during the anthem. >> you're not going to disrespect our country, you're not going to disrespect our flag. >> at this restaurant owned by retired steeler half of all famer, jerome bettis, 40 year steeler fan, allen everheart is upset with his team for caving to political correctness. >> i don't think it is a racial issue what is going on with the flag. okay. and i think it, i understand it is retaliation for what trump said, okay. that's probably what they're doing. but, you know, if you're an american you stand for the flag. >> you have some professional athletes saying it's not about disrespecting the flag. it's about articulating our sense of injustice. >> i think it's blown out of proportion. >> although this bar tells you everything about the divisions in this country. the kuls merz scustomer at the former army reserve nurse. >> that is their ri

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>> announcer: this is the cbs "overnight news." the president no doubt watched the returns from the republican run-off in alabama for the senate seat once held by his attorney general jeff sessions. luther strange was appointed to fill the seat temporarily. but he came up short against a high-profile challenger. here is chip reid. >> reporter: republican senate candidate roy moore, a controversial former judge and far right christian conservative, arrived at the polls on horseback this morning. >> we're ready to get it over with. >> at

establishment in the race was hard to miss. president trump sweeted his support for strange today. >> i am thrilled to be here the friday he campaigned for him. but the president sur vised many of stranger's supporters suggesting he is already prepared to regret it. >> i will be honest, i might have made a mistake. >> that's because the president fears he will get the blame if strange loses. >> they're going to say, donald trump, the president of the united states, was unable to pull his candidate across the line. >> to make matters worse for the president. his former chief strategist, steve bannon is leading the charge for moore who has the strong support of a large percentage of the president's alabama republican base. strange today brushed off the president's comments. >> the president said he supports you but theen said he might have made a mistake by supporting you. help you or hurt you? >> well the president supports me 100%. he said thatwo

>> at 8:30 p.m., central time, roy moore was declared the winner of the primary. heave will face a democrat in the general election in december. president trump has the said, he will campaign with moore, but has the said, it's going to be a tough race. anthony. >> chip reid at the primary in alabama. members of the trump administration are under fire for taking costly flights at tax payer expence. julianna goldman has been looking into this. >> reporter: epa, june 7 was a busy day. trip to cincinnati with president trump. on to jfk airport on an air force jet like this. leaving behind $350 commercial flights and sticking taxpayers with a bill for $20,000. then, he flew to italy for an international summit that didn't start until three days later. and he left that meeting a day early. it is unclear why he was in a rush. >> good to be back in the united states.

1:00 from italy. separately pruitt's flights to oklahoma have attracted the attention of epa inspector general. it is not just pruitt, at treasury, ig looking at the secretary's air travel and health and human services ig is reviewing secretary tom price chartered flights that cost $400,000. >> they're conducting an internal and ig review and all travel on private charter has been suspended until that is completed. >> in addition to boarding the more expensive military air craft in june, cbs news learned pruitt took this private plane from denver to durango and back on august 4, for a meeting that included state officials. epa spokesperson told cbs that he chartered the plane after his flight was delayed to ensure he did not miss a critical meeting. ethics officials were consulted. the colorado governor's office offered pruitt a ride on his

declined. >> there need to be an explanation. of what that cost and why it was necessary. >> eric schaefer is former director of the office of civil enforcement and runs environmental integrity project. >> especially when, the budget is shrinking for your agency. the expectation is that you will travel asic nom like -- as economically as possible. generally does not include chartering private jets for your travel. >> we called and e mailed the epa a half dozen times wanted to know why it was necessary to use a military jet and also why they turned down the invitation to fly with colorado's governor. an epa spoke person declined to comment. anthony. >> julianna goldman, doing air traffic control for the administration. thanks. in a surprise today, saudi arabia's king ordered women there finally be allowed to do something they d

either country on earth. drive cars. holly williams is in istanbul tonight. holly. >> reporter: for over two decades a determined group of saudi arabian women have been protesting against the ban on them driving by illegally taking to the road. some of them posting videos of that online. i met with some of those women in saudi arabia in 2014, and they told me that the freedom to drive was symbolic in a country where they have very few rights. saudi arabia is of course an ultraconservative state, one muslim cleric claimed that driving would harm women's reproductive organs. things are gradually changing for saudi women. they're now permit to vote in local elections allowed to play sport at school, and more and more of them are going to university. anthony. >> holly williams in istanbul tonight. thank you, holly. coming up next, the bidding war for amazon.

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for a second north american headquarters. the offers are pouring in. here is dean reynolds. >> amazon's proposal to deliver 50,000 jobs and a $5 billion investment has cities salivating in a bidding war worthy of the olympics. philadelphia, atlanta, austin, chicago, phoenix, are just a few of the contenders, coaching to land the next amazon national headquarters. all offering come-ons from the practical to the unusual. for reasons not immediately clear, tucson sent a 21-foot cactus which amazon donated to a museum. philly enlisted wharton business school to burnish its pitch. chicago, dangling acres of unoccupied downtown land along its river. still others have recruited amazon's alexa for help. including danbury, connecticut may your. >> i'm a proud amazon skus h.

so alexa where is the best place for amazon to locate its second world headquarters. danbury connecticut. >> told you so. >> while hoping to replicate the success story in see yeahle where amazon has been headquartered for two decades. critics say buyer beware of side effects to that partnership. joseph parilla with the brookings institution. >> one concern with amazon inserting itself in a new city is that all of these kind of well-paid people would come in, bid up the price of housing and make the region for unaffordable. >> he says because the fevered courtship is expected to come with fat tax breaks and other incentives for amazon, some cities may be tempted to overpay. >> that money could be going to -- other public investments, schools, infrastructure, and aspects that make the, make the city a good place to live. >> and, amazon could always look north, where toronto is

beckoning, where canada approach to immigration and high tech talent may be more attractive to the company than what it has been hearing lately from washington. anthony. >> can't believe amazon didn't keep that cactus. dean reynolds, thanks. >> when we come back, bribery, fraud and corruption charges. hey new scandal for college basketball.

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1963. when more than 1,100 were killed. >> this next story sent shock waves through college basketball today. ten men have been charged with bribery, fraud, and corruption. they include, four assistant coaches, from arizona, oklahoma state, usc, and, auburn's chuck person, former nba star. they're accused of taking bribes to steer players to specific agents. federal prosecutors also accuse an executive of adidas of bribing high school athletes and their families, in exchange for a commitment to play at universities that adidas sponsors. twitter is super sizing its testing, a 280-character limit for tweets, double the current limit. twitter hopes longer tweets will attract more users which would mean more revenue. up next, philadelphia makes history.

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philadelphia is the statue capital of america. the statue unveiled there today was a first for the city. here is vladamir duthier. for nearly three years, sculptor, bradley cadet's task has been putting an unknown legacy back together. detail by intricate detail. >> just come out an inch or two. >> and casting it in bronze. >> part of my job as a sculptor is to help not only celebrate but also acknowledge narratives that may have been lost in the past. >> octavius' loss narrative began in philadelphia in the 1850s. a teacher turned activist, during the civil war,

fred ri frederick douglas helped recruit blacks to join the union army. >> did you got a since of his person ale? >> compelling, person. not every person that can recruit hundred of people to joan a war effort. >> reporter: after the war, he fought to desegregate philadelphia's horse drawn street cars and founded and served as captain of a negro league baseball team and worked to pass the 15th amendment, giving black men the right to voteable. he would not cast a ballot. an assassin gunned the 32-year-old down in october 171. his murder was reported in major newspapers, the new york harold called him a pure minded patriot. who died as he had lived without fear. but his life has been erased from history. >> he was the dr. king and jackie robinson of his day. and how in god's name did not know this man. >> this is the street, right? >> right. >> mayor jim kinny has spent 15

memorial. there are 1700 public space statues in philadelphia. the most of any u.s. city. today's unveiling makes octavius cato, the first of an african-american. >> a tough guy. do all he did in 32 years. gunned down in the street. pretty amazing story. surprised it is not a movie. >> when people observe this memorial, what do you hop they will take away. >> it really its a -- a testament to what one can do, even at a relatively young age, and the importance of engaging civically to try to make a difference. >> reporter: because history doesn't just remind us of our past, it helps shape our future. vladamir duthier, cbs news, philadelphia. >> and that's the "overnight news" for this wednesday. for some of you've the news continues. for others, check back a little later for the morning news and cbs "this morning." >> from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm anthony

thanks for watching. welcome to the "overnight news." i'm michelle miller. president trump says he will travel to puerto rico next week to get a first and hook at the devastation left behind by hurricane maria. food, water, fuel are in short supply. and most of the island has no power. the claims it has an army of relief worker delivering aid, but people in puerto rico including the mayor of san juan say they haven't seen it. david begnaud begins our coverage. six days after maria hit with a vengeance, the mayor is at wit's end trying to find help. >> i know leaders aren't

supposed to cry. and especially not on tv. we are having a humanitarian crisis. some survivors she says are facing second brush with death. like other hospitals on the island, the maestro has no power. a generator powers lights on two floors. there is no air conditioning. jesus' cancer took a turn for worse the same day maria hilt. his wife, lisette. >> i'm trying to help him. you know just in the night. trying to, open the doors, open the windows but it is not easy. >> roughly half of all the island has no water. and the wait for essentials is excruciating. fema says it ha supplies it with more arriving. there are huge challenges the director for the caribbean.

>> i'm out there saving lives. we need to get our [ bleep ] together here. and help me to get night people's hands. now. not tomorrow. not later. now. help is on the way, the u.s. navy is sending comfort, a military hospital. it may not be here until next week. puerto ricans flk to service centers like this one. the only place they can get a wi-fi signal. their only connection on an island without power. everybody has the said it is a mazing the job we have done in puerto rico. we are really proud of it. >> i think we are really getting good marks for

doing. >> president trump said puerto rico's governor personally thanked him today for the federal response. but the president had been noticeably silent about the worsening devastation. last night, mr. trump sent his first tweets on the crisis. pointing out that before the storms, puerto rico was already suffering from broken infrastructure and massive debt. >> mr. president, these are american citizens. they desperately need our help. >> democratic senator chuck schumer of new york. the state with the largest puerto rican politician, said mr. trump was not doing enough. >> he insists, relief and recovery efforts are doing well or doing great. sometimes it has the no relationship to the facts on the ground as if this is a public relations campaign. >> florida republican senator marco rubio visited puerto rico yesterday. >> every day that goes by, it is going to get worse not better. >> this is an island sitting in the middle of an ocean. a big ocean. a very big ocean. we're doing a really good job. >> fema administrator, brock long said local authorities must

disasters. >> we do not have a true culture of preparedness in this country. a lot of work to do. >> fema said it had ten ships and barges en route to the region over 48 hours to bring generators, emergency power, food and water. and the uss comfort, a hospital ship is expected to arrive by the middle of next week. margaret brennan, cbs news, new york. heads continue to roll at equifax over the massive data breach. ceo richard smith stepped down. just three weeks after hackers stole the personal information of nearly 150 million americans. president trump assailed hillary clinton over the use of her accounts to conduct business. sex of mr. trump's top aide are guilty of the same thing. major garrett reports. >> reporter: government related business conducted on

e-mail accounts that much is established. the white house insists no classified information was involved. it also says it aware, and the campaign was a pretty big reminder of the political and legal imperative of keeping private and government communications separate. president trump's most trusted advisers used private e-mail accounts to conduct official white house business. senior advisers jared kushner, steven miller, former chief of staff, priebus and steve bannon all sent and received e-mails using nongovernment accounts. the president's daughter ivanka trump ohm used outside e-mail transitioning into her role as senior adviser. white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders was asked monday how widespread the practice was. >> to nigh knowledge very limited. white house counsel instructed all white house staff to use their government e-mail for official bitzness only use that e-mail. >> topl

presidential and federal records act, staffers are instructed to forward personal e-mails over to their government account, within 20 days. kushner whose attorney this week admitted his client sent and received official e-mails on his personal account from january through august, was asked by the house oversight committee monday to preserve documents and disclose private accounts that sent or received official correspondence. >> she bleached her e-mails. >> reporter: though a popular line of attack for candidate trump. ♪ i'm proud to be an american >> reporter: the white house resisted comparison between this practice and hillary clinton's use of personal e-mail and a private server while secretary of state. >> to hide her corruption, hillary clinton put her e-mails on an illegal server. >> the use of private e-mail accounts by senior white house officials is not new. during george w. bush's presidency, senior members of that staff admit they'd lost some 22 million e-mails. that congressionalnv

those e-mails were recovered years later and had been stored on a private server owned and operated by the republican national committee. >> the cbs "overnight news" will be right back.

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this is the krks "overnight news." this hurricane season is unlook any we have seen in recent history. harvey, irma, jose, maria, thousand of homes and businesses destroyed. tens of thousand of lives changed forever. maria was the first category 4 hurricane to make a direct hit on puerto rico in 85 years. and last month hurricane harvey was the most ferocious rain storm ever recorded in the continental u.s. is this the new normal? scott pelley has a look for 60 minutes. >> no one died on bramblewood drive, but lives were lost. the lives we measure in memories. the bike that taught the k

room chairs, the letter jacket they can't believe they saved all these years. 14831 bramblewood in west houston is the shields' place. vince shields rolled his family history to the curb. and dumped decade after decade. >> my wife is a seamstress. these are probably her patterns that she had through high school and on up. we lost a lot of personal pictures. but, most of, most of this, you know, i won't have to have a garage sale. you know. >> shields who retired from shell has lived on bramblewood 16 years. here is a water line. so i am 6'2. >> the water line is -- is tall as you are. >> it is. >> 6'2." >> he had never seen water in the house. the flood start to drop after two feet. bu

after engineers opened the gates on two antiquated flood control reservoirs to stop the dams from failing. >> we have had church crews in here. second baptist. go to second baptist. crew out here. had a couple christian crews from lafayette. >> how you got all this done? >> yeah, yeah, yeah. >> all volunteers. >> people walked up knocked on the door. >> yeah, you sign up on the list. people show up. it is amazing. god works. >> more than 80 people were killed. and around houston it is estimated that 27,000 homes were destroyed. almost 25% of houstonans live below the poverty levels. many of their homes were in the flood plain. >> this is joe's house. you will see him in the black shirt. >> all right. >> if you have any questions ask me, ask joe what he wants us

do. >> next door to vince shields, joe kilchrist's place was gutted by military vets. he kept the plywood. vets call themselves team rubicon. your masks have to stay on. you do not want to breathe in fiberglass. walk in i've will show you. >> reporter: michelle seed says they will have 2,000 volunteer from all over the nation for two months. >> so yesterday i was like i had a whole street. all debris piles were beautiful, neat, ready for the city. and then, i get assigned here this week. you turn a corner. you just see -- it is a whole new street full of people that need our help. >> was the world capital of fossil fuels brought low by climate change? we asked katherine heho, leading atmospheric scientist at texas tech university. >> too early to tell. the post-mortem will take years

climate science is about long term statistics. we can say absolutely without a doubt that this hurricane took place over altered background conditions. our planet is very different today than it would have been 50, 100 years ago. >> reporter: by altered back ground she means that the oceans of 2017 are on track to be the third warmest on record. warmer walter in fentensifies hurricanes. >> in a warmer world, more water evaporates into the atmosphere. when a storm like a hurricane comes along there is so much more watt r vapor sitting up there for the hurricane to sweep up dump on us. second reason is sea level rise. >> water expands when heighted. >> when a hurricane comes along the storm surges on average will be stronger because there is more water behind them. the third way we expect climate change to affect hurricanes is through warmer ocean waters. more energy, more power, will be available to hurricanes

future. enabing them to intensify faster if conditions are right. as well as become more intense. >> that's apparently what we had with harvey. >> we are starting to see it. >> what have you lost? >> three cars. most of our home. and our rental property. and half of our sanity. >> reporter: you have been here 20 years. ever flood before? >> never. >> reporter: is this house in a flood plain? >> no! no. >> reporter: hell hath no fury like a woman submerged. the crack of every ruined memory exposed cynthia neely's rage not at harvey but at houston. she is with residents against flooding, a 9-year-old group suing the city. they want to toughen the law that requires developers to dig detention basins to catch run-off from buildings. houston has grown about 25% in 20 years. >> we hired t

to look at a problem, say hey, something is wrong. city, county need to do something. so for all these nine years we have been going to mayor after mayor, year after year, begging, pleading, asking for detention basins, drainage infrastructure improvements. and they just look at us like, thank you for coming. have a nice day. >> reporter: why? >> it costs money. and because the city its bought and paid for by developers. >> reporter: when you hear some one say, the storms storms come along every five years. what do you say? >> [ bleep ], okay. seriously we had four, three 500-year flood in the last 27 months. now we have harvey. mother nature is going to do what mother nature is going to do. that means it is going to rain. we are going how to have hurricanes, tropical storms. protect your people from it. - >> mr. mayor, i tacked to one of yoon

that i can't use on tv. >> okay. >> sylvester turner has been mayor of houston nearly two years. >> i understand why people are mad right now. because of their projects on the books, and the only thing that stopped those projects from being built was funding. >> there is a sense among citizens who have flooded homes that there has been a lack of urgency about starting these major mitigation projects. >> i agree. i agree with them. because, you know all of these things are foreseeable. >> why haven't these things been done, mr. mayor? >> because there hasn't been the urgency on all levels to get them done. and that's the sad part. >> reporter: the threat hasn't been ignored entirely. the federal government has spent more than $100 million in the county over the years. buying up homes in the flood plain. but reams of flood control proposals, fill the filing cabinets at city hall.

>> sometimes it takes an event to occur that shake people to their core. this storm has shaken people to their core. people don't want to hear the rhetoric. and i understand that. the question then becomes -- are you as elected officials and others, operating with the, with the greatest degree of urgency. >> this is heartbreaking, guys. all awe yes, it is. >> these are those two flood control reservoirs that were built in the 1940s. they are usually dry which is why you see trees. a 1996 study by the county flood control district, called them, severely outdated. it is not hard to imagine, the study says, that a single storm event could have a catastrophic impact. a proposed fix was stopped by the cause. $600 million in today's dollars. but last month's catastrophic impact, will be tens of

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bunyon, the babe the big blue ox is king. but step aside, babe. ♪ in minneapolis, this giant sculpture now command all of the attention. >> it is like a john ral on horseback. instead of john ral on horseback you have this. >> chicken. >> rooster. >> rooster. >> this big bird anchors the renovated sculpture garden at the walker art center. where museum director, olga visso led the year long, $10 million project that features 49 sculptures in provocative shapes and sizes. >> do you find that having the sculpture garden pulls visitors into the museum, a museum they might not have otherwise visited? >> yeah, exactly. it makes the museum more accessible. more human. more approachable. >> works by some recognizable names, fill the 19-acre space. roy

robert indiana. alexander caulder, and the museum with new works on the ground here as well. commissioning installations by artists including, mary begramian, mark manders and thester gates, welcoming visitors in for a stroll. work work visitors went see here, the sculpture scaffold. a piece, executions by the u.s. government including hangings in minneapolis at 38 dakotas at the end of the tribe's war with the united states in 1862. native american leaders protested the sculpture's inclusion leading to the museum's decision to remove it. >> is that caving to public pressure because you are worried about bad publicity? >> no i think being responsive to the dakota community here and what it represented. >> reporter: that hasn't stopped visitors from streaming in by

and, this isn't the only museum, sure to attract crowd this fall. ♪ for example, take ohio. where the cleveland museum of art is one of several around the country, marking the centennial of august rodin's death with showcases of the master sculptor's work. on the east coast, michaelangelo stars in an exhibit at metropolitan museum of art in new york. and vermeer comes to the national gallery in washington, d.c. perhaps the most anticipated show this fall is yoiyoi's infinity mirrors travels to los angeles after record breaking shows in d.c. and seattle. but back in minneapolis. the piece

>> yeah. >> reporter: art is big. and sometimes, blue.

sanitation teams in houston are still hauling away the mountains of household debris left by hurricane harvey. a lot of homeowners in houston don't have flood insurance and, for some who do not the first flood they have had to live through. during hurricane harvey, 27 inches of water, flooded the bergen's home, the trash pile is all that's left of their belongings. this isn't the first time their home flooded. but it may be the last time that they rebuild. >> it's not just bricks and wood it is our home. >> reporter: rachel and husband david and two teenagers live in a house in bergen's family for 52 years. >> just looks like an ocean out there. >> reporter: six inches of floodwater from tropical storm allison crept into

2001. but last month, during hurricane harvey, more than two feet of walter inundated the home. the bergens like the overwhelming majority of household in the area, didn't have flood insurance. this is devastating. walls, furniture. thank goodness stuff can be replaced. >> reporter: fema its assessing flood damage from irma and harvey. as of saturday. more than 100,000 claims have been submitted under fema's national flood insurance program which its nearly $25 billion in debt. they estimate the cost of harvey alone will reach $11 billion. fema paid $8.6 billion in flood insurance claims. according to a recent report, the national flood insuran

program spent $5.5 billion between 1978 and 2015. and repaired more than 30,000 properties that repeatedly flooded. take a hard look at the toll on your family and finances. former fema administrator, craig fugat techlt. >> there is a point at which we deal with repetitive loss it doesn't make sense to keep paying for properties over and over unless we are changing something. either mitigating or elevating that home. or offering buyouts. >> what do you do if it flood again? my husband said third strike and we are out. >> as much as we love it. need to rebuild it. we are beth public school teachers. the cost comes in. houston officials are hoping federal government will buy back homes in the flood prone area. according to the "houston chronicle" they received requests from1,

looking to sell. from the cbs broadcast center in new york city, i'm michelle miller. i know that leaders aren't supposed to cry. >> a cry for help from puerto rico. >> help me to get into people's homes now, now. not tomorrow, not later, now. >> the president says, he is on it. >> we have done a really good job. we are doing a great job. it is amazing the job we have done in puerto rico. >> also tonight -- the backlash against national anthem protests. >> for reasons not immediately clear, tucson sent a 21 foot cactus. >> honors for a forgotten philadelphia. ♪ ♪ he was the

robinson of his day. ♪ ♪ >> announcer: this the cbs "overnight news." >> puerto rico is pleading for help. food and water, gasoline, and electricity. they're all needed desperately by the island's nearly 3.5 million residents devastated by hurricane maria. president trump defended the federal response and he'll see it soon for himself. he will visit it puerto rico and the u.s. virgin island next tuesday. we begin with david begnaud in san juan. >> reporter: six days after maria hit with a vengeance, mayor cruz is at her wit's end trying to find help. >> i know that leaders aren't supposed to cry. and especially not on tv. but we are having a humanitarian crisis. >> some survivors she says are facing a second brush with

like other hospitals on the island, it has no power, a generator powers lights on just two floors. there is no air conditioning. his cancer took a turn for the worse the same day maria hit. his wife lisette. >> i am trying to help him, you know just in the night. trying to, open the doors, open the, the windows. but, it's not easy. >> reporter: roughly half of the island has no water. and the wait for essentials is excruciating. fema says it has supplies it need with more aid arriving. but there are huge challenges to delivering it. alex de la campa is fema's director for the caribbean. >> because there is abisland, there are no trucks or roads.

airplane or via barge. >> reporter: but the mayor says it is coming in too slowly. only yesterday she told us fema asked her to write a memo requesting what she needed. >> i don't have freaking energy to write a memo. >> or the time? >> i'm out there, saving lives. so, we ned to our [ bleep ] together here. and help me to get it into people's hand. now, not tomorrow. not later. now. >> reporter: help is on the way. the u.s. military is sending the naval ship comfort, a military hospital. but it might not be here until next week. tonight puerto ricans continue to flock to service centers like this one. the only place they can get a wifi signal. their only connection on an island without power. anthony. >> david begnaud. thanks. the president said today next tuesday is the earliest he can visit puerto rico without disrupting relief operations there. more now from white house correspondent margaret brennan. >> everybody said it is amazing the job we have done in puerto rico. we are very proud of it. >> i think we are really getting good marks for the work we are doing. i think we have done a really good job. >> reporter: president trump said, puerto rico's governor than ticked him today for e

but the president had been noticeably silent abut the worsening devastation. last night, mr. trump sent his first tweets on the crisis pointing out that before the storms, puerto rico was already suffering from broken infrastructure and massive debt. >> mr. president, these are american citizens. they desperately need our help. >> democratic senator chuck schumer of new york. the state with the largest puerto rican politician, said mr. trump was not doing enough. >> he insists, relief and recovery efforts are doing well or doing great. sometimes it has the no relationship to the facts on the ground as if this is a public relations campaign. >> florida republican senator marco rubio visited puerto rico yesterday. >> every day that goes by, it is going to get worse not better. >> this is an island sitting in the middle of an ocean. a big ocean. a very big ocean. we're doing a really good job. >> fema administrator, brock long said local authoritiest

do more to prepare for natural disasters. >> we do not have a true culture of preparedness in this country. a lot of work to do. >> fema said it had ten ships and barges en route to the region over 48 hours to bring generators, emergency power, food and water. anthony. >> can't get there soon enough, margaret brennan. thanks. >> north carolina about to got a glancing blow from maria now a tropical storm. the surf is kicking up in kill devil hills. 10,000 visitors have been told to leave the outer banks. storm surge and tropical storm watches and warnings extend to the virginia coast. maria should make a turn to the east and head out to sea tomorrow. lateest atempt by senate republicans to repeal obamacare is dead. the gop leadership pulled the plug today, when it became clear they didn't hatch the vets to t

sponsored by lindsay graham and bill cassidy. at the was news conference, the president again blasted nfl players who don't stand for the national anthem. saying they, disrespect our country. a lot of people agree. in a reuters poll today, 58% said, pro athletes should be required to stand for the national anthem. 37% said, their view of the nfl has become less favorable. jim axelrod got an earful in pittsburgh. >> reporter: when the steelers lineman, an army velt, stood at the edge of the field during the national anthem sunday, he was alone. the rest of his team stayed off the field and out of sight. to avoid controversy. the team owner says. >> i will no longer support this tee or any body else, that does this kind of crap. >> irate fans let the stooelzer have it. lighting their jerseys on fire to protest the team not standing

during the anthem. >> you're not going to disrespect our country, you're not going to disrespect our flag. >> at this restaurant owned by retired steeler half of all famer, jerome bettis, 40 year steeler fan, allen everheart is upset with his team for caving to political correctness. >> i don't think it is a racial issue what is going on with the flag. okay. and i think it, i understand it is retaliation for what trump said, okay. that's probably what they're doing. but, you know, if you're an american you stand for the flag. >> you have some professional athletes saying it's not about disrespecting the flag. it's about articulating our sense of injustice. >> i think it's blown out of proportion. >> although this bar tells you everything about the divisions in this country. the customer at the next table, former army reserve nurse. >> that is their rig

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>> announcer: this is the cbs "overnight news." the president no doubt watched the returns from the republican run-off in alabama for the senate seat once held by his attorney general jeff sessions. luther strange was appointed to fill the seat temporarily. but he came up short against a high-profile challenger. here is chip reid. >> reporter: republican senate candidate roy moore, a controversial former judge and far right christian conservative, arrived at the polls on horseback this morning. >> we're ready to get it over with. >> at 6'9", luther strange, establishment in the race was

president trump weeted his tsupport for strange today. >> i am thrilled to be here the friday he campaigned for him. but the president sur vised many of stranger's supporters suggesting he is already prepared to regret it. >> i will be honest, i might have made a mistake. >> that's because the president fears he will get the blame if strange loses. >> they're going to say, donald trump, the president of the united states, was unable to pull his candidate across the line. >> to make matters worse for the president. his former chief strategist, steve bannon is leading the charge for moore who has the strong support of a large percentage of the president's alabama republican base. strange today brushed off the president's comments. >> the president said he supports you but theen said he might have made a mistake by supporting you. help you or hurt you? >> well the president supports me 100%.

>> at 8:30 p.m., central time, roy moore was declared the winner of the primary. heave will face a democrat in the general election in december. president trump has the said, he will campaign with moore, but has the said, it's going to be a tough race. anthony. >> chip reid at the primary in alabama. members of the trump administration are under fire for taking costly flights at tax payer expence. julianna goldman has been looking into this. >> reporter: epa, june 7 was a busy day. trip to cincinnati with president trump. on to jfk airport on an air force jet like this. leaving behind $350 commercial flights and sticking taxpayers with a bill for $20,000. then, he flew to italy for an international summit that didn't start until three days later. and he left that meeting a day itrly.

rush. >> good to be back in the united states. arrived back this morning at 1:00 from italy. separately pruitt's flights to oklahoma have attracted the attention of epa inspector general. it is not just pruitt, at treasury, ig looking at the secretary's air travel and health and human services ig is reviewing secretary tom price chartered flights that cost $400,000. >> they're conducting an internal and ig review and all travel on private charter has been suspended until that is completed. >> in addition to boarding the more expensive military air craft in june, cbs news learned pruitt took this private plane from denver to durango and back on august 4, for a meeting that included state officials. epa spokesperson told cbs that he chartered the plane after his flight was delayed to ensure he did not miss a critical meeting. ethics officials were consulted.

offered pruitt a ride on his government aircraft, but the epa declined. >> there need to be an explanation. of what that cost and why it was necessary. >> eric schaefer is former director of the office of civil enforcement and runs environmental integrity project. >> especially when, the budget is shrinking for your agency. the expectation is that you will travel asic nom -- as economically as possible. generally does not include chartering private jets for your travel. >> we called and e mailed the epa a half dozen times wanted to know why it was necessary to use a military jet and also why they turned down the invitation to fly with colorado's governor. an epa spoke person declined to comment. anthony. >> julianna goldman, doing air traffic control for the administration. thanks. in a surprise today, saudi arabia's king ordered women there finabe

something they do in every either country on earth. drive cars. holly williams is in istanbul tonight. holly. >> reporter: for over two decades a determined group of saudi arabian women have been protesting against the ban on them driving by illegally taking to the road. some of them posting videos of that online. i met with some of those women in saudi arabia in 2014, and they told me that the freedom to drive was symbolic in a country where they have very few rights. saudi arabia is of course an ultraconservative state, one muslim cleric claimed that driving would harm women's reproductive organs. things are gradually changing for saudi women. they're now permit to vote in local elections allowed to play sport at school, and more and more of them are going to university. anthony. >> holly williams in istanbul tonight. thank you, holly. coming up next, the bidding war for amazon.

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headquarters. the offers are pouring in. here is dean reynolds. >> amazon's proposal to deliver 50,000 jobs and a $5 billion investment has cities salivating in a bidding war worthy of the olympics. philadelphia, atlanta, austin, chicago, phoenix, are just a few of the contenders, coaching to land the next amazon national headquarters. all offering come-ons from the practical to the unusual. for reasons not immediately clear, tucson sent a 21-foot cactus which amazon donated to a museum. philly enlisted wharton business school to burnish its pitch. chicago, dangling acres of unoccupied downtown land along its river. still others have recruited amazon's alexa for help. including danbury, connecticut may your. >>

so alexa where is the best place for amazon to locate its second world headquarters. danbury connecticut. >> told you so. >> while hoping to replicate the success story in see yeahle where amazon has been headquartered for two decades. critics say buyer beware of side effects to that partnership. joseph parilla with the brookings institution. >> one concern with amazon inserting itself in a new city is that all of these kind of well-paid people would come in, bid up the price of ho incentives for amazon, some cities may be tempted to overpay. >> that money could be going to -- other public investments,

aspects that make the, make the city a good place to live. >> and, amazon could always look north, where toronto is beckoning, where canada approach to immigration and high tech talent may be more attractive to the company than what it has been hearing lately from washington. anthony. >> can't believe amazon didn't keep that cactus. dean reynolds, thanks. >> when we come back, bribery, fraud and corruption charges. hey new scandal for college basketball.

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killed. >> this next story sent shock waves through college basketball today. ten men have been charged with bribery, fraud, and corruption. they include, four assistant coaches, from arizona, oklahoma state, usc, and, auburn's chuck person, former nba star. they're accused of taking bribes to steer players to specific agents. federal prosecutors also accuse an executive of adidas of bribing high school athletes and their families, in exchange for a commitment to play at universities that adidas sponsors. twitter is super sizing its testing, a 280-character limit for tweets, double the current limit. twitter hopes longer tweets will attract more users which would mean more revenue. up next, philadelphia makes history.

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philadelphia is the statue capital of america. the statue unveiled there today was a first for the city. here is vladamir duthier. for nearly three years, sculptor, bradley cadet's task has been putting an unknown legacy back together. detail by intricate detail. >> just come out an inch or two. >> and casting it in bronze. >> part of my job as a sculptor is to help not only celebrate but also acknowledge narratives that may have been lost in the past. >> octavius' loss narrative began in philadelphia in the 1850s. a teacher turned activist, during the civil war, along wit frederick douglas helped recruit

>> did you got a since of his person ale? >> compelling, person. not every person that can recruit hundred of people to joan a war effort. >> reporter: after the war, he fought to desegregate philadelphia's horse drawn street cars and founded and served as captain of a negro league baseball team and worked to pass the 15th amendment, giving black men the right to he would not cast a ballot. an assassin gunned the 32-year-old down in october 171. his murder was reported in major newspapers, the new york harold called him a pure minded patriot. who died as he had lived without fear. but his life has been erased from history. >> he was the dr. king and jackie robinson of his day. and how in god's name did not know this man. >> this is the street, right? >> right. >> mayor jim kinny has spent 15 years trying to build a memorial.

there are 1700 public space statues in philadelphia. the most of any u.s. city. today's unveiling makes octavius cato, the first of an african-american. >> a tough guy. do all he did in 32 years. gunned down in the street. pretty amazing story. surprised it is not a movie. >> when people observe this memorial, what do you hop they will take away. >> it really its a -- a testament to what one can do, even at a relatively young age, and the importance of engaging civically to try to make a difference. >> reporter: because history doesn't just remind us of our past, it helps shape our future. vladamir duthier, cbs news, philadelphia. >> and that's the "overnight news" for this wednesday. for some of you've the news continues. for others, check back a little later for the morning news and cbs "this morning." >> from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm anthony mason. thanks for watching.

welcome to the "overnight news." i'm michelle miller. president trump says he will travel to puerto rico next week to get a first and hook at the devastation left behind by hurricane maria. food, water, fuel are in short supply. and most of the island has no power. the claims it has an army of relief worker delivering aid, but people in puerto rico including the mayor of san juan say they haven't seen it. david begnaud begins our coverage.

six days after maria hit with a vengeance, the mayor is at wit's end trying to find help. >> i know leaders aren't supposed to cry. and especially not on tv. we are having a humanitarian crisis. some survivors she says are facing second brush with death. like other hospitals on the island, the maestro has no power. a generator powers lights on two floors. there is no air conditioning. jesus' cancer took a turn for worse the same day maria hilt. his wife, lisette. >> i'm trying to help him. you know just in the night. trying to, open the doors, open the wis

island has no water. and the wait for essentials is excruciating. fema says it ha supplies it with more arriving. there are huge challenges the director for the caribbean. >> i'm out there saving lives. we need to get our [ bleep ] together here. and help me to get night people's hands. now. not tomorrow. not later. now. help is on the way, the u.s. navy is sending comfort, a military hospital. it may not be here until next week. puerto ricans flk to service centers like this one. the only place they can get a wi-fi signal. their only connection on an island without power. everybody has the said it is a mazing the job we have done in puerto rico. we are really

>> i think we are really getting good marks for the work we are doing. >> president trump said puerto rico's governor personally thanked him today for the federal response. but the president had been noticeably silent about the worsening devastation. last night, mr. trump sent his first tweets on the crisis. pointing out that before the storms, puerto rico was already suffering from broken infrastructure and massive debt. >> mr. president, these are american citizens. they desperately need our help. >> democratic senator chuck schumer of new york. the state with the largest puerto rican politician, said mr. trump was not doing enough.

>> he insists, relief and recovery efforts are doing well or doing great. sometimes it has the no relationship to the facts on the ground as if this is a public relations campaign. >> florida republican senator marco rubio visited puerto rico yesterday. >> every day that goes by, it is going to get worse not better. >> this is an island sitting in the middle of an ocean. a big ocean. a very big ocean. we're doing a really good job. >> fema administrator, brock long said local authorities must do more to prepare for natural disasters. >> we do not have a true culture of preparedness in this country. a lot of work to do. >> fema said it had ten ships and barges en route to the region over 48 hours to bring generators, emergency power, food and water. and the uss comfort, a hospital ship is expected to arrive by the middle of next week. margaret brennan, cbs news, new york. heads continue to roll at equifax over the massive data breach. ceo richard smith stepped down. just three weeks after hackers stole the personal information of nearly 150 million americans. president trump assailed hillary clinton over the use of her accounts to conduct business. now it turns out six of mr. trump's top aides are guilty of the same thing. major garrett reports. >> reporter: government related business conducted on outside

e-mail accounts that much is established. the white house insists no classified information was involved. it also says it aware, and the campaign was a pretty big reminder of the political and legal imperative of keeping private and government communications separate. president trump's most trusted advisers used private e-mail accounts to conduct official white house business. senior advisers jared kushner, steven miller, former chief of staff, priebus and steve bannon all sent and received e-mails using nongovernment accounts. the president's daughter ivanka trump ohm used outside e-mail transitioning into her role as senior adviser. white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders was asked monday how widespread the practice was.

limited. white house counsel instructed all white house staff to use their government e-mail for official bitzness only use that e-mail. >> to comply with the presidential and federal records act, staffers are instructed to forward personal e-mails over to their government account, within 20 days. kushner whose attorney this week admitted his client sent and received official e-mails on his personal account from january through august, was asked by the house oversight committee monday to preserve documents and disclose private accounts that sent or received official correspondence. >> she bleached her e-mails. >> reporter: though a popular line of attack for candidate trump. ♪ i'm proud to be an american >> reporter: the white house resisted comparison between this practice and hillary clinton's use of personal e-mail and a private server while secretary of state. >> to hide her corruption, hillary clinton put her e-mails on an illegal server. >> the use of private e-mail

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this hurricane season is unlike any we have seen in recent history. harvey, irma, jose, maria, thousand of homes and businesses destroyed. tens of thousand of lives changed forever. maria was the first category 4 hurricane to make a direct hit on puerto rico in 85 years. and last month hurricane harvey was the most ferocious rain storm ever recorded in the continental u.s. is this the new normal? scott pelley has a look for 60 minutes. >> no one died on bramblewood drive, but lives were lost. the lives we measure in memories. the bike that taught the kids how to flight the pet

room chairs, the letter jacket they can't believe they saved all these years. 14831 bramblewood in west houston is the shields' place. vince shields rolled his family history to the curb. and dumped decade after decade. >> my wife is a seamstress. these are probably her patterns that she had through high school and on up. we lost a lot of personal pictures. but, most of, most of this, you know, i won't have to have a garage sale. you know. >> shields who retired from shell has lived on bramblewood 16 years. here is a water line. so i am 6'2. >> the water line is -- is tall

>> it is. >> 6'2." >> he had never seen water in the house. the flood start to drop after two feet. but it surged to six. after engineers opened the gates on two antiquated flood control reservoirs to stop the dams from failing. >> we have had church crews in here. second baptist. go to second baptist. crew out here. had a couple christian crews from lafayette. >> how you got all this done? >> yeah, yeah, yeah. >> all volunteers. >> people walked up knocked on the door. >> yeah, you sign up on the list. people show up. it is amazing. god works. >> more than 80 people were killed. and around houston it is estimated that 27,000 homes were destroyed. almost 25% of houstonans live below the poverty levels. many of their homes were in the flood plain. >> this is joe's house. you will see him in the black shirt. >> all right. >> if you have any questions ask

do. >> next door to vince shields, joe kilchrist's place was gutted by military vets. he kept the plywood. vets call themselves team rubicon. your masks have to stay on. you do not want to breathe in fiberglass. walk in i've will show you. >> reporter: michelle seed says they will have 2,000 volunteer from all over the nation for two months. >> so yesterday i was like i had a whole street. all debris piles were beautiful, neat, ready for the city. and then, i get assigned here this week. you turn a corner. you just see -- it is a whole new street full of people that need our help. >> was the world capital of fossil fuels brought low by climate change? we asked katherine heho, leading atmospheric scientist at texas tech university. >> too early to tell. the post-mortem will take years so to speak. climate science is about lon

term statistics. we can say absolutely without a doubt that this hurricane took place over altered background conditions. our planet is very different today than it would have been 50, 100 years ago. >> reporter: by altered back ground she means that the oceans of 2017 are on track to be the third warmest on record. warmer walter intensifies hurricanes. >> in a warmer world, more water evaporates into the atmosphere. when a storm like a hurricane comes along there is so much more water vapor sitting up there for the hurricane to sweep up dump on us. second reason is sea level rise. >> water expands when it is heated. >> when a hurricane comes along the storm surges on average will be stronger because there is more water behind them. the third way we expect climate change to affect hurricanes is through warmer ocean waters. more energy, more power, will be avaie

enabing them to intensify faster if conditions are right. as well as become more intense. >> that's apparently what we had with harvey. >> we are starting to see it. >> what have you lost? >> three cars. most of our home. and our rental property. and half of our sanity. >> reporter: you have been here 20 years. ever flood before? >> never. >> reporter: is this house in a flood plain? >> no! no. >> reporter: hell hath no fury like a woman submerged. the crack of every ruined memory exposed cynthia neely's rage not at harvey but at houston. she is with residents against flooding, a 9-year-old group suing the city. they want to toughen the law that requires developers to dig detention basins to catch run-off from buildings. houston has grown about 25% in 20 years. >> we hired topnotch engineers to look at a problem, say hey, something is wrong.

city, county need to do something. so for all thee nine years we have been going to mayor after mayor, year after year, begging, pleading, asking for detention basins, drainage infrastructure improvements. and they just look at us like, thank you for coming. have a nice day. >> reporter: why? >> it costs money. and because the city its bought and paid for by developers. >> reporter: when you hear some one say, the storms storms come along every five years. what do you say? >> [ bleep ], okay. seriously we had four, three 500-year flood in the last 27 months. now we have harvey. mother nature is going to do what mother nature is going to do. that means it is going to rain. we are going how to have hurricanes, tropical storms. so, by golly do something to protect your people from it. mr. mayor, i talked to one of

>> okay. >> sylvester turner has been mayor of houston nearly two years. >> i understand why people are mad right now. because of their projects on the books, and the only thing that stopped those projects from being built was funding. >> there is a sense among citizens who have flooded homes that there has been a lack of urgency about starting these major mitigation projects. >> i agree. i agree with them. because, you know all of these things are foreseeable. >> why haven't these things been done, mr. mayor? >> because there hasn't been the urgency on all levels to get them done. and that's the sad part. >> reporter: the threat hasn't been ignored entirely. the federal government has spent more than $100 million in the county over the years. buying up homes in the flood plain. but reams of flood control proposals, fth

>> sometimes it takes an event to occur that shake people to their core. this storm has shaken people to their core. people don't want to hear the rhetoric. and i understand that. the question then becomes -- are you as elected officials and others, operating with the, with the greatest degree of urgency. >> this is heartbreaking, guys. all awe yes, it is. >> these are those two flood control reservoirs that were built in the 1940s. they are usually dry which is why you see trees. a 1996 study by the county flood control district, called them, severely outdated. it is not hard to imagine, the study says, that a single storm event could have a catastrophic impact. a proposed fix was stopped by the cause. $600 million in today's dollars. but last month's catastrophic impact, will be tens of billions. >> you can see scott's full report on our website, cbsnews.com.

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bunyon, the babe the big blue ox is king. but step aside, babe. ♪ in minneapolis, this giant sculpture now command all of the attention. you have this. >> chicken. >> rooster. >> rooster. >> this big bird anchors the renovated sculpture garden at the walker art center. where museum director, olga visso led the year long, $10 million project that features 49 sculptures in provocative shapes and sizes. >> do you find that having the sculpture garden pulls visitors into the museum, a museum they might not have otherwise visited? >> yeah, exactly. it makes the museum more accessible. more human. more approachable.

names, fill the 19-acre space. roy lichtenstein. robert indiana. alexander caulder, and the museum with new works on the ground here as well. commissioning installations by artists including, mary begramian, mark manders and thester gates, welcoming visitors in for a stroll. work work visitors went see here, the sculpture scaffold. a piece, executions by the u.s. government including hangings in minneapolis at 38 dakotas at the end of the tribe's war with the united states in 1862. native american leaders protested the sculpture's inclusion leading to the museum's decision to remove it. >> is that caving to public pressure because you are worried about bad publicity? >> no i think being responsive to the dakota community here and what it represented. >> reporter: that hasn't stopped visitors from streaming in by the thousand. and, this isn't the only meu

♪ for example, take ohio. where the cleveland museum of art is one of several around the country, marking the centennial of august rodin's death with showcases of the master sculptor's work. on the east coast, michaelangelo stars in an exhibit at metropolitan museum of art in yonew rk. and vermeer comes to the national gallery in washington, d.c. perhaps the most anticipated show this fall is yoiyoi's infinity mirrors travels to los angeles after record breaking shows in d.c. and seattle. but back in minneapolis. the piece really stand out. >> yeah. >> reporter: art is big. and sometimes, blue. and definitely, something to

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