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>> reporter: paula reid joins us now from the white house. and, paula, what are you hearing from the intelligence community about ratcliffe's resume? >> norah, it's been a chilly reception so far for this nomination. cbs news spoke with one former top intelligence official who notes that ratcliffe has less experience in intelligence, national security and foreign policy than anyone who has ever held this post. the senate intelligence committee chairman, republican richard burr, has not endorsed ratcliffe but says he will move swiftly with the nomination process. >> all right. paula reid, thank you. in afghanistan, two american service members were shot and killed today in kandahar province. our david martin has learned it was the work of an infiltrator who disguised himself as a member of the afghan army. he was wounded and taken into custody. the americans have not been identified. 15 u.s. service members have been killed in afghanistan this year. we have new information tonight on what may have led to a deadly encounter between an
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italian police officer and two teenagers from california. the teens are being held for murder. today a funeral was held for the officer. seth doane was there and has the latest on the investigation. >> reporter: his funeral was held at the church where he was married just weeks ago and there was not enough room inside for the thousands who came to mourn mario. the murder of this police officer has shaken italy and especially those here in his hometown where he was known for his charity work. police say the two american teenagers, fin began lee elden and gabriel christian natale hjorth confessed after being identified on surveillance video. who ng b drugs. later the same night they were confronted by clothes. elder admitted to stabbing him
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because he says he was being strangled, though the judge notes there were no signs of strangulation. natale hjorth says he did not realize that elder had a knife, but the judge did not buy that, concluding the weapon is just too big and adding both are involved in the murder. this photo of natale hjorth blindfolded raised the validity of his confession. the rome's attorney general says the interrogation was free of duress. the teen's lawyer is demanding answers and says he believes the blindfolding runs counter to the rule of law. the teens remain at this rome prison, norah, where they could remain for many months before being indicted. president trump signed a bill today to provide permanent support to the 9/11 wor bee.
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the new law guarantees full decades. there is much more still ahead. new details on the hot car death of year-old twins. the tragedy is more common than you'd think and we're going to look at ways to prevent it. more shark attacks along florida's shores. the terrifying video ahead. and how did a missile launcher end up in someone's checked luggage? i'm not picking it up. you pick it up. i'm not picking it up. well, somebody's gotta pick it up.ick ity're cle! ♪ cuz my hiney's clean
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iraq war veteran is free on bond tonight. he pleaded not guilty to manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide in the deaths of his year-old twins left in a hot car. the number of similar tragedies is staggering, 818 children have died inside those cars over the last 20 years, and 23 already this year. important information for parents. >> reporter: juan rodriguez could not hide his grief as he
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was charged with the deaths of his infant son and daughter. the 39-year-old iraq war veteran says he accidentally left the 1-year-old twins in a hot car after his eight-hour shiftr at in the bronx, he found them dead in the back seat. >> so sad. so sad. i feel bad for him, his mom, her kids. >> reporter: in a statement, rodriguez's wife marissa said he's a good person and a great father. temperatures in new york city reached 88 degrees on friday. inside the car was even hotter. >> the temperatures can go up to 40 to 50 degrees higher than the outside temperature. and, you know, i can tell you at 106 or 107, a baby will die. >> reporter: jeanette fenel with kids and cars.org warns even the most responsible parent can make this deadly mistake. >> this can and does happen to anyone. so look before you lock. >> reporter: she also suggests
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placing your cell phone or handbag on the back seat to remind you to open the back door, but she says enhanced technology is the best way to prevent these tragedies. the technology already exists in some vehicles like this new kia. it alerts drivers that someone's still in the back seat, like my producer is. you're about to hear the horn go off right there. that's the alert. congress is working on a measure called the hot cars act and it would standardize this technology in most new cars, norah. >> thank you. important information. still ahead, how a video game tournament launched kitchen table debates all over the world. i mean, if you haven't thought about switching to geico,
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get what you want two shark attacks in florida over the weekend are raising concerns about safety. this surfer suffered a bite on the arm close to shore in jacksonville beach. he escaped with a bad cut and joked he was going to a bar instead of the hospital. an hour later and 100 miles south, an arizona man was bitten. he was treated for a wound on the leg. tsa screeners must have done a double-take when they spotted this in a man's check luggage in baltimore, a missile launcher, military-grade. turns out a service member had
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brought it back from kuwait as a souvenir. he wasn't charged but the launcher was confiscated. parents may not want to hear this, but playing video games hour after hour can pay off. 16-year-old kyle geaiersdorf of pots grove, pennsylvania is taking home $3 million after winning the first fortnite world cup yesterday in new york. 40 million players tried out for the tournament. giersdorf said he plans to buy himself a new desk and maybe another one for the trophy. up next, the story we promised you about a farmer who got the surprise of a lifetime.
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we end tonight with what you might call a secret conspiracy. it was in the works for months and over the weekend the plot was executed. the invasion of a 1,200-acre farm in ritzville, washington, southwest of spokane, carried out by 60 conspirators all neighbors of larry yawkey. it was harvest time for his wheat, but yawkey who is 63 is battling stage four melanoma and could no longer work his fields. when fellow farmers in adams county found out, they got to work organizing a harvest. among them, mike doyle. >> i'm glad to be here and help where i can and where i'm needed. >> reporter: the neighbors did three weeks of work in just six hours as yawkey, his wife and three daughters looked on in absolute awe. >> it's not describable the
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gratitude i have for what's going on. >> a bumper crop of good neighbors in the heart of wheat country. >> and proof that you can judge the quality of your life by the quality of your relationships. i'm norah o'donnell in new york. thanks so much for joining us. we'll see you again right back here tomorrow night. good night.
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this is the "cbs overnight news." welcome to the "overnight news." we begin with yet another deadly mass shooting in america. the target this time, a major food festival in northern california. police say 19-year-old armed with an assault rifle opened fire on a crowd of families that were eating and listening to music. at least three people were killed, more than a dozen were injured. it happened in the town of gilroy, about 30 miles south of san jose. jamie yuccas is at the scene. the gunfire and panic rerdedcel.
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the fear in people's voices unmistakable. >> holy [ bleep ]. >> reporter: this woman was arm's length from th started walking towards our tent and just started shooting everywhere. just shooting. >> reporter: festival volunteers carlos rodriguez and his daughter deanna dove for their lives. >> and to watch your family just hide and pray for their life is something that no father should ever have to experience. >> you saw tha? >> i saw that. it was sheer chaos. >> oh, [ bleep ]! oh, they shooting. >> reporter: we have an active shooter at the garlic festival. >> possibly one shooting victim. i need an ambulance. code green. >> reporter: police say the gunman, 19-year-old santino william legan opened fire with an aq an ak-style assault rifle.
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and opened fire with an assault-still rifle. three gilroy officers opened fire killing him quickly. in all three were killed. age 6 to 25. more than a dozen were injured. at least five of them are still hospitalized with gunshot wounds. >> you know, it could have gone so much worse so fast. >> reporter: gilroy police chief scot smithee. >> i think it's very, very fortunate they were able to engage him as soon as they did. >> reporter: authorities were seen at the gunman's house. cbs news has learned people are seeking to question a second person in connection to the shooting and investigators are still trying to figure out legan's motive. just before the shooting he posted a photo, apparently from the festival using a derogatory term for mixed race people and referring to an author with white nationalist views. >> two children are among the dead. a 6-year-old boy playing in a bounce house and a 13-year-old girl. janet shamlian has more.
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>> reporter: 6-year-old stephen romero had just graduated from kindergarten. he was playing at the bounce house when he was shot in the back. his mom made a frantic call to his dad. >> i couldn't believe it was happening, that what she was saying was a lie. maybe i was dreaming. >> reporter: the grim reality when he arrived at the hospital -- >> they told me he was in critical condition. that they were working on him and then five minutes later they told me that he was dead. >> reporter: the other victims are 13-year-old keyla salazar, and 25-year-old trevor irby, the biology major who graduated in 2017 was enjoying a night out with his girlfriend. >> what's going on? >> reporter: 12 people were hit by gunfire including stephen romero's mom and grandmother. seventh grady leslie andres was shot in the leg. the 12-year-old is in stable condition. wendy towner and her husband francisco aguilar were selling honey at this festival stand when both were shot just after the gunman came over a fence. towner's brother say the two survived by playing dead. their 3-year-old son was saved after a young girl pulled him under a table. >> tonight at least one victim here is in critical condition and the victims remaining range
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in age between 12 and 69 years old. president trump is now redirecting accusations of racism in his growing feud with a prominent member of congress. nancy cordes has the latest from capitol hill. >> reporter: caught in another controversy over race, the white house released photos this afternoon of the president meeting with inner city pastors. alvita king is dr. martin luther king jr.'s niece and describes herself as a creative evangelist. >> the president is concerned about the whole nation. about everybody in the nation. >> reporter: but 40 miles away in baltimore -- >> he has a particular venom for blacks and people of color. >> reporter: the reverend al sharpton slammed the president today on behalf of an outraged city as mr. trump called sharpton a con man who hates whites and cops. >> if he really thought i was a con man, he'd be nominating me for his cabinet. >> reporter: maryland congressman elijah cummings
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stayed silent as the president attacked him for a third straight day, calling him king elijah, ruler of a dangerous and filthy baltimore district. a, quote, disgusting rat and rodent-infested mess. >> none of us would have our children in that position. >> reporter: the tweet came after cummings criticized conditions at border detention facilities and as he steps of investigations of the president as chairman of the house oversight committee. >> this is our watch. >> enough is enough. >> reporter: on talk radio today, maryland's republican governor larry hogan urged the president to help baltimore instead of insulting it. >> i mean, people are just completely fed up with this kind of nonsense. >> reporter: republicans on capitol hill tried to avoid the issue. >> i don't think either president trump or congressman cummings are racist.
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>> reporter: tonight, cummings sending a signal that he will not be deterred by the president's attacks. his committee releasing a lengthy report alleging that a businessman with ties to the president was able to influence u.s./saudi policy and stood to profit from it. president trump has nominated a new director of national intelligence to replace dan coats. the 76-year-old announced he's resigning next month. coats is one of the last members of the president's original national security team. he often clashed with mr. trump over major security threats including russia, iran and north korea. here is paula reid. >> the bedrock principle of our justice system is a presumption of innocence. >> reporter: the texas congressman is a staunch supporter of the president. his support was on full display last week as he grilled former special counsel robert mueller
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on capitol hill. >> donald trump is not above the law. he's not. but he damn sure shouldn't be below the law. >> reporter: ratcliffe is a former u.s. attorney and mayor. he has no experience in intelligence. senators returning to washington today were asked about his lack of national security credentials. >> if his performance with mueller was an audition, that's not evidence of the kind of independence that we need. >> reporter: if confirmed, ratcliffe will be a stark contrast to the outgoing director dan coats, who has been one of the few top intelligence officials to publicly disagree with the president. mr. trump doubted coats' assessment of russian election meddling during a press conference with president vladimir putin last july. >> dan coats came to me and some others. they said they think it's russia. i have president putin. he just said it's not russia. i will say this, i don't see any reason why it would be. >> reporter: son afterward, coats expressed surprise at reports that putin would visit the white house. >> okay. >> yeah. >> that's going to be special. the "cbs overnight news"
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>> reporter: his funeral was held at the church where he was married just weeks ago and there was not enough room inside for the thousands who came to mourn mario cerciello rega. >> the murder of this police officer has shaken italy and especially those here in his hometown where he was known for his charity work. >> reporter: police say the two american teenagers, finnegan lee elder and gabriel christian natale hjorth confessed after being identified on surveillance video. this shows the teens who stole a backpack after trying to buy drugs. later the same night they were confronted by carabinieri police officers in plain clothes. elder admitted to stabbing him because he says he was being strangled, though the judge notes there were no signs of strangulation. natale hjorth says he did not realize elder had a knife, but the judge did not buy that,
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concluding the weapon is just too big and adding both are involved in the murder. this photo of natale hjorth blindfolded raised questions about the validity of his confor example. though rome's attorney general says the interrogation was free of duress. the chinese government is ma blaming western interference for the relentless protests in hong kong. the official remarks came after another weekend of violent clashes between pro-democracy protesters and police. covering the protest for the past two months. >> reporter: this is the first time china's central government has ever held a press conference linked to hong kong's affairs ever since the city returned to chinese rule back in 1997. beijing has condemned the violent protests and urged calm. protesters demanding more freedoms and pushing back against beijing clashed in street battles with riot police. firing tear gas and rubber bullets across hong kong. sunday night protesters tried to
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reach the city's top communist party building but police repelled them with more fury than before. >> riot police are advancing. riot police are advancing. they're running into the protesters. oh! oh! oh, god! okay. tear gas being fired. here we go. >> reporter: police hauled people away but more protesters using guerilla tactics threw down signs and threw back tear gas. on saturday, unprecedented chaos near the border with mainland china. a week earlier angry mobs had beat protesters and bystanders in the subway. police response time was slow. >> in the past minute or so the riot police were throwing the first rounds of tear gas. but now it's only anger the crowd even more. >> reporter: this weekend's escalation in violence is now the new normal for one of asia's most international and financial cities with neither the city's protesters, government or beijing willing to compromise.
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in the world of reality tv and social media, few can reach the level of success of the kardashians. while most people follow the famous sisters, their mother kris jenner is the one running the show. the self-described momager sat down with traci smith in a story for "sunday morning." >> kim, over your shoulder. >> reporter: consider the kardashians seen here at last year's metropolitan museum of artea art gala. sure, they may look and act like royalty, but unlike most royals -- everything they have from the glittering earrings to their pedicured toes was earned through good old american marketing. >> we love what we do.
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>> reporter: and if there's any parallel to royalty here, it's maybe that the kardashians have a queen. >> do you ever think about what your life would be like if you didn't let the television cameras in? >> maybe boring. >> reporter: at 63, kris jenner is the matriarch of the media and merchandise empire. one that she quite literally gave birth to. for much of the past 12 years, jenner and her children have been living in the public eye. >> okay, kim. it's your world. i just live in it. >> reporter: through there "e!" network tv series kooeping up with the kardashians. >> my earring's gone. i'm going to cry. >> reporter: it's a reality show, but it's been a massive launchpad for her daughters. the kardashian/jenner sisters have hundreds of millions of followers on social medi a tv show ie countries than the
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peace corps and a collective fortune bigger than the kennedys built on things like makeup, clothing and personal endorsements. >> how much of their business, how much of the money that your daughters bring in is based on their endorsements of products on social media? >> well, my girls are constantly getting offers to post something for a company or a brand on social media, so they have a fee for a post or a fee for a story, a fee for facebook, a fee for, you know, they have a fee schedule. >> can you give me a ballpark of the fees? >> it's different. it's all over the board. i mean, it's definitely six figures and sometimes if it's kim or if it's kylie, it depends on really what it is. >> is it more than six figures if it's kim or kylie? >> if it's a pharmaceutical product. if it's something that you're going to drink or ingest or put on your body. >> that's more than six figures? >> maybe. >> reporter: and maybe the sky's the limit. for example, daughter khloe
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kardashian is reportedly worth around $40 million. kim is said to be worth around $350 million. and kylie, the youngest, topped them all. she started her own makeup line in 2015 and this year "forbes" named her the youngest self-made billionaire on the planet. >> is it fair to call her self-made? >> i think she's self-made. i mean, listen, my girls, you can say that certain things have been hannded to them, but it takes a lot of work to do what they're all doing. >> so she may have the name, which is the leg up, and the notoriety of the tv show. >> right. >> but the money is all hers? >> right. we're talking about money. and the money she made is her own. it began with her own savings. she put her own blood, sweat an. it was her idea. it was amazing what she did and she showed the rest of us how to do it. hey, kourt.
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>> but it's not just about making money. >> sitting here with todd crim and megan and jim. >> reporter: we listened in on a planning meeting for a thanksgiving food giveaway. the kardashians are said to give millions away for causes ranging from homelessness to alzheimer's research. >> you know there are people who say the kardashians are all about materialism and vanity. is this an effort to change that image? >> i don't think there's an effort to change an image. i mean, that's an image from some people. other people see it a lot differently. so i think people usually don't know what they're talking about, and when you start criticizing someone else -- >> why do you think you guys are the target? >> well, i think that, you know, anybody -- we're not the only target. any person who is, you know, well-known and successful and are on social media, you know, is a target. >> and do you guys think you're a biggest target because you're
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a bigger presence on social media. >> maybe. but what i do know is, you know, we get up every day with appreciation and love and a work ethic that, you know, is stellar. >> reporter: and part of that work ethic comes from her. kris houghton worked as a flight attendant before she married attorney robert kardashian with whom she had four kids, kourtney, kim, khloe and rob. in 1991 she split with kardashian and married olympic champion bruce jenner and they had two children, kendall and kylie. >> we got married. we didn't have a lot of money but we had a lot of kids and we had to get a big house. everybody was in private school. >> oh, my god. >> start there. i was like, we got to figure this out. >> were you lying awake at night? >> 100%. >> reporter: booking speaking gigs for him as a wayo stad out
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spotlight. >> say what you want, but i know what's best for my kids and my husband. >> reporil le might make a good tv show. >> you shouldn't be on the pole. >> oh, my god. >> today i'm going to jail and i just want to get it over with and never have to worry about it again. >> reporter: and there never seems to be any shortage of drama in the kardashians' lives. >> this girl thing's a lot of work. >> reporter: like bruce jenner's transformation to become caitlyn. >> i just want you to be happy. >> this makes me happy. >> do you keep in touch regularly with caitlyn? >> i don't. the kids do. yeah, the kids are good. >> but you guys no? >> not so much. >> reporter: jenner says she spends a lot of her time managing her children's careers a self-described momager who takes a 10% cut. >> did you trademark the term
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momager? >> i did. yeah. >> why? >> i thought it would be a good opportunity to do something involved with momager. i do that from time to time because i feel like something's important and i want to protect it. >> so what else do you have trademarked? >> you are a little nosey nelly over here. >> it's my job. >> whoa, i love that. very good. very good. >> can you tell me any of the other ones? >> nope. >> kris, that smile right here. >> reporter: today kris jenner has more power and influence than any other momager out there. it seems the one thing she doesn't have is regret. >> what have you had to sacrifice? >> privacy. but, you know, comes and goes. who cares? >> you don't feel like you've given anything up? >> i think i've gained. i think i've gained relationships and friendships and closer relationships with my kids and experiences and travel
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a scene that looked like the movie "jaws" was caught on camera off the coast of florida. cell phone video shows a shark attacking a surfer near jacksonville on saturday. in a separate incident over the weekend, a man on a boogie board was attacked by a shark near daytona. don dahler has more. >> reporter: this is the moment competitive surfer says a shark latched on to his arm in jacksonville. his friend rj berger witnessing the incident. >> his tail, like, splashed everywhere. >> reporter: around 100 miles away the same day, another attack at the beach known as the shark bite capital of the world. since the late 1800s there's been more than 300 shark attacks where the beach is located. that's compared to 162 in the
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entire state of hawaii and 124 in all of california since 1837. a few weeks ago a dad took these drone images in east smyrna shows a shark swimming dangerously close to his children. they all escaped safely. this summer beaches have been repeatedly closed there as a precaution. >> do you think people are afraid or do you think they just accept that this is now part of life here? >> i think that we're undergoing a culture change here. >> reporter: we met with orleans fire chief anthony pike in cape cod earlier this month where he's working to keep beachgoers safe. he helped install emergency response kits in case someone is bitten and added shark warning signs. >> do you think this is scaring people? >> people have to realize the seriousness of using the ocean this time of year. >> there tend to be more people in the water. >> reporter: this marine biologist says when someone is
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bitten by a shark it's usually because they've been mistaken for food. >> i think that's what happens more than anything. a shark biting a person, realizing you're not a fish, leaving the person alone but then, of course, the person has a bunch of tooth marks. >> that is the "overnight news" for this tuesday. for others, the news continues. for t from the broadcast center in new york city.
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captioning funded by cbs it's tuesday, july 30th, 2019. this is the "cbs morning news." sorrow and survival. we are learning more about the victims of the gilroy garlic festival shooting as more survivors come forward. >> i actually got -- we got hit. like what happened? why? for what? faceoff in detroit. the second round of democratic presidential debates is starting tonight. who's going in on top in the latest match-up? and a hacker is charged in a data breach at capital one affecting 100 million people. ♪
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