yet, that's exactly what some residents of ripon, wisconsin, iund in their mailbox. >> so i opened itreading it. i'm like, "oh." >> "no!" >> that's "unbelievable." >> we were shocked. >> did not see that coming at all. d i said i have to read this out loud and see if it says what i think it says. >> it made you cry. >> reporter: the letter was from an attorney representing the estate of dennis valstad. dennis, who at one point owned the local dry cleaner, died a toost people, dennis seemed to be a man of modest means. but he secretly amassed a small fortune. although it wasn't just the size of his estate that brought us here. it was the directions he left behind for what to do with it. this is don jorgenson. >> i got a bunch of his stuff in here. >> reporter: executor of the estate. be provision number five, the sum of $500,000 to be divided equally to the individuals that attend my funeral. t reporter: that's all you had to do was show up? >> yeah, that's it. >> reporter: just attend the church service or simply step foot in the funeral home and sign the registry, and his money was y

steve hartman, "on the road" in ripon, wisconsin. >> that's the "overnight news" for this wednesday. continues. for others, check back with us a bit later for the morning ts mo" from the b captioning funded by cbs 16th, 2019. this is the "cbs morning news." democratic debate. the presidential candidates agree on the impeachment inquiry into mr. trump before taking aim at elizabeth warren who's rising in the polls. >>> house speaker nancy pelosi defends the impeachment investigation while holding off on a formal house vote to authorize the probe. >> this is not a game for us. this is deadly serious. >>> and a massive explosion and fire at a fuel facility in california's bay area leaves a blanket of toxic smoke.

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sterling has ripon to a high.rendum on leaving the eu. uber technologies inc says the uk is seeking to classify the company as a transportation provider, potentially opening it up to new tax charges that could hamper its business, according to uk accounts filings in recent days. the us ride sharing company says its could face 20% vat on gross booking fees the amount passengers pay or on its service fees charged to drivers. you have the latest figures on how much we have been spending on credit and debit cards. we spent injuly 17.9 billion £on credit cards, 6.4% more than the same month 2018. but this maybe a one off spike because overall the figures show that the rate of borrowing on credit cards, even though it is rising, the rate at which it is rising is slowing so perhaps we are becoming a little bit more responsible and cautious. when it comes to debit card transactions and particularly contactless, the total value of contactless transactions in july was total value of contactless transactions injuly was 7.2 b