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also a record. after cruz lost, correll said he kidded trump but campaign missteps left him discouraged. >> donald trump has anemic mol numbers, anemic fund-raising numbers. he can't win by rallies alone. >> reporter: you are literally any body but trump? >> well that's not very hard. >> i think it is pretty unlikely. >> reporter: david norcross former counsel to republican national committee and skeptical of the never trump movement. >> obviously there is no other person involved. the old staying you can't beat somebody with nobody. >> reporter: a new poll shows more than half of republicans are dissatisfied with trump as their nominee. charlie, party leaders believe they can block any procedural moves aimed at derailing trump but are looking at a tough debate and
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new flash flood warnings up in west virginia. more rain for a state already swamped by horrendous flooding that has killed 23 people. kris van cleave is there. >> reporter: over the hardest hit areas of west virginia once again under a flood warning. the national guard is rushing medical supplies running out of the town. just one of several hard hit areas, some remain flooded. others are trying to clean up the devastation the flood left behind. lieutena lieutenant colonel todd harrell. >> inconceivable damage. people fair to realize every inch of this, the impact is huge. and i think the recovery effort, we are just now starting to grasp the scope. >> reporter: the guard estimates more than 1,000 homes have been destroyed along with h
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businesses. you don't realize until you are in it. just how it feels. sherri coles' home is one of them. it filled with water and then mud. now it's full of strangers helping clean up. >> this is a lot. it says a lot for us that live here not just in west virginia. just for people in general. people are really willing to help. >> reporter: some road remain flooded deep enough to nearly submerge the humvee. for melissa sanders who watched the two homes next to hers wash away killing her brother-in-law, the idea of more rain today is just too much. >> i don't think i will ever feel safe again. i will be terrified every time it rains. >> reporter: the severe weather does limit the guards ability to fly. but this helicopter is about to go check out reports of possible flooding because of the rain. charlie, the region stays under a flash flood watch until midnight. >> thank you, kris. the stock markets have not gotten over britain's decision to leave the european union.
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points today. after dropping more than 600 on friday. cbs news financial contributor mellody hobson is in britain t will britain's exit, early to tell, be a long term problem? >> this is aster that is going to play out over years. not weeks. not months. and the one thing we know about the stock market if we know anything, is that it hates uncertainty. so i would expect additional volatility in the months and weeks and years ahead. but i would also caution people not to do anything rash. do not make any quick moves as it relates to your investments or retirement plans. this is the time when you want to sit tight. >> what about the united states job market? >> i would not expect a direct impact on the united states job market except for those multinational companies that have huge imports into the uk. companies look ford, and xerox, ebay, may be i
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time because their imports, suddenly became a lot more e expensive in great britain because of what happened to its currency. mellody hobson, thank you. as if to underscore the difficulty britain faces. to date pound fell to a three decade low at over $1.30. standard & poors lowered britain's credit rating. mark phillips has more on this. >> reporter: it may be years before britain actually leaves the eu, but already nothing is the same. starting with the money. the continuing fall of the pound -- and the tailspin on the stock market means britain is already poorer. the warnings of an economic downturn are becoming fact. the leaders of the winning leave the eu campaign, like boris johnson, had dismissed those warnings. he was now dismissing the reality. >> it's clear now that project fear is over. >> reporter: it has been replaced by another project, the embitter
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say. >> project fear has turned to project farce. >> reporter: with its economic future on the line. britain must now decide when to press the eject button to trigger the start of exit negotiations. and it is in no hurry. >> i don't take back what i said about the risks. it is going to be difficult. >> david cameron told parliament he was still quitting and nothing would happen until his successor is chosen in a few months. in the current state of limbo, british business hedging its bets. a survey of 1,000 companies, revealed many are freezing investment. one in five is planning to move jobs outside of the uk. simon walker is head of the business institute that polled its members. has britain voted for a decision? >> i think there will be a recession. how long it lasts, no one can be sure. >> reporter: now a chastened david kamt ron has how to go to brussels to meet the eu leaders.
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response to brexit. cameron has been uninvited for the second day. and by the way, england were knocked out of the european soccer championships tonight by tiny iceland. >> mark phillips in london, thank you. britain may want to exit slowly, but the rest of europe has a different idea. seth doan has that part of the story. >> reporter: just 20 miles separate england's white cliffs of dover from europe. but the political gulf is growing wider. freeing to avoid a messy divorce, leaders of france, germany, and italy met in berlin and emerged with a unified message. don't waste time, said french president, francois holland. europe's leaders want britain to start separation pre seedings soon. while britain seems to be in no hurry. there must be no delay said chancellor angela merkel, the longer the delay in negotiations, merkel
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likely that other countries may lead. talks of referendums in half a dozen countries. among them is hungary which recently built a razor wire fence to keep migrants out. building walls seems to sum up today's mood. the departure from a europe build on the free movement of people and goods. so we cannot talk anymore. we should act. from the italy's new protest party, the five stars movement. he said britain's exit is a chance to reform the eu. >> i think the brexit means we know exact low what is going on next. we can manage a little bit more what is going on in europe. >> secretary of state john kerry started his dapt here y in romen to brussels to urge leaders to make wise choices not aimed at revenge. italy's prime minister said it is time to start a new chapter for europe. >> seth, thank you. >> next, california gets no
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hot dry wind are stoking wildfires in the west. 22 large fires are burning across eight states. the biggest, east of bakersfield, california, claimed two lives and scorched over 45,000 acres. mireya villarreal its there. >> reporter: for five days extreme heat and high wind fueled the most destructive fire the county has ever seen. >> my god. >> reporter: a couple evacuating shot this video as they drove through a wall of smoke and flames. the fire has left behind a trail of destruction. is this your roof here? >> yes. this had been tyra fuller's home for 16 years. when i got to my grandmother's rocking chair when i lost it. i was the first baby she walked in it. then my brother. my kids. and, and, it's gone. my
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in the chair. most residents living in the hardest hit areas are being kept away for their own safety. this frustrated homeowner was tackled and arrested after crossing a police road block. jim terry's house was spared but he is watching out for his neighborsat to keep looters away. >> they're people. they're humans. and i love people. and i believe that's why all of these houses and stuff up here have to be taken care of. more than 2,000 people are still fighting this fire. the damage is estimated at 7.6 million so far. charlie, officials are working around the clock to try and clear this mess up. but clearly the damage is already done by the erskin fire. still no word yet on when people will return home. >> mireya, thank you so much. incredible. fires on one coast. flooding on another. when we come back -- comedian jay leno gets shaken up after a stunt goes wrong.
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dash-cam video released in south carolina is raising the question abut the use of force. shows a white officer, shooting a black teenager in a car. >> stop! do not make me shoot you! stop! [ gunfire ] >> seven shots were fired at close range. just one bullet hit the 17-year-old. he was not hurt seriously. and was st
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two pistols were found in the car, which was reported stolen. the officer from the forest acres police department is on leave pending an investigation. >> things got very scary aboard a singapore airlines jetliner, the boeing 777 burst into flames after making an emergency landing in singapore. passengers took this video, everyone had to stay inside until the flames were put out. nobody was hurt. comedian and car lover jay leno can cross two things off his bucket list. riding up on two wheels inside a modified plymouth barracuda known as hemi under glass. and then crashing in it while shooting a segment for his cable television show. the veteran stunt driver, bob riggle who is 80 was behind the wheel. both men escaped unhurt. but the same cannot be said for the car. next, a symbol of gay pride and activism is now a
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new york city stone wall inn became a national monument today. it is a place of pride where blood and tears have been shed. >> reporter: in 1960s america, it was illegal to be homosexual. police raids on gay bars were common. but on the night of june 2th,
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1969, gay residents of greenwich village decided they had enough and they took a stand at the stonewall inn fighting back against police. the violence led todays of protests, ultimately igniting the gay rights movement. it took 47 years, but the historical importance of what happened in this tiny manhattan neighborhood finally received federal recognition. >> now i am going to take you on a little journey back in time. >> reporter: 68-year-old tommy lanegan schmidt spoke, he was 21 when he took part in the riots in '69. >> it makes me very happy to be here. and, i think it means, even more to newer generations because they have something through this to give them a sense of dignity. >> reporter: five decades later, gays and lesbians can openly serve in the military, and frae to marry and adopt children. but there are still challenges and dangers. given the mass shooting in
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orlando, new yorker scott rodgers says it still takes courage to be himself. >> we are not going to be subdued and scared and frightened on purpose. nobody is going to make us feel frightened. >> reporter: yesterday, thousands marched past stonewall inn and in cities all over the word. in parade to honor those who stood up to persecution that night in 1969. taking part, millions of people proud to be gay. and millions more proud to be accepting of those who are. don dahler, cbs news, new york. that's the "cbs overnight news" for this tuesday. for some of you, the news continues. for others, check back with us a little later for the "morning news" and "cbs this morning." from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm charlie rose.
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this is the "cbs overnight news." welcome to the "cbs overnight news." tension is already growing between great britain and the european union over the timing of the so-called brexit. prime minister david cam run who said he will step down wants to leave the paperwork to his successor. but the leaders of germany, italy and france are in no mood to wait on british politics. they're refusing to begin negotiations with london until they see a formal request to secede. meanwhile, scotland and northern ireland are considering possibly leaving britain to stay in the eu. and some in the uk are pushing for a second referendum to reverse the brexit vote. charlie d'agata reports. >> last week was
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week bregret. meanwhile, the pound plummets against the dollar, down 3%. after a 10% drop friday. the lowest in more than 30 years. >> treasury chief george osborne's this morning was to be bland and reassuring. keep calm and carry on. >> it will not be plain sailing in the days ahead. but let me be clear. you should not underestimate our resolve. we were prepared for the unexpected. we are equipped for whatever happens. >> reporter: a whole lot has happened and markets hate instability. david cameron, the lame-duck prime minister who fell on his sword still has to run the country in crisis but he will be gone by october. the favorite to replace cameron and calm the storm clouds, gathering over the government, is former mayor boris johnson. but he led the campaign to lead. >> all people want to see is a syem
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to all people coming from around the world. >> reporter: then there is opposition leader jeremy corben. >> are you going to resign? >> reporter: facing calls to step down after nearly a dozen members of his cabinet resigned and nothing less than a coup. on his way here from rome, secretary of state, john kerry whose diplomatic skills will be pushed to the limit helping to manage the fallout. >> we will continue. the united states, to have a very close and special relationship. with great britain. we value that relationship. that does not change because of this vote. prime minister david cameron meeting with his cabinet today. he wants to delay even the start of the withdrawal until his successor is in place. european ministers aren't so sympathetic saying the decision is binding and final. >> the u.k. referendum has become a flash point on the presidential campaign trail. two new polls show hillary clinton building on
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over donald trump. one poll has her up five points over trump nationally. another find clinton with a 12-point advantage. a cbs news battleground tracker poll shows clinton with a slight edge in four battleground states. colorado, florida, wisconsin, north carolina. clinton was campaigning in a swing say the, ohio with potential runningmate, massachusetts senator elizabeth warren. >> donald trump cheered on britain's current crisis which has sucked billions of dollars out of your retirement accounts. because he said, hey it might bring more rich people to his new golf course. he cheered on the 2008, housing crash because he could scoop up more real estate on the cheap. he cheered on students desperate enough to sign up for his fake university, so he could bleed them dry and turn a profit for himself. what kind of a man does
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people to lose their jobs, to lose their homes, to lose their life savings. i will tell you what kind of a man -- a small, inb secure, money grubber who fights for no one but himself. >> nancy cordes has more. >> reporter: their first joint appearance since warren endorsed clinton a couple of weeks ago. you can expect to hear more from both of them about trump's jubilant response to the brexit vote. they will call his reaction reckless for suggesting that a weakened uk currency would drive more foreigners to his scottish golf course. >> in the day after the vote -- americans lost $100 billion from our 401(k)s. >> reporter: at a mayor's conference in indianapolis, clinton criticized trump's cheery reaction to economic turmoil in the uk. >> when the pound goes down.
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turnbury. >> she suggested it was self serving and unpresidential. >> we need leaders who put the interests of the american people ahead of their personal business interests. >> reporter: when we mile her campaign rushed to release this new ad. >> stocks tank around the world. >> brand new sprinkler system. highest level. >> talking abut his new sprinkler system. >> that will be airing nationally this week. >> in a volatile world, the last thing we need is a volatile president. >> trump's campaign manager, paul manofort argued the brexit vote and trump's rise both reflect a hunger for change. >> hillary clinton is ignoring the reality she is part of the establishment. she want get away from the fact she its part of the problem being rejected. >> reporter: the cbs news battleground poll does show that in florida, and elsewhere, trump is kidded far more likely than clinton to bring change. though, she is more widely seen as prepared to be
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>> it could be a while before we know who will be dividing up the $300 million estate of the late rock star prince. he died of a drug overdose in april. apparently left no will. prince has a sister and at least five half-siblings. they were represented in court yesterday by nearly two dozen lawyers. the judge has to deter men who is in line for a share of the estate and who is responsible for a huge tax bill. jamie yuccas reports. ♪ seven hours and 66 days ♪ since you took your music away ♪ >> reporter: more than two months after prince's death. artists are still mourning the loss of one of the music industry's biggest stars. while the music world pays tribute -- prince's relatives are just starting the long legal battle. >> come on, guys, let us through. >> reporter: over everything he left behind. with no known will and no
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children or living parents. prince's estate was placed into a trust under the control of bremmer bank. tyka nelson and half five siblings could share the estate. more than 20 people have come forward as well. claiming to be an heir to the late musician. a dna test ruled out a colorado inmate who claimed to be prince's son. they had to submit affidavits to the bank. the bank is making a determination of who they're now asking to receive dna test thousands. >> reporter: how the tests will be conducted is one of the things discussed in minnesota probate court. another major issue the heirs will need to figuree out is paying prince's estate tax. if prince actually had a $300 million estate, you're looking at having to come up with $150 million in nine months. >> reporter: the value of prince's estate is also difficult to determine. for example, a guitar once owned by prince just sold at auction for more than $137,000. there are also reports that
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do you know who is at the root of your family tree. searching for ancestry has become big business. tracy smith has the background. >> i love being a daddy. it is just one of funnest things to do. >> reporter: at 55, kevin giddens is only now finding out who he really is. just after he was born, his unwed teenage mother gave him up for adoption. with no real family history, and no ties to any of his blood relatives, kevin was basically a stranger to himself. >> did you feel kind of incomplete? >> definitely. i knew nothing about me. can you imagine growing up knowing nothing abut your health, your family, knew nothing. at school when kids have reports on their family history, there
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with nothing. >> yeah. >> he knew he wanted to trace his roots. he didn't know hue relatively easy it would be. >> family history has become a multibillion dollar business. it is said to be the second biggest hobby in the u.s., right behind gardening. and online, genealogy is the second most visited website category. only porn is more popular. if you want to trace your family back through time. this is the place. salt lake city. home to the mormon church whose members trace their family trees to find ancestor whose died without being baptized so they can be baptized and brought into the fold. the mormons have the largest family search library on earth, the largest commercial ancestry service, ancestry.com is just down the road. around here, they spend a lot of time reading microfilm and sorting through old court
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some of it is in books. so they have archivists who do this all day. you might say it is a real page turner. for fees that start at around $20 a month they will give you access to their database. and, maybe a peek into your past. what are people most interested in finding out? am i related to a celebrity. >> michelle erki sbchlt rak is a historian. >> what do you think it is? why such an emotional journey? >> it is so personal. there are thing cruise can learn about yourself and your family that you can't learn in any other way. >> there are billions of records that people can search through? >> from the comfort of your home. >> it can all be pretty -- entertaining. >> on this episode. chris noth traces his family back to a devastating catastrophe. >> look a bomb went off. >> ancestry.com helps produce several tv shows w
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celebrities climb their own family trees like tlc's who do you think you are. >> our cbs colleague, julie chen trace herd roots in china and learned that her maternal grandfather was a business tycoon and so much more. >> but what you found out was pretty interesting? >> what i found out was pretty interesting. i mean the -- the riches to rags to riches was the least of it. my, grandfather had many, many wives. and many, many children. so, i have a lot of relatives. >> but before her grandfather died of cancer, at age 62, he founded a school that stands to this day. >> i am like -- wow. grandpa had like -- like a big heart and could see past his own suffering. i wish i were that big of a person. i dent know if i would be.
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was less compelling. still pretty interesting for me, any way. >> this is his passenger list when he left germany and came to new york in 1883. this is preellis island. >> jeez. >> reporter: they found documents showing the exact date my great grandfather stepped off the boat. they also found the boat. this is the boat. this is a picture of the ship that they traveled on in this passenger list. >> reporter: the last document that i have is a picture of your mom. this is a yearbook photo we pfound from her. >> aw. >> have you seen this? >> no. how crazy is that? >> and itch you want to go really deep -- ancestry.com is one of more than two dozen come pans that will probe your dna, the results can potentially tell you who you're related to. where in the world you came from. and, what your ethnicity might be. >> actually, some cases finding ancestor for pe
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nothing abut where they come from. >> reporter: ancestry ceo tim sullivan says dna are helpful to a point. >> very ak tccurate, a close con or family member. i say close, third, fourth. or maybe fifth cousins. as the it gets out to the edge of fifth cousins. there are some false positives and false negatives. it actually is pretty accurate. >> it is. family is important. >> in kevin gidden's case the results were good enough to give him details of a past he only imagined. >> as i do my history from what plantation i was from. can find out the record of where the slave owner bought those slaves from. you can trace it all the way back to an african culture. >> wow. >> a trip to africa coming. >> oh, girl. you don't know. i'm excited for that. >> reporter: kevin also located a few blood relatives who helped lead t
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dreamed of all his life. his birth mother. still alive and living in south carolina. >> i found a cousin through dna tests. a cousin found a nephew. then eventually found her children. and eventually found her. >> what was that like? >> well it was pretty -- pretty special. she said, i am the mother on your birth certificate. i stood for -- i thought hours thinking, i finally found her. >> reporter: next month. kevin will take his family to meet her. the giddens family portrait a little bigger and maybe a little happier. >> once you have truth and you can live in your truth. that gives you power. and i'm grateful that i can now live in my truth. offing into who i am and who my family is. that's what the dna test. that's what searching ancestries did for me. allowed me to live in my truth.
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ed him to the sharks! squuuuack, let's feed him to the sharks! yay! and take all of his gold! and take all of his gold! ya! and hide it from the crew! ya...? squuuuack, they're all morons anyway! i never said that. they all smell bad too. no! you all smell wonderful! i smell bad! if you're a parrot, you repeat things. it's what you do. if you want to save fifteen percent or more on car insurance, you switch to geico. it's what you do. squuuuack, it's what you do. the united states is marking the 100th anniversary of the park service. this morning we take a look at one of the famous residents of our parks. america's national mammal, the bison. mark strassmann has the story from yellowstone. few places make you feel in this world like yellowstone. it's timelessness
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horizon. here is where the bear and the antelope play. but the bison dominates. you're looking at what may be the last free ranging purebred herd of wild bison in north america. >> look at the valley full of by son. it is primitive america. probably as close as you can get to what this part of the country looked like in the early 1700s. and 1800s. and it's really it's a treasure. dan is the superintendent at yellowstone national park. bison roam its 2.2 million acres. an area nearly as big as rhode island and delaware combined. but little about scale impresses america's largest land animal. a mature bison bull stand 6 feet tall and can weigh more than a ton. >> formidable. not many fullbacks would look to approach the line. so imposing andet
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disappear. >> how dire did it get? >> well in yellowstone national park there were less than 25 animals. it is one of the greatest wildlife conservation stories in the history of the united states. here's why this conversation comeback is so remarkable. in the 1800s, as many as 60 million bison were hunted nearly into extinction. 60 million. they were targets. in the ugly side of how the west was won. the american bison, the symbol of the great plains, once roamed from nevada to mississippi. in the 100s, pioneers pushed west. bison were in the way. tens of millions were killed by cattle ranchers, homesteaders and u.s. troops. sport hunters shot by son from moving trains. as the animals disappeared so did native american tribes who for centuries relied on bison for food, clothing shelter and tools.
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we call them buffalo. >> because? >> we think of by son as a white man term. >> irving carlson belong to blackfeet tribe. he is also president of the intertribal buffalo council, representing 60 tribe whose believe by son also have great spiritual significance. >> buffalo, are everything to tribes. we survived on them that if took care of us. >> reporter: what was the great buffalo slaughter really all about to you? >> if you got rid of the buffalo then consequently get rid of the indian. >> reporter: by 18 # 3, nearly all bison were gone. congress even sent soldiers to yellowstone to protect the final survivors from poachers. conservationists including president teddy roosevelt intervene to protect and restore the population. roughly 5,000 by son live at yellowstone today. this come back story. how improbable was it?
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effort to restore what could have been an endangered species. >> rick wallen the chief by son biologist oversees a unique herd. >> you can't see this kind of abundance anywhere else. >> reporter: most of america's roughly half million by son today are managed as domestic live stock. many have cross bred with cattle. not yellowstone's herd. >> yellowstone bison probably represent one of the populations that truly have all of the ecological, evolutionary drivers that shape the species. this is as good as it gets. >> reporter: also the herd's calving season which brings us to yellowstone's by son challenge and controversy. managing the herd's growth. when the by son migrate outside the park, neighboring ranchers have killed them. they say they're worried the animals will spread brisolosis, a disease harmful to pregnant cattle. inside the park h
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limits. under a federal state agreement, every year the herd has to be reduced by 10%. several hundred get sent for processing to tribes. which distribute the hide and meat. >> when you see these guys make you feel good? >> it does. >> but the current approach seems to satisfy no one including irving carlson who also belongs to the by son management coalition. he says these animals should roam free inside and outside of the park? or be returned to what he calls indian country. >> they're wild life. they belong on the land. they belong to the land. they're part of the land t. >> they're also part of yellowstone's future. >> i think there is madele ground. we can get more by son on the landscape. we can diminish, to eliminate the fear of this spread of the disease. we can honor the cultural significance of by son for the native am cerican community. >> thing of it as aay
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in february 1945, joe rosenthal snapped the photo of u.s. marines raising the flag over iwo jima. he didn't get the names of the marines. for 70 years history had it wrong. here is david martin. >> it happened on the fifth day of the battle for iwo jima. marines took the high ground. photographer captured the essence of world war ii in one split second. >> the key element to me and most marines is that, here is the irony, you can't see who it is. >> but says retired marine colonel mary rynewald, the marine corps did identify the men. one, john bradley, navy coreman who fought along side the marines was believed to be this man. nearly 70 years later, historian, eric
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asking questions. >> an important iconic moment in american history to the get it right, i think is essential for, you know all americans to kind of say this is the truth. these really are the guys that were there. bradley was there, that's him. but compare that to the figure in the photo. >> the two were completely inconsistent with respect to -- their clothing, the articles of equipment they were carrying. forensic specialist, michael plaxton, who analyzed the photos on smithsonian channel saw that bradley was holding pouches to hold medical equipment. while the marine in the photo wore standard in fantryesman gear. his cuffs were rolled down. bradleys were rolled up. if bradley is not in the photo who is the sixth marine. a freeze frame taken from film of the flag raising, provided the first clue. the first thing i noticed about this man was -- that his -- his helmet liner strap is
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>> reporter: there was only one marine there with a strap like that. so here is harold schultz. there is that loose liner strap. schultz survived the war, but for the rest of his life never said publicly he was in the picture. >> harold schultz never made any claims which is incredible in today's world. >> reporter: don't think less of bradley. who was wounded, received the navy cross, and has since passed away. >> nothing can change kind of the sacrifice and what those marines on iwo jima went through and huh they served their country. saved our nation. no matter the names, the image remains as powerful as the moment it was taken seven decades ago. david martin, quantico, virginia. that's the "cbs overnight news" for this tuesday. for some of you the news continues. for others, check back with us a little later for the morning news. and cbs this morning. from the broadcast center in new york city.
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struck down. the supreme court rules texas went too far in regulating abortion clinics. >> today's decision is a game changer. >> also tonight, homes and lives ruined by fires in the west. >> nothing to come back to except rubble. >> and floods in the east. i don't think i will ever feel safe again. i will be terrified every time it rains. >> britain's divorce from europe causes more pain in the stock anrkets. d donald trump gets double-teamed on the campaign
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>> you want to see goofy? look at him in the hat. >> i do just love to see how she gets under donald trump's thin skin. scott is on assignment. i'm charlie rose. the supreme court closed its term with a major decision affirming abortion rights. a court overturned strict regulations that texas imposed on abortion clinics in the name of safety. the majority found those rules unconstitutionally limit a woman's right to an abortion. jan crawford is at the supreme court. >> reporter: abortion rights supporters erupted with cheers. the court announced the ruling. the 5-3 decision deeply divided the justices and turned on the vote of anthony kennedy, casting a vote with liberals, striking down the restrictive texas law. the law required clinics to be like ambulatory circumstance cal centers and doctors must have
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hospitals. abortion rights supporters said restrictions would cut the number of clinics in texas by half to less than ten in a state with 60,000 to 72,000 abortions a year. texas passioned the law in 2013 after horrific abuses came to light in the murder trial of pennsylvania abortion doctor, kermit gosnell. 12 states passed laws necessary to protect women. those laws are also affected by the decision which said there was no evidence the regulations would increase safety and that if anything their impact would be harmful to not supportive of women's health. texas seek to force women to travel long distances to get abortion in crammed to capacity super facilities where they're less likely to get individualized attention. wrote justice breyer and find that quality of care declines. the president for the center, hailed the decision as a game changer. >> we will go forward in making sure that all of the laws that are blocking women's access to the constitutional rights will
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>> head of the conservative judicial network said the decision was based on politics. carrie severino -- >> the court is so clear on the leanings on this issue i can't imagine an abortion regulation they would uphold at this point. that's unfortunate. >> reporter: the three dissenting justices called the ruling indefensible and said the court rewrote legal rules to reach today's result and said the laws were intended to shut down unsafe clinics charlie. they said if they had been on the books in pennsylvania it would have prevented the deaths of the patient and three infants at the clinic there. >> jan crawford at the supreme court. jan, thanks. in a unanimous decision the justices overturned public corruption conviction of former governor bob mcdonald that he accepted gifts from a businessman was not in question. but the court agreed mcdonald did not take any official
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>> in the presidential race, hillary clinton teamed up with democratic senator elizabeth warren today. they took aim at the presumptive republican nominee. donald trump meanwhile faced a fight from within his party. we have two reports beginning with nancy cordes in cincinnati. nancy? >> charlie, this was warren's first campaign appearance with clinton. many here wondered whether they were getting their first glimpse of the democratic presidential ticket. warren may have waited to endorse clinton but she made up for lost time today before an elated clinton crowd. hillary has brains, she has guts, but most of all, she has a good heart. >> a new found friendship with benefits for both. the first term senator gets a high profile audition for clinton's vp. while lending clinton some much needed cred withgr
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sanders. >> let's provide debt relief as soon as we can, as soon as we start to work, elizabeth. >> a source familiar with the vp vetting process says the former harvard professor and wall street watch dog is a more serious contender than many have assumed. >> i do just love to see how she gets under donald trump's thin skin. >> reporter: indeed trump began attacking warren even before she began speaking. calling her unproductive and goofy. >> you want to see goofy? look at him in that hat? when donald trump says great, i ask, great for who? exactly? >> reporter: the tough talk delighted this trio.
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together on a presidential ticket? >> absolutely. >> absolutely. >> yes. >> it's time for two women. >> yeah, step aside. let the women take over. power to the women. >> reporter: runningmate or not, warren will remain in clinton's embrace through november. nancy cordes, cbs news, cincinnati. first of all, it's not legal, can't do it. >> i'm major garrett in washington. now a legal challenge behind the never trump movement. >> donald trump does not exhibit the judgment, the competency, for the highest office in the land. >> virginia republican delegate beau correll filed a law suit seeking freedom to vote for some one other than donald trump at the party national convention in july. state law compels all virginia delegates to vote for the candidate receiving the most votes in the primary. even though party rules al low kate delegates differently. correll a ted cruz supporter says the law violates his first amendment rights. >> government should not compel membs
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how to vote in that association. >> reporter: trump won 37 states and amassed 13 million votes. record total. trump rivals collected 16 million votes. also a record. after cruz lost, correll said he kidded trump but campaign missteps left him discouraged. >> donald trump has anemic mol numbers, anemic fund-raising numbers. he can't win by rallies alone. >> reporter: you are literally any body but trump? >> well that's not very hard. >> i think it is pretty unlikely. >> reporter: david norcross former counsel to republican national committee and skeptical of the never trump movement. >> obviously there is no other person involved. the old staying you can't beat somebody with nobody. >> reporter: a new poll shows more than half of republicans are dissatisfied with trump as their nominee. charlie, party leaders believe they can block any procedural moves aimed at derailing trump but are looking at a tough debate and anti-trump floor demonstrations. >> thank you, nancy cordes, and
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new flash flood warnings up in west virginia. more rain for a state already swamped by horrendous flooding that has killed 23 people. kris van cleave is there. >> reporter: over the hardest hit areas of west virginia once again under a flood warning. the national guard is rushing medical supplies running out of the town. just one of several hard hit areas, some remain flooded. others are trying to clean up the devastation the flood left behind. lieutenant colonel todd harrell. >> inconceivable damage. people fair to realize every inch of this, the impact is huge. and i think the recovery effort, we are just now starting to
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grasp the scope. >> reporter: the guard estimates more than 1,000 homes have been destroyed along with hundreds of businesses. you don't realize until you are in it. just how it feels. sherri coles' home is one of them. it filled with water and then mud. now it's full of strangers helping clean up. >> this is a lot. it says a lot for us that live here not just in west virginia. just for people in general. people are really willing to help. >> reporter: some road remain flooded deep enough to nearly submerge the humvee. for melissa sanders who watched the two homes next to hers wash away killing her brother-in-law, the idea of more rain today is just too much. >> i don't think i will ever feel safe again. i will be terrified every time it rains. >> reporter: the severe weather does limit the guards ability to fly. but this helicopter is about to go check out reports of possible flooding because of the rain. charlie, the region stays under a flash flood watch until midnight. >> thank you, kris. the stock markets have not gotten over britain's decision to leave the european union. the dow dropped more than 260 pots
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after dropping more than 600 on friday. cbs news financial contributor mellody hobson is in britain t will britain's exit, early to tell, be a long term problem? >> this is aster that is going >> this is a story that is going not weeks. not months. and the one thing we know about the stock market if we know anything, is that it hates uncertainty. so i would expect additional volatility in the months and weeks and years ahead. but i would also caution people not to do anything rash. do not make any quick moves as it relates to your investments or retirement plans. this is the time when you want to sit tight. >> what about the united states job market? >> i would not expect a direct impact on the united states job market except for those multinational companies that have huge imports into the uk. companies look ford, and xerox, ebay, may be in for a tougher
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suddenly became a lot more expensive in great britain because of what happened to its currency. mellody hobson, thank you. as if to underscore the difficulty britain faces. to date pound fell to a three decade low at over $1.30. standard & poors lowered britain's credit rating. mark phillips has more on this. >> reporter: it may be years before britain actually leaves the eu, but already nothing is the same. starting with the money. the continuing fall of the pound -- and the tailspin on the stock market means britain is already poorer. the warnings of an economic downturn are becoming fact. the leaders of the winning leave the eu campaign, like boris johnson, had dismissed those warnings. he was now dismissing the reality. >> it's clear now that project fear is over. >> reporter: it has been replaced by another project, the
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embittered referendum losers say. >> project fear has turned to project farce. >> reporter: with its economic future on the line. britain must now decide when to press the eject button to trigger the start of exit negotiations. and it is in no hurry. >> i don't take back what i said about the risks. it is going to be difficult. >> david cameron told parliament he was still quitting and nothing would happen until his successor is chosen in a few months. in the current state of limbo, british business hedging its bets. a survey of 1,000 companies, revealed many are freezing investment. one in five is planning to move jobs outside of the uk. simon walker is head of the business institute that polled its members. has britain voted for a decision? >> i think there will be a recession. how long it lasts, no one can be sure. >> reporter: now a chastened david kamt ron has how to go to brussels to meet the eu leaders. a two day meeting to discuss the response to brexit. cameron has been uninvited for
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and by the way, england were knocked out of the european soccer championships tonight by tiny iceland. >> mark phillips in london, thank you. britain may want to exit slowly, but the rest of europe has a different idea. seth doan has that part of the story. >> reporter: just 20 miles separate england's white cliffs of dover from europe. but the political gulf is growing wider. freeing to avoid a messy divorce, leaders of france, germany, and italy met in berlin and emerged with a unified message. don't waste time, said french president, francois holland. europe's leaders want britain to start separation pre seedings soon. while britain seems to be in no hurry. there must be no delay said chancellor angela merkel, the longer the delay in negotiat
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likely that other countries may lead. talks of referendums in half a dozen countries. among them is hungary which recently built a razor wire fence to keep migrants out. building walls seems to sum up today's mood. the departure from a europe build on the free movement of people and goods. so we cannot talk anymore. we should act. from the italy's new protest party, the five stars movement. he said britain's exit is a chance to reform the eu. >> i think the brexit means we know exact low what is going on next. we can manage a little bit more what is going on in europe. >> secretary of state john kerry started his day in rome and then to brussels to urge leaders to make wise choices not aimed at revenge. italy's prime minister said it is time to start a new chapter for europe. >> seth, thank you. >> next, cor
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♪ ho dry wind are stoking wildfires in the west. 22 large fires are burning across eight states. the biggest, east of bakersfield, california, claimed two lives and scorched over 45,000 acres. mireya villarreal is there. >> reporter: for five days extreme heat and high wind fueled the most destructive fire the county has ever seen. >> my god. >> reporter: a couple evacuating shot this video as they drove through a wall of smoke and flames. the fire has left behind a trail of destruction. is this your roof here?
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>> yes. this had been tyra fuller's home for 16 years. when i got to my grandmother's rocking chair when i lost it. i was the first baby she walked in it. then my brother. my kids. and, and, it's gone. my kids' babies won't be rocked in the chair. most residents living in the hardest hit areas are being kept away for their own safety. this frustrated homeowner was tackled and arrested after crossing a police road block. jim terry's house was spared but he is watching out for his neighbors patrolling at naegt to keep looters away. >> they're people. they're humans. and i love people. and i believe that's why all of these houses and stuff up here have to be taken careof. more than 2,000 people are still fighting this fire. the damage is estimated at 7.6 million so far. charlie, officials are working around the clock to try and clear this mess up. but clearly the damage is already done by the erskin fire. still no word yet on when people will return home. >> mireya, thank you so much. incredible. fires on one coast. flooding on another. when we come back -- comedian jay leno gets shaken up after a stunt goes wrong.
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dash-cam video released in south carolina is raising the question abut the use of force. shows a white officer, shooting a black teenager in a car. >> stop! do not make me shoot you! stop! [ gunfire ] >> seven shots were fired at close range. just one bullet hit the 17-year-old. he was not hurt seriously.
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and was arrested. two pistols were found in the car, which was reported stolen. the officer from the forest acres police department is on leave pending an investigation. >> things got very scary aboard a singapore airlines jetliner, the boeing 777 burst into flames after making an emergency landing in singapore. passengers took this video, everyone had to stay inside until the flames were put out. nobody was hurt. comedian and car lover jay leno can cross two things off his bucket list. riding up on two wheels inside a modified plymouth barracuda known as hemi under glass. and then crashing in it while shooting a segment for his cable television show. the veteran stunt driver, bob riggle who is 80 was behind the wheel. both men escaped unhurt. but the same cannot be said for the car. next, a symbol of gay pride and activism is now a national mont
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new york city stonewall inn became a national monument today. it is a place of pride where blood and tears have been shed. >> reporter: in 1960s america, it wasll
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police raids on gay bars were common. but on the night of june 2th, 1969, gay residents of greenwich village decided they had enough and they took a stand at the stonewall inn fighting back against police. the violence led todays of protests, ultimately igniting the gay rights movement. it took 47 years, but the historical importance of what happened in this tiny manhattan neighborhood finally received federal recognition. >> now i am going to take you on a little journey back in time. >> reporter: 68-year-old tommy lanegan schmidt spoke, he was 21 when he took part in the riots in '69. >> it makes me very happy to be here. and, i think it means, even more to newer generations because they have something through this to give them a sense of dignity. >> reporter: five decades later, gays and lesbians can openly
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to marry and adopt children. but there are still challenges and dangers. given the mass shooting in orlando, new yorker scott rodgers says it still takes courage to be himself. >> we are not going to be subdued and scared and frightened on purpose. nobody is going to make us feel frightened. >> reporter: yesterday, thousands marched past stonewall inn and in cities all over the word. in parade to honor those who stood up to persecution that night in 1969. taking part, millions of people proud to be gay. and millions more proud to be accepting of those who are. don dahler, cbs news, new york. that's the "cbs overnight news" for this tuesday. for some of you, the news continues. for others, check back with us a little later for the "morning news" and "cbs this morning." from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm charlie rose.
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this is the "cbs overnight news." welcome to the "cbs overnight news." tension is already growing between great britain and the european union over the timing of the so-called brexit. prime minister david cam run who said he will step down wants to leave the paperwork to his successor. but the leaders of germany, italy and france are in no mood to wait on british politics. they're refusing to begin negotiations with london until they see a formal request to secede. meanwhile, scotland and northern ireland are considering possibly leaving britain to stay in the eu. and some in the uk are pushing for a second referendum to reverse the brexit vote.
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charlie d'agata reports. >> last week was brexit, this week bregret. meanwhile, the pound plummets against the dollar, down 3%. after a 10% drop friday. the lowest in more than 30 years. >> treasury chief george osborne's this morning was to be bland and reassuring. keep calm and carry on. >> it will not be plain sailing in the days ahead. but let me be clear. you should not underestimate our resolve. we were prepared for the unexpected. we are equipped for whatever happens. >> reporter: a whole lot has happened and markets hate instability. david cameron, the lame-duck prime minister who fell on his sword still has to run the country in crisis but he will be gone by october. the favorite to replace cameron and calm the storm clouds, gathering over the government, is former mayor boris johnson. but he led the campaign to lead. >> all people want to see is a system fair, impartial, ma
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to all people coming from around the world. >> reporter: then there is opposition leader jeremy corben. >> are you going to resign? >> reporter: facing calls to step down after nearly a dozen members of his cabinet resigned and nothing less than a coup. on his way here from rome, secretary of state, john kerry whose diplomatic skills will be pushed to the limit helping to manage the fallout. >> we will continue. the united states, to have a very close and special relationship. with great britain. we value that relationship. that does not change because of this vote. prime minister david cameron meeting with his cabinet today. he wants to delay even the start of the withdrawal until his successor is in place. european ministers aren't so sympathetic saying the decision is binding and final. >> the u.k. referendum has become a flash point on the presidential campaign trail. two new polls show hillary
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clintoil over donald trump. one poll has her up five points over trump nationally. another find clinton with a 12-point advantage. a cbs news battleground tracker poll shows clinton with a slight edge in four battleground states. colorado, florida, wisconsin, north carolina. clinton was campaigning in a swing say the, ohio with potential runningmate, massachusetts senator elizabeth warren. >> donald trump cheered on britain's current crisis which has sucked billions of dollars out of your retirement accounts. because he said, hey it might bring more rich people to his new golf course. he cheered on the 2008, housing crash because he could scoop up more real estate on the cheap. he cheered on students desperate enough to sign up for his fake university, so he could bleed them dry and turn a profit for himself. what kind of a man does that? what kind of a man roots for people to lose their jobs, to
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life savings. i will tell you what kind of a man -- a small, inb secure, money grubber who fights for no one but himself. >> nancy cordes has more. >> reporter: their first joint appearance since warren endorsed clinton a couple of weeks ago. you can expect to hear more from both of them about trump's jubilant response to the brexit vote. they will call his reaction reckless for suggesting that a weakened uk currency would drive more foreigners to his scottish golf course. >> in the day after the vote -- americans lost $100 billion from our 401(k)s. >> reporter: at a mayor's conference in indianapolis, clinton criticized trump's cheery reaction to economic turmoil in the uk. >> when the pound goes down. more people are coming to
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turnbury. >> she suggested it was self serving and unpresidential. >> we need leaders who put the interests of the american people ahead of their personal business interests. >> reporter: when we mile her campaign rushed to release this new ad. >> stocks tank around the world. >> brand new sprinkler system. highest level. >> talking about his new sprinkler system. >> that will be airing nationally this week. >> in a volatile world, the last thing we need is a volatile president. >> trump's campaign manager, paul manofort argued the brexit vote and trump's rise both reflect a hunger for change. >> hillary clinton is ignoring the reality she is part of the establishment. she want get away from the fact she its part of the problem being rejected. >> reporter: the cbs news battleground poll does show that in florida, and elsewhere, trump is kidded far more likely than clinton to bring change. though, she is more widely seen aspa
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>> it could be a while before we know who will be dividing up the $300 million estate of the late rock star prince. he died of a drug overdose in april. apparently left no will. prince has a sister and at least five half-siblings. they were represented in court yesterday by nearly two dozen lawyers. the judge has to deter men who is in line for a share of the estate and who is responsible for a huge tax bill. jamie yuccas reports. ♪ seven hours and 66 days ♪ since you took your music away ♪ >> reporter: more than two months after prince's death. artists are still mourning the loss of one of the music industry's biggest stars. while the music world pays tribute -- prince's relatives are just starting the long legal battle. >> come on, guys, let us through.
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left behind. with no known will and no known children or living parents. prince's estate was placed into a trust under the control of bremmer bank. tyka nelson and half five siblings could share the estate. more than 20 people have come forward as well. claiming to be an heir to the late musician. a dna test ruled out a colorado inmate who claimed to be prince's son. they had to submit affidavits to the bank. the bank is making a determination of who they're now asking to receive dna test thousands. >> reporter: how the tests will be conducted is one of the things discussed in minnesota probate court. another major issue the heirs will need to figure out is paying prince's estate tax. if prince actually had a $300 million estate, you're looking at having to come up with $150 million in nine months. >> reporter: the value of prince's estate is also difficult to determine. for example, a guitar once owned by prince just sold at auction
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for more than $137,000. there are also reports that prince left behind a vault of unreleased music. who ever his heirs may be will have to deter men what that is worth and what they plan to dupe with it.
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do you know who is at the root of your family tree. searching for ancestry has become big business. tracy smith has the background. >> i love being a daddy. it is just one of funnest things to do. >> reporter: at 55, kevin giddens is only now finding out who he really is. just after he was born, his unwed teenage mother gave him up for adoption. with no real family history, and no ties to any of his blood relatives, kevin was basically a stranger to himself. >> did you feel kind of incomplete? >> definitely. i knew nothing about me. can you imagine growing up knowing nothing abut your health, your family, knew nothing.
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at school when kids have reports on their family history, there is kevin. with nothing. >> yeah. >> he knew he wanted to trace his roots. he didn't know hue relatively easy it would be. >> family history has become a multibillion dollar business. it is said to be the second biggest hobby in the u.s., right behind gardening. and online, genealogy is the second most visited website category. only porn is more popular. if you want to trace your family back through time. this is the place. salt lake city. home to the mormon church whose members trace their family trees to find ancestor whose died without being baptized so they can be baptized and brought into the fold. the mormons have the largest family search library on earth, the largest commercial ancestry service, ancestry.com is just down the road. around here, they spend a lot of time reading microfilm and sorting through old cour
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record. some of it is in books. so they have archivists who do this all day. you might say it is a real page turner. for fees that start at around $20 a month they will give you access to their database. and, maybe a peek into your past. what are people most interested in finding out? am i related to a celebrity. >> michelle erki sbchlt rak is a historian. >> what do you think it is? why such an emotional journey? >> it is so personal. there are thing cruise can learn about yourself and your family that you can't learn in any other way. >> there are billions of records that people can search through? >> from the comfort of your home. >> it can all be pretty -- entertaining. >> on this episode. chris noth traces his family back to a devastating catastrophe. >> look a bomb went off. >> ancestry.com helps produce several tv shows where celebrities climb their own
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family trees like tlc's who do you think you are. >> our cbs colleague, julie chen traced her roots in china and learned that her maternal grandfather was a business tycoon and so much more. >> but what you found out was pretty interesting? >> what i found out was pretty interesting. i mean the -- the riches to rags to riches was the least of it. my, grandfather had many, many wives. and many, many children. so, i have a lot of relatives. >> but before her grandfather died of cancer, at age 62, he founded a school that stands to this day. >> i am like -- wow. grandpa had like -- like a big heart and could see past his own suffering. i wish i were that big of a person. i don't know if i would be.
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>> reporter: my own family story was less compelling. still pretty interesting for me, any way. >> this is his passenger list when he left germany and came to new york in 1883. this is pre-ellis island. >> jeez. >> reporter: they found documents showing the exact date my great grandfather stepped off the boat. they also found the boat. this is the boat. this is a picture of the ship that they traveled on in this passenger list. >> reporter: the last document that i have is a picture of your mom. this is a yearbook photo we found from her. >> aw. >> have you seen this? >> no. how crazy is that? >> and if you want to go really deep -- ancestry.com is one of more than two dozen come pans that will probe your dna, the results can potentially tell you who you're related to. where in the world you came from. and, what your ethnicity might >>.
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nothing about where they come from. >> reporter: ancestry ceo tim sullivan says dna are helpful to a point. >> very accurate in assessing who is a close cousin or family member. i say close, third, fourth. or maybe fifth cousins. as the it gets out to the edge of fifth cousins. there are some false positives and false negatives. it actually is pretty accurate. >> it is. family is important. >> in kevin gidden's case the results were good enough to give him details of a past he only imagined. >> as i do my history from what plantation i was from. can find out the record of where the slave owner bought those slaves from. you can trace it all the way back to an african culture. >> wow. >> a trip to africa coming. >> oh, girl. you don't know. i'm excited for that. >> reporter: kevin also located a few blood relatives who helped lead himo
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his birth mother. still alive and living in south carolina. >> i found a cousin through dna tests. a cousin found a nephew. then eventually found her children. and eventually found her. >> what was that like? >> well it was pretty -- pretty special. she said, i am the mother on your birth certificate. i stood for -- i thought hours thinking, i finally found her. >> reporter: next month. kevin will take his family to meet her. the giddens family portrait a little bigger and maybe a little happier. >> once you have truth and you can live in your truth. that gives you power. and i'm grateful that i can no
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the united states is marking the 100th anniversary of the park service. this morning we take a look at one of the famous residents of our parks. america's national mammal, the bison. mark strassmann has the story from yellowstone. few places make you feel in this world like yellowstone.
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it's timelessness spreads to the horizon. here is where the bear and the antelope play. but the bison dominates. you're looking at what may be the last free ranging purebred herd of wild bison in north america. >> look at the valley full of by son. it is primitive america. probably as close as you can get to what this part of the country looked like in the early 1700s. and 1800s. and it's really it's a treasure. dan is the superintendent at yellowstone national park. bison roam 2
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acres. an area nearly as big as rhode island and delaware combined. but little about scale impresses america's largest land animal. a mature bison bull stand 6 feet tall and can weigh more than a ton. >> formidable. not many fullbacks would look to approach the line. so imposing and yet they almost disappear. >> how dire did it get? >> well in yellowstone national park there were less than 25 animals. it is one of the greatest wildlife conservation stories in the history of the united states. here's why this conversation comeback is so remarkable. in the 1800s, as many as 60 million bison were hunted nearly into extinction. 60 million. they were targets. in the ugly side of how the west was won. the american bison, the symbol of the great plains, once roamed from nevada to mississippi. in the 100s, pioneers pushed west. bison were in the way. te o
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and u.s. troops. sport hunters shot by son from moving trains. as the animals disappeared so did native american tribes who for centuries relied on bison for food, clothing shelter and tools. >> we don't call them bison. we call them buffalo. >> because? >> we think of by son as a white man term. >> irving carlson belong to blackfeet tribe. he is also president of the intertribal buffalo council, representing 60 tribe whose believe by son also have great spiritual significance. >> buffalo, are everything to tribes.
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we survived on them that if took care of us. >> reporter: what was the great buffalo slaughter really all about to you? >> if you got rid of the buffalo then consequently get rid of the indian. >> reporter: by 18 # 3, nearly all bison were gone. congress even sent soldiers to yellowstone to protect the final survivors from poachers. conservationists including president teddy roosevelt intervene to protect and restore the population. roughly 5,000 by son live at yellowstone today. this come back story. how improbable was it? >> it was really the first effort to restore what could have been an endangered species. >> rick wallen the chief by son biologist oversees a unique herd. >> you can't see this kind of abundance anywhere else. >> reporter: most of america's roughly half million by son today are managed as domestic live stock. many have cross bred with cattle. not yellowstone's herd. >> yellowstone bison probably represent one of the populations that truly have all of the ecological, evolutionary drivers that shape the species. this is as good as it gets. >> reporter: also the herd's calving season which brings us to yellowstone's bison challenge and controversy. managing the herd's growth. when the by son migrate outside the park, neighboring ranchers have killed them. they say they're worried the animals will spread brisolosis, a disease harmful to pregnant
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inside the park has grazing limits. under a federal state agreement, every year the herd has to be reduced by 10%. several hundred get sent for processing to tribes. which distribute the hide and meat. >> when you see these guys make you feel good? >> it does. >> but the current approach seems to satisfy no one including irving carlson who also belongs to the bison management coalition. he says these animals should roam free inside and outside of the park? or be returned to what he calls indian country. >> they're wild life. they belong on the land. they belong to the land. they're part of the land t. >> they're also part of yellowstone's future. >> i think there is middle ground.
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landscape. we can diminish, to eliminate the fear of this spread of the disease. we can honor the cultural significance of by son for the one of my most rewarding experiences as a dietitian has been actually quite recently just a year ago when i met donna. because she was so motivated and ready to lose weight and to get healthier. well since i met sue and listened to her guidance i've lost about 80 pounds and i have been taken off almost all my medications. to me, i mean that's something to shout about. i think for donna the biggest change has been what's happened up here her perspective on food, nutrition, fitness has just changed dramatically. she looks at food differently, she thinks about food differently and the fact that nutrition and exercise, there just a routine part of her life. i just see the future getting better and better and better. because i'm getting healthier and healthier and healthier. it's just been a whole life change and i don't want to ever go back to the old ways.
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