jim axelrod reports. >> row stretched are school resources in letcher county, kentucky. this is a good place to start. actually, he does double duty at he elementary school. he's also the pribles at this school. >> have a great day, love you, bye. >> terry has six teachers for nine grades but the school still performs in the top 5% of the state. >> we have our challenges. we're doing our absolute best. we attempt to make a difference in every child's life. >> the school is certainly making a difference in nick sturgill's life. what's the best part. >> the teachers. they reach out to you. if they're feeling down they come and say hey are you feeling all right. >> have you ever had conversations like that. >> never here. >> nick is one of the 130 students at the school where 60ers percen% live below the poverty line. which one of you is a better student. >> sisters eat two meals each day and get sent home with extra food on weekends. do you think there's a connection between doing well in school and what you're going to be able to do in life. >> yes. >> with federal and st

i'm jim axelrod.n party quest to dismantle the affordable care act, the senate voted right down the middle, 50/50, to begin debate on an overall bill. it took vice president mike pence to break the tie. the star of the day, senator john mccain. suffering from brain cancer he made his way to washington to cast the vote to proceed, then he proceeded to give his colleagues a piece of his mind. >>> nancy cordes reports. >>> mccain went straight from the airport to the senate floor. where he cast a crucial vote to begin debate on the gop health care bill. >> mr. mccain aye. >> before unleashing some straight talk about its long term prospects. >> i will not vote for this bill as it is today. it is a shell of a bill. we all know that. we tried to do this with a proposal behind closed doors in consultation with the administration. then springing it on skeptical members trying to convince them that it is better than nothing. that it is better than nothing? i don't think that's going to work in the end. and pr

jim axelrod met up with the american mathletes on the road to rio. >> reporter: so the expected valueof the number is alway- >> reporter: the man in front of the class is no ordinary math teacher. >> this is so good. reporter: the kids in the chairs are no ordinary students. they are the u.s. team for the international math olympiad, the best high school math minds in the country. po shen loh is their coach. >> one can think of this as having the same role and inspiring people to do their very best in mathematics as the olympic athlete competitions have for sports. >> reporter: the son of immigrants from singapore, po was on the team in 1999. but when he took over three years ago, the united states hadn't won in 20 years. no surprise. when ranking students from 71 countries the u.s. tests in the bottom half, but at training camp in pittsburgh, on the campus of carnegie mellon, po has his mathletes build strong bonds out of the classroom as well as in. 17-year-old zach croman from san francisco is making his debut on the u.s. team. >> the team does a great job of supporting each other,

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here's jim axelrod. >> the stupidest people in east kentucky are right here in boyd county. >> reporter the name of the game for an aspiring professional wrestling villain is to generate the fan anger that fills the seats, like those enemies from the middle east or cold war soviets provoked years ago, than dan richards has it all figured out for this day and age in the wrestling hot beds of appalachia. >> the progressive liberal. >> reporter: richards is the progressive liberal. you feel this character. >> i mean, i am this character. >> thank god you can't vote, little girl. when i go drive through the hills of west virginia, or kentucky or tennessee, i wasn't seeing a bunch of hillary clinton campaign banners. i was seeing, "trump make america great again" which. >> reporter: which is why richards designed to don some "dump trump" trunks, a hillary collage t-shirt and call out the fans. >> i know you use government assistance and talk bad about the government that provides it for you. >> reporter: you have a signature move. >> yes. >> reporter: what's it called? >> the liberal agenda.

here's jim axelrod. >> that's one small step for man... >> reporter: neil armstrong's giant leap formoon allowed him to make several small scoops there, as well. >> he's got this little sort of little bag on the rim. >> reporter: collecting lunar dust and rocks in a specially designed decontamination bag to bring home. the rocks became national treasures. the bag not so much. forgotten about until resurfacing three years ago on a government auction web site that space enthusiast nancy carlson liked to check out. >> i did see a bag that was described as a lunar bag, a small one, with a number on it. and included the words "moon dust." >> reporter: she quickly slapped down her $995, and a week later, history arrived. >> it was like finding the holy grail. >> reporter: but found was almost lost again for nancy. just to be sure it was from "apollo 11," she sent the bag off to nasa so they could test the dust embedded in the fabric. >> a very powdery surface. >> and that's where things started to go off the rails, to put it nicely. >> reporter: nasa told carlson, yes, her bag had been to

jim axelrod, cbs news, new york. >> mason: it looked old, a million years old.t's the elephant he'll never forget. that's the "cbs evening news." i'm anthony mason in new york. thanks for watching. good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >>> tonight -- >> thank you. >> o.j. simpson wins his freedom. >> i have done my time. >> i'm outside what's being called the parole hearing of the century. only we have the reaction to the decision. >> this is not his final chapter of o.j. simpson. >>> then -- >> i'm a good husband. >> did kevin hart cheat on his pregnant wife? what he told us about the rumors. >> plus -- >> ask me if i've >> what you haven't heard. see our interview making headlines. >> our mug shots next to each other. >>> then ryan seacrest on his "american idol" return. >>> and thing you know celine dion? think again. you have never seen thpo

jim axelrod, cbs news, new york. >>> that's the overnight news for this friday. some you have the news continues for others check back later for the morning shows and of course "cbs this morning" for the broadcast center in new york city, i'm anthony mason thanks for watching. >> announcer: this is the c brks srs overnight news. >>> welcome to overnight news, the juice will be loose after nine years serving forearmed robbery. >> mr. simpson i do vote to grant parole when eligible and that will conclude this hearing. >> his relief was obvious. o.j. simpson, now 70 years old, would soon be free on parole. >> it was a serious crime, and there was no excuse for it. >> reporter: the hearing, via video conference, lasted more than an hour, as commissioners asked simpson how prison had changed him. >> are you humbled by this incarceration? >> oh, yeah. for sure. >> reporter: while expressing regret, he insisted it was others who decided to bring guns the day in las vegas they robbed two memorabilia dealers of items simpson believed had been stolen from him. >> i am no d

jim axelrod, cbs news, new york. >> mason: it looked old, a million years old.t's the elephant he'll never forget. that's the "cbs evening news." i'm anthony mason in new york. thanks for watching. good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org y car ♪ ♪ any make, any model, any age, any price ♪ ♪ from 50 bucks to 100 grand ♪ we buy any car ♪ any, any, any, any at webuyanycar.com, the gimmicks stop with our ads. trading in our selling your car is hassle-free with just three easy steps. one, get your free online valuation. two, drive to your local car buying centre. and three, walk out with your check in as little as 30 minutes. so don't wait. get your free online valuation now. ♪ find out how much your car's worth ♪ ♪ at webuyanycar.com >>> he's a hero to our country. here in the senate, he's a friend to almost all of us. >> arizona senator john mccain promises to return to work soon, even though he's battling an aggressive form of brain cancer. we're going

jim axelrod, cbs news, boyd county, kentucky. >>> that's the "overnight news" for this wednesday. some of you the news continues. for others check back a little later for the morning news and of course cbs "overnight news." from the broadcast center, i'm anthony mason. thank you for watching. >>> nancy cordes reports. >>> mccain went straight from the airport to the senate floor. where he cast a crucial vote to begin debate on the gop health care bill. >> mr. mccain aye. >> before unleashing some straight talk about its long term prospects. >> i will not vote for this bill as it is today. it is a shell of a bill. we all know that. we fritried to do this with a proposal behind closed doors in consultation with the administration. then springing it on skeptical members trying to convince them that it is better than nothing. that it is better than nothing? i don't think that's going to work in the end. and probably shouldn't. >> mccain was diagnosed last week with an aggressive form of brain cancer. as protests popped up across the u.s. capitol today, the 80-year-old senator said it

jim axelrod is following this. >> reporter: outside philadelphia this afternoon, police held up thiswanted poster, a drawing of the man driving this red pickup truck who allegedly shot and killed this 18-year-old recent high school graduate bianca roberson, in what appeared to be a traffic dispute. e omas hogan is the chester county, pennsylvania, district attorney. m a man in a red pickup truck pulled out a gun and shot her in the head, killing her. this is now a murder case. >> reporter: roberson and the man were merging into a single lane on a road in the town of west goshen, 25 miles west of philadelphia. west goshen chief of police joseph gleason. >> this homicide was completely senseless, brutal, and tragic. >> reporter: after she was shot, roberson's car veered off the road into a tree. this honor roll student had planned to start at jacksonville university in august. >> he shot my baby. >> reporter: today, her parents spoke to reporters. >> she was a good girl. loved by many. never bothered anybody. she was just a sweet girl. >> reporter: the driver is described as a man of m

here's jim axelrod.for the last few rknths, jude sparks has been ng somng some uncommon things-- uncommon for ten-year-olds, anyway. ll aow to tell a stegamastadon from a mammoth, how to tell tusk it.m bone, and... that's about it. >> reporter: jude has been working at an excavation site near his home in new mexico, digging up the fossilized remains of a prehistoric elephant ancestor called the stegamastadon. -ven more uncommon for a ten- , ju-old? jude discovered it. he and his family were out for a walk last november when he tripped and came face-to-face with what he thought was a cow skeleton. of he only part of the jaw i saw was the two teeth, this part art of bone and that part of the bone. or reporter: he called for his mom, michelle, to take a look. >> it was very unusual. we knew it was something. the coloring was different. it wasn't what you usually see. >> reporter: it looked old? >> it looked old, yes. >> reporter: so they called a professor at new mexico state, nfo confirmed it was a million

jim axelrod looked at the heartbreaking issue, several months back. >> let's do it. >> his name is samhile his high wattage smile. >> ha-ha. >> reporter: and infectious laugh, may remind you of a favorite nephew, there is virtually no chance you have ever met a kid like him. sam who will turn 6 this tuesday, is one of just 250 people in the world who suffer from vanishing white matter disease. a brain disorder that destroys white matter, the substance that helps transmit neural impulses and leads to the loss of motor control. ♪ happy birthday to you >> reporter: there is no cure. and the disease is typically fatal by the age of 10. every birthday feels like it is another year less that you have. >> don't turn six. then you are getting closer to 10. >> exactly. so much we want to do with him and see. >> allison buck and husband nick have kept careful track in the three years since their son's diagnosis, as sam's speech has slowed down. >> what is your favorite part of being in school? >> play time. >> reporter: his ability to walk, slowly reroding. leaving him now unable even to stand.

here's jim axelrod. >> that's one small step for man... >> reporter: neil armstrong's giant leap forankind onto the moon allowed him to make several small scoops there, as well. >> he's got this little sort of little bag on the rim. >> reporter: collecting lunar dust and rocks in a specially designed decontamination bag to bring home. the rocks became national treasures. the bag not so much. forgotten about until resurfacing three years ago on a government auction web site that space enthusiast nancy carlson liked to check out. >> i did see a bag that was described as a lunar bag, a small one, with a number on it. and included the words "moon dust." >> reporter: she quickly slapped down her $995, and a week later, history arrived. >> it was like finding the holy grail. >> reporter: but found was almost lost again for nancy. just to be sure it was from "apollo 11," she sent the bag off to nasa so they could test the dust embedded in the fabric. >> a very powdery surface. >> and that's where things started to go off the rails, to put it nicely. >> reporter: nasa told carlson, yes, her

jim axelrod reports from coal country eastern kentucky. >> how stretched are school resources in kentuckyr, freddie terry is a good place to start. oh, yeah. actually he does double duty at the elementary school. terry is the principal at the school. >> have a great day. love you. bye. >> terry has six teachers for nine grades. but the school performs in the top 5% of the state. >> we did have challenges. you are still doing it. >> doing our absolute best. in every child's life. >> the school is making a difference in nick's life. a 14-year-old 8th grader. >> what's the best part? >> the teachers. yeah, they reach out to you. like if you are feeling down. they will come and say, hey, you feeling all right. >> how often do you have conversations like that. >> i have them every day here. >> nick is one of 130 students at the school. 60%, live below the poverty line. >> okay. which one of you is a better student? >> sisters christen and cheyenne adams eat two meals each day at early boggs and get sent home on weekend. do you think there is a connection between doing well at school and what y

jim axelrod from cbs news went to meet her. it is one small step for man...designed decontamination bag, to bring home. the rocks became national treasures will stop the bag, not so much. forgotten about until resurfacing three years ago on a government auction website that space enthusiast nancy carlson liked to check out. i saw check out. isawa check out. i saw a bag described as a lunar bag sewn with a number on it, and the word, moon dust. and as soon as i saw it... when you saw that, your eyes must have lit up. that would be putting it nicely. she quickly slapped down her $995 and a week later history arrived. it was like finding the holy grail. but almost lost again the nancy. to be sure it was from apollo 11, she sent it to nasa so they could test the dust embedded in the bag. that is where things started to go off the rails to put it nicely. nasa told her, yes, the bag had been to the moon, but, no, they would not return it since they said it never should have been sold to start with. nancy had to sue to get her bag back. she won, though the other ste

i'm jim axelrod. >> i'm dana jacobson. are off this morning. >> hear what happened when someone brought up just who would pay for the wall. >>> then find out how a plan to divert a packet of a potentially dangerous asteroid is moving closer to reality. the design of an actual spacecraft now getting under way. >>> and had enough of trying to keep track of all those passwords? help is on the way. the devices we use may soon be going biometric. >>> but first our top story this half hour. we begin with the germany where president trump had his first face-to-face meeting with russian president putin in last year's meddling of the presidential election. secretary of state rex tillerson said the men agree the interference has become a hindrance to better u.s./russian relations. >> mr. trump is in hamburg for day two of the summit which wraps up today. major garrett is traveling with president. major, good morning. >> good morning. president trump vowing o deal with the issues in the united states having his first face-to-face mee

jim acosta, april ryan, michael isikoff and david axelrod are back with me. nted to weigh in. jim was saying how much longer the concern would be, how much longer republicans in washington would put up with this. go on. >> yeah, and i just want to offer a little bit of reality check. the fact is that as we sit here today, donald trump's numbers overall aren't particularly good, but his numbers among republicans are very strong, and they've been pretty consistent throughout. the base has stuck with him. there hasn't been as deep an interest in this story among his base. there's been more of an inclination to believe his story, and there's much more of an interest in other things that he's doing -- supreme court appointments and trade and immigration and some of the issues that fire up that base -- fighting obamacare. so, the real question is -- i think there are plenty of republicans on the hill who are dismayed, who would like to walk away from the president, but they're not going to walk away from a president who has 85% approval numbers among republican vote

so, david axelrod, we still don't know who jim is or even if he exists.e to rethink his options on paris right now. what do you think of that moment? >> well, i think the most interesting thing about it is how macron handled trump. he obviously had a strategy. he proffered the invitation for trump to come to paris. he knows that trump is warring with most of europe. he's at odds with chances lor merkel in germany. clearly marron has seized the opportunity here to try to forge a relationship and he knows that the way to do that is to tone down conflict and tone up the flattery. if you looked at that press conference, you could see a lot of that in action. a little bit of what prime minister justin trudeau of canada has done. the young guys have figured out how to game the president and understand if you treat him well, he will respond, he will heal as he did today. >> jennifer, what did you make of president trump taking a question from a chinese reporter instead of an american journalist, as is tucustomary, even after he was prompted by macron to take a q

axelrod. tell us more about the conversation. >> well, they were, jim.f you put it in context, and he told the story in the show of a guy who had been arrested 45 times as a young man, walking into the fires, putting his life at risk again and again to integrate lunch counters, public transportation, and yes, for the right to vote. so, all of this is very personal to john lewis because he lived the history that he was speaking about. it's a great conversation. i hope folks tune in tonight at 10:00. >> fascinating conversation. david axelrod, thank you. the axe files, a great program tonight at 10:00 eastern here on cnn. >>> ahead, a new interview with campaign advisor caputo. what did he tell house investigators about any russian connections? almost everything so we know how to cover almost anything. even a swing set standoff. and we covered it, july first, twenty-fifteen. talk to farmers. we know a thing or two because we've seen a thing or two. ♪ we are farmers. bum-pa-dum, bum-bum-bum-bum ♪ wenit gave me a leafput in the names almost right away. first