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>> garrett: and, the cbs news investigation: f.a.a. inspectors claim they're being pressured to overlook problems on planes. >> reporter: what's at stake here? >> people's lives. not one but two bay area >> garrett: good evening. i'm major garrett. dick's sporting goods stores and this is our western edition. robbed. >> the arrests caught on camera next. at least eight people have died in this week's outbreak of dangerous weather in the central >> garrett: how many eighth united states. graders know the difference police in oklahoma today between a col and a cliff? recovered the body of a 77-year- between a firth and a fjord? old man who drowned in his car on a flooded road. well, a youngster from austin, texas, sure does. a tornado killed three people he won the national geographic last night in missouri. geobee. another powerful tornado ripped as it turns out, this young man through that state's capital, is the king of bees. jefferson city. jan crawford tells us why. david begnaud shows us the >> nihar, what do you have? devastating power of these storms. >> the finnmark plateau. >> reporter: disaster hit the state of missouri under the cover of darkness. >> the correct answer is the gene harris and his wife, opal, (ieers and applause ) both in their 80e dead outside what is left of their home near golden city, >> reporter: until the last missouri. moment, nihar janga felt like three hours later and three the underdog, as the final round hours north of here, a tornado of the championships went into touched down in missouri's overtime. capitol of jefferson city. the two finalists tied for five rounds in a row.
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160-mile-per-hour winds tossed but jianga had felt this kind of vehicles like toys, ripped roofs pressure before. off homes and buildings, and scattered debris for hundreds of >> may i have the definition? yards. >> reporter: back in 2016, as a fifth grader, he was the co- >> my grandfather started a champion of the scripps national chevrolet business in 1936, and spelling bee, then the youngest we've never had a storm like to ever win. this before. >> reporter: wow. in the moment his focus and hard the destruction at riley chevrolet left its owner, kevin work paid off for a second time, riley, stunned. he was overwhelmed. >> i almost cried. >> all the pressure from studying is all over, so... >> reporter: if you had to >> reporter: after making the guess, what percentage of your top ten at last year's geography lot is ruined? bee, jianga's father wanted him >> it's going to be 90%, i bet. to retire and focus on school. >> reporter: there were only a so, now, can you say to your few minor injuries in jefferson city. dad, "i told you so"? >> ( laughs ) no one was killed here. >> yeah. so, it looks like it just came >> his mom already told me that. right through this area. >> reporter: now, jianga is >> yes. >> reporter: the mayor, carrie setting his sights even higher, tergin, told us tornado sirens hoping to compete as a high likely saved lives. schooler in the international >> we have the outdoor warning brain bee, a fitting challenge. sirens, and i heard them. in fact, i just laid down to go do you have any idea what you might want to be when you grow to bed last night, about 11:15, up? >> a neurosurgeon. >> rep it's aming e >> reporter: jianga won a e kis of wds. $25,000 college scholarship, ros, and that people were able geography providing a path for his future. jan crawford, cbs news, washington. walk away from that?
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>> garrett: and that's the "cbs evening news." ter: i ad i'm major garrett. week i'll see you tomorrow. . good night. anthere has been destructive at at&t we believe in access. the opportunity for everyone to explore a digital world. flooding. connecting with the things that matter most. in muscogee county, oklahoma, and because nothing keeps us more connected the arkansas river continues to than the internet. swell tonight. we've created access from at&t california households already, it's pushed two barges with at least one resident who receives snap or ssi benefits. carrying 4,000 pounds of fertilizer, causing them to may qualify for home internet crash into the webbers falls dam. at a discounted rate of $10 a month. the town has been evacuated, and no commitment, deposit, or installation fee. officials have told residents, visit att.com/accessnow, to learn more. if the dam fails, it could be catastrophic. so tonight we are in jefferson city, missouri, where they're facing another threat. the missouri river is at major flood stage. the mayor was telling us they've already evacuated the northern part of her city and closed the airport. major, we are at a boat launch. look at where the water is. almost level with the levee here. the mayor says that her concern is that the water overtops the levee within the next 24 hours. >> garrett: david begnaud with the details and the preparations. thanks so much.
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we must tell you the severe threat continues, the severe weather threat continues tonight in texas, oklahoma, missouri, and tomorrow from texas to wisconsin. over thee pected to keep churnig from the southern plains to the great lakes. the southeast is set to broil as temperatures soar to near-record highs. it will be cooler in the west, with more snow in the rockies and sierra. is it the same crew? we are learning more tonight >> it wouldn't surprise me if about a newly-identified migrant these folks were connected. child who died in u.s. custody. >> plus, what's behind bart's as we first reported last night, brand-new plan to guard its gates from fare cheaters. she was ten years old, traveling >> this is the first time alone from el salvador. they're being shown different options. >> it would set a very dangerous we now know her name: darlyn valle. she was trying to get to her mother in nebraska. precedent. >> why one east bay city refuses omar villafranca has more on her to fly the rainbow flag. tragic journey to america. >> i mean, just for one day. >> reporter: cbs news was the >> it's the fight between homeowners and the coastal first to confirm that ten-year- commission. yoise old darlyn valle died in september of 2018 while in without forcing them to move? >> what do you want to see custody of the office of refugee resettlement. happen? >> it is our home. cars in the salvadoran girl is the sixth migrant child to die after crossing the u.s. border that we know of.
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a south bay neighborhood. when the ten-year-old entered the united states, she was >> this is a way brought to this border patrol processing facility here in mcallen. behind these fences are the buses that brought her here. medical professionals determined that she had a serious heart condition, and she had surgery more than 200 miles away, in san antonio. she then fell into a coma. she was moved to arizona and thnebrka, whshe later died. >> i've never seen anything like this humanitarian and security crisis we have right now. >> reporter: in an interview with cbs news, we asked customs and border patrol deputy commissioner robert perez if any more migrant children had died in government custody. >> i'm very confident in the data that c.p.b. has reported, with respect to deaths in c.p.b. custody. >> reporter: ten-year-old valle's death was the second migrant child death reported this week. 16-year-old carlos hernandez died in wesleco monday. ting dsecretarkevin broke the story of a sixth migrant child death.
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>> does every child in c.p.b.gry a medical profesal more resources are needed. >> but unless congress addresses the pull factors-- namely, our vulnerable legal framework for immigration-- children will continue to be put at risk during a dangerous journey to our border. >> reporter: the white house is asking congress for $3.3 billion to boost shelter capacity at the border for unaccompanied minors. and there is a sense of urgency because d.h.s. officials say that resources could run out before the end of the year. major? >> garrett: omar villafranca, thank you. today, the president of the united states and the speaker of the house took their feud to a neeach other's fitness for office, one day after the president walked out of talks on infrastructure, saying no deal until democrats stop investigating him. >> i pray for the president of the united states. i wish that his family or his administration or his staff would have an intervention, for the good of the country.
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>> crazy nancy. i'll tell you what, i've been watching her, and i have-- i have been watching her for a long period of time. she's not the same person. she's lost it. >> garrett: the president denied throwing a temper tantrum at yesterday's meeting, insisting he was calm. mr. trump later met with pentagon officials who outlined possible plans for sending more american troops to the middle east to counter iran. the president said he doubts it will come to that. and today, a stark warning-- do not do it-- came from the middle east. baghdad. >> reporter: days after the u.s. sent warships towards the persian gulf in a show of force aimed at iran, president trump sent a mixed message about whether the u.s. should send more troops to the middle east. >> i don't think we'll need it, but if we need it, we'll have-- we'll be there in whatever number we need. >> reporter: u.s. officials say iran and iran-backed militias in iraq are planning to target americans. several of those iraqi militias switched from fighting american
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forces after the 2003 invasion, to fighting isis. many iraqis credit the militias with helping to defeat isis and with bringing peace to cities like baghdad. but if this conflict spirals out of control, some of those fighters could go back to their earlier strategy and turn their guns on american troops here in iraq. these streets would once again be a battle zone. some of those militias grew into political parties, like asa'eb al-haq. senior member laith al-azari says iran has not directed groups like his to attack americans, but they will use am insists on keeping its troops here. ( speaking foreign language ) he said, "the existence of any foreign troops in iraq is a violation of our sovereignty. and if you ask what i mean by 'force,' i would say, 'ask the american leaders. they know what we're capable of doing.'" if america sends more troops to this region to, as they say, counter iranian threats, the use
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of force is justified? "we taught americans a lesson in the past," he told us. "and if they want new lessons, we're ready for this." roxana saberi, cbs news, baghdad. >> garrett: the man known as "the american taliban" is free tonight. john walker lindh spent 17 years behind bars after being captured on the battlefield, fighting against u.s. forces in afghanistan after 9/11. here's jeff pegues. >> reporter: overnight, a man believed to be john walker lindh got into a car and left a federal prison in terre haute, indiana. 18 years ago, u.s. troops captured lindh fighting with the taliban in afghanistan. c.i.a. officer johnny "mike" spark interrogated lindh. soon after this video was recorded, spann was killed in a ann'htisonising. believes lindh remains a threat. >> we still feel that he is radicalized, and that releasing
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him into our public is a danger to everybody. >> reporter: president trump said there was nothing legally he could do. >> what bothers me more than anything else is that here's a man who has not given up his proclamation of terror, and we have to let him out. >> reporter: according to the group new america, since 9/11, 346 people have been charged and convicted in the u.s. of jihadist terrorism-related crimes. like lindh, 19 of them will be released this year and next. >> this is the start of a wave. >> reporter: counter-terrorismys is no strategy in place to help terrorism prisoners re-enter society. no system? >> no system adequate to address it. in many ways, we arrested our way out of it and then didn't think about the consequences at the end. and you see in the lindh case a scramble to try to figure this out. >> reporter: law enforcement is well aware of the potential threat. as senior f.b.i. counter-
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terrorism officials said, "we track them and the threat as they come out." but there are limits to what the f.b.i. can do to track former terrorism inmates. at some point, they will need a court approval, because that type of surveillance cannot continue indefinitely. major. >> garrett: jeff pegues, thanks so much. today, the acting head of the f.a.a. said he cannot give a timetable for the return of the 737 max. those jets are grounded as boeing completes a software fix after two deadly crashes overseas. now, the f.a.a. says it's never been safer to fly, but some longtime inspectors warn, u.s. airlines are not as safe as they could be. tony dokoupil has our cbs news investigation. >> each day that goes by, the safety is getting less and less. >> reporter: what does the public need to know before it gets on an airline today? >> that it's not as safe as it could be. >> reporter: that urgent message toghwo s inspectors at the federal
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aviation administration who say their managers are pressuring them not to report airplane safety issues. >> i've had reports that i've had entered into our database. one day, they were there; the next morning, they were gone. >> reporter: have you had the experience of finding a problem, reporting it, and being punished for it? >> yes. repeatedly, ovnd over. >> reporter: this 2016 inspector general's report substantiated similar claims that another f.a.a. inspector was pressured to back off an airline, and, when he didn't, he was retaliated against. are you charles banks? i'm tony dokoupil with cbs news. i just have a couple questions for you. banks oversaw inspectors at miami air international, a charter service with government contracts worth more than $200 million in the past five years. earlier this month, a miami air charter carrying u.s. military troops from guantanamo bay made a non-fatal crash landing in jacksonville, florida. the cause isn't yet known, but in 2017, the airline had other trouble ferrying troops--
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multiple incidents resulting from bad vendor fuel lines, something banks had written them up for a year earlier. you still work as an f.a.a. inspector? >> yes, i am. >> reporter: on that airline? >> nope, i'm not longer on that air-- they removed me off that air carrier. >> reporter: in a statement, miami air said they had procedures in place to comply with f.a.a. requirements. four years ago, the f.a.a. moved from issuing fines to working closer with airlines to maintain minimum safety requirements. >> airlines have actually told me, "well, you can't violate me, because you have to go through compliance action first." >> reporter: acting f.a.a. administrator daniel elwell: >> if there are allegations or retribution, we'll find out about it, and we'll-- and we'll investigate it. >> reporter: the f.a.a. also told us it has a comprehensive safety oversight system to identify problems and ensure they are fixed. >> this shouldn't be happening. >> reporter: we're talking about a crash. >> we're talking about a crash inside united states bord
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talked to pointed to incidents like the lion air and ethiopian airline crashes, involving u.s.- manufactured boeing planes, as indicators of what could be in store. if it doesn't change soon, then what? >> then, we're going to go back to the way it was 20 years ago when airplanes fell out of the sky. >> reporter: tony dokoupil, cbs news, new york. >> garrett: next on the "cbs evening news," philadelphia police face questions after a deshn unarmed man. later, numerous misspellings and other mistakes are found in the vietnam wall. the water. the exercise. the fiber. month after month, and i still have belly pain and recurring constipation. so i asked my doctor what else i could do, and i said yesss to linzess. linzess treats adults with ibs with constipation or chronic constipation. linzess is not a laxative, it works differently. it helps relieve belly pain and lets you have more frequent and complete bowel movements. do not give linzess to children less than 6,
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just as the 28-year-old with special needs approached an unmarked police car with his arms outstretche f were fired from inside, shattering the closed window and sending johnson stumbling to the ground, hit once in the torso. >> he approached the driver side vehicle, and the detective believed what he saw was a firearm in this male's hands. the detective, believing that he was going to be robbed or something was going to happen to him, produced his firearm. >> reporter: most don't know him by name, but nearly everyone we spoke to who lives and works in this neighborhood knows of johnson. they've seen him walking up and down this street asking for quarters, exactly what he appears to have been doing when he was shot. hector tirado is his brother. >> he never walked with any u wond a weapon on him. i>>ortep neighbors y jon >> he shot an innocent man because he was begging for a quarter. does this look like a gun to you? does this look like a gun to you? look!
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this is a quarter, man! >> reporter: 29-year-old philadelphia detective francis digiorgio is on desk duty while an internal affairs stigation is coned. critical but stable condition. major. >> garrett: mola lenghi, thanks so much. still ahead, new charges against wikileaks' founder, julian assange, could put him away for life. and later, an eighth grader has won not one but two of this country's toughest competitions. i've been diagnosed with age-related macular degeneration, which could lead to vision loss. so today i made a plan with my doctor, which includes preservision. because it's my vision, my morning walk, areds 2 contains my sunday drive,io the exact nutrient formula recommended by the national eye institute to help reduce the risk of moderate to advanced amd progression. because it's my sunset,
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