massachusetts. gives democrats the last chance to negotiate. the threats are meant to triez. also cyber strike, tensions escalate tweeb between the u.s. and iran. look out, a hot air balloon makes a hard landing in missouri. a deepening mystery, what's killing the gray whales on the west coast. and hurricane hawkins, setting records at 103. >> i hope i'm inspiring them to be healthy and to realize you

can still be doing it at this kind of an age. welcome to "cbs overnight news." i'm elaine quijano. the people living in this country illegally has been put on hold. the president first vowed to deport millions and then thousands. now he's calling on the democrats to come up with comprehensive immigration plan. erroll barnett reports. >> reporter: president trump ignored questions as he returned to the white house today but he was talking. >> we're doing a fantastic job urnld the circumstances. >> reporter: president trump praised his administration's treatment of detain ed migrants and families despite criticism of the conditions at border facilities. he also blames democrats for the problems. >> if they changed asylum and changed loopholes, everything on the border would be perfect.

>> reporter: this weekend the president reversed himself and delayed his plan to catch and deport illegal immigrants including families. it happened after house speaker nancy pelosi spoke with the president on friday requesting a postponement. she welcomed the news tweeting families belong together. for those feeling threatened, senator kamala harris offers this. >> there are those of us who will fight for you and your rights every day. i my message to them is do not live in fear. >> reporter: the democratic mayor of oakland, california, did not pull her punches says the president's rhetoric is causing harm. >> threats are meant to terrorize. good communities like the ones in okay listened. sglrp after overnighting at camp david, president trump spent much of today at his virginia golf course before returning here to the white house. he described his decision to play deportations as a last chance for democrats or else. >> erroll br net, thank you.

president trump says sanctions will be imposed on iran as soon as tomorrow. tensions are rising following last week's shootdown of drone. charlie d'agata is monitoring developments where iranians are reacting to increased pressure. iran's leaders may not want war, but lawmakers were shouting death to america. iranian president again accused the u.s. of violating iranian air space while president trump tempered u.s. warnings with a touch of optimism. >> hopefully we can get iran back on to an economic track that's fantastic. where they are a wealthy nation. which would be a wonderful thing.

>> iranian state tv has been broadcasting video purporting to show the missile launched to bring it down. during a stop in jerusalem, the national security adviser warned tehran not to mistake president trump's abrupt tegs to call off military strikes for weakness. no one has granted them a a hunting license in the middle east. as president trump said on friday, our military rebuilt new and ready to go. the u.s. maintains several military options in the region and president trump says none of them is off the table. there is another front to this confli conflict. the cyber operation just another example of the shadow war between the two countries. no surprise authorities have not commented. >> ca

>> charlie d'agata, thank you. it doesn't just rely on diplomacy or military might. economic sanctions are already in full force. a handful of countries have received waivers to keep buying oil from iran, but the waivers have now expired. iraq still has a waiver for iran to fulfill its energy needs. >> reporter: when baghdad bakes under the sun t cools down with the help of the newest treasures. a power plant running on technology from america and natural gas. for the trump administration, that's a problem. it's imposed harsh sanctions on iran and wants iraq to stop relyingen its neighbor to the east for energy. that worries some jeengineers. >> what would happen to baghdad?

>> we would die. >> because people wouldn't have electricity? >> yes, for sure. >> reporter: iraq is barely coping. this is a us typical neighborhood. it looks like any street in the naes. but we have to tilt the camera up to tell this story. this tangled web of wires links home to unofficial power stations run out of backyards like this one. >> the diesel powers how many homes in this neighborhood. >> about 25. >> every day whenever the official grid runs out of electricity, he switches on his generators sending ten more hours of power. last summer power shortages sent protesters into the streets. >> we are making progress. >> reporter: the minister of electricity says this country has enough resources to generate its own power eventually. >> it's just a matter of time,

two to three years. >> reporter: he fears more cuts could lead to instability and not just in his country. >> we are talking about the s e safety of the middle east. >> reporter: the hope is that the trump administration will keep letting iraq get its energy from iran so long, hot summers will cool off and the lights in baghdad will stay on. north korean dictator kim jong-un says he shhas received personal letter from trump. it's of excellent content. talks to denuclearize breek down last february. president trump travels to south korea next weekend. hundreds of people gathered in new hampshire to mourn seven bikers killed in a devastating crash. among the dead former marines and their spouses riding to a long planned cer forus a pickupck png a trailer of cars

now to hawaii. family and friends are mourning the lives lost in one of the state's worst civilian aviation disasters. investigators are searching for clues about why a twin engine plane crashed on the north shore late friday. jonathan vig lliotti is is ther. >> i looked over and there was a big ball of fire. i said, wow. >> reporter: carlos works for the company whose plane crashed friday killing all 11 on board. >> what a shame. i saw it hit. i was right there. i was right there. i heard the boom.

>> reporter: he drove the customers to the tandem flight. he's one of the last people to speak to the victims before the crash. >> it must have been a moment of disbelief for you. >> it was. >> reporter: the ntsb is combing through the char red wreckage investigating what caused it to fall out of the sky. among the victims, sky diving struinstructors casey williamsod mike martin. another victim graduated from the naval economy. his family says they are d devastated and in shock. one sky driver was friends with the crew and he believes the plane was fit to nigh. >> i would have jumped out of that airplane. >> reporter: the same was involved in a midair incident three years ago in nosh california. 14 sky divers had had to jump to safety after the plane started spinning. the ntsb later determined pilot error played a role. the plane appeared to turn

around just after takeoff. there wasn't enough altitude or time for those on board to jump to safety. jonathan vigliotti, cbs news. there were terrifying moments in missouri when a hot air balloon made a hard landing. it happened at a festival in the city of hasn't ball. three people were hurt. meg oliver has the story. >> they were struck by one of them. >> reporter: some spectators seemed frozen in place as the hot air balloon barrelled toward them. >> ems, any way to try to direct the ambulance to the patients. >> reporter: people scrambled to dodge the fast-moving basket. on board the pilot and a passenger trying to help steer through the crowd. more than a thousand people were at the festival celebrating the

city's by centennial. the accident was captured on a cell phone. >> what was the reaction of the crowd? >> the crowd was really shocked and scared and people were run ing for their lives. >> reporter: the balloon cut through trees, levelled lawn chairs and knocked people to the ground. it took crews less than an hour to secure the scene before balloons we relaunched into the sky. it's the first weekend of summer, but some parts of the the could ntry don't seem to be getting the message. snow blanketed high el vagss in the west. this is colorado. two feet of flurries fell on steam boat since friday and thunderstorms forced music lovers in kansas to run for cover last night. how unusual is two feet of snow colorado in june? >> two feet is really strange. we think what may be happening here is the arctic is warming

rapidly and throw the jet stream off kilter. it can display the cold air and create unusual weather patterns. it's initiating severe weather because it's butting heads with the heat in the southeast. so that set veer weather is going to be moving east overnight tonight. the bulls eye for severe weather in dallas and tyler, texas, it's moving south. and by morning places like houston. during the day tomorrow, that all moves east. possibility of strong winds and large hail as well as this all moves towards the east. rainfall potential over the next seven days. these places have seen record rainfall this winter and spring and will continue to come down heavy in places like that. >> thank you. california's historic racetrack closes for the season today amid-new controversy over the deaths of multiple horses.

hall of fame horse trainer was banned from the track on saturday after the fourth horse under his care died. it was the 30th horse to die at santa anita since december. last year 493 horses died while racing at the north american racetracks, an average of ten b fatalities every week. next, what's killing the gentle giants on the pacific coast. later how dance is teaching fwirls to cope. geico makes it easy to get help when you need it.

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year. >> reporter: so far this year, hednline to it's belieeds me d ocean. >> one of the most common features we're seeing is the whales are extremely emaciated and malnourished. >> most travel to the arctic and then back. it's one of the longest mammal migrations on earth. >> we're on an ocean highway for all sorts of marine life. we're watching humpback whales feed. a mother and her calf. earlier we saw a super herd of dolphi dolphins. unlike most whales, grays eat tiny creatures on the ocean floor. >> any time a group of our generals are all showing the same stressed nutritional condition, it means there's something wrong with their food. >> are there changes in the

environment causing this? the ecosystem has been changingd contaminated water could also be factors for the rising death toll. >> you have gray whales because something is wrong in the ocean, it means other animals are going to die die. >> reporter: jonathan vigliotti, cbs news. still ahead, we're following the beat where know what turns me on? my man.

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tech has a big gender problem. women hold just 25% of computer-related occupations in the u.s. but one tech executive is trying to make a difference by teaching girls to code with a twist. >> reporter: numbers, steps and creativity are sintegral parts f choreography and coding. this 14-year-old breaks it down like this. >> with dancing, you have to look at the steps and figure out how do they fit into one another. same with coding. >> reporter: she's part of dance logic, a program in philadelphia that combines dance and computer programming or coding. this is 14-year-old lauren dorsett's second year. shed as the dancing part came

ea easy. >> coding is is hard at first. unless you grew into it andta with it for awhile, it starts to get easier. >> with you found out how much you could make later on in life, you thought what? >> i should look more into this because not all are offered the same opportunities. >> reporter: and opportunity is everything, says franklin atheist, senior vice president at comcast who started dance logic in 2018. >> i had no idea what it was going to turn out to be. >> you wanted to originally focus on code iing. >> exactly. >> reporter: his friend suggested he incorporate dance. >> we're trying to find the hook. coding along doesn't bring the hook. it worked. the dance was getting them to come back to the class. >> reporter: for people who look at coding and think i'm not good at math or science, this is too hard, what do you say so that? >> it's always hard in the beginning. the dance part is so important because young ladies could not

dance. but they practice. >> reporter: both said it gave them confidence and felt like that that helps them in the real world because they said i can do anything. >> it was all bawl of practice. it wasn't anything else besides let's try it and get it wrong, try it again and, boom, the smile comes on your fate and says i got it. >> you're a senior vice president of a major corporation and taking your saturdays to help young girls. why do you think it's so important to give back? >> i came from a rough neighborhood. and someone introduced me to something that kept me out of trouble. if i can help motivate some other person to do the same thing and show it's not that hard, that's the reward i get out of this. >> reporter: when the girls finish the program, they are rewarded. atheist gives them ipads to say can keep coding. he has no doubt they will keep on dancing?

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it's not often a runner sets world records just a couple years after taking up the sport. but as maurice shows us, this it beginner has plenty of life experience. >> at 103 years old, julia hawkins isn't slowing down. she's picking up the pace. >> gold medalist. >> reporter: during this week's 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 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 to realize you can still be doing it a at the this kind of an age.

>> reporter: hawkins is no stranger to breaking records. she started her running career at age 100. and quickly racked up three world records by 102. including in the 100 meter dash. she told reporters at the time she skipped her nap to make that race. >> it would be neat to run at 100 yard dash. >> reporter: her training secret, guardening at her home. >> every day when you're 103. >> she competes to impress her family. but with this drive, she's on track to impress many more people than that. cbs news, new york. >> that's the "cbs overnight news" for this monday. for some the news continues. from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm elaine quijano.

welcome to the "cbs overnight news." i'm elaine quijano. president trump's planned roundup of people living in this country illegally has been put on hold. the president vowed to deport millions and nthen thousands. now he's calling on the democrats to come up with an immigration plan. erroll barnett reports. >> reporter: president trump ignored questions as he returned to the white house today but he was talking. >> we're doing a fantastic job under the circumstances. >> reporter: president trump praised his administration's treatment of detained migrants and families despite criticism

of the conditions at border facilities. he also blames democrats for the problems. >> if they changed asylum and changed loopholes, everything on the border would be perfect. inclg famies. it happened after house speaker nancy pelosi spoke with the president on friday requesting a postponement. she welcomed the news tweeting families belong together. for those feeling threatened, senator kamala harris offers this. >> there are those of us who will fight for you and your rights every day. my message to them is do not live in fear. >> reporter: the democratic mayor of oakland, california, did not pull her punches says the president's rhetoric is causing harm. >> his threats are meant to terrorize good communities like the ones in okay listened. >> after overnighting at camp david, president trump spent much of today at his virginia golf course before returning here to the white house. he described his decision to play deportations as a last chance for democrats or else.

>>rroll rnet, thank you. president trump says sanctions will be imposed on iran as soon as tomorrow. tensions are rising quickly following last week's shootdown of drone. charlie d'agata is monitoring developments where iranians are reacting to increased pressure. iran's leaders may not want war, but lawmakers in parliament today were shouting death to america. iranian president again accused the u.s. of violating iranian tempered u.s. warnings with a touch of optimism. >> hopefully we can get iran back on to an economic track that's fantastic. where they are a really wealthy nation. which would be a wonderful thing.

>> iranian state tv has been broadcasting video purporting to show the missile launched to bring the drone down. during a stop in jerusalem, the u.s. national security adviser warned tehran not to mistake decision to call off military strikes for weakness. no one has granted them a hunting license in the middle east. as president trump said on friday, our military rebuilt new and ready to go. >> the u.s. maintains several military options in the region and president trump says none of them is off the table. there is another front to this conflict. the u.s. cyber operation just another example of the shadow war between the two countries. no surprise authorities have not commented. >> charlie d'agata, thank you.

the strategy of putting maximum pressure on iran doesn't just rely on diplomacy or military might. u.s. economic sanctions are already in full force. a handful of countries have received waivers to keep buying oil from iran, but the waivers have now expired. iraq still has a waiver for iran to fulfill its energy needs. >> reporter: when baghdad bakes under the sun, it cools down with the help of the newest treasures. a power plant running on technology from america and natural gas. for the trump administration, that's a problem. it's imposed harsh sanctions on iran and wants iraq to stop relying on its neighbor to the east for energy. that worries some engineers.

>> if you had to shut this down tomorrow, what would happen to baghdad? >> we would die. >> because people wouldn't have electricity? >> yes, for sure. >> reporter: iraq is barely coping. this is a typical neighborhood. it looks like any street in the middle east. but we have to tilt the camera up to tell this story. this tangled web of wires links home to unofficial power stations run out of backyards like this one. >> the diesel powers how many homes in this neighborhood. >> about 25. >> every day whenever the official grid runs out of electricity, he switches on his generators sending his neighbors at least ten more hours of power. last summer power shortages sent protesters into the streets. >> we are making progress. >> reporter: the minister of electricity says this country has enough resources to generate its own power eventually. >> it's just a matter of time, two to three years.

>> reporter: he fears more cuts to power could lead to instability and not just in his country. >> we are talking about the safety of the middle east. >> reporter: the hope is that the trump administration will keep letting iraq get its energy from iran so long, hot summers will cool off and the lights in baghdad will stay on. north korean dictator kim jong-un says he has received a personal letter from trump. it's of excellent content. talks to denuclearize breek down last february. president trump travels to south korea next weekend. there were terrifying moment this is missouri when a hot air balloon made a hard landing into at least tee pe were hurt. meg oliver has the s

>> they were struck by one of them. >> reporter: some spectators seemed frozen in place as the massive hot air balloon barrelled toward them. >> ems, any way to try to direct the ambulance to the patients. >> reporter: people scrambled to dodge the fast-moving basket. on board the pilot and a passenger trying to help steer through the crowd. more than a thousand people were at the festival celebrating the city's bicentennial. the accident was captured on a cell phone. >> what was the reaction of the crowd? >> the crowd was really shocked and scared and people were running for their lives. >> reporter: the balloon cut through trees, levelled lawn chairs and knocked people to the ground. it took rescue crews less than an hour to secure the scene before balloons we relaunched into the sky.

the idea of a flying taxi with a robot driver has been the subject of science fiction and saturday morning cartoons. but a growing number of companies are working to turn this fantasy into reality. chris van cleave is the an airport where he got a sneak peek at what may be the future of ridesharing. >> reporter: this airport is is a special zone for testing unmanned aircraft. the one behind me is special. it has the potential to change the way people move. airbus call it a prototype of an autonomous air taxi. it means that which carries, that which pulls.

in oregon, the electric motors hope to carry the future. there's no human at the controls of the single seat autonomous air taxi as it takes off vertically like a helicopter. the wings then are tat allowing it to fly like a plane. the battery-powered aircraft hits speeds at over 100 miles per hour and fly up to 35 miles. the project manager. >> do you think you're going to get people that want to get in a flying contraption that doesn't have a pilot? >> people will get used to it. >> reporter: this could be the answer to urban gridlock. flying over the traffic jam. but convincing the public might be a challenge. even among those 18 to 24, 1 in they fly in something without a pilot. >> how do you convince people to change their mind? you need first adaopters. >> you want to demonstrate perfect safety and added value for the customer. this is about time in a convenient and safe way.

>> reporter: the airbus maker took it from a sketch to flight testing in two years using materials already commercially available. >> we have been working on making sure we can execute a safe test flight from takeoff and return safely to the ground. >> reporter: the test flights rbt long. only last a few minutes at the time. one of the challenges will be developing better batteries to allow hem to fly long er. the race is on now to develop a fleet of rideshare iing autonom air taxis. think flying ooubers. boeing's prototype took its first flooigt. at this month's uber elevate conference, a dozen flying car concepts were on display including bells full-size demonstrator. it seat ises four passengers and aims to enter customer service by mid-2020s.

for a time it will have a human operator on board before going fully autonomous. >> a the lot of us grew up watching the jetsons and thought that was far fefetched. the reality is here today. when you look at the explosion and expansion of population growth within cities, there's no ground base solutions that will be able to resolve those challenges. >> we're not ready today. >> reporter: the acting faa administrator says it's too early to talk about time lines. >> we're about gathering data to assure us of the safety for these voo vehicles. unmanned is is a higher bar. we have a ways to go. >> reporter: regulations and a system to manage increasingly crowded air space still needs to be developed. for airbus, it's like a first draft. it will be up to future models to prove they can safely fly passengers. it will be years before people are flying in an air taxi, but a

company in london is buying up rooftop space for landing pads so they will be ready when the technology is set to take off. a teen from japan was the big winner in the international sailing competition in the waters around new york city. he's a new professional sports league, combining the finest sailors in the world and a the finest technology. the boats do 50 miles per hour. >> reporter: boat racing is a sport that goes back thousands of years. never before hasn anyone achievd the footing displayed by this brand new competitive series. the sound you hear is the signal of the arrival of new international sailing league. taking the tim honored tradition of the racing object the water to a whole new level. the league is the brain child of larry elson b and sailing legend sir russell koouts.

>> i had been thinking about this for years. he said we should develop this new series that really runs it as a proper professional sport that has the consistency needed to really grow it it the extent we think it can can. >> reporter: they wanted a league that improved on the sport they loved. >> we used to sit around and say, there they are, racing on an even playing field and until now that actually amazingly never existed. we have a a really simple rule. that is they have to use the equipment supply. and not allowed to change it or modify it. it's all about the skill of the athletes. >> reporter: the pair's passion for sailing and technology resulted in this. the catamaran, a a literal dream boat that combines natural elements, human skill and

cutting edge tech and da to to achieve the fastest competitive sailing speeds in history. at the moment there are only six of the state of the art water craft in existence. >> we started with 16 because that's the number that could be completed before the start of season we have. we have two new boats under construction. so we're already expanding that championship for next season. we were at the u.s. debut last month in san francisco bay. one of the things that sets this league apart is this is a great race to watch from the shore. that crowd is geting as good a view as we are on this chaser boat. as opposed to tradition races over long periods of time and open water, sale dprks b lasted minutes. it means more dramatic moments like this.

we the busy waters of the new york harbor. this is definitely the coolest thing i will ever do in my life. >> when you experience it live, it's a wheel other level. it's a wow factor. >> from new york, this year's championship series goes on to finish up in england and frank. he hopes the league will go much further than that. >> you definitely don't have to be somebody that knows about sailing to come along for this. it's going to be special for many people. they will be wowed by the speed of the the poets. >> that speed can top 50 knots. also the gp strands for grand prix, which in this case means one of the six international teams who will walk on shore

with a million dollars in prize money. the u.s. team is in fourth place for the season behind japan,

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garbage and chemical it is caught fire.as nothe firste the ritoe the last. the image of smoke on the water sparked outrage from coast to coast and helped launch the environmental movement. jeff gloer has the story. >> reporter: the burning river which was long ab easy is target was the by-product of decades of industrial indifference. the burning river was also the reason why everything changed. >> jen of cleveland metro parks took us for a tour of the current day. >> we are in the federal

navigation ship channel of the cuyahoga river and nearing the mouth of the river. >> where this weekend people are celebrating the last time the river burned. 50 years ago, june 22nd, 1969. why? because it hasn't happened since. bill was just a kid out of college then. a a member of the environmental protection agency. >> it was being dumped in the river. you have oil, gasoline, care seen. >> for more than 100 years, these waterways were waste reseptember ceptacle receptacles. it propelled an american century, but the bills came due in the the '60s and '70s. after an embarrassing series of river fires. >> the river leading to the passage of the clean water act gave us a level playing field across the country. >> reporter: it was the first major u.s. law todd

pollution. it followed a pass act of a law in the wake of what happened in cleveland. within that space of six months, you had that after the cuyahoga. >> christy is is a former administrator of the ep ara. >> it wasn't partisan back then. >> it wasn't partisan at all. it was people in general saying enough. >> why is it today? >> it's about power and not about solving the problems unfortunately. this is an easy one to go after because we have made progress. the air is cleaner. the water is pure. land is better protected today, but we still have a ways to go. >> curt runs the ohio epa today. >> dead fish were floating all over the river. today as of march -- >> you can eat those fish. we have wall eye, steel head trout. the navigation channel 50 years

ago was a dead zone. it was devoid of any life whatsoever. the river will never be where it was, but there's a realization that industrial and environmental concerns aren't always enemies. ifferent fish need d things. that's what we're trying to do is look at areas where can we puncture holes in the steel bulk head to allow for aquatic habitat. kind of like fish bed and breakfast. a place to stop between the lake and upstream. >> 50 years ago they couldn't survive in the water and now they get bed and breakfast. >> you got it. >> off cruise. >> people said you can't fix this. don't even try.

there's a one-room schoolhouse in massachusetts that's closing down after 139 years. graduating class. >> reporter: thises hard ali ka traz, but for a kid going to school here can sometimes feel like solitary. this 13-year-old is is the only student in a one-room schoolhouse. it's just her and her teacher. you won't find a smaller school anywhere in these united states. >> happy wednesday. >> reporter: gwen has lived on the island her entire life. there were other kids, but everyone else is gone leaving gwen to make the most of her solo situation. >> we did plays with a lot of different parts. >> did everybody in town come? >> yeah. >> it was pretty empty in there.

>> there was like 12. >> 12. that's the year round population. the place most ly a summer destination vacation. although the census sweld tenfold. friends and family flocking to witness the last graduation ever. after today the school built in 1873 to teach fishermen kids will close due to zero enrollment. that little school went out immediabig. they got a comedian to do the commencement address. >> i thought you would be out here churning butter. >> next fall gwen will go to a boarding high school on the mainland. >> i'm so excited. even though it's a smaller school. >> no, it's not. what do you mean? >> compared to other high schools. >> but still that's going to be a huge change. how are you going to teal with

that? >> i'm going to love it. just to see other people besides my mother and father every single day of my life. >> reporter: these are the bores she's referencing. they say their tower has been asking to leave the island since she was 8. as far as they are concerned, gwen had an idyllic childhood and they are confident some day she'll appreciate it. >> i didn't thank my mother for anything until i was 25. but i thank her all the time now. >> reporter: then again graduations demand reflection and it's almostsible to celebrate the opportunities that lie ahead without recognizing often for the first time the opportunities behind. >> thank you for raising me. thank you for teaching me. thank you for giving me the best beginning a child could ask for. >> reporter: a class of one, but a message for every parent of every 2019 ash landed into a

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