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chance. >> announcer: from cbs news headquarters in new york, this is the "cbs evening news." ♪ ♪ >> john: good evening, i'm john dickerson, marise is off tonight. firefighters run toward danger, it's in the job description. the firefighters who responded to a wildfire in the mounds of northern idaho over the weekend could not have a mansion to the danger they were about to face. not only flames but bullets. a sniper opened fire on them killing two leaving a third fighting for his life. the local sheriff said the sniper set the fire to lure the firefighters to the scene. why he did that, we may never know. the sheriff says the sniper a 20-year-old transient who once aspired to be a firefighter killed himself. omar villafranca is in coeur d'alene, idaho. we understand the firefighters ran into this shooter before the shooting. >> reporter: that's right, the sheriff says the fire crews
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interacted with roley, saw his truck and asked them to move it because they said it was blocking the way. soon afterwards that's when the shooting started to. more than 3300 officers from local and federal agencies including sharpshooters and helicopters try to find a sn sniper. >> another firefighter down, we need help immediately. >> reporter: the first pleas for help came 40 minutes after firefighters received the call for the wildfire. >> it's clear to me this fire was set intentionally to draw us in. >> reporter: bob noris is the sheriff of the kootenai county. >> we believe the suspect started the fire and it was intentional. this was a total ambush. these firefighters do not have a chance. >> reporter: the sheriff's department says gunfire was exchanged with the suspect on the mountainside before they started using cell phone data to hone in on a certain area and find the suspect as the fire moved closer, the suspect was found dead with a firearm nearby.
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police say the gunman shot himself. he has been identified as wess roley, he was 20 years old. investigators are looking for a motive. the bodies of the two firefighters were taken more than 30 miles to spokane. along the way, the highway was lined by those paying their respects. chris wade is the kootenai county fire chief. >> to see emily people are out,t does that do for you? >> it's very emotional to see the support we have in our community. >> reporter: we don't know the names of the two firefighters who were killed we are expecting to learn more later today. this mountain behind me is still closed, it's an active crime scene you can probably hear helicopters working to put out a 26-acre fire. >> john: omar villafranca in coeur d'alene, idaho. now more of the top stories from around the world in the evening news round up. the justice department has charged more than 300 people with attempting to swindle medicare and other government
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and private health insurance programs out of nearly $15 million. among those charged are 19 members of a transnational criminal organization who allegedly made more than $10 billion in bogus claims for catheters. the cruise ship disney dream docked in fort lauderdale, florida, today, one day after a girl went overboard and her father jumped in to save her. cristan benavides has the details. >> reporter: the disney dream was returning to fort lauderdale after a cruise to the bahamas. passengers say the man treaded water for more than 10 minutes with his daughter in his arms before they were rescued to. eleanor finkelstein was there and captured this video. what did you see? >> as we got up there we saw this yellow boat going out, we saw two dark figures in the waterike bob's, circles. they got up on the boat and brought them back. the whole incident may be only 15-20 minutes. >> he's a hero, he jumped in to
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save his child, he's a hero. >> reporter: in a statement about the rescue disney commended their crewmembers exceptional skills and prompt actions. >> john: and 82-year-old holocaust survivor has died of injuries from an anti-semitic fire bombing attack in boulder, colorado. karen dimond was among 13 people wounded this month when mohamed soliman allegedly used molotov cocktails and a makeshift flamethrower to attack a demonstration in support of israeli held hostages by hamas. he faces dozens of charges including first-degree murder. our imtiaz tyab spoke with iran's foreign minister, it was the first interview with an american media outlet inside a bronze of the u.s. bombed iranian nuclear sites nine days ago. >> reporter: we met abbas aragchi in what's known as the hall of mirrors inside iran's foreign ministry. president trump has said talks
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with your government could restart as early as this week. will that happen? >> i don't think negotiations will restart as quickly as that. in order for us to decide to engage, we will have to in first insurer america will not revert back to targeting us with a military attack during negotiations and i think with all these considerations we still need more time. >> reporter: still, the door is not entirely closed to direct talks with the u.s. >> the doors of diplomacy will never slam shut. >> reporter: the head of the u.n.'s nuclear watchdog the iaea has told cbs news iran could likely start enriching uranium again within a few months. is that your assessment as well? >> one cannot obliterate the science through bombings, if there is this will on our part in the will exists in order to once again make progress in this
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industry, we will be able to expeditiously repair the damages and make up for the lost time. >> reporter: president trump has made it clear he will bomb your country's nuclear facilities again if iran does indeed start enriching uranium again, are you prepared for that? >> is this a lawful act? >> reporter: you tell me. >> we showed improved during this 12 day imposed war we have the ability to defend ourselves and we have the ability to do so should any aggression be launched against us. >> john: the foreign minister has not been talking a lot to western media for many, many months. is there a discernible specific message he's trying to send now? >> reporter: it feels iran's leaders including the foreign minister want to project an air of reason and pragmatism. they want to project themselves as a steady and stable force in
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the region who despite everything will consider working with the u.s. as well as others so they can protect their national interests. him still, it also seems to us the iranian leadership is calibrating and recalibrating in real time. let's be clear: the 12 day war with israel the u.s. strikes on iran's nuclear facilities have been devastating and they are being very careful not to misstep. >> john: imtiaz tyab from tehran, thank you. the u.s. senate spent the day negotiating the republican party republican party's domestic policy bill. which will affect nearly every part of american life. the centerpiece would extend the tax cuts passed in 2017 and as you see here those tax cuts represent most of the price tag. to help pay for those cuts in spending on immigration and defense, the bill would make a deep reductions in federal programs. the largest one? medicated drip of the joint federal-state program that provides health insurance for
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70 million low income americans. the proposed medicaid cuts fall into two main categories, eligible recipients who have no children or children over 14 would be required to either work, volunteer, or study 80 hours a month to get benefits. the second part of the biggest savings would come from cutting a portion of federal money the states get to pay for medicaid. republicans claim states and been getting more money than they need to cover patients but as a skyler henry reports if the cuts go through states will have to do more with less, trimming or eliminating programs they rely on. >> reporter: each hop is no small feat for 6-year-old kennedy bieber. her mom marilyn says she has been in therapy sessions like this at least two times a week. kennedy was diagnosed with newman's syndrome, it's a genetic condition that stuns development. >> for her it's short stature, poor growth, low muscle tone.
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with the fat we became eligible for something called the cap c waiver through medicaid. >> rep >> reporter: north carolina scap c program pays for most of the treatments and for children through age 22 have significant medical needs. if they didn't have cap c, the beavers say it would be paying more than $4,000 a month even with help with private insurance. >> this is our medication without the medicaid coverage would be $3200 a month. because our primary insurance has denied to us. >> reporter: with republicans in congress proposing major cuts to medicaid funding in the so-called one big beautiful bill active states including north carolina could see more than 600,000 people lose their coverage. >> the cuts being proposed the federal level, at some point affect the entire program. >> reporter: jay ludlum is with north carolina's medicaid, overseeing more than 3 million people who receive benefits.
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state officials told us of federal funding falls short the cap c program could be on the chopping block. >> when you take $700 billion out of medicaid nationally there is no way to do that without people losing coverage. >> reporter: if you had an opportunity to speak with the lawmakers, what would you tell them? >> if you want to fix it, let's fix it but it's not in cutting services it's in fixing a health care system so that everybody in the country can get a level of care that meets their needs. >> reporter: the biebers fear if the proposals were to become law they may have to go back to rationing her treatments altogether. >> john: skyler henry, thank you. still ahead on the "cbs evening news" rob marciano on tornadoes in the midwest and more dangerous weather targeting the northeast. and we'll have these stories. >> reporter: i'm meg oliver in springfield, missouri, where a pandemic era promise gave small farmers a lifeline.
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now that lifeline has been pulled and could leave hundreds of thousands of families hungry. that's tonight's eye on america. >> reporter: i'm adam yamaguchi in pasadena, california, worth ice raids have led to fear and the sense of losing not just livelihoods but the american dream. that's next on the "cbs evening news." so you can feel lighter and more energetic. metamucil keeps you movin'. and try metamucil's delicious lemonade flavor. between molly leaving and mom's osteoporosis, i thought life was gonna slow down. boy, was i wrong. if you have postmenopausal osteoporosis and are at high risk for fracture, evenity® can help you rapidly build new bone in just 12 months. evenity® is the only bone builder that also helps slow bone loss. and it's proven to significantly reduce spine fracture risk. she said the evenity® she's taking builds new bone. builds new bone! (squeak) so...yeah...we still bike, babysit, and brunch with the ladies.
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wound rope circulating around the center vortex and then it became almost this stovepipe like cone. it became destructive across the border into minnesota that's where the damage was done in the injuries happened. that was saturday. today we got storms moving through philadelphia, new york city, and we are going to see the same areas get hit tomorrow with another batch of storms. here's a cluster coming through the northeast, another one going up the ohio river valley during the day tomorrow and amplifying during the afternoon hours. i-95 from d.c., baltimore, philly, new york going to be under the gun for potentially damaging storms. look at this video out of southern california. several fires burning this is the latest one out of riverside county, you can see that is a stable. you see these horses fleeing from that fire and firefighters are worried about this burning very aggressively. we have excessive heat warnings on for much of the southwest including phoenix and imperial california. tomatoes temperature is 114-150
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not helping at all. >> john: rob marciano, thank you. president trump is heading to florida tomorrow for the opening of a detention center for undocumented immigrants. it's in the everglades and state officials are calling it "alligator alcatraz." this is part of the presidents immigration crackdown and adam yamaguchi reports the threat of arrest is creating fear in immigrant communities in southern california. >> leave them alone, bro! >> reporter: each new arrest brings a plea for us on. >> that was correct that was not justice. >> reporter: a daughter. or neighbor. >> what you are doing is kidnapping. >> people are being ripped away from her law-abiding lives. >> reporter: social media has documented i.c.e. agents as they hold people away. some of the reeds across california have targeted car washes, shopping centers and parks including in pasadena where vic know is mayor. >> this a palpable sense of fear if they look like an immigrant
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there is suspect. >> reporter: there is this heaviness and then thing us in the streets here. once in a while you can see signs of what's going on. somebody left candles here, this is a site were six undocumented day laborers were helping wildfire recovery efforts. waiting for the bus to take them to work when they were snatched up by armed, masked agents and disappeared to. disappeared, their families say, because they don't know where they are being detained. what was the probable cause there? other than he had brown skin? its racial profiling, it's borderline stocking. >> reporter: an hour drive south of pasadena. >> is no longer a safe place to be for a lot of people. >> reporter: martin chairez arrive from mexico at age 9, he's among those nose as dreamers, people brought to the u.s. as children hoping to get citizenship. are you afraid? >> i'm going to be racially
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to return to long-term fiscally responsible initiatives. where you were leaving out there without food to? >> some of the most food insecure people, vulnerable people, children, the elderly. >> reporter: the usda said these were pandemic relief programs and that's over so it's time to move on. >> yeah, we are not passed at the effects of the pandemic. >> reporter: the usda grants helped her buy food from small farms such as liz graznak's. >> it was devastating i don't know those families but i know those families are desperate for the food they are getting. >> reporter: the subsidies implemented in 2022 were set to be extended for another three years. >> when they introduce these programs, how to impact your farm? >> it was huge, i knew i could produce this and they would be able and interested in buying it. >> reporter: she rented an extra 16 acres to harvest more onions, garlic, and peppers to keep up with demand.
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>> a quarter of my annual sales were going to those programs and when they said that money is gone, i thought "oh, my god, well now what do i do?" >> reporter: nationwide more than a thousand small farmers were supported by the programs. advocates warned the cuts could ripple through food deserts, rural communities, and urban areas where access to healthy food is miles away. >> reporter: with food insecurity in missouri above the national average at 15%, local farmers here help to bridge the gap. will you still be able to feed people this year? >> we are going to but not nearly as many. >> reporter: leaving farmers in frontline workers to pick up the pieces while people go hungry. for eye on america, i meg oliver in jamestown, missouri. imma be feelin it at work today. she smells so good i'm actually paying attention!
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>> john: finally tonight, in the heat of summer a new study is out on what it means to be cool. the term was first used by jazz musicians in the 1940s. duke ellington said billie holiday was the essence of cool. but in the 1960s young people all over america were using "cool" to describe a certain type of person, typified by james dean and later by the tv character who emulated him, the fonz. but what does it mean to be cool? a study of nearly 6,000 people in the united states and 11 other countries found people
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perceived to be cool have six things in common. they are seen as extroverted, pleasure seekers, powerful, adventurous, open, and autonomous. or as fonzie put it, "you ain't nobody until you do what you want to." and now science says so too. that's the "cbs evening news." for maurice dubois, i'm john dickerson. the news continues on continues on "cbs evening news plus"
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>> john: welcome to "cbs evening news plus." i'm john dickerson. senators have started voting on a nearly 1,000-page tax and spending domestic policy plan. it's a moving picture. all democrats are opposed and republican lawmakers are still debating. the mix of spending cuts needed to support the bill's tax cuts. one certainty? big cuts in welfare programs which by one estimate will cause millions of americ

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