"conception." the company operating the boat had a safety record. but most passengers were likely asleep. the bunk area has a stairway up to the galley, the only way out. >> the crew was actually already awake and on the bridge and they jumped off. >> can you get back on board and unlock the door so they can get off? >> reporter: it's unclear if there was time. good samaritans rescued the five surviving crew members but said there was nothing more they could do. they called the scene horrendous. also this heartbreaking scene of family members of the passengers waiting for any word. >> right now they are conducting shoreline searches for any available survivors. >> reporter: and that wait continues. four bodies have been recovered. 29 people are still missing. we have learned the ntsb is on their way to the scene. the fbi will be assisting. and, meanwhile, through all of this, we're told this search will continue through tomorrow. >> shocking tragedy. thank you, jonathan. back here in florida, towns up and down the coast are

becoming deserted. janet shamlian joins us from jupiter about 120 miles south of here. how is the wind and weather there? >> conditions are getting worse very quickly here. the storm is 100 miles to the east. we're in between rain bands right now but the wind is kicking up. it's churning the surf. and it's foretelling of what is to come. there is a mandatory evacuation order in effect. people are being warned to stay in their homes at their own risk. restaurants, businesses, stores are all closed. and schools here will stay closed until thursday. city officials tonight are planning for street flooding and for power outages because of the storm. and tonight, norah, they are warning people not to come down here and sightsee at the beach. norah? >> janet, thank you. nearly a quarter of florida's population is over 60. 93 nursing homes and seven hospitals have been evacuated ahead of dorian. and mark strassmann is in st.

augustine and found some folks who live a block from the beach that don't want to leave. >> reporter: this community has a mandatory evacuation order but sergeant krissei pagget can't enforce it. >> are you staying? >> i prefer to stay. >> reporter: and patricia laurencelle won't leave. >> are you nervous about this? >> uneasy. >> reporter: she packed a bag just in case. we also met k.c. kelber heading up to check on his neighbor buzz rosman. both will stay put for now. >> we're going to have to vacate. >> reporter: more than 8 million seniors live in the east coast counties and face the menace of dorian. >> i probably can't run anymore, but i can trundle out to my car and take off. >> reporter: kelber agrees, that's not much of a plan. >> what your worried about? >> just him being able to get out of here because he does move sort of slow.

and he's a little bit, you know, fragile. >> reporter: we gave both their names and address to local police to check on them because, norah, they belong to a group that's a major worry here. hurricane holdouts who are also seniors. >> mark, thank you. late today, the national hurricane center extended hurricane storm surge watches to south carolina. jamie yuccas is in charleston. jamie joins us now. i imagine that city has good reason to be worried tonight. >> reporter: norah, absolutely. charleston is known as low country, which means it's extremely prone to flooding. that's why businesses have already started boarding up, even though dorian's forecast is days out. the governor also taking things seriously, ordering a mandatory evacuation for almost a million people across the coastline. they're all headed in one direction, and that's out to higher ground. homeowners, before they left, picked up sandbags to try to protect their homes from potential floodwaters.

one location gave out 750 sandbags in one hour. you can see businesses here in historic downtown charleston also using that sandbags to protect their merchandise and other items inside the stores because they're worried dorian will make its way here. >> we learned today the gunman who went on a killing spree in west texas called the fbi and 911 just minutes before saturday's rampage. the seven people who were killed ranged in age from 15 to 57. 23 others were wounded, including a 17-month-old girl. mireya villareal has new developments from odessa, texas. >> reporter: the fbi believes seth ator's downward spiral began long before this mass shooting. he'd been calling the fbi tip line for years, leaving rambling, incoherent messages. then saturday morning, he was fired from his job at a trucking company. >> i want to be clear. he showed up to work in a very distressed mental state. so it's not because he got fired. >> there are reports of people

citing him with a rifle. those reports did come in. officers did respond to those areas. and he was just gone. >> reporter: before and during the shooting rampage, he called police and the fbi tip line. >> he said he was the guy doing it. >> reporter: ator's mobile mass shooting took him on a ten-mile journey from midland county into odessa leaving a trail of 15 individual crime scenes. >> i saw a very large gun come up out of the car. >> reporter: shauna saxton was driving when the suspect drove up next to her and pulled a gun. >> i was honking. clearly, i was traveling weird and maybe got somebody's attention. >> reporter: he was eventually confronted by police near the cinergy movie theater. seven people died as a result of the shooting. 20 more injured, including 17-month-old anderson davis, recovering at home today after surgery to remove shrapnel in her chest and injuries to her

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at the cleveland clinic wanted to know if bariatric surgery could prevent the problems associated with diabetes. they followed nearly 2,300 people who underwent various types of bariatric surgery and compared them to 11,000 obese patients with similar symptoms who did not have the surgery. >> what we saw was pretty astonishing. so these people had fewer heart attacks and strokes and kidney failure and heart failure. >> reporter: in addition, people who have the surgery were 41% less likely to die from any cause during the study. >> if we can find ways to help people lose weight that all of these effects of obesity on heart health are potentially reversible. dr. jon lapook, cbs news, new york. and still much more news ahead as protests in

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as we begin to feel the effects of dorian here, the hurricane continues to pound the bahamas. that country needs help, and south florida is coming through. the city of miami has created 16 drop-off locations to collect donations. that includes fire stations and some churches. the city's commissioner is hoping a near miss so far in miami will mean people donate what they bought in preparation for dorian. they are asking for things like

water, canned goods and baby formula. the supplies will make it to the bahamas on wednesday, if weather allows. >> this is going to be one of the biggest ever. >> world-renowned chef jose andres is on the ground in the bahamas getting ready to feed the people there. he hopes to be in the impacted areas by tonight. if kitchens are destroyed, they'll build a makeshift one and cook in big paella pans. we spoke to him from his prep kitchen. >> we hope to feed everybody and we're going to do it fast, quick and with the least amount of money possible. and that's what we are here for. to make sure that anybody that is hungry in these islands in the north of nassau, that will get food sooner rather than later. >> this is an historic storm. if you want to make a donation to one of the organizations helping, visit cbs news.com/dorianhelps. i'm norah o'donnell in cocoa beach, florida. we'll see you on "cbs this morning" and right back here on the "cbs evening news."

♪ this is the "cbs overnight news." >> welcome to the "overnight news." i'm jericka duncan. hurricane dorian is finally crawling away from the bahamas after devastating the island chain with category 4 veracity. dorian lingered long enough to shred roofs, hurl cars and force even veteran rescue crews to seek shelter for themselves. the storm is headed to the u.s. mainland, but right now there's just no best guess as to when it will make landfall if at all. norah o'donnell is in cocoa beach, florida, where she begins our coverage. >> reporter: the

life-threatening storm is unleashing unprecedented devastation in the bahamas. it struck as a category 5 with sustained winds of 185 miles an hour. gusts over 220 tore the roofs off houses. an estimated 13,000 homes were damaged or destroyed. and the floodwaters reached to the tops of trees. these cars were piled up like children's toys. tonight we're learning at least five deaths are reported. the search for victims is just beginning. in the u.s., dorian could hit nearly a thousand miles of coastline. that's more than 5.5 million people ordered to evacuate to leave their homes. despite that order, some families told us they don't want to leave. tonight, dorian is still packing 145-mile-an-hour winds. watches and warnings now up in three states -- florida, georgia and south carolina. that's new, the south carolina part. up to 80% of the beaches from florida to north carolina could be damaged by erosion.

tonight we're also learning the hurricane center is roughly about 100 miles offshore. it is parked over grand island in the bahamas. it is forecast to turn west to northwest in the next 24 hours. the center may not make landfall here in florida, but they say that even a glancing blow could bring hurricane-force winds to the coast along with disastrous storm surge. so the question is where and when? dorian has been pummeling the bahamas for a day and a half. scientists say it's like having an ef-4 tornado over your house for 30 hours. imagine that. some of the islands are just four feet above sea level and were hit by a storm surge up to 23 feet, higher than the roof line of most homes. today the prime minister said his country is at war with dorian but without a weapon to defend itself. >> please, pray for us. >> desperate cries for help as dorian pounded the bahamas for more than a day as a category 5.

with catastrophic winds tearing off roofs, toppling trees and downing power lines. the storm surge claiming at least five lives in the abacos, including a young boy, with fears there could be many more. bahamian prime minister hubert minnis -- >> the initial reports from abaco is that the devastation is unprecedented and extensive. >> residents scrambled to their attics trying to escape the storm surge as high as 23 feet as authorities urged people to grab hammers to break out of attics. more than four feet of rain is expected in the next few days. >> complete devastation. look at these cars, man. >> it was the strongest hurricane to hit in modern history. tonight the monster storm is expected to get dangerously close to here in florida. nearly 4 million are under mandatory evacuation orders in 12 counties. the other counties in yellow are under voluntary evacuations.

governor ron desantis -- >> if you're ordered to evacuate, you need to do that. authorities in california still don't know what touched off a deadly boat fire off the coast of ventura county. it was load with divers when it burst into flames before dawn monday. five crew members managed to escape, but nearly three dozen others asleep below deck weren't so lucky. jonathan vigliotti has that story. >> reporter: we just returned from the scene where the dense fog has hampered the search effort. we're learning this evening the coroner's office is on standby for possible mass casualties. that fire broke out just after 3:00 in the morning, and that's when the captain radioed mayday. the ship burst into flames. the accounts heard on this dispatch audio are chilling. >> coast guard received a report of a vessel on fire with 33 people, correction, 34 people trapped below deck.

>> the vessel fully engulfed now? >> no escape hatch for any of the people on board. >> reporter: by the time the coast guard and other life boats reached the stricken ship, fire was everywhere. >> i can't breathe. >> reporter: the call went out to every boat nearby. >> if you have any firefighting gear on board, hose, anything like that, that would be great, over. >> reporter: but it was too late. the ship listed, then sank. the coast guard blocked off the area where the fire took place. the diving vessel was anchored about 25 yards off the coast. it's now completely submerged. the passengers were all experienced scuba divers on a ship called "the conception." authorities say the company operating the boat had an excellent safety record. but at 3:00 a.m., most passengerswere likely asleep. the bunk area has a stairwell up to the galley, the only way out. >> the crew was actually already awake and on the bridge and they jumped off. >> can you get back on board and unlock the door so they can get off? >> reporter: it's unclear if there was time. good samaritans rescued the five surviving crew members but said

there was nothing more they could do. they called the scene horrendous. there was also this heartbreaking scene of family members of the passengers waiting for any word. >> right now they are conducting shoreline searches for any available survivors. we're learning more about the gunman who killed seven people this weekend in odessa, texas. it turns out seth ator was fired from his job just hours before the rampage and called both the fbi and 911 before he opened fire. mireya villareal has the story. >> reporter: the fbi believes seth ator's downward spiral began long before this mass shooting. he'd been calling the fbi tip line for years, leaving rambling, incoherent messages. then, saturday morning, he was fired from his job at a trucking company. >> i want to be clear. he showed up to work in a very distressed mental state. so it's not because he got fired. >> there are reports of people

citing him with a rifle. those reports did come in. officers did respond to those areas. and he was just gone. >> reporter: before and during the shooting rampage, he called police and the fbi tip line. >> he said he was the guy doing it. >> reporter: ator's mobile mass shooting took him on a ten-mile journey from midland county into odessa leaving a trail of 15 individual crime scenes. >> i saw a very large gun come up out of the car. >> reporter: shauna saxton was driving when the suspect pulled up alongside her and pulled a gun. >> i was honking. clearly, i was traveling weird and maybe got somebody's attention. >> reporter: he was eventually confronted by police near the cinergy movie theater. seven people died as a result of the shooting. 25 more injured, including 17-month-old anderson davis, recovering at home today after surgery to remove shrapnel in her chest and injuries to her face. the fbi searched the shooter's home right behind me.

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this is the "cbs overnight news." >> welcome back to the "cbs overnight news." i'm jericka duncan. former defense secretary and decorated marine corps general james mattis has a new book out. the title "call sign chaos -- learning to lead." mattis was president trump's first defense secretary. he served for two years before resigning over the president's decision to immediately pull all u.s. troops out of syria. well, of course, our troops are still in syria. mattis writes, i did as well as i could for as long as i could

when my concrete solutions and strategic advice especially keeping faith with our allies was no longer resonated. it was time to resign. mattis led troops into battle in iraq and afghanistan. he discussed it all with david martin. >> james mattis served more than 40 years in the marines. much of it commanding troops in battle. but he almost didn't make it to boot camp. >> i fell onto the ice and was on my way coming down that ridgeline much faster than i ever anticipated. >> reporter: it was the dead of wint e1971, and he very nearly fell to his death from that ridge outside his hometown of richland, washington. >> the next thing i knew, i woke up, and there was blood all over the ice. >> america's enemies almost caught an early break. >> well, yeah, but i assure you that i was a pretty average marine. there were a lot of other marines that could have taken my place and done just as well as me. >> reporter: now retired from the marines and no longer donald trump's defense secretary, he's back where he grew up.

a stone's throw from the columbia river. >> the river was a big part of our lives. not a day in the summer went by when we wouldn't be in the river swimming it. >> what else did you do? >> we'd go hunting in the fall. camping in the summer. this was heaven on earth. >> were you just free to roam as a kid? >> very much so. very much. i started hitch-hiking when i was about 13. and just kept right on going. >> reporter: and ended up in jail more than once. >> i'd been in a few scrapes along the way. >> what kind of scrapes? >> partying too much one night under age in college. and spent some time in jail. and also got in a few too many fights along the way when i was out hitch-hiking around the american west. >> so you got into the marine corps with a police record? >> yes, i did. >> along with fellow marine bing west, he's written an autobiography called "call sign

chaos." that stands for colonel has another outstanding suggestion. his staff's response to his frequent brain storms. >> what is he going to think up next? >> that's probably a pretty apt description of how they looked at the chaos i brought. >> reporter: that chaos was inflicted on the enemy begin with the iraqi army in the first gulf war. which is where i first met him. >> have you been in combat? >> no, i have not. >> do you worry about how you're going to react? >> no, i have the easiest job in the battalion, commanding it. the men i have no doubt about them, and they'll carry me right along. no doubt at all. >> you weren't about to admit to me that you had any doubts on the eve of battle. >> uh-huh. >> did you? >> we got the word that we were going to lose hundreds, killed and wounded. >> reporter: mattis was taking a force of 1,200 men into the

teeth of iraqi mine fields and artillery. >> i remember thinking at the time that this lieutenant colonel, nobody has ever heard of, has got to decide which of these marines go first. >> that's the tough part. deciding who is going to lead the assaults. >> how do you steel yourself to make those life and death decisions? >> i made it clear that no commander would report to me their casualties unless they could no longer continue the fight. i'd grieve later. >> reporter: in four days of fighting, mattis didn't lose a single marine. and his men rolled into kuwait city cheered as liberators. victory would never again come so easily. >> there's a million things that can go right or wrong. we'll see how many come out on our side. >> reporter: after 9/11, he said a force of 4,000 marines into southern afghanistan. it was the deepest air assault ever conducted by the marines.

but mattis wanted to go deeper. >> we were restricted by headquarters. we were limited in what offensive operations we could do. >> was that frustrating? >> i couldn't understand the timidity and why it was taking so long. >> where was osama bin laden when you were at rhino? >> osama bin laden was still in afghanistan. >> reporter: bin laden was 400 miles away in the tora bora mountains. and mattis had the helicopters to get there. >> we would basically block the escape routes and then move up the two valleys. we were very confident we had a good fix on him. and as we pushed up those valleys, he would have to move. and at that point, we'd kill him. >> reporter: it was the bush administration's best chance to get america's worst enemy. but the order never came. we in the military missed the opportunity, mattis writes. >> you willing to say now that you could have gotten him.

>> you can never give that kind of certainty, but he had a hell of a time getting out if we'd gotten those troops in. >> reporter: mattis left afghanistan to take control of a marine division and a mission he never saw coming. the invasion of iraq. >> i was somewhat flabbergasted. i didn't think saddam could do much in terms of threatening us. there was a problem there, but i thought it could be solved other than us invading them. >> reporter: mattis' co-author bing west shot this video as the marines rumbled toward baghdad. >> speed. we had to move quickly. any enemy given enough time can adapt to a circumstance. if you don't keep the tempo up, they can dig in their heels, and then you start paying more of a price. >> reporter: his marines famously toppled the statue of saddam hussein, but nine months later, found themselves engulfed by an insurgency. >> move it.

hurry! >> the enemy was rising everywhere. the tribes had gotten furious. anyone reading a history book knows what's going to happen at this point. there's going to be violence. and we didn't have enough troops to contain it. >> reporter: mattis was in the thick of it with 29 gunners, drivers, radio operators and aides who moved with him around the battlefield. >> and 17 of those 29 lads would be killed or wounded over the next four months to give you an idea hough bad it was. and i'm a general. i'm not in the toughest fight. >> reporter: the toughest fighting was in the terrorist stronghold of fallujah which mattis was ordered to liberate. he thought it was a mistake to use so much firepower in a city of 300,000. >> so you went in to fallujah, what, against your better judgment? >> you've got to do it. that's why they're called orders. they're not called likes. you don't have to like it. you were ordered to do it. >> reporter: in the midst of the

battle, the images of urban combat became too much for the bush administration and mattis was ordered to call it off. >> i could not fathom why we'd been ordered to attack in the first place or why we'd stop deep inside the city and then pull back. >> reporter: the impact of such incoherence, mattis writes, cannot be overstated. dizzying is the appropriate word. >> how does it feel to be told, uh-oh, never mind? >> you have to have confidence that what you're doing is right. and if it's right to break the back of the terrorist, then do it. just do it. do it as well as you can. protect the innocent to the degree you can, but don't get wobbly. and when the going gets tough. >> and the bush administration got wobbly? >> yes. >> reporter: with fallujah still in enemy hands, mattis went into the city to confront face-to-face one of the sheikhs who backed the terrorists.

>> i simply made certain my carabiner was ---o that he'd hear it. and he said, do i look like a terrorist. i leaned forward at him and i said, yes, matter of fact, you do. >> reporter: exploits like that earned mattis a nickname. >> mad dog. it's not one that i've ever grown fond of, no matter how many times it's used. >> why not? >> it has the idea incorporated into it of just someone who is thoughtless, someone who is simply abrasive or aggressive for aggressive sake. >> reporter: his aggressiveness is informed by a personal library that once contained 7,000 books. >> are those 7,000 books you read? >> i'll bet i read about 90% of them. i wouldn't claim i read all of them, but, by and large, yeah, i don't get a book unless i'm going to trd.

>> reporter: and underline it as he did with the meditations of the roman emperor and stoic philosopher. >> i'd carry copies of this in my rucksack. when i was overseas because if something wasn't going well, you pull that out and say, don't feel sorry for yourself. you're not a victim. you choose the kind of way you're going to react to this. >> reporter: for all his reading, mattis can sometimes sound trigger happy. in 2005, he told an audience, it's a lot of fun to fi it's fun to shoot some people. i like brawling. >> it came across to most of the country as sounding a little blood thirsty. >> yeah, yeah. well, i'm not tormented by saying we'll stand up for freedom. >> i remember running into you while you were still dealing with the aftermath of that. >> yes. >> and you said, it's only pressure if you feel it. >> yeah, marcus arealuous. >> when have you felt pressure? >> i put pressure on myself, but i don't feel pressure from

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shhhh. i took mucinex dm for my phlegmy cough. what about rob's dry cough? works on that too. and lasts 12 hours. 12 hours?! who studies that long?! only mucinex dm relieves wet and dry coughs for 12 hours with 2 medicines in 1 pill. hurricane dorian continues to churn slowly toward the u.s. mainland. it's already made history as one of the strongest hurricanes ever recorded in the atlantic. but the storm is also helping others make history as well. for instance, the first all-female hurricane hunter flight crew. dana jacobsen reports.

>> reporter: while hurricane dorian makes its way toward the florida coast, not everyone is fleeing the fierce storm. >> we fly fast, we fly high so we can cover a lot of area. >> reporter: they flew into the eye of the storm this week. their hurricane hunter aircraft collects data for noaa which helps the forecasters predict where the storm is heading next. but their flight thursday was historic. it was the first time in noaa's history that a hurricane hunter's flight crew was composed of all women. >> there's more women get interested in flying, and it's also fun to have that camaraderie because, to be honest, it's been a male-dominated field. >> reporter: this photo was snapped on board the aircraft haefd their mission celebrating his significance. twining hopes they'll inspire a new generation of female pilots. >> to let them know that this is, you know, certainly a possibility for them, and they don't have to feel intimidated

or in any way think they cannot do it. >> people think you're a little bit nuts. then you tell them, this is why we're going out and doing this,

over in england, they've come up with a new curriculum that helps students deal with stress. roxana saberi has that story. >> your feeling depressed, anxious -- >> reporter: at arnold academy north of lond orngs students are learning to open up. >> my great auntie died at the weekend. >> reporter: -- about their anxieties. >> my grandma has high blood pressure. >> worried because i get kind of frightened sometimes. and this camera is pointed in my face right now. >> reporter: their list of concerns runs long. >> so much work to do. i have lots of homework. >> my parents didn't have like as much like technology and social media. there's a lot of pressure on that. >> reporter: to tackle these

tensions, their school and nearly 400 others across england are trying something new. >> today's relaxation technique is called wings to the sky. >> reporter: short, daily doses of relaxation. >> you can feel your stress leaving you. >> reporter: and mindfulness. over three years, researchers plan to study whether exercises like these can improve the mental health of children in england where anxiety among kids is rising. the trend is similar in the u.s. a recent survey found a 20% jump in american children diagnosed with anxiety over five years. >> if we find actually this is beneficial, that's great. >> reporter: professor jessica dayton says the government-backed trial in england which she's leading is the largest of its kind. >> what they were saying is their life is busy, very busy. maybe busier than it was when we were children. and they find it's an opportunity to sit and reset. >> reporter: that's why history teacher rachel bradford says after just 2 1/2 months, these

exercises arnold academy saw an 80% drop in reports of misconduct. >> now they're able to calm down and rationalize a situation. >> how many of you feel that learning relaxation has helped you? olivia, you're not raising your hand. >> my usual way of calming down is to move. that's why i do dance. when you do relaxation and breathe, it's like the complete opposite. so i don't really feel it. >> there's a danger people get carried away with one particular approach. it's really important to do this research because these practices may turn out not to be effective. >> reporter: if researchers conclude these practices are effective,upporters hope all eventually offer them.l >> schools are not just there to get children the best grades they can. we're also here to help our children become the very best versions of themselves.

>> and feel that stress leaving you. >> reporter: for "cbs this morning," roxana saberi, dford, enand. and tha is "the overnight is "the overnight news" from this tuesday. m captioning funded by cbs it's tuesday, september 3rd, 2019. this is the "cbs morning news." preparing for the worst as hurricane dorian pummels the bahamas. people in florida and along the east coast are gearing up. we're tracking the massive storm system as it creeps closer to the u.s. tragedy off the coast of california. more than two dozen people are dead after a boat fire as the search for the missing continues. how the passengers became trapped as the ship went up in flames. plus, new details about a deadly shooting in texas.