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>> this is the cbs "overnight news." the trump administration appears to be targeting affirmative action at american colleges. chief legal correspondent, jan crawford reports on what would be a significant change. >> reporter: the announcement came in an internal hiring notice seeking justice department lawyers interested in investigating intentional race based discrimination in college admissions. to critics and supporters it signals the justice department will move aggressively against admissions programs that give certain minority students preference over white or asian-american applicants. >> this is a pretty -- dramatic turn. >> she headed the civil rights division in the obama administration. >> i think

order in this new administration is -- the roll backs and cutbacks of long standing litigating positions in the areas of voting right, lgbt rights and the like. >> judicial watch's representative, says it is in line with policy of past republican administrations which challenged, affirmative action programs in court as unconstitutional. >> you can have laws that help minorities not at the expense of others and you cannot diskrim nate to remedy discrimination. >> the supreme court refused to end all affirmative action. struck down quotas and numerical goals and recently in a case from the university of texas said race can be considered as one of many factors in college admissions. >> we are here. >> reporter: in recent years, asian americans have become more vocal opponents. several asian-american groups have asked the justice department for help in challenging affirmative action policies at the country's top colleges and universities. now in a statement, the justic

refers to a complaint filed by 64 asian-american groups in may 2015. it added that the department has not received or issued any directive, memorandum, initiative or policy related to university admissions in general. anthony. >> jan crawford, thank you, jan. >> in afghanistan, two american service members were killed today. by a suicide bomber outside kandahar, the taliban claimed responsibility. neither american was identified. they were part of a nato force training afghan soldiers. for a second time police officers in baltimore are suspected of planting evidence in a drug case. and once again, they were exposed by their own cameras. here is don dahler. body camera video from last november, shows baltimore police stopping a vehicle. >> what are you stopping us for? searching the car for drugs. at first, no drugs are found. the public defender's office says t

their bed cody cameras. when they begin, record iing officer is seen squatting near the car door. he stand up. moves away. 30 seconds later, another officer who had been standing nearby, searches the same area. that's when he finds a bag of drugs. >> that's the weed smell right there too. off awe baltimore police commissioner, kevin davis says an investigation is under way. >> the body camera is, but a singular tool, and if you just look at a, a moment of it. without looking at it in context. it can misrepresentative the actions of police officers. >> two weeks ago, body cam video from different baltimore officers emerged of them allegedly planting evidence in a backyard. one of the officers has been suspended. and two placed on administrative duty, while the allegations are investigated. >> the credibility of the officers, has now been directly called into question. >> baltimore

attorney, marilyn mosby. >> my team of prosecutors have been working around the:00 to ensure a thorough evaluation of each and every case. >> in response to the video, her office has so far dismissed 41 of the 120 cases those officers were involved in. law enforcement sources say baltimore police officials view the cases as embarrassing and fear that some officers are taking short cuts. anthony, in light of new video, charges against the driver and passenger were dropped. >> don dahler, thanks. >> in minneapolis, a natural gas explosion caused part of a private school building to collapse. the school's receptionist was killed. police say contractors had been working on a gas line at the time. nine adults taken to hospitals. three with critical injuries. >> a freight train ran off the tracks in western pennsylvania this morning. causing a huge explosion. that was captured by a security camera. no injuries. and no word on a

more than 30 cars derailed. some carried hazardous material. everyone within a mile evacuated. up to 40 countries condemned last sunday's election in venezuela amid accusations it was rikgged. venezuela's president plans to rewrite the constitution to give himself unlimited power. the economy cratered when the price of oil plummeted. manuel bojorquez is there. >> reporter: like many blue-collar neighborhood, this barrio once embraced the promises of president maduro. many here have turned against him. hunger has a way of doing that. he says he lost 40 pounds since the trouble started. if you eat breakfast, you don't have lunch. if you have lunch, you won't have dinner. once a successful carpenter, the father of six says his fridge used to be filled with meat and

nothing else. just down the street, we saw 200 people waiting hours for a simple loaf of bread. the economic meltdown is at the heart of the political crisis. more than 120 have been killed protesting, maduro's power grab. more clashes are expected tomorrow. as the the government's new assembly starts work that will give maduro almost unlimited power. many wonder how long they can go on like this. 800% inflation has decimated savings. the currency is so devalued. some shop keepers weigh the money rather than waste time counting. if residents are lucky enough to find food on the shelves, prices are out of sight. >> the price went up. as you were in line. >> 1,000, he says. cordero, a geologist told us groceries now eat up 80% ofer

salary. >> this plantain costs, your house cost 25 years ago. >> it is something that is almost impossible, to comprehend, she says. for all of the condemnation of his regime around the world. maduro remains unrependent and using u.s. sanctions recently imposed on him as a rallying cry against foreign intervention here. anthony. >> manuel bojorquez with an inside look at the troubles in venezuela. >> on wall street today, the dow closed again at a record high. that's 6 in a row. and it finished above 22,000, for their fst time ever. job-seekers went shoching for shipping jobs at amazon today, that story is coming up. but up next, a breakthrough procedure that could prevent a birth defect. so, your new prescription does have oh, like what?ects. ♪ you're gonna have dizziness, nausea, and sweaty eyelids. ♪ ♪ and in certain cases chronic flatulence. ♪

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technique called crisper to find and help remove the gene inside a fertilized human egg. lying finding a needle in a hey stack. the cell then repaired itself and at the end of the process, the gene that causes the heart defect was gone. that means theoretically the embryo could develop without the defect. anthony the fda prohibits the use of the technology to help achieve a human pregnancy. >> i know this technology is in its infancy. this raises serious ethical concerns doesn't it? >> huge ethical concerns. been thinking of this decade. in medical school, wow, repair a gene. think about it. what are unintended consequences? who is to stay which genes if any should be repaired. what is a defect? you know, overall the big question is, do we have the wisdom to use this new technology. it is still many years away from being used out there in the field. but there are a lot of questions to be addressed. >> brave new world ahead. doctor jon lapook. thank you so much. >> when we come back, a robbery

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and rear-ended another vehicle. we reported on complaints about carbon monoxide leaks in explorers, nearly 3,000 nationwide. auburn police took their explorers off the road today. police in austin, texas did the same last month. more than a quarter million iphone cases recalled today they contain floating lech would gliter that can leak and cause burns. 19 injuries reported in the u.s. cases were made by mixed bin electronics not apple and were sold online at a number of stores. so did you witness the great boston robbery? in the fifth inning last night. the red sox ramirez figured he hit a home run. cleveland's austin jackson followed the ball to the wall. and over it! and yes, he held on. with the out. ramirez couldn't believe it. but the red sox still won the game. 12-10. the catch of the day at amazon was a job.

finally tonight, the big special at amazon today. was jobs. and thousand of people jumped online with feet, not fingers to try to get one. here is adrianna diaz. >> reporter: the lines formed

baltimore, maryland, kent, washington, and wisconsin. where bob harms was laid off from a sales job last month. >> i know there is opportunity here. that's why i am here today. >> reporter: he need a job with benefits to cover medical bills for his wife hue has cancer. >> she is a worrywart. i ned to not let her worry so much. >> he hopes to get one of 50,000 jobs available at amazon. at a dozen simultaneous job fairs today, they were filling entry level positions that pay $11,50 to $15 an hour. they came in suits, brought resumes, and were given free slushies to pass the time. they aplplied to be sorters, packers, shippers, who will work alongside robots in fast moving fulfillment centers. amazon's growing as traditional retail is shrinking. over the last 15 years, e-commerce added more than 160,000 jobs as department stores lost nearly half a million. the shift is due in part to a shopping migration. from stores to the

professor at marquette university. >> does this hiring frenzy make up for jobs lost in, in areas like retail? >> probably not. they're not hiring to the degree that a traditional bricks and mortar establishment would. >> in wisconsin, harms didn't make the cut. >> i know how these things go. that doesn't bother me much at all. >> will you reapply? >> sure. >> thousands of others. randy scott in ohio were hired on the spot. >> how often do you got to do that? go to an interview be done. >> some witall srt in days and aren't deterred by amazon's growing automation. >> somebed has to fix the robots. >> robots don't stand a chance against an optimist. that's the "overnight news" for this thursday. for some of you the news continues. for others, check back with us a bit later for the morning news and cbs this morning. from the broadcast center in new york city. i'm anthony mason. thank you for watching.

this is the cbs "overnight news." welcome to the "overnight news," i'm tony dokoupil. president trump issued sanctions that punish russia for meddling. but the president made clear he did not like what he was signing. the legislation passed with overwhelming support in congress last week, but yesterday, mr. trump signed the law while calling it seriously flawed. our correspondent has more from washington. >> during an announcement, touting immigration reform, president trump made no mention of the sanctions bill he reluctantly signed earlier in the day. in a statement, the president called the new action against russia, north korea, and iran, seriously flawed. claiming it hurt his ability to use his executive powers to negotiate. still he says he signed it for

>> better relationship and the lifting of sangs will require russia to reverse the actions and conduct that caused sajs to be imposed in the first place. >> reporter: the bill had bipartisan support in congress following revelations of russia's meddling in the u.s. election. >> i'm glad the president signed them. and, we need to stand up to russian aggression. we need to stand up to north korean aggression. >> reporter: president trump slammed lawmakers in his statement. saying, congress could not even negotiate a health care bill. after seven years of talking. he added, as president, i could make far better deals with foreign countries, than congress. >> the bill signing comes on the same day the u.s. military once again flexed its muscle amid rising tensions with north korea. the u.s. air force launched unarmed intercontinental ballistic missile from california overnight. the latest in a string of military exercises

korea launched friday. analysts said it had the range to hit los angeles or possibly, chicago or new york. the white house also revealed the new push to overhaul the nation's legal immigration system. proposed bill aims to cut the number of immigrants entering the u.s. legally by half. don champion has more from dallas. president trump revealed a plan. it will reduce poverty, increase wages and save taxpayers billions of dollars. >> reporter: mr. trump is throwing his support behind a bill to introduce a merit based system for green card applications. >> this come president ti-- com process will, speak english sar support themselves and families and

contribu contribute. >> the legislation devied by two republican senators, tom cotton of arkansas and david purdue of georgia. and immigrants rights act vitss say it would impact latino families the most. >> it is a good idea for us to bring in skilled workers. but it is a, apparently, a move away from, family values of using immigration to, to, unite families. >> the bill's sponsors say all groups would be treated the same. >> what we are doing here is, no bias towards any region of the world. it has a bias towards ultrahigh skilled individuals. >> the act would also cut the number of refugees admitted each year from 110,000 to just 50,000. don champion, cbs news, dallas. north korea's

test is raising concerns about the safety of commercial airliners flying in the region. the falling missile came close to an air france jet with hundreds of people on board. here is kris van cleave. >> pentagon officials say the latest missile test by north korea presented the biggest potential threat yet. perhaps capable of hitting the u.s. mainland as far away as new york. though it was an unarmed missile it still put civilians in harm's way. >> they absolutely are creating danger to commercial airspace. >> at 9:55 eastern time. air france, flight 293 took off from tokyo headed to paris. then about 45 minutes later, north korea launched its missile which climbed 2,000 miles into the air. while the missile was in flight, so was the air france jet. with 332 people on board. the plane any flight path took it 100 miles off the coast of japan, the same area where the missile landed some 10 minutes later. air france issued

saying, north korea's missile test zones dupe not interfere in any way with air france flight paths. we constantly analyze potentially dangerous fly over zones and adapt our flight plans. cbs news safety expert, says the global aviation system isn't prepared for an unexpected missile launch. i don't believe air traffic control would be able to have capacity to warn the commercial aircraft that a missile was in its flight path. >> the u.s. responded to north korea's latest missile launch by conducting a test launch of its own over the weekend as well as a joint exercise with south korea and japan monday. president trump promised to hold north korea accountable. >> we'll handle north korea. we will be able to handle them. it will be handled. >> japan's ambassador to the united nations says he expects the organization to draft a new sanctions resolution against north korea within days.

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this is the cbs "overnight news." a former terror detainee who spent 14 years in guantanamo bay is now free and talking about his experience. while fighting for his release, he taught himself english and wrote a best-selling book about life in american custody. holly williams spoke to him in a story for 60 minutes. what's it like, losing all control? over your life? >> it sucks. it is very challenging. i don't know how to describe it in words. but, you feel like, humiliation. you feel self pity. you feel like

panic. i didn't tell the plan. i was -- i was learning as i was going. >> mohammad al salahi is adapting to unfamiliar surroundings this time, home and freedom. to learn how he went from here to guantanamo and back again, we traveled to the islamic republic of mauritania. it is a tribal and deeply religious nation of nearly 4 million people. where the sahara desert meets the sea. about the size of texas, and new mexico combined, the country is due east of cuba. separated from his old prison home by the width of the atlantic. >> you know what is there? >> yes. >> guantanamo. >> guantanamo bay. >> 3,800 miles in that direction. >> yes. >> i say good-bye. hope never to see y

>> before we explain how he ended up in guantanamo in the first place. we'll tell you how a talent for languages helped him survive there. how much english did you speak when you landed in guantanamo? >> almost none. >> in the office of his new apartment in mauritania, he showed us how he learned english in guantanamo. he read and writes fourth language with help from the u.s. navy. >> where did you get the glasses? >> glasses, i got from navy hospital. in the guantanamo bay. thank you, doctors. and their choices. i took the ugliest one. as a sign of protest. >> he was his own teacher in, soaking up new vocabulary, wherever he could. >> i am, letting you now into my world. okay. this is how i love the english language. this is the original. >> you would, what, hear something and write it down.

>> hear something. write it down. ask. >> ask a guard. >> or interrogator. >> to chortle. >> snorting. >> to chortle. >> skyscraper. riot. suicide. you were just working on building vocabulary. >> what i do. i take this just i go in my cell, back and forth. memorizing everything. every day. she threaded her fingers through the thick main. >> think that was yaya sisterhood. >> three years after he arrived at guantanamo, he used his new language skills to demand his immediate release. he hand wrote his own petition for writ of habeas corpus, a legal document challenging the u.s. government's right to imprison him. he also began a correspondence with his american lawyers that became the guantanamo diary. it has been

different languages. but it took seven years for his legal team to convince the government to allow its publication. they only permitted a heavily censored version. >> like i was shouting in the dark for years. then, i saw a very small hole that i could shout through. which was my lawyer. >> i don't know if you have seen this before? it is -- the original copy of the -- of the review of your -- book. >> okay. >> in "the new york times." have you seen it before? >> never. first time. you were locked in a prison with so little contact with the outside world. and meanwhile, your work was being discussed. >> that shows the greatness of american people. not my greatness.

because, american people believe in justice. and they, they decided to give me a voice. >> reporter: by 2004, the u.s. government regarded him as a cooperative prisoner. so he was living in a special segregated hut. he had access to books, movies, and his own vegetable garden. but he was still a prisoner, struggling with solitude, 4,000 miles from home. you an bet your bottom dollar that i was loany. >> in the book you describe the guard as your family. >> yes. >> is that true? >> they, they really, a lot of them, treated me as, as a brother. >> we found one of his former guards. who asked us to disguise his appearance and withhold his name. he had security concerns because of his work at guantanamo. how long did you guard him for? >> 10 months. >> when was the first time you mehi

>> first impressions? >> just he wasn't this horrible terrorist that, you know, i was expecting to go guard. you know, that i was told it was, everybody was there was worst of the worst. the guy comes out. smile on his face. >> of straight away you started thinking this is not what i was expecting. >> i felt something was off. >> you didn't think he was going to harm you. >> if he wanted to. there were times where we slept while he was sleeching his door was open. itch he wanted to kill us he could have. >> you were pretty sure he wasn't going to do that. >> yeah. awe all i had noer use. >> you trusted him? >> definitely. >> he was very shocked. because he told me they told him this is the worst of the worst. and i wasn't very open to the guards. because i was afratd -- afraid of them. he kept poking me until we opened up to each other. it very good time with him. >>

watched movies over and over. yeah, just hanging out with us. >> reporter: weep heard there was one film in particular that you guys watched over and over. >> the big lebowsky. >> nonstop. he could quote it. word for word, giant portion of the movie. it was hilarious. >> i was struck by that. what's interesting about the big lebowski. they get the wrong guy. >> you got the wrong guy, i'm any the dude, man. >> i'm not your guy. >> you played a role in his release, you wrote a letter to the review board, that desighed on whether he would finally be released. i think is that the letter there? >> that is. that is. >> i just want to read you a section of it. you said, based on my interactions with him while in guantanamo, i would be pleased to welcome him into my home. based on my interactions i do not have safety concerns if i were to do so, i would like the opportunity to

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into a frozen food empire. amy's kitchen got started as a small family business in california, now the company's revenue is reportedly around half a billion dollars a year. the founders rarely do interviews, but they spoke to our john blackstone. at the end of a dirt road in the heart of california's wine country, sits an 170s farmhouse. >> we toed to have our sales meetings in the barn when we were small. >> this is where rachel and andy berliner cooked up amy's kitchen. helping to pioneer the organic food movement. the ranch still serves as the corporate headquarters. >> nothing miraculous what we do. we diet o it in an old-fashione way. somebody is hungry. i want to feed them. i am really hungry. excuse me i have to feed this person to. day they make more than 250 different products. most of them frozen. all organic. amy's kitchen prepares about a million frozen meals a day. yet,

by hand. the berliners believe it tais better that way. but organic food was rare in the 1980s when they began. >> this all started in places like portland, san francisco. two decades later, we suddenly think, hey, maybe those people are on to something. >> it may have started as a small movement, but by 2016, or the gainic food industry had grown into a $47 billion business. to be certified organic by the usda, food must be free of sin thetic a synthetic additives cannot be modified. final products must contain 95 a% organic ingredients. >> my parents had an organic garden in l.a. in the 50s. and they, taught me to always eat healthy. and to never eat things i couldn't pronounce. >> first well here. >> along with healthy eating, andy and rachel remember to feed the soul. they met, on a spiritual retreat. in india. >> still kind of hippies at heart. >> ye

>> you were. >> she was. she was a real hippy. >> when rachel was pregnant in 1987 they looked for organic footed, fast, easy. when they couldn't find it decided to go into business making organic tofu pot pie. >> this is the kitchen where it began. the table where we do all our tasting. ever since the family kitchen has been at the center of their business. >> the tastings are right here in this kitchen. it still done the same way we have done it. >> as the the company grew so did their daughter. >> you are amy! >> yes, i am amy. >> amy is well aware her parents legacy is in her hand. >> there has to be a big temptation to cash in. a huge company, you have had offers. just sell it. and, not worry about working another day in your life. >> yeah, we could just sell the company and be, multi, multi, multimillionaires. but the reality is this is something my parents taught me. happiness does not come from y.

and purpose. >> while they have never spent a dime on advertising, their brand has become a fan favorite on social media. that's helped sales of frozen entres rise by more than 70% in the past four years. with the appetite for organic growing, in 2015, they opened their first fast food vegetarian drive through. it stays busy even with several burger chains nearby. >> talk about a risk. that was a real risk. i had trouble visualizing people coming to an organic vegetarian drive through. and they just. >> i think many people. >> they were lined up around the block. >> in the right place, right time. >> we have stumbled well. >> amy's kitchen is now a frozen food empire. guided by rachel and andy simple recipe, just do what you love. john blackstone, petaluma, california. >> the cbs "overnight news" will be right back.

a fight over a long time tradition at the beach is heating up this summer. concerned beach-goers want to stop people from driving their trucks on to the sand. here is meg oliver. >> tucked away, the hampton beaches and brisk waves helped cool off the summer heat. the tensions in one town are boiling hot over an age old tradition. driving on the beach. >> just so many trucks,000, d s dangerous, very crowded. loud. alcohol. i don't want to expose my children. >> the homeowners live within walking distance of the beach in east hampton. a small stretch of it, less than a mile allows trucks. they want to ban them altogether. >> fields like a parking lot. doesn't feel like the beach. >> it is an

>> home video shows some close calls. in one, a truck narrowly misses a child. no one has been seriously hurt here. but for many, a big fear. >> i have a son who is on the autism spectrum and has limit itted impulse control. so he is, he is someone who, wouldn't necessarily think ahead, that there might be an accident. >> at the beach in florida last month. the pickup truck ran over a 4-year-old boy, causing serious injuries. >> trucks, packed tightly together on beach as cross the country. and, off road ritual from north carolina, and georgia, to texas, and beyond. >> your kids grew up coming to this beach. >> they literally grew up on this beach. >> laurie has been driving on the beach for decades. >> did you always feel safe having them on the beach with the trucks? >> yes. >> it is a 50-year history of people driving on the beach. people come out here every sunday. >> town trustee, bill taylor spent decades patrolling the beach in east han.

he says it gives local whose don't live within walking distance a chance to enjoy it. taylor says homeowners who live along the beach don't want just a ban on trucks they want to make it private. >> i think if they've could have this declared a private beach it would make their real estate, incredible, more valuable. >> think this is a monetary thing. >> that's fact a factor. >> some people may say you are trying to privatize the beach. >> our issue is about safety. children's lives are at stake. >> you don't want to privatize it. >> not at all. >> the legal fight over who owns the beach continues. in november, a judge ruled in favor of the town trustees, but for homeowners like cindy and jen ferks the fight is not over. their homeowners association is in the process of appealing again to ban the trucks. that's the "overnight news" for this thursday. for some of you the news continues. for others check back a later for the morning news, and cbs this morning from the broadcast center

the russia investigation. congress now wants phone and e-mail records of everyone connected with the 2016 trump tower meeting with the russian lawyer. also, tonight -- >> what are you stopping us for! >> baltimore police investigate whether officers planted evidence in multiple cases. >> a scientific breakthrough. genes in human embryos are repaired before they can cause a birth defect. and, shopping for jobs. hundreds go online, the old-fashioned way. for a chance to work for some .zahn -- for amazon.

news." >> congressional investigators now want phone and e-mail records of everyone in vofltd in that meeting with the russian lawyer at trump tower last year. their interest in what happened there is growing, after the president's story changed. at first his lawyer denied the president helped his son put out a misleading statement about the meeting. but yesterday, the white house admitted the president weighed in on that statement. the special counsel's investigation of russian meddling in the u.s. election is widening as well. here is jeff pegues. >> reporter: cbs news learned that congressional investigators have high interest in obtaining the phone records of all of the people involved in donald trump jr.'s meeting with the russian lawyer in june, 2016. republican senator james risch, staunch supporter of the president, says e-mails released by donald trump jr. are not

enough. >> i guarantee you there were phone calls in addition to the e-mails. >> congressional investigators are seeking all relevant documents, such as the the e-mails of everyone involved including the president's son-in-law, jared kushner, and then campaign chairman, paul manafort. scott frederickson is a former federal prosecutor. >> they have subpoena power, although it's -- a process that is much more lengthy, the special counsel will already have issued a subpoena off to the company for phone records. text messages, records. >> special counsel robert mueller's team of veteran prosecutor is is expanding and includes an expert on foreign bribery. for a year the fbi has been looking into whether trump campaign associates consired with the russians during the election. one allegation is whether promises were made to ease sanctions on russia if mr. trump was elected. awe off the bill is passed. >> reporter: last week the senate force

act against russia when it passed a new package of sanctions for meddling in the election. it took five days but today the president signed legislation he called flawed into law. russia's prime minister, medvedev said sanctions were tantamount to a full-scale trade war and labeled the trump administration, utterly powerless. donald trump jr. is expected to be grilled by congressional investigators, seeking answers, but no date has been set for his testimony and it is unlikely that he will be on capitol hill to answer questions before labor day. anthony. >> jeff pegues, thank you, jeff. the white house today corrected a claim the president made about his controversial appearance last week, before the boy scouts. chip reid now on new questions about the president's truthfulness. >> president trump's speech at the boy scout jamboree last week ignited a firestorm of criticism for turning the historic

nonpolitical event into a partisan campaign rally. >> i see all of these politicians, and -- i see the swamp, and it's not a good place. >> reporter: the chief scout executive responded with sincere apologies to those in our scouting family offended by the political rhetoric to. day the controversy got new life when the boy scouts had to

respond again, this time to a recent interview the president did with "the wall street journal" in which he said, i got a call from the head of the boy scouts, saying, it was the greatest speech that was ever made to them. the boy scouts said, we are unaware of any such call. >> white house press secretary sarah sanders today admitted the president did not receive a call from the boy scouts. >> multiple members of the boy scout leadership, following his speech, there that day, congratulated him, praised him. >> the president also raised questions about his veracity after making this claim at a cabinet meeting monday. >> even the president of mexico called me, they said their southern border, very few people are coming because they know they're not going to got through our border which is the ultimate compliment. but the mexican foreign ministry responded, that president pena nieto has the not recently spoken to donald trump over the telephone. sanders tried to quell that controversy too. >> on mexico he was referencing the conversation they had at the g-20 summit. >> while admitting again there was no phone call. >> it's great to be with my friend, the president of mexico. according to a new poll, 262% of americans say the president is not honest. 71% say, he is not levelheaded. anthony. >> chip reid at the white house. thank you. the president wants to place

and create a new system that would be based more on merit and skills. that led to this confrontation between cnn's jim acosta and the white house adviser steven miller. >> the statue of liberty says give me your tired, poor, huddled masses, your -- doesn't say anything about speaking english or being able to, be a computer programmer. aren't you trying to change what it means to be an immigrant coming into this country if you are telling them to you have to speak english. can't people learn how to speak english when they get here. >> first of all, right now, it is a requirement that to be naturalized you have to speak english. the notion that speaking english wouldn't be part of the immigration system would be ahistorical. i don't want to get off into a thing, history, the statue of liberty, american liberty lighting the world. the poem you are referring to was add later not part

original statue of liberty. more fundamentally. more fundamentally. >> you are saying that does not represent what the country has always thought of. >> i am saying the notion, i am saying the notion. >> that sound like national park revisionism. >> the poem, was written for an auction to raise money for the construction of the pedestal on which lady liberty rests. the cbs "overnight news" will be right back.

>> this is the cbs "overnight news." the trump administration appears to be targeting affirmative action at american colleges. chief legal correspondent, jan crawford reports on what would be a significant change. >> reporter: the announcement came in an internal hiring notice seeking justice department lawyers interested in investigating intentional race based discrimination in college admissions. to critics and supporters it signals the justice department will move aggressively against admissions programs that give certain minority students preference over white or asian-american applicants. >> this is a pretty -- dramatic turn. >> she headed the civil rights division in the obama

>> i think interesting about what has been happening in quick order in this new administration is -- the roll backs and cutbacks of long standing litigating positions in the areas of voting right, lgbt rights and the like. >> judicial watch's representative, says it is in line with policy of past republican administrations which challenged, affirmative action programs in court as unconstitutional. >> you can have laws that help minorities not at the expense of others and you cannot diskrim nate to remedy discrimination. >> the supreme court refused to end all affirmative action. struck down quotas and numerical goals and recently in a case from the university of texas said race can be considered as one of many factors in college admissions. >> we are here. >> reporter: in recent years, asian americans have become more vocal opponents. several asian-american groups have asked the justice department for help in challenging affirmative action policies at the country's top colleges and universities. now in a statement, ju

department says the job posting refers to a complaint filed by 64 asian-american groups in may 2015. it added that the department has not received or issued any directive, memorandum, initiative or policy related to university admissions in general. anthony. >> jan crawford, thank you, jan. >> in afghanistan, two american service members were killed today. by a suicide bomber outside kandahar, the taliban claimed responsibility. neither american was identified. they were part of a nato force training afghan soldiers. for a second time police officers in baltimore are suspected of planting evidence in a drug case. and once again, they were exposed by their own cameras. here is don dahler. body camera video from last november, shows baltimore police stopping a vehicle. >> what are you stopping us for? searching the car for drugs. at first, no drugs are found. the public defender's office

when they begin, recording officer is seen squatting near the car door. he stand up. moves away. 30 seconds later, another officer who had been standing nearby, searches the same area. that's when he finds a bag of drugs. >> that's the weed smell right there too. off awe baltimore police commissioner, kevin davis says an investigation is under way. >> the body camera is, but a singular tool, and if you just look at a, a moment of it. without looking at it in context. it can misrepresentative the actions of police officers. >> two weeks ago, body cam video from different baltimore officers emerged of them allegedly planting evidence in a backyard. one of the officers has been suspended. and two placed on administrative duty, while the allegations are investigated. >> the credibility of the officers, has now been directly called into question.

attorney, marilyn mosby. >> my team of prosecutors have been working around the:00 to ensure a thorough evaluation of each and every case. >> in response to the video, her office has so far dismissed 41 of the 120 cases those officers were involved in. law enforcement sources say baltimore police officials view the cases as embarrassing and fear that some officers are taking short cuts. anthony, in light of new video, charges against the driver and passenger were dropped. >> don dahler, thanks. >> in minneapolis, a natural gas explosion caused part of a private school building to collapse. the school's receptionist was killed. police say contractors had been working on a gas line at the time. nine adults taken to hospitals. three with critical injuries. >> a freight train ran off the tracks in western pennsylvania this morning. causing a huge explosion. that was captured by a securit

camera. no injuries. and no word on a cause. more than 30 cars derailed. some carried hazardous material. everyone within a mile evacuated. up to 40 countries condemned last sunday's election in venezuela amid accusations it was rigged. venezuela's president plans to rewrite the constitution to give himself unlimited power. the economy cratered when the price of oil plummeted. manuel bojorquez is there. >> reporter: like many blue-collar neighborhood, this barrio once embraced the promises of president maduro. many here have turned against him. hunger has a way of doing that. he says he lost 40 pounds since the trouble started. if you eat breakfast, you don't have lunch. if you have lunch, you won't have dinner. once a successful carpenter, the father of six says his fridge used to be filled with meat and potatoes. >> water, some limes.

just down the street, we saw 200 people waiting hours for a simple loaf of bread. the economic meltdown is at the heart of the political crisis. more than 120 have been killed protesting, maduro's power grab. more clashes are expected tomorrow. as the the government's new assembly starts work that will give maduro almost unlimited power. many wonder how long they can go on like this. 800% inflation has decimated savings. the currency is so devalued. some shop keepers weigh the money rather than waste time counting. if residents are lucky enough to find food on the shelves, prices are out of sight. >> the price went up. as you were in line. >> 1,000, he says. cordero, a geologist told us

groceries now eat up 80% of her salary. >> this plantain costs, your house cost 25 years ago. >> it is something that is almost impossible, to comprehend, she says. for all of the condemnation of his regime around the world. maduro remains unrependent and using u.s. sanctions recently imposed on him as a rallying cry against foreign intervention here. anthony. >> manuel bojorquez with an inside look at the troubles in venezuela. >> on wall street today, the dow closed again at a record high. that's 6 in a row. and it finished above 22,000, for the first time ever. job-seekers went shopping for shipping jobs at amazon today, that story is coming up. but up next, a breakthrough procedure that could prevent a birth defect.

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technique called crisper to find and help remove the gene inside a fertilized human egg. lying finding a needle in a hey stack. the cell then repaired itself and at the end of the process, the gene that causes the heart defect was gone. that means theoretically the embryo could develop without the defect. anthony the fda prohibits the use of the technology to help achieve a human pregnancy. >> i know this technology is in its infancy. this raises serious ethical concerns doesn't it? >> huge ethical concerns. been thinking of this decade. in medical school, wow, repair a gene. think about it. what are unintended consequences? who is to stay which genes if any should be repaired. what is a defect? you know, overall the big question is, do we have the wisdom to use this new technology. it is still many years away from being used out there in the field. but there are a lot of questions to be addressed. >> brave new world ahead. doctor jon lapook. thank you soh.

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and rear-ended another vehicle. we reported on complaints about carbon monoxide leaks in explorers, nearly 3,000 nationwide. auburn police took their explorers off the road today. police in austin, texas did the same last month. more than a quarter million iphone cases recalled today they contain floating lech would gliter that can leak and cause burns. 19 injuries reported in the u.s. cases were made by mixed bin electronics not apple and were sold online at a number of stores. so did you witness the great boston robbery? in the fifth inning last night. the red sox ramirez figured he hit a home run. cleveland's austin jackson followed the ball to the wall. and over it! and yes, he held on. with the out. ramirez couldn't believe it. but the red sox still won the game. 12-10. the catch of the day at amazon was a job. that story is next.

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finally tonight, the big special at amazon today. was jobs. and thousand of people jumped online with feet, not fingers to try to get one. here is adrianna diaz. >> reporter: the lines formed before the job fair, in baltimore, maryland, kent,

washington, and wisconsin. where bob harms was laid off from a sales job last month. >> i know there is opportunity here. that's why i am here today. >> reporter: he need a job with benefits to cover medical bills for his wife hue has cancer. >> she is a worrywart. i ned to not let her worry so much. >> he hopes to get one of 50,000 jobs available at amazon. at a dozen simultaneous job fairs today, they were filling entry level positions that pay $11,50 to $15 an hour. they came in suits, brought resumes, and were given free slushies to pass the time. they applied to be sorters, packers, shippers, who will work alongside robots in fast moving fulfillment centers. amazon's growing as traditional retail is shrinking. over the last 15 years, e-commerce added more than 160,000 jobs as department stores lost nearly half a million. the shift is due in part to a shopping migration. from stores to the internet. david clark is an econs

university. >> does this hiring frenzy make up for jobs lost in, in areas like retail? >> probably not. they're not hiring to the degree that a traditional bricks and mortar establishment would. >> in wisconsin, harms didn't make the cut. >> i know how these things go. that doesn't bother me much at all. >> will you reapply? >> sure. >> thousands of others. randy scott in ohio were hired on the spot. >> how often do you got to do that? go to an interview be done. >> some will start in days and aren't deterred by amazon's growing automation. >> somebed has to fix the robots. >> robots don't stand a chance against an optimist. that's the "overnight news" for this thursday. for some of you the news continues. for others, check back with us a bit later for the morning news and cbs this morning. from the broadcast center in new york city. i'm anthony mason. thank you for watching.

this is the cbs "overnight news." welcome to the "overnight news," i'm tony dokoupil. president trump issued sanctions that punish russia for meddling. but the president made clear he did not like what he was signing. the legislation passed with overwhelming support in congress last week, but yesterday, mr. trump signed the law while calling it seriously flawed. our correspondent has more from washington. >> during an announcement, touting immigration reform, president trump made no mention of the sanctions bill he reluctantly signed earlier in the day. in a statement, the president called the new action against russia, north korea, and iran, seriously flawed. claiming it hurt his ability to use his executive powers to

negotiate. still he says he signed it for the sack of national unity. >> better relationship and the lifting of sangs will require russia to reverse the actions and conduct that caused sajs to be imposed in the first place. >> reporter: the bill had bipartisan support in congress following revelations of russia's meddling in the u.s. election. >> i'm glad the president signed them. and, we need to stand up to russian aggression. we need to stand up to north korean aggression. >> reporter: president trump slammed lawmakers in his statement. saying, congress could not even negotiate a health care bill. after seven years of talking. he added, as president, i could make far better deals with foreign countries, than congress. >> the bill signing comes on the

again flexed its muscle amid rising tensions with north korea. the u.s. air force launched unarmed intercontinental mr. from is throwing his support behind a bill to introduce a merit based system for applications. >> this application process will favor applicants who can speak english, financially support themselves and their families. and demonstrate skills that will

republican senators, tom cotton of arkansas and david purdue of georgia. and immigrants rights activists say it would impact latino families the most. >> what disthuz, it lets everybody compete individually. what fairer way, where you have a situation where everybody has the same level right to get into the country. >> the raise act would be an end to diversity lottery for visas. immigrant rights activist s say it would impact latino families the most. >> it is a good idea for us to bring in skilled workers. but it is a, apparently, a move away from, family values of using immigration to, to, unite families. >> the bill's sponsors say all groups would be treated the same. >> what we are doing here is, no bias towards any region of the world. it has a bias towards ultrahigh skilled individuals. >> the act would also cut the number of refugees admitted each year from 110,000 to just 50,000. don champion, cbs news, dallas. north korea's latest missile test is raising concerns about

the safety of commercial airliners flying in the region. the falling missile came close to an air france jet with hundreds of people on board. here is kris van cleave. >> pentagon officials say the latest missile test by north korea presented the biggest potential threat yet. perhaps capable of hitting the u.s. mainland as far away as new york. though it was an unarmed missile it still put civilians in harm's way. >> they absolutely are creating danger to commercial airspace. >> at 9:55 eastern time. air france, flight 293 took off from tokyo headed to paris. then about 45 minutes later, north korea launched its missile which climbed 2,000 miles into the air. while the missile was in flight, so was the air france jet. with 332 people on board. the plane any flight path took it 100 miles off the coast of japan, the same area where the missile landed some 10 minutes later. air france issued a statement saying, north korea's missile test zones dupe not te

any way with air france flight paths. we constantly analyze potentially dangerous fly over zones and adapt our flight plans. cbs news safety expert, says the global aviation system isn't prepared for an unexpected missile launch. i don't believe air traffic control would be able to have capacity to warn the commercial aircraft that a missile was in its flight path. >> the u.s. responded to north korea's latest missile launch by conducting a test launch of its own over the weekend as well as a joint exercise with south korea and japan monday. president trump promised to hold north korea accountable. >> we'll handle north korea. we will be able to handle them. it will be handled. >> japan's ambassador to the united nations says he expects the organization to draft a new sanctions resolution against north korea within days. cbs "overnight news" will be right back.

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this is the cbs "overnight news." a former terror detainee who spent 14 years in guantanamo bay is now free and talking about his experience. while fighting for his release, he taught himself english and wrote a best-selling book about life in american custody. holly williams spoke to him in a story for 60 minutes. what's it like, losing all control? over your life? >> it sucks. it is very challenging. i don't know how to describe it in words. but, you feel like, humiliation. you feel self pity. you feel like -- panic. i didn't tell the plan. i was -- i was learning as i was

>> mohammad al salahi is adapting to unfamiliar surroundings this time, home and freedom. to learn how he went from here to guantanamo and back again, we traveled to the islamic republic of mauritania. it is a tribal and deeply religious nation of nearly 4 million people. where the sahara desert meets the sea. about the size of texas, and new mexico combined, the country is due east of cuba. separated from his old prison home by the width of the atlantic. >> you know what is there? >> yes. >> guantanamo. >> guantanamo bay. >> 3,800 miles in that direction. >> yes. >> i say good-bye. hope never to see you again. >> before we explaow

ended up in guantanamo in the first place. we'll tell you how a talent for languages helped him survive there. how much english did you speak when you landed in guantanamo? >> almost none. >> in the office of his new apartment in mauritania, he showed us how he learned english in guantanamo. he read and writes fourth language with help from the u.s. navy. >> where did you get the glasses? >> glasses, i got from navy hospital. in the guantanamo bay. thank you, doctors. and their choices. i took the ugliest one. as a sign of protest. >> he was his own teacher in, soaking up new vocabulary, wherever he could. >> i am, letting you now into my world. okay. this is how i love the english language. this is the original. >> you would, what, hear something and write it down. >> hear something. write it down. ask.

>> ask a guard. >> or interrogator. >> to chortle. >> snorting. >> to chortle. >> skyscraper. riot. suicide. you were just working on building vocabulary. >> what i do. i take this just i go in my cell, back and forth. memorizing everything. every day. she threaded her fingers through the thick main. >> think that was yaya sisterhood. >> three years after he arrived at guantanamo, he used his new language skills to demand his immediate release. for writ of habeas corpus, a legal document challenging the u.s. government's right to imprison him. he also began a correspondence with his american lawyers that became the guantanamo diary. it has been translated into 27 different languages. but it took seven years for his

legal team to convince the government to allow its publication. they only permitted a heavily censored version. >> like i was shouting in the dark for years. then, i saw a very small hole that i could shout through. which was my lawyer. >> i don't know if you have seen this before? it is -- the original copy of the -- of the review of your -- book. >> okay. >> in "the new york times." have you seen it before? >> never. first time. you were locked in a prison with so little contact with the outside world. and meanwhile, your work was being discussed.

american people. not my greatness. because, american people believe in justice. and they, they decided to give me a voice. >> reporter: by 2004, the u.s. government regarded him as a cooperative prisoner. so he was living in a special segregated hut. he had access to books, movies, and his own vegetable garden. but he was still a prisoner, struggling with solitude, 4,000 miles from home. you an bet your bottom dollar that i was loany. >> in the book you describe the guard as your family. >> yes. >> is that true? >> they, they really, a lot of them, treated me as, as a brother. >> we found one of his former guards. who asked us to disguise his appearance and withhold his name. he had security concerns because of his work at guantanamo. how long did you guard him for?

>> 10 months. >> when was the first time you met him? >> july of 04. >> first impressions? >> just he wasn't this horrible terrorist that, you know, i was expecting to go guard. you know, that i was told it was, everybody was there was worst of the worst. the guy comes out. smile on his face. >> of straight away you started thinking this is not what i was expecting. >> i felt something was off. >> you didn't think he was going to harm you. >> if he wanted to. there were times where we slept while he was sleeching his door was open. itch he wanted to kill us he could have. >> you were pretty sure he wasn't going to do that. >> yeah. >> you trusted him? >> definitely. >> he was very shocked. because he told me they told him this is the worst of the worst. and i wasn't very open to the guards. he kept poking me until we opened up to each other. it very good time with him. >> we played monopoly, rummy, watched movies over and over. yeah, just hanging out with us.

>> reporter: we heard there was one film in particular that you guys watched over and over. >> the big lebowsky. >> nonstop. he could quote it. word for word, giant portion of the movie. it was hilarious. >> i was struck by that. what's interesting about the big lebowski. they get the wrong guy. >> you got the wrong guy, i'm any the dude, man. >> i'm not your guy. >> you played a role in his release, you wrote a letter to the review board, that desighed on whether he would finally be released. i think is that the letter there? >> that is. that is. >> i just want to read you a section of it. you said, based on my interactions with him while in guantanamo, i would be pleased to welcome him into my home. based on my interactions i do not have safety concerns if i were to do so, i would like the opportunity to eventually

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by hand. the berliners believe it tais better that way. but organic food was rare in the 1980s when they began. >> this all started in places like portland, san francisco. two decades later, we suddenly think, hey, maybe those people are on to something. >> it may have started as a small movement, but by 2016, or the organic food industry had grown into a $47 billion business. to be certified organic by the usda, food must be free of synthetic additives cannot be modified. final products must contain 95 % organic ingredients. >> my parents had an organic garden in l.a. in the 50s. and they, taught me to always eat healthy. and to never eat things i couldn't pronounce. >> first well here. >> along with healthy eating, andy and rachel remember to feed the soul. they met, on a spiritual retreat. in india. >>ll

>> yeah. >> he never was. >> you were. >> she was. she was a real hippy. >> when rachel was pregnant in 1987 they looked for organic footed, fast, easy. when they couldn't find it decided to go into business making organic tofu pot pie. >> this is the kitchen where it began. the table where we do all our tasting. ever since the family kitchen has been at the center of their business. >> the tastings are right here in this kitchen. it still done the same way we have done it. >> as the the company grew so did their daughter. >> you are amy! >> yes, i am amy. >> amy is well aware her parents legacy is in her hand. >> there has to be a big temptation to cash in. a huge company, you have had offers. just sell it. and, not worry about working another day in your life. >> yeah, we could just sell the company and be, multi, multi, multimillionaires. but the reality is this is something my parents taught me. happiness does not come from money. happiness comes from meaning. and purpose.

>> while they have never spent a dime on advertising, their brand has become a fan favorite on social media. that's helped sales of frozen entres rise by more than 70% in the past four years. with the appetite for organic growing, in 2015, they opened their first fast food vegetarian drive through. it stays busy even with several burger chains nearby. >> talk about a risk. that was a real risk. i had trouble visualizing people coming to an organic vegetarian drive through. and they just. >> i think many people. >> they were lined up around the block. >> in the right place, right time. >> we have stumbled well. >> amy's kitchen is now a frozen food empire. guided by rachel and andy simple recipe, just do what you love. john blackstone, petaluma, california. >> the cbs "overnight news" will be right back.

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