video today claiming that life in the city is normal. and showing the extremists fighting off the offensive. but normal life in mosul also include this warning. another brutal execution of a man they claim is a spy. isis is hunkering down, preparing to defend the biggest city in its so-called islamic people with bipolar disorder suffer ten years on average without diagnosis. that's ten years of needless suffering. learn how easily this can this year we have been following one man's struggle to overcome his addiction to heroin. each day in this country, 78 people die from an opioid related overdose. so, jason amaral is fighting for his life. demarco morgan continues his series, in the shadow of death, jason's journey. >> real quick. is this good enough, dude? >> your eyes open you think of heroin. nothing else. any addict that is watching this, will attest to that. >> reporter: we met jason roaming the city of boston on a desperate hunt for drugs. >> they're smoking crack right there. i'm going over there. not how i want to live. it's been 12 years. >> that morning we watched as he crushed and snorted pills from a toilet seat in city hall, scored drugs outside a restaurant around noon. i did heroin was sick. did a shot and am very, very high. that evening. at a friend's house. shooting up again. >> it gets boring. it gets old. it gets tiring. four and a half years, it has been misery. >> reporter: that night, jason's best friend, mike dugan, recovering addict, seven years clean came to take him to rehab. >> it's life or death. you will die if you don't get it >> good morning, jason. how are you? we are glad you are here? >> we traveled to new jersey for the first stage of jason's treatment at recovery cities of america, or rca. >> i smoked crack every day for the past three months. i dent know huh to live a normal life, sober. i don't know how >> who would want life like that after the footage you see, who would want to live like that. but it's not really -- what i want to do. it's just what the, what i guess, the drug drives me to do, i guess. i don't know. can they stop the camera for a second? >> reporter: jason's first 24 hours of detox were a struggle. he just learned his brother andrew who was also a heroin addict couldn't find a bed for treatment. >> keep taking everything from me. >> his brother's struggles motivated him to beat his addiction. >> i am never going to overdose. my brother won't overdose. he is going to survive. he will get it this time. >> he was one step close tire his goal off the awe i feel a lot better than how i felt when i got here and what i thought i would feel in 14 to 21 days, know what i mean. >> reporter: after he finished at rca, jason transitioned to a second program at awakening's lodge on cape cod, addicts live offsite from the treatment center so they can learn to live sober without constant supervision. jason was drug tested once a week and participated in more therapy. >> if you are on top of the were, not a care, easy beans, i got this. that would be worrisome. >> to accept the things we cannot change. >> reporter: after six weeks, he graduated. >> keep coming. work it. thank you. >> how you doing? >> good. >> it's been a while. >> four months later we caught up with jason now living with other recovered addicts in massachusetts. >> you have been clean for how long? >> it has been a little over six >> congratulations. >> right around there. >> thank you. >> jason has a full time job at a restaurant. he is also advocating to get addicts like himself more help. he was recently invited to speak in front of massachusetts lawmakers. remember jason's friend, mike dugan, the one who got him into rehab. >> i love you. keep your head up. >> he was the first person, >> we have been friend for a long time. this isn't like the first opportunity -- that he has given me. and -- in the past i haven't been able to like stay clean. and i'm just glad that he like, he gave me another chance to, to do this. >> jason is also getting another chance from rca, the rehab center he entered earlier this year. they offered him a job in their second chance program for addicts and early recovery. jason's brother andrew is off the streets. in treatment at an rc facility in maryland. there is hope tonight. >> great public service demarco has an extended interview with jason as well as links to help and recovery. find them at cbsnews.com/heroin epidemic. recovery works. coming up -- the world's largest collection of mug shots, chances are you're part of it. >> later, the barber who gives ? music ? extraordinary starts here. new k-y intense. we were surprised to learn that nearly half of american adults are in facial recognition databases. what are law enforcement doing with your mug? jeff pegues takes a look. >> reporter: facial recognition technology locks in once you are in range. putting the green box around us displaying our names. bengie hutchinson works for nec the company that sells the software. so there are cameras like this on the streets? >> there are. >> reporter: cameras equipped with the software can match a database. it could have helped after the boston marathon bombing. investigators there had to sift through 120,000 photos in nearly 13,000 videos before identifying tsarnaev. >> we could have gotten the match in second. >> reporter: in baltimore the police department used facial recognition during the 2015 riots to identify looting suspects. but it has raised privacy concerns. alvaro bedoya author of a georgetown law school study on facial recognition and found 26 police departments use the technology and 16 states allow the fbi to tap into their systems. photos culled from social media driver's licenses and government ids. the report argues the biometric network primarily include law-abiding americans. maryland enrolled 4 million drivers in its system. ask a marylander do they know they're in a lineup scanned thousand of times a year without warrants and 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likely turn back to state or federal government for level out of money. >> reporter: connecticut and seven state have recently passed legislation to help private sector workers get a retirement plan. starting in 201, connecticut businesses with more than five employees that don't already offer a retirement plan, will be required to participate. employees will be automatically enrolled at a 3% payroll reduction rate. research shows that employees are 15 times more likely to contribute to a saves program if it is offered through work. and if they have to open an account on their own. >> press, press, press. retirement is a long way off for 27-year-old bridgette bellitto-douglas. a teacher. but he is interested in the new program. >> i don't even have to think about it. don't have to go to the bank. more money. could be something i didn't have to think about. >> so, jill, bridgette its starting fairly early at 27. but is that 3% you talked about enough? >> it probably isn't. we really 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the kids to discover their past. person. that same rationale comes from, you know, you are a nerd. that same rationale comes from, you know, you are an uncle tom. learning is uncool. >> learning is uncool. we have to break those things. i always go back to quote frederick douglas it is easier to build strong children than repair broken men. >> reporter: what is your book? >> frederick douglas. >> as they were old. >> reporter: charles johnson is 12. >> kids know who care about them they want to make that person proud. so we even see lot more. >> here you go, sir. >> reporter: dean reynolds, cbs news, ypsilanti, michigan. >> that's the "overnight news" for this wednesday. for some of you the news continues. for others check back later for the morning news. be sure not to miss cbs this welcome to the overnight news. i'm tony dokoupil. the bell rings at 9:00 p.m. eastern for the final round of the 2016 presidential debates. donald trump and hillary clinton will square off in las vas the final time as the campaign enters the homestretch. up in the polls, the clinton campaign sees the election as theirs to lose. as for trump he continues to insist the whole thing is rigged against him. major garrett with the trump campaign begins our coverage. this is our final shot. in four years you are never going to be able to win. it is going to be a one party system. supporters in colorado they're his last line of defense and to ignore the campaign's current downward trajectory. >> i don't believe the polls anymore. i don't believe them. trump kept insisting in spite of contrary evidence this election and previous ones have been undercut by voter fraud. >> they even want to try to rig the election at the polling booths. >> reporter: today at the white house, president obama called out trump's rhetoric. >> stop whining and go try to make his case to get votes. if whenever things are going badly for you and you lose and start blaming somebody else. then you don't have what it takes to be in this job. >> reporter: on a conservative radio show yesterday trump said it would be wonderful to meet with russian president vladamir putin. >> if i win november 8, i think i could see myself meeting with putin and meeting with russia prior to the start of the administration. attention. >> mr. trump's continued flattery of mr. putin and the degree to which he appears to model many of his policies and approaches to politics on mr. putin is unprecedented in american politics. >> reporter: trump faces charges of sexual assault which is why if melania denied yesterday. six people came forward to corroborate on the record a "people" magazine's account of being sexually accosted by trump at his mar-a-lago resort in 2005. hillary clinton continues to see the hacked e-mails, splashed across the headlines. the latest, a list of potential runningmates organized into food groups. nancy cordes explains. >> reporter: a quick glimpse of clinton touching down in las vegas before ducking out of sight. in fact, since august 1, clinton has done 60 private fundraisers, but only about 30 public rallies. a pattern that has the not gone unnoticed by trump. >> the system is also rigged by the donors giving hundreds of millions of dollars to crooked hillary clinton's campaign. >> reporter: but now as her lead expands, that money is coming in handy. in arizona, a red state where polls show her nipping at trump's heels her campaign is sinking an additional $2 million into ads and direct mail. also spending $1 million to boost turnout in missouri and indiana to help democrats locked in competitive races for senate and governor. another $250,000 to nebraska and maine, two small states where clinton could pick off a pair of electoral votes. ad buy this week in the red state of texas. >> it's important to stand up to bullies wherever they are. >> reporter: one wild card endless stream of hacked campaign e-mails. today's batch shed light on clinton's secretive search for a runningmate. in march, campaign chair, john podestae-mailed her with a first cut of people to consider. 39 names divided into what he dubbed food groups. latino leaders. female lawmakers. male lawmakers. black leaders, military leaders. and down at the bottom, in his own food group, bernie sanders. the list included nine business titans including bill and melinda gates, starbuck's c.e.o. howard schultz, and apple ceo tim cook. the university of nevada las vegas will be hosting tonight's presidential debate. the people who run the desert gambling mecca have usually taken great pains to distance themselves from national politics. but that is all changing. john blackstone has the story from the vegas strip. >> reporter: here on the las vegas strip everything is big and bold. there is really no such thing as a low profile, except when it comes to presidential politics. vegas, casino operators kept political preferences to themselves. that has changed. at the bellagio hotel, the action in the casino is nonstop. perhaps the man taking the biggest gamble here is this man. >> these are my views, i am not representing the company. >> reporter: chairman and ceo of mgm resorts international owns a dozen hotels and casinos in las vegas, a lifelong republican he now declared his support for hillary clinton. >> we have gotten some folks, saying, they're either a donald trump supporter or they say you have no right to express your point of view. >> reporter: in a city where almost anything goes, those in the casino business long avoided expressing their views on national politics. >> in my now 30-odd years i have seen an industry playing defense to an industry that is proud of its heritage and proud of its heritage, frankly was not so great at one time. >> that's true. absolutely true. >> reporter: in the 1950s when congress investigated the role of organized crime and casinos, fbi director j. edgar hoover went to war against gambling. >> organized gambling is an evil. >> a place founded by the bad guys. >> reporter: executive director institute at university of nevada las vegas, said mobsters would never made the strip the way it is today. >> the day las vegas got clean was the best business day in the history of the city. >> reporter: and opened the possibility fee for the executives to get involved in politics. >> it did. made las vegas more palatable to the masses. >> reporter: nothing exhibits the mainstream acceptance more than the candidacy of one time casino owner donald trump. >> i made a tremendous amount in atlantic city. casinos but for running them into bankruptcy. >> you can just make out the word trump where it used to be written in flashy lights. >> reporter: trump has been endorsed by casino magnates including, sheldon adelson and tropican chairman of the board. >> we need a president that can move congress. donald trump could do it. >> for all the excess, the las vegas strip is like the rest of america now with vocal supporters on both side. >> i really feel that in the greatest country in the world, the greatest democracy in the world, we should be able to have different political views and respect one another. >> reporter: while leaders of the gaming industry here are on opposite side in the presidential election, he says they will keep working together in las vegas to make this a place people want to visit no matter what their politics. >> you are looking at the debate presidential debate tonight starting at 9:00 p.m. eastern. the "overnight news" will be right back. ? ? 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resistance in the 20 villages they captured on the first day of the assault. holly williams is with them. >> reporter: this is tarjelo one of a handful of villages recaptured from isis yesterday with the help of u.s. coalition air strikes that flattened the area you can see here. the battle for mosul started east of the city. hunting down the handful of isis fighters holding out. entrance to the tunnel. in tarjelo they showed the tunnels isis built to defend itself and the aftermath of four u.s. coalition air strikes that destroyed them. colonel told us the extremists fought to the death. >> do you think isis dug tunnels underneath mosul as well. for sure, he told us. suicide car bombs and tunnels, that's how isis fights these used to be farming communities. but the residents fled isis two years ago and now it's an apocalyptic landscape. in the days before the offensive began the u.s. coalition softened the ground with air strikes inside the city of mcht osul. these are strikes on isis weapons facilities according to the coalition. there are thought to be fewer than 5,000 isis fighters left in civilians. isis is preventing them from leaving. using them as human shield. but some are managing to get out and coming to overcrowded camps like this one. hussein abdullah is an english teacher who fled a town south of mosul. >> you cannot sleep well you cannot guess when they will take you from your bed and kill you. >> reporter: the kurdish fighters say they killed 80 isis extremists yesterday, eradicating isis in a city of a million people will be much more difficult. many people here in iraq, expected to take months. in the areas it controls, the islamic state has taken great pains to destroy all links to the past. buildings. statues. monuments. all reduced to rubble. some priceless works of historical significance. some artifacts are coming back seth doane reports from rome. >> reporter: a human-headed bull destroyed in iraq along with this temple ceiling lost in syria, are among the monuments that have been reimaged inned, reconstructed and put on display in roam. >> this is the way we would have seen it before isis destroyed it? >> absolutely. it doesn't exist anymore. >> francisco rutelli was behind the effort to research and rebuild monuments destroyed by isis. three italian firms took on the projecto plaster, stone, and using pictures and documents collected from iraq and syria. >> we want to demonstrate that reconstruction and the scientific terms of reference is necessary and possible. >> reporter: you can reconstruct but you can't bring back the original? >> absolutely not. but we can, accept that the last word is the word of terrorists. coliseum. a fitting place, rutelli says. it is a place of triumph and tragedy. >> what did you think when they came to you with this idea? >> translator: it is a wonderful thing, ivano ferrari told us, he owns arte idea, which caters to movie sets not museums. he showed us the 3-d printer to show us the re-creation of the base of the archives of ebla destroyed in syria. and huh they re-created tablets in plaster working from copies. to make sure you get this right? people are looking at this as a piece of history? >> translator: that's true. this is not cinema. we pay much more attention, ferrario acknowledged. this is a huge responsibility. >> reporter: there are art historians, purists who would say, you shouldn't be doing this. happened in -- in afghanistan. bamian was in 2001, the taliban destroyed buddhist statues from the 6th century. >> 15 years later, it is still a big hole in a mountain. rutelli says his work is as much about displaying history as the it is fighting back against nose who tried to destroy it. seth doane, cbs news, rome. the u.s. navy has an expensive weapon in its arsenal, guided missile destroyer, uss zumwalt commissioned and full of high tech wizardry and should be for $4 billion. david martin takes us aboard. >> reporter: never a navy never one that looked like this. and never one that cost so much. the look is easy to explain. the ship is designed to be stealthy. all those sharp angles meant to deflect radar beams sent out by any one trying to find it. >> this ship has a radar cross section 1/50th. >> reporter: we rode with captain james kirk, from norfolk, up the chesapeake bay to baltimore. it is chock-full of new technologies which allow the 600 foot vessel to be manned by 147 sailors. >> previous class of destroyers have 300 sailors. half the sailors running a ship that is 1 1/2 time the size. one of the new technologies. automatic gun mounts. barrels are hidden from sight to make them stealthy but can hurl a satellite guided shell more this is a huge amount of space for a navy warship. allows the crew to bring ammunition in here on a frk lift. over here. this is an elevator takes the ammunition down to the magazine and the round are then automatically loaded into the gun. zumwalt, a battleship for the 21st century. designed says ron owe roerk of congressional research service to strike targets in a country like north korea. >> with their guns they could reach in from either i'd of the peninsula, pretty far in to cover a large portion of the territory. the peninsula. >> reporter: the new technologies kept driving the cost up. and the number of ships the navy could afford down. from 32 to just three. that explains why the zumwalt alone costs an astronomical $4 billion. it is now up to the ship's crew to make the navy's newest destroyer pay off. david martin, cbs news, aboard the "u.s.s. zumwalt." long haul trucking industry ? ? geico motorcycle, today you can do everything in just one click, even keep your toilet clean and fresh. introducing lysol click gel. click it in to enjoy clean freshness with every flush. lysol. start healthing. ? yeah, click ? new k-y intense. a stimulating gel that takes her pleasure to new heights. k-y intense. long haul trucking industry facing shortage of drivers. trucking companies 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parents and two brothers. just this summer in newark, new jersey, a bus was t-boned by a new jersey transit bus driven by a 70-year-old. two died. days later a truck hauling stones driven by a 74-year-old, slammed into traffic in a new york. ten were hurt the a cbs news analysis of crash data reveals a 19% increase in accidents involving commercial truck and bus drivers in their 70s, 80s, and even 90s in just the last three years. from 2013-2015 there were more than 6,500 accidents involving older drivers in 12 states alone. oklahoma hig lieutenant james loftas investigated the collision that tore apart the hooks family. >> do you think his age played into that at all? >> i do. >> reporter: he noticed an increasing number of crashes involving older commercial drivers. >> the industry is looking for only way that scan be done is on the federal level. >> reporter: rose mcmurray was a senior executive at the agency, recognizing reaction time and stamina become compromised with age considered implementing regular skills tests for older commercial drivers. >> it clearly can result in a lot of political backlash. so state governments, grappled with the grappled with this. because age discrimination laws intervene. >> the initiative was shelved. because of labor shortage and lack of age restrictions trucking schools are actively recruiting seniors promising good benefits and money to supplement retirement. >> age limit? >> there is not. we hired a 70-year-old former texas state trooper with a hidden camera sent him to road master, a school recruiting retirees. >> they like women of any age. men of any age. as long as you are physically able to get behind the wheel and drive the truck. dusty kashard is the director of the pennsylvania school. he said the agency regulating the trucking industry does not prohibit training older drivers discriminate based on age. >> i follow the guidelines. >> no age on it. >> pass the physical and everything. they want to drive. >> fmcsa, deputy director, acknowledges the increase in older commercial driver. her agency is now studying the trend. >> we are not quite at the point where we are ready to say one way or the other. if there needs to be a change in driver rules for drivers over >> washington's deliberations come too late for the hooks' family. >> we have all had to learn how to deal with it. and deal with it, with the recurring memories and the pain. of not having them. >> reporter: the truck driver involved in the hooks' family crash, pleaded guilty to numerous counts of negligent homicide. all misdemeanors. now the aviation industry also is facing a shortage, shortage of pilots. but that in dus free has a mandatory retirement age of 65 for all pilots. association that represented cbs news there is an increase in the drivers over 70. but adds the majority of truck related crashes are not caused by truckers but are instead caused by other drivers. i'm a copywriter i'm a veteran i have lupus cerebral 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all tonight -- is your face on file with the government? new questions about privacy. >> the opioid epidemic. we catch up with jason on his long journey back. >> you have been clean for how long? >> and a barber who shapes young heads and minds. >> do you know what circumstance means? >> yeah. >> what does circumstance mean? >> announcer: this is the cbs donald trump is taking aim at the washington establishment again. vowing to, as he put it, drain the swamp. and proposing term limits for members of congress, that is if he is elected. but with three weeks left our cbs news poll shows hillary clinton with a 9-point lead, and no trailing candidate has ever made up a deficit that big this late. major garrett is covering the trump campaign. >> this is our final shot, folks. in four years it is over. you are never going to be able to win. you are never going to be able to win. til >> reporter: donald trump told supporters in colorado they are his last line of defense and to ignore the campaign's current downward trajectory. >> i don't believe the polls anymore. i don't believe them. i don't believe them. >> reporter: trump kept insisting in spied of contrary evidence this election and previous ones have been undercut by voter fraud. the election at the polling booths. >> reporter: today at the white house, president obama called out trump's rhetoric. >> i would advise mr. trump to stop whining and go try to make his case to get votes. if when things are going badly for you, you lose, you start blaming somebody else, then you don't have what it takes to be in this job. >> reporter: on a conservative radio show yesterday trump said it would be wonderful to meet with russian president vladamir putin. >> if i win november #, i think i could see myself meeting with putin and meeting with russia prior to the start of the administration. >> mr. trump's continued flattery of mr. putin and the degree to which he appears to model many of his policies and approaches to politics on mr. putin is unprecendented in american politics. >> reporter: trump faces charges if melania denied yesterday. six people came forward to corroborate on the record a "people" magazine's account of being sexually accosted by trump at his mar-a-lago resort in 2005. thank you. hillary clinton preparing for the final delate thbate tomorro evening here on cbs. and nancy cordes is in las vegas. >> reporter: a quick glimpse of clinton touchingow vegas before ducking out of sight. her last campaign rally was six days ago in colorado. in fact, since august 1, clinton has done 60 private fundraisers, but only about 30 public rallies. a pattern that has the not gone unnoticed by trump. >> the system is also rigged by the donors giving hundreds of millions of dollars to crooked hillary clinton's campaign. >> reporter: but now as her lead expands, that money is coming in handy. in arizona, a red state where trump's heels her campaign is sinking an additional $2 million into ads and direct mail. also spending $1 million to boost turnout in missouri and indiana to help democrats locked in competitive races for senate and governor. another $250,000 to nebraska and maine, two small states where clinton could pick off a pair of electoral votes. her campaign even made a small ad buy this week in the red state of texas. >> it's important to stand up to bullies wherever they are. >> reporter: one wild card endless stream of hacked campaign e-mails. today's batch shed light on clinton's secretive search for a runningmate. in march, kachl pain chair, john podestae-mailed her with a first cut of people to consider. 39 names divided into what he dubbed food groups. latino leaders. female lawmakers. male lawmakers. black leaders, military leaders. and down at the bottom, in his own food group, bernie sanders. titans including bill and melinda gates, starbuck's c.e.o. howard schultz, and apple ceo tim cook. the e-mails have been embarrassing. clinton aide say they hope they come up at tomorrow night's debate here. they say it will give clinton a chance to are gau rugue russia playing a disturbing role in the election. >> watch the debate on cbs. we have an update on last night's story, about state department pressure on the during its investigation of clinton's e-mails. fbi records said that undersecretary of state patrick kennedy tried to convince the fbi that one e-mail on clinton's private server should not be classified secret. in return, one fbi official said the state department offered to help the fbi with its request to add agents in iraq. well today in a statement, kennedy said the two matters were not linked. political. kennedy said he had served democratic and republican administrations. there was no quid pro quo nor was there any bargaining. today, president obama warned that the battle of mosul will be difficult. iraqi troops and kurdish forces are surrounding iraq's second largest city which fell to isis two years ago. they're backed by american air strikes and u.s. special forces. holly williams is o battlefield. >> reporter: the village of tarjelo was recaptured from isis yesterday. in the rubble left behind by the battle are clues to how isis will defend mosul. the extremists dug a network of tunnels here, to protect themselves from attack. lieutenant colonel salim told us he expects the same tactics in mosul as well as more suicide villages on the eastern side of city where kurdish fighters went house to house yesterday. hunting down the isis gunmen holding out there. u.s. coalition air strikes demolished the tunnels in tarjelo which was abandoned by residents over two years ago. three air strikes. three u.s. air strikes. targeting the tunnels. four targeting the tunnels. but in million civilians effectively human shield. air strikes will be difficult without massive casualties. isis released this propaganda video today claiming that life in the city is normal. and showing the extremists fighting off the 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he started rehab. roaming the city of boston on a there. i'm going over there. not how i want to live. it's been 12 years. >> that morning we watched as he crushed and snorted pills from a toilet seat in city hall, scored drug drugs outside a restaurant aroond no around noon. i did heroin was sick. did a shot and am very, very high. that evening. at a friend's house. shooting up again. >> it gets boring. it gets old. it gets tiring. four and a half years, it has been misery. >> reporter: that night, jason's best friend, mike dugan, recovering addict, seven years clean came to take him to rehab. >> it's life or death. you will die if you don't get it this time. >> eight times. >> nobody wants you dead, man. >> good morning, jason. how are you? we are glad you are here? >> we traveled to new jersey for the first stage of jason's treatment at recovery cities of >> i smoked crack every day for the past three months. i dent know huh to live a normal life, sober. i don't know how to deal with life. >> who would want life like that after the footage you see, who would want to live like that. but it's not really -- what i want to do. it's just what the, what i guess, the drug drives me to do, i guess. i don't know. can they stop the camera for a second? >> reporter: jason's first 24 hours of detox were a struggle. he just learned his andrew who was also a heroin addict couldn't find a bed for treatment. >> keep taking everything from me. >> his brother's struggles motivated him to beat his addiction. >> i am never going to overdose. my brother won't overdose. he is going to survive. he will get it this time. after four weeks of counseling. >> 28 days today. >> he was one step close tire his goal off the awe i feel a lot better than how i felt when i got here and what i thought i know what i mean. >> reporter: after he finished at rca, jason transitioned to a second program at awakening's lodge on cape cod, addicts live offsite from the treatment center so they can learn to live sober without constant supervision. jason was drug tested once a week and participated in more therapy. >> if you are on top of the were, not a care, easy beans, i got this. that would be worrisome. >> to accept the things we >> reporter: after six weeks, he graduated. >> keep coming. work it. thank you. >> how you doing? >> good. >> it's been a while. >> four months later we caught up with jason now living with other recovered addicts in massachusetts. >> you have been clean for how long? >> it has been a little over six months. >> congratulations. >> right around there. >> thank you. >> jason has a full time job at a restaurant. he is also advocating to get in front of massachusetts lawmakers. remember jason's friend, mike dugan, the one who got him into rehab. >> i love you. keep your head up. >> he was the first person, jason thanked. >> we have been friend for a long time. this isn't like the first opportuni opportunity -- that he has given me. and -- in the past i haven't been able to and i'm just glad that he like, he gave me another chance to, to do this. >> jason is also getting another chance from rca, the rehab center he entered earlier this year. they offered him a job in their second chance program for addicts and early recovery. jason's brother andrew is off the streets. in treatment at an rc facility in maryland. there is hope tonight. >> great public service reporting, demarco morgan, thank you so much. demarco has an extended interview with jason as well as links to help and recovery. find them at cbsnews.com/heroin epidemic. recovery works. coming up -- the world's largest collection of mug shots, chances are you're part of it. >> later, the barber who gives kids a head star extraordinary starts here. new k-y intense. a stimulating gel that takes her pleasure to new heights. jack be nimble, jack be quick, jack knocked over a candlestick onto the shag carpeting... ...and his pants ignited into flames, causing him to stop, drop and roll. with 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concerns. alvaro bedoya author of a georgetown law school study on facial recognition and found 26 police departments use the technology and 16 states allow the fbi to tap into their systems. photos culled from social media images. driver's licenses and government ids. the report argues the biometric network primarily include law-abiding americans. maryland enrolled 4 million drivers in its system. ask a marylander do they know warrants and pretty sure they'll be surprise add but that. >> reporter: maryland officials say they limit access to the technology. scott, the fbi says the technology is crucial to catching terrorists and criminals. >> looks like jeff pegues, jeff, thank you very much. next, a little known retirement plan. we'll tell you who qualifies. you wanna see something intense? pantene expert gives you the most beautiful hair ever, with our strongest pro-v formula ever. strong is beautiful. ugh, it's only lunchtime and my cold medicines' wearing off. i'm dragging. yeah, 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[ cheering ] everyone plays a role in keeping our community safe. whether you're traveling for business or pleasure, be aware of your surroundings. if you see something suspicious, we end tonight in a full service barber shop caring for heads outside and in. here is dean reynolds. >> reporter: there is no barber pole outside the fuller cut in trimming. >> so circumstance is kind of like a situation, okay. >> like treyveon lymon any kid that comes here and read from a book, gets $2 shaved off the price. make sure you put the book back. an idea, alex fuller says really caught on. >> the parents are already prepping their kids to sit in the chair and get ready to read the book. robert hopkins brings his son. >> what parent d couple dollars off when you got three boys in the barber shop plus you. >> jaylen johnson is a 7th grader. what's better the discount, $2 or reading? >> probably the reading part. >> yeah, that's the right thing to say. yeah. ryan griffin cuts hair and sorts books. he wants the kids to discover their past. and overcome old notions. >> you sound like a white person. that same rationale comes from, you know, you are an uncle tom. learning is uncool. >> learning is uncool. we have to break those things. i always go back to quote frederick douglas it is easier to build strong children than repair broken men. >> reporter: what is your book? >> frederick douglas. >> as they were old. >> reporter: charles johnson is 12. >> kids know who care about them they want to make that person proud. so we even see it here. >> reporter: he got his $2 and a lot more. >> here you go, sir. >> reporter: dean reynolds, cbs news, ypsilanti, michigan. >> that's the "overnight news" for this wednesday. for some of you the news continues. for others check back later for the morning news. be sure not to miss cbs this morning. from the broadcast center in new welcome to the overnight news. i'm tony dokoupil. donald trump and hillary clinton will square off in las vegas for enters the homestretch. up in the polls, the clinton campaign sees the election as theirs to lose. as for trump he continues to insist the whole thing is rigged against him. major garrett with the trump campaign begins our coverage. this is our final shot. in four years you are never going to be able to win. it is going to be a one party system. >> reporter: donald trump told supporters in colorado they're his last line of defense and to ignore the campaign's current >> i don't believe the polls anymore. i don't believe them. trump kept insisting in spite of contrary evidence this election and previous ones have been undercut by voter fraud. >> they even want to try to rig the election at the polling booths. >> reporter: today at the white house, president obama called out trump's rhetoric. >> i would advise mr. trump to stop whining and go try to make his case to get votes. if whenever things are going badly for you and you lose and start blaming somebody else. then you don't have what it takes to be in this job. >> reporter: on a conservative radio show yesterday trump said it would be wonderful to meet with russian president vladamir putin. >> if i win november 8, i think i could see myself meeting with putin and meeting with russia prior to the start of the administration. that also drew the president's flattery of mr. putin and the degree to which he appears to model many of his policies and approaches to politics on mr. putin is unprecedented in american politics. >> reporter: trump faces charges of sexual assault which is why if melania corroborate on the record a "people" magazine's account of being sexually accosted by trump at his mar-a-lago resort in 2005. hillary clinton continues to see the hacked e-mails, splashed across the headlines. the latest, a list of potential runningmates organized into food groups. nancy cordes explains. >> reporter: a quick glimpse of clinton touching down in las vegas before ducking out of sight. her last campaign rally was six days ago in colorado. in fact, since august 1, clinton has done 60 private fundraisers, a pattern that has the not gone unnoticed by trump. >> the system is also rigged by the donors giving hundreds of millions of dollars to crooked hillary clinton's campaign. >> reporter: but now as her lead expands, that money is coming in handy. in arizona, a red state where polls show her nipping at trump's heels her campaign is sinking an additional $2 million into ads and direct mail. also spending $1 million to boost turnout in missouri and indiana to help democrats locked in competitive rac another $250,000 to nebraska and maine, two small states where clinton could pick off a pair of electoral votes. her campaign even made a small ad buy this week in the red state of texas. >> it's important to stand up to bullies wherever they are. >> reporter: one wild card endless stream of hacked campaign e-mails. today's batch shed light on clinton's secretive search for a in march, campaign chair, john podestae-mailed her with a first cut of people to consider. 39 names divided into what he dubbed food groups. latino leaders. female lawmakers. male lawmakers. black leaders, military leaders. and down at the bottom, in his own food group, bernie sanders. the list included nine business titans including bill and melinda gates, starbuck's c.e.o. howard schultz, and apple ceo tim cook. the university of nevada las presidential debate. the people who run the desert gambling mecca have usually taken great pains to distance themselves from national politics. but that is all changing. john blackstone has the story from the vegas strip. >> reporter: here on the las vegas strip everything is big and bold. there is really no such thing as a low profile, except when it comes to presidential politics. for most of the history of las vegas, casino operators kept political preferences to at the bellagio hotel, the action in the casino is nonstop. perhaps the man taking the biggest gamble here is this man. >> these are my views, i am not representing the company. >> reporter: chairman and ceo of mgm resorts international owns a dozen hotels and casinos in las vegas, a lifelong republican he now declared his support for hillary clinton. >> we have gotten some folks, saying, they're e trump supporter or they say you have no right to express your point of view. >> reporter: in a city where almost anything goes, those in the casino business long avoided expressing their views on national politics. >> in my now 30-odd years i have seen an industry playing defense to an industry that is proud of its heritage and proud of its role in the economy here. >> reporter: part of that heritage, frankly was not so great at one time. absolutely true. >> reporter: in the 1950s when congress investigated the role of organized crime and casinos, fbi director j. edgar hoover went to war against gambling. >> organized gambling is an evil. >> a place founded by the bad guys. >> reporter: executive director of the in the national gaming institute at university of nevada las vegas, said mobsters would never made the strip the way it is today. >> the day was the best business day in the history of the city. >> reporter: and opened the possibility fee for the executives to get involved in politics. >> it did. made las vegas more palatable to the masses. >> reporter: nothing exhibits the mainstream acceptance more than the candidacy of one time casino owner donald trump. >> i made a tremendous amount in atlantic city. >> more telling, hillary clinton criticizes trump not for rung casinos but for running them into bankruptcy. word trump where it used to be written in flashy lights. >> reporter: trump has been endorsed by casino magnates including, sheldon adelson and tropican chairman of the board. >> we need a president that can move congress. donald trump could do it. >> for all the excess, the las vegas strip is like the rest of america now with vocal supporters on both side. >> i really feel that in the greatest country in the world, the greatest democracy in the world, we should be able to have different political views and respect one another. >> reporter: while leaders of the gaming industry here are on opposite side in the presidential election, he says they will keep working together in las vegas to make this a place people want to visit no matter what their politics. >> you are looking at the debate stage at unlv, cbs news will starting at 9:00 p.m. eastern. the "overnight news" will be right back. ? ? music ? extraordinary starts here. new k-y intense. a stimulating gel that takes her pleasure to new heights. looking for balance in your digestive system? try align probiotic. for a non-stop, sweet treat goodness, hold on to your tiara kind of day. get 24/7 digestive support, with align. the #1 doctor recommended probiotic brand. ahh...still sick, huh? i'll take it from here. i'm good. i just took new mucinex clear and cool. ah! what's this 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defend itself and the aftermath of four u.s. coalition air strikes that destroyed them. colonel told us the extremists fought to the death. >> do you think isis dug tunnels underneath mosul as well. for sure, he told us. suicide car bombs and tunnels, that's how isis fights. these used to be farming communities. but the residents fled isis two apocalyptic landscape. in the days before the offensive began the u.s. coalition softened the ground with air strikes inside the city of mcht osul. these are strikes on isis weapons facilities according to the coalition. there are thought to be fewer than 5,000 isis fighters left in mosul also around a million civilians. isis is preventing them from leaving. using them as human shield. and coming to overcrowded camps like this one. hussein abdullah is an english teacher who fled a town south of mosul. >> you cannot sleep well you cannot guess when they will take you from your bed and kill you. >> reporter: the kurdish fighters say they killed 80 isis extremists yesterday, eradicating isis in a city of a million people will be much more difficult. many people here in iraq, expected to take months. in the areas it controls, the islamic state has taken great pains to destroy all links to the past. buildings. statues. monuments. all reduced to rubble. some priceless works of historical significance. some artifacts are coming back to life in italy with the help of modern technology. seth doane reports from rome. destroyed in iraq along with this temple ceiling lost in syria, are among the monuments that have been reimaged inned, reconstructed and put on display in roam. >> this is the way we would have seen it before isis destroyed it? >> absolutely. it doesn't exist anymore. >> francisco rutelli was behind the effort to research and rebuild monuments destroyed by isis. three project to make replicas in plaster, stone, and using pictures and documents collected from iraq and syria. >> we want to demonstrate that reconstruction and the scientific terms of reference is necessary and possible. >> reporter: you can reconstruct but you can't bring back the original? >> absolutely not. word is the word of terrorists. >> they're on display in rome's coliseum. a fitting place, rutelli says. it is a place of triumph and tragedy. >> what did you think when they came to you with this idea? >> translator: it is a wonderful thing, ivano ferrari told us, he owns arte yoi movie sets not museums. he showed us the 3-d printer to show us the re-creation of the base of the archives of ebla destroyed in syria. and huh they re-created tablets in plaster working from copies. is there greater responsibility to make sure you get this right? people are looking at this as a piece of history? >> translator: that's true. this is not cinema. we pay much more attention, this is a huge responsibility. >> reporter: there are art historians, purists who would say, you shouldn't be doing this. we don't want to repeat what happened in -- in afghanistan. bamian was in 2001, the taliban destroyed buddhist statues from the 6th century. >> 15 years later, it is still a big hole in a mountain. rutelli says his work is as much it is fighting back against nose who tried to destroy it. seth doane, cbs news, rome. the u.s. navy has an expensive weapon in its arsenal, guided missile destroyer, uss zumwalt commissioned and full of high tech wizardry and should be for $4 billion. david martin takes us aboard. >> reporter: never a navy destroyer like this. never one that looked like this. the look is easy to explain. the ship is designed to be stealthy. all those sharp angles meant to deflect radar beams sent out by any one trying to find it. >> this ship has a radar cross section 1/50th. >> reporter: we rode with captain james kirk, from norfolk, up the chesapeake bay to baltimore. it is chock-full of new technologies which allow the 600 foot vessel to be manned by 147 sailors. >> previous class of destroyers have 300 sailors. half the sailors running a ship that is 1 1/2 time the size. one of the new technologies. automatic gun mounts. barrels are hidden from sight to make them stealthy but can hurl a satellite guided shell more than 60 miles. this is a huge amount of space for a navy warship. allows the crew to bring ammunition in here on a frk lift. over here. this is an elevator takes the and the round are then automatically loaded into the gun. zumwalt, a battleship for the 21st century. designed says ron owe roerk of congressional research service to strike targets in a country like north korea. >> with their guns they could reach in from either i'd of the peninsula, pretty far in to cover a large portion of the territory. the peninsula. >> reporter: the new technologies kept driving the cost up. and the number of ships the navy could afford down. from 32 to just three. that explains why the zumwalt alone costs an astronomical $4 billion. it is now up to the ship's crew ugh, it's only lunchtime and my cold 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something real positive in life. >> reporter: it was supposed to be a celebration for the hooks family. driving from oklahoma city to st. louis in the summer of 2009 to see ronnie become an elder at his church. but on i 44 near the state line, traffic slowed to a crawl. >> on the phone with him. when it happened on that day. the phone went dead. >> the semidriven donald creed did not. it rolled on top of three cars, killing 10 including hooks' parents and two brothers. just this summer in newark, new jersey, a bus was t-boned by a new jersey transit bus driven by a 70-year-old. two died. days later a truck hauling stones driven by a 74-year-old, slammed into traffic in a construction zone in binghamton, new york. 19% increase in accidents involving commercial truck and bus drivers in their 70s, 80s, and even 90s in just the last three years. from 2013-2015 there were more than 6,500 accidents involving older drivers in 12 states alone. oklahoma highway patrol lieutenant james loftas investigated the collision that tore apart the hooks family. >> do you think his age played >> reporter: he noticed an increasing number of crashes involving older commercial drivers. >> the industry is looking for truck drivers, shortage, they will not self regulate. only way that scan be done is on the federal level. >> reporter: rose mcmurray was a senior executive at the agency, recognizing reaction time and stamina become compromised with age considered implementing regular skills tests for older commercial drivers. lot of political backlash. so, state governments, gramled with the federal government gramled with this. because age discrimination laws intervene. >> the initiative was shelved. because of labor shortage and lack of age restrictions trucking schools are actively recruiting seniors promising good benefits and money to supplement retirement. >> age limit? >> there is not. we hired a 70-year-old former texas state trooper with a master, a school recruiting retirees. >> they like women of any age. men of any age. as long as you are physically able to get behind the wheel and drive the truck. dusty kashard is direct ore of the pennsylvania skal. he said the agency regulating the trucking industry does not prohibit training older drivers and against federal law to discriminate based on age. >> pass the physical and everything. they want to drive. >> fmcsa, deputy director, acknowledges the increase in older commercial driver. her agency is now studying the trend. >> we are not quite at the point where we are ready to say one way or the other. if there needs to be a change in driver rules for drivers over 65. >> washington's deliberations come too late for the hooks' family. >> we have all had to learn how and deal with it, with the recurring memories and the pain. of not having them. >> reporter: the truck driver involved in the hooks' family crash, pleaded guilty to numerous counts of negligent homicide. all misdemeanors. now the aviation industry also 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