life. to the fullest. ♪ ♪ captioning sponsored by cbs >> axelrod: on the "cbs evening news" this friday, new orleans could see record rainfall as barry bears down. >> it is a dangerous and life- threatening storm. >> tropical storm barry threatening as much as 20 inches of rain and dangerous storm surges along the louisiana coastline. >> that river is high. >> r. kelly has been arrested on new federal sex crimes charges. >> he's accused of 13 counts including child pornography. >> axelrod: we go inside a former nazi bunker in greece where an american scientist was found murdered. >> this place can only be described as an underground maze. >> axelrod: labor secretary alex acosta resigns over the controversial plea deal he

arranged for jeffrey epstein. and steve hartman, two girls, one soul. >> soul? >> i was just, like, thrown by just that word. >> axelrod: good evening. i'm jim axelrod. and this is our western edition. forecasters say tropical storm barry continues to gain strength and should be a hurricane when it strikes the gulf coast tomorrow morning. it's on track to punch louisiana square in the mouth of the mississippi river, which has never been as high as it is right now during a hurricane. combine that with a chance of more than two feet of rain and a surge of seawater, and that's why the national hurricane center is warning of life- threatening flooding. lake pontchartrain, just north of new orleans, was starting to kick up late today. and those who did not get out of new orleans by this evening are now advised to shelter in place. we'll have the latest on the track and timing of the storm in just a moment, but we begin with

david begnaud in st. mary's parish where barry is expected to make landfall. >> reporter: that is storm sur flooding grand isle, louisiana, which is near the tip of the bayou state. mayor david camardelle wanted to show us why tropical storm barry brings new fears of more coastal erosion. >> we're on the front line. this is the storm coming. we're the first barrier island to protect new orleans. this is the protection of new orleans. >> reporter: 24 hours ago the mayor ordered a mandatory evacuation. his town of 1,400 people sits there's only one road in and out of town and it will likely be under water. crystal trahan is one of the handful of people we met today who refuses to leave. >> just going to hang out. and my mother's going to kill me! >> reporter: lousiana's governor john bel edwards: >> the real danger in this storm was never about the wind anyway, it's always been about the rain and that remains a very

significant threat. >> reporter: for the first time in history, all floodgates on the mississippi river have been closed within the new orleans hurricane protection system. 85 miles west of new orleans, the mayor of morgan city is anticipating between 20 and 30 inches of rain. he's planning to impose a curfew tonight to keep people off the streets, and here's why. your streets act as a flood system? >> correct. so we have subsurface drainage which is the drain pipes, and our streets are built to also retain water. >> reporter: which is why you want people off of them? >> you got it. >> reporter: starting tonight, hurricane force winds of up to 75 miles an hour are expected to rock the louisiana coastline. tonight we are in st. mary's parish. this is ground zero. the eye of barry is expected to move right over here within the next 18 hours. but you wouldn't know it. it's sunshine and 85 degrees. usually hurricanes have those outer rain bands that move on shore way ahead of the storm.

but jim, in this case, forecasters think the worst of barry is on the back side. >> axelrod: david begnaud is among the many in louisiana waiting for barry. thank you, david. let's bring in lonnie quinn from new york. alright, lonnie, the big questions now, when and where will barry come ashore? >> okay, i believe it will be west of new orleans, i believe tomorrow some time in the first half of the day. if i had to pick an hour i'd say around 7:00 a.m. or so, give or take. here's the latest information. so, it's gotten stronger. we now have winds at 65 miles an hour. this time yesterday, they were blowing at 50 miles per hour. i think it makes landfall with winds anywhere from 70 to 80. 70 a tropical storm, 80 a low- grade hurricane and then it sort of pushes inland a lot of water. okay, a lot of water is going to fall, will come from a number of sources-- out of the sky, the rain, and you also have someno because as it spins out there te mississippi river, so that water in an already swollen mississippi can't flow into the gulf. it's kind of plugged up with a cork in it, if you will, so that

continues to rise. it's already risen today, about a half a foot more then where it has already been. and it's so high already before the storm even gets here. how much rain do we see? its this black area shaded just to the west of new orleans could see two feet or more of rain. so, looks like the officials were saying in new orleans, we always knew this was going to be a storm about the water, not necessarily the wind. over to you. >> axelrod: not a pretty picture. thank you, lonnie. tonight there is another vacancy in the president's cabinet. labor secretary alex acosta says he will now resign because of the controversy surrounding the plea deal he worked out with jeffrey epstein 11 years ago when acosta was a federal prosecutor. and there are late developments involving the new charges against epstein. paula reid is following all of this at the white house. epstein. paula reid is following all of this at the white house. >> i called the president this morning, i told him that i thought the right thing was to step aside. >> reporter: labor secretary alex acosta's departure comes amid mounting criticism over his handling of a secret 2008 plea deal for convicted sex offender

jeffrey riepstein. acosta, who oversaw the case in his previous paro role as oust attorney in florida, said it had become a distraction. >> i do not think it is right or fair for this administration's labor department to have epstein as the focus rather than the incredible economy that we have today. >> reporter: president trump insisted that acosta was not forced out. >> i said, >> i said, "you don't have to do this." >> reporter: just two days ago, acosta tried to defend his actions in the 2008 case in which epstein, accused of abusing dozens of underage girls, got a sentence of just 13 months and immunity from any federal charges. >> facts are important and facts are being overlooked. >> reporter: but lawyers for epstein's victims criticized his explanation and democrats called for his resignation continued as several additional women came forward with new allegations since epstein was arrested saturday. the controversy also put a spotlight on president trump's relationship with epstein whom he called "a terrific guy" in a

2002 interview. mr. president do you still think jeffrey epstein is a terrific guy? >> i was not a fan of his, that i can tell you. i was not a fan of his. >> reporter: he said they hadn't spoken for years after a falling out over epstein's allegedly inappropriate behavior with young women at president trump's mar-a-lago resort. mr. president, the reason for your falling out with mr. epstein matters. was it related to business or abuse of underage girls? people want to know. >> i threw him out of a club, i didn't want anything to do with him. that was many, many years ago. >> axelrod: and paula, i understand there are late- breaking details about the epstein case. what do we know? >> reporter: tonight, prosecutors are arguing that epstein should be denied bail. they are accusing him of witness tampering, alleging that late last year he wired $350,000 to two people that were close to him around the time he was allegedly abusing these young women, and these people could have been witnesses against him. prosecutors also point to his vast wealth and they argue mr. epstein is a man with both the means and the incentive to flee

the country. >> axelrod: paula reid at the white house. thank you very much. r. kelly will spend at least the upcoming weekend in jail, if not more, after being hit today with new federal charges of sex crimes. the singer was arrested in chicago last night while walking his dog and now faces more than a dozen additional charges including child pornography. jericka duncan has been following kelly's legal troubles and has our update. >> reporter: the federal charges r. kelly is now facing could put him in prison for life. >> you're a part of his camp, right? >> i'm not a part of any camp. >> reporter: his crisis manager darrell johnson was confronted today in atlanta by the parents of joycelyn savage. they believe their adult daughter has been brainwashed by the r&b singer and held against her will. >> i want to know where my daughter is at. where is she at? answer that question! answer that question! >> reporter: according to the 13-count federal indictment in

illinois, 52-year-old kelly recorded himself having sex with minors. his former manager derrel mcdavid, who was also charged in the cover up, pleaded not guilty. according to the indictment, in 2001, kelly and mcdavid learned that multiple videos were missing from kelly's collection. worried that the tapes would get out, court records say kelly, mcdavid and others agreed to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to victims, witnesses and others to ensure that they would not cooperate with law enforcement. even after getting those tapes back, court documents state that kelly and mcdavid directed people who returned the tapes to take polygraph tests to determine if they had made copies. kelly apparently also paid an alleged victim and her parents to travel to foreign countries to avoid investigators. the new york federal charges kelly faces include racketeering, kidnapping and interstate transportation of victims for illegal sex acts. >> have you ever had sex with anyone under the age of 17? >> no, no.

>> reporter: the three-time grammy winner allegedly had an enterprise that included managers, bodyguards and drivers, all of whom recruited women and girls for kelly as far back as 1999. kelly's attorney, steve greenberg: >> i don't think people accidentally have sex. so i'm not really sure what the criminal activity is there. >> reporter: kelly remains in custody tonight and won't be arraigned until tuesday in chicago. he is also facing sex abuse and assault charges in state court and, jim, he maintains that he is innocent. >> axelrod: jericka, thank you for staying on the story. vice president mike pence went to the southern border today amid allegations that migrants are being held in squalid conditions. however, he tells a story that's quite a bit different than the one told by democrats and some government inspectors. mireya villarreal has been doing some checking of her own at the border. >> reporter: the vice president spent hours touring border patrol facilities including the tent city near mcallen texas

where he and his entourage saw migrants sleeping on the floor. >> boys, i'm the vice president. this is mrs. pence. >> reporter: cbs news is blurring the faces of minor children in custody. >> are you comfortable? are you being well taken care of? >> reporter: seven republicans senators were with him but not a single democrat accepted the invitation to come along. >> each and every one of the children, each and every one of the parents that i spoke to told me they were being treated well. >> reporter: pence's visit comes on the heels of a scathing report from the office of inspector general where one manager called the situation at border patrol facilities in june "a ticking time bomb." at least five migrant children have died in government custody since september. we recently spoke with this 22- year-old woman from el salvador just hours after she was released from another facility in south texas. holding a newborn, she told us how she was crammed into a cell and forced to sleep on the floor, terrified by the sheer volume of people inside.

she had a newborn baby girl three days old and she was detained inside this facility. this morning in washington the house oversight committee released a report saying at least 18 children under two years old were separated from their parents for 20 days to half a year. at a hearing, members debated the conditions at migrant detention centers. >> when these women tell me that they were put into a cell and that their sink was not working, and we tested the sink ourselves and the sink was not working, and they were told to drink out of a toilet bowl, i believe them. >> reporter: republican representative debbie lesko says democrats' are exaggerating. >> they're not drinking out of toilets. >> reporter: this visit comes just a few days before immigration raids are set to start. ice agents will fan out around the country to arrest and eventually deport thousands of migrants that are here in the u.s. illegally. local leaders are pushing back. the chief of police out of

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can't even see where it ends. cbs news has learned her body was found face down. she was still dressed in her running clothes. local officials here in crete have told us that they believe that suzanne eaton was killed elsewhere and then her body was placed, or dumped, inside this bunker complex. police have questioned several people but say they still have no suspects. the forensic pathologists who carried out the autopsy say they knew eaton had been murdered as soon as they saw her body, but couldn't explain why for fear of jeopardizing the investigation. >> reporter: was it a quick death? >> of course not. >> reporter: suzanne eaton's family members are still in crete and want to remember w she was killed, but how she lived, as an inspiring scientist, talented athlete and pianist and adored mother.

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as we first reported a couple years ago, they say they're closer than friends, closer than mere sisters, even. in fact, jia and zuri truly believe they're twins. >> oh, yeah. >> axelrod: ashley and valencia are their moms. >> they will tell you that they are twins and they have a long list of reasons why to back it up. >> reporter: to them what makes a twin? >> similarities. >> look, come here. >> reporter: for example, the girls say their birthdays are practically the same day, and the obvious physical similarities. so what am i looking at here? >> the same height. >> reporter: oh, 'cause you're the same height. clearly twins, which is why they also insist on matching outfits whenever possible. so far, ashley and valencia have indulged them, but they also recognize there is some bitter to this sweet. >> you know, you're happy for a few seconds, and then you become sad because they have to grow up. and then society takes over. >> reporter: indeed, society

already tried to take over. zuri and jia were at a birthday party, when an older kid told them they couldn't be twins because they don't have the same skin color. jia broke down, but through her tears, she got out this rebuttal. she said, "you don't know what you're talking about. we're twins because we share the same soul." >> i just get chill bumps. >> reporter: soul? >> i was just, like, thrown by just that word. >> yeah. ( squealing ) >> reporter: obviously, what jia was trying to say is that, at our core, we are one. since this story first aired in 2017, america hasn't always followed their lead, but it's important to remember that while all that was going on, so was this. today, in their minds, they are still twins. of course, they have their moments, like when zuri accused jia of having a boyfriend. >> now, why did you say that to me?

>> well, because you do. >> reporter: that didn't go over well, at all. but, by and large, they are as close as ever, and still an example just waiting to be followed. >> we have a lot to learn, and we can learn from children. >> reporter: and that's really what the twins want for all of us, to push back against the cynics-- >> some girl said we're not twins, and we are! >> reporter: --and move on to the more important things in life. >> you know what we're going to get today? >> reporter: what? >> we're going to get ice cream! >> reporter: steve hartman-- >> and you don't. >> reporter: oh. on the road, without ice cream, in miami. >> axelrod: an example waiting to be followed. and that's the "cbs evening news" for this friday evening. we are off-the-charts excited about a new chapter for this broadcast that begins monday. the cbs evening news with norah o'donnell. we hope you'll join norah then. for now, i'm jim axelrod. have a great weekend. good night. captioning sponsored by cbs

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