been installed for an exhibit. a group of thieves used two vehicle to pull off the heists. one man has been arrested. .>> ninan: tonight, drone strikes. a massive strike on the world's largest oil facility, explosion after explosion and toxic smoke billowing for miles. how the strike could impact consumers here in the u.s. gaining strength-- tropical storm humberto churning in the atlantic and getting stronger. we're tracking the storm's path. president trump set to roll out his gun-control plan. can both sides find common ground. >> hell, yes, we're going to take your ar-15, your ak-47. >> ninan: this as a gun club with a different agenda exercises their second amendment rights. >> yes, i want to be armed. i'm not going down without a fight. >> ninan: labor law-- a controversial bill that would give gig workers job benefits. new tonight, the companies

working overtime to kill it. and the message in a bottle that saved a family stranded in the wilderness. this is the "cbs weekend news." >> ninan: good evening. i'm reena ninan. this is our western edition. multiple drones bombed saudi arabia's largest oil facilities today, and tonight, secretary of state mike pompeo accused iran of launching the attack and ruled out a claim of responsibility by yemeni rebels. the attack damaged the source of an estimated eight million barrels of crude oil produced there every day. that's about 10% of the world's daily supply of crude oil. here's roxana saberi. >> reporter: flames and black smoke filled the sky over the world's largest oil processing plant in saudi arabia this morning, spreading so far, they could even be seen from space. saudi arabia confirmed the

abqaiq refinery, and khurais oil field, the country's second biggest were both hit by drone strikes. houthis claimed responsibility for the attack. the group's spokesman said the houthis struck the two sites with 10 drones and warned of more attacks. the iranian-backed houthis have been at war with the saudi-led coalition in yemen since 2016. the brutal conflict has pushed yemen to the bring of famine and turned the country into what the u.n. called the world's worst humanitarian crise. lately, that war has stretched into saudi arabia, with rebels repeatedly using drones to target oil facilities, the heart of the country's economy and a source of one-tenth of the world's crude oil. but saturday's attack hit deep within the country, priewchg the hiewghts' ability to carry out increasingly sophisticated strikes and threatening to escalate tensions that are already inflamed in the persian gulf. today's drone strikes could have

an effect on oil prices. but that depends on how badly the sites were damaged. reena, the saudis said crown prince mohammad bin salman received a phone call from president trump saying attacks like this could have a negative impact on the economy in the u.s. and around the world. >> ninan: roxana saberi in london. the already-devastated bahamas is feeling the impact tonight of tropical storm humberto. the storm is creating new worries for the more than 2,000 people living in shelters, and those trying to rebuild their homes in the wake of hurricane dorian. at least 50 people are dead and 1300 are still reported missing. humberto is expected to become a hurricane within the next 24 hours. the storm has been strengthening all day. here with the latest and where the storm is head, meteorologist jeff berardelli. jeff, what is the latest. >> reena this storm is getting better organized and strengthening. the good news is it is beginning to move away from the bahamas. but we think it will likely be a hurricane fairly soon. you can see on the satellite lots of big thunderstorms

blowing around the center. it's going to be lifting north ever so slowly the next 24-48 hours as it moves over very warm gulf stream waters it probably becomes a hurricane, and then it's rushed out to the east by a strong jet stream protecting the northeast united states. but as it moves up along the east coast of florida, just far enough offshore, we're going to see wind gusts to around 40 miles per hour, but it will spare the worst of it. it looks like most of it stays out to sea with wind gust gust o 32 miles an hour. waves will build up to 30 feet offshore. that means rough surf and very dangerous swimming conditions, reena, for at least the next few days in the southeast. >> o'donnell: all right, meteorologist jeff berardelli, thank you, jeff. >> you're welcome. >> ninan: at least six people are dead and thousands more have been rescued after days of torrential rainfall across southeastern spain. record flooding closed airports, rail lines and major roads. many were trapped this cars overcome by flask floods. the trump administration is

expected to announce its proposal to curk gun violence as soon as next week. but after the democrats' fiery debate on gun control, what the president will support is far from clear. ben tracy is at the white house. >> a lot of progress was made. i believe on the background checks and various things having to do with guns. >> reporter: after a meeting this week with his top advisers, the president said he's working with both parties on a gun control proposal. >> it seems like they'd like to do something, and i think thati can speak for republicans, they'd like to do something. >> reporter: but that "something" is still elusive. the white house has been talking to a trio of lawmakers: democrats chris murphy and joe manchin, and republican pat toomey. they all support tougher background checks. >> we have to have meaningful baground chntmahootings inidaten and el paso, president trump called forllation >> i amin meangful-- add that word--

meaningful background checks. >> reporter: but mr. trump never defined what "meaningful" means and quickly backed off after talking to the national rifle association. since then the president has called mass shootings a mental health issue and criticized what he sees an overzealous democrats. >> democrats want to confiscate guns from law-abiding citizens. >> reporter: beto o'rourke reinforced the president's argument at this week's debate. >> hell, yes, we're going to take your ar-15, your ak-47. we're not going to allow it to be used against americans anymore. >> reporter: some of his fellow democrats now fear o'rourke's words will be used against their efforts to paz new gun laws. >> i, frankly, think that that clip will be played for years at second amendment rallies with organizations that try to scare people by saying democrats are coming for your guns. >> reporter: the white house wants the president to be seen as taking some sort of action on

gun control because polls show that the majority of americans do favor tougher laws. but the president's base is not as supportive, and he does not want to anger them going into an election year. reena. >> ninan: ben tracy at the white house. well, president trump has confirmed hamza bin laden, osama bin laden'osamabin laden's son,. in a statement the president said bin laden was killed in a u.s. counter-terrorism operation in the afghanistan-pakistan region. it is believed bin laden was killed at least several months ago. multiple reports stress isis remains a threat to the west and is regaining strength. in a cbs news investigation, holly williams goes under cover to expose how isis fighters are make thirg way to western countries with the help of human smugglers. >> reporter: filming with a hidden camera, we made contact with human smuggling gangs. they move people illegally from athens to western europe for about $8,000 each. their customers are some of the

hundreds of thousands of migrants and refugees who've crossed to greece from the middle east, many making the dangerous crossing by boat, hoping for a better life in europe. now cbs news has found evidence that criminal syndicates are also moving isis members using the same methods. the smugglers rely on stolen identity documents, passports, and i.d. cards, and there are hundreds of them for sale. this is a u.s. passport, apparently stolen, which we bought here on the streets of athens for about $280. it was the property of robert dean ashby who was born in utah. >> i was on a trip with my family to athens, greece. >> reporter: we tracked robert ashby down at home in utah and we'll return his passport. he told us it was stolen on a family holiday in greece. the smugglers try to match their customers with an i.d. document

they resemble and attempt to fly them from athens to italy or spain where they claim security is lax. from there, they can go anywhere in western europe with no border checks. filming secretly, i posed not as a refugee but as an isis wife. this smuggler from north africa promised us safe passage to germany. in fact, he told us he'd already helped other isis members. >> reporter: how do you feel about the prospect that a member isis could potentially have usen elsewhere? >> terrifies me. >> reporter: the greek police are targeting human smugglers and have made arrests. ( gunfire ) but several members of the isis

terror cell that carried out attacks in france and belgium came through greece, and there are fears that human smugglers have already helped more isis sleeper cells make their way into the heart of europe. holly williams, cbs news, athens. >> ninan: an anti-vaccine activist is facing assault charges tonight after throwing what appeared to be blood on state lawmakers. several members were hit by the red liquid. protesters were gathered at the state capitol to oppose two new bills limiting medical exemptions for vaccinations. well, new details tonight on actress felicity huffman's sentencing in the college admissions scandal. huffman must turn herself in by october 25 for a two-week stay at a minimum-security prison in california. according to prison guidelines, huffman will be allowed to sunbathe at a certain time, but must also make her own bed by 6:30 a.m. every week day. and in an interstellar near mis,

not one but two asteroids will whiz by planet earth this weekend. nasa says the space visitors, one of which is actually the size of a skyscraper, will miss earth by about three million miles. that's actually close enough for you to spot way good telescope. california wants companies to give benefits to gig workers. coming up on the "cbs weekend news," will a new bill help or hurt them? plus a minority gun club that's thriving. and the hikers who pinned their hopes to a message in a bottle.

>> ninan: california's governor is expected to sign new legislation intended to in the so-called gig economy. the law would makenefits. but companies like uber, lyft, and doordash are responding big

trying to put the brakes on the bill. here's carter evans. >> reporter: as a driver for lyft, eden alva fought for the new bill that will classify him as a company employee. >> i want those rights, like any other worker in california. >> reporter: and you're ready to become an employee to get them. >> i'm ready to be defined as an employee to get them, yes. >> reporter: some two million california gig workers like alpha work when they were, where they want, driving for ride share companies, delivering goods and taking care of small tasks. they are not employees and they may not have benefits. >> if a worker is classified as an employee they have the right to minimum wage, paid six leave in california, paid rest breaks. >> it's about the l workworkers that deserve to be changed. >> reporter: assembly woman lorena gonzalez sponsored the groundbreaking bill. >> we as the state are acting as kind of the backdrop for these

workers. when they don't make enough money they have to rely on food stamps and cal works subsidized housing. >> reporter: companies like ride share provider lyft say that would change the way they do business. >> it would impact ability of drivers to work whenever and wherever they want. they would lukely be required to work on scheduled shifts. >> reporter: are you prepared for that? >> i perceive this to be a scare tactic. >> reporter: lyft has been sending its drivers messages urging them to oppose the bill. >> how is it going, man? >> reporter: along with uber, the companies have spent $6 million to seek an exemption from the bill to go back to business as usual. do you think this is the beginning of a new day? >> i think this is the beginning of a long fight. >> reporter: what's happening here in california may be just the beginning. new york, oregon, and washington state have considered similar legislation. carter evans, cbs news, san francisco. >> ninan: a my gun group

finds success. ahead, why thousands of black men and women are joining together to affirm their right to bear arms.

largest and best-known gun rights association, the n.r.a., is losing board members, but another lesser known gun club is thriving. omar villafranca went to an atlanta gun range to meet members of the national african american gun association. >> reporter: phillip smith remembers the first time he went to a gun range, loaded his 9-millimeter pistol, and pulled the trigger. >> i felt free. i had a chance to kind of have some power in my hand. >> reporter: smith turned that power into a passion and formed the national african american gun association, or nagga. the first chapter was in atlanta. >> i didn't think i would get more than 30 people. >> reporter: in just five years, nagga has become the largest minority gun club in the country. there are more than 75 chapters

with more than 30,000 members and over 90% of the members are black. >> we have folks from every walk of life-- black doctors, gay, straight, republicans, democrats-- you name it, we have it. we're not monolithic in why we're all here. we have different reasons. >> reporter: why not join the n.r.a.? >> the n.r.a. is good for some people that are having that perspective. our perspective is for black folks. >> reporter: nezida davis joined nagga to learn how to protect herself, and she's not alone. more than 60% of nagga members are black women. >> i'm usually looked as is like i'm a martian. i mean, literally, if i come in and i get ready to go into the gun range, people are looking at me like, "why is she here? black women don't shoot." but we shoot. >> reporter: after black church-goers were targeted in 2016, and the recent shooting in el paso targeting mexicans, members say they're prepared to defend themselves. do you feel in this political climate that white nationalists

are emboldened to go after minority groups, and you need this protection? >> i do. like i said, even though i generalize as not just crime in our communities, but it's also a white nationalist. i mean, i do believe they're emboldened. , and yes, i want to be armed. i'm not going down without a fight. >> reporter: the group is talking about getting political and endorsing candidates, which could make them a political force. but they're not there yet. it's something they'll discuss at their first national conference next year. omar villafranca, cbs news, atlanta. >> ninan: well, they were stranded amid the beauty of big sur. still ahead, how they were saved by a message in a bottle.

about a miraculous story of survival in central california where a family was stranded on a hiking trip, their only hope-- a

time-honored, if long-shot method, to call for help. here's michelle miller. >> reporter: curtis whitson and his family were days into a scenic father's day weekend trip in pfeiffer big sur state park when... >> reporter: whitson told "the washington post" he hiked the same route seven years ago and descended the very same waterfall by rappelling down a road attached to its side. but this time, there was no rope to be found, and it was too dangerous to backtrack. so stranded miles from the nearest campground and without cell service, he wrote this note on a bar order pad his girlfriend apparently brought to keep score playing card games. "we are stuck here at the waterfall. get help, please." he put it in his green water bottle, carved "help" on to its

side, and tossed the message downstream. >> never heard any kind of a request for assistance coming down the river in a water bottle. >> reporter: todd brethour and tony ramage are with the california highway patrol. they found whitson around midnight on june 16. >> the individual came out and was weaving and it seemed like he was very excite, relieved. >> reporter: at that point, it was too dark to stage the rescue. >> looking good. >> reporter: but by the next morning, c.h.p. officers descended on whitson's campsite where the family had spelled s.o.s. on a tarp with rocks and airlifted the trio of hikers to safety. >> it was pretty-- almost impossible in some areas to actually get out of there. >> they were really out of-- out of options. if they hadn't gotten message out that way, it might have been a while. >> ninan: that was michelle miller reporting. a little boy gets the surprise of a lifetime. ahead, how an entire community made his dream come true.

>> o'donnell: in the "transformer movi simple things like bumblebee morph into super heroes. but for one boy it turns out family, friends, and complete strangers are the real heroes. here's jan crawford. >> reporter: whitaker weinburger didn't know it, but he was about to have the best fourth birthday a kid could ever ask for. and that's how it should be since whitaker has been sick on his other birthdays, battlings stage 4 neuroblastoma. he's stable now, so his parents, seth and erin, wanted to make this birthday special. >> he'd been telling us, "i just want 100 bumblebees for m birthday. >> reporter: bumblebee as in bumblebee the transformer from the movie. every time he sees a yellow carn social media, and hundreds of yellow cars flooded their

alexandria, virginia, neighborhood before dawn. >> everybody came out to celebrate. >> but instead of a birthday party, it's a birthday parade. >> bumblebees everywhere! >> reporter: it seemed like the whole neighborhood walked with whitaker, alongside those yellow cars to school. >> it's my birthday! >> you're in a bumblebee, whitaker! >> reporter: his long-term prognosis is uncertain, but what is certain-- this is a day for a superhero. >> happy birthday. we love you. >> reporter: jan crawford, cbs news, alexandria, virginia. >> ninan: a superhero, indeed. happy birthday, whitaker. and that's the "cbs weekend news" for this saturday. later on cbs, the season fremere of "48 hours." and remember the news continues always on our 24-hour dij stall network cbsn on

live, from the cbs bay area studio, this is kpix5 news. relief from the late summer heat is rolling in, in the form of fog. >> it's a multimillion dollars program aimed at helping low income students pay for college. >> and we are getting our first look at the protester accused of causing a disgusting disruption at the state capitol in sacramento. we begin with calling for an audit into a popular program for low income students. i'm juliette goodrich. >> i'm brian hackney. da lin took their concerns to libby schaaf.

>> reporter: major libby schaaf says it is all politics her political opponent rebecca caplin is trying. oakland promise celebrated a milestone at children's fairy land. >> more than 500 families have brilliant baby savings account seeded with 500 children at their children's birth. >> reporter: nala has one of those accounts. >> the first of my family to graduate from college. i want her to be the second and third and continue the generation of being college graduates. >> reporter: she agrees with the mayor this type of early investment will level the playing field and encourage low income student to seek higher education. now, nala has the brilliant baby account which is not being quon