ian lee, cbs les. if you miss it, the comet won't be back for some 7,000 years.t's the "cbs overnight news" for ♪ ♪ captioning sponsored by cbs >> o'donnell: tonight a major headline as we come on the air. the head of the u.s. postal service reverses course, now vowing to stop all changes until after the election, over concerns his moves would sabotage the mail-in vote. but congress still wants answers as at least 20 states threaten to sue, and why the president falsely questions the integrity of our election systems. >> it will end up being a rigged >>ection. o'don: democratic national convention without the crowds. tonight, bill clinton slams president trump's leadership. plus, the surprise message tonight from the widow of john mccain as dr. jill biden prepares to take center stage.

ian lee in london. >> and that is the overnight news for this friday.or some of you, the news continues. for others, check back later for cbs this morning and you can wa on line anytime at cbsnews.com. reporting from the nation's capital, i'm jeff pegues. ♪ ♪ captioning sponsored by cbs >> brennan: breaking news tonight: a stunning new projection of nearly 300,000 dead. could the death toll in america double in the next four months? and one thing that you can do to save tens of thousands of lives. plus, inside a hospital on the brink. the desperate doctors in hazmat suits. >> we need the help. our house is burning. >> brennan: and the mother who can only see her newborn on her phone. testing positive: ohio's governor announces he has the virus. how he learned his diagnosis just hours before he was set to greet the president. tracking travelers: the big apple sets up big checkpoints. the special agents now tasked with stopping anyone entering new york city, and the consequences if visitors don't quarantine. back-to-school battle:si

ian lee has the latest on this. >> reporter: the explosion was called from different angles. but the devastation is everywre glass and blood paved the streets of beirut. local hospitals, already struggling with covid cases, filled up quickly. doctors and nurses were forced to treat many in the street . >> i felt something like lightning striking across beirut this shop owner says, and everything turned red and the force of the explosion thoroughly. the morning light revealed more of the destruction and desolation. ground zero is smoldering, hundreds are still missing. the explosion was so massive it was felt in neighboring countries. it is believed roughly 2700 tons of ammonium nitrate used in fertilizer and bombs was responsible for the accidental blast. the explosive material have been stored for years at a portside warehouse. lebanon's prime minister asked for international help while valley a thorough investigation. >> what happened today won't pass without accountability. those responsible will pay the price for what happened. >> reporter: at the white house president do

here is ian lee. >> reporter: at three miles wide, comet neowise harmlessly sails around our sun.ut what would happen if this violent ball of dust, ice and rock changed course? >> with something like neowise, it would take out a large country, maybe a continent. >> reporter: jay tate keeps an eye on our skies. he is the director of the spaceguard centre, an observatory on a wind-swept hill in wales. so what do we have here? th this is the magic spot. this is where it all happens. >> reporter: think of tate as part of our solar system's neighborhood watch, tracking known asteroids and comets shown on screen as moving white dots. >> and then you can find out if it is going to come uncomfortably close to the earth or any of the other planets. >> reporter: the observatory is home to several telescopes. his latest will take him from watching our celestial neighborhood to exploring it. >> now, this is the big one, the crown jewel. >> reporter: what does this give you? >> this is allows us to be the detectives, stopping the crime before it starts. and we will be specifically looking at b

ian lee, cbs news, london. >>> half a dozen states in the midwest are cleaning up right now after a storm with 100 mile per hour when terry through chicago into indiana and michigan. the storm swept across chicago flowing over trees and flipping cars and causing widespread damage. e t now without power. >>> let's get a check on our weather here. >> tracking the storms in the midwest, we are looking at onshore flow at home in the bay area. with that cooler temperature, w pressure comes in. i will have the forecast, next. >>> a tense situation in southern california when deputies point a gun at a group of teens. >>> how google is turning some phones into earthquake sensors. >>> we are working to bring you the positive stories during this difficult time. check them out at kpix.com . you can se >>> a southern california committee is asking why sheriff deputies pointed guns at three black teenagers. the team says a man had actually been chasing them with a knife. and the concern over their tactics. >> this is crazy. it was the other guy. >> reporter: desperate bystanders pleading with deputies

for now, i'm ian lee with a look at some of the other stories we're following.ulation is rapidly at the clining in australia. here's one american man on a mission to save them. >> reporter: cool as are an icon of australia, but one that could be gone in a generation. they face threats from fires, disease, and deforestation. so american filmmaker doug throng decided to do something about it. >> i shese vs of basically, you know, koalas t i'm not going back to le california, i guess i'm going to australia. >> reporter: last year, devastating fires swept across large parts of australia. the koalas lost a third of their population. throng moved around the world with a mission to slow their decline. now using his drone to help count and rescue those remaining. >> only about ten months old, and because of the drone, this little life was saved. >> reporter: his thermal cameras scour the landscape doing in minutes what it used to take hours. >> you fly the drone over an area, and you do it while the grounds is cooler. and then the heat of the animal pops up. you can see

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so ian lee asks, a large concern over a u.s. no first u.s. policy is strong opposition from allies, i would add allies in the asia and japan, how should -- first question on allies. the second which is related by taylor, and apologies if i butchered your last name. how can the u.s. continue to provide extended deterrence and reassure allies, should deterrence and reassurance continue to rely on capabilities such as the proposed nuclear launch cruise missile or are there other mets? so how nervous are our allies going to be and how can we maintain the viability of extended deterrence. >> let me address the second one. when i was the secretary, we were considering a no first use. and during the debating period to that, i was besieged by representatives of european and asian countries, particularly japan was very, very strong on this. they had the belief that no first use would somehow weak withen our extended deterrence. all i can say is i never understood their argument at the time, and i don't understanding it now. but i can assure you, i can

and then the 1920s became a -- updates on american history tv mallory o'meara discusses her book ian leeom the black, lagoon hollywood monsters and the lost legacy of millicent patrick. -- >> so i wrote a book called the lady from the black lagoon, hollywood monsters and the lost legacy of millicent patrick. who the hell is millicent patrick? i like to describe her as the forest gum of the 19 fifties. she's most noticeably designed the creature from the black lagoon, the pantheon of monsters. it was the last one to be included. everyone has their own pantheon, you can come get me. later in my opinion creature was the last. one she was one of disney's first female animators, she's an actress, she was an illustrator. everything about millicent patrick was larger than, life the it has been the greatest honor of my life so far to tell you her story. if you read the book, you would know that there are pictures in there because millicent patrick lived in a very, visual cinematic life. i have a great treat for all of you. i've got some photos that have never been seen before. i have hundreds of

certainly evocative of the work of the 1st of our 3 go to medal recipients british author ian mckeown and because he's. lee sitting out the pandemic at his residence in the cotswolds west of london we conducted this interview with him over skype. mckeown has a keen eye for detail little escapes him he's interested in every aspect of the human experience the murky depths of our souls our political debates the latest developments in science his insatiable curiosity as reflected in his novels an essay. with what's happening in the world and sometimes it's pulling me out of this private space to get involved whether it's great cities or climate change and it's a struggle for me because i'm not naturally an activist. but i think i have a strong moral sense and it's a push and pull between wanting to see in the solar tree in world a lot down world of the novel in his in his writing and this ng agent. mchugh in his 1st book 1st love last rites appeared in 1975 he's published 20 novels and collections of short stories so far many of which have been adapted for the screen . but tone meant was critically acclaimed b

and you're right look he learned something and he thinks he learned something from lee atwater 'd and donald cigarette ian call rove and all these folks they came up with the southern strategy this is just another variation not a southern strategy it's the same thing they used against you know dukakis it's the same thing that it always comes up it's always the go to question is whether they go to work so if you recall 'd we had. we had david lammy who's a pollster on the show a couple weeks ago he says he doesn't think it's working but i'm watching just watch the poll it's closing in it's close especially in the in the in the battleground states. the party is working on their platform for 2020 and so far they're voting. which can say that they're voting against the popular proposals to appease their corporate donors give me the list top of the list to try to go after corporate donors on wall 'd street what is the platform say no medicare for all no legalize medical marijuana which both of these are programs that are supported by nearly 2 thirds of the public i think legalizing marijuana is even higher i t