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lesley stahl five years ago about his book that called for putin to annex ukraine. >> we demand from him to be much more authoritarian than he is. so he a little bit disappoints us because it takes too long. >> reporter: the brazen bombing has escalated tensions in the runup to ukraine's independence day on wednesday. there were already fears the kremlin would ramp up its attacks. russia may try to do something disgusting and cruel this week, warned president zelenskyy. mass gatherings across the country have been banned, and the central square in kyiv has been turned into a pop-up museum, showcasing russian tanks and armored vehicles, captured or destroyed in combat. six months since the invasion began, kyiv still stands as a bitter reminder that putin failed to seize the capital and proclaim a swift victory. nerves are already frayed here with the russian-occupied
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zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant turned into a deadly front line. the u.s. state department has warned russia's ambassador against escalating the war and called for an end to military operations near that plant. norah? >> debora patta with that warning, thank you. and first on cbs news, we've just learned the department of justice is opening a civil rights investigation after disturbing video emerged of police officers in arkansas beating a man on the ground. two officers have been suspended and one placed on administrative leave as authorities investigate the incident. we get more now from cbs's nikki battiste. >> reporter: this cell phone video shows three cops in arkansas repeatedly pummeling 27-year-old randall worcester, punching him in the head with a clenched fist, kneeing him in the legs. >> this is bad! >> reporter: and then picking up his head and smashing it into
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the pavement. the cops, crawford county sheriff's deputies levi white and zack king, and mulberry officer thell riddle, were not wearing body cameras but a dash cam recorded the incident. >> the dash cam does bring to light other things that did happen there, that wasn't caught on the citizen's camera. >> reporter: crawford county sheriff jim damante tells cbs news, police in a neighboring town received a call sunday morning about a man, allegedly worcester, making terroristic threats against a gas station employee, spitting and threatening to cut off the person's face. worcester then biked about seven miles, where officers caught up with him. he says worcester handed over a knife, and then football-tackled one of the deputies and punched him in the back of the head. >> when they were going to take him into custody, is when he started to fight. >> reporter: the arkansas state police and the fbi are investigating the cops for use of force. all three have been removed from duty. worcester was released on bail today. >> how are you doing? >> doing pretty good today. >> reporter: he faces several charges in this case, including
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terroristic threatening. >> i believe it was above and beyond what the officers were trained to do, and what they should have done in that situation. >> reporter: worcester's lawyer says she filed a separate use of force complaint against deputy levi white back in 2019 for another client. when i asked the sheriff about that complaint, norah, he told me he has to look into it. >> thank you. thousands of teachers walk the picket lines in ohio while inflation hits back-to-school shopping nationwide. we've got those stories in 60 seconds.
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the new school year is off to a rocky start in ohio after more than 4,000 teachers in the state's largest school district voted to go on strike after failing to reach a new deal on a contract. teachers for columbus city schools say the strike is about students deserving modern schools, smaller class sizes and a well-rounded curriculum that
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includes art, music and pe. the first day of school on wednesday will begin with remote learning. as students return to the classroom across the rest of the country, parents are the ones getting a lesson when it comes to inflation. the national retail federation says back-to-school spending will rise more than 40% this year compared to 2019. cbs' janet shamlian kicks off our week-long "back to school" series. >> reporter: maddy davis is reeling after trying to fulfill her son jaxon's back-to-school list. it's a preschool list. jax is four. >> we hit $100. now we've hit $150. we're at $200. once i hit $200 i just stopped. i said, this is way out of my budget? where am i going to pull $200 from? >> reporter: the single mom says the shopping this year was papers, pencils and price increases. >> just this, i probably put it around $50 to $75. >> reporter: and it's not complete. >> no, it's not complete, no, it's not. >> reporter: just 36% of parents said they can afford back-to-school supplies, compared to 52% last year. but even with inflation
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straining budgets, families are expected to spend an average of $864 on school items, $15 more than in 2021. >> back to school is an essential category, meaning families will prioritize it no matter what's going on, including when they see higher prices. >> reporter: 38% of parents saying they'd cut back elsewhere to pay for it. how to save? experts say consider resale shops, buy generic, look for coupons, wait for labor day sales. and what could be the biggest money saver, don't go shopping with your kids. jax started preschool this morning, but maddy, who works full-time, is still trying to get his uniforms, and decide which of her bills not to pay. >> at this point, we're penny to penny. we are pinching every little cent we can get. >> reporter: back to school, this year an education in higher prices. janet shamlian, cbs news, houston. still ahead, the dramatic
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eviction notice. the suspect shot two deputies and took off. he was later captured outside tinker air force base where he surrendered a rifle. the violence has shaken the oklahoma county sheriff's department. >> what's your message to the community as everyone's waiting to find out their condition? >> pray. >> it's unclear why the suspect drove to the air force base. right now to big health news. tonight pfizer is seeking updated information on it's covid vaccine booster. if the fda green lights the shots, they could be available within weeks. moderna is expected to file a similar request soon. up next, william and kate confirm they're moving their family out of
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mastrobuoni. do you worry people will say you're just letting the game go to the dogs? >> no, not at all, actually. >> reporter: assistant general manager chip allen says the team did have a couple canine concerns. >> would the bats come back wet? would they have teeth marks in it? i don't know how ripken does it. no saliva on the bats. no teeth marks. >> reporter: it helps that his owner, michael o'donnell, is a dog trainer and former college baseball player. >> we started with just kind of playing fetch with bats in the backyard and having fun. >> reporter: how did you get the dog to ignore all of the balls on the field? >> lots of practice. >> reporter: letting o'donnell live out his baseball dreams through his four-legged best friend. >> good boy! >> reporter: while hoping the big leagues throw ripken a bone some time soon. kris van cleave, cbs news, durham. and that's the overnight news for tuesday. for some of you, the news continues. for others, check back later for "cbs mornings" and follow us
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online at cbs.com. reporting in new york, i'm norah o'donnell. this is cbs news flash. cbs news has learned more than 150 documents marked classified is what the u.s. government took from former president trump's flores state earlier this month. trump has asked a federal court to temporarily block the fbi from reviewing the material it seized august 8th from his mar-a-lago home until a special master can be appointed to oversee that review. a body found in a northern california reservoir is believed to be missing california teen kylie rodney. the 16-year-old was last seen at a high school farewell party august 6th. her vehicle was found some 65 feet offshore in that reservoir. new james webb telescope photos show aurora's faint rings
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and tiny moons. for more news download the cbs news app on your cell phone or connect to tv. i'm matt pieper, cbs news, new york. >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." tonight millions of americans in the southwest are under flood warnings after monsoon rains drenched communities across parts of six states. north texas getting the worst of it. the dallas-fort worth area was pummelled with more than 9 inches. that's the second heaviest rainfall in the city's history. it was the equivalent of a summer's worth of rain in one 24-hour period. floodwaters rushed through the streets submerging vehicles. we're learning tonight a woman was swept off a bridge and has died. while floodwaters create nightmares on the ground, airlines are severely impacted
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with more than 7,000 flights in the u.s. delayed or canceled. more than half of all the flights out of dallas-fort worth airport today have been delayed. we have a lot of news to get to tonight and cbs's omar villafranca will start us off outside dallas. good evening. >> reporter: good evening. that rain fell overnight into today, norah and prompted flash flooding, like you're seeing right here, and dozens of water rescues. it was all part of a system that hammered much of the southwest. late today emergency crews rescued a family while rain and flash flooding submerged cars, houses and trapped drivers in and around dallas. >> the current is strong going past my house, it will wash you away. this woman was pulled to safety after the road flooded with little warning. >> i thought i was going to die. i was just panicking because i wanted to get out of my car and get out of the water.
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>> reporter: dallas fire rescue responded to more than 200 vehicle rescues in just 24 hours. >> all of a sudden we were stopped and a saw a car floating to the wall and i thought, oh, shoot. >> reporter: two weeks ago triple digit temperatures and drought conditions were baking north texas, drying up the trinity river in dallas, but hebasin.t rain pounded the area >> she said water's coming in. so i thought it was going to calm down but the rain kept coming. >> reporter: homes were also damaged. the rain so powerful, this apartment in downtown dallas quickly ended up with two feet of water. once the flooding receded, the damage became clearer. out west in utah's zion national park, torrential rain turned hiking paths treacherous, putting hikers at risk. this person was filmed hugging a tree limb in fast moving floodwaters. the search is on for this woman who was hiking with her friends
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when the storm hit. >> there are more than 20 people working on this search and rescue operation and they're working all along the length of zion cannon. >> reporter: dallas county just declared this area a disaster. the floodwaters are starting to recede. that's the good news. folks here are hoping the worst is over. norah? >> devastating for so many. omar villafranca, thank you. now to breaking news in the legal battle over the fbi search of donald trump's florida mansion. in a new court filing tonight, the former president is asking a judge to block the fbi from looking at the seized materials until a special master can be appointed to oversee the review. cbs'srobert costa is in west palm beach. >> reporter: federal investigators are now evaluating video evidence that shows people at mar-a-lago accessing storage areas that contain classified documents. part of what prompted the fbi to search the estate. the investigation into trump's alleged mishandling of the
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material can be traced back to the chaotic final days of his term with then white house chief of staff mark meadows and others rushing to organize the documents. instead of sending the more than two dozen boxes to the national archives, sources say trump brought them to florida, sparking alarm and eventually leading to the seizure. trump and his allies have slammed the search and today his attorneys asked a florida court to appoint a third-party attorney to review the evidence taken and return it. >> we're going to come out swinging and say, look, this cannot be something where we just get kind of a wink and a nod from doj that we're supposed to trump them. >> reporter: the trump team's filing comes as bruce reinhart decides whether to release portions of the affidavit that led to the search. >> show us what you found because the affidavit will have they will item publicly now what the court told them they were going to find. show us what you found. >> reporter: the affidavit would provide critical detail including whom federal agents interviewed and why they thought
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a crime was potentially committed. the department of justice believes spikes against agents have increased since the search. judge reinhart has, too, been threatened. >> the doj has been very careful. he fielded so many threats they had to cancel services at his synagogue. he knows that the public pressure here is a crucible of the sort he hasn't had before. >> reporter: the trump legal team's motion included a claim that trump is the front-runner for the republican presidential nomination in 2024. underscoring the political cross-currents at play at these investigations continue. norah? >> robert costa in west palm beach, thank you. let's turn oversaeas where
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russian authorities are blaming ukrainian operatives for the deadly car bombing that killed the daughter of one of vladimir putin's closest advisers over the weekend. ukraine denied any involvement but there is growing fear about what the kremlin will do in response. cbs's debora patta is in ukraine. >> reporter: a fireball caught on cell phone video as a car bomb blew up just outside moscow, the explosion that's now a major flashpoint in vladimir putin's war in ukraine. dead at the scene, darya dugina, daughter of influence ultranationalist alexander dugin, an outspoken supporter for the war in ukraine. the kremlin immediately blamed ukraine for the hit, releasing a video of an alleged suspect but kyiv has categorically denied responsibility. the target is believed to have been dugin himself, a man described as putin's brain who wants to avenge his daughter's death by winning the war. he spoke with "60 minutes'" lesley stahl five years ago about his book that called for putin to annex ukraine. >> we demand from him to be much more authoritarian than he is. so he a little bit disappoints us because it takes too long. >> reporter: the brazen bombing
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has escalated tensions in the run-up to ukraine's independence day on wednesday. there were already fears the kremlin would ramp up its attacks. russia may try to do something disgusting and cruel this week, warned president zelenskyy. mass gatherings across the country have been banned, and the central square in kyiv has been turned into a pop-up museum, showcasing russian tanks and armored vehicles, captured or destroyed in combat. six months since the invasion began, kyiv still stands as a bitter reminder that putin failed to seize the capital and proclaim a swift victory. nerves are already frayed here with the russian-occupied zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant turned into a deadly front line. the u.s. state department has warned russia's ambassador against escalating the war and called for an end to military operations near that plant. norah?
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>> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." thanks for staying with us. another day of torrential rain is in the forecast for parts of texas and surrounding states. days of rain has led to flash floods and knocked out power for tens of thousands of customers, but little if any of that rain is falling where it's needed most. along the colorado river basin. the river and its reservoirs are so low, the government has declared an emergency and cut the water provided to nevada and arizona. five other states face mandatory cuts if they don't reduce their
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water use. ben tracy reports. >> reporter: it's a crisis on the colorado. the nation's largest reservoirs are rapidly retreating. iconic dams could stop producing power. western states are being warned to drastically cut their water use. >> this is a crisis that we haven't seen in history. in our lifetime. >> reporter: this week the interior department declared a first ever tier 2 shortage on the river that provides water for 40 million people in seven states. izailos21% of its water. nevada, 8%. and the government is now threatening tes ll the states unless they less . >> it is in our authorities to act unilaterally to protect the system. >> reporter: climate change is making the west hotter and dryer. the worst drought in 1200 years and chronic overuse have drained
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lake mead and lake powell. at lake powell this summer we met fishing guides stunned by how fast it's falling. >> i'm looking at spots that 30, 40 feet up the wall where my bait was hitting, where i was fishing just a year ago. >> reporter: so, you're saying literally a year ago this boat we're on right now would have been 30, 40 feet up there? >> oh, yeah. it's absolutely crazy how much it's come down. >> reporter: if the reservoirs hit what's called dead pool, water wouldn't flow under the glenn canyon and hoover dams. southern california could lose 25% of its water. >> we should not get to a day where we turn the faucet and there is no water. so, we have to prioritize our water usage. >> reporter: more than 70% of the water supplied by the colorado river is actually used for agriculture, so these cuts are going to hit farmers hard. in a sign of just how dire things are, the federal government is actually planning to pay farmers to not plant
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their fields. ben tracy, cbs news, los angeles. the federal reserve will meet again next month when it's expected to raise rates yet again. drawing to tamp down inflation running near 40-year-highs. higher interest rates are driving up the cost of just about everything, including home mortgages. more expensive mortgages coupled with the shortage of inventory sent home sales plummeting 6% in july. they are down 20% for the year, ending in july. that is forcing a lot of people into the rental market and touching off bidding wars. carter evans reports. >> reporter: looking for a place to rent? good luck. michael is on the hunt for a place in los angeles. he's a federal public defender with a legitimate complaint. >> i can't even tell you how many places i've applied for and been rejected from. >> reporter: you're a lawyer. you've got a good job. >> yeah. >> reporter: and you can't find an apartment?
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>> yeah. and i'm looking with two other professionals as well. >> reporter: together they tried to rent this three-bedroom bungalow in south los angeles for $4,100 a month until someone bid the rent up 10%. >> i never have expected there uld be a bidding war for a 12-month lease. >> reporter: across the country, average rents are skyrocketing, up 86% since last year in redmond, washington, 36% in glendale, california. outside of austin, prices are up triple digits. it's leading to battles for rentals. when chris and his girl trend tried to rent this place in denver -- >> they're like, you could pay the $30,000 for the full year up front, and then we would rent you are are another landlord wanted their best offer for rent. >> we can offer you the peace of mind knowing we're responsible tenants. obviously that didn't go anywhere. >> reporter: why are people bidding so much money over the
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asking price? >> really due to competition. post-covid, people were working remote. now coming back in. >> reporter: high mortgage rates are pricing out many would-be home buyers which leads to more renters. according to leasing agent blake. >> 90% of rental situations, my clients have to compete. >> reporter: he listed a three-bedroom in this l.a. building for $4,700 a month. >> i got 50 inquiries in the first 24 hours. we had offers up to $5,500 on this property. >> reporter: rent on this one bedroom bungalow was bid up to $2,000 a month, too much for michael whose current lease is up. >> there's the possibility i don't find something in the next two weeks and i put my stuff in storage and stay on a friend's couch. >> you would essentially be homeless? >> yes. >> reporter: which could hurt his chances of being a renter again. >> that makes a gap in my home. overseas now where the
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taliban is still celebrating the one-year anniversary of regaining control of afghanistan. meanwhile the country, by all accounts, is in shambles. there is widespread poverty, a months long drought that has millions facing starvation, a covid infection and insurgency by the terrorist group isis-k. >> the taliban's grip on afghanistan only tightens, the former insurgents now turned rulers have to figure out how to serve and protect in cities and towns they used to attack. this is the new face of policing in the taliban's afghanistan. former insurgents turned police officers, whose job is now to serve and protect. most have traded in the traditional clothing they once wore on the battlefield for
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these new fitted uniforms and caps, but it's going to take a lot more than uniforms to turn taliban fighters into officers of the law. we went on a ride-along with these recruits who confess, they aren't finding their new jobs easy. >> as the taliban tries to remake its fighters into a professional police force, it's facing its own challenge from the afghan affiliate of isis, known as isis-k. >> reporter: according to the u.n.'s mission in afghanistan, this past month is the deadliest the country has seen since the taliban's takeover one year ago. just last week a suicide bombing at this mosque in kabul killed 21 people, including the imam. no group has claimed responsibility, it follows a similar pattern, including an attack a week earlier by the is isis-k. isis-k emerged in 2015, made up
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mainly of defactors from the afghan and talibani taliban. last year in the final days of the u.s.'s chaotic withdrawal in afghanistan, a lone suicide bomber detonated a device that killed 13 u.s. service members and 170 afghans at kabul airport. an attack claimed by isis-k. the abbey gate where the bomb went off remain silence. it's hard to imagine one year ago this was the scene of such desperation as afghans tried to flee the country and the taliban. all we really have left to remind us of their desperation to flee is fragments of their clothing caught in this barbed wire. the u.n. says isis-k has now expanded into almost all of afghanistan's provinces. this man, who fought for years as an insurgent, is now the main spokesman for the taliban's
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kabul police. the afghan affiliate of afghanistan's isis, known as isis-k, must be a concern for you. no, because they don't pose a significant threat and they cannot take over our country, he says, but they do target innocent people and we will try to prevent such attacks to keep our country safe. for now isis-k has nowhere near the numbers of the taliban, and we haven't detected any sort of meaningful support amongst afghans for isis-k, but the grup has been able to carry out horrific attacks, targeting people who have already suffered so, so much. the overnight news is back in just two minutes.
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it to a whole new level. to the point where i can say, i've seen everything. dexter lives here in colorado where for the past few years this bicolor, brittany spaniel has been turning heads wherever he goes. dexter's owner says this isn't a trick she taught, it's an adaptation he made after a near-death experience. >> come on. >> reporter: when dexter was a puppy, he escaped his yard, darted into traffic and got hit by a car. he lost one front leg and the other was badly damaged, so everyone assumed to get around he would need some kind of adaptive equipment. and he did use a wheelchair for a while. until one day when she set the pooch at the foot of her porch without the wheelchair. >> i ran in to get my cup of coffee, came out and he was right here where he is right now. i was like, how is this going on? >> reporter: how did you figure it out? >> i put him back down there, grabbed my phone to see what was going on. >> reporter: here is the video she recorded.
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>> i was like, oh, we're doing something totally different. >> reporter: you never know where life is going to take you. >> you never know. >> reporter: in the six years since, dexter has become a full-blown celebrity, starring in parades and building a legion of social media followers who now come from across the country just hoping for a glimpse of the most upstanding citizen. >> we follow him on instagram. >> oh, good! >> reporter: the whole thing takes absurdity to new heights. to many, dexter is no joke. in this pile of mail he receives monthly are hundreds of letters of heart-felt gratitude. >> i'm recovering from intensive radiation treatments for breast cancer and you certainly bring joy to my day. >> reporter: where humans see obstacles. often dogs beg to differ. >> dexter shows us, why around you out there writing the book you want to write, why aren't you doing the things you want to do, because he has.
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history was made in the skies over arizona last week. american airlines honored bessie coleman, a trail blazing aviator whose legacy continues to inspire others. kris van cleave reports. >> reporter: this american airlines ground crew is prepping flight 372 for a trip into the history books. it's the first time in the airlines' 96 years everyone involved from the ramp to the gate -- >> we are honored to have you on board. >> reporter: in the cockpit and in the cabin are all black women. the flight celebrates the 100th anniversary of bessie coleman, the first african american woman to earn a pilot's license. she had to learn to fly in
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france because it wasn't an option here in the u.s. her great niece gigi was on the celebration flight. >> my great aunt received her license two years before amelia earhart. she wasn't in the history books. no one knew about her. >> reporter: she runs the bessie coleman aviation all-stars, after after-school program aimed at inspiring young kids, especially young people of color, to take flight. >> now, i've never had an all-black female flight crew in my entire career. >> reporter: there are fewer than 150 black women airline pilots in the u.s. captain beth powell is one of them. >> representation is so important today because when you see someone in yourself, you know it's possible. i can do this, too. >> reporter: sharing the story of bessie coleman in hopes of inspiring the pilots of tomorrow. kris van cleave, cbs news, phoenix. and that is the overnight news for this tuesday. for some of you, the news continues. for others, check back later for
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"cbs mornings." can you follow us online any time at cbsnews.com. reporting from the nation's capital, i'm jeff b. this is cbs news flash. cbs news has learned at least 150 documents marked classified is what the u.s. government took from former president trump's flores state earlier this month. trump has asked a federal court to temporarily block the fbi from reviewing the materials it seized august 8th from his mar-a-lago home until a special master can be appointed to ere ta body found in a northern california reservoir is believed to be missing california teen kylie rodney. the 16-year-old was last seen at a high school farewell party august 6th. her vehicle was found some 55 feet offshore in that reservoir. and new james webb space telescope photos of jupiter
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shows auroras, faint rings. for moreews download the cbs news app on your cell pho or connected tv. tonight millions of americans face life-threatening flooding as one city gets three months of rain in just one night. the water rescues after record-breaking rain in texas. kids saved from the floods, people pulled out of cars. cbs's omar villafranca shows us the devastation and the stories of survival. >> i thought i was going to die. ps,he the storm is ng n the new legal move by donald trump. cbs's robert costa has new details on what may have prompted the fbi to raid the estate. >> reporter: federal investigators looking at video to determine who had access to the former president's documents. deadly car bomb. russia blames ukraine after the daughter of a top putin ally is
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killed in moscow. debora patta reports. back-to-school spending skyrockets. cbs's janet shamlian talks to a single mom struggling to check off her preschooler's supply list. >> i'd put it around $150. >> and it's not complete? >> it's not complete, no. >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." tonight millions of americans in the southwest are under flood warnings after monsoon rains drenched communities across parts of six states. north texas getting the worst of it. the dallas-fort worth area was suffering from monthslong drought was pummelled with more than 9 inches. that's the second heaviest in the city's history. it was the equivalent of one summer's worth of rain in one 24-hour period. floodwaters rushed through the streets, submerging vehicles. we're learning tonight a woman was swept off a bridge and died.
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while floodwaters create nightmares on the ground, airlines are severely impacted with more than 7,000 flights in the u.s. delayed or canceled. more than half of all the flights out of dallas-fort worth airport today have been delayed. we have a lot of news to get to tonight and cbs's omar villafranca will start us off from outside dallas. good evening, omar. >> reporter: good evening. that rain fell overnight into today, norah, and it prompted flash flooding like you're seeing right here and dozens of water rescues. it was all part of a system that hammered much of the southwest. late today emergency crews rescued families with children in heavily flooded seagullville, texas, while rain and flash flooding submerged houses, cars and even trapped drivers in and around dallas. >> the current is so strong going past my house. it will wash you away. >> reporter: this woman was pulled to safety after the road flooded with little warning. >> i thought i was going to die. >> i was just panicking because i just wanted to get out of my car.
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and get out of the water. >> reporter: dallas fire rescue responded to close to 200 vehicle rescues in just 24 h hours. >> all of a sudden we were stopped and i saw a car floating towards the wall. >> reporter: a few weeks ago triple digit temperatures and drought conditions were baking north texas, drying up the trinity river in dallas, but overnight rain pounded the area, filling up the river basin. >> she said water is coming in, so i thought it was going to calm down but the rain kept coming. >> reporter: homes were also damaged. the rain so powerful, this apartment in downtown dallas quickly ended up with two feet of water. once the flooding receded, the damage became clearer. out west in utah ut's zion national park, torrential rain turned hiking paths treacherous. putting park goers at risk. this person was filmed hugging a
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tree trunk in fast moving floodwaters. the search is on for this woman who was hiking with her friends when the storm hit. >> there are more than 20 people working on this search and rescue operation and they're working all along the length of zion canyon. >> reporter: dallas county just declared this area a disaster. the floodwaters are starting to recede. that's the good news. folks here are hoping the worst is over. norah? >> devastating for so many. omar villafranca, thank you. for more on this deadly storm and where it's headed, let's bring in the weather channel's mike bettes. good evening. >> norah, good evening. the rain coming so fast and so hard in the dallas-fort worth metroplex that city streets filled up and looked like rivers. the water in many places had been slow to recede because we've had so much more rain through the afternoon and evening. there have been some areas around the metroplex where rain gauges have pegged 15 inches or more. officially in dallas, just over 9 inches of rain in the last 24
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hours. the wettest 24-hour span in 90 years. now, that's been good for our departures. it's basically eradicated our depa departure. that doesn't necessarily mean extreme drought has gone away across texas. many areas have very significant rainfall departures for 2022. more heavy rains back in our forecast. louisiana and mississippi, in particular. norah, with some rainfall totals estimated to be 5 to 8 inches over the next 24 hours, flooding a near certainty. >> heading east, mike bettes, thank you. now to breaking news in the legal battle over the fbi's search of donald trump's florida mansion. in a new court filing tonight, the former president is asking a judge to block the fbi from looking at the seized materials until a special master can be appointed to oversee the review. cbs's robert costa is in west palm beach tonight. >> reporter: federal investigators are evaluating video evidence that shows people at mar-a-lago accessing storage
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areas looking at storage documents. the investigation into trump's alleged mishandling of the material can be traced back to the chaotic final days of his term. with then white house chief of staff mark meadows and others rushing to organize the documents as they dealt with the defiant president. instead of sending the more than two dozen boxes to the national archives, sources say trump brought them to florida, sparking alarm and eventually leading to the seizure. trump and his allies have slammed the search and today his attorneys asked a florida court to appoint a third-party attorney to review the evidence and return it. >> we'll come out swinging saying, this is not something we can just get a wink and a nod from doj that we're supposed to trust them. >> reporter: the trump team's filing comes as chief magistrate bruce reinhart prepares to determine whether to release portions of the affidavit that led to the search. >> show us what you found because the affidavit will tell publicly now what they told the court they were going to find.
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show us what you found. >> reporter: the affidavit would provide critical detail about whom the federal agency interviewed and why they think a crime was committed. the just department threats against agents have spiked since the search. judge reinhart, too, has been threatened. >> he's been very careful. the doj has been very careful. but, look, they fielded so many threats that they had to cancel services at his synagogue. he knows the public pressure here is a crucible of this sort he hasn't had before. >> reporter: the trump legal team's motion included a claim that trump is the front-runner for the republican presidential nomination in 2024, underscoring the political crosscurrents at play as these investigations continue. norah? >> robert costa in west palm beach, thank you. back here in new york, the summer rally on wall street hit the brakes over fears about inflation and the fed's next interest rate hike. all three major indexes fell with the s&p 500 and the tech-heavy nasdaq falling more
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than 2%. it was the worst day for stocks since june. well, there's a lot more news ahead on the "cbs overnight news."
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>> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." dr. anthony fauci, the nation's top infectious disease expert who became a household name announced he would be stepping down with his positions with the federal government in december. the 81-year-old has advised every president since ronald reagan. during his more than 50 years in public service and led the federal response to the hiv/aids epidemic. let's turn overseas to moscow where russian authorities are blaming ukrainian operatives for the deadly car bombing that killed the daughter of one of
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president vladimir putin's closest advisers over the weekend. ukraine denied any involvement but there is growing fear about what the kremlin will do in response. cbs's debora patta is in ukraine. >> reporter: a fireball caught on cell phone video as a car bomb blew up just outside moscow, the explosion that's now a major flashpoint in vladimir putin's war in ukraine. dead at the scene, darya dugina, daughter of influential ultranationalist alexander dugin, an outspoken supporter for the war in ukraine. the kremlin immediately blamed ukraine for the hit, releasing a video of an alleged suspect but kyiv has categorically denied responsibility. the target is believed to have been dugin himself, a man described as putin's brain, who wants to avenge his daughter's death by winning the war. he spoke with "60 minutes'" lesley stahl five years ago about his book that called for putin to annex ukraine.
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>> we demand from him to be much more authoritarian than he is. so he a little bit disappoints us because it takes too long. >> reporter: the brazen bombing has escalated tensions in the run-up to ukraine's independence day on wednesday. there were already fears the kremlin would ramp up its attacks. russia may try to do something disgusting and cruel this week, warned president zelenskyy. mass gatherings across the country have been banned, and the central square in kyiv has been turned into a pop-up museum, showcasing russian tanks and armored vehicles, captured or destroyed in combat. six months since the invasion began, kyiv still stands as a bitter reminder that putin failed to seize the capital and proclaim a swift victory. nerves are already frayed here with the russian-occupied zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant
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turned into a deadly front line. the u.s. state department has warned russia's ambassador against escalating the war and called for an end to military operations near that plant. norah? >> debora patta with that warning, thank you. and first on cbs news, we've just learned the department of justice is opening a civil rights investigation after disturbing video emerged of police officers in arkansas beating a man on the ground. two officers have been suspended and one placed on administrative leave as authorities investigate the incident. we get more now from cbs's nikki battiste. >> reporter: this cell phone video shows three cops in arkansas repeatedly pummeling 27-year-old randall worcester, punching him in the head with a clenched fist, kneeing him in the legs. >> this is bad! >> reporter: and then picking up his head and smashing it into the pavement. the cops, crawford county sheriff's deputies levi white and zack king, and mulberry
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officer thell riddle, were not wearing body cameras but a dash cam recorded the incident. >> the dash cam does bring to light other things that did happen there, that wasn't caught on the citizen's camera. >> reporter: crawford county sheriff jim damante tells cbs news, police in a neighboring town received a call sunday morning about a man, allegedly worcester, making terroristic threats against a gas station employee, spitting and threatening to cut off the person's face. worcester then biked about seven miles, where officers caught up with him. he says worcester handed over a knife, and then football-tackled one of the deputies and punched him in the back of the head. >> when they were going to take him into custody, is when he started to fight. >> reporter: the arkansas state police and the fbi are investigating the cops for use of force. all three have been removed from duty. worcester was released on bail today. >> how are you doing? >> doing pretty good today. >> reporter: he faces several charges in this case, including terroristic threatening.
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>> i believe it was above and beyond what the officers were trained to do, and what they should have done in that situation. >> reporter: worcester's lawyer says she filed a separate use of force complaint against deputy levi white back in 2019 for another client. when i asked the sheriff about that complaint, norah, he told me he has to look into it. >> thank you. thousands of teachers walk the picket lines in ohio while inflation hits back-to-school shopping nationwide. we've got those stories in 60 seconds.
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the new school year is off to a rocky start in ohio after more than 4,000 teachers in the state's largest school district voted to go on strike after failing to reach a new deal on a contract. teachers for columbus city schools say the strike is about students deserving modern schools, smaller class sizes and a well-rounded curriculum that includes art, music and pe. the first day of school on wednesday will begin with remote learning.
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as students return to the classroom across the rest of the country, parents are the ones getting a lesson when it comes to inflation. the national retail federation says back-to-school spending will rise more than 40% this year compared to 2019. cbs' janet shamlian kicks off our week-long "back to school" series. >> reporter: maddy davis is reeling after trying to fulfill her son jaxon's back-to-school list. it's a preschool list. jax is 4. >> we hit $100. now we've hit $150. we're at $200. once i hit $200 i just stopped. i said, this is way out of my budget. where am i going to pull $200 from? >> reporter: the single mom says the shopping this year was paper, pencils and price increases. >> just this, i probably put it around $50 to $75. >> reporter: and it's not complete. >> no, it's not complete, no, it's not. >> reporter: just 36% of parents said they can afford back-to-school supplies, compared to 52% last year. but even with inflation straining budgets, families are
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expected to spend an average of $864 on school items, $15 more than in 2021. >> back to school is an essential category, meaning families will prioritize it no matter what's going on, including when they see higher prices. >> reporter: 38% of parents saying they'd cut back elsewhere to pay for it. how to save? experts say consider resale shops, buy generic, look for coupons, wait for labor day sales. and what could be the biggest money saver, don't go shopping with your kids. jax started preschool this morning, but maddy, who works full-time, is still trying to get his uniforms, and decide which of her bills not to pay. >> at this point, we're penny to penny. we are pinching every little cent we can get. >> reporter: back to school, this year an education in higher prices. janet shamlian, cbs news, houston. still ahead, the dramatic
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tonight dramatic video of police taking a suspect into custody after a high-speed chase and shootout that left one deputy dead and another wounded. it happened in oklahoma city when deputies tried to serve an eviction notice. the suspect shot two deputies
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and took off. he was later captured outside tinker air force base where he surrendered a rifle. the violence has shaken the oklahoma county sheriff's office. >> what's your message to the community as everyone's waiting to find out their condition? >> pray. >> it's unclear why the suspect drove to the air force base. right now to big health news. tonight pfizer is seeking authorization of its updated covid vaccine booster which targets the newest omicron variants. if the fda green lights the shots, they could be available within weeks. moderna is expected to file a similar request soon. up next, william and kate confirm they're moving their family out of london. we'll tell you where they're hi, my name's steve. i lost 138 pounds on golo and i kept it off. so with other diets, you just feel like you're muscling your way through it. the reason why i like golo is plain and simple, it was easy. i didn't have to grit my teeth and do a diet. golo's a lifestyle change and you make the change and it stays off.
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wendy's is temporarily pulling lettuce from sandwiches in michigan, indiana, ohio and pennsylvania because of a possible e. coli contamination. the precautionary moves comes after at least 37 people got sick in those states. wendy's says it uses different lettuce in its salads than sandwiches. consumer reports is advising people to avoid eating any wendy's sandwich or salad with romain until the source of the outbreak is determined. prince william and his wife kate middleton are getting ready to move their family to a cottage on the queen's windsor estate outside london. in a statement they confirmed prince george, princess charlotte and prince louis will
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there's nothing more fundamental in baseball than a game of catch. but there's one minor league star that grew up playing fetch. here's cbs's kris van cleave. >> reporter: the 1988 hit "bull durham" was a major home run for the minor league durham bulls. now it's a dog that has fans barking for more. meet ripken, the bat dog. >> i actually sometimes have to apologize to the players, because they'll ground out to second and all of a sudden, the crowd just goes crazy. >> reporter: crazy for this 6-year-old black lab playing clean-up, collecting bats for the hometown team and ripken's also a good luck charm for bulls' outfielder miles mastrobuoni. do you worry people will say you're just letting the game go to the dogs?
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>> no, not at all, actually. >> reporter: assistant general manager chip allen says the team did have a couple canine concerns. >> would the bats come back wet? would they have teeth marks in it? i don't know how ripken does it. no saliva on the bats. no teeth marks. >> reporter: it helps that his owner, michael o'donnell, is a dog trainer and former college baseball player. >> we started with just kind of playing fetch with bats in the backyard and having fun. >> reporter: how did you get the dog to ignore all of the balls on the field? >> lots of practice. >> reporter: letting o'donnell live out his baseball dreams through his four-legged best friend. >> good boy! >> reporter: while hoping the big leagues throw ripken a bone some time soon. kris van cleave, cbs news, durham. and that's the overnight news for tuesday. for some of you, the news continues. for others, check back later for "cbs mornings" and follow us online any time at cbsnews.com. reporting in new york, i'm norah
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o'donnell. this is cbs news flash. cbs news has learned at least 150 documents marked classified is what the u.s. government took from former president trump's florida estate earlier this month. trump has asked a federal court to temporarily block the fbi from reviewing the material it seized august 8th from his mar-a-lago home until a special master can be appointed to oversee that review. a body found in a northern california reservoir is believed to be missing california teen kylie rodney. the 16-year-old was last seen at a high school farewell party august 6th. her vehicle was found some 65 feet offshore in that reservoir. new james webb space telescope photos show auroras,
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faint rings and tiny moons. for more news download the cbs news app on your c . it's tuesday, august 23rd, 2022. is the "cbs morning news." breaking overnight, classified documents. a new report sheds more light about highly sensitive materials stored away at mar-a-lago. i thought i was going to die. i was panicking because i wanted to get out of my car and get out of the water. >> historic rainfall in the dallas area sees three months of rain in just one day and the storms aren't over just yet. stepping down. after 54 years dr. anthony fauci is leaving the federal government. what he hopes to do next in the world of science. good morning. good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green.
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