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North koreas latest launch of an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile that could hit the u. S. Appears to have united the International Community against kim jong uns regime. U. S. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson still kept the door open for talks but said the north must first end its missile tests. Weve not had an extended period of time where they have not taken some type of provocative action by launching ballistic missiles. Reporter north korea has launched a dozen missiles this year and says it wont give up its nuclear program. But the new u. N. Sanctions could make funding it much harder. The sanctions are expected to cost north korea as much as 1 billion, mostly by banning exports of coal, iron, and seafood. Enforcing the sanctions will fall largely to china, north koreas main trading partner and economic lifeline. On monday chinas foreign minister said it will implement the sanctions 100 . He also said north korea should stop launching missiles and conducting nuclear tests. China once described its relationship with north korea as close as lips and teeth. That is obviously changing but china still says north korea is largely a u. S. Problem and the u. S. Should open talks to diffuse tensions. Anthony . Ben tracy in beijing. Thank you, ben. Today australias navy found the wreckage of a u. S. Marine osprey aircraft. It crashed into the sea on saturday while attempting to land on a u. S. Navy transport ship. Three marines were lost in the accident. David martin looks at what went wrong. Reporter this is how the landing should have gone. An osprey setting down on the flight deck of the uss green bay one year ago. But a similar landing on the same ship this weekend went horribly wrong. The osprey, which can fly like an airplane and hover like a helicopter, struck the ships stern as it descended and fell into the water. Ships, small boats, and helicopters pulled 23 marines from the water but searched in vain for the other three, who couldnt get out before the osprey sank. Family members identified them as First Lieutenant Benjamin Cross and Corporal Nathan ordway, both members of the flight crew, and private first class ruben velasco, who had just turned 19. The wreckage has been located and the marines plan to bring it to the surface. The osprey can carry more troops farther and faster than any helicopter, but its Tiltrotor Technology has been criticized ever since this horrendous crash 17 years ago. Crash crash, crash, crash reporter in which 19 marines died. But the father of First Lieutenant cross said his son trusted the aircraft. He told me that they had so many redundant Safety Systems in the plane that if one failed there was always a backup. Reporter marine corps statistics show over the last five years the osprey has the third highest accident rate, after the harrier jump jet, another vertical takeoff and landing plane, and older models of the f18 jet fighter. The marines are expected to order a safety standdown for all their aircraft so air crews can take a day off from flying and spend it reviewing their operating procedures. Anthony . David martin at the pentagon. Thank you, david. Federal investigators tell cbs news the explosive that damaged a mosque in bloomington, minnesota was sophisticated and may have been a pipe bomb. Governor mark dayton called it an act of terror. The explosion saturday blew out Office Windows just before morning prayers. No one was hurt. No arrests have been made. Opioids are taking a heavy toll on children in this country. They are not addicts, but their parents are. Dean reynolds now on the innocent victims of a drug epidemic. Reporter on a winding trail in Southeastern Ohio four children symbolize the devastating consequences of the opioid epidemic. Delaney, you go get the cones. Reporter delaney, liam, finnian and connally are living with their aunt Suzanne Valle now. She and her husband are raising them as their own because their parents are heroin addicts. Its heartbreaking. Its heartbreaking to see that parents will take the drugs over the children. Reporter suzanne is talking about her own brother. What do you tell those children about their parents . I tell them that their parents love them but they just are not able to take care of them. Reporter shes raising a fifth child, a boy named ronny, who just turned 1. His mother is an addict somewhere in town. Its estimated that due in large part to the opioid catastrophe at least 2. 5 million children nationwide are being raised by grandparents or other relatives. But some have no relatives who will take them in and go directly to foster care. Mike dewine is ohios attorney general. We think about 50 of the kids who are in foster care in ohio are there because one or both parents are in fact drug addicts. Reporter 14,000 children are in Agency Custody statewide, up 14 in five years. Case workers are stressed to the limit. Were removing one to three infants a month that are born addicted to drugs. Reporter jill wright is executive director of Childrens Services in adams county. These infant mothers, a lot of them we never see again. They never come to visit. They just leave their child and continue on with their addiction. Youve been doing this 26 years. Is the Current Situation the worst youve ever seen it . Yes. Reporter Suzanne Valle agrees that this is not a gathering storm, the storm is upon us. I do do foster care, but its almost like its not enough because there are so many kids that need somebody. Reporter kids like jack. We wont show his face because hes only 14. Hes been in and out of foster care four different times. I called my dad one day, and i was like, dad, why cant you just try and get me . And he was like, i just cant stop, like the drugs overtook him. And i was like, youre one messedup dad to pick drugs over your own kid. And i just hung up. Reporter and there are thousands more just like him. Dean reynolds, cbs news, blue creek, ohio. Staggering statistics out of ohio. Coming up next, the cause of that deadly accident at the Ohio State Fair. And later, what may be the coolest Civil Service job on earth. New lysol kitchen pro eliminates 99. 9 of bacteria without any harsh chemical residue. Lysol. What it takes to protect. Hundreds of dollars on youmy Car Insurance. Saved me huh. I should take a closer look at geico. dog panting geico has a 97 Customer Satisfaction rating and fast and friendly claims service. Speaking of service . Oooo, just out. It was in. Out. In out. In what about now . That was our only shuttlecock. 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Ken martin inspects amusement rides. It started from the inside coming out, similar to the way a cancer might eat through a body. You would have to have xray eyes to see this type of corrosion. Reporter theres no National Safety standard or enforcing body governing amusement rides. Each state has its own rules and polices itself. Thats dangerous in that theres no universal application of safety to protect all of us. Reporter attorney mark kitrick represents the family of 18yearold tyler jarrell. He was killed after being thrown 50 feet from the ride. Kitrick says the latest findings shocked jarrells mother. Shes beyond outraged to find out this is a problem that seems apparently pretty obvious. Youve got extra rust that needs to be repaired or fixed or replaced. Its a dangerous situation. Spoke to said the incident may have been prevented if the metal was coated or primed differently. 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President trump is on a working vacation at his new jersey golf club. Hes combined driving golf balls with his other favorite sport, swinging at opponents. In tweets today he blasted the Fake News Media and the failing New York Times and invited senator Richard Blumenthal to take a long vacation in vietnam where he lied about his military service so he can at least say he was there. And while mr. Trump was true to form, russias president was baring his. Vacationing in siberia, Vladimir Putin gave photographers quite a show. Swimming in a chilly lake, shirtless fishing. Looks like he caught himself a big one for dinner. In russia being on putins good side has its rewards, and bad things tend to happen to his opponents, including aleksei navalny, one of putins most ardent critics. Correspondent Ryan Chilcote spent a week with him for cbsn on assignment. What do you think the probability is that you will end up in prison . Mr. Putin personally decided such a things and no one understands whats in his head. What do you think the chances are youll end up dead . Well, like you know, 50 . I will be killed or i will not be killed. Up next, wanted, guardian of the universe. No superhero experienc finally tonight, are you bored at work . Find yourself staring into space . Well, nasa may have just the job for you. It comes with a sixfigure salary and Civil Service protection. Duties include saving the earth. Heres chip reid. Freeze it sounds like a job from the movie men in black. Government employees saving the earth from creepy aliens. Cassie conley is nasas planetary protection officer, and that is sort of what she does but on a smaller scale and not quite as messy. The job is defending earth from aliens, but theyre microbes, not space invaders. Reporter is it conceivable that if we bring rocks back from mars that some kind of evil microbe could destroy life on earth . Preventing that is the whole point of this job. Because we dont know. Reporter after 11 years shes decided to move on. And when nasa posted the job opening the internet went, well, viral. Comparing her to hollywoods long history of alien invasion heroes. You really have to have a sense of humor with this job. Reporter conley spends a lot of her time focused on mars. Is there life on mars . There absolutely is life on mars because theres life on the spacecraft that we sent to mars. Reporter thats right. Countless tiny microbes from earth are now hitching a ride on rovers cruising around the red planet. Conley steers them away from areas where native martian life might exist to avoid the possibility of interplanetary war on a microscopic level. The job usually requires a ph. D. And a broad scientific background. But one 9yearold wrote nasa that hes fit for the job because my sister says i am an alien, and i am young, so i can learn to think like an alien. He signed it jack davis, guardian of the galaxy. Nasa urged him to study hard and do well in school. After he gets his ph. D. Hopefully hell apply again. Because well always need someone to protect us from whatever is out there. Chip reid, cbs news, washington. And thats the overnight news for this tuesday. For some of you the news continues. For others check back a little later for the morning news and cbs this morning. From the Broadcast Center in new york city im anthony mason. Thanks for watching. Announcer this is the cbs overnight news. Welcome to the overnight news. Im anna werner. Tornado warnings went up in maryland after a powerful storm split trees and flipped cars in the town of salisbury. Meanwhile, people in tulsa are still picking up the pieces after a string of devastating tornadoes tore through the region. No one was killed, but nearly three dozen people were hurt. Omar villafranca is there. Reporter the ef2 tornado hit just after 1 00 in the morning. It blasted through the center of town with 130mileperhour winds. The twister ripped off rooftops, shredded storefronts, and blew out windows. Eight people were trapped inside this tgif and Officials Say at least 30 people were injured by the flying debris. Officer Demita Kinard is with the tulsa police department. There were people who had some pretty horrific injuries, but none were lifethreatening, which is great, and we had no loss of life. Reporter but many are wondering why the intense storm didnt trigger warning sirens. At 1 16 meteorologists were monitoring the thunderstorm. But two minutes later it became a tornado. At 1 23 the National Weather Service Started drafting the tornado warning. But it was issued at 1 25 a. M. , after the storm left tulsa. National Weather Service meteorologist steve piltz says they were caught off guard because the tornado was low to the ground, making it difficult for weather experts to predict what was happening on radar, and the storm intensified rapidly. Anytime we have these types of tornadoes we typically are a few minutes behind the first one. Then we begin to understand the situation better and we can be faster. Reporter the tornado moved in so fast that customers at this restaurant left their cell phones and purses on the table so they could go run for cover. Its worth noting that august tornadoes are rare. The last one in tulsa county was in the 1950s. Tornado sirens usually sound minutes but sometimes just a few seconds before a tornado strikes. Tony dokoupil reports on the latest efforts to increase the warning time. Reporter researchers at four universities are working to improve forecasting by using drones. The Unmanned Aircraft can do what the rest of us cannot, flying into the heart of dangerous weather systems to collect data on the storms. 13 minutes. Thats the average time between the detection of a tornado forming to when it comes down, leaving people in its path scrambling to find a safe place. Oh, my gosh reporter unlike other weather systems, tornadoes form quickly, are hard to predict and even hard to track. Jamie jacob and his team from Oklahoma State university are working on a set of drones designed to fly into and analyze Severe Weather systems. Meteorologists are very good at predicting when and where the storm is going to develop but not so good as determining when a storm is going to form a tornado at a particular place or a particular time. Reporter theyre built to withstand rain, hail, and winds of at least 80 miles an hour, and they drop a device called a dropson that collects data from inside a potential tornado. Sought goal is to be able to get more data that feeds directly into those models and do that in real time. Reporter that Realtime Data can be a key factor in saving lives when a tornado is beginning to form. We can get to the point where we can warn an hour ahead of time. Reporter the drones need a few more years of testing before being put to use by the National Weather service. The technology is a little ahead of the regulatory processes, however, so we may have to wait for the legal side to catch up with us. The marine corps is ordering inspections on its fleet of osprey tiltrotor aircraft after the most recent deadly accident off the coast of australia. The osprey has long been considered essential to transporting u. S. Marines. But it also has a long history of crashes. David martin reports. Reporter this is how the landing should have gone. An osprey setting down on the flight deck of the u. S. S. Green bay one year ago. But a similar landing on the same ship this weekend went horribly wrong. The osprey, which can fly like an airplane and hover like a helicopter, struck the ships stern as it descended and fell into the water. Ships, small boats and helicopters pulled 23 marines from the water but searched in vain for the other three, who couldnt get out before the osprey sank. Family members identified them as First Lieutenant Benjamin Cross and Corporal Nathan ordway, both members of the flight crew, and private first class ruben velasco, who had just turned 19. The wreckage has been located, and the marines plan to bring it to the surface. The osprey can carry more troops farther and faster than any helicopter. But its Tiltrotor Technology has been criticized ever since this horrendous crash 17 years ago. Crash, crash, crash, crash reporter in which 19 marines died. But the father of First Lieutenant cross said his son trusted the aircraft. He told me that they had so many redundant Safety Systems in the plane that if one failed there was always a backup. Reporter marine corps statistics show over the last five years the osprey has the third highest accident rate after the harrier jump jet, another vertical takeoff and landing plane, and earlier models of the f18 jet fighter. 377 people have been killed by gun violence in chicago since the start of the year. That includes a 14yearold boy who was among the shooting victims this past weekend. Federal investigators are on the scene, and theyre being led by a local atf agent who knows the city streets. Adriana diaz reports. I was that kid that walked to School Every Day in fear that i was going to get caught in a gang shooting, and no kid should have to live with that fear. So what i say to them is put the guns down. When you were tasked with reporter its selena nunezs job to get the guns off chicagos streets. The head of the citys atf division knows the pain of Gang Violence personally. When the chicago native was 8, she lost her cousin, who she considered a brother, to Gang Violence. I get the anger that some of these gang members feel, that they want retaliation, and i say you know what . Turn that hurt into greatness and do something positive. Reporter as her plan of attack against violence she launched chicagos Crime Gun Strike force in june. Its a team of city, state, and federal agents tasked with hunting down illegal guns. And whats that over there . This is our forensic lab on wheels. Reporter to help she brought in the atfs only forensic van. So heres a shell casing we kind of see at crime scenes. So this screen shows the data base of shell casings from across the country . Yes. When you can match the shell casings you can match crime scenes. Now you have a possible suspect. Eventually will lead us to the gun. Reporter in chicago officials have confiscated more than 5,000 guns since january, 900 more than this time last year. How easy is it for someone to get a gun . That easy. Reporter but gang members tell us the guns are easily replaced. Seizing these guns is one part of the component. But how do you change the mentality that they feel that they need a gun . Whats happening in chicago cant be put on Law Enforcement alone. We need to change the mentality of our juveniles and these young people that want to carry guns. The police have had some gains. Shootings are down 13 . But already this year there have been more than 400 people murdered, which is up over last year. Adriana diaz, cbs news, new york. Su a cold, a bug, a flu when school was back in session those germs were shared with you each year kids miss 22 Million School days due to illness. But lysol kills 99. 9 of cold and flu viruses. It says you apply the blue one ok, letto me. This. Here . 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And the white house contends that hes only here in new jersey because of renovations, structural and cosmetic, going on at the white house. But so far this vacation looks a lot like its modern president ial predecessors. No public events, no briefings, and some criticism. I promise you, i will not be taking very long vacations if i take them at all. Theres no time for vacation. At the time i remember saying hes going to find that that is just not true. Reporter anita mcbride, former chief of staff to first lady laura bush, knows the everpresent pressures and responsibilities that shadow a president. You are going to need time away, and its healthy for you. But your work is going to go with you. Reporter george h. W. Bush spent summers in kennebunkport, maine. President john kennedy sailed near the family compound in hyannis. Marthas vineyard attracted president s bill clinton and barack obama. While george w. Bush reveled in the rustic isolation of his crawford ranch. It was a little more private. Donald trump happens to be going to a place that these are his properties. There are members there. So its not truly private. Reporter bush 43 took heat for vacationing during the iraq war and for looking down at the devastating aftermath of Hurricane Katrina as he flew back to d. C. After a nearly monthlong vacation. I just want to stay in the white house and work my ass off, make great deals, right . Whos going to leave . Reporter as was so often the case, mr. Trump singled out president obama for criticism. In 2011 mr. Trump tweeted barack obama played golf yesterday. Now he heads to a tenday vacation in marthas vineyard. Nice work ethic. Mr. Trumps Summer Travel is predicted to cost the township of bedminster more than 300,000. This is a very different situation than previous president s where there are family members who are official members of the staff as well. So they have not only security but they have staff. It adds up. I think we know as human beings Everybody Needs a break or a change of scenery. Its just we certainly expect more out of our public leaders. And that might be unfair, but it is the reality. Our 11th president , james k. Polk, in case you were curious, was notorious for his work ethic, taking off only 27 days during his fouryear presidency. President trump is working to spur the oil and gas industry. But in one part of coal country the biggest growth industry is wind. Barry petersen reports. Reporter their job, dangling 300 feet up, roping a wind turbine blade. Nice view. Reporter this job comes with a view across the wyoming prairie and a view well into the future. Wind turbine jobs are expected to be the Fastest Growing jobs in america between now and 2024, up 108 . This reclaimed land covers a coal mine that was worked for almost 50 years. But increasingly, wyomings energy comes not from mining whats down below but from mining the wind above. In wyoming, the top coalproducing state in america, wind now produces ten times more energy than it did a decade ago. And maybe more to come. You just bought another 40 turbines us from. Reporter a Chinese Company is recruiting workers for Wind Turbines and will even pay for training. If there is so much integration in economies around the world reporter steve harshman, republican speaker of the wyoming house, has no problem with the chinese creating wyoming jobs. I think its all about free markets, and i think we all support that. Reporter Travis Harkins traded his coal job to work in wind, a decision made with his wife, sam, and three active boys very much in mind. When i was in coal, i had a concern of how i was going to provide for my family. Wind generation definitely opened up a whole other avenue for me and a lot more opportunity. Reporter people here have long boasted about being americas biggest coal producer. Now theyre learning to embrace the winds of change and with it a lot of new jobs. Good job. Good job. Reporter barry petersen, cbs news, rolling hills, wyoming. Those germs were shared with you each year kids miss 22 Million School days due to illness. But lysol kills 99. 9 of cold and flu viruses. Walter . Hmm . Is that the rest of our food . What . No. How come you have cheese in your beard . Because switching to geico could save you 15 or more on Car Insurance. Oh ok. Geico. Because saving 15 or more on Car Insurance is always a great answer. Whoa gross clearasil rapid action begins working fast for clearly visible results in as little as 12 hours. But will it stop this teen from being embarassed by her parents . Nope. So lets be clear clearasil works fast on teen acne, not so much on other teen things. New lysol kitchen pro eliminates 99. 9 of bacteria without any harsh chemical residue. Lysol. What it takes to protect. Well, its the newest rage in suburban planning. Its called the agrihood. Homes and businesses are built up around a working farm. Chip reid paid a visit to one of the biggest agrihoods in ashburn, virginia. Reporter its a Beautiful Day in the agrihood. Yes, its raining. But if you live in a community that has a farm right in the middle of it, you learn quickly that rain is a good thing. Thats how you get beautiful cucumbers and flowers and tomatoes like these, all of it grown right here on the Community Farm. Theres a lot of reporter it might look like work. But for these kids picking bushels of blackberries and ripe tomatoes this is the elbow right here. You want to put your thumb there and snap that off. Reporter is a perfect way to spend a summer day on the farm. Good one. Reporter with strange creatures. What is that . A tomato horned worm. Im not going to ask what youre going to do with him. Were going to reporter and delightful surprises. Oh, we got an egg reporter their harvest soon becomes lunch. We are going to have an awesome cucumber and tomato salad. That sounds good. Reporter thats what bonnie moore loves to hear. Tastes good, i know. Right . Reporter as the culinary director at willowsford farms shes introducing the kids to this one right in their back yard. With 300 acres of working farmland and 2,000 acres left for conservation, its one of the largest agrihoods in the country and its part of a rising trend in housing, with over 200 agrihoods across the nation. From dallas, texas to outside of atlanta, georgia, Even Inner City detroit and southern california. Theyre bringing families back to a more rural life. People want to know where their food comes from. I think parents want to know what their kids are eating. And they want their kids to be able to identify the food. Reporter theyre not just identifying their food. Why does it feel good to eat cucumbers that you grew instead of buying them at the store . I just feel like proud when like i made them. I grew it. I picked it. And now i get to cut it and eat it. Reporter theyre owning it. So when you look at your salad, what do you think . Rewarding . Its rewarding . And its not just about growing veggies. Come on. Reporter theyre also managing the land. And no lawnmower is as much fun as a herd of goats. Go, go, go. Reporter to the kids debra dramby is farmer deb, an expert on goats, Healthy Eating and the importance of getting outside in nature. Well, gosh, remember when you were out of school because you spent the summer working on a farm, right . And instead of being inside on a device playing a video game about farming or whatever exists, they can actually come and do it. Do you like doing this work . Totally. You do. Why . Because youre doing it for the goats . Yes. Reporter unlike veggies, goats give back. You get to hug animals and you get to take care of them. And thats really satisfying. Who here loves working with goats . Who here could see being a farmer someday . This could have been a golf course, but its not. Its a farm. Way better. Why is it better . Its so much more interactive. They want their families to be able to identify with something thats real. Real food, a real farm. Reporter Melissa Miller says her children love to be off the phones and video games and on the farm. Its just so exciting. Theyre seeing where their foods coming from. And theyre having a healthier lifestyle because of it. And i think theyll agree its so fresh. Every morning i kept saying can i have some more blueberries . So blueberries taste better when you pick them yourself . Yeah. I think theyre much fresher. This is literally farm to table. It is farm to table. And just the peaceful nature. We all have a stressful life with work and families and friends. But still just to drive down the street you kind of have your ah moment. Not quite like the tv show green acres but a little bit along those lines. Looking like that. Exactly. So on a summer morning when its raining what are most kids doing . Theyre sleeping late, theyre watching tv or theyre on their numerous electronic devices. Your parents tell me that youd rather be out here organizing the Community Farm market than being home in bed or watching tv. Are they right . Yeah. They really are . Yeah. Okay. Well, there you have it. Straight from the farmers mouths. A reality tv star is the focus of an investigation into animal abuse in florida. Just weeks after a video surfaced of a shark being dragged behind a speedboat, a new clip shows a hammerhead being shot with a handgun. Manuel bojorquez has the story from miami. Reporter no charges have been filed in these incidents, but animal activists believe they were carried out by the same group of men and they say they have other videos of their disturbing behavior on the water they may release today. In the latest video a hammerhead shark is pulled out of the water and shot twice in the gills. The man firing the gun, animal activists say, is alex kompothecras, star of mtvs new reality show siesta key. Alex is sort of the king of our crew. Cheers to that. Everyone wants to party with him. Reporter kompothecras allegedly deleted this photo from his Instagram Account, posing with a dead hammerhead and wearing clothes similar to the man in the shooting video. Its just wanton killing. Reporter animal activist russ rector says he got the video from someone who filed a complaint with state investigators. He claims many of the same men were responsible for dragging this blacktip shark from their boat while laughing. He insists they also poured beer in the gills of this hammerhead and that more unsettling videos are coming. Theres so much alcohol involved. Youre going to see the other people and alex shooting at other fish on the line. Reporter according to people magazine, who interviewed kompothecras before the video was made public, kompothecras deleted a video from his Instagram Account showing a shark being shot. There are images of me and i feel horrible, he said. I am embarrassed and it wont happen again. He denied taking part in dragging the other shark. In florida, where its illegal to kill marine life with guns or explosives, hammerheads are protected. But in federal waters further out shooting them is allowed. Its unclear where the shark was shot. I know a lot of people fear sharks. But really sharks have a lot more to fear from people, and i think this whole situation is just an example of that. Reporter shark researcher neil hammerschlog says some hammerhead species are threatened with extinction. This is clearly just a situation of mistreating wildlife. I dont think theres any place for that in society. Reporter cbs reached out to alex kompothecras, but he did not respond. Mtv, which declined to comment on the shark shooting video, said some siesta key cast members have received threats. And an attorney for some of the men in the dragging video said a lot of tourists in hawaii look forward to a chance to swim with wild dolphins. But if some environmentalists have their way that could be coming to an end. Carter evans is in oahu. Reporter we were the tour group tracking hawaiian spinner dolphins off the west coast of oahu. It looks like pretty close to 100 dolphins. Reporter the Hawaiian Islands are one of the few places lets go. Reporter you can get this close to them. Native to hawaii, these spinner dolphins are a smaller species about four feet long. Theyre social animals known for their acrobatic behaviors. In the water they seem curious and approached us. Several swim right underneath. Just hang out in a group, you guys. Dont push toward them. Reporter but our guide jenna morris is serious about keeping our distance. You dont actually want people touching the dolphins. No. I think the singlehandedly hardest part of my job is managing expectations that people have. Be as stealthy as possible. Reporter current law prohibits harassing dolphins, but it doesnt limit how close you can get to them, and many people have taken advantage. Online videos show swimmers frolicking with the dolphins and even trying to pet them. I do think that this human activity is raising their stress levels. Reporter noaa fisheries biologist ann garrett says spinner dolphins are nocturnal and feed at night. They come close to shore during the day to rest in protected shallow waters and the tour boats are a disturbance. What were seeing is their rest times are shortening and the dolphins were concerned with may not be feeding as well, may be too tired to do the foraging they need to and are perhaps not nurturing their young in the same way that they ought to. Reporter garrett says over time this could lead to a decrease in the population. Noaa is now proposing changes to the current law that would keep people and boats at least 50 yards from the dolphins. Is it unusual for them to come right up to you . No. Dolphins are very curious animals by nature. Reporter Victor Lozano is one of the many tour operators against the proposed rule. He says it would be difficult to keep the dolphins away from the boats and hard for tourists to see them at that distance, which could hurt business. But he agrees there are too many tours and not every tour company is following the rules. Were all making a living. We need to protect it. We need to make sure that were responsible how were viewing these animals. I dont think these tours are hurting them right now as long as everyone listens. Reporter Sabrina Krantz and her daughter try to swim with the dolphins whenever they visit hawaii. This time may be their last. What is it about getting up so close to the dolphins thats so special . Its just being in nature in its pure form. You get to see them do their thing. Its beautiful. Reporter carter evans, cbs news, oahu. Its tuesday, august 8th, 2017, this is the cbs morning news. Summer storms strike. Its clean up time after a possible tornado touches down in maryland. President trump is on the attack. This time he is taking aim at a democratic senator. The google employee whose memo sparked backlash is out of work this morning. Why he he says he was unlawfulfully terminated. A community in florida is feeling more and more unsettled as a massive sinkhole

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