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>> reporter: after surgery, chemotherapy and radiation, she completely changed her diet. new data shows that impact iserally. women who fall eoed a balanced, low-fat diet had a 21% lower call for impeachment. rusk of death from breast cancer a michigan congresswoman becomes and a 15% lower risk of can death from any causepad to the first republican to say president trump needs to go. women not on a low-fat diet. but not everyone agrees. >> the american people just aren't there. >> we have information that is hard cor. millions targeted by a new round of violent weather after >> you have to decrease your dozens of tornadoses shred the southern plains. a controversial new fatty intake if you want to immigration plan takes flight. positively effect your survival from this disease. why the border patrol is flying migrants from texas to california. think of it as a prescription. caught on tape. a mother screams in terror after >> reporter: the study followed post men pausal women who dud a stranger grabser 8-year-old not have cancer.s. daughter and drives away. and firefighting pioneers.
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two women break down barriers to the control group continued rise through their male dominated ranks. their normal diet with fat >> my are venge was success. accounting for about 1/3 of total calories. ♪ >> these aren't hard things to do. i think the difficulty comes in welcome to the "overnight what the availability is off the news." people in the house or home. i'm elain quijano. >> you can't change genetics or michigan congressman is calling the tumor you were diagnosed with. for congress to move against but you can only control certain president trump, accusing him of things. obstructing justice. >> reporter: the study pjoining a chorus of democrats suggestests dietary changes don't have to be drastic to have wanting the same. as for president trump, he a lasting impact. noticed and fired back. >> reporter: the cbs overnight >> reporter: in more than a news will be right back. dozen tweets congressman justen amosh made his case that the mueller report has engaged in imepeachable conduct and satisfying all the elements of obstruction of justice. attorneygeneral willium barr >> the evidence is not sfu
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sufficient to establish that president committed a justice of offense. >> reporter:ays h deliberately misrepresented his report. getting his name out through controversy. he twoeeted, defending himself. no collusion and ultimately no d obstruction. >> this is exactly what you would expect. he nvr supported the president and i think he's just looking for atngz. >> reporter: for the most part republicans have unified around the president. >> the special counsel's finding is clear. case closed. >> and democratic leaders arguing there's no chance it would pass the gop-contreledsont. >> reporter: but on face the nation representative adam schiff said the process may be a tool to find answers. >> if the enoly way that we can do our oversight is
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achment proceeding, then maybe we have to go down that road. >> reporter: democratic leaders have said they believe congress can work together can despite this tension over the mueller report. on wednesday they're planning to meet with president trump for part two of their talks about a sweeping $2 trillion infrastructure bill. >> thank you. now to the dangerous new storm system threatening millions of americans. more than a dozen confirmed tornados shredding everything in their path. so far no one has died. but meteorologist is here with detalls. jeff. >> this is looking like probably the most dangerous day of the year so far with strong tornados and maybe long-lasting tornados as well. where you see the red bull's-eye, that's the best bet. on a skaul of 1 to 5, it is a 4. so that is high.
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60% of women wear the wrong size pad, a more immediate threat. and can experience leaks. lightening and a possibility of you don't have to with always my fit hail in some of these cells. try the next size up and get up to 20% better coverage - day or night by far the bigger threat in a line from kansas down to because better coverage lubbock. means better protection always. they get energized by the heating of the day. they'll become super sl rr toward thes, maybe a drop some large tornados. woodward up to around wichita. the reason this is a significant system is we have upper level low right here with cold air loft. it only took a few seconds at the surface, warmth, humidity to bring 16,000 tons of bethlehem steel to the ground. coming out of the gulf of mx co, the 21-story building in converging across texas and pennsylvania was the comp an's head quarters. oklahoma. southeast wind at the surface once a symbol of its power and spinning the atmos fear. prophetability. on top of that a lot of hvy but bethlehem steel disappeared rain. in 2003. explosives did the rest today. some place as lukely to see three to five inches of rain billionaire robert smith is with swollen rivers and paying it forward in a big way. the tech investor and saturated ground, flooding is possible. philanthropist surprised grad they've begun moving the whatting seniors by telling them
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his family would wipe out all growing number of migrants but their student debt. that's an estimated $40 million they're being flown to a new state. >> reporter: hundreds of migrants were air lufted from for 40 students. south texas to san diego this weekend. >> and my family is making a another journey formany ewho grant to eliminate their student loans. first crossed by foot. their arrival not welcomed by some. >> morehouse college says the department of homeland smith's gift is the largest it's ever resooved. security says flights like these will take place three times a oprah winfrey made a week, with each plane carrying surprise visit. around 330 people. she was there to donate $21,000. once on the ground they're fingerprinted and processed. they'll then decide whether to release them. it helps keep kids off dangerous this to handle the surge in city streets by keeping their central american families crossing the border for asylum. class open after class and through the summer. the highest in april suns 2007. >> you can't over estimate the power of love and that's what the trump administration everyone has been showing this specifically chose sanctuary kids and this community that cities in what appear to be retaliation. they love them. >> thank you very much. >> when we return how two women
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i'm prud to tell you that was my sick idea. are inspiring a new gen ragsz of >> reporter: century cities have firefighters. uh-oh, looks like someone's refused to arrest undocumented citizens in protest to whathey call the but stinging criticism came from florida's republican governor after learning his state will be receiving migrants. >> we cannot accommodate unflorida dumping the unlawful migrants into our state. still nervous about buying a new house. i think it will tax our is it that obvious? resources, the schools, the health care. yes it is. you know, maybe you'd worry less if you got geico to help with >> reporter: governor santos your homeowners insurance. later spoke to president trump on the phone and later actingsic i didn't know geico could helps with homeowners insurance. are etar of homeland security yep, they've been doing it for years. said florida was no longer on the table. what are you doing? >> to be clear is florida still big steve? being can considered? >> no. we're using the southwest border thanks, man. there he is. get to know geico and see how much you could save on homeowners and renters insurance. for additional capacity. mola langy has the story. >> reporter: this surveillance video from a home in the forest
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hills suburb of fort worth shows the moments 8-year-old salem out for a walk with her mother was snatched up by someone in a passing car. her mom tried ds prtly to hold on, jumping in the car after her daughter. but she was pushed out as the car drove off solemn. leaving the mom on a ground in a panic without her daughter. they posted pictures on social media of salem and the car the suspect was driving, asking for the public's help. they received a tip for two local church members which led authorities to a nearby hotel milk, fresh cream and only sustainably farmed vanilla. where around 3:30 a.m. they found the vehicle and bust under it's made with fresh cream, to a hotel room where they found sugar and milk. breyers the good vanilla. 50-year-old michael web and we proudly partner with american farmers 8-year-old salem. for grade a milk and cream. >> we're here with badges and mmm! guns and everybody calls us hero os and we have viewers on our social media account, viewers on when they joined the ranks
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your media stations and they assisted us 100 pr. in washington d.c.'s fire department more than three decades ago there were just thrive women. but now they're the ones in charge. here's jan crawford. >> reporter: every year firefighters in the nation's capitol protect some 700,000 residents and more than 20 million visitors from around the world. >> when we show up it's your worst day and it's our responsibility to help you out on your worst day. >> reporter: italian fire chiefs say the job is tough on anyone. >> you have to have the spirit of giving. you can't have never run, never competed in sports. this is what you will call a professional. athlete. >> you've got to be physically strong and mentally strong. >> you're going to see things that's going to last in your memory eforever. it's how you deal with that.
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shuned or ice lotted. rship. and 43 said theyxperience verbal harassment. >> i had some rough times where i was accused of sleeping around with all the firefighters in one house. >> reporter: that must have been . >> announcer: this is the cbs extremely hurtful. overnight news. president trump issued a >> reporter: it motivated me to tough new warning to iran do more and for me, my revenge suggesting that if teheran wants was success. to fight t it will be in his >> reporter: you show women words the official end of iron. belong by doing your job well. >> reporter: i think if i'm here iranicize it is not seeking war and i'm not representing myself as a professional and changing even asthma lushaus are accuse the climate for women officers, then i haven't done my job. of firing a rocket at baghdad. i'm here to make things better. >> reporter: the u.s. militaryl >> reporter: to be only the third chief, she leaned on her the aircraft carrier u.s.s. mentor, d.c.'s first female abraham lincoln and an assault firefighters, rutter. ship conducting joint exercises, >> seeing position, even in 1991, when there weren't many ready to respond to quote women, it was inspiring. credible threats.ti is doubling
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and i said i'm going to be a sh on claims that iran and militias well, you bter know your stuff. are planning attacks against >> reporter: she now over soos american forces in the region. 50 firefighters at six firehouses and passing on that both president trump and iran same encouragement to the next generation. supreme leader say they're not >> she's a really tough chief. seeking war. but some people are concerned she cuts me no slack. >> reporter: she still fears their country could be drawn somehow the firehouse is no into a confluct. places for a woman. this shop keeper says they've >> you have to prove them wrong, had enough problems from the war give them a reason to be like we against isis and other wars against that. need more women like you. i think we do a better job than that would shatter the relative the men anyway. >> reporter: nay sayers? stab >> absolutely. stablt they've had. that will never go away. they continue to help the iraqi they're giving us thismabe cliwe inower. militant help the state. if it that's your opinion, they've warned not to provoke a that's your opinion. military confrontation but the i kn trump administration is concerned theyancer to iran. >> dr. stanley: remember this: the u.s. with drew its cannot change the laws of god.
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nonessential staff from its embassy in baghdad. when he has visited you in some they claim it's high ly likely form of adversity and he brings you through that, that's like he they were bebehind oil tankers has increased the strength of and they warn commercial airlines of the potential for the foundation of your life and your faith in him. miscalculation or misidentification by iranian military forces. [music] health today. it's too early to tell the exact type of rocket that was fired towards the u.s. embassy not far from here in baghdad. but a u.s. government official tells cbs news this category of weapon is routinely supplied by its proxies in iraq. this crisis is heating up. a new cancer study made headlines this weak. researchers found a low fat diet helps reduce the risk ofduing from breast cancer. the findings of their large, long-term study could have life changing results. >> reporter: a pediatric
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a large group of great white sharks is gathering off the coast of the carolinas and scientists are there to greet them. the story from writes vill beach, south carolina. >> reporter: researchers tell me the sharks are auch the kos as close as two mules. their numbers along the atlantic coast are on the rise. these are the sharks that have been spending the past week off the coastline of the carolinas. and they even have noms. cabt, cal, jane, jfrson brunswick, and last but not least, luna a, a 15 footer who weighs in at morthan 2,000 pounds. >> a 15-foot long white shark is prt a close to a full grown. as large as they would ever find. >> reporter: almost as longer as a small car? >> you would have a long ways
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beto go before you get from tail to nose. >> reporter: there's a reason luna and her friends are so well known. they're being tracked by a senior scientists for the ocean research organization, o-search. cbs this morning was there when they taggeds their first great white in the north atlantic in 2012. >> we have tagged about 43 sharks and six of the largest oneses are off of the carolinas. not right up close to the beach. so no worries for the swimmers. >> reporter: they've been studying the shark's migration patterns around the world. moving south to the warmer waters of florida between october and d.. december and now mock her way back up north for the summer. >> they've bun coming here for millennia. as long as the east coast of the united states has existed, these sharks are been in the water. >> reporter: there's something else that could be encouraging
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the sharks to stick around. >> one of the unique aspects is we have thousands of shipwrecks. >> reporter: they provide art filgsz wreaths that thousands of fish now call home. >> reporter: this whole food chain that exists on all these wrecks. i believe we're seeing more sharks come back because of the protications in place. it's a conservation success story. >> reporter: a success story indeed. the next part of of this story is as far north as new finland, shark attacks are rare but they're attracted to shiny jewelry, colorful swim suits and the risks are greater at night than during the day. >> reporter: for some of you the news continues. for others check back a little later for the morning news and cbs this morning. i'm elaine quijano.
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♪ >> announcer: this is the cbs overnight news. good evening, i'm elaine can quijano. it's a first for republicans. michigan congressman justin amash is calling for congress to move against trump. he wants him impeached, joining a chorus of democrats wanting the psalm. as for mr. trump, he noticed and is firing back. >> reporter: congressman justin amash made his case that the mueller report shows president trump has engaged in impeachable conduct and includes multiple examples of conduct satisfying all the elements of obstruction of justice. >> the evidence developed by the special counsel is not sufficient to establish that the president committed a obstruction of justice offense.
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>> reporter: he has deliberately misrepresented the report. he accused him of having an ulterior motive, getting his name out through controversy. he tweeted, defending himself, no collusion and ultimately no obstruction. adding he's a loser sadly plays into our oponent's hands. >> he never supported the president and i think he's looking for attention. >> reporter: for the most part republicans have unified around the president. >> and the special counsel's finding is clear. case closed. >> reporter: and democratic leaders are hesitant, arguinging there's no way it would pass the gop-controlled senate. but representative adam schiff said the process may be a tool to find answers. >> if the only way that we ecan do our oversight is through an impeachment proceeding, then maybe we have to go down that road.
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>> reporter: democratic leaders have said thaw believe congress can work together despite this tension over the mueller report. on wednesday they're planning to meet with president trump here at the white house for part two of their talks about a sweeping $2 trillion infrastructure bill. >> thank you. now to the dangerous new storm system threatening millions of americans. more than a dozen confirmed tornados have touched down. shredding everything in their path. what flairs up tomorrow could be worse. here with details. >> this is looking like probably the most dangerous day of the year so far with strong tornados and maybe long-lasting tornados as well where you see the it red bull's-eye, that's the best bet. on a scale of one to five, it is a four. so that is high. first a more immediate threat across the great lakes and northeast. quick moving showers and down pours.
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lightening and the possibility of it lightening in these cells. showers and thunderstorms develop. they get energized by the heating of the day. become super cell thunderstorms, mob a drop large tornados. woodward up to wichita. the reason this is a significant system is we have upper level low ewith cold air aloft. at the surface warmth, humidity coming out of the gulf of mexico, coming together and converging across texas and oklahoma. a southeast wind that surface spinning the atmosphere. and a lot of heavy rain straight into tuesday. some places are like lato sigh three to five inches of rain. flooding is possible. >> people need be on alert. the u.s. border patrol has begun moving the growing number of migrants.
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but they're being flown to a new state. >> reporter: hundreds off migrants were air lifts to san diego this weekend. another journey for many who first crossed to it the u.s. by foot. their arrival not welcomed by some. the department of homeland security says flights like these will take place three time as week with each plane carrying around 330 people. once on the ground the detainees are fuingerprinted and processe. the air lifts are the latest attempt to handle the surge in families crossing the border for asylum. more than 100,000 were detained in april, the hewest since 2007. the trump administration specifically chose sanctuary cities in what appear to be retaliation. >> i'm proud to tell you that was my sick idea.
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>> reporter: century cities have refused to arrest in protest to what they call the president's harsh immigration reform. but some of the most stinging criticism came from allies like florida's republican governor after learning his state would with be receiving migrants. >> we cannot accommodate in florida dumping the unlawful migrants into our state. i think it will tax our resources, the schools, the health care. >> reporter: governor later speak to president trump on the phone and today on "face the nation." florida was no longer on the table. >> to be clear is florida still being considered? >> no. war rr using the southwest border cities. >> we're told these air lifts will continue on indefinitely. >> jonathan, thanks. president trump issued a tough new warning to iran suggesting
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that if teheran wants to fight, it will be in his words the official end of iran. iran says it is not seeking war, even as teheran backed militias are accused of firing a rocket at the u.s. embassy in baghdad today. >> reporter: the u.s. military released these images today, showing the aircraft carrier, u.s.s. abrahamin and an amphibious assault ship ready to respond to quote credible threats. it's just another sign that trump administration is doubling down on its claim that aran and militias tied to it are planning attacks on forces in the region. both president trump and iran supreme leader say they're not seeking war. but in iraq some people are concerned their country could be drawn into another conflict.
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this shop keeper says iraq has had enough problems. from the war against isis anducter wars gensz that. that would shatter the relative stability that cities like baghdad have enjoyed since a year and a half ago. iraqi officials say they've warned the armed groups not to promote a military confrontation with the u.s. adding to the tension u.s. nonef from its embassy in baghdad. they claim it's highly likely iranian forces were behind attacks on four oil tankers. a charge aran denies and they warn commercial airlines flying over the persian gulf of the potential for miscalculation or misidentification by iranian military forces.
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if you missed it, hea heavyweight wilder funnished in a wilder fashion. he's a monster in the ring but he's like a puppy dog around his kids. >> his right hand is thor's hammer and -- >> reporter: heavyweight champion has proclaimed himself the baddest man on the planet. an apt it description earned one knockout at a time. >> down. >> reporter: what's it like when you land a knockout punch? >> to feel that power, you know. the velocity that's coming from
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my fist to hit his face, that right there and to see it the reaction that happens. the hardest hit a punching in boxing period. >> reporter: and while he prides himself on that representation with his bronze bomber nickname, respond a little time with the 6'7" power house and you'll see boxing is just one part of woulder the title he seems to relish most is dad. >> outside of boxing i'm a home body a true homebody. and i love being around my family and kids. i tell them i love them about six or seven times. >> give me a kiss. oh. >> reporter: the dicaughtomy that is deontay, a mix of peace and ruthless power which he says has been within him all along. >> reporter: my mom would saw he's a tazmanian devil, but i was quiet. i was to myself. >> reporter: the second oldest
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of four kids raised in alabama, the place he still calls home, wilder dreamt of playing basketball or football for the alabama crimson tide. and one thing he was rich in, family. and with that, came faith. >> we had a lot of love. my entire family is basised off love. i'm a pastor's child. >> reporter: and grandchild. wilder's father is is and still is a preacher in tuscaloosa. any memories? >> most definitely. sitting in the pull pit. >> reporter: your son is the heavyweight champ. you work in a house of god. >> absolutely. >> reporter: people dont see those two things connecting. what do you think? >> there's a spiritual
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connection and things that are spiritual are going to be unseen. >> reporter: he didn't believe in not defending yourself. we had god but we had the other sade as well. >> reporter: faith and strength can which wilder relied upon when at age 19 he found out he was going to be a father for the first tame. >> i must admit it was very scary. the bowl game is different when your child is not healthy. >> reporter: that child would be born with spina bifida, meaning her spine wouldn't be developed proper la. >> sometimes god tests us. that's what i look at it as, a test for me. >> duddia ever thunk at any point of just walking away? >> never. wen you said that, that stabbed my heart. i could never imagine my daughter not being here. that's my world. that's the foundation and the
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start to it all. >> reporter: wilder's daughter is fran now. she's thrived despite doctor's fears, but before she was born, would heir no waw of knowing how much hp she would need, just that he ewould be the one to provide it. in deciding to take kaur of your child, how did boxing come up? >> i was looking at the money aspect of it. i was ignorant to the sport. i thought every fighter that stepped in the ring mod lot of money. >> reporter: what was it like the first time? >> no lie, when i first walked into the gym i heard the it songs the hallelujah, hallelujah. because i've never seen this. i ain't never seen no boxing goor. >> reporter: the first time he got between the ropes, he admits he was like bamby, trueing to
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get his footing and teach his body. he was driven by promise by then 1-year-old nieau. >> i remember sawing this is okay. don't worry who's going to be heavyweight champion of the world some day. she's looking at me not knowing the things that i'm talking about. >> reporter: since putting on his first pair of boxing gloves t would take him about a decade to get a shot at the heavyweight title. but he never forgot that promise. >> the new wec hevavyweight champion of the world. >> reporter: deontay wilder was crowned heavyweight world champion. >> i promised you when you were one years old i would be champion and we've been through a lot and daddy come home with that belt.
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>> reporter: what was that like? >> it was an amazing moment. because i had so much wauging unon that. i dud it. that feeling of a setting a goal and going through so much. >> dad kept his promise. >> reporter: at age 29 he became the first american heavyweight champ unnein nearly ten years. and now the big pay days he promised his daughter are now a reality. this is your way to a better life but not who you are as a person? >> right on the head. i'm a nice guy that can whoop some as. okay.
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ky natural feeling s noo do shiabt ithe bedroom the lubrication you want nothing you don't get what you want averages growing number of italian americans are going back to their roots literally. turns out if you can fruv, you can be granted dual citizenship. with that, italy puts out the welcome mat. ♪ >> reporter: for all the obvious reasons people who come to italy often find it a difficult place to leave. now some are finding they don't have to go home. they already are home. from oregon. granddaughters of an italian
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immigrant. sandy and phil furetie from long island via florida who run the b and, b in tusk an. tuskany. phil is the great grandson. they've all discovered a connection to italy that's deeper than they thought. they may actually be italian because of what's known as the law of blood. >> a lot of people love italy. there's lots of reason to. not everyone wants to become an italian? >> life's too short not to become italian. come on. i think that was on a t-shirt. everybody has roots. i guess i'm coming back. >> reporter: perhaps it was written oen a it t-shirt but more importantly it's written in old italian laws. phil has found that unlike u.s.
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citizenship, which is based on where you were born, in italy it's bas on your their genes from phil's od in immigrant ancestor to him. so they've sold up an america andsettaled down here. >> we love the culture, the food. >> reporter: your great grandfather. >> reporter: in setting up business here, phil's lawyer informed them he was probably a lucky winner in the great italian citizenship lottery. >> when he moved to a foreign country, he kept passing atallian blood to the children and so on. >> reporter: so whether they know it there are potentially millions of americans who, because of the blood that flows
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in their veins, they're still italians? >>ious. wh determens the transfer is the blood. >> reporter: america at the it turn of the century. >> reporter: more than 4 million italia italian immigrated in the u.s. today more than 70 million claim anicist ra. the law of blood meansmany eare still technically italian as well. >> they say we feel connected, we love the culture, language. >> cannia you do it on your ow? >> absolutely. >> reporter: which is why these sisters have come to find their family's records in a small town in italy. their grandfather left for the u.s. around 1900, changing the famil family name to oliver. the old name still takes some getting used to.
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moo records office spends a lot of time digging up documents for people who left for america a century 1/2 ago. >> the dualch. >> what's the benefit? >> i have someplace to go if i want to. >> reporter: there seems to be an upit tick in demad lately. are there things happening at home now that make it more attractive to you? >> yes. our country's divided and it's nice to have a place that potentially we could go to some time. >> reporter: laura lee watson reclaimed her own citizenship and now runs a business guiding italian americans along their
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own heritage trails. often meeting long-lost distant cousins along the it way. citizenship not only connects them to italy and eu passport means they can live anywhere in europe. sowhat size is this now? >> i think brirlit's becoming a industry. if you look at san friancisco o los angeles, there's aten-year wait list to get an application. >> reporter: the wheel of history is turning, greased with irony. >> i guess that's full circle. your great grarndparent comes t america for a better life and then
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f if you're a fan of a dinosaurs, you may want to book a trup. it's on display. thaw call it scotty. apparently when the bones were found, the only thing they had to help them celebrate was scotch. >> reporter: scotty roamed the earth some 67 million years ago. this massive beast was does can covered here in the frenchman river valley in canada. at that time it was a flood plain with lush vegetation. wes helped reconstruct scotty after spending a decade digging the trects out of the soft sand ston. >> a piece of rock would fly off and there's a beautiful tooth there. >> reporter: tim was there too. he showed us some of scotty's actual
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>> y can put your finger dedown there.r:his is so sharp. i feel like if i hit it hard, i could almost cut myself. >> reporter: they're fossils of animals that if you touch them, you'll bleed. so this is just one backbone? can i hold it? >> there's a weight to it. >> reporter: scientists found they had about 65% of the skeleton in tact, including the skull, lower jaw, vertebrae from the neck, back and tail and parts of the neck, head and shoulder. and the paleontologist says the bones are veal much about scotty's life. >> reporter: rurltit's got evid of a broken jaw, got a section of its tail, possibly from the bite of another tiran sore. >> reporter: hollywood has long
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had a fascination with the carnivores. this rex was the size of a city bus, and lived for 30 years. the largest and oldest t-rex ever to be found. >> they're nature, the animal kingdom on the grandest skaul. >> reporter: when you have the biggest, baddest dinosau the planet, it's lukely dino mania will not be far behind. scot a, by the way, has other claims to fame. for instance, it luke lareached its 30th birthday, making it the longest loving t rex in history. >> for some of you the news continues, for others check back later for the mornings news and cbs this morning. from the broadcast center in new york ity, i'm elain quijano.
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captioning funded by cbs it's monday, may 20th, 2019. this is the "cbs morning news." >> like three to four hours of may hen. severe weather threatens tens of millions of people across the u.s., and the worst of the storm system is set to come. tensions flare in the middle east. president trump threatens iran if the country tries to attack. and good faith. how a pair of good samaritans
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