captioning sponsored by cbs ♪ >> axelrod: on the "cbs evening news" this monday, a multimillionaire is charged with sex trafficking involving underage girls. could some high-profile friends be implicated? >> financier jeffrey epstein pleading not guilty to new sex trafficking charges during his first appearance in new york city federal court. >> this conduct involves dozens of young girls, some as young as 14 years old. >> heavy rains causing widespread flash flooding across the washington, d.c., area. >> emergency crews have carried out several water rescues. >> that's it. the u.s. wins their fourth world cup. >> axelrod: they won the world cup. now comes a new battle. >> equal pay! equal pay! >> the sweltering heat wave stifles alaska. >> the state is heating up at a rate twice as fast as the rest

of the planet. >> axelrod: and the kid who saved the fourth with a double knot. >> i walked up there and he whispered, "can you tie his shoe?" >> axelrod: good evening. i'm jim axelrod. this is our western edition. jeffrey epstein had it all. his hedge fund made him a fortune. he fostered friendships with powerful people, including two presidents, but tonight he stands accused of sex trafficking and abusing dozens of girls as young as 14. epstein probably thought he'd put his legal troubles behind him with a plea deal in florida 11 years ago, but as mola lenghi reports, federal prosecutors in new york now have a different idea. >> reporter: dressed in prison blues after spending part of the weekend in jail, multimillionaire jeffrey epstein plead not guilty to charges that he enticed, recruited, and molested young girls at his homes in new york and florida. in a filing, prosecutors referred to epstein as an alleged serial predator. u.s. attorney geoffrey berman.

>> this conduct as alleged went on for years, and it involved dozens of young girls, some as young as 14 years old. >> reporter: epstein was arrested saturday night after his private plane from paris landed in new jersey. f.b.i. agents broke into his manhattan townhouse with a crowbar where they say they found hundreds of pictures of young nude females. the charges detail epstein's scheme to systematically create what the government says is a vast network of underage girls to abuse. f.b.i. assistant director william sweeney. >> children who were asked to engage in direct and indirect sex acts for money, children who were enticed to do all these things at the hands of a man more than or nearly three times their age. >> reporter: epstein is a former investment banker, friends with the rich and powerful, including then-private citizen donald trump, prince andrew, and former president bill clinton, who reportedly took more than two dozen trips on epstein's private jet between 2001 and 2003. in 2002, donald trump told "new

york" magazine, "i've known jeff for 15 years. terrific guy." and that, "he likes beautiful women as much as i do, and many of them are on the younger side." the 66-year-old is already a registered sex offender who served time in florida after pleading guilty to soliciting and procuring an underage person for prostitution in 2007. but a federal indictment against him in miami in 2008 was not pursued. labor secretary alex acosta was then the u.s. attorney in miami and signed off on epstein facing only state charges and a lighter sentence of 13 months. cbs news legal analyst rikki klieman. >> i think there could be no doubt that jeffrey epstein back in 2007 and 2008 in miami was a rich and powerful man with powerful friends who absolutely got away with being a predator of young girls. >> reporter: epstein faces up to 45 years in prison if he's convicted on the two counts he

faces, sex trafficking and conspiracy, and federal prosecutors want to seize his $77 million town home here behind me. late today, former president bill clinton made a statement saying he knows nothing about epstein's crime and that he only took four trips on one of epstein's private jets. jim? >> axelrod: mola lenghi on the east side of manhattan for us tonight. mola, thank you. soccer's world champs came home this afternoon, landing at north airport after winning their fourth women's world cup. tv ratings for yesterday's championship game in the u.s. were 20% higher than last year's men's world cup. and that will boost their argument for equal pay. more now from vladimir duthiers. >> reporter: a jubilant u.s. women's world cup soccer team touched down on american soil... >> ♪ we are the champions >> reporter: ...singing and dancing after their historic win in france. >> goal! >> reporter: u.s. team captain megan rapinoe gave the u.s. a 1- the netherlands, the reigning european champions.

just a few minutes later, teammate rose lavelle sealed the win with a left-foot blast past the dutch goalie. >> that's it. >> reporter: the victory gave the women back-to-back world cup championships. and that got fans in the stadium to start chanting for another victory-- off the field. >> equal pay! equal pay! equal pay! >> reporter: in march the women's team sued the u.s. soccer federation for gender discrimination. the lawsuit claims the women were paid $1.7 million for winning the world cup in 2015 while the men's national team was paid over $5 million for the 2014 world cup. and the women have brought in more money. in the past three years, the women's games have generated nearly $51 million in revenue compared to $49.9 for the men's matches. rapinoe says it's time for the u.s. federation to do the right thing. >> the federation is in a unique position to, you know, kind of ride this wave of good fortune and get on board and hopefully

set things right for the future. >> reporter: cbs sports h.q. reporter bill ryder. after the u.s. women's victory yesterday, do you think they will finally achieve pay equality with the men? >> they certainly should, but i'm not holding my breath. >> reporter: the team has just arrived in new york city. they have entered into the hotel. this lawsuit will go into mediation. but i can tell you, jim, on wednesday there will be a ticker tape parade through the canyon of heroes, and, jim, that parade will mark almost 20 years since the u.s. women's world championship world cup victory back in 1999. >> axelrod: vlad, thank you. there was some serious leaking at the white house today, not that kind of leaking. check out the gushing water in the media's work space in the basement of the west wing. people trying to get to work in washington were suddenly stranded on flooded roads. jeff pegues on the storm that swamped d.c. >> reporter: a month's worth of rain, 3 to 4 inches fell in just one hour around the d.c. area during this morning's commute.

>> okay, engine 30. >> reporter: dozens of drivers were rescued on major highways and local roads. some had to stand on the roofs of their cars. william digges' car was totaled, but he's okay. >> water started leaking into my car. it got up to my seat. i said, now it's time to get on the sunroof. >> reporter: so you weren't scared at all? >> i was definitely concerned. water levels rising. it's not something you learn in driver's ed class, what to do when the water is up to your window. >> reporter: massive sinkholes opened up in some roads, making them impassable, and some restaurants and businesses faced an onslaught of white water. the underground metro system wasn't immune. a waterfall opened up in the ceiling of one station, and in the elevator of another. underground parking garages fared even worse. the national archives, home to the constitution and bill of rights, flooded and closed, but all the documents are safe. residents in this maryland

neighborhood say they don't have water because of this massive sinkhole. you can see the crews are out here trying to clear the downed trees here and in other areas where the flash floods wreaked havoc. jim? >> axelrod: jeff pegues in a still very soggy bethesda, maryland. jeff, thank you. california's governor says last weekend's back-to-back earthquakes caused at least $100 million in damage, but carter evans reports now scientists say the quakes are a wake-up call for a region that is long overdue for the big one. >> reporter: in the quake- stricken town of trona, benny and anna sue eldridge are loading up a lifetime of memories and saying good-bye to their now uninhabitable home that's been in the family for nearly 60 years. >> when the work is done, maybe it will hit me, oh, my gosh, everything is gone. >> reporter: the two massive quakes left a trail of debris in trona and nearby ridgecrest. >> oh, my gosh. >> oh, my god. >> reporter: they've also shaken residents to the core. >> p.t.s.d. is a real thing.

and we're all suffering from it right now. >> reporter: with at least 4,000 aftershocks so far, some residents say they're too terrified to sleep indoors. every time you feel these aftershocks, what's it like? >> it's like you're going to the fall in the ground. it's going to crack open and you're going to fall. >> reporter: do you feel safer out here? >> yeah. >> reporter: yeah. >> because nothing is going to fall on us. >> reporter: near the epicenter, even the outdoors has its risks. so much energy was released by the 7.1 magnitude quake that it caused this crack that goes all the way over that mountain, and the earth actually sunk down. what has california officials so concerned is what would happen if the same magnitude earthquake struck directly under los angeles. >> we have a lot of buildings in the los angeles area that were built before we had any seismic building codes, especially buildings built before the 1976 code are the ones we're most concerned about. >> reporter: seismologist lucy

jones estimates a similar quake in l.a. could cost $200 billion in damage. that means an entire region facing what the eldridge family is facing today. >> we don't know where we're going to live, if there's going to be federal help. we have heard nothing. >> reporter: this community is fortunate there were no injuries or deaths, but without federal aid, many people are just stuck financially. the eldridges say earthquake insurance was just too expensive for them. jim? >> axelrod: carter, thank you. the young man accusing actor kevin spacey of groping him testified in court today in ñ?a5ay end up being a win forony spacey. dean reynolds is following this story. >> reporter: the actor was not in court today as the case against him took a number of surprising turns. spacey is charged with groping a male teenager, now a 21-year-old man, at a bar in nantucket three years ago. the accuser says he captured the alleged assault with his cell phone camera.

today his mother, heather unruh, described it. >> he had shot a video of kevin spacey sticking his hand inside his pants. >> reporter: the phone was given to the police, who later said they returned it to the family, but then it disappeared. spacey's lawyers contended its contents were edited to help the accuser's case, adding that it is a felony punishable by imprisonment. when asked about it, the accuser's father, nick little, tangled with both judge thomas barrett and spacey's lawyer. >> if you don't understand my question, just ask me, and i'll repeat it. okay. >> i think you've had way too many questions that have gone too far. >> you keep this up, i will hold you in contempt. >> reporter: by then, the accuser had already taken the fifth amendment against self- incrimination and refused to answer further questions about the phone. that moved the judge to question whether the case against the two-time oscar winner is going to continue or collapse. spacey's defense is expected to ask that the case be dismissed.

another hearing is set for the end of this month. dean reynolds, cbs news, chicago. >> axelrod: the acting secretary of homeland security and the new acting head of border protection have been asked to testify before congress friday on conditions at migrant detention centers. manuel bojorquez has more. >> the whole entire story is a hoax. >> reporter: president trump fired back against reporting by the new york and el paso times that outlined filthy and overcrowded conditions at a border patrol facility for children in clint, texas, including outbreaks of scabies, shingles, and chickenpox among the hundreds of children who are being held in cramped cells. the allegations come only days after an inspector general report detailed dangerous overcrowding at some texas customs and border protection facilities. attorney elora mukherjee visited the clint facility last month and is scheduled to testify about the conditions before congress this week. >> the administration is trying to cover up gross human rights abuses.

the administration is trying to cover up degrading and inhumane treatment for children. >> reporter: but the acting secretary of homeland security has defended the conditions there. >> because there is adequate food and water, because the facility is cleaned every day, because i know what our standards are and i know they're being followed because we have tremendous levels of oversight. >> reporter: more than 490,000 migrants were apprehended or turned away at the southwest border between january and may. the president blames democrats for not addressing asylum laws which he believes encourage families to cross the border. republican congressman will hurd's district includes the clint, texas, facility. >> these facilities are not built to handle the load that they're having to handle. and that is... i don't think you can ever get to that point without tearing them down and starting over again. >> reporter: the administration says ice could still carry out mass roundups of people with final deportation orders, prompting advocates nationwide

including here in florida to remind those immigrants of their rights. jim? >> axelrod: manny, thank you very much. coco gauff's dream run at wimbledon came to an end today. she lost in straight sets to former number one simona halep, but what a remarkable eight days for coco. the 15-year-old from florida was the youngest player to qualify for wimbledon in the professional era. next on the "cbs evening news," a couple is forced to give up newborn twins after what they say was a major mix-up at a fertility clinic. and later, a heat wave bakes alaska. alaska. until i almost lost my life. my doctors again ordered me to take aspirin, and i do. be sure to talk to your doctor before you begin an aspirin regimen. listen to the doctor. take it seriously. and i...was... take shocked.test. i'm from cameroon, congo, and...the bantu people. new features.

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old named joshua brown came to the aid of police officer jerrick wilson, who was about to carry the american flag in a holiday parade when he noticed his shoe was untied. officer wilson told another member of the honor guard, who beckoned to josh. >> then i walked up and he whispered, "can you tie his shoe?" >> axelrod: joshua saved his day by dropping to his knee and tying wilson's shoe. >> it kind of made me really nervous. >> axelrod: officer wilson really wanted to meet josh, so over the long holiday weekend, he got his chance to say thank you to his own first responder. >> i had a long way in the parade to go, and definitely he saved me from dealing with a headache of worrying about my shoe coming off while carrying the u.s. flag. >> axelrod: how fitting that joshua wants to become a police officer when he grows up and stand in officer wilson's shoes. i bet you he'll make sure to keep them tied. that's the "cbs evening news" for this monday evening. i'm jim axelrod. see you tomorrow night. captioning spo ored by cbs just when you thought you were done painting...

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