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girlup.org. this is the cbs overnight news. nearly 40 large wildfires are burning tonight in the west. one of the most aggressive is in the foothills of yosemite national park. mireya villarreal is there. >> reporter: the ferocious detweiler fire just outside yosemite national park exploded overnight, doubling in size and burning over 45,000 acres. flames leapt across highway 49, closing the road. more than 2,000 firefighters have been battling the massive blaze since sunday, but as the wind pushed the fire closer to a community of 1,500 homes late tuesday, california's governor, jerry brown, declared a state of emergency. thousands were ordered to evacuate the town of mariposa.
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main street became a ghost town. mia glor owns the mariposa lodge. >> everybody is scared. you would never think something like this would happen in your town. >> reporter: the fire has knocked out power lines and threatened more in yosemite during this peak tourist season. record rain that ended the drought has also fueled the fire, creating dense vegetation that has burned with lightning speed. cal fire's lucas spielman. what is it about this fire that blew it out of control over the last 24 hours? >> as you can see, with the dead trees, the brush, it's just a combination of everything. it's a powder keg. that's why it's continuing to burn quicker than we can contain it. >> reporter: more than a dozen choppers and air tankers are making constant water and retardant drops, but cal fire has requested even more help to try to get ahead of the fire. the fire is right behind me. you can actually see the smoke and the ash pouring over these homes into this community. firefighters, dozens of them, are standing at the ready. they've already pulled their lines into people's backyards. they are ready to protect these homes, but not just homes. they are ready to protect people.
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i just spoke with a home owner in this house here who is refusing to leave despite the evacuation orders. anthony? >> mason: mireya villarreal on the front lines of that firefight in california. thanks. today minneapolis police put out transcripts of 911 calls made saturday by a yoga instructor. she was shot and killed minutes later by a responding officer. jamie yuccas is following the case. >> reporter: this morning family and friends in australia said good-bye to the 40-year-old justine damond, who had moved to minnesota three years ago and was set to marry her fiancée next month. damond was killed saturday by police officer mohamed noor. >> 530, shots fired. >> reporter: the 911 call transcripts show she called to report hearing a woman, possibly being sexually assaulted. she told the dispatcher, "i think she tried to say help, and it sounds distressed." during the second call, the operator said, "you're hearing a female screaming?"
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justine said, "yes, along behind the house." we also learned today from damond family attorney bob bennett that justine called her fiancée don about what she heard outside before her call the 911. >> she called him about being woken up by a sound that troubled her, and then they debated for a while, and then she heard them again and decided to call him again. he recommended that she call 911. >> reporter: officer noor's partner, matthew harrity, told investigators the two drove down an alley behind damond's south minneapolis home with their lights off searching for the suspect. harrity says that's when he heard a loud bang. immediately after damond approached the driver's side window. noor, sitting in the passenger seat, fired his gun and shot damond. she died of a gunshot wound to the abdomen. officer noor declined to be interviewed by investigators, but anthony, the attorney representing his partner says
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that it is reasonable to assume that the two may have thought they were being ambushed. >> mason: jamie yuccas in minneapolis. thank you, jamie. venezuela is in crisis. the economy tanked when oil prices fell. food is scarce, and at least 90 have died in protest. president trump is threatening sanctions if the socialist president goes ahead with a new power grab. manuel bojorquez reports tonight from its border with colombia. >> reporter: at this border checkpoint, luggage is the easiest way to spot venezuelans looking for a new life. marcos gonzales crossed into cucuta, colombia, with his wife and son. a lot of pain? this is real life. tens of thousands of venezuelans cross into colombia, even just for the day, in search of food and work, but now they're fleeing the deadly fighting between the venezuelan military
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and protesters who blame the government for the country's economic collapse. >> (translated): she said you need to go. >> reporter: jose oropeza fled venezuela two months ago, leaving behind his wife and two children, because he feared becoming a political prisoner. why? >> (translated): because i see children who have nothing to eat, people who are hungry, the elderly knocking on my door for coffee or food. >> reporter: medicine is also in short supply. on the colombian side of the border, cucuta's main hospital used to see one or two venezuelan women a week for prenatal care. now it's as many as five or six a day. some have crossed to give birth. dr. juan montoya is the hospital's general manager. >> (translated): we can't keep treating venezuelan patients and not being reimbursed, but they keep coming, not knowing when
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they may be able to cross that bridge back home. >> reporter: venezuela's president refuses to back down, even in the face of further u.s. sanctions. anthony, the opposition is planning a nationwide strike tomorrow, setting the stage for even more unrest. >> mason: manuel bojorquez on the venezuelan-colombian border. and still highway, o.j. simpson makes his case for parole, and hollywood got it wrong for the t-rex running was no walk in the jurassic park. no matter who was in there last. protection. new lysol power & fresh 6 goes to work flush after flush
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>> first time i met o.j. was in the gym. >> reporter: jeffrey felix was one of simpson's first guards at the correctional center. what was he like when he arrived there? >> o.j. had a very positive attitude. he knew he was going to get paroled, and that's all he thought about. >> reporter: now 70 years old, simpson will make his case thursday to nevada's parole board. >> i think he'll say, "i committed a crime. i've paid my time. i've accepted responsibility." >> reporter: criminal defense attorney trent copeland has followed simpson's legal troubles since his acquittal in the murders of nicole brown simpson and ron goldman. >> some people will say, nevada did what california couldn't do. that 1994 case involving o.j. simpson cannot be part of this parole board hearing at all, as a matter of law. >> reporter: even with a flurry of recent films about simpson, he hasn't spoken publicly since his last parole hearing in 2013. >> i'm just sorry that all of
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this had to happen. >> reporter: felix says simpson has been a model inmate and deserves to be released. what will happen to him if he doesn't get paroled? >> if you're in o.j.'s shoes and you're clean for nine years and you get denied parole, how is that even possible? it might destroy him. >> reporter: but even freedom could carry a price. if he gets released, what will life be like for o.j. simpson now? >> he still will live with the albatross that comes with being a social pariah who many people believe is a murderer. >> reporter: if simpson is granted parole, he won't leave this remote desert prison immediately. his actual release date, anthony, will not be until october. >> mason: john blackstone in nevada. thanks, john. and we're back in just a moment.
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trash-filled lot, seemingly unaware his body camera is recording. moments later he retrieves the can, which contained a bag of white capsules. prosecutors have now dropped charges against the man arrested for drugs. the afghan robotics team that competed in washington this week is going home with a silver medal. they were honored for courageous achievement and exhibiting a can-do attitude at the international meet. the girls were allowed to come to the u.s. after president trump personally intervened to get them visas. and up next, the t-rex. why getting around was no small "feet." >> this portion of the "cbs evening news" is sponsored by the american petroleum institute. visit www.powerpastimpossible.org.
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>> mason: finally tonight, you've been to the museum, seen "jurassic park," talked to your kids, and you're ready to declare you're up to speed on the tyrannosaurus rex. well, scientists say not so fast. here's jonathan vigliotti. >> reporter: it's one of the most iconic moments in steven spielberg's legendary "jurassic
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park." an angry t-rex charges at a group of terrified researchers, who look like they don't stand a chance. but you may not need four-wheel drive to escape when you've got two feet. a new study suggests the tyrannosaurus could barely run at all. >> t-rex was quite a lot slower than people have thought. >> reporter: professor william selers, who led the study, says the prehistoric beast was so big its legs would have buckled under the high speeds of 45 miles per hour it was once believed to run. >> the problem with that is that running that fast, it actually breaks all the bones in its legs. >> reporter: the mighty t-rex, less stealth predator, more awkward park jogger. selers' research at the university of manchester analyzed the dinosaur's bone size, density, and movement to determine the t-rex was limited to walking speeds.
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at its fastest, an adult t-rex can only reach about 12mph, left in the dust by olympian usain bolt. even the average human is faster. >> if it couldn't move very quickly, was it an ambush predator, for example, or was it going around and relying on already-dead animals and just being a sort of scavenger? >> reporter: while scavenger doesn't exactly hit hollywood's killer image, the t-rex still holds one key title -- strongest jaws of any animal on land. what it lacks in speed, it makes up for in bite. jonathan vigliotti, cbs news, london. and that's the overnight for thursday. for some, the news p comets. for others, check back later. for the morning news and cbs this morning. from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm anthony mason. thanks for watching. ♪
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this is the "cbs overnight news." welcoming to the overnight news, i'm michelle miller. o.j. simpson is back in the spotlight today, up for parole, and will appear in court via video conference from the lovelock correction center in nevada. he was acquitted in what many called the trial of the century, the murders of his wife and her male friend, but years later, he was convicted of robbery and other charges and sentenced to 33 years in prison. that was nine years ago. john blackstone reports. >> reporter: o.j. simpson had never been convicted of a crime until this botched robbery a decade ago at a vegas casino.
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he said he tried to take back memorabilia that belonged to him at gun point. he was sentenced to 33 years. >> first time i met him was in the gym. >> reporter: he was his guard. what was he like? >> a very positive at to do. he knew he would be paroled, and that's all he thought about. >> reporter: now 70 years old, he makes his case thursday to the parole board. >> i think he'll say, i committed a crime, paid my time, accepted responsibility. >> reporter: the criminal defense lawyer, trent copeland, followed the legal troubles since the acquittal of his ex-wife and her friend, ron goldman. >> people say, hey, listen, nevada did what california couldn't do. that 1994 case involving o.j. simpson cannot be a part of the parole board hearing at all as a matter of law >> reporter: even with the flurry of recent films about simpson, he has not spoken
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publicly since his last parole hearing in 2013. >> you know, i'm just sorry all of this had to happen. >> reporter: felix said simpson is a model inmate and deserves to be released. what will happen to him, do you think, if he does not get parole? >> in o.j. shoes, kept clean for nine years and denied parole? how is that even possible? i mean, it might destroy him. >> reporter: even freedom could carry a price. if he gettings released, what's life like? >> will live with the ab ra tros that comes with being a social praia who many believe is a murderer. >> reporter: if granted parole, he's not leaving this remote desert prison immediately. release date will not be until october. the republican plan to repeal and replace the affordable care act is the bill that just won't die. the senate majority leader couldn't round up enough votes to bring it to the floor for
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debate. president trump is demanding that senators cancel their summer vacation plans and stay in washington until they push it through. nancy cordes has the latest. >> i'm ready to act. i have pen in hand. believe me. i'm sitting in that office. i have pen in hand. >> reporter: 24 hours after the obamacare replacement plan hit a dead end, the president urged senate republicans to restart the car, appealing to their sense of duty. >> people are hurting. inaction is not an option. >> reporter: and their sense of shame. >> you know, for seven years you had an easy route. we'll repeal, we'll replace, and he's not going to sign it. well, i'm signing it. >> reporter: he even issued this veiled threat to moderate holdout dean heller of nevada, who was seated conveniently to his right. >> look, he wants the remain a senator, doesn't he? and i think the people of your state, which i know very well, i think they're going to
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appreciate what you hopefully will do. >> reporter: but the president himself has sent mixed messages. in the last 24 hours he's promoted repeal and replace, repeal alone, and doing nothing. >> we'll let obamacare fail. >> reporter: today he was back to option one, belatedly selling a replacement plan that all but died two days ago. >> you'll have forms of insurance that you don't even know about right now. >> reporter: republican leaders have already moved on to a fallback bill that repeals obamacare without a replacement. >> we will look like fools if we can't deliver on that promise. >> reporter: but today the non-partisan congressional budget office warned that approach would leave 17 million americans without coverage next year, a number that would climb to 32 million by 2026. moderate republicans already have the votes to block it. >> we promised we would repeal and replace. we want to do that, but we want to do it the right way. >> reporter: the president's
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scolding did prompt senate republicans to scheduled a meeting once again tonight to find a consensus on a replacement plan. the president told them they should not leave town until they do, but the white house would not say, anthony, whether he too plans to abide by that directive. opposition leaders in venezuela called for a strike today to protest the president's idea to rewrite the constitution. the country's in turmoil, and a lot of people are trying to get out. >> reporter: he crossed with his wife and son. a lot of pain.
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this is real life. tens of thousands of venezuelans cross into colombia, even just for the day, in search of food and work, but now they're fleeing the deadly fighting between the venezuelan military and protesters who blame the government for the country's economic collapse. >> translator: she said, you need to go. >> reporter: jose oropeza fled venezuela two months ago, leaving behind his wife and two children, because he feared becoming a political prisoner. why? >> translator: because i see children who have nothing to eat, people who are hungry, the elderly knocking on my door for coffee or food. >> reporter: medicine is also in short supply. on the colombian side of the border, cucuta's main hospital used to see one or two venezuelan women a week for prenatal care. now it's as many as five or six a day. some have crossed to give birth. dr. juan montoya is the hospital's general manager.
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>> translator: we can't keep treating venezuelan patients and not being reimbursed, but they keep coming, not knowing when they may be able to cross that bridge back home. >> reporter: venezuela's president refuses to back down, even in the face of further u.s. sanctions. anthony, the opposition is planning a nationwide strike tomorrow, setting the stage for even more unrest. and the cbs overnight news will be right back.
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this is the "cbs overnight news." for more than 500 years, explorers searched the jungle of central america for the lost city of the monkey god. legend say it's protected by evil spells and poisonous snakes. we spoke to adventurers who found the site and lived to tell the tale. >> reporter: the best selling author, preston, says he doesn't believe in courses, and yet here he is, treated for an illness contracted from a jungle expedition to a site rumored for centuries to rain misfortune down on anyone who entered. >> i would never trade that
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experience for anything. it was so powerful. >> reporter: his tale begins in the rain forest carpeting some 20,000 square miles of honduras. >> the legend is there was a great city in the mountains that was struck by a series of disasters, and the inhabitants thought gods were angry at them and left leaving all their belongings behind. >> reporter: some call it the white city. others? the city of the monkey god. its possible existence tannalized seekers for centuries. >> who doesn't like a story that has mystery in it? let's go and see what happens. >> they might come back today from the other sites too. >> reporter: launching the latest expedition in 2012 and invited doug preston to write about it. you went along because why?
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>> i thought steve's never going to find the lost city, that's ridiculo ridiculous, but, who knows, even if he doesn't, it makes a good story. >> reporter: but this time, he had something no previous expeditions to the area did. >> check things here. >> reporter: it's called lidar, a high-tech laser mapping system. peering through a hole cut in the bottom of an old sky master, it scans dense jungle in a matter of days. the problem? it was expensive. >> this one shows the full scale of the convoy. >> reporter: enter this documentary filmmaker, bill bennoson who footed the million-dollar plus bill if he could capture the adventure on film. >> this technology could see through the jungle canopy and potentially reveal the contours of what might be underneath it. it seemed like a valuable
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gamble. >> i'm here for the moment. >> reporter: one that soon paid off. what the lidar revealed once the jungle canopy was removed shocked everyone on the team. >> i zoomed into about this level, and i just went holy crap. and i said, this is what looks like rectangular structures. >> yeah. definite. >> that's about as linear, that's a right angle. >> either manmade or the world's most intelligent gophers were out there doing things they had never done before. >> reporter: what did you think you found initially? >> a city, an ancient city, that we knew, but what was it beyond that was for the archaeologist to find out. >> reporter: that was colorado state's chris fisher. sounds to be a big deal. >> i think it is. you know, but for this area, from regionally, i think it's
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very, very important. >> reporter: helps national geographic artists come up with this rendering with what the city might have looked like. >> that's the plaza. >> reporter: had to get there on foot to know for sure. there's a stair way that goes here, and it took three long years of planning. just to get into this jungle is extremely dangerous, and once you're there, thick, thick with poisonous snakes. >> reporter: the deadliest? a pit viper. docile enough during the day, but when one slithered into camp under the cover of darkness, that caused an understandable panic. on the team, a jungle warfare expert who leapt into action. >> he killed the snake, but the snake exploded and furry striking everywhere, squirting venom, you know, streams of venom across the night air.
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>> reporter: the next morning, the jungle seemed a little less ominous. the march to the site began. it was like cutting your way through a shag carpet. what was not growing was oozing and mud. >> that's a pyramid right there in front of you. >> where? >> right there. you're looking at it. that big lump. can't say i see a whole lot from here. >> that's what it is. that's a pyramid. it's made out of earth. >> reporter: there were no stone structures, just foundation, but the next day, almost by accident, disappointment turned to jubilation. >> there's inscriptions right here. >> reporter: first thing i see is a jaguar head coming out of the ground carved in stone snarling. >> woah, woah, everybody stop! back up. don't touch or clear anything,
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please. >> reporter: there at their feet was a trove of artifacts believed to date from the 16th century. personal belongings of inhabitants who fled the valley as one theory has it, in desperate attempt to escape disease and slavery. >> it was phenomenal to think that in the 21st century you could still find something like this on the surface of the earth. >> reporter: some in the academic community, however, are not so easily impressed. >> we don't go out looking for treasure anymore. we go out looking for knowledge. >> reporter: rosemary joyce, professor of anthropology at berkley said an expedition made with filmmakers reeks indiana jones more than science and some more than 20 others agree. >> no objection to the adventure story, but it's portrayed as archaeology, and it's not. >> reporter: indigenous people bristled when the honduras president removed the first
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artifact himself. they considered the site sacred and said it should be left alone. so in the end, what this expedition unearthed was more than relics. it became a stew of excitement, questions, criticisms, and ill-health. >> maybe, you'll end up in the hospital like this. >> reporter: months after leaving the jungle, doug noticed a bite from a sand fly that just wouldn't heal, so did chris fisher. the national institutes of health diagnosed it as a frightening parasite disease. >> the parasite migrates through the mucus membranes of the mouth and nose and basically eats them away. your nose falls off. your lips fall off. eventually, your face becomes a huge open sore. >> reporter: over the next few months, half the expedition came down with the early symptoms and had to undergo the painful
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treatment. >> that's good helicopter shot, the overview. >> reporter: bill benonson and elkins spared, and the documentary about the adventure is in the final edit. doug bucks the criticism titled the book "the lost city of the monkey god," and as for the site? well, only a fraction of it has been excavated, and questions linger about how or if to go back again. >> too dangerous to stay there. too dangerous. just getting in and out is dangerous. >> reporter: it seems the jupgle fights to keep its secrets, the vail makes a better accounting of what's really there difficult at best. and that, in the end, may be the most lasting curse of all ♪ you're gonna have dizziness, nausea, and sweaty eyelids. ♪ ♪ and in certain cases chronic flatulence. ♪ no
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you think it looks good in the showroom, wait until you see it on the roads. the new bugatti shiron is designed to get your attention, but you better look fast. >> accelerating and hitting the brakes hard at the top. >> wow! like being in a fighter jet. wow. >> reporter: like a fighter jet, we pull nearly 2gs hitting 116 miles per hour in just a few seconds, but that need for speed doesn't come cheap. you'll need to be in the tom cruise or jamie foxx tax bracket to afford one. what do i spend? >> average is $3.3 million. correct. >> reporter: he's the chief operating officer. >> you get one of 500 cars built worldwide, exclusive limited edition. you get a car which is the most powerful, most beautiful, and most luxury car in the world. our customers, they open an average of 35 cars, and they
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a lot of p dinosaur lovers see red from a study in england. it claims the t-rex could barely walk muchless run, and he had to ska veng for his food. here's more. >> reporter: t-rex here at london's natural history museum as an apex predator, meaning anything in its way, it's breakfast. fortunately for the visit es, he's a robot, but if he was real, science suggests to avoid being eaten, all you needed to do was simply run away. this is one of cinema's classic scene, angry t-rex charges terrified researchers in steven
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spielberg's jurassic park, but the stuff of legend could be fiction. new science says the mighty t-rex could barely run at all. >> t-rex was quite a lot slower than people thought. >> reporter: this professor selers led the study says the prehistoric beast was so big its legs would have bucklinged under the high speeds of 45 miles per hour it was once believed to run. >> the problem with that is it breaks the bones in its legs. they believe it was the stuff of night mares, running around, this huge animal, but you have to bring reality into it. >> reporter: the research at the university of manchester analyzed the t rex-'s bone side, density, and movement to determine the t-rex was limited to walking speeds. an unflattering simulation shows the prehistoric beast is less stealth predator and more
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awkward park jogger. at its fastest, an adult t-rex reaches about 12 miles per hour left in the dust by bolt who runs 28 miles per hour, and even the average human is faster. >> i was a little bit disappointed, i have to say, i mean, not necessarily surprised, but i think i was hoping for it to be a bit quicker. >> reporter: the new research has rocked the science community, and the way we understand the monsters of her past says dr. paul. >> not a predator at all and restricted to being a scavenger in what was littlering in the environment. >> reporter: a scavenger does not fit the image of the ruler of the rock. protect tor versus scavenger at this point unclear, but it holds one key title for now. scientists believe he has the strongest jaw of any animal to ever roam earth, ten times more powerful than the alligator.
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