitutional crisis. >> reporter: democrats soundsed their own alarms after holding the attorney general in contempt

last week. >> those in favor respond by saying aye. >> reporter: it was part of an es escalating battle with the white house to block key documents from former white house counsel, don mcgahn. >> they've decided to say a blanket no. no witnesses, no documents, no nothing. claim executive privilege over things it knows there's no basis for. >> reporter: federal judge expected to rule tuesday on the house oversight committee's request for the president's financial records. it also faces as friday deadline to comply with a subpoena for the president's tax returns. >> the democrats are more terestedn subpoenas than solutions. >> reporter: congressional republicans say it's time to move on. >> the best thing we can say is let's get on with the country's business. >> reporter: special counsel robert mueller was supposed to

testify but negotiations continue ovhis appearance. the president has said that mueller should not testify. but he now says it's up to the attorney general. a jetliner came to a grinding halt at runway in burma. e the country also known as myanmar. the landing gar failed to deploy and passengers inside recorded the tense touch down. >> reporter: in this video posted online, the myanmar national airlines plane appears to touch down smoothly but then its nose tilts down, scraping along the runway for several seconds until the jet skids to a stop. inside smoke rises from the seats of passengers who appear anxious. they scramble to safety. amazingly all 82 passengers and seven crew members made it out

wo without any injuries. the airline is praising the pilot. they took off from myanmar's biggest city and its landing gear malfunctioned. the pilot circled the airport twice for air traffic control to check whether the front wheeldize ployed. it didn't so the pilot burnt excess fuel to lighten the weight before making an emergency landing. >> reporter: this comes one week after russian plane made anmergency landing in moscow. they say that plane landed with full fuel tanks, killing at least 41 paepal. >> our london bure eo, thank you.

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this is the "cbs overnight news." police in houston have arrested the step father of 4-year-old melilla davess. he's the one who reported her missing and he's in jail after police say they found drops of blood in his apartment. >> they did see the defendant leave later with only his 2-year-old son. >> that is darian vince in the black sweatshirt appearing in court to be cith taering with evi he's the firo disappearance last saturday. three hispanic men attacked and abducted him and his 2-year-old son. he then said he and vince -- he

and his son. her mother pleaded for her safe return. >> if there's anybody that can help me, please. >> vince's story kept changing and then fell apart. later in the week they found blood evidence linked to melilla. on april 30th, surveillance shows melilla entering the apartment steps behind her step father but she was never seen can coming out. vance was carrying a laundry basket with a garbage bag and baskets of bleach. they found a gas can in his car. k9s detected human are mains. a family spokesperson appeared with her mother.

>> he told her he was cleaning up the apartment and she didn't understand why he would be cleaning up the apartment. >> the step father is in jail but mulelilla is still missing. rising costs and cheaper fuel alternatives wiped out jobs by the tens of thousands. and now there's a new opportunity in the state and it's green. a new cbs original we're calling clinging to coal. grandfathers, my brother. my - i was born and raised in a coal family. coal raised me and all three of my kids too, until i made transition. ♪ >> you know when you first

started looking into coal, did your buddies at the coal mine? >> they did. >> what did they say? >> when are you going to get your wooden shoes? and i heard all the tree hugger comments and of course just to play along, as soon as i made the transition, i got a subaru. >> you went full circle. >> it's funny that now it's those same people calling me for a job. i get calls on a weekly basis, are you guys going to be hiring soon and it's guys i used to work in the mines with so i think they realize it's less of a competitive thing now and it's more of -- it's a job, it's a future. i've got no intert in

not my concern. >> and you can watch it at cbs news.com. it has been six months since the race to northern c became the deadliest and most destructiveb fire in united states history. the check on some youngest survivors. >> reporter: on the surface children from paradise elementary school but he ends our interview with 8-year-old and her mother, kylie. >> it happened to us. >> reporter: ellyamp fir has bee

move ever since. >> reporter: more than 18,000 were lost to the fire in paradise elementary. second grade teacher says they have moved away. >> i'm every -- >> we have a couple of weeks. >> reporter: trauma specialist says it's hard for teachers. more than 500. >> one of our teachers called

uncertain. and there's too much unpredictadespite upheaval, tha resilient and celebrating in six months these kids -- ♪ ♪ since we remember my favorite things then i don't feel so bad ♪ >> reporter: cbs news, paradise, california. >> we won't forget you, paradise. promise you that. coming up next, survivors of violent crimes confront their

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forgiveness. >> reporter: angel went lives in a town of 500. she's a teacher and a mother of four. nine years ago her brother was killed by a drunk driver and it changed her life in ways she never could have imagined. >> i can honestly say now looking back at that time in my life, i was a terrible mother, a terrible teacher. i was really an uninspiring person. i felt i had to right to be. >> reporter: until she met her brother's killer. >> and next there's a push for a new state flag in mississippi mine this is confederate battle symbol. i can't believe it.

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>> reporter: unapologetically, they fly it in the corner of their state flag, the official banner since 1894. >> we need a symbol that is prevocative. >> in 2014 that she says is all mississippians. >> three things i've guarded and that is the flag is bipartisan, grass roots and positive. >> her grandfather, senator john dennis was often provocative. the staunch segregationest voted against civil rights and voting rights acts in the 1960s. >> we have to authentically take in the whole story, which is for years he voted in a way that harmedmany. >> reporter: but today the flag is a hit.

and fly the state flag. cheryl washington state flag. and not through. >> the stennis flag out sells the official flag, 4 to 1. >> i don't find a problem with it. some do and i feel it's legitimate. >> the last failed attempt to change the flag was in 2000. a current bill is official. and bipartisan support. >> i love it. his personal motto. >> reporter: a new mississippi designed by a granddaughter from the old south. cbs news, mississippi.

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after 105 years woodrow wilson claimed mother's day to be a national celebration. shoppers are expected to spend a 'sbout $196.illion this year. but mother's day, as children will tell you is not even about that. our affiliate in south bend, indiana. doing it with her mom is new.

for years in foster care. she met tonia brown. tonia says her behavioral issues. and have a family, she decided to -- >> i didn't think i'd get to be a mom and then i met keira. after losing hers as a teenager. >> that lets me know that was a special thing that we got tashare together. just meant the world to me. happy mother's day. >> i are have a family. and get rid of me.the years has

that. >> don't have any trauma. i have been here the entire time. >> i can't get keira all of those years back. but offer experiences. they want others to take a second to enjoy it. >> i know what she went through. and that may be my blood. woful sthat we actuallyd broadc and wteg. make it a great week. i'll see you next time. ♪

♪ >> announcer: this is the netted net overnight news. >> i'm david beg gnaw. it was a stormy mother's day for millions of americans in the eastern half of the country. it was the worst in the south where they've been slammed by torrential and running down public transportation. in baton rouge the storm sent trees crashing in roofs and caused water to bow out of sewers. here in church point, louisiana.

>> just wait for the water to go down. >> the storm system started a week ago reaching multiple states from texas to virginia. in water logged county, mississippi trapped more than a dozen people in the rv park. >> we eall evacuated and got out. >> nearby highways were over flowing with torrential rain. alabama over n they saw through debris after strong winds toppled trees and a zoo. no animals were hurt. in mississippi severe weather derailed a freight train leaving more than 40 cars together.

>> power lines. >> a slow moving system now stretching from florida to new york city. rain isexpected to drench the northeast through monday evening. >> and jeff, i see those red lines swollen rivers. >> those are the river and andality least a couple of days. a much dryer air is moving in. we can see the rain has moved to the east. we're drying out nicely in texas, louisiana and also mississippi. there's the strong lingering thunderstorm threat up through carolina. still dealing with heavy rain across parts of the northeast. shower showers, breezy

temperatures in the 40s. the next system moves in during the afternoon and evening and another round round of showers. looking at the water vapors, you can see the cold front's going to push humidity out and dryer air from coast to coast through the upcoming middle of the week. >> the white house said today they expect to retaliate. president trump is warning beijing to act now, tweeting it will be far worse for them in his second term. mr. trump altso >> president trump stay under doors on a soggy sunday lashing out over the mueller probe. on twitter he called it a sick and unlawful investigation. claimed his campaign was seriously spied upon by intel agents.

then can declared this must never be allowed to happen again. >> i think it's fair to say we're look at a crisis not only of confidence but a constitutional crisis. dprrs >> democrats sounded theron alarms after holding the attorney general in contempt. >> those in favor respond by saying aye. >> reporter: part of an ongoing battle with the white house that continued to block documents. >> the trump administration has decided to say no to any kind of oversight. no witnesses, no documents, no enothing. claim executive privilege over things it knows there's no basis for. >> a federal judge expected to rule tuesday on the house oversight committee's request for the president's financial records. the administration face as friday deadline to comply with a subpoena for the president's tax returns.

>> the democrats are more interested in subpoenas than solutions. >> reporter: congressional democrats say it's time move on. >> the best thing we can say is let's get on with the country's business. >> reporter: special counsel robert mueller was supposed to testify but negotiations continue over his appearance. the president has said he should not testify but now says it's up to the attorney general. it's been six mujs since the camp fire raged through northern california. 85 people were culled. caused more than $11 billion in damage. we went to paradise to check on some of the youngest survivors. >> reporter: on the surface, children from paradise elementary school seem fine. but 8-year-old and kylie six

months of trauma blood flooded twlooi. elly her mother's home were those reduced to ash in the camp fire. recently settling down in a donated rv. >> you feel it the most. >> when my mom says i -- >> reporter: more than 18,000 buildings were lost in the fire including paradise elementary. at the temporary school a few towns south, children silently battle their fears. >> all of them have had a turn of feeling sad and needing to talk to somebody. >> 40% of students have moved away.ng

when is the lasts time every child wasgo >> reporter: and it's been hard for teachers. more than 500 lost their homes. >> one of ourb teachers called uncertainty trauma because there's so much unpredictability. >> reporter: students are improving. that resilience took center stage at a recent revival celebrating survival. in six months these kids' world has changed. their courage is a lesson in strength for us all. >> when i'm feeling sad i simply remember my favorithing ♪ ♪ a i don't feel so bad

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this is the "cbs overnight news." it's been a year since the white house cancelled president trump's controversial zero tolerance policy that separated migrant children from their parents at the border. most were separated after leaving illegally. and it's taken a while to reunite them. one's quest to find his daughter. >> reporter: 7-year-old angie learning to count in english. >> nine. >> ten. >> there you go. >> reporter: that's also the number of months she's been separated from her father. they arrived at a border

crossing last year. seeking asylum and she was taken from him june 1st during the now discontinued zero-tolerance policy. what was that like to be separated? when you're separated you feel it in your heart. >> reporter: the only parents she knew who had been raising her as a single parent could only request to be reunited but only at risk detention. after all this time hugging my daughter is what's most important, he says. it's all i can think about. the organization, immigrant families together has stepped in, paying his bond so he ecan be released from detention in california. the next day he flew to texas to see her again. your dream is going to come true. you'll see him again.

>> reporter: we were with her as she headed to the airport. and as 326 days apart finally came to an end. [ speaking foreign language] >> reporter: if i, at 40 yeang crazy, her young hys. >> reporter: he did not want to let him go. okay. your concern is how to talk to

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show "jeopardy"? there's a guy who's already won over $1 billion. >> a professional sports gambler from las vegas, nevada. >> reporter: you might say "jeopardy" is having a moment. 34 joe 34-year-old james is in barely a month made a believe out of host alex trebek. how soon did you realize? >> in about a second week. his knowledge is so vast, there are moments when i'm standing there and thinking how in the heller did you do that? >> reporter: in fact james might

have been the "jeopardy" headline of the year if not for this. >> just like 50 town rr other people in the united states this year this week i was diing a pancreatic cancer. >> reporter: where were you in your journey e? >> i had just been informed. >> reporter: the news was dave stating. but ehe didn't miss a day of work, not even through chemotherapy. >> i thought why miss a day if i can do it and i can do it. >> reporter: that's why you're -- >> macho man. i'll give you money. i'm maucho man. >> macho man indeed. >> i found out where the leak was and i dug it up.

>> reporter: drop in on alex etrebek in his l.a. home and find him knee-deep in a home improvement project, hard at manual labor. what a great design. so earlier this year when he had a pain in his belly that wouldn't go away, doctors brought him in for tests. >> he said alex, you were right. >> reporter: there's nothing about that story that is good. but then when they say pancreatic -- >> that's a fist. >> that's a big fist. >> i know about pancreatic cancer. >> the big one was stage four.

sounds impressive. i've got stage four. just beginners. >> why are you making me laugh? >> what else are we going to do? >> but it hasn't been easy to laugh now. early on trebek suffered excruciating stomach cramps off camera and on. >> it got bad. i went from a three to 11 and it happened three or four times that day. so that was a little rough. >> reporter: you were able to excuse yourself. >> i made it to the dressing room on one occasion just barely before i righted in pain and cried in pain.self together and

spasms of that kind usually last about 50. i got through it. and the producers were very kind. they said if you don't want to do the show, just cancel. i said no, we're here. year doing the show. >> reporter: and that's more than just a brave thing. alex trebek has been the unlawful voice of authority for more than 35 years. >> and now here the host of "jeopardy" alex trebek. >> reporter: he began in 1984 and he quickly stood out with his brain power and his mustache. >> i wase sroac even though his

mostly makeup. >> reporter: it was a success he'd been building all his life. he grew up in ontario. philosop university of ottawa. he worked at the cbc and other broadcast jobs until abc called about "the wizard of oz." >> and it made at exactly the moment i made decision i was going to try my luck in the united states. and things worked out rather handsomely. >> you're ready, then let us play "jeopardy." >> reporter: he's hosted nearly 8,000 episodes of "jeopardy." and won six day time emmies including the one he took home just last weekend.

>> thank you, thank you. >> reporter: along the way he found time for a fil he and his wife, jean have two grown children. beautiful wife said hello before we esat down. is she taking this as well as you are? >> it's very difficult in many ways for her. and what i've discovered in all of this is it's extremely difficult for the care giver. i've had so many people send cards, letters, tweets, offered prayers. for 35 years i've enjoyed success of the show but never really thought about the impact the program is having on american viewers and i've become part of their lives. >> this is "jeopardy." >> reporter: and a lot of those viewers are younger than you'd expect. >> what is --

>> that is correct. complete silence. >> reporter: this month the harvard lampoon has a mock "jeopardy" game in his honor. a tribute to a man longer than he's been alive. he's a -- i was incorrect. >> as usual the lampoon is just a little off. >> reporter: trebek says he'll be back on the real "jeopardy" when it resumes. when you recorded the segment featuring james, who had your diagnoses? >> some of it was before and some of it was after. and so the challenge for "jeopardy" viewers right now is to figure out that alex is thatl

piece? because they all know when you start chemo you lose your hair. so which is it? you're looking right now is not the real me. we have the summer months off. so hopefully my own hair will grow back. i like my own hair. >> reporter: truth is neither alex nor his doctors no know next few months or years will look like. alex trebek may not have all the answers. but that doesn't mean we can't still win. i'm also astonished at how great you look. we've always got our twinkle. i'd say intelligence. >> thank you good jeans.

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take him out of school and he said no. >> i turned down disney world. i can't make any other promises. that one promise i was go toing to keep it. >> reporter: he made the promise of perfect attendance to his older sister, miranda. she died indiana 2006. and yet because she loved school, miranda never missed a single day of first grade until the day she died. the perfect attendance certificate rewarded to her 4-year-old brother, alex. he crossed the stage and went directly to his father. >> he was going to get perfect attendance in honor of her. >> he said add age four. >> reporter: all he knew was that his best friend was gone and he wanted to do something for her.

today 13 years later his tribute is complete. >> reporter: the perfect attendance award winner for brunswick high school. >> i was think about her the entire time like this is for you. >> reporter: kept your word. >> yep. >> reporter: what does it mean to you that she meantmuch him? >> a lot. >> reporter: we can't expect our kids to love each other as much as we love them and somehow at four he knew the best way to honor someone was to do something honorable. steve hartman on the road in brunswick, georgia. >> promise me good lesson for all of us. that's the "overnight news." we've got the morning news and of course cbs this morning. from the broadcast center in new

york city, i'm david begnau. hope the moms had a great mother's day. captioning funded by cbs it's monday, may 13th, 2019. this is the "cbs morning news." footing the bill. the white house now admits american consumers and businesses will pay the tariffs the u.s. imposed on china as we wait to hear how china plans to retaliate. an emergency landing in myanmar. how a skilled pilot saved the day after the plane's front wheels wouldn't deploy. dnped. the disturbing evidence