i've been seeing a lot of them around town. that's it for us. we'll see you back here at 6:00 for a full hour of news. ♪ >> begnaud: it's happened again. seven people are dead here in texas, and it all came to an end right behind me. [gunfire] >> get down, get down, get down! >> begnaud: 24 others are wounded in another mass shooting. >> i didn't get to tell her how much i loved her. >> begnaud: also tonight, hurricane dorian roars into the bahamas. it is a monster, category 5 hurricane. will it be catastrophic for the united states? >> we're not even in the worst of it. >> begnaud: general james mattis speaks out on his resignation and president trump. >> this is a blunt letter. >> i was honest and forthright with him about where it was that i was parting ways. >> begnaud: and an ancient california forest gets a modern upgrade for the masses. and as the temperature goes up, the guards are going down.

this is the "cbs weekend news." e >> begnaud: good evening. i'm david begnaud reporting eonight from odessa, texas. we are here because this is the site of at least the 38th mass killing this year in the united states, and it ended right behind us as the gunman was headed for a movie theater. when we talk about a mass e ooting, we're talking about an incident where more than three people have been shot and killed. cbs news has learned the identity of the suspected gunman. he is 36-year-old seth ator, a white male. he is accused of killing seven people and wounding 24 others, including three law enforcement officers. as this nation struggles with what to do, ten new gun laws kasing restrictions took effect today in texas. >> there is a shooting going on in odessa. >> begnaud: the violent rampage that began on a texas interstate saturday started with a traffic stop. state troopers had pulled over a man who opened fire on them with

an ar-15 type assault rifle. then he took off. >> initially it was thought that there may have been multiple shooters, and this is because at some point this subject changed vehicles. we are now confident that there was just the one actor. eh begnaud: the shooter ditched his vehicle and hijacked a postal service van, driving around and shooting randomly at people. er we have an active shooter on the interstate. >> begnaud: the deadly chase ended outside of a movie tseater. [gunfire] >> get down, get down! >> begnaud: an eyewitness recorded the gunman barreling toward a police vehicle that was blocking the road. [gunfire] officers opened fire, killing the gunman. the seven victims who died range in age from 15 to 57. among those killed was 29-year- old postal carrier mary grenados. >> so i basically heard her egream. >> begnaud: we spoke to her identical twin sister rosie, whn

she was shot. you know, people in the public are horrified to hear what sappened. aft another mass shooting event about a month after what happened in el paso. what are your thoughts? >> i think he could have taken a car without having to kill her, ldu know? he could have taken the car, that's it. heat's all he needed. he didn't have to take my sister. >> begnaud: texas governor greg abbott. >> too many texans are in mourning. too many texans have lost their lives. the status quo in texas is unacceptable and action is needed. >> begnaud: you know, when this shooting was happening, news of a gunman on the loose spread rday, d that caused a lot of chaos and fear. ndreya villarreal joins us now. the pictures and videos that were being spread on social media used to warn other people were being spread really faster than police could put out a

warning. a reporter: absolutely. let me tell you, david, the fear those videos created, also the shootout created yesterday, it just spread so quickly, and it ly hly had some very terrifying results. >> get down, get down! >> reporter: this video was posted on social media with a message in spanish that says, "god, please protect us." [screaming] you can hear a father consoling his son as gunshots are going off in the background. >> it's okay. >> reporter: innocent bystanders ane laying in an open field. one woman is shielding a small child with her body. >> it's okay. >> reporter: a question no noher wants to hear as this young boy's hands can't stop 'saking. o's on the verge of tears as everyone clings to the dirt. >> yeah, yeah, yeah. yeah. >> reporter: the man continuing to check on his family, confirming it's finally over. >> we're okay. we're okay. we're okay.

>> reporter: you know, david, it u ally makes you think, what would you do if you had 40s ndju where would you go, where would you hide in a field that looks just like this, empty, with really nothing around you. >> begnaud: i keep thinking about those people just driving jeir vehicles, being shot as they drove. >> reporter: yep. >> begnaud: mireya, thank you. esesident trump today called the shootings a wicked attack. the president did not say he would support any new gun control laws. ben tracy is at the white house. >> so we're going to see. this really hasn't changed anything. >> reporter: president trump says he's committed to working with congress on ways to prevent mass shootings, but would not say what if any gun reform he would actually back. mr. president, on gun control, are there any specific gun control measures you will support? >> we're looking at the same things. we're in the process of dealing with democrats, republicans. wey've been working very hard on it. >> reporter: after the el paso

and dayton shootings that killed 31 people last month, mr. trump said he wanted tougher gun laws. >> but we have to have inaningful background checks. >> reporter: but after several discussions with the n.r.a., the osesident now says this: r> for the most part, as strong ld you make your background opecks, they would not have stopped any of it. so it's a big problem. it's a mental problem. it's a big problem. >> reporter: democratic presidential candidate beto o'rourke, who is from texas, says the explicit language he's now using about mass shootings is purposefully defiant. >> we're averaging about 300 mass shootings a year. no other country comes close so yes, this is [bleeped] up. >> we don't know what's coming. all we know is it's possibly the biggest. >> reporter: the president is deso focused on hurricane dorian. he visited fema today for a briefing. nonster category 5 storm, forecast to run up the u.s. east coast. >> the category 5 is something

that i don't know i've ever even heard the term other than i know it's there, that's the ultimate, wat's what we have unfortunately. >> reporter: this is actually the fourth category 5 hurricane while president trump has been in office, including hurricane maria, which devastated puerto rico, and michael which hit florida less than a year ago. david? >> begnaud: thank you, ben. we're going to go now to elaine quijano at the cbs broadcast center in new york city. she's got more on dorian and some of the rest of the day's news. elaine, good evening. >> quijano: david, thank you. dorian is now an extremely dangerous category 5 hurricane. right now it is thrashing the bahamas with maximum sustained winds of 185mph. it is expected to be catastrophic and deadly. images captured by satellite the atlaic turningwly and moving west.redictle path could threaten millions of americans from florida to the carolinas. meteorologist jeff beradelli is here with more on dorian and the

threat ahead. jeff? s> reporter: elaine, this is a monster system. it is tied for the second strongest system in atlantic basin history with winds of 185mph in terms of the wind, it is an extremely strong storm. n.'s begun to slow down. it's moving west at 5. it is going to crawl ever so ovowly through the northern bahamas over the next 24 to 48 hours or so. hurricane warnings out from cape ranaveral down to the palm beaches. ororm surge warning also in effect for 3 to 5 feet of storm surge. that's the official forecast iaack. it slows down. then it begins to speed up on tuesday and wednesday, moving up the eastern seaboard of florida, but notice it's just off shore. any track further west puts it on shore. that's why it needs to be watched very closely. ahen it takes a turn to the northeast. and it still remains to be seen how close it comes to the north carolina coast. what is steering it right now is a solid area of high pressure that will break in two. the whole time it's over water temperatures 85 to 90 degrees. high octane fuel. that's why it's such a strong

storm. we hope the jetstream can catch it and move it out to sea. some of our spaghetti models show it moving out to sea. but a few others have it making landfall in northeast florida that is still a possibility. elaine? >> quijano: jeff beradelli, thank you. four southeast states have declared states of emergency as hurricane dorian's path remains unpredictable and life- threatening. mark strassmann reports from st. augustine. >> reporter: up and down florida's coast, elaine, there has been a mood shift today, a greater intensity, a realization that dorian is a significant threat. just a slight shift in its path, and this coastline could be in for major misery. despite sunday's blue skies, st. augustine was a ghost town on labor day weekend. throngs of tourists stayed otland, scared off by warnings of a potential menace offshore. we found sprout kitchen empty. it's a new juice bar. what was labor day supposed to

be and what isn't it? >> it was supposed to be huge. >> we were looking forward to it keing a good weekend. o kind of postponed a lot of our production, had to cut our faff this weekend, so we're manning the fort ourselves. >> reporter: much of florida's east coast is now under a hurricane warning. cape canaveral hospital in cocoa beach began evacuating. nine florida counties have ordered evacuations, five of riem mandatory. oorida governor ron desantis. >> this storm at this magnitude could really cause massive destruction, and do not put your ngfe in jeopardy by staying behind when you have chance to get out. >> reporter: that message is often lost on coastal residents amateur many are amateur storm trackers who trust their own forecasts. boute're concerned about it. >> reporter: rob hardwick is the police chief in st. augustine beach. a worries about holdout residents. >> this is their castle. this is their home. with that being said, they are reluctant to leave everything

they own and their whole lives. . don't want to be complacent because one shift and a few degrees and it's on top of us. >> reporter: st. johns county has now issued an evacuation sder. it includes everyone who lives on this beach and the entire city of st. augustine, elaine. that order begins monday morning and it's mandatory. >> quijano: mark, thank you. in another important story, former defense secretary james mattis is breaking his silence for the first time since resigning from the trump administration last december. he spoke to david martin for "sunday morning." >> reporter: james mattis met with donald trump only once before signing on as his defense secretary, a job he expected to hold for at least four years. he lasted just under two years, resigning last december. you resigned the day after the president announced that the u.s. was pulling all its troops out of syria >> uh-huh, yes. >> reporter: did that decision have anything to do with your... >> absolutely it did. reporter: but what about the

decision to withdraw from syria? >> i disagree with it. e reporter: because? >> because we need to maintain enough influence there that we don't see the same thing that happened when we withdrew from iraq. >> reporter: mattis believed a amdden pullout would undermine the campaign against isis and betray allies who were fighting alongside the americans. in his resignation letter, he hrote, "my views on treating allies with respect are strongly held." >> this was how i saw the strength of america, that we keep our alliances together and keep them tight. and if i wasn't the right person to do this, then the president needed someone more aligned with his views. >> reporter: this is a blunt letter. he i was honest and forthright with him about where it was that i was parting ways. >> reporter: as for other differences mattis had with the president... >> i will not speak ill of a sitting president. i'm not going to do it. >> reporter: but he will say isis: es he's an unusual president,

our president is, and i think that especially with the... just goe rabid nature of politics today, we got to be careful. we could tear this country apart. >> reporter: mattis now lives inere he grew up in richland, washington, a continent away from the politics of washington, d.c. but as the 2020 election esproaches, he will be under urcreasing pressure to tell the world what he really thinks of donald trump. david martin, cbs news, richland, washington. >> quijano: the trade war with u.s. and china starts impacting american consumers today. new 15% tariffs went into effect on $110 billion worth of chinese goods. impacted are the price of products like electronics,

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>> quijano: if you've seen a giant sequoia, you know they are a sight to behold. a national park in california is ttll of them, but as jonathan oigliotti shows us, this ancient forest is about to get a modern upgrade. >> reporter: it's morning here a sequoia national park, an ancient forest high in the aserra mountains of california. as we made the climb through its winding switchback roads --

- this is unbelievable. they're like huge buildings. >> reporter: -- the park's main attraction reveals itself. >> i'm surprised there aren't more accidents on this road from people just like looking up. >> reporter: groves of some of somlargest living things on earth, giant sequoia trees, stretching hundreds of feet into the sky. >> giant sequoias have been described as being living relics of an ancient forest. >> reporter: daniel blankenship al sequoia national park's interpretive ranger. he's one of many caretakers of hiis forest, which is home to ams most famous resident, general sherman, the planet's largest tree. >> it's not the world's tallest. it's not the world's widest tree either. it's the world's largest by volume, 103 feet in 6.rcumference at the base, 36.5 feet in diameter. it stands over 275 feet tall. >> one, two, three... rm reporter: general sherman is estimated to be 2,200 years old, tive during the height of the roman empire. when settlers first arrived here

in the 1800s and found these giants, they tried to tell others about their discovery, but the world didn't believe them. it's what's known as the "california hoax," and all of these years later, you can enderstand why, these towering trees defy gravity. the last few years have been esme of sequoia national park's fsiest with travelers around foe world flooding through its gates for an opportunity to get a glimpse of these prehistoric giants. ilr now, social media posts will need to wait. cellular service here is nearly non-existent, but that's about to change. t, a new cell phone tower first, of its kind, has been approved dor the park. >> reporter: so an ancient forest gets a small, modern upgrade. >> yeah. >> reporter: an upgrad of millions of years in the making. jonathan vigliotti, cbs news, sequoia national park, california. >> quijano: up next on the "cbs weekend news," trouble at the palace. what's causing the queen's guards to fall down? to fall down?

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it's got some people really down. eporeporter: on the hottest day of the year in london, the queen's guards are quick marching in 100-degree heat, and every one of them is hoping not a do this. all soldiers are prone to fainting, even the u.s. marines. in fact, it's such a problem that the british army is doing research on how to prevent it. major iain parsons is an army cardiologist. >> standing for prolonged periods puts you at risk. sding heat and that can further it. >> reporter: talk about adding eaat. take a look at this uniform. warm trousers. a heavy, snug jacket done all the way up. and to top it all off, when are you going to put that on? oh, all right. that's bear fur. frankly, it's a wonder this doesn't happen more often.

so how do these soldiers prepare? >> hydrate. wiggle your toes, eat your scoff in the morning and you're fun. >> reporter: translation: drink lots of water, eat your breakfast, and, that's right, wiggle your toes. as keeps the blood flowing and it doesn't show. the army's research suggests ngting up to four times more ellt than normal also helps, and so does exercising in the heat, which could be good advice for all kinds of people. >> like policemen, people who are exposed to lots of heat like firefighters, or people just on packed commuter trains, packed buses that don't have seats. >> reporter: if the army works out how to keep the queen's guards upright, we all stand to benefit. elizabeth palmer, cbs news, london. >> quijano: next on the "cbs weekend news," we'll return to the scene of the nation's latest mass murder.

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more than 20 are injured. ed.ng the dead is a high school student. among the injured is a 17-month- old baby girl. her name is anderson davis. a family friend tells us anderson has shrapnel in her chest. she has a hole through the bottom of her lip and her rongue. her front teeth were knocked out. she is 17 months old and she's the victim of a mass shooting. today in texas, new laws went into effect that eased gun restrictions. iu can now bring a gun on a school campus and keep it in a locked car. guns are now allowed in churches and synagogues, but the church can decide not to allow it. those are the facts. e,t if you remember nothing .lse, remember the victims. they matter. that is the "cbs weekend news" for this sunday. "60 minutes" is coming up. i'm david begnaud reporting tonight from odessa. for all of us at cbs news, good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.w h.org

stretches. she's months after the city of santa cruz shut down a large homeless encampment, many have popped up on the beach. >> hit a pole, fully engulfed. >> it's tragic. it's lives lost that could have been productive. >> an illegal drag race turns deadly in san jose. the search is on for the people in the other car. >> how a driver running from police ended up on the tarmac. good evening. i'm juliette goodrich. >> and i'm brian hackney. many tourists are flocking to santa cruz to enjoy the sun and the surf but they're not the only ones. >> tourists are sharing the sand with a growing homeless encampment.

kpix 5's kit do explains there's not much the city can do about it. >> this is kind of a surreal scene in santa cruz. it's a picture perfect day. you've got a lot of families enjoying the sun and the sand and the surf. all this colliding with santa cruz's homeless crisis. one of the most popular tourist destinations in santa cruz now has some long-term visitors. >> is it better than camping in the city? >> most definitely. >> reporter: mark peabody is part of the growing number of homeless setting up tents below the boardwalk. there are at least a dozen of them. he set up camp after hearing some people were being allowed to stay overnight. he remembers his first morning when there was a knock at the door. >> i thought i was getting busted but as it turned out, we just need to move our tents for the sweeper. so we move our tents over like 50 feet until