answers. >> reporter: how many people in this room do not believe that the information coming from the centers of disease control is correct about vaccines? >> reporter: protesters converged on the capitol building in albany, new york today, meeting with state legislators. they are trying to kill a bill that would remove non-medical exemptions for school vaccinations. >> but the rabbis tell us there's nothing in judaism that says -- that prohibits

vaccinations. >> it doesn't matter. >> reporter: questions were met with heated responses. >> the question i guess that -- >> think of the disneyland outbreak. these people are not dying. >> reporter: most of the measles cases in new york have occurred in orthodox you're you're communities, where an illustrated magazine known as "the peach pamphlet" has been circulating. public health officials tell us the pamphlet is specifically targeting this community. the pamphlet falsely links vaccines to autism. the overwhelming consensus of the scientific community is that vaccines do not cause autism. the pamphlet's cover says it is a project of parents educating and advocating for children's health, or p.e.a.c.h. that organization's website posted a statement saying it had nothing to do with the pamphlet, even though it hosted a copy on its website until last month. we found this address listed for p.e.a.c.h. [ knocking on door ]

but nobody there knew anything about the group. doesn't sound familiar? >> no. >> reporter: some of the more established names at today's rally included robert f. kennedy jr. recently some of his family members disavowed his views about vaccines. and del bigtree, a leading voice questioning vaccines. back in march he used holocaust imagery to align himself with vaccine skeptics in the orthodox you're you're community. >> for all the hasidic jews in new york right now that never thought this moment will come, i am saying i stand with you. >> reporter: bigtree's funding has grown. where do you get your funding? what's the largest donation? >> i would say we are being donated to by lawyers, by doctors, by scientists, by entertainers, that all believe that this is a discussion that needs to be discussed. >> reporter: we took a look at the most recent tax filings available for his organization. in one year contributions went from a little over $100,000 to more than $1.4 million.

as these groups gain steam and funding, medical professionals tell us a quiet, non-judgmental approach and a willingness to listen to parents' concerns are the best ways to engage people hesitant to vaccines. >> dr. lapook all over this story. really great, jon. thank you. tonight alabama's senate is expected to approve a bill that would outlaw virtually all abortions. supporters say they want to use this to directly challenge roe versus wade, the 1973 law that legalized abortion nationwide. jericka duncan is in montgomery, alabama. >> house bill number 314. >> reporter: the debate over the country's most restrictive abortion bill resumed in the alabama state senate today. last week passage was put on hold after tensions erupted over an amendment to add exceptions for abortions stemming from rape and incest. republican terry collins sponsored the bill in the state house. >> this bill in my mind is to let the supreme court revisit that decision and then possibly

allow states to have the laws that they feel are most appropriate for their people. >> reporter: the alabama bill would ban virtually all abortions except when the mother's life is at risk and would make performing an abortion a felony, punishing doctors up to 99 years in prison. alabama is the latest state legislature to push stricter abortion bills. last week georgia became the sixth state to pass a bill banning abortion after six weeks, when a heartbeat can be detected. with a solid conservative majority on the supreme court, many pro abortion rights advocates believe these new bills could one day be used to overturn roe v. wade. when you look at this clinic, do you worry that that clinic may not be here in a couple of years? >> no. we've been here 40 years, and we'll have another 40 years. you can't pass unconstitutional legislation to try to shut us down. >> reporter: mia raven works with the only abortion clinic in montgomery. she organizes volunteers who help escort women through the gauntlet of anti-abortion rights

demonstrators nearby. >> don't think that just because, you know, this is happening in the south we expect this out of alabama. you could be next. and you probably will be next. >> reporter: a spokesperson for the governor's office tells me that the governor, a republican, kay ivy, has not decided how she will vote on this bill, even if she vetoes it, john. there are enough votes to override it. >> jericka duncan in montgomery, alabama. thank you, jericka. questions tonight after a deadly police shooting is caught on camera. we're at the scene. and later, he

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a police officer in baytown, texas has been put on paid administrative leave after shooting and killing a woman. the violent confrontation last night was recorded on a cell phone. we warn you, the video is graphic and unsettling. mireya villareal has the story. >> i'm actually walking to my house. >> reporter: cell phone video captured the moment a baytown police officer tried to arrest pamela turner. >> you're actually harassing me. >> reporter: police say turner resisted arrest, forcing the officer to pull out his taser. while on the ground you could hear the 44-year-old shouting. >> i'm pregnant. >> she winds up taking his taser from him. >> how does that happen? >> well, that's one of those things we're look at to try to determine exactly how that happened, because obviously we don't want it to happen in the

future. >> reporter: baytown police lieutenant steve dorris says seconds after losing his taser the officer draws his weapon and fires. [ gunshots ] at least one of his five shots hits turner. >> our officers are trained in a lot of things, but first and foremost they're trained to survive and go home. >> reporter: court records show turner had two outstanding warrants, one for criminal mischief and another for assault. but witnesses say turner had mental health issues that were known to neighbors living in the apartment complex with her. >> it's not a secret that there was a disability or she was disabled, or whatever. and that's not how you interact with somebody. if somebody gets threatening, that's what you do. >> reporter: an ambulance eventually arrives on scene to treat turner. while waiting police say the hispanic 11-year veteran officer who shot her performed cpr. neighbors say it wasn't soon enough. >> he realized there was people outside. that's when he tried to get down and help her. but by then it was already too

late. >> reporter: police confirm that turner was not pregnant. they also say the officer involved had a body cam on but they do not plan to release that video anytime soon. interesting note here, john, the person who actually shot the video and post td on social media, they still have not been able to locate them. >> mireya villareal in baytown, texas. thank you, mireya. we'll hear from the newest candidate for president coming up next.

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president trump today downplayed the u.s. trade war with china calling it "a little squabble." but the newest democratic challenger sees a greater economic threat. montana governor steve bullock today became the 23rd official candidate for the presidency. he told ed o'keefe the trade war is hurting wheat farmers in his state. >> i think china is a tremendous economic threat. >> reporter: if you were president sitting across the table from him, what would you do about it? >> first of all, you don't just do it alone. i mean, "america first" shouldn't be america alone. but you work with your allies and say that look, there's an

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tim conway's career lasted so long that baby boomers remember him from "mchale's navy" and millennials know him from "spongebob squarepants." he died today at 85. "cbs sunday morning's" lee cowan looks back. >> reporter: tim conway was so sidesplittingly funny he didn't only make his fellow cast members laugh, he cracked himself up too. for more than a decade conway's characters on "the carol burnett show" -- >> take your time, for crying out loud. get a chance to stop and smell the roses. >> reporter: -- were a fixture, as funny today as ever. >> you know something? from the back you look like dolly parton from the front. >> reporter: of his passing, burnett said she's heartbroken, calling conway "a brilliant comedian and a loving human being." >> just because hawkins runs a

tight ship doesn't mean it can't be a happy ship. besides there's nothing tautier than a happy ship. >> reporter: conway's talent was his ability to stand out in the background. never the lead, yet he led the laughs. >> how could you do that to me? >> well, it wasn't -- >> reporter: a native of the midwest his comedy was always clean. >> why didn't you tell me my rear end is on fire? >> you told me not to do anything to attract attention. >> reporter: even when he branched out to the movies. disney mostly. he never seemed to mind that the jokes were at his own expense. >> har, har, har. >> reporter: tim conway was a proud second banana with a first-rate sense of humor. lee cowan, cbs news, los angeles. >> that is the overnight news for this wednesday. for some of you the news continues. for others check back with us a little later for the morning news and "cbs this morning." from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm john dickerson.

♪ >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." welcome to the "overnight news." i'm mola lenghi. the winds of war continue to blow through the persian gulf. but iran's supreme leader says there will be no military confrontation with the united states. the white house says it has intelligence that iranian forces are poised to attack u.s. targets. an aircraft carrier battle group has been sent to the region and there are reports the white house is preparing to order tens of thousands of u.s. troops to join them. david martin has the story from the pentagon. >> reporter: after inspecting the damage done to four tankers anchored just outside the

persian gulf, u.s. officials say it is highly likely iran's hard-line revolutionary guards are responsible for the attacks. the hole you see in the stern of a norwegian tanker is only the tich a much larger gash that extends below the water line, where iranian frogmen are believed to have attached explosives to the hull. none of the tankers were american, but the u.s. has an interest in keeping the persian gulf open to shipping and has threatened to retaliate against iran for any attack on america or its interests. the u.s. has already sent an aircraft carrier and b-52 bombers to the persian gulf, and the "new york times" reported the trump administration is reviewing plans to send as many as 120,000 more troops. president trump denied that but not in a reassuring way. >> we have not planned for that. hopefully we're not going to have to plan for that. and if we did that we'd send a hell of a lot more troops than that. >> reporter: spearheaded by president trump's hard-line

national security adviser john bolton, the u.s. is applying economic sanctions to throttle the iranian economy and threatening to use military force if iran strikes back. >> he has strong views on things but that's okay. i actually temper john, which is pretty amazing, isn't it? >> reporter: iran's supreme leader has vowed to resist the american pressure campaign. that sounds like a recipe for confrontation and, if somebody makes a mistake, for conflict. president trump's trade war with china is taking an increasing toll on the nation's farmers. china was the biggest market for american soybeans, not to mention other crops. dean reynolds has the story from a farm outside chicago. >> reporter: we spoke to a sixth generation corn and soybean farmer who told us that china used to be one of his biggest buyers. but because of trade difficulties with america china is now looking elsewhere for supplies. to south america or africa. leaving american goods with no place to go. >> we've been here this

particular farm for over 100 years. >> reporter: evan holteen says a trade war is the last thing he and his fellow farmers need. >> yeah, we've seen decreased profits for the last six years, and mother nature's throwing us a pretty tough spring. so it's definitely not an easy time to be a farmer. >> reporter: he says the president's offer to help farmers through these tough times is nice. but you don't want assistance. right? you want markets, don't you? >> ideally we would love to have markets. right? exports is what we're good at. and that's what we'd want. we'd love to see resolution to the trade war. >> reporter: because china plans to impose retaliatory tariffs on american goods including soybean-related products, holteen will plant only corn this year. what would you tell the president if he were standing right here? >> i'd tell him that we supported him from the get-go on trying to bring china to the table and make them more accountable for their practices

but every day that this ticks on farmers are the ones that are taking it on the jaw. >> reporter: how long is this going to go on before you say hey, this is too much, you're ruining us out here? >> i think to a point you could say we're already there. you know, we appreciate the support he's giving farmers. farm bankruptcies are up all over and we're just not an economy that can handle this stress much longer. >> reporter: now, the american soybean association said yesterday that with low prices unsold soybean stocks are expected to double. but evan holteen remains hopeful and still reliant on the president to get the best deal he can. the measles virus continues to spread across the country and around the world. ground zero is an orthodox jewish community just north of new york city, and the state legislature is considering a bill to get rid of the religious

exemption for people who don't want to vaccinate their kids. dr. jon lapook reports. >> how many people in this room do not believe that the information coming from the centers of disease control is correct? >> oh. >> reporter: protesters converged on the capitol building in albany, new york today meeting with state legislators. they are trying to kill a bill that would remove non-medical exemption for school vaccinations. >> the rabbis tell us there's nothing in judaism that says -- that prohibits vaccinations -- >> it doesn't matter. >> reporter: questions were met with heated responses. >> the question i get that -- >> think of the disneyland outbreak. these people are not dying. >> the -- >> reporter: most of the measles cases in new york have occurred in orthodox jewish communities where an illustrated magazine known as "the p.e.a.c.h. pamphlet" has been circulating. public health officials tell us the pamphlet is specifically targeting this community. the pamphlet falsely links

vaccines to autism. the overwhelming consensus of the scientific community is that vaccines do not cause autism. the pamphlet's cover says it is a project of parents educating and advocating for children's health, or p.e.a.c.h. that organization's website posted a statement saying it had nothing to do with the pamphlet. even though it hosted a copy on its website until last month. we found this address listed for p.e.a.c.h. but nobody there knew anything about the group. doesn't sound familiar? >> no. >> reporter: some of the more established names at today's rally included robert f. kennedy jr. recently some of his family members disavowed his views about vaccines. and del bigtree, a leading voice questioning vaccines. back in march he used holocaust imagery to align himself with vaccine skeptics in the orthodox jewish community. >> for all the hasidic jews in new york right now that never thought this moment would come, i am saying i stand with you!

>> reporter: bigtree's funding has grown. >> where do you get funding? what's the largest donation? >> i would say that we are being donated to by lawyers, by doctors, by scientists, by entertainers, that all believe that this is a discussion that needs to be discussed. >> reporter: we took a look at the most recent tax filings available for his organization. in one year contributions went from a little over $100,000 to more than 1.4 million. as these groups gain steam and funding, medical professionals tell us a quiet non-judgmental approach and a willingness to listen to parents' concerns are the best ways to engage people hesitant to vaccines. dr. jon lapook, cbs news, new york. the "cbs overnight news" will be right back.

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>> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." special forces admiral william mcraven led the raid that killed osama bin laden. now he's got a new book called "sea stories: my life in special operations." it's filled with advice. some of it simple like make your bed every morning. easier said than done for some of us. david martin has his story. >> tonight i can report to the american people and to the world that the united states has conducted an operation that killed osama bin laden, the leader of al qaeda.

>> i remember thinking to myself, well, maybe that's why i was put on the earth, to bring justice to bin laden. >> reporter: admiral william mcraven, now retired, thought commanding the bin laden raid would be the crowning achievement of his 37 years as a navy s.e.a.l. >> but i was wrong. it had almost nothing to do with bin laden. what bin laden allowed me to do was to get an invitation from the president of the university of texas at austin to be the commencement speaker in 2014. >> so here are the ten lessons i learned from basic s.e.a.l. training that hopefully will be of value to you as you move forward in life. >> reporter: mcraven made it through the notoriously brutal training, which had an 80% dropout rate. ringing a bell was all it took to quit. >> all you have to do is ring the bell to get out. if you want to change the world, don't ever, ever ring the bell. >> reporter: and the secret to making it begins with one improbable act. >> if you make your bed every

morning, you will have accomplished the first task of the day. it will give you a small sense of pride. and it will encourage you to do another task and another. >> reporter: the speech went viral, viewed millions of times and becoming a best-seller. >> i bump into people all over the world. they know nothing about the bin laden raid. but they know i told them to make their bed. >> i've got to know, did you make your bed growing up? >> absolutely. >> reporter: he grew up on a military base in texas where his father, a veteran of world war ii, was a fighter pilot. in a memoir called "sea stories" mcraven tells of being too small to be a standout football player, so he went out for the track team and had a chance to break his school record for the mile. >> the night before my final race i got a call from an old coach, coach jerry turnbow. he says, well, bill, you can do this. you can break the school record. you just have to run hard. so bill-u get out there and you run hard.

i said okay, coach, i will. >> and he did. >> coach turnbow helped me achieve that goal, and i attribute a lot of my future to him. had i not broken that school record, one, i'm not sure i would have ever tried to be a s.e.a.l. because in breaking the school record i knew it was a chance i could go on and be a navy s.e.a.l. >> reporter: being a navy s.e.a.l. is not just tough. it's dangerous. even in peace time. in 1995 he was in a small boat like this trying to make it out through heavy surf. >> this was a 35, 40-foot wave, and it just picks that boat up and dumps it right on top of itself. and i remember at that time thinking to myself, so this is how it ends. >> reporter: mcraven was tangled up in the boat's lines and trapped underwater. >> and then all of a sudden i'm free from it. how that happened? i don't know. >> so you really don't know how you got out of that boat? >> i think there was some divine intervention that pulled me out of -- out from under that boat. >> reporter: after 9/11 he was

assigned to the white house to work on counterterrorism when a man named richard reid was discovered wearing a bomb in his shoe on a flight from paris to miami mcraven came up with an idea that changed all of our lives. >> i think we need to have people take their shoes off going through security and we also need to start checking their laptops. >> a lot of people have been looking for you. >> yeah, i'm afraid of that. >> well, here's your chance to seek forgiveness from the american public. >> well, i will tell you in my defense, i only felt we would put this in place for a couple of months. >> reporter: in 2003 he was in iraq commanding the task force which captured saddam hussein. for 30 days mcraven was his jailer. >> he came in and he was arrogant and he was pompous. >> did you talk to him? >> i did. i was hoping he would agree to tell his people to lay down their arms, to do something good on your way out. he chose not to do that. and i told him this is the last time you're going to see me. >> reporter: mcraven spent much of the next eight years shuttling back and forth between

iraq and afghanistan. commanding and sometimes going on night raids. >> we were probably doing 20, 25 missions a night in iraq, 10 to 12 missions a night in afghanistan. >> reporter: then on the night of may 1st, 2011, as the president and his national security team monitored from the white house, mcraven commanded the daring raid against osama bin laden's compound in abbottabad, pakistan. just before the mission mcraven gathered his s.e.a.l. team and channeled gene hackman and his small town team going to the state championship in the movie "hoosiers." >> what is it? >> 15 feet. >> 15 feet. i think you'll find this exact same measurement as our gym back in hickory. >> so my message to the guys was all of you have been on hundreds of missions. just do this mission the way you have done every other mission. and we'll be just fine. >> another night, another raid. >> another night, another raid.

yeah. >> reporter: mcraven ran the mission from his command post in afghanistan. >> and then we get the call from the ground force commander and he said for god and country, geronimo, geronimo. >> geronimo being? >> we had gotten bin laden. >> reporter: the s.e.a.l.s left behind a stealth helicopter which had crash-landed during the initial assault. but they brought out the body which mcraven inspected to make sure it was bin laden. >> i knew bin laden was about 6' 6'4". so there was a young s.e.a.l. nearby. and i said hey, son, how tall are you? he goes, son, i'm 6'2". i said come here. i want you to lie down next to the remains. >> reporter: not exactly scientific but good enough to report to the president. >> the president says to me, okay, bill, let me get this straight. you had $60 million for a helicopter and you didn't have $10 for a tape measure? >> reporter: a few days later the president presented mcraven a memento of the raid. >> he says, and bill, i've got something for you. and he rches around behind his desk and pulls this out.

look, it says on here "if we can afford a $60 million helicopter i think we can afford a tape measure." >> reporter: the raid was of course a sensation. but how does it compare to the thousands of other missions mcraven commanded? >> i saw guys go on missions that will never make the history books that were more complicated or more challenging, that cost more lives and had more sacrifice. >> reporter: since 9/11, 430 members of the special operations command have been killed in action. >> there were a lot of dark moments. and i saw people rise up in those dark moments, you know, families when they lost loved ones, you know, soldiers that were taking care of the families of the fallen, entire towns that came out to pay their respects. >> reporter: nevertheless, mcraven writes, "war challenges your manhood.

it reaffirms your courage. and would never lose its allure." >> you say peace was meant for some people but probably not for me. >> i found myself at war. you try to make the best of it. you hope what you're doing is for something that is noble and honorable. and if that's the case, then i'm proud to be a warrior. >> did you get enough war? >> i got enough war.

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london's royal albert hall is one of the most famous music venues in the world. over the past 150 years it's been host to hundreds of the biggest acts on the planet. so it may come as some surprise to learn that until recently the acoustics in the hall were terrible. not anymore. a recent renovation includes the largest single room speaker system in the world. it yay tyab got a look. ♪ >> reporter: for many he needs no introduction.

this 2006 performance which saw jay-z come out of supposed retirement was the royal albert hall's first introduction to hip-hop. a history-making headlining act. at a london landmark that first opened its doors in 1871. it's one of britain's most distinctive performance venues. but royal architects at the time didn't take acoustics into account when they built that majestic domed ceiling, and from the very beginning the venue suffered from an ear-rattling performance echo. >> i'm sure it's now improved. >> reporter: olly jeffrey is the chief technician at the royal albert hall. >> you'd hear it four or five times in different places. and if you pay to hear it you don't want to hear it five times. you want to hear it once. >> reporter: but the world's biggest acts kept coming. ♪ the advent of amplified sound brought electrifying acts like the jimi hendrix experience. ♪

♪ whole lota love and led zeppelin. ♪ never mind, i'll find someone like you ♪ while this rorecording of adele 2011 performance became a best-seller. ♪ for you too ♪ don't forget me i beg ♪ i remember >> who are some of the biggest acts you've seen on this stage? >> oh, gosh. the variety is adele, the beatles, rolling stones. >> and this is their view. >> this is their view. it's a pretty stunning view when you stand here looking out. from a performance perspective it's amazing. >> reporter: the last major fix of the sound system was back in 1969. when these giant discs, or mushers as they're called, were attached to the ceiling. >> made of fiberglass. and the design of those in essence, the sound goes up and it comes back down but it's much

more controlled. >> reporter: the now iconic mushrooms helped but that echo was still there. so in 2017 the green light was given for the biggest ever overhaul of the acoustics. sounds like it wasn't cheap. >> it wasn't but very worthwhile. >> reporter: with engineers working overnight -- ♪ and in the bad times i feel myself ♪ -- 50,000 feet of new cables, and $2.7 million, the world's biggest single room sound system has been installed. ♪ tell me something boy >> it's different. you can still see the performer down there but you're hearing it more here. >> that's amazing. it literally just lifted the sound up from the ground. ♪ so hardcore ♪ i'm falling >> reporter: a fix 150 years in the making for a beloved venue.

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in the white house is determined to put an astronaut on the moon within the next five years. and nasa would like a woman to be part of the team. maybe even name the program art mis. as you might know, she's the greek goddess of the moon. mark strassmann spoke with the man responsible for making the moonshot happen. >> nasa's mission with fits and starts for decades now has a new name and a new urgency. the artemis program intends to land astronauts on the south pole of the moon in five years. four years earlier than originally planned. it will be expensive, and nasa needs commercial and congressional support to pull it off. >> the eagle has landed. >> boy.

>> reporter: 50 years ago this july two americans left the first footprints in lunar dust. no other country has matched apollo's moonwalkers. but five have sent probes and robots, including israel and china just this year. >> it's not by accident that so many countries around the world right now are going to the moon. and not all of them are going to the moon just to collect rocks. it's a strategic imperative that the united states has a presence there as well. >> reporter: when jim bridenstein became nasa's administrator last year, a planned moon landing was a decade away. >> ladies and gentlemen, that's just not good enough. >> reporter: but in march vice president mike pence lit a fire under nasa and its contractors. >> if nasa's not currently capable of landing american astronauts on the moon in five years, we need to change the organization, not the mission. >> we've seen over and over again, administrations change and projects get canceled with billions of dollars wasted of

the taxpayer. we're going to shorten the time scale. we're going to make this a reality. >> reporter: that starts by accelerating development of nasa's new mega rocket called the space launch system, or sls. on top would sit nasa's new crew capsule called orion. roughly 240,000 miles from earth orion eventually would dock with a planned lunar orbiting space station called gateway. but the artemis program lacks one key component. what's the most significant piece of the budget increase? >> the landing capability. like lunar landers are difficult to build. they take time, they take money. and we don't have that capability. >> reporter: not yet. but e industry wants that contract. >> this is "blue moon." >> reporter: last week billionaire jeff bezos introduced "blue moon," his space company's design for a lunar lander. lockheed martin also has a design. >> five years to get to the moon. how is that not fairly intense

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