cbs's mark strassmann has more. jasmin moghbeli, making her dream happen in the cokcosmos.ou've been playing the long game. >> yes. in his sixth grade yearbook, there's that page of what everyone wants to be, and mine says astronaut. >> reporter: astronaut camp as a teenager. the daughter of iranian political refugees. college at m.i.t. she played three spots, including basketball. and with space in mind, studied air nautical engineering. then, a gucareer as a marine attack helicopter pilot. more than 150 combat missions. part family tradition, part service to country, part in service to those space dreams. >> i never wanted to close the door to becoming an astronaut and mill tour service was not closing that door. >> go falcon, go dragon, go crew seven. >> reporter: a 40-year-old mother of two, commanding an international crew of four. >> the fact that humans go to space at all is still really mind blowing to me. >> reporter: and what about that view? >> yes. the view back at earth, every astronaut i've talked to has said, looking back at earth changed their perspective. i

mark strassmann, thank you. >>> now to a tragedy on the southern border. mexican authorities have recovered the bodies of two possible drowning victims in the rio grande. cbs's omar villafranca reports one of the bodies was found near a floating barrier that was recently installed by the texas government to deter migrants. >> reporter: the two bodies were discovered in this remote stretch of the rio grande. the first migrant from honduras was found by texas troopers tangled on the controversial floating barrier buoys. later, mexican authorities found another body three miles upstream. officials are investigating what led to their deaths. he spoke to his emotional mother, who says he was her oldest son. before he left, she told reporters he gave her one last hug and said, "we can't keep starving here. i have to go." mexican officials blame the drownings on the barriers. a spokesperson for texas governor greg abbott disagrees, saying the mexican government is flat-out wrong. to be clear, preliminary information points to the drowning occurring before the bod

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mark strassmann, cbs news. >>> i.s.i.s. has confirmed the death of its leader, the extremist group announced abu hussein al husseini al quraishi was killed in a gun battle in syria. they did not say when he died. in april, turkey's president said turkish intelligence agents killed the i.s.i.s. leader, but i.s.i.s. denied it. a replacement has already been named. >>> and the ousted president of niger is describing himself as a hostage in an opinion piece for "the washington post." he was overthrown in a military coup last week writing in the "post" that he was one of hundreds of citizens who have been arbitrarily and illegally imprisoned. he called on the u.s. government and the entire international community to help restore constitutional order. >>> hundreds of thousands of people turned out to welcome pope francis at the opening day of world youth day, the festival in portugal. the 86-year-old waved at the crowd. the pope who was hospitalized twice this year has said that he hoped to be rejuvenated by his five-day trip to

here is cbs's mark strassmann. >> reporter: l.a.owling alley. 11,000 city employees, all union servic workers are staging a 24-hour walk out. they are indignant, contract talks with the city have sputtered. >> think of all of this as a warning shot. a 24-hour reminder of what disruption feels like. custodian phyllis stringer echoes the frustrations of hundreds rallying outside city hall. double trouble, low wages, high inflation. >> we need some help. >> reporter: you are working too hard to make into little? >> yes, yes. we need a lot more employees to come out and work. >> no contract. >> no action. >> reporter: and two hollywood themes have struck the set. with all studio production has stopped. what is scarce here is insight into an end in sight. l.a.'s labor actions just the latest in america's summer of strikes. widespread walkouts from nurses to bury status. nearly 340,000 union strikers this year, more than ten times the number just two years ago. one unusual demand here, filling existing job openings to ease workloads. >> i

here's cbs's mark strassmann. >> reporter: l.a. is a city counting strikes like a bowling alley. 11,000 city employees, all union service workers, are staging a 24-hour walkout. they're indignant. contract talks with the city have sputtered. think of all this as a warning shot, a 24-hour reminder of what disruption feels like. >> here in l.a., it's the cost of living. >> reporter: custodian phyllis stringer echos the frustrations of hundreds rallying outside city hall. double trouble -- low wages, high inflation. >> we need some help. >> you're working too hard and making too little? >> yes, yes. you know, we need a lot more employees to come out to work with the city. >> reporter: more walkouts. two hollywood unions have struck the set. without the more than 75,000 actors and writers, all studio production has stopped. what's scarce here, insight into an end in sight. l.a.'s labor actions just the latest in america's summer of strikes. widespread walkouts from nurses to baristas. nearly 340,000 union strikers this year, more than

major. >> major: so very sad, mark strassmann, thank you. was sentenced to nearly five years in prison today for aiding and abetting manslaughter in the 2020 killing of george floyd. at the sentencing tou thao defended his action saying he did not do anything wrong. the judge imposed a harsher sentence than prosecutors suggested saying he hoped to the former officer would've shown more remorse. floyd skilling sparked nationwide protests. ukraine security service as a woman is under arrest for an alleged assassination plot against president zelenskyy. cbs's ramy inocencio has the latest from odesa. >> reporter: in a filing tonight, trump's push back against prosecutors and the request to limit what the former president can say. arguing it is in effect asking the court to censor his political speech. the report from prosecutors came as trumps attacks against special counsel jack smith are standard on the political trail. >> he is a deranged human, and those indictments aren't worth the paper they are written on. >> reporter: in a social media

major. >> major: indeed, mark strassmann, thank you.rk, city's union square last friday is estimated at $200,000 according to cbs new york. chaos broke out when thousands of teenagers showed up for a giveaway promoted on social media. the crowd ripped down construction barriers and damaged vehicles in a new entrance to a subway station. influencer kai sinnott has been charged with inciting a riot. police are scrubbing video of the incident and intend to make more arrests. the divided supreme court today sided with the abundance of ministrations crackdown on so-called ghost guns, or firearms without serial numbers. cbs's ed o'keefe reports on the significance of the ruling as the use of these untraceable guns rises. >> reporter: police nation wide say ghost guns are a big reasons violent crime has sparked in city's recent years. and they use school shootings in california, maryland, and elsewhere. ghost guns can be bought online, some with a 3d printer, and without serial numbers making them harder to track. today the supreme court with

for more on the extreme weather across the country here's mark strassmann. >> reporter: hilary's now mexico and soon, why southern californiaens could feel like south floridians. tropical storms are rarities here. the last one, 1939. >> it's crazy. never seen anything like this and i've lived here my entire life. >> reporter: forecasters predict the storm could dump up to a year's worth of rain if one day. it's another 2023 weather moment. extraordinary, ominous, an one many experts pin it in part on our changing planet. on maui, charred and scarred, two words probably share the same space. hawaii. the death toll 114 and rising. most of the fire zone has been searched. the governor says climate change helped fuel those flames. >> the consequence of global warming and storm change is changing things, but we've never had anything like this near a city. >> reporter: winds from hurricane dora and then south of maui, pushed fires across an island suffering a flash drought. >> it took less than a single day for us to lose lahaina in the deadliest fire our country has seen in more than a ce

cbs' mark strassmann has more in-depth, reporting on how l.a.isis. >> this is a three-day eviction notice. >> reporter: suzy rossman's rattled by reality. the bill always comes due. how much do you owe in back rent? >> $9,000. >> reporter: can you pay that back? >> as slowly but not how they want it. so no. >> reporter: rozman got breast cancer, lost her teaching job, fell behind eight months on her rent. just in los angeles, thousands of tenants had rent waived during the first 19 months of the pandemic. many owe a small fortune. l.a.'s typical rent nearly $3,000 a month. a 75% jump since the pandemic began. and the eviction moratorium on back rent has expired. >> good afternoon. legal aid foundation. >> reporter: at the legal aid foundation of los angeles, calls for help can wait three hours. >> it's very hard for folks who are barely making it. >> reporter: how would you describe mood on the other end of the phone? >> it's all coming due in like a balloon payment. it's terrifying, frightening for most of them. >> reporter: in l.a. county alon

major. >> major: so very sad, mark strassmann, thank you.icer was sentenced to nearly five years in prison today for aiding and abetting manslaughter in the 2020 killing of george floyd. at the sentencing, tou thao defended his actions saying "he did not do anything wrong." the judge imposed a harsher sentence than prosecutors requested, saying he hoped that the former officer would show more remorse. floyd's killing sparked nationwide protests. not to the growing legal troubles of donald trump. federal prosecutors want to limit what the former president or his lawyers can publicly discuss when it comes to evidence in the january 6 case. cbs's robert costa reports late today that trump's attorneys weighed in saying that request goes too far. >> reporter: in a filing tonight, trump's lawyers push back against prosecutors and the request to limit what the former president can say. arguing it is in effect asking the court to censor his political speech. the request from federal prosecutors came as trump's attacks against special counsel jack sm

cbs's mark strassmann reports three people were killed when one of the choppers crashed. >> reporter:he fallen, the sorrow growing in the california desert. nothing warned of a triple fatality. it was a simple three-acre brush fire, early evening, good visibility. six cal fire choppers responded. two collided en route. >> this was a tragic loss for the community, the fire service community. >> reporter: a sikorsky skycrane helicopter like this, capable of carrying more than 2,000 gallons of water, crashed midair into a smaller bell observational helicopter like this one, carrying the three men who were killed. contract pilot tony sousa and two cal fire veterans, 44-year-old captain tim rodriguez and 46-year-old assistant chief josh bischof, here on facebook ironically talking about aircraft separation. >> we're responsible for maintaining separation between the fixed-wing air tankers and also the rotoring helicopters. >> reporter: why these two helicopters flew close enough to collide will be a focus of this investigation. so here's the latest. ntsb investigators will now sort out the

mark strassmann, thank you. >>> now to some breaking news.shot and killed early this morning during an fbi raid on his home. cbs' ed o'keefe reports the agents were attempting to serve an arrest warrant after the man allegedly threatened to kill president biden, his family and several others, including former president obama. >> reporter: according to court filings three days ago, craig robertson posted he heard biden was coming to utah. robert on the made a threat, saying he would be cleaning the dust off the m-24 sniper rifle. a.t. smith iss the former secre service deputy director and cbs consultant. >> i think this is about as extreme as it gets when we're talking about someone like this who is either a solele participt or a lone e wolf. >> repororter: earlyly wednesda sourceces tell cbsbs news an f team tried t to arrest r robert at his provo, utah home, less than an hour's drive where the president is traveling tonight. some kind of confrontation ensued, and robertson died in a shootout. the fbi had been investigating robertson for five

cbs's mark strassmann has more in depth, reporting on how l.a.his is a three-day eviction notice. >> reporter: susie rozman's rattled by reality. the bill always comes due. how much do you owe in back rent? >> $9,000. >> reporter: can you pay that back? >> as slowly, but not how they want it. so, probably -- no. >> reporter: rozman got breast cancer, lost her teaching job, fell behind eight months on her rent. just in los angeles, thousands of tenants had rent waived during the first 19 months of the pandemic. many owe a small fortune. l.a.'s typical rent, nearly $3,000 a month. a 75% jump since the pandemic began. and the eviction moratorium on back rent has expired. >> good afternoon, legal aid foundation. >> reporter: at the legal aid foundation of los angeles, calls for help can wait three hours. >> it's very hard for folks who are barely making it. >> reporter: how would you describe the mood on the other end of the phone? >> it's all coming due on like a balloon payment. it is frightening and terrifying for most of them. >> reporter: in l.a

mark strassmann, thank you. now do some breaking news.this morning during an fbi raid on his home. cbs's ed o'keefe reports the agents were attempting to serve an arrest warrant after the men allegedly threatened to kill president biden, his family, and several others, including former president obama. >> reporter: according to court filings, just three days ago, craig robertson posted present biden was coming to utah. robertson made a threat, saying he would be cleaning the dust off the m24 sniper rifle. a.t. smith i is a former secret service deputy director and cbs news consultant. >> i think this is about as extreme as it gets when we are tatalking about someone like th, whwho is s either a solole partt or a lonee w wolf. >>>> reporter: e early wednenes, sourcess tell cbs news s an fbi team t tried to a arrest robertn in his provo, utah, home less than an hour's drive from where the president is traveling tonight. some kind of confrontation ensued, and robertson died in a shooting. the fbi had been investigating robertson for five mon

>> norah: very serious charges, mark strassmann, thank you.as handed out today to the white national gunman behind the deadliest attack on jewish people in u.s. history. robert bowers made anti-semitic rants online before killing 11 worshipers at the tree of life synagogue in pittsburgh. seven other people were wounded in the 2018 attack. now to a tragedy on the southern border, mexican authorities have recovered the bodies of two possible drowning victims in the rio grande. cbs's omar villafranca reports one of the bodies was found near a floating barrie that was recently installed by the texas government to deter migrants. >> reporter: the two bodies were discovered in this remote stretch of the rio grande. the first migrant from honduras was found by texas troopers tangled on the controversial floating barrier buoys. later, mexican authorities found another body 3 miles upstream. officials are investigating what led to their deaths. [sobbing] spoke to his emotional mother, who says he was her oldest son. before he left, he told reporters he

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