they say this is extremely rare, and, today, five democrats from the 12 member panel agreed, george allen king from alabama. >> in my 16 and a half years as a probate judge position that i've not seen evidence of voter fraud in jefferson county. it was a rough start asking the states for detailed nflg eed in on voters, including address, voter party, and voter history. more than 20 states refused. mississippi's republican secretary of state wrote that the commission can go jump in the gulf of mexico. today president trump raised vague suspicions about the states that have not complied. >> if any state does not want the share this information, one has to wonder what they're worried about. >> reporter: democratic critics of the commission say it's all but ignoring two crucial issues, first, suppression of the minority vote, and second, russian meddling in the presidential election. anthony? >> mason: chip reiha

this is the "cbs overnight news." nearly 40 large wildfires are burning tonight in the west. one of the most aggressive is in the foothills of yosemite national park. mireya villarreal is there. >> reporter: the ferocious detweiler fire just outside yosemite national park exploded overnight, doubling in size and burning over 45,000 acres. flames leapt across highway 49, closing the road. more than 2,000 firefighters have been battling the massive blaze since sunday, but as the wind pushed the fire closer to a community of 1,500 homes late tuesday, california's governor, jerry brown, declared a state of emergency. thousands were ordered to evacuate the town of mariposa.

mia glor owns the mariposa lodge. >> everybody is scared. you would never think something like this would happen in your town. >> reporter: the fire has knocked out power lines and threatened more in yosemite during this peak tourist season. record rain that ended the drought has also fueled the fire, creating dense vegetation that has burned with lightning speed. cal fire's lucas spielman. what is it about this fire that blew it out of control over the last 24 hours? >> as you can see, with the dead trees, the brush, it's just a combination of everything. it's a powder keg. that's why it's continuing to burn quicker than we can contain it. >> reporter: more than a dozen choppers and air tankers are making constant water and retardant drops, but cal fire has requested even more help to try to get ahead of the fire. the fire is right behind me. you can actually see the smoke and the ash pouring over these homes into this community. firefighters, dozens of them, are standing at the ready. they've already pulled their lines into people's backyards. they are ready to protect these homes, but not just homes. they are ready t

people. i just spoke with a home owner in this house here who is refusing to leave despite the evacuation orders. anthony? >> mason: mireya villarreal on the front lines of that firefight in california. thanks. today minneapolis police put out transcripts of 911 calls made saturday by a yoga instructor. she was shot and killed minutes later by a responding officer. jamie yuccas is following the case. >> reporter: this morning family and friends in australia said good-bye to the 40-year-old justine damond, who had moved to minnesota three years ago and was set to marry her fianceé next month. damond was killed saturday by police officer mohamed noor. >> 530, shots fired. >> reporter: the 911 call transcripts show she called to report hearing a woman, possibly being sexually assaulted. she told the dispatcher, "i think she tried to say help, and it sounds distressed." during the second call, the operator s "

female screaming?" justine said, "yes, along behind the house." we also learned today from damond family attorney bob bennett that justine called her fianceé don about what she heard outside before her call the 911. >> she called him about being woken up by a sound that troubled her, and then they debated for a while, and then she heard them again and decided to call him again. he recommended that she call 911. >> reporter: officer noor's partner, matthew harrity, told investigators the two drove down an alley behind damond's south minneapolis home with their lights off searching for the suspect. harrity says that's when he heard a loud bang. immediately after damond approached the driver's side window. noor, sitting in the passenger seat, fired his gun and shot damond. she died of a gunshot wound to the abdomen. officer noor declined to be interviewed by investigators, but anthony, the attorney rees

that it is reasonable to assume that the two may have thought they were being ambushed. >> mason: jamie yuccas in minneapolis. thank you, jamie. venezuela is in crisis. the economy tanked when oil prices fell. food is scarce, and at least 90 have died in protest. president trump is threatening sanctions if the socialist president goes ahead with a new power grab. manuel bojorquez reports tonight from its border with colombia. >> reporter: at this border checkpoint, luggage is the easiest way to spot venezuelans looking for a new life. marcos gonzales crossed into cucuta, colombia, with his wife and son. a lot of pain? this is real life. tens of thousands of venezuelans cross into colombia, even just for the day, in search of food

and work, but now they're fleeing the deadly fighting between the venezuelan military and protesters who blame the government for the country's economic collapse. >> translator: she said you need to go. >> reporter: jose oropeza fled venezuela two months ago, leaving behind his wife and two children, because he feared becoming a political prisoner. why? >> translator: because i see children who have nothing to eat, people who are hungry, the elderly knocking on my door for coffee or food. >> reporter: medicine is also in short supply. on the colombian side of the border, cucuta's main hospital used to see one or two venezuelan women a week for prenatal care. now it's up to five or six a day. some have crossed to give birth. dr. juan montoya is the hospital's general manager. >> translator: we can't keep treating venezuelan

but they keep coming not knowing when they may be able to cross that bridge back home. >> reporter: venezuela's president refuses to back down, even in the face of further u.s. sanctions. anthony, the opposition is planning a nationwide strike tomorrow, setting the stage for even more unrest. >> mason: manuel bojorquez on the venezuelan-colombian border. and still ahead, o.j. simpson makes his case for parole, and hollywood got it wrong for the t-rex running was no walk in the "jurassic park." okt', les try this. it says you apply the blue one to me. here? no. have a little fun together, or a lot.

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>> reporter: he was sentenced to 33 years. >> first time i met o.j. was in the gym. >> reporter: jeffrey felix was one of simpson's first guards at the lovelaw correctional center. what was he like when he arrived there? >> o.j. had a very positive attitude. he knew he was going to get paroled, and that's all he thought about. >> reporter: now 70 years old, simpson will make his case thursday to nevada's parole board. >> i think he'll say, "i committed a crime. i've paid my time. i've accepted responsibility." >> reporter: criminal defense attorney trent copeland has followed simpson's legal troubles since his acquittal in the murders of nicole brown simpson and ron goldman. >> some people will say, nevada did what california couldn't do. that 1994 case involving o.j. simpson cannot be part of this parole board hearing at all, as a matter of law. >> reporter: even with a flurry of recent films about simpson, he hasn't spoken publicly since

>> i'm just sorry that all of this had to haen >> reporter: felix says simpson has been a model inmate and deserves to be released. what will happen to him if he doesn't get paroled? >> if you're in o.j.'s shoes and you've kept clean for nine years and you get denied parole, how is that even possible? it might destroy him. >> reporter: but even freedom could carry a price. if he gets released, what will life be like for o.j. simpson now? >> he still will live with the albatross that comes with being a social pariah who many people believe is a murderer. >> reporter: if simpson is granted parole, he won't leave this remote desert prison immediately. his actual release date, anthony, will not be until october. >> mason: john blackstone in nevada. thanks, john. and we're back in just a moment.

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>> mason: finally tonight, you've been to the museum, seen "jurassic park," talked to your kids, and you're ready to declare you're up to speed on the tyrannosaurus rex. well, scientists say not so fast. here's jonathan vigliotti. >>eporter: it's one of the most iconic moments in steven

park." an angry t-rex charges at a group of terrified researchers, who look like they don't stand a chance. but you may not need four-wheel drive to escape when you've got two feet. a new study suggests the tyrannosaurus could barely run at all. >> t-rex was quite a lot slower than people have thought. >> reporter: professor william selers, who led the study, says the prehistoric beast was so big its legs would have buckled under the high speeds of 45mph it was once believed to run. >> the problem with that is that running that fast, it actually breaks all the bones in its legs. >> reporter: the mighty t-rex, less stealth predator, more awkward park jogger. selers' research at the university of manchester analyzed the dinosaur's bone size, density, and movement to determine the t-rex was limited to walking speeds.

at its fastest, an adult t-rex can only reach about 12mph, left in the dust by olympian usain bolt. even the average human is faster. >> if it couldn't move very quickly, was it an ambush predator, for example, or was it going around and relying on already-dead animals and just being a sort of scavenger? >> reporter: while scavenger doesn't exactly hit hollywood's killer image, the t-rex still holds one key title -- strongest jaws of any animal on land. what it lacks in speed, it makes up for in bite. jonathan vigliotti, cbs news, london. that's the overnight for this thursday. for some, the news continues. for others, check back later for the morning news and "cbs this morni morning." from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm anthony so

welcome to the overnight news, i'm michelle miller, o.j. simpson steps back into the spotlight today. he's up for parole and appears in court via video conference from the lovelock correction center in nevada. he was acquitted in what many called the trial of the century, the murder of his wife and her male friend. years later, he was convicted of robbery and other charges and sentenced to 33 years in prison. that was nine years ago. john blackstone reports. >> reporter: o.j. stim

kbi convicted of a crime until this botched robbery. simpson said he was trying to take back memorabilia that belonged to him at gun appointment. he was sentenced to 33 years. >> first time i met him was in the gym. >> reporter: he was one of the first guards at the lovelock correctional center. >> he had a positive attitude. he knew they was going to get parole, and that's all he thought about. >> reporter: at 70 years old, he'll make his case thursday to the parole board. >> i've paid my time, accepted responsibility. >> reporter: the criminal defense lawyer, trent copeland, followed his troubles since the acquittals of his ex-wife and her friend, ron goldman. >> some say, nevada did what california couldn't do. that case cannot be a part of this at all as a matter of law. >> reporter: even with the flurry of recent films about simpson, he has not spoken

hearing in 2013. >> you know, i'm just sorry that all of this had to happen. >> reporter: felix said simpson is a model inmate and deserves to be released. what happens to him, do you think, if he doesn't get parole? >> if you're in o.j. shoes and waited for nine years and them you get denied parole, how is that even possible? i mean, it might destroy him. >> reporter: even freedom could carry a price. if released, what's life like? >> he'll live with the ash trosz that comes with being a social praia who many people believe is a murder. >> reporter: if granted parole, he's not leaving this prison immediately. his actual release date will be october. the republican plan to repeal and replace the affordable care act is the bill that just won't die. senate majority leader mcconnell couldn't roup

it to the floor for debate. president trump is demanding that senators cancel their summer vacation plans and stay in washington until they push it through. nancy cordes has the latest. >> i'm ready to act. i have pen in hand. believe me. i'm sitting in that office. i have pen in hand. >> reporter: 24 hours after the obamacare replacement plan hit a dead end, the president urged senate republicans to restart the car, appealing to their sense of duty. >> people are hurting. inaction is not an option. >> reporter: and their sense of shame. >> you know, for seven years you had an easy route. we'll repeal, we'll replace, and he's not going to sign it. well, i'm signing it. >> reporter: he even issued this veiled threat to moderate holdout dean heller of nevada, who was seated conveniently to his right. >> look, he wants the remain a senator, doesn't he? and i think the people of your

appreciate what you hopefully will do. >> reporter: but the president himself has sent mixed messages. in the last 24 hours he's promoted repeal and replace, repeal alone, and doing nothing. >> we'll let obamacare fail. >> reporter: today he was back to option one, belatedly selling a replacement plan that all but died two days ago. >> you'll have forms of insurance that you don't even know about right now. >> reporter: republican leaders have already moved on to a fallback bill that repeals obamacare without a replacement. >> we will look like fools if we can't deliver on that promise. >> reporter: but today the non-partisan congressional budget office warned that approach would leave 17 million americans without coverage next year, a number that would climb to 32 million by 2026. moderate republicans already have the votes to block it. >> we promised we would repeal and replace. we want to do that, but we want to do it the right way.

>> reporter: the president's scolding did prompt senate republicans to scheduled a meeting once again tonight to find a consensus on a replacement plan. the president told them they should not leave town until they do, but the white house would not say, anthony, whether he too plans to abide by that directive. leaders in venezuela call for a strike today to protest the president's plan to rewrite the constitution. the country's in turmoil, and a lot of people are trying to get out. manuel reports from colombia. >> reporter: at this border check point, luggage is the easiest way to stop venezuelans looking for a new life. crossing into colombia with his wife and son. >> translator: a lot of pain

this is real life. >> reporter: temperatures of thousands of venezuelans cross into colombia, even fjust for te day in search of food and work, but now they flee the deadly fighting between the venezuelan military and protesters who blame the government for the country's economic collapse. >> translator: she said you need to go. >> reporter: he fled two months ago leaving behind his wife and two children because he fear the coming of political prisoner. >> reporter: why are you a part of it? >> translator: children have nothing to eat, the elderly knocking on my door for coffee or food. >> reporter: medicine is in short supply. on the colombia side of the border, the main hospital used to e see one or two venezuelan women a week for prenatal care. now it's up to five or six a day. some have crossed to give birth. the doctor is the hospital's

general manager. >> translator: we can't keep treating venezuelan patients and not being reimbursed, he said, but they keep coming not knowing when they can cross that bridge back home. >> reporter: venezuelan's president refuses to back down, even in the face of u.s. sanctions. the opposition is planning a strike tomorrow, setting the stage for more unrest. the "cbs overnight news" will be right back.

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this is the "cbs overnight news." for more than 500 years, explorers have within searching the jungles of central america for the lost city of the monkey god. legend says it's protected by evil spells and poisonous snakes. we spoke to adventurers who found the site and lived to tell the tale. >> reporter: doug preston says he doesn't believe in curses, and yet here he is, treated for an illness contracted on a jungle expedition. the site rumored for centuries, rain torch on anyone who

>> i would never trade that experience for anything. it was so powerful. >> very heavy. >> reporter: the tale begins in the rain forests carpeting some 20,000 square miles of honduras. >> legend is, there was a great city in the mountains struck by a series of disasters, and the inhabitants thought gods were angry at them and left leaving all the belongings behind. >> reporter: some call it the white city, others, the city of the monkey god. its possible existence tempted adds venture hunters for centuries. including one who attempted finding the city since the early' 90s. >> who doesn't like the story with mystery in it. see what happens. >> might come back today from the other site too. >> reporter: launching the latest in 2012, inviting preston to write about. >> you went

>> thought steve's never going to find the lost city, that's ridiculous, but, you know, who knows, even if he doesn't find anything, it's a good story. >> reporter: but this time? he had something no previous expeditions to the area did. >> check things here. >> reporter: this high-tech laser mapping system peering through a hole cut in the bottom of an old sky master, scanned hundreds of square miles of dense jungle in a matter of days. the problem? it was expensive. >> this one shows the full scale of the convoy. >> reporter: enter the documentary film maker who agreed to foot the million-plus dollar bill to capture this on film. >> this technology could see through the jungle canopy and potentially reveal the contours of what might be underneath

it seem like a valuable gamble. >> i'm here for the moment. >> reporter: one that soon paid off. what it revealed once the jungle canopy was removed shocked everyone on the team. >> i zoomed into this level, and i just went, holy crap, and i said, this is what looks like structures -- >> look at that. >> i mean, that's as linear lines, and the right angles. >> either manmade or the world's most intelligent gophers were out there doing things they had never done before. >> reporter: what did you think you had found initially? >> well, i knew we found the city. an ancient city. that i knew. what was behind that? that was for the archaeologist to find out. >> reporter: that was colorado state's chris fisher. >> sounds like a big deal. >> i think it is. you know, for this

regionally, it's very, very important. >> reporter: he helps national geographic artists come up with a rendering of what the city might have look like. >> there is the interior of the plaza. >> reporter: you have to get there on foot to know for sure. >> that's the stairway that goes here. >> reporter: taking three long years of planning. just to get into the jungle is dangerous. once you're there, a thick, thick poisonous snakes. this deadliest viper, docile during the day, but one slithered into the camp under darkness caused panic. on the team, a warfare expert. >> the snake exploded rat poison, striking everywhere. squirting venom, you know, streams of venom across the

>> reporter: the next morning, the jungle seemed a little less ominous. the march to the site began. like cutting your way through a shag carpet. what was not growing was oozing with mud. >> right there. you're looking at it. big lump. >> can't say i see a whole lot from here. >> that's what it is. that's a pyramid. made out of earth. >> reporter: no stone structures to speak of, just foundation. the next day, almost by accident, disappointment turned to jubilation. >> first thing i saw was a jaguar head carved in stone. >> woah! everybody stop! back up. don't touch anything.

>> reporter: their at their feet, a trove of artifacts believed to date from the 16th century, personal blonings of inhabitants who fled the valley, in a desperate attempt to escape disease and slavery. >> it was phenomenal to think that in the 21st century we could still find something like this on the surface of the earth. >> reporter: some in the academic community, however, are not easily impressed. >> we don't go out looking for treasure anymore. we go out looking for knowledge. >> reporter: rosemary joyce says an expedition led by mill m makers reeks more of indiana jones than real science, and 20 other archaeologists agreed. >> we have no objection to the story, but it's portrayed as archaeology, and it's not. >> reporter: some indigenous people gristle when the

artifact himself and considered the site sacred and said it should be left alone. in the end, what this expedition unearthed was more than relics, but a stew of excitement, questions, criticism, and ill-health. >> well, maybe you'll end up in the hospital like this. >> reporter: months after leading the jungle, he noticed a bite that would not heal, so did chris. the national institutes of health diagnosed it as a frightening parasite disease. >> the parasite migrates through the mucus membranes of the mouth and nose and basically eats them away. your nose falls off, lips fall off, and eventually, your face is a huge open sore. >> reporter: about half the expedition had early systems and ha

>> that's the helicopter shot. >> reporter: still, two were spared, and their documentary about the venture is now in its final edit. doug bucking the criticism entitled his book "the lost city of the monkey god," as for the site, only a fraction has been excavated and questions linger about how or if to go back again. >> too dangerous to stay there. it's too dangerous, and getting in and out is dangerous. >> reporter: seems the jungle is still fighting to keep its secrets, the trees make a better accounting for what's really there is difficult at best. and that, in the end, may be the most lasting curse of all. power than three standard fish oil pills. tgel 3 megared advanced triple absorption.

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in "jurassic park," but the stuff of the legend could just be fiction. new science saying the mighty t-rex could barely run at all. >> it was quite a lot slower than people have thought. >> reporter: this professor who led the study says the prehistoric beast was so big its legs would have buckled under the high speeds 45 miles per hour it was believed to run. >> the problem with that is running that fast it actually breaks all the bones in its legs. there's a lot of people who would love to believe that t-rex was a stuff of nightmare, and it was running around, and enormous animal, and you have to bring reality into it. >> reporter: sellers' research at the university of manchester analyzed the t-rex's bone size, density, and movement to determine the t-rex was limited to walking speeds. an unflattering simulation shows the prehistoric beast

stealth predator and more awkward park jogger. at its fastest, an adult t-rex can reach 12 miles per hour left in the dust by the olympian running 28 miles per hour and the average human is even faster. >> i'm a little bit disappointed, i have to say, not necessarily surprised, but i was hoping for it to be a bit quicker. >> reporter: the new research has rock the science community and how we understand the monsters of our past. >> not fast enough to be a predator, maybe just a scavenger in the environment. >> reporter: that doesn't fit hollywood's image of the ruler of the rock. predator versus scavenger at this point still unclear, though the t-rex homes one key title for now. scientists believe he had the strongest jaw of any animal to ever roam earth. ten times more powl

alligator. and that's the overnight news for thursday. from the broadcast here in new york city, i'm michelle miller. for seven years you promised the american people you would repeal obamacare. >> mason: turning up the heat. to i don't think we should leave wn unless we have a health insurance plan. >> next week we'll be voting on the motion to proceed. >> mason: also tonight, the president says calling his dinner talk with vladimir putin a etsecrsi is ck. the kremlin says it's absurd. national security experts say the whole episode is dangerous. as australia mourns justine damond, minneapolis police put out a transcript of the 911 call that led to her fatal shooting by a cop. and rewriting pre-history. the t-rex was not nearly as

quick as we thought. this is the cbs overnight news. president trump invited republican senators to the white house today for lunch and served up healthy portions of pressure. he urged them to pass a healthcare bill before they leave washington for their summer recess. the president reminded senators that they and he had promised to replace obamacare and said, "i intend to keep my promise, and i know you will, too." adding to the pressure, a c.b.o. report late today that repealing obamacare without replacing it would cost tens of millions of americans their health insurance. here's nancy cordes. >> i'm ready to act. i have pen in hand. believe me. i'm sitting in that office. i have pen in hand.

>> reporter: 24 hours after the obamacare replacement plan hit a dead end, the president urged senate republicans to restart the car, appealing to their sense of duty. >> people are hurting. inaction is not an option. >> reporter: and their sense of shame. >> you know, for seven years you had an easy route. we'll repeal, we'll replace, and he's not going to sign it. well, i'm signing it. >> reporter: he even issued this veiled threat to moderate holdout dean heller of nevada, who was seated conveniently to his right. >> look, he wants the remain a senator, doesn't he? and i think the people of your state, which i know very well, i think they're going to appreciate what you hopefully will do. >> reporter: but the president himself has sent mixed messages. in the last 24 hours he's promoted repeal and replace, repeal alone, and doing nothing. >> we'll let obamacare fail. >> reporter: today he was back to option one, belatedly selling a replacement plan that all but died two days ago. >> you'll have forms of

know about right now. >> reporter: republican leaders have already moved on to a fallback bill that repeals obamacare without a replacement. >> we will look like fools if we can't deliver on that promise. >> reporter: but today the non-partisan congressional budget office warned that approach would leave 17 million americans without coverage next year, a number that would climb to 32 million by 2026. moderate republicans already have the votes to block it. >> we promised we would repeal and replace. we want to do that, but we want to do it the right way. >> reporter: the president's the president told them they should not leave town until they do, but the white house would not say, anthony, whether he too plans to abide by that directive. thank you, nancy. donald trump, jr., brother-in-law jared kushner, and former trump campaign chairman paul manafort have been asked to testify on capitol hill next week. congress is investigating

election and whether anyone in the trump campaign was involved. meanwhile, the white house and the kremlin are defending the dinner chat presidents trump and putin had at the g-20 summit. a kremlin spokesman said today to call the meeting secret is absurd. mr. trump tweeted that it was "fake news" and "sick." here's margaret brennan. >> reporter: cameras only briefly got a glimpse of world leaders and their spouses dining at the g-20 summit in germany earlier this month. but it was long enough to see president trump enter and gesture toward vladimir putin. the russian president was seated next to first lady melania trump. >> we look forward to a lot of very positive things happening. >> reporter: the two leaders had just finished a more than two-hour long meeting, which secretary of state rex tillerson said showed the positive chemistry between them. russia's top diplomat also attended along with official translators from both countries. but the white house revealed late tuesday, nearly two weeks

later, that the conversation continued during dinner, without any cameras, advisers, or u.s. translator present. mr. trump relied instead on a kremlin interpreter for what has been described as a less than hour long meeting. other foreign leaders wondered what the two presidents of adversarial countries were huddling about. >> i will get along, i think, with putin. >> reporter: during the campaign, mr. trump said he alone could reset relations with russia which were at a cold war era low. edmonds, a russia expert, says the tension between the to countries is exactly what made the dinner conversation high risk. >> i'm not sure his staff is being allowed to serve him well. i think there is a danger he could fall into some kind of trap, especially with an operative like putin. >> reporter: because he's former kgb? >> right. he's just very

>> reporter: the white house pointed out that president obama also huddled with vladimir putin and the same kremlin translator, but mr. obama was accompanied by his national security adviser, susan rice, for this 2015 conversation. no u.s. official was with president trump for his chat. >> mason: margaret brennan at the white house. thank you, margaret. while congress and the special counsel are investigating russian election hacking, president trump has set up a panel to investigate election fraud with little evidence there is any. here's chip reid. >> this issue is very important to me. >> reporter: president trump kicked off the first meeting of his election integrity commission today, but its origin goes back to november when he won the electoral college while losing the popular vote to hillary clinton by almost three million votes. mr. trump has refused to believe it, insisting that millions of people illegally voted for clinton, but he has cited no evidence. critics say the president created this commission in a desperate effort to prove that he did win the popular vote.

numerous studies said voter fraud is rare, and, today, some of the five democrats on the 12 member panel agreed. judge allen king of alabama. >> if my 16 and a half years in the probate judge position that i have not seen evidence of voter fraud in jefferson county. >> reporter: it was a rough start last month asking the states for detailed information on voters including address, political party, even voter history. more than 20 states refused citing privacy concerns. the secretary of the state wrote the commission can go jump in the gulf of mexico. today, president trump raised vague suspensions about the state's that have not comed. >> if any state does not want to share this information, one has to wonder what nay are worried about. >> reporter: democratic critics of the commission say it's all but ignoring two crucial issues, first, suppression of the minority vote, and second, russian meddling in the presidential election. anthony? >> mason: chip reid, thank you, .

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this is the cbs overnight news. nearly 40 large wildfires are burning tonight in the west. one of the most aggressive is in the foothills of yosemite national park. mireya villarreal is there. >> reporter: the ferocious detweiler fire just outside yosemite national park exploded overnight, doubling in size and burning over 45,000 acres. flames leapt across highway 49, closing the road. more than 2,000 firefighters have been battling the massive blaze since sunday, but as the wind pushed the fire closer to a community of 1,500 homes late tuesday, california's governor, jerry brown, declared a state of emergency. thousands were ordered to

main street became a ghost town. mia glor owns the mariposa lodge. >> everybody is scared. you would never think something like this would happen in your town. >> reporter: the fire has knocked out power lines and threatened more in yosemite during this peak tourist season. record rain that ended the drought has also fueled the fire, creating dense vegetation that has burned with lightning speed. cal fire's lucas spielman. what is it about this fire that blew it out of control over the last 24 hours? >> as you can see, with the dead trees, the brush, it's just a combination of everything. it's a powder keg. that's why it's continuing to burn quicker than we can contain it. >> reporter: more than a dozen choppers and air tankers are making constant water and retardant drops, but cal fire has requested even more help to try to get ahead of the fire. the fire is right behind me. you can actually see the smoke and the ash pouring over these homes into this community. firefighters, dozens of them, are standing at the ready. they've already pulled their lines into people's backyards. they are ready to protect these homes, but not just homes. they are ready

people. i just spoke with a home owner in this house here who is refusing to leave despite the evacuation orders. anthony? >> mason: mireya villarreal on the front lines of that firefight in california. thanks. today minneapolis police put out transcripts of 911 calls made saturday by a yoga instructor. she was shot and killed minutes later by a responding officer. jamie yuccas is following the case. >> reporter: this morning family and friends in australia said good-bye to the 40-year-old justine damond, who had moved to minnesota three years ago and was set to marry her fiancée next month. damond was killed saturday by police officer mohamed noor. >> 530, shots fired. >> reporter: the 911 call transcripts show she called to report hearing a woman, possibly being sexually assaulted. she told the dispatcher, "i think she tried to say help, and it sounds distressed." during the second call, the

female screaming?" justine said, "yes, along behind the house." we also learned today from damond family attorney bob bennett that justine called her fiancée don about what she heard outside before her call the 911. >> she called him about being woken up by a sound that troubled her, and then they debated for a while, and then she heard them again and decided to call him again. he recommended that she call 911. >> reporter: officer noor's partner, matthew harrity, told investigators the two drove down an alley behind damond's south minneapolis home with their lights off searching for the suspect. harrity says that's when he heard a loud bang. immediately after damond approached the driver's side window. noor, sitting in the passenger seat, fired his gun and shot damond. she died of a gunshot wound to the abdomen. officer noor declined to be interviewed by investigators, but anthony, the attorney represng

that it is reasonable to assume that the two may have thought they were being ambushed. >> mason: jamie yuccas in minneapolis. thank you, jamie. venezuela is in crisis. the economy tanked when oil prices fell. food is scarce, and at least 90 have died in protest. president trump is threatening sanctions if the socialist president goes ahead with a new power grab. manuel bojorquez reports tonight from its border with colombia. >> reporter: at this border checkpoint, luggage is the easiest way to spot venezuelans looking for a new life. marcos gonzales crossed into cucuta, colombia, with his wife and son. a lot of pain? this is real life. tens of thousands of venezuelans cross into colombia, even just for the day, in search of food and work, but now they're fleeing the de

and protesters who blame the government for the country's economic collapse. >> (translated): she said you need to go. >> reporter: jose oropeza fled venezuela two months ago, leaving behind his wife and two children, because he feared becoming a political prisoner. why? >> (translated): because i see children who have nothing to eat, people who are hungry, the elderly knocking on my door for coffee or food. >> reporter: medicine is also in short supply. on the colombian side of the border, cucuta's main hospital used to see one or two venezuelan women a week for prenatal care. now it's as many as five or six a day. some have crossed to give birth. dr. juan montoya is the hospital's general manager. >> (translated): we can't keep treating venezuelan patients and not being reimbursed, but they keep coming,

they may be able to cross that bridge back home. >> reporter: venezuela's president refuses to back down, even in the face of further u.s. sanctions. anthony, the opposition is planning a nationwide strike tomorrow, setting the stage for even more unrest. >> mason: manuel bojorquez on the venezuelan-colombian border. and still highway, o.j. simpson makes his case for parole, and hollywood got it wrong for the t-rex running was no walk in the jurassic park. note matr who was in there last. protection. new lysol power & fresh 6 goes to work flush after flush

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>> first time i met o.j. was in the gym. >> reporter: jeffrey felix was one of simpson's first guards at the correctional center. what was he like when he arrived there? >> o.j. had a very positive attitude. he knew he was going to get paroled, and that's all he thought about. >> reporter: now 70 years old, simpson will make his case thursday to nevada's parole board. >> i think he'll say, "i committed a crime. i've paid my time. i've accepted responsibility." >> reporter: criminal defense attorney trent copeland has followed simpson's legal troubles since his acquittal in the murders of nicole brown simpson and ron goldman. >> some people will say, nevada did what california couldn't do. that 1994 case involving o.j. simpson cannot be part of this parole board hearing at all, as a matter of law. >> reporter: even with a flurry of recent films about simpson, he hasn't spoken publicly since his last parole hearing in 2013. >> i'm just sorry that all of

this had to happen. >> reporter: felix says simpson has been a model inmate and deserves to be released. what will happen to him if he doesn't get paroled? >> if you're in o.j.'s shoes and you're clean for nine years and you get denied parole, how is that even possible? it might destroy him. >> reporter: but even freedom could carry a price. if he gets released, what will life be like for o.j. simpson now? >> he still will live with the albatross that comes with being a social pariah who many people believe is a murderer. >> reporter: if simpson is granted parole, he won't leave this remote desert prison immediately. his actual release date, anthony, will not be until october. >> mason: john blackstone in nevada. thanks, john. and we're back in just a moment.

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trash-filled lot, seemingly unaware his body camera is recording. moments later he retrieves the can, which contained a bag of white capsules. prosecutors have now dropped charges against the man arrested for drugs. the afghan robotics team that competed in washington this week is going home with a silver medal. they were honored for courageous achievement and exhibiting a can-do attitude at the international meet. the girls were allowed to come to the u.s. after president trump personally intervened to get them visas. and up next, the t-rex. why getting around was no small "feet." >> this portion of the "cbs evening news" is sponsored by the american petroleum institute. visit www.powerpastimpossible.org.

>> mason: finally tonight, you've been to the museum, seen "jurassic park," talked to your kids, and you're ready to declare you're up to speed on the tyrannosaurus rex. well, scientists say not so fast. here's jonathan vigliotti. >> reporter: it'e s onof the most iconic moments in steven ie

park." an angry t-rex charges at a group of terrified researchers, who look like they don't stand a chance. but you may not need four-wheel drive to escape when you've got two feet. a new study suggests the tyrannosaurus could barely run at all. >> t-rex was quite a lot slower than people have thought. >> reporter: professor william selers, who led the study, says the prehistoric beast was so big its legs would have buckled under the high speeds of 45 miles per hour it was once believed to run. >> the problem with that is that running that fast, it actually breaks all the bones in its legs. >> reporter: the mighty t-rex, less stealth predator, more awkward park jogger. selers' research at the university of manchester analyzed the dinosaur's bone size, density, and movement to determine the t-rex was limited to walking speeds.

can only reach about 12mph, left in the dust by olympian usain bolt. even the average human is faster. >> if it couldn't move very quickly, was it an ambush predator, for example, or was it going around and relying on already-dead animals and just being a sort of scavenger? >> reporter: while scavenger doesn't exactly hit hollywood's killer image, the t-rex still holds one key title -- strongest jaws of any animal on land. what it lacks in speed, it makes up for in bite. jonathan vigliotti, cbs news, london. and that's the overnight for thursday. for some, the news p comets. for others, check back later. for the morning news and cbs this morning. from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm anthony mason. thanks for watching. ♪

this is the "cbs overnight news." welcoming to the overnight news, i'm michelle miller. o.j. simpson is back in the spotlight today, up for parole, and will appear in court via video conference from the lovelock correction center in nevada. he was acquitted in what many called the trial of the century, the murders of his wife and her male friend, but years later, he was convicted of robbery and other charges and sentenced to 33 years in prison. that was nine years ago. john blackstone reports. >> reporter: o.j. simpson had never been convicted of a crime until this botched robbery a decade ago at a vegas

he said he tried to take back memorabilia that belonged to him at gun point. he was sentenced to 33 years. >> first time i met him was in the gym. >> reporter: he was his guard. what was he like? >> a very positive at to do. he knew he would be paroled, and that's all he thought about. >> reporter: now 70 years old, he makes his case thursday to the parole board. >> i think he'll say, i committed a crime, paid my time, accepted responsibility. >> reporter: the criminal defense lawyer, trent copeland, followed the legal troubles since the acquittal of his ex-wife and her friend, ron goldman. >> people say, hey, listen, nevada did what california couldn't do. that 1994 case involving o.j. simpson cannot be a part of the parole board hearing at all as a matter of law >> reporter: even with the flurry of recent films about simpson, he has not

publicly since his last parole hearing in 2013. >> you know, i'm just sorry all of this had to happen. >> reporter: felix said simpson is a model inmate and deserves to be released. what will happen to him, do you think, if he does not get parole? >> in o.j. shoes, kept clean for nine years and denied parole? how is that even possible? i mean, it might destroy him. >> reporter: even freedom could carry a price. if he gettings released, what's life like? >> will live with the ab ra tros that comes with being a social praia who many believe is a murderer. >> reporter: if granted parole, he's not leaving this remote desert prison immediately. release date will not be until october. the republican plan to repeal and replace the affordable care act is the bill that just won't die. the senate majority leader couldn't round up enough votes to bring

debate. president trump is demanding that senators cancel their summer vacation plans and stay in washington until they push it through. nancy cordes has the latest. >> i'm ready to act. i have pen in hand. believe me. i'm sitting in that office. i have pen in hand. >> reporter: 24 hours after the obamacare replacement plan hit a dead end, the president urged senate republicans to restart the car, appealing to their sense of duty. >> people are hurting. inaction is not an option. >> reporter: and their sense of shame. >> you know, for seven years you had an easy route. we'll repeal, we'll replace, and he's not going to sign it. well, i'm signing it. >> reporter: he even issued this veiled threat to moderate holdout dean heller of nevada, who was seated conveniently to his right. >> look, he wants the remain a senator, doesn't he? and i think the people of your

appreciate what you hopefully will do. >> reporter: but the president himself has sent mixed messages. in the last 24 hours he's promoted repeal and replace, repeal alone, and doing nothing. >> we'll let obamacare fail. >> reporter: today he was back to option one, belatedly selling a replacement plan that all but died two days ago. >> you'll have forms of insurance that you don't even know about right now. >> reporter: republican leaders have already moved on to a fallback bill that repeals obamacare without a replacement. >> we will look like fools if we can't deliver on that promise. >> reporter: but today the non-partisan congressional budget office warned that approach would leave 17 million americans without coverage next year, a number that would climb to 32 million by 2026. moderate republicans already have the votes to block it. >> we promised we would repeal and replace. we want to do that, but we want to do it the right way.

scolding did prompt senate republicans to scheduled a meeting once again tonight to find a consensus on a replacement plan. the president told them they should not leave town until they do, but the white house would not say, anthony, whether he too plans to abide by that directive. opposition leaders in venezuela called for a strike today to protest the president's idea to rewrite the constitution. the country's in turmoil, and a lot of people are trying to get out. >> reporter: he crossed with his wife and son. a lot of pain.

this is real life. tens of thousands of venezuelans cross into colombia, even just for the day, in search of food and work, but now they're fleeing the deadly fighting between the venezuelan military and protesters who blame the government for the country's economic collapse. >> translator: she said, you need to go. >> reporter: jose oropeza fled venezuela two months ago, leaving behind his wife and two children, because he feared becoming a political prisoner. why? >> translator: because i see children who have nothing to eat, people who are hungry, the elderly knocking on my door for coffee or food. >> reporter: medicine is also in short supply. on the colombian side of the border, cucuta's main hospital used to see one or two venezuelan women a week for prenatal care. now it's as many as five or six a day. some have crossed to give birth. dr. juan montoya is the hospital's general manager.

>> translator: we can't keep treating venezuelan patients and not being reimbursed, but they keep coming, not knowing when they may be able to cross that bridge back home. >> reporter: venezuela's president refuses to back down, even in the face of further u.s. sanctions. anthony, the opposition is planning a nationwide strike tomorrow, setting the stage for even more unrest. and the cbs overnight news will be right back.

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this is the "cbs overnight news." for more than 500 years, explorers searched the jungle of central america for the lost city of the monkey god. legend say it's protected by evil spells and poisonous snakes. we spoke to adventurers who found the site and lived to tell the tale. >> reporter: the best selling author, preston, says he doesn't believe in courses, and yet here he is, treated for an illness contracted from a jungle expedition to a site rumored for centuries to rain misfortune down on anyone who entered. >> i would

experience for anything. it was so powerful. >> reporter: his tale begins in the rain forest carpeting some 20,000 square miles of honduras. >> the legend is there was a great city in the mountains that was struck by a series of disasters, and the inhabitants thought gods were angry at them and left leaving all their belongings behind. >> reporter: some call it the white city. others? the city of the monkey god. its possible existence tannalized seekers for centuries. >> who doesn't like a story that has mystery in it? let's go and see what happens. >> they might come back today from the other sites too. >> reporter: launching the latest expedition in 2012 and invited doug preston to write about it.

you went along because why? >> i thought steve's never going to find the lost city, that's ridiculo ridiculous, but, who knows, even if he doesn't, it makes a good story. >> reporter: but this time, he had something no previous expeditions to the area did. >> check things here. >> reporter: it's called lidar, a high-tech laser mapping system. peering through a hole cut in the bottom of an old sky master, it scans dense jungle in a matter of days. the problem? it was expensive. >> this one shows the full scale of the convoy. >> reporter: enter this documentary filmmaker, bill bennoson who footed the million-dollar plus bill if he could capture the adventure on film. >> this technology could see through the jungle canopy and potentially reveal the contours of what might be underneath it. it seemed like

gamble. >> i'm here for the moment. >> reporter: one that soon paid off. what the lidar revealed once the jungle canopy was removed shocked everyone on the team. >> i zoomed into about this level, and i just went holy crap. and i said, this is what looks like rectangular structures. >> yeah. definite. >> that's about as linear, that's a right angle. >> either manmade or the world's most intelligent gophers were out there doing things they had never done before. >> reporter: what did you think you found initially? >> a city, an ancient city, that we knew, but what was it beyond that was for the archaeologist to find out. >> reporter: that was colorado state's chris fisher. sounds to be a big deal. >> i think it is. you know, but for this area,

very, very important. >> reporter: helps national geographic artists come up with this rendering with what the city might have looked like. >> that's the plaza. >> reporter: had to get there on foot to know for sure. there's a stair way that goes here, and it took three long years of planning. just to get into this jungle is extremely dangerous, and once you're there, thick, thick with poisonous snakes. >> reporter: the deadliest? a pit viper. docile enough during the day, but when one slithered into camp under the cover of darkness, that caused an understandable panic. on the team, a jungle warfare expert who leapt into action. >> he killed the snake, but the snake exploded and furry striking everywhere, squirting venom, you know, streams of venom across the

>> reporter: the next morning, the jungle seemed a little less ominous. the march to the site began. it was like cutting your way through a shag carpet. what was not growing was oozing and mud. >> that's a pyramid right there in front of you. >> where? >> right there. you're looking at it. that big lump. can't say i see a whole lot from here. >> that's what it is. that's a pyramid. it's made out of earth. >> reporter: there were no stone structures, just foundation, but the next day, almost by accident, disappointment turned to jubilation. >> there's inscriptions right here. >> reporter: first thing i see is a jaguar head coming out of the ground carved in stone snarling. >> woah, woah, everybody stop! back up. don't t

please. >> reporter: there at their feet was a trove of artifacts believed to date from the 16th century. personal belongings of inhabitants who fled the valley as one theory has it, in desperate attempt to escape disease and slavery. >> it was phenomenal to think that in the 21st century you could still find something like this on the surface of the earth. >> reporter: some in the academic community, however, are not so easily impressed. >> we don't go out looking for treasure anymore. we go out looking for knowledge. >> reporter: rosemary joyce, professor of anthropology at berkley said an expedition made with filmmakers reeks indiana jones more than science and some more than 20 others agree. >> no objection to the adventure story, but it's portrayed as archaeology, and it's not. >> reporter: indigenous people bristled when the honduras president removed the

artifact himself. they considered the site sacred and said it should be left alone. so in the end, what this expedition unearthed was more than relics. it became a stew of excitement, questions, criticisms, and ill-health. >> maybe, you'll end up in the hospital like this. >> reporter: months after leaving the jungle, doug noticed a bite from a sand fly that just wouldn't heal, so did chris fisher. the national institutes of health diagnosed it as a frightening parasite disease. >> the parasite migrates through the mucus membranes of the mouth and nose and basically eats them away. your nose falls off. your lips fall off. eventually, your face becomes a huge open sore. >> reporter: over the next few months, half the expedition came down with the early symptoms and had to undergo the

treatment. >> that's good helicopter shot, the overview. >> reporter: bill benonson and elkins spared, and the documentary about the adventure is in the final edit. doug bucks the criticism titled the book "the lost city of the monkey god," and as for the site? well, only a fraction of it has been excavated, and questions linger about how or if to go back again. >> too dangerous to stay there. too dangerous. just getting in and out is dangerous. >> reporter: it seems the jupgle fights to keep its secrets, the vail makes a better accounting of what's really there difficult at best. and that,n ithe end, may be the most lasting curse of all ♪ you're gonna have dizziness, nausea, and sweaty eyelids. ♪ ♪ and in certain cases chronic flatulence. ♪

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want to make it, like, really the pinnacle of their collection. >> reporter: relaunched in the late' 90st by volkswagen, they trace it back to the motto that no car can be too beautiful or too expensive. today, bugattis are individually builtly hand in france where nearly every detail from the specially designed carbon fiber skin to the color of the hand sewn stitching in the leather seats can be customized. the engine is the fastest in the world. bugatti engineers capped the top speed at 261 miles per hour for safety reasons. how fast could it go if you didn't have to limit the speed? >> we don't know yet. >> reporter: how's the gas mile amg? >> you know, that's a good we. we don't consider that. no customers ask about that. >> reporter: but the car comes with four years free maintenance, so there's that. of course, for the same $3 million, you can buy nine

kids an ivy league education, or buy a rolls royce phantom for each day of the week, but a harvard degree can't do this. >> under two and a half seconds 0-60. >> that's fast. >> reporter: butch is bugatti's official driver. yes, that's a real job. >> this is the moon shot. at the beginning, the car was no compromises. >> reporter: well, bugatti did make one compromise. >> wow. >> reporter: they let me drive it. >> that's asking for little throttle. i'm conservative because it's not my $3 million car. >> reporter: it feels like luxury, performs like a missile, and like most people on the planet, i'll never be able to afford one. >> this is so fun! can i take this home? >> believe me, you are not the first to ask. >> so that's a no? >> that's a no, no. >> reporter: to get one of these? you're going to need to be party. there's a three, three and a half year waiting list, b

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