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want to trn now to chicago where police stormed a home looking for a drug dealer. what they found instead was an innocent 9-year-old and his family. a year-long investigation by our cbs chicago station uncovered a disturbing pattern of wrongful police raids that often leave children badly traumatized. here's bin >> get down. police! >> reporter: police body cameras captured this nighttime raid in one of chicago's poorest neighborhoods. >> get on the [ bleep ] ground. >> reporter: heavily armed officers carrying assault weapons and wearing body armour

raided this home, looking for a suspected drug dealer. but instead they found then 9-year-old peter mendez at home with his family. >> it was like my life just flashed before my eyes. >> reporter: mendez says he and his little brother were traumatized during the raid as their father was handcuffed and guns were drawn on them all. where did they point the gun at you? >> i want to say like right here, but, you know, straight at it. >> reporter: chicago p.d. say they were acting on a tip from an informant who gave them this address. as police tore through their apartment, peter's mom grabbed the warrant. she told the officers they were in the wrong place. >> they live upstairs. that's the couple upstairs. >> reporter: peter mendez is one of 23 children that we've met through our year-long investigation whose home was wrongly raided by chicago p.d. >> they had their finger on the trigger. i was afraid and confused. >> reporter: where did they point the rifle? >> it was around -- >> reporter: our investigation found a disturbing pattern in

these cases. chicago police getting drug or gun tips from informants, then failing to verify the addresses before busting in on innocent families. >> you did not conduct any surveillance of the building, correct? >> that's correct. >> reporter: officer joseph capello got the warrant for the mendez raid, relying on a tip from a confidential informant. at a deposition, capello admitted he failed to independently verify the tip. >> the john doe was very persistent on the address, and went off what he was saying.eto. >> we're on the wrong door. >> reporter: during our investigation, we learned that over 11,000 search warrants were approved by the state's attorney's office since 2016, ke jusw e tell us they're not chicago ce superintendent eddie johnson. do you have any contingency plans in place for when small children are present? >> well, yes, if we have small children in those situations, their safety is paramount, you know.

we don't try to traumatize them, but we just cannot know going in all the time if there are small children. >> reporter: how were they holding them? >> like this. >> reporter: 7-year-old somari boswell was celebrating her 4-year-old brother t.j.'s birthday when 17 plain-clothes officers stormed into they are family's home. >> i thought they were -- they was going to shoot me and my brother and everybody else. >> reporter: we found this was another case of a bad informant tip, and police failing to investigate. the suspect hadn't lived in the building for five years. in the peter mendez raid, officers were caught whispering in the wrong apartment. >> he gave us the wrong [ bleep ] apartment. he gave us the wrong apartment. >> reporter: but that didn't stop them from still searching. they even searched peter's school back pack, which left him devastated. they really hurt you that day. what did they make you feel? >> they made me feel like the

police weren't even what i thought they were. >> dave joins us here tonight. that little boy peter mendez, how is he doing? >> norah, peter is doing much better since we met him last year. he's been in therapy. and because of our investigation, a law was passed in illinois and named after him called the peter mendez act. it requires de-escalation autic tuations like these raids, norah. >> incredible investigation. thank you so much. there is still much more ahead. this 18 month old fell 11 stories in a cruise ship accident. the charges her grandfather faces tonight in her death. and later, the ncaa takes a big first step toward s vatch

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window and landed on a concrete deck. 18 month old chloe wiegand was just learning how to talk. brother's hockey games. that's why her grandfather lifted her up to what he thought was a wall of enclosed windows on their royal caribbean cruise ship during their family vacation this past july. but one of the 11-floor windows in a children's play area was open. chloe fell out of her grandfather's arms. the attorney said he's never seen a case like this. did they have to prosecute this case? >> no, they didn't have to. but it's discretionary. usually when there's a dead person, in this case an infant, there's an inquiry that they want to make, and they decided that they want to find the facts >> reporter:n

puerto rico charged donello with negligent homicide. they believe the cruise ship is responsible, not the grandfather. >> they find it unnecessary and unfair. it's really pouring salt on the open wound of this grieving family. >> reporter: the family is planning to sue royal caribbean. the cruise line told us they cannot comment because of the pending lawsuit. he is expected back in court in san juan, puerto rico, next month, norah. he faces three years in prison if convicted. >> jericka, thank you. coming up, dinner's at the door. new tonight, how amazon is changing the game for grocery deliveries.

score one tonight for america's college athletes. ncaa officials bowed to pressure voting to open the door or student athletes to make money from endorsements. the change was prompted by a new law in california that blocks schools from punishing athletes for accepting paid endorsements. the grocery delivery wars are heating up. amazon announced today that it's amazon fresh delivery is dropping its $15 a i month fee for prime members who have used the service. the move is in response to competition from walmart and other food delivery services. the minimum up next, a high-climbing veteran gives new meaning to the words peak performance.

we end tonight with a mountain marathon. a british special forces veteran from nepal just set a new speed record, scaling the world's highest peaks. ian lee has more on this epic feat. >> reporter: with each step nirmal purja pushed into thin air and the record books the mountain ear scaled 14 peaks. it took the previous record holder eight years. all the while, he made it look easy we de it. not only for us, we made it for everybody. >> reporter: purja's journey took him to some of the most

stunning but dangerous places on the planet, to heights where the human body starts to die from a lack of oxygen. during those six months, he also rescued several climbers. >> are you okay? >> reporter: the former elite british soldier battled sub-zero temperatures, blinding snowstorms, and traffic jams. in may he snapped this photo of 320 climbers waiting to summit mt. everest. and in the end, just after sunrise, he summited his final peak, posting on instagram, mission achieved. a mission not just to push human endurance, but to inspire others. ian lee, cbs news, london. >> that is the overnight news for this wednesday. for some of you, the news continues. for others, check back with us a bit later for the morning news and "cbs this morning." from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm norah o'donnell.

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>> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." >> hi, everyone. and welcome to the overnight news. i'm errol barnett. we begin with another dramatic day of testimony on capitol hill in the impeachment inquiry into president trump. on tuesday, house lawmakers heard from a decorated army officer serving on the president's national security council. lieutenant colonel alexander vindman testified about his concerns over mr. trump's efforts to pressure ukraine into investigating his political rivals. here's nancy cordes.ter: lenlon fullar ac ty he told congressional investigators that he did not think it was proper for the president to demand by phone

that the ukrainians investigate his campaign rival joe biden. >> today, colonel vindman made a very strong case that what the president did happened and was very, very wrong. >> reporter: vindman is a harvard educated iraq war terawe policy at the white house. i realized, he said, that if ukraine pursued an investigation into the bidens, it would likely be interpreted as a partisan play which would undoubtedly result in ukraine losing the bipartisan support it has thus far maintained. >> i think his commitment to this country, but he is wrong in this. >> reporter: republicans dismissed the damning testimony. >> the fundamental facts have never changed. we can read the call. we know what president trump and president zelenskiy have said. >> so you think he was wrong to be concerned? >> no, i'll tell you what troubles me. what troubles me is the fact that these, these proceedings are being done in secret. >> we came from kiev. >> reporter: vindman immigrated from ukraine, then part of the the presidenmed him day s 3.

as a nru some defenders went further, questioning vindman's allegiances. >> some people might call that espionage. >> it seems very clear that he is incredibly concerned about ukrainian defense. i don't know that he's concerned about american policy. >> reporter: vindman is is a purple heart recipient who has served in the u.s. military for 20 years. >> basically the republicans got nothing. that's why what they're doing is pathetic. >> reporter: republican leaders quickly clamped down. >> we're talking about decorated veterans who have served this nation, who have put their lives on the line. and it is shameful to question their patriotism. >> also on capitol hill, the c.e.o. of boeing testified for the first time since two deadly plane crashes killed 346 people. the testimony came on the first anniversary of one of those tragic accidents, as boeing's 737-max fleet remains grounded. here's kris van cleave.

>> i would walk before i was to get on a 737-max. i would walk. >> reporter: one by one, senators took turn criticizing boeing c.e.o. dennis mullenberg. >> you've not told us the whole truth, and these families are suffering because of it. >> reporter: members of those families were sitting just behind the boeing chief. and at the committee's request, stood with pictures of their loved ones. >> we are sorry, deeply and truly sorry. i think about you and your loved ones every day. >> reporter: mullenberg admitted mistakes were made, but west virginia republican shelley moore capito wanted to know why the 737-max wasn't grounded after the first crash in indonesia one year ago today. >> i think about that decision over and over every day. and if we knew everything back then that we know now, we would have made a different decision. >> reporter: but some at boeing may hano had flaws nearly two years before the first crash. messages show two test pilots complaining about the flight control system known as mcas,

one calling it egregious, saying, it's running rampant in that system was linked to both deadly crashes. mullenberg acknowledged knowing about the messages months before the second max crash, but says he only recently learned the details. >> you're the c.e.o.. the buck stops with you. >> reporter: roland ray horn and his wife joan who lost their 24-year-old daughter angela in the ethiopian airlines crash, found mullenberg's performance unsatisfying. do you believe mr. mullenberg when he says he's sorry? >> i have to say no. >> reporter: why not? >> because if he's sorry, he would have resigned. >> reporter: they brought their daughter's remains home from africa just one week ago. >> it's torn me apart. angela and i were so close. >> a new government whistle-blower is speaking out against the trump administration. this time at the cdc. a top scientist there tells cbs news the agency backed climate e

and even talked about using different terminology over fears of upsetting the white house. here's mark strassmann. >> reporter: george luber was such a celebrated scientist, he hung out with other stars. like matt damon. they flew around los angeles and the show time special talking about rising temperatures. >> it's a small field, but i'm one of the world's experts. i wrote what i like to think of as definitive textbook on the subject. >> reporter: in late 2016, luber change er.al gorehec climate ke but right after donald trump was elected president, luber's boss called him n. in. >> i was told the optics are not good and i needed to cancel it. >> reporter: did he explain what the optics issue was? >> the meeting was happening three weeks after the inauguration. >> reporter: and the white house would be unhappy? >> um, yeah. >> reporter: america's new president had a dim view of

luber's science. >> global warming, a lot of it's a hoax. >> reporter: luber said his boss wanted something else. >> don't say climate change. can you call it extreme weather, call it something else? >> reporter: you're saying the centers for disease control was suddenly afraid to use the term climate change? >> yeah. absolutely. i was told to use a different term. >> reporter: in march 2018, the cdc revoked luber's badge, phone and credentials. ards a seemingly holng but one and was allowed to stay. but luber said the cdc dismantled his climate and health program which the agency denies. >> the program has not changed. the program is the same. it was just placed in a different administrative unit. >> reporter: at the cdc, dr. patrick brycy is dr. luber's boss. he's the senior manager who

luber ordered him to scuttle the science conference. >> it wasn't canceled. we postponed it. >> reporter: you didn't feel any pressure at all? >> no. >> reporter: politically? >> no. >> reporter: that conference happened but without cdc sponsorship. were any cdc employees ever told stop using that phrase climate change? >> not to my knowledge, but we did discuss it. >> reporter: you changed from climate change to extreme weather because, because climate change was more radioactive? >> we never made that change. we talked about possibly making that change, but we never made the change. >> reporter: what's unchanged, brycy insists, is the cdc's commitment to studying climate science, but without its star george luber. i asked brycy why. >> i can't talk about personal matters. i'm sorry, mark. >> reporter: has he been banned from the campus? >> so, that's a personal matter that i can't discuss. >> reporter: is the cdc retaliating against him? retaliating against him? >> i'm just not

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>> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." >> climate change and poaching are threatening the survival of the snow leopard. a majestic and reclusive cat that roams across central asia. only 4,000 snow leopards are left in the wild meaning they are a vulnerable species. most don't protect the animals, but a program in the remote mountains of russia is trying to save the local species and it's working. elizabeth palmer traveled to the area for a rare up close look. >> reporter: in these remote mountains in southern siberia, three decades of hunting and poaching had almost wiped out the snow leopard. in the village, we found boris markoff, a former poacher. back in the day, he told me, just one pelt was worth a car.

our journey deep into russia's national park took us off road and on horseback to meet park biologist and researcher, alexis. it's part of the plan to bring leopards back with motion cameras hidden in the wilderness. the results are astounding. intimate shots of animals so shy they'd do anything to avoid humans. even alexi has only seen a snow leopard once, though there's not much he doesn't know about their behavior. like the way they scratch to mark territory. like domestic cats. and here's one caught on camera doing exactly that. sergei is another sergei has ch.

he's one of several former hunters getting a salary through the world wildlife fund to monitor the cameras. when you get the photo cards out, do you look at the pictures yourself to see what's there? [ speaking foreign language ] >> translator: oh, yes. it's so interesting. i check right away to see if there are cubs. >> reporter: and often there are. female lep ards can have as many as four cubs in a litter. alexei says paying the former hunters and poachers a salary is key, but there's also been a sea change in attitude. did everybody in the village want to see the photographs? >> translator: they lined up. local people who had never seen a snow leopard before now know how beautiful they are. >> reporter: back at the pictu from 120 cameras that have been snapping away night and day for pfive years. it looks like it's peering around the corner.

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proposed but now on hold, as andrew jackson's replacement for the $20 bill. what did you learn about her in school? that she ran away from slavery? then risked her own freedom to one sentence, two, if that. >> harriet. >> playing her was tough and exhilarating. ♪ i'm sorry, i'm gonna leave you ♪ ♪ >> reporter: a new film starring cynthia arivo. >> i made up my mind, i'm going back. >> reporter: is meant to flesh out the wikipedia entry. >> when trouble comes you'll be ready. >> i saw her as a young woman who had a force of will that was almost unbreakable, and she was a superhero because of that. >> reporter: the more you discover about harriet tubman, the more you realize she had to be a superhero. >> i'm not afraid of death.

>> reporter: to pull off exploits, it would be an understatement to say were daring. >> these are the only known representations in the photograph that we have. >> reporter: kate clifford larson is tubman'sapher. fll.on >> reporter: on the eastern shore of maryland where she was born, the harriet tubman underground railroad visitor center opened in 2017. nor writ one, but two national parks dedicated to her story. would this have looked the way it did when harriet tubman was around here? >> yes, it would have looked exactly like this. >> reporter: she was born here, araminta ross, minoty for short. >> on that far side of the river -- >> reporter: hours apart. >> minty's life as a slave was horrific. it was brutal. it was cruel.

>> reporter: she and her mother were owned by edward brodus who made $60 a year renting her out, starting when she was 6. >> she talked about how lonely and sad she was when she was separated from her mother and how she would cry herself to sleep at night.>> rhen village store, just as an overseer was trying to catch a >> when the overseer picked up one of these store weights. >> reporter: that's heavy. a and threw it intending to hit the young man who was fleeing, but tubman had stepped back into the doorway and it slammed right into her skull. >> reporter: for the rest of her life, harriet tubman had sudden epileptic seizures and visions, she said, were from god. harriet was her mother's name. minty began calling herself that

when she married john tubman. >> in 1849, she escaped from this place. >> reporter: right here? >> right here. >> reporter: a place called poplar neck in caroline county, maryland. when word reached her that she was going to be sold south. just look at a map. imagine harriet tubman in her 20s running away alone, on foot. >> so she would have come to this home. >> reporter: she managed, with the help of the underground railroad, to make it 100 miles to the pennsylvania border, and freedom. but then tubman went back 13 times over ten years. >> help me crawl. >> reporter: leading more than >> oh, oh,!o freedom. >> reporter: this scene in the film, it really happened.

and, get this. during the civil war, she became the first american woman ever to lead troops into battle near buford, south carolina. >> they blew up the bridge. they liberated 750 enslachved people off the plantations. the newspapers at the time wrote about this raid and they credited the raid to the black she moses. >> reporter: harriet tubman had an amazing forest gump-like ability to be at the center of history. her friends among its key figures, abolitionists frederick douglas. and john brown. tubman was a passionate campaigner for women's suffrage alongside susan b. anthony. she spent the last 50 years of her remarkable life here in auburn, new york, where william henry seward, president abraham

lincoln's secretary of state, and his wife frances, offered their friendship and support. >> she was a regular guest here. social visitor, welcomed here. so we're in the old house kitchen. >> reporter: jeff ludwig is education director at the seward house museum in auburn. >> it was known that harriet tubman was looking to place her family somewhere and to plant roots somewhere, to build a home fo so they offer her a piece of land. >> reporter: seven acres, a black woman technically a fugitive slave, buying a farm? unheard of. in 1869, she got married again to nelson davis, more than 20 years her junior. >> this is an amazing house. it was one of nine cottages. >> reporter: in her 70s, she opened an old age home for formerly enslaved people and rmy providing free health care to anyone, black or white. >> she was a lightning rod for

change. >> reporter: karen vivian hill heads the harriet tubman home. >> she was the serena williams of her time, okay, bold, bad, black, beautiful. >> reporter: we know she was deeply religious, and that she had secret pleasures. >> strawberries were her favorite dessert. so we found strawberry seeds all over the property. and blue and white china which is so unlike harriet for her to have this affection for these very fine things. >> reporter: so who was harriet tubman really? >> this is just the tubman scrapbook, as my mother called it. >> reporter: to judith bryant, she was aunt harriet. >> i'm a great-great grand niece. >> reporter: descended from harriet's brother william henry stewart. >> he and two other brothers, she rescued from maryland in 1854. >> reporter: she's got bragging.

>> it's my family. people always say, oh, i didn't know you were related to harriet tubman. of course, you didn't, but i did. we did. >> reporter: she invokes her famous relative when things go right. >> we have this expression, i do, that's harriet's work in overtime. she's sort of my guardian angel. >> reporter: tough and resolute to the very end, this was harriet tubman the year before she died in auburn on march 10th, 1913. she was 91, or thereabouts. her funeral was a major event. when you come here, how do you feel? >> um, proud, proud. >> reporter: harriet tubman's grave has become a destination, a shrine for visitors in need of a hero. but her epitaph reads simply,

servant of god, well done. when you humble yourself under the mighty hand of god, in due time he will exalt you. hi, i'm joel osteen. i'm excited about being with you every week. i hope you'll tune in. you'll be inspired, you'll be encouraged. i'm looking forward to seeing you right here. you are fully loaded and completely equipped for the race that's been designed for you.

we end with a story of a man in texas who thought he had lost it all, but then he was found by some old friends who gave him back much more than he ever imagined. here's steve hartman on the road. >> okay. >> reporter: life has its ups and downs. but rarely do you see a swing as dramatic as what 66-year-old coy featherston just went through. >> i'm speechless sometimes because of how it happened. >> reporter: coy, who used to work as a concert lighting director and graphic artist, says he still hasn't fully processed his good fortunate to end up here. from here. and to do it virtually overnight. >> i was beginning to lose hope. >> reporter: a month ago you're homeless. >> um-hmm. >> reporter: now you're here. how does that happen? >> it was just through friends. they started coming from

everywhere. >> i figured i could find him. >> reporter: leah meckling was his blast from the past. she looked for his picture in the local austin texas newspaper. leah said if not for the caption, she would have never recognized her high school friend, the talented football player who was once voted best all around boy. coy was everyone's friend, which is why leah felt compelled to return the kindness. >> and i came and looked here at this church. >> reporter: after three days of searching, she found him right here. >> i said, hi, coy, it's leah. do you remember me? he said, of course, i do. >> i was relieved because it was someone that i knew. >> reporter: and it wasn't just leah. >> and it's really shocking when you find an old friend that you know is living in your same town on the street. >> reporter: all these high school buddies saw the same picture dhtnt action. >> reporter: and had the same response. >> i got in my phone, the telephone plan. >> got his teeth done.

>> he can stay ag as long as he wants. >> reporter: fortunately coy says his friends don't have any drug or alcohol problems. he ended up on the streets after a series of unfortunate events and mental health issues. once he started spiraling, there's what no crawling out on his own. >> i don't know if i would have really gotten through without my friends. make friends now. >> reporter: you may need them some day. >> you may need them some day. you will be glad that you have them because it can happen to anyone. >> reporter: a friendly reminder. from one of the richest men on earth. steve hartman, on the road, in austin, texas. >> and that is the overnight news for this wednesday. for some of you, the news continues. for others, check back with us a bit later for the morning news and "cbs this morning." from the cbs broadcast center in new york city, i'm errol barnett.