Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Army reserve captain sage fox found her career put on hold after she changed genders, even though she says it made her a better officer. Transitioning has allowed me to be better as a leader. I have gotten rid of the distraction of worrying about concealing who i really was. Reporter fox had to rely on private insurance to cover her surgery, but from now on, the military will cover the cost of sex change operations approved by a doctor. Our doctors will treat them and give them medically necessary treatment according to the protocols. Reporter once the Service Member switches gender, they would also switch to the barrack, bathrooms and showers used by their new gender. The decision comes after a year study during which secretary carter personally met with transgender Service Members. They are deployed all over the world serving on aircraft, submarines, Forward Operating bases and right here in the pentagon. Reporter the u. S. Is not a world leader when it comes to treating transgender Service Members equally. 18 other countries already allow them to serve openly. Josh . I want to ask you about the defense discipline over the january incidents in which crew members were captured by iran in the persian gulf. What can you tell us . Reporter well, nine people ranging from commanders ashore down to the sailors who actually steered the boat have been singled out for disciplinary action. The investigation uncovered a litany of poor leadership, broken equipment and bad decisions. Because of engine trouble, the two boats left kuwait four hours late and took a shortcut to make up the time. Their new course ran through iranian territorial waters. One of the boats broke down again, and thats when the revolutionary guard captured the crews at gunpoint and put them on display. While they were being held, some of the violating the servicemans code of conduct. The navy now plans to use this as a case study in all the things that can go wrong in even the simplest military operation. Josh . Elliott david martin at the pentagon tonight for us. Thank you. Today a military base outside washington was locked down after someone reported seeing a gunman. This happened at roughly the time a security drill was to begin. For a while it wasnt clear what was real and what was part of the test. Heres kris van cleave. [siren sounding] reporter confusion and miscommunication over a possible gunman near the Malcolm Grow Medical Center prompted the lockdown of joint base andrews outside the Nations Capital for nearly two hours starting around 9 00 a. M. When the base tweeted, it is currently on lockdown due to a report of an active shooter. All personnel are directed to shelter in place. As officers and dogs cleared the hospital, those inside streamed out of the building with raised, prompting extensive live media coverage. Brad jordan works on andrews. Its what appeared to be a very real and dire situation. Reporter word of the scare at andrew, home of air force one, surprised Homeland Security secretary jeh johnson, who was testifying before congress. We do have, as reflected on the news, an unfolding situation at andrews air base, which may require that i take a break from this session. Reporter the base had planned what it described as a nonotice active Shooter Drill just two days after the attack in turkey. At about the time the exercise began a report of a gunman was called in from the medical facility on the other side of the base. A statement posted on twitter explained there was misidentification of the Security ForcesEmergency Services team who were conducting a routine inspection of the facility. Secretary of defense ash carter. I thought the response was strong and solid. Soha the bad news is it appears to have been a mistake and we like to reduce the numbers of mistakes made in this way, no question about it. Reporter joint base andrews, the primary point of departure for the president and other dignitaries, josh, Vice President joe biden delayed his departure for ohio today because of this scare. Kris van cleave for us, thank you. Meanwhile new york turkey, the death toll from tuesdays airport attack rose to 44 today. We also got a closeup look at the three suicide bombers and learned their nationalities. Holly williams is in istanbul. Reporter the terror inside istanbuls main airport is captured by this newly released Security Camera video. People running for their lives as one of the armed attackers moved through the departures area, apparently searching for victims. And this photo shows the three suicide bombers arriving at the airport according to turk irk media, just before their killing spree. One of them is thought to have been a russian citizen from the north caucuses region, the two others from uzbekistan and kyrgyzstan. [gunfire] its estimated that several thousand fighters from russia and former soviet republics, including chechnya, have joined isis. Just three attackers are believed to have rented this apartment in a workingclass istanbul neighborhood last month. Turkish police raided it yesterday morning. Erdal simsek is the local plumber and told us that when one of the men asked him to fix a leaking tap two days ago, he noticed a strange odor in the apartment. I asked the man what it was, he told us, but he just waved me away. Explosives experts believe it might have been a chemical precursor used in suicide vests. Individuals suspected of providing financial and logistical help to isis. Turkeys been accused in the past of not doing enough to stop foreign fighters from passing through its territory to reach isis in syria. Josh, it now seems that some of those foreign fighters may have targeted turkey and its biggest airport. Holly williams in istanbul for us tonight. Thank you. Attorney general Loretta Lynch is coming under fire for an impromptu discussion with former president bill clinton. Their meeting came as lynchs Justice Department is investigating the handling of classified information on Hillary Clintons private email server when clinton was secretary of state. Nancy cordes is following this. No discussions were held on any cases or anything of that, and he didnt raise anything. Reporter the attorney generals insistence that the email investigation never came up did not satisfy republicans, who renewed their calls today for a clinton case due to apparent conflicts of interest. And speculated about what the former president might have said the lynch on her plane in phoenix monday. The female thing, it does exist. Just prove it, loretta. Just forget about it. Aint nothing there. Reporter lynch says mr. Clinton initiated the contact when he discovered they were at the same airport. He did come over and say hello to my husband and myself and talk about his grandchildren and my travels and things like that. Reporter an aide to the former president claims he was simply extending a courtesy. How bad a judgment is it for him or her to do this . Who would do this. Reporter president obama was asked that very question today. But he ignored it while lynch and the White House Press secretary side ste. People confidence is the 30year career that attorney general lynch has in keeping the publics trust. Reporter the clinton campaign, frustrated by the unforced error, has had no comment except to say they agree with lynchs version of events. One imagine, josh, that clinton herself had a lot to say to her husband about it in private. Indeed. Nancy cordes in washington, thank you. Five weeks before the started of the olympics in rio, police say a mutilated body has washed up on copacabana beach where the Beach Volleyball competition will be held. This horrific discovery comes as olympics original disiezers deal with a rash of problems, including severe pollution in venues for rowing and other water sports. The brown stuff there, thats all raw sewage . Yes. Reporter we flew over rio with mario moscatelli, a biologist who has been documenting the citys vast this is just unreal. I mean, this water is black. Reporter he hoped the olympics would force rio to clean it up. We had seven years, and our authorities didnt do almost anything. It is a toilet. Reporter raw sewage still flows from rios poor neighborhoods right into the water. It sounds crude, but this is basically like flushing a giant toilet into the ocean. Yes, yes. Reporter in the marina where olympic sailors will launch their boats, we saw a giant plume of sewage streaming into the water. Tests found diseasecausing viruses in rios waters 1. 7 million times the level that would be considered hazardous in the u. S. The problem is not just sewage, its also trash, tons of it floating here in the bay, and some athletes say theyre worried about running into it. Arantza gumucio is an olympic sailor from are you worried the trash high impact the competition in weve seen it with other boats. Theyve collided with maybe its a chair. Reporter oceanographer david zee says the government promised to plan eight Treatment Plants in the rivers. They built just one. They promised to treat 80 of the sewage flowing in the guanabara bay and are only treating about half. So if you had to grade the job the government has done cleaning up the water, what grade would you give them . D. Reporter d . D. Reporter so they havent done a very good job . No. Reporter guido gelli is with rios environmental department. Why has rio not done what its promised to do . Well, its an interesting question. The problem is the sewer system. Because its not easy. Its very expensive. And for olympic games, there are no problems with the placere the games will be. Reporter but its hard to ignore that one of the most beautiful places on earth might not be ready for its closeup. Ben tracy, cbs news, rio de janeiro. Ben, thank you. Well, today federal regulators opened an investigation into teslas model s sports cars. In may a driver using teslas automated driving system was killed when his car crashed into an 18wheeler in florida. Investigators will look at whether the autopilot performed as expected. And government regulators are urging the owners of more than 300,000 honda and acura models to stop driving them and have their detective takata air bags replaced immediately. The urgent recall follows testing which shows the air bags from the 2001 to 2003 model years have a far greater risk of rupturing and injuring drivers and passengers. More than 70 million vehicles with takata air bags have been recalled. 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The economy is starting to rise a little bit, so we see that consumers taking that extra money theyre saving at the pump, putting it toward a summer trip. Its going to be like 20 of us in a big house. Fires,. Partying. Reporter Ben Civiletti and his girlfriend stopped in new jersey to fill up on their way to the beach. It was a nice surprise when we filled up right here to see it was only 40 as opposed to what would have been 65 or 70 a year ago. Reporter but low prices are creating a funding shortfall for some states, fueling lawmakers in maryland and Washington State to increase gas taxes, and in new jersey, which has some of the cheapest prices in the country, the state legislature is considering a bill that would raise the gas tax from 14. 5 cents to 37. 5 a gallon. Drivers in the south are expected to benefit the most, but, josh, people out west, well, theyll likely continue to pay over 2 a gallon. Elliott Jericka Duncan tonight, thank you for that. 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Lead defense attorney justin brown. We made it. We got him a new trial. I will curb my enthusiasm because theres still a lot more fi hes still not out of jail. Syed had been serving a life sentence for the 1989 murder for his exgirlfriend. In overturning the case, the judge said syed had ineffective assistance and an Expert Witness had not been crossexamined. The podcast also raised questions about why another student who swore she could provide an alibi for syed was never called to testify. 35yearold syed long maintained his innocence. No one could ever come with any proof or anecdote or anything to ever say that i was ever mad at her, that i was ever angry with her, that i ever threatened her. Reporter its still not clear whether hell be granted bail while the new trial gets under way. Josh . Very big news for the tens of millions who followed this case. Thank you. Coming up next, two faiths, one house of worship. I wanti did my ancestrydna and where i came from. 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And at a time when religion is so often a source of division, one house of wore slip in washington, d. C. , stands as home to a surprising unity. Anna werner pays a visit. Reporter every friday inside this historic church, theres a call to prayer answered by hundreds of muslims, surrounded by christian icons. Two religions, sharing the same space. It starts with people understanding each other, and then it goes to understanding each other. Reporter farooq syed has been organizers these prayers ever since the church of epiphany opened its doors to the muslim faithful who needed a place to worship eight years ago. The prayers began with 50 people. Now there are over 300 who pray each week with the churchs blessing. Its our job to be the hands and feet of peace in the world, and how do we do that is by loving one another. I dont know if they ever thought that muslims would come here and pray and become one of the biggest congregations of churches. Reporter so your congregation is much larger than the churchs congregation . Yes. This is the biggest congregation that the church has, the muslim prayers. Not only do they feed my stomach, but they also fed my soul. Reporter 50yearold syed bond is homeless. He found this Prayer Service by chance three years ago. Hes one of dozens people who are part of this congregation. He now helps prepare the sanctuary for friday prayer. For bond, the church has become more than just a place to pray. Look at that. Im not christian, but i look at that as beautiful. [bell tolls] reporter and during the prayers, we heard a sound, church bells. Its amazing. You know, its amazing to see two things together. You know, who can imagine, you know, church bells ringing in a muslim giving a sermon . Its a moment of reflection for people who think that we are different. We are all the same. We are all the same. Reporter muslim and christians in unity in a church bearing witness to an epiphany. Anna werner, cbs news, washington, d. C. Elliott a story of hope. Thats the cbs evening news. For scott pelley, im josh elliott. Fo this is Mission Metro town hall meeting. And good evening. Glad to have you with us for this unique town hall style event. Im adam longo. The new ceo mr. Paul widdafeld here to take your questions and from the federal government we have Eleanor Holmes and Jerry Connelly and pleased to have with us jackie jetter the metro Employee Union and jack evans dc counsel and david hearington. The president of the chamber of commerce