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>> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." a newly released report reveals sobering details about how a loan gunman was able to kill 21 people, mostly children, after walking into a texas elementary school almost two months ago now. the extensive document chronicles leadership failures across multiple agencies, a history of ignoring early clues about the troubles gunman. she attended a press conference moments ago. what more can you tell us? >> reporter: erroll, i'll tell
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you more about what you were just saying. we learned more in the report you had a gunman. he glorified violence online and he had sociopath thick tendencies but nobody who came in contact with him ever alerted authorities about him. the investigation conducted by a texas house committee highlights a series of systemic failures and egregious poor decision making by 376 officers, the gunman's family and robb elementary traitors. it was given to victim's families sunday morning. the report extends information from police. hundreds of law enforcement agents and many were better trained and better equipped quickly arrived on the scene.
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a longer version was released last week and it shows the gunman entering last week and different from the edited version. you can see him firing over 100 loupds in two minutes. local officers were reporting more. they were gathering for more than an hour, pacing, asking for equipment and ultimately killing the gunman. the void of leadership by the chief, who failed to take on his role as incident commander, and others who didn't step up could have contributed to the loss of life. the report adds those officers, quote, failed to prioritize saving the lives of innocent victims over their own safety. that finding is different from the officials' early accounts of the media and has caused anger and confusion among victims' families.
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>> texas failed the students. law enforcement failed the students. the shooter never fired a gun f fwu. the report details no attempt by anyone who interacted with gunman to alert the decisions. >> reporter: the mayor of uvalde announced tonight he has chosen to fleissen and he said the chief of police has been placed on administrative leave. erroll? >> painful. painful news all around. thank you. the sentencing trial begins tomorrow for the gunman in the 2018 shooting massacre at a parkland high school.
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nicolas cruz. should he -- president biden is back at the white house after a four-day visit to the white house. the white house is calling it a success but this comes amid controversy. skyler hen try is at the white house with more. good evening. >> reporter: good evening. reactions continue to pour in following the fist bump scene around the world. president biden deflected blowback since fist bumping mohamed bin salman. >> why don't you guys talk about something that matters. >> reporter: critics say the president went against his campaign to make the treaty.
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>> i don't believe we should be maintaining a warm relationship with a dictatorship like that. >> reporter: the administration argues there's a need for stability and working relationships in the region, especially as it continues to address soaring oil costs. while the saudi visit brought no immediate breakthroughs, he believe more global supply in the coming weeks. >> despite gas prices for the fourth straight week, they called on the administration to do even more to get them to come home. >> prez jill biden is looking at what he has. >> skyler, we're also watching at the other end of pennsylvania avenue for the next public january 6th committee.
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the eighth lp at this point in time. >> erroll, we should expect more witness testimony and findings as it lays out minute by minute what former president trump was or wasn't doing while the cap possible and they are requesting information from january 5th and january 6th. thank you. three sheriffs deputies and a firefighter were killed when their helicopter happened in new mexico. it happened saturday evidence. they were returning to albuquerque after helping fire tieders. plugs has the latest on this. >> good sunday evening, erroll. the dangerous heat is expanding.
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it's hot in places like texas all the way up to north dakota but by the time we get to tuesday, 75 million of us above 95 degrees. we're not just talking 90s. we're talking about arkansas, all the way to oakland city. just to the east of the high pressure, our chance for severe storms. for the northeast on monday. starting at 11 a.m., storms rolling through. washington d.c., even the way to new york and parts of boston. erroll, you can watch the weather channel" on cable defies tis. we have a lot mere cbs overnight news.
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>> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." i'm erroll barnett in new york. thanks for staying with us. the triple digit temperatures that have sparked forest fires and drought conditions in the states are also taking hold in europe. in brittain the national weather service has for the first time issued a red alert heat warning as that country braces for its highest temperatures ever recorded. in portugal, triple digit temperatures are blamed for at least a thousand deaths and across europe military units have joined the battle against hundreds of wildfires raging out of control from spain to france
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to greece. our ian lee begins our coverage in london. >> reporter: it's in the summer when mother nature really lets loose by breaking records. a heat wave is cooking europe. many feel -- >> moving around in the sun like it is too hot to do anything. >> reporter: this sunday could be the u.k.'s hottest day ever reported with temperatures hitting 110, and that's the cool part of the continent. in spain people trying to beat the heat with temperatures already reaching 115 degrees. the warm weather is fueling wildfires across the continent, from portugal to italy. the writing is, well, on the field as the country struggles with its worst drought in years. climate change is hurting our ability to help the world. >> south america has had a variety of weather conditions that has limited their ability
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to produce grains. while it's hot and dry in europe, even london has no rain in the forecast. other parts of the world are dealing with too much water. sydney is now cleaning up after the worst flooding in a century. more than 60,000 people fled their homes across eastern australia. >> the landscape is absolutely saturated. the creeks and rivers are still incredibly swollen. >> reporter: some areas in southern china is suffering the worst flooding. ian lee, cbs news, london. in italy it is threatening some of the food exports. we have the story from rome. >> reporter: we shouldn't be able to walk here. this is foundations of bridge and there was a river port here.
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ancient roman ruins revealed by a heat wave in italy's worst draw the in seven decades. >> the water normally is up to our waist or shoulder height at this point and now i'd say it's gone beyond the wake-up call. >> reporter: some towns of rationing water. >> there's a trick to getting water out of the foub tans. the city is considering shutting them all off if the drought worsens. >> experts blame global warming. 11 climbers crushed to death when record temperatures caused this glacier to collapse. downhill the heat and drought have left rice fields for riosotto bone dry. it produces pasta and wine and
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now it's in a government state of emergency. in the rome countryside, the alarm is audible. >> you can hear the grass crunching beneath our feet. the petrucci olive field has crafted extra-virgin olive oil. half are dead? >> yes. >> this is one of them? >> yes. >> reporter: sabina has to truck in water. what does this mean for people who want good olive oil? >> we will ask more. we have to think about this business even if it's a family business. it's forever. >> reporter: so after centuries of making olive oil, this might be the end? >> yes. closer to home, rising temperatures and water shortages as well as new conservation laws
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to ukraine now where russian missiles rain down on an industrial city in the south of the city. moscow has been attacking civilian targets far away from the front lines. holly williams reports. >> reporter: the invasion began with terror. some fear that ukraine's capitol, kyiv, would fall within days. as russian columns moved menace singly towards the city. this apartment building was hit on the morning of february 26th, just two days after the war started though miraculously nobody was killed.
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this is the same building today. more than four months later, like ukraine itself, it's battle scarred but still standing. some of the shops downstairs have already reopened. and after fleeing kyiv in the first days of war, this woman decided to move back into the building. she took us up to the 20th floor to inspect the damage. >> no one died? >> no. >> reporter: she and her neighbors are raising money to patch it up. >> i'm sure that we are very strong. very strong country. we are united and we will win in the end. >> reporter: russia's bloody invasion has seen millions flee their homes. it's seizing territory in the east and cities across the
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country have been hit by strikes but in many parts of ukraine people seem determined to keep calm and carry on as if living life to the full is in itself an act of defiance. these burned out russian armored vehicles are not on the front line but on display in the center of kyiv. objects of curiosity for morning commuters whose lives have gone back to a semblance of normal. she told us her country is simply invincible. >> no choice. >> you have no choice but to fight? >> yes. >> reporter: and survive? >> yes. yes. >> reporter: reporting on wars can be surreal at times and ukraine is absolutely no exception. from what we've seen here over several months now, this conflict has helped clarify for many ukrainians exactly what they want for their country. it's also revealed their
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strength and determination. >> holly williams in ukraine. with much of that country's cultural heritage under assault, there's an international effort to preserve it online. here's john blackstone. >> reporter: from her crowded home office, she has been drawn into the war in ukraine. >> we are crawling through all of t sites to look culturage te nology specialist at stanford university is one of three co-founders of sucho, saving ukrainian cultural heritage online. i thought everything lived in the cloud. why do you have to rescue this? >> it's easy to forget ultimate
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ultimately the internet comes down to physical things. servers have to be connected to the internet via cables, they need power and cooling. all of these are just as much at risk as any other thing in the physical world. >> reporter: their group now has more than 1,000 volunteers in the world using their own computers to identify and preserve ukrainian websites that could be lost forever. >> everything we find we sent to the internet archive to capture via the way back machine. >> reporter: the way back machine is a time machine for the web. >> it's why this organization was created was to provide a forever home to the material that human beings are creating about themselves, about their world and trying to share with others. >> reporter: the internet archive is housed in a former san francisco church. the pews are there and so are banks and banks of computer servers, recording not just ukrainian websites but others from around the world. they've been doing this for 26 years with an understanding of
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how vulnerable digital records can be. >> digital artifacts in many ways are much more fragile than their analog equivalent. books, for example, generally speaking were printed at mass. if one library were to burn down, a tragedy as it may be, there are others. >> places where in peace time computers are used everyday but in war time may be among the casualties. with her 8-year-old son sam dombrosky is working. >> there is one site where they had an art project for the children with the title of i'm ukrainian and that sounds proud. pictures someone took on their cell phone of children painting sun flowers and when the war is over and it's safe to rebuild,
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so a teenage baseball star is anhe field. nancy chen has his story. >> reporter: 16-year-old landa sims is used to swinging for the fences. landis was born without hands and the lower parts of his legs but that didn't stop him from starting baseball at age 5. >> i don't remember motto of just watch me, what does that mean? >> people are going to doubt me so instead of me just sitting there talking to them, telling them what to do, just watch me. >> reporter: and they did as landis practiced with the yankees at age 10 and made the varsity team using specially designed equipment. >> he loves this game so much that he wasn't going to listen
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to anybody else. >> reporter: now he's inspiring other children with limb differences like 12-year-old chase meriweather who started playing baseball after meeting landis in 2016. how important is it to have an example like landis. >> it's important. because if there's not an example, i wouldn't be here, landis wouldn't be here. this wouldn't be happening now. >> landis sims. >> reporter: landis says this is more about the love of the game failure. i work through adversity in life every day. >> reporter: an all-star on and off the field. nancy chen, cbs news, new york. and that is the overnight news for this monday. for some of you the news continues. for everyone else, check back later for cbs mornings and of course you can follow us online any time at cbs news.com.
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i'm erroll barnett reporting from the broadcast center here in new york city. this is cbs news flash. i'm elise preston in new york. four people, including a gunman, are dead following a shooting at an indiana mall. two others were injured. greenwood police say a lone gunman entered near the food court and began shooting. an armed witness shot the gunman. jury selection begins in the federal trial of former trump adviser steve bannon. bannon faces contempt charges for defying a subpoena for the house committee investigating the january 6th insurrection. another primetime january 6th hearing is set for thursday. cameron smith is the winner of this year's british open. the golfer clinched his first major victory. the first australian to win at
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saint andrews since 1960. for more news download the cbs news app on your cell phone or connecnnected tv. i'm elise preston. cbs news, new york. egregious law enforcement leadership failures. in uvalde, texas, a new report on the school shooting massacre finds appalling dec decision making led to the botched response with no one stepping up to lead. >> i'm lilia luciano, the families have received a report detailing the systemic failures in the police response. >> reporter: also, the many red flags in the gunman's troubled past. plus, fist bump fallout. president fires back after his exchange with saudi's crown prince sparks criticism. also, extreme heat. 25 million americans face dangerous conditions while parts
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of europe setting scorching new records. >> reporter: i'm in london where we are bracing for a record heat wave. on monday and tuesday it is expected to be hotter here than in jamaica. covid's comeback. the number of cases in the u.s. surging once again. >> she has a true belief that she was equal to everyone else. >> reporter: later, the extraordinary woman who's still breaking barriers standing tall amid american giants. >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." a newly released report reveals sobering details about how a lone gunman was able to kill 21 people, mostly children, after walking into a texas elementary school almost two months from now. the extensive document chronicles leadership failures across multiple agencies, poor
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decision making across the chaos and early clues about the gunman. lilia luciano attended a press conference moments ago. what more can you tell us? >> reporter: well, erroll, i'll tell you more about what you were just saying. we learned more in that report today about the gunman, including he had never fired a gun before. he had suicidal ideation. he glorified violence online and he had sociopath thick tendencies but nobody who came in contact with him ever alerted authorities about him. the investigation conducted by a texas house committee highlights systemic failures and egregious errors. the gunman's family and robb elementary administrators. the 77 page report and surveillance video was given to victim's families sunday morning. the report blames a lack of leadership that extended beyond
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local police saying, quote, hundreds of responders from numerous law enforcement agencies, many of whom were better trained and better equipped than the school district police quickly arrived on the scene. a longer version of the surveillance video was leaked by local media last week. it shows the gunman entering robb elementary and it was different than the ed him firing over 100 rounds in the rooms he entered. after a small group of local officers approached the class rooms, were shot at through the walls and retreated, dozens of officers then gathered in the hallway for more than an hour pacing, asking for equipment and ultimately killing the gunman. during that time today's report states the void of leadership by the chief, who failed to take on his role as incident commander, and others who didn't step up could have contributed to the loss of life. the report adds, those officers,
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quote, failed to prioritize saving the lives of innocent victims over their own safety. that finding is different from the officials early account and has caused anger and confusion among victims families. >> texas failed the students. law enforcement failed the students. our government failed the students. >> reporter: we're also learning more about the shooter who reportedly never fired a gun before the massacre but glorified violence online, had suicidal ideation and sociopath thick tendencies. the report details no attempt by anyone who interacted with a gunman to alert authorities about his troubling behavior. and the mayor of uvalde announced tonight that he has chosen to release the body cam video from police officers from police officers, from uvaldrs,s recommendatis of the torn als a acting chief of uvalde police has been placed on administrative leave.
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erroll. >> painful, painful news all around. thank you. the sentencing trial begins tomorrow for the gunman in the 2018 shooting massacre at a parkland, florida, high school. a jury will decide whether nicolas cruz should be executed or receive life without parole. cruz pleaded guilty last october to first degree murder. 17 people were killed, 17 others wounded. president biden is back at the white house after a four day visit to the middle east. they're calling it a success but this comes amid controversy. cbs's skyler henry is at the white house with more. good evening. >> reporter: good evening. reactions continue to pour in following the fist bump seen around the world. though president biden maintains he pressed his foreign counterparts on human rights issues. president biden deflected blow back since fist bumping mbs.
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>> why don't you talk about something that matters. >> reporter: the president went against his campaign promise to make them a global pariah after mbs signed off to kill jamal khashoggi in 2018. >> i just don't believe we should be maintaining a warm relationship with a dictatorship like that. >> reporter: the administration argues there's a need for stability and working relationships in the region, especially as it continues to address soaring oil costs. while the saudi visit brought no immediate breakthroughs, white house energy adviser told "face the nation," he believes more global supply is possible. >> based on what we heard, i'm pretty confident we'll see a few more steps in the coming weeks. >> reporter: despite gas prices falling, they called on the administration to do more at home to get them even lower. >> president biden is flying to the middle east and fist bumping
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with murderers and despots asking for more supply. what he could do is open up the keystone pipeline. >> we're watching for the next public january 6th committee hearing. the eighth will be this thursday in primetime. what should we expect? >> reporter: we can expect more witness testimony and findings as it lays out minute by minute what former president trump was or wasn't doing while the capitol was under attack. members also said today they expect an answer by tuesday to a subpoena they submitted to the secret service requesting missing text messages from january 5th and january 6th. erroll? >> skyler, thank you. we've got a lot more news ahead for you right here on the "cbs overnight news."
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this is the "cbs overnight news." dangerous record-breaking heat is also sweeping across parts of europe right now. the soaring temperatures are linked to several deaths and a number of wildfires there. cbs reports. >> reporter: good evening. here in the u.k. we're bracing for record-breaking heat forecast to hit nearly 106 degrees. that system is coming up from western europe causing so much suffering already through this scorcher of a summer. spain is if you battling its largest fire in recorded history and nearly 30 others across the
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country. i'm doing so badly. so stressed. we're all so stressed said this resident who escaped. while in neighboring portugal, more than 200 new fires were reported in friday and saturday with others dying every 40 minutes. hit by the worst drought in a decade. the poe is so low it's threatening crops and electricity generation. and dropping more water over wildfires that are burning more than 20,000 football fields. we're living through an exceptional season of hare muchness says president emmanuel macron. as thousands of firefighters battled the blaze, one lawmaker tweeted this is not summer, it's hell. the united kingdom is bracing for the heat to come. in the cities -- >> we are wearing as little
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clothing as possible. >> reporter: and at the beaches with people flocking to the ocean after the government declared a national emergency and first ever extreme red heat warning. and the u.k.'s current heat record is 101.7 degrees only set back in 2019. that could fall as early as tomorrow, but train operators are telling people to stay home. schools may close and hospitals are fearing a surge of patients because this heat can kill. erroll? >> thank you for that report. more than two years since the start of the pandemic, covid remains a public health threat. over the past 14 days covid cases in the u.s. are up 15%. hospitalizations are up 20%. here's cbs's joy benedict. >> reporter: covid summertime surge is catching many off guard. scientists say the omicron subvariants responsible for 97% of new infections nationwide didn't even exist last year
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concerning many. do you know a lot of other people catching covid? >> oh, definitely. my school recently dropped the mask mandate and everybody started getting it. >> reporter: ba. 5 is spreading rapidly across the u.s. with 75% of americans living in a high or medium covid risk area. hospitalizations are also rising, especially in the southwest because of this dominant strain. >> it's the b.5 variant growing. it has the capacity to evade prior infection. >> reporter: dr. scott gottleib says there's an under count of covid cases because many who home test do not self report. >> there's over 100,000 cases being reported. we're probably detecting 1 in 10,000 so it's probably 1 in a million. in los angeles county they could be less than two weeks away from requiring masks indoors.
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>> hospitalizations are going up it's expected the mask mandate will come back. i think people are used to the masks by now. >> reporter: now here in los angeles county, almost 75% of people are fully vaccinated. although omicron specific vaccine is expected sometime this fall, doctors say if you are eligible to get the shot, just get one. erroll? >> joy, thank you. as california traffic delays go, this one no doubt left drivers astonished. check it out. a small plane landed on a busy street in san marcos. the plane developed engine trouble. a car was damaged as was the plane. thankfully only one minor injury reported. straight ahead, the fear of sharks had as a name. the science behind that fear and why it may be changing. plus, j. lo's got a new role. the life imitating art moment for the actress.
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to a child, this is what conflict looks like. children in ukraine are caught in the crossfire of war, forced to flee their homes. a steady stream of refugees has been coming across all day. it's basically cold. lacking clean water and sanitation. exposed to injury, hunger. exhausted and shell shocked from what they've been through. every dollar you give can help bring a meal, a blanket, or simply hope to a child living in conflict. please call or go online to givenowtosave.org today with your gift of $10 a month, that's just $0.33 a day. we cannot forget the children in places born in refugee camps, playing in refugee camps, thinking of the camps as home. please call or go online to givenowtosave.org today. with your gift of $10 a month,
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>> reporter: -- we had our first sighting. >> he is right on the shore. he is so close. >> reporter: it's a juvenile great white shark, eight to nine feet long in waist deep water. under the watchful eye of marine biologists from the shash lab, we go in for a closer look. >> he's right there. literally right there. >> reporter: for many, this is the stuff nightmares are made of. >> the shark is right there. zip out, about ten feet up. >> reporter: but scientists are learning our outsized fear of so-called man-eating sharks is unfounded. >> reporter: the risk of sharks is high. >> reporter: psychologist is working with the shark lab at cal state long beach works to understand what they're so scared of. >> 5-month-old babies are not afraid of sharks. our fear is learned and socially
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reinforced. >> reporter: it turns out after falling into the water with the juvenile great white, the reaction to scramble back onto the board isn't necessary. >> i'm 10 feet behind a large shark bigger than i am. i lose my balance, i fall in the water, the shark takes off. >> reporter: they would rather avoid something as big as a person. if you do make a move towards a shark, they go the other way. >> exactly. we see this over and over again. >> reporter: chris low says these sharks are afraid of us. despite all the evidence, most people are still terrified of sharks. >> you're going to need a bigger boat. >> reporter: scientists believe the 1975 movie "jaws" caused people to develop galeophobia, a fear of sharks. there's a term for it, the "jaws" effect. >> with popular media, it
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influences people's attitudes and perceptions such that it exaggerates the danger that these animals pose. >> i think what we're starting to see is the "jaws" mentality going away. >> shark bite. >> shark eporter: coverage can still amplify the fears. these images showing people and sharks co-existing, it's having a growing effect. >> people's attitudes are changing because they're getting good information. >> even faced with slim odds, the fear of sharks is a hard habit to break. if i asked you. would you get in the water with me? >> i'm not equipped. >> reporter: okay. okay. i'll let you go. >> it's important to remember these are juvenile sharks. the big question is since this was their nursery, they grew up here, food was plentiful, will they return as adults? so far, none of the juvenile
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check out angi.com today. angi... and done. jennifer lopez and ben aflac have gotten hitched. they called off their first wedding in 2003 and split the following year. this is aflac's second marriage and lopez's fourth. now to other folks taking multiple laps. today some circuit controversy as formula e racing returned to new york. nick cassidy had the fastest time but race owe facefficials changed his battery pack. antonio felix decosta grabbed his first win of the season. a monumental honor for a presidential adviser and passionate educator.
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finally tonight, dr. mary mcleod bethune advised five presidents. she is the first african american honored in statuary hall. nicole killian spoke with the sculptor who carved out a legacy. >> the guest of honor attempts to express her gratitude. >> reporter: standing tall as she did in life, a statue of mary mcleod bethune took its place in the u.s. capitol. >> mary mcleod bethune truly did her part to advance the cause of forming a more perfect union. >> reporter: holding a black rose representing equality, the
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florida citizen replaces a confederate statue in statuary hall, becoming the first african american to represent a state in more than 150 years. why do you feel that it's taken so long to get to this point? >> well, because there's so much racism in the united states still. and so this is very important. >> reporter: mille de comb, the first puerto rican sculptor to hold the honor. >> this is the most important building probably in the world. >> reporter: she used the last piece of marble from michelangelo's quarry to craft the 11 foot 6,000 pound statue. born to parents who were formerly enslaved, she established a school for black girls that became bethune cookman university, founded the national council of negro women and advised several u.s.
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presidents. nicole killian, cbs news, the capitol. and that is the overnight news for this monday. reporting from the new york broadcast center in new york city, i'm errol barnett. this is cbs news flash. i'm elise preston in new york. four people including a gunman including a gunman are dead following a shooting at an indiana mall. two others were injured. a lone gunman entered near the food court with a rifle and began shooting. an armed witness shot the gunman. jury selection begins in the trial of former trump adviser steve bannon. he faces contempt charges. another primetime january 6th hearing is set for thursday. cameron smith is the winner of this year's u.s. open. he clinched his first major victory. the first australian to win at
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saint andrews since 1960. it's monday, july 18th, 2022. this is the "cbs morning news." breaking overnight, deadly mall shooting. a man with a rifle kills three people and wounds two others at a food court in indiana. how authorities say a bystander stopped the gunman. if there's only one thing i can tell you is there were multiple systemic failures. >> scathing report. a texas committee slams local, state, and federal authorities for their response to the uvalde shooting. what the investigation found out about leadership and basic communication. back in washington. president biden returns from his four-day trip to the middle east. the white house calls it a success, but it's coming with a lot of controversy.
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