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absurd to place vague new conditions on ukraine without setting a membership timetable. but some nato allies worry that could draw them in to direct confrontation with russia. >> how soon would you like to see ukraine become a member of nato? >> i can't put a timetable on it for you. >> reporter: nato countries are making other promises. france is offering long-range missiles. germany, 65 tanks and armored vehicles. and 11 nations will start training ukrainian pilots to fly f-16s. >> how long is the training going to take? >> reporter: pentagon undersecretary colin call. >> we're talking about, you know, somewhere between 6 and 18 months depending on how well the ukrainian pilots do. >> reporter: not far to the east, russia is watching all of this unfold. a russian spokesperson saying today that a new agreement to allow sweden to join nato is clearly negative for russia.
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he vowed countermeasures though he didn't specify what those might be, norah. >> nancy cordes in lithuania, thank you. there are new developments in former president donald trump's legal troubles. trump's lawyers are now asking the judge to postpone his classified documents trial, possibly until after the 2024 presidential election. they argue his candidacy could make it difficult to seat an impartial jury. and an update to a separate investigation where there's a potential for a third indictment for president trump. a grand jury seated in atlanta today is expected to consider whether trump should face criminal charges over his efforts in georgia to overturn his 2020 election loss. now to a scandal that's rocked the college football world. northwestern fired its longtime coach, pat fitzgerald, on monday following widespread allegations of hazing within the program. cbs's jericka duncan spoke to one former player, who said the abuse has been an ongoing
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problem for several years. >> and the cats are on the board first. >> reporter: after 17 seasons, pat fitzgerald, northwestern's winningest football coach, suffered his toughest loss last night when the university president announced fitzgerald had been fired. 11 current or former players gave explicit details of alleged hazing incidents which investigators found were systemic and went on for many years. back in 2014, fitzgerald said he had zero tolerance for hazing. >> as we've really thought deep about how we want to welcome our new family members in to our program and into our organizations, hazing should have nothing to do with it. >> reporter: over the weekend, one anonymous former player told the student newspaper, the daily northwestern, that freshman players who made mistakes during practice were subjected to a hazing ritual known as "running." it involved older players restraining the younger ones and dry humping them in a dark
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locker room. former player ramon diaz jr. was an offensive lineman for northwestern back in 2005. he says he was hazed. >> everybody saw it. so many eyes. i mean there were so many players, and nobody did anything. and they just let this go on for years. >> reporter: but in a statement following fitzgerald's firing, he was defiant, saying he had no knowledge whatsoever of any form of hazing and that he was surprised that he was terminated. northwestern says that investigation did not find sufficient evidence that the coaching staff knew about this ongoing hazing. but what it did find, norah, is that coaches did have enough information that they should have discovered or reported the hazing conduct. >> jericka duncan with those disturbing new details. thank you. there's do you s shop for vitaminsns at walmarart? foforce factoror producucts powerfuy imprprove your h he, but ththey're alsoso delic, easy t to use, and affordrdable. thatat's why fororce fr is nowow the numbebere bebest selling herbs and supplements brand at w walmart.
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can buy influence, indeed even take over a cherished american institution. >> reporter: pga tour executive jimmy dunn revealed the saudis are offering more than $1 billion to join forces and argued the tour was otherwise at risk of collapse. >> my concern was that golf as we know it would be damaged forever. >> reporter: families of 9/11 victims filling the room had other concerns, that saudi arabia is using golf to soften its image after the murder of columnist jamal khashoggi and the september 11th attacks. >> the kingdom needs to be held accountable for its role in 9/11, and then we can talk about mergers. >> reporter: brett eagle son's father, bruce, died at the world trade center. >> he's a father that i aspire to be. >> reporter: eagle son dropped papers next to tour execs detailing saudi connections to the hijackers. dunn said he'd never partner with anyone directly connected to 9/11. senators also released internal messages between the leagues showing liv floated ideas to transform the sport, a world series of golf event held in saudi arabia, and giving tiger
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woods and rory mcilroy, two critics of liv, ownership of liv teams. >> if it's all about the money, american institutions are in danger. >> reporter: one other internal message released by senators shows the two leagues are talking about an exclusive perk for a powerful saudi governor. a membership at augusta national, home of the masters. and ahead of this hearing, a pga tour board member resigned, norah, citing his concerns with this new partnership. >> scott macfarlane on capitol hill, thank you. phone scams are nothing new, but thanks to artificial intelligence, they are getting more sophisticated and more believable. scam artists are now using ai to clone voices to trick unsuspecting victims. cbs's carter evans takes a look at this frightening new technology in our continuing series, "the age of ai." >> reporter: jennifer destefano will never forget the frantic call she got from her 15-year-old daughter, brianna.
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>> she was, mommy, bad man have me, help me, help me. this man gets on, very aggressive. listen here. i have your daughter. that's when i went into panic mode. >> reporter: the man demanded a million dollars. >> i said that was impossible. so then he came up with the $50,000. >> reporter: she never paid the money and would soon learn the call was a popular ai scam. new software can recreate the voices of loved ones in distress, and scammers use that to ask for large sums of money. >> this man comes on the phone. he said, you're going to give me $5,000. >> i heard our daughter on the phone. like it was unmistakably her. >> reporter: americans lost nearly $9 billion to fraud last year alone, up more than 150% in just two years. >> younger people experience fraud and fraud losses more often than older people. but it's that older adult who has so much to lose. >> reporter: cybersecurity expert pete nicoletti created my voice from old news reports online. what you're about to hear is something i never said. >> hey, this is carter.
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i need your credit card number right now. >> i mean that really sounded like me. >> it is you. it's cloned you. it's ai carter. >> reporter: to test it out, we called my mother. >> hey, i'm about to do an interview, but i have a quick question. i need you to text me your driver's license number as soon as you can. >> reporter: she fell for the fake voice. >> i feel bad. >> i feel terrible about it. >> we just scammed my mom. >> did you just get a call from me? >> asking for my driver's license number? >> yes. that was an ai-generated voice. >> oh, god. carter, that's scary. is this really you now? >> this is the real me now. >> repo >> we live in a post-real society. you can't trust the voice. you can't trust a photo, and you can't trust a video anymore. >> our voice is like a fingerprint, and that's being exploited and weaponized. it has to stop. >> reporter: norah, the technology is really improving. soon scammers will be able to react instantly to anything you
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say by converting their voice into the voice of your loved one in real time. >> carter, this is scary stuff, really eye-opening. what can people do to pre-toekt themselves? >> reporter: well, there's a couple of things you can do right away. the first thing is to create a safe word that only your family is going to know. secondly, you want too make your social media accounts private. don't give that information away to potential scammers to use against you. and finally, if you get one of these calls, hang up. call them back. make sure they're really in trouble. >> carter evans, thank you. bank of america will pay some of you $ hi, i'm ben, and i've lost 60 pounds on golo. i currently suffffer fromom nerve damamage which kept me bedridden for six months. i was very overweight and depressed. i was skskeptical when i f first orderered gol, bubut the condndition i wawas, i was s willing to take e the chancece, and d the chancece turned out to b be my lottoto ticket. golo gave me back my life, and that's why i'm here.
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spectacular new video shows a volcano erupting in iceland. this is the third time a volcano has spewed lava and gas in this part of iceland in the past three years. the threat of toxic gas prompted officials to restrict access to the area. there was a historic first at last night's home run derby. that's next. finally tonight, more than 250 father-son duos have played major league baseball, but last night was a first.
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toronto slugger vladimir guerrero jr. won the annual home run derby with a record 25 homers in the final round, and he did it 16 years after his dad won it in 2007. after taking home the title, guerrero said one of his next goals is getting to the baseball hall of fame just like his dad. and that's the overnight news for this wednesday. for some of you, the news continues. for others, check back later for "cbs mornings." and remember you can follow us online anytime at cbsnews.com. reporting from right here in the nation's capital, i'm norah o'donnell. this is "cbs news flash." i'm erica brown in new york. the manhunt continues for an armed and dangerous murder suspect who escaped jail in pennsylvania last week. authorities say new evidence indicates michael burham is
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still likely to be in northwestern pennsylvania near the jail where he was in custody on arson and burglary charges. amid protests, the iowa state legislature passed a bill banning nearly all abortions after cardiac activity is detected in an embryo, which can come as early as six weeks into a pregnancy. iowa currently allows abortion up to 20 weeks after conception. and for the first time since 2012, the national league won the mlb all-star game. elias diaz was the game's mvp. for more, download the cbs news app on your cell phone or connected tv. i'm erica brown, cbs news, new york. >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." we begin with record-breaking weather. the catastrophic flooding
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impacting communities across vermont as the northeast braces for more storms. the worst flooding in nearly 100 years has cut off entire communities and caused tens of millions of dollars in damage with homes, cars, roads, even railroad tracks washed away. president biden approved an emergency declaration to help coordinate relief efforts. and from california to florida, nearly 90 million americans are under heat alerts. in phoenix, arizona, the temperature has topped 110 degrees every day this month, and it's expected to reach nearly 120 by the weekend. we have team coverage of the storms, flooding, and the sizzling heat. cbs's meg oliver will start us off from vermont. good evening, meg. >> reporter: norah, good evening. as you can see behind me, a good portion of downtown montpelier is still underwater tonight. with the extreme flooding, officials are worried the water is contaminated and have enacted a boil-water notice. more than 6 inches of rain in two days caused widespread flooding, leaving few areas
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untouched. >> and here we go. >> reporter: andrew mullen, co-owner of sam's steakhouse, showed us as he went back for the first time since the storm. >> it's a war zone. this is -- >> you're just stepping in mud. >> this is pure mud. >> so what happened in here? >> the water was nearly up to the ceiling. it was incredible. >> reporter: ring camera video captured the restaurant's kitchen filling with water, overtaking equipment. now the 2-year-old restaurant is an absolute mess. >> it's devastating. like we lost bridges. we lost roads. cars went down rivers. the power was such -- there was such force, it was moving dumpsters that were full. >> reporter: nearly the whole town needs rebuilding. the damage is extensive. take a look at this. a railroad track dangling at least 60 feet in the air after the storm washed the ground away. out west in phoenix, arizona, it's a different kind of misery. a heat dome has settled in, and people are just trying to cope.
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here's omar villafranca. >> reporter: after 11 straight days of temperatures of at least 110 degrees, people in phoenix are trying anything they can to cool down. some bus stops, even businesses use these water misters, which can cool the air by about 30 degrees. michael imordino runs the breakfast club, and says customers will brave the heat if the patio is cool. >> as soon as it hits 85, i put on those misters, and we get cold drinks going for everybody. >> reporter: with an excessive heat warning in effect until next week, dozens of hydration and cooling spots are open all over the city for anyone needing a break from the brutal heat. >> reporter: back in montpelier, vermont's capital is plunged in floodwater. the dam is at capacity, rising 43 feet over 18 hours after days of intense rain. so far, first responders have made more than a dozen water rescues. meanwhile, the dam nearby here is at maximum capacity tonight.
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if it overflows, that water would spill into downtown, making this situation worse. swift-water rescuers are on standby tonight. norah. >> meg oliver, thank you. we turn now to that slow-motion disaster in southern california where several homes in a gated community are sliding downhill. officials say more homes could be threatened. cbs's elise preston is there talking to homeowners. >> it sunk another 10 feet or so. >> reporter: weber yen's rolling hills estates home is one of a dozen on the brink of collapsing into a canyon. for days, he's watched his family's lifetime of memories snap and slide off a cliff. >> to see this continual demise of your house, what is that like to watch? >> you know, it's like someone, you know, reaching in and pull your guts, but pulling one inch at a time. >> reporter: geologists suggest it may have been a deep-seated landslide in southern
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california's unique topography. steep hillsides and weak bedrock coupled with heavy winter rain makes it especially vulnerable. >> water percolating through the ground at some depth has the effect of further destabilizing those rocks. >> reporter: since may, three major insurance companies have either limited new homeowner policies or pulled out entirely, citing increased catastrophe risks. >> they're bad actors for leaving california. we have good people who pay their premiums on a monthly basis. >> reporter: yen's house is one of the buckled homes behind me. you can see the roof of a family's tilted garage peeking just over weeds. tonight the city of rolling hills estates is expected to declare a state of emergency. norah. >> elise preston, thank you very much. turning overseas to the opening day at the nato summit in lithuania, ukraine's president zelenskyy is outraged, blasting the alliance after members announced there is no timeline for when the country can join. cbs's nancy cordes is traveling
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with president biden, who will hold one-on-one talks with zelenskyy on wednesday. >> thanks, lithuania. >> reporter: dozens of world leaders in town, but only one got a reception like this. [ cheers and applause ] and yet all the love did not make up for the one thing ukraine's leader really wants -- membership in the alliance meeting right down the road. [ speaking in a global language ] >> reporter: "nato will give ukraine security," he pleaded. "ukraine will make nato stronger." nato leaders did offer a consolation prize today that they billed as a major breakthrough. ukraine's future is in nato, they announced, but only after the nation makes democratic and security sector reforms. >> this is a big step. >> reporter: zelenskyy called it absurd to place vague new conditions on ukraine without setting a membership timetable. but some nato allies worry that
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could draw them in to direct confrontation with russia. >> how soon would you like to see ukraine become a member of nato? >> i can't put a timetable on it for you. >> reporter: nato countries are making other promises. france is offering long-range missiles. germany, 65 tanks and armored vehicles. and 11 nations will start training ukrainian pilots to fly f-16s. >> how long is the training going to take? >> reporter: pentagon undersecretary colin kahl. >> we're talking about, you know, somewhere between 6 and 18 months depending on how well the ukrainian pilots do. >> reporter: not far to the east, russia is watching all of this unfold. a russian spokesperson saying today that a new agreement to allow sweden to join nato is clearly negative for russia. he vowed countermeasures though he didn't specify what those might be, norah. >> nancy c cordes in lithuania, thank you. there are new developments in former president donald trump's legal troubles.
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washington. thanks for staying with us. the heat wave that's engulfed much of the nation has millions of americans seeking relief at the shore, and a lot of them on boats. but fun on the water can also be dangerous when you mix it with alcohol. last year, boating accidents killed nearly 650 people nationwide and injured another 2,000. and a lot of those crashes happened in florida. mark strassmann reports from the sunshine state. >> reporter: there's an odd cultural disconnect going on here between dui, driving under the influence, and bui, boating under the influence. now, drunk driving, of course, has an unmistakable stigma. but as you're about t to see,e, drunk boaoating h happens allll titime. >> b boat that'ss gettingng clo thee shore. >> r reporter: off t tampa baba coast,t, depututies chahase dow fifishing boatat bararreling to swimimmers. its drivever later arresested f bui,i, appppeared passesed out the wheeeel. >> h how much h have you had t drink? >> i've had no alcohol.
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>> i'm looking at an empty beer can. >> reporter: drunk boating. >> the leading cause of fatal boating accidents. roughly 1 in 6 deaths on the water blamed on boozing. >> it's our number one issue. >> reporter: ryan lock is a georgia state game warden. he patrols lake lanier, the state's biggest playground for boaters. lock heres the same lie over and over. "i've only had a couple." >> most of them are two to three times above the legal limit. >> reporter: how many drunk boaters a day do you typically catch? >> our officers usually arrest five to six, maybe even seven a day. >> reporter: nationwide, several thousand boaters every year are arrested for bui. roughly 1 in 5 of them in florida. on water anywhere, consequences can be catastrophic. >> i wake up and put it on every morning. >> reporter: alex audi was 13, idling on a jet ski in kentucky when a 17-foot bass boat mowed
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her down. >> he hit me from the side going 60 miles an hour. i flew off the jet ski and landed face down in the body. but the jet ski landed on top of my body. >> reporter: the collision broke her neck, shattered her face and both legs, and lacerated her liver. she lost her right leg from the mid-calf down. >> the man who ran me over was nearly three times legal limit. >> did he ever apologize? >> he said on the stand that "it's not my fault. she shouldn't have been sitting on the water and i didn't do anything wrong". >> reporter: even when no drinking is involved -- >> oh, man, this is not good. >> reporter: -- most boating accidents, injuries, and deaths are preventable. >> come here. it's okay. >> reporter: and now a social media stunt. >> see ya. >> reporter: challenging those on the water to jump off moving boats. officials warn trying it could hurt or kill you. other factors, excessive speed,
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inexperience, inattention. so many people one bad decision away from catastrophe. >> i have yet to respond to a drowning or fatality where that subject was wearing a life jacket. >> not wearing a life jacket is like not wearing a seat belt? >> they're both built to increase your chances of survival. >> you don't have to be reminded of something that you can never and will never forget. >> reporter: alex audi went on to become the national president of mothers against drunk driving. she still jet skis, and sammy hackler, the drunk boater who hit audi, was fined $250 in 2010 for the collision. no jail time. >> on the water, there needs to be a cultural shift. >> you would never watch someone get in their car impaired with a beer in their hand and drive away. but people watch people do the same thing all the time in a boat. >> that was mark strassmann in >> that was mark strassmann in panama
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>> good game. >> reporter: a soccer match at deep mind looks like fun and games, but here's the thing. humans did not program these robots to play. they learned the game by themselves. >> it's coming up with these interesting different strategies, different ways to walk, different ways to block. >> and they're doing it. they're scoring over and over again. >> this robot here -- are raya had sell, vice president of research and robotics, shoped us how engineers used motion capture technology to teach the ai program how to move like a human. but on the soccer pitch, the robots were told only that the object was to score. the self-learning program spent about two weeks testing different moves. it discarded those that didn't work, built on those that did, and created all-stars. >> there's another goal. >> and with practice, they get
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better. had sell told us that independent from the robots, the ai program plays thousands of games from which it learns and invents its own tactics. >> here, i think that red player is going to grab it. but instead it just stops it. >> ah. >> hands it back, passes it back, and then goes for the goal. >> and the ai figured out how to do that on its own? >> that's right. that's right. and it takes a while. at first, all the players just run after the ball together like a gaggle of, you know, 6-year-olds the first time they're playing ball. over time, what we start to see is now, ah, what's the strategy? you go after the ball. i'm coming around this way, or we should pass, or i should block while you get to the goal. so we see all of that coordination emerging in the play. >> this is a lot of fun, but what are the practical implications of what we're seeing here? >> this is the type of research that can eventually lead to
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robots that can come out of the factories and work in other types of human environments, you know, think about mining. think about dangerous construction work or exploration or disaster recovery. >> reporter: raya had sell is among 1,000 humans at deep mind. the company was co-found the just 12 years ago by ceo demmis ha sab as. >> if i think back to 2010 when we started, nobody was doing ai. there was nothing going on in industry. people used to eye roll when we talked to investors about doing ai. we could barely get two cents together to start off with, which is crazy if you think about now the billions being invested into ai start-ups. >> reporter: cambridge, harvard, mit, ha sabis has degrees in computer science and neuroscience. his ph.d. is in human imagination. and imagine this. when he was 12, in his age group, he was the number two
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chess champion in the world. it was through games that he came to ai. >> i've been working on ai for decades now, and i've always believed that it's going to be the most important invention that humanity will ever make. >> will the pace of change outstrip our ability to adapt? >> i don't think so. i think that we -- you know, we're sort of an infinitely adaptable species. you look at today us using all of our smartphones and other devices, and we effortlessly sort of adapt to these new technologies. and this is going to be another one of those changes like that. >> reporter: among the biggest changes at deep mind was the discovery that self-learning machines can be creative. ha sabis shows us a game-playing program that learns. it's called alpha zero, and it dreamed up a winning chess strategy no human had ever >> but this is just a machine.
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how does it achieve creativity? >> it plays against itself tens of millions of times, so it can explore parts of chess that maybe human chess players and programmers who program chess computers haven't thought about before. >> it never gets tired. it never gets hungry. it just plays chess all the time. >> yes. it's kind of an amazing thing to see because actually you set off alpha zero in the morning, and it starts off playing randomly. by lunchtime, you know, it's able to beat me and beat most chess players. and then by the evening, it's stronger than the world champion. >> reporter: demmis ha sabis sold deep mindd t to googlgle i 2014. one reason was to get his hands on this. googlele has the enormouss compmputing powewer that aiai n. this comomputing centeter is in yore, oklahoma, but google has 23 of these, putting it near the top in computing power in the world. this is one of two advances that
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make ai ascendant now. first, the sum of all human knowledge is online. and, second, brute force computing that very loosely approximates the neural networks and talents of the brain. >> things like memory, imagination, planning, reinforcement learning, these are all things that are known about how the brain does it. and we wanted to replicate some of that in our ai systems. >> reporter: those are some of the elements that led to deep mind's greatest achievement so far, solvingng an imposossible problelem in bibiology. proteins a are buildingg b bloc life,, but only a tinyy fractct wewere understood because 3-d mapping of just one could take years. deep mind created an ai program for the protein problem and set it loose. >> well, it took us about four or five years to figure out how to build the system. it was probably our most complex project we've ever undertaken.
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but once we did that, it can solve a protein structure in a matter of seconds. and actually over the last year, we did all the 200 million proteins that are known to science. >> how long would it have taken using traditional methods? >> the rule of thumb i was always told by my biologist friends is it takes a whole ph.d. five years to do one protein structure experimentally. if you think 200 million times five, that's a billion years of ph.d. time it would have taken. >> reporter: deep mind made its protein database public, a gift to humanity ha sabis called it. >> how has it been used? >> it's been used in a broad number of ways actually from malaria vaccines to developing new enzymes that can eat plastic waste to new antibiotics. >> reporter: most ai systems today do one or maybe two things well. the soccer robots, for example, can't write up a grocery list or book your travel or drive your
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car. the ultimate goal is what's called artificial general intelligence, a learning machine that can score on a wide range of talents. >> would such a machine be conscious of itself? >> so that's another great question. we, you know, philosophers haven't really settled on a definition of consciousness yet. but if we mean by sort of self-awareness and these kinds of things, i think there's a possibility ai one day could be. i don't think they are today. i think, again, this is one of the fascinating scientific things we're going to find out on this journey towards ai. >> you can see scott ah full report on our
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community. >> team trends is the first all trans sports team in the united states. >> reporter: goalkeeper mason la fave says growing up he felt out of place playing girls hockey. he transitioned in 2016 and now he's one of more than 150 members across the country on team trans. >> why do you think so many people are interested in playing? >> a sense of community. i never understood the concept of found family until i joined team trans. >> for safety reasons, the team doesn't publish personal information. but the support it provides players has saved lives. >> there are players who have told me outright that they wouldn't be around anymore without team trans. >> what do you think when you hear that? >> i'm glad that we were able to help them, but i hate that we're in a space where they needed that help. >> reporter: jay smell, who learned how to skate just two years ago, says even if they
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can't change what's in other people's hearts, the players are lifting themselves up. >> the biggest thing i've learned from this group is that we're all human, we're all going to fall, and what really makes us a classy operation is that we're a team of people who get back up again and keep going. >> reporter: carving a new path on and off the ice. >> one, two, three, team trans! >> reporter: roxana saberi, cbs news, madison, wisconsin. and that's the overnight news for this wednesday. be sure to check back later for "cbs mornings." reporting from the nation's capital, i'm olivia gazis. this is "cbs news flash." i'm erica brown in new york. the manhunt continues for an armed and dangerous murder suspect who escaped jail in pennsylvania last week. authorities say new evidence
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indicates michael burham is still likely to be in northwestern pennsylvania near the jail where he was in custody on arson and burglary charges. amid protests, the iowa state legislature passed a bill banning nearly all abortions after cardiac activity is detected in an embryo, which can come as early as six weeks into a pregnancy. iowa currently allows abortion up to 20 weeks after conception. and for the first time since 2012, the national league won the mlb all-star game. elias diaz was the game's mvp. for more, download the cbs news app on your cell phone or connected tv. i' erica brown, cbs new tonight, dangerous weather across the u.s. devastating floods in new england with more rain on the way. and nearly 90 million americans under heat alerts. is there relief in sight? here are tonight's headlines.
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a state of emergency and massive cleanup after catastrophic flooding. these train tracks left hanging in the air. tonight the warning from officials that a major vermont dam could overflow. >> this is devastating. it's a total loss. ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy has arrived in lithuania to attend nato's annual summit. zelenskyy denounced nato negotiations for not providing a concrete path for his country to achieve membership. more california homes at risk of falling into a canyon after a major landslide. lawmakers grill pga executives about the tour's controversial merger with saudi-backed liv golf. >> a brutal, repressive regime can buy influence, indeed even take over a cherished american institution.
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our series "age of ai." how you can protect your family from phone scams that use artificial intelligence. >> what you're about to hear is something i never said. >> hey, this is carter. i need your credit card number right know. >> i mean that really sounded like me. >> it is you. it's cloned you. bank of america ordered to pay $250 million in fines. >> regulators found double dipping on fees and bank employees were caught opening fake accounts. and are you feeling lucky? the country's two biggest jackpots now total over $1 billion. >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." we begin with record-breaking weather. the catastrophic flooding impacting communities across vermont as the northeast braces for more storms.
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the worst flooding in nearly 100 years has s cut off enentire communities and caused tens of millions of dollars in damage with homes, cars, roads, even railroad tracks washed away. president biden approved an emergency declaration to help coordinate relief efforts. and from california to florida, nearly 90 million americans are under heat alerts. in phoenix, arizona, the temperature has topped 110 degrees every day this month, and it's expected to reach nearly 120 by the weekend. we have team coverage of the storms, flooding, and the sizzling heat. cbs's meg oliver will start us off from vermont. good evening, meg. >> reporter: norah, good evening. as you can see behind me, a good portion of downtown montpelier is still underwater tonight. with the extreme flooding, officials are worried the water is contaminated and have enacted a boil-water notice. more than 6 inches of rain in two days caused widespread flooding, leaving few areas untouched. >> and here we go. >> reporter: andrew mullen,
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co-owner of sam's steakhouse, showed us as he went back for the first time since the storm. >> it's a war zone. this is -- >> you're just stepping in mud. >> this is pure mud. >> so what happened in here? >> the water was nearly up to the ceiling. it was incredible. >> reporter: ring camera video captured the restaurant's kitchen filling with water, overtaking equipment. now the 2-year-old restaurant is an absolute mess. >> it's devastating. like we lost bridges. we lost roads. cars went down rivers. the power was such -- there was such force, it was moving dumpsters that were full. >> reporter: nearly the whole town needs rebuilding. the damage is extensive. take a look at this. a railroad track dangling at least 60 feet in the air after the storm washed the ground away. out west in phoenix, arizona, it's a different kind of misery. a heat dome has settled in, and people are just trying to cope. here's omar villafranca. >> reporter: after 11 straight days of temperatures of at least
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110 degrees, people in phoenix are trying anything they can to cool down. some bus stops, even businesses use these water misters, which can cool the air by about 30 degrees. michael imordino runs the breakfast club and says customers will brave the heat if the patio is cool. >> as soon as it hits about 85, i put on those misters, and we. get cold drinks going for everybody. >> reporter: with an excessive heat warning in effect until next week, dozens of hydration and cooling spots are open all over the city for anyone needing a break from the brutal heat. >> reporter: back in montpelier, vermont's capital is plunged in floodwater. the dam is at capacity, rising 43 feet over 18 hours after days of intense rain. so far, first responders have made more than a dozen water rescues. meanwhile, the dam nearby here is at maximum capacity tonight. if it overflows, that water would spill into downtown, making this situation worse.
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swift-water rescuers are on standby tonight. norah. >> meg oliver, thank you. well, the severe storms and flooding will continue, so will the brutal heat. for more, let's bring in meteorologist mike bettes from our partners at the weather channel. good evening, mike. >> norah, good evening. we have more widespread flooding here across new england. a place like montpelier, vermont, really a place hard hit. you can notice here that the winooski river crested at 21.35 feet, the second highest crest on record behind only the 1927 flood. the water has been receding. that's good news. should fall down below major flood stage. the problem is later this week, more heavy rain is back in our forecast, and you can see thursday, friday, and this weekend more chances for flooding. then the opposite problem across our southern states. in florida, texas, the desert southwest, hot and dry. in a place like phoenix, we've had 11 straight days of 110 degrees. norah, if we hit 110 today, we'll likely do it for the next ten days, meaning we'll set an all-time record at 21
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consecutive days above 110 degrees. >> that is too hot. mike bettes, thank you. we turn now to that slow-motion disaster in southern california where several homes in a gated community are sliding downhill. officials say more homes could be threatened. cbs's elise preston is there talking to homeowners. >> it sunk another 10 feet or so. >> reporter: weber yen's rolling hills estates home is one of a dozen on the brink of collapsing into a canyon. for days, he's watched his family's lifetime of memories snap and slide off a cliff. >> to see this continual demise of your house, what is that like to watch? >> you know, it's like someone, you know, reaching in and pull your guts, but pulling one inch at a time. >> reporter: geologists suggest it may have been a deep-seated landslide, and southern california's unique topography, steep hillsides and weak bedrock coupled with heavy winter rain, makes it especially vulnerable.
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>> water percolating through the ground at some depth has the effect of further destabilizing those rocks. >> reporter: since may, three major insurance companies have either limited new homeowner policies or pulled out entirely, citing increased catastrophe risks. >> they're bad actors for leaving california. we have good people who pay their premiums on a monthly basis. >> reporter: yen's house is one of the buckled homes behind me. you can see the roof of a family's tilted garage peeking just over weeds. tonight the city of rolling hills estates is expected to declare a state of emergency. norah. >> elise preston, thank you very
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in lithuania, ukraine's president zelenskyy is outraged, blasting the alliance after members announced there is no timeline for when the country can join. cbs's nancy cordes is traveling with president biden, who will hold one-on-one talks with zelenskyy on wednesday. >> thanks, lithuania. >> reporter: dozens of world leaders in town, but only one got a reception like this. [ cheers and applause ] and yet all the love did not make up for the one thing ukraine's leader really wants -- membership in the alliance meeting right down the road. [ speaking in a global language ] >> reporter: "nato will give ukraine security," he pleaded. "ukraine will make nato stronger." nato leaders did offer a consolation prize today that they billed as a major breakthrough. ukraine's future is in nato, they announced, but only after the nation makes democratic and security sector reforms. >> this is a big step. >> reporter: zelenskyy called it
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absurd to place vague new conditions on ukraine without setting a membership timetable. but some nato allies worry that could draw them in to direct confrontation with russia. >> how soon would you like to see ukraine become a member of nato? >> i can't put a timetable on it for you. >> reporter: nato countries are making other promises. france is offering long-range missiles. germany, 65 tanks and armored vehicles. and 11 nations will start training ukrainian pilots to fly f-16s. >> how long is the training going to take? >> reporter: pentagon undersecretary colin kahl. >> we're talking about, you know, somewhere between 6 and 18 months depending on how well the ukrainian pilots do. >> reporter: not far to the east, russia is watching all of this unfold. a russian spokesperson saying today that a new agreement to allow sweden to join nato is clearly negative for russia.
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he vowed countermeasures though he didn't specify what those might be, norah. >> nancy cordes in lithuania, thank you. there are new developments in former president donald trump's legal troubles. trump's lawyers are now asking the judge to postpone his classified documents trial, possibly until after the 2024 presidential election. they argue his candidacy could make it difficult to seat an impartial jury. and an update to a separate investigation where there's a potential for a third indictment for president trump. a grand jury seated in atlanta today is expected to consider whether trump should face criminal charges over his efforts in georgia to overturn his 2020 election loss. now to a scandal that's rocked the college football world. northwestern fired its longtime coach, pat fitzgerald, on monday following widespread allegations of hazing within the program. cbs's jericka duncan spoke to one former player, who said the abuse has been an ongoing problem for several years.
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>> and the cats are on the board first. >> reporter: after 17 seasons, pat fitzgerald, northwestern's winningest football coach, suffered his toughest loss last night when the university president announced fitzgerald had been fired. 11 current or former players gave explicit details of alleged hazing incidents which investigators found were systemic and went on for many years. back in 2014, fitzgerald said he had zero tolerance for hazing. >> as we've really thought deep about how we want to welcome our new family members into our programs and into our organizations, hazing should have nothing to do with it. >> reporter: over the weekend, one anonymous former player told the student newspaper, "the daily northwestern," that freshman players who made mistakes during practice were subjected to a hazing ritual known as "running." it involved older players restraining the younger ones and dry-humping them in a dark locker room. former player ramon diaz jr. was
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an offensive lineman for northwestern back in 2005. he says he was hazed. >> everybody saw it. so many eyes. i mean there were so many players, and nobody did anything. and they just let this go on for years. >> reporter: but in a statement following fitzgerald's firing, he was defiant, saying he had no knowledge whatsoever of any form of hazing and that he was surprised that he was terminated. northwestern says that investigation did not find sufficient evidence that the coaching staff knew about this ongoing hazing. but what it did find, norah, is that coaches did have enough information that they should have discovered or reported the hazing conduct. >> jericka duncan with those disturbing new details. thank you. there's a lot more news ahead on the "cbs overnight t
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here in washington, a bipartisan group of senators teed off on pga tour executives today during a hearing on the controversial merger between the pga tour and the saudi-backed liv golf. cbs's scott macfarlane reports from capitol hill. >> reporter: the pga tour deal with saudi-financed rival liv may have ended years of costly litigation and the poaching p top stars. but at a hearing investigating the agreement, senators said it came at a great cost.
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>> a brutal, repressive regime can buy influence, indeed even take over a cherished american institution. >> reporter: pga tour executive jimmy dunn revealed the saudis are offering more than $1 billion to join forces and argued the tour was otherwise at risk of collapse. >> my concern was that golf as we know it would be damaged forever. >> reporter: families of 9/11 victims filling the room had other concerns, that saudi arabia is using golf to soften its image after the murder of columnist jamal khashoggi and the september 11th attacks. >> the kingdom needs to be held accountable for its role in 9/11, and then we can talk about mergers. >> reporter: brett eagleson's father, bruce, died at the world trade center. >> he's a father that i aspire to be. >> reporter: eagleson dropped papers next to tour execs detailing saudi connections to the hijackers. dunn said he'd never partner with anyone directly connected to 9/11. senators also released internal messages between the leagues showing liv floated ideas to transform the sport, a world series of golf event held in saudi arabia, and giving tiger
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woods and rory mcilroy, two critics of liv, ownership of liv teams. >> if it's all about the money, american institutions are in danger. >> reporter: one other internal message released by senators shows the two leagues are talking about an exclusive perk for a powerful saudi governor. a membership at augusta national, home of the masters. and ahead of this hearing, a pga tour board member resigned, norah, citing his concerns with this new partnership. >> scott macfarlane on capitol hill, thank you. phone scams are nothing new, but thanks to artificial intelligence, they are getting more sophisticated and more believable. scam artists are now using ai to clone voices to trick unsuspecting victims. cbs's carter evans takes a look at this frightening new technology in our continuing series, "the age of ai." >> reporter: jennifer destefano will never forget the frantic call she got from her 15-year-old daughter, brianna. >> she was, "mommy, bad men have me.
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help me, help me, help me." this man gets on, very aggressive. "listen here. i have your daughter." that's when i went into panic mode. >> reporter: the man demanded a million dollars. >> i said that was impossible. so then he came up with the $50,000. >> reporter: she never paid the money and would soon learn the call was a popular ai scam. new software can recreate the voices of loved ones in distress, and scammers use that to ask for large sums of money. >> this man comes on the phone. he said, you're going to give me $5,000. >> i heard our daughter on the phone. like it was unmistakably her. >> reporter: americans lost nearly $9 billion to fraud last year alone, up more than 150% in just two years. >> younger people experience fraud and fraud losses more often than older people. but it's that older adult who has so much to lose. >> reporter: cybersecurity expert pete nicoletti created my voice from old news reports online. what you're about to hear is something i never said. >> hey, this is carter. i need your credit card number
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right now. >> i mean that really sounded like me. >> it is you. it's cloned you. it's ai carter. >> reporter: to test it out, we called my mother. >> hey, i'm about to do an interview, but i have a quick question. i need you to text me your driver's license number as soon as you can. >> reporter: she fell for the fake voice. >> i feel bad. >> i feel terrible about it. >> we just scammed my mom. >> did you just get a call from me? >> asking for my driver's license number? >> yes. that was an ai-generated voice. >> oh, god. carter, that's scary. is this the real you now? >> this is the real me now. >> we live in a post-real society. you can't trust the voice. you can't trust the viphoto, an you can't trust the video anymore. >> our voice is like a fingerprint, and that's being exploited and weaponized. it has to stop. >> reporter: norah, the technology is really improving. soon scammers will be able to react instantly to anything you
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say by converting their voice into the voice of your loved one in real time. >> carter, this is scary stuff, really eye-opening. what can people do to protect themselves? >> reporter: well, there's a couple of things you can do right away. the first thing is to create a safe word that only your family is going to know. secondly, you want to make your social media accounts private. don't give that information away to potential scammers to use against you. and finally, if you get one of these calls, hang up. call them back. make sure they're really in trouble. >> carter evans, thank you. bank of america will pay some of you $100 million. we'll explain why next. ifif you've hahad sensitiviv, thosose zingers s can reallyly e sosome of thatat jolting p p. there isis one greatat solutin out ththere with s sensodyne. it creates a protective barrier,
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spectacular new video shows a volcano erupting in iceland. this is the third time a volcano has spewed lava and gas in this part of iceland in the past three years. the threat of toxic gas prompted officials to restrict access to the area. there was a historic first at last night's home run derby. that's next. finally tonight, more than
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250 father/son duos have played major league baseball, but last night was a first. toronto slugger vladimir guerrero jr. won the annual home run derby with a record 25 homers in the final round, and he did it 16 years after his dad won it in 2007. after taking home the title, guerrero said one of his next goals is getting to the baseball hall of fame just like his dad. and that's the overnight news for this wednesday. for some of you, the news continues. for others, check back later for "cbs mornings." and remember you can follow us online anytime at cbsnews.com. reporting from right here in the nation's capital, i'm norah o'donnell. this is "cbs news flash." i'm erica brown in new york. the manhunt continues for an armed and dangerous murder suspect who escaped jail in pennsylvania last week. authorities say new evidence
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indicates michael burham is still likely to be in northwestern pennsylvania near the jail where he was in custody on arson and burglary charges. amid protests, the iowa state legislature passed a bill banning nearly all abortions after cardiac activity is detected in an embryo, which can come as early as six weeks into a pregnancy. iowa currently allows abortion up to 20 weeks after conception. and for the first time since 2012, the national league won the mlb all-star game. elias diaz was the game's mvp. for more, download the cbs news app on your cell phone or connected tv. i'm erica brown, cbs news, new york. it's wednesday, july 12th, 2023. this is the "cbs morning news." extreme weather gripping the nation. catastrophic floods wipe out towns in vermont as arizona bakes in insufferable heat.
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