amelia earhart disappeared in 1937 over the pacific during her landmark round-the-world flight. now her final distress calls may finally reveal what happened. here's dana jacobson.>> repr:or of aviator amelia earhart 81 years ago remains one of the greatest unsolved mysteries in american history. researchers revealed a new clue that may shed light on what happened to earhart and her navigator, fred noonan, as they tried to circle the globe. ve>> ery ebodyxpteecd a happy ending to the search because amelia was out there call for help and her calls were being heard. >> reporter: rick gillespie, who has researched earhart's doomed flight for 30 years, says he has proof earhart crash-landed on a remote south pacific island about 2,000 miles from hawaii and that she called for help for nearly a week before her plane was swept out to sea. gillespie has located documentation of distress signals sent in the days after earhart's disappearance, prompting the navy to launch a rescue mission. >> and it took the battleship a week to get there.

we can't hold on much longer." >> then suddenly they're hearing amelia earhart call for help.nd they're astonished. >> reporter: gillespie's organization, the international group for historic aircraft recovery, has also found forensic evidence that bonest b found on the island are almost certainly earhart's. and while the official sta is that earhart and noonan were lost at ncseea, gillespie says radio evidence only strengthens his theory that they survived the initial landing. >> the world will never forget amelia earhart. >> that was dana jacobsson reporting. and that's the "overnight news" roadcast center inaugust 2nd. new york city, i'm meg oliver. captioning funded by cbs >>> it's thursday, august 2nd, 2018. this is the "cbs morning news." >>> manhunt. houston police say this is the suspect wanted for gunning down a prominent doctor as he biked to work. >>> we're hearing from survivors of the aeromexico plane crash and video shows the moment of impact. >>> and out of the ashes, how a dog managed to survive greece's deadly wildfire. >>> good morning from studio 57

the president addressing the cohen saga with ainslie earhart, more that at the white house with johnerts. >> we're hear for the first time from the president on the cohen guilty plea and he accuses the president of directing him to make those payments to keep the women silent in violation of campaign finance laws. the president telling our ainslie earhart that he only learned about the payments later on, not ahead of time. as cohen accuses the president of, we their nature could not constitute illegal campaign contributions, he paid the money not the campaign. listen here. >> i don't know if you know, but i tweeted about the payments. but they didn't come out of campaign. in fact my first question when i heard about it, was did they come out of the campaign? because that could be a little dicey. and they didn't come out of the campaign. and that's fake. but they -- that's not even a campaign violation. >> michael cohen and his attorney are sticking by their guns, that it was the president who directed michael cohen to arrange payments to stormy daniels and karen mcdougal. listen to l

that's the anniversary of amelia earhart's solo nonstop fleet across the united states in 1932 that flight took 19 hours to complete. >>> tornadoes typically strike in the spring, though they can and do occur at any time. when the national weather service issues a tornado warning, most people take cover and hope for the best, but not everyone gets out of the way our morgan brennan has more on an unusual man with a very unusual job. >> i'm a storm chaser and extreme meteorologist. >> intercepted it. >> reporter: yes while most people hunker down and pray, reed timmer drives into tornadoes head on using an suv that can withstand crushing 200-mile-per-hour winds. >> these tornadoes can obviously be very deadly and very dangerous. you have to respect their power. but i guess it's the best of an adventure also when i see a tornado in the field, it's one of the most beautiful things i've ever seen. it's almost not from this planet. >> reporter: but he's not risking his life just for the thrill of it he does it to save lives. >> it's for weathercasters, forecasters, new media, and they can notifi

president trump denies the affairs n an interview with ainslie earhart, the president responded. >> did you know about the payments? >> later on i knew, later on. but you have to understand, ainslie, what he did and they weren't taken out of campaign finance, that's the big thing, a much bigger thing, did they come out of the campaign. they didn't come out of the campaign. high first question when i heard about it, did they come out of the campaign. because that could be a little dicey. and they didn't come out of the campaign. that's fake. but they weren't, that's not even a campaign violation. >> shepard: that was today. remember his comments from air force one back in april. >> mr. president, did you know about the $130,000 payment to stormy daniels? >> no. >> why did michael cohen say that? >> you have to ask michael cohen. michael is my attorney, you will have to ask michael. >> do you know where he got the money? >> no, i don't know. >> shepard: well we did ask michael cohen, michael cohen told the court. reporters asked about that very comment today at the white house briefing, w

this is very amelia earhart, old school. i'm being fitted with a functional near infrared spectroscopy device-- or fnirs, for short-- at a lab at massachusetts general hospital. >> start from 100 and count backwards by seven. >> sreenivasan: 93. jodi gilm is an assistant ofessor at harvard medical school and a researcher with the hospital's center for addiction medicine. 79. as i count backwards, the nodes on my forehead detect the amount of oxygen in the blood, in my brain-- an hard parts of my brain are working. each node is shown on screen as colo 23.quares. it's harder than it looks because i caht a very early rning flight. nine. two. thank god it's over. but gilman is not running a study oion sleep depriv she's developing a way to determine when drivers are high on marijuana. she's demonstrating this brain imagindevice on me while i'm drug-free, but, in her study, she's looking at the brains of volunteers before and after taking a dose of synthetic cannabis. how do you get from here to whetr or not someone is impaired b

he told ainsley earhart at fox, well, there's a possibility. so there is a disconnect there, kaitlin, with the reporting on this. >> there is. that's what rudy guiliani says, his one account of this. it's clear here's what the president is saying during an interview on the white house grounds today. that comes after sarah sanders said today there had been no discussion that she was aware of as a potential pardon for paul manafort here. the president himself, all you have to do is look at his twitter feed. he's signalling that he could potentially pardon him essentially saying that he wasn't treated fairly by the justice system even though paul manafort got a trial by a jury of his peers and even his own attorneys said he felt it was a fair trial he received over the last few weeks. the president is doubting the justice system today and signalling to paul manafort saying that he didn't break, calling him a brave man. obviously a stark con threat r travis to what he thinks michael cohen has done. what he's saying to his legal team, his lead attor

we heard it through the day and the president reiterating it this morning to ainsley earhart. is this what they're going run with? >> yes. i think part of the reason why is because there isn't a more apparent strategy with a clearer path. what the president -- what michael cohen has done with his plea casts complete li complete timeline of responses leading up to that so it's hard for the white house to give answers that they know don't stand so the only answer can be right now that based on the information they have, exactly the talking points they put out. it's a very difficult situation to be in. i would not want to try to answer those questions and because the president's story kept changing it makes it almost impossible for the white house to give a credible public answer that the person putting out the answer can be certain is not going to be shaken by the next set of testimony or revelations. >> their argument isn't just that there is no crime. the president's argument is that i didn't order the payments, i didn't order the payments, i did make the payments, i didn't kn

here is ainsley earhart who did the interview and then the president. >> he mentioned pardoning manaforten you have michael cohen's attorney lanny davis -- >> he did mentioning. >> he did, he did. >> i have great respect for what he has done, in terms of what he has gone through. you know, he worked for ronald reagan for years. he worked for bob dole. he worked, i guess his firm worked for mccain. he worked for many, many people. many, many years. i would say what he did, some of the charges they threw against him, every consultant, every lobbyist in washington probably does. >> reporter: now to new york state that has subpoenaed mike 'cohen on the heels of his guilty plea. the subpoena is part of the relation into the trump foundation. it comes after cohen's attorney, lanny davis, claimed that his client had information that federal and state investigators would like to know. the attorney general of new york is currently suing the trump foundation, claiming donald trump illegally used his foundation to settle legal disputes, help his campaign for president and pay for personal and busin

you saw the interview with ainsley earhart, where he's praising paul manafort and talks about how much he dislikes michael cohen and jeff session. there was a palpable sense in the president's mind that he was really making progress in undercutting the mueller probe, that public sentiment was going in his favor. that he had gotten a lot more people to see it his way. and i think the events this week have changed that, in the eyes of many of the white house and the president's eyes, where there's really momentum now for law enforcement and the different investigations into him. >> josh, you also have interesting reporting into a morning meeting yesterday, with the president's top advisers. you say that it was bill shine, the deputy chief of staff in communicationses with sarah sanders, kellyanne conway, john kelly, where they tried to figure out how they were going to do damage control and address this. and we got a taste of that yesterday when matt schlapp, one of the president's staunchest supporters came on and said to us, quite surprisingly, we thought at the time, no crime here. th

>> well, i think it's evident fromfrom thant view with ainsley earhart. with everything joey and susan said. but to your point, april-b the president trying to operate from a position of strength, when he was in that interview it's either that he didn't understand the law or that he's counting on the public not to understand what a campaign finance violation is. and by saying this money didn't come out of the campaign coffers it's possible that what he's trying to say is if it didn't come out of the campaign coffers why is anybody even making a big deal out of it even though, as you said, susan, what it is is that his campaign gained something of value from these payments. >> you know, it's interesting, joey jackson. yesterday michael cohen, you know, he pleaded guilty to eight felony counts, but paul manafort, the former trump campaign chairman, he was found guilty of eight felony counts, financial crimes, tax evasion, bank fraud. on twitter, though, this morning the president tweeted this. and i'll read it to you. "i feel very badly for paul manafort an

we have amelia earhart's pilots license. not sure why, but we have that. we have all kinds of gifts given to president truman as head of state, and as a private citizen. i mentioned the pin portrait as an extreme example of artworks in honor of president truman. to answer your question more briefly, mr. and mrs. truman never threw anything away. when we got access to the papers after margaret truman daniel died, and the papers were donated to the library, we found a bank note, checks dating back to the 1920's and 1930's, all their utility bills, all the stuff you put in your shoebox at home and throw away eventually, they never threw anything away. we are glad they didn't. we have marvelously minute documentation of the personal and private lives of mr. and mrs. truman. not the most colorful, they were a couple people who didn't spend a lot of money. one thing we found out was mr. truman had more money than we thought he did, basically he wasn't totally poor. they never spent any money. so they saved up all the allowance they had from their white house yea

and amelia earhart. those were two women who fascinated me as a young child. kathleen: what drew you to those two women? ms. schroeder: my father was a pilot and i went on to get my pilot's license when i was 15. so there were pilots in the family. so this young woman out flying around i thought was pretty cool. and i thought eleanor roosevelt was pretty remarkable. rather than being a gorgeous glamour queen she was interested in what was going on in the world and how she could contribute to it and she had a lot of guts. when i was growing up in the 1940's and 1950's, guts was not a word you would associate with women. they were not supposed to have that. and she did. she had it. she was out there and i just thought good for her, you know? kathleen: when you were growing up what were the societal expectations for you as a young girl of what you would be when you get older? ms. schroeder: basically when i was growing up it was the idea that you either became a mommy, or a teacher or a nurse. i mean there really wasn't a lot of options. you were just kind of nar