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fanned across the city today seizing documents and evidence from the secret archives of three catholic church properties. after allegations of child sexual abuse against priest edmundo paredes became public, the dallas police department expanded their investigation and several more victims came forward. >> at least five more allegations of child abuse against other suspects. >> reporter: bishop edward burns today said the diocese continues to cooperate with authorities. >> if today's event is what gives them the opportunity to look for themselves, then so be it. >> reporter: but today's search warrant suggests that the church hasn't been entirely forthcoming. this affidavit obtained by cbs news says it was only after the police questioned the diocese
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about missing files from a 2004 abuse case that the diocese provided an additional 51 pages that were left out three weeks ear.nicaaez is an abuse survivor. >> i applaud law enforcement for finally taking some action. it needs to happen everywhere, even here. >> today's search comes after the catholic church in texas released the names in january of nearly 300 priests they say have been credibly accused of child sex abuse. john, the dallas diocese is the second to be raided in six months. >> nikki battiste. thank you, nikki. the trump administration ordered a partial evacuation of the u.s. embassy in baghdad. this in response to what the administration calls a threat linked to iran. tonight david martin has new information on this. >> reporter: reacting to intelligence reports, iranian-backed militias in iraq are moving rockets within range of u.s. outposts. the state department ordered
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nonessential personnel at the u.s. embassy in baghdad to leave. the order also applies to diplomats at the consulate in irbil. this threat is real, a senior state department official told reporters. although just the day before a british general with the u.s.-led military coalition in baghdad said it's no worse than it's ever been. >> there has been no increased threat from iranian-backed forces in iraq and syria. >> reporter: that left democrats on the senate foreign relations committee demanding to see the intelligence, which so far has been closely held. >> i've never seen an administration that is less forthcoming about such critical information than the trump administration. it's pretty outrageous. >> reporter: but republican mitt romney said he has been briefed on the intelligence. >> iran may be considering some kind of malevolent activity relative to our interests and our people in the region. >> reporter: u.s. officials say they have pictures of iranian boats caring short-range
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ballistic missiles, normally based on land, operating in and out of the port of chabahar as if they were being readied for deployment. pictures of damage done to four tankers anchored just outside the persian gulf. according to government officials they say they show why they believe iran's revolutionary guards are responsible for the attack. they have a new commander and he is quoted today of saying we are on the cusp of a full-scale confrontation with the enemy. john? >> david martin at the pentagon. the acting head of the faa told congress today boeing's 737 max will not fly again until the government is confident it is safe. all 737 max jets were grounded in the u.s. after nancy cordes is on capitol hill. >> the faa has a credibility problem. >> reporter: federal aviation officials defended their agency today against accusations that
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they allowed boeing to rush the 737 max into production. >> what were the steps the faa took in reviewing the system and the accompanying training? >> i can assure you that the system was examined and certified. >> reporter: investigators believe that boeing's new m-cass anti-stall system was connected to two crashes. one in indonesia last october and another in ethiopia in march. killing a total of 346 people and grounding the 737 max worldwide. >> once we are absolutely convinced of the safety return to insurance then we'll do it. >> reporter: 21-year-old samia was killed in ethiopia. >> how can you possibly finish the analysis by august? >> you don't think this plane should be back in the air any time soon? >> no, because we don't have any
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information about it. >> reporter: cbs news obtained audio of american airlines pilots complaining to a boeing official last year that even they weren't informed about the jet's new systems. >> someone at the corporate level made the decision that this wasn't important to brief our pilots on it, people who fly the airplanes for us. >> reporter: boeing says they believe a bird strike sparked the chain of events that brought down the ethiopian jet. but ethiopian investigators say they found no evidence that a sensor was damaged by a foreign object. john? >> nancy cordes on capit i can't believe it.
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well, this has a nice ring to it. the fcc announced new steps today to block robocalls. last month alone nearly 5 billion robocalls were made in this country. that's about 15 calls for every american. here's moll a lenghi. >> reporter: from phone numbers you don't recognize and that never seem to stop. last year americans were bombarded with nearly 48 billion unwanted calls. today federal communications commissioner proposed new tools to arm the phone companies. >> we've authorized carriers to
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block robocalls from certain spoofed numbers. we've authorized the creation of a reassigned numbers database. >> reporter: the fcc will now allow major phone carriers to use a technology to block unidentified or unwanted callers by default. before you had to opt into the feature. consumers will also be able to opt in to receive calls only from phone numbers in their contacts list. cbs news technology contributor nick thompson. >> will this be effective? >> this will help. will it empty the ocean of bocal no. >> reporter: new call blocking technology will be able to trace the call's origin. if it's suspicious, the carrier can block the call from going through, but experts say the technology has its limitations. >> it's not clear if it can stop international robocalls. people who do robocalls are sophisticated and smart. they'll figure out some ways to get around it. >> well, this year between 60 and 75 billion robocalls are expected to be made. that's up from nearly 48 billion
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last year. on june 6th the fcc is scheduled to vote on whether to allow carriers to block those robocalls, john. >> thanks. >> sun care is self care. i used to not love wearing an spf and greasy and that it was going to clog my pores. but what i love about olay regenerist whip with spf 25 is that it's lightweight, it's barely there. and then i can put makeup on over it if i want or if i'm not working, you know, just roll.
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the 18 and 16-year-old suspects made court appearances today. both are now being charged as adults. jayme closs was honored for her bravery today. the wisconsin assembly presented the 13-year-old with a hometown hero award. closs smiled but did not speak. in january she escaped from the remote cabin where she was held captive for 88 days. her kidnapper has pleaded guilty to taking jayme and killing her parents. now a 77-year-old rock legend proves he still has moves like jagger. mick jagger posted his most retweeted -- no word on when the rolling stones will go back on tour. and up next, another show-stopper. scotty is ready for that close-up. togo's fans, the pretzelrami is back,
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at 42 feet long, this tyrannosaurus rex was the size of a city bus, weighed nearly 20,000 pounds and lived for 30 years, the largest and oldest t-rex ever found. scotty is such a giant it edged out sue, the famous t-rex at the field museum of natural history in chicago. >> it's just huge. lon pull scotty from the ground. >> as our material was being prepared, i knew it was something big. >> reporter: 67 million years ago scotty roamed the frenchman river valley in saskatchewan, canada. >> that sandstone scotty was found in was so hard, it took researchers almost a decade to dig it out of the ground and realize just what they had. >> usually a dinosaur skeleton consists of only a few bones or a section of the skeleton. if you find that, you're happy. >> reporter: scott persons was at the original dig site and led the team reconstructing scotty.
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>> scotty lived a hard-knock life. it's got evidence of a broke jaw, impacted together. a section of the tail where the vertebrae seem to have been compressed, possibly by the bite of another tryannosaur. >> reporter: scientists find a lot of scotty, almost 65% of the skeleton in tact. >> so this is just one backbone. can i hold it? >> you'll notice there is a weight to it. >> reporter: but to truly understand the size, you need to be next to it. on friday it will all get revealed at the royal saskatchewan museum. jamie yuccas, cbs news, regina, canada. >> and that's the "overnight news" for this wednesday. check back for us for "the morning news" and "cbs this morning." from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm john dickerson.
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this is the "cbs overnight news." welcome to the "overnight news." i'm meg oliver. the state department has ordered all nonemergency personnel out of the u.s. embassy in baghdad. the white house says it has intelligence that iran or its agents are planning attacks against american interests in the middle east. our allies are skeptical saying they haven't received that intelligence. but the pentagon has sent b-52 bombers and an aircraft battle group to the region. david martin has the latest. >> reporter: reacting to intelligence reports, iranian-backed militias in iraq are moving rockets within range of u.s. outposts. the state department ordered nonessential personal at the u.s. embassy in baghdad to
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leave. the order also applies to diplomats at the u.s. consulate in erbil. this threat is real, a senior state department official told reporters, although just the day before a british general with u.s.-led military coalition in baghdad said it's no worse than it's ever been. >> there's been no increased threat from iranian-backed forces in iraq and syria. >> reporter: and left democrats on the senate foreign relations committee demanding to see the intelligence. which so far has been closely held. >> i've never seen an administration that is less forthcoming about such critical information than the trump administration. it's pretty outrageous. >> reporter: but republican mitt romney said he has been briefed on the intelligence. >> iran may be considering some kind mevolen aity relevant to our interests and our people in the region. >> reporter: u.s. officials say they have pictures of iranian boats carrying short-range ballistic missiles, normally
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based on land, operating in and out of the port of chabahar as if they were being readied for deployment. and the pictures of damage done to four tankers anchored just outside the persian gulf. according to u.s. officials, they say they show why they believe iran's revolutionary guards are responsible for those attacks. the revolutionary guards have a new commander and he is quoted today as saying "we are on the cusp of a full-scale confrontation with the enemy". alabama's republican governor kay ivey signed a new anti-abortion bill passed by the state legislature. it makes performing an abortion at any stage during pregnancy a felony. jericka duncan has the story.>> difficult -- >> reporter: alabama's republican governor kay ivey tweeted out this photo of her signing the controversial abortion bill that does not include exceptions for rape or he ll aew hours rlier. >> all human life is precious.hm
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to support people who aren't ready to be mothers or aren't financially stable to take care of a child? >> you simply cannot defer protecting lives of unborn children because of cost. >> house bill 314 passes. >> reporter: supporters voted in favor of the bill hoping it will eventually reach the supreme court and help overturn roe v. wade. cbs news legal analyst rikki klieman. >> when you have some 20-odd cases on their way to the supreme court, the chances are solid that one or more will be before the high court within a short period of time, meaning within about a year. eporr: tbama b has rited t debate overtion ny posersonal stories today using #youknowme. >> my humble view -- >> reporter: conservative televangelist pat robertson called the proposed law extreme. >> i think this one will lose.
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>> reporter: aclu of alabama executive director randall marshall says he's already won a fight against the state on abortion restrictions in 2016. >> we are preparing a legal challenge even as we speak. >> on what grounds? >> it violates the constitution. it interferes and is an unreasonable restriction on a woman's right to determine what she should do with her own body. >> reporter: in a statement released this evening the governor said that this legislation stands as a powerful testament to the state's deeply held belief that every life is precious. now that that bill has been signed, the aclu says that it is prepared to fight this in federal court. the latest chapter in the ongoing church sex scandal is andicesthcatholic morning in hs kkba has been of ab following the story and has the latest. >> reporter: with the help of the fbi dallas police fanned
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across the city today, seizing documents and evidence from the secret archives ofros. regations child sex abuse against a local protest, edmundo paredes, became public last year, the dallas police department expanded their investigation and several more victims came forward. >> detectives are investigating at least five additional allegations of child abuse against other suspects. >> reporter: bishop edward burns said today that the diocese continues to cooperate with authorities. >> if today's event is what gives them the opportunity to look for themselves then so be it. >> reporter: but today's search warrant suggests that the church hasn't been entirely forthcoming. this affidavit obtained by cbs news says that it was only after police questioned the diocese about missing files from a 2004 abuse case that the diocese's attorneys provided an additional 51 pages that were initially left out three weeks later.
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moca baesexas survivor. >> i applaud law enforcement for finally taking some action. and it needs to happen everywhere, even here. >> the acting head of the faa was summoned to capitol hill to answer questions about the boeing 737 max. the plane is now grounded worldwide after two of them crashed within five months. nancy cordes has more. >> the faa has a credibility problem. >> reporter: federal aviation officials defended their agency today against accusations that they allowed boeing to rush the 737 max into production. >> what were the steps the faa took in reviewing the mcas system and the accompanying training? >> i can assure you that the mcas system was examined and certified. >> reporter: investigators believe that ewmcas anti-stall system was connected to two crashes, one in indonesia last october and another in ethiopia in march. killing we are absolutely
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convincehe safety return to service than we'll do it. >> reporter: 24-year-old samia stuma was killed in ethiopia. her parents were there today. >> how could you possibly finish the required analysis by august? >> you don't think this plane should be back in the air any time soon? >> no, because we don't have the information about it. >> reporter: cbs news obtained audio of american airlines pilotings complaining to a boeing official earlier last year that even they weren't informed of the jet's new systems. >> somebody at the corporate level made the decision it wasn't important for our pilots to know. people who fly the airplanes for us. >>repo that a bird strike sparked the chain of events that brought down the ethiopian event, but ethiopian investigators said they found no evidence that age by a foreign
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gwa is going back to the future, 18 years after the airline went out of business, its iconic flight center at kennedy airport is back in business as a world-class hotel. kris van cleave reports. >> reporter: the transworld airlines flight center at jfk airport has been called a cathedral to aviation. the grand central station of the jet age. >> it has a sense of grandeur. it's inspiring, a building like that. it looks like a bird taking flight. when you're inside of it, then you're part of this theatricality of how people move through space. we don't have other buildings like that. >> reporter: when it opened in 1962, the flight center was more than a terminal, it was its own destination. >> everywhere the look, the
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soaring spirit of flight itself. so many new conveniences, luxurious lounges, shops and restaurants. >> reporter: designed by famed architect, the man behind the st. louis arch. >> he made buildings do something they've never done before. >> reporter: luis hartman is an architectural historian at new york university. >> how was it received in the '60s when it opened? >> popular reception. through the roof. people loved it. they thought it was incredible. >> reporter: while the building's fame grew through pop culture, here is leonardo dicaprio strolling through in "catch me if you can," twa's fortunes floundered. the flight center was shuddered in 2001. it sat closed but not forgotten. >> the bulldozer pulled up to the building, was ready to knock it down because it was in the path of progress. luckily the preservationists protected the building.
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>> reporter: developer tyler morse stepped up in 2013 with a plan to reimagine the aging terminal as the new twa hotel. >> what was the condition of the building when you took it over? >> filled with asbestos, it was filled with lead paint. see all these beautiful windows here? we had to replace every single pane of glass. >> reporter: for morse this is a passion project where no detail is too small. >> this is the original tile. if you look closely there, there are actually three sizes of tile and you need that in order to make all these curves. >> reporter: as it turns out there are no right angles in the entire building, but morse wanted everything done right, g sunken lounge, to the iconic departure boards. >> this is when everybody was looking what time their plane took off, what time their loved
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ones were landing. all the focus was on this board so we wanted to be historically authentic here. >> reporter: which meant going to italy, outside venice where the original board was made 50 years ago. the flip board and the distinctive sound has been a staple of train stations and airports worldwide. the sign's 37,000 flaps are created by hand. another throwback that will have people looking up -- >> so this will be your bar? >> this is our bar. welcome to connie. >> reporter: is this lockheed consolation. finding new life as a cocktail lounge. >> come in here, have a drink, fly the plane a little bit. >> why do you have a beverage cart? >> why do you not? >> aviation superphantomy fletcher was just 4 when the flight center closed but nearly 18 years later he was one of the
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first to book a room. >> when you think of twa, you just think it's luxurious and fancy and fun. to be able to experience that at an airport is exciting. it's awesome. >> reporter: it will cost him around $300 a night, complete with furniture designed by seranin and multipaned glass to keep out the noise. >> when you walk in there the first time, what do you think is going to be going through your head? >> i guess just happiness. when you walk into disney, the happiness and excitement, i feel like that because it's my disney in a way. >> reporter: opening day hasn't come cheap. the project's p t clo to $300 million. >> this is the place people want to be. jfk is is the sexiest airport in the world. >> said no one ever. you really think they're going to come all the way out here to have a drink at the airplane bar
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july 20th will mark the 50th anniversary of an historic event, the if first moon landing. the anniversary will be marked with celebrations from cape ka nevada real in florida to flagstaff, arizona. it was a small town in 1969 but played a big role in the moon musician. michelle martin has the story. >> okay, houston, i'm on the porch. >> reporter: mission control may have never witnessed this. >> okay, neil, we can see you coming down ladder now. >> or this. for not for the vision of men like eugene schumaker. >> whitehouse gene schumaker, the moon landing as we know it wouldn't have existed. >> reporter: a pretty big claim. but that's the way geologists remember it. in fact, they say their boss, a top gun at the u.s. geological survey, made a lot of stuff happen on that historic mission. >> originally they didn't want
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him to pick up any. >> didn't want any television. >> nothing. >> are you kidding me? >> not kidding. we worked the very hard here to use television in our field exercises and show them how valuable it was. can you imagine no television, the famous steps down the -- >> as bad as they were. >> as bad as they were, that is absolutely iconic. >> ready for me to come up? >> reporter: as the story goes, schumaker had a lot of convincing to do. >> he had to convince nasa because originally it was just a rah-rah plant the flag there. >> it seems so elementary to us. >> they didn't want to take a rock hammer, anything to hurt their suit and poke a hole in their suit. they didn't even want us to photograph the rocks. >> gene would talk to people there about the fact that there is no point in going to the moon unless you're going to do some science. >> reporter: carolyn schumaker, gene's widow, knows a thing or two about heavenly bodies.
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>> those are probably os that curve -- >> reporter: she kept discover one. a comet that broke apart bears her name. >> what was the sales pitch that got them? >> the idea that men could do a lot on the moon if they were given the chance. >> reporter: schumaker found that chance in an arizona town called flagstaff. nestled between phoenix and the grand canyon. the town is in full celebration of the moon landing's golden anniversary. >> yeah, this the homage to all of our work associated with getting people to the moon. >> reporter: jeff hall is caretaker of the observatory which has artifacts from the apollo mission on display. >> this is the guest book? >> you can see neil armstrong right there. flagstaff provided the astronauts a near perfect venue to see what they were going to run into on the moon.
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>> now we're coming up to the old clark telescope dome. >> reporter: one of the oldest in the nation helped geologists map the moon for the apollo 11 landing. >> you only get one shot when you're up there on the moon and you better get it right, and this was the perfect place to do it. >> reporter: but neil armstrong, buzzal derren and michael collins weren't geologists. it was up to these two to train them. >> initially they were not that enthusiastic about being geology, they were jet jockeys. >> i think the term is fly jocks. >> well, you can select whatever term you want. in any case, they were not particularly interested, but once they got into it, they found it was a lot of fun. >> reporter: other words they got a crash course in geology. they trained at a nearby cinder field and studied rock formations. nearly 4,000 feet in diameter and more than 500 feet deep. it's believed to have been
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created by an impact approximately 50,000 years ago. >> eugene schumaker used this as his laboratory to show the astronauts how to identify the different rocks once they got to the moon. >> reporter: meteor crater tour guide jeff beale says they didn't have much time to learn. >> they were here for about two days. >> two days? that's a hell of a crash course. >> reporter: but the trainees also brought common sense. >> buzz aldrin walked past this limestone and ripped his space suit open so they designed they had to redesign their space suits to make them much tougher. >> go, no-go for descent. >> reporter: with that knowledge in hand they were off, but there was for guarantee they'd have a chance to use it. >> rocket 1201 alarmed. >> i was watching the guys in the mission control saying you've got to pick a landing site really soon. we're running low on fuel. >> kicking up some dust. >> and very calm neil armstrong
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just kept flying until he found a safe place. they said you have 30 seconds, 20 seconds of fuel. he got down to 6 or 8 seconds before he landed the lem. >> it was that close. >> reporter: all of it was captured on tv. >> boy. >> reporter: while walter cronkite anchored cbs' coverage from new york, his colleague, george herman, broadcasted live from the usgs in flagstaff, but jerry schauber was doing his own thing from mission control in houston. >> i was watching their heart beats because i had nothing to do until they landed. or crash. neil's was going just barely over an average rate. aldrin's was going like this. >> the eagle has landed. >> the eagle has landed. everybody was crying. >> crying? >> crying. >> i wasn't sure what dimension i was in. >> one giant leap for mankind. >> reporter: all that science,
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all that know-how continues to inform those here in flagstaff where the mission continues. these cinders simulate the moon's surface. >> reporter: with a renewed pledge for space exploration, the usgs is once again training astronauts. lauren edgar has already started the countdown. >> so they'll be training in the same places and spaces that the apollo 11 team did? >> absolutely. so i think it will be pretty inspirational them to literally be walking in the footsteps of the explores that went before them and hoping some day to go back out there and make their own boot steps. >> reporter: and that brings us back to gene schumaker. >> he really wanted to be the first man on the moon. >> really? >> yes. >> reporter: a medical condition denied schumaker from any shot of getting to space, but after he died in a car crash in 1999, a lunar probe carried his ashes there. >> your husband is the
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it's been just over a year now since hawaii's kilauea volcano erupted. it spewed lava for months, destroying about 700 homes and changing the landscape of the big island forever. carter evans went back to see what's left. >> reporter: when red-hot lava first exploded from the ki way yeah volcano last may, it ripped open parts of leilani estates. large la if-filled cracks called fissures tore apart streets and blasted out molten rock. as the summer wore on, fissure number eight produced a spectacular show and we were there to witness the lava fountain. this is the most active fissure right now. we've been watching this one go for days. at times it's been blasting lava up to 250 feet in the air. and this is what it looks like now, a massive cinder cone
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surrounded by miles of black. scientists say the volcano produced more than 1 billion cubic yards of lava. that's enough to fill up more than 320,000 olympic-size swimming pools. >> it's the wow. doesn't matter how many times you've seen it. >> reporter: this eruption was in heath dalton's backyard. his home burned down and the massive fissure now cooled down is all that's on his property. >> do you think you'll ever move back into leilani? >> our property no, that's an impossibil om were destroynsizecar on i to ocean. when it was all over, there were nearly 900 cakers of new land. with all the destruction here there is some beauty. this used to be a small bay and now it's a brand-new black sand beach. >> what we have left is a massive new crater. so it went from about 1/2 mile
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wide to 1 1/2 miles wide. from 280 feet deep to 1,600 feet deep. >> reporter: during the eruption more than 60,000 earthquakes rock the island and the volcano spewed deadly sulfur dioxide into the air. geologists like janet are waiting to see what's next. >> you think we'll see lava again. >> yes. without a date. >> reporter: carter evans, cbs news, hawaii. and that's the "overnight news" for this thursday. 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 meg oliver.
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