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given more protection. major. >> robert costa, thank you. the u.s. navy remains on alert after chinese and russian warships approached the coast of alaska last week in an unprecedented joint military patrol. the ships never entered u.s. waters and were not considered a threat to the aleutian islands. but the u.s. did send four navy destroyers and surveillance planes to keep watch until they left the area. turning to the war in ukraine, ukraine's security service says a woman is under arrest for an alleged assassination plot against president zelenskyy. cbs's ramy inocencio has the latest from odesa. >> reporter: "we will continue the internal cleansing of our state" said volodymyr zelenskyy. mere hours later, ukraine's spy agency alleged this ukraininian woman w was an inforormant for russia, now arrested, who gathered intel on the presesident's jululy itinerary mykolaiv, a city near the southeast front line, for a possible assassination attempt and, quote, massive air strike.

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year with the presidential medal of freedom. she had played in three previous world cups, finishing the last two as a champion. but this year, so many missed opportunities. in her final world cup, rapinoe's storied career ended in the worst way. >> puts it over the bar. >> it's a tough one, missing a penalty in my last game ever. >> reporter: tears but no bitterness. >> i feel like the game is in a great place for me to gracefully step away. >> reporter: and to the u.s. teams youngest fans -- >> if you were to have one message to say to the players, what would you say? >> you're my hero. i love you. >> reporter: here in melbourne, there is more soccer to play, and there are two more weeks to crown a champion. as for the u.s., there is some soul searching ahead. the mix of veteran players and rising stars did not work out. the goal now, to fix it all for next year's olympics. major. >> a team in transition. nancy chen, thank you. nearly 100,000 americans are

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case against donald trump. the order would limit trump's access to discovery materials. judge tanya chutkan has directed attorneys for both sides to meet today to find a time for that hearing. rapper tory lanez is expected to be sentenced today in his 2020 shooting of megan thee stallion. prosecutors are seeking a 13-year prison sentence. and beyoncé refusing to let bad weather ruin the night for her fans. her renaissance tour paid $100,000 to keep all washington, d.c. metro stations open an hour late sunday after storms delayed her show. for more, download the cbs news app on your cell phone or connected tv. i'm shanelle kaul, cbs news, new york. >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." good evening, everyone. thank you for joining us.

i'm major garrett in for norah. we begin tonight with threats of severe weather from dangerous heat in the south to thunderstorms and possible tornadoes stretching from the great lakes to the east coast. storms have already created havoc for air travelers with more than 6,000 flights delayed and more than 1,300 canceled. airports from atlanta to new york experienced ground stops this afternoon, forcing the faa to reroute flights around the storms. more than 30 million americans in nearly a dozen states are under tornado watches from north carolina to new york. in tennessee, downed trees like these outside the city of maryville have left tens of thousands without power. meanwhile in the south, unrelenting heat is scorching residents from coast to coast. cbs's meg oliver will start us off tonight from reading, pennsylvania. meg, good evening. >> reporter: major, good evening. this storm is just minutes away from rolling in here with heavy rain, lightning, and strong gusts of wind, which could reach up to 75 miles per hour as this system roars across the region.

[ siren ] ominous warnings of an approaching tornado sounded in flatwoods, kentucky, today, as this menacing funnel swept just west in lexington. severe thunderstorms packing violent winds stretched across the sound, ripping branches off trees in tennessee. >> this is really bad. >> reporter: downtown parkersburg, west virginia, turned into a flood zone brought on by heavy afternoon rain. the storm system pushed through the midwest this weekend with reports of nearly a dozen tornadoes, including one in christian county, illinois, shredding roofs and damaging power lines. from california to texas to florida, about 100 million are under heat alerts. omar villafranca is in johnson county, texas. >> reporter: the baking triple-digit heat here in north and central texas has also turned parts of the state into a

tinderbox. this wildfire has burned more than 1,300 acres, and for crews, working in this heat is dangerous. parts of godly, texas, looked like hell on earth. firefighters are urged to take cooling breaks as needed. >> they may only be able to work for 15 minutes before they have to go cool off. >> reporter: in juneau, alaska, a glacier melt turned the mendenhall river into raging rapids. >> there this -- it goes, there it goes. >> reporter: -- that ate away at the banks and sent at least two homes crashing into the river. >> reporter: back here in the northeast, the wet weather forced the faa to reroute planes around the storms heading to the east coast, causing delays in airports including new york, d.c., and atlanta. tonight, more than half a million customers are without power across the south and mid-atlantic, and at least a dozen states are under tornado watches, including here in southeast pennsylvania. major. >> meg and omar, we thank you. for what's in store for the rest of the night and the days ahead, let's bring in

meteorologist chris warren from our partners at the weather channel. chris, good evening. >> good evening, major. as meg showed us, we've already seen a lot of damage, and this severe weather outbreak continues to unfold across the mid-atlantic and the northeast. the potential for tornadoes also there over the next few hours. destructive winds, some of the stronger winds could top 75 miles an hour. these storms will continue to push offshore in the mid-atlantic before or around midnight and then continue through the northeast during the overnight hours. and the heat does remain entrenched across the southern plains and the gulf coast states with once again, major, temperatures will be back into the dangerous, even record category, into the triple digits. >> chris warren, we thank you. now to a tragic accident in southern california. an investigation is under way tonight after two helicopters collided while responding to a brush fire sunday. cbs's mark strassmann reports three people were killed when

one of the choppers crashed. >> reporter: in the salute to the fallen, the sorrow growing in the california desert. nothing warned of a triple fatality. it was a simple three-acre brush fire, early evening, good visibility. six cal fire choppers responded. two collided en route. >> this was a tragic loss for the community, the fire service community. >> reporter: a sikorsky skycrane helicopter like this, capable of carrying more than 2,000 gallons of water, crashed midair into a smaller bell observational helicopter like this one, carrying the three men who were killed. contract pilot tony sousa and two cal fire veterans, 44-year-old captain tim rodriguez and 46-year-old assistant chief josh bischof, here on facebook ironically talking about aircraft separation. >> we're responsible for maintaining separation between the fixed-wing air tankers and also the rotoring helicopters.

>> reporter: why these two helicopters flew close enough to collide will be a focus of this investigation. so here's the latest. ntsb investigators will now sort out the cause and, if warranted, the blame of how these two aircraft ended up fatally close. major. >> so very sad. mark strassmann, thank you. a former minneapolis police officer was sentenced to nearly five years in prison today for aiding and abetting manslaughter in the 2020 killing of george floyd. at the sentencing, tou thao defended his actions, saying he didn't do anything wrong. the judge imposed a harsher sentence than prosecutors requested, saying he'd hoped the former officer would have shown more remorse. now to the growing legal troubles of donald trump. federal prosecutors want to limit what the former president or his lawyers can publicly discuss when it comes to efrd in the january 6th case. cbs's robert costa reports late today trump's attorneys weighed in, saying that request goes too

far. >> reporter: in a filing tonight, trump's lawyers pushed back against prosecutors and their request to limit what the former president can say, arguing it is, in effect, asking the court to censor his political speech. the request from federal prosecutors came as trump's attacks against special counsel jack smith are now standard on the campaign trail. >> he's a deranged human being. those indictments aren't worth the paper they're written on. >> reporter: and his social media outbursts, including writing "if you go after me, i'm coming after you," prompted prosecutors to act, alarmed about the possibility that trump could divulge sensitive information or even evidence in the case. >> i think the former president's most recent comments really reinforced the government's concern that the former president is not a defendant who sits and ruminates in silence. >> reporter: trump lawyer john lauro said trump can speak out on free speech grounds. >> we're going to file on first amendment grounds on the fact that president trump is immune as president from being prosecuted in this way.

>> reporter: trump's political opponents are stepping up their attacks. >> of course he lost. >> trump lost the 2020 election? >> of -- joe biden's the president. >> reporter: but the court battles are doing little to diminish trump's popularity in the republican primary race. according to a cbs news poll, most republicans think the indictments are an attempt to stop trump's campaign. >> i consider it a great badge of honor because i'm being indicted for you. >> reporter: cbs news has learned there are growing concerns at the court. a source says the judge, tanya chutkan, who is overseeing the case, has been given additional security and that special counsel jack smith has also been given more protection. major. >> robert costa, thank you.

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like ghosts. this is what it looked like in 2017. >> for me, just seeing the scale of death, it's hard to kind of come to terms with that. >> reporter: now there's a race to save the coral. ironically, by removing them from their habitat. >> we are trying to rescue as much of the genetic diversity and as much of the stock that we have. it's paramount to this revival of this species in the florida keys. >> reporter: he's program manager of the coral restoration foundation. volunteers have been taking 20 different species of coral from the sea and to their partners at the keyes marine lab, where they are placed into tanks that simulate more normal conditions. the goal is to keep them alive and return them once the waters have cooled. >> we've seen a species disappear, but an entire ecosystem? we haven't seen that. and i don't want to be part of the generation that sees that.

>> reporter: this is about more than coral. reefs cover less than 1% of the earth's surface but are home to 25% of marine species, making them critical to the food supply, tourism, and shoreline protection. for sea turtles, it's a matter of survival. >> this animal was in our oceans when dinosaurs were on our land. so what we see happening to them is eventually going to affect all of life. >> reporter: mini zirkle bach is the general manager at the turtle hospital in marathon. she says warming waters contribute to abnormalities and deformities in turtles but could also affect the species long term. nests in warmer sands yield more female turtles. >> as far as hatchlings in the state of florida, we're only seeing female hatchlings. >> reporter: it's a fragile ecosystem at risk. when ian enochs isn't willing to give up on. >> we have too much at stake, and so we have no other option than to try to turn this around. and i think we can.

>> reporter: manuel bojorquez, islamorada, florida. president biden has begun a three-day visit to the southwestern u.s., including planned stops at the grand canyon, utah, and new mexico. the focus of the trip is on the administration's response to climate change. that part of the country has been baking this summer with prolonged temperatures in the triple digits. last week, a wildfire scorched about 94,000 acres in the mojave national preserve, killing many joshua trees. jamie yuccas visited nearby joshua tree national park to learn more about the climate dangers that these iconic trees now face. >> reporter: nature as thrown everything at the joshua tree for hundreds of thousands of years. but its toughest match is manmade. >> even if there's a lot of reduction in greenhouse gases, we're still going to see an increase in temperature and probably a decrease in joshua tree habitat. >> reporter: dr. lynn sweet led a new study in the park. it shows by the end of the century, even with our best efforts to reduce greenhouse gas, 80% of joshua trees will be

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their island as a nation already fully formed. >> do you think of taiwan as a country? >> yeah, definitely. >> reporter: this call it serious difference of opinion goes back a century to mainlan china's civil war. in 1949, the communists won. chiang kai-shek's defeated nationalists fled across the sea to taiwan. to this day, a memorial in the capital, taipei, honors him -- the man who set up a government in taiwan to oppose communist china. 70 years on, a lively, open society has bloomed here. >> so it your mind, there's no question taiwan is already an independent country? >> we have already independence. we have our military. we have our economy system, our currency, our people, our policy. >> reporter: michael cole is a taipei political analyst for the republican institute.

>> for young taiwanese, their only experience is living in a liberal democracy, a vibrant liberal democracy with a highly politicized civil society. >> reporter: how liberal? taiwan was the first country in asia to legalize gay marriage. and consider audrey tang, digital minister and asia's first transgender cabinet member. >> i feel blessed that i do not face any discrimination whatsoever in taiwan. >> reporter: tang is a software engineer and a celebrity whose mission is to protect taiwan's internet from chinese cyberattacks or an invasion. >> ensuring proper communication infrastructure, including the local resilience of the public cloud providers like google, microsoft, and amazon, in taiwan, that is our highest priority. >> reporter: in spite of china's looming threat, life ticks along here. taiwan is a cyclist's dream, and the tsc bike club includes

several ex-pat americans who do business in china. benjamin shwall. >> is there going to be a war? >> i hope not. i don't have a crystal ball, but i don't think it's in anyone's interest to have a war. i think that prevailing heads will prevail, and the tensions will subside. >> reporter: if so, says peter kurtz, it's going to need some skillful diplomacy. >> we need to make sure that we don't back them too deeply into a corner that they have no choice in their minds to come out fighting. >> reporter: we took a short flight from taipei to an outlying island, kinmen, where the last round of actual fighting ended in 1979. these defensive spikes were put here on kinmen island to repel chinese landing craft. there was a hot war between china and taiwan in living memory, and this was the front line. a kinmen politician pointed out

mainland china almost close enough to swim to. >> a lot of people think that you're so close to china. you might as well be china "yes, the older people think that, he says, but we've had democracy since the country was founded. it's never been communist." tending the garden in front of her house, this woman is one of those older people. >> do you feel more chinese or taiwanese? [ speaking in a global language ] >> reporter: instantly she replies "chinese." she may not care that joining china means totalitarian rule, but york wu sure does. he showed me the loft of his b & b in a lovingly restored chinese-style house. "we respect chinese culture but not its government". >> i love the opportunity to express ourself freely --

china's maneuvers this spring were an explicit threat, and so was this graphic released by the military of missiles raining down on the island. the message, resistance is futile. >> if china were to act unilaterally, there would be a response. >> reporter: president biden has hinted that if china does invade, the u.s. will help. america is already selling weapons to taiwan's military. in spite of taiwan increasing its defense budget and enforcing mandatory conscription, the fact is neither its air force, its army, or its navy is any match for china's military might. >> if there is a war, we are going to be destroyed. >> reporter: so better to avoid it, says retired major general richard hu. taiwan should just join china but negotiate autonomy. >> beijing could just leave taiwan alone. we could enjoy our freedom and

political system. >> there is nothing about modern china under xi jinping that suggests that's possible. nothing. this is a government and a party that wants complete control. >> well, i think is it's a hope. >> reporter: it's a hope shared by the main quo men tang political party but not by taiwanese young people. who watched the hong kong movement for autonomy from china in 2019 get crushed by beijing. they are now praying taiwan's democratic dream doesn't die the same way. >> that was elizabeth pal

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value. they're kind of the fast fashion of diamonds whereas natural diamonds do hold inherent value. they can is passed down from generation to generation. >> reporter: in fact, customers who buy her natural diamonds also get a lab diamond for free to wear when more expensive bling is stored away. >> if you want to go lab or if you want to go natural, it's a personal decision. just know the value and what you're getting for it. >> reporter: either way, the true value of the ring is the story behind it. >> everybody that comes to this place is celebrating something. >> reporter: that is forever, no matter where the diamond comes from. bradley blackburn, cbs news, new york. and that's the overnight news for this tuesday. check back later for "cbs mornings." reporting from the nation's capital, i'm olivia gazis. this is "cbs news flash." i'm shanelle kaul in new york. a hearing will be held later this week on whether to put a protective order in place in the special counsel's 2020 election

case against donald trump. the order would limit trump's access to discovery materials. judge tanya chutkan has directed attorneys for both sides to meet today to find a time for that hearing. rapper tory lanez is expected to be sentenced today in his 2020 shooting of megan thee stallion. prosecutors are seeking a 13-year prison sentence. and beyoncé refusing to let bad weather ruin the night for her fans. her "renaissance" tour paid $100,000 to keep all washington, d.c. metro stations open an hour late sunday after storms delayed her show. for more, download the cbs news app on your cell phone or i'm shanelle kaul, cbs news, new york. tonight, the risk of tornadoes and severe weather along the east coast threatens millions of americans from new york to north carolina. here are tonight's headlines. we're tracking the urgent

situation of dangerous storms, strong winds, and excessive heat as thousands of flights are delayed or canceled. new details after two helicopters collide, killing firefighters responding to a brush fire. >> although this was a tragic event, we are also thankful today that it wasn't worse. trump's lawyers push back against prosecutors and their request to limit what the former president can say, arguing it is, in effect, asking the court to censor his political speech. ukrainian authorities are saying they have thwarted an assassination plot against president volodymyr zelenskyy. >> one woman has been detained. ukrainian secret service say she was planning a russian air strike to hit a southern region of the country where the president was set to be visiting. a new study found black men are more likely than white men to die of melanoma despite making up fewer cases.

>> it's time that we're more aware that this is a silent killer within our communities. >> i thought that i was invincible. it's something that you don't know about until it happens to you. team usa took on sweden yesterday morning. the dramatic match played out into extra time before penalty kicks sent sweden to the quarterfinals and the u.s. packing for home. and going for gold. simone biles makes a triumphant return to the mat. >> it felt really good. this time i'm doing it for me, so i'm very happy with the result. >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." good evening, everyone. thank you for joining us. i'm major garrett in for norah. we begin tonight with threats of severe weather from dangerous heat in the south to thunderstorms and possible tornadoes stretching from the great lakes to the east coast. storms have already created

havoc for air travelers with more than 6,000 flights delayed and more than 1,300 canceled. airports from atlanta to new york experienced ground stops this afternoon, forcing the faa to reroute flights around the storms. more than 30 million americans in nearly a dozen states are under tornado watches from north carolina to new york. in tennessee, downed trees like these outside the city of maryville have left tens of thousands without power. meanwhile in the south, unrelenting heat is scorching residents from coast to coast. cbs's meg oliver will start us off tonight from reading, pennsylvania. meg, good evening. >> reporter: major, good evening. this storm is just minutes away from rolling in here with heavy rain, lightning, and strong gusts of wind, which could reach up to 75 miles per hour as this system roars across the region. [ siren ] ominous warnings of an approaching tornado sounded in flatwoods, kentucky, today as this menacing funnel swept just west in lexington.

severe thunderstorms packing violent winds stretched across the south, ripping branches off trees in tennessee. >> this is really bad. >> reporter: downtown parkersburg, west virginia, turned into a flood zone brought on by heavy afternoon rain. the storm system pushed through the midwest this weekend with reports of nearly a dozen tornadoes, including one in christian county, illinois, shredding roofs and damaging power lines. from california to texas to florida, about 100 million are under heat alerts. omar villafranca is in johnson county, texas. >> reporter: the baking triple-digit heat here in north and central texas has also turned parts of the state into a tinderbox. this wildfire has burned more than 1,300 acres, and for crews, working in this heat is dangerous.

parts of godley, texas, look like hell on earth. firefighters are urged to take cooling breaks as needed. >> they may only be able to work for 15 minutes before they have to go cool off. >> reporter: in juneau, alaska, a glacier melt turned the mendenhall river into raging rapids that ate away at the banks and sent at least two homes crashing into the river. >> reporter: back here in the northeast, the wet weather forced the faa to reroute planes around the storms heading to the east coast, causing delays in airports including new york, d.c., and atlanta. tonight, more than half a million customers are without power across the south and mid-atlantic, and at least a dozen states are under tornado watches, including here in southeast pennsylvania. major. >> meg and omar, we thank you. for what's in store for the rest of the night and the days ahead, let's bring in meteorologist chris warren from our partners at the weather channel. chris, good evening. >> good evening, major. as meg showed us, we've already seen a lot of damage, and this severe weather outbreak continues to unfold across the

mid-atlantic and the northeast. the potential for tornadoes also there over the next few hours. destructive winds, some of the stronger winds could top 75 miles an hour. these storms will continue to push offshore in the mid-atlantic before or around midnight and then continue through the northeast during the overnight hours. and the heat does remain entrenched across the southern plains and the gulf coast states with once again, major, temperatures will be back into the dangerous, even record category, into the triple digits. >> chris warren, we thank you. now to a tragic accident in southern california. an investigation is under way tonight after two helicopters collided while responding to a brush fire sunday. cbs's mark strassmann reports three people were killed when one of the choppers crashed. >> reporter: in the salute to the fallen, the sorrow growing in the california desert. nothing warned of a triple fatality. it was a simple three-acre brush fire, early evening, good

visibility. six cal fire choppers responded. two collided en route. >> this was a tragic loss for the community, the fire service community. >> reporter: a sikorsky skycrane helicopter like this, capable of carrying more than 2,000 gallons of water, crashed midair into a smaller bell observational helicopter like this one, carrying the three men who were killed. contract pilot tony sousa and two cal fire veterans, 44-year-old captain tim rodriguez and 46-year-old assistant chief josh bischof, here on facebook ironically talking about aircraft separation. >> we're responsible for maintaining separation between the fixed-wing air tankers and also the rotoring helicopters. >> reporter: why these two helicopters flew close enough to collide will be a focus of this investigation. so here's the latest. ntsb investigators will now sort out the cause and, if warranted, the blame of how these two

aircraft ended up fatally close. major. >> so very sad. mark strassmann, thank you. a former minneapolis police officer was sentenced to nearly five years in prison today for aiding and abetting manslaughter in the 2020 killing of george floyd. at the sentencing, tou thao defended his actions, saying he didn't do anything wrong. the judge imposed a harsher sentence than prosecutors requested, saying he'd hoped the former officer would have shown more remorse. floyd's killing sparked nationwide protests. there's a lot more news ahead on the "cbs overnight news."

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>> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." now to the growing legal troubles of donald trump.

federal prosecutors want to limit what the former president or his lawyers can publicly discuss when it comes to evidence in the january 6th case. cbs's robert costa reports late today, trump's attorneys weighed in, saying that request goes too far. >> reporter: in a filing tonight, trump's lawyers pushed back against prosecutors and their request to limit what the former president can say, arguing it is, in effect, asking the court to censor his political speech. the request from federal prosecutors came as trump's attacks against special counsel jack smith are now standard on the campaign trail. >> he's a deranged human being. those indictments aren't worth the paper they're written on. >> reporter: and his social media outbursts, including writing "if you go after me, i'm coming after you," prompted prosecutors to act, alarmed about the possibility that trump could divulge sensitive information or even evidence in the case. >> i think the former president's most recent comments really reinforced the

government's concern that the former president is not a defendant who sits and ruminates in silence. >> reporter: trump lawyer john lauro said trump can speak out on free speech grounds. >> we're going to file on first amendment grounds on the fact that president trump is immune as president from being prosecuted in this way. >> reporter: trump's political opponents are stepping up their attacks. >> of course he lost. >> trump lost the 2020 election? >> of -- joe biden's the president. >> reporter: but the court battles are doing little to diminish trump's popularity in the republican primary race. according to a cbs news poll, most republicans think the indictments are an attempt to stop trump's campaign. >> i consider it a great badge of honor because i'm being indicted for you. >> reporter: cbs news has learned there are growing concerns at the court. a source says the judge, tanya chutkan, who is overseeing the case, has been given additional security and that special counsel jack smith has also been given more protection. major.

>> robert costa, thank you. the u.s. navy remains on alert after chinese and russian warships approached the coast of alaska last week in an unprecedented joint military patrol. the ships never entered u.s. waters and were not considered a threat to the aleutian islands. but the u.s. did send four navy destroyers and surveillance planes to keep watch until they left the area. turning to the war in ukraine, ukraine's security service says a woman is under arrest for an alleged assassination plot against president zelenskyy. cbs's ramy inocencio has the latest from odesa. >> reporter: "we will continue the internal cleansing of our state," said volodymyr z zelenskyy. mere hours later, ukraine's spy agency alleged this ukrainian woman n was an inforormant for russia, now arrested, who gathered intel on the president's july itinerary to mykolaiv, a city near the southeast front line, for a possible assassination attempt

and, quote, massive air strike. also today, two russian hypersonic missiles slammed into an area near the eastern front line, killing at least five and wounding dozens when they hit an apartment and a hotel popular with international journalists. this latest assault follows s russia's multi-wave attack saturday night. 70 missiles and drones. 10 evaded sky shield defenses, slamming into this blood transfusion center in the northeast and a grain silo and military airfield in the west. >> every time russia is attacked, russia strikes back. [ speaking in a global language ] >> reporter: "one needs to remember russia hit first. our strikes are for the exhaustion of a powerful, dangerous enemy," she says. moscow ah's weekend assaults are likely reaction to two sea drone attacks by ukraine against russian vessels friday and saturday. russia has called the recent sea drone attacks as barbaric and terrorism. what's your reply to that?

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year with the presidential medal of freedom. she had played in three previous world cups, finishing the last two as a champion. but this year, so many missed opportunities. in her final world cup, rapinoe's storied career ended in the worst way. >> rapinoe puts it over the bar. >> it's a tough one, missing a penalty in my last game ever. >> reporter: tears but no bitterness. >> i feel like the game is in a great place for me to gracefully step away. >> reporter: and to the u.s. team's youngest fans -- >> if you were to have one message to say to the players, what would you say? >> you're my hero. i love you. >> reporter: here in melbourne, there is more soccer to play, and there are two more weeks to crown a champion. as for the u.s., there is some soul searching ahead. the mix of veteran players and rising stars did not work out. the goal now, to fix it all for next year's olympics. major. >> a team in transition. nancy chen, thank you. nearly 100,000 americans are diagnosed with melanoma every year in the u.s.

that's the most serious type of skin cancer. a recent study shows that men are more vulnerable than women, and black men are at the highest risk. in tonight's "health watch," cbs's errol barnett explains the disparity in survival rates. >> you think that you're invincible. this is something that has never crossed my mind. >> reporter: josh paschal was a sophomore on the university of kentucky's football team when he discovered a strange mark on the bottom of his foot. how small was it? >> if you put a dot of a pen on your foot, it was about that size. >> reporter: that dot turned out to be a rare form of melanoma, the deadliest type of skin cancer. paschal needed multiple surgeries and immunotherapy to remove it. >> it was like learning how to play football again. you had a big scar on your foot. it hit me hard mentally. >> reporter: men are more likely to die of melanoma than women, and black men are 26% more likely to die of this form of skin cancer than white men even though they make up fewer cases. >> unfortunately, black

americans oftentimes are less likely to carry private insurance. they're less likely to be able to have access to quality health care in their neighborhoods and in their communities. >> reporter: if detected early, the five-year survival rate for melanoma is 99%. but it plummets to 32% once melanoma has spread to the body's organs. >> black people are not immune to melanoma. it's time we're more aware this is a silent killer within our communities. >> reporter: to protect yourself, use sunscreen with an spf of 30 or higher and reapply every two hours. ask for help with hard to reach places like your back. and get your skin checked by a board-certified dermatologist at least once a year. paschal is now playing a different type of defense with the detroit lions. >> if you see anything that's abnormal, get that checked out. >> reporter: errol barnett, cbs news, new york. there's been a terrifying roller coaster accident involving a 6-year-old boy. we have the details next.

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remains closed while officials investigate. a fire triggered multiple explosions today at a sherwin-williams plant near dallas. it started early this morning in the city of garland. one worker was treated for injuries. people are being asked to stay away from the plant while officials look into the cause. and in albuquerque, new mexico, a fire that broke out at a plastics recycling plant prompted a health alert on sunday with officials warning the smoke contains hazardous pollutants. thick black smoke could be seen for miles. no word yet on what caused the fire, but it is expected to smolder for days. a man is rescued after being adrift in the atlantic. his harrowing tale is next.

a 25-year-old florida man is recovering after an ordeal at sea. charles gregory was rescued about 12 miles off the coast of st. augustine saturday after a wave damaged his small fishing boat. gregory and his partially submerged boat were adrift for about 35 hours when the coast guard spotted him. gregory's father says his son was scared, dehydrated, sunburned, and suffering from jellyfish stings, but he's expected to be okay.

acclaimed hollywood director william friedkin died today in los angeles. >> everlasting god -- >> friedkin was best known for the horror classic "the exorcist" and his oscar-winning

police drama "the french connection." he also directed and co-wrote the 1985 action thriller "to live and die in l.a." william friedkin was 87. finally tonight, american gymnast simone biles is back. the four-time olympic champion returned to competition this weekend at the u.s. classic outside chicago. biles, considered by many to be the greatest gymnast of all time, jumped, flipped, and twisted her way to the overall title, and she finished first in the vault, floor routine, and balance beam. it was her first meet since dropping out of the tokyo olympics in 2021 with a case of the twisties. that's a mental block that can happen in the middle of a gymnast's routine. next up, the national championships later this month and perhaps the paris olympics in 2024. and that is the overnight news for this tuesday. for some of you, the news continues. for others, please check back later for "cbs mornings." and, of course, follow us online anytime at cbsnews.com. reporting from the nation's

capital, i'm major garrett. this is "cbs news flash." i'm shanelle kaul in new york. a hearing will be held later this week on whether to put a protective order in place in the special counsel's 2020 election

case against donald trump. the order would limit trump's access to discovery materials. judge tanya chutkan has directed attorneys for both sides to meet today to find a time for that hearing. rapper tory lanez is expected to be sentenced today in his 2020 shooting of megan thee stallion. prosecutors are seeking a 13-year prison sentence. and beyoncé refusing to let bad weather ruin the night for her fans. her "renaissance" tour paid $100,000 to keep all washington, d.c. metro stations open an hour late sunday after storms delayed her show. for more, download the cbs news app on your cell phone or connected tv. i'm shanelle kaul, cbs news, new york. it's tuesday, august 8th, 2023. this is the "cbs morning news." breaking overnight, deadly storm outbreak in the east. heavy rain and flash flooding causing major damage and forcing