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 force if america attacks iran, or insists on keeping its troops here. 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 of force is justified? "we taught americans a lesson in the past," he told us. "if they want new lessons, we're ready for this." roxana saberi, cbs news, baghdad. the acting head of the faa 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 faa says it's never been safer to fly, but some long-time 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 tonight from two seasoned inspectors at the federal 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 were there, the next morning they're gone. >> reporter: have you had the experience of finding a problem, reporting it, and being punished for it? >> yes. repeatedly, over and over. >> reporter: this 2016 inspector general's report substantiated similar claims that another faa 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 have a couple of questions for you. banks oversaw inspections at miami airline 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 nonfatal crash landing in jacksonville, florida. the cause isn't yet known, but

in 2017, the airline had other trouble ferrying troops. multiple incidents resulting from bad vendor fuel lines, something banks had written them up for a year earlier. do you still work as an faa inspector? >> yes, i am. >> reporter: on that airline? >> no. nope. i'm no longer on that. they removed me off that air carrier. >> reporter: in a statement, miami air said it has procedures in place to comply with faa requirements. four years ago, the faa 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 the compliance section first. >> reporter: acting faa administrator daniel elwell. >> if there are allegations or retribution, we'll find out about it, and we'll investigate it. >> reporter: the faa also told us it has a comprehensive safety oversight system to identify problems and ensure they are fixed. we're talking about crash?

>> we're talking about crash inside the united states borders. >> reporter: both inspectors we talked to pointed to incident likes the lion air and ethiopian crashes citing 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. next, philadelphia police face questions after a detective shot an unarmed man. later, numerous misspellingings and other mistakes are found in the vietnam wall.

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joel johnson, panhandling monday evening between slow-moving traffic, just as the 28-year-old with special needs approached an unmarked police car with his arms outstretched, four shots were fired from inside, shattering the closed window and sending johnson stumbling to the ground, hit once in the torso. >> he approached the driver's side vehicle, and the detective believed what he saw was a firearm in this man'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 terado is his brother. >> you find a weapon on him. you won't find nothing on him but change. that's it. >> reporter: a preliminary police investigation has not turned up any weapons. neighbors say johnson was harmless.

>> he shot an innocent man because he was begging for a quarter. did that look like a gun to you? look, this is a quarter, man. >> reporter: 29-year-old philadelphia detective francis degiorgio is on desk duty while an investigation is conducted. meanwhile, johnson is in critical but stable conditions. major? >> mola lenghi, thank you so much. new charges against wikileaks founder julian assange could put him away for life. and later, an eighth grader has now won two of this country's toughest competitions.

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federal prosecutors today dramatically expanded the charges against wikileaks founder julian assange. the 17 new charges include violating the espionage act for his role in publishing thousands of secret and classified documents. assange could face up to 170 years if convicted. his lawyer calls these new charges a threat to all journalists. two climbers died yesterday on mt. everest, as hundreds tried to complete the dangerous trek. good weather caused a traffic

jam on the mountain. donald cash of utah collapsed after waiting hours to reach the summit. he was 55 and a veteran climber. as many plan to visit the vietnam memorial this weekend in washington, a new study has found numerous mistakes and spellings etched into the wall. the group that maintains the wall says one soldier is listed three times. 13 others are listed twice. 25 veterans who survived the war were listed as killed. some, but not all of these errors, have been corrected. nine names will be added to the wall on memorial day. the president and first lady made an unscheduled trip to arlington national cemetery today since the president will be in japan on memorial day. they joined soldiers of the 3rd infantry regiment, known as the old guard in the traditional flags in ceremony. in all, more than 250,000 flags were placed, one at every grave. up next, the winner of the

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how many eighth graders know the difference between a cole and a cliff, a firth and a fjord? a youngster from austin, texas sure does. he won the national geographic geo bee. as it turns out, this young man is the king of bees. jan crawford tells us why. >> nihar, what do you have? >> the finnmark plateau. >> what do you have? >> the correct answer is the finnmark plateau! >> reporter: until the last moment, nihar janga felt like the underdog as the final round of championships went into overtime. two finalists tied for five rounds in a row. but janga had felt this kind of pressure before. >> may i have the definition?

>> reporter: back in 2016, as a fifth grader, he was the cochampion of the scripps national spelling bee, then the youngest to ever win. in the moment that his folks and hard work paid off, he was overwhelmed. >> all the pressure from studying is all over. >> reporter: after making the top ten at last year's geography bee, janga's father wanted him to retire and focus on school. >> so now can you say to your dad i told you so? >> yeah. >> his mom already told me that. >> reporter: little janga is setting his sight even higher, hoping to compete as a high schooler in the international brain bee, a fitting challenge. >> do you have any idea what you might want to be when you grow up? >> a neurosurgeon. >> reporter: janga won a $25,000 college scholarship. geography providing a path for his future. jan crawford, cbs news, washington. >> that's the "overnight news" for this friday. for some of you, the news continues, but for others, please 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 major garrett. this is the "cbs overnight news." >> welcome to the "overnight news." i'm meg oliver. people who live in the midwest are bracing for another round of dangerous weather like the storm that rumbled through missouri. it caused widespread flooding and spawned monstrous tornadoes. one twister left at least three people dead. another carved a path of destruction through the capital, jefferson city. david begnaud is there. >> reporter: disaster hit the state of missouri under the cover of darkness. gene harris and his wife opal, both in their 80s, were found dead outside of what was left of their home near golden city,

missouri. three hours later and three hours north of here, a tornado touched down in missouri's capital of jefferson city. 160-mile-per-hour winds tossed vehicles like toys, ripped roofs off homes and buildings, and scattered debris for hundreds of yards. >> my grandfather started chevrolet business in 1936, and we've never had a storm like this before. >> reporter: wow. the destruction at riley chevrolet left its owner, kevin riley, stunned. >> almost cried. >> reporter: if you had to guess what percentage of your lot is ruined. >> it's going to be 90%, i bet. >> reporter: there were only a few minor injuries in jefferson city. no one was killed here. so it looks like it just came right through this area, doesn't it? >> yes. >> reporter: the mayor, carrie tergin told us tornado sirens likely saved lives. >> we are the outdoor warning sirens, and i heard them. in fact, i just laid down to go to bed last night about 11:15 and heard it. >> reporter: it's amazing there weren't major injuries given

those kinds of winds. >> it is amazing, because when you see some of these homes without roofs, and that people were able to walk away from that is incredible. >> oh my god! >> reporter: wild week of weather for the southern plains, more than 175 tornadoes, 8 people have died. and there has been destructive flooding. in muskogee county, oklahoma, the arkansas river continues to swell tonight. already it's pushed two barges carrying 4,000 pounds of fertilizer, causing them to crash into the webbers falls dam. the town has been evacuated, and officials have told residents if the dam fails, it could be catastrophic. the missouri river is at flood stage, major flood stage, and may overtop the levees here within the next 24 hours. so the mayor, who we interviewed for our story told us she has evacuated the northern part of her city and closed the airport. major, they thought that was their big concern, and then the tornado hit last night. president trump and house

speaker nancy pelosi spent the day sniping at one another. >> 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. >> crazy nancy. i tell you what, i've been watching her, and i have been watching her for a long period of time. she's not the same person. she's lost it. >> acting defense secretary patrick shanahan has not been confirmed by the senate, yet he could soon oversee a buildup of u.s. military forces in the middle east. how many more troops? shanahan wasn't saying. here's roxana saberi. >> 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 be there in whatever number we need. >> reporter: u.s. officials say iran and iranian-backed militias in iraq are planning to target americans. several of those iraqi militias

switched from fighting american 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 force if america attacks iran, or insists on keeping its troops here. 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 of force is justified?

"we taught americans a lesson in the past," he told us. "if they want new lessons, we're ready for this." roxana saberi, cbs news, baghdad. congress has reached an agreement on a long delayed disaster relief package. it includes billions ofollars for farmers who have not only suffered from floods but also the trade war with china. but it includes no new money for border security. omar villafranca has the latest from an immigrant center in mcallen, texas. >> reporter: cbs news was the first to confirm that 10-year-old darlyn valle died in september 2018 while in custody of the office of refugee resettlement. the salvadoran girl is the sixth migrant child to die after crossing the u.s. border that we know of. when the 10-year-old entered the united states, she was brought to this border patrol processing facility here in mcallen. behind these fences are the buses that brouht 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 then to nebraska where she 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 cbp has reported with respect to deaths in cbp custody. >> reporter: 10-year-old valle's death is the second reported this week. 16-year-old carlos hernandez died on monday. acting dhs secretary kevin mcaleenan went before a senate committee the day after cbs news broke the story of a sixth migrant child death. >> does every child in cbp custody have access to a pediatrician? >> no. >> reporter: mcaleenan said the migrant children are screened by

a medical professional, but more resources are needed. >> unless congress addresses the poll factor, mainly our vulnerable legal framework for migration, 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. there is a sense of urgency, because officials say resources could run out before the end of the year. the "cbs overnight news" will be right back.

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this is the "cbs overnight news." >> it is getaway day before the long memorial day weekend. one of the busiest travel days of the year. more than 40 million americans are expected to be on the move between now and monday. most will travel by car. but at least three million will take to the skies. just how safe is your holiday flight? some faa inspectors say not as safe as you think. tony dokoupil has the story. >> reporter: in an exclusive cbs news investigation we spoke to roughly a dozen faa inspectors all across the country, some risking their jobs to blow the whistle on how they say they are

told to overlook important problems. >> reporter: what's at stake here? >> people's lives. >> reporter: it's gotten to that point? >> yes. >> need to wake up. >> reporter: two inspectors each with a decade of experience with the federal aviation administration say they have an urgent message for u.s. travelers. what does the public need to know before it gets on an airline today? >> that it's not as safe as it could be. >> i've had reports from database. one day there their, the next morning they're gone. >> critical safety like corrosion or making sure vendors are faa compliant, and retaliate if vendors refuse to back off. how do you get the message to back off? >> i've been told to back out. >> reporter: you've been told flat-out? >> told to back off. i've had airlines contact my management and ask them not to

assign me any inspections to that airline. >> reporter: have you had problems reporting it and being punished for it? >> yes, repeatedly. over and over. >> reporter: how widespread is this among inspectors? >> it's very widespread. >> reporter: this 2016 inspector general's report echoes their concerns, finding that another faa inspector was pressured to back off an airline, then punished by management. are you charles banks? >> yeah. >> reporter: i'm tony dokoupil with cbs news. i've got a couple of questions for you. >> okay. >> reporter: it will take a second. is it true that you were punished by the faa for filing reports, problems at miami air international? we have an ig report that says it was, it is true. >> yes, yes, it is. >> reporter: miami air international was a charter service with about a thousand government contracts worth more than $200 million in just the past five years. earlier this month, one of its charters carrying u.s. military troops from guantanamo bay, cuba made a crash landing in jacksonville, florida. no one died, and the cause isn't yet known, but that wasn't the

first time miami airline international has had trouble ferrying troops. in 2017, the airline had other trouble ferrying troops. do you still work as an faa inspector? >> yes, i do. >> reporter: on that airline? >> nope. they removed me off that air carrier. >> reporter: you were removed? >> yes. >> reporter: who is the customer at the faa? the flying public or the airline? >> ideally, it's the flying public. that's our mission. >> reporter: in reality? >> in reality, i've heard airlines be referred to as customers, as stakeholders. i've also heard inspectors say at my airline, at our airline. it's not my airline. >> reporter: as though they work for the airlines. >> yeah. >> reporter: in 2015, the faa adopted a compliance program focused on mutual cooperation with airlines. instead of a traditional enforcement-focused regulatory model. is the faa too cozy with the

airlines? >> i think they're leaning more towards the airlines, the upper management, yes. >> reporter: are there airlines out there today who you believe should be fined? >> yes. >> reporter: are there airlines today that you believe should be grounded? >> i think there is a few airlines out there that we need to take a hard look at. >> reporter: the faa declined a request for an interview, but told us the faa has a comprehensive safety oversight system that encourages the sharing of information to identify problems and ensure they are fixed. the agency also wrote in a statement the u.s. aviation system has a safety record that is unprecedented in history, with only one domestic death in the past ten years. >> what is at issue of happening? >> reporter: we're talking about a crash? >> we're talking about a crash inside the united states borders. >> reporter: they both point to incidents like the lion air and ethiopian air crashes as indications of what could happen. >> we've already seen quite a

significant uptick in just the last few months. >> reporter: you think we're seeing the beginning signs of this culture problem showing up in flight safety? >> yes. >> reporter: so you're hoping that the wake-up call is this conversation? >> i hope so, yes. >> reporter: and not a crash in the future? >> not a crash. that's what i'm hoping to prevent. i'm here to make sure there is no blood on my hands. >> reporter: like the faa, miami air international declined our request for an interview, and in a statement it referred us to the ntsb about that crash landing in jacksonville and said it had procedures in place to comply with all faa requirements. since the faa put its compliance model in place, enforcement actions like fines and penalties have fallen 70% between 2014 and 2017. the "cbs overnight news" will be right back.

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cbs sunday morning recently travelled to florence, italy, and while they were there, alina cho took her crew on a side trip into the tuscan countryside to spend an afternoon with a couple of old friends of the show, sting and his wife trudy. >> reporter: ill palazio is the

very definition of a tuscan estate. it's a 400-year-old villa about an hour south of florence. but listen closely. ♪ if you love somebody >> reporter: you might hear a rather well-known musician rehearsing. ♪ set them free >> reporter: it's sting. he owns the place, along with his wife, trudy styler. so what do you love about this place? >> let me count the ways. just about everything. >> reporter: for sting and styler, it's a summer house for their growing family. but you too can stay here. it's available to rent for weddings and birthdays. even the honeybees are living the high life. >> you can't tell a bee where to go, but if you give it really delicious food. >> and a nice house. >> always good. we have a chestnut grove, and that makes chestnut honey. >> reporter: it's a long way

from sting and styler's roots. >> we're working class. >> yeah, yeah. >> we've certainly never had a house like this. >> reporter: sting was born gordon sumner in a ship building town in northern england. styler grew up in central england. everyone likes to think trudely di changed your life. however, there was one woman who was also important in your life, and that's the queen mum. tell me that story. >> i lived right next door to a shipyard, and i would think as a kid, is this what i will do when i grow up? the yard was a terrifying place, noisy, dangerous. so i had this other fantasy that i wld be a musician. >> reporter: one day royalty arrived to christen a chip. >> june 27th, 1961, the splendid day for the launching. >> reporter: and sting got a glimpse of the outside world. >> down the street comes the queen mother in a big rolls-royce with some motorcycle outriders, and everybody is waving their flags.

>> reporter: you felt what? >> she caught my eye, or i caught her eye. she did that royal wave that they do, and she just kept looking at you. i must have been waving my flag really vigorously. but i thought this is the first time i've ever been seen. >> reporter: as for styler, her father expected her to become a typist, but her dream was to be on stage. >> it came as a big shock to my family, because nobody in our street were actors. most of the people in the street worked at the ford motor factory, or they worked at the local brush works where they made paintbrushes. >> reporter: her father gave her an ultimatum. get a job or leave the house. so at age 18, young trudy lit out for the birthplace of william shakespeare. >> packed my tiny little suitcase and headed towards, where else, stratford-upon-avon. if you're going to be an actor, let's go big. >> reporter: the gamble paid

off. by age 25, she landed leading roles with the royal shakespeare company. sting was equally ambitious. >> when you said a woman changed my life, i didn't think you were going to mention the queen mother. i thought you were going to mention "roxanne." ♪ roxanne, you don't have to put on the red light, those days are over, you don't have to sell your body to the night ♪ ♪ roxanne >> reporter: "roxanne" was the fist of a series of worldwide hits. sting was married with two kids when he met trudy styler. >> it started to dawn on us a year into getting to know each other that we sparked in a way that friends don't spark. >> reporter: let's just say. >> let's just say. >> reporter: they married 27 years ago. and after a long search, found

il palazio. >> it was very dilapidated, and we bought it for a song. maybe two songs. i'm not sure. >> reporter: once the house was in order, they turned to the fields. >> i'm a farmer's daughter. i love the idea of having a lot of land around that could be cultivated in some way. >> reporter: with the help of experts and locals, some who had worked the land for generations, they brought back the olive groves, the vegetable gardens, and the vineyards. so this is the result of years and years and years of tlc? >> yeah of. >> reporter: and now you see the fruits of your lane. >> literally. >> it's a good feel, and the wines get better. >> reporter: the wines' names are straight out of the sting represe repertoire. ♪ when we dance ♪ roxanne >> sexy wine.

>> reporter: there is wine, but there is also work. styler is a movie producer, director, and still acts. >> i love men first in this country. >> reporter: sting has recorded four albums at the villa. he has a new one coming out this week with a world tour to follow. ♪ every bond you break, every step you take, i'll be watching you ♪ >> reporter: at age 67, slowing down his tempo is not an option. you're a grandfather. >> i'm a grandfather seven times. serial grandparent. i never anticipated it, stupidly, even though i've got six children, never thought they would have children. that's how dumb i am. >> reporter: this summer, the family will gather here once again. >> calamari, caprisi. >> and potato skins. >> it looks like bacon. >> reporter: and the 400-year-old spirit of i

il palazio will live on. >> we're not really the owners. we're here to make it work, and make it better. >> reporter: are you proud of what you've built here?

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if you've ever doubted the power of music, steve hartman is about to make a believer out of you. he found this story "on the road." ♪ hallelujah, hallelujah >> reporter: they are some of the best classical musicians in the country, but at one recent performance by the handel and haydn society, the most memorable moment didn't come from anyone on stage at symphony hall, it came from the audience. right at the very end of mozart's masonic funeral music, listen -- >> wow! >> reporter: did you hear that? someone yelled "wow," and it resonated, not just in this

hall, but throughout the classical music community. it was such a departure from typical audience protocol, which is why the president of the handel and haydn society was absolutely thrilled. >> i was like that's fantastic! >> reporter: this is david snead. >> and also, there is a sense of wonder in that wow. you can really hear it on the tape. this was amazing. >> wow! >> reporter: david was so smitten by the outburst, as was the audience, that he decided to try to find the voice responsible. >> like who was that? because he really touched my life in a way i'll never forget. this reminds me a little bit of cinderella. you're trying to find somebody who was at the ball and you have no way of finding it. you wrote to everybody in the audience? >> wrote to everybody in the audience. >> reporter: and eventually, that email found its way to concertgoer stephen matten. >> we did dash out like we were turning into pumpkins. >> reporter: stephen was there with his 9-year-old grandson ronan.

ronan is the one who shouted "wow" which surprised steven more than anyone. >> because he just doesn't do that. usually he's in a world by himself. ronan, what do you see? >> reporter: ronan is autistic and considered nonverbal. but clearly music may be a wormhole into his heart and mind. ♪ as a thank you, david arranged for a private cello performance for ronan. but ronan's family says all thanks should go to david and the handel and haydn musicians who made that moment possible. they said just hearing ronan's reaction after being told for years he might never engage, what more can you say but thank you, and wow. >> what do you think? >> reporter: steve hartman, on the road in boston. >> wow is right. that's the "overnight news" for this friday. for some of you, the news continues. for others, check back with us a little later for the morning

news, and of course "cbs this morning." from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm meg oliver. captioning funded by cbs it's friday, may 24th, 2019. this is the "cbs morning news." severe weather ripping through the u.s. killing at least eight people. storm crews are cleaning up as the damage begins. >> when you see the houses and the roofs and people who were able to walk away from that, it's incredible. a war of words between president trump and house speaker nancy pelosi. >> i will not take responsibility for his