external flying object hitting the ship.on further, a rocket attack in iraq that injured three people at a facility housing exxon mobil. that's the fourth attack targeting u.s. installations. the implication being that iranian-backed militias are to blame. maurice? >> thank you. now, to some breaking news on an extremely divisive issue. in the wake of protests, cbs news has learned planned parenthood is planning to defy state law in missouri, a step that puts the state's only abortion clinic closer to shutting down by friday. meg oliver reports from st. louis. >> reporter: cbs news has learned missouri's only clinic that provides abortions, planned parenthood of st. louis, may no longer be able to perform abortions by the end of the week. the clinic says they will defy state law that says they must perform two pelvic examines

before performing the procedure. missouri priors a consent process, a 72-hour waiting period and two pelvic exams before a woman undergoes a procedure. you're the only abortion clinic available in the state of missouri. by choosing to do this, are you choosing your ethics over women's health care? >> we're choosing to provide the patient-centered care at planned parenthood. that's doing things driven by i >> rter: thenic has bee ofal pointshe abortion debate with weeks of protest. the state says planned parenthood has violated laws and regulations. the clinic broke the law, performing an abortion at 21 weeks. missouri law bans the procedure at 20 weeks. the latest chapter is a letter the clinic plans to file in

district court thursday. they cite a recent statement from the college of obstetricians and gynecologists that says routine, multiple pelvic examines for women are unwarranted, evasive and not supported by evidence. we spoke with a woman who we are protecting her identity, who came to planned parenthood for an abortion. do you feel you were violated having to have another pelvic exam? >> yes. if there's a medical reason that's keeping me safe, okay. i'm totally fine with it. i feel that the pelvic exam isde you of the decision you know you want to make. >> reporter: the state health department has until friday morning to determine whether to renew planneli maurice? >> meg oliver in st. louis tonight. thank you. there's calls for change in the phoenix police department after officers held a family at gun point when they were accused

of shoplifting. protesters say that's the latest example of harassment and intimidation. jeff pegues is there. >> reporter: the fallout over the controversial arrest continues today. people chanted that the police should be fired. >> this is a damn murderer. >> reporter: and the same frustration boiled over last night in a phoenix church. >> you guys have put fear in my life. >> reporter: the police chief, mostly just listened, until she apologized for the actions of some of the department's officers. >> we are here to come back with this community. we aree t make change. >> reporter: in the last couple weeks the cell phone videos of the confrontations between officers and the young family have surfaced. prior to that, 97 current and former police officers were

making questionable facebook posts that was against mexicans, muslims and defendants. other departments across the country employee officers who have made similar statements. from philadelphia, dallas, st. louis, where the top prosecutor banned 22 officers from presenting cases. late today, philadelphia police commissioner richard ross announced that 72 police officers will be moved to desk duty. >> we're equally disgusted by many of the posts that you saw. >> reporter: what do you want the city council to do? in phoenix, she has been advocating for police changes. >> this is how these officers think and how they feel. when they're on the street this, is how they're acting. >> reporter: the phoenix police department says it has launched an internal review of the 75 active officers facebook statements. and all of this is unfolding,

even though officers here have been taking implicit bias classes. >> jeff pegues in phoenix tonight. thank you. a new united nations report says there's credible evidence the crown prince of saudi arabia is responsible for the murder of "washington post" journalist jamal khashoggi. the report was based on recordings inside the consulate in istanbul. it says operatives planned to kill and dismember and dispose of khashoggi. the saudi foreign minister rejected the report as nothing new. next, an alaska teen is accused of killing her best friend after a man offered her millions. and who is responsible for a crackdown of illegal immigrat n immigration.

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hatched by darin schillmiller. he led her to believe he was a millionaire, enticing her with $9 million to kill hoffman and send her pictures and videos of the crime. bremmer offered to pay the money to four other teens to help her carry out the killing. on june 2nd, bremmer and cayden mcintosh took hoffman on a hike, where duct tape, before mcintosh shot her in the head and dumped her in a river. >> i'm going to follow this through the full extent of the law. i will be here every time she is. i will not let it go. >> reporter: police found hoffman's body a day later and the scheme began to unravel, leading them to bremmer, mcintosh and the other teens involved. bremmer's phone records revealed

schillmiller in indiana. >> if you're planning to conduct a crime in alaska and you think you're safe because you're that far away, you're not. we will track you down. we will find you. we will bring you back here to face justice. >> reporter: schillmiller and bremmer are facing child porn charges. police say he was able to convince her to sexually assault two minors and send him videos. schillmiller is awaiting extradition to alaska. >> carter evans, thank you. still ahead here, the trump administration rolls back uh-oh, looks like someone's still nervous about buying a new house. is it that obvious? yes it is. you know, maybe you'd worry less if you got geico to help with your homeowners insurance. i didn't know geico could helps with homeowners insurance. yep, they've been doing it for years. what are you doing? big steve? thanks, man. there he is.

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made to move. ectg hea of immigration and custom enforcement confirmed his agency is ramping up efforts to deport some families of immigrants. some families received a removal order will be targeted. no word on how many families might be affected. the president in a tweet on monday, said i.c.e. will begin removing, quote, millions next week. the trump administration today rolled back obama-era rules that restricted carbon emissions from coal-fired power plants. the new pressure set no emissions targets and are meant to revitalize the coal industry. environmentalists will challenge these rules in court. the u.s. has a new poet laureate. the 68-year-old was selected by

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finally here tonight, who ever heard of a runner setting world records just a couple years after taking up the sport? it turns out this beginner has plenty of life experience. at 103 years old, julia hawkins isn't slowing down. she's picking up the pace. >> julia hawkins, gold medalist. >> reporter: during this week's national senior games in albuquerque, new mexico, hurricane hawkins, as she's known, won gold in the 50 and 100-meter races. that's not all. the sprinter set a new usa track and field record, as the oldest woman to compete on an american track. >> i hope i'm inspiring them to be healthy. and they realize you can still be doing it at this kind of an

age. >> reporter: hawkins is no stranger to breaking records. she started her running career at age 100 and wracked up three world records by 102, including in the 100-meter dash. she told reporters at the sitim pped t make that race. >> i thought it would be neat to run at 100 and do the 100-yard dash. >> reporter: her training secret, gardening at her home in louisiana. hawkins says she competes to impress her family. but with this drive and a few world records under her belt, she's on track to impress more people than that. that's the overnight news for this thursday. for some of you, the news continues. for others, check back later for the morning news and quali"cbs morning." ♪

♪ this is "the cbs overnight news." >> welcome to "the overnight news." i'm nikki battiste. the united nations is calling for a criminal investigation of one of president trump's closest friends in the middle east, the saudi crown prince. at issue, the murder and dismemberment of "washington post" writer, jamal khashoggi. saudi arabia denies the prince ordered the killing. but the u.n. found credible evidence meriting further investigation. holly williams has the latest from turkey. >> reporter: this report will undoubtedly infuriate the government of saudi arabia mainly because of the key headline, that, quote, there's

credible evidence warranting further investigation that the crown prince was involved in the killing of jamal khashoggi. the saudis have denied that, even as they changed their story more than once about what happened. and despite widespread implications that the prince is implicated. khashoggi, a commentatocommenta visited the consulate in october of last year, never to be seen again. at first, the saudi government denied all involvement. then, more than two weeks later, they finally admitted, he had been killed inside the consulate. they claimed, in a physical altercati altercation. then, weeks later, they said he'd been killed by a lethal injection in a rogue operation. jamal khashoggi's body has never been found. the u.n. report found that the trial in saudi arabia of 11 suspects fails to meet procedural standards and should be suspended. it's being held behind closed doors and the fear is some of

the suspects could be put to death without an opportunity to tell their stories to the outside world. it increases the pressure on the u.s. government to take a tougher line with the saudis beyond the sanctions on individuals that are already in place. and specifically, with respect to the crown prince. the trump administration continues to blame iran for a series of attacks in the middle east. more american troops and ships are on their way to the region. we have the latest from the united nations arab emirates. >> reporter: we headed out to sea on u.s. navy gun boats for the first time to see the crime scene at the center of a crisis that's edging the u.s. and iran closer to open conflict. u.s. fifth fleet forces patrol these waters, the most strategic oil shipping lane in the world. we've been shown explosive

fragments and a magnet left behind from an undetonated mine, that is used by iran. the scars thatack. this is as close as we can get to the hole blown in the hull that navy investigators say is probably the work of an iranian-made mine. it's four or five feet high. three feet wide. this point, the way the ship is sitting, it's just above the water line. but the u.s. navy's account that a mine targeted the vessel, contradicts eyewitnesses onboard. they saw flying objects before the explosion happened. do you have an explanation for that? >> the presence of flying objects has no bearing on what the attack was. excuse me. let me correct myself. the damage that we observed is consistent with the mine attack and is not consistent with an external flying object hitting

the ship. >> reporter: fueling tensions even further, a rocket attack in iraq that injured three people at a facility housing exxon mobil. that's the fourth attack in the past week targeting u.s. installations. the implication being that iranian-backed militias are to blame. there were political fireworks inside the house judiciary committee during a hearing on reparations. proponents hope it will lead to federal payments to the descendants of slaves. ed o'keeffe has the details. >> this is a very important hearing. it is historic. it is urgent. >> reporter: presidential candidate cory booker spoke in favor of paying reparations to the descendants of slaves. >> we mustard the inequalities or we will never achieve the strength and the possibility. >> reporter: supporters packed the hearing room. making their opinions known.

and they jammed the hallways outside. >> i got on a plane in two days and flew to washington, d.c. i'm quite excited. >> reporter: the bill would not have the government start cutting checks to african-americans. it would establish a commission to discuss the idea. >> why should the federal government bear responsibility to the social damages of the descendants of slaves? >> the federal government is complicit in it. >> reporter: the reparations goes back to post-civil war when the government promised, 40 acres and a mule to former slaves. they also signed racial inequities that outlasted slavery. typical black families have one-tenth the wealth of white families. black women die in childbirth at higher rates than white women. and black men are incarcerated at higher rates than whites. critics at the witness table, including coleman hughes, a descendant of slaves, testified that reparations would not address concerns about inequality.

>> reparations, by definition, are only given to victims. so, the moment you give me reparations, you've made me into a victim without my consent. >> reporter: and most republicans oppose reparations, including senate majority leader, mitch mcconnell. >> i don't think reparations for something that happened 150 years ago, for whom none of us currently living are responsible is a good idea. >> reporter: the author of a groundbreaking story in support of reparations shot back. >> for a century, black people were subjected to a relentless campaign of terror. a campaign that extended well into the lifetime of majority leader mcconnell. former white house communication director hope hicks was summoned to testify on capitol hill. she showed up with a white house lawyer in tow but answered very few questions. the president told her she didn't have to. nancy cordes reports. >> reporter: hicks took questions for seven hours but would not talk about her time in

the white house. >> it's as something as simple as where is your office located? objection. >> reporter: the white house lawyers with hicks said she didn't have to answer, because of something they called absolute immunity. >> there's no such thing as absolute immunity. the white house is making stuff up. >> reporter: hicks was one of the president's closest aides. her name appears in the mueller report 184 times. mueller says hicks witnessed most of the president's attempts to interfere with the investigation. why not answer the committee's questions, miss hicks? republicans argue there's nothing left to learn from hicks, who is a vice president at fox corporation. >> we're dogging about things that are already out there in public or getting the same answers over and over again. >> reporter: normally congress doesn't like it when people

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news." >> america's firefighters are known as the bravest, putting their line on the lives to save others. once the flames are doused, another danger lingers on, cancer. >> reporter: it's one of the world's most dangerous jobs. firefighters put their lives on the line every day to save the lives of others. firefighters, like mike palumbo. >> i will faithfully, discharge the duty of fire captain.

>> he was drawn to service. he was passionate about giving back to the opportunity that gave him the opportunity to have that career. >> reporter: during his two decades of service, his wife and five kids couldn't help but worry of the job's more obvious dangers. but a few years ago, something else caught up with mike, while hiking near the family's home. >> i knew when we got there, something was wrong. i convinced him to get back in the car. he was like, i'm fine. we got down the ravine, he literally walked into a tree. i just punish an panicked. >> reporter: they rushed mike to the hospital where he found out he had stage 4 brain cancer. >> what do you do? >> i crawled into bed with him and prayed into his ear. i had my kids brought in because i didn't know if they would see him again. >> reporter: prior to that, was he sick? >> he was healthy.

he was so healthy. it's mind-boggling you have this young, healthy, strong, happy guy. and then, in a snap of a finger, life puts you upside-down. >> reporter: for mike's family, his diagnosis was a shock. but it's part of an alarming national trend, that's caught the attention of researchers, like dr. jeffrey burgess at the university of arizona. >> the cancer risk that firefighters have is unique to being a firefighter. they have so many different types of cancers that have been shown to be elevated. >> reporter: he says the biggest danger to firefighters today has changed, from the fires they fight, to the smoke those fires produce. since 2002, almost two out of every three firefighters who died in the line of duty, died of cancer, according to the international association of firefighters. >> we have about 13 members right now who are battling various stage of cancers.

and we have a number of retirees in that fight. >> reporter: joseph finn is chief of the boston fire department. so, this is the memorial wall? >> all of the black and whites are members who have passed away from occupational cancer. >> reporter: since 1990, finn says cancer has killed more than 200 of his colleagues. how does that compare to the number of firefighters who die in the fire itself? >> certainly outnumbers it. at least 10, 20, 30-1. johnny, went to high school with him. >> reporter: that's a change from the past, finn says. and scientists believe it may be linked to another change in modern building materials. >> everything you buy today is laced with plastic. so, once they decompose and they combust, they will give off all of the toxins and cars gincarci that are dangerous to firefighters. >> reporter: adding to the risk is an age-old tradition of firefighting, a celebration of

soot as a sign of good work. what did it mean to be dirty back then? >> it was a badge of honor. the dirtier you were, the more work you had done. >> reporter: now, as if surviving the flames and then fighting cancer weren't enough, some firefighters are faciny ci they're protecting. 37-year-old patrick mahoney is a firefighter in bay town, texas, a city full of refineries and chemical plants, where taking on an inferno like this one in april, is all in a day's work. in 2017, after 15 years of service in baytown, mahoney discovered a bulge on his neck, thyroid cancer. >> we had, at that point, one or two guys in my department that had cancer. these were not smokers. did not use chewing tobacco. they were healthy people. when i was diagnosed, i definitely felt that it was job-related.

>> reporter: it's impossible to ever be sure what caused a particular case of cancer. but texas i 1f 38 states with so-called presumptive laws. meaning if an active-duty or recently retired firefighter is diagnosed with certain types of cancer, it's presumed he or she got it on the job and is titledo workers compensation benefits like lost salary and medical coverage. but for firefighters, those benefits are out of reegach. >> my workers' comp carrier said we don't cover cancer. >> reporter: he won his case twice. but the city sued him to get the decision reversed. >> to be sued like this after they denied it, is a betrayal. it makes me sometimes just want to work at a coffee shop because i feel like they don't care. >> reporter: at issue according

to baytown, is whether his cancer should be covered under texas law. baytown has been seeking clarification, adding that paying each claim could cost the city between $600,000 and $2 million. and mahoney's case is not unusual. since 2012 in texas, more than nine in ten firefighters have had their workers comp claims s denied. >> i want to let you know that i love you. that i am ready for this fight. >> reporter: and it's the same back in ohio, where mike palumbo worked his entire career. >> like any other person who gets sick or injured on the job, the benefits should be there to take care of their health and replace their income. it's that simple. somebody breaks a leg at work, it's covered. >> reporter: in 2017, mike and his family had helped pass the palumbo act. >> it's something we have on so many different levels. >> reporter: a law that presumes

that firefighters will receive benefits if they get certain types of cancer on the job. >> firefighters want to help. and now, they'll have the help. it truly means a lot to me. >> reporter: when mike himself was too weak from the cancer treatments to work, his claim was deniedenied. >> are you ready? >> uh-huh. >> you have to wake up, though. >> reporter: he was two months shy of official retirement when he had to turn in his badge. >> give him a kiss. just go up by his head. there you go. >> reporter: ten months later, at 49 years old, he died. >> it's not like he died in a fire. and you can say, at this day, at this time. >> reporter: he died from all the fires. >> yeah. you're telling me that because my husband died slowly from his job, that he shouldn't get the same benefits as somebody who died suddenly from their job.

that is the bottom line for me. >> reporter: two years after mike's death, half of current firefighter cancer claims in ohio have either been denied or caught up in appeal, including his. chrissy palumbo says she will keep fighting. fire departments around the country, meanwhile, have begun to focus on prevention. this is one of the things tucson has done to help reduce cancer risk. what does a washing machine have to do with cancer? >> so, when they go to a fire, they get the cancer-causing chemicals over all their gear. >> reporter: in arizona, dr. burgess says one of the easiest things firefighters can do to pr c is wash their gear and themselves immediately after a call. >> in the past, they wouldn't segregate their gear. they would go sit down with their gear on and get it on the couches, et cetera, yes. >> reporter: these firefighters are taught that looking dirty isn't heroic, but dangerous.

air masks have to stay on, even after the flames are out. and many departments are investing in a second set of gear, so something clean and hopefully carcinogen-free is always happenedndy. but those who have been on the force for years, like department chief joseph finn, the damage may already be done. do you think you're carrying remnants of fires from the '80s? >> there's probably a good chance of that. >> reporter: and finn wonders if we can't protect this generation of firefighters, who will come forward in the next generation to protect all of us? is there one of these fire trucks that would have been the fire truck your dad used? >> this one right here. >> reporter: your youngest son wants to be a firefighter like his dad? >> he does. >> reporter: knowing what you know about the profession, how do you feel about that?

>> it frightens me. he emulates his dad. he misses him greatly. >> reporter: do you remember when you decided you wanted to be a firefighter? >> ever since i went to the firestation the first time. >> reporter: what was that like? >> basically, better than going to disney. >> reporter: bottom line, if you had your say as a parent, would you want nicholas to become a firefighter? >> no. it's a good profession. (woman) when you take align daily,

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environmentalists along the gulf coast have a dolphin mystery on their hands. more than 300 of them have washed ashore dd. ma strau >> reporter: off the coast of st. petersburg, aaron with n on their research vessel. we found this pod of dolphins all healthy, swimming a half-mile from shore. from louisiana to the florida panhandle, coastline residents keep seeing a dolphin die-off. they're all bottlenose dolphins which live closest to shore. many were adults. the single-day record is nine. >> this is the texas/louisiana border. >> reporter: last week, noaa's marine mammal program,

documented this die-off. all of this, concerning, alarming, somewhere in the middle? >> i would say it's concerning and, you know, bordering on alarming, primarily because it's a group of dolphins that have been impacted because of other mortality events. this was the same area that was impacted by the deepwater horizon spill. >> reporter: they are looking at causes, from the effects of the bp oil spill in 2010, to skin lesions on many dolphins, that indicate fresh water exposure. rainfall has flowed from the mississippi into the gulf. or it could be chemicals, pollutants or a combination. >> reporter: it's an area where dolphins have been exposed to oil. they have lingering health issues. they are more susceptible to more additional stressor. anything could tip them over the edge. >> reporter: this is what researchers want to see throughout the gulf, healthy dolphins, unthreatened by a mysterious danger lurking hundreds of miles away.

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a new study found only 7% of airline pilots and flight engineers are african-american. michelle miller found one young pilot who has made it his mission to change all that. >> put your feet solid on there. >> reporter: for as long as 18-year-old davion lee can remember, he's dreamed of soaring high. >> i saw an airplane. and i said, i want to fly that day. epter: now, jerome

stanislas has taken him under his wing. growing up, he also found an interest in flying. he didn't have the same guidance. >> i told myself i would never probably be a pilot because i actually never saw a pilot that, you know, looked like myself. >> reporter: just over 2 1/2% of aircraft pilots and flight engineers are african-american, according to the bureau of labor statistics. last year, stanislas started giving free flights, often to children of color. >> aviation is an expensive career to get into. there's a barrier. >> reporter: he's part of fly for the culture, a nonprofit that promotes inclusion in aviation. >> when you take a kid up for the first time, you see their reaction. >> oh, it's priceless. >> this is the best day of my life. >> reporter: 6-year-old boogie and 3-year-old brother, tyler, landed with mixed reactions. >> it was fun. >> reporter: it was fun?

what's going on with your little brother? >> knocked out. >> reporter: you might want to be a pilot when you grow up? >> yeah. >> reporter: why? you fell asleep in the back. >> yeah. that was silly. >> reporter: why do you do it? >> because i love it. sorry. >> reporter: it's okay. >> i'm sorry. you know, i really want to be able to make a difference. and this is how i do it. you know, just like my purpose. >> reporter: a purpot's already made a difference. michelle miller, cbs news, farmifar farmi farmingdale, new york. >> what an inspiring story. that is "the overnight news" for this thursday. for some of you, the news continues. for others, check back with us a little later for the morning news and "cbs this morning." from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm nikki battiste.

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