iotics ever. of syrian fighters that will spearhead the bat toll retake raqqah, which is the isis capital in syria. on capitol hill, supreme court nominee neil gorsuch wrapped up three days of testimony before the senate judiciary committee. the panel will hear tomorrow from other witnesses for and against him. the committee is expected to vote early next month. tomorrow, the house takes up the president's replacement for obamacare, and the republicans still don't have the votes to pass it. it's the most critical vote yet of the new administration, and the president and vice president spent today twisting the arms of conservative republicans who still oppose the bill as written. still ahead, the plight of the bumblebee, now endangered in the u.s. and, she had an audience with the pope, and stole the show.

well, the republican chairman of the house intelligence committee said again today there is no evidence to support president trump's claim that his phones were tapped during the campaign on the orders of president obama. but congressman devin nunes did reveal today that after the election, mr. trump and some of his aides were intercepted speaking to foreign officials. nunes said the intelligence intercepts were routine and lawful, but the committee chairman took the unusual step of briefing mr. trump. margaret brennan picks up the story. >> i recently confirmed that on numerous occasions, the intelligence community incidentally collected information about u.s. citizens involved in the trump transition. >> reporter: house intelligence committee chairman devin nunes

intercepted communications involving members of the trump transition team. that may mean either trump associates or trump himself were in contact ith foreigners under surveillance or the foreigners were discussing the trump team. >> i believe it was all done legally. >> reporter: nunes' committee is investigating russian interference in the election, but the chairman said the reports did not involve russia. after briefing the president, nunes said he was concerned that president trump's name and those of his team were not properly redacted from the reports, thus unmasking their identities. so your issue is the unmasking, not that there was this monitoring? >> there's additional unmasking of names, which i think is totally inappropriate. >> reporter: a short time later, president trump was asked if the new information vindicated his claims that president obama wiretapped his phones? >> i somewhat do, i must tell you, i somewhat do. i very much appreciated the fact that they found what they found, but i somewhat do.

said the president was wrong. >> that did not happen. >> reporter: nunes took the unusual step of briefing the press and then the president, before telling adam schiff, the top democrat on the intelligence committee. >> the chairman will need to decide whether he is the chairman of an independent investigation into conduct, which includes allegations of potential coordination between the trump campaign and the russians, or he's going to act as a surrogate of the white house, because he cannot do both. >> reporter: now nunes himself was a member of the trump transition team. scott, today even some republicans are calling for a special congressional committee to lead the investigation. >> margaret brennan at the white house. now, for some insight into all of this, we'll turn to michael morrell. he is the former number two at the central intelligence agency, and he was, for the record, a supporter of hillary clinton's white house run last year. michael, let me ask you, does this mean that the president was

>> scott, this is what we in the intelligence community call incidental collection, and that means that the target was a legitimate foreign national intelligence target and not an american. so, no, donald trump was not the target of this collection. >> and just because u.s. intelligence is listening in on the conversations of one of these foreign officials, doesn't necessarily mean that official is up to something nefarious? >> correct, scott. there are thousands of conversations every day between u.s. officials and foreign officials, and some of those conversations are picked up. the incidental collection that occurs is numerous and it happens every day. >> congressman nunes says that there was really no valuable intelligence in any of this. >> scott, that may be chairman nunes' view, but i can tell you that these reports would not have been disseminated by nsa had nsa not believed that there

>> now, congressman nunes discovered these reports, took them to the white house, or i should say, took the information to the white house, and briefed the president on that. is that unusual? >> yes, scott, it is. it sounds to me as if he did not get these reports directly from mike rogers at nsa and somebody else brought them to him. it would have been much more appropriate to have gone back to director rogers to ask about the reports, to get a full readout, a full review of the reports, and then it would have been appropriate to have discussed that with his committee and not run to the white house immediately. >> that is not what generally happens with the chairman of the intelligence committee? >> that's correct, scott. >> thank you very much, michael morrell, former number two at the cia, the president has said many times that he's had nothing to do with russia, but it's getting harder for his former campaign chairman to make the same claim. here's jeff pegues.

>> reporter: for a second day, the trump white house downplayed its connection to former campaign chairman paul manafort. white house press secretary sean spicer -- >> paul was hired, as i said, to count delegates. that's why he was brought in. >> reporter: but new reports have surfaced about manafort's business relationships with associates of russian president vladimir putin. according to the documents obtained by the associated press, in 2006, manafort was paid $10 million by russian billionaire oleg deripaska to, as manafort described it, greatly benefit the putin government by lobbying news coverage in the united states, europe and the former soviet republics. state department cables released by wikileaks describe deripaska as being a permanent fixture on putin's trips abroad, and among the two or three oligarchs putin turns to on a regular basis. in a statement, manafort acknowledged working

deripaska, but denied any connection to the russian government, saying, "once again, smear and innuendo are being used to paint a false picture." you know them both? >> yeah. >> reporter: anders aslund studies russia. he says manafort had to know about the connection. >> if you're an oligarch in russia, you can't go against putin. >> no. >> reporter: why not? >> you lose out. then your property is taken over by the kremlin. >> reporter: you can't go against putin or else you lose it all? >> yes. what you have to do is to keep a good relationship. >> reporter: manafort has ties to other trump associates, like roger stone, who are also under scrutiny for their connections to russia. scott, both are expected to be called to testify before the house intelligence committee. >> jeff pegues in the washington news room. jeff, thank you. the defense department is investigating disturbing reports from syria that an air strike led by the u.s. coalition struck

a school that was housing refugees, near the city of raqqah. more than 30 people are said to have been killed. this came as american helicopters dropped off hundreds of syrian rebel fighters who will spearhead the battle to retake raqqah, which is the isis capital in syria. on capitol hill, supreme court nominee neil gorsuch wrapped up three days of testimony before the senate judiciary committee. the panel will hear tomorrow from other witnesses for and against him. a committee is expected to vote early mexx nomt. the "cbs overnight news" will be right back.

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outbreak beat a murder charge today, but he was convicted of racketeering and could face decades in prison. the outbreak in 2012 killed 64, and sickened 700. it was traced to fungus in drugs mixed in filthy conditions by the new england compounding pharmacy, which he owned. chuck barris produced two of tv's most popular game shows, "the newlywed game" and "the dating game," but he's best known as host of one of the most bizarre shows ever to hit the airwaves, "the gong show." truly awful amateur acts competed for a prize of $516.32, if they could avoid the gong. chuck barris died yesterday. he was 87. up next, audience participation at the vatican.

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probiotic, to get where you need it most. get the digestive advantage, and enjoy living well. our cap to the broadcast tonight is the one worn by the pope. it's called a zucchetto, from the italian word for "pumpkin." and for a little girl today, it was irresistible. here's seth doane in rome. >> reporter: as pope francis leaned in for a kiss, three-year-old estella westrick went for his skullcap. it happened too fast for her dad scott to stop her. >> she does whatever she wants. >> reporter: the westricks are in from atlanta, and mom alexis was back at the hotel.

she says, "mommy, i saw the pope. i got his hat." they lined up for hours with a family friend, who posted the video on twitter, to try to catch pope francis after his weekly audience. we saw how this independent three-year-old does her own thing, whether taking a skullcap from a pope, or a phone from a reporter. what are you -- can you -- >> say cheese! >> reporter: greg burke, the head of the holy see press office, says the pope loves these unscripted moments. >> obviously the pope is not a regular guy, he's the pope. but in as much as possible, i think he wants to deal with people as if he were. >> reporter: that's certainly how estella dealt with him. tell me about taking the pope's hat, estella? >> it was good. >> reporter: it was good? >> uh-huh. >> reporter: was it a surprise? did you surprise yourself? >> yeah. >> reporter: why did you do it? >> i don't know. >> reporter: did you think it was funny?

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iotics ever. not long ago, about half this country was buzzing with rusty patch bumblebees, indigenous pollinators of many crops. well, this week they became the first to land on the endangered species list. mark strassmann has our report. >> reporter: in eastern tennessee's great smoky mountain national park, the only place you can now see a rusty patch bumblebee is inside this floor, part of the park's nature collection. >> these two boxes here. >> reporter: entomologist becky

>> we haven't seen them here in the park since 2001. >> reporter: not a single one? >> no. >> reporter: rusty patch bumblebees, important pollinators for tomatoes, nest underground. over the last 20 years, the species has suffered a 90% decline in population and habitat. a range that once included 28 states and stretched into the upper midwest and northeast. they face many threats. >> loss of habitat, pesticides, diseases, all of these things contribute to the overall decline of pollinators. >> reporter: bumblebees, honeybees, butterflies. in all, about 40% of so-called invertebrate pollinator species now face extinction. about 75% of the world's food supply depends at least partly on what they do. professor sydney cameron teaches entomology at the university of illinois. >> one in every third bite of food is pollinated by bees.

itself. a lot of our food is dependent upon these bees. if that's not important, i don't know what is. >> reporter: but nichols sees new hope. >> the first bumblebee to be listed on the endangered species list hopefully will be a little more of a wake-up call that we need to pay closer attention to what we're doing to the pollinators and what they're really doing for us. >> reporter: some groups may oppose the new protection and possible regulation for these bumblebees, including pesticide companies, big agricultural interests and developers. but, scott, experts hope with help these bees may reappear in parks like this where they were once so abundant. >> mark strassmann in tennessee. and that's the "overnight news" for this thursday. for some of you the news continues. for others, check back a little later for the morning news and "cbs this morning." from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm scott pelley. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com

this is the "cbs overnight news." >> welcome to the "overnight news." i'm michelle miller. police in london say it looks like there was only one person behind the terror attack outside the british parliament building. three people were killed during the strike, including a police officer. and 20 others hurt. some of the injured were listed in very critical condition. the attacker was killed by police. elizabeth palmer has the details. >> reporter: in only seconds, a car left a trail of broken and pleading bodies screen across one of london's busiest bridges. seconds later, the car had crashed into the railings around parl

panicked rush. in the chaos, shots rang out. (gunfire) it turned out the driver had shoved past security into parliament's grounds and started to stab a policeman until he was fatally shot by another officer. the attack began in early afternoon when parliament was in session, but astonished politicians were suddenly told it was in lockdown. >> i am now going to suspend the sitting of the house. this house is now suspended, but please, wait here. >> reporter: british prime minister theresa may was whisked to safety while on the nearby bridge, paramedics helped the injured and fought to save the dying. sunita and bobby nagi, tourists from india, saw the whole attack unfold. >> he was speeding on the pavement and he was knocking off people walking by. >> reporter: one after the other? >> one after the other. >> reporter: sunita ran.

bobby started filming. one victim flung under a bus, another lying still in the middle of the road, surrounded by shocked bystanders. >> i immediately told my wife that this was an attack -- this is a terrorist attack. >> reporter: there was no question in your mind that he was going for as many people as he could get? >> yeah, he was. he was just going on and on. he didn't stop. >> reporter: one british member of parliament on his way to work did his best to save the stabbed policeman, but a short time later, he died. police say a full terrorist investigation is under way into the most serious attack in london since the deadly subway bombings of 2005. >> to give you an idea of the mayhem on that bridge, one woman was either flung off or flung herself off to safety in the river thames. she's now in critical condition but is alive. the biggest vote

young trump administration comes today as the house of representatives votes on the health care overhaul. republican mark meadows of north carolina leads the freedom caucus, about two dozen conservatives who are strongly opposed to the bill. meadows insists the gop does not have the votes to push it through, and he's calling on the white house to postpone the vote and start over on a new plan. white house spokesman sean spicer says that's not going to happen. >> if you want to see obamacare repealed and replaced, this is the vote. this is the time to act. this is what people have told the american people is going to happen. this vote needs to happen. if you are waiting for your chance, this is it. we need to act. >> major garrett has more. >> reporter: throughout the campaign, president trump supporters were promised good deals, maybe even great deals would be made on their what have. while it's unclear if the republican health care bill will benefit most trump supporters, the more di

these -- republican party unity and this president's power of persuasion. >> there really is a crucial vote for the republican party, and for the people of our country. >> reporter: president trump raised money for the members of congress and embraced the gop leadership team he needs to push her faltering health care bill to victory on thursday. >> the house bills ends the obamacare nightmare, and gives health care decisions back to the states and back to the american people. >> reporter: the president met with all house republicans behind closed doors and put his deal-making reputation on the line. >> we had a great meeting, and i think we're going to get a winner vote. >> reporter: sounding a dire political alarm, he warned the gop could suffer heavy losses in the midterm election it is it fails to overturn obamacare. >> he said we would lose the house and the senate if we don't get this passed. >> reporter: the president

meadows. >> i didn't take anything he said in there as threatening anybody's political future. >> reporter: he said when it comes to a conflict between the president and his district, his constituents win. >> i serve at the pleasure of the people of western north carolina, and when you serve at their pleasure, it's only those 750,000 people that can send you home. >> reporter: speaker paul ryan, who has worked in lock step with the white house to rewrite the bill and find the 216 votes necessary for passage, said mr. trump was all business. >> president trump was here to do what he does best, and that is to close the deal. >> reporter: the white house hoped the president's visit to congress would create a clear majority for the bill. it did not. in the end, top advisers here and house republicans predict a cliffhanger, but a narrow if harrowing victory. uncertainty is

patients and health care providers. they're used by theory 10% of americans. dr. jon lapook has that story. >> reporter: every day, mr. mark simon sees patients. mostly the working poor. people can come in and get their cancer screenings, their blood pressure checked, their cholesterol checked. and also equally important, they can have a medical home. >> reporter: dr. simon has seen his practice dramatically expand under obamacare. the number ofs erie now serves has doubled to nearly 68,000. 63% get medicaid. of the 24 million people that is projected would lose the health insurance, erie health estimates that could include 9,000 of its patients. 61-year-old retired taxi driver leslie durond has heart disease and he could be one of

what medical care were you getting before the insurance? >> none whatsoever. any time i feel some pain, i had to go to cook county hospital. >> reporter: to the energy room? >> i had to wake up at 3:00 in the morning to get there early. >> reporter: you wanted to be the first person in line. >> to be the first person in line to get inside to go to the e.r. >> reporter: he now volunteers coaching soccer. he's recovered from quadruple bypass surgery last year and dreads any change that could leave him without insurance yet again. >> anything happens, i'm going to die. not only me, but many others. >> reporter: is this keeping you up at night? >> yes, yes, it is. i see faces and see smiles and i feel like they might be slipping away. >> reporter: in 2015, community health centers served more than 24 million people. erie family health center estimates proposed changes to medicaid could drop coverage of their patients by as much as

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the senate judiciary committee is expected to vote april 3rd on the nomination of xw neil gorsuch for the u.s. supreme court. republicans would like the full senate to confirm gorsuch before the congress leaves april 10th. the judiciary committee wrapped up three days of hearings. jan crawford reports. >> the initials are d.j.t. >> reporter: senate democrats repeatedly challenged judge gorsuch on the policies of the man who nominated him. >> president trump and others have said you are the next scalia. >> he's called for a total and complete shutdown of muslims entering the united states. >> what is your view of president trump's comments on judges? >> reporter: but only when pressed on preside

gorsuch offer a firm response. >> when anyone criticizes the honesty or integrity or the motives of a federal judge, well, i find that disheartening. i find that demoralizing. because i know the truth. >> anyone including the president of the united states. >> anyone is anyone. >> reporter: gorsuch rejected the idea that with his nomination president trump had fulfilled a promise to select a judge opposed to abortion. >> did he ever ask you to overrule roe versus wade? >> no, senator. >> what would you have done if he had asked? >> i would have balked out the door. senator, a good judge doesn't give a whit about politics. >> in case president trump is watching, which he may very well be, one,

picking judge gorsuch. number two -- here's the bad part -- if you start waterboarding people, you may get impeached is. that a fair summary? >> senator, the impeachment power belongs to this body. >> including prosecution? >> i'm not going to speculate. >> reporter: as questioning stretched into the evening, some republican senators appeared to run out of questions. >> my son, a teenager, said ask him if he would rather fight 100 duck-sized horses or one horse-sized duck. senator lindsey graham is chairman of the judiciary committee and discussed the gorsuch hearing and other topics on cbs this morning. >> he's one of the most qualified people to be nominated. 2700 cases decided, overruled once by the supreme court. i hope he gets 60 votes. and if he doesn't,

politics trumped qualifications. i think he's just so overwhelmingly qualified. president trump could not have chosen a more qualified conservative. i voted for sotomayor and keegan because i thought they were qualified. they were great women of the job. judge gorsuch is a main stream conservative, and i never really have seen anybody do any better in a hearing. he's acquitted himself well. the point is waterboarding is illeg illegal, he acknowledged that. the president's backed off on waterboarding, but nobody is above the law. >> so you're not expecting a democratic fill buster? >> i hope not. if there is a democratic filibuster, that means qualifications no longer matter. it's all about politics and the only way you could vote against him is for political reasons, not for politics. and that means that the election didn't matter. i voted for sotomayor and kagan because i

obama had the right to pick qualified people that were different than i would have chosen. and trump picked an outstanding conservative. i'm hoping my democratic colleagues will give him 60 votes, because he's earned it with a life well lived. one reversal in 2700 cases, well qualified by the american bar association. president trump could not have chosen better. this is one of the best people he could have chosen as a conservative in the entire country. >> senator, you seem to be full of accolades for president trump on his gorsuch pick. but what about this editorial that's making the rounds today resistance on the wiretapping claims? "the wall street journal" not known as a bastion of liberalism. if the president doesn't show more respect for the truth, most americans may conclude he's a fake president. your thoughts on that? >> i think the president accused president obama of a felony, he accused him of wiretapping his campaign. the fbi director said there's no evidence of that. the national security director

i think the burden now is on president trump to justify those statements or to retract them. we live in a constitutional democracy. we live in a country where the rule of law does matter. when you have the highest official in the land, the president of the united states accusing his predecessor of illegal activity with no evidence, that hurts our democracy. >> and if he refuses to back down? >> i think he will suffer over time with the american people. you know, the great movie, love is never having to say you're sorry -- what was that, "love story," it doesn't mean you're above having to say you're sorry if you did something wrong. most people in america would appreciate it if the president of the united states had the ability to say i made a mistake and i'm sorry. if you can't do that, that's going to hurt you over time with the american people. there will come a day you'll have

the eye and say north korea is about to develop a missile to hit our country and i want to stop him. so he's going to put his credibility at risk. >> the president had a meeting with republicans in the house yesterday and said he was going to come after them if they didn't vote for this health care replacement bill. are you worried in the senate? >> i want to help president trump replace obamacare. obamacare has been a disaster in my state. we're down to one provider. people have insurance, but it costs so much. so president trump is right to repeal and replace. but what won't work in washington. when a politician tells another you have to vote for a bill because if you don't you'll lose your job, most of us say that's not a good reason. so i want to help president trump repeal and replace obamacare because it's a disaster. but i will not vote for a bill unless i believe it is better than obamacare. and the last thing you want to tell lindsay graham, you have to

told you so. that's not draining the swamp. that's how obamacare that got passed. there were democrats that knew obamacare wouldn't work, but they were afraid of president obama and his political machine. i don't intend to do that. to mark meadows from north carolina, the freedom caucus says no to almost everything. i'm not a freedom caucus type person. but in this case, stick to your guns if you believe this bill will not help the american people. don't let any politician tell you you must vote for a bill or you'l lose your job. how do you explain to people that you represent the reason i voted for this bill is because i was afraid of losing my job. that's not a good reason to vote for any policy, and i certainly won't do that.

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las vegas is a city of lights. most of them neon lights. but as casinos come and go, what happens to their famous neon signs. lee cowan tracked them down. >> reporter: there are few cities as infamously bright as las vegas. but there are also cities as glaringly temporary. despite its youth, vegas always seems to be getting a face-lift. out of the dust, always rises something new. but lost perhaps is what made us look in the first place. >> you really can't remember the

buildings, but you remember the signs. isn't that crazy? >> reporter: the signs. >> this is las vegas. >> reporter: since the 1930s, they've lift up the desert like a giant welcome mat. the sands. the mint. the pioneer. just a few of the stars of the city's golden age of neon, gone dark. >> what do you have here? >> this was the silver slipper. >> reporter: in 1993, sunday morning's jerry bowen found a few famous survivors. >> the sign from the 1950s. >> reporter: they were gathering dust in the back of the young electric sign company, the firm best known forgiving vegas its neon vibe. >> we didn't have the heart to throw a lot of them away. >> reporter: jeff young is the third generation of youngs to lead his family business. his grandfather founded it in 1920. to this day, young still tries to save some signature pieces from being devoured by

developers. >> that light just came on. see that? >> reporter: restoring it as we speak. in 2012, this dusty, two-acre lot became just that. rob mccoy is president and ceo of the neon museum. >> this is the bone yard. great bones. >> reporter: it now has more than 200 artifacts, including the skull from the old treasure island casino. that one's so big you can see it from space. >> the coolest, biggest sign. you must have the coolest, biggest casino. >> size matters. >> reporter: last year, the museum enjoyed record attendance. around 100,000 people took one of the several daily tours. each sign tells a story and a history. america in the 20th century. big, bold, brash. and in las vegas, we were big,

and we still are. >> reporter: bold and brash, yes. but also elegant. like the graceful script for the melon rouj. for a time, the only place in vegas sammy davis jr. was allowed to sleep. >> until frank sinatra said if sammy can't walk through the front doors of these hotels like i do and perform, then i'm not going to perform. >> reporter: and then there's the star dust, with its huge atomic age lettering. it was historic, too. and 188 feet, it was one of the largest free-standing signs in the world at the time. salvaging that was no easy task. >> it had to be cut up into multiple pieces and transported here. it was $250,000 just to deliver the sign to us. >> reporter: now, at night,

sparkle back to life. even those whose bulbs can flash no more. >> that was the greatest sign in las vegas. and the biggest. >> reporter: frank is a las vegas native. >> nothing would have topped that sign. ever. >> reporter: he now leads some of the nighttime tours. >> we're a young town, a little over 100 years old. this is the history we have. let's keep it. that's important to me. >> no vacancy. that's just neon gas. >> reporter: resurrecting the past isn't always easy. bending those fragile glass tubes is in many ways a dying art. but the results are almost always worth the wait. remember those signs rusting away in the back lot back in the '90s? well, this is what they look like today. sparkling again on las veg

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one of christianity's holiest sites is open again after a multimillion dollar face-lift. the shrine in jerusalem is the spot where christians believe jesus was buried. the restoration of the shrine took years and was overseen by christianity's three main denominations. jonathan vigliotti has the story from london. >> reporter: centuries of candle smoke and visiting pilgrims have left the shrine almost black.

restoring it took months of teed u -- tedious and delicate work. a pinhole of light illuminates the newly restored shrine, protecting what christians believe to be the entrance to the cave where jesus was buried. the refurbished holy site was reopened to the public this morning, just in time for easter, in a small ceremony attended by religious leaders. the building sits in the center of the church of the holy seplechur. millions visit each year, and that took its toll, with parts coming loose and warnings it was struck ch structurally unsound. it was the first attempt at refurbishing the site in two centuries. one of the most dramatic moments came when the cave itself was revealed for the first

700 years. historians found what is believed to be the bench where jesus' body lay. >> it was really important to see the bench, and almost complete from the right to the left, for the shape that one man can say on it. >> reporter: the entrance to the bench has been resealed with marble, but a small window has been added to see a section of the original wall themselves. >> the world monument fund helped raise the funds for project. the pain staking work is not over just yet. now money is being raised for another round of restorations to vix modern drainage and sewage pipes. and that is the "overnight news" for this thursday. for some of you the news continues. for others, check back a little later for the morning news and of course "cbs this morning." from the broadcast city here in new york city, i'm michelle miller.

-- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com terror in london. at least four are killed, many more hurt in a car and knife attack outside the british parliament. also tonight, the president is briefed on intelligence gathered during the election transition. democrats say the revelation to the white house was improper. >> so this is deeply troubling along many levels. saving the bumblebee. why it's so important that we do. and hats off to estella. getting a close up look at the head of the catholic church. ♪ this is the "cbs overnight

news." just as the british were on guard for a possible terror attack in the sky, they were struck on the ground, in the heart of london. a driver plowed a car into a group of pedestrians then stabbed a police officer, at least four people, including the officer, were killed. 40 others were wounded. the attacker was shot to death by the police and our elizabeth palmer is in london. >> there has been a terror attack. >> reporter: in only seconds, a car speeding along the sidewalk left a trail of broken and bleeding bodies strewn across one of london's busiest bridges. seconds later, the car had crashed into the railings around parliament, setting off a panicked rush. in the chaos, shots rang out. [ gunfire ] it turned out the driver had shoved past security into parliament's grounds and started to stab a policeman until he was

fatally shot by another officer. the attack began in early afternoon when parliament was in session, but astonished politicians were suddenly told it was in lockdown. >> i am now going to suspend the sitting of the house. this house is now suspended, but please, wait here. >> reporter: british prime minister theresa may was whisked to safety while on the nearby bridge, paramedics helped the injured and fought to save the dying. sunita and bobby nagi, tourists from india, saw the whole attack unfold. >> he was speeding on the pavement and he was knocking off people walking by. >> reporter: one after the other? >> one after the other. >> reporter: sunita ran. bobby started filming. one victim flung under a bus, another lying still in the middle of the road, surrounded by shocked bystanders. >> i immediately told my wife

is a terrorist attack. >> reporter: there was no question in your mind that he was going for as many people as he could get? >> yeah, he was. he was just going on and on. he didn't stop. >> reporter: one british member of parliament on his way to work did his best to save the stabbed policeman, but a short time later, he died. police say a full terrorist investigation is under way into the most serious attack in london since the deadly subway bombings of 2005. prime minister theresa may did meet with senior intelligence chiefs this afternoon against the backdrop of so many smaller tragedies, individual tragedies, scott. scotland yard hasn't released the name of the attacker, but just in the last couple of minutes they have announced that they do believe they know who it was. >> and no official account of a motive. elizabeth palmer at the palace of westminster for us tonight. liz, thank you.

now part of the arsenal of terror. in 2016 alone, 11 people were injured at ohio state by a man who drove into pedestrians and also attacked with a knife. 86 people were killed in nice, france, by a terrorist in a truck, and 12 were killed in berlin when a truck barreled into a christmas market. we asked don dahler to look into security here at home. >> reporter: more than 300,000 people pass through new york's times square on any given day, a tempting target where seven years ago a terrorist failed to detonate a car bomb that could have killed scores. to protect against vehicle-borne attacks, the city installed heavy concrete barriers around areas where there are large crowds. a new policy allows nypd officers to fire on a charging vehicle without hesitation. the u.s. state department uses anti-ram barriers, called

around its embassy. they can stop a truck going 50 miles per hour. >> as you can see, there are a myriad of people walking by. >> reporter: but former nypd officer and fbi agent manuel gomez says cities with large pedestrian populations will always be vulnerable. >> no city can potentially fortify every street corner. it would be a war zone. >> reporter: last year a radicalized ohio state university student drove his car into a group of other students before attacking them with a knife. terror attacks involving vehicles ramming pedestrians in berlin and nice killed 98 and injured hundreds. in israel, attacks using cars are almost a regular occurrence. >> as these happen, different types of attacks evolve. so we have enforcements like we have now. we have at parades, lots of concrete, streets closed off.

so we evolve as the threat evolves. >> reporter: security experts say intelligence operations have prevented many terror attacks, but because vehicles are easy weapons, the best safeguard against this type of terrorism is another person reporting suspicious activity. anti-ram bollards like these here in columbus circle are becoming more and more prevalent. in response to london's attacks today, the nypd dispatched heavy weapons units to sensitive sites, diplomatic sites as well as popular places. scott, the nypd says they know of no credible threat to the city. >> don dahler here in manhattan. don, thank you. the defense department is investigating disturbing reports from syria that an air strike, led by the u.s. coalition, struck a school that was housing refugees near the city of raqqah. more than 30 people are said to have been killed. this came as american helicopters dropped ofnd

of syrian fighters that will spearhead the battle to retake raqqah, which is the isis capital in syria. on capitol hill, supreme court nominee neil gorsuch wrapped up three days of testimony before the senate judiciary committee. the panel will hear tomorrow from other witnesses for and against him. the committee is expected to vote early next month. tomorrow, the house takes up the president's replacement for obamacare, and the republicans still don't have the votes to pass it. it's the most critical vote yet of the new administration, and the president and vice president spent today twisting the arms of conservative republicans who still oppose the bill as written. still ahead, the plight of the bumblebee, now endangered in the u.s. and, she had an audience with the pope, and stole the show.

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iotics ever. well, the republican chairman of the house intelligence committee said again today there is no evidence to support president trump's claim that his phones were tapped during the campaign on the orders of president obama. but congressman devin nunes did reveal today that after the election, mr. trump and some of his aides were intercepted speaking to foreign officials. nunes said the intelligence intercepts were routine and lawful, but the committee chairman took the unusual step of briefing mr. trump. margaret brennan picks up the story. >> i recently confirmed that on numerous occasions, the intelligence community incidentally collected information about u.s. citizens involved in the trump transition. >> reporter: house intelligence committee chairman devin nunes said he had seen aboutoz

intercepted communications involving members of the trump transition team. that may mean either trump associates or trump himself were in contact with foreigners under surveillance or the foreigners were discussing the trump team. >> i believe it was all done legally. >> reporter: nunes' committee is investigating russian interference in the election, but the chairman said the reports did not involve russia. after briefing the president, nunes said he was concerned that president trump's name and those of his team were not properly redacted from the reports, thus unmasking their identities. so your issue is the unmasking, not that there was this monitoring? >> there's additional unmasking of names, which i think is totally inappropriate. >> reporter: a short time later, president trump was asked if the new information vindicated his claims that president obama wiretapped his phones? >> i somewhat do, i must tell you, i somewhat do. i very much appreciated the fact that they found what they found, but i somewhat do. >> reporter: but nunes himself

>> that did not happen. >> reporter: nunes took the unusual step of briefing the press and then the president, before telling adam schiff, the top democrat on the intelligence committee. >> the chairman will need to decide whether he is the chairman of an independent investigation into conduct, which includes allegations of potential coordination between the trump campaign and the russians, or he's going to act as a surrogate of the white house, because he cannot do both. >> reporter: now nunes himself was a member of the trump transition team. scott, today even some republicans are calling for a special congressional committee to lead the investigation. >> margaret brennan at the white house. now, for some insight into all of this, we'll turn to michael morrell. he is the former number two at the central intelligence agency, and he was, for the record, a supporter of hillary clinton's white house run last year. michael, let me ask you, does this mean t

>> scott, this is what we in the intelligence community call incidental collection, and that means that the target was a legitimate foreign national intelligence target and not an american. so, no, donald trump was not the target of this collection. >> and just because u.s. intelligence is listening in on the conversations of one of these foreign officials, doesn't necessarily mean that official is up to something nefarious? >> correct, scott. there are thousands of conversations every day between u.s. officials and foreign officials, and some of those conversations are picked up. the incidental collection that occurs is numerous and it happens every day. >> congressman nunes says that there was really no valuable intelligence in any of this. >> scott, that may be chairman nunes' view, but i can tell you that these reports would not have been disseminated by nsa had nsa not believed that there

>> now, congressman nunes discovered these reports, took them to the white house, or i should say, took the information to the white house, and briefed the president on that. is that unusual? >> yes, scott, it is. it sounds to me as if he did not get these reports directly from mike rogers at nsa and somebody else brought them to him. it would have been much more appropriate to have gone back to director rogers to ask about the reports, to get a full readout, a full review of the reports, and then it would have been appropriate to have discussed that with his committee and not run to the white house immediately. >> that is not what generally happens with the chairman of the intelligence committee? >> that's correct, scott. >> thank you very much, michael morrell, former number two at the cray. the president has said many times that he's had nothing to do with russia, but it's getting harder for his former campaign chairman to make the same claim. here's jeff pegues.

>> reporter: for a second day, the trump white house downplayed its connection to former campaign chairman paul manafort. white house press secretary sean spicer -- >> paul was hired, as i said, to count delegates. that's why he was brought in. >> reporter: but new reports have surfaced about manafort's business relationships with associates of russian president vladimir putin. according to the documents obtained by the associated press, in 2006, manafort was paid $10 million by russian billionaire oleg deripaska to, as manafort described it, greatly benefit the putin government by lobbying and influencing news coverage in the united states, europe, and the former soviet republics. state department cables released by wikileaks describe deripaska as being a permanent fixture on putin's trips abroad, and among the two or three oligarchs putin turns to on a regular basis. in a statement, manafort acknowledged working for

connection to the russian government, saying, "once again, smear and innuendo are being used to paint a false picture." you know them both? >> yeah. >> reporter: anders aslund studies russia. he says manafort had to know about the ties to putin. if you're an oligarch in russia, you can't go against putin. >> no. >> reporter: why not? >> you lose out. then your property is taken over by the kremlin. >> reporter: you can't go against putin or else you lose it all? >> yes. what you have to do is to keep a good relationship. >> reporter: manafort has ties to other trump associates, like roger stone, who are also under scrutiny for their connections to russia. scott, both are expected to be called to testify before the house intelligence committee. >> jeff pegues in the washington news room. jeff, thank you. the defense department is investigating disturbing reports from syria that an air strike led by the u.s. coalition struck

a school that was housing refugees, near the city of raqqah. more than 30 people are said to have been killed. this came as american helicopters dropped off hundreds of syrian rebel fighters who will spearhead the battle to retake raqqah, which is the isis capital in syria. on capitol hill, supreme court nominee neil gorsuch wrapped up three days of testimony before the senate judiciary committee. the panel will hear tomorrow from other witnesses for and against him. a committee is expected to vote early next month. the "cbs overnight news" will be right back.

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today dozens of survivors of the orlando nightclub massacre and families of the dead sued the gunman's widow and the security company where he worked. they claimed that they could have stopped omar mateen before the attack. he killed 49 people last june, more than 50 others were hurt before he was shot dead by the police. in boston, a pharmacist blamed for a deadly meningitis outbreak beamu

today, but barry caden was convicted of racketeering and could face decades in prison. the outbreak in 2012 killed 64, and sickened 700. it was traced to fungus in drugs mixed in filthy conditions by the new england compounding pharmacy, which he owned. chuck barris produced two of tv's most popular game shows, "the newlywed game" and "the dating game," but he's best known as host of one of the most bizarre shows ever to hit the airwaves, "the gong show." truly awful amateur acts competed for a prize of $516.32, if they could avoid the gong. chuck barris died yesterday. he was 87. up next, audience participation at the vatican. because i'm a woman... do you think i'm gonna crack under pressure

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was back at the hotel.& >> the first thing she told me, she says, "mommy, i saw the pope. i got his hat." they lined up for hours with a family friend, who posted the video on twitter, to try to catch pope francis after his weekly audience. we saw how this independent three-year-old does her own thing, whether taking a skullcap from a pope, or a phone from a reporter. what are you -- can you -- >> say cheese! >> reporter: greg burke, the head of the holy see press office, says the pope loves these unscripted moments. >> obviously the pope is not a regular guy, he's the pope. but in as much as possible, i think he wants to deal with people as if he were. >> reporter: that's certainly how estella dealt with him. tell me about taking the pope's hat, estella. >> it was good. >> reporter: it was good? >> uh-huh. >> reporter: was it a surprise? did you surprise yourself? >> yeah. >> reporter: why did you do it? >> i don't know. >> reporter: did you think it

>> yeah. >> reporter: apparently the pope though

not long ago, about half this country was buzzing with rusty patch bumblebees, & pr pro- indigenous pollinators of many crops. well, this week they became the first to land on the endangered species list. mark strassmann has our report. >> reporter: in eastern tennessee's great smoky mountain national park, the only place you can now see a rusty patch bumblebee is inside this floor, part of the park's nature

>> these two boxes here. >> reporter: entomologist becky nichls. >> we haven't seen them here in the park since 2001. >> reporter: not a single one? >> no. >> reporter: rusty patch bumblebees, important pollinators for tomatoes, nest underground. over the last 20 years, the decline in population and habitat. a range that once included 28 states and stretched into the upper midwest and northeast. they face many threats. >> loss of habitat, pesticides, diseases, all of these things contribute to the overall decline of pollinators. >> reporter: bumblebees, honeybees, butterflies. in all, about 40% of so-called invertebrate pollinator species now face extinction. about 75% of the world's food supply depends at least partly on what they do. professor sydney cameron teaches entomology at the university of illinois. >> one in every third bite of food is pollinated by bees. a huge factor is the bumblebee itself. a lot of our food is dependent upon these bees.

if that's not important, i don't know what is. >> reporter: but nichols sees new hope. >> the first bumblebee to be listed on the endangered species list hopefully will be a little more of a wake-up call that we need to pay closer attention to what we're doing to the pollinators and what they're really doing for us. >> reporter: some groups may oppose the new protection and possible regulation for these bumblebees, including pesticide companies, big agricultural interests and developers. but, scott, experts hope with help these bees may reappear in parks like this where they were once so abundant. >> mark strassmann in tennessee. and that's the "overnight news" for this thursday. for some of you the news continues. for others, check back a little later for the morning news and "cbs this morning." from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm scott pelley. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com

this is the "cbs overnight news." >> welcome to the "overnight news." i'm michelle miller. police in london say it looks like there was only one person behind the terror attack outside the british parliament building. three people were killed during the strike, including a police officer. and 20 others hurt. some of the injured were listed in very critical condition. the attacker was killed by police. elizabeth palmer has the details. >> fwl has been a terror attack. >> reporter: in only seconds, a car speeding along the sidewalk, left a trail of broken and bleeding bodies strewn across one of london's busiest bridges. seconds later, the car had crashed into the railings around paia

[ gunfire ] it turned out the driver had shoved past security into parliament's grounds and started to stab a policeman until he was fatally shot by another officer. the attack began in early afternoon when parliament was in session, but astonished politicians were suddenly told it was in lockdown. >> i am now going to suspend the sitting of the house. this house is now suspended, but please, wait here. >> reporter: british prime minister theresa may was whisked to safety while on the nearby bridge, paramedics helped the injured and fought to save the dying. sunita and bobby nagi, tourists from india, saw the whole attack unfold. >> he was speeding on the pavement and he was knocking off people walking by. >> reporter: one after the other? >> one after the other. ep

bobby started filming. one victim flung under a bus, another lying still in the middle of the road, surrounded by shocked bystanders. >> i immediately told my wife that this was an attack -- this is a terrorist attack. >> reporter: there was no question in your mind that he was going for as many people as he could get? >> yeah, he was. he was just going on and on. he didn't stop. >> reporter: one british member of parliament on his way to work did his best to save the stabbed policeman, but a short time later, he died. police say a full terrorist investigation is under way into the most serious attack in london since the deadly subway bombings of 2005. >> to give you an idea of the mayhem on that bridge, one woman was either flung off or flung herself off to safety in the river thames. she's now in critical condition but is alive. the biggest vote of the young trump administration comes today as the house of

proposed health care overhaul. right now it could go either way. republican mark meadows of north carolina leads the freedom caucus, about two dozen conservatives who are strongly opposed to the bill. meadows insists the gop does not have the votes to push it through, and he's calling on the white house to postpone the vote and start over on a new plan. white house spokesman sean spicer says that's not going to happen. >> if you want to see obamacare repealed and replaced, this is the vote. this is the time to act. this is what people have told the american people is going to happen. this vote needs to happen. if you are waiting for your chance, this is it. we need to act. >> major garrett has more. >> reporter: throughout the campaign, president trump supporters were promised good deals, maybe even great deals would be made on their behalf. while it's unclear if the republican health care bill will benefit most trump supporters, the more immediate tests are these -- republican party unity and this president's

persuasion. >> this really is a crucial vote for the republican party, and for the people of our country. >> reporter: president trump raised money for the members of congress and embraced the gop leadership team he needs to push her faltering health care bill to victory on thursday. >> the house bills ends the obamacare nightmare, and gives health care decisions back to the states and back to the american people. >> reporter: the president met with all house republicans behind closed doors and put his deal-making reputation on the line. >> we had a great meeting, and i think we're going to get a winner vote. >> reporter: sounding a dire political alarm, he warned the gop could suffer heavy losses in next year's midterm elections if it fails to repeal obamacare. >> he said we would lose the house and the senate if we don't get this passed. >> reporter: the president singled out representative mark meadows. he's chairman of the tea party

inspired house freedom caucus, which opposes the bill's premiums and lingering obamacare regulations. >> i didn't take anything he said in there as threatening anybody's political future. >> reporter: he said when it comes to a conflict between the president andhis district, his constituents win. >> i serve at the pleasure of the people of western north carolina, and when you serve at their pleasure, it's only those 750,000 people that can send you home. >> reporter: speaker paul ryan, who has worked in lockstep with the white house to rewrite the bill and find the 216 votes necessary for passage, said mr. trump was all business. >> president trump was here to do what he does best, and that is to close the deal. >> reporter: the white house hoped the president's visit to congress would create a clear majority for the bill. it did not. more arm twisting certainly lies ahead. in the end, top advisers here and house republicans predict a cliffhanger, but a narrow if harrowing victory. uncertainty over health care is weighing on

doctors at community clinics. they're used by nearly 10% of americans. dr. jon lapook has that story. >> reporter: every day at the erie family health center in chicago, dr. mark see lon sees patients. mostly the working poor. >> people can come in and get their cancer screenings, their blood pressure checked, their cholesterol checked. and also equally important, they can have a medical home. >> reporter: dr. simon has seen his practice dramatically expand under obamacare. the number of patients erie now serves as almost doubled in four years to nearly 68,000. 63% get medicaid. of the 24 million people that is projected would lose the health insurance, erie health estimates that could include 9,000 of its patients. 61-year-old retired taxi driver leslie durond has heart disease and he could be one of them. what kind of medical care were

you getting before the insurance? >> none whatsoever. any time i feel some pain, i had to go to cook county hospital. >> reporter: to the energy room? >> i had to wake up at 3:00 in the morning to get there early. >> reporter: you wanted to be the first person in line. >> to be the first person in line to get inside to go to the e.r. >> reporter: he now volunteers coaching soccer. he's recovered from quadruple bypass surgery last year and dreads any change that could leave him without insurance yet again. >> anything happens, i'm going to die. not only me, but many others. >> reporter: is this keeping you up at night? >> yes, yes, it is. i see faces and see smiles and i feel like they might be slipping away. >> reporter: in 2015, community health centers served more than 24 million people. erie family health center estimates proposed changes to medicaid could drop coverage of their patients by as much as 85%. dr. jon lapook, cbs news, new york.

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the senate judiciary committee is expected to vote april 3rd on the nomination of neil gorsuch for the u.s. supreme court. republicans would like the full senate to confirm gorsuch before the congress leaves for a two-week recess april 10th. the judiciary committee wrapped up three days of hearings on his nomination. jan crawford reports. >> the initials are d.j.t. >> reporter: senate democrats repeatedly challenged judge gorsuch on the policies of the man who nominated him. >> president trump and others have said you are the next scalia. >> he's called for a total and complete shutdown of muslims entering the united states. >> what is your view of president trump's comments on judges? >> reporter: but only when pressed on president trump's public attacks on judges did

gorsuch offer a firm response. >> when anyne criticizes the honesty or integrity or the motives of a federal judge, well, i find that disheartening. i find that demoralizing. because i know the truth. >> anyone including the president of the united states? >> anyone is anyone. >> reporter: gorsuch rejected the idea that with his nomination president trump had fulfilled a promise to select a judge opposed to abortion. >> did he ever ask you to overrule roe versus wade? >> no, senator. >> what would you have done if he had asked? >> senator, i would have walked out the door. >> reporter: and he insisted his personal views would have no bearing on his work as a justice. >> senator, a good judge doesn't give a whit about politics. >> in case president trump is watching, which he may very well be, one, he did a good job picking judge gorsuch.

number two -- here's the bad part -- if you start waterboarding people, you may get impeached is. that a fair summary? >> senator, the impeachment power belongs to this body. >> no's even better. would he be subject to prosecution? >> i'm not going to speculate. >> but he's not above the law? >> no man is above the law. >> reporter: as questioning stretched into the evening, some republican senators appeared to run out of questions. >> my son, a teenager, said ask him if he would rather fight 100 duc-sized horses or one horse-sized duck. senator lindsey graham is chairman of the judiciary committee and discussed the gorsuch hearing and other topics on "cbs this morning." >> he's one of the most qualified people to be nominated. 2700 cases decided, overruled once by the supreme court. i've never seen a man more qualified to be on the supreme court. i hope he gets 60 votes. and if he doesn't, it means

politics trumped qualifications. that would be a loss to the senate. >> you know how to count. will he get them? >> i think so. he's just so overwhelmingly qualified. president trump could not have chosen a more qualified conservative. i voted for sotomayor and kagan because i thought they were qualified. they were great women of the law. judge gorsuch is a main stream conservative, and i never really have seen anybody do any better in a hearing. he's acquitted himself well. the point is waterboarding is illegal, he acknowledged that. the president's backed off on waterboarding, but nobody is above the law. >> so you're not expecting a democratic filibuster? >> i hope not. if there is a democratic filibuster, that means qualifications no longer matter. it's all about politics and the only way you could vote against him is for political reasons, not for politics. and that means that the election didn't matter. i voted for sotomayor and kagan because i thought president obama had the right to pick qualified pe

chosen. and trump picked an outstanding conservative. i'm hoping my democratic colleagues will not change the rules of the senate -- i mean give him 60 votes, because he's earned it with a life well lived. one reversal in 2700 cases, well qualified by the american bar association. president trump could not have chosen better. this is one of the best people he could have chosen as a conservative in the entire country. >> senator, you seem to be full of accolades for president trump on his gorsuch pick. but what about this editorial that's making the rounds today from "the wall street journal" regarding the president's resistance on the wiretapping claims? "the wall street journal" not known as a bastion of liberalism. if the president doesn't show more respect for the truth, most americans may conclude he's a fake president. your thoughts on that? >> i think the president accused president obama of a felony, he accused him of wiretapping his campaign. the fbi director said there's no evidence of such activity. the national security director said the same thing.

president trump to justify those statements or to retract them. we live in a constitutional democracy. we live in a country where the rule of law does matter. when you have the highest official in the land, the president of the united states accusing his predecessor of illegal activity with no evidence, that hurts our democracy. >> and if he refuses to back down? >> i think he will suffer over time with the american people. you know, the great movie, love is never having to say you're sorry -- what was that, "love story." here's what i would say to the president, it doesn't mean you're above having to say you're sorry or apologize if you did something wrong. most people in america would appreciate it if the president of the united states had the ability to say i made a mistake and i'm sorry. if you can't do that, that's going to hurt you over time with the american people. there will come a day you'll have to look the tv camera in the eye and tell them that north korea is about to develop

missile that could hit our homeland and i want to stop them. you need that credibility. so i think president trump is going to put his credibility at risk if he continues this narrative without proof. >> the president had a meeting with republicans in the house yesterday and said he was going to come after them if they didn't vote for this health care replacement bill. are you guys worried in the senate about what he might say to you? >> i want to help president trump replace obamacare. obamacare has been a disaster in my state. we're down to one provider. people have insurance, but it does cost so much. so president trump is right to repeal and replace. but what won't work in washington. when a politician tells another you have to vote for a bill because if you don't you'll lose your job, most of us say that's not a good reason. so i want to help president trump repeal and replace obamacare because it's a disaster. but i will not vote for a bill unless i believe it is better than obamacare. and the last thing you want to tell lindsay graham, you have to vote for this bill because i

that's not draining the swamp. that's how obamacare got passed. there were democrats that knew obamacare wouldn't work, but they were afraid of president obama and his political machine. and they voted for a bill they really didn't believe in, and the rest is history. i don't intend to do that. to mark meadows from north carolina, the freedom caucus says no to almost everything. i'm not a freedom caucus type person. but in this case, stick to your guns if you believe this bill will not help the american people. don't let any politician tell you you must vote for a bill or you'll lose your job. how do you explain to people that you represent the reason i voted for this bill is because i was afraid of losing my job? that's not a good reason to vote for any policy, and i certainly won't do that.

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>> reporter: the signs. >> this is las vegas. >> reporter: since the 1930s, they've lit up the desert like a giant welcome mat. the sands. the mint. the pioneer. just a few of the stars of the city's golden age of neon, gone dark. >> what do you have here? >> this was the silver slipper. >> reporter: in 1993, sunday morning's jerry bowen found a few famous survivors. >> the sign from the 1950s. >> reporter: they were gathering dust in the back lot of the young electric sign company, the firm best known for giving vegas its neon vibe. >> we didn't have the heart to throw a lot of them away. >> reporter: jeff young is the third generation of youngs to lead his family business. his grandfather founded it in 1920. to this day, young still tries to save some signature pieces from being devoured by developers. >> that light just came on. e

>> reporter: restoring it as we speak. in 2012, this dusty, two-acre lot became just that. rob mccoy is president and ceo of the neon museum. >> this is the bone yard. great bones. >> reporter: it now has more than 200 artifacts, including the skull from the old treasure island casino. that one's so big you can see it from space. >> the coolest, biggest sign. you must have the coolest, best casino. >> size matters. >> reporter: last year, the museum enjoyed record attendance. around 100,000 people took one of the several daily tours. each sign tells a story and a history. america in the 20th century. big, bold, brash. and in las vegas, we were big, bold, and brash on stero

>> reporter: bold and brash, yes. but also elegant. like the graceful script for the moulin rouge. built in 1955, it was las vegas' first interracial hotel casino. for a time, the only place in vegas sammy davis jr. was allowed to sleep. >> until frank sinatra said if sammy can't walk through the front doors of these hotels like i do and perform, then i'm not going to perform. >> reporter: and then there's the star dust, with its huge atomic age lettering. it was historic, too. and 188 feet, it was one of the largest free-standing signs in the world at the time. salvaging that was no easy task. >> it had to be cut up into multiple pieces and transported here. it was $250,000 just to deliver the sign to us. >> reporter: just to get it here? >> correct. >> reporter: now, at night, these ghosts of a bygone era

sparkle back to life. even those whose bulbs can flash no more. >> that was the greatest sign in las vegas. >> reporter: and the biggest, right? >> and the biggest. >> reporter: frank is a las vegas native. >> nothing would have topped that sign. ever. >> reporter: he now leads some of the nighttime tours. >> we're a young town, a little over 100 years old. this is the history we have. let's save it, let's talk about it. let's keep it. that's important to me. >> no vacancy. that's just neon gas. >> reporter: resurrecting the past isn't always easy. bending those fragile glass tubes is in many ways a dying part. but the results are almost always worth the wait. remember those signs rusting away in the back lot back in the '90s? that not so silver slipper? well, this is what they look like today. sparkling again on las vegas boulevard.

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roducts no antibiotics ever. captioning funded by cbs it's thursday, march 23rd, 2017. this is the "cbs morning news." >> he was speeding on the pavement and he was knocking off people walking by. >> terror in london. breaking overnight, several people are reportedly arrested in a raid believed to be tied to wednesday's deadly attack. this morning londoners vow they won't back down. >> we stand together in the face of those who seek to harm us and destroy our way of life. we always have and we always will. also we take look at the techniques officials are using the keep americans safe from similar attacks.