>> nancy cordes. beau bergdahl pleaded guilty to desertion and the charge could put him behind bars for life. bergdahl walked off his post in afghanistan in 2009 held by the taliban for five years. he was freed in a prisoner swap approved by president obama. at least two american service while searching for him. >> the terror group, al-shabab is suspected in saturday's attack in somalia. more than 300 kerr willed. more than 400 hurt when a truck bomb went off in the heart of mogadishu. victims were thrown to turkey for treatment. the somali government backed by the u.s. has been fighting alshabab for a decade. >> coming up why a background ec

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>> announcer: this is the "overnight news." the president called reporters into the rose guard tine day, to watch him mend a fence. major garrett was there. >> probably now despite what we read we are probably now i think at least as far as i am concerned closer than ever before. >> after a white house lunch. president trump and senate majority leader, mitch mcconnell, strolled to the rose garden to bury the hatchet. >> we have the same agenda, friend and acquaintances for a long time. >> reporter: a change in tone from 90 minutes earlier when mr. trump told his cabinet do nothing republicans were to blame for his stalled legislative agenda. we are not getting the job done. and i'm not going to blame myself. thwill be honest.

>> mr. trump was in part echoing former chief strategist, steve bannon this weekend declared mcconnell an enemy of grassroots conservatives. >> right now, it is a season of war against a gop establishment. >> bannon vowed to back challengers to senate gop incumbents. the day of taking conservative votes and hiding is over. to date president sent mixed messages about that strategy. >> so i can understand how steve bannon feels. i will see if we talk him out of that. >> the president also looked ahead to his 2020 re-election campaign and said he was hoping for a sequel. >> i hope hillary runs. is she going to run. i hope. hillary, please run again. mr. trump was also asked why he had not yet commented on the four u.s. soldiers killed 12 days ago in niger. he said he had writ in to the families and would call them soon. >> if you look at president obama and other presidents, most

lot of them didn't make calls. >> officials with former presidents clinton, george w. bush, and obama said they all called families of the fallen. mr. obama's deputy chief of staff said more on twitter calling mr. trump's statement, an expletive lie. adding there that the current commander-in-chief is "a deranged animal. anthony. >> with the president's day in the rose garden, thank you, major. firefighters, battling the california wildfires are making progress. wind that fan the flames are dying down. but today a driver delivering walt water to the fire lines was killed when his truck flipped. now 41 deaths in the fires. 213,000 acres have burned. and 6,000 buildings were destroyed. some evacuees are heading home to see if they still have one. here is mireya villarreal. >> when the tubs fire came racing down into santa rosa, assistant fire marshal, paul

loenthal was called into service. >> wouldn't imagine we would have something that big right here. >> as the the fire continues to burn. officials are turning their attention to making these neighborhoods safer. the neighborhood has been designated by state as a high fire hazard zone. requiring homeowners to clear brush and use fire resistant materials on their roofs. in coffee park, dense neighborhood considered a safe area with limited requirements. it now looks like this. neither neighborhood could with stand a fire fueled by 80-mile-per-hour wind. >> there is a lot of system and code put into place. to make it a safer environment. but mother nature brought wind. >> this neighborhood is woven within california's wild land, a prime example of the state's suburban sprawl. in 1960, there were 766 homes within the perimeter of the tubs fire. compared to more than 6,000 in 2010. >> i don't

have guessed we would have a wildfire that would move through the volume of hotels, commercial buildings, restaurants, areas where there is, zero, to little to no landscaping. it burned through all that. >> reporter: thousand of evacuation orders have been lifted, but in wildland areas like this it could take days if not weeks before the rebuilding can start. there is rain expected later this week, which fire crews are hoping will help them reach their containment goals of 100% by this friday. anthony. >> time is just about up for isis in raqqa. the syrian city it conquered in 2014 and kidded its capital. the four month bat to retake raqqa has been fierce and holly williams one of the few western journalists to the report from inside the city wasn't expecting what she saw today. >> reporter: there has been no official declaration of victory, but these u.s.-backed fighters aren't waiting

isis is finished in raqqa they told us. after hundred of isis extremists surrendered over the weekend. they have had some help from u.s. air strikes. but these syrian militiamen did the fighting on the ground, the very definition of a rag tag army. shia kahauki showed us home made hand grenade held together by scotch-tape. as they cleared the city, gunmen lurked in tunnelles and buildings. you thought it was clear now. you think there is a sniper left there? >> yeah, yeah, we think. isis claims to be men of god when they seized raqqa over three years ago. in truth they were blood thirsty thugs, beheading their enemies and selling women as sex slaves. what's left is the carcass of a city. pulverized by artillery. flattened by air strikes. and deserted by its

like this one, during the battle for raqqa, that have been turned into fighting positions. and completely destroyed. >> the family finally escaped raqqa today. some of the last to get out. like other civilians they were used by the extremists as human shield. >> they tried to leave twice before. and were shot at by isis fighters, he said. but today, they didn't see any. clearing raqqa of explosives laid by isis could take months. but the city is no longer a stronghold for terrorists. those isis leaders that are still alive are thought to have fled south toward the border with iraq months ago. anthony. >> holly williams continuing her exceptional reporting from raqqa.

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loophole. >> won a narrow victory. nearly a year later the law its not being enforced. state and federal officials are in a standoff over who does the background checks on private gun transfers. so at a reno gun show days after the country's deadliest mass shooting in las vegas. >> you are a private seller? >> yeah. >> no background check. >> as long as you're a nevada resident. >> every town for gun safety. easily, bought four semiautomatic rifles and magazine without any background checks. nevada attorney general, adam laxalt who campaigned. >> a sloppy, legal disaster. >> reporter: initially argued it isn't enforcible because the the law explicitly says the fbi has to conduct the background checks not the state. he cited this letter from the fbi that says nevada law cannot dictate how federal resources are applied.

they voted on this measure. >> john feinblack, the president of every town says laxalt and nevada's governor, brian sandoval should negotiate a solution. >> if they need to get on the phone with the fbi and work it out. they should do that today. the governor and the attorney general, are turning this into a political football. >> after the las vegas massacre, governor sandoval asked the attorney general to reskpam min the question. the attorney general responded with an opinion last week saying the governor has the the authority to work it out with the fbi setting the stage for this to be fought out in the courts. anthony. >> julianna goldman. thanks. up next, panic at 34,000 feet. suppositories for relief in minutes. and dulcoease for comfortable relief of hard stools. dulcolax. designed for dependable relief.

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tighten your oxygen masks. >> the jet landed safely back in perth, the airline blamed a technical issue. >> remnants of hurricane ophelia sent huge waves crashing into the coast of ireland today. winds gusted to 80 miles an hour. at least three people were killed and dozens of buildings damaged. in london, the sky turned yellow. as the storm carried dust from the sahara and smoke from portuguese forest fires into the region. >> quarterback colin kaepernick has filed a grievance against the nfl, accusing team owners of colluding to keep him sidelined. last year he started a wave of protests against racial injustice by kneeling during the national anthem. kaepernick once led san francisco to the super bowl. he opted for free agency at the end of last season, but says, he has had no contract offers. >> up next, speaking out against sexual abuse.

finally tonight the accusations of sexual harassment or assault against hollywood producer harvey weinstein. the story has touched a

and they're speaking out, using the #metoo. >> i'm a survivor. not a victim. >> it happened to me too. >> me too. >> sexual assault happens to everyone. >> it happened to me too. >> i was told not to talk about it. i was told that it wasn't that bad. and i was told to get over it. >> the weinstein case has the brought to light something that we really should have been talking about for a long time. >> when we were in the elevator on the way back up to the rooms he asked if he could join me in room and then proceed to try to grope me. >> there were office parties, set up as one thing. but the clean-up is always after hours. you always hope there would be another woman there to clean up with you. so you wouldn't get stuck in the room with some guy. >> taken me 34 years to talk about it. >> no matter how small the act, catcalling a woman on the street

or you seek to physically assault them because you feel look you have the right to do that. you are damaging another human being. >> i just never felt a movement before that made it important enough to me to come out publicly. that's the first time i have ever posted or said it. >> i survived several very violent rapes. i was 4 and 5 years old. >> it breaks my heart noek that this will soon disappear from the news cycle. so many of us around the world, this is our breaking news stoesh every single day. >> there is power in sharing our stories. in that when we share what happened to us, we let others, survivors know that they're not alone. >> that's the "overnight news" for this tuesday. for some of you, the news continues. for others, check back a little later for the morning news, and cbs this morning. from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm anthony mason. thank you for watching.

welcome to the overnight news. i'm michelle miller. a 60 minutes report on the opioid epidemic has sent political shock waves through capitol hill. 33,000 americans died of opioid related overdoses in 2015. and that was before a new law that essentially ties the hand of the dea. one of the sponsors of that bill, pennsylvania congressman, tom marino has been nominated to head the office of national drug control policy. but president trump now says, he may withdraw that nomination. here is bill whitaker's report. thiss

control that allowed millions of drugs to go into bad pharmacies and doctors' offices that distributed them out to people who had no need for the drugs. >> one example, a pharmacy in kermit, west virginia, a town of 392 people. ordered 9 million hydrocodone pills. >> the companies are a big reason? >> absolutely they are. i can tell you with 100% accuracy we were in there on multiple occasions trying to get them to change their behavior. they flat out ignored. >> reporter: then there was congress, a bill introduced in the house by pennsylvania congressman, tom marino pro promoted as a way to ensure patients had access to the pain medication they needed. jonathan novak who worked in the dea legal office says what the bill really did was strip the agency of its ability to immediately freeze suspicious shipments of prescription narcotics to kth

u.s. streets. >> they're toothless. i don't know how they stop this now. it's, a very sad state of affairs. >> reporter: last year, the bill was presented to congress and passed both houses through unanimous consent. with no recorded votes. >> without objection the bill is read a third time and passed. >> i just don't understand why congress would pass a bill that strips us of our authority in the height of an opioid epidemic. in places like congressman marino's district. >> i was a prosecutor and united states attorney. >> congressman marino has been nominated to be the next drug czar. what was your reaction when you heard that? >> total disbelief. >> the bill was bad. him being the drug czar is a lot worse. >> today, president trump said he is going to "look into" marino's nomination.

if i think it is 1% negative to what we want to do, he said, i will make a change. the health care distribution alliance issued a statement saying it recognizes the opioid epidemic as national crisis. greater clarity, dialogue and collaboration with the dea will strengthen our ability to effectively combat prescription drug abuse. but tonight, this legislation stands and the dea says its hands are tied. anthony. >> bill, what are implications of this then? >> well, anthony, the implications are that millions of pills still are ending up in bad pharmacies, and distributors now have very little to worry that the dea will shut them down. senator claire makaskill wants to repeal the law that allows prescription opioids to flood the nation's pharmacies. nancy cordes has the the view from capitol hill. >> they made it. camouflage it so well that, that all of us, all of us were

nobody knew. >> west virginia democrat joe manchion says he is horrified that a bill everyone approved made the epidemic worse. >> there is no oversight now the way, that bill has to be retracted. repealed. >> reporter: the law sailed through the senate last spring. >> those in favor say aye. >> aye. >> it had the backing of the justice department. it was sponsored by members of both parties. so, no one in congress thought to question it. >> it is not unusual for something like this to roll through without fanfare. >> missouri democrat introduce aid bill today to repeal last year's law. >> how realistic is that? >> i think it is realistic. i do sense there is a bipartisan kind of, we've got a crisis attitude about opioids now. >> one of the bill's authors, tennessee republican marsha blackburn said via spokesperson today if there are any unintended consequences from this bipartisan legislation, they should be addressed immediately.

>> dea has the enforcement power it need. >> but orrin hatch defended the law and the 177,000 in donation he's got from the drug industry while he was pushing it through. >> heavens no. heavens no. in my campaign is run about $10 million. and, frankly, frankly, i don't know who contributes at all. >> some democrats are urging the president to drop his nomination of the bill's top author, tom marino to be the nation's drug czar. >> like putting a wolf in charge of the hen house. >> reporter: many lawmakers are still trying to understand why dea dropped its initial opposition to the bill. that would have ensured a lot more scrutiny before a vote. and it a sign, anthony that even some in law enforcement may not have realized how much this law would tie dea's hand.

step towards healing his rift with republicans on capitol hill. here's major garrett. >> probably now despite what we read we are probably now i think at least as far as i am concerned closer than ever before. >> after a white house lunch. president trump and senate majority leader, mitch mcconnell, strolled to the rose garden to bury the hatchet. >> we have the same agenda, friend and acquaintances for a long time. >> reporter: a change in tone from 90 minutes earlier when mr. trump told his cabinet do nothing republicans were to blame for his stalled legislative agenda. we are not getting the job done. and i'm not going to blame myself. i will be honest. they're not getting the job done >> mr. trump was in part echoing former chief strategist, steve bannon this weekend declared mcconnell an enemy of grassroots conservatives. >> right now, it is a season of war against a gop establishment. >> bannon vowed to back challengers to senate gop

the day of taking conservative votes and hiding is over. to date president sent mixed messages about that strategy. >> so i can understand how steve bannon feels. i will see if we talk him out of that. >> the president also looked ahead to his 2020 re-election campaign and said he was hoping for a sequel. >> i hope hillary runs. is she going to run. i hope. hillary, please run again. mr. trump was also asked why he had not yet commented on the four u.s. soldiers killed 12 days ago in niger. he said he had writ in to the families and would call them soon. >> if you look at president obama and other presidents, most of them, didn't make calls, a lot of them didn't make calls. >> officials with former presidents clinton, george w. bush, and obama said they all called families of the fallen. mr. obama's deputy chief of staff said more on twitter calling mr. trump's statement, an expletive lie. adding there that the current commander-in-chief is "a deranged animal.

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♪ ♪ >> announcer: this is the cbs "overnight news." the centers for disease control calls opioid addiction the biggest health threat facing the nation. 33,000 americans died of opioid overdoses, most of those drugs are legal prescribed by doctors and picked up at the pharmacy. so why can't the government do anything to stop it? bill whitaker got the inside track from a former top dea official for 60 minutes. >> if i was going to write a book about how to harm the united states with pharmaceuticals, the only thing i could think of that would immediately harm is to take the authority away from the -- the

trying to enforce the controlled substances act in, the regulations, implemented under the act. that's what this bill did. >> the bill introduced in the house by pennsylvania congressman, tom marino, congressman marsha black burn of tennessee promoted as a we to ensure patients had access off to the pain medication they needed. jonathan novak who worked in the dea's legal office said the bill stripped the agency of its ability to freeze shipments of narcotics to keep drugs off u.s. streets what the dea calls diversion. you are not going to be able to hold any one higher up the food chain accountable. >> because of the law. >> because of law. >> how hard does it make your job in going after the wholesale distributors? >> i would say it makes it nearly impossible. >> reporter: this 2015 justice department memo we obtained supports that.

actually result in increased diversion, abuse and public health and safety consequences. >> they're toothless. i don't know how they stop this now. a very sad state of affairs. >> reporter: who drafted the legislation that would have such a dire effect? the answer came in another internal justice department e-mail released to 60 minutes and "the washington post" under freedom of information act. lyndon barber use to work for the dea he wrote the bill. >> i'm director of the dea litigation and compliance practice. >> barber went through the revolving door. he left his job as a associate chief counsel of the dea and joined say law firm and lobbied congress on behalf of drug companies and wrote legislation. he advertised what he could offer a client facing dea scrutiny. i

issue or facing government investigation or administrative or civil litigation involving controlled substances act. happy to hear from you. >> not surprising that this, this bill that, that has intimate knowledge of the way the dea, you know regulations are enforced, the way the laws work, was written by someone who, spent a lot of time there. charged a lot of cases there. >> knew the workings? >> very much so. >> eric holder attorney general at the time. he warned the new law would undermine law enforcement efforts to prevent communities and families from falling prey to dangerous drugs. the major drug companies, distributors, chain drug stores and pharmaceutical manufacturers, mobilized too. according to federal filings, during the two years the legislation was considered and amended they spend $106 million lobby congress on the bill and other legislation. claiming the

control. making it harder for patients to get needed medication. a particular thorn for the drug industry and bill's sponsors was joe ranocizzi here, had been a witness before congress more than 30 times and was called on again to testify about this bill. >> 16,651 people in 2010 died of opioid overdose. opiate associated overdose. this is not a game. we're not playing a game. >> nobody is saying it is a game, sir. we are just trying to craft legislation. >> ranocizzi admits to having a temper felt so strongly about the damage the bill could do. he lashed out at marino's committee staffers. >> it is my understanding that joe ranacizzi, senior dea official has publicly accused, sponsors of the bill of "supporting criminals." this

>> congressman marino from pennsylvania said that you accused him of helping criminals. >> i never accused of congressman marino of helping criminals. i said, that this bill is going to protect defendants that we have under investigation. and, if congressman marino thinks i accused him of something, i don't know what to tell you. >> but a week after the hearing on legislation that would hobble the dea's enforcement authority, marino and blackburn wrote the inspktector general for the justice department demanding that he be investigated for frying to in t trying to intimidate the united states congress. >> people in the industry didn't care for joe wanted him silenced or out of the way. basically, unceremoniously kick him to the curb. >> after almost 30

avenue lieutenant became a consultant for the drug industry a industry with which he was disillusion ehe was shocked of the animosity towards his friend and former boss. >> the industry through lobbying groups, donated certain amount of money to politicians to get a law passed that, that favored the industry. and also, maybe, using those political ties to have joe removed. >> congress launched an investigation of him. >> right. >> he was out. >> pressure was put on him for him to be moved out. pretty, confident of that. there was no reason to take the guy who was most qualified person in dea to run the office of diversion control, out of the office of diversion control. >> reporter: the investigation re

against him went nowhere. but soon after, ranacizzi was stripped of his responsibilities. he says he went from supervising 600 people to supervising none. so he resigned. >> the we were tote leally focu on all these people dying and all these drugs being diverted. and we were not really looking at our flanks, waiting for somebody to come after us. so -- maybe that was my fault. and i just never -- never real ied that that was something that would have occurred. >> reporter: in the end, the dea signed off on the final version of the marino bill. a senior dea representative told us the agency fought hard to stop it. but in the face of growing pressure from congress and industry lobbyists was forced to accept a deal it did not want. the bill was presented to the senate on march of 2016. >> ask unanimous consen

>> majority leader, mitch mcconnell introduced the legislation. it palssed the senate through unanimous consent. no objections and no recorded votes. it passed the house the same way. with members of congress chatting await on the floor. >> without object, the bill its read a third time and passed. a week later with no objections from congress or the dea, president barack obama signed it into law. without ceremony or the usual bill signing photo-op. marino issued a press release the next day claiming credit for the legislation. and more on bill whitaker's story when we return. you're watching the cbs "overnight news." so when i found out medicare doesn't pay all my medical expenses, i looked at my options. then i got a medicare supplement insurance plan. [ male announcer ] if you're eligible for medicare, you may know it only covers about 80% of your part b medical expenses.

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president trump nominated pennsylvania congressman tom marino to become the nation's drug czar. under biting criticism for his role in the law that some say opened the door for the nationwide opioid epidemic. more now from bill whitaker's 60 minutes report. >> i just don't understand why congress would pass a bill that strips us of our authority in the height of an opioid epidemic. in places like congressman marino's district. >> congressman blackburn's district. why are the people sponsoring bills? when people in their backyards are dying from drugs that are coming from the same people that

>> reporter: why do you think that its? >> because i think that -- the drug industry, the manufacturers, wholesalers, chain drug stores have the an in flaw e influence over congress that has never been seen before. people came in with influence, money and got a statute changed. because they didn't like it. >> reporter: seven months after the bill became law, congressman marino's pin the man, chief of staff, bill thai became a lobbyist for national association of chain drug stores. since the crackdown on the distributors began the pharmaceutical industry and law firms that represent them have hired at least 46 investigators, attorneys, and supervisors from the dea. including 32 from the drug ion out. chief of staff for dea administrator was hired by

one of country's largest health care law firms. and most recently, jason hadges, senior dea attorney overseeing enforcement cases during slowdown, joined pharmaceutical regulatory division of hogan lovell. he declined to speak to us. they declined our request to appear on camera, so did cardinal health which hired the author of the bill, lyndon barber as senior vice president. with scott hiam and lenny bernstein of "the washington post" we called the head of public relations of cardinal and asked to speak with barber. >> this is bill whitaker, correspondent with 60 minutes. calling to see if we could speak with the lyndon barber. >> we were told the company would not make him available. we also tried for several months to speak to congressman marino. finally we went to his

>> hello. i'm bill whitaker with 60 minutes. >> yes. >> we would look to speak with congressman marino if we could. >> refer you to the chief of staff. >> we were told he was not available. >> okay. can you please turn the camera. ask the camera to leave the office. >> his staff then called the capitol hill police on us. >> accept the uninvite and leave the area. >> when joe ranacizzi looks back he has one regret. >> all these people have died happened under my watch. the one thing i wanted to do. the one thing that i thought would have the most impact is to lock up, arrest, one of these corporate officers. you arrest a corporate officer, you arrest somebody that is, that is involved in the decision process, knowing what the law is, if you make that arrest, then everybody sits up and takes notice because three-piece suit guys don d

they don't. >> you can see much more of that story on our website, cbsnews.com.

we end the half-hour with a woman living the dream. steve hartman met oher on the road. >> i'll read a story. >> reporter: 52-year-old reading teacher dawn west is a joyous person. always has been. but she says the happiest days of her life were the ones spent as a member of the west virginia university marching band. looking back at old pictures, all you see is ecstasy. for dawn, a dream come true. in high school she saved her babysitting money to buy a trumpet and taught herself to play, hoping to audition for the band.

stilt still emotional? >> it is. >> reporter: obviously she did make it in. she never left. betrayed only by a few tufts of gray hair. dawn may look like any other band member. she is oldest by a generation. kids call her grandma and they also say not a very fitting nickname. >> definitely a source of youthfulness. >> youthfulness? >> yeah, the best way to describe her. >> yes. >> she is much more like a senior classmate than a senior citizen. >> you got this. >> she has got to slow things down, though? >> opposite. usually the first one back in position. >> band director. scott tobias. pointed her out, told the younger ones do what she is doing. >> after 35 years, grandma who has no children and was never married, hasn't lost a step or ounce of passion. >> i have never lost that excitement for game day. >> they don't just let people stay in the band forever. >> no. i was in school full time.

>> it was. i was getting loan after loan. >> all this just to be in band? >> to be in band, yeah. after taking classes she didn't need. the university lets her take band. pursuing dawn'sest moan as america's only lifetime college student. >> can't figure out if i should tell you grow up. or just be jealous. >> people have told me that. many people have said it. then other people are like, wow. if i could do what you are doing. i would do it. a lot of us can look back on our glory days. wouldn't it be nice to forever look forward to them. steve hartman on the road in morgantown, west virginia. >> that's the "overnight news" for tuesday. for some of you the news will continue. for others hope you check back later for the morning news and of course, cbs this morning.

this is an industry that is out of control. >> blowing the whistle on drug distributors. >> accuses the distributors of fueling the opioid epidemic. >> with help from congress including the president's nominee for drug czar. >> we are going to be looking into tom. >> the fallout from a "60 minutes" investigation. >> also tonight, progress against the wildfires. the battle against isis. >> there has been no official declaration of victory but these u.s.-backed fighters aren't waiting for one. >> my name -- it happened to me too. >> the weinstein scandal sets off a wave of #metoo. >> this is our breaking news story every single day.

>> and a call for a 2016 rerun. >> hillary, please run again. ♪ ♪ >> announcer: this is the cbs "overnight news." among the nearly 13 million people watching "60 minutes" sunday night was president trump. what he saw has him taking a second look at his nominee for drug czar. pennsylvania congressman tom marino. in that report former dea insider, turned whistle blower, joseph renocizzi, accused drug distributors of fueling the opioid epidemic. have a look. this shows the drug overdose deaths in 1999. this, 16 years later in 2015 when opioid deaths alone topped 33,000. bill whitaker has more now from the joint investigation by 60 minutes and "the washington post." >> this is an industry that is out of control, that, that

drugs to go into bad pharmacies and doctors' offices that, that distributed them out to to people who had no legitimate need for the drugs. >> reporter: one example, a pharmacy in kermit, west virginia, a town of 392 people, ordered 9 million hydrocodone pills. over two years. >> the companies are a big reason for this epidemic. >> yeah, absolutely they are. i can tell you with 100% accuracy we were in there on multiple occasions trying to get them to change their behavior. they flat out ignored. >> reporter: then there was congress, a bill introduced in the house by pennsylvania congressman tom marino was promoted as a way to ensure patients had access to the pain medication they needed. jonathan novak who worked in the dea legal office says what the bill really did was strip the

agency of its ability to immediately freeze suspicious shipments of prescription narcotics to keep the drugs off u.s. streets. >> they're toothless. i don't know how they stop this now. it's, a very sad state of affairs. >> reporter: last year, the bill was presented to congress and passed both houses through unanimous consent. with no recorded votes. >> without objection the bill is read a third time and passed. >> i just don't understand why congress would pass a bill that strips us of our authority in the height of an opioid epidemic. in places like congressman marino's district. >> i was a prosecutor and united states attorney. >> congressman marino has been nominated to be the next drug czar. what was your reaction when you heard that? >> total disbelief. >> the bill was bad. him being the drug czar is a lot worse. >> today, president trump said

marino's nomination. if i think it is 1% negative to what we want to do, he said, i will make a change. the health care distribution alliance issued a statement saying it recognizes the opioid epidemic as national crisis. greater clarity, dialogue and collaboration with the dea will strengthen our ability to effectively combat prescription drug abuse. but tonight, this legislation stands and the dea says its hands are tied. anthony. >> bill, what are implications of this then? >> well, anthony, the implications are that millions of pills still are ending up in bad pharmacies, and distributors now have very little to worry that the dea will shut them down. >> bill thank you for being with us. bill's 60 minutes report reverberated from the white house to capitol hill. chief congressional correspondent nancy cordes is there.

camouflage it so well that, that all of us, all of us were fooled. nobody knew. >> west virginia democrat joe manchion says he is horrified that a bill everyone approved made the epidemic worse. >> there is no oversight now the way, that bill has to be retracted. repealed. >> reporter: the law sailed through the senate last spring. >> those in favor say aye. >> aye. >> it had the backing of the justice department. it was sponsored by members of both parties. so, no one in congress thought to question it. >> it is not unusual for something like this to roll through without fanfare. >> missouri democrat introduce aid bill today to repeal last year's law. >> how realistic is that? >> i think it is realistic. i do sense there is a bipartisan kind of, we've got a crisis attitude about opioids now. >> one of the bill's authors, tennessee republican marsha blackburn said via spokesperson today if there are any unintended consequences from

they should be addressed immediately. dea has all right enforcement power it needs. >> but orrin hatch defended the law and the 177,000 in donation he's got from the drug industry while he was pushing it through. >> heavens no. heavens no. in my campaign is run about $10 million. and, frankly, frankly, i don't know who contributes at all. >> some democrats are urging the president to drop the nom nation of the bill's chief author, tom marino to be the nation's drug czar. >> like putting a wolf in charge of the hen house. >> reporter: many lawmakers are still trying to understand why dea dropped its initial opposition to the bill. that would have ensured a lot more scrutiny before a vote. and it a sign, anthony that even some in law enforcement may not have realized how much this law

>> nancy cordes. at the capitol. army sergeant beau bergdahl pleaded guilty to desertion and the charge could put him behind bars for life. bergdahl walked off his post in afghanistan in 2009 and was held by the taliban for five years. he was freed in a prisoner swap approved by president obama. at least two american service members were seriously wounded while searching for him. >> the terror group, al-shabab which has links to al qaeda, is suspected in saturday's massive attack in somalia. more than 300 were killed. more than 400 hurt when a truck bomb went off in the heart of mogadishu. victims were flown as far away as turkey for treatment. the somali government backed by the u.s. has been fighting al-shabab for a decade. >> coming up why a background check law for gun buyers in nevada is not being enforced.

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our family at pestworld.org. ♪ dramatic..ta tan >> announcer: this is the "overnight news." the president called report nears the rose garden today to watch him mend ape fence. major garrett was there. >> probably now despite what we read we are probably now i think at least as far as i am concerned closer than ever before. >> after a white house lunch. president trump and senate majority leader, mitch mcconnell, strolled to the rose garden to bury the hatchet. >> we have the same agenda, friend and acquaintances for a long time. >> reporter: a change in tone from 90 minutes earlier when mr. trump told his cabinet do nothing republicans were to blame for his stalled legislative agenda. we are not getting the job done. and i'm not going to blame myself. i will be honest. they're not getting the job done >> mr. trump i

former chief strategist, steve bannon this weekend declared mcconnell an enemy of grassroots conservatives. >> right now, it is a season of war against a gop establishment. >> bannon vowed to back challengers to senate gop incumbents. the day of taking conservative votes and hiding is over. to date president sent mixed messages about that strategy. >> so i can understand how steve bannon feels. i will see if we talk him out of that. >> the president also looked ahead to his 2020 re-election campaign and said he was hoping for a sequel. >> i hope hillary runs. is she going to run? i hope. hillary, please run again. mr. trump was also asked why he had not yet commented on the four u.s. soldiers killed 12 days ago in niger. he said he had writ in to the families and would call them soon. >> if you look at president obama and other presidents, most

of them, didn't make calls, a lot of them didn't make calls. >> officials with former presidents clinton, george w. bush, and obama said they all called families of the fallen. mr. obama's deputy chief of staff said more on twitter calling mr. trump's statement, an expletive lie. adding there that the current commander-in-chief is "a deranged animal. anthony. >> with the president's day in the rose garden, thank you, major. firefighters, battling the california wildfires are making progress. wind that fan the flames are dying down. but today a driver delivering water to the fire lines was killed when his truck flipped. now 41 deaths in the fires. 213,000 acres have burned. and 6,000 buildings were destroyed. some evacuees are heading home to see if they still have one. here is mireya villarreal. >> when the tubs fire came racing down into santa rosa, assistant fire marshal, paul loenthal was calle

service. >> wouldn't imagine we would have something that big right here. >> as the the fire continues to burn. pofficials are turning their attention to making these neighborhoods safer. the neighborhood has been designated by state as a high fire hazard zone. requiring homeowners to clear brush and use fire resistant materials on their roofs. in coffee park, dense neighborhood considered a safe area with limited requirements. it now looks like this. neither neighborhood could with stand a fire fueled by 80-mile-per-hour wind. >> there is a lot of system and code put into place. to make it a safer environment. but mother nature brought wind. >> this neighborhood is woven within california's wild land, a prime example of the state's suburban sprawl. in 1960, there were 766 homes within the perimeter of the tubs fire. compared to more than 6,000 in 2010. >> i don't think anybody would have guessed we would have a wildfire that would move through

buildings, restaurants, areas where there is, zero, to little to no landscaping. it burned through all that. >> reporter: thousand of evacuation orders have been lifted, but in wildland areas like this it could take days if not weeks before the rebuilding can start. there is rain expected later this week, which fire crews are hoping will help them reach their containment goals of 100% by this friday. anthony. >> time is just about up for isis in raqqa. the syrian city it conquered in 2014 and kidded its capital. the four month bat to retake raqqa has been fierce and holly williams one of the few western journalists to the report from inside the city wasn't expecting what she saw today. >> reporter: there has been no official declaration of victory, but these u.s.-backed fighters

aren't waiting for one. isis is finished in raqqa they told us. after hundred of isis extremists surrendered over the weekend. they have had some help from u.s. air strikes. but these syrian militiamen did the fighting on the ground, the very definition of a rag tag army. shia kahauki showed us home made hand grenade held together by scotch-tape. as they cleared the city, gunmen lurked in tunnelles and buildings. you thought it was clear now. you think there is a sniper left there? >> yeah, yeah, we think. isis claims to be men of god when they seized raqqa over three years ago. in truth they were blood thirsty thugs, beheading their enemies and selling women as sex slaves. what's left is the carcass of a city. pulverized by artillery. flattened by air strikes. and deserted by its people. we have been in so many houses like this one, during the battle for raqqa, that have been turned into fighting positions. and completely destroyed.

raqqa today. some of the last to get out. like other civilians they were used by the extremists as human shield. >> they tried to leave twice before. and were shot at by isis fighters, he said. but today, they didn't see any. clearing raqqa of explosives laid by isis could take months. but the city is no longer a stronghold for terrorists. those isis leaders that are still alive are thought to have fled south toward the border with iraq months ago. anthony. >> holly williams continuing her exceptional reporting from raqqa. why take 4-hour cough medicine? just one mucinex lasts 12 hours.

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>> won a narrow victory. nearly a year later the law its not being enforced. state and federal officials are in a standoff over who does the background checks on private gun transfers. so at a reno gun show days after the country's deadliest mass shooting in las vegas. >> you are a private seller? >> yeah. >> no background check. >> as long as you're a nevada resident. >> every town for gun safety. easily, bought four semiautomatic rifles and magazine without any background checks. nevada attorney general, adam laxalt who campaigned. >> a sloppy, legal disaster. >> reporter: initially argued it isn't enforcible because the the law explicitly says the fbi has to conduct the background checks not the state. he cited this letter from the fbi that says nevada law cannot

are applied. >> people of nevada spoke. they voted on this measure. >> john feinblack, the president of every town says laxalt and nevada's governor, brian sandoval should negotiate a solution. >> if they need to get on the phone with the fbi and work it out. they should do that today. the governor and the attorney general, are turning this into a political football. >> after the las vegas massacre, governor sandoval asked the attorney general to reskpam min the question. the attorney general responded with an opinion last week saying the governor has the the authority to work it out with the fbi setting the stage for this to be fought out in the courts. anthony. >> julianna goldman. thanks. up next, panic at 34,000 feet. dads don't take sick days... dads take dayquil severe. the non-drowsy, coughing, aching, fever, sore throat... ...stuffy head, no sick days medicine.

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screaming. put your belts on. put your belts on. tighten your oxygen masks. >> the jet landed safely back in perth, the airline blamed a technical issue. >> remnants of hurricane ophelia sent huge waves crashing into the coast of ireland today. winds gusted to 80 miles an hour. at least three people were killed and dozens of buildings damaged. in london, the sky turned yellow. as the storm carried dust from the sahara and smoke from portuguese forest fires into the region. >> quarterback colin kaepernick has filed a grievance against the nfl, accusing team owners of colluding to keep him sidelined. last year he started a wave of protests against racial injustice by kneeling during the national anthem. kaepernick once led san francisco to the super bowl. he opted for free agency at the end of last season, but says, he has had no contract offers. >> up next, speaking out against sexual abuse.

finally tonight the accusations of sexual harassment or assault against hollywoood

harvey weinstein. the story has touched a nerve with people all over the world. and they're speaking out, using the #metoo. >> i'm a survivor. not a victim. >> it happened to me too. >> me too. >> sexual assault happens to everyone. >> it happened to me too. >> i was told not to talk about it. i was told that it wasn't that bad. and i was told to get over it. >> the weinstein case has the brought to light something that we really should have been talking about for a long time. >> when we were in the elevator on the way back up to the rooms he asked if he could join me in room and then proceed to try to grope me. >> there were office parties, set up as one thing. but the clean-up is always after hours. you always hope there would be another woman there to clean up

with you. so you wouldn't get stuck in the room with some guy. >> taken me 34 years to talk about it. >> no matter how small the act, catcalling a woman on the street or you seek to physically assault them because you feel look you have the right to do that. you are damaging another human being. >> i just never felt a movement before that made it important enough to me to come out publicly. that's the first time i have ever posted or said it. >> i survived several very violent rapes. i was 4 and 5 years old. >> it breaks my heart noek that this will soon disappear from the news cycle. so many of us around the world, this is our breaking news stoesh every single day. >> there is power in sharing our stories. in that when we share what happened to us, we let others, survivors know that they're not alone. >> that's the "overnight news" for this tuesday. for some of you, the news continues. for others, check back a little later for the morning news, and cbs this morning. from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm anthony mason.

welcome to the overnight news. i'm michelle miller. a 60 minutes report on the opioid epidemic has sent political shock waves through capitol hill. 33,000 americans died of opioid related overdoses in 2015. and that was before a new law that essentially ties the hand of the dea. one of the sponsors of that bill, pennsylvania congressman, tom marino has been nominated to head the office of national drug control policy. but president trump now says, he may withdraw that nomination. here is bill whitaker's report.

this is an dennis tree out of control that allowed millions of drugs to go into bad pharmacies and doctors' offices that distributed them out to people who had no need for the drugs. >> one example, a pharmacy in kermit, west virginia, a town of 392 people. ordered 9 million hydrocodone pills. >> the companies are a big reason? >> absolutely they are. i can tell you with 100% accuracy we were in there on multiple occasions trying to get them to change their behavior. they flat out ignored. >> reporter: then there was congress, a bill introduced in the house by pennsylvania congressman, tom marino pro promoted as a way to ensure patients had access to the pain medication they needed. jonathan novak who worked in the dea legal office says what the bill really did was strip the agency of its ability to

shipments of prescription narcotics to keep the drugs off u.s. streets. >> they're toothless. i don't know how they stop this now. it's, a very sad state of affairs. >> reporter: last year, the bill was presented to congress and passed both houses through unanimous consent. with no recorded votes. >> without objection the bill is read a third time and passed. >> i just don't understand why congress would pass a bill that strips us of our authority in the height of an opioid epidemic. in places like congressman marino's district. >> i was a prosecutor and united states attorney. >> congressman marino has been nominated to be the next drug czar. what was your reaction when you heard that? >> total disbelief. >> the bill was bad. him being the drug czar is a lot worse.

>> today, president trump said he is going to "look into" marino's nomination. if i think it is 1% negative to what we want to do, he said, i will make a change. the health care distribution alliance issued a statement saying it recognizes the opioid epidemic as national crisis. greater clarity, dialogue and collaboration with the dea will strengthen our ability to effectively combat prescription drug abuse. but tonight, this legislation stands and the dea says its hands are tied. anthony. >> bill, what are implications of this then? >> well, anthony, the implications are that millions of pills still are ending up in bad pharmacies, and distributors now have very little to worry that the dea will shut them down. senator claire makaskill wants to repeal the law that allows prescription opioids to flood the nation's pharmacies. nancy cordes has the the view from capitol hill. >> they made it. camouflage it so well that, that all of us, all of us were

fooled. nobody knew. >> west virginia democrat joe manchion says he is horrified that a bill everyone approved made the epidemic worse. >> there is no oversight now the way, that bill has to be retracted. repealed. >> reporter: the law sailed through the senate last spring. >> those in favor say aye. >> aye. >> it had the backing of the justice department. it was sponsored by members of both parties. so, no one in congress thought to question it. >> it is not unusual for something like this to roll through without fanfare. >> missouri democrat introduce aid bill today to repeal last year's law. >> how realistic is that? >> i think it is realistic. i do sense there is a bipartisan kind of, we've got a crisis

tennessee republican marsha blackburn said via spokesperson today if there are any unintended consequences from this bipartisan legislation, they should be addressed immediately. >> dea has the enforcement power it need. >> but orrin hatch defended the law and the 177,000 in donation he's got from the drug industry while he was pushing it through. >> heavens no. heavens no. in my campaign is run about $10 million. and, frankly, frankly, i don't know who contributes at all. >> some democrats are urging the president to drop his nomination of the bill's top author, tom marino to be the nation's drug czar. >> like putting a wolf in charge of the hen house. >> reporter: many lawmakers are still trying to understand why dea dropped its initial opposition to the bill. that would have ensured a lot more scrutiny before a vote. and it a sign, anthony that even some in law enforcement may not have realized how much this law would tie dea's hand. president trump took a small step towards healing his rift with repubns

hill. here's major garrett. >> probably now despite what we read we are probably now i think at least as far as i am concerned closer than ever before. >> after a white house lunch. president trump and senate majority leader, mitch mcconnell, strolled to the rose garden to bury the hatchet. >> we have the same agenda, friend and acquaintances for a long time. >> reporter: a change in tone from 90 minutes earlier when mr. trump told his cabinet do nothing republicans were to blame for his stalled legislative agenda. we are not getting the job done. and i'm not going to blame myself. i will be honest. they're not getting the job done >> mr. trump was in part echoing former chief strategist, steve bannon this weekend declared mcconnell an enemy of grassroots conservatives. >> right now, it is a season of war against a gop establishment. >> bannon

challengers to senate gop incumbents. the day of taking conservative votes and hiding is over. to date president sent mixed messages about that strategy. >> so i can understand how steve bannon feels. i will see if we talk him out of that. >> the president also looked ahead to his 2020 re-election campaign and said he was hoping for a sequel. >> i hope hillary runs. is she going to run. i hope. hillary, please run again. mr. trump was also asked why he had not yet commented on the four u.s. soldiers killed 12 days ago in niger. he said he had writ in to the families and would call them soon. >> if you look at president obama and other presidents, most of them, didn't make calls, a lot of them didn't make calls. >> officials with former presid c

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>> announcer: this is the cbs "overnight news." the centers for disease control calls opioid addiction the biggest health threat facing the nation. 33,000 americans died of opioid overdoses, most of those drugs are legal prescribed by doctors and picked up at the pharmacy. so why can't the government do anything to stop it? bill whitaker got the inside track from a former top dea official for 60 minutes. >> if i was going to write a book about how to harm the united states with pharmaceuticals, the only thing i could think of that would immediately harm is to take the

investigative agency that is trying to enforce the controlled substances act in, the regulations, implemented under the act. that's what this bill did. >> the bill introduced in the house by pennsylvania congressman, tom marino, congressman marsha black burn of tennessee promoted as a we to ensure patients had access off to the pain medication they needed. jonathan novak who worked in the dea's legal office said the bill stripped the agency of its ability to freeze shipments of narcotics to keep drugs off u.s. streets what the dea calls diversion. you are not going to be able to hold any one higher up the food chain accountable. >> because of the law. >> because of law. >> how hard does it make your job in going after the wholesale distributors? >> i would say it makes it nearly impossible. >> reporter: this 2015 justice department memo we obtained supports that. it states, the bill could actually result in increased diversion, abuse and public health and safety consequences. >> they're toothless.

i don't know how they stop this now. a very sad state of affairs. >> reporter: who drafted the legislation that would have such a dire effect? the answer came in another internal justice department e-mail released to 60 minutes and "the washington post" under freedom of information act. lyndon barber use to work for the dea he wrote the bill. >> i'm director of the dea litigation and compliance practice. >> barber went through the revolving door. he left his job as a associate chief counsel of the dea and joined say law firm and lobbied congress on behalf of drug companies and wrote legislation. he advertised what he could offer a client facing dea scrutiny.

issue or facing government investigation or administrative or civil litigation involving controlled substances act. happy to hear from you. >> not surprising that this, this bill that, that has intimate knowledge of the way the dea, you know regulations are enforced, the way the laws work, was written by someone who, spent a lot of time there. charged a lot of cases there. >> knew the workings? >> very much so. >> eric holder attorney general at the time. he warned the new law would undermine law enforcement efforts to prevent communities and families from falling prey to dangerous drugs. the major drug companies, distributors, chain drug stores and pharmaceutical manufacturers, mobilized too. according to federal filings, during the two years the legislation was considered and amended they spend $106 million lobby congress on the bill and other legislation.

control. making it harder for patients to get needed medication. a particular thorn for the drug industry and bill's sponsors was joe ranocizzi here, had been a witness before congress more than 30 times and was called on again to testify about this bill. >> 16,651 people in 2010 died of opioid overdose. opiate associated overdose. this is not a game. we're not playing a game. >> nobody is saying it is a game, sir. we are just trying to craft legislation. >> ranocizzi admits to having a temper felt so strongly about the damage the bill could do. he lashed out at marino's committee staffers. >> it is my understanding that joe ranacizzi, senior dea official has publicly accused, sponsors of the bill of "supporting criminals." this offends me immensely.

pennsylvania said that you accused him of helping criminals. >> i never accused of congressman marino of helping criminals. i said, that this bill is going to protect defendants that we have under investigation. and, if congressman marino thinks i accused him of something, i don't know what to tell you. >> but a week after the hearing on legislation that would hobble the dea's enforcement authority, marino and blackburn wrote the inspector general for the justice department demanding that he be investigated for trying to intimidate the united states congress. >> people in the industry didn't care for joe wanted him silenced or out of the way. basically, unceremoniously kick him to the curb. >> after almost 30 years with the dea matt murphy, ranacizzi en

consultant for the drug industry a industry with which he was disillusion he was shocked of the animosity towards his friend and former boss. >> the industry through lobbying groups, donated certain amount of money to politicians to get a law passed that, that favored the industry. and also, maybe, using those political ties to have joe removed. >> congress launched an investigation of him. >> right. >> he was out. >> pressure was put on him for him to be moved out. pretty, confident of that. there was no reason to take the guy who was most qualified person in dea to run the office of diversion control, out of the office of diversion control. >> reporter: the investigation

requested by congressman marino against him went nowhere. but soon after, ranacizzi was stripped of his responsibilities. he says he went from supervising 600 people to supervising none. so he resigned. >> the we were totally focussed on all these people dying and all these drugs being diverted. and we were not really looking at our flanks, waiting for somebody to come after us. so -- maybe that was my fault. and i just never -- never real ied that that was something that would have occurred. >> reporter: in the end, the dea signed off on the final version of the marino bill. a senior dea representative told us the agency fought hard to stop it. but in the face of growing pressure from congress and industry lobbyists was forced to accept a deal it did not want. the bill was presented to the senate on march of 2016. >> ask unanimous consent, senate proceed. >> majority leader, mitch

legislation. it passed the senate through unanimous consent. no objections and no recorded votes. it passed the house the same way. with members of congress chatting await on the floor. >> without object, the bill its read a third time and passed. a week later with no objections from congress or the dea, president barack obama signed it into law. without ceremony or the usual bill signing photo-op. marino issued a press release the next day claiming credit for the legislation. and more on bill whitaker's story when we return. you're watching the cbs "overnight news." to choose! my dentist told me about new crest whitening therapy. so, i tried it! from crest 3d white comes new whitening therapy. it's our best whitening technology. plus, it has a fortifying formula to protect your enamel.

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president trump nominated pennsylvania congressman tom marino to become the nation's drug czar. under biting criticism for his role in the law that some say opened the door for the nationwide opioid epidemic. more now from bill whitaker's 60 minutes report. >> i just don't understand why congress would pass a bill that strips us of our authority in the height of an opioid epidemic. in places like congressman marino's district. >> congressman blackburn's district. why are the people sponsoring bills? when people in their backyards are dying from drugs that are coming from the same people that the bills are protecting. >> reporter: why do yoin

>> because i think that -- the drug industry, the manufacturers, wholesalers, chain drug stores have the an in influence over congress that has never been seen before. people came in with influence, money and got a statute changed. because they didn't like it. >> reporter: seven months after the bill became law, congressman marino's pin the man, chief of staff, bill thai became a lobbyist for national association of chain drug stores. since the crackdown on the distributors began the pharmaceutical industry and law firms that represent them have hired at least 46 investigators, attorneys, and supervisors from the dea. including 32 from the drug ion out. chief of staff for dea administrator was hired by hdgn, one of country's largest health care law firms. and most recently, jason hadges, senior dea attorney overseeing enforcement cases during slowdown, joined pharmaceutical regury

lovell. he declined to speak to us. they declined our request to appear on camera, so did cardinal health which hired the author of the bill, lyndon barber as senior vice president. with scott hiam and lenny bernstein of "the washington post" we called the head of public relations of cardinal and asked to speak with barber. >> this is bill whitaker, correspondent with 60 minutes. calling to see if we could speak with the lyndon barber. >> we were told the company would not make him available. we also tried for several months to speak to congressman marino. finally we went to his d.c. office. >> hello. i'm bill whitaker with 60 minutes. >> yes. >> we would look to speak with congressman marino if we could. >> refer you to the chief of staff. >> we were told he was not available. >> okay.

can you please turn the camera. ask the camera to leave the office. >> his staff then called the >> accept the uninvite and leave the area. >> when joe ranacizzi looks back he has one regret. >> all these people have died happened under my watch. the one thing i wanted to do. the one thing that i thought would have the most impact is to lock up, arrest, one of these corporate officers. you arrest a corporate officer, you arrest somebody that is, that is involved in the decision process, knowing what the law is, if you make that arrest, then everybody sits up and takes notice because three-piece suit guys don't do well in prison. they don't. >> you can see much more of that

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