this is the "cbs evening news." >> quijano: good evening. i'm elaine quijano. as america celebrates independence day, president trump is facing his greatest foreign policy test to date. overnight north korea launched its first intercontinental missile, one that could potentially strike parts of the united states. moments ago, secretary of state rex tillerson strongly condemned the launch and called for global action to stop the threat. mr. trump tweeted about the north's leader, kim jong un, "does this guy have anything better to do with his life?" we have two reports beginning with david martin. >> reporter: it was the nastiest kind of firework, a north korea intercontinental ballistic missile capable of reaching at least part of the united states. the mitchell only traveled 600 miles because it was launched at an extremely high angle, but it flew for 37 minutes, long enough to be an intercontinental missile. had it been launched on a standard trajectory, it would have carried over 4,000 miles, far enough to reach alaska. in january when north korean dictator

>> quijano: david martin, thanks. nan tracy in beijing has more on the role china may play in this. >> reporter: north korean state television's most famous news anchor triumphantly announced what the country called "an historic event." and just moments later, the chinese government urged restraint. a foreign ministry spokesperson said north korea should stop violating security council resolutions, but in an apparent reference to the united states, siid all relevant sides should raing things back to the track of peaceful settlement via dialogue. president trump took a much different approach, tweeting, "perhaps china will put a heavy seve on north korea and end this nonsense once and for all." tina feels it has already done enough to try and rein in its rely. it's stopped buying coal from n rth korea, and has cut its oil and diesel export to kim jong- un's regime. >> i don't think on the chinese side there is any room for significantly tougher sanctions. >> reporter: tong jao is an expert on nuclear weapons policy in

>> this is the >> quijano: good evening, i'm elaine quijano. president trump spent much of this day on the phone with european leaders preparing for his upcoming trip. but he still found time to fire salvos at the media. among his tweets at some point the fake news will be forced to discuss our great jobs numbers, strong economy, success with isis, the border and so much else. as chip reid reports, there is no ceasefire on the horizon. >> reporter: today's tweet follows a weekend of press bashing by the president including this video that he also tweeted. it shows him tackling and pretending to viciously attack a wrestlemania executive ten years ago, during a performance called battle of the billionaires. the new version was edited so that the president, a long-time fan of wrestlemania, appears to be punching the logo of cnn. press organizations condemned the president's tweet as inciting violence journalists. this tweet is beneath the office of the presidency, one group said. sadly st not beneath this president. >> i think that no one would pe

this is the "cbs evening news." >> quijano: good evening. i'm elaine quijano. this is our western edition. president trump took another jab at the media today by tweeting a fake wrestling video that cnn described as "below the dignity of his office." a white house homeland security advisor insists no one would consider the video a threat. but reporters' rights groups are outraged. meanwhile, a real battle is taking place behind the scenes as republicans plot strategy to salvage their healthcare overhaul. paula reid reports. >> oh my god, what's going to happen? >> reporter: president trump continued his attacks on the media sunday morning, tweeting a video of himself wrestling cnn, wwe-style with the hashtag fraud news cnn. >> but i'm president, and they're not. >> reporter: but last night, at an event honoring veterans, the president was focused on highlighting his accomplishments. >> i am delivering on trade, on the economy, on the supreme court, on the second amendment, on our military, for our veterans and on our borders where we are doing record, record st

>> quijano: good evening, i'm elaine quijano reporting tonight from washington d.c. it was a busy sunday for president trump's new communications director anthony scaramucci. he made the rounds on the morning programs threatening to take drastic action to stop leaks to the press. the president's new messenger hired friday also fielded questions about mr. trump's son in law and senior advisor jared kushner. he has meetings this week with congressional intel gengs committees investigating the trump campaign's relations with russia. errol barnett is at the white house. >> if are you going to keep leaking, i'm going to fire everybody. >> is very buynary. >> reporter: president trump's new communications director anthony scaramucci hit the airwaves today promising to forcefully stop leaks and put the administration back on message. >> if the president operates off the balls of his feet, is he an aggressive guy, st the reason why he won the presidenciment and so we're going to come up with a strategy that is going to knock pem's socks off. >> he also acknowledged mr. trump

>> quijano: anna werner, thanks. severe downpours triggered flash floods in northern kentucky saturday night. the rushing water left a pile of vehicles in the town of maysville. no one was hurt. more than a dozen people had to be rescued from flooded homes and cars. >> firefighters from across boston battled an eight alarm fire early today in waltham, massachusetts. an apartment complex under construction went up in flames. officials say there were several explosions. five buildings collapsed. there were no injuries. the cause is under investigation. >> it's been an extremely busy wildfire season in the west. more than four and a half million acres have burned in the u.s. so far this year. that is up nearly 60% from last year when 2.8 million acres were destroyed by late july. more fires broke out this weekend. here's mireya villarreal. >> reporter: firefighters pulled water lines into backyards and launched an aerial assault to protect homes from fast moving flames in highland, california. >> it started. >> reporter

this is the "cbs weekend news." >> quijano: good evening, i'm elaine quijano.s is our western edition. the u.s. flexed its military muscle blasting a pair of bombers over the korean peninsula. the show of force was in reply to north korea launching a ballistic missile on friday. analysts say this one had the range to hit los angeles, possibly even chicago or new york. danielle nottingham reports on how washington is facing this newest challenge. >> reporter: the united states flew two supersonic bombers over the korean peninsula today escorted by south korea and japanese fighter jets, a direct response to north korea's most advanced missile test to date. overnight the u.s. demonstrated its ability to intercept ballistic missiles in a planned test of the thaad missile defense program in alaska. michael genovese is president of the global policy institute at loyola marymount university. >> these small little steps fly over joint military activities, all are designed to let the adversary, maybe the opponent know, we are ready, prepared we've got our eyes open. >>

this is the "cbs weekend news." >> quijano: good evening, i'm elaine quijano. this is our western edition. if president trump was jet lagged from his four day trip to europe, he showed no sign of it sunday morning when he fired off another round of tweets. mr. trump defended his face to face meeting with vladimir putin, insisting he pressed the russian leader about meddling in the election. the prominent members of the president's own party said he didn't press putin hard enough. paula reid is at the white house. >> reporter: the president returned from the g20 summit saturday. this morning he triumphantly tweeted the trip was a great success. he also shared details about his highly anticipated meeting with russian president vladimir putin. saying he pressed putin twice on russian meddling in our election and that they discussed forming an impenetrable cybersecurity unit. but mr. trump acknowledged they did not discuss sanctions and nothing will be done until ukrainian and syrian problems are solve. senator marco rubio responded tweeting "partnering with putin

pr quijano: don dahler, thanks. president trump and pope francis are offering to help a terminally ill baby in britain. his parents want to bring him to hoe u.s. for treatment. anitish hospitals said courts, and courts have said no. charlie d'agata is in london. >> reporter: charlie gard was born happy healthy baby 11 months ago but he was suffering from an extremely rare genetic condition. now he can't see, hear, move, cry or breathe on his own. he thought to be one of only 16 children in the world with this condition, incurable, doctors e id, and the hospital applied to the british courts to take charlie off life-support. but his desperate parents chris gard and connee yates want to take charlie to the u.s. for an teperimental treatment instead. the pope's statement this weekend backed up charlie's etrents. as did today's tweet by president trump. e we can help little charlie gard as per our friends in the u.k. and the pope, we would be delighted to do so. it's not clear what the pope or the president can do to he

>> quijano: good evening. i'm elaine quijano. the day after replacing his chief of staff, president trump blasted senate republicans on twitter over their failure this week to repeal obamacare. mr. trump said the senate's g.o.p. majority will never win unless the senate eliminates the filibuster, a long-standing rule aimed at block blocking the majority party from unilaterally passing bills. the saturday morning tweet storm followed a friday night shake-up at the white house. errol barnett is there. >> reporter: at an anti-gang speech on friday, in long island, new york, president trump foreshadowed his announcement that general john kelly would replace embattled chief of staff reince priebus. >> john kelly, who has done an incredible job of secretary of homeland security. ( applause ) incredible. one of our real stars. >> reporter: when the president returned to washington, he made the move official in a series of tweets. then briefly addressed the press. >> reinc