absolutely. >> reporter: phoenix police have been accused of using excessive force in the past. in 2018, they were involved in more police involved shootings that be any other department in the country. earlier this year in an interview, williams promised there would be changes. >> my agency is not afraid of the truth. if there's something we can learn, let's learn it, let's fix it. >> reporter: the officers involved in this latest incident are on desk duty pending the conclusion of an investigation. tomorrow, the mayor and police chief will face the community in what is likely to be a heated town hall. >> jeff, thank you. our cbs news battleground tracker has joe biden ahead among democrats nationally and all the early primary states. but democratic voters tell us they are considering other candidates, as well. >> i believe we can win texas and florida. >> reporter: for the first time

since launching his campaign, former vice president joe biden shared a stage with fellow contenders today. >> if i'm your nominee, i man on winning georgia, north carolina, south carolina. >> reporter: the tracker roll shows bide season the first choice of democrats and leads in iowa, new hampshire, and south carolina. but there was some skepticism about biden's standing after his appearance at a forum on poverty in washington. >> doesn't do for you? >> no, he doesn't do it for me. if i have to, i will vote for him, though. >> he's riding on the reputation of his name recognition. it's time to see whether he has anything to offer us. >> reporter: meanwhile, massachusetts senator surging. so is mayor pete buttigieg, a virtual unknown six months ago, his campaign raised $7 million in april. >> it's safe to say i'm not like the others. >> reporter: one poll shows as

many as five democrats topping president trump in a hypothetical matchup. >> we're getting tremendous polls. >> reporter: the president is urging his supporters to ignore early polling that show him trailing biden. >> those polls don't exist. i just had a meeting with somebody that is a pollster and i'm winning everywhere. >> reporter: this weekend, the campaign fired the three pollsters responsible for the internal surveys. amid the shakeup, president trump is set to launch his 2020 re-election bid tuesday in orlando. florida is a must-win for the president if he hopes to keep the white house. more than 7 in 10 democrats say they want to hear from democrats about plans to cut health care costs. maurice? >> thank you very much tonight. syria's government has begun a new bombing campaign in one of the last remaining areas it does

not control after more than eight years of civil war. cbs news gained rare access inside idlib process. holly williams filed this report. >> reporter: in idlib, the terror rains down from the sky. they have no defense here against syrian regime and russian air strikes. this was a cease-fire declared a few weeks ago but broken almost immediately. there have been air strikes and shelling of civilian areas in the last 24 hours. as we drove deep into idlib, warnings came of regime jets overhead. where are the planes? how many planes? two planes? our guide is a media activist. he's documented how pro-regime forcespeatedly hit

hospitals. the medical clinic was attacked just hours earlier, he told us. this was a clinic? >> yeah. >> reporter: so women and children? >> exactly. there's a clinic and houses around it. >> reporter: why did they target this street? >> i don't know. >> reporter: hundreds of thousands have fled the bombing and taken shelter in this sprawling refugee camp. on its edge, we found this woman and her eight children, who left their home with nothing. mawa is pregnant and said she plans to give birth here on the dirt. "i have no nobody, and there's no going back." there are a million children in idlib, innocent and too young to understand this war. but menace from the skies alongside their parents.

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rte t 8-arld rtly to boy's injuries were not horrific. but two weeks ago, a shark attack cost 17-year-old paige winter her left leg. her father, charlie winter, rescued her. >> it was a big shark. and kind of thrashed a little bit. and it had just a big eye staring at you. >> reporter: shark attacks are still rare. worldwide last year, there were 66 unprovoked shark attacks and four fatalities. north carolina averages three shark attacks a year. so three attacks in two weeks sounds like a lot. >> more people in the water in their habitat. we have a large population of sharks. i cannot say that climate change has anything to do with why these sharks are off our beach. >> reporter: this is where they belong. >> this is shark habitat.

>> reporter: there are more sharks off the carolina coast. warming waters are changing their migration period some studies suggest. there are roughly 50 species of sharks off the coast of north carolina at any time. some swim in waters as shall he as waist deep. >> these incidents are extremely rare. and it's unfortunate that shea shed negative light on a species that is in such trouble. >> reporter: he says if you're in the water and see a dolphin, head to shore. and rip currents have already drowned seven people off north carolina's coast this year. >> mark strassman, thank you. coming up in just a moment, the o.j. simpson case 25 years later. (vo)r. my digestive system used to make me feel sluggish. but those days are over.

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columns, from tragedy to turning blue jeans into high fashion. >> here's the first movie of gloria herself. >> reporter: from an early age, gloria vanderbilt was scrutinized and glamorized. she lost her father at age 2. at 10, became the center of a sensational custody battle between her mother and her aunt. she never liked what the papers called her, the poor little rich girl. her childhood left her feeling isolated. >> i think many of us who have not had a family, a mother and a father, do have a sense of alienation and a sense of not belonging. >> reporter: a mother of four, vanderbilt first married at 17, and had three more husbands. her happiest marriage, she sai s was with wyatt cooper, father of cnn correspondent anderson cooper, and carter, who died in 1988 from afternoonn apparent s. >> after carter died, i didn't

think i was going to go on living. >> reporter: her name propelled her fashion empire into a $100 million business. founded on those jeans. >> these would be fascinating to read. >> reporter: wh >> what an extraordinary life. what an extraordinary mom. >> reporter: cooper gave a touching tribute to his mother. >> every time i kissed her goodbye, i would say i love you mom. she would look at me and say i love you too, you know that. and she was right, i did know that. >> that is the "overnight news" for this tuesday. for some of you the news continues. for others, check back with us for the morning news and "cbs overnight news."

this is the "cbs overnight news." welcome to the "overnight news." president trump kicks off his election campaign in florida. he narrowly won the state in 2016, but polls show him trailing joe biden in florida, as well as the battleground states of pennsylvania and wisconsin. the trump campaign says the polls are old. the president says they don't exist. in any event, three of the pollsters were fired. >> i believe we can win texas and florida. >> reporter: for the first time since launching his campaign, former vice president joe biden shared a stage with fellow contenders today. >> if i'm your nominee, i plan

on winning georgia, north carolina, south carolina, believe it or not. >> reporter: the tracker roll shows bide season the first choice of democrats and leads in iowa, new hampshire, and south carolina. but there was some skepticism about biden's standing after his appearance at a forum on poverty in washington. >> doesn't do it for you? >> no, he doesn't do it for me. if i have to, i will vote for him, though. >> he's riding on the reputation of his name recognition. it's time to see whether he has anything to offer us. >> reporter: meanwhile, massachusetts senator elizabeth is surging. so is mayor pete buttigieg, a virtual unknown six months ago, his campaign raised $7 million in april. >> it's safe to say i'm not like the others. >> reporter: one poll shows as many as five democrats topping president trump in a hypothetical matchup. >> we haven't even started yet, but we're getting tremendous polls.

>> reporter: the president is urging his supporters to ignore early polling and disputes polling numbers leaked last week, showing him trailing biden in several states. >> those polls don't exist. i just had a meeting with somebody that is a pollster and i'm winning everywhere. >> reporter: this weekend, the campaign fired the three pollsters responsible for the internal surveys. amid the shakeup, president trump is set to launch his 2020 re-election bid tuesday in orlando. the cold war between the trump administration and iran is about to heat up. iran says that by the end of next week, it will have more enriched uranium on hand than is allowed under the nuclear treaty. president trump pulled the u.s. out of that treaty. what does this all mean for peace in the region? david martin explains. >> reporter: the two tankers could be seense high resolution photos taken from a u.s. navy helicopter several hours after the explosions, which disabled them.

an iranian patrol boat is alongside the tanker, and according to the pentagon, removes an unexploded mine attached to the hull. these photos show one of the magnets officials say was used to attach the mine to the hull. still stuck to the ship. the same scene was recorded in grainy video by a u.s. patrol plane and released last week to back up u.s. claims iran is responsible for the attack. many allies remain unconvinced. but the democratic chairman of the house intelligence committee says there's no question iran is to plane. iran announced it is increasing

production of our rainium. another day of protests in hong dock where residents are up ins. thousands gathered outside the city leader's office demanding she cancel the legislation. this comes after protests that saw more than 2 million people on the streets. >> reporter: hong kongers hit the street with mass fury sunday, demanding their government revoke a hated extradition law that could send them to china's legal system and calling for the resignation of their chief executive, appointed by bj. beijing. after sunset she did apologize but only on paper. with cell phone lights shining the way, this was a 21st century

protest. spurred by recent violent clashes where dozens of protesters and pole were hurt, and the first casualty when this protester fell to his death saturday. the opposition legislator says beijing's image is fractured. >> now they are losing control in hong kong. so it shows there's a weakness on the part of the chinese regime. >> reporter: but mainland citizens never saw. chinese state media had a special report on blood supply. while foreign media in the country went black, thanks to china's sensors. back here in hong kong, the government and opposition are trying to figure out what to do next. beijing reiterated its support for carrie lamb. after eight years of civil war, the conflict has faded from

the enter national spotlight, but just this week, the government unleashed a massive offensive in idlib. holly williams filed this report. >> reporter: in idlib, the terror rained down from the sky. there was a cease-fire declared just a few days ago, but broken almost immediately. there is air strikes of civilian areas in the last 24 hours. as we drove deep into idlib, warnings came of regime jets overhead. where are the planes? how many planes? two planes? our guide is a media activist. he's documented how pro-regime forces have repeatedly hit hospitals.

despite condemnation from the united nations. the medical clinic was attacked just hours earlier, he told us. this was a clinic? >> yeah. >> reporter: so women and children? >> exactly. there's a clinic and houses around it. >> reporter: why did they target this street? >> i don't know. >> reporter: hundreds of thousands have fled the bombing and taken shelter in this sprawling refugee camp. on its edge, we found this woman and her eight children, who left their home with nothing. mawa is pregnant and said she plans to give birth here on the dirt. "i have no nobody, and there's no going back." there are a million children in idlib, innocent and too young t. but menace from the skies alongside their parents. holly williams, cbs news, idlib.

the "cbs overnight news" will be right back.

this is the "cbs overnight news." the department of agriculture has earmarked another $16 billion in direct payments to farmers, who have been devastated by president trump's trade war with china. farmers who grow soybeans have been hit the hardest. but some are growing from the trade war. >> reporter: it's a northern california community best known for its biggest product. gilroy is almost synonymous with garlic. they've been peeling and planting it here for decades. >> if the root plate is still in tact, you have california garlic on your hand. >> reporter: christopher farms is the nation's largest garlic

grower and just one of three u.s. producers. a glut of c others out of business. >> since 1993, chinese exporters have flooded the market can over $600 million of dumped chinese garlic. >> reporter: quarrgarlic growere been benefiting from the tariffs. shoppers will find u.s. garlic more expensive, but the price difference will be smaller. >> i predict we'll see a 25% increase in demand for california garlic, so we're going to invest in additional acreage and more jobs. >> reporter: many farmers rely heavily on exporters to china. >> it's getting tough. sit a shame they put them

retaliatory tariffs on us. >> reporter: soybean producers have seen sales plunge 25%. corn based products, and pork have also taken a hit. >> in a broader sense, a trade war is not what xactly what we need. >> reporter: one bright spot in a battle for the bulb. cbs news, los angeles. the federal government is teaming up with silicone valley trying to come up with a defense of deep fake videos. you've seen the clips, manipulated by software to change the message. jonathan vigliotti reports. >> i'm sorry for that. >> reporter: when it comes to deep fakes, even "game of thrones" lead character isn't

immune. this shows him apologizing for the finale. while some of these videos are designed to entertain, others are raising concerns. in this deep fake, mark zuckerberg appears to be speaking about global domination on cbs news' digital platform. >> imagine this for a second. one man with total control of billions of people's stolen data. >> reporter: despite asking the company to take the video down, the company refused. >> 20 years ago, we worried about fake content in a court of law, but we didn't worry about it going live on twitter or facebook. >> reporter: hammi fareed. >> we take the video, we track head movements. >> reporter: he gave us a look at his software movement that compares real videos to altered

ones. he wants to off it to help detect deep fakes ahead of the elections. >> then we asked how distinct are they and can they distinguish from the real to the fake. we will run the videos through our analysis and tell us what you think. >> do you worry it's a drop in the buck net >> of course. the solution is not just technology. the solution is technology, good reporting, better digital citizens, better companies, better policies. >> then he had a press conference in the rose garden. >> reporter: this altered video of nance pelosi, which falsely showed her slurring her words, has been viewed more than 3 million times. the speaker pelosi video was not funny. it was meant to impugn her and create chaos. and it worked. >> reporter: facebook tells cbs

news, leading up to 2020, we know that combatting misinformation is one of the most important things we can do. we continue to look at how we can improve our approach and thele isah and thele is s thele isystems we built. at a house intelligence committee meeting last week, federal officials expressed concern that there's no easy fix. >> the audience i'm most worried about is not young people on social media, it is the older generation who has come to this technology late. imagine the implication for fraud. imagine how this could disrupt our democratic elections. imagine how it can incite violence. >> reporter: jonathan vigliotti, long beach, california. >> the "cbs overnight news" will be right back.

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a little... inspo... iy o amp itupitamin d. we use k-y yours + mine. tingling for me and warming for him. woah... get what you want. the transcontinental railroad turned 150 years old last month. there was a celebration in utah. as john blackstone plaexplains, it's where east and west came together. >> reporter: it's something railroad inthuzists believe they might not efficient see again. one of the biggest steam

locomotives ever built, back on the tracks. rumbling west under its own steam. as union pacific number 44 pulled out of wyoming, crowds lined the tracks, waving at engineer ed dickens, urging one more pull of the whistle. >> i don't know what it is about that whistle. we hear whistles, we hear horns in our life. but the steam locomotive whistle just moves you. >> reporter: dickens led the small team of union pacific workers who spent five years toiling to bring the massive machine back to life. give me some idea of the scale of this. these skeel wheels are almost a as we are. >> this is 17,000 pounds buy itself. >> reporter: 4014 is one of just 25 locomotives built in the 1940s. aptly named big boys.

132 feet long, weighing more than a million pounds. producing 7,000 horsepower. but when the age of steam came to an end in the late 1950s, 4014 came obsolete. until dickens and his team brought it back to life. their goal was to get 4014 rolling again in time to celebrate one of the greatest rail accomplishments ever, the transcontinental railroad, built at the urges of president lincoln. >> it's very humbling that all of the sacrifice, the tremendous human effort, to build something as complex as a set of railroad tracks across territory many people have not been across before. >> reporter: crews worked from the east to the west, meeting on may 10th, 1869 in utah. >> we call it the moon shot of

the 19th century. it was an impossible dream. >> reporter: at golden spoke national park, rail fans dressed in style to mark the anniversary. president lincoln, this was all your add, was it not? >> i was not the only one, but i was thankful to have a big part in it. >> reporter: the faces in that photo from 150 years ago look much different than those fathered this time. >> it took 150 years to take that recognition. so our history is coming alive. >> reporter: they are descendants of the chinese laborers who made up 90% of the workforce on the western portion of the railroad. >> the workers on the line who cleared the way for the railroad, who laid the track and the ties and so forth and dug

tunnels was almost exclusively chinese. >> reporter: jordan chang is the author of a newly released book on the chinese who built the transcontinental railroad. the gold rush has brought thousands from china to california in the 1850s. when construction of the railroad began in 1863, the chinese were not the first choice to work in it. >> there was belief they were temperamentally or physically unfit for railroad work. but the workers did very well for them. they were very, very pleased. ultimately they hired up to 20,000 workers. >> reporter: not only was the labor forcement men plentiful, workers were paid less than whites doing the same job. and they took on the most challenging portion of the railroad, the sierra nevada. opportunities had to be

blasted and kafbed out. the longest one over 600 feet in length and took more than two years using only hand tools and black powder. >> reporter: chang found recognition for the chinese rail worker making to a growing nation. >> to read the history -- >> reporter: jeff lee, a retired tentist from california, is inspired by the hard work his grand grad father did. >> they come up like me, and they learn to adapt to what they had to do. >> reporter: and lee is proud where these tracks have taken his family. >> doctors, dentists, architects, uc berkeley, yale, princeton. >> reporter: but soon after, the nation's mood began to turn against the hardworking immigrants. >> there's history of what the

chinese did in california is great. >> the chinese were driven out in town after town and their homes destroyed. the chinese became undesirable, therefore you don't want to include them in the history of the country. >> reporter: that eraser is what they wanted to set right. >> this is my great, great grandfather. >> he was on his way back to china, but he stopped in san francisco and said no, this is my home. i love america. >> reporter: much has changed in 150 years. for families and for the railroad. the old steam locomotives that originally traveled these rails were replaced but massive machines like 4014. but even this giant had to finely give way to modern diesels. still, there is value in preserving the memory of all that came before.

the u.s. women's national soccer team is moving on to the second round of the world cup in france. the biggest threat for the american team may not be on the field. >> sixth corner already. davidson, sending it across. goal. >> reporter: as team usa works to win its fourth world cup trophy, behind the scenes, another team is working to keep the players safe. a bomb sniffing dog, and a command center at the u.s. embassy in paris -- >> we know where the people is at any particular time. >> reporter: the state department's bureau of diplomatic security makes sure the athletes travel and train in peace. the people is on the move again. the agents make sure the players

get on safely, and then ride with them, watching out the entire way. but while it's been two years preparing to protect these players, planners and organizers say they were concerned that the french authorities weren't taking security seriously enough. allegedly making comments like, it's not the real world cup, it's just the women. >> it's no secret that our diplomatic security had concerns. >> reporter: concerns that ten s tens of thousands of american soccer fans would be visiting france. just like month, a bomb exploded where the final games of the world cup will be hosted. >> we don't have any specific credible threats but we're always prepared for a worst case scenar scenario. >> reporter: france has been busy securing other large gatherings, from defendant's exhibit-day commemorations

earlier this month, to the weekly yellow vest protests. >> the french services are very capable. and they really need to pivot from one event to the other. >> reporter: so as the world cup approached, the ambassador decided to get their attention. >> when we have to speak with the french government, we do our part about providing the security that is requisite for the american team. so we pressed and we pressed. and now the team is here and hopefully everyone will be safe and secure. >> reporter: diplomatic security agents tell us they're now very satisfied with france's support, which means the players they're here to protect can keep foe using on the field. >> and that is the "overnight news" for this tuesday. for some of you, the news continues. for others, check back with us

later for the mor ng news and "cbs overnight news." from the broadcast center in ♪ it's tuesday, june 18th, 2019. this is the "cbs morning news." a shootout in dallas. >> it was shot maybe 10 to 15 shots all rapid shooting. >> holy crap. >> what we're learning about the 22-year-old gunman behind the mask. tensions in the middle east. iran issues a new threat as u.s. sends 1,000 more troops to the region. and terrifying turbulenc