corporations and politicians ran over each other in a stampede to trample the banner into history. wal-mart, ebay, amazon, sears, and k-mart rushed to drop confederate merchandise, including t-shirt and belt buckles. valley forge, a flag maker, said it would stop stitching the stars and bars. the seams ripped with the massacre in south carolina at an african american church, and the suspect who embraced the flag. south carolina legislators had fiercely defended the banner which flies on the capitol grounds, but today, the flag they lined up behind was white. adriana diaz is there. >> i don't hate nobody! i got white friends. i got black friends. >> reporter: protesters took to the steps of the south carolina state house again today rallying both for and against the confederate flag that still flies there. >> bring it down! bring it down! >> reporter: inside, lawmakers worked to fast track debate on the flag, the first step toward taking it down. in the house, the vote passed 103 to 10. and in the senate, where one of last week's shooting victims reverend clementa pinckney served, it passed by a voice vote after heartfelt speeches on both sides of the issue. >> we must take down the confederate flag and we must take it down now. >> reporter: republican senator paul thurman is the son of the late strom thurman, once a prominent segregationist. >> i'm proud to be on the right side of history regarding the removal of a symbol of racism and bigotry from the state house. >> reporter: at least three republican senators, including senator danny verdin, disagreed. >> i can tell you that i pray we will continue to embrace each other in disagreement. >> reporter: despite overwhelming majority to put the flag on the official agenda, a final vote is not expected immediately. scott, tomorrow, lawmakers will be focused on paying their respects to senator clementa pinckney, whose body will lie in state. >> pelley: adriana diaz reporting for us tonight. adriana, thank you. it's been less than a week since pinckney and eight others were killed during that bible study at the historic emanuel a.m.e. church in charleston. we've just seen the first video of the suspect's arrest, and jeff pegues has that. >> reporter: the police radio call went out in shelby, north carolina, just after 10 a.m. >> reporter: florist debbie dills was driving to work when she recognized the black hyundai from this wanted poster. she called her boss, todd frady, who called police. r. >> reporter: a few minutes later, police pulled over the black hyundai, and with guns drawn, approached the car. police say they ordered the driver to put his hands on the wheel and he complied. the man, who identified himself as dylann roof, came out of the car. police frisked him and handcuffed him. roof, who was wearing boots with his pants legs rolled up, was led to a police cruiser, where he was searched again and put in the backseat. officers then opened the trunk. the dispatcher put out a call saying they had found roof. >> reporter: seconds later arresting officers celebrated. the manhunt was over, and roof was on his way to jail. when police searched that car, they found a gun underneath a pillow in the back seat. that was the glock 41 believed to be the murder weapon. scott, roof purchased that gun legally with money his father gave him for his birthday. >> pelley: jeff pegues on the investigation tonight. jeff, thank you. the suspect described in a manifesto how he came to embrace racism through online forums. dean reynolds spoke with someone who made that same descent into darkness but came out of it. >> confederate flag. >> reporter: didn't even know that was there. open a certain box in christian picciolini's home, and the first things to pop out are painful reminders of his past-- artifacts of his days as a race- baiting skinhead. you were a skinhead for how many years? >> i was a neo-nazi skinhead from 1987 until 1995, roughly from the time i was 14 years old until i was 21. >> reporter: he says he and alleged charleston shooter dylann roof might once have been kindred spirits. would you have applauded dylann roof? >> i would have. i would have thought that this guy had the courage to speak for the rest of us and to do something. >> reporter: picciolini grew up the son of immigrants in a blue collar suburb of chicago. >> i was standing here smoking a joint, and the guy walked up to me and he said, "don't you know that's what the communists and jews want you to do to keep you docile?" i was like infatuated by this power. he had a shaved head and boots and thin suspenders on and i had never seen anything like it. from that moment on, i wanted to be like that guy. >> reporter: he liked the message and loved the music. that's picciolini leading his old band, final solution. >> the music spoke of unemployment, and it spoke of black-on-white crime. when i was told the white race was being attacked from all sides, and that minorities werein to blame for all the problems that i was having, i bought in. >> reporter: back then recruitment was one kid at a time but these days the radical fringe can easily work its way into anyone's home computer. >> it's much easier because there's a layer of anonymity for people so you can say almost anything you want. >> reporter: now, watching events unfold in charleston, picciolini hears echoes in the sentiments of dylann roof. >> he could have literally torn pages out of my book and posted it online. the rhetoric was the same. not everybody becomes a dylann roof, but i think there are thousands of people like him across our country that eventually could be radicalized enough to cause as much damage as he did. >> reporter: these days, christian picciolini tries to help others leave the skinhead movement just like he did, and scott, he's cofounded a nonprofit organization called "life after hate." >> pelley: important insight tonight, dean, thank you very much. tonight, 65 million americans face severe weather. in the south it is extreme heat, in the northeast, severe thunderstorms and tornado watches. the tempest tore through the midwest last night knocking down homes in michigan and illinois and don dahler is following this. >> reporter: the violent string of thunderstorms originated in the midwest, bringing soaking rains, flooded streets, and tornadoes. at least four tornadoes touched down monday night in illinois, damaging homes and buildings. the roof of minominee's fire station crushed the trucks inside. >> this is our first collapse of a fire station, and i certainly hope it will be last. >> reporter: the small town of coal city, 60 miles south of chicago, was hit hard. >> we did get reports of people that were trapped in the homes. we had lines down, we had trees down. >> reporter: residents spent the day picking through what remained of their homes and businesses. governor bruce rauner toured the destruction. >> there was no loss of life and no serious injuries. so folks had some warning and we're very fortunate. >> reporter: the storms will make their way out to sea tonight, but, scott, new storms are expected to develop in the midwest tomorrow. >> pelley: don, thanks very much. at a senate hearing today, connecticut democrat richard blumenthal pressed the japanese company takata to set up a fund to compensate victims of its faulty air bags. those bags can explode with too much force, sending metal spraying through the car. eight deaths and more than 100 injuries are linked to this. it's led to the largest recall in u.s. history, nearly 34 million air bags. jeff glor tells us tonight about one of the victims. >> reporter: the accident seemed minor-- a rented honda civic involved in a fender bender in los angeles last september. alexander brangman's daughter, jewel, an aspiring actress, was driving. >> she was at this particular event. she texted me a picture like she always did, and she said, "i love my life. i love my life." >> reporter: the impact triggered deployment of a takata air bag that ruptured and severed jewel's carotid artery. >> two san diego police officers come to my door, asked me my name and had my daughter's name and my life changed. >> reporter: brangman, 26, is now the eighth and latest death linked to a faulty takata air bag, the first to die in a rental car. during today's hearing, some senators wondered why rental car companies are not required to get recalled vehicles fixed or tell drivers about defects. connecticut senator richard blumenthal. >> rental car companies need to be held accountable. >> reporter: florida senator bill nelson cited new documents he said showed takata put off safety inspection. >> internal e-mails suggest they actually suspended global safety audits from '09 to '11 for cost- cutting reasons. >> i am honored to be here on behalf of takata. >> reporter: takata north american executive vice president kevin kennedy insisted the company is trying to do the right thing now by recalling 34 million air bags and searching for a root cause. >> and i just want to repeat how deeply sorry we are for all the pain and suffering we caused. >> reporter: also testifying today, the head of the national highway traffic safety administration, hit with a scathing report monday saying the agency routinely missed major safety problems in american cars. >> this audit report is one of the worst i've ever seen. this is about blatant incompetent mismanagement. >> reporter: takata says by september, they'll be making a million air bag replacement parts per month, but, scott, even at that pace, it will take a little more than two years to fix all vehicles. >> pelley: jeff glor who has been on this story for us from the beginning. jeff, thanks. we learned today that the breach of federal computers was much bigger than we were told. 18 million current and former federal employees may have had their private information hacked. the chinese are the leading suspects. major garrett tells us that lawmakers went looking for answers today but got few. >> if there's anyone to blame, it is the perpetrators. >> reporter: director of the office of personnel management kathy archuleta told congress today no one in the u.s. government is responsible for the data breach. despite seven separate reports from as far back as 2009 warning the agency of massive cyber vulnerabilities. a watch dog report out last wednesday said a new system in place to detect these attacks is also insufficient. it read in part, "there is a high risk that this project will fail." hackers stole personal information to build surveillance files on possible targets for blackmail and threats. one example-- intelligence agents posted overseas. shawn henry is a former f.b.i. assistant director. >> they've got a full network. they know who their friends and relatives are. they know the towns they grew up in. they know the names of their pets. and they oftentimes know the deepest, darkest secret. >> reporter: the breach 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on earth. they hope to answer big medical questions that would arise from a proposed two-year mission to mars. >> the big one we have right now is this issue with our vision and, you know, how astronauts-- some astronauts on long-duration space flights have had a-- you know, degradation in their vision that is concerning. we've done a lot of research up here since i've been here to better understand that. >> pelley: you know, there are a lot of things you can't tell from television. what does it smell like in there? does it smell like a gym? >> you know, it smells differently in different places, but, you know, occasionally, like an antiseptic smell combined with, like, garbage. garbage. space has its own unique smell so whenever a vehicle docks, the smell of space when you open up the hatch, it's kind of like a burning metal smell, if you could imagine what that would smell like. >> pelley: now, you're going to be up there about a year. and i wonder, does that feel like a year in 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