Every day. Mason and the call for a 2016 rerun. Hillary, please run again. This is the cbs evening news. Mason good evening. Im Anthony Mason. Among the nearly 13 Million People watching 60 minutes last night was President Trump, and what he saw has him taking a second look at his nominee for drug czar, pennsylvania congressman tom marino. In that report, former dea insiderturned whistle blower Joseph Rannazzisi accused drug distributors aided by congress and lobbyist, of fueling the oil open epidemic. Have a look. This map shows Drug Overdose deaths in 1999. And this 16 years later in 2015, when opioid deaths alone topped 33,000. Bill whitaker has more now from this joint investigation by 60 minutes and the washington post. This is an industry thats out of control, that allowed millions and millions of drugs to go into bad pharmacies and doctors offices that distributed them out to people who had no legitimate need for those drugs. Reporter one example, pharmacy in kermit, West Virginia, a town of just 392 people, ordered nine million hydrocodone pills over two years. These companies are a big reason for this epidemic . Absolutely they are. And i can tell you with 100 accuracy that we were in there on multiple occasions trying to get them to change their behavior, and they just flat out ignored us. Reporter and then there was congress. A bill introduced in the house by pennsylvania congressman tom marino was promoted as a way to ensure that patients had access to the pain medication they needed. Jonathan novak, who worked in the deas legal office, says what the bill really did was strip the agency of its ability to immediately freeze suspicious chipments of prescription narcotics to keep the drugs off u. S. Streets. I dont know how they stop this now. Its a very sad state of affairs. Reporter last year the bill was presented to congress and passed both houses through unanimous consent with no recorded votes. Without objection the bill is read a third time and passed. I just dont understand why congress would pass a bill that strips us of our authority in the height of an Opioid Epidemic in places like congressman marinos district. I was a prosecutor and a United States attorney. Reporter congressman marino has been nominated to be the next drug czar. What was your reaction when you heard that . Total disbelief. The bill was bad. Him being the drug czar is a lot worse. Reporter today President Trump said hes going to look into marinos nomination. If i think its 1 neg toif what we want to do, he said, ill make a change. The Healthcare Distribution Alliance issued a Statement Today saying it recognizes the Opioid Epidemic as national crisis. It goes on the say, greater clarity, dialogue, and collaboration with the dea will strengthen our ability to effectively combat Prescription Drug abuse. But tonight this legislation stands, and the dea says its hands are tied. Anthony . Mason so, bill, what are the implications of this then . Reporter well, anthony, the implications are that millions of pills are still ending up in bad pharmacies, and distributors have very little to worry that the dea will shut them down. Mason Bill Whitaker of 60 minutes, thanks for being with us. Bills 60 minutes report reverberated from the white house to capitol hill. Chief Congressional Correspondent nancy cordes is there. They made it and camouflaged it so well that all of us, all of us were fooled. Nobody knew. Reporter West Virginia democrat joe manchin says hes horrified that a bill everyone approved made the epidemic worse. Theres no oversight now the way. That bill has to be retracted. It has to be repealed. Reporter the law sailed through the senate last spring. Those in favor say aye. Reporter it had the backing of the justice department. It was sponsored by members of both parties, so no one in congress thought to question it. Its not unusual for Something Like this to roll through without much fanfare. Missouri democrat Claire Mccaskill introduced a bill today to repeal last areas law. How realistic is that . I think its realistic. I do sense that there is a bipartisan kind of weve got a crisis attitude about opioids now. Reporter one of the bills authors Tennessee Republican Marsha Blackburn said vie via a spokesperson today, if there are any unintended consequences from this bipartisan legislation, they should be dressed immediately. Dea has all the enforcement power it needs. Reporter but utah republican orrin hatch defended the law and the 177,000 dollars in donations he got from the drug industry while he was pushing it through. Heavens, no. Heaven, no. My campaigns run about 10 million. Frankly, frankly, i dont know who contributes to it at all. Reporter now some democrats are urging the president to drop his nomination of the bills chief author, tom marino, to be the nations drug czar. Its like putting the wolf in charge of the henhouse. Reporter many lawmakers are still trying to understand why dea dropped its initial opposition to the bill. That would have ensured a lot more scrutiny before a vote. Its a sign, anthony, that even some in Law Enforcement may not have realized how much this law would tie the deas hands. Mason nancy cordes at the capitol. Thanks, nancy. Well have more on this tomorrow night. Now to the other end of pennsylvania avenue. The president called reporters into the rose garden today to watch him mend a fence. Major garrett was there. Despite what we read, were probably now i think, at least as far as im concerned, closer than ever before. Reporter after a white house lunch, President Trump and Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell strolled to the rose garden to bury the hatchet. We have the same agenda. Weve been friends and acquaintances for a long time. Reporter it was a change in tone from just 90 minutes earlier when mr. Trump told his cabinet donothing republicans were to blame for his stalled legislative agenda. Were not getting the job done. And im not going to blame myself, ill be honest. They are not getting the job done. Reporter mr. Trump was in part echoing his former chief strategist steve bannon, who this weekend declared mcconnell an enemy of grassroots conservatives. And right now its a season of war againstda g. O. P. Establishment. Reporter bannon vowed to back challengers to senate g. O. P. Incumbents. The day of taking a few nice conservative votes and hiding is over. Reporter today the president sent mixed messages about that strategy. So i can understand fully how steve bannon feels. Im going to see if we can talk him out of that, because frankly theyre great people. Reporter and the president also looked ahead to his 2020 Reelection Campaign and said he was hoping for a sequel. Oh, i hope hillary runs. I hope. Hillary, please run again. Reporter mr. Trump was also asked why he had not yet commented on the four u. S. Soldiers killed 12 days ago in niger. He said he had written to the families and would call them soon. If you look at president obama and other president s, most of them didnt make calls. A lot of them didnt make calls. Reporter officials with former president clinton, george w. Bush, and obama said they all called families of the fallen. Mr. Obamas deputy chief of staff said more on twitter, calling mr. Trumps statement an expletive lie, adding that the current commanderinchief is a deranged animal. Anthony . Mason Major Garrett with the president s day in the rose garden. Thank you, major. Firefighters battling the California Wildfires are making progress. Winds that fanned the flames are dying down, but today a driver delivering water to the fire lines was killed when his truck flipped. There are now 41 deaths in the fires. 213,000 acres have burned, and nearly 6,000 buildings were destroyed. Some evacuees are heading home to see if they still have one. Heres Mireya Villarreal. Reporter when the fire came racing down into san that rosa, an assistant firefighter was called into service. I wouldnt imagine wed have something that big all of a sudden right here. Reporter as the fire continues to burn, officials are now turning their attention to making these neighborhoods safer. Santa rosa has been designated by the state as a very high fire hashz zone, requiring homeowners to clear brush and use fire resistant materials on their roofs, but coffee park, a dense neighborhood, is considered a safe area with limited requirement. It now looks like this. Neither neighborhood could withstand a fire fueled by 80mph winds. Theres a lot of systems and codes that have been put in place to make it safer, to make it a safer environment, but Mother Nature brought wind. Reporter this neighborhood is woven within californias wildland, a prime example of the states suburban sprawl. In 1960, there were 766 homes within the perimeter of the understand tubs fire compared to more than 6,000 in 2010. I dont think anyone would have guessed wed have a wildfire that would move through the volume of hotels, commercial buildings, restaurants, area where theres little to no landscaping. It burned through all that. Reporter thousands of evacuation orders have been lifted, but a wildland areas like this, it could take days if not weeks before the rebuilding can start. There is rain expected later this week, which fire crews are hoping will help them reach their contain. Goals of 100 by this friday. Anthony . Mason Mireya Villarreal in santa rosa. Thanks, mireya. Army Sergeant Bowe bergdahl pleaded guilty today in military court to desertion and misbehavior toward the enemy. The latter charge could put him behind wars for life. Bergdahl walked off his post in afghanistan in 2009. He was held by the taliban for five years. He was freed in a prisoner swap approved by president obama. At least two American Service members were seriously wounded while searching for bergdahl. Time is just about up for isis in raqqa. The syrian city it conquered in 2014 and considered its capital. The fourmonth battle to retake raqqa has been fierce, and Holly Williams, one of the few western journalists to report from inside the city, was not expecting what she saw today. Reporter there has been no official declaration of victory, but these u. S. Backed fighters arent waiting for one. Isis is finished in iraq, yeah yeah raqqa, they told us, after hundreds of isis extremists surrendered over the weekend. Theyve had some help from u. S. Air strikes, but these syrian militiamen did the fighting on the ground, the very definition of a ragtag army. This man showed us his homemade hand grenades, held together with scotch tape. As they clear the city, isis gunmen still lurk in tunnels and buildings. You thought it was clear, and now you think there is a sniper left there . Yeah, we think, we think. Reporter isis claimed to be men of god when they seized raqqa over three years ago. In truth they were bloodthirsty thugs, beheading their enemies and selling women as sex slaves. Whats left is the carcass of a city, pulverized by artillery, flattened by air strikes, and deserted by its people. Weve been in so many houses like this one during the battle for raqqa. Theyve been turned into fighting positions and completely destroyed. Eunice omar and his family finally escaped raqqa today, some of the last to get out. Like other civilians, they were used by the extremists as human shields. They tried the leave twice before and were shot at by isis fighters, yunus said, but today they didnt see any. Clearing raqqa of explosives laid by isis could take months, but the city is no longer a stronghold for terrorists. Those isis leaders that are still alive are thought to have fled south toward the border with iraq months ago. Anthony . Mason Holly Williams continuing her exceptional reporting from raqqa. The terror group alshabaab, which has links to al qaeda, is suspected in saturdays massive attack in somalia. More than 300 were killed, more than 400 hurt when a truck bomb went off in the heart of mogadishu. Victims were flown as far away as turkey for treatment. The somali government, backed by the u. S. , has been fighting alshabaab for a decade. Coming up next on the cbs evening news, why a background check law for gun buyers in nevada is not being enforced. It starts a chain reaction. Thats heard throughout the connected business world. At t Network Security helps protect business, from the largest Financial Markets to the smallest transactions, by sensing cyberattacks in near real time and automatically deploying countermeasures. Keeping the world of business connected and protected. 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As long as youre a nevada resident. Were good to go. Reporter every town for gun safety easily bought four semiautomatic rifles and a 100 capacity magazine without any background check. Nevada attorney general adam laxalt, who campaigned against the measure for the nra question one is a sloppy legal disaster. Reporter initially argued it isnt enforcable because the law explicitly says f. B. I. Has to conduct the background checks, not the state. He cited this letter from the f. B. I. That says nevada law cannot dictate how federal resources are applied. The people of nevada spoke. They voted on this measure. Reporter but john fine feinstein, the president of every town, says the governor should negotiate a solution. If they need to get on the phone with f. B. I. And work it out, they should do that today. The governor and the attorney general are turning this into a political football. 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I was told that it wasnt that bad. And i was told to get over it. The weinstein case has brought to light something that we really should have been talking about for a long time. And when we were until elevator on the way back up to the room, he asked if he could join me in my room and then proceeded to try to grope me. There were office parties. Set up is one thing, but the cleanup is always afterhours. You always hoped there would be another woman there to clean up with you so you wouldnt get stuck in the room with some guy. Its taken me 34 years to talk about it in a public forum. No matter how small the act, whether youre cat calling a woman on the street or you seek to physically assault them because you feel like you have the right to do that, you are damaging another human being. I just never felt a movement before that made it important enough to me to come out publicly. Thats the first time ive ever posted or said it. I survived several very violent rapes. I was four and five years old. It breaks my heart knowing that this will soon disappear from the news cycle. For so many of us around the world, this is our breaking news story every single day. There is power in sharing our stories in that when we share what happened to us, we let other survivors know that they are not alone. Mason some of the very powerful voice, the me too voices on social media today protesting sexual assault. Thats the cbs evening news. Im Anthony Mason in new york. Thanks for watching. Good night. After 8 years of chris christie, is kim guadagno the change new jersey really needs . Guadagno is christies handpicked successor. Says shes proud to be part of the christie administration. Guadagno was Chris Christies right hand as our schools came under attack, Critical Services were underfunded, and our Credit Rating was downgraded. 11 times. From the bridge to the beach, weve seen it all, and weve had enough. Kim guadagno isnt the change we need. 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