disagree, and they believe that the meeting was inappropriate. now senate democrats are urging the white house to review and possibly to revoke the security clearance of jared kushner, president trump's son-in-law. he also attended the that meeting but did not initially disclose it on his security clearance paperwork. now, all of this is complicating the administration's efforts to improve relations with russia. a high-level meeting was held today with russian diplomats to discuss the possible return of two compounds here in the u.s. that were seized by the obama administration in response to that russian election hacking. >> margaret brennan at the white house. thank you, margaret. the "cbs evening news" will be right back.

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>> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." the president tried today to change the subject from russia to america or at least to products made here. julian julie anna goldman has more. >> reporter: president trump highlighted american products made in all 50 states. >> remember in the old days they used to have made in the usa. we're going to put that brand on our product because it means it's the best. >> reporter: but notably absent today, any trump-branded items which in the past he hasn't hesitated to promote. like at a campaign press conference at a trump golf club last year. >> i built a great, great company. you have the water. you have the steaks. you have the airline tha

>> reporter: in business, mr. trump as well as his daughter and senior adviser ivanka have outsourced manufacturing of their products to countries around the world where labor is cheaper and there are fewer regulations. items from the trump home collection, for example, are made in turkey. these ivanka trump clothes are made in china, vietnam, and indonesia. over the weekend, the president was touting his golf club in bed minister new jersey where he was vip. he sent out eight tweets in three days promoting the event. visits to his own properties have raised ethical concerns because the president still owns and profits from his companies. earlier this month, the government's ethics chief walter shaub told us he resigned partly over this very issue, which he tried to raise in november but said the president's lawyer shouted him down. >> one of the suggestions that we had hoped to communicate was that even if you're not going to sell them, maybe commit to staying away from those properties. >> reporter: since becoming

visits to half a dozen trump properties in florida, virginia, new jersey, and d.c. he hasn't stayed at any non-trump resorts. today press secretary sean spicer was asked if trump brands would commit to stop manufacturing products abroad. he said it's not appropriate for him to comment on the president's business, but there are certain supply chains that may not be available in the u.s. anthony. >> thank you. the department of homeland security announced today it's raising the number of h-2b visas this year from 66,000 to 81,000. these are temporary visas for foreigners to come to the u.s. to do seasonal non-farm work. but this one-time visa expansion may be too little, too late. here's strassmann. >> reporter: on the texas gulf coast, shrimp season began with a traditional blessing of the fleet. this year's answered prayer would be hundreds of

hands. >> we're following the law. we're not breaking the law. okay? and it's very frustrating. >> reporter: carlton reyes owns seven shrimp boats in brownsville, texas. since 1987, he has relied on mexican deck hands, two per boat, who come here on h-2b visas. he applied for 14 of them this year. none has been approved. >> it's been a tremendous impact on the economy. we can't bring in the shrimp that's out there to harvest because we're short on labor, you know, help. >> reporter: as a group, texas shrimp boat companies applied for roughly 500 h-2b visas. not one was granted. the texas shrimp boat association estimates the loss will be $1 million a day. anthony owns two hotels in maine. he relies on seasonal foreign labor. >> this year we applied for 22 visas betw

properties. of those 22, we have received six employees, and those were all in-country beforehand. >> reporter: reyes has the same struggle. >> is there any truth to the idea that these visa workers are taking jobs from americans? >> not at all because americans don't want this type of work. >> reporter: even if the worker visas were approved today, by the time they were processed, the main texas shrimp season would be almost over. strassmann, cbs news, brownsville, texas. for the first time in several years, u.s. marines are on the ground in helmand province in southern afghanistan. they've returned because so have the taliban. charlie d'agata is there. [ gunfire ] >> reporter: the last time u.s. marines were here, a force of 20,000 all but drove the taliban out of their stronghold of helmand province. back then, brigadier general

roger turner was a colonel. did you think he'd be back here? >> no, i didn't. i didn't really. i left here as we discussed. i left here in 2012, and we knew that the mission was going to end in 2014. so i didn't think i'd be back here. >> reporter: this time, his mission is dramatically different. in command of just 300 marines, training afghans to fight for themselves. we joined them as they flew over what is once again taliban-held territory. because not long after the marines pulled out, the taliban swept through helmand, recapturing territory u.s. forces fought and died for. with 349 american lives lost. >> this is one of my positions. >> reporter: we can't give the location, but this used to be a u.s. marine base. how hard of a fight you think this is going to be getting from -- that fight will now be led by big agreer

ahmedzai who stressed the need for increased american support to defeat the taliban. this war is not just ours, he said. it's a war against international terrorism. we need america's advanced technology and more forces to fight with us. but general turner said the marines' role is simply to train, advise, and assist. the priority is to get afghans to do the fighting. >> i don't know that having, you know, marines moving right behind them is something we really need to do. >> reporter: recapturing and holding on to taliban-held territory is a task afghan forces must take on themselves, eventually on their own. the afghans are making progress. there's word today they recaptured a strategic town near the provincial capital with the help of u.s. forces. the question, anthony, is whether they can hold on to it and for how long. >> charlie d'agata with the ongoing fight in

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>> reporter: that tough guy recuperated at home in phoenix today. the 80-year-old mccain was well enough to take calls from close friends like senator lindsey graham. >> did he say how they discovered the clot? >> a routine check. he goes back every so often, but he had not been feeling good. he was really tired. he flies all over the world all the time. >> reporter: on friday, mccain's surgeons performed a minimally invasive craniotomy, an incision through the skull to remove a five-centimeter blood clot above his left eye, not far from the spot on his left temple where he had a cancerous lesion removed in 2000. >> i was in a battle with melanoma, and i know somewhat, at least to a small degree, how tough that battle can be. >> reporter: graham said he had noticed that the normally sharp six-term senator had gotten forgetful lately. >> mr. comey, you -- president comey -- >> reporter: falteringli

jim comey. >> you're going to have to help me out here. >> i'm a little confused senator. >> reporter: cbs news chief medical correspondent, dr. jon lapook. >> the front of the brain is important for communication. any abnormality there could cause a change in behavior. >> reporter: mccain's health crisis is holding up a vote that could affect health care for millions of americans. without him, republicans have no shot at passing their obamacare replacement bill. so the president wished mccain a speedy recovery today. >> because we miss him. he's a crusty voice in washington, plus we need his vote. >> reporter: mccain is one of about a dozen republican senators who haven't said where they stand. he's been getting an earful from arizona's republican governor, who is worried about the bill's deep medicaid cuts. anthony, supporters of the bill worry that those kinds of concerns are going to be

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we end tonight at the international robotics competition. for some of the teams, chip reid tells us, the biggest challenge was just getting to the usa. >> reporter: in washington today, you might be relieved to know that robots stole the spotlight from the politicians. they were designed and built by teams of

countries. and winning required cooperating with other nations. is winning the most important thing? >> no, definitely not. >> what's the most important thing in. >> having fun. >> reporter: there was no shortage of that. some teams had more challenges than others. syrian refugees identified their nation simply as "hope." >> team afghanistan. >> but perhaps no group overcame more adversity than this team from afghanistan, where girls are discouraged from pursuing education. just ask 16-year-old rodaba nori. to get to the u.s., they twice had to make the 500 mile journey from their home in western afghanistan through taliban-controlled territory to the capital, kabul to get visas. both times they were

until president trump intervened and authorized special visas. but concerns about terrorism delayed their package of robot parts, so they had only two weeks to build theirs. other groups had much longer. but in their first round today, they won, working with teams from estonia and gabon. >> and there they go. >> reporter: despite all the challenges, this group of future engineers and computer scientists made clear they will not be deterred from their dreams. >> we want to be the young leader of robotic technology and science in afghanistan. we want to work with men to improve our country and make it a better place. >> reporter: and in the process, perhaps making the world a better place too. chip reid, cbs news, washington. >> that's the overnight news for this tuesday. 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 center in new york city, i'm anthony mason. thanks for watching.

>> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." welcome to the overnight news. i'm don dahler. a heart-breaking search is under way in arizona where a flash flood washed away nearly an entire family. they were relaxing in a swimming hole when heavy rain upstream unleashed a six-foot-high torrent of debris. nine family members were killed. others were badly hurt and one is still missing. mireya villarreal has the latest. >> reporter: this wall of water, six feet high at times, caught families completely off guard. cell phone video shows a man in a tree above the raging river, clinging to a young child. >> all of a sudden this wall of water and rock and debris and everything just came rushing at them. >> reporter: it was

14 family members celebrated maria reyes' 26th birthday at a popular swimming home when suddenly dark floodwaters filled with debris came barreling down the east verde river. the flash flood started when a thunderstorm hit an area scorched by last month's high line fire. the fire chief says it was more violent than most because the water's natural barriers like trees and shrubs have been burnt away. >> in all that debris and ash and everything came roaring down that drainage and caught those people totally by surprise. >> reporter: one of the family members, carla garnica, pleaded for help. >> they can't stop looking until he's found. he has to be rest in peace with his whole family. >> reporter: search and rescue teams from around the state are trudging through the flooding aftermath. 20-year veteran val says even the smallest personal item can help. you're looking for things that are out of the ordinary then? >> right.

whatever. >> reporter: teams are searching the ellison river in hopes of finding 27-year-old hector garnica, whose body may have been carried away miles from where his family last saw him alive. crews tell me the floodwaters were well over my head, six to eight feet above normal. while things have receded for now, strong storms are expected later today and later this week which could be more flooding. arizona senator's john mccain recent surgery has the gop plan to replace the affordable care act on life support. without mccain, senate majority leader mitch mcconnell doesn't have the votes to push it through, and ironically mccain hasn't taken a public stand for or against the measure. nancy cordes has the latest from capitol hill. >> our friend from arizona is a pretty tough guy as we all know. >> reporter: that tough guy recuperated at home in phoenix today. the 80-year-old mccain was well enough to take calls from close friends like senator lindsey

>> did he say how they discovered the clot? >> routine check. he goes back every so often, but he had not been feeling good. he was really tired. he flies all over the world all the time. i was getting really worried about him. >> reporter: on friday, mccain's surgeons performed a minimally invasive craniotomy, an incision through the skull to remove a five centimeter blood clot above his left eye, not far from the spot on his left temple where he had a cancerous lesion removed in 2000. >> i was in a battle with mel know that. and i know to a small degree how tough that battle can be. >> reporter: graham says he had noticed that the normally sharp six-term senator had gotten forgetful lately. >> mr. comey, you -- president comey -- >> faltering publicly while grilling former fbi head jim comey. >> you're going to have to help me out here. >> i'm a little confused, senator. >> dr. jon lapook. >> the front

important for communication. any abnormality there could cause a change in behavior. >> reporter: mccain's health crisis is holding up a vote that could affect health care for millions of americans. >> health care is a human right! >> reporter: without him, republicans have no shot at passing their obamacare replacement bill. so the president wished mccain a speedy recovery today. >> because we miss him. he's a crusty voice in washington, plus we need his vote. >> reporter: mccain is one of about a dozen republican senators who haven't said where they stand. he's been getting an earful from arizona's republican governor, who is worried about the bill's deep medicaid cuts. anthony, supporters of the bill worry that those kinds of concerns are going to be amplified if this process gets dragged out while he recovers. president trump was back on twitter. he defended his son, don junior's meeting with a kremlin-connected lawyer who was promising dirt on hillary

that's politics. margaret brennan has the latest on the investigation. >> reporter: the president says this is politics as usual, but a new poll out today shows that two-thirds of americans disagree, and they believe that the meeting was inappropriate. now senate democrats are urging the white house to review and possibly to revoke the security clearance of jared kushner, president trump's son-in-law. he also attended that meeting but did not initially disclose it on his security clearance paperwork. now, all of this is complicating the administration's efforts to improve relations with russia. a high-level meeting was held today with russian diplomats to discuss the possible return of two compounds here in the u.s. that were seized by the obama administration in response to that russian election hacking. academy award winning actor martin landau has passed away. he was 89 years old. landau was best remembered for

mission impossible but he appeared in more than 200 movies and television shows. charlie rose looks back on his more than 60-year-long career. >> let's not be stupid. we tailed you to your place last night. >> reporter: with a dynamic range and an unrivaled longevity. actor martin landau was one of the profession's most adaptable students. >> i wonder if i might have a few words of parting with you, sir. >> reporter: he played an assassin in alfred hitchcock's thriller "north by northwest." and an adulterous husband in woody allen crimes and misdemeanors. but it was his effort on tim burton's 1994 film "ed wood" -- >> i'm ready now. roll the camera. >> reporter: -- that earned him the craft's highest honor. >> martin landau in

>> reporter: it was his only academy award. >> don't put music on because if it's a mission impossible theme, i'll get really angry. >> reporter: landau's worked stretched generations. cast with some of today's biggest stars in both drama and comedy. >> i don't miss putts inside 10 feet. even bob knows that. >> how would i know that? the only putts i see is standing in front of me. all an audience wants to believe what's going on between two people is happening for the first time ever. that is about acting. the "cbs overnight news" will be right back. the "cbs ovl be right back.

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>> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." the international robot olympics is under way in washington. teams of teenagers from 157 countries are taking part, including six girls from afghanistan. turns out just getting into the country was as difficult for them as building their robot. chip reid reports. >> reporter: you can see behind me kids on the steps of constitution hall waiting to go inside for this competition. in afghanistan, it can be dangerous to even pursue an education for girls, and these girls were told as recently as last week that this trip would be impossible. more than 50 supporters, mostly strangers, showered the girls with flowers and

arrived friday night. a competitor was overjoyed. she told us, quote, i want to thank everyone who greeted us, welcomed us, and didn't forget us. the team has faced adversity from the beginning. they were supposed to receive a box of building materials from the u.s. months ago, but terrorism concerns blocked the shipment's arrival. so the girls scraped together the materials themselves and built their robot in just two weeks. then the girls traveled 500 miles to the embassy in kabul to get their visas twice. they were denied both times. they were devastated, but last week president trump authorized the visas the girls needed to travel to america. they were deeply grateful that they and afghanistan were not forgotten. >> team afghanistan. >> reporter: now the girls will complete for a medal aga

the afghanistan ambassador says the afghan people will be watching. >> seeing them and seeing the talent that they represent gives us the hope that afghanistan has the potential to become a stable and prosperous country. >> reporter: it's still unclear why the girls' visas were initially refused. the state department says they can't even discuss it because of privacy concerns. by the way, afghanistan is not one of the six nations included in the president's travel ban, but five of those nations are represented here. they are syria, iran, libya, yemen, and sudan. >> maybe the winners of the robot olympics will get a scholarship to m.i.t. that school is doing some remarkable things with robots like making a mek niced cheetah. >> reporter: m.i.t. will be hosting some of the brightest minds in technology today at the first ever tech crunch conference. the very latest in artificial intelligence and ric

pound, four legged robot. meet cheetah 3. powered by a complex algorithm made of aluminum, this is one of a kind in the robot world. she uses less energy than a microwave, runs smoothly, and each of her joints can generate as much power as a sports car. the hope is one day cheetah will become the first ever robot first responder. cheetah can dance. >> yes. being able to move this smoothly wasn't possible before. >> reporter: inspired by the world's fastest land animal, cheetah 3 runs on a complex computer system, and is powered by customized electric motors. m.i.t. professor song bay kim and his team have been working on the cheetah for about seven years. >> when i first started, you know, pure ambition to build something like a cheetah that can run and turn fast. a lot of people told me, like, you're trying to do something

>> reporter: gieltded by the animal world, kim set out to solve one of robotics' biggest challenges. mobility. >> i said look at that spine. look at the backbone. it's bending and exploding. that's probably why they're fast. >> reporter: the machine cheetah reaches speeds of 30 miles per hour. cheetah 3 has twice as much torque or rotational force than earlier models, and its 12 joints give it four times more flexibility or range of motion. >> robot cannot actually have as many muscles and joints like animals because increasing number of motors is too expensive. you need to actually increase range of motion of each joint. >> reporter: cheetah even responds to commands powered by alexa voice technology. >> welcome to m.i.t. cheetah control. >> reporter: and packs sense sores similar to the ones used in ballistic missiles. one day the cheetah may be used to help care for the elderly or in disaster relief. within five years, kim thinks the cheetah could be deployed in dangerous situations like the

>> they haven't been able to send anything that can actually do physical work, like closing valve or removing debris. many power plants where radiation level is high enough that we don't want to send a human. >> reporter: but there are limits to artificial intelligence. >> kmcheetah, wiggle. >> reporter: cheetah wasn't in the right mode to respond to our commands. just part of the learning process. and while you may not be able to take cheetah home, someday you may be able to 3-d print a robot that literally walks out of that printer. robots building robots in. >> that's right. rob mckurdi can print this robot in about 24 hours. he then adds what he calls the heart and brains of the robot. the battery and the motor. >> you have to bring this robot to life? >> right. >> the computer may help you create but it's still not ready to go? >> that's right. i'm imagining robots like this that are expendable. maybe they go

dangerous or contaminated place, do some job, and then the robot is disposable. we ha m.i.t.'s toyota professor of robotics says the robot revolution is limited by a very mundane reality. short battery life. so people think that robots are going to take over if we keep teaching and building. is that a fair assumption? >> if you can run for more than about five minutes, you'll be fine. the battery is going to die before he gets you. but i think there's a natural transition from the robots in the labs now into the robots doing meaningful work. i think we have to do that mindfully. we have to think about the implications. but i think the potential for good is so incredible that you wouldn't want to stop it. >> reporter: you may have heard the comments by elon musk over the weekend that if artificial intelligence isn't regulated, that it will become a danger to humanity. tomorrow we're going to explore that idea while we get into humans and robots working

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and apple pie. it turns out making apple pie can be as competitive as major league baseball. connor knighten brought his fork to the contest. ♪ all i can think about is pie >> reporter: this is where diets go to die. ♪ blueberry pie, pecan pie >> reporter: a room where there is always room for dessert. it's the 2017 national pie championships. >> let's hear it for the american pie! >> whoo! >> reporter: this high-stakes pie calorie competition held in orlando, florida, is as american as apple pie. this year, this woman made the best apple pie in america. >> from belleville, wisconsin, beth campbell. [ ch a

>> reporter: i first met beth campbell in her kitchen. caramel crunch? as she was testing out this year's recipes on her friends and family. >> if you like key lime, you should have key lime. if you like butterfinger, you should have butterfinger. >> maybe i should try all of them. >> reporter: beth entered pies in ten different categories this year. she's racked up so many ribbons over the decades, she's lost track. >> last year you got a second and a third. the year before that, you got two firsts and a second, and the year before that, you go the two firsts and a third. >> i don't remember. >>. >> reporter: her husband, charlie, is her biggest fan. after years of assisting in the kitchen, he started entering some of his own pies. but the one year he took home a ribbon, the drive home didn't go as well. >> he won. >> things happen. >> and all the way home, he kept driving

i didn't even try with that pie, and i won and you didn't. i wanted to push him out in the foothills of the carolinas. >> reporter: that's right. the campbells drive the 22 hours to florida. it's their only vacation. each year they load up the van. >> spices and colorings. >> reporter: they meticulously pack up the kitchen and stuff their coolers with ingredients they're convinced are just better in wisconsin. >> cream. we got cream. >> reporter: they head south, unload it all at a rental house. >> oh, yeah. >> reporter: and spend days baking their way around a new kitchen, which is no cakewalk. competitor devin davis enjoys a bit of a home oven advantage. he grew up just 30 miles away from the competition. >> i've been cooking since i was 5 years old probably.

she hated me being in the kitchen. >> reporter: devin entered his first national pie contest when he was just 14. he won the grand prize, and now at 21, he competes against the pros. >> so much fun because pies are simple in concept, but there's so many things you can do with it. you can make them complex. >> reporter: devin's family is happy to serve as taste testers. but just because something works around the kitchen table -- >> so what do we think? how many first place pies are we looking at here? >> seven probably. >> seven? come on. one's got to fail, right? seven out of seven, all right. >> reporter: it doesn't mean it's going to work at the judging table. >> front porch lemon truffle blueberry pie. >> reporter: bite after bite, slice after slice, these palates alone determine the sweet taste of victory. >> italian cream blueberry. >> what are you judgg

>> the taste, the mouth feel. >> what's mouth feel. >> is it too mushy? are the berries overcooked. how is the crust? >> reporter: devin picked up an honorable mention for his chocolate pie. but unless you're a best in show winner like andy hilton, there's not a lot of money at stake here. nobody is entering pie contests for the dough. ♪ it's all about the camaraderie, the silly apron contest, the chance to hang out with people as devoted to dessert as you are. >> it's just fun to get together with them and see people and see ideas of what other people came up with. and if you win, that's just frosting on the cake. or on the pie. >> there we go. ♪ everybody lov

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we end tonight with a story of a man who has so much love, he built a special place to keep it all. steve hartman met him on the road. >> reporter: around starkville, mississippi, retired mail carrier charles evans is known mostly for his questionable taste in lawn furnishings, but we came last year for something undeniably beautiful. >> the man with the plan. >> reporter: charles met his wife, louise, back in 1949. >> when you looked at her, it's like electrical shock. >> really? >> i guess it's love. >> to charles true love is so powerful, nothing can stop it. >> that's a big four-letter word. >> straighten it out. >> reporter: which is why when she died

of marriage, he decided a grave marker wasn't enough. what their love needed was a museum. so in a little outbuilding behind his house, charles evans built just that. >> this is our memorabilia area. >> reporter: inside, he's got the shoe shine stand he was working at when he met her. he's got all the music they used to dance to. and he's got four walls packed solid with pictures, documenting everything significant occasion. >> this was when we went out to lunch. >> reporter: and most every insignificant occasion. >> this is at a different place at lunch. and she didn't like that one because she had food in her mouth. >> reporter: needless to say, he wasn't getting a whole lot of visitors, which was fine by charles. >> this is our last dance. >> reporter: in fact, we got the sense he almost enjoyed his alone time more. ♪ on slow days, he would slow dance with louise. >>

our life. would you think? maybe. i don't know. it's so hard to explain, you know. but it's not a suffering memory. it's a beautiful memory, you know. >> reporter: fortunately, a lot of our viewers could relate. since that story first aired, 250 people from as far away as india have come to see the museum. ♪ some even go for a spin with the curator. of course, none of these new dance partners can hold a candle to his louise. but charles says he's still happy that people are getting the message of his museum, that love can never be lost as long as it's savored. >> yeah, she was lovely. >> reporter: steve hartman on the road in starkville, mississippi. >> that's the overnight news for this tuesday. for some of you, the news continues.

from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm don dahler. swept away. >> holy mackerel. >> nine members of a family are killed by floodwaters darkened by the asheswi of ldfires. the search goes on for the missing. also tonight, a suburban dallas police officer is charged with the murder of a black teen leaving a party. and a minneapolis cop fatally shoots an australian womaten afe r shedcall t 911o report a possible assault. the president channels his inner cowboy to promote goods made in the usa. not mentioned, truammp fily products made overseas. and the global robotics challenge. for somena

just getting there was a victory. >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." search parties are out in arizona's tonto national forest, picking through mud and debris for a man missing since saturday. he was one of 14 family members swept away in a flash flood. four were rescued, but at least nine were killed. mireya villarreal reports the flood was triggered by a rainstorm eight miles upstream. >> reporter: this wall of water, six feet high at times, caught families completely off guard. cell phone video shows a man in a tree above the raging river, clinging to a young child. >> all of a sudden this wall of water and rock and debris and everything just came rushing at them. >> reporter: it was drizzling as 14 family members celebrated maria reyes' 26th birthday at a

suddenly dark floodwaters filled with debris came barreling down the east verde river. the flash flood started when a thunderstorm hit an area scorched by last month's high line fire. the fire chief says it was more violent than most because the water's natural barriers like trees and shrubs have been burnt away. >> all that debris and ash came roaring down that drainage and caught those people totally by surprise. >> reporter: one of the family members, carla garnica, pleaded for help. >> they can't stop looking until he's found. he has to rest in peace with his whole family. >> reporter: search and rescue teams from around the state are trudging through the flooding aftermath. this 20-year veteran says even the smallest personal item can help. you're looking for things out of the ordinary, then? >> right. clothing, personal effects, whatever. >> reporter: teams are searching the ellison river in

finding hector garnica whose body may have been carried away from where his family last saw him alive. crews tell me the floodwaters were well over my head, six to eight feet above normal. while things have receded for now, storms later this week could mean more flooding. a grand jury in texas indicted a former suburban dallas police officer today on a murder charge in the shooting of a high school freshman. the officer was fired soon after the incident. here's omar villafranca. >> reporter: 15-year-old jordan edwards was leaving a suburban dallas house party in april with four other teenagers. police officers tried to stop them, but they drove off. that's when investigators say officer roy oliver fired his ar-15 several times into the car. edwards was killed. police originally claimed the car moved towards them aggressively, but investigators

say body camera footage shows the car was driving away. dallas county district attorney faith johnson. >> i have a personal guarantee to jordan, his family, this community, that we will prosecute this case vigorously. >> reporter: jordan's mother, charmaine, feels the family is closer to justice. >> it makes us feel hopeful, but you're still going to it on the edge of your seats wondering what's going to happen when you go to trial. >> reporter: oliver is also charged with four counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. that's one count for each of the remaining teenagers who were in the car that night. anthony? >> omar villafranca, thank you, omar. in minneapolis, a family is looking for answers after a police officer shot and killed an unarmed yoga teacher outside her home. adriana diaz is following this. >> reporter: questions are mounting about why justine damond was shot and killed by police late saturday night after

assault. the 40-year-old yoga and meditation teacher from australia was set to marry don damond next month. >> our hearts are broken, and we are utterly devastated by the loss of justine. >> reporter: according to several eyewitnesses, damond, in her pajamas, approached the police car and was standing at the driver's window when officer mohamed noor, who was in the passenger seat, shot her. don damond's son spoke about the incident on facebook. >> my mom is dead because a police officer shot her for reasons i don't know. >> reporter: investigators say the officers' body cameras were not turned on, and the squad car camera did not cap terp tture t shooting. minneapolis mayor betsy hodges. >> well, every officer who is responding to 911 calls is wearing a body camera. if they're having an interaction, that falls under the policy for activating them, they need to activate them. >> reporter: the police department was recently equipped wi

officer involved shootings, including the shooting of philando castile, which was streamed live on facebook. late today, officer noor offered his condolences to damond's family in a statement. anthony, both officers involved in the incident are now on paid administrative leave. >> adriana diaz, thank you. president trump again defended the meeting his son, son-in-law and campaign chairman had last year with a russian attorney offering political dirt on hillary clinton. also present, a russian-american lobbyist. the president tweeted, most politicians would have attended it in order to get info on an opponent. that's politics. margaret brennan is our white house and senior foreign affairs correspondent. margaret, this isn't going away, is it? >> reporter: it's certainly not. the president says this is politics as usual, but a new pout

two-thirds of americans disagree. they believe that the meeting was inappropriate. now senate democrats are urging the white house to review and possibly to revoke the security clearance of jared kushner, president trump's son-in-law. he also attended that meeting but did not initially disclose it on his security clearance paperwork. now, all of this is complicating the administration's efforts to improve relations with russia. a high-level meeting was held today with russian diplomats to discuss the possible return of two compounds here in the u.s. that were seized by the obama administration in response to that russian election hacking. >> margaret brennan at the white house. thank you, margaret. the "cbs overnight news" will be right back.

>> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." the president tried today to change the subject from russia to america or at least to products made here. julianna goldman has that. >> reporter: from texas cowboy hats to louisiana baseball bats, president donald trump highlighted american products made in all 50 states. >> remember in the old days they used to have made in the usa. we're going to put that brand on our product because it means it's the best. >> reporter: but notably absent today, any trump-branded items which in the past he hasn't hesitated to promote. like at a campaign press conference at a trump golf club last year. >> i built a great, great company. you have the water. you have the steaks. you have the airline that i sold. r

mr. trump as well as his daughter and senior adviser ivanka have outsourced manufacturing of their products to countries around the world where labor is cheaper and there are fewer regulations. items from the trump home collection, for example, are made in turkey. these ivanka trump clothes are made in china, vietnam, and indonesia. over the weekend, the president was touting his golf club in bedminister, new jersey, where he was vip at the women's u.s. open tournament. he sent out eight tweets in three days promoting the event. visits to his own properties have raised ethical concerns because the president still owns and profits from his companies. earlier this month, the government's ethics chief walter shaub told us he resigned partly over this very issue, which he tried to raise in november but said the president's lawyer shouted him down. >> one of the suggestions that we had hoped to communicate was that even if you're not going to sell them, maybe commit to staying away from those properties. >> reporter: since becoming

vi sits to half a dozen trump properties in florida, virginia, new jersey, and d.c. he hasn't stayed at any non-trump resorts. today press secretary sean spicer was asked if trump brands would commit to stop manufacturing products abroad. he said it's not appropriate for him to comment on the president's business, but there are certain supply chains that may not be available in the u.s. anthony. >> julie anna goldman, thank you. the department of homeland security announced today it's raising the number of h-2b visas this year from 66,000 to 81,000. these are temporary visas for foreigners to come to the u.s. to do seasonal non-farm work. but this one-time visa expansion may be too little, too late. here's mark strassman. >> reporter: on the texas gulf coast, shrimp season began with a traditional blessing of the fleet. this year's answered prayer would be hundreds of needed deck hands. >>

we're not breaking the law. okay? and it's very frustrating. >> reporter: carlton reyes owns seven shrimp boats in brownsville, texas. since 1987, he has relied on mexican deck hands, two per boat, who come here on h-2b visas. he applied for 14 of them this year. none has been approved. >> it's going to be a tremendous impact on the shrimp season and on the economy. we can't bring in the shrimp that's out there to harvest because we're short on labor, you know, help. >> reporter: as a group, texas shrimp boat companies applied for roughly 500 h-2b visas. not one was granted. the texas shrimp boat association estimates the loss will be $1 million a day. anthony owns two hotels in maine. he relies on seasonal foreign labor. >> this year we applied for 22 visas between the two properties.

of those 22, we have received six employees, and those were all in-country beforehand. >> reporter: reyes has the same struggle. >> is there any truth to the idea that these visa workers are taking jobs from americans? >> not at all because americans don't want this type of work. >> reporter: even if the worker visas were approved today, by the time they were processed, the main texas shrimp season would be almost over. mark strassman, cbs news, brownsville, texas. for the first time in several years, u.s. marines are on the ground in helmand province in southern afghanistan. they've returned because so have the taliban. charlie d'agata is there. [ gunfire ] >> reporter: the last time u.s. marines were here, a force of 20,000 all but drove the taliban out of their stronghold of helmand province. back then, brigadier general roger turner was a colonel.

did you think you'd be back here? >> no, i didn't. i didn't really. i left here as we discussed. i left here in 2012, and we knew that the mission was going to end in 2014. so i didn't think i'd be back here. >> reporter: this time, his mission is dramatically different. in command of just 300 marines, training afghans to fight for themselves. we joined them as they flew over what is once again taliban-held territory. because not long after the marines pulled out, the taliban swept through helmand, recapturing territory u.s. forces fought and died for, with 349 american lives lost. >> this is one of my positions. >> reporter: we can't give the location, but this used to be a u.s. marine base. >> how hard of a fight you think this is going to be? >> reporter: that fight will now be led by

general wali mohammed ahmedzai who stressed the need for increased american support to defeat the taliban. this war is not just ours, he said. it's a war against international terrorism. we need america's advanced technology and more forces to fight with us. but general turner said the marines' role is simply to train, advise, and assist. the priority is to get afghans to do the fighting. >> i don't know that having, you know, marines moving right behind them is something we really need to do. >> reporter: recapturing and holding on to taliban-held territory is a task afghan forces must take on themselves, and eventually on their own. the afghans are making progress. there's word today they recaptured a strategic town near the provincial capital with the help of u.s. forces. the question, anthony, is whether they can hold on to it and for how long. >> charlie d'agata with the ongoing fight in anifghastan. thank you, charlie. coming up next, the senate

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>> reporter: that tough guy recuperated at home in phoenix today. the 80-year-old mccain was well enough to take calls from close friends like senator lindsey graham. >> did he say how they discovered the clot? >> a routine check. he goes back every so often, but he had not been feeling good. he was really tired. he flies all over the world all the time. i was getting really worried about him. >> reporter: on friday, mccain's surgeons performed a minimally invasive craniotomy, an incision through the skull to remove a five-centimeter blood clot above his left eye, not far from the spot on his left temple where he had a cancerous lesion removed in 2000. >> i was in a battle with melanoma, and i know somewhat, at least to a small degree, how tough that battle can be. >> reporter: graham says he had noticed that the normally sharp six-interpret senator had gotten forgetful lately. >> mr. comey, you -- president comey -- >> reporter: faltering publicly

jim comey. >> you're going to have to help me out here. >> i'm a little confused senator. >> reporter: cbs news chief medical correspondent, dr. jon lapook. >> the front of the brain is important for social interaction, communication. so any abnormality there could cause a change in behavior. >> reporter: mccain's health crisis is holding up a vote that could affect health care for millions of americans. >> health care is a human right! >> reporter: without him, republicans have no shot at passing their obamacare replacement bill. so the president wished mccain a speedy recovery today. >> >> because we miss him. he's a crusty voice in washington, plus we need his vote. >> reporter: mccain is one of about a dozen republican senators who haven't said where they stand. he's been getting an earful from arizona's republican governor, who is worried about the bill's deep medicaid cuts. anthony, supporters of the bill worry that those kinds of concerns are going to be

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landau chose instead a less memorable part on "mission impossible." years of bad movies followed till his career was saved ironically by a film about bad movies. >> i'm ready now. roll the camera. >> martin landau won an oscar for that portrayal of bela lugosi in "ed wood." landau died saturday. he was 89. off long island, a golden retriever did what he was born to do. >> storm, bring him in. good boy. >> mark freely coaxed 6-year-old storm back to shore. the retriever carried a struggling fawn to safety. the baby deer, about 3 months old, was exhausted but is recovering at a wildlife center. nice work, storm. up next, the international robot challenge. >> announcer: this portion is sponsored by mass mutual, recognizing the importance of relying on others.

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we end tonight at the international robotics competition. for some of the teams, chip reid tells us, the biggest challenge was just getting to the usa. >> reporter: in washington today, you might be relieved to know that robots stole the spotlight from the politicians. they were designed and built by

countries. and winning required cooperating with other nations. is winning the most important thing? >> no, definitely not. >> what's the most important thing? >> having fun. >> reporter: there was no shortage of that. some teams had more challenges than others. syrian refugees identified their nation simply as "hope." >> team afghanistan. >> but perhaps no group overcame more adversity than this team from afghanistan, where girls are discouraged from pursuing education. just ask 16-year-old rodaba nori. to get to the u.s., they twice had to make the 500 mile journey from their home in western afghanistan through taliban-controlled territory to the capital, kabul, to get visas. both times they were

until president trump intervened and authorized special visas. but concerns about terrorism delayed their package of robot parts, so they had only two weeks to build theirs. other groups had much longer. but in their first round today, they won, working with teams from estonia and gabon. >> and there they go. >> reporter: despite all the challenges, this group of future engineers and computer scientists made clear they will not be deterred from their dreams. >> we want to be the young leader of robotic technology and science in afghanistan. we want to work with men to improve our country and make it a better place. >> reporter: and in the process, perhaps making the world a better place too. chip reid, cbs news, washington. >> that's the overnight news for this tuesday. 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 center in new york city, i'm anthony mason. thanks for watching.

>> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." welcome to the overnight news. i'm don dahler. a heartbreaking search is under way in arizona where aflash flood washed away nearly an entire family. they were relaxing in a swimming hole when heavy rain upstream unleashed a six-foot-high torrent of debris. nine family members were killed. others were badly hurt and one is still missing. mireya villarreal has the latest. >> reporter: this wall of water, six feet high at times, caught families completely off guard. cell phone video shows a man in a tree above the raging river, clinging to a young child. >> all of a sudden this wall of water and rock and debris and everything just came rushing at them. >> reporter: it was drizzling as 14 fam

maria reyes' 26th birthday at a popular swimming hole when suddenly dark floodwaters filled with debris came barreling down the east verde river. the flash flood started when a thunderstorm hit an area scorched by last month's high line fire. the fire chief says it was more violent than most because the water's natural barriers like trees and shrubs have been burnt away. >> all that debris and ash and everything came roaring down that drainage and caught those people totally by surprise. >> reporter: one of the family members, carla garnica, pleaded for help. >> they can't stop looking until he's found. he has to be rest in peace with his whole family. >> reporter: search and rescue teams from around the state are trudging through the flooding aftermath. 20-year veteran val says even the smallest personal item can help. you're looking for things that are out of the ordinary then? >> right. clothing, personal effects, whatever.

>> reporter: teams are searching the ellison river in hopes of finding 27-year-old hector garnica, whose body may have been carried away miles from where his family last saw him alive. crews tell me at its worst, the floodwaters were well over my head, six to eight feet above normal. while things have receded for now, strong storms are expected later today and later this week which could mean more flooding. arizona senator john mccain's recent surgery has the gop plan to replace the affordable care act on life support. without mccain, senate majority leader mitch mcconnell doesn't have the votes to push it through, and ironically mccain hasn't taken a public stand for or against the measue. nancy cordes has the latest from capitol hill. >> our friend from arizona is a pretty tough guy as we all know. >> reporter: that tough guy recuperated at home in phoenix today. the 80-year-old mccain was well enough to take calls from close friends like senator lindsey graham. >> did he say how they discovered the clot?

>> a routine check. he goes back every so often, but he had not been feeling good. he was really tired. he flies all over the world all the time. i was getting really worried about him. >> reporter: on friday, mccain's surgeons performed a minimally invasive craniotomy, an incision through the skull to remove a five centimeter blood clot above his left eye, not far from the spot on his left temple where he had a cancerous lesion removed in 2000. >> i was in a battle with melanoma, and i know somewhat, at least to a small degree, how tough that battle can be. >> reporter: graham says he had noticed that the normally sharp six-term senator had gotten forgetful lately. >> mr. comey, you -- president comey -- >> faltering publicly while grilling former fbi head jim comey. >> you're going to have to help me out here. >> i'm a little confused, senator. >> reporter: cbs news chief medical correspondent dr. jon lapook.

important for social interaction, communication. so any abnormality there could cause a change in behavior. >> reporter: mccain's health crisis is holding up a vote that could affect health care for millions of americans. >> health care is a human right! >> reporter: without him, republicans have no shot at replacement bill. so the president wished mccain a speedy recovery today. >> because we miss him. he's a crusty voice in washington, plus we need his vote. >> reporter: mccain is one of about a dozen republican senators who haven't said where they stand. he's been getting an earful from arizona's republican governor, who is worried about the bill's deep medicaid cuts. anthony, supporters of the bill worry that those kinds of concerns are going to be amplified if this process gets dragged out while he recovers. president trump was back on twitter. he defended his son, don junior's meeting with a kremlin-connected lawyer who was promising dirt on hillary clinton. the president wrote, quote,

margaret brennan has the latest on the investigation. >> reporter: the president says this is politics as usual, but a new poll out today shows that two-thirds of americans disagree, and they believe that the meeting was inappropriate. now senate democrats are urging the white house to review and possibly to revoke the security clearance of jared kushner, president trump's son-in-law. he also attended that meeting but did not initially disclose it on his security clearance paperwork. now, all of this is complicating the administration's efforts to improve relations with russia. a high-level meeting was held today with russian diplomats to discuss the possible return of two compounds here in the u.s. that were seized by the obama administration in response to that russian election hacking. academy award winning actor martin landau has passed away. he was 89 years old. landau was best remembered for

"mission impossible," but he appeared in more than 200 movies and television shows. charlie rose looks back on his >>re than 60-year-long career. let's not be stupid, huh? we tailed you to your place last night. >> reporter: with a dynamic range and an unrivaled longevity, actor martin landau was one of the profession's most adaptable students. >> i wonder if i might have a few words of parting with you, sir. >> reporter: he played an assassin in alfred hitchcock's thriller "north by northwest." and an adulterous husband in woody allen's "crimes and misdemeanors." >> mr. lugosi, why are you buying a car? >> reporter: but it was his effort on tim burton's 1994 film "ed wood" -- >> i'm ready now. roll the camera.

the craft's highest honor. >> martin landau in "ed wood." >> reporter: it was his only academy award. >> don't put music on because if it's a mission impossible theme, i'll get really angry. >> reporter: landau's work stretched generations. >> our destiny chooses us. >> reporter: cast with some of today's biggest stars. >> i love you, son. >> reporter: in both drama and comedy. >> i don't miss putts inside 10 feet. even bob knows that. >> how would i know that? the only putts i see is standing in front of me. all an audience wants to believe is what's going on between two people is happening for the first time ever. that is about acting. >> the "cbs overnight news" will be right back.

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>> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." the international robot olympics is under way in washington. teams of teenagers from 157 countries are taking part, including six girls from afghanistan. it turns out just getting into the country was as difficult for them as building their robot. chip reid reports. >> reporter: you can see behind me kids on the steps of constitution hall waiting to go inside for this competition. in afghanistan, it can be dangerous to even pursue an education for girls, and these girls were told as recently as last week that this trip would be impossible. more than 50 supporters, mostly strangers, showered the girls arth flowers and hugs when they

a competitor was overjoyed. she told us, quote, i want to thank everyone who greeted us, welcomed us, and didn't forget us. the team has faced adversity from the beginning. they were supposed to receve a box of building materials from the u.s. months ago, but terrorism concerns blocked the shipment's arrival. so the girls scraped together the materials themselves and built their robot in just two weeks. then the girls traveled 500 miles to the embassy in kabul to get their visas twice. they were denied both times. they were devastated, but last week president trump authorized the visas the girls needed to travel to america. they were deeply grateful that they and afghanistan were not forgotten. >> team afghanistan. >> reporter: now the girls will complete for a medal against 162 other teams.

the afghanistan ambassador says the afghan people will be watching. >> seeing them and seeing the talent that they represent gives us the hope that afghanistan has the potential to become a stable and prosperous country. >> reporter: it's still unclear why the girls' visas were initially refused. the state department says they can't even discuss it because of privacy concerns. by the way, afghanistan is not one of the six nations included in the president's travel ban, but five of those nations are represented here. they are syria, iran, libya, yemen, and sudan. >> maybe the winners of the robot olympics will get a scholarship to m.i.t. that school is doing some remarkable things with robots like making a mechanized cheetah. that doesn't run 70 miles an hour, yet. dana dana jacobsen reports from the campus. >> reporter: m.i.t. will be hosting some of the brightest minds in technology today at the first ever tech crunch conference. the very latest in artificial intelligence and robs

pound, four legged robot. meet cheetah 3. powered by a complex algorithm made of aluminum, this is one of a kind in the robot world. she uses less energy than a microwave, runs smoothly, and each of her joints can generate as much power as a sports car. the hope is one day cheetah will become the first ever robot first responder. cheetah can dance. >> yes. being able to move this smoothly wasn't possible before. >> reporter: inspired by the world's fastest land animal, cheetah 3 runs on a complex computer system, and is powered by customized electric motors. m.i.t. professor song bay kim and his team have been working on the cheetah for about seven years. >> when i first started, you know, pure ambition to build something like a cheetah that can run and turn fast. a lot of people told me, like, you're trying to do something science fiction. >> reporter: guided by the

animal world, kim set out to solve one of robotics' biggest challenges. mobility. >> i said look at that spine. look at the backbone. it's bending and exploding. that's probably why they're fast. >> reporter: the machine cheetah reaches speeds of 30 miles per hour. cheetah 3 has twice as much torque or rotational force than earlier models, and its 12 joints give it four times more flexibility or range of motion. >> robot cannot actually have as many muscles and joints like animals because increasing number of motors is too expensive. you need to actually increase range of motion of each joint. >> reporter: cheetah even responds to commands powered by alexa voice technology. >> welcome to m.i.t. cheetah control. >> reporter: and packs sensors similar to the ones used in ballistic missiles. one day the cheetah may be used to help care for the elderly or in disaster relief. within five years, kim thinks the cheetah could be deployed in dangerous situations like the

>> they haven't been able to send anything that can actually do physical work, like closing valve or removing debris. many power plants where radiation level is high enough that we don't want to send a human. >> reporter: but there are limits to artificial intelligence. >> cheetah, wiggle. >> reporter: cheetah wasn't in the right mode to respond to our commands. just part of the learning process. and while you may not be able to take cheetah home, someday you may be able to 3-d print a robot that literally walks out of that printer. robots building robots? >> that's right. rob mckurdi can print this robot in about 24 hours. >> so i can add the motors. >> reporter: he then adds what he calls the heart and brains of the robot -- the battery and the motor. >> reporter: you have to bring this robot to life? >> right. >> reporter: the computer can help you create it, but it's still not ready to go? >> that's right. i'm imagining robots like this that are expendable.

dangerous or contaminated place, do some job, and then the robot is disposable. >> reporter: m.i.t.'s toyota professor of robotics says the robot revolution is limited by a very mundane reality. short battery life. so people think that robots are going to take over if we keep teaching and building. is that a fair assumption? >> if you can run for more than about five minutes, you'll be fine. the battery is going to die before he gets you. but i think there's a natural transition from the robots in the labs now into the robots doing meaningful work. i think we have to do that mindfully. we have to think about the implications. but i think the potential for good is so incredible that you wouldn't want to stop it. >> reporter: you may have heard the comments by elon musk over the weekend that if artificial intelligence isn't regulated, that it will become a danger to humanity. tomorrow we're going to explore that idea while we get into humans and robots working together. we even are going to take a look

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and i won and you didn't. i wanted to push him out in the foothills of the carolinas. >> reporter: that's right. the campbells drive the 22 hours to florida. it's their only vacation. each year they load up the van. >> spices and colorings. >> reporter: they meticulously pack up the kitchen and stuff their coolers with ingredients they're convinced are just better in wisconsin. >> cream. we got cream. >> reporter: they head south, unload it all at a rental house. >> oh, yeah. >> reporter: and spend days baking their way around a new kitchen, which is no cakewalk. competitor devin davis enjoys a bit of a home oven advantage. he grew up just 30 miles away from the competition. >> i've been cooking since i was 5 years old probably. my mom was a nurse. she hated me being in the kitchen.

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