ings. new protests erupt across the country. demonstrators on the right and left clash in portland, oregon. one man is dead. people scatter when a gun ipull the black lives matter plaza near the white house. plus president trump calling for a crack down as congressional critics push back. >> the chaos and disorder and the lawlessness that we are currently seeing, that's donald trump's america. >> also, capital outcry after the white house pulls in person briefings. and louisiana after laura. how thousands are recovering following the devastating

hurricane. europe's last dictator faces new opposition. an iron fist next? covid concerns. we hop on the school bus to see how drivers plan to keep kids safe. and later, pandemic pups. bringing smiles to those who need them most. >> every time i see a dog it helps. this is the "cbs overnight news." >> good evening, i'm jamie yuccas in los angeles. this has been a weekend of rising political conflict across the country. over issues of can crime, protests and race. in portland, oregon, social justice dmopors and trump supporters battled in the streets. one man was killed. today pruch responded with a barrage of tweets. this one demanding law and order. there were many more, including one threatening sending in federal forces. in wisconsin, the state senate

will tackle police reform in a special session tomorrow. mola lenghi is in kenosha. >> reporter: in kenosha today the streets were quiet and the city's youth painted signs of peace over last week's damage. yesterday about a thousand peaceful pro testifies led by the family of jacob blake demanded justice for jacob, who may never walk again. blake was shot a week ago in front of his three young sons. >> there was seven bullets put in my son's back. >> reporter: in portland, protests turned violent. clashes broke out between president trump supporters, traveling in a large caravan of pickup trucks and counterprotesters demanding social justice. >> we're here making a stand just like they can. >> one man who reportedly belonged to a far right group was shot and killed. no word on a suspect. in tallahassee, florida, panic. >> oh!

he has a gun! >> reporter: this man pointed this gun at a group of black lives matter protesters. protesters fled screaming. the man was arrested. in the nation's capital, a tense standoff. marchers and black lives matter plaza threw protectiles. police used tear gas to disperse the crowd. meeting with law enforcement and surveying some of the damage. today, a warning. wisconsin's lieutenant governor tweeted the city was on fire not a barrel of gasoline rolling in. jamie. >> president trump spent hours this morning on twitter blasting out 89 tweets between 5:49 and epeateyttke m w t fired back. nikole killion is at the white house. >> reporter: with one man dead

following dueling demonstrations in portland, president trump took to twitter at least a dozen times, blasting the mayor as it, calling for the national guard, and praising trump supporters as great patriots who rolled into the city. doesn't that heighten tension when you say you're trying to lower it? >> absolutely not. >> reporter: acting security secretary chad wolf said all options are on the table, including sending in federal law enforcement to stem the violence. >> we need them to do their job. if they can't or don't have the ability or resources, ask the federal government. >> reporter: portland mayor ted wheeler blamed the president. >> it's you who have created the thought and the television division. you've tried to divide us more than any other figure in modern history. now you want me to stop the violence that you helped creali inting also intensified over the director of national intelligence's decision to no longer brief congress in person on election security.

accusing some members of leaks. >> my only condition is that you treat this information with the respect that it zerchs and you keep it private. >> reporter: adam schiff says democrats could subpoena government officials to testify. >> that is one of the tools we may use. we will compel the intelligence community to give congress the information that we need. >> reporter: congressman schiff said that will be up to speaker pelosi. ratcliff said members will be briefed in writing. jamie? >> nicole, there are 65 days until that election. with the political conventions over we've seen president trump return to the campaign trail but what happened former vice president joe biden? >> biden campaign announced that the former vice president will be many pennsylvania monday where he's expected to address what's happening in the country right now in a statement tonight biden condemned the portland

violence and said the president should do the same. jamie? >> nicole, thank you. in louisiana more than 350,000 people remain without power tonight in the wake of hurricane laura. downed plieps are also blocking roads across the state, making recovery efforts even more difficult. omar villafranca is in storm ravaged lake charles. >> reporter: in lake charles, crews are still cleaning up mountains of debris four days after hurricane laura crashed into the louisiana coast. 150-mile-per-hour winds splintered trees and shattered power polls leaving homes damaged and thousands without power or running water. >> they need places to stay. preferably right now those plays need outside of lake charles. >> what you're seaing today is

we've got about 16,000 folks in noncon gra gat shelters, nonhotels, less than a thousand in the big con gra gat shelters, the gymnasiums, those that we have to put into the gymnasiums, we're making sure they're social distancing. >> reporter: some people are struggling for the basics. cbs news cameras were there on saturday when residents of the golden arms assisted living center finally got help. they had been without power or water for three days. volunteers from houston-based crowd sorceress cue helped relocate 19 stranded residents. the storm damaged just about every mahinmi and business in its path. the city of all of calcasieu parish are without electricity tonight and the ( mayor said it would be weeks, maybe months before power and water are restored to this area. jamie? >> yikes. omar, thank you. the "cbs overnight news" will be right back.

this is the "cbs overnight news." now to the covid crisis. across america new cases and death are generally falling. the new worry is the upper plains and midwest where cases are riding. >> reporter: a powerful sight tonight in detroit. 900 faces on billboards of lives lost to covid-19. all for the first city wide public memorial. the photos lining a bridge were on monday 15 funeral processions will be driving past to pay tribute to the 1500,000 died. >> a looks at those faces that represent the spirit of detroit.

>> louisiana, a covid hot spot is struggling with a backlog of cases. the governor warns that hurricane laura's destruction is disrupting coronavirus response efforts. >> when you put them both together, it's extremely challenging. >> reporter: baylor university in neighboring texas organized 54 students to reside in place on two floors of a dorm after a spike in cases. at the university of kansas right now, nine fraternity houses in quarantine with 474 students infected. and the parties raging on at arizona state university despite 452 cases among students. more than 200 on campus are in isolation. >> we find it sad and completely preventable. >> reporter: controversy continues with most states rejecting the recommendation for less testing. tomorrow california goes into its new color tiered system. l.a. county purple, the highest

risk level. they'll be opening in late october to become a voting center. jamie. >> thank you. overseas now today marked 21 days of nonstop protests in belarus. but the leader says he's not going anywhere. chris livesay is in the capital of minutes request. >> reporter: never have protesters been so bold and their president so vulnerable. luke shiancoe responded with outrage. his response has been both savage and unhinged. last week he flew above protesters in his helicopter, called them rats and descended brandishing an assault rifle. again today seen wearing a

bulletproof vest, ak-47 in hand. seen here overpowering riot police on saturday. protesters today, police say they arrested more than 120 of them. this as they round up the press as well. stripping reporters of their accreditation leading up to today, which happens to be the president's 66th birthday. there's thousands of people who have come to crash that party, including press. if they knew we were filming right now they could have us detained, deported or worse. just a desperate sign of luke shiancoe's losing drip on power. do you think he's scared? >> yes, yes. we all know it. >> reporter: that's despite his ussi president vowed to putin. accepted reserve forces to belarus if necessary, at a time when putin is losing popularity

at home and likely doesn't want russians getting any inspiration from next door. it was another incredible display of resistance, no sign of violence, no sign of russian security forces. also, no sign that these protests will come to an end anytime soon. jamie. >> chris, thank you. terrifying moments today at a kite festival in taiwan. a three-year-old girl was pulled into the air after the tail of a kite wrapped around her waste. look at that. the toddler twisted in the wind as people on the ground scrambled to try and catch her. her ordeal lasted just under a minute with only minor scrapes to show for it. unbelievable. there's more news ahead on the "cbs overnight news." how schools are lowering the risk of your are child's ride to class. and next steps -- the ballet star empowering a new generation. plus canine companions.

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from coronavirus. kris van cleave takes us on board a bus in virginia. >> ok. come on up, sweet girl. >> reporter: the first day of school. >> keep our machgts on, ok? >> reporter: brought some big changes to gracie duncan's school bus. >> it's a little different this year. go all the way to the back. >> reporter: the handful of students who climbedwear masks distanted seats filling the bus from back to front. the bus seats up to 64, but this year will have no more than 20 and the windows will be down to up crease ventilation. brandon thunderstorm soompson w. >> i don't know if the cases are going up. >> reporter: only about 25% said they'd let their kids take the bus this year. the superintendent -- why not just go virtual and not introduce this risk? >> there is a risk and we've tried to make it as low as

possible face-to-face, but i think there's even a bigger risk of not having our children in school face foy face. >> reporter: schools followed cdc recommendations suggesting face korvegs, riding with windows open, creating distance between students including seating children at least one student perreault spacing forward and skipping rose between students. in georgia, where covid cases have soared, joy to vert says some of those cdc recommendations aren't practical. >> we do not have students situated so they're sitting every other seat. we do have students in every seat on the bus. but we do have the windows down on the bus to provide additional ventation. >>f the00 students opted for at-home virtual learning. social distancing options remain limited and the district can't use extra buses because it lacks additional drivers. >> there is a shortage of bus

drivers. and that was even the case before the coronavirus. >> reporter: while fewer students are riding, don hensley drives dozens daily. every one wears a mask. >> i think kids do better in person. >> reporter: both districts use electrostatic foggers disinfecting the buses daily. between trips, the drivers wipe down all touch surfaces. >> it made me realize why haven't we always done this during flu season, so i see this as being the new normal. >> reporter: neither department had any drivers opt out. in radford gracie duncan says she's happy to be back behind the wheel. >> i'll be wearing my mask, the kids been wearing theirs. i'm optimistic. >> reporter: and keep the wheels on her bus headed for class. kris van cleave, cbs news, radford, virginia. >> next, historic hiring as a ballet star moves to the led of the class.

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becomes the first permanent faculty member. what do you feel is the difference you're making? >> i have the hyper awareness of a dancer struggling and see that self-doubt creeping in. >> reporter: as a teenager she has those self-doubts with a student population all white. >> when you see the images on the walls, everything but your own, that is saying something to the dancers around. >> reporter: but she persevered, earning a spot with the new york city ballet, one of only a few dancers of color. jonathan stafford, the school's new director said it helped them face hard truths. >> it lit a fire under us and the school and the company to really dig in to the work and look at all our policies and practices and unconscious bias and how we make decisions. >> reporter: 16-year-old una is

a senior. she says seeing someone who looks like her at the head of the class makes all the difference. >> i feel a motivation, kind of a fire behind my eyes.i feel th why i have to push myself harder. >> reporter: ashe acknowledges that change isn't perfect. >> we can't run away from the ugly, the uncomfortable, and up think we're seeing that in society as a whole right now. is that we can no longer close our eyes. >> reporter: a historic step already making a difference. elaine key hanno, cbs news, new york. an important first step. thank you. this week cbs news launched a new franchise for original reporting on issues tha affecte communities. cbs village is now streaming on cbs n. an hour long special called the power of august looks back on

american siflsing rights history in the month of august. to watch go to cbsnews.com/live. next, three feet on the front lines of the pandemic.

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we can't connect the way we used to. >> reporter: isaiah trumbell has been here more than a month. >> when he walks into the troom see you, what's your reaction? >> i get so excited. i forgbo everything. every time i see a dorks everything bad goes out the window. >> reporter: some visits have found ways to fill the void. connecting with dogs over zoom and even substituting cardboard cutouts of therapy dogs. at d.c. children's hospital patients are lucky to get the real thing. >> a five-minute, ten-minute visit can change that child's whole day. >> reporter: proctor says she keeps hearing the same thing from parents that this is the first time they've seen their child smile in a long time. chip reid, cbs news, washington. >> and that's the overnight news for this monday. for some of you the news continues. for others, check back later for

cbs news this morning. follow us tnt at cbsnews.com. reporting from los angeles, i'm jamie yuccas. this is the "cbs overnight news." >> good evening. this has been a weekend of rising political conflict across the country. over issues of crime, protests and race. in portland, oregon, social justice demonstrators and trump supporters battled in the streets. one man was killed. today pruch responded with a barrage of tweets. this one demaing, law and orde there were man including one threateningon fede forces in wisconsin, the state senate will tackle police reform in a special session tomorrow. mola lenghi is in kenosha.

>> the streets were quiet and the city's youth painted signs of peace over last week's damage. yesterday about a thousand peaceful protesters led by the family of jacob blake demanded justice for jacob, who may never walk again. blake was shot a week ago in front of his three young sons. >> there were seven bullets put in my son's back. >> reporter: in portland, protests violent. clashes broke out between president trump supporters traveling in a large caravan of pickup trucks and cer >> we're here to make a stand just like they can. >> a member of a far right group based in portland was shot and killed. there's no suspect. and panic. this man drew a gun and pointed at a group.

protte fdscreamin the man was arrested. and in the nation's capital, a tense standoff. marchers at black lives matter plaza near the white house confronted the police, flowing projectiles. president trump will visit on tuesday, meeting with law enforcement and surveying some of the damage. today, a warning. wisconsin's lieutenant governor tweeted the city was on fire and in need of healing, not a "barrel of gas lien rolling in." >> that is quite the picture, mull mola. the president repeatedly attacked the mayor of portland this morning in tweets. he late today fired back. nikole killion is at the white house. >> reporter: with one man dead following dueling demonstrations in portland, president trump took to twitter at least a dozen

times, blasting the mayor as it, calling for the national guard, and praising trump supporters as great patriots who rolled into the city. >> doesn't that heighten tension when you say you're trying to lower it? icht a roicht. >> all options were on the table, he said. >> we need them to step up if they can't, ask the federal government. >> reporter: portland mayor ted wheeler blamed the president. >> it's you who have created the hate and the division. you've tried to divide us more than any other figure in modern history. and now you want me to stop the violence that you helped create. >> reporter: the finger pointing also intensified over the director of national intelligence's decision to no longer brief congress in person on election security. accusing some members of leaks. >> my only condition is that you

treat this information with the tlap it zerchs and keep it private. >> reporter: house intelligence chairman adam schiff says officials could be subpoenaed to teff. >> we will compel the intelligence community to give congress the information we kneeled. >> reporter: the biden campaign announced that the former vice president will be in pennsylvania monday where he's expected to address what's happening in the country right now in a statement tonight biden condemned the violence in portland and said the president should do the same. jamie? >> nicole, thank you. in louisiana, more than 350,000 people remain without power tonight in the wake hurricane laura. downed powerlines are blocking roads across the states, making recovery efforts even more difficult. omar villafranca is in storm ravaged lake charles. >> reporter: in lake charles crews are still cleaning up

mountains of debris four days after hurricane laura crashed into the louisiana coast. 150-mile-per-hour winds splintered trees and shattered power poles, leaving homes damaged and hundreds of thousands without power or running water. >> a lot of our citizens are absolutely homeless right now. they need places to stay and preferably right now those plays need to be outside of lake charles. >> reporter: while thousands seek shelter from the aftermath there are dhaerns it could turn into a covid catastrophe. >> what you're seeing today is we've got about 16,000 folks in mainly hotels. less than a thousand in the big congregate shelters or gymnasiums you would see. for them, we're making their they're social distancing. >> reporter: some are struggling. cbs news cameras were there on saturday when residents of the golden arms assisted living center finally got help. they had been without power or

water for three days. volunteers from houston-based crowd sorcereurce rescue better there. the city of lake charles and all of calcasieu parish are without electricity tonight and the mayor told me it would probably be weeks, maybe even months before power and water are restored to this area. jamie? >> yikes. oh moore, thank you. now to the covid crisis. across america, new cases and deaths are generally falling. the new worry is the upper plains and midwest where cases are rising.uc a t test >> reporter: a powerful sight in detroit. 900 faces on billboards of lives lost to covid-19, all for the first city wide public memorial. the photos lining a bridge where on monday 15 funeral processions will be driving past to pay

tribute to the 1500 who died. >> a look at the faces who represent the spirit of detroit. >> louisiana, a covid hot spot is zprugling with a backlog of cases. hurricane laura's destruction is hampering efforts. in neighboring texas baylor university ordering 54 students to reside in place on two floors of a dorm after a spike in faces. at the university of kansas right now nine fraternity houses in quarantine with 4734 students ineffectsed. the party's raging on at arizona state university despite 452 indications among students. >> we find it sad and completely preventable. >> reporter: the controversy continues over new cdc guidelines with most states rejecting the recommendation for less testing. tomorrow california goes into

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more on laura's terrible facts. >> there he goes. >> reporter: hurricane laura is now ready for the record books. but first, just the facts. the category 4 storm threatened to be one of the most destructive in history. while it was bad, winds peaked at some 150 miles an hour, many areas were spared the expected storm surge. still, laura claimed 16 lives, more that were half the number caused by carbon monoxide poisoning by unsafe use of generators. thousands are still without power. some 220,000 are without o the was5f huicane katrina which devastated the same general area. >> we have thousands and thousands of our fellow citizens

whose lives are up side down. >> reporter: louisiana governor jon bell edwards said it was the most powerful to strike his state. >> that was lee cowan reporting. the clean-up comes as louisiana marks 15 years since an even more deadly storm came ashore, hurricane ka treen aip. the recovery from katrina took years but taught some valuable lessons to the volunteers who are working to rebuild after this latest storms. michelle miller has the story. >> we just started three year until dollar campaign to rebuild houses. >> reporter: when we first met zach rosenberg and his wife, the st. bernard project had rebuild homes in the new orleans area. >> it was like the field of dreams. you build it and it would come. volunteers start it is killing out of the woodwork. >> one, two, three, welcome

home! >> svp, as it's now known, has helped rebuild more than 2500 homes and the mission has expanded. >> we just built the first netzero apartment building, solar panels powering batteries and 50% of the units are for veterans. >> reporter: rosenberg said everything changed after meeting world war ii vet edward lee. five years ago we met the 94-year-old who built his own home with his own hands. >> a hundred percent of my life blew part of his roof off and cracked his foundation. he patched up what we could with fema money but ran out before the job was done. you never thought of moving out of this house? >> no. i'm going to die here. >> reporter: not before volunteers made his house whole again. he lived another three years and died, his family says, a happy

man. >> getting to know mr. lee dhapgd way we saw our work. it wasn't about building house, and we're still doing more than ever before, but it was preventing the need to rebuild the houses in the last place. >> reporter: svp has helped homeowners from missouri to the atlanta to the caribbean. they've done it by streamlining the operation. cutting in half the time it takes to build a house. this houston home was refurbished with roofing able to we will stand a 135-mile-per-hour winds. that preparedness extends to cutting through red tape. >> the first way to do it is help people understand and mitigate their risks. we just got to 1 million people by july to educate them on flood insurance. as important, we train people after disaster to navigate the system to avoid contractor fraud andrae. >> reporter: it sounds to me like you front load resources to

them before they ever even need them. >> absolutely. >> reporter: the mission has become a calling for rosenberg and mccart any, who picked up and moved 15 years ago. >> how's everybody? >> reporter: a spirit of sacrifice needed now more than ever. here we are two hurricanes in the gulf. you have fires in the west. you have tornadoes and other storms throughout the midwest. how do you ratchet up when it's coming at you from so many different sides? >> so we have deployment calls. we are ready to respond to any disaster that hits within 36 hours this year even with covid, local volunteers who, if and when something happens, can immediately be there in their own community. i'll tell you this. one of our country's biggest assets is the concern that fellow people have for fellow citizens, people from across the country who have gone to disaster to help other people and they're ready to do it again.

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outbreaks. coal gate university in upstate new york has mapgd to keep its campus open after careful planning. errol barnett paid a visit to see what's working. >> you're not coming back to normal. >> reporter: that's brian casey's message to the returning 2500 returning students in upstate new york's university. to bring them back the president of the two century old cool has an unprecedented plan. >> you enter, go to the right where a machine will instantly take your temperature. >> reporter: and this camera's using federer technology to detect your temperature. >> yep. every class room shows the physical distancing patterns. all the chairs have been pulled six feet apart. >> reporter: only nine students at a time. >> in a room that probably would have been 20 to 22. >> wow. >> reporter: you can see the seattle blocked off. more importantly, you see a camera off to the right.

as the professor moves, the camera and the monitor move with him. for those who are watching from home remotely, they're getting the whole classroom experience. >> reporter: he decided against all remote learning and instead structured a reopening plan with advice from medical and scientific experts. the key, a mandatory two week on campus quarantine as step one. all learning is initially virtual, meals delivered straight to students' dorms and time spent outside, scheduled. coal gate's kak ultimate and staff undergoing routine testing. why do you think this might be the safest approach? >> all of our students lvb tested before they show up, upon arrival and during the quarantine toward the end. we will know at the end of the 14 days that any student coming out will have three negative tests within a normal period. >> it's a excluded community.

>> reporter: she didn't have a chance to return home to vietnam when covid-19 closed her school. she's been living on campus ever since and supports the quarantine. what do you say to other students who are fearful in coming back to campus? >> i think the fear is totally valid. i myself is nervous about everyone coming back. >> how risky do you feel it is to be on campus? >> i think it's less risky to be on campus than returning home. >> reporter: the freshman from the bronx moved in over the summer. >> i still want to have a freshman year and i'm still here. i'm honestly willing to like always be in my room and just take classes on line from my room and only talk to my roommate and have the social distant lunches or deals when it's still warm out. i'm willing to have like an alternate freshman year if

that's what it takes. >> reporter: the students we spoke with admit the lack of socializing will be difficult. >> you're note building that kind of connection that you would have when you're here. >> reporter: especially for a linebacker on the school's football team. a.j. desanta isz said team building is most important. >> it's not one guy in the field at a time. it's many guys on the field, working together, special teams, offense, defense. >> reporter: if there's one thing we've seen nationwide, it's that college students will still socialize in large groups despite the risk. leading those campuses to either shut down or q infected students. casey has a plan for that, too. >> we're doing waste water testing. the virus exits itself in waste water often before you see it in your mucous or your blood. >> really? >> yes. so we have put readers, waste water readers on all of our

residents' halls, all of the houses on broad street where a lot of our students live. so if we detect any increase in the virus, which we'll see first in waste water, we will immediately test everyone in that particular house. >> reporter: how much is it costing you to do this? >> millions of dollars. we purchased a hotel so we have a quarantine site. >> reporter: millions in the singular or are you approaching $10 million? >> we are below 10 million. three rounds of testing, rapid testing machines. all our dining halls had to be report fitted to be grab and go, extra staff to do the testing. we're north of $4 million right now. that's a lot of money just out of pocket. >> reporter: so you want this to work? >> i want this o to work. >> reporter: so much so he's currently living in a dorm room himself neighboring his students for 17 days. >> if i'm asking you to do this, i'm do ito

whatever foo're ea, whatever rules you have,'l ngt w be that? >> the fact that i have a single bathroom people saying is a plus. >> and the r.a. >> he'll billion somedaying in my floor, my building, so it's a lucky coincidence? >> are you going to lay down the law if you see the president break the rules? >> yes. up am not afraid to have that conversation. >> reporter: we will be following up. >> ok. >> reporter: casey acknowledges the situation isn't ideal but in our new world, he says it's essential. j why is that an important point to make? >> fwhauz our culture we rarely talk about public good. we rarely talk about sacrificing individual needs for benefits that accrue to everybody. that's not part of our political rhetoric. it's not part of our culture anymore so we want to tell them this is going to be hard and that they need to learn to think

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dropped to almost nothing but ron, a veteran and solo, a refugee from cambodia say these dogs and their humans are what keep them going. >> once i got it, it changed everything on my ptsd. i struggled. i'm getting emotional thinking about it. but he's saved my life. >> they'll host pop-ups, to bring was and smiles. the trend is gaining traction. dog treat trucks are popping up all over the country, offering dog owners a way to be social while socially distanting. ron says one thing is for sure in these uncertain times. >> dogs don't care about your race, your religion, any of the labels we self-impose on each other, dogs just wants to have fun. >> and that's the overnight news for this mondays. for some of you the news continues. for others, check back later for cbs this morning and follow us

on line anytime at cbsnews.com. reporting from los angeles, i'm jamie yuccas. it's monday, august 31st, 2020. this is the "cbs morning news." deadly demonstration. a man reportedly linked to a right-wing political group is shot and killed durig a protest in portland as the city's mayor gets into a heated conversation with president trump. back on the trail, joe biden takes his campaign on the road after shuttering in-person events for months, what he plans to tell voters in a key battleground state. a lot of our citizens are homeless and need places to stay. >> laura's aftermath. the storm may be gone, but a new struggle begins for people in struggle begins for people in hard-hit areas. captioning funded by cbs