. >> children of unmark graves at a notorious boys school, may finally have their stories told, their long held stories. >>> the supreme court on a contested civil rights. >> meteorologist: whether to the north central plains. we'll have all the details coming up in the show. you are consuming them. that's next on "consider this." ] >> this weekend forensic scientists will begin unearthing the bodies of dozens of boys in a notorious reform school in florida. they were given permission to exhume the remains of the children. we went to florida for this story. >> reporter: there are bodies bury at a reform school. bodies buried for 60 years. >> something that the whole world needs to know. >> reporter: the campus opened in 1900. it was a place where the state placed kids who were in trouble. >> they felt the whole world deserted them. they would beat you into what they wanted you to be. >> reporter: they did backbreaking farm work. richard lost a toe in the field. they ended up what they called the white house. >> i would call it a torture chamber because here is where you got your mind

effort to identify some of the bodies the sheriff's department oversaw the exhumation of dozens of unmarked graves. those remains were taken here to baylor university in waco, where they're being examined by a team of forensic specialists. >> the job is opening them, starting to see what information we can put together, case reports and figure out who this individual would have been during life. >> reporter: dr. baker tries to match remains with descriptions of missing person's provided by family members. sometimes she's able to match dna. sometimes the team relies on dental records or other physical characteristics using high-tech tools like this laser scanner. this skeleton is in the process of being examined. >> do you know anything about who this person was at this point? >> what i can tell from doing a cursory glance is that it's a male individual, and that they did quite a bit of heavy lifting when they were alive. >> reporter: this was someone's son, perhaps son's husband. >> father, when you hold the remains like that, due get a sense of-- >> oh, absolutely. >> reporter: the tragedy involv

children and unmarked graves at a notorious boy school may be able to tell their stories. exhume makeses are underway in an attempt to uncover their long held secrets. a supreme occasion, a justice from the highest court many the land will become the first to officiate a same sex wedding. >> it's opening weekend in college football. johnny may be starting the first half of his game on the bench, but he is poised for a run at the second straight heisman trophy, we will have that story and more coming up in sports. plap >> researchers are hoping to identify the remains and return hem to their families. warm dry weather in california this holiday weekend could present problems for crews battling the yosemite wild fire. the fire is now more than 30% contained but over 213,000-acres have been burned and the warmer weather conditions have been hampering their efforts. tourists are still expected in the same parts of the national park, although in much smaller numbers. good morning, america, welcome to labor day weekend. i am not sure what your plans are but i'm sure travel will

anthropologist angela kimmerle's team from south florida used radar and soil appal sis to discover 50 unmarked gravesnumber of boys who ran away from the school whose death certificates indicate they died traumatic deaths. one was shot, one had blunt trauma to the head. >> reporter: excavations begin later this month. investigators will use dna from living relatives to identify remains. >> that will tell the story of how they lived and how they died, and i think that will reflect what a society we were when they were in the care of the state and who we are today by investigating them. >> reporter: richard just wants to bring his brother home. what would that be like for you? >> it would probably be emotional, but i would be overjoyed at finding him. >> reporter: give him a proper good-bye? >> a proper burial and a proper good-bye. >> reporter: one better than this unmarked plot nearly lost to overgrown trees and time. manuel bojorquez, cbs news, marianna, florida. >>> and coming up after your local news on "cbs this morning," an update on the wildfire in banning, california. we'll be live from the sc

kimmerle's team of the university of south florida used radar and soil analysis to discover 50 unmarked graves>> there are a number of boys who ran away from this school whose death certificates indicate that they died traumatic deaths. one was shot, one had blunt trauma to the head. >> reporter: excavations begin later this month. investigators will use d.n.a. from living relatives to identify remains. >> to tell the story of the children that -- how they lived and how they died. and i think that's a good reflection of who we as a society were when they were in the care of the state and who we are today by investigating what happened to them. >> reporter: richard varnadoe just wants to bring his brother home. what would that be like for you? >> it's probably be emotional. but i'd be overjoyed at finding him. >> reporter: give him a proper good-bye? >> a proper burial and a a proper good-bye. >> reporter: one better than this unmarked plot nearly lost to overgrown trees and time. manuel bojorquez, cbs news, marianna, florida. >> o'donnell: henrietta lacks played a vital role in medical researc

they're exhuming unmarked graves, and we'll have more on the disturbing story straight ahead. >>> and three weeks after 16-year-old hannah anderson was rescued, she appears to be recovering from her terrible ordeal, but there are still so many questions. we hear from a family member who wants to know why this happened. >>> united nations inspectors have left syria with bags of evidence and stories from witnesses about a deadly chemical weapon attack. as the world waits to hear what they found, the united nations appears to be getting ready -- rather, the united states appears to be getting ready for a strike. u.s. secretary of state john kerry and president barack obama making the case to take action yesterday. we're covering every angle of the crisis in syria. barbara starr at the pentagon, jill dougherty at the white house, nick payton wash at the united nations in new york and fred pleitgen joining us from beirut, lebanon. let's begin at the pentagon. barbara, what moves has the military already made to get in place for any possible strikes? >> well, fred, by all accounts everythin

all they have are autopsy photos taken shortly before they were buried in their unmarked graves. >> they't have love for your child because you let two die without medical help. >> no comment. >> gary tuchman joins us live from philadelphia. gary, this is so upsetting. how did it play out in court today? >> reporter: anderson, a in pennsylvania you have to have evidence of malice to charge third degree murder so the two different attorneys for the husband and judge said there is no malice, there should be no third degree murder charge. the judge rejected that. he said this isn't a close case. he pointed out the first case of their son dying when they thumbed their nose at the law and he says the third degree murder charges will stand and the husband and wife face 20 to 40 years in prison fan found guilty of that. >> were they in court together? >> reporter: they were. he's in jail and she's out on bond. he walked in and looked around, saw her, smiled at her and she looked straight ahead. her father sitting next to her and he smiled at his son-in-law a very strange and horrible situation.

so today, researchers are digging up unmarked graves to try to find these disappeared children and maybeh some of the secrets of what happened to them. the governor of florida, rick scott, and the rest of the florida cabinet have all decided to vote to allow the authorities to exhume the graves near the school for boys. that was a school that was plagued by stories of beatings and abuse and believe it or not, killings. you might say murders. and now the families of those who just vanished are hoping to finally get some closure in this case. cnn affiliate wtsp's preston rudy has the details. >> reporter: thomas was 13 years old when he died at dozier in 1934. state records don't say where he's buried. researchers will now be given the chance to find his remains along with those of 20 other boys who also died at the school but can't be located. the backdrop to the story, former students continue to make accusations that state guards raped, tortured and even murdered boyce at the school. >> we all know dozier has a history, part of our florida history that we're probably not proud of. we're

children in unmarked graves may finally have their stories told.xhume makeses are underway in an attempt to uncover their long held secrets. beautiful weather in yosemite national park, we will tell you why that sunshine is not helping firefighters dealing with a run away wild fire burning the national treasure. egypt remains a powder keg many the middle east, we will have the latest on escalated tensions in cairo. and of course our comprehensive syria coverage continues. i don't think they should get involved. there's way too many problems. >> i think it is very frightening, but i don't see how we can avoided it, what is going on there is just totally unacceptable. next time on america tonight. >> a dry south america. and a letter led to the march on washington. ç] this weekend, forensic scientists have been unearthing the bodies of dozens of boys. the state gave them permission to exhume the long forgotten children who are as young as six years old. wasn't to mariana florida for the story. >> there are bodies burglaried on the campus. bodies buri

all they have are their autopsy photos taken shortly before they were buried in their unmarked grave. lot of people say you have no love for your child because you've let two children die without medical help. >> no comment. >> gary tuchman, cnn, philadelphia. >> so many questions, legal questions particularly about this. i want to bring in criminal defense attorney and former prosecutor jeffrey gould a. i think a lot of people will say aren't we allowed to parent the way we want? am i allowed to use faith as a healing device? >> the law says you can't use faith to sacrifice children. i question probation who was supposed to watch over these people and perhaps ask them a few questions as time went on as to what their religious believes were as to this child. this case will come down to the defense saying it was only three days that the 8-month-old child was sick and that that's not enough to know. the prosecutor will say, wait a minute, we have a prior bad act. you just did the same thing before. you can't sacrifice your children and that's what these people did. >> you mentioned, it

all they have are their autopsy photos taken shortly before they were buried in unmarked graves. >> aot of people say you have no love for your children because you have let two children die without medical help. >> gary tuchman is joining us live from philadelphia. this is so upsetting. how did it play out in court today? >> in pennsylvania you have to have evidence of malice to charge third degree murder. in the courthouse the two attorneys for the husband and wife said there is no malice and no third degree murder charge but the judge said this isn't even a close case. he pointed out the case of the first son that they basically thumbed their nose at the law and said the third degree murder charges will stand and they possibility of 20 to 40 years in prison if found guilty. >> were they in court together? they were in court together. she was sitting in the back when she walked in and he looked around and smiled at her. the father was next to her and he smiled at his son-in-law. very strange and horrible situation. >> they have other children, all the other children are in foster ca

. >>> researchers have been given permission to dig up remains buried at unmarked graves at a now defunctchool. the dozier school, for years boys claim they were subjected to severe sexual abuse at that facility. researchers say at least 96 children died there between 1914 and 1973. >>> the singer usher's 5-year-old son recovering this morning after a serious accident at his atlanta home. the boy was swimming with his aunt and housekeeper when he apparently dove in and tried to recover a toy. his arm apparently became stuck in a pool drain. two workers there helped with the rescue there. the aunt frantically called 911. take a listen. >> my nephew was in the pool, he went -- and i couldn't get him. i tried to get him. they're doing cpr on him, he's 5 years old. >> okay, stay with me. >> is he awake? >> huh? >> is he breathing? >> is he breathing? is he breathing? >> he is. >> he's breathing, yes, ma'am. >> just last year, usher won custody of his two sons after a bitter dispute with his ex-wife. the ex-wife not commenting about reports that her lawyer has asked for an emergency custody he

all they have are the autopsy photos taken shortly before they were buried in their unmarked graves.of people say you have no love for your child because you let two children die without medical help. >> no comments. >> gary tuchman, cnn, philadelphia. >> what a tragic story. a priest appears at a crash site and says a prayer and then it has an extremely powerful impact. hear why some are calling this mysterious priest a real life angel. that's up next. i help support bones... [ ding! ] ...the immune system... [ ding! ] ...heart health... [ ding! ] ...and muscles. [ ding! ] that can only be ensure complete! [ female announcer ] the four-in-one nutrition of ensure complete. a simple choice to help you eat right. [ major nutrition ] nutrition in charge. ...and a great deal. .ce thanks to dad. ou eat right. nope eeeeh... oh, guys let's leave the deals to hotels.com. ooh that one! nice. got it! oh my gosh this is so cool... awesome! perfect! yep, and no angry bears. the perfect place is on sale now. up to 40% off. only at hotels.com >>> people in a small missouri community are crediting

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lincoln used to -- haunted about a person of a poem who had great talent and was in an unmarked graveuse he never had that chance. >> all those realities are true. >> very quickly, think that as you hear dr. king's speech 50 years ago, yes, it was of hope, but it was pointed at what we had to fight. he talked about governors whose lips dripped with the words of interposition and nullification, which is no different than we're talking act changing stand your ground laws today. he talked about american gave blacks a bad check. so let's not act about all he talked about was poeltry. he went directly at issues that we're raising today. i agree with david that we are tolerant more than other countries. the question is not to compare us on how we are to other countries. it's compare how we treat some americans to other americans inside our country. >> congressman, just a few seconds left for final thought from you on this. >> you know, we're still the greatest nation on the earth. if you listen to what martin luther king talked about, we talked about making sure that we were not bitter abou

the governor of florida, rick scott and his team, issued an order to dig up unmarked graves at this reform school that shut down in 2011. it was a place of brutality according to students on hand when the cabinet gave its approval just yesterday. >> beat me so bad, my butt, my back was black and blue. bleeding. >> cnn's ed lavandera has been following the dozier saga for us for the last five years. speaking with more of the men who once attended this school. >> reporter: the accused former school leaders of beatings, sexual abuse and even murder. which brings us to this cemetery on the school grounds. the bodies of 31 boys are buried here. florida authorities claim they know how all the boys died. some killed in a fire. others in flu epidemic. nothing criminal. new research shows other bodies could be buried in this area, too. and dozens of former students and families say that's proof of a more sinister story hidden in these woods. back in the early 1960s, the leader of the boys reform school had a local boy scout troop come in here and clean up the cemetery. they put up these 31 crosses.

i remember that one of the -- my mother came across all of these unmarked graves from 1965. there was conflict in indonesia about the communists coup and counter coup and there was a lot of people who were -- well, the united states went through things in the 1950's. there was a lot of silence surrounding that era. and my mother wasn't really told when she arrived what had happened. and things were whispered in hushed ways. i think the idea is we have to be sensitive to why perhaps cultures or individuals to remain silent. we have to do a lot of work to make them feel safe. so a lot of these practices i think are about building safety. >> thank you. thank you for bringing silence to the very noisy washington, d.c. it is so refreshing because often we just hear about policy all day. >> it is important, too. >> it is. i'm not going to put your brother's work down, but we need to get back to connect, right? and come back to the human part of it. i'm wondering as an educator if you can talk more about the importance of empathy and how do you instill that in others who maybe don'

so i remember that when my mother came across these unmarked graves from 1965, there was conflict in indonesia and then there was a lot of people the united states went through things in the 50's and obviously there was a lot of silence surrounding that, and my mother wasn't really told when she arrived what had happened. things were whispered and i think the idea is that we have to be sensitive to why perhaps cultures or individuals do remain silent and we have to do a lot of work to make them feel safe so a lot of practices are about building safety. >> thank you for bringing silence to the very noisy washington, d.c.. this is so refreshing because often we just hear about the policy all day. and it feels -- it's important. i'm not going to put your brother's work down. but we love -- we need to get back to connect and come back to the human heart part of that. i'm learning as an educator the and portents of empathy. and how do you instill that and others who maybe don't want to connect? >> a lot of what i do as an educator is about building empathy. so we will do things like rathe

crews will begin to exsaoupl the unmarked graves of boys, but some students say they were beaten therehout explanation. we explain now the saga reached this point. >> reporter: 31 rusting crosses with no names mark the spot where students from a now defunct all boys' school were laid to rest years ago. now a team of scientists from the university of south florida is trying to unravel the mystery. >> even if we can't name them, just the fact that they are not lost with trees growing through them is a big sur sreus to the community. for decades state officials insreused 31 boys were buried here in the grounds of the school. but the bodies were never properly accounted for, and some died in a dorm tory fire in 1918, and what haunts the place is the school's painful history. over the last few years, dozens of former students have come forward to say teachers and administrators of the school dealt ruthless beatings, sexual abuse and even murder, using high-tech equipment, the researchers found evidence of at least 19 more bodies buried in this area, and their research of school records also

the -- my that one of mother came across all of these unmarked graves from 1965.onesiaconflict in about the communists coup and counter coup and there was a lot well, thewho were -- united states went through things in the 50s. there was a lot of silence surrounding that era. toldy mother wasn't really when she arrived what had happened. were whispered in hushed ways. i think the idea is we have to be sensitive to why perhaps cultures or individuals to remain silent. we have to do a lot of work to make them feel safe. so a lot of these practices i think are about building safety. >> thank you. thank you for bringing silence to the very noisy washington, d.c. it is so refreshing because often we just hear about policy all day. >> it is important, too. >> it is. i'm not going to put your brothers worked down, but we need to get back to connect, right question mark and come back to the human part of it. i'm wondering as an educator if you can talk more about the importance of empathy and how do you instill that in others who maybe don't want to connect? as anot of wh