>> i have not had a discussion with him about that. >> reporter: spicer was given not one but two chances to express the president's confidence in sessions, and did not. scott, only yesterday, via twitter, the president publicly criticized the justice department's handling of the travel ban litigation, and he remains irked about session's decision to recuse himself from the russia investigation. >> pelley: major garrett at the white house for us. major, thank you. we're back in just a moment.

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well, our homeland security correspondent jeff pegues has more about that leaked document and how it fits in to the investigation of russian meddling in the election. >> reporter: u.s. intelligence is still gathering new evidence of russian cyberattacks before election day. the leaked top-secret n.s.a. report was only recently completed. it details how, a week before november 8, hackers connected to russian military intelligence sent emails laced with malware to 122 local officials controlling voter registration systems. the brazen scheme came just weeks after then-president obama personally told russian president vladimir putin to stop the attacks. >> i felt that the most effective way to ensure that

cut it out. >> reporter: law enforcement source say voter databases nationwide were targeted by russian hackers over a six-month period ahead of the election. so you think the worst-case scenario was that they were actually trying to affect the vote total? >> i think that was their hope. >> reporter: jim lewis advises the u.s. government on cyber-security: >> i think that they were expecting to be able to manipulate votes in some way, maybe discredit the electoral system, which they came closer to doing. >> reporter: u.s. officials still believe the vote total was not affected. >> there is nothing more fundamental to our democracy than voting. >> reporter: today, homeland security secretary john kelly said his department wants to help states secure their voting systems, but that some are wary of federal intrusion. >> do you see us as partners and helpers in this, to help make sure that your systems are protected?

>> reporter: today, the kremlin again denied interfering in the election. scott, late last year, an obama administration official said that we would never expect russia to come out with their hands up-- they don't do that. >> pelley: jeff pegues in the washington newsroom. jeff, thank you. cbs news has learned this evening that russian hackers are suspected of interfering with a news site in the gulf state of qatar. and they may have put out fake information. the f.b.i. is assisting in the investigation. meanwhile, qatar is at the center of a crisis. a number of arab nations have cut diplomatic and commercial ties, and here's margaret brennan. >> reporter: president trump appeared to take credit for sparking the diplomatic crisis. in a series of tweets, the president said his recent visit to saudi arabia was "paying off," as the kingdom and nine other countries severed relations with qatar for allegedly funding radical ideology.

but president made no mention of that last month when he met with the qatari emir, instead, offering to sell him weapons. >> lots of beautiful military equipment. >> reporter: during that trip, the president vowed to unify the muslim world against terrorism and iran. but tensions spiked in the past 24 hours, with countries in the region closing their air space to qatari planes, blocking trade, and cutting diplomatic ties, sparking qataris to stockpile food. the u.s. launches air strikes against isis and syria in iraq from a base in qatar. the tiny gulf emirate hosts around 10,000 u.s. troops. that's one reason secretary of state rex tillerson has tried to de-escalate the crisis. >> we certainly would encourage the parties to sit down together and address these differences. >> reporter: and yesterday, u.s. ambassador dana smith praised qatar's great partnership in countering terrorist financing.

smith has broken with the president before, lamenting last month on twitter that it is increasingly difficult to spend the day explaining our democracy and institutions. today, state department spokesperson heather nauert tried to soften the president's comments on qatar. >> they have made progress, but they still have work to do. more work needs to be done. >> reporter: smith is not the only frustrated long-term diplomat. but, scott, while president trump wants his own nominees in place, he's only appointed 11 ambassadors to fill 188 empty state department slots. >> pelley: margaret brennan at the state department, thanks. in paris today, a man attacked a police officer with a hammer outside notre dame cathedral, shouting, "this is for syria." fellow officers shot and wound the man, who carried an i.d. indicating that he was from algeria. the officer who was attacked was not seriously hurt. about 600 tourists were locked inside the cathedral as police secured the scene.

today, british police identified the third of the london bridge attackers who killed seven and wounded nearly 50 on saturday night. youssef zaghba, 22 years old, of italian and moroccan heritage, was identified today. he and khuram butt were known to the police, leading some to wonder whether the attack might have been prevented. the truth is, the police in britain are overwhelmed, and mark phillips has more on that. >> reporter: after the carnage, the questions: what can be learned from this attack to prevent more of them? police here say they're already monitoring 500 suspects, have 3,000 other people of interest on their radar, and know of 20,000 other potential surveillance targets beyond that. >> the volume issue has become a major challenge for the police intelligence agencies.

>> reporter: richard walton used to run london's anti-terror unit, and says it can take dozens of officers to watch just one suspect. >> the police can only be devoted to the top, you know, three, four, 5% of those individuals-- >> reporter: and how do you pick who they are? >> and how do you pick who they are? you can't monitor 3,000 individuals all over time, 24 hours a day. >> reporter: the so-called new normal keeps changing, especially as pressure on isis continues to build in syria and iraq. the london attacks are the sting in the isis tail. >> this is a death cult. this is an entity that realizes it's losing territory in iraq and syria and wants to take out as many people as it can. >> reporter: sajjan gohel advises governments and police on terrorism, and says trying to counter isis propaganda doesn't work when, like the london attackers, some are just too

gone. >> there are bad people out there that have violent tendencies. they have no hesitation to kill children, to mow people down. the violent extremism may have some place to a degree but it doesn't work in stopping the ideologically zealous. reporter: what works is fast and lethal police action, but that, as we've seen, scott, only limits the damage. they've started putting up these concrete barriers on some of london's bridges. protection, they hope, against vehicle attacks on pedestrians. closing the barn door, perhaps, after the horse has bolted, and also while they try to figure out what to do next. >> pelley: mark phillips, thanks. coming up next, bill cosby's accuser tells her story to a jury. and, living stronger, with evwhater floats your boat. not all fish oil supplements provide the same omega-3 power. megared advanced triple absorption is absorbed three times better.

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philadelphia and offered her three blue pills he called a natural remedy to ease her stress and a glass of wine. in court today, constand called cosby "a temple friend, somebody that i trusted, a friend, a mentor, somewhat of an older figure to me" and she said she wasn't scared of him. constand testified she remembers having blurred vision, saying, "i could see two of him." her legs were, "rubbery," and cosby fondled her. but she admitted to staying in contact with cosby after the alleged incident. inside the courtroom, cosby sat looking directly at the accuser, frowning and shaking his head at times. the defense has questioned constand's credibility. during cross-examination today, defense attorneys pointed to constand's phone records after the incident, showing she called cosby the same morning she did an online search for and contacted philadelphia-area defense attorneys. hours later, attorneys general say she called cosby again, and after being unable to reach him, it was only then that she fi

at least 60 women have accused cosby of sexual assault, but constand's case is the only one that resulted in criminal charges, scott. charges that could send the man formally known as "america's tv dad" to prison for 10 years if convicted. >> pelley: demarco morgan, thanks. and when we come back, men overboard at the america's cup. i'm worried i can't find a safe used car. you could start your search at the all-new carfax.com that might help. show me the carfax? now the car you want and the history you need are easy to find. show me used minivans with no reported accidents. boom. love it. [struggles] show me the carfax. start your used car search and get free carfax reports at the all-new carfax.com. not all fish oil supplements provide the same omega-3 power. megared advanced triple absorption is absorbed three times better.

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after an investigation of sexual harassment, bullying, and discrimination. the ride-sharing company has also hired former attorney general eric holder and his law firm to investigate uber's corporate culture. dish network was hit today with the biggest fine ever for telemarketing violations. an illinois judge ordered the satellite tv company to pay $280 million for making millions of calls to people on the "do not call" registries. it was a rough day for sailing off burmuda during the america's cup semi finals today. winds gusted to 57 miles an hour. and look at that, team new zeaand's catamaran capsized. some of the crew flew into the water, others hung on to the sides, as rescue teams sprang into action. but, everybody got out safely, to sail another day. up next, rowing older.

>> pelley: now our special series, "living stronger:" folks sharing their secrets for a longer, better life. for the woman you're about to meet, it's all about using her skull. here's don dahler. >> reporter: few sports are as physically and mentally grueling as competitive rowing. it takes strength, stamina, and perfect tempo. 76-year-old maxine shepatin has been rowing for 15 years. she's the oldest member of her team, the blood street skulls. >> the whole idea is to literally row as one so that the boat moves together. >> reporter: as a 26-year breast cancer survivor, shepatin was looking for a new challenge an

>> that's me. >> reporter: during one of her first races, she didn't believe the cockswain, the man steering the boat. they were actually in the lead. >> and the cockswain is saying, "guys, keep it up. you're in first place!" none of us believed him. we thought, "okay, dave--." >> reporter: his constant job is to motivate you. >> right. >> reporter: turns out they won that race, and many others. she has a table full of medals. how many do you think you have? >> i don't know. i didn't count them. it's not for the medals. i just enjoy being able to do it. >> reporter: being able to do it means four days a week on the river, and up to five days in the gym. she says her key to living stronger is preparation. she doesn't want to let her younger teammates down. >> there's no senior citizen discount on an effort. >> reporter: so you better be physically ready. >> you better be prepared, right. and it's not fair if you don't bring your "a" game, whatever that "a" game may be. >> reporter: teammate kr

>> when i was in elementary school, i was on a swim team with her kids, so i knew her as "mrs. shepatin," and now we're teammates, so that, i think, is kind of cool. >> reporter: shepatin took up another challenge when she was in her 60s and became a black belt in kick boxing. what do their grandchildren call you? >> when they were younger, they called me "ninja grandma." >> reporter: there are those who avoid difficulties, who dread life's turbulent waters, and those like maxine shepatin, who face them head on. don dahler, cbs news, old lyme, connecticut. >> pelley: and that's the "cbs evening news." for some of you the news continues, for others check back with us a little bit later for the morning news and cbs this morning. from the broadcast center in new york city. i'm scott pelley.

this is "cbs overnight news." >> welcome to the overnight news, from nearly the start of his administration president trump has been complaining about leaks to the media. this morning a federal security contractor from georgia faces charges under the espionage act. the department says she confessed to leaking a secret document about russia's alleged hacking. >> late last night, president trump described the classified leaks as a grave threat to our security. mr. trump's justice department now has charged 25-year-old reality leigh winner, a contract employee with leaking a top secret report on russian election

winner, whose social media discussions sharply criticized trump. her stepfather, gary davis. >> she is dedicated to trying to make the world a better place. >> the charge was filed less than two hours after the on-line publication "the intercept" posted the documents. according to the report, she was one of six who made the report and mailed it to the intercept and computer records show she was also in e-mail contact with the publication. earlier, trump lashed out at what he calls the "low-life leakers". >> i reached out to the justice department. >> leaks are common, but the

eight leaks, more than all doubled for the administrations combined. t faith in the president's attorney general may be waning. >> how would you describe the president's confidence in the attorney general, jeff sessions? >> i have not had a conversation with him. >> the report shows that they tried to break into votes systems as well. jeff pegues reports. >> reporter: u.s. intelligence is still gathering new evidence of russian cyberattacks before election day. the leaked top secret nsa report was only recently completed and details how a week before november 8th, hackers connected to russian military intelligence sent e-mails laced with malware to 122 local officials controlling voting registration systems, the brazen scheme

told russian president vladimir putin to stop the attacks. >> i felt the most effective way to make sure that did not happen was to talk to him directly and tell him to cut it out. >> law enforcement says that databases were hacked over a six-month period before the election. so you think the worse case scenario was they were actually trying to affect the vote total? >> i think that was their hope. >> jim louis advises the government on security. >> i think they hoped to manipulate the votes and discredit the electoral system which they came closer to doing. >> u.s. officials still believe the vote total was not affected. >> there is nothing more fundamental to our democracy than voting. >> today, homeland security secretary john kelly said his department wants t

secure their voting systems but that some are wary of federal intrui intrusion. there is a political firestorm in the arab world that threatens security there and beyond. >> reporter: president trump appeared to take credit for sparking the diplomatic crisis, in a series of tweets, the president said his recent visits to saudi arabia was paying off as the kingdom and nine other countries cut ties with qatar, because of their ideology on terrorism. but the president offered to sell him weapons. during that trip, the president vowed to unify the muslim world against terrorism and iran. but tensions spiked in the past 24 hours with countries in the region closing their air

to qatari planes, blocking trade and cutting diplomatic ties, sparking the people to stockpile food. the tiny gulf emirate hosts about 20,000 troops, that is one reason that secretary of state rex tillerson is trying to de-escalate the crisis. >> we certainly hope they will sit down and discussion their differences. >> smith has broken with the president before, lamenting last month on twitter that it is increasingly difficult to spend the day explaining our democracy and solutions. today, heather nauert discussed the situation. >> more work needs to be done. a new

more than 50,000 homeless people on the streets of los angeles, up nearly 20% from last year. >> what did you expect when you got here? >> reporter: he says he came to los angeles to escape the drugs and gangs in his hometown. but once here he wound up on the streets. >> i try to sleep on the roofs, that is the safest place. >> how hard has it been for you to find a job? >> pretty hard to find a job, find a place to live is even harder. >> reporter: garner is among many young people between the ages of 13 and 24 who are homeless and alone without the guardianship of a parent. many ran away from home. >> what is your day like? >> it has been mainly focused on getting food and that is pretty much it. it's just food. >> reporter: some studies estimate there

personali1.6 and 2.8 unaccompanied youth that are homeless, so the department is focused on getting a more accurate count. >> how long have you been homeless? >> about two months. >> reporter: volunteers, some recently homeless themselves, searched for homeless youth, but finding them can be difficult says the associate professor. >> often the homeless will sleep on a friend's couch for a couple of nights, next on an underpass, and they don't want to be associated with homeless. they don't want it to be their identity. so they do everything they can to appear to be a normal 20-year-old. because they are a normal 20-year-old. >> reporter: the advocates say the counts will help with a federally funded program to help these youth. hunt's goal is

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the grueling race to alaska getting under way this morning in townsend, washington, a 750-mile ocean marathon and the rules are simple, you can't use a motor. >> reporter: it's a wednesday afternoon in port townsend, washington, just hours before the annual race to alaska gets started and sailors like matt johnson are nervously making final adjustments. >> if you're here for the swap meet you're in the wrong place. >> reporter: while crew captains get a final briefing of sorts. >> if you are here to take a challenge make it your own and create a story that may live in your life forever you are in the right

yeah! >> reporter: and what a challenge it is. the race to alaska is one of the more unusual, more punishing events in american sport. a grueling 750-mile boat race from port townsend, to ketchikan, alaska, with just one rule, no motors. >> so it's a gnarly piece of coast, truly one of the most wild places on earth. >> reporter: and this is from the guy behind the race. jake beady. >> the tide is really fierce, and when the wind howls the sea is incredibly dangerous. >> reporter: last year, some 200 sailors entered the race, some in row boats and pedal boats, others in high tech equipment. not to mention dinghys, and

sails, some went it alone. >> the good thing about being alone, you win all the ar arguments, you don't know who will win it, but one will win it. >> reporter: one big challenge that thomas nielsen figured out is trying to sleep while out on the water. >> seven hours of sleep, i'm on my third day and seven hours of sleep. >> reporter: food is another problem. lugging it along and sometimes forcing yourself to even eat it. >> we have been really trying to shovel the food down, which is surprisingly not that easy. the hunger and like enjoyment of food as a ritual has just kind of disappeared. >> on the pedal drive. >> reporter: and maybe the toughest struggle of all at least for the sail boats is what to do when the wind is not blowing. >> i was thinking like oh, you know, we may get ten hours o

rowing in throughout the whole trip, and we have been doing about 16 hours a day. >> reporter: race founder, jake beady. >> removing the ability for you to depend on a little button that starts a motor it changes your relationship to the water when there is no get out of jail free card. >> reporter: and no fun for matt johnson, who may have made the biggest sacrifice of the entire race before it even started. >> this is all your wine and beer money? >> this is all of my wine and beer money, yes, it really paid off. >> reporter: johnson, a competitive cyclist, redirected that money to pay for the single seat pedal-powered boat that he worked on for months in his garage. so you do not expect to win this race with your boat? >> i don't expect to win. >> reporter: then some may ask why do it? >> because i want to see how far or fast i can do. >> reporter: as it turned out, not that

pontoon just moments befo s in race, and had to turn back, but he was not alone. almost half the teams never even made it to alaska. and those that did endured pungent weeks at sea. >> moving us along. >> but there are moments of beauty out there. with the dolphins and the whales. this crew, team mad dog, didn't have time to take in all the scenery, though, they sailed day and night for four straight days, sleeping in 20 minute shifts and winning in record time. their prize? $10,000. barely enough to tow the boat home from alaska.

and we're not kidding here. is a set of steak knives. >> to reach ketchikan you have to build your even little victory, every hour of every day. >> reporter: despite the dangers, no one has died in the race yet but limits have been and will be pushed. and then broken. [ bell ringing ] >> reporter: which is just how race founder jake beady likes it. >> i have never met a more powerful teacher than the sea and i am excited for people to have those teachable moments on the water. >> no motors allowed. there is also a race, nasa, as well as other companies intend to send men and women to mars.

>> reporter: with six wheels and a distinctive alien design, tourists at the visitor complex have no idea what to make of this machine. this is a new mars rover concept vehicle, standing 11 feet tall, 24 feet long and 13 feet wide. what takes longer? your design or you putting it together? the giant rover is the brain child of the parker brothers, shannon and mark. the two made their names in hollywood, designing and building movie props, most notably, the futuristic motorcycles in the movie "tron." >> so no doors on mars, you have to enter through the back. >> reporter: shannon

the dirty work, putting together the event in less than five months. >> there is almost nothing in this vehicle that was not built in our shop. nothing was ordered out of a catalogue, we built the chassis, the frame, the interior, the seats, the glass, everything on this vehicle had to be built completely from scratch. >> some of this is for design, you know just for it to look cool. other things i thought it would be important to have. >> i'm being very delicate with it, but this is the speed you would end up going on mars. >> reporter: the inside of the rover seats four and drives like an suv. but there is also a mock lab in the back where the astronauts could possibly conduct experiments, some of it designed with exploration in mind. >> so we needed a good surface for the rock to climb over, but we needed a lot of

when you get into the sand it will not sink but also it has vents in it so it won't clog up. so it can go through really deep sand and not get stuck and clog up. >> reporter: the brothers consulted with astronauts to build the machine. but this vehicle will not go to mars, instead it is on a mission to education scientists. u.s. astronaut john mcbride flew two space shuttle missions and said the first person on mars is closer than we think. >> we think the first person on mars is 18 years old as we think. so these guys through fifth grade, somewhere in college, we're after. >> reporter: the folks here hope it will generate enthusiasm like in 2012 when the unmanned curiosity rover landed on mars.

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for years, the veteran's administration has been criticized for not doing more to find housing for homeless vets. well, there is a new program in california that gets these former warriors off the streets. >> you're serving your country, you just do what your told. >> reporter: dale dollar was just 22 when he left the marines, but as a businessman, he found himself out of work and eventually out on the street, homeless for 14 years until he moved into potter's lane. >> this place, they don't talk about it. they walk the walk and talk the talk. >> reporter: this was built for homeless veterans, but that is not what makes it unique. it's the first multi-family building put together entirely by shipping containers.

is subsidized by the manager, and the group behind the project. >> in orange county on any given night there are between 400 and 450 homeless veterans which for us is a national crime. there should be no homeless veterans. >> reporter: it took four months to create the shipping containers that were previously used to transport dry goods, into containers that are five feet. while these containers are strong enough to be stacked ten feet high, organizers kept it small for a reason. >> when you deal with people who have been homeless and you warehouse them in 300 units you're not creating a safety net for people. you're not creating a human connection with people. the concept here is called housing first. find a home for them like we found here. then you surround them with social

>> reporter: kurt carson also served in the marines and like dale he lived along the santa ana river bed for six years. >> if you can't get mail or go somewhere to clean up, and you don't have any place where you can you know, have a phone number then how do you think somebody will be in society? it's not going to happen. >> reporter: after more than ten years without a roof over his head dale dollar is finally able to cook a warm meal in his own kitchen. >> it's quite a place, you know you come in, you have been sleeping in a tent and on the dirt, rocks for years, and find a place beautiful like this? i been blessed more than i should have been. it's wonderful. >> reporter: for him, it's not just a new apartment, it's a new lease on life. carter evans, cbs news, midway city, california. >> and that is the overnight news for this wednesday, for some of you the n

for others check back a little bit later for the morning news and cbs this morning from the broadcast center here in new york city. >> 911, what is your emergency? >> my brother is not breathing >> pelley: a record jump in overdose deaths. >> reporter: have you encountered the same person twice? >> oh, yeah. this drug works so well, that sometimeeys th'll go to the hospital, be released, and come back out and do the same thing. >> welcome back. >> pelley: also tonight, sour on sessions? >> reporter: how would you rideschebe tsi predent's level of confidence in the attorney general? >> pelley: bill cosby's accuser takes the stand. and, have a look at the spirit of 76. what's the secret to living stronger? >> t ihere ss nor eniozecitin discounts on an effort. this is

news". >> pelley: there has been a massive drug overdose in central georgia. at least two dozen cases over the past 48 hours, and the reports are still coming in. so far, as many as four people have died. this is just the latest alarming example of the overdose epidemic in america, and mark strassmann begins our coverage. >> reporter: authorities in central georgia say a deadly new drug has hit the streets hard. it's the largest cluster of opioid overdoses in state history. bibb county sheriff david davis: >> this is a poison and it acts very fast, and our timeline is very tight to be able to get to these individuals and render them aid. >> reporter: at least two dozen users have been found unconscious or unresponsive in the last 48 hours, and potentially four have died from overdoses. toxicology analysis of the street drug is incomplete, but investigators believe the yellow pill is being falsely sold as

>> when it's taken, the patients are experiencing significant and severe decreased levels of consciousness and respiratory failure. >> reporter: christopher hendry is with navicent health in macon. >> these were all bought on the street. these are not from the pharmacy, from physicians, and that is the concern for our community. >> reporter: scott, one state health official told me doctors now have at least seven overdose patients on ventilators. >> pelley: mark strassmann, thanks. now, listen to this. overdoses are now the leading cause of death for americans under the age of 50. according to preliminary data compiled by the "new york times," deaths last year likely topped 59,000, and that's 19% more than the year before. in ohio, they were up even more, and dean reynolds is there. >> reporter: on may 26, clevel

timothy maffo's body camera was running as he approached a man slumped in a car and, it turned out, minutes from a fatal drug overdose. three applications of narcan, the anti-overdose drug, and the victim finally started coming around. >> sergeant maffo says it's become a grim routine. have you encountered the same person twice? >> oh, yeah, yeah. that's-- that's pretty common. >> reporter: there were 11 overdoses just last night in cleveland, two of them fatal. in ohio, at least 4,100 people died from unintentional drug overdoses last year. a 36% increase from 2015, when the state led the nation in the rate of overdose deaths. kentucky, west virginia, and new hampshire have also experienced shocking increases, as has the east coast generally. most of it tied to heroin, or prescription pain killers, called opioids, often laced with a powerful narcotic called fentanyl. in ohio alone, nearly four

billion opioid pills were prescribed. between 2011 and 2015. even the state's lieutenant governor, mary tailor, recently disclosed that her two sons are battling opioid addiction. >> if you look at how many people die in this country from opioid overdose, we're looking at, you know, the same number of casualties in the entire vietnam conflict. >> reporter: the crisis affects rich and poor, white and black, old and young. last thursday, the 911 operator in akron received this call from a nine-year-old. >> 911, what is the emergency? >> my brother is not breathing. >> how old is your brother? >> one. >> reporter: it's unclear how the child got the opioid in his system, but he died on sunday. ohio is now suing five big drug companies which manufacture prescription pain killers, charging that they knowingly minimized the risks of ad

as ohio attorney general mike dewine put it, scott, "they knew they were wrong, but they did it anyway, and they continue to do it." >> pelley: dean reynolds, thanks. well, president trump promised to crack down, and now a government contractor has been charged with leaking secrets about russian interference with the u.s. election. here's our chief white house correspondent, major garrett. >> reporter: late last month, president trump described leaks of classified information as "a grave threat to our national security." mr. trump's justice department has now charged 25-year-old reality leigh winner, a national security agency contract employee, with leaking a top-secret report on russian election hacking. winner, whose social media postings sharply criticized president trump, faces up to 10 years in prison. winner's stepfather, gary davis: >> she's dedicated, you know, to trying to make the world a better place.

>> reporter: the charge was filed less than two hours after the online publication the intercept posted the document. according to court documents, winner was one of just six individuals who printed a copy of the n.s.a. report. she allegedly mailed that copy to the intercept, and computer records show she was also in email contact with the publication. >> the leaks are real. >> reporter: shortly after taking office, president trump lashed out at what he calls "low-life leakers." >> i've actually called the justice department to look into the leaks. those are criminal leaks. >> reporter: leaks have long bedeviled presidents, but prosecutions were rare until the obama administration. according to the a.c.l.u., the obama justice department prosecuted eight cases of national security leaks, more than double all previous administrations, combined. the winner case comes as the president's faith in his attorney general may be waning. press secretary sean spicer. how would you describe the

in the attorney general, jeff sessions? >> i have not had a discussion with him about that. >> reporter: spicer was given not one but two chances to express the president's confidence in sessions, and did not. scott, only yesterday, via twitter, the president publicly criticized the justice department's handling of the travel ban litigation, and he remains irked about session's decision to recuse himself from the russia investigation. >> pelley: major garrett at the white house for us. major, thank you. we're back in just a moment.

well, our homeland security correspondent jeff pegues has more about that leaked document and how it fits in to the investigation of russian meddling in the election. >> reporter: u.s. intelligence is still gathering new evidence of russian cyberattacks before election day. the leaked top-secret n.s.a. report was only recently completed. it details how, a week before november 8, hackers connected to russian military intelligence sent emails laced with malware to 122 local officials controlling voter registration systems. the brazen scheme came just weeks after then-president obama personally told russian president vladimir putin to stop the attacks. >> i felt that the most effective way to ensure that that didn't happen was to talk

to him directly and tell him to cut it out. >> reporter: law enforcement source say voter databases nationwide were targeted by russian hackers over a six-month period ahead of the election. so you think the worst-case scenario was that they were actually trying to affect the vote total? >> i think that was their hope. >> reporter: jim lewis advises the u.s. government on cyber-security: >> i think that they were expecting to be able to manipulate votes in some way, maybe discredit the electoral system, which they came closer to doing. >> reporter: u.s. officials still believe the vote total was not affected. >> there is nothing more fundamental to our democracy than voting. >> reporter: today, homeland security secretary john kelly said his department wants to help states secure their voting systems, but that some are wary of federal intrusion. >> do you see us as partners and helpers in this, to help make sure that your systems are protected?

>> reporter: today, the kremlin again denied interfering in the election. scott, late last year, an obama administration official said that we would never expect russia to come out with their hands up-- they don't do that. >> pelley: jeff pegues in the washington newsroom. cbs news has learned this evening that russian hackers are suspected of interfering with a news site in the gulf state of qatar. and they may have put out fake information. the f.b.i. is assisting in the investigation. meanwhile, qatar is at the center of a crisis. a number of arab nations have cut diplomatic and commercial ties, and here's margaret brennan. >> reporter: president trump appeared to take credit for sparking the diplomatic crisis. in a series of tweets, the president said his recent visit to saudi arabia was "paying off," as the kingdom and nine other countries severed relations with qatar for allegedly funding radical ideology.

but the president made no mention of that last month when he met with the qatari emir, instead, offering to sell him weapons. >> lots of beautiful military equipment. >> reporter: during that trip, the president vowed to unify the muslim world against terrorism and iran. but tensions spiked in the past 24 hours, with countries in the region closing their air space to qatari planes, blocking trade, and cutting diplomatic ties, sparking qataris to stockpile food. the u.s. launches air strikes against isis and syria in iraq from a base in qatar. the tiny gulf emirate hosts around 10,000 u.s. troops. that's one reason secretary of state rex tillerson has tried to de-escalate the crisis. >> we certainly would encourage the parties to sit down together and address these differences. >> reporter: and yesterday, u.s. ambassador dana smith praised qatar's great partnership in countering terrorist financing. smith has broken with the es

month on twitter that it is increasingly difficult to spend the day explaining our democracy and institutions. today, state department spokesperson heather nauert tried to soften the president's comments on qatar. >> they have made progress, but they still have work to do. more work needs to be done. >> reporter: smith is not the only frustrated long-term diplomat. but, scott, while president trump wants his own nominees in place, he's only appointed 11 ambassadors to fill 188 empty state department slots. >> pelley: margaret brennan at the state department, thanks. in paris today, a man attacked a police officer with a hammer outside notre dame cathedral, shouting, "this is for syria." fellow officers shot and wound the man, who carried an i.d. indicating that he was from algeria. the officer who was attacked was not seriously hurt. about 600 tourists were locked inside the cathedral as police secured the scene.

today, british police identified the third of the london bridge attackers who killed seven and wounded nearly 50 on saturday night. youssef zaghba, 22 years old, of italian and moroccan heritage, was identified today. he and khuram butt were known to the police, leading some to wonder whether the attack might have been prevented. the truth is, the police in britain are overwhelmed, and mark phillips has more on that. >> reporter: after the carnage, the questions: what can be learned from this attack to prevent more of them? police here say they're already monitoring 500 suspects, have 3,000 other people of interest on their radar, and know of 20,000 other potential surveillance targets beyond that. >> the volume issue has become a major challenge for the police intelligence agencies.

>> reporter: richard walton used to run london's anti-terror unit, and says it can take dozens of officers to watch just one suspect. >> the police can only be devoted to the top, you know, three, four, 5% of those individuals-- >> reporter: and how do you pick who they are? >> and how do you pick who they are? you can't monitor 3,000 individuals all of the time, 24 hours a day. >> reporter: the so-called new normal keeps changing, especially as pressure on isis continues to build in syria and iraq. the london attacks are the sting in the isis tail. >> this is a death cult. this is an entity that realizes it's losing territory in iraq and syria and wants to take out as many people as it can. >> reporter: sajjan gohel advises governments and police on terrorism, and says trying to counter isis propaganda doesn't work when, like the london attacks, some are just too far gone. >> there are bad people out there that have violent tendencies. they have h

children, to mow people down. countering violent extremisms may work to some degree, but it doesn't stop the zea zealous. reporter: what works is fast and lethal police action, but that, as we've seen, scott, only limits the damage. they've started putting up these concrete barriers on some of london's bridges. protection, they hope, against vehicle attacks on pedestrians. closing the barn door, perhaps, after the horse has bolted, and also while they try to figure out what to do next. >> pelley: mark phillips, thanks. coming up next on the "cbs evening news," bill cosby's accuser tells her story to a jury. and later, living stronger with whatever floats your boat.

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three blue pills he called a natural remedy to ease her stress and a glass of wine. in court today, constand called cosby "a temple friend, somebody that i trusted, a friend, a mentor, somewhat of an older figure to me" and she said she wasn't scared of him. constand testified she remembers having blurred vision, saying, "i could see two of him." her legs were, "rubbery," and cosby fondled her. but she admitted to staying in contact with cosby after the alleged incident. inside the courtroom, cosby sat looking at the accuser, frowning and shaking his head at times. the defense has questioned constand's credibility. during cross-examination today, defense attorneys pointed to constand's phone records after the incident, showing she called cosby the same morning she did an online search for and contacted philadelphia-area defense attorneys. hours later, attorneys general say she called cosby again, and after being unable to reach him, it was only then that she filed

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after an investigation of sexual harassment, bullying, and discrimination. the ride-sharing company has also hired former attorney general eric holder and his law firm to investigate uber's corporate culture. dish network was hit today with the biggest fine ever for telemarketing violations. an illinois judge ordered the satellite tv company to pay $280 million for making millions of calls to people on the "do not call" registries. it was a rough day for sailing off burmuda during the america's cup semi finals today. winds gusted to 57 miles an hour. and look at that, team new zealand's catamaran capsized. some of the crew flew into the water, others hung on to the sides, as rescue teams sprang into action. but, everybody got out safely, to sail another day. up next, rowing older.

>> pelley: now our special series, "living stronger:" folks sharing their secrets for a longer, better life. for the woman you're about to meet, it's all about using her skull. here's don dahler. >> reporter: few sports are as physically and mentally grueling as competitive rowing. it takes strength, stamina, and perfect tempo. 76-year-old maxine shepatin has been rowing for 15 years. she's the oldest member of her team, the blood street skulls. >> the whole idea is to literally row as one so that the boat moves together. >> reporter: as a 26-year breast cancer survivor, shepatin was lo

>> that's me. >> reporter: during one of her first races, she didn't believe the coxswain, the man steering the boat. they were actually in the lead. >> and the coxswain is saying, "guys, keep it up. you're in first place!" none of us believed him. we thought, "okay, dave--." you're just saying that. >> reporter: his constant job is to motivate you. >> right. >> reporter: turns out they won that race, and many others. she has a table full of medals. how many do you think you have? >> i don't know. i didn't count them. a couple thousand, maybe, 3,000. it's not for the medals. i just enjoy being able to do it. >> reporter: being able to do it means four days a week on the river, and up to five days in the gym. she says her key to living stronger is preparation. she doesn't want to let her younger teammates down. >> there's no senior citizen discount on an effort. >> reporter: so you better be physically ready. >> you better be prepared, right. and it's not fair if you don't bring your "a" game, whatever that "a" game may be.

>> reporter: teammate kristy dorsey: >> when i was in elementary school, i was on a swim team with her kids, so i knew her as "mrs. shepatin," and now we're teammates, so that, i think, is kind of cool. >> reporter: shepatin took up another challenge when she was in her 60s and became a black belt in kick boxing. what do their grandchildren call you? >> when they were younger, they called me "ninja grandma." >> reporter: there are those who avoid difficulties, who dread life's turbulent waters, and those like maxine shepatin, who face them head on. don dahler, cbs news, old lyme, connecticut. and that's the overnight news for this wednesday, for jeffers some of you the news continues, for others check back with us this morning. i'm scott

this is the "cbs overnight news." >> welcome to the overnight news. for nearly the start of his administration, president trump has been complaining about leaks. major garrett has that story. >> reporter: late last month, president trump described leaks of classified information as a grave threat to our national security. mr. trump's justice department has now charged 25-year-old reality leigh winner, a national security agency contract employee with leaking a top secret report on russian election hacking.

postings sharply criticized president trump faces up to ten years in prison. winner's stepfather, gary davis. >> she is dedicated you know to trying to make the world a better place. >> reporter: the charge was filed less than two hours after the on-line publication "the intercept" posted the court documents. according to the report, winner was one of six who mailed that report, and reports show she was also a part of the leaked publication. short after taking office president trump lashed out what he calls "low-life leakers". >> i have actually called the justice department to look into the leaks. they're criminal leaks. >> reporter: leaks are rarely prosecute his, but during the obama administration, they prosecuted eight cases

than double all previous administrations combined. the winner case comes as the president's faith in his attorney general may be waning. press secretary sean spicer. >> how would you describe his confidence level for jeff sessions? >> i have not had a conversation about that. >> the leak shows that they were not simply content to influence the election, they allegedly tried to break into the voting system as well. jeff pegues has more. >> reporter: u.s. intelligence is still gathering new evidence of russian cyber attacks before the election. the cyber attack report was only recently completed, detailing how hackers connected to military intelligence sent e-mails laced with mallware to 122 officials controlling voter registration systems. the brazen scheme came just weeks after

personally told president vladimir putin to stop the attacks. >> i felt that the most effective way to ensure that did not happen was to talk to him directly. and tell him to cut it out. >> reporter: law enforcement sources say voter databases nationwide were targeted by russian hackers over a six-month period ahead of the election. so you think the worse-case scenario was they were actually trying to affect the vote total. >> i think that was their hope. >> reporter: jim louis advises the u.s. got on cyber security. >> i think they hoped to influence the votes, maybe discredit the electoral system which they came closer to doing. >> reporter: u.s. officials still believe the vote total was not affected. >> there is nothing more fundamental to our democracy than voting. >> reporter: today, homeland security secretary john kelly said his department wants to

systems but that some are wary of federal intrusion. >> do you see this as a way to help make sure they are protected? there is a firestorm in the middle east, threatening security in the area and beyond. >> reporter: president trump appeared to take credit for sparking the diplomatic crisis. in a series of tweets the president said his recent visit to saudi arabia was paying off as the kingdom and nine other countries cut relations with qatar, for allegedly funding radical ideology. but the president made no mention of that last month when he met with the amir, when he offered to sell him weapons. during that trip, the president vowed to unify the muslim world against terrorism and iran. but the tension sparked in the past 24

cutting their access to airports, and sparking the people there to stockpile food. the u.s. launches airstrikes from qatar. that is one reason that secretary of state john kerry has tried to de-escalate the crisis. >> we certainly would encourage the parties to sit down together and address these differences. >> reporter: and yesterday, u.s. ambassador dana smith praised the events, smith lamented last month on twitter that it is very difficult to spend the day explaining our democracy and institutions. today, state department spokesperson heather nauert tried to soften the president's comments on qatar. >> they made progress, but they still have work to do. more work needs to be done. a n

at least 38,000 homeless people on the streets of san francisco. >> what did you expect when you got here? >> reporter: this 18-year-old came here to escape the drugs in his hometown. but once here, he found difficulty finding a job and place to live. how hard has it been for you? >> trying to find a job, it's harder. >> reporter: garner is a growing number of young people between the ages of 13 and 24 who are homeless and alone without the guidance of a parent or guardian. many of them ran away from an abusive family. drake hudson said he left home after arguing several times with his parents. what is a day like? >> i just focus on getting food and that is pretty much it. it's just food. >> rte

that there are at least 1.8 million youth that are homeless across the country, but no one knows for sure, so this department is focusing on getting an accurate count. >> how long were you homeless? >> about two months. >> reporter: volunteer hopeople who were homeless before, are working to get them help. >> often times what homeless youth will do is sleep on a friend's couch for a couple of nights. then under an underpass for a night. they don't want it to be associated with homelessness, they do everything they can to appear to be just a normal 20-year-old, because they are a normal 20-year-old. >> reporter: advocates say the results will mean more federal funding for programs aimed at helping these young people. hud's goal is to end the

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the grueling race to alaska gets under way in townsend, washington, a 750-mile ocean marathon, and the rules are simple. you can't use a motor. luke burbank covered the race last year and has a preview. >> reporter: it's a wednesday afternoon in port townsend, washington, just hours before the annual race gets started. and sailors like matt johnson are nervously making adjustments. >> if yeou're here for the swap meet you're in the wrong place. >> reporter: while crew members get a briefing of sorts. >> if you're here to create a challenge and make it a story to make it yours forevou

the right place, yeah! >> reporter: and what a challenge it is. the race to alaska is one of the more unusual, more punishing events in american sports. a gruel 750-mile boat race from port townsend, to ketchikan, alaska, with just one rule, no motors. >> so it's a gnarly piece of coast, truly one of the last wild places on earth. >> reporter: and this is the guy behind the race, jake beady. >> the tide is really high, and the winds can be incredibly dangerous. >> reporter: last year, some 200 sailors entered the race. some in row boats and paddle boats, others in high tech carbon fiber catamarans. not to mention homemade dinghys,

it alone. >> the good thing is when you're alone, you win the arguments, you don't know which 11s the arguments but one will win it. >> reporter: one big challenge is figuring out how to sleep while out on the water. >> since the beginning of race, i think i have gotten about seven hours of sleep, i'm on my third day of seven hours of sleep. >> reporter: food is another problem, lugging it along, and sometimes forcing yourself to eat it. >> we're really shoveling the food down, which is surprisingly not that easy, the hunger, like enjoyment of food is a ritual, and just sort of disappeared. >> reporter: and maybe the toughest struggle of all, at least for the sail boats is what to do when the wind is not blowing. >> i was thinking oh, you know, we may get ten

in throughout the whole trip and we have been doing about 16 hours a day. >> reporter: race founder, jake beady. >> removing the ability for you to depend on a little button that starts a motor it changes your relationship to the water when there is no get out of jail free card. >> reporter: and no fun for matt johnson, who may have made the biggest sacrifice of the entire race, before it even started. >> this is all of your wine and beer money? >> this is all of my wine and beer money, yes. >> it really paid off. >> reporter: jonhnson, a competitive cyclist, redirected that money to power the boat he worked on for months in his garage. >> reporter: so you don't expect to win this race? >> i don't expect to win it. >> reporter: then some may ask why you do it. >> because i want to see how far or fast i can do. >> reporter: and as it turned out not that

a pontoon just minutes into the race and had to turn back, but he was not alone. >> we're going a huge 1.2 miles. >> reporter: almost half the team never made it to alaska, and those that did enjoyed pungent weeks at sea. >> the stench is moving us along. >> reporter: but there are moments of beauty out there with the dolphins and the whales. this crew, team mad dog, didn't have time to take in all the scenery, though, they sailed day and night for four straight days, sleeping in 20 minute shifts and winning in record time. their prize? $10,000, barely enough to tow the boat home from alaska.

and we're not kidding here. is a set of steak knives. >> to reach ketchikan you have to build your own little victory every hour of every day. >> reporter: despite the dangers, no one has died in the race yet. but limits have been and will be pushed. and then broken. which is just how race founder jake beady likes it. >> i have never met a more powerful teacher than the sea and i'm excited to have people have those teachable moments out on the water. no motors. and nasa, as well as several private companies are intent on sending men and women to mars. if and when they get there the astronauts will have to get around somehow. and our own

there with the team. >> reporter: with the distinctive wheels at the alien design, tourists at the complex have no idea who to make of this ext extraterrestrial. this is the rover concept vehicle, standing 13 feet wide. what takes longer? your design or you putting it together? >> reporter: the giant rover is the brain child of the parker brothers, shannon and mark. the two made their names in hollywood, designing and building movie props, most notab notab notable, the futuristic movie tron.

shannon designed the rover, mark and his team did the dirty work, putting it together in at least five months. >> there was nothing in this that was not done in our shop, nothing was ordered out of a catalogue, we built the body, the chassis, the wheels, suspension, frame, interior, seats, glass, everything on this vehicle had to be built completely from scratch. >> some of this was just for a design you know, just for it to look cool. other things i thought you know this is kind of important to have. >> i'm being very delicate with this, this is the speed you would end up going on mars. >> reporter: the inside of the rover seats four and drives like an suv. but there is also a mock lab in the back where astronauts could possibly conduct experiments. some of the features were designed with exploration in mind. >> so we needed a good surface area for the rock to climb over but then we needed a lot of surface area

the sand it would not sink. but it also had the really deep grooves in it, could go through sand and not get stuck. >> reporter: the brother s consulted with astronauts when building the machine, but this vehicle will not go to mars, instead, it's about the science and learning about the red planet. the u.s. astronaut john mcbride flew two shuttle admissiomissio he said we're closer than we think. >> these guy news ts in the thi fourth, fifth grade, are there. >> reporter: and others hope this will be help for when it lands on mars. omar villafranca, in florida, a

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they live within blocks of each other but have never met. >> good morning, how are you? >> join you for your commute here? >> please. >> reporter: both women work about ten miles away, across the bay in downtown san francisco, and both face the frustrating traffic obstacle, known as the maze. three interstates converge at the end of the bridge, creating a bottleneck that delays drivers for sometimes an hour, for many years, this agreement has been something called casual car pool. >> this is it. >> somebody just pulls up? >> yes, you just get in the car. >> hi, good morning. how are you? >> how are you. >> reporter: at more than 20 locations scattered throughout the east bay region, people who need a ride into san francisco line up each weekday morning and jump into the next car that pulls up. >> it's like ad

>> reporter: typically, the ride iris expected to chip in a dollar. >> oh, thank you. >> you're welcome. >> reporter: but the real draw for solo drivers like christianson helps get them to areains like this, a restricted car pool area on the bridge. >> so we save 35 minutes, something like that? >> probably that, yeah. >> about 6,000 people are doing this daily. >> reporter: the university of california berkeley researcher is one of the few social scientists who studied this 40-year-old phenomenon that was born during a crippling 1979 public transit strike. >> we found that the median wait time for a driver was just two minutes and they were doing this long before lift and uber. >> reporter: the casual car pooling is done without an app and just

>> it's completely organic. >> reporter: here we are in high tech, and this low-tech system has been thriving and has been for years. >> you don't need an app to do everything. there are ways to live your life without that. >> reporter: while some casual car poolers are doing this easily, many worried about the fears getting into a stranger's car. >> the tech world makes us more trusting to people around us, we hop in the car all the time with uber drivers. >> if you can rent a room and sleep there comfortably, you can get a ride in the city with a stranger. >> reporter: all right, well, thanks for the ride. >> thank you. >> reporter: in an age where uber claims more than a million have taken the uber pool rides and boasts millions on its at

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from captioning funded by cbs it's wednesday, june 7th, 2017. this is the "cbs morning news." a day ahead of james comey's testimony, we know more about the ousted fbi director will and won't say about his conversations with the president. bill cosby's accuser takes the stand in his sexual assault trial. describing the momenting alone with cosby. severe storms leave parts of south florida flooded. >> nothing we can do about that. i mean we have to pump all the water out. tough