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this alone. mississippi is slated to receive $75 million for water issues from the recently passed infrastructure bill, but it could cost a billion dollars just to fix jackson. ayana smith says she never drinks jackson's water, even when it's considered safe. >> it's a problem that needs to be fixed because it's not just happening from all the raining and stuff like this. >> reporter: this is one of the water giveaways across jackson tonight. fema and the national guard contributing to the effort to ease the long lines and get more water to people. the mayor has said water pressure should begin to resume tonight, and there are plans for a new pump to go in tomorrow. but norah, for the people who live here, that is a temporary fix. >> really tough conditions. janet shamlian, thank you. ahead of labor day, hot weather is beating the country. tonight more than 100 schools across philadelphia were forced to close early due to insufficient or no air
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conditioning. students were let out after indoor temperatures topped 90 degrees in some classrooms. it's especially hot out west. nearly 55 million people are under excessive heat warnings and advisories. some areas expecting to top 110 degrees. let's bring in meteorologist chris warren from our partners at the weather channel. good evening, chris. >> good evening, norah. widespread dangerous heat expected across a big portion of the west under an area of high pressure, excessive heat warnings, heat advisories in effect. not only will there be triple-digit heat, some of the overnight lows staying in the 80s. this is some dangerous heat with triple-digits expected. even in los angeles, usually getting that cool water from the pacific. not this time. 94 degrees tomorrow. and in the tropics, still looking very active. in fact, expecting development out of a couple of areas of investigation. an 80% chance of development out of this. but for now, no immediate threat
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to land. norah? >> chris warren, thank you for that update. now to an issue we've covered and investigated, the problem of sexual assault in the military. tonight there are disturbing new numbers from the pentagon. reports of sexual assaults jumped by 13% last year with the largest increases by far in the army. close to 36,000 service members said in a confidential survey that they've experienced unwanted sexual contact. that's a dramatic increase over the roughly 20,000 who said that in 2018. the navy is also dealing with the fallout of a growing scandal that's exposed a culture of abuse, cheating, and drug use in its s.e.a.l. candidate program. the details were revealed after a 24-year-old former college football star died during the grueling selection process known as hell week. cbs' david martin spoke to his grieving mother. >> reporter: kyle mullen took this selfie just after making it through the infamous hell week of navy s.e.a.l. training. it was a moment of triumph. but his mother regina talked to
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him on the phone and knew something was terribly wrong. >> he could barely breathe. and i was yelling at him. i asked him. are you in the hospital? are you in pain? do you have broken bones? no, ma, don't worry. >> he died hours later laying on the barrack floor. >> reporter: the cause of death was pneumonia, which his mother says was the result of submersion in the cold water off california. but a search of a car he shared with other trainees found performance-enhancing drugs, which he had told her about. >> said it would help them recover faster and get them through hell week. it was the only way possible to get through. >> reporter: 40 members of kyle mullen's class of 210 would-be s.e.a.l.s admitted taking banned substances, a warped testament of training that pushes young men to their resistance.
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>> at the end of the day he got heatstroke. 103 was his core temperature. >> reporter: trainees can quit any time they one. but mullen refused. "i'm not going to die. i'd rather die here. >> s.e.a.l.s need training, but not this kind of torture. >> reporter: as a result of kyle mullen's death, the s.e.a.l.s are increasing the number of medical observers and testing for performance-enhancing drugs. they have not made any changes in the training itself. norah? >> david martin, thank you. well, a breakthrough technology is helping people communicate by using their mind. that story in 60 seconds.
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imagine being able to text or send email using only your thoughts. it's more than just wishful thinking, and it's opening doors for potentially millions of people suffering from severe paralysis. cbs news chief medical correspondent dr. jon lapook has tonight's american innovation. >> reporter: at his home in melbourne, australia, 62-year-old philip o'keefe struggles to do the simple things many of us take for granted. >> getting dressed, washing myself, feeding myself. >> reporter: als took away his ability to control his hands and body. when you heard that there was a device that could use your thoughts to operate a mouse, what did you think? >> i thought this is science fiction type stuff. >> reporter: but it's not the realm of science fiction anymore. in april of 2020, o'keefe became
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one of the first patients to receive a stentrode brain computer interface implant. >> that's the device that goes inside the blood vessel. >> reporter: dr. tom oxley is ceo of synchron. >> we figured out how to deliver the senses into the brain without open brain surgery. >> reporter: inserted into the jugular vain, the device is implanted in the area of the brain that controls movement. signals captured by a receiver in the chest are sent wirelessly that decodes thoughts into commands for a digital device. >> the clinical study we're running is purely for digital device control for people whose hands no longer cross devices. >> reporter: his thoughts focused on a mouse, clicking letter by letter. >> i can send my emails. i can surf the web. >> reporter: clinical trials are continuing, and so far five people have received the implant, including one in new york city.
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>> this has given me a reason to keep on living. it's just been the most exciting two years of my life. >> reporter: and that, to philip o'keefe, is mind-boggling. dr. jon lapook, cbs news, new york. >> and encouraging for so many. still ahead, prayers for the still ahead, prayers for the safe return of a ay yo! check this axe with 48-hour protection! ♪♪ ♪press the button right there♪ ♪to let the doors in♪ ♪go hard all year,♪ smell fresh as fresh, no matter what. i get bladder leaks. i didn't want to feel like i was wearing the pads i wore when i was twelve. then i tried the always discreet pads. they fit perfectly in the places they're supposed to. look how much it holds, and it still stays thin! it's the protection we deserve!
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tonight, new covid booster shots that target the omicron variants could be available within days. the fda authorized the boosters made by pfizer and moderna. now the cdc has to recommend who should get the additional shot. new gun laws go into effect in new york thursday, making the popular times square area a gun-free zone. that includes the broadway theater district and bars. the news following the supreme court ruling that struck down the state's conceal carry law, raising more concerns about guns in manhattan. tonight an 83-year-old nun from louisiana is in u.s. custody, more than five months after she was abducted from her bed in west africa. sister suellen tennyson was kidnapped in april amid escalating violence and jihadi attacks in burkina faso. details of her release are not known. well, coming up next, a shipment labeled baby wipes turns out to be a colossal stac
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you said that you would shave your eyebrow off for a #klondike ( ding ) ( shaving buzz ) oooooh. ( all laughing ) ♪ what would you do for a klondike ♪ border officials in texas are reporting their largest cocaine bust in 20 years. nearly 2,000 packages of cocaine with a street value of almost $12 million were seized last week. smugglers labeled the shipment baby wipes, but that didn't fool the drug-sniffing dogs. today marks 25 years since the tragic death of princess diana. visitors paid their respects at kensington palace, placin flower, photos, artwork and
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other tributes. the beloved people's princess died in a car crash in paris while trying to escape the paparazzi. the royal family (male) there are many voices in today's world. everyone is voicing their opinions about everything, and jesus is no exception to that. what if there was a clear voice telling you exactly who jesus is? (male announcer) join dr. david jeremiah as he teaches who jesus is and what that means for your life. tune in to dr. jeremiah's new series, "christ above all", on the next "turning point", right here on this station.
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finally tonight, in the city of brotherly love, there is growing affection for an unlikely sport, polo. here is cbs' annemarie green. >> reporter: not far from some of philadelphia's toughest neighborhoods -- thinking is a little patch of heaven. >> reporter: polo champion kareem rosser learned to play the sport as a child at the chamounix equestrian center. >> i'm from a place in philly that's called the bottom. it's probably one of the worst parts of the city. >> reporter: the work to ride program took rosser from the bottom to the top. >> being able to go to military school and go to college and play polo at the highest level, the number of ways it probably saved me from ending up dead in the streets in philadelphia. >> reporter: at chamounix, children learn the sport of kings. but those who ride don't need a
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king's ransom. in exchange for rigorous work at the stables, they get lessons for free. >> i fell off a few time. it kind of boosts my confidence. >> reporter: falling off boosts your confidence? >> i don't know. i guess because i fell off a lot of times, it made me braver. >> reporter: 17-year-old alyssa perren is preparing for the city's first ever polo classic next month, matches organized by work to ride. do you hope it inspires a few people? >> i really hope there are a few little boys and girls in the crowd that look just like us, that i can do this. >> nice! >> reporter: because she has learned some of the most important goals are scored off the field. anne-marie green, cbs news, philadelphia. >> and that's the "overnight news" for this thursday. for some of you, the news continues. for others, check back later for "cbs mornings." and you can follow us online any time at cbsnews.com. reporting from the nation's capital, i'm norah o'donnell.
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this is cbs news flash. i'm wendy gillette in new york. a former new york city police officer and marine veteran will be sentenced for his role in the january 6th attack on the u.s. capitol. thomas webster could face more than 17 years in prison, the longest sentence yet the justice department has sought for any case connected to the capitol riot. webster was captured on video attacking a washington, d.c. police officer. democrat mary peltola has won a election beating former governor sarah palin. she is the first woman to hold the seat and first alaska native. and serena williams offered moments of sheer greatness in her second singles win at the u.s. open. she said after the match "there is a little left in me."
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for more news download the cbs news app on your cell phone or connected tv. i'm wendy gillette, cbs news, new york. ♪ >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." >> we want to begin tonight with that extraordinary just before midnight filing from the justice department where the government laid out its investigation in far more detail than ever before. the document is 36 pages long with 18 additional pages of attachments and includes this photo at the end of the filing, the final page showing several classified secret and top secret documents. one noteworthy point, none of the folders bear a label or stamp indicating they've been declassified as trump or his representatives have claimed. even some of the personnel and doj prosecutors on the case needed to get extra clearances to review some of that material.
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in this filing, the government lays out an important timeline, saying it tried to get these documents without a search warrant multiple times. they allege donald trump has pushed a, quote, incomplete and inaccurate narrative in the recent court filings, and that's why we are getting this new information. cbs' robert costa joins us. good evening, robert. there is a lot of new details tonight. >> good evening, norah. there certainly are many new details here. stunning on how it shines a bright light on what was inside trump's home and gives us a look at the scope of this high profile investigation. the explosive legal document revealed for the first time ever photo evidence of some of the alleged highly classified documents seized from former president trump's florida home. the redacted fbi photograph shows classified cover sheet, some with "hcs" markings. that refers to intelligence derived from covert human sources. some of the documents were found in trump's so-called 45 office at mar-a-lago, a location
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considered vulnerable by intelligence officials. >> the last thing you want to do is disclose those capabilities and the insights from them to our adversaries. >> reporter: the justice department has also laid out a case of possible obstruction by trump and his lawyers, asserting they had evidence that government records were likely concealed and removed from the storage room, and that efforts were likely taken to obstruct the government's investigation. back on june 3rd, two months before the search of mar-a-lago, trump's legal team told justice department officials that all sensitive documents had been returned. >> obstruction here according to the department of justice is that they were told false facts. they were told all the documents had been turned over when in fact their evidence they developed showed they hadn't been turned over. and when they executed a search warrant, it turned out they had not been turned over. >> reporter: responding today, trump slammed the fbi's handling of the search, and claimed he declassified documents at his home.
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but in its filing, the government stated that trump's lawyers never asserted that trump had declassified the documents or asserted any claim of executive privilege. marc short, a long-time republican and adviser to vice president pence in the white house said trump made a mistake. >> president trump likely should not have been in possession of those documents. i don't think that's too far of a stretch for a rational person to say. >> reporter: some legal experts say that while the probe is ongoing, criminal charges could follow. >> an indictment on obstruction of justice absolutely possible. most cases an indictment for obstruction of justice will accompany a substantive criminal indictment, but a stand-alone obstruction of justice charge does happen. >> reporter: in the last few hours, sources close to trump told cbs news that they now see this as both a legal and political war and expect trump to be unbound in his efforts to galvanize his supporters and cast the justice department as political, all as federal agents continue to face increased
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threats. norah? >> as the midterm approaches. robert costa, thanks very much. tonight donald trump is actually talking about that picture with top secret material on the floor of mar-a-lago. he is accusing the fbi of being, quote, very deceiving. cbs and justice correspondent jeff pegues is here. and jeff, taking evidence of in a photo like that, that's standard procedure at the fbi, is it not? >> it is. but the department of justice, they knew that this photo would have an impact. i mean, take a look at it. you have this evidence, some of it, most of it marked "top secret" sprawled out on the office floor of the former president at mar-a-lago. look at this ruler here, demonstrating the size of this document. and then the marker here, an evidence marker, the kind of evidence marker that you might see at a crime scene on a street somewhere. and cbs news has learned that there are a lot of pictures similar to this one in the investigative file. one question is were these documents mixed in with mr.
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trump's personal property in an effort to conceal them? sources tell me that the department of justice believes the former president and his representatives have been less than truthful. a law enforcement source says they have been lying to us. when asked if the filing yesterday fully showed the government's evidence, the answer was clear. there is more to come. norah, department of justice officials say they don't discuss ongoing cases, but in this case, because the trump team asked for a special master, it really gave prosecutors an opening to show off evidence like that. >> very interesting. jeff pegues, thank you so much. well, now to jackson, mississippi and the latest details in the humanitarian water crisis facing nearly 200,000 people. president biden quickly approved an emergency declaration and ordered federal assistance for the state. cbs' janet shamlian reports again from there.
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>> reporter: tonight jackson's water crisis is rippling through the economy. >> to stay open, you have to buy ice and buy water. there is no other way to do it. >> reporter: restaurant manager tanya burns says what's coming out of their tap is no longer safe to cook with or drink. what are you making? white chocolate sauce? how much business are you losing? >> we're losing between 10 and 20% which is what we've seen weekly since the boil water notice started 25 days ago. >> reporter: burns says they've been able to stay open until today. >> we will not stay open this next hour, and there is a good chance we will not be able to open today. go team. >> go team. >> reporter: recent flooding contaminating city waters just the latest problem in a system broken for years. >> the other day, we couldn't take showers because we didn't have any water at all. >> reporter: tankers today distributed nonpotable water. water safe to drink is harder to come by. in some ways, the water crisis in jackson is a tale of two ties, and these are the families that feel left behind.
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>> it's just all unfair, you know, to this community. >> reporter: jackson's population is 80% black. 25% live in poverty. the city, like many serving minorities, can't afford to fix this alone. mississippi is slated to receive $75 million for water issues from the recently passed infrastructure bill, but it could cost a billion dollars just to fix jackson. ayanna smith says she never drinks jackson's water, even aut ening all raining and stuff like this. >> reporter: this isnef water giveaways ross jacks henight.ionaar contributing to the effort to ease the long lines and get more water to people. the mayor has said water pressure should begin to resume tonight, and there are plans for a new pump to go in tomorrow. but norah, for the people who live here, that is a temporary fix. >> really tough conditions. janet shamlian, thank you.
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♪ >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." >> i'm caitlin huey-burns in washington. thanks for staying with us. school is back in session, but millions of students, as well as parents and teachers are still dealing with the fallout from the pandemic. two years of remote learning has left many kids far behind in their education. ing me oliver has more on what's being called the covid achievement gap. >> can either of these go into 20? >> no. >> reporter: this summer 12-year-old taylin has been seeing a tutor every week. did you feel like you were behind the other students? >> yeah, because my grades are
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really bad. >> reporter: like students across the country, she struggled with all remote learning during the pandemic. when your students returned in person, how significant was the learning loss? >> there was a significant loss. >> reporter: in paterson, new jersey. >> they were not ready and didn't really understand simple things. >> reporter: nationwide, students are slowly starting to gain ground since pandemic lockdowns. research shows eighth grade students made up 8% of lost learning in reading last year, but it may take more than five years to completely catch up. >> open the box. >> reporter: while students across the board are behind, the widest gap seen in black, latino and low income communities. math stores for 11 graders declined 11%. paula white is the executive director of the advocacy group jersey can. >> our children were intended for face-to-face instruction. this is what is best for them.
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so they have lost to much. >> reporter: how do you make up years of learning? >> high dosage tutoring to try to remediate some of what they lost in literacy as well as in mathematics. >> this one is bigger, right? >> reporter: tutoring along with summer and after-school programs extended classroom time for math and reading are helping, but students heading back to school still face a long road to academic recovery. meg oliver, cbs news. >> one reason students can return to the classroom, the reported cases of covid among youngsters has fallen dramatically since the start of the year. the american academy of pediatrics reports 87,000 new cases for the week ending august 26th. but that's a far cry from the peak of the omicron variant last year. that's got schools from coast-to-coast lifting restrictions and learning to live with the new normal. carter evans visited a school in california to see what the district is doing to help keep kids safe. >> good morning, students.
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>> reporter: as the new school year dawns in azusa, california, there is a new covid reality and fresh hope. >> it's exciting to be able to try and finally get back to normal. >> reporter: diane and raul ramirez say there is no substitute for their kids being in school full time. >> we all need to adapt. i feel like we need to start getting back into the routine again. >> reporter: after more than two years of uncertainty -- >> we're coming back, we're not contact tracing, not contact tracing, it's been difficult. >> reporter: this year school districts nationwide are dropping testing requirements, and nearly 96% no longer require masks. the lesson now says nurse melissa lofton is safety. >> hand sanitizing stations at every corner here. >> reporter: the district used federal funds to improve ventilation in every classroom. and if a student tests positive -- >> we don't send the class home, but we notify families.
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living with covid now i think is doable. >> reporter: do you see the fear that you used to see? >> no. it is not at the forefront of what they think when they come to school anymore. >> reporter: that's echoed by parents like rina covington. >> i'm happy the kids are back with their friends at school with teachers. this is where they need to be. >> keeping students in school has really helped with mental health. and the emotional well-being. >> reporter: lofton says parents should stay vigilant. good hygiene like hand washing is key. and at the very first sign of illness, keep kids home and test frequently. are we safer than we were before? >> yes, we are. >> reporter: carter evans, cbs news, azusa, california. it was 25 years ago yesterday that britain's princess diana was tragically killed in a car crash in paris. holly woo back onerur lecy. >> repr: a princess, a rebel, and a mother.
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who lived her short life in the glare of the cameras. >> could i ask you to respect my children's space. >> reporter: until suddenly her light went out. >> diana, princess of wales is dead. >> after a car crash in paris. >> they were apparently being pursued by paparazzi on two motorcycles. >> reporter: the british people, famous for their stiff upper lip, were overcome in their heartbreak. >> lord jesus, oh. >> reporter: for themselves and for diana's two young sons. do you miss her? >> i miss her hugely. i miss -- i miss her laughter. and i just miss that spontaneous thing when she'd call and say come to lunch, or do you want to see a movie. >> reporter: richard kay is a journalist who struck up an unlikely friendship with diana and told us he spoke to the princess the night she died. >> i one of the last four or five people that she called.
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>> reporter: what did you talk about? a lot with the publicity that had sort of surrounded those last days and weeks of her life. and you know, she talked about how fed up she was. now i had heard this before, but this time i felt she really meant it. she talked about leaving the country. she talked about going to america, settling there. >> reporter: on paper, she was a perfect fit for the royal family. >> i'm not going say anything. >> reporter: aristocrat tic, beautiful and demurr. >> reporter: but even before her so-called fairy tale wedding, she'd become something unique, a royal who was also a megawatt celebrity. as things turned frosty with prince charles, she became a rule breaker, championing causes like hiv patients and land mines. >> you just know. >> reporter: and giving this bombshell interview about her
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troubled marriage. >> well, there were three of us in this marriage. so it was a bit crowded. >> reporter: we now know the journalist lied to get the interview. her relationship with the media was always complicated. >> her legacy, of course, is mainly rests in the shape of her sons. >> reporter: what would she make of the fact they had this falling out? >> i think were she still with us, there would have been no split between harry and william. >> reporter: if she was still alive today, what would she be doing? >> well, she'd be 61. she'd obviously be a very proud granny, a grandmother. she might have remarried. she might even have had a second family. she wanted -- desperately wanted to have a daughter or two. >> reporter: in recent years, she has been portrayed in films like "spencer", and the tv series "the crown." but there was only one diana, and even the glittering younger
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generation of royals can't recapture her magic, a strange cocktail of glamour and vulnerability. this is kensington palace, diana's former home. and you can see the tributes that people have laid out in her honor. arguably, one of the biggest impacts she had on this country was to make the royal family a little bit more relaxed, a little more down to earth. perhaps even a bit more human. >> that was holly williams reporting. the "overnight news" is back in two minutes.
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nyquil severe: ♪♪ summer is the time to hit the water, and there is a school in vermont that's temperatures children the joys of sailing. adriana diaz has the story. >> sometimes this swings over and you have to duck. >> tack and jibe. >> reporter: that means when you change directions? >> yes. so you can change corners. >> reporter: siblings robert and mabel white are used to charting their own course. >> people seem surprised. >> reporter: why do you think they're surprised? >> because i'm the only black person that sails. >> perfect. >> reporter: they're usually some of the only minorities they see sailing on shimmering lake champlain between vermont and new york. >> it's a refreshing feeling to have. >> reporter: does it help you clear your mind? >> yeah. >> reporter: you both were like
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yeah. the teens have been sailing since they were 6. now they're at a camp trying to change the face of sailing. often seen as too white, too expensive, elitist and historically exclusionary. >> we're undoing damage that has happened in the sport from there being a whites only sign on the front door of a yacht club. >> reporter: owen milne is at the home of burlington, vermont's community sailing center. >> if sailing is our middle name, community is our first name. >> reporter: to better live up to that first name, last year the center started providing free sailing camp to kids from diverse backgrounds in the burlington community, one rich with refugees and immigrants from places like nepal and congo. what was the racial makeup of the camp before this initiative and now? >> we might have had five or six kids for a full summer. >> reporter: kids of color? >> and that was out of 500. >> reporter: wow. >> right. 5 or 6 out of 500 is not okay.
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>> get ready for us to sail. >> we're on track to hopefully get to 25% in the next few years. and we think we can get there. >> reporter: to get there, the camp began advertising in seven different languages, including arabic, somali and nepali to find more campers like adam originally from syria. >> we get to kayak. we get to sail for free. and it's very fun to just go out on the water. i used to be scared of water, but now i could just jump in right now. >> reporter: the idea for the camp to tackle its diversity problem came after this. >> hands up -- >> don't shoot. black lives matter. >> reporter: the national reckoning that followed the murder of george floyd. >> it's unfortunate that it took an uprising for to end up the front of our consciousness. >> reporter: the goal is to reach as many kids as possible, not just so they can learn their way on the water --
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>> tell me when i need to duck. >> reporter: but also the confidence and quick thinking needed in life. >> you okay? >> reporter: donations allow students like shawn finnstrom a free month of sailing camp for four years straight that usually costs almost $7,000. >> my mom told me four weeks, four years. i was wait, wait, wait, you must be getting something wrong. that's crazy. and it's free. yes, of course i'll do it. >> reporter: it sounded too good to be true? >> yeah. >> reporter: we actually make a promise toe make it free for life. and once they turn 15, they can work here as a junior instructor. >> reporter: and your participants can get a job out of this at the end? >> yeah, why not? and we get great employees at the end of it. >> reporter: where is the wind coming from? and the chance to help the sport spread its sails. >> it's nice to see other people join. >> reporter: other black people? >> so more kids of color can experience it. >> reporter: the magic of being on the water?
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>> yeah. >> reporter: it is pretty magical, isn't it? >> yeah.
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the music industry is headed back in time with a resurgence of vinyl records. but vinyl can be hazardous to the environment. well, one company in england has come up with an ecofriendly alternative. ian lee explains. >> reporter: in the music industry, old is still gold. with vinyl, the needle has been dropping for generations. so why mess with it? >> it's one of the dirty secrets in the nuke industry. >> reporter: it turns out making vinyl is incredibly toxic. >> we know it's pvc. so it's glor reengases. there is also dioxins. >> reporter: that led mark to reeninvent the record, turning black vinyl green. >> i want sustainable products in a 21st century environment. so i had to form a new company and do it myself.
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>> reporter: evolution music is turning the table, testing an ecofriendly secret recipe, including sugar and starches, spinning out records they hope one day will become an industry standard. and that's music to artists' ears. >> i'm listening for any pops, crackles, surface noise. and that's very good. >> reporter: producer rob cass believes the sound rivals vinyl. >> we believe the quality is extremely high. just about as high as vinyl. we may be reporter: blood records founder craig evans said his jaw dropped when he heard the bioplastic record. >> the first time i heard one, i couldn't believe what i was listening to was made of bioplastic. incredible. >> reporter: pioneering american artist bd wolf are among the musicians getting into the mood. >> the artists are increasingly shouting out to labels that we need to be more environmentally aware. >> reporter: raising their voices to flip the industry
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toward a greener future. ian lee, cbs news, london. >> and that's the "overnight news" for this thursday. reporting from the nation's capital, i'm caitlin huey-burns. this is cbs news flash. i'm wendy gillette in new york. a former new york city police officer and marine veteran will be sentenced for his role in the january 6th attack on the u.s. capitol. thomas webster could face more than 17 years in prison, the longest sentence yet the justice department has sought for any case connected to the capitol riot. webster was captured on video attacking a washington, d.c. police officer. democrat mary peltola has won a election for a house seat beating former governor sarah palin. she is the first woman to hold the seat and first alaska native. and serena williams offered moments of sheer greatness in her second singles win at the u.s. open. she said after the match "there is a little left in me." for more news download the cbs news app on your cell phone or
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connected tv. i'm wendy gillette, cbs news, new york. ♪ the justice department argues in an historic detail filing that sensitive and top secret documents at donald trump's florida resort were hidden or moved on purpose, raising the possibility of an obstruction case. >> for the first time, we're seeing some of the top secret documents seized from the fbi's search of the former president's office at mar-a-lago. cbs' robert costa and jeff pegues have new reporting. triple-digit temperatures. the long heatwave roasting the west this labor day weekend. plus, the worsening water crisis in mississippi. cbs' janet shamlian is in jackson. >> no water is a struggle. navy s.e.a.l. death. a former yale football captain dies during hell week. tonight questions about the culture of brutality and drug use.
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cbs' david martin spoke to kyle mullen's mother. >> it's like a sick hazing. it's not training. and the medical breakthrough. cbs' dr. jon lapook looks at new technology that could change lives. > this is science fiction. ♪ >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." >> we want to begin tonight with that extraordinary just before midnight filing from the justice department where the government laid out its investigation in far more detail than ever before. the document is 36 pages long with 18 additional pages of attachments and includes this photo at the end of the filing, the final page showing several classified secret and top secret documents. one noteworthy point, none of the folders bear a label or stamp indicating they've been declassified as trump or his representatives claim.
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the justice department says even some of the personnel and doj prosecutors on the case needed to get extra clearances to review some of that material. in this filing, the government lays out an important timeline, saying it tried to get these documents without a search warrant multiple times. they allege donald trump has pushed a, quote, incomplete and inaccurate narrative in the recent court filings, and that's why we are getting this new information. cbs' robert costa joins us. good evening, robert. there is a lot of new details tonight. >> good evening, norah. there certainly are many new details here. stunning on how it shines a bright light on what was inside trump's home and gives us a look at the scope of this high profile investigation. the explosive legal document revealed for the first time ever photo evidence of some of the alleged highly classified documents seized from former president trump's florida home. the redacted fbi photograph shows classified cover sheet, some with "hcs" markings. that refers to intelligence
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derived from covert human sources. some of the documents were found in trump's so-called 45 office at mar-a-lago, a location considered vulnerable by intelligence officials. >> the last thing you want to do is disclose those capabilities and the insights from them to our adversaries. >> reporter: the justice department has also laid out a case of possible obstruction of the probe by trump and his lawyers, asserting they had evidence government records were likely concealed and removed from the storage room, and that efforts were likely taken to obstruct the government's investigation. back on june, two months before the search of mar-a-lago, trump's legal team told justice department officials that all sensitive documents had been returned. >> obstruction here according to the department of justice is that they were told false facts. they were told all the documents had been turned over when in fact their evidence they developed showed they hadn't been turned over. and when they executed a search warrant, it turned out they had not been turned over. >> reporter: responding today,
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trump slammed the fbi's handling of the search, and claimed he declassified documents at his home. but in its filing, the government stated that trump's lawyers never asserted that trump had declassified the documents or asserted any claim of executive privilege. marc short, a long-time republican and adviser to vice president pence in the white house said trump made a mistake. >> president trump likely should not have been in possession of those documents. i don't think that's too far of a stretch for a rational person to say. >> reporter: some legal experts say while the probe is ongoing, criminal charges could follow. >> an indictment on obstruction of justice absolutely possible. most cases an indictment for obstruction of justice will accompany a substantive criminal indictment, but a stand-alone obstruction of justice charge does happen. >> reporter: in the last few hours, sources close to trump told cbs news that they now see this as both a legal and political war and expect trump to be unbound in his efforts to
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galvanize his supporters and cast the justice department as political, all as federal agents continue to face increased threats. norah? >> as the midterm approaches. robert costa, thanks very much. tonight donald trump is actually talking about that picture with top secret material on the floor of mar-a-lago. he is accusing the fbi of being, quote, very deceiving. cbs and justice correspondent jeff pegues is here. and jeff, taking evidence of in a photo like that, that's standard procedure at the fbi, is it not? >> it is. but the department of justice, they knew that this photo would have an impact. i mean, take a look at it. you have this evidence, some of it, most of it marked "top secret" sprawled out on the office floor of the former president at mar-a-lago. look at this ruler here, demonstrating the size of this document. and then the marker here, an evidence marker, the kind of evidence marker that you might see at a crime scene on a street somewhere. and cbs news has learned that there are a lot of pictures
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similar to this one in the investigative file. one question is were these documents mixed in with mr. trump's personal property in an effort to conceal them? sources tell me that the department of justice believes the former president and his representatives have been less than truthful. a law enforcement source says they have been lying to us. when asked if the filing yesterday fully showed the government's evidence, the answer was clear. there is more to come. norah, department of justice officials say they don't discuss ongoing cases, but in this case, because the trump team asked for a special master, it really gave prosecutors an opening to show off evidence like that. >> very interesting. jeff pegues, thank you so much. we want to turn now to the war in ukraine and fears of a chernobyl-style disaster at europe's largest nuclear power plant. a team of inspectors hope to reach the embattled site in a matter of hours on a mission to prevent a nuclear catastrophe.
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cbs' debora patta continues her reporting from inside ukraine. >> reporter: the team arrived in ukrainian-held zaporizhzhia today. it's over 70 miles from the nuclear power plant, which is inside russian occupied territory. director general rafael grossi plans to start the inspection tomorrow. >> my mission is a technical mission. it's a mission that seeks to prevent a nuclear accident. >> reporter: the facility and surrounding towns continue to come under shelling. with both sides trading blame, even as inspectors left kyiv this morning, ukraine accused russia of hitting the town where the plant is located. this is the first time the atomic energy inspectors will be heading into a war zone to investigate a nuclear plant. grossi wants to establish a permanent presence, but says this inspection will last until the weekend. however, locally installed russian authorities say they
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must complete their work in just one day. debora patta, cbs news, kyiv, ukraine. >> the "cbs overnigh
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>> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." >> well, now to jackson, mississippi, and the latest details in the humanitarian water crisis facing nearly 200,000 people. president biden quickly approved an emergency declaration and ordered federal assistance for the state. cbs' janet shamlian reports again from there. >> reporter: tonight jackson's water crisis is rippling through the economy. >> to stay open, you have to buy ice and buy water. there is no other way to do it. >> reporter: restaurant manager tanya burns says what's coming out of their tap is no longer safe to cook with or drink. what are you making?
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white chocolate sauce? how much business are you losing? >> we're losing between 10 and 20% which is what we've seen weekly since the boil water notice started 25 days ago. >> reporter: burn says they've been able to stay open until today. >> we will not stay open this next hour, and there is a good chance we will not be able to open today. go team. >> go team. >> reporter: recent flooding contaminating city waters just the latest problem in a system broken for years. >> the other day, we couldn't take showers because we didn't have any water at all. >> reporter: tankers today distributed nonpotable water. water safe to drink is harder to come by. in some ways, the water crisis in jackson is a tale of two cities, and these are the families that feel left behind. >> it's just all unfair, you know, to this community. >> reporter: jackson's population is 80% black. 25% live in poverty. the city, like many serving no
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mississippi is slate receive from the recently passed infrastructure bill, but it could cost a billion dollars just to fix jackson. ayanna smith says she never drinks jackson's water, even when it's considered safe. >> it's a problem that needs to be fixed because it's not just happening from all the raining and stuff like this. >> reporter: this is one of the water giveaways across jackson tonight. fema and the national guard contributing to the effort to ease the long lines and get more water to people. the mayor has said water pressure should begin to resume tonight, and there are plans for a new pump to go in tomorrow. but norah, for the people who live here, that is a temporary fix. >> really tough conditions. janet shamlian, thank you. ahead of labor day, hot weather is beating the country. tonight more than 100 schools across philadelphia were forced to close early due to insufficient or no air conditioning.
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students were let out after indoor temperatures topped 90 degrees in some classrooms. it's especially hot out west. nearly 55 million people are under excessive heat warnings and advisories. some areas expecting to top 110 degrees. let's bring in meteorologist chris warren from our partners at the weather channel. good evening, chris. >> good evening, norah. widespread dangerous heat expected across a big portion of the west under an area of high pressure, excessive heat warnings, heat advisories in effect. not only will there be triple-digit heat, some of the overnight lows staying in the 80s. this is some dangerous heat with triple-digits expected. even in los angeles, usually getting that cool water from the pacific. not this time. 94 degrees tomorrow. and in the tropics, still looking very active. in fact, expecting development out of a couple of areas of investigation. an 80% chance of development out of this. but for now, no immediate threat to land. norah?
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>> chris warren, thank you for that update. now to an issue we've covered and investigated, the problem of sexual assault in the military. tonight there are disturbing new numbers from the pentagon. reports of sexual assaults jumped by 13% last year with the largest increases by far in the army. close to 36,000 service members said in a confidential survey that they've experienced unwanted sexual contact. that's a dramatic increase over the roughly 20,000 who said that in 2018. the navy is also dealing with the fallout of a growing scandal that's exposed a culture of abuse, cheating, and drug use in its s.e.a.l. candidate program. the details were revealed after a 24-year-old former college football star died during the grueling selection process known as hell week. cbs' david martin spoke to his grieving mother. >> reporter: kyle mullen took this selfie just after making it through the infamous hell week of navy s.e.a.l. training. it was a moment of triumph. but his mother regina talked to him on the phone and knew something was terribly wrong.
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>> he could barely breathe. and i was yelling at him. i asked him. are you in the hospital? are you in pain? do you have broken bones? no, ma, don't worry. i love you. >> reporter: she texted him. i need to know your condition. you did not sound good. >> he died hours later laying on the barrack floor. >> reporter: the cause of death was pneumonia, which his mother says was the result of submersion in the cold water off california. but a search of a car he shared with other trainees found performance-enhancing drugs, which he had told her about. >> said it would help them recover faster and get them through hell week. it was the only way possible to get through. >> reporter: 40 members of kyle mullen's class of 210 would-be s.e.a.l.s admitted taking banned substances, a warped testament to training which pushes young men to their absolute limits. >> that first day of that training, he was not given water all day. at the end of the day, he got
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heatstroke of 104.3 was his core temperature. >> reporter: trainees can quit any time they want, but mullen refused. i'm not going die he wrote to himself. if i do, i'd rather die here. >> s.e.a.l.s need training, but not this kind of torture. >> reporter: as a result of kyle mullen's death, the s.e.a.l.s are increasing the number of medical observers and testing for performance-enhancing drugs. they have not made any changes in the training itself. norah? >> david martin, thank you. well, a breakthrough technology is helping people communicate by using their mind. that story in 60 seconds.
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imagine being able to text or send email using only your thoughts. it's more than just wishful thinking, and it's opening doors for potentially millions of people suffering from severe paralysis. cbs news chief medical correspondent dr. jon lapook has tonight's american innovation. >> reporter: at his home in melbourne, australia, 62-year-old philip o'keefe struggles to do the simple things many of us take for granted. >> getting dressed, washing myself, feeding myself. >> reporter: als took away his ability to control his hands and body. when you heard that there was a device that could use your thoughts to operate a mouse, what did you think? >> i thought this is science fiction type stuff. >> reporter: but it's not the realm of science fiction anymore. in april of 2020, o'keefe became
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one of the first patients to receive a stentrode brain computer interface implant. >> that's the device that goes inside the blood vessel. >> reporter: dr. tom oxley is ceo of new york city based synchron. >> we figured out how to deliver the senses into the brain without open brain surgery. >> reporter: inserted into the jugular vain, the device is implanted in the area of the brain that controls movement. signals captured by a receiver in the chest are sent wirelessly to a device that decodes thoughts into commands for a digital device. >> the clinical study we're running is purely for digital device control for people whose hands no longer control digital devices. >> reporter: o'keefe demonstrated his computer skills by writing me this note. his thoughts focused on a mouse, clicking letter by letter. >> i can send my emails. i can surf the web. >> reporter: clinical trials are continuing, and so far five people have received the implant, including one in new york city.
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>> this has given me a reason to keep on living. it's just been the most exciting two years of my life. >> reporter: and that, to philip o'keefe, is mind-boggling. dr. jon lapook, cbs news, new york. >> and encouraging for so many. still ahead, prayers for the safe return of a kidnapped
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border officials in texas are reporting their largest cocaine bust in 20 years. nearly 2,000 packages of cocaine with a street value of almost $12 million were seized last week. smugglers labeled the shipment baby wipes, but that didn't fool the drug-sniffing dogs. today marks 25 years since the tragic death of princess diana. visitors paid their respects at kensington palace, placing
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flowers, photos, artwork and other tributes. the beloved people's princess died in a car crash in paris while trying to escape the paparazzi. the royal family marked the sad anniversary in private.
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finally tonight, in the city of brotherly love, there is growing affection for an unlikely sport, polo. here is cbs' annemarie green. >> reporter: not far from some of philadelphia's toughest neighbors -- >> this is a little patch of heaven. >> reporter: polo champion kareem rosser learned to play the sport as a child at the chamounix equestrian center. >> i'm from a place in philly that's called the bottom. it's probably one of the worst parts of the city. >> reporter: the work to ride program took rosser from the bottom to the top. >> being able to go to military school and go to college and play polo at the highest level, the number of ways it probably saved me from ending up dead in the streets in philadelphia. >> reporter: at chamounix, children learn the sport of kings. but those in the work to ride
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program don't need a king's ransom. in exchange for rigorous work at the stables, they get lessons for free. >> i fell off a few time. it kind of boosts my confidence. >> reporter: falling off boosts your confidence? >> i don't know. i guess because i fell off a lot of times, it made me braver. >> reporter: 17-year-old alyssa perren is preparing for the city's first ever polo classic next month, matches organized by work to ride. do you hope it inspires a few people? >> i really hope there are a few little boys and girls in the crowd that look just like us, that i can do this. >> nice! >> reporter: because she has learned some of the most important goals are scored off the field. anne-marie green, cbs news, philadelphia. >> and that's the "overnight news" for this thursday. for some of you, the news continues. for others, check back later for "cbs mornings." and you can follow us online any time at cbsnews.com. reporting from the nation's capital, i'm norah o'donnell.
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this is cbs news flash. i'm wendy gillette in new york. a former new york city police officer and marine veteran will be sentenced for his role in the january 6th attack on the u.s. capitol. thomas webster could face more than 17 years in prison, the longest sentence yet the justice department has sought for any case connected to the capitol riot. webster was captured on video attacking a washington, d.c. police officer. democrat mary peltola has won a election for alaska's house seat, beating former governor sarah palin. she is the first woman to hold the seat and first alaska native. and serena williams offered moments of sheer greatness in her second singles win at the u.s. open. she said after the match "there is a little left in me." for more news download the cbs news app on your cell phone or
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connected tv. i'm wendy gillette, cbs news, new york. it's thursday, september 1st, 2022. this is the "cbs morning news." deeply flawed. lawyers for former president trump fire back at the justice department ahead of a key court hearing today. it's sad. it's sad. and i can't afford to move out of jackson, so i have to stay and deal with this. >> no clean water. the crisis worsens in the capital of mississippi. the massive price tag just to fix problems in jackson alone. supreme serena. the tennis star does it again at the u.s. open beating the number-two player in the world. why she's feeling no pressure in what could be her last tournament. good morning. thank you for being here. i'm matt pieper in for anne-marie g.

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