thanks to pva, my life is back on course.re, visit pva dot org. >>> we close with an update on a story cbs news has been following over a decade. partnership between a community in crisis and a nun who devoted her life to helping. don dahler says the bond has only grown stronger. these arizona students at st. peter mission school in the gila river indian community are running for their lives. adult on set diabetes once known as a disease of the elderly is affecting children here as young as 4. >> knowing capacity our people have for diabetes we start our day out with running. sister mary martha carpenter is the school's principal. >> we don't teach subjects. we teach children. we are giving them the skills, lifelong healthy habits. >> reporter: some of the 230 boys and girls enrolled in the k through 8 school are already clinically obese. a few tipping the scale at nearly 300 pounds. for thousands of years the pima indians lived off the land, farming this desert. after the gila river was damed in 1930 to provide water to near

thanks to pva, my life is back on course.earn more, visit pva dot org. >>> something as routine as ordering coffee turned nigh a gesture of compassion at a starbuck's in virginia. here's steve hartman on the road. >> for a deaf person like ibby peracha of leesburg, virginia, getting a drink at starbuck's can be a tall order. but ibby says not here, thanks to a barista who did something truly grande. >> when i came in. the first thing she did was wrote the note. i thought she had a question for me or something. it wasn't really a question at all. as i read through it, it shocked me. >> reporter: he posted this picture of the note which read -- i have been learning asl, american sign language, experience as everyone else. >> what can i get for you today? that barista is crystal payne. she is new here. in fact only waited on ibby once before deciding to go home, go on the internet and learn sign language for him. >> maybe i spent like three or more hours on it. >> reporter: getting ready to take one order? >> yeah, if he is a re

thanks to pva, my life is back on course. finding a new home on earth. a massive fuel tank left over from the shuttle program is about to make the final leg of its journey from new orleans to a los angeles museum. ben tracy reports. >> reporter: this thing is as tall as a 15-story building. so moving it around is not an easy task. and the journey to get here, well, it's been quite the trip. >> and lift-off. >> reporter: every space shuttle mission was propelled by a massive workhorse, a 66,000-pound fuel tank that blasted the shuttle into orbit. >> and separation from the external tank. >> reporter: it would then break off and disintegrate. but when the shuttle program ended, a single fuel tank remained, never having flown. the surviving shuttles all went to "endeavour" is now parked at the california science center in l.a. >> it's an amazing machine. so we wanted to show the whole thing and help explain how challenging it is to go to orbit. >> reporter: it's one thing to want a fuel tank. it's quite another to get it deliver

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thanks to pva, my life is back on course. to learn more, visit pva dot org.2th, 2016. this is "cbs morning news." mr. trump goes to washington. today the presumptive nominee meets with leaders who have been reluctant to rally behind him. a look at what tell take for both sides to call it a success. >>> with news helicopters hovering overhead, police pummel a surrendering suspect. the multistate chase that led up to this moment. >>> two mlb pitchers take their place in history books. one for what he did on the mound, another for what he pulled off at the plate. >>> we're in the middle -- we're

thanks to pva, my life is back on course. to learn more, visit pva dot org. >>> the top u.s. military commander for the middle east made a secret visit to syria over the weekend. army general joseph votel met with rebels and kurds fighting the assad regime and isis. today isis unleashed a series of bomb blasts along syria's mediterranean coast. more than 120 people were killed. elizabeth palmer reports isis hoped to rattle the dictator. >> reporter: no one caught up in today's deadly bombings believed this could happen in latakia, the heartland of the regime. home to president bashar al-assad's family, and to two russian military bases. until today, it secure part of the country. so much so that during our last visit we found syrians on the beach taking a break from the war. but today's carnage sends a message to syrians from isis. it is on the offensive and now nowhere is safe. but recent isis bombings like the one that ripped through baghdad two weeks ago may actually show that the group is on the defensive. just last week, it was chased out of the iraqi border and overall

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