country is open to accepting millions of dollars in international wildfire aid. he initially developed an apology for criticism of his handling of the process. >> reporter: while humans are largely blamed for destruction of the rain forest, people like the yakawana. >> this year is particularly bad. >> a result he says of the kind of deforestization that has

threatened the centuries only yawanawa way of life. >> each one of us need to be responsible culturally because the human tsitsapas going to disappear like the dinosaurs. >> brazil is at a ossroads. it is once again at the rise. not a criticism of the president who promotes development. >> i heard some people say other countries can do what they want with their forests. why are you telling us we can't. >> i would say the issue is why isn't the u.s. working on reducing its emissions of c02. >> reporter: he says regeneration is possible but so is losing the amazon all

together. >> if we continue in this certain trend it won't take very long. >> years, decades? >> within our lifetimes. definitely. in st. louis tonight there is a $100,000 reward for information in a wave of child killings. at least a dozen skills 16 and under have been killed in st. louis this past spring. >> there is a new fact about homicide in this city. kids are getting killed. >> every time that i look out and i see her. it is hard. >> kennedi was one of 12 children under 17, 6 under 11 who have been murdered here since april. a threefold increase over all of

last year. >> when all of this clears up. i want to take my two youngest kids and move out of town. i can't be here knowing this is the city my daughter was murdered in. >> ta reward of $100 is being offered with information on the killings. >> i talked with the chief. there has been an increase in tips. not enough. >> yet there has been no arrest. >> who shoots in the direction of a 7-year-old or a 10-year-old. it is so outrageous. >> the mayor says st. louis needs more police officers and tougher gun laws. other than a felon anyone in missouri can walk down a street with a gun without a permit

because none is required. >> you can carry an ak-47 or ar-15 and sometimes people do. they are intimidating. >> now the mentality says whoever is wh you, they can get it too. >> do you want revenge? >> no. i want the person to come forward. if you can take my daughter away from me be forward to come forward and say you did it. yo hurt our twhowhole family. >> the governor rejected calls for a special legislative session to deal with the violence. not the correct avenue he said. >> thank you dean. next, a silicon valley spy thriller. a star emergency is accused of

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stuff our pockets on the way out the door. >> apple against google against tesla against google. the company with the best technology will win big. in a civil suit uber gragreed t pay waymo over the technology but the judge recommended a criminal investigation. >> it is groundbreaking technology that every company wants to get his hands on. >> he said he didn't anything. >> the indictment alleges before his departure he downloaded april 14,000 files containing critical engineering information and were later put on his laptop. prosecutors call the technology the crown jewel of the company enabling a car to detect objects around of it.

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there is a beast on the prowl in one city devouring everything in its path. john blackstone reports this beast has its own twitter account. >> in san francisco, the fog is in. high points on bridges may poke into the sun but much of the city is engulfed in gray. presenting a challenge for tourists searching for the perfect picture of the golden gate bridge. >> where is the golden gate bridge? >> i have no idea. >> this weather pattern may disappoint some many others are on a first name basis with san francisco. >> karl the fog. >> who is karl?

>> karl the fog came out of someplace and now has gone viral. >> it has 360,000 followers, posting selfies on instagram. and now karl is an author with a book of photos and wisdom. the big best is the human behind karl can't tell you anything. steve is one of the few people that know his identity. >> how do we know it's not a part of a russian campaign to -- >> when the picture is not perfect at least we can blame

karl. who is he really? sorry, i haven't the foggiest. >> for norah o'donnell, i am john dickerson. good night. ♪ >> this is the cbs overn >> welcome to the overnight news. there was outrage and tears in a new york city courtroom where the films of jeffrey epstein got to tell their stories of abuse. the judge wanted his victims to have their day in court before the charges against epstein were formally dropped. more than a dozen alleged

victims finally had their day in court. courtney wild says the sexual abuse by epstein in florida began when she was just 14 was first calling epstein a court and saying i feel very angry justice was never served in this case. she said my hopes were quickly dashed. my dreams were stolen. the women clutched at each other during the testimony. some hopely cried. many experienced emembarrassment and fame. jennifer araoz said he robbed me of my dreams and a chance to pursue a career i endured.

some recruiters of epstein have been -- there was gratitude from the accusers for their opportunity to share their pain and the hope for further justice from chauntae davies. >> it makes me sick to my stomach that there are perpetrators out there that helped him and they are out there today with no punishment. >> epstein's earns say the elephant in the room is the way that epstein died and that the injuries he suddened were more consistent with an assault than a homicide. >> there is blood on the streets of st. louis. rewards have been offered for the killers but little comfort

for grieving families. >> there is a new and a heartbreaking fact about homicides in this city. kids are getting killed. >> every time i look out and want to go out. i see her. >> kennedi was one of 12 concern under 17, 6 under 11 that have been murdered since april. a three fold increase over last year. journey thompson was standing near a high school football game when she was killed last friday. >> when all of it clears up i want to take my two youngest ki kids and move o of to. >> the mayor of the city is offering a $100,000 reward until

september 1st for information on the killings. >> have you seen an increase in tips? >> i have. there has been an increase in tips. not enough. >> yet there have been no arrests. >> who shoots in the direction of a 7-year-old or a 10-year-old. it is so outrageous. >> other than a felon anyone can walk down the street without a permit. >> you can carry an ak-47 or ar-15 and sometimes people today. >> now the mentality says whoever is with you, they can get it too. >> do you want revenge? >> no. i want to have the person come

forward. say you did it. you hurt our whole family. >> priek dorian is gathering st in the atlantic. david begnaud is there today. >> the people of puerto rico are still dealing with post-traumatic stress from hurricane maria. tonight some people are leaving. >> the power, the food, the security. i am leaving. >> those that are staying and are preparing are wonderering if the government is prepared today. we went to fema to find out. the island of puerto rico is fragile? nick russo leads the federal emergency management in puerto one of the things we have been

preparing for is to support if we have a power out age. right now we don't know. >> we wanted to know how much invento inventory. before they had $22 million. the main atlanta they a-- is fe better prepared today than two years ago? >> absolutely. if you look at this warehouse. now we have five where we had one. there are probably ten times the commodities on the island that were here pre-maria. we have learned our lessons and made sure we are much better prepared. >> after maria the ability to community has collapsed. fema is getting satellite phones to all 78 mayors on the islands.

>> how strong is dorian and where is it going after puerto rico? lonnie quinn has your overnight forecast. >> pretty quick for a caribbean storm. it is 80 miles to the west of dominica. where does it go for here? the probability of a landfall has gone up, along the western portions of puerto rico. t it gains strength going over the warm water north of the bahammas. it would make landfall along the florida coast. dorian will likely make it to the u.s. mainland on sunday but the question is where and how strong.

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>> this is the cbs overnight news. welcome back to the overnight news. brazil's president is refusing millions of dollars in aid to help fight the fires raging in the amazon rain forest saying they are trying to treat his country like a colony. there have been more than 80,000

fires this year and many were set to clear for agculture. bolsonaro came to power pledging to use the forest for economic growth and president trump tweeted bolsonaro is doing a great job. >> where we are rain helped to tamp down the flames, but certainly there is not enough of it even though all of this moisture helps to cool down the earth. the fear is that it could cause irreversible damage to the world's climate. the scenes from the amazon can be overwhelming. forests teaming with life claimed by unrelenting flames. more than 3,500 areas of forest

have fallen to areas like these. in peru people are using whatever they can. mean are said to be set by farmers. he said these types of things happen here every year. we took to the air. from up here you can see where humans have cut into the raatlaa reign -- rain forest. 10 to 20 years ago, this is all rain forest. >> protesters have been blasting the country's president for his

handling of the fires. he rejected $20 million pledge from g7 leaders equating the aid to treating brazil like a colony. the leader of brazil's military firefightering efforts dismissed the criticism. there are people that think the assistance should have happened faster. >> we know it is happening. we have taken action before. the only difference is the international visibility came just now. president bolsonaro said he would make 40,000 troops able to fight the fire but the military presence has been scarce. >> scientists are work to come up with crops more resistant to heat and drought, take for instance cotton. >> you likely picture the so

called fabric of our lives but here in boston cotton is growing in labs. >> as the earth gets warmer with climate change scientists have been looking to innovate with -- >> this has almost no solutions today. remarkably nature has found a bunch of solutions to that in the microbiome, like a plant's gut filled with microbiobes. they make them more resilient in

dry conditions. >> it allows us to better grow cotton. >> they say it is more natural than mass produced seeds. the plants are exposed to scorching temperatures and tested in the hot field. outside cotton is trying to survive. many have would haved the crop. first picked by generations of slaves and then share croppers. it continues in,0 s in texas. in lubbock, texas they have been growing cotton for generation, one of the few cotton farms to start a four-year drought. >> we lost a few growers in the last few years and i think that

has more to do with the economics of farming and the farming environment. >> some people say that climate change is creating dryer conditions. >> i couldn't say that. it is just something we always had to deal with. >> he believes the droughts he experienced are part of normal weather trends and not climate change. >> my granddad could buy a new tractor for $20,000. today it cost $200,000. we are selling our cotton for 75 cents. he sold his for. that there is a big gap there and it has been a real challenge. >> for many the be innovation came too late.

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>> all around. all around. >> it serves tons of campari and fernet blanco. when it comes to eating the italian influence is more obvious. there is a pizza place on every corner. today these pies have morphed into a gooey, argentine style of pizza. >> more, everything more is better. >> look how good that is. >> after stuffing my face with pizza i decided to get more food. dessert.

gelato making ancestors. fortunately they brought the recipe book with them and opened up cadore. and they make an impact on the art and the architecture. this was designed as a tribute to the italian poet, dante. according to the story, the devine arch ways signify the nine circles of hell. >> yes, yes, yes. >> after 13 floors of purgatory, you finally reach paradise where the views are heavily. >> the top of heaven. >> at street level the argentine

art form experienced a rebirth. >> i like to paint. i like my italian eccentricty. with an estimated 62% claiming some italian heritage street festivals like this are common. after spanish, italian is the country's second most popular native language, but everyone speaks a little italian with their gestures. >> with our hands we speak. we speak twice. >> she dances the italian tarrentella to connect with her roots. today's tango has an italian

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summer is winding down, but there is still time to see some national wonders. we go walking through the sequoia national park in california. >> an ancient forest high in the mountains of california as we made the climb through the winding switchback roads. >> this is unbelievable. >> the park's main attraction reveals itself. rows of some of the largest living things on earth, giant sequoia trees stretching hundreds of feet into the sky.

>> they have been described as a living relic of an ancient forest. you feel like you are around something historic. >> daniel is one of many of the caretakers of the forest, home to general sherman, the planet's largest tree. >> not the world's tallest or widest tree. it is largest by volume. 103 feet, 36 feet in diameter. stands over 275 feet tall. >> not just sherman's size it stands nearly as call as the statue of liberty, estimated to be alive during the height of the roman empire and its species dates back to when dine stores walked the earth more than 180

million years ago. when settles came here and found the giants they tried to tell others about the discovery but they did not believe them. yocan understand why the towering trees defy gravity. travellers around the world are flooding through the gates to get a glimpse of these prehistoric giants. for now social media service needs to wait. >> our new cell phone tower has been approved for the park. how does that impact that people? >> people trying to disconnect now have to worry about answering phone messages. >> what is the positive? >> first it is safety. here we are at the elevation. hours away from the closest

hospital. having multiple groups of visitors coordinating with each other. >> an ancient forest captioning funded by cbs it's wednesday, august 28th, 2019. this is the "cbs morning news." tropical storm dorian takes aim at puerto rico. we're tracking its path one day after it barreled through the french caribbean island of martinique. the company behind oxycontin is ready to pay for its alleged role in the opioid crisis. how much purdue pharma is offering to settle dozens of