now to a story that's shaken up horse racing. there's a report that 2018 triple crown winner "justify" tested positive for a banned substance before he qualified for the kentucky derby. tonight, "justify's" trainer is strongly denying he did anything wrong. barry petersen has been looking into all of it. >> he's just immortal! >> reporter: last june, "justify" became only the 13th horse to take home the triple crown. trainer bob baffert. >> he is a brilliant, superior horse. >> reporter: but a "new york times" report says "justify" failed a drug test that should have disqualified him weeks before the kentucky derby >> "justify" has won the kentucky derby. >> reporter: the first leg of the triple crown. according to the report, the banned drug was scopolamine which is normally used to treat nausea and muscle spasms in humans. the report went on to say the california horse racing board kept the test results secret and they took more than a month to confirm result dr. mary scollay, executive director for a horse racing

testing consortium, says it is unlikely that any trainer would willingly give their horse scopolamine because of its negative side effects. >> i don't believe that there would be a reason to administer that to a horse. i think the possibility of adverse events is much greater than any potential for beneficial events. >> reporter: baffert's attorney is craig robertson iii. >> there was no intentional administration by mr. baffert. in addition, to support that, we're talking about a minuscule levels of the substance. >> reporter: the medical director of the california horse racing board said the test results were tossed because the sample was contaminated with jimsonweed, which occurs naturally in feed given to horses. norah. >> complicated. all right, barry, thank you. now a cbs news investigation. isis remains an active threat to the west, long after it was all but wiped out in syria. and tonight holly williams goes undercover to expose how human smugglers are helping isis

fighters infiltrate western europe. >> reporter: human smuggling is big business in athens, and now cbs news has found evidence that isis members are being moved through greece to the rest of europe. this is the area around omonia square in central athens, which is notorious as a center of criminal activity. and there are human smuggling gangs operating here. filming with a hidden camera, we set up a meeting with alrayes. he comes from north africa and runs a smuggling syndicate. moving people from athens to western europe for around $8,000 each. >> reporter: his usual customers are migrants and refugees. hundreds of thousands have come to greece from the middle east, many making the dangerous crossing by boat.

they're dreaming of a better life in western europe and alrayes and other smugglers can get them there. could i talk to him about where we... i posed not as a refugee but as an isis wife who wanted safe passage to germany. "no problem" alrayes said. in fact, he told us he'd moved other isis members before. he even bragged that he'd smuggled three brothers of notorious al qaeda terrorist abu musabl al-zarqawi, a claim we cannot confirm. the smugglers used stolen identity documents. we went undercover again, this time posing as smugglers

ourselves, and found criminals with hundreds of them for sale in athens, including u.s. passports. they try to match their customers with an i.d. photo they resemble. then the smugglers use the stolen documents to fly people from athens to spain or italy, where they claim security is lax. from there, they can travel anywhere in western europe with no border checks. the greek police are targeted human smugglers and have made arrests. but several members of the isis terror cell that carried out attacks in france and belgium came through greece, and there are fears that criminals like alrayes have already helped isis sleeper cells make their way into the heart of europe. holly williams, cbs news, athens. >> and there is still much more ahead. a major mix-up at a fertility

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meg oliver tells us the clinic they used now has to turn over a list of possible sperm donors. >> you start questioning it. >> reporter: desperate to have another child, kristina koedderich and drew wasilewski turned to i.v.f. through the institute for reproductive medicine and science at st. barnabus in new jersey. in 2013, kristina gave birth to a baby girl. when did you first suspect your daughter might not be your biological daughter? >> when she was two and a half, two. >> reporter: and what was it? she doesn't look like drew. >> reporter: a d.n.a. test revealed their daughter, who is now six, is only related to kristina, a devastating blow that ultimately led to their divorce. >> we were already having marital issues at the time. well, this just nailed it in the coffin. >> you want to have a child, and you can't have one, and then finally you're able to. it was upsetting. >> reporter: and they also wondered what happened to drew's sperm. drew, are you concerned that you may have biological children out there?

>> yes. yes, very much so. >> reporter: how does that weigh on you? >> a lot. if i have other children, you know, i want them to know who i am. >> reporter: in a statement, the clinic told cbs news "the integrity of our treatment processes is paramount, and we are taking this matter very seriously." kristina and drew's daughter inherited a genetic trait they hope will help find the biological father. in the meantime, they're struggling with how they will eventually explain all of this to their little girl. >> how is she going to treat him? >> reporter: are you worried about that? >> i worry about a lot of things, yeah. when she's right there, what do you say? >> reporter: the fertility clinic has until september 27 to turn over the list of sperm donors. >> reporter: and so how can couples who want to go through i.v.f. protect themselves? >> norah, it's tough, because critics tell me there's no federal oversight for these types of clinical errors. this is a federal law from 1992 but it only requires clinics to report success rates, not mistakes.

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withrito the poo jamie yuccas visits an athlete spending her golden years racking up gold medals. >> go! >> reporter: at the ripe old age

of 97, maureen kornfeld is at the peak of her career. >> i don't want to say worship her but we're her biggest fans. >> i want a hug, too! >> reporter: around the pool, the woman known as "mighty mo" is a legend to everyone but herself. so how many awards have you won now? >> i have no idea. >> reporter: you lost count. >> i never counted. >> reporter: we counted. among senior masters swimmers, she's earned 14 world championship gold medals, has set 28 world records and was recently inducted into the international swimming hall of fame, all in a career that began at age 65. that sounds crazy! >> it probably was and is. >> reporter: a child of the depression, maureen was told good girls don't play sports. well, look at her now. >> courage. >> reporter: this late-in-life hobby also inspires her new family of teammates.

>> what i like about the team is seeing them starting from little or nothing into becoming quite accomplished, and that's really neat. >> reporter: they train at the rose bowl aquatic center in pasadena. when you jumped into the pool, all i could think in my head was, "the little old lady from pasadena." ? go, granny go ? >> reporter: have people told you, wow, i can't believe you have so much energy? >> reporter: jamie yuccas, cbs news, pasadena. i'm norah o'donnell. ♪ ♪

>> announcer: this is "cbs overnight news." >> welcome to the overnight news. i'm nikki battiste. fingers are pointing at israel after the department of home land security discovered foreign surveillance equipment throughout washington, including the white house. the devices called sting rays intercepts cell phone calls. benjamin netanyahu says he's not to blame. jeff pegues has the story. >> reporter: israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu, who was in russia to meet with president putin, called the report israel would spy on one of its closest allies a blatant lie. >> we have a directive.

i have a directive-- no intelligence collection in the united states, no spying. >> reporter: whether it was the israelis or not, u.s. intelligence officials are concerned the surveillance devices known as stingrays, like this one, have been found near the white house. they can easily hidden under a bench or even in a moving vehicle. costing up to $200,000, they mimic cell phone towers and trick cell phones in the area into transmitting their locations and the identity of the caller. the stingrays could have been used to spy on administration officials and even president trump who is known to use a personal cell phone. officials at the department of homeland security warned congress that stingrays are a real and growing risk. >> i think we ought to be on our guard not only with regard to our adversaries, but also some of our nominal allies. they have their own national interests and they're going to pursue it, i'm sure. >> reporter: there is also concern the devices could be used by the russians, chinese, or another adversary. >> what the devices pick up... >> reporter: eric o'neill is a former f.b.i. undercover operative.

how vulnerable would a white house be to that kind of surveillance? >> so, for example, you're an intelligence agency, and you want to know when a different country that you're hostile to is meeting with someone in the white house, you could tell when that specific person based on their cell phone entered the white house. >> reporter: spying goes on every day in this town and it's worth noting the israelis have spied on the u.s. in the past. the israelis could be behind this latest incident. well, that did not come as a surprise to some of the intelligence veterans we spoke to. in fact, one person told us that it would be a surprise if they got caught, because the source said they're just too good for that. >> legendary race horse trainer b bob baffert is denying the horse failed a drug test that could have kept him out of the kentucky derby.

barry petersen has the story. >> he's just immortal! >> reporter: last june, "justify" became only the 13th horse to take home the triple crown. trainer bob baffert. >> he is a brilliant, superior horse. >> reporter: but a "new york times" report says "justify" failed a drug test that should have disqualified him weeks before the kentucky derby >> "justify" has won the kentucky derby. >> reporter: the first leg of the triple crown. according to the report, the banned drug was scopolamine which is normally used to treat nausea and muscle spasms in humans. the report went on to say the racing board kept the results secret and took more than a month to confirm the results. dr. mary scollay, executive director for a horse racing testing consortium, says it is unlikely that any trainer would willingly give their horse scopolamine because of its negative side effects. >> i don't believe that there would be a reason to administer that to a horse. i think the possibility of adverse events is much greater than any potential for beneficial events. >> reporter: baffert's attorney is craig robertson iii.

>> there was no intentional administration by mr. baffert. in addition, to support that, we're talking about a minuscule levels of the substance. >> reporter: the medical director of the california horse racing board said the test results were tossed because the sample was contaminated with jimsonweed, which occurs naturally in feed given to horses. >> overseas, the islamic state has been driven from its so-called caliphate in iraq and syria. but isis fighters are turning up throughout the middle east and europe. a cbs news investigation uncovered a human smuggling operation that moves them around. holly williams has the story. >> reporter: human smuggling is big business in athens, and now cbs news has found evidence that isis members areng through greece to the rest of europe. this is the area around omonia square in central athens, which is notorious as a center of criminal activity.

and there are human smuggling gangs operating here. filming with a hidden camera, we set up a meeting with alrayes. he comes from north africa and runs a smuggling syndicate. moving people from athens to western europe for around $8,000 each. >> reporter: his usual customers are migrants and refugees. hundreds of thousands have come to greece from the middle east, many making the dangerous crossing by boat. they're dreaming of a better life in western europe and alrayes and other smugglers can get them there. could i talk to him about where we... i posed not as a refugee but as an isis wife who wanted safe passage to germany. "no problem" alrayes said.

in fact, he told us he'd moved other isis members before. he even bragged that he'd smuggled three brothers of notorious al qaeda terrorist abu musabl al-zarqawi, a claim we cannot confirm. the smugglers used stolen identity documents. we went undercover again, this time posing as smugglers ourselves, and found criminals with hundreds of them for sale in athens, including u.s. passports. they try to match their customers with an i.d. photo they resemble. then the smugglers use the stolen documents to fly people from athens to spain or italy, where they claim security is lax. from there, they can travel anywhere in western europe with

no border checks. the greek police are targeted human smugglers and have made arrests. but several members of the isis terror cell that carried out attacks in france and belgium came through greece, and there are fears that criminals like alrayes have already helped isis sleeper cells make their way into the heart of europe. holly williams, cbs news, athens. >> the "cbs overnight news" will be right back.

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>> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." >> welcome back to the overnight news. i'm nikki battiste. a cbs news investigation uncovered a new medicare fraud that could end up costing taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars. recruiters convince seniors to sign up for genetic testing, then send big bills to medicare. jim axelrod explains how the scheme works. >> reporter: it is here, among the tents at this fort lauderdale art festival, where the trouble began for ken and judy johnson. the pair of retire ease from austin, texas. >> a couple of people in there saying, come get your dna tested. >> reporter: the company, genex health billed itself as a

genetic testing one-stop shop. with a cheek swab where they could learn if they had a cancer diagnosis more likely. >> i had cancer six years ago. they indicated they could give us some results if it's genetic, that it could be passed on to my children. we've got four daughters. >> and since i'm the other half of their dna, why not give them the whole picture? >> reporter: they were told medicare would foot the bill. >> point blank, won't cost you anything. >> won't cost you anything. >> reporter: results were promised in four to six weeks. that was almost a year ago. since then they have received nothing except these, a slew of charges to their medicare account. judy's account was billed more than $10,000. ken's more than 8300. >> it hits me that we've been taken. >> totally unreasonable. totally outrageous. totally wrong. >> reporter: genex is part of an explosion of marketing companies hiring local recruiters to go anywhere seniors hang out.

the cancer test may be the hook, but the real goal is to collect as many medicare numbers as possible. don't let the scrubs fool you. these recruiters are not health care professionals. this woman was convicted in 2017 of a half a million dollar security fraud. we found her last june in yungz town, ohio, while she was still on probation, pitching the cancer test not for genex, but for another company. >> did you say medicare pays for that? >> medicare, yeah. >> reporter: we found dozens mayor's office doug and judy johnsons recruited by other marketers. this woman's account was billed $7,000 after she was swabbed at a georgia home and garden show, more than $10,000 for this texas man. and this 85 kbloeld meant-year- disabled woman was swabbed by genex reps in north carolina. the medicare bill, more than $21,000. >> it's just pure greed, pure,

pure greed. it had nothing to do with taking care of the community. >> reporter: while genxee is headquartered in denver, the company does events through web entities that hires recruits throughout the country. this documents she shared with us show in her less than three months on the job recruiters with for genexe swabbed more than 2300 seniors. >> these swabs get lost. i'd find them in the garbage. >> reporter: this sounds like a complete mess. >> it was. so there was an old refrigerator, and was -- >> reporter: wait, the refrigerator where the swabs were stored wasn't in a lab? >> no, it was in an office next to people's hamburgers. >> reporter: in the lunch room? >> people were waitth for these tests and would never get them. >> reporter: she said recruiters were promised up to genexe management cashed in.

we thought someone at the headquarters might know what happened to the johnson's test results. >> ken johnson. this is my wife judy. the general counsel, a man named david baladina came to greet us. >> we haven't received our reports. we had questions and we just -- >> have you contacted us? >> yes. >> yes. >> reporter: they were waiting they were told four to six weeks. >> last october. >> i'm sorry, i don't know. >> reporter: it says one-stop shopping on the brochure. >> i don't know what brochure you're talking about -- >> reporter: this one. >> i don't know where you received it. >> we were charged $19,000 on a little -- >> not by us. listen, folks, i did not charge you anything. so i think it's time for you to leave. >> reporter: it was $19,000 medicare was billed, not the johnsons. >> it doesn't manhattaner whether it was out of our pocket, medicare's pocket. it's wrong, it's a fraud. >> reporter: in a statement, genexe health said it performed a very limited service on a arms length basis and had no invoges

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more than 60 books, but it's her best seller, "the handmaid's tale" that made her a household name. the novel was turned into an award-winning tv series. now the sequel, the testaments, is making waves of its own. martha teichner made a visit to atwood to discuss her life and work. he a and t >> and the emmy goes to "the handmaid's tale." >> reporter: oprah's exclamation was proof "the handmaid's tale" was a big deal. it picked up eight emmy's for hulu in 2017. and when margaret atwood, the author of the 1985 book that inspired the tv show, made her way to the stage wearing handmade red, the applause, the standing ovation spoke volumes. >> they were dirty women. but you are special girls. >> reporter: in atwood's novel,

handmaids are essentially sex slaves. >> you girls will serve the leaders of the faithful. >> reporter: forced to bear children for infertile couples among the power elite in gilead. the totalitarian dystopia the united states had become after being taken over by christian zealots. the shadowy figure slapping handmaid, atwood in a scary cameo. a her fault. her fault. >> we went her to the toronto church gym where the scene was shot. how many times did they shoot the scene? >> i think they shot it four times. >> reporter: wow. >> me slapping elizabeth, they had to keep shooting it because i wasn't doing it vigorously enough. >> blessed be the fruit. >> may the lord help you. >> just looking at the handmaid's outfits, what did you have in mind when you thought

them up? >> the concealment of the body, number one, and the limitation of the body, n people. so that, and the old dutch cleanser package from the 1940s that showed this dutch woman in a voluminous blue dress, but with a big white hat still a vision from my childhood. >> reporter: outside the church atwood is recognized by teenagers attending day camp. >> break a leg. >> break a leg. >> reporter: at 79, she is canada's most famous living writer. she's published 60 books. but the handmaid's tale has overshadowed the others. in english, it sold over 8 million copies. she began the book in west i. >> a symbolic year because of orwell and how could i be so corny as to have begun "the handmaid's tale" in that year. i couldn't help it. >> reporter: what made you want to write it? >> so, there i am in west berlin

surrounded by the wall, and i'm visiting various totalitarian regimes in east germany and czechoslovakia and poland. so, for instance, charchescu made the law women had to have four babies and they had to have pregnancy test every month. and if they weren't pregnant, why not? >> reporter: in the book, and the television show, every atrocity, no matter how awful, had to have happened somewhere in real life. >> they made this up, the human rights made this up unrtuny. beng?pter:ou hanaid'sale" to what dot matr wt i fully intended or not? it is a warning.

>> reporter: you felt the need to create this warning. >> simply because i have never believed it can't happen here. i've never believed that. and more and more people are joining me in that lack of belief. >> reporter: beginning in 2017, women all over the world began taking to the streets, dressed as handmaids in the belief that fiction was indeed becoming fact. especially the restriction of women's rights. >> what do we do? >> stand up. >> reporter: today you see the costume. you know what it means. it's leaped out of atwood's book into our politics. >> i don't really expect things. i make educated guesses about possibilities, but i'm not a prophet. and if i were any good at gambling, i would do that and be a lot richer. >> reporter: so in the spring,

you get the migrating warblers. >> reporter: for more than 30 years she spent her summers on tea lee island in lake erie, the southern-most point in canada. it is an important sanctuary for migratory birds. she helps to pay for conservation efforts on the island. >> i've always been amongst the biologists and conservationists. >> reporter: margaret atwood actually lived in the woods as a child with her family. her father was an entomologist. >> he was studying infestations, things that cause large numbers of trees to die. >> reporter: so you were way, way up -- >> we were way up in northern quebec, and then we were way up north of lake superior. >> reporter: when did you decide you needed to be a writer? >> i decided that i was a writer -- sounds like a strange thing to say, but i decided i was one when i was 16. >> reporter: she's done a lot of

writing here on peely island. why is it such a good place to write? >> nobody calls. >> reporter: ah, no interruptions. did you write the new book here? >> some of it, >> reporter: t"the testaments," sequel to the handmade's tales. >> we're a little closer knowing how. >> reporter: is there hope in the second book? >> why do you want me to giveaway the book? tons of hope, tons of hope. lots and lots of hope. >> reporter: in this whole process, in the explosion of "the handmaid's tale" and its ripples in culture, what are you most proud of? >> i'm canadian, martha. we don't do "proud of." >> rep

let's say you were going out of town and need someone to take care of your dogs. that should be easy enough. but where can you find someone to take care of your orchid? steve hartman has the answer. >> reporter: vascular surgeon mark warner and his wife marney are pet lovers. >> you can see hamlet. >> reporter: hamlet the pig and greg the donkey, they care for about 40 other animals. and yet mark says the love he has for his menagerie is nothing compared to the attachment he has formed with his pet orchids. you love them. >> oh, absolutely. you get close to them over the years. it's not -- okay, i'm a regular guy. bought an orchid. and another one. i promise you, i'm a normal -- >> reporter: you keep saying that. >> yeah, the guy who says it the most is probably the least likely to be normal. >> reporter: yeah. me thinks hamlet's father does

protest too much because he knows what i'm about to tell you may soubd crazy. in his defense, he's not the only one who sends his plants to a kind of finishing school. these all belong to different people? >> almost all of them, yes. >> reporter: art chadwick owns chadwick and sons orchids in virginia. he used to sell orchids. now he mostly boards them. >> people say can you take care of my orchid and let it finish blooming? i guess i could. now i have a place to send them to camp. >> reporter: why don't people throw them away? >> there are people who do that. >> reporter: why doesn't everybody do that in >> you sort of feel guilty about throwing away a living plant. like tr: b eve see it any more. why did somebody bother you bringing you that? >> she has some emotional attachment to it. >> reporter: to this thing? >> yes. it's almost like family to them. >> reporter: and like family it can be hard to say good-bye. >> i have one of your orkchids here. it has predent bloomed in six

years. >> reporter: he has to tell her it likely will never bloom again. >> she said just to bury it. >> reporter: how did she take? >> there was silence initially. then she realized there wasn't much she could do. >> reporter: fortunately, most orchids survive. after you pay your monthly $2 per plant boarder fee, you get your babies back in full bloom. and again, mark is not alone. there are orchid boarders in most states now. it's common. but normal? >> i hear you. >> reporter: i'll let you be the judge of that. >> steve hartman on flower patrol. and that's the overnight news for this friday. for some of you, the news continues. for others, check back later for the morning news and, of course, "cbs this morning." from the broadcast center

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