captioning funded by cbs is captioning funded by cbs it's thursday, it's thursday, june 20th, 2019. this is the "cbs morning news." iran shoots down a u.s. drone, but the u.s. reportedly says it was in international airspace. the latest incident amid tense relations. severe weather slams parts of the u.s. millions of americans are still at risk. we'll show you where. former vice president joe biden is facing criticism from his own party about comments about segregationists, but he's not backing down.

good morning from the studio 57 newsroom at cbs news headquarters here in new york. good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. well, we begin with new developments overnight concerning a drone shoot-down that could raise tensions between the u.s. and iran. iran's revolutionary guard says they shot down a u.s. drone over their airspace. the u.s. says it was in international airspace. the drone was shot down this morning. they say it happened over the strait of hormuz. they struck it down with an air-to-surface missile. the white house is closely monitored the situation. the drone incident comes after last week's attack on two oil tankers in the gulf of oman, a major transit route for global oil supplies. iran denies those accusations, and this weekend washington

announced it was sending another 1,000 u.s. troops to the middle east. they say the move was in response to what was described as hostile iranian forces. now back at home, more than 52 million americans are in the path of severe weather that will re main a threat through the weekend. it's feared that damaging flash flooding in some areas. flooding and a pocket of hail and tornado are possible as well. yesterday widespread damage was left behind after a possible tornado touched down in greenville, texas. it also caused damage to the downtown area. no reports of injuries throw. heavy rain caused flooding in ohio. floodwaters came rushing into the emergency room of a hospital. patients were taken to other nearby hospitals and ugent care facilities. they are all expected to be okay. democratic presidential candidate joe biden is refusing to apologize for comments he made about working with civility with segregationist lawmakers. the former vice president made the comments at a fund-raising event this week. biden was referencing a time when he first got to the senate. the comments are drawing

criticism from within his own party. laura podesta is here with more from new york. laura, what's the latest? >> there's been a lot of backlash. senator elizabeth warren says i'm not here to criticize other democrats, but it's never okay to agree with seg gagists. kamala harris says she's disappointed and biden is defending himself. former vice president joe biden says he has nothing to be sorry about. >> there's not a racist bone in my body. i've been involved in civil rights my whole career, period, period, period. >> he was discussing his earlier years in washington when he worked alongside eastland of mississippi and herman talmadge of georgia. biden said, quote, things got done and with civility. his remarks prompted another

white house candidate new jersey senator/presidential candidate cory booker to demand an apol y apology. >> apologize for what? cory should apologize. he knows better. >> last night booker said someone who aspires to presidency should know better. >> i was raised to speak truth to power and that i should never apologize for doing that, and vice president biden shouldn't need this lesson. >> biden insists that his comments were taken out of context. >> i ran for the united states senate because i disagreed with the views of the segregationists, many of them senators at the time. >> kamala harris said biden was coddling his former colleagues' reputations. >> the senators that he is speak of with such adoration are individuals who made and built their reputation on segregation.

>> harris is not demanding an apology from biden. she said it's up to him to decide if one is needed. >> a fellow democratic candidate and a white man married to black woman tweeted it's 2019 and joe biden is longing for the good old days of civility typified by james eastland. eastland thought my multi-racial family should be illegal. anne-marie? >> laura podesta in new york. thank you, laura. lawmakers are looking at setting up a commission who would study reparations for descendants of family members who were enslaved. the issue drew sharp criticism from some lawmakers. >> why should the federal government bear responsibility for economic and social damages to the descendants of the enslaved? >> because the federal government is complicit in it. >> some studies estimate paying reparations could cost up to $6 > thshooting of former

slugger david ortiz was mistak the real target was his friend who was wearing similar clothing at the time of the shooting earlier this month. chris martinez reports. >> reporter: the shooting of former boston red sox baseball star david ortiz at point blank range was never supposed to happen, according to prosecutors and the dominican republic. the object was not david ortiz, the attorney general said. it was another man who was seated with ortiz and wearing a similar outfit. prosecutors say the intended target was a friend of ortiz who attended the bar regularly on saturdays. dominican authorities laid out the chain of command and said a member of the gulf cartel orchestrated the hit. he remains on the run. 11 are being held. rolf y ferreya ortiz says it

wasn't for david. dominican authorities say they're still looking for at least three more suspects. they say all of the suspects will spend a year behind bars as the investigation continues. chris martinez, cbs news, los angeles. 72 pennsylvania police officers are on administrative duty this morning for alleged racist and violent posts. the philadelphia commissioner says he believes several dozen people would be disciplined and he expected some would be fired. >> it makes me sick to be honest with you. it really makes me sick because we're in a position to know better. >> a national group accuses officers in at least five states of offensive social media posts. president trump is lashing out at democrats following hope hicks' testimony before the house judiciary committee. yesterday the president said he heard democrats were taking pictures of hicks during her closed door testimony. hicks, once one of trump's

closest aides, was questioned about possible obstruction of justice. nancy cordes reports. >> reporter: hicks took questions for several hours, but would not talk about her time in the white house. >> something as simple as where is your office located. objection. >> reporter: the 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 just making stuff up. >> reporter: hicks was one of trump's closest aides. toer with e itne s attemp investigation. republicans argued there's nothing left to learn from hicks who is now a vice president at fox corporation. >> we're simply talking about things that are out there in the public. we're getting the same answers over and over. >> normally congress double like

it when people don't answer their questions. in this case, you say you're fine with it. >> i want to make it clear that whether it's been liked by congress or not, it's been used by both democrats and republicans, so it's not new. >> reporter: but democrats say this immunity claim for a former white house aide is new, and they're planning to challenge it in court because they want to interview a number of former trump aides as part of their obstruction of justice investigation. nancy cordes, cbs news, capitol hill. chinese president xi jinping arrived overnight for a two-day state visit to north korea. the summit comes as xi and kim jong-un are locked in separate disputes with the u.s. xi over trade and kim over nuclear weapons. this is the first time for xi to visit north korea in 14 years. coming up on the "cbs "morning news"", why missouri is in danger of losing its license of its last planned parenthood and one of the biggest busts in u.s. history.

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here's a look at the forecast in some cities around the country. a revolver believed to have been used by vincent van gogh to kill himself has been sold at auction. the weapon was discovered in the 1960s in the fields of northern france. that's where the dutch artist is thought to have shot himself in the chest in 1890. yesterday an anonymous buyer paid $145,000 for a gun at a paris auction.

van gogh's suicide was questioned in a pulitzer prize-winning book which concluded instead he was fatally shot by two teenagers. on the "cbs moneywatch," reported concerns about the grounded max jet, and mr. peanut is featured on a new sneaker. marc liverman is at the new york stock exchange with that and more. good morning, marc. good morning, anne-marie. they make their exchange today at $267 per share. the company would be worth about $16 billion. now, on the earnings front, darden restaurants which owns popular food chains including olive garden and longhorn steakhouse along with kroger and red hat. stocks ended the day with modest gains. the dow was up 38 points, the s&p 500 added 8 points, and the nasdaq gained 33 points. efforts to get boeing's 737 max jets back in the air have reportedly opinion delayed in part amid concerns about pilots'

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here's look at today's forecast in some cities around the country. a pod of killer whales put on a spectacular show for whale

thcalifornia's monay bay.es ty ' before. ot kno why the whales have migrated south. and a 10-year-old girl is feeling on top of the world after making history. selah shneiter became the youngest climber on record to make it to the top of el capitan. it's one of the most challenging vertical rock climbs located in yosemite national park. she made the assent together with her dad, a certified rock climbing guide, and his best friend. >> how do you feel, selah? >> sad. >> why? that's your first happy cry? >> yeah. i can't believe i just did that. >> the nearly 3,000-foot climb took five days to complete. coming up on "cbs this morning," in the series "a more perfect union," we'll show you a unique steam program that

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learn the signs at autismspeaks.org. our top stories this morning, the iranian revolutionary guard said they shot down a u.s. drone. the u.s. said the drone was in international airspace. the drone was shot down this morning. a u.s. official speaking on the condition of anonymity said it happened over the strait of hormuz. the white house says it is closely monitoring the situation. and democratic presidential candidate joe biden is refusing to apologize for comments he made about working with civility with segregationist lawmakers. rival presidential candidate cory booker is demanding an apology. booker said someone who aspires to the presidency should know better than to praise the work of segregationists.

an alaskan teenager has been charged with killing her best friend. the murder plot began online with a promise of a multi-million-dollar payday. carter evans has the story. >> reporter: in court 18-year-old denali brehmer showed no emotion as she appeared to admit her role in an elaborate plot to murder her friend cynthia hoffman. investigators say it all began with a bizarre downline catfishing scheme designed by darin schilmillel in indiana. without ever meeting her, he allegedly led her to believe he was a multi-millionaire named tyler enticing her with a million dollars. brehmer offered to pay some of the money with four other teens to help her plan and carry out the killing. according to the criminal complaint on june 2nd, brehmer and 16-year-old kayden macintosh took hoffman on a hike where

they allegedly duct taped her and shot her in the head and dumped her in the river. >> i'm going to seek justice and i'm going to follow this to the full extent of the law and i'll be here every time she is, and i will not let it go. >> reporter: police found hoffman's body a day later and the scheme began to unravel, leading them to brehmer, macintosh, and the other teens involved. brehmer's phone records revealed schilmiller in indiana. authorities say their arrest should be a warning. >> 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, and we will bring you back here to face justice. >> reporter: schilmiller and brehmer are also charged with child porn counts.

he convinced her to sexually abuse two minors and send him pictures. carter evans, cbs news, los angeles. coming up on "cbs this morning," "ctm" looks at the growing backlash of crime labs across the country and gives us a rare peek inside the arkansas state lab. plus the ftc is investigating youtube on allegations that it illegally collected data on minors. and in our series "a more perfect union" we'll show you a unique steam program that combines dance and computer coding. that's the "cbs morning news" for this thursday. thanks for watching. i'm anne-marie green. have a great day. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com ...6, 7, 8

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sky. it is thursday, 220. good morning everyone. kenny has the morning off. let's get over to mary lee and talk about the thursday forecast. >> happy thursday to you, and we are starting off today with cloudy skies and areas of the fog as well, and even some patchy drizzle. will check out the temperature is as the kickoff your thursday, and you can see in the mid to upper 50s to low 60s at this hour. as we take you through the day, slightly cooler temperatures compared to yesterday with stronger onshore flow and that means areas of fog and low clouds and it is extensive. 83 in livermore as well as fairfield and 71 and oakland city seven in san francisco and cool and breezy along the coast in the low 60s. we will talk about when we see temperatures warming back up in just a few minutes. here at 4:30, let's start with a check at the main travel times. there are no travel ti