away. then there is the financial system. there has been a run on the banks with panicked people trying to withdraw cash in the chaos. some have waited in line for days. >> i should build a future. i should study. so definitely if the situations are like that, you should stay for one week, just to take $100 from a bank. so it's not possible the live here. >> reporter: with many employees now too terrified to return to work, even basic necessities like electricity and water are under threat. the u.n. has already warned the absolute catastrophe of economic ruin and even famine. yesterday crowds attended a mock funeral held by the taliban, coffins draped in flags of america and coalition allies. but as celebrations subside, the country may soon be facing more funerals of its own. in fact, between the conflict and a widespread drought, u.n.

now warns the country is marching towards starvation, and some regions could run out of food within a month. >> that's our charlie d'agata in doha. now the war in afghanistan sometimes has u.s. soldiers turning on one another. perhaps the most famous case involved now retired navy s.e.a.l. eddie gallagher. two years ago he stood accused of horrific war crimes by many of his own men. gallagher was ultimately acquitted of all but one charge, but the story does not end there. here is national security correspondent david martin. >> reporter: this platoon of navy s.e.a.l.s went off to war in 2017 as a band of brothers. but the time they came home, some of them had turned on their leader, eddie gallagher, a man they once revered. >> when i found out he was my chief, i was excited. i saw how he did business and ran our he alws motivated. that'sct inrn achie >> r formerc.o. joshfrs ar role?

>> absolutely he was someone i looked up to. >> reporter: but after months of vicious house-to-house fighting in iraq, friends and many others of alpha platoon did the unthinkable. they broke the code of silence and accused their leader of war crimes. until now, none of them have been interviewed on television. >> if your loyalty lies with a guy like eddie gallagher, then you need to reevaluate while you're a navy s.e.a.l. >> a lot of them were so torn apart by what happened on that deployment that they immediately left the s.e.a.l.s completely disillusioned. >> reporter: "new york times" reporter david philips has written a book about gallagher's platoon called simply "alpha." >> you've got a bunch of exceptional alpha males all together, and sometimes that drove people to do things that got so far away from the values that they thought they would have represented that it struck

other s.e.a.l.s as crazy. >> reporter: friends had never been in combat and ached to get in it. if you're a united states navy s.e.a.l. and you don't, that's like being a football player and not wanting to play in the super bowl. that's our job. >> reporter: gallagher gave friends and the rest of alpha platoon exactly what they wanted. they were supposed to stay 1500 yards behind the front line, backing up iraqi troops as they retook the city of moses federal isis. but friends says gallagher told them to turn off their gps trackers so they could get closer to the fight without headquarters knowing. originally, that was eddie's idea. but at the same time, we were signing on with it. anybody that wasn't cool with it was kind of labeled as a coward. the rest of us, you know, we were -- we want to get after it. and, you know, unfortunately, that meant breaking the rules. >> there is a subculture of s.e.a.l.s that feel to a certain extent they are above the law

and should be, that the real fighting, the dirty fighting that must be done by unconventional forces sometimes isn't as pretty as the rule book makes it sound. >> reporter: some members of alpha began to believe gallagher buzz needlessly risking casualties, exposing his men to enemy fire on this rooftop, for instance, where a helmet cam captured the moment one of them got hit. as phillips tells it, some days gallagher would hole up in a sniper position and come back bragging about his kills. at first the s.e.a.l.s passed it off as just talk. >> and then some of the platoon started to see what they thought was his bullets actually connect with old men, with school-age girls, and they had to realize, wait a minute, all the stories he has been telling, maybe those aren't jokes. >> reporter: then the iraqis brought in a barely conscious isis fighter who had been

wounded in an air strike. a helmet cam showed gallagher taking charge of the prisoner. the rest of that video has vanished, but three s.e.a.l.s said they witnessed gallagher stab the prisoner. afterwards, some of the men lined up for a trophy photo with the body, but later claimed they only did it to please gallagher. why do the world's toughest dudes seem so scared of gallagher? >> eddie gallagher is a popular, respected dude with connections all over the s.e.a.l. base back home. if you intend to stay in your career and move up as a young s.e.a.l., going against a guy like eddie gallagher is probably the worst decision you can make. >> reporter: 11 months later, friends and other members of alpha told ncis what they say happened. >> so toxic at this point. >> reporter: they were not just diming gallagher out, they were breaking the code of silence. >> how am i supposed to teach my kid between right and wrong and look him in the eye if i'm not

doing everything that i can? >> reporter: gallagher was charged with premeditated murder, but the prosecution's case fell apart in a made-for-tv moment when their star witness suddenly confessed that it was he who killed the prisoner. gallagher's acquittal was hailed by then president trump and the newly retired navy s.e.a.l. returned the favor by presenting the commander in chief with an isis flag. today he lives in the florida panhandle with his wife andrea, keeping a high profile in the culture wars. >> i'm not trying to hide anything. >> reporter: on "60 minutes," he steadfastly maintained his innocence. >> did you stab that fighter? >> no, i did not. >> reporter: according to gallagher, he and three other s.e.a.l.s performed emergency procedures on the fast-sinking prisoner. were you keeping him alive? >> yeah. as they were doing the procedures, he was alive, but it wasn't looking good. >> reporter: a year later on the apple podcast "the line," we

heard a very different story. >> a grain of truth in the whole thing is that that isis fighter was killed by us and that nobody at that time had a problem with it. we killed that guy. our intention was to kill him. everybody was on board. not one person -- >> your intention was to kill him? >> it was to do medical scenarios on him until he died. >> is that nursing to death? >> yeah, if you want to put it in a nice way. >> dan conducted that interview. were you surprised? >> shocked. just on the floor shocked. couldn't believe it. could not believe it. after all this time that he was willing to change his story like that was incredibly shocking for me. incredibly surprising. >> reporter: gallagher's attorney claims the editing of the interview was misleading. the navy says the case is

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now, if you don't think a little person can make a big difference, then we want you to meet a young man who might just change your mind. he is working to get a half million books into the hands of underprivileged children. cbs' janet shamlian reports. >> reporter: getting books into the hands of children. >> fresh shipment. >> reporter: hundreds of titles given away at this fort worth book fair. >> well, we just got a donation, a generous donation of books. >> reporter: by a child himself. >> i want to be able to share my love of literacy with as many people as possible. >> reporter: this is orion gene. he is 10. but the number on his mind is 500,000. the number of books he is hoping to get donated into children in need. >> even just for a moment to go

into a new story or a new world and go to places and meet people they never would have. >> if we are willing to. so why not start today? because right now it's what we need more than ever. >> reporter: that speech won orion a 2020 student kindness contest, inspiring his own personal campaign of compassion. >> the speech contest was really just the catalyst to something so much bigger. >> reporter: with 120,000 books collected so far, orion is asking people across the country to give away their used books to hit his goal. >> they can give that book away to another child who may need it. and it cause as ripple effect. that's what it's all about. >> reporter: janet shamlian, cbs news, fort worth. >> and that is the "overnight news" for this thursday. for some of you, the news continues. for others, check back with us later for "cbs this morning." and of course you can follow us any time online at cbsnews.com. reporting from the nation's capitol, i'm errol barnett.

good morning. this is cbs news flash. i'm elise preston in new york. today president biden will outline his administration's response to ida. remnants of the tropical storm hit the tri-state area. due to flash flooding, new york and new jersey declared states of emergency. a new report breaks down how vehicle technologies could help keep teen drivers safer behind the wheel. according to the insurance institute for highway safety, more than 40% of crashes involving teens can be prevented or less severe. the band is getting back together. iconic swedish pop group abba will roll out details for a new music and a reunion tour today. abba hasn't dropped new tunes in nearly four decades. for more news, download the cbs

news app on your cell phone or connected tv. i'm elise preston, cbs news, new york. it's thursday, september 2nd, 2021. this is the "cbs morning news." under water. the remnants of hurricane ida dump record-breaking rain in the eastern u.s. triggering flash floods and tornadoes. the historic states of emergency declared. breaking overnight, the u.s. supreme court refuses to block a texas abortion law. the close vote by the high court. and gaining ground. better weather is helping firefighters battling the caldor fire in northern california. fire in northern california. the severe threats that remain. captioning funded by cbs good morning. good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. we're going to begin this morning with the histo