Things, and they want to act like that never happened now. Reporter if a Foreign Government offered the campaign assistance, he said this i dont want to talk about policies, but the president stated how he would do it. He would listen, go to the fbi if he wanted to, and the things he would do. I would never talk about internal policy. Reporter he told us the campaign will raise at least 18 million today alone, and soon will roll out an app that Trump Supporters can use on their phones to org need aanize and d increasing the data set to more than 100 million potential voters. Major garrett in orlando, thank you. Much more of majors enter veet with Brad Parscale on cbs this morning. We have an important story now about a private company that serves as a landlord at 55 u. S. Military bases. Its called Balfour Beatty communities. A joint investigation by cbs news and reuters found Balfour Beatty falsified maintenance records, leaving military families waiting for repairs while the company qualified for millions of dollars in performancebased bonuses. Now the fbi is investigating. Heres omar villafranca. Reporter in 2015 turn this way. Reporter paige and Nick Ippolito moved into a house managed by Balfour Beatty communities. It was a distressed property probably 20 years ago. Reporter within months a water leak warped their floor and a Company Technician recorded his concern that the couples infant daughter could become sick from chewing on flooring tiles that contained asbestos. Its very upsetting to know that he was concerned for our childs safety but didnt tell us. Reporter maintenance documents say the leak was repaired almost immediately. It says the call was put in at 4 32 p. M. , and it was completed at 4 52. Thats a physical impossibility to fix something of that extent in 20 minutes. Reporter but internal records reviewed by cbs news and reuters reveal at the time Balfour Beatty employees at tinker kept two sets of books. Calls were first recorded on paper and only entered into a Computer System when a job was nearly completed. This made it appear the company was quickly addressing problems and kept it eligible for millions in performance bonuses. Whenever you generate a work order, it automatically puts todays date on it. And its like a stopwatch. Reporter tina brown scheduled repairs at tinker for Balfour Beatty. What was the longest you saw a regular maintenance request sit in a logbook . They used to sit in there for as long as a month. Reporter did your boss expressly tell you not to put them into the computer unless they were ready to be worked on . Yes. Reporter assistant secretary of the airforce John Henderson told cbs news his office took immediate action, putting Balfour Beatty on a corrective action plan. Balfour beatty said in a statement it has not and does not condone the falsification of records in any way. Right here, this is all water. Reporter the company says it has strengthened its documentation process at tinker, but derek, a naval Flight Engineer who asked us not to use his last name, lives on base. He says problems persist. We get phone calls saying, hey, your house is leaking. Well, your mind goes from what youre supposed to be doing to im thousands of miles away. Why is it leaking . It was already fixed once. Reporter tina brown was fired in 2016. She is suing Balfour Beatty for wrongful termination. The fbi is currently investigating allegations at tinker and two other bases in california and washington. The companys Incentive Fees are estimated to be worth up to 800 million. Omar, we know of one person being fired. Any others that were hearing about . Just tina brown. Thats the only one we know about so far. Astonishing. Omar villafranca, thanks so much. The wife of baseball superstar david ortiz says his condition has been upgraded to good. Ortiz is recovering at a boston hospital after being shot in the back last week at a nightclub in the Dominican Republic. An 11th suspect is now under arrest. Police are still looking for the man who paid hitmen 8,000 to carry out the attack. Next, an update on what we know and dont know about the deaths of american tourists in the Dominican Republic. And later, breaking news from San Francisco, a big vote today on the sale of savings and service. Whoa. Travis in it made it. Its amazing. Oh is that traviss app . Its pretty cool, isnt it . Theres two of them. Theyre multiplying. No, guys, its me. See, im real. Im real he thinks hes real. Geico. Over 75 years of savings and service. Know what turns me on . My man. Some vitamin d. A little. Inspo. And when i really want to amp it up we use ky yours mine. Tingling for me and warming for him. Woah. Get what you want. 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The authorities have not said how. Heres what we do know. So far this year seven tourists have died on the island of nonaccidental causes. Five of them had similar symptoms of pulmonary edema, fluid in the lungs, and respiratory failure and occurred at resorts in punta cana or la romana. What we dont know is what caused those symptoms. The fbi is conducting their own toxicology tests on three of the deaths. Two others have been deemed natural causes, both heart attacks, by Island Medical officials. A tropical paradise in the caribbean, the Dominican Republic is a Tourist Destination to 6. 6 million vacationers a year. Cesar duverany is a spokesperson for the Dominican Foreign Ministry and insists the deaths are unrelated and isolated. What do you say to americans who feel it is unsafe to visit here . More than six Million People visited and most of them north americans, so we dont think its a good representation. The country is very safe, and the best thing they can do is lay out the numbers and the facts. There were two other deaths with similar symptoms at those same resorts last year. The u. S. Embassy here in Santo Domingo says at this point there is no proof that any of the deaths are, in fact, related. Meanwhile, those fbi toxicology results are expected back, maurice, some time in the next three weeks. Mola lenghi in Santo Domingo tonight. Thank you. Still ahead here, what one Major League Team is doing to protect its fans from foul balls. Federal agents in y. They boarded a cargo ship and confiscated 33,000 pounds of cocaine thats 16. 5 tons worth more than 1 billion. The crew was arrested. The ship came from chile and had traveled through panama and the bahamas. Late today supervisors in San Francisco voted to make the city the first in the u. S. To ban sales of electronic cigarettes. The vote was you than mout. It halts ecigarette sales while the fda reviews the effects of vaping on public health. A final vote may come next week. The Chicago White sox said today theyre extending protective netting all the way to both foul poles at their ballpark. That will be the longest protection in the major leagues. A woman was bloodied there when hit by a foul ball earlier in the month. In may a girl was hit by a line drive in houston where the netting stops at the dugout. Up next, everybody makes mistakes, but when the kids found one in their textbooks, things got really interesting. Togos fans, the pretzelrami is back, with our famous pastrami and a bigger soft pretzel roll. And try the new turkey bistro with warm turkey and smokehouse bacon. Or the new hot club chicken dijon with dijon mayo and black forest ham. How far would you go for a togo . Finally tonight, are you smarter than a third grader . Dont answer until you see this story from chip reid. Reporter the third grade class at this Elementary School was feeling a little more than frustrated. I felt disrespected. I felt stressed and i didnt like it at all. Reporter what made them so unhappy was a problem in a math workbook that said Christopher Columbus landed in america. My reaction was that, whoa, thats not the right answer. America and the americas. Reporter america, they said, refers to what is now the United States of america. They immediately protested because they knew that columbus didnt land in the United States of america. He landed in the caribbean islands. Reporter so they voted to send a letter to the publisher asking that the wording be changed. Who was the motivating force here, you or the kids . No, this was student led. This was entirely their idea. Reporter over several months they sent three letters, but only got form letters in return. That made them mad. Really, really furious. Because they didnt answer me. I dont like when people dont answer me. Reporter why do you think they ignored you . Because were just kids. Reporter kids who refused to give up. Next they created a petition online with over 1,285 signatures. That got mifflin harcourts attention. Which soon informed them the next edition of the textbook would say Christopher Columbus landed in the caribbean. They commended the students and they were elated. What felt the best . Having so many people support us. Reporter what do you think is the big lesson of all of this . I think if youre a kid, just keep pushing to do something incredible. I mean, if its hard, just keep pushing, keep pushing, and then if somebody says you cant do it, just prove them wrong. Reporter a big lesson for the rest of us, too. Chip reid, cbs news, oneonta, new york. And that is the overnight news for this wednesday. For some of you the news continues. For others, check back later for the morning news and cbs this morning. From the Broadcast Center in new york city, im maurice dubois. This is the cbs overnight news. Welcome to the overnight news. Im don dahler. President trump officially kicked off his 2020 Reelection Campaign with a racous rally in orlando. It was standing room only at the 20,000 seat amway center. The president hopes the enthusiasm will spread to the rest of the state, which is crucial for his reelection hopes. And as long as you keep this team in place, we have a tremendous way to go. Our future has never, ever looked brighter or sharper. [ cheers and applause ] the fact is, the American Dream is back, its bigger and better and stronger than ever before. [ cheers and applause ] Major Garrett met the president s campaign chief Brad Parscale, for a rare interview seen only on cbs. I think we win in an electoral landslide as of today. Define an electoral landslide . I think even more electoral points than he had last time. He was extremely confident when discussing the president s chances in 2020, but he was not discuss leaked internal polls showing the president trailing in key battleground state that led to the firing of three campaign pollsters. Who decided to get rid of the pollsters, you or the president . Im not going to comment on the leaked stories or about how i run the operation. I can just tell you right now, were focused on tonight, this event, and on the president relaunching for 2020. Reporter parscale said public polling methodal is broken and the trump data mining property is far better. The country is just too complex. There are so many ways to show up. The abilities we have to turn out voters, the polling cant understand that. Thats why it was so wrong in 2016. It was 100 wrong. Nobody got it right. Reporter the president s focus on illegal immigration and what he calls the crisis at the southern border is expected to be a center piece for his campaign. Last night, the president announced on twitter his plan to deport millions of Illegal Immigrants next week. Is that a political message or a policy message . Its always been about securing the southern border. Thats important for him. Were your surprised by that tweet . No, not at all. Does it help you politically . I dont have anything whether that will help us or not. Its what the promise he made, and its why he won in 2016, and i think that i stand by the promise he made. Reporter democrats think they can capitalize on the president s antiimmigrant rhetoric and turn out the latino vote. They also hope the fallout from the Mueller Report will help them win the white house. But parscale said the Mueller Probe has become a net plus. Its been a good thing and all this lies about russian collusion and all this crap that said we cheated and these things, and they want to act like that never happened now. Reporter if a Foreign Government offered the campaign assistance, he said this i would never talk about policies we have. The president stated how he would do it. He would listen, go to the fbi if he wanted to, and the things he would do. I would never talk about internal policy. Reporter parscale told us the campaign wl raiseil o Trump Supporters can use on their phones to organize and donate. Activity he said will increase the trump reelection data set to more than 100 million potential voters. The revolving door at the pentagon keeps spinning. Acting defense secretary patric. Before he could even be nominated or confirmed. Hell be replaced with a new acting defense secretary, mark esper, a former raytheon executive who now runs the army. David martin reports. Reporter Patrick Shanahan and his wife divorced eight years ago. My husband is throwing punches at me. Reporter according to court documents, he denied that and claimed she had punched him, giving him a bloody nose. When police arrived, she was the one charged with assault, which was later dismissed. After the divorce, fights over money and custody of the three ildr cnued. In 2011, their 17yearold son beat his mother with a baseball bat. I was knocked unconscious twice, kimberly declared in court documents, adding that her exhusband has taken the position that i provoked the assault. The documents are all public and were available to the fbi when shanahan was nominated to become deputy secretary of defense in 2017. But a member of the Senate Armed ServicesCommittee Says they were never told. That there was something in this nominees past, Patrick Shanahans past, that was deliberately concealed or mistakenly covered up. Reporter two white house officials told cbs news they knew about shanahans family turmoil when the president announced last month he would nominate him as the next secretary of defense. Today President Trump claimed he just found out. I had heard about it yesterday for the first time. Reporter announcing his resignation, shanahan said, continuing in the confirmation process would force my three children to relive a traumatic chapter in our familys life. A sad story which leaves the country without a confirmed secretary of defense. To have no secretary of defense at this time is pallin it shohaos i reporter the president says he will probably nominate his current secretary of the army, mark esper, to be his next secretary of defense. Esper happens to be a west point classmate of secretary of state pompeo. Upreeval at the pentagon comes amid a growing threat of conflict between the Trump Administration and iran. Secretary of state mike pompeo paid a visit to central command. Charlie dagata has that. President trump does not want war, and we will continue to communicate that message while doing the things that are necessary to protect american interests in the region. Reporter but protecting american interests means boosting american troops, something that has only added to tensions. The iran president also insisted today that iran does not seek war with any nation, but that we are in a faceoff with america. China warned the u. S. Against opening a pandoras box, along with russia calling for restraint, they aring e i fearin of hostilities. The pentagon wont say exactly where the additional 1,000 u. S. Troops will be sent. The u. S. Already has a significant military presence in this region of around 35,000 Service Members manning warships, air bases, and ground operations. Irans regional archrival saudi arabia is stepping up the pressure, too, releasing video showing its warplanes on joint exercises with u. S. Fighter jets over the persian gulf, a show of force sending an unmistakable message to iran. But even some of americas allies continue to be skeptical, was at nsky n whose er germany and france remain unconvinced, and even here in the uae, theyre stopping short of actually naming iran as the culprits. Know what turns me on . My man. Some vitamin d. A little. Inspo. And when i really want to amp it up we use ky yours mine. Tingling for me and warming for him. Woah. Get what you want. This is the cbs overnight news. An investigation by cbs news and reuters has uncovered misconduct in the pentagons private military housing program. While u. S. Service members risked their lives fighting for our country, many of their families are forced to live in dirty and dangerous homes. Our investigation found one of the militarys largest housing contractors apparently misled the air force to qualify for tens of millions of dollars in bonus payments. The fbi is on the case. So is mireya villarrevil is oma. Reporter performance bonuses are estimated to be worth about 800 million over a decades long contract. At installations like tinker base in oklahoma city, those bonuses are partially based on data provided, but some of that data was falsified. Reporter paige and Nick Ippolito moved into a house managed by Balfour Beatty communities. The house was a mess to begin with. The floor downstairs was destroyed, the doors wont close properly. You name it, theres something i could have found wrong. Reporter internal records reviewed by cbs news and reuters showed that within a year, a leak called a Maintenance Technician to document his concern that the couples infant daughter could become sick from chewing on flooring tiles. Its very upsetting to know that he was concerned for our childs safety but didnt tell us. Its almost heartbreaking. We already risked our lives every day. You think you have your family hope, safe, and you find out your kid is eati inings a bes f floor. This says the call was put in at 4 32 p. M. And completed the task at 4 52. Which is wrong. When we ridoriginally called int was raining. Its a physical impossibility to fick that in 20 minutes. Reporter at the time, employees kept two sets of books. Calls were first recorded on paper and entered into a Computer System monitored by the air force only when a job was nearly completed, making it appear that the company was responding quickly to calls and kept it eligible for millions in bonuses. Its like a stopwatch. If you entered them into the computer, they were automatically on the clock . Exactly. In 2014, tina brown was hired to schedule repairs at tinker. Did they give you any expression directions to not enter things into a computer . Yes, definitely. The management was all concerned about appearances, and collecting their bonuses, and appearing right for corporate. Reporter in a statement, balfour says it does not condone the falsification of records in any way. Allegations at tinker date back several years and after being investigated by the air force, one employee was found to have acted improperly. Do you feel like you were the scapegoat . Yes, definitely. I know i was. Reporter brown, an hourly employee, was fired in 2016. No one else was reprimanded and shes now suing for wrongful termination. The tinker base manager told reuters the request to doctor maintenance records came from his superiors and training documents instructed employees to modify and correct work orders to comply with mandated response times. Did you ever feel like you were doing something wrong . I kid, yes. How did you square that away . I just did what i was told. Reporter since 2015 military housing officials and two other bases issued more than a dozen warnings about maintenance logs, but the air force only suspended incentive payments last year. When inaccurate data was discovered, the air force placed balfour on a corrective action plan. This is all water. Reporter the company says its since worked to strengthen its documentation process at tinker. But several families say maintenance and recordkeeping problems continue. The door frame is falling apart. Reporter derek, who asked us not to use his last name, lives on base but is deployed more than half the year, leaving his wife jennifer mdz three k and three kids to deal with the housing issues. People need to be held accountable for these conditions. Uhhuh. They need to be held accountable. Reporter there are ongoing investigations into similar recordkeeping practices at Travis Air Force base in california, and Fairchild Air force base in washington. Both are also managed by Balfour Beatty. Theres a new movement to teach children how to deal with a shooting in their school. Doctors in massachusetts are working to turn students into First Responders. Reporter this isnt your ordinary High School Science class. But a lesson on how to save lives. Trained nurses show students how to apply the right amount of pressure against a would, and to use tourniquets to stop bleeding. So its more pressure than you thought you had to use. Yeah. I didnt expect that. If you were ever in a situation like that in a trauma, most of us can agree we would freak out. But this gave you a little more sense of confident. Reporter a person can bleed to death in a matter of minutes. At one point, adrenaline will kick in. You know how to do this, trust yourself. Reporter thats the point of the training. In the event of an accident, or an act of violence like a school shooting, students can perform these life saving functions quickly. These two doctors are leading stop the bleed class. We can educate them and empower them. This is where cpr was 40 years ago. Instead of a heart attack, this is life threatening bleeding. Reporter they were among the doctors at bostons women and i them. The Tipping Point for us at boston was the marathon bombing. That demonstrated that the public wants to help. Reporter three people died from the more than 200 that were injured. Experts credit bystanders and civilians who came to the rescue. Were laser focused on defining a Research Agenda for the next decade. Reporter it was part of the discussion at this stop the bleed conference in february. My story begins when my family was standing at the finish line at the Boston Marathon on that april day in 2013. Reporter her daughter julia almost lost her life. The first few chaotic moments, a First Responder at the scene rushed to our aid, took off his belt, grabbed my husbands belt and put tourniquets on both of her legs. Reporter since trauma is the number one cause of death for those under age 45, he felt the program was important for his students. Our kids will be equipped to deal with whatever they come in contact with. Is there a risk that some 06 these kids are going to be traumatized by this . I think the students that are in the programs that we have and we offer, they have a great deal of understanding of the medical fields that they are going to be part of. Any concerns that you would be squeamish in a real situation . Probably at first, yeah. But once you realize that you know what to do to save this persons life, i think that will go away and youll be focused on saving that persons life. Thats most important. The overnight news will be right back. I want it that way. I cant believe it. That karl brought his karaoke machine . Aint nothing but a heartache. No, i cant believe how easy it was to save hundreds of dollars on my Car Insurance with geico. I never wanna hear you say. No, kevin. No, kevin believe it geico could save you fifteen percent or more on Car Insurance. For the best teachers, commitment to students doesnt end when the school boil rings. Steve hartman found one man who took his chas home with him. Reporter classes here in aurora, colorado have been out for a week now. But for this teacher, theres one student he just cant shake. 13yearold damian. Do you know how many pencils i went through this year . Way more than you should have. Yep. Reporter he says mr. Laning was one of his better teachers. When my teacher doesnt bother me over and over again, thats better. You have a low bar. Yeah. Leave me alone, ill leave you alone and get my work done. Hes smart and funny, and he was always a student that stood out. And one day he just came to me and said, im not coming back to school. Reporter he sat him down at that table, right then and there. What i found out was his story. Reporter he learned damian was in foster care, he had kidney disease, and because social services couldnt find a foster family, damian had to leave school and move into a hospital. But heres the real kicker. The kid needs a transplant, desperately. And a lot of times you cant get a transplant if you dont have a stable home to return to. It hit me like a ton of bricks. You cant sit with somebody that you care about and know you have room to help. Reporter he took in dimian, dialysis needs and all. Even though prior to that hallway meeting he had been a confirmed batch chor. I never thought that i could leave school and take one of them with me and still survive. But reporter damian says right back at you. I was like yes, im out of the hospital. But my math teacher, out of all the people . Reporter now, four months into it, neither one of them would change a thing. Although damian says hes not getting too excited just yet. Hes seen fairy tales fall apart before. Its kind of bad thinking about that, but some team do that. Like, theyll kick you out be happy with you one day and kick you out the next. I suppose only time will let you trust . Yep. Whether he believes it or not doesnt change the fact that im not going anywhere. Reporter this is it for him . Yep. Reporter in fact, fin says he plans to adopt damian, as soon as possible. In the meantime, and much more importantly, because of fin, damian got back on the transplant list and got his new kidney. For a child steeped in disappointment, this is shaping up to be the best weekend ever. A new kidney and a dad by his side. Although fin says that dad title, thats going to take some getting used to. That role has such meaning attached to it. Its not that im not willing, but it feels like you have to earn it in some way. You did. I hope so. Reporter earned it and we end this half hour with another school story. This is about a principal in new jersey who provides his students with more than reading, writing, and arithmetic. Heres jeff glor. Reporter oh, my sweet lord. Akbar cook calls it the big room. Whatever you guys need, we have it. Reporter the place where he scores hundreds of donated bottles of laundry detergent and drier sheets. Inside west side high in newark, new jersey. Weve been getting a lot of Community Service help from all around the state. Reporter the big room was a solution to a big problem. My kids werent coming to school. Reporter some of cooks kids, he calls them all his babies, werent showling up because they were wearing dirty clothes and getting bullied. I think we put the microscope on basic needs of kids. Everyone wants the high test scores and for them to perform well. But if the kid dont feel confidence in just coming to school and being that person that we know they can be, what are we doing . Before you raise the s. A. T. Scores, how about giving somebody some clean clothes. There you go. Fight for that baby the way you want them to fight on that test. Reporter today, westside has five washers and dryers. Deshawn denny and brianne singleton uses it all the time. When i went to cook, i asked him can i use the launld dry ma he said were good. You can bring it any time you want. Reporter principal cook also started a program called lights on. He opens the school from 6 00 to 11 00 p. M. On fridays during the school year, and three nights a week during the summer. 6 00 to 11 00 p. M. , youre e tts not the ca. My babies, their paren are working hard or theyre not there at all. Reporter the kids use the gym, dance, and are fed warm meals. It is a long way from what west side was just a few years ago. Fighting every day, getting kicked out. People getting killed. So one principal turns all that around . Yes. Cook made a big impact on west side. Good morning, mr. Cook. Good morning. Reporter it might seem hard to believe, but in newark, the proof is in the principal. This is selfless work that we do. No one goes into education thinking theyre going the get rich. Youre not getting a medal at the end of the day. Nos, but i have a gold medal around my heart from the kids and the families of the communities that are taking it one step furtr. Youre giving me goose bumps. Captioning funded by cbs its wednesday, june 19th, 2019. This is the cbs morning news. President trumps pick to run the Defense Department withdraws. Why some democrats say the white house tried to hide the truth f Patrick Shann ha hahanshanahan. President trump kicks off his 2020 campaign. We will make america again. His pitch to voters and the reaction from supporters and critics. And 1 billion seized