>> pelley: tim grew up in northern california. dad a lawyer, mom a teacher. >> bill shea: well, i come most every day and just have a little chat with tim. >> pelley: eleven years ago, at tim's funeral, mary noticed women she had never seen before. >> mary shea: where did these people come from, and why are they here? why do they care? >> pelley: the strangers were blue star moms, including nancy totman. how many of these funerals have you been to? >> nancy totman: 42 funerals. >> deb saunders: i can think of a couple of parents right off hand... >> pelley: deb saunders understood their isolation. >> saunders: you can express your sympathy, but you cannot empathize with someone unless you're walking in their shoes. and that's what i knew we had to do, was somehow gather these folks together, that they were better equipped in their journey to help one another. >> pelley: to gather the gold stars, deb saunders reached out retired marine major general mike myatt, the president and c.e.o. of the marines' memorl association. >> mike my

this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: confidential medical tests of american olympians were published online today after being stolen from the files of the world anti-doping agency. the agency, known as wada, says the hackers were in russia, which had seen many of its athletes banned for doping. margaret brennan is following this. >> reporter: four-time olympic golded s williams were among those whose medical files were hacked. their confidential records werel posted online by a team of hackers calling themselvesem "fancy bears," also known as tsar team. the hackers claim dozens of american sleets tested positive for doping and that these medalists in rio, "regularly used illicit strong drugs," like amphetamines andcit psychostimulants in order to win. but that was quickly dismissed t agency, which said the athletes had been granted a medical exemption to take the drugs in each case. venus williams said she was one of the strongest supporters of integrity in competitive sports and she followed the rules. the drugs were taken for legitimate medical reasons. gymnast simon

by cbs >> pelley: she's back. ? i feel good ? >> pelley: hillary clinton returns to the trail as the race tightens to a tie. also tonight, the death of a muslim recruit. the the marines call it sued. knows why. >> all evidence that have been provided so far indicate that his religion may have had a major role. >> pelley: a desperate call to 911 from the home of an alleged killer. >> pelley: and the wrigley field of dreams transplanted. >> see how my grass is doing genuflect? this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: 54 days to the the election and have a look at this-- a tie. a cbs news/"new york times" poll shows equal numbers of likely voters nationwide favoring hillary clinton and donald trump. but remember, the election is really about 51 separate contestco electoral vote. we'll tell you how that's shaping up. but first, clinton, home three days with pneumonia, appeared today in north carolina. and here's nancy cordes. >> reporter: clinton returned to the campaign trail with a wave and a tongue-in-cheek new

a month after the rescue, a this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: he is 70, she turns 69 next month, and if you add it up, donald trump and hillary clinton are the the oldest presidential election match-up in u.s. history. well, today, they revealed results from their latest checkups. clinton put out a lot of of detail but we didn't learn as much about trump. we have three reports tonight. first we'll go to nancy cordes on clinton. nancy. >> reporter: scott, we got a two-page letter from clinton's doctor, and int ihe says she several times since theeekend, and that she is recovering nicely from a mild, noncontagious bacterial pneumonia. overall, she says clinton is still fit to serve as president. the doctor's letter reveals that clinton first developed a low-grade fever, congestion, and fatigue, nearly two weeks ago. she was put on a short course of >> reporter: she didn't, and by last monday, clinton's congestion had worsened, and she developed a cough. >> got some water? >> yup. >> reporter: last friday, a ct scan revealed a small, middle lobe pneumonia. she w

this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: this is our western edition. donald trump stepped down today as the unofficial leader and most prominent member of the birther movement, conceding that president obama was born in the united states. but if trump's intention was to put the issue behind him 53 days before the election, it backfired loudly. here's major garrett. >> donald trump is nothing more than a two-bit racial arsonist, who for decades has done nothing but fan the flames of bigotry and hatred. >> we're not going to take it anymore. we will not elect a chief bigote of the united states of america. >> reporter: it's not just the birther myth. it's the way trump wrapped his >> nice hotel. >> reporter: trump lobbed one false charge and finally extinguished another. the birther allegation against the nation's first black president that trump has stoked since 2011 in interviews. >> why doesn't he show his birth certificate. his birth you are not allowed to be a president if you were not born in this country. >> reporter: and a torrent of tweets from

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this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. reporting tonight from hofstra university in hempstead, new york. >> pelley: this is our western edition. in a race that is approaching a tie, tonight could be a decisive moment. hillary clinton's poll numbers peaked in mid-august, and ever since her lead has been slipping with donald trump rising. now, as they meet in the middle, they will meet on this stage to break the deadlock. they're playing to a tough crowd, millions of americans who say they don't trust either one. but with the mix of politics, celebrity and anything-can- happen unpredictability, the audience could set a record. we'll have the entire debate right here live on cbs tonight, but in the meantime, we have extensive coverage and we'll begin with nancy cordes covering hillary clinton. >> reporter: scott, clinton often says that she likes to do her homework, and today she did it right up until it was due, with one more prep session at a hotel near her home. her campaign says it's worried that trump will be graded on a

: steve hartman on this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: in a presidential campaign more about insults than ideas, it has come to this-- the biggest issue today of a beauty queen of 20 years ago, and donald trump's treatment of her. in the wee hours of the morning, while most of us were sleeping, trump was wide weak launching a twitter tirade. can hillary clinton was quick to fire back, and here is major garrett. >> ts eastern with donald trump condemning unsourced reporting about his campaign as lieses. at 5:15 a.m., to the dismay and bafflement of his top advisers, trump turned to alicia machado, and the week-long debate over trump's mocking of the 1996 miss universe winner's post-pageant weight gain. trump called machado "disgusting" and urged his nearly 12 million twitter tape of machado, the first time a presidential nominee recommended pornography to his voters. trump said:: machado has appeared twice in mexico's "played boy "magazine. trump's allegation of a sex tape appears to be a reference to a spanish-language reality tv show. on instagram, machado respond

she loves you yeah, yeah, yeah this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: less than 50 hours after the first explosion, e police arrested a suspect todayc in the bombings in new york and new jersey. he is ahmad khan rahami ofn elizabeth, new jersey, a naturalized u.s. citizen from afghanistan. bomb led to a manhunt, and rahami was captured after a shoot-out in linden, new jersey. rahami faces five charges of attempted murder in that shooting, and federal prosecutors are preparing terrorism charges.te we have a team of correspondents covering the bombings. first we'll go to jeff pegues. >> reporter: about three hours after police sent out a massive cell phone alert with the suspect's name, ahmad khan [gunfire] you can hear the gunfire during a shoot-out with police. the 28-year-old suspect ended up on the rain-soaked pavement, bleeding from the arm, as he was taken to the hospital. the arrest brought an end to a weekend of terror. [explosion] on saturday evening at around 8:30 p.m., a bomb exploded onx west 23rd street in manhattan. the force of the shrapnel-packed bo

this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley, reporting tonight from washington. >> pelley: this is our western edition. each day, more than a million and a half people commute into manhattan, in a complex choreography that moves before the sun. but this morning, a new jersey transit train that should have been crawling into its final stop, instead bolted through a barrier and rammed into the waiting area of hoboken terminal, collapsing part of the century-old building. only one person was killed, but 108 others, including the engineer, were injured. jim axelrod is in hoboken, just across the hudson from manhattan. >> reporter: it was the height of rush hour this morning in a station 15,000 commuters pass through each day when, at 8:45, chaos engulfed the new jersey transit terminal in hoboken. this is what train number 1614, stuffed with commuters, looked like as it approached. eyewitnesses say it was moving at a high rate of speed when it failed to stop. beyond the td the station, it continued beyond the tracks, sending the four cars crashing through a main concourse barrier, t

. >> pelley: this is our western edition. a spokesman for hillary clinton's campaign says today that she is expected to be back on the campaign trail later this week. in the meantime, she's following her doctor's advice and resting at home in chappaqua, new york as she battles pneumonia. clinton canceled a trip to the west coast. in for her tomorrow. the former secretary of state's campaign has been criticized for saying little about her illness. here's nancy cordes. >> reporter: as clinton rested at home today, republicans an even some democrats diagnosed her with a case of undue secrecy. obama campaign strategist david axelrod asked what is the cure for an unhealthy penchant for privacy?" >> in retrospect, we probably could have released more >> reporter: clinton press secretary brian falen. whose decision was it not to reveal the diagnosis of pneumonia on friday?si >> she made the decision that she wanted to power through, keep her schedule and because she didn't think it was going tt affect any of her activities, she just

>> pelley: today the u.s. capitol's great rotunda reopened after a 13-month, $97 million project to save the capitol dome. >> congratulations to you. >> pelley: this was the first tour today to bend over backward to see george washington ascending into heaven. this start a year ago of the scaffolding and drapery that were used to reor the the ironwork, install lighting and repaint the fading fresco. this is all original, it's all 150 years old? >> yes, it is. >> pelley: the head of the project is stephen ayers, the architect of the capitol. he took us up the dome for "60 minutes" before the work began. this is the top. >> it's the top. what a beautiful view. the dome was built of the high-tech material of the 1806s, cast iron, but pieces were falling, and there were more than 1,300 cracks. >> it looks magnificent and beautiful from the ground, but when you get up close, there's rust all over it and broken pieces, and some of these are big, 40, 60, 80-pound pieces of >> pelley: so the dome was covered in scaffo

this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: 54 days to the the election and have a look at this-- a tie. a cbs news/"new york times" poll shows equal numbers of likely voters nationwide favoring hillary clinton and donald trump. but remember, the election is really about 51 separate conte electoral vote. we'll tell you how that's shaping up. but first, clinton, home three days with pneumonia, appeared today in north carolina. and here's nancy cordes. >> reporter: clinton returned to the campaign trail with a wave and a tongue-in-cheek new theme song. ? i feel good. i knew they would ? >> reporter: determined to send a message that she's on the up. ( cheers and applause ) i'll never walk away, no matter how tough the going gets. i'm actually asking americans to hold me accountable for my ideas and hold my opponent accountable for his. >> reporter: when it comes to those ideas, the new cbs news/"new york times" poll find voters think clinton would do a better job handling terrorism, immigration, and foreign policy. but they say trump would do a that's their number one issu

: you went to iraq. >> anderson: yes, sir. >> pelley: as a civilian?on: it was a need for me, it was more than just a want. >> pelley: mike anderson, jr. joined the marines the minute he got out of high school. in 2004, 11 days before christmas, he was shot retaking the city of fallujah. the burden that you have is unbearable. >> anderson: at times, yes sir. >> pelley: but when you come to this event, you take on the unbearable burdens of another 100 families. >> anderson: my son went abroad to help people that he'd never met, that he would probably never ever see again. it's just that, in some ways, its human nature to want to help others. >> myatt: and people asked me, "what do you say to the gold star parents?" i say, "well, you don't have to say anything to them, just ask them, 'tell me about your son or your daughter'." man, they will just talk. they will just tell you all they can about the son or daughter. and it's really something. i wished i had known this as a young officer. because i went to vietnam and i had people killed out of my platoon.

this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: this is our western edition. today, the family of keith scott released video taken by his wife as he was shot to death by a police officer in charlotte, north carolina. the video does not show the shooting, but it captures the sound. >> drop the gun! >> keith, don't do it. >> drop the gun! >> keith, get out of the car. keith, keith, don't you do it! don't you do it! keith! keith! keith, don't you do it! ( gunfire ) ( bleep ), did you shoot him!? did you shoot him!? did you shoot him!? he better not be-- scott family said, "we encourage everyone to reserve judgment until all the facts are known." scott was killed tuesday in the parking lot of an apartment complex by an african american officer who was there to arrest someone else. here's david begnaud. >> don't shoot him. don't shoot him. >> reporter: the cell phone video begins with keith scott's wife, rakeyia scott, recording while moving towards the officers. >> he has no weapon. he has no weapon. >> reporter: police appear not to respond to her while focusing

this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: a battle that started a board an aircraft carrier catapulted into a dogfight today. donald trump and hillary clinton appeared separately last night at a forum apord the u.s. "intrepid" museum in new york. we learned more about how they intend to fight america's enemies and each other. nancy cordes begins our coverage. >> it's a game to him. everything is a game. >> reporter: clinton argued that's the only explanation for some of trump's claims last night. >> the generals have been reduced to rubble. >> reporter: he called military leaders "embarrassing," and claimed the u.s. should have seized iraq's oil reserved when >> how were we going to do that? >> you would leave a certain group behind and you would take various section where's they have the oil. >> the united states of america does not invade other countries to plunder and pillage. we don't send our brave men and women around the world to steal oil. >> reporter: president obama, traveling in laos, said it shows trump is unqualified. >> and every time he speaks, that op

>> pelley: nancy cordes, thanks. major garrett is on the trump campaign. >> we cannot let this evil continue. >> reporter: donald trump labeled the attacks islamic deplorables. >> hillary clinton talks tougher about my supporters than she does about islamic terrorists, right? >> reporter: this was trump's initial assessment of saturday night's explosion in new york city. made less than an hour after the blast. >> a bomb went off in new york, and nobody knows exactly what is going on, but, boy, we are living in a time, we better get very tough, folks. jumped the gun on investigators, who had not yet determined a cause. still, trump's first take was vindicated, a point he celebrated. >> i should be a newscaster because i called it before the news, but what i said was exactly correct. and everybody says, while he was right, he called it too soon. okay. give me a break. >> reporter: trump said if elected he would temporarily halt immigration from countries with extremist violence. trump said 858 immigrants with mistakenl

this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: this is our western edition. with labor day over, hillary clinton and donald trump went to work on each other. today's the starting line in what is now a nine week race for the white house. and with time running short, they pulled no punches. we begin tonight with major garrett covering the trump >> for the first time since the democratic national convention, a national poll gives donald trump a narrow two-point lead over hillary clinton, something the poll-conscious nominee noticed during a stop in virginia beach. >> it's good psychology, you know, good psychology. i know that for a fact, because people that didn't call me yesterday, they're calling me today. so, that's the way life works, right? but i think we're doing very well.hi clin down six, and clinton retainsan important polling andza organizational advantages in battleground states.ta clinton's state-by-state leads give her an edge according to cbs projections in the pursuit of the 270 electoral votes required to win the presidency. trump's campaign unv

this is the "cbs evening news" >> pelley: this is our western edition. tonight, as doctors treat ahmad rahami for gunshot wounds, prosecutors filed federal terrorism charges against him. earlier today, we learned that the man arrested in the weekend bombings in new york city and seaside park, new jersey, had been, at one time, on the f.b.i.'s radar. homeland security correspondent jeff pegues begins our coverage. >> reporter: two years before the bombings, ahmad khan rahami's f police that his son might be a terrorist. t. >> reporter: and what did you tell them? >> reporter: a senior law enforcement official tells cbs news that rahami's father, mohammed, called his son a terrorist during a heated argument at the family's new jersey home, so heated that police were called to the house. but the father later recanted his statement, and the f.b.i. never spoke with ahmad rahami lawyer. today, the f.b.i. said it conducted internal database reviews, interagency checks and multiple interviews of ahmad rahami, none of which revealed ties to terrorism. after raham

talk to your doctor or pharmacist about your risk. >> pelley: on average, eight >> pelley: on average, eight kids are killed each year getting on or off a school bus. now, drivers who ignore the flashing lights and stop signs are being caught in 15 states by cameras on the bus. mark strassmann takes us to school. >> reporter: when the school bus in austin stopped two weeks ago, miles mcfadden got off. a pickup truck barreled into th. seventh grader. hi and i expect him to stop, but he doesn't. and everything just goes into a blur. >> reporter: he was bruised, but otherwise fine. amy mcfadden is miles' mother. >> it's just your heart drops into your feet, and you just can barely breathe when you're watching that. >> reporter: the very next day, another driver in austin plowed into a high school junior getting off a school bus. amazingly, he was also fine. by one estimate, american drivers illegally pass school buses with their stop signs out more than 14 milliim in february, austin mounted exterior cameras on 320 school buses. when the bus stop signs come out, five cameras start record

captioning sponsored by cbs >> pelley: the early warning about the bombing sudden. what ahmad rahami's father told the authorities two years ago and why that case was closed. also tonight, the wells fargo fraud scandal. the top man at the bank is called to account. >> i am deepl failed to fulfill our responsibility to our customers. >> pelley: the costly mistake a.a.a. says that millions are making when they fill their gas tank. and brangelina, it's all over. hollywood's ultimate power couple splits. >> pelley: tonight, as, t doctos treat ahmad rahami for gunshot wounds, prosecutors filed federal terrorism charges against him. earlier today, we learned that the man arrested in the weekend bombings in new york city and seaside park, new jersey, had been at one time on the f.b.i.'s radar. homeland security correspondent jeff pegues begins our coverage. >> reporter: two years before the bombings, ahmad khan rahami's father says he warned police terrorist. >> reporter: and what did you tell them? a senior law enforcement official tells cbs news that rahami's father, moh