mark strassmann has more in our "eye on america" series, "life & debt." >> i'm 76, going on 77 soon. this is a mountain that i will never be able to climb. i am terrorized. the truth is it's a terror. >> reporter: we met serafina galante on the campus of san diego state. is it fun to be back? >> yeah, i like this. >> reporter: she got her master's degree in her late 50s here. 19 years later she still owes almost $40,000 in student loans. more than 3 million people over 60 have student debt. some went back to school late. others paid for kids and grandkids. >> i was very confident that i would pay it back in, you know, due time. >> reporter: what's not working? >> we grow older and then we get more senior. that's reality of life. >> how is your well-being? how is your -- how are you doing? >> reporter: galante works as a family counselor. she has to work. the hole she's in keeps getting deeper. she showed us what went wrong. >> so there's the payment amount, the applied to principal -- >> which is zero. look at, that zero, zero, zero, zero, zero, zero, zero. it's almost all interest.

here's mark strassmann with part three of our "eye on america" series "life & debt." ♪ >> i love to teachbut i went back to school mostly for what my students could get out of it. touch their lives. >> reporter: you went into it with the absolute intent of giving back? >> oh, absolutely. you don't do that for the money. >> reporter: debbie baker is 56, a mother of two, and a career choir teacher. she directs the education program at a musical nonprofit in tulsa. every year, does this stack of paperwork get bigger? >> oh, yeah. >> reporter: this paperwork represents a 20-year struggle to pay off her student loans. she graduated from the university of tulsa in 1999. how much did you owe? >> it was right at about $35,000. >> reporter: but with deferments and interest, she now owes $80,000, more than double her original loan amount. >> i got on there one day and it said your loans will be forgiven if you die. well, that's nice. >> reporter: in 2007, congress passed the public service loan forgiveness program. public servants making ten years of qualifying payments would have their loan balanc

mark strassmann, cbs news, atlanta. >>> coming up on "cbs this morning" former fbi director james comeylevision interview since the release of the mueller report. >>> plus olympic skier bode miller tells us about a series of new public service messages to save children from drowning that you will see first on "cbs this morning." >>> and rupaul joins us in studio with his emmy-winning show, rupaul's drag race, and how it's shifted a larger cultural conversation. that's the "cbs morning news" for this wednesday. thanks for watching. i'm anne-marie green. have a great day. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> live, from the cbs bay hear studios, this is kpix 5 news. >> good morning, it is wednesday. i'm kenny choi. >> i'm michelle griego. >> let's get a check with mary lee. >> we're going to see sun as we head through the afternoon and temperatures will be warmer. starting off the day very similar to yesterday morning in the low to mid-50s. let's take you through the day. your microclimate forecast turning sunny. cool in the low 60s. for the bay mid-60s with mostly sunny skies, mild c

mark strassmann has more in our "eye on america" series, "life & debt." >> i'm 76, going on 77 soon.s is a mountain that i will never be able to climb. i am terrorized. the truth is, it's a terror. >> reporter: we met seraphina galante on the campus of san diego state. is it fun to be back? >> yeah, i like this. >> reporter: she got her masters degree in her late 50s here. 19 years later, she still owes almost $40,000 in student loans. more than three million people over 60 have student debt. some went back to school late; others paid for kids and grandkids. >> i was very confident that i would pay it back in, you know, due time. >> we grow older, and then weng? get more senior. that's the reality of life. >> how is your well-being? how is your-- how are you doing? >> reporter: galante works as a family counselor. she has to work. the hole she's in keeps getting deeper. she showed us what went wrong. >> so, there's the payment amount, the "applied to principal..." >> reporter: which is zero. look at that, zero, zero, zero, zero. it's almost all interest. >> right. >> raise the left h

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>> glor: okay, mark strassmann in atlanta. mark, thank you. a massive trade deal between the u.s. china is in jeopardy tonight. president trump is threatening to more than double the tariffs on chinese imports if the deal roug stocks fell sharply on the news today. the dow fell more than 473 points. ben tracy is at the white house with more on this. >> reporter: the nearly 500- point dropped closed out the second-worst trading day of the year, a sign that wall street is worried that its investment in a u.s.-china trade deal may not pay off. >> because the u.s. and china are the two largest economies in the world, any trade conflict that ensues will spill over to the rest of the world, and that ruld cause global growth to actually slow down. >> reporter: just last friday president trump sounded optimistic. >> we're getting close to a very historic, monumental deal. >> reporter: but now he's threatening new tariffs and his chief trade negotiators are accusing the chinese of "reneging on unspecified agreements." as of 12:01 this friday, president trump says he will raise tariffs from

here's mark strassmann.o. >> reporter: gatlinburg's new skybridge is tough to beat for a mountain panoramic. it spans 680 feet. every step stakes a claim as the best seat in the smoky mountains. randy watson oversees sky lift park. this bridge was his idea. >> it opened up a view that is unbelievable. >> oh, god. >> reporter: in 2016, the great smoky mountain fire nearly burned gatlinburg off the map. flames damaged or destroyed more than 2,000 buildings. 14 people were killed. how close did the flames get? >> oh, the flames came right across where you and i are sitting. >> reporter: right here. >> this was probably the hottest r:ot of this mountain right where you and i are sitting. >> reporter: bridge construction took nine months and three miles ti steel cable to build a platform across a ravine capable of holding 500 people at once. in the middle of the bridge there's a surprise in the deck-- 15 feet of clear glass. you can see straight down. it's like walking on air. and if you have any fear of arights

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mark strassmann, cbs news, gatlinburg, tennessee. >>> that's "the overnight news" for this wednesday. some of you, the news continues. for others, check back with us a little later for the morning news and of course, "cbs this morning." from the broadcast center here in new york city, i'm margaret brennan. ♪ >>> this is "the cbs overnight news." >> welcome to the overnight news. ohio is the latest state grappling with the aftermath of the severe weather that's been plaguing the nation's midsection. a string of tornadoes ripped through the state, including two monther twisters that devastated the suburbs about dayton. and the deadly weather is not over yet. dean reynolds has the story from dayton. >> tornado on the ground. wait for the power flashes. >> reporter: one storm after another, pummeled the nation's midsection, leaving a trail of despair and destruction and one death. some 53 twisters may have touched down across 8 states overnight. >> the tornado destroyed our house. >> reporter: in ohio and indiana, winds up to 140 miles per hour ripped homes from their foundations, razed r

i spoke with cbs reporter mark strassmann as he tackles the issue in a special series. >> not a single proposal in congress that has any level of bipartisan support for debt relief. rid tond away to make it work and that is the bind that so many people find themselves in. it's a $1.5 trillion issue in this country and that's kind of why we are doing this series because so many people find themselves stuck with these bills and trying to figure out how am i ever going to pay this thing off. >> you can watch the new life and debt series right here on kpix5. >>> we want to check in with mary lee right now. so cool to see the blue skies. >> just a spectacular day across the bay area and we will continue to warm up as we go through the next few days. a live look with our salesforce tower camera. of the blue skies, temperatures are warming up, in the low 70s in concord, looking at 63 in oakland, 66 in livermore, 62 in san francisco. san jose 68 hethason y. we have this strong ridge of high pressure moving even closer to us, and it will be the dominant weather feature as it builds and strength

mark strassmann reports. >> reporter: they still fly the official banner here since 1894. >> that's ale logo. we need a national symbol that's evocative, not provideographer active. >> reporter: she designed an alternative in 2014 that she says applies to all citizens. >> it's grassroots and also positive. >> her grand father was also provocati provocative. he's repeatedly voted against civilian rights and voting rights acts in the 1960s. >> he evolved over the course of his lifetime, but we have to authentically take in the whole d in a that harmed many mississippians. >> but today the stenis flag is a hit. more fly it than the state flag. cheryl washington bought one. she told us she'd never buy the state's current flag. >> it represents a negative part of history for me and my people. >> reporter: at a complete flag source, the stenis outsells the state's official flag 4-1. jim macintyre is the owner. >> i don't find a problem with it. some do, and some of the problem that people find with it i feel is legitimate and some is not legitimate. >> reporter: the last failed attempt to c

mark strassmann is there. >> reporter: here it is, the boeing 737 military charter, standing in the shallowers of the st. john's river, while a team of 16 n.t.s.b. investigators get a handle on what went wrong. >> we've got some challenges here because the aircraft, the bottom half of the fuselage, is covered with water. so we aren't able to get to all of the things that we need to get to. >> reporter: 143 people aboard flew through thunder and lightning on a return trip from cuba. passengers reported the plane bounced once while landing, then bounced again, before skidding from the runway to the river. you can see treadmarks in the grass leading to the water's edge. many people stood on the wings waiting for first responders and rafts. >> our immediate focus was getting the people to safety. when i arrived on scene, most of the passengers had been taken off the airplane. >> reporter: the plane was full of service members and private contractors who work at the u.s. naval station at guantanamo bay, cuba. no one aboard was critically hurt. 22 people went to the hospital for treatment. so wer

here's mark strassmann. >> this is my class, 2019. >> reporter: at morehouse college, billionaire investorobert smith's commencement speech included a congratulations card stuffed with cash. >> we're going to put a little fuel in your bus. my family is making a grant to eliminate your snt >>eporter: smiil e enbts of at graduating seniors. did you know it was coming? >> i had no idea. >> reporter: morehouse president david thomas. >> people were stunned. if you look at any of the film footage, you see the students turning to each other, what did he say? what did he say? >> for me, graduation was a text from my mama, are you serious? i'm like, he's serious. >> reporter: graduate dwytt lewis is from compton, california, where as a kid he was homeless. the 21-year-old business major danced across the stage. gone were $150,000 in student loans. >> i never imagined that i would essentially get a full ride for a college in my last 30 seconds of being an undergrad student. >> reporter: morehouse told us its students typically graduate owing $28,000 in student loans. that's on par with other histor

mark strassmann looks at the impacts on our special "eye on america" series, "life and debt." >> i'm $134,000. >> i owe $108,137. >> on minimum wage, two jobs wasn't enough. >> this will undoubtedly affect me far into the future. >> a huge part of every decision that i make.college. but nobody talks about the price. >> reporter: taylor smith is a millennial on the move at this houston tech company. buying a house, getting married and starting a family. >> my debt has continued to build up. i sack frificed the dream job t come home and pay bills. >> reporter: to pay for texas a&m, she worked full-time throughout college. and she cobbled together 11 student loans. >> probably $53,000 in student debt. >> reporter: did you understand what that number really meant? >> that number hit me for the first time last semester of college. it was the first time i saw the full balance. i had a panic attack. an actual panic attack. thinking, oh, my god. i got myself in $50,000 of debt? >> reporter: she had to quit her first job, her dream job,g i l. >> i was struggling to buy groceries. i was donati

mark strassmann reports. >> reporter: with one signature, georgia governor brian kemp, defiantly establisheds most restrictive abortion rights laws. >> we will not back down. we will always continue to fight for life. >> reporter: georgia's new law shreds the standard set in the landmark 1973 roe v. wade decision. the u.s. supreme court established a woman's right to an abortion until the fetus is viable outside the womb, roughly 24 weeks into a pregnancy. georgia's new standard, a fetal heartbeat, roughly six weeks in, before many women realize they're pregnant. state representative ed setsler, the bill's main sponsor. >> we have established that the child, in uniutero is a liv person. it gets full legal rights under georgia law. >> reporter: furious critics, including in the state's movie industry, now threatening a boycott. georgia became the sixth state to ban abortions in six weeks. courts struck out similar laws in iowa, north dakota and kentucky. expect fights in ohio, mississippi and georgia. >> i think it's a travesty. >> reporter: theresa thompson says georgia's law attacks roe v.

mark strassmann spoke with the man responsible for making the moonshot happen. >> nasa's mission withow has a new name and a new urgency. the artemis program intends to land astronauts on the south pole of the moon in five years. four years earlier than originally planned. it will be expensive, and nasa needs commercial and congressional support to pull it off. >> the eagle has landed. >> boy. >> reporter: 50 years ago this july two americans left the first footprints in lunar dust. no other country has matched apollo's moonwalkers. but five have sent probes and robots, including israel and china just this year. >> it's not by accident that so many countries around the world right now are going to the moon. and not all of them are going to the moon just to collect rocks. it's a strategic imperative that the united states has a presence there as well. >> reporter: when jim bridenstein became nasa's administrator last year, a planned moon landing was a decade away. >> ladies and gentlemen, that's just not good enough. >> reporter: but in march vice president mike pence lit a fire under

mark strassmann spoke with the man who is responsible for making the moon shot happen. od morning. nasa's mission pocked by fits and starts for decades, now has a new name and a new urgency. the artemis mission plans to land astronauts on the moon in five years, four years earlier than first planned. it's expensive and nasa needs commercial and congressional support to pull it off. >> the eagle has landed. >> boy. >> 50 years ago this july, two americans left the first footprints in lunar dust. no other country has matched apollo's moonwalkers. but five have sent probes and robots, including israel and china just this year. >> it's not by accident that so many countries around the world right now are going to the moon. and not all of them are going to the moon just to collect rocks. it's a strategic imperative that the united states have a presence there as well. >> when jim bridenstine became nasa's administrator last year, a planned moon landing was a decade away. >> ladies and gentlemen, that's just not good enough. >> but in march, vice president mike pence lit a fir

mark strassmann has more. >> reporter: it's known as the life act and yet another state's challenge to the legal milestone of roe v. wade, 1973 decision that made abortion legal in this country. and once the governor here signs this bill, lawsuits from opponents are guaranteed. >> we the state can recognize the life interest of these helpless children. >> reporter: stated setkl e spof bill. it would take effect next year and still allow abortions if the baby's life or mother's was in danger or in cases of rain or incest. >> but our current governor who claim the to want to move georgia forward is pushing this cruel punitive and regressive bill. >> reporter: abortion rights advocates like jen jordan say many women don't even know they're pregnant by six weeks. >> the intent is to make sure that women have absolutely no access to being able to get an abortion. >> reporter: georgia will be the sixth state to enact legislation banning abortions after six weeks. iowa and north dakota laws were struck down at the state and federal levels. similar bills enacted this year in kentucky, ohio and