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hello, and thanks for staying up with us. i'm matt pieper in new york. and here are the top stories on cbs news roundup. former president donald trump is again the target of an attempted assassination, says the fbi. one man is in custody. the town of springfield, ohio becomes a point of attention. and our reporter inside gaza brings you a frightening look at life inside the war zone. the fbi is investigating a possible assassination attempt on former president donald trump. it happened just before 2:00 p.m. eastern time on sunday afternoon, while trump was playing golf on his course in west palm beach, florida. the former president was not injured, after a secret service agent fired shots at a man they spotted near the course with a rifle barrel sticking out of the fence. in a statement, trump said he is safe and well. vice president kamala harris also issued a statement, saying, i am glad he is safe.

violence has no place in america. trump was rushed away from the scene, later returning to his mar-a-lago residence. the suspected gunman fled, and a man was later taken into custody after a chase. >> cbs news has confirmed the name of the suspect is ryan wesley routh. the rifle with a scope was later recovered at the scene. manuel bojorquez is live with more. >> former president donald trump is safe and unharmed. >> reporter: the secret service spotted a man with a rifle along the fence. the suspect was armed with a ak-47-style rifle and a scope, about 300 to 500 yards away from the former president. investigators say he also had a gopro camera and backpacks, containing ceramic tile. secret service agents fired at least four shots at the suspect. but it's unclear whether that person fired back. a witness saw a man running out of the bushes and jump into a

black suv. that witness took a photo of the suspect's car and license plate. about 30 minutes north of the golf club, police stopped a suv with the same license plate number. police took the witness up there to confirm they had the right person. >> the secret service did exactly what they should have done. >> reporter: police say the suspect is in custody, as they work to find a motive. trump had returned to florida from a west coast swing that included a friday night rally in las vegas and a utah fundraiser. roughly two months ago, trump was shot during an assassination attempt at a rally in pennsylvania, and a bullet grazed his ear. the white house says both president joe biden and kamala harris have been briefed on the situation in florida and will receive updates as the investigation continues. manuel bojorquez, cbs news, west palm beach, florida. new fallout in springfield, ohio. in the past week, the city has been targeted by extremist

threats. and now it's attracting extremists, including the proud boys. cbs' skyler henry is covering all the angles for us. >> donald trump and his extremist allies intend to take our nation backward. >> reporter: vice president kamala harris slammed her political opponent at a gala in washington, saturday night. she joined president biden on stage where she also spoke about protecting health care access. >> they will give tax breaks to billionaires and big corporations, cut social security and medicare, and end the affordable care act. >> reporter: her tone follows the republican presidential ticket, amplifying baseless rumors about haitians in springfield, ohio, many of whom are in the u.s. legally with protected status and green cards. >> they're eating the dogs. >> reporter: the city has been thrust into the national conversation on immigration, with unsubstantiated claims immigrants are eating pets. >> i don't know what happened with the bomb threats. >> reporter: while campaigning

in battleground nevada, former president trump commented on the escalating threats on springfield. >> do you regret your words? >> well, margaret, first of all, we condemn all violence and threats of violence. >> reporter: trump's running mate, ohio senator jd vance said on f"face the nation" sunday those behind the threats should be prosecuted, though he also defended spreading the debunked claims. >> people are frustrated with the national media attention. some people are also grateful that finally someone is paying attention to what's going on. ir' you're never going to get this stuff perfect. >> we don't expect to see former president trump on the road until he hosts a town hall in michigan. both he and vice president harris plan to hit several battleground states this week. turning now to the middle east where on sunday, the iran-backed houthis claimed responsibility for firing a missile into israel. no injuries were reported.

there have been thousands of airstrikes since the war began. and we go inside for a report from gaza since the start of the conflict. >> reporter: marwan's family, 12 adults and 12 kids, live together in a rented house. he's reported for cbs for more than 20 years. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: on friday night he sent us a video of a family sing along to take the kids' minds off the war. what was your first warning that something bad was about to happen? >> i heard some noise outside of the house. i went out. i saw lots of people running away. >> reporter: neighbors told him the israeli military had called twice to warn they were about to hit an area around a mosque several streets away. in fact, it was only 50 yards.

you can hear marwan here behind the camera asking "is everyone okay"? physically, they were. but this is lasting trauma. >> thank god that we are alive, we are breathing. it was awful moments for us. >> reporter: in the morning, they could see the missile crater. but still don't know what, or who, was targeted. >> big damage. shrapnels everywhere. >> reporter: what have you told the children? to reassure them? >> what i, i always tell them, i'm sure that it will be end soon. >> reporter: the end of the war, soon? that's a white lie to comfort the children. from our man in gaza who risks his life every day to tell the truth. elizabeth palmer, cbs news, tel aviv. an american pastor who had been jailed in china since 2006

is now free. david lind was serving a life sentence for what the u.s. government calls bogus charges of contract fraud. lind is now in san antonio, texas. his daughter telling politico, we have a lot of time to make up for. we are getting some incredible footage, showing one central european community under floodwaters. this is the historic town of claudesko in poland. from austria to romania, downpours have unleashed deadly flooding that's claimed at least eight lives. coming up after this break on cbs news roundup, absentee ballots are already in the mail. but, is that a safe way to cast your vote? today's world is hectic, and as parents, we need all the help we can get. we know our kids would rather hang out with their digital babysitter, but this babysitter comes straight from big social. tiktok, instagram and youtube promise entertainment and connection, but spread

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i'm matt pieper in new york. there are now just 50 days until the presidential election. absentee ballots are already in the mail. and early voting begins this week in several states. election deniers insist these new voting methods wrongfully affect the results, but mail-in voting has been around for decades. >> reporter: mail-in voting surged in popularity during the pandemic. then, it was the subject of baseless conspiracy theories and false claims of fraud by some critics, including former president donald trump. and his supporters. >> we have to be very careful with the ballots. the ballots, that's a whole big scam. >> reporter: but mail-in voting has only grown in popularity, and it will be used again this year. voting this way is hardly new, or revolutionary. it's older than many of the states that use it. inside the smithsonian's national postal museum in washington this month, they're delivering some of that history. what should people know about the history of this? >> that it's been around so

long, with very little, you know, working pretty well and with very little incident. >> reporter: with this new election year exhibit, including an envelope used to carry votes by civil war soldiers who voted remotely in this hometown elections. and a 100-year-old photo of then president calvin coolidge and the first lady filling out their 1924 ballot. and this blank ballot sent to world war ii troops. troops had to write in the names of their preferred choice. this is a pretty powerful image here. and voting in world war ii internment camps. state election officials this month warned of the risk of late deliveries. of some ballots returned undeliverable because of the high volume of those being processed. but cbs news contributor says teaching the history of mail-in ballots helps counter baseless claims of fraud.

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washington, d.c., is finally complete. the last section, a bronze statue, 60 feet long and 20 tons was unveiled this weekend. nearly a half million served in world war i. why did it take more than a hundred years to finish their memorial? fait faith reports. >> reporter: the memorials have sprung you will with one conspicuous omission. why do you think it took so long to get a national memorial to world war i in our nation's capital? >> if you ask anybody on the streets where the world war i memorial is in d.c., most of them will point you to the d.c. veterans memorial. for a long time, people assumed that it was the national memorial. but the little rotunda that's there is only to district residents. >> reporter: in 2015, joe was a

25-year-old intern at a chicago architecture firm when he heard about a design competition for d.c.'s first national world war i memorial. >> i set up a shelf in my closet. i didn't even have an office. i sent it off and i got a very strange phone call. and, they're like, we're one of five finalists. we need you in washington tomorrow. >> reporter: had you ever been to washington, d.c.? >> had never been, didn't own a suit, had never been to washington. >> i'm pleased to announce that the collision has selected the mission by joseph weishar. >> reporter: his design beat out applicants from over 20 countries. when the memorial opened to the public in 2021, only one thing was missing, an intricate

60-foot-long bronze relief, the center piece. >> i threw out the last hundred years of history in the art world, and i went back to what preceded that period of time. >> reporter: meet saban howard. firebrand, classical sculptor, and self-appointed bulwark against the scourge of modern art. >> artists like jackson pollack, i'm in opposition to them. it's a scam what's happened in the last hundred years. i'm here to rectif that scam. >> reporter: shepherding him through the process was his client, the congressionally-created world war i centennial commission. >> you go to these meetings, and none of them people in the room are artists. they're all lawyers, and, you know, washington bureaucrats. the commission asked me, we need to see more, a dying soldier perhaps, and more suffering, and

then i started posing the models. you had madness, amputations, death. so i went pretty deep. and, when i brought that its racia iteration, chairs went flying, literally, across the room. >> reporter: literally chairs went flying across the room? >> yes. i was treated as "you're working for us", and i took that for a long time. then we got to a moment in the relationship. i stood up, and i said i will not compromise this design. if you don't like it, you sculpt it, and i'll send you some webinars. >> reporter: the world war i centennial commission said they are proud of the magnificent memorial that joe weishar and saban created and how it shows how the process can work. >> it is a movie in bronze. >> reporter: saban howard may lck tact, but he doesn't lack

confidence. >> if you look at this figure, i don't think in the history of art that there's ever been a figure with this much explosive energy. >> reporter: the sculpture charts a soldier's war-time journey, from his ambivalent departure to his wordless homecoming to the animal svagery of combat in between. were these young men prepared for what they were going to find? >> they were not prepared for what they were going to find. just the quagmire, the terror of artillery shells. >> reporter: the sculpture's final tableau illustrates the heavy toll the war exacted on its veterans. >> i think the idea at the end, that it's just a gesture, right? here's the helmet. there's no words there, because maybe there aren't words that can really describe what that soldier has been through. >> it's not, like, graceful or

happy. it's solemn. she's like two feet shorter than the soldiers, but she holds up as a book end the whole wall. a little kid. so there you have it. 60 feet, 25 tons, and 38 figures. >> reporter: nine years of your life. >> yeah. but that's not a lot when you think about it. >> reporter: a hundred years from now, what do you want a visitor to your memorial to experience? >> i want a visitor a hundred years from now have the same feeling that i had when i went to go see the david when i was 25. we are made in god's image. that sculpture is made in god's

it's monday, september 16th, 2024. this is "cbs news mornings." trump targeted. twice within two months. the fbi investigatg