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Reporter clinton has struggled to overcome a perception that shes not authentic, which has helped open the door to a potential run by Vice President joe biden. During her face the nation interview, she played down the threat. Are you doing anything to prepare for joe biden potentially heading into the race . Is your campaign doing anything . No. We are not, because this this is such a personal decision, and the Vice President has to sort this out. Reporter clinton also weighed in on republican frontrunner donald trump, saying he is bringing out the worst in people. He is fueling a level of paranoia and prejudice against all kinds of people, and when you light those fires, you better recognize that they can get out of control. We have a problem in this country. Its called muslims. We know our current president is one. You know he is not even american. Reporter since last week trump has been on the offensive for not pushing back against a supporter who said president obama is a muslim sxbt a u. S. Citizen. Trump said he did nothing wrong. He is very capable of presenting himself, believe me. I got in hot water for not saying anything. Thats never happened to me. Reporter with polls showing voters looking for nonpoliticians like trump, clinton explained why she is still an outsider. I cannot imagine anyone being more of an outsider than the first woman president. Reporter clinton was also asked about her chief rival for the democratic nomination, senator bernie sanders, and whether she would promise not to run any neglectivetive ads against him just as he has done for her. She hedged and said she has no interest in doing that. Juliana, thank you. Two new wildfires are burning in northern california. One of them near the Seaside Community in monterey has already claimed the life and at least ten homes. Meanwhile, residents of another town are returning home to take stock whaf theyve lost. Heres ben tracy. Reporter this weekend hundreds of evacuees took a long and painful journey back to middletown. The community they last saw in flames now in ruins. I know several friends have lost everything in a matter of minutes. 76 years of memories gone. Reporter Fletcher Thornton says he and so many others here are focused. Well all be known to give each other a hug and cry a little bit and then well get busy building. Reporter before they rebuild, everything too badly burned must come down. Since breaking out last week, the valley fire, which includes middletown, has destroyed nearly 900 homes. Its now the sixth most destructive fire in california history. Its like a ghost town for a little while. Reporter Valerie Hawkins is hopeful. It will change and be back to the small family town it was. Reporter ben tracy, cbs news, los angeles. Police in phoenix are standing by the investigation that led to the arrest of a suspect following a string of recent highway shootings. Detectives say they traced the gun used in four of the shootings to 21yearold landscaper leslie merit jr. After he took a weapon to a pawn shop. Merit claimed the gun had been there for months. According to Court Documents released today, the gun had not been pawned before the shooting. According to Government Data the average American Household brought in 53,000 last year. Adjusted for inflation, that is 6. 5 less than in 2007 near the start of the recession. Income is now 7 lower than it was in 2000. Here to explain is bill schlesinger. This has been going on for about two and a half decades, and its a combination of factors. We know that globalization has pushed jobs overseas and the competition with wages is really fierce. Technology has eliminated a lot of jobs, so a lot of people who were making really solid middle class incomes, those jobs may not even exist anymore. Then, of course, weve got this very strange thing that has happened over the last 20 years or so. As companies were making more money, they started shifting their profits more towards their shareholders than their workers, so, i mean, its great if you have a 401k. Its good for your stocks, but you kind of would like that wage increase. The fed made a lot of news this past week by putting off raising interest rates. Is the wage issue part of what they factor in . Its part of what they factor in, but the reason they didnt raise rates last week is because of events overseas. Slowdown in china, some of the market ripple effects. In fact, janet yellen described the job gains as solid. She anticipates that well see wage gains towards the end of the were, that Economic Growth will improve, but we are going to wait, they said, until these other events kind of dissipate and then, i think, theyre on track to raise rates at least one time before the end of the year. Jill, thanks very much. Great to be with you. Her life was as intriguing as her books. We look back at the life and the career of Jackie Collins. And how people aboard this burning boat got out alive when cbs evening news continues. Its the final countdown the final countdown if youre the band europe, you love a final countdown. Its what you do. If you want to save fifteen percent or more on car insurance, you switch to geico. Its what you do. Its from daddy. Sfx dads voice i love you baby girl. Duracell quantum lasts longer in 99 of devices so you can always be there. Weve been changing things up witoh yeah. Ve. Its a pleasure gel that magnifies both our sensations. It gives us chills in places weve never gotten chills before. Yeah, it makes us feel like. Dare to feel more with new ky love. Jackie collins has died at 77 after a battle with Breast Cancer. Over a nearly 50year career, her subject was vets, dealing with sex and power among the worlds wealthiest. The stores heavily based on the life she lived. In 1968 Jackie Collins published her first racy novel, the world is full of married men. She said it was inspired by all the married men who propositioned her, setting the stage for more stories drawn from her colorful life. I wanted to write a woman who was not a slut or a hooker, but had her own true sexuality and could get out there and do things. Reporter the reaction even among some other female writers was less than adoring. Romance novel called her work nasty, filthy, and disgusting. Collins followed that book up with others full of sex and powerful people doing bad things. In 1983 when hollywood wives, a novel about the affairs of actors and tycoons hit book stands, a literary star was born. The book was on the New York Times best sellers list. Reporter a tv miniseries quickly followed. Born in england jack where i collins was thrown out of her all Girls Boarding School at the age of 15. While visiting her sister actress joan collins in hollywood later that year, collins said she had a brief affair with marlon brando. He was twice her age. Yeah, that was a very short fling, and he was my Favorite Movie star. Reporter more than 500 million of her 32 novels have been sold around the world. Diagnosed with Breast Cancer six years ago, collins only told her three daughters until recently, preferring to keep her battle private. The socalled grand dame of trash was awarded the order of the British Empire in 2013 for her contributions to fiction and charity. New contemporary art Museum Opened to the public today in los angeles. The museum named for collectors eli and edith brode has 2,000 works of art inside a building, which is itself a striking work of art. Admission is free. Up next a dog in danger and emergency workers to the rescue. Dramatic video from galveston bay, texas. A boat caught fire with four people aboard, including a 6yearold boy. They were rescued by those in a separate boat with the help of the coast guard. Nobody was hurt. Another remarkable rescue. This one in pitsfield, massachusetts. A dog was pulled from a burning Apartment Building and then given lifesaving cpr, as you can see. The dog is now recovering at a nearby veterinary hospital. The dogs owners were not hurt. The u. S. Womens team roared back to win the solheim cup in germany today. Rookie allison lee picked up her ball thinking she had been concede aid short put. She had not. The European Team won that round, but the u. S. Came back from 106 down to win that event. Nasa is working with a private company to develop what it calls the first ever space shotgun. The idea demonstrated in this animation is to fire asteroids to see how strong they are and to gather sample that is could help us better understand the origins of the universe. Astronauts aboard the International Space station watched a movie last night that likely hit very close to home. They got a special preview of the martian which stars matt damon who gets stranded. Earlier this year astronauts watched another space disaster movie. Gravity. Up next here, extraordinary sunday School Scenes with jimmy carter. We close tonight in plains, georgia. The birthplace and home of former president swrimy carter. The 39th president turns 91 on october 1st. He is undergoing treatment for brain cancer. As Michelle Miller reports, that is not changing his sunday routine. 40, 43. Reporter the line begins hours before the service. Lynn and her daughter drove to the Baptist Church from south carolina. Is this exciting . Are you kidding me . I havent slept for two nights. Youre going to need to do what i say, and well get along fine. Reporter jan williams takes care of crowd control. He is one of the kindest southern gentleman who speaks what he thinks, stands up for what he believes in. Good morning. Good morning. All right. I see you are wide awake. Reporter president jimmy carter has been Teaching Sunday School here for 35 years, but since he announced his diagnosis, the crowds have been bigger than ever. While carter has canceled appearances, he hasnt canceled this. I have four treatments whaf they call immunotherapy. Reporter mr. Carter begins with an update on his health. This sunday he taught about ten of less than true believers. What do you know about timothy . Anything . You know his name, right . Timothy, he says, about the poshes of love. The former president challenged the group with questions, particularly striking coming from a man near the end of his own life. Do you have anyone in your mind against whom you have a grievance that might be resented by you that you havent forgiven . I dont think once you are a politician you ever get over being a politician. He loves the crowds. Thats why each lesson ends with a photo session. My doctors have recommended that instead of standing up here that i sit down. Im kind of embarrass bid sitting down, but anyway some in the pews are faithful. Some were there to see carter before time runs out. Like ken and jan bryant. We cant pass up this opportunity. Its a once in a lifetime thing. Thank you for coming this morning. Reporter a last chance to learn about leaf and faith from an extraordinary teacher. Well, i hope youll all come back sunday. Michelle miller, cbs news, plains, georgia. That is the cbs overnight news for this monday. For some of you, the news continues. For others, check back later. From the Broadcast Center in new york city, im jay. Pope francis spent his first full day in cuba. He celebrated mass before tens of thousands and had a meeting with fidel castro. The pope arrives in washington d. C. On tuesday and then new york and then philadelphia. And a mountain of planning goes into such a trip. Scott reports for 60 minutes. Reporter the first pope of the new world who came in over 600 years, grabbed his hat and went back to work, before a crowd of 30,000 or more. His 103rd general audience. So far 15 million have met francis in rome, but dont ask them what to expect because god only knows. Do they have an idea . No. He is a pope of surprises. He is so spontaneous, and it makes people feel wonderful. Reporter few americans know the new pope like ken haag et, u. S. Ambassador to the hole where i city. Latin for holy seat. First of all, theyre going to see a pastor, and if they dont whan a pastor is, theyre going to learn quickly because he is genuine. He is intelligent. He moves from the heart. He is somebody who is not afraid. He is about the people who are in need and suffering and going through turmoil in their lives. He is trying to be there. Reporter and he will be in the u. S. For the first time in his life. Washington, new york, philadelphia. It is such a special moment for so many people, and were going to see that in the United States in all three cities. Reporter those special moments arise because the pope understands what is not obvious. The general audience is not about the pope. Its about thousands of burdens, dreams, hopes, and regrets hauled into the square to be lifted by a 78yearold man. I have never photographed anything like that before where you had so much raw emotion just laid out in front of you. Reporter the emotion is captured by National Geographics david yoder. Its like they dont have any walls when you meet this guy. Its like finding a long lost relative is what i see. Some of them are euphoric. Reporter any moments that surprised you any time you thought to yourself did i just see that . All the time. Reporter yoder works six months shooting 68,000 images for the magazine and a new book on life at the vatican. Whats happening with this man . Well, hope francis had just blessed him, had just laid his hand on his forehead, and he is just overcome. He is completely broken down emotionally. The experience was so powerful for him. What do you see in the popes face . Im sure that he really enjoys it. I think that he pushes it up to the point where he exhausts himself sometimes. He is a very sincere person when it comes to meeting people. It will fluctuate between serious and laughing, and its really been interesting to watch. Translator its his style of life. The style of living each moment, but he has this way. Maybe a little latino, a bit south american. Reporter this monday seen yo yore is a fellow argentinian who is the strong right arm of the man he has known 23 years. Ask parker about the best moment, and he remembers the first mass in the square. Translator he was in the popemobile, and he hit it, and he said we must stop, and he got off to bless a quad rowplegic. Remember the following day i asked him how he had realized that in the middle of that huge crowd there was someone with such need to receive a carress and a blessing. At that moment i took a step backward because i realized he i am truly in front of someone special. Special for his humility because francis foresakes what most people desire. He has the power to give them what they need. He turned down the palace where popes roomed with michelangelo and moved into a vatican hotel. His room 201 is more Sherwin Williams than rafael. He ditched the papal limousine and the traditional red slippers for a blue ford focus and clunky orthopedic shoes, and he works like a man who is running out of time. Translator he gets up at 4 30 in the morning. From 5 00 to 7 00 he prepares his interior life with prayer and reflection. His daily homilies. He gets up at 4 30 in the morning . Translator yes, he is very regular like that. Very disciplined. Reporter and the day ends for him when . Translator 10 00, 10 30 in the evening. Reporter parker told us he brings the pope the news on a tablet. Glass, not stone. Francis prefers the phone to email. Translator many times he surprises people. Maybe he knows of someone who is suffering or very sick, and he calls them. Many times they cut him off because they dont believe him. He says im francis, and they dont believe its the pope. Has he called you . Oh, yes. A few times. He says, hello, this is pope francis. How are you doing, mr. Mayor . Yes. Before Ignacio Moreno became of rome. He will be with the pope in philadelphia. Mroo what do you talk about . Most of the time we talk about the city. Was the pope offering his assistance to you . Was he calling and saying, mr. Mayor, how can we help . Oh, he does. He does all the time. Reporter the pope wanted to help the homeless who also caught the eye of National Geographics david yoder. Francis accept up a clinic for the destitute and showers inside the vatican. Wednesday mornings cleanliness is next to godliness in the 350yearold square. The piazza is a sun dial, penned at the center by this that was more than 1,000 years old when jesus was born. On that scale general audiences practically began yesterday. It was in 1929 when the vatican became a country of its own. Everyone can come to the audience and hours before the 10 00 start the determined hustle for front row seats like competitors at a sale after thanksgiving. They find francis selfless in the age of the selfie. Sfroo are the ushers trying to keep people back from the pope so that they dont throw their arm around him . Translator if everyone wanted a self where i with the pope, the audience would last all day. Its the pope who decides whether to grant a selfie or not. 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Pope franciss historic visit to the United States will take him to washington d. C. , new york city, and then philadelphia. As martha tyson reports for cbs sunday morning, the trip is already inspiring the faithful. Reporter passersby dont even notice the figure on the bench in front of Catholic Charities in washington. The one by the banner announcing that pope francis is coming. If they did they might think its a real homeless person. Reporter canadian sculptor has named the work homeless jesus. Only after they come very close up will they notice its here, and that is the way they can identify it as being christ. Its a sculpture that is almost like theater. Reporter like seeing what pope francis stands for. I have sat here myself and contemplated life. Reporter being acted out. Thats me, and jesus laying here is a semblense of all that we have within us. Reporter here this thursday francis himself will be meeting with the homeless, delivering his own show and tell about what he believes the Catholic Church should be. Before he became pope, if you asked the person on the street whats the lite church, people would say theyre against abortion, theyre against gay marriage, theyre against birth control. Reporter father thomas reece is a Senior Analyst for the National Catholic reporter. Now you go out, and you ask people what do you think pope francis is all about . Oh, he is the guy who really cares about the poor. He is concerned about the environment. He wants to preach the love and the compassion of god towards people. Reporter from the instant the argentine jorge mario bargolio walked out on that balcony, march 13, 2013, he began signalling no more business as usual. Starting with his choice to be the first ever pope francis, taking the name of a saint who lived in poverty. The feeling in the square was very joyful. It was just electric. Reporter christiania and paul from johnston, rhode island, were in st. Peters square that night and then again on Easter Sunday with their children, including dominik who has cerebral palsy. During the course of the mass there was an usher who had taken notice of dominik, and he got the thought in his head im going to get you sit waited on the route that the popemobile is going to take. Reporter this is what happened. My son lucas says its dominik. I looked up at the jumbotron. Of course, he was still moving. What did you do . I was moved to tears. He actually took his arm and put it around the popes neck. I can count on my two hands the number of times thats happened in the course of his lifetime. It felt for me as a mother that it was a little kiss directly from god. Just i know your son is in this crowd. I love him, and he gave him a kiss. Thats what it felt like. Reporter on his first visit to the United States pope francis is likely to get a rock star welcome and then some. The vast majority of american catholics approve of the direction he is leading their church, according to a cbs news poll out this morning. Just this month he announced that priests can absolve women who have had abortions and a dramatic simple fiction of marriage annulment, but some issues remain deeply troubling to american catholics. According to our cbs news poll, fewer than half approve of the way he is handling the clergy sex abuse scandal. Although compared to his predecessor, pope benedict, thats a huge improvement. There are a lot of things that are from an older generation that just dont make sense to me spshgs some of the things that are a bit antiquated or honestly unfai, i choose to ignore, if you will. Reporter at 29 maggie place is the personification of many Young American catholics. Conflicted. I have several friends that are gay, and i will likely attend her gay marriages someday. Reporter maggie is in a choir that will sing for the pope in his outdoor mass next sunday. It concludes the world meeting of families, the conference which prompted his visit to the United States. Lgbt families have been all but shut out of the event. On the thorny issue of gaze in the church, the popes who am i to judge comment was a shift in tone. Like changes in rhetoric seem like monumental changes in terms of what the Catholic Church is espousing. Reporter for gay lawyer mathy and his parents sheryl and francis, a hang in red light rick is good, but not good enough. To say everyone is welcome to church, whether you are gay or straight, but if you are gay, you cannot be a full catholic because you cannot get married. If he said to me that dad i have to leave the Catholic Church because they dont accept me, i would say, matthew, i understand completely. Reporter they appear on a video pleading acceptance for lgbt catholics that was hand delivered to pope francis. Right now i havent made a decision, so im not going to leave during the struggle. Thats what faith is. That faith faith is that hope for something better. Reporter but as for the rest of the popes goals, do you see any possibility that pope francis will permit priests to marry . I think theres a very good chance. Reporter according to father thomas reece, allowing women to be priests is not on the popes reform agenda. What is . Making the church a more tolerant place. The question is whether this kinder, gentler francis affect is actually trickling down and putting catholics back in the pews. I have talked to people who have been excited by francis and decided, okay, im going to give it another chance, and they went back on to their parish, and they heard the same old, same old, and they turned around, walked out the door, and theyre never coming back. There can be no francis affect unless, you know, we all get on board with his agenda and his priorities and his style and his spirituality. Reporter americans seem to like his style very much. Millions of people, catholic and noncatholic, are expected to gather just to be near him. The francis affect . They just want to feel it. Cbs overnight news will be right back. Bills got a very tough 13lie here. Looks like we have some sort of sea monster in the water hazard here. I believe thats a kraken, bruce. It looks like hes going to go with a nine iron. That may not be enough club. Well hes definitely going to lose a stroke on this hole. If youre a golf commentator, you whisper. Its what you do. If you want to save fifteen percent or more on car insurance, you switch to geico. Its what you do. This golf course is electric. Cbss John Dickerson spoke to republican president ial candidate r paul and frontrunner Hillary Rodham clinton healthing. It was mrs. Clintons first sunday morning interview in nearly four years. In politics this year it looks like everybody wants an outsider. Yeah. Now, that puts you in a fix. You know tell us why it doesnt put you in a fix. I cannot imagine anyone being more of an outsider than the first woman predz president. I mean, really, lets think about this. I agree. We have all these mothers and fathers bring me the place mats with all the president s, and they bring their daughters, and she they say my daughter has a question for you. She says how come there are no girls on this place mat . I agree, that is the i think thats pretty big unconventional choice. You know what im asking. I know you are asking do we want people who have never been elected to anything who have no political experience who have never made any hard choices in the public arena . Voters will have to decide that. They worry that people who are inside are too inside, that thats why the Economic Situation is tilted against the middle class. Its why they always feel like little can witle around the rules spshgs thats something you have to deal with, right . Thats why i have an Economic Policy that is centered on raising incomes because i think what we inherited from the Bush Administration when president obama had to deal with, had the potential of becoming a great depression, not just a great recession. We have now recovered 13 million jobs after losing 800,000 a month when he came into office. Why would we go back to the same policies . Call them insider, call them tilted towards the rich, call them giving corporatings a free pass. Im against that. I have always been against that. I want to go back to economic policies where we create millions of new jobs and where peoples incomes rise not just at the top, but in the middle and at the bottom like they did under my husband. Im not running for bills third term. Im not running for president obamas third term. It would be foolish of me not to say that worked better than what was before. On her death bed clinton wants to say she was true to herself and not going to do phony makeovers to please others. Knowing you dont engage in phony makeovers, give us three words that is the real Hillary Clinton. Just three. Just three. I cant possibly do that. I mean, look, i am a real person with all the pluses and minuses that go along with being that, and ive been in the public eye for so long that i think, you know, its leak the feature that you see had some magazine sometime. Real people actually go shopping. You know . Thank you. Thank you. Carol tobias has said that while nobody wants to defund planned parenthood more than her organization, that threatening a Government Shutdown actually hurts the cause. What do you think of that argument . I think were missing sort of the Bigger Picture on everything. Not just planned parenthood. We borrow 1 million a minute. If you do a continuing resolution, you are acknowledging that the government is broken, but youre going to vote to continue spending money at a rate that is unsustainable, so its not just planned parenthood. Its everything. I think we need to flip the tables. Everybody is saying we have to have 60 votes to defund planned parenthood. We should be saying the opposite. We need 60 votes to fund planned parenthood. We need 60 votes to Fund Everything in government. We need to start from scratch. That means, yes, we need to hold the line and im for saying lets put hundreds if not thousands of restriction on all the spending. See, thats how congress should assert themselves. We have a passive congress that is basically abducated their role, visa vi the president. Thats a real problem. If i was in charge of congress, i would put Forward Spending, and i would say this is what it is, and if democrats dont vote for it, then democrats would be shutting down government. Whose fault is it that congress doesnt act and particularly republicans act in the way you like . Congress has been abdicating its role for 100 years. Its gotten worse, and its twofold. President obama is frustrated because he cant get anything passed, so he grabs more and more power, but congress lets him do it. Its because we dont pass inform of the procreation bills, and its been 40 wreerz since we passed all the procreation bills. Thats our job. The one reason i wont vote for any continuing resolution, i wont vote for any of them because its not how we should do business, and nothing gets fixed. Sfroo whats your guess . Do you think the government shuts down . I hope that it doesnt continue on without reform, and thats a different way of putting it. I would put Forward Spending bills, and i would say to the democrats you either vote for them, or you shut down government, or you come and negotiate with us. Right now theres no negotiation because we just acknowledge we dont have 60 votes to stop any funding, but its our job and the American People particularly republicans you wonder why outsiders are doing well in the polls. Its because the republicans in washington are doing nothing to reign in spending on anything. A young man in michigan took when the engines failed on the plane i was flying, i knew what to do to save my passengers. But when my father sank into depression, i didnt know how to help him. When he ultimately shot himself, he left our family devastated. Dont let this happen to you. If you or a loved one is suicidal, call the National Suicide prevention lifeline. No matter how hopeless or helpless you feel, with the right help, you can get well. No matter how hopeless or helpless you feel, narrator of all the things youve done with your bike, donating it to goodwill may be the most incredible of all. Your Donations Help Fund job placement and training for people in your community. Which means your stuff can be more powerful than you think. Goodwill. Donate stuff. Create jobs. A young man in michigan took it upon himself to let the men and women in blue know theyre appreciated. Steve hartman has his story. No one ever said all Police Officers were bad. With all the protests this year, you can understand how someone might get that impression. Especially a little someone. Makes me really sad. Reporter after seeing one of the protests on the news, 10yearold swrar my of lansing, michigan, who always wanted to be a police officer, asked his mom if he had picked the wrong profession. He goes, mom, the cops are still the good guys, right . I said, yeah, you know, there are some bad Police Officers and then theres still the good ones that are trying to protect themselves. Reporter jeremy got that, but he still didnt like the idea of good Police Officers being called bad names. It felt like bullying to him. Ive been picked on ever since i was in kindergarten. And you saw a little bit of yourself in the Police Officers . Yeah. Is that why you wanted to do something about it . Uhhuh. Jeremy came up with the idea of a police thank you card. When his mom tried to explain they didnt have money for that, jeremy offered a solution. To give up his birthday party. Why . Because the police are more important than any birthday party. Reporter when his mom realized how sincere jeremy was, she agreed to help him do it up right. All summer theyve been making and selling cookies to raise money for the party, and all summer officers have been showing up in droves to thank him. He tapped into something huge. Michelle bryant is with the Lansing Police department. It was very uplifting, and it did start to improve morale. He would stop in and deliver cookies, and you could just see it on the officers faces. They would light up. Reporter the party will be next february on jeremys 11th birthday. Theyre expecting hundreds of officers to attend from all over central michigan. Although jeremy has surrendered his birthday for the cause, his mom says he has already received a great gift. He is positive. He is happy. He couldnt wait to go to school. Could that be because he has a whole police force on his side . I think it has a lot to do with that. Would you mess with this kid . Steve hartman on the road in lansing, michigan. That is the cbs overnight news for this monday. For some of you the news continues. For others check back later for the morning news and cbss morning. From the Broadcast Center in new york city, im jay. Its monday, september 21, 2015. This is the cbs morning news. 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