maduro has ignored the chorus of venezuelcountry's economic and humanitarian crisis and want him out. who despite international ff stt . >> you're not worried on who is going to be president here because in your view, maduro is just maduro. >> reporter: jefferson gonzalez is part of a so-called colectivo. parts of pro-maduro citizens who police entire neighborhoods. the name they've chosen for this neighborhood, beehive, he says, is also a warning. >> you're worker bees, but also we'll sting you if you attack. >> reporter: the more humanitarian aid that arrives at venezuela's borders the bigger the test for the country's military which remains loyal to maduro would could incur the wrath of those who need the help if they enforce his blockade. >> manuel tonight, thank you. for the first time ever, consumer debt in this country has topped trillion. today's report by the fed says student loans make up the largest portion of that 1.6 trillion. this is consumer debt. next is auto loans, nearly $1.2 trillion. that averages out to more than $12,000 per person of consumer debt. chicago police are investigating an officer's death last saturday as a possible suicide. if so, that would make six police suicides there since the summer. blue help, which provides mental health resources for police, tells us tonight officers are twice as likely to die by their own hands than in a confrontation with a criminal. dean reynolds is in chicago. >> a disturbance -- >> reporter: every week father dan brandt rides deep into chicago's most violent neighborhoods listening to the cops who patrol these streets. he says out here on the job is where they're more likely to open up and what he hears are cries for help. >> hey, how's it going? >> these officers see more evil in the course of a ten-hour tour than most anybody sees in a lifetime. >> reporter: and it can't be unseen. >> when an accountant goes home, he can talk to his spouse about the audit he or she just conducted, but officers don't want to go home and burden their spouse with the ugliness they've encountered the last eight or teepor nationwide at least 161 police officers reportedly took their own lives last year, 160 the year before, outpacing the number who died in the line of duty. five and possibly six suicides in chicago just since july. according to one study, cops are 30% more likely to kill themselves than the general public. experts on the subject say stress creates problems at home, relationship issues and worse. >> they've got the tool to do so to end their own life right on their hip. >> reporter: in chicago, contacts between officers and their families with the cpd's mental health assistance program more than doubled between 2013 and 2017. >> nice to meet you. >> thank you. likewise. >> reporter: father brandt offers a sympathetic here, kevlar for the spirit, but the need is urgent. >> it took us all by surprise. >> reporter: jeffrey sax is a former chicago cop and stepfather of dane smith, an officer who committed suicide on new year's day. >> i think there was a lot of straws that broke the camel's back. >> tell me about them. >> working in one of the roughest neighborhoods in the city of chicago, i believe he suffered from post traumatic stress. >> you can cry in this uniform. it's okay. >> reporter: it's those neighborhoods who err you find father brandt. >> police officers are a rare breed. they're called to be social workers and ten-minute marriage counselors and peace makers and dodgers of bullets. >> take care. >> good to see you. >> thank you. >> reporter: he knows the wounds can go deep. dean reynolds, cbs news, chicago. coming up next, a letter has just been released. am zone's ceo jeff bezos and the world's richest man says the "national enquirer" tried to blackmail him over personal photos. and later here why customers were out of luck trying to access information at one of merrick's largest banks. olay ultra moisture body wash gives skin the nourishment it needs and keeps it there longer with lock-in moisture technology. skin is petal smooth. because your best skin starts with olay. . we move now to some late news tonight. amazon foundy jeffrey bezos is accusing the publisher of the "national enquirer" of blake mail and extortion. me beten mimumnd a explicit text woman he was having an affair on this. with much more tonight, elaine quijano is here. what do we know? >> you may recall that bezos wa anchor lauren sanchez. started looking into where the "enquirer" got its information, hiring a well-known security expert gavin de becker. an a.m.i. leader advised us that mr. pecker is apoplectic about our investigation. they said they had more of my photos and text messages that they would publish if we didn't stop our investigation. describing the photos, the "enquirer" has allegedly obtained in graphic details. embarrassment a.m.i. could cause me takes a back seat because there is a much more important matter involved here. if in this position i can't stand up to this kind of extortion, how many people can? bezos, the founder of amazon is the world's most richest man. he also owns "the washington post" and has frequently been criticized by the president as being fake news. >> more to come on this, obviously, elaine, but a jarring headline. jeff bezos accuses the "national enquirer" of extortion. elaine. elaine. thanks ♪ ♪ ♪ and everywhere i go ♪ there's always something to remind me ♪ ♪ of another place and time ♪ ♪ ♪ of another place and time ♪ my digestive system used to make me feel sluggish. but those days are over. now i take metamucil every day. it naturally traps and removes the waste that weighs me down. so i feel...lighter. try metamucil and begin to feel what lighter feels like. take the metamucil two week challenge and lighten up.l everday o eks. e u ready for the challenge? get arteetam dot co know ws me on? my better half, hoeuand bu an it up notch we k-y yours & mine. tingling for me, w this valentine's day get what you want a man from st. paul, minnesota was charged with attempted murder and assault today after a road rage confrontation. police say that 31-year-old kenneth lily fired five shots at 78-year-old school bus driver who bumped his car on an icy interstate this week. the driver was hit in his head and arm but is okay. a child in the bus was not hurt. if you bank with wells fargo and tried to access your account online today, you likely had issues. there was a fire earlier this e tro nation's third largest bank did last well into the day. florida's red tide invasion. the coastal waters are entirely free of algae blooms. the latest run s rted i a legend, frank robinson, died today of cancer at 8. jim axelrod looks back. >> frank robinson gets ready at the plate. >> reporter: you can't describe frank robinson without using words like first and only. the only man ever selected most valuable player in both leagues. the first african-american manager in major league history. >> and frank rips into this one. >> reporter: his 586 home runs, 1966 triple crown and 14 all-star team selections might have sent him to cooperstown -- >> frank robinson. >> reporter: -- but it was his determination and integrity that sent him to the white house. where he was awarded a presidential medal of freedom. as you might expect, from a black man who faced discrimination when he tried to buy a home in a white neighborhood in baltimore in 1966, robinson had a fierce pride that didn't always endear him to his players. >> i can be tough when i have to be tough. i can be mean when i have to be mean, but i can adjust to the situation.nd i hope you fellas don't get that impression. >> reporter: when we spoke in 2005, he wasna and unhappy with the shrinking number of african-americans on big league rosters. >> this is a great game. this is america's game and we have to get the african-american people nvolved in this game again. >> reporter: frank robinson spent 60 years in that great game as a player, manager and executive. always doing his best to make sure it was played the right way. jim axelrod, cbs news, new york. >> that is the "overnight news" for this friday. for some of you, the news continues. adcater inewcheckac later f york city, i'm jeff glor. this is the "cbs overnight news." hi, everyone, and welcome to the "overnight news." i'm demarco morgan. virginia is a commonwealth in crisis. the state's top three elected officials all democrats are embroiled in separate scandals. the governor and attorney general are under fire for wearing racist blackface guessups in their college days and the lieutenant governor is accused of sexual assault. president trump wasted no time accusing the dems of having a double standard when it comes to abusive behavior. ed o'keefe has this story. >> reporter: lieutenant governor justin fairfax, the one accused of sexual assault, was the only one of virginia's top three leaders to be seen in public today, presiding over the virginia state senate. >> all those present will please record their vote aye. >> reporter: governor ralph northam and attorney general herring, the ones who admitted to wearing blackface in the 1 0 1980s, avoided cameras for yet another day. there was no discussion of possible reds nations. the fourth in line, republican house speaker kirk cox has called on the govern tore step down. today we asked if there is anything similar in his past. >> i have never been in blackface, unequivocal. that's abhorrent. no. >> reporter: meanwhile, more blackface and racist photos were discovered in the 1968 when current state senator tommy norment, a republican, was the managing editor. in a statement he condemned the use of blackface but also his opponents for wanting to engulf republican leaders in the ongoing saga. >> i imagine every yearbook of every member of the general assembly has or will be looked into at some point. >> reporter: the scandals have rocked this former seat of the confederacy where lawmakers are mostly tight-lipped. >> you have as much chance of getting me to make a comment on the ongoing things as you do of flapping your arms and into iing to the moon, okay? >> reporter: on twitter today, president trump said democrats are killing the great state of virginia and predicted virginia will come back home to republicans in 2020. the old dominion has 13 electoral votes and has been picking democrats for president since 2008. that's part of the reason why national democrats have spoken out so forcefully about the charges of racism and sexual assault. california senator and 2020 presidential candidate kamala harris -- >> the history of blackface in this country is the history of racism in this country. it is something that is painful for most of us to see, to hear about and to think about. >> reporter: harris also said that the sexual assault allegations against the lieutenant governor should be investigated, as did fellow candidate and new york senator kirsten gillibrand, who said that dr. vanessa tyson, quote, showed enormous colonel urage i coming forward. the senate judiciary committee approved the nomination of william barr to be attorney general. all the democrats voted against him. the full senate is expected to give final approval some time next week. meanwhile, acting attorney general matthew whitaker is scheduled to testify before congress later today. whether or not he shows up, that's another story. nancy cordes has the story. >> subcommittee will come to order into today's hearings were just the beginning. >> does anybody have any objections to testifying under oath? >> reporter: in one hearing room, democrats kicked off their pursuit of the president's tax returns. >> can a person release his or her tax return while under audit? >> i know of no restriction that would prevent a taxpayer from disclosing information. >> reporter: in another hearing room, they probed the controversial move last year to separate families at the border. >> when did you become aware of the policy? >> when the attorney general said it on television. >> what we're talking about is state-sponsored child abuse. >> reporter: just one month into their new majority, house onow clearances were the white house, how companies got contracts to clean up after hurricane maria and whether the president's decisions have been influenced by his foreign financial interests. >> we're going to do our proper oversight. >> reporter: mr. trump complained today that democrats are going nuts, tweeting, "the republicans never did this to president obama." fact check, false. they launched plenty of probes. >> they hired you as soon as we said we want a bunch of documents, correct? >> mr. werful, who was the acting commissioner -- >> yes or no, please.yore a hos >> reporter: house speaker nancy pelosi insisted today her party's investigations will be carefully chosen and carried out. >> how important do you think it is for the public to see the president's tax returns? >> they want to know the truth. they want to know the facts. and he has nothing to hide. >> reporter: tomorrow democrats are hauling the acting attorney general matthew whitaker before congress for the first time, and they were threatening to issue a subpoena if he didn't answer all their questions. today he threatened not to show up. >> the tsa says it confiscated a record number of firearms at airport security checkpoints last year. in all, more than 4,200 guns were found at 249 airports nationwide and more than 86% of them were loaded. kris van cleave has the story. >> rep cay-on at dallas-fort woa discovery that happened 219 times last year at dfw checkpoints. nationally it happened nearly 12 times a day and more than 4,200 times in the year. that number was a 7% increase over 2017 and 86% of the guns were loaded. just ten airports accounted for nearly 1/3 of all cases, atlanta had the most. >> why do you think that number is growing every year? >> well, i'm just going to make a guess here. i think more people are simply carrying weapons in the country and we reflect what we're seeing around the country. >> reporter: tsa administrator david pekoske. >> it's a prohibited item in your terminology and something you just can't take into a checkpoint. before you hit that first person in line, just take a quick look through your bag. >> reporter: passengers almost always say it was a mistake, as this man did in 2017. >> it was just an oversight. >> hands behind your back for me, please. >> reporter: but passengers can be arrested and the tsa can seek fines up to $13,000. our review of 2017 police records found in the vast majority of cases men barack the gun to the checkpoint. 63% of violatorsge from their 30 their 50s, of an 83-year-old woman, a 10-year-old boy, an airport worker and a pastor. and not all guns are found. we found at least three cases in 2017 where it appeared guns got through the checkpoint. last month screeners in atlanta missed one in a man's carry-on. >> i'm a little troubled by the fact that the gun went through the x-ray machine and was missed. >> i'm troubled by that, too. i think everybody in tsa is troubled by it. >> reporter: tsa is working with airports to improve signage before people get to the checkpoints. you can pack an unloaded gun in a locked case in your checked bags, but bottom line, a gun can never be in a carry-on. the "cbs overnight news" will be right back. ♪ cleaning floors with a mop and bucket is a hassle, meaning you probably don't clean as often as you'd like. for a quick and convenient clean, try swiffer wetjet. there's no heavy bucket, or mop to wring out, because the absorb and lock technology traps dirt and liquid inside the pad. it's safe to use on all finished surfaces tile, laminate and hardwood. and it prevents streaks and hazing better than a micro fiber strip mop, giving you a thorough clean the first time. for a convenient clean, try swiffer wetjet with a money back guarantee. brand power. helping you buy better. seyou may have gum diseaseu brush or floss? 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>> i dread it. i live in fear every single day. >> reporter: but a team of scientists at the massachusetts institute of technology could soon change that. >> will this technology be able to read e. coli in lettuce? >> i hope so. >> lead in water? >> i hope so. in fake alcohol on my tion. eportes man lding wels - >> reporter: when we first arrived at mit. >> we hope to be able to build a portable device that a person dan take with them when they're trying to buy something from a supermarket or a farmer's market. >> reporter: he envisions it will be the size of a cell phone charger and plug into your charger. right now it looks like this. according to him, the device is preprogrammed to detect specific cont contaminants in things like milk and alcohol. and transmits the results to a phone app. >> we want to test this for contaminants. >> reporter: the team showed us what a prototype of the app might look like. >> you can see it is actually fake alcohol. >> reporter: mit believes the technology could help people avoid safety hazards such as tainted alcohol, which either kills or blinds hundreds of people every year. the goal is for consumers to one day be able to use the technology to test meals in restaurants and at home. >> you could also envision future smart bridges that incorporate this technology to detect contaminated food or food spoilage. >> if i scan food and i'm told this lettuce is contaminated, where else does that information go? >> it will be uploaded to an online database. ideally it will be connected to servers which regulation boards have access to. >> reporter: regulation boards like the cdc which says 128,000 americans are hospitalized by food-borne illnesses every year. >> we have great technology now and still 48 million americans get sick every year. >> reporter: while consumers like goldman are interested in being able to detect contamination themselves, food safety lawyer bill marler hopes grocery stores will use the technology, too. >> i see the best use of this kind of technology as sort of before it hits the marketplace, before it goes on a grocery store shelf. >> in the near term, i hope consumers will do it. in the long term, i hope it will become so seamless that it will disappear into the environment such that it is in the infrastructure of the grocery store. >> do you think in the future it will be as mainstream as paying with your phone as we do now? >> i certainly hope that this will be the case. >> the "cbs over i'm alex trebek, here to tell you about the colonial penn program. if you're age 50 to 85, and looking to buy life insurance on a fixed budget, remember the three p's. what are the three p's? 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>> growing up, i was real close to my grandparents on both sides. they just treated me like -- >> this is where john likes to hang out. >> reporter: in his favorite room at home where a christmas tree stands year round. prine and his wife fiona hung an early review. >> this critic didn't like my show. he said basically all i did was derrick drink my beer and mumble and scratch my head and sing in an awful voice. he couldn't understand it. he wrote as entertaining as a dog fight. ♪ sam stone came home to his wife ♪ >> reporter: fresh out of the army, worked as a mailman in urban chicago. he wrote songs like "sam stone" along his route. after a review from film critic roger ebert, his shows filled up. >> this is where i wrote probably 98% of the songs. this thing was brand-new in '68. the guitar now is retired. i'm still out there singing. there's a lot of good songs in there. anything left in there? come on out. ♪ coming again around the bend >> reporter: in 2018 out came his first album of new songs in 13 years. this time it was fiona and son jodi who said it was time to make a record and sent him to a hotel to focus. >> may booked me into a suite and i arrived with three guitars. i looked like howard hughs. ten boxes of unfinished lyrics ♪ come on home, come on home ♪ >> reporter: a week later he walked out with "the tree of forgiveness." fiona shared two of those boxes with us. >> there's one that never got finished. >> well, no wonder. it's awful. >> you turned up the volume, erased the problem. problem rhymed with volume. you leave out the bad parts and sing the good parts. ♪ surround me with your boundless love ♪ >> reporter: since the album's release, it's become a top five hit, earned three grammy nods and launched a year of shows starting out with a sold-out radio city music hall. prine has fought off cancer twice, losing part of his neck and lung and giving his voice a new gravelly edge. >> there's part of me that's grateful for the lesson that cancer teaches you. no matter how much you thought you enjoyed life, you just enjoy it just that much more. >> reporter: prine is also enjoying some of the perks of the attention. >> you just mention that you like something now and people -- i like cadillacs. ♪ i'm knocking on your screen door ♪ >> this is my beauty, a '99 cadillac devil. >> you've always been a cadillac fan? >> since i started making money. i like a good sad song. i never know what i'm looking for when i'm writing by myself. i always like details in a song -- to put like an ash tray in the room before you start talking about emotions in songs. they keep some real good acoustics back here. >> the high-end room. >> this is something i wrote for my father. >> coal country where his family came from and the inspiration behind "paradise." the final song prine performs at every show. ♪ daddy won't you take me back down by the green river where paradi paradise leaves ♪ ♪ i'm sorry my son ♪ mr. peabody's coal train is hauling away ♪ >> yeah. all right. narrator: this february fall in love with twin pine casino's choose your ride giveaway. earn entries for a chance to choose your ride on the grand prize drawing night, february 23rd. of a brand new jeep renegade or chevy malibu only at twin pine casino & hotel. of a brand new jeep renegade or chevy malibu parts of northern california are still recovering from the most destructive fire in state history. the camp fire killed 85 people as well as an untold number of animals. many of the pets that survived the flames suffered severe burns and some of them are recovering nicely thanks to a promising new treatment. jamie yuccas introduces us to one lucky dog. >> reporter: when the camp fire broke out in pyaradise -- >> i can't imagine what she saw or what she did. >> did you think that olivia was gone? >> oh, yeah. >> i thought she perished. we really expected the worse because no one could get to >> reporter: their house was left in ashes. police finally found olivia nearly a week later. >> oh, my goodness. >> reporter: the starks reunited with their dog at a local clinic but she was severely burned. >> she had such extensive injuries, not only to her paws but her sides, second and third-degree burns, so, you know, it was quite painful for her. >> reporter: so jamie peyton at the uc davis veterinary teaching medical hospital decided to treat olivia in a highly unusual way, with fish skins. she attached telatia skins packed with high levels of collagen to the wounds, allowing them to heal better and faster. >> if provides protection and pain relief covering all of those open nerve endings as well as providing an area for the skin cells to actually grab on and move across to help heal a wound. >> reporter: peyton initially used fish skin to treat bears and a mountain lion burned in wildfires, but this is the first time the procedure has been performed on pets. >> there hasn't been a true standard of care for treating burns in veterinary medicine. we have to find better ways to treat these patients. >> reporter: weeks later olivia's wounds are healing. >> we see our dog now. she's got her personality back. it took a layer off the sadness. >> reporter: giving hope to the starks and their beloved pooch, as they all gradually get back on their feet. jamie yuccas, cbs news, orville, california. and that's the "overnight news" for this friday. for some of you, the news continues. for others, you can check back with us a little later for "the morning news" and, of course, "cbs this morning." from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm demarco morgan. you're looking live at the richmond-san r live from the cbs bay area studios, this is kpix 5 news. now at 4 am you're looking live at the richmond san rafael bridge where right now all lanes are open. this after falling concrete shut down the bridge for hours creating epic gridlock well into the night. good morning everyone it is friday, february 8 i'm michelle griego . >> and i'm kenny choi, we are on early to give you an update before you head out the door. this was the root of the problem yesterday, take a look. large chunks of concrete came raining down on drivers twice in one day. after getting the call the chp sent officers out to inspect by hitting the and these are the trouble spots that they found. the concrete was falling from >>ose circled areas.

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