i'm maurice dubois. this is our western edition.begin with breaking news in the shooting of david ortiz. officials in the dominican republic have just revealed the baseball superstar was not the intended target. he was shot by mistake. 11 suspects are under arrest, as ortiz recovers in boston. mola lenghi is in santo domingo with late developments. >> reporter: dominican attorney general jean alain rodriguez sanchez and national police director ney aldrin bautista say they now know everything in the shooting of former major league baseball all-star david ortiz. authorities say david ortiz was not the target. instead, it was another man at the bar wearing a similar outfit. ortiz was shot in the back at point-blank range as he sat with friends on the patio of the dial bar and lounge sunday june 9 in what appeared to be an ambush. police say the attack was a paid hit job. investigators say alberto miguel rodriguez mota, the so-called middleman who paid the gunman, is a known fugitive, but police have already arrested the alleged gunman

i'm maurice dubois. this is our western edition.sident trump is facing perhaps his biggest foreign policy challenge yet. iran shot down a u.s. surveillance drone today. this is iranian video purporting to show the missile striking the drone in the first direct military contact between the two nations in more than 30 years. where it happened is in dispute. iran says it was over its territory. the u.s. says the unmanned drone was over international waters. the president briefed congressional leaders today, but now the question is how to respond. david martin begins our coverage. >> reporter: the moment an iranian missile slammed into the american drone. then a corkscrew smoke trail as it fell tens of thousands of feet into the sea, a direct attack by iran on a u.s. military aircraft. >> iran made a big mistake. this drone was in international waters, clearly. we have it all documented. it's documented scientifically, not just words. and they made a very bad mistake. >> reporter: how will you respond, mr. president? how will you respon

i'm maurice dubois. this is our western edition.sident trump confirmed today that minutes before a planned attack against iran, he called it off. the president said the projected death toll of 150 people was too high. he said the plan was to hit three locations in response to iran's downing yesterday of an unmanned u.s. surveillance drone. david martin begins our coverage at the pentagon. >> reporter: if the president had gone through with the strike plan, this is what he would be looking at today-- pictures of two dozen cruise missiles launching from ships. but 10 minutes before they were scheduled to fire, he called it off, because, as he explained in an interview with nbc's "meet the press," he didn't like the answers >> i said, "i want to know something before you go. how many people will be killed?" in this case iranians. they said-- came back, said, "sir, approximately 150." >> reporter: the strike plan called for launching multiple missiles at each of three sites that were part of iran's air defense system, which would have b

i'm maurice dubois. this is our western edition.ther key member of the trump administration is leaving. today acting defense secretary patrick shanahan withdrew from the formal confirmation process even as tensions with iran are escalating. defense and eight other top administration jobs are now held by acting leaders, including homeland security and chief of staff. shanahan's exit comes as court and police records of domestic violence surrounding his divorce were brought to light. david martin has more on that. >> reporter: patrick shanahan and his wife kimberly divorced rcght years ago, a year after a run-in with police which began with this 911 call: >> my husband is throwing punches at me. >> reporter: according to court documents, he denied that and claimed she had punched him, giving him a bloody nose. when police arrived, she was the one charged with assault, which was later dismissed. after the divorce, fights over money and custody of the three children continued. in 2011, their 17-year-old son beat his mother with a baseba

i'm maurice dubois. this is our western edition.begin tonight with an image that many will find upsetting. it shows the dangers so many are willing to try to face to sneak into this country. a father and young daughter drowned in the rio grande. as the photo went viral, fingers of blame were pointed. here's the president today, sounding off on democrats. >> they want to have open borders, and open borders mean eanme, and open borders means people drowning in the rivers. >> dubois: omar villafranca is at the border with more on the people in this disturbing picture. >> reporter: it's a haunting image of desperation. oscar alberto martinez ramirez and his almost two-year-old daughter valeria, face down in south texas's rio grande. the child's arm is still holding on to her father's neck after they both drowned trying to cross into america. as the bodies were taken away, his wife tania can be heard sobbing. oscar's mother in el salvador broke down when she heard the news. >> ( translated ): the last message he sent me was on saturday.

i'm maurice dubois. this is our western edition.resident trump called new sanctions on iran hard-hitting. and this time he's taking direct aim at iran's supreme leader, ayatollah ali khomeini. the measures approved today are in part a response to iran's downing of a u.s. drone last week. the goal is to squeeze iran's economy further to get it to drop its nuclear program. paula reid has more on how the onctions will work. >> never can iran have a nuclear neapon. >> reporter: president trump is increasing pressure on iran by blocking supreme leader ayatollah ali khomeini and other top officials from using international banking systems. >> sanctions imposed through the orecutive order that i'm about to sign will deny the supreme leader and the supreme leader's office and those closely h hiliated with him and the office access to key financial resources and support. >> reporter: also targeted, eight iranian military commanders the trump administration says were responsible for shooting down a u.s. drone last week. iran's economy has alr

i'm maurice dubois. this is our western edition.assive victory rally in toronto for the raptors erupted into chaos today. gunshots set off a stampede of people running for safety. at least four people were shot. arrests have been made. the panic broke out as an estimated crowd of two million celebrated canada's first n.b.a. championship. don dahler has more. >> reporter: cell phone video shows a sea of screaming parade- goers fleeing the scene of a shooting. ( gunfire ) confusion turned to panic and chaos. ross rheaume was caught in the stampede. >> a bunch of people were getting trampled over and over again. people were running over the top of each other. >> reporter: toronto police tweeted word of the incident shortly after 4:00 p.m. "reports of a woman shot. people running from area. police/e.m.s. are on scene." police said there were four gunshot victims and two people in custody. >> this is crazy, yeah? >> reporter: at one point, the announcer interrupted the program to urge onlookers to stay calm, even as the raptor players re

i'm maurice dubois. and this is our western edition. we begin tonight with yet another shake-up in the trump administration, this time involving the agency that oversees immigration and the border. it comes after hundreds of migrant children were removed from a border protection facility in texas because of filthy conditions. now we're hearing some of those children are heading back there. there's a lot of confusion over these late developments, and jeff pegues sorts them out. >> reporter: as the federal government remains under fire for its treatment of migrant children, acting customs and border protection commissioner john sanders announced his resignation today just two just s after taking the job. every major homeland security agency that handles immigration es currently without a permanent leader. today president trsa prnot forced sanders out. >> i didn't speak to him. i don't think i've ever spoken to him actually. oo, we have some very good people running it. >> reporter: and he said he was concerned about reports of unsanitary

i'm maurice dubois. this is our western edition. the democratic front-runner spent today on damage control. joe biden defended his civil rights record one day after it was challenged in a heated exchange on the debate stage. kamala harris, the only black woman among the 25 candidates for president, went after biden for opposing in the 1970s federal intervention in school busing. ed o'keefe is following this. >> i want to be absolutely clear about my record and position on racial justice, including busing. i never, never, never ever opposed voluntary busing. >> reporter: former vice president biden today in chicago trying to explain away a tough moment for him in last night's debate. >> i did support federal action to address root causes of segregation in our schools and our communities. >> reporter: as a young senator in the 1970s, biden believed that busing wouldn't help achieve equal opportunity. he frequently spoke out about the issue, including at a press conference 42 years ago today. ea i don't think it should be left to any b

i'm maurice dubois. this is our western edition.he trump administration wanted to ask every person in the country whether he or she is an american citizen as part of the 2020 census. but today, in a 5-4 decision, the supreme court blocked that. the president vows to keep fighting, and there's a lot at stake. the census bureau predicts millions of immigrants would go uncounted if the question were on the form, and some states could lose seats in congress. more now from chief legal correspondent jan crawford. >> reporter: in a sharp rebuke of the trump administration, the justices said they would have to be naive to believe the rationale for adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census. commerce secretary wilbur ross said it would help enforce lbting rights. but chief justice john roberts called that explanation contrived. >> every single person in this sountry deserves took counted, plain and simple. >> reporter: it was a victory for immigrant rights groups who accused the administration of adding the question to deter non-citize

few world records under her belted, she's on track to impress many more people than that. >> maurice duboisnew york. >> quijano: impressive and inspiring. thats the cbs week be news for this sunday. later on cbs, "60 minutes." i'm elaine quijano at the broadcast center in new york. for all of us at cbs news, good ni t. >>> dark plumes of smoke paying over the county. a fire christoper wray roofing count and has shut down one lane. >>> a crash caught on surveillance video. what one neighbor said she saw. >>> this turns into a cluster hours longways denied entry and an over packed venue. why some told us they fear for their safety. good evening. >> we begin with the fire, drivers on highway four driving by this huge fire and large plume of traffic slowing down as the flames raged and not too long ago a firefighter was taken to the hospital with injuries. three alarm fire broke out at a lumber company. our reporter live at the scene with the latest. >> you can see some activity. they are still on scene. dousing the flames of a large fire at its peak can be seen for miles around. >> within the

. >> maurice dubois is here with a preview. >> hi there allen and veronica, here are the stories we are working on. >>> you will hear from the family of an immigrant father and daughter who drowned in the rio grande, we will also take you inside the texas border station where hundreds of young migrants were held. a mother beaten and hospitalized by the boy she recorded for bullying her son. and, an injured marine who won the purple heart in afghanistan gets thanks for his service. a free home tonight on the cbs evening news. >>> do you have a young athlete at home? here are tips to help them perform their best. choose a snack with carbs an hour before the games. when the action kicks up drink 2 to 3 big gulps of water every 15 minutes, and recover with food rich in carbs and proteins. recovery is an all-day process. to learn more see a sports medicine specialist. >> is sponsored by stanford children's health, access to excellence. >>> san francisco spca needs your help. >> summers one of the busiest time for the shelter and they are low on supplies and food. so, to encourage you to dona

antron mccay, kevin richardson, korey wise, and raymond santana recounted their experience to maurice dubois"cbs sunday morning." >> i'm hearing korey being physically beaten in the next room. and i'm immediately beyond afraid. >> reporter: a judge threw out the convictions in 2002, relying on d.n.a. evidence and a new confession from another man, but not until after the so-called central park five spent six to 13 years in prison. fairstein denies the confessions were coerced, and said there was "certainly more than enough evidence to support those convictions" for the attacks on several other victims that night. >> miss fairstein continues to miss the big picture points. >> reporter: attorney barry scheck helped start the innocence project, which represents defendants wrongfully convicted. >> if that videotaping had happened, from the time these young men got miranda warnings until the end of the interrogation, none of this would have happened. all of those coercive techniques would have been exposed. >> reporter: what is the lesson learned here? >> we have to check these interrogation tech

. >> reporter: just one week ago from his hospice room, alvarez hld maurice dubois he had stopped treatment, but wasn't giving up. >> so as long as god gives me the time, i'll be here, advocating. >> reporte lou alvarez was 53. lou alvarez spent three months down here in the aftermath of 9/11. iais part of the memorial is dedicated to rescue and recovery workers like him, who are all that hoping senate majority leader mitch mcconnell schedules a vote on the funding. mark? >> strassmann: remarkable man, kenneth craig, thanks. around the world today, a celebration of gay pride. in north macedonia, an historic day, as revelers celebrated their first gay pride parade ever. in paris, thousands to took the threets to show their pride, despite triple-digit heat. and tomorrow, several million people are expected to take part in new york city's gay pride parade. europeans baffled by american culture have something new to consider: one of baseball's most rabid rivalries. mee yankees and the red sox, today began a two-game series in london, the first major league baseball games ever played in europe.

korey wise, antron mccray, and yusef salaam recently recounted their experience with police to maurice duboisunday morning." >> i'm hearing korey being physically beaten in the next room. >> reporter: a judge threw out the convictions in 2002, relying on d.n.a. evidence and a new confession from another man, but not until after the so-called central park five spent six to 13 years in prison. fairstein denies the confessions were coerced and said there was certainly more than enough evidence to support those convictions for the attacks on several other victims that night. >> ms. fairstein continues to miss the big picture points. >> reporter: attorney barry scheck helped start "the innocence project," which represents defendants wrongfully convicted. what is the lesson learned here? >> we have to change these interrogation techniques, because there is too much coercive interrogation going on till this day. >> reporter: fairstein, now a best-selling author has been dropped by her publisher and is no longer serving on several boards, all since the premier of that netflix miniseries. >> brennan:

omhe brost cr in new cy, i'm maurice dubois. >>> this is the "cbs overnight news." >> welcome to the "overnight news." i'm david begnaud here at the broadcast center in new york city. you're either up late or up really early. either way, good to have you with us. the race for the democratic presidential nomination is now in full swing. more than two dozen democrats are battling to take on president trump in the 2020 election. that's more candidates than you can actually fit on one stage. so the party's first debate has actually been broken up into two parts, one last night, and there is going to be another one tonight. and still some of the long shots weren't even invited. here's what some of the candidates have to say. >> in my first n till honor asylum claims, that would put undocumented immigrants, as long as they haven't committed a serious crime, on a pathway to citizenship and get to the root honduras and guatemala and el salvador so that people can find safety and opportunity at home instead of coming to the united states to seek it. >> i will make sure that number one, we end

from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm maurice dubois. >>> this is the "cbs overnight news.">> welcome to the "overnight news." i'm don dahler. president trump officially kicked off his 2020 re-election campaign with a racous rally in orlando. it was standing room only at the 20,000 seat amway center. the president hopes the enthusiasm will spread to the rest of the state, which is crucial for his re-election hopes. >> and as long as you keep this team in place, we have a tremendous way to go. our future has never, ever looked brighter or sharper. [ cheers and applause ] the fact is, the american dream is back, it's bigger and better and stronger than ever before. [ cheers and applause ] >> major garrett met the president's campaign chief brad parscale, for a rare interview seen only on cbs. >> i think we win in an electoral landslide as of today. >> define an electoral landslide? >> i think even more electoral points than he had last time. >> he was extremely confident when discussing the president's chances in 2020, but he was not discuss leaked internal polls showing the p

richardson, korey wise, and raymond santana recently recounted their experience with police to maurice dubois on cbs sunday morning. >> and i'm hearing korey being physically beaten in the next room. >> reporter: a judge threw out the convictions in 2002, relying on dna evidence and a new confession from another man. but not until after the so-called central park five spent 6 to 13 years in prison. fairstein denies the confessions were coerced and said there was certainly more than enough evidence to support those convictions for the attacks on several other victims that night. >> ms. fairstein continues to miss the big picture points. >> reporter: attorney barry pr wchesen defendantthe nvted. >> what is the lesson learned here? >> we have to change these interrogation techniques because there's too much coercive interrogation going on till this day. >> reporter: fairstein now a best-selling author has been dropped by her publisher and is no longer serving on several boards, all since the premiere of that netflix miniseries. >> painful story. thank you very much, michelle. >>> coming up, we'r

from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm maurice dubois. >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight>>> welcome to the overnight news. i'm meg oliver. president trump turned up the economic heat on iran, imposing even more sanctions on leaders of the islamic regime. secretary of state mike pompeo is on a diplomatic mission in the region, trying to drum up support for an allied armada to protect tankers traveling through the persian gulf. paul reid has the latest. >> never can iran have a nuclear weapon. >> reporter: president trump is increasing pressure on iran by blocking supreme leader ayatollah ali khamenei and other top officials from using international banking systems. >> sanctions imposed through the executive order that i'm about to sign will deny the supreme leader and the supreme leader's office and those closely affiliated with him and the office access to key financial resources and support. >> reporter: also targeted, eight iranian military commanders the trump administration says were responsible for shooting down a u.s. drone last week. iran's economy has already been

from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm maurice dubois. >>> this is the "cbs overnight news." >> welcome to the "overnight news." i'm nikki battiste. more than two dozen democratic presidential hopefuls will be heading out on the campaign trail after round two of their nominating debate. ten of the candidates took to the stage last night in miami. here some of what they had to say. >> i believe that we must make public colleges and universities tuition-free and eliminate student debt, and we do that by placing a tax on wall street. >> every proposal that i have brought forth is fully paid for. >> and the one thing i agree on is we can make massive cuts in the $1.6 trillion in tax loopholes out there, and i would be going about eliminating donald trump's tax cuts for the wealthy. >> there is something else that doesn't get talked about in the college affordability debate. yes, it needs to be more affordable in this country to go to college. it also needs to be more affordable in this country to not go to college. you should be able to live well, afford rent, be generous to your