mark strassmann reports from texas. >>> what the devil has intended for harm will turn around for the good. >> reporter: in sutherland springs, part of the anguish is knowing this massacre might have been preventible. in 2012, airman devin kelley served 12 months in military prison after he assaulted his wife and fractured his stepson's skull. the air force blundered never reporting to a federal database that processes mandatory background checks for perspective gun buyers. defense secretary james mattis ordered the pentagon to review the kelly case and broadly the policies, practices and procedures of reporting the criminal records of service members. >> thought in my head was, he didn't make it. regina rodriguez new her father and stepmother had gone to the sunday service. >> before i got there, calling my dad. and he is not answering. i'm like, oh my gochltd texting him. please call me. please pick up. >> the rodriguezs lay inside among the dead. >> i don't know what it is, i just can't take it off. >> three days later she wears this wristband given to her at the church. it identif

anthony once again he will speak but take no questions. >> mark strassmann in birmingham tonight.hanks, mark. a conservative group that uses sting operations to embarrass its targets caught in the act by "the washington post." here's chip reid. >> i'm also, you know, frankly want to know if you are -- who, who you might be working for now? >> in a recent series of interviews the woman on the right, jamie phillips told "washington post" reporters one of whom is on the left that when sexual relationship with. >> referee: moore, became pregnant, and that moore convinced her to get an abortion. while working to confirm the story, post reporters, found discrepancies and concluded the story was false. they suspected that phillips had tried to get them to pub lelish madeupster to embarrass post and raise questions about moore and teenage girls. while researching phillips background. post reporters discovered an internet posting from jamie phillips i accepted a job to work in the conservative media movement to combat lies and deceit of the liberal, msm, short for mainstream media. >> this

mark strassmann is in birmingham. >> simply dirty politics. >> reporter: judge roy moore stood defiant before supporters, they prayed he would become senator roy moore despite the scandal that rocked the race. >> the allegations are completely false. malicious. >> reporter: allegations of sexual misconduct first reported by "the washington post" center on whether the 70-year-old moore back in his early 30s aggressively pursued at least eight teenage girls. one was 14, another, alleged moore tried to assault her. attack ad from moore's democratic opponent, questioned moore's moral fitness. >> will we make their abuser a u.s. senator? >> moore was emphatic last night. >> i do not know any of the women nor have i engaged in sexual misconduct with any woman. >> reporter: that seems to contradict what he said on sean hannity's ray show, they talked about debbie wesson gibson. claiming moore kissed her when she was 17. >> you know her, but you never dated her ever? its that what you are saying? >> know her, but i don't remember going out on dates. i knew her as a friend. >> since the scandal

mark strassmann, cbs news, houston. >> mason: 34,000 donuts. way to go, tyler.evening news. i'm anthony mason in new york. thanks for watching. good night. >>> is comedian louis c.k. the next big name to fall. >> the fallout was immediate. >> embattled kevin spacey. he is being erased out of a big holiday movie. >> then uproar over what this radio dj said about the baseball superstar's tragic airplane crash. >> splat, you are dead with two kids. moron. he got what he deserved. >> imagine changing in a locker room and this happens to you. >> i was in shock. just shock. >> who is watching when you are getting changed in a locker room. >> how could a mom do this to another mom. >> "inside edition" investigates. >>> and, polly needs help. >> the parr

mark strassmann reports from texas. >> what the devil has intended for harm will turn around for the good. >> reporter: in sutherland springs, part of the anguish is knowing this massacre might have been preventable. in 2012, airman first class devin kelley served 12 months in vemilitary prison after he assaulted his then-wife and fractured his stepson's skull. son'the air force blundered, never reporting it to a federal database that processes mandatory background checks for prospective gun buyers. defense secretary james mattis today ordered the pentagon to review the kelley case and more broadly, the policies, practices, and procedures of pporting the criminal records r service members. >> the thought in my head was he didn't make it. he got him. >> reporter: regina rodriguez knew that her father and step- stther, richard and theresa rodriguez, had gone to the sunday service. >> before i got there, you know, i'm calling my dad, and he's not answering and i'm like, "oh, my god, oh, my god." and i'm texting him, "please call me. please pick up." >> reporter: the rodriguezes lay insi

mark strassmann tells us there are no strangers here. >> reporter: roughly 600 people live in sutherland springs, a texas small town with a broken heart. there's a post office but no school, no police department, no reason for outsiders to notice this one-blinking light town, until now. >> it's very close-knit, for loving. our lives are like this. they're interweaved. >> reporter: everyone knows everyone? >> everyone knows everyone. when one hurts, we all hurt. >> reporter: 88-year-old boston latin schoola wilson is the retired postmaster here. her family proved from san antonio to sutherland springs in 1954 to feel safe. >> i havri that i don't know which ones they are. >> reporter: which sounds crazy to say. >> it does. it's numbing. you're just numb. >> reporter: first baptist church often responded to people who found trouble. on sunday, trouble found the church. the on-again-off-again spiritual home for the wilson family over the last 63 years. how important is first baptist to sutherland springs? >> i'd say it's an anchor. >> reporter: when you say "anchor," you mean? >> it's a pla

mark strassmann is at fort bragg, north carolina. >> reporter: sergeant bowe bergdahl arrived in court facing a possible life sentence and left demoted to a disgraced buck private, his army career over. but he's a free man. in june of 2009, bergdahl walked off his war zone post in afghanistan. he carried nothing to protect him but a compass and a jason bourne delusion. within hours, the taliban had him. bergdahl spent five years living as a captive in a metal cage before president obama negotiated his release. a 14-year sentence. bergdahl, now 31, told the "sunday times" he realizes many americans want him executed. >> the people who want to hang me, you're never going to convince those people. >> reporter: one of those people is his commander in chief. this was then-candidate trump: >> this dirty, rotten traitor. 30 years ago he would have been shot. boom! firing squad. >> reporter: judge colonel jeffery nance imposed his sentence without explanation but said he's weigh the president's remarks in bergdahl's favor. bergdahl's most serious charge was endangering u.s. troops searching fo

mark strassmann, cbs news, houston. >> mason: 34,000 donuts. way to go, tyler.evening news. i'm anthony mason in new york. thanks for ♪[ music ] >>> hello, everybody, and thanks for joining us for off script. bombshell of a story coming out of alabama, and it's got republicans on capitol hill calling for a controversial candidate to get out of the race. this after "the washington post" reports that judge roy moore initiated a sexual encounter years ago with a 14- year-old girl. the news report says he was 32 at the time. accused of sexual misconduct when they were teens, and he was the district attorney. women gave the newspaper permission to use their names

mark strassmann, cbs news, houston. >> mason: 34,000 donuts. way to go, tyler. evening news." i'm anthony mason in new york. thanks for watching. good night. we've learned of a loophole that could let drivers with criminal records slip through the cracks. good evening, i'm allen martin. i'm new at 6: >>> kpix 5 begins with new safety rules for uber and lyft. >> new at 6:00 uber and lyft driver still won't be fingerprinted but for the first time they will have to go through a background check every year. kpix 5 has learned about some gaping holes in these checks. >> reporter: we are here in downtown san francisco at a very busy taxi stand. each of the drivers of these taxis had to be fingerprinted and the fingerprints run through a national fbi law- enforcement database. uber and lyft drivers do not have to go through that. today we learned that the commercial on my background check used by uber and lyft has some gaping holes. san francisco criminal records are not available on any of those background check sites. >> this motion is adopted. >> reporter: it is una

mark strassmann is in birmingham. >> this is simply dirty politics. >> reporter: judge roy moore stood defiant before 200 faithful supporters. they prayed he would become senator roy moore, despite the scandal that has rocked this race. >> these allegations are completely false. they're malicious. >> reporter: allegations of sexual misconduct first reported by "the washington post" centered on whether the 70-year-old moore, in his earth 30s, aggressively pursued at least eight teenaged girls. one was 14, another alleged moore tried to assault her. attack ads from doug jones, moore's democratic opponent, question moore's moral fitness. >> will we make their abuser a u.s. senator? >> reporter: but moore was emphatic last night. >> i do not know any of these women nor have i ever engaged in sexual misconduct any woman. >> reporter: that seems to contradict what he said on seann hannity's show two weeks ago. they talked about one of his accusers, debbie wesson gibson. she claims moore kissed her when she was 17. >> reporter: since the scandal broke, recent polls show democrat doug jones ha

>> mason: mark strassmann in tampa, thanks. on capitol hill today, attorney general jeff sessions swore to tell the truth, then swore he always has in his appearances before here's justice correspondent jeff pegues. >> i have always told the truth. >> reporter: it was clear from his opening statement that attorney general jeff sessions knew what was coming. >> i will not accept and reject accusations that i have ever lied. that is a lie. >> reporter: but when committee democrats started questioning him, he was not so certain. >> i don't recall. i don't believe so. i don't know. >> reporter: sessions' troubles began in january when he told senator al franken that he had never communicated with russian operatives during the 2016 election. >> i did not have communications with the russians. and i'm unable to comment on it. >> reporter: but sessions has since acknowledged meeting with then-rush ambassador sergey kislyak, and it was also revealed that sessions was in this campaign meet where adviser george papadopoulos offered to go

mark strassmann introduces us. >> thank you. >> lots of people make jokes about cops and donuts. tyler mission. he stopped in houston with his mother, sheena, part of a ten day road trip for his tenth birthday. thank cops with free donuts. >> thank you, buddy. thank you. >> tyler got the idea back home in florida. he saw four cops in a store. used his allowance to buy them donuts. >> makes me happy. >> because. >> because i get to thank the person that kept my family and friend safe. >> how many police office efrz do you want to buy donuts for. >> every single one in america. >> of every single cop in america. >> by our count that's 900,000 cops. tyler has visited 24 states in 14 months. in las vegas, he thanked cops and first responders for their heroism. after last month's massacre at the mandalay bay. >> i brought you donuts. >> in albuquerque, cops sang his praises. >> happy birthday, dear >> mom, am i allowed to have coffee after this. >> tyler's mother caught him to think big. so far, he has handed out, $34,000 donuts. >> keep it up. >> breathe good into the world. speak go

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mark strassmann has more on this. >> reporter: outside the church that became a killing field, crime investigators reconstructed a mad man's rampage. florenzo flores spotted him first. >> this guy was dressed like g.i. joe, all in black and all that stuff. >> reporter: it was 11:10 sunday morning. flores, standing across the street, saw a man with a rifle close in on the church. >> he didn't walk. he runs across the street like that in this position. >> reporter: he's on a mission. >> yeah. >> reporter: gunman devin kelly first fired through the windows of first baptist church. when he walked inside, the real carnage began. >> it was so scary, and that man was shooting. i mean, he was shooting hard. >> reporter: rosanne solis and juaquin ramirez, both wounded, played dead on the floor. >> everybody got down, crawling under-- i mean, wherever they could hide. >> reporter: they were among roughly 50 congregants inside. within minutes, about half of them were killed. the gunman paced the room, stalking the dead and the dying, and pumped bullets into whom ever showed signs of life, espec

. >> mark strassmann is there.tell us how this carefully choreographed demolition happen and why they want to destroy this dome. >> they want to make sure it doesn't damage the stadium that is close to it. best laid plans. >> it's only 25 years old. it's kind of young. >> look how close the mercedes dome is right next door. it's probably going to have to do it very, very carefully. >> we have the perfect music for "tumbling down." >> we really do. >> we're ready. >> it's supposed to take 12 seconds to come down. >> okay. is that all? 25 years down in 12 seconds. >> okay. here you go. that blast must mean something. >> or it's a train going by. kind of sounds like a train going by soon. >> uh-oh. everyone's on the edge of their sofas at home. cheerios in mouth. >> okay. now they're saying, , it's less than a minute. >> that was a train, gayle, probably. >> i think it actually was a train. >> they're saying it's going to take three months to clear all the debris away. >> only 12 seconds to bring it down. has anyone e

mark strassmann reports on the efforts it took to bring it down. >> reporter: 12 second, that's all it took to drop the 29-story georgia dome and reshape atlanta's skyline. the explosive moment took nearly two years of planning and prepping. >> the last time any fan got to step foot in here, a different scene. >> in the final days, the georgia tomorrow dome looked like an apocalyptic ruin. >> for three years, i think i was section 119, some where over here. which looks like it is just a pile of concrete now. >> reporter: dale felt confli conflictconflic conflicted when we met him. his job to oversee the implosion of a venue that staged quarter century of milestones and memories. two superbowls, three final fours, and in 1996, this is where team usa women's gymnastics won their first olympic gold. >> any major event that came to atlanta, if it came to the dome you knew it was a meaningful event. >> decide to get rid of a building like this. is a complicated and, emotional decision. >> absolutely. >> it was studied for a long time and debated. ultimately, realized that, that, you know to

mark strassmann is there. >> reporter: just before 5:00 a.m., witnessed reported hearing five gunshots60-year-old ronald felton shot from behind and killed. tampa's seminole heights neighborhood shuttered again. four murders in five weeks. and a suspected serial killer, still on the loose. tampa police chief, brian dugan. none of the victims knew each other. there its no ties to the victim. killer on the loose. fair amount of pressure to get this solved asap. >> this is what i dreaded. dreaded having to face a fourth family. and tell them what happened. >> reporter: investigators say this security video last month shows a suspect. a black male, 6'2", dressed all in black. the three other victims were gunned down within 11 days of each other. swat teams did a-to door search of more than 100 homes here. >> the second killing, monica hoffa killed half a block from the house. this last killing. two blkz await. >> stan lassiter is president of the seminole heights neighborhood association. >> you have added police presence yet it happened again. does that create added anxiety? >> it does. t

mark strassmann is there to show us exactly how they did it. it seemed to go according to plan.something. the sight, the sound, the vibration from where we're the georgia dome is now just concrete and steel and what a memory this is, this was right to the very end. and right now i can tell you something else, the replacement sits next door and the real challenge here was to go out with the old without damaging the new. 12 seconds. that's all it took to drop the 29 story georgia dome and reshape atlanta's skyline. but this explosive moment took nearly two years of planning and prepping. >> the last time any fan set foot in here, it was a different scene. >> reporter: in the final days, the georgia dome looked like an apocalyptic ruin and nothing like the home of the nfl's atlanta falcons for season ticket holders like mack dale. >> i think i was section 119, somewhere over here, which looked like it is just a pile of concrete now. >> reporter: dale felt conflicted when we met him. his job has been to oversee the implosion of a venue that staged a quarter century of milestones and

mark strassmann tells us there are no strangers here. >> reporter: roughly 600 people live in sutherlandprings, a texas small town with a broken heart. there is a post office, no school, no police department, and no reason for outsiders to notice this, one blinking light town. until now. >> it is very close knit, very loving. and our lives are like this, they're interweaved. >> everyone knows everyone. >> everybody knows everyone. when one hurts, we all hurt. >> 88-year-old bulah wilson, retired postmaster here. her family moved from san antonio to sutherland springs in 1954. to feel safe. >> i have friend that are dead that i don't which ones they are. >> which sound crazy to say. >> sure does. it's numbing. you are just numb. >> first baptist church often responded to people who found trouble. on sunday, trouble found the church. the on again/off again spiritual home for the wilson family over the last 63 years. >> how important is first baptist to sutherland springs? >> i'd say it is an anchor. ♪ light in the world >> when you say anchor, you mean -- >> a place where you feel steady.

. >> mark strassmann is in fort pain, alabama, where the rally was held. mark, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. roy moore's campaign has yet to comment about what happened with that photographer and moore has spent much of the last couple of weeks avoiding questions about his alleged sexual misbehavior four decades ago but to his supports he had a lot to say. about 200 supporters greeted roy moore with a standing ovation. >> we've seen malicious and false attacks which reflect the immorality of our time. >> reporter: moore again denied he ever made unwanted sexual advances to teenage girls when he was in his 30s. >> this is simply dirty politics. >> reporter: on monday, moore released a new television ad. >> but four weeks before the election, false allegations -- >> reporter: saying the accusations were, quote, a scheme by liberal elites and the republican establishment. >> it's no different than when the "washington post" brought out the russian investigation at a time when president trump is trying to get his agenda passed. >> i just kind of tho

mark strassmann is outside the church in sutherland springs. >> reporter: it's part of an emerging pattern involving the dead gunman. for years his brooding disposition and short fuse troubled people. he was troubled long behalf he massacred people in this church. >> it sounds like he didn't want to take his finger off the trigger. he was like, constant. he wouldn't let off. >> reporter: lorenzo flores was at the gas station across the street when kelley began firing into the church. >> how many shots? >> rounds. as much as he could put in there, i guess. he was nonstop. >> reporter: for the 50 worshippers inside it was minutes of gun terror as the gunman moved from pew to pew. >> she was wounded but played dead on the floor. the gunman yelled everybody dies and showed no mercy teen crying babies. >> that man was shooting. he was shooting hard. >> reporter: on tuesday his dark past came into sharp focus. a sektx assault in 2013 and esce from a mental facility and in a report he was described as danger to himself and others. >> he had been sneaking firearms into the holman air force base wh

mark strassmann is at the church now with the latest on this story. mark. good morning. >> reporter: i want to show you this. these 26 crosses were put up. people like joann ward massacred in church. on a sunday morning. as devastating as this is, they realize it could be even worse. >> mike pence thanked the man who interrupting his killing spree. >> every american has been inspired by the heroes of sutherland springs. >> reporter: the vice president also promised to work with congress to make sure courts-martial are properly recorded. kelley received a dishonorable discharge in 2014 for domestic violence. the air force never told the fbi. ronald corrigan is angry. along with his wife shani. >> shani was a real inspiration. >> she lost four family members. her sister-in-law and three sisters and nephews. >> watched him take person after person out was so heartbreaking. >>> apple revealed they have not been asked for help to unlock the phone. had they done so, they would have suggested using the gunman's fingerprint on the touch i.d. feature. there are nine

mark strassmann is in tampa near the scene of the most recent shooting. mark, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. here's what happened. felton was crossing the street behind me, that's nebraska avenue. right about there someone snuck up on him from behind. people around here heard five shots and one of them looked up to see a man running from the scene. >> i can tell you at the police department, it's not from a lack of trying, but we're not happy. >> reporter: in a community terrorized by four murders in five weeks, tampa police chief brian dugan struggled to reassure residents about a suspected serial killer still at large. >> there are so many unanswered questions right now. >> reporter: melinda ray lives in this neighborhood where s.w.a.t. teams went door to door on tuesday. >> fbi. >> reporter: hunting for the suspect. >> i used to walk all the time, all day, all night, whenever i wanted to. >> and now? >> now i walk my dog with my husband. >> reporter: police increasingly believe the person of interest seen in the security video last month is t

areav strassmann -- there diplomats who try to envision a way to build a better world. there are people of goodwill trying to figure how to move forward. what if, i answer will answer speculative anyway. economy is held together, if the european -- it is easy for me to envision a way in which the 20's -- in the 1920's and 1930's -- the 1920's and 1930's look better in retrospect. it is a reminder of how complex the world is. >> ladies and gentlemen, please thinkingnd -- thinking professor. professor. the >> thank you. a provocative conversation. these past two days have been stimulating for our critical discussion. furtheret us up for conversation. examination, there is a deep thing of interest beyond the audiences we find here. as i mentioned yesterday, a national museum has seen a 60% increase in viewership in the last four years. it seems that something is happening -- not only here in the united states, but more broadly. thinking about the scenes we have been discussing here the last couple of days. the long,committed to forever work of interpreting, understanding,

mark strassmann is here with a debate on how to secure unprotected places.ing. >> good morning. the church is a sanctuary and by definition a church is a place of safety until it's not. here in texas and across the country, there is now a proposal to provide armed guards at churches. some critics say that strategy could backfire. >> i think it's incumbent on every organization where people gather to discuss proper security. >> reporter: bishop darnell dixon believes the best way to protect his church in raleigh, north carolina, is with armed defenders. >> if i call people together, it is incumbent upon me to make sure they are safe. >> reporter: dixon is voicing his concerns following sunday's massacre in sutherland, texas, and a long list of religious sanctuaries hit by gun violence. in to 12 a gunman murdered six people at a sikh temple. nine months later nine were killed in charleston, south carolina and in september a shooter killed one and wounded several other people at a church in nashville, tennessee. in an effort to make it better, texas passed a la

mark strassmann has more on this. >> reporter: outside the church that became a killing field, crimereconstructed a madman's rampage. lorenzo flores spotted him first. >> this guy was dressed like gi joe all in black and stuff. >> 11:10 sunday morning. flores across the street saw a man with a rifle close in on the church. he was across the street look that in this position. >> on a mission? >> gunman devin kelley first fired through the windows of first baptist church. when he walked inside the real carnage began. >> it was so scary. and that man was shooting. i mean he was shooting hard. >> roseanne celice wounded played dead on the floor. >> everybody got down, crawling under, wherever they could hide. >> they were among 50 inside. within minutes about half of them were killed. the gunman paced the room. stalking the dead and the dying. and pumped bullets into whomever showed signs of life. especially crying babies. >> how long did the shooting go on for? >> man, just sounded like forever. >> flores thought the popping sound would never end. >> sounds like he didn't want to take h