South carolina what we want to see from our president is clarity and moral authority. That moral authority is compromised. Reporter while the president has avoided cameras for the past two days, he has not been silent. Today on twitter, he swiftly condemned the barcelona attack and suggested his followers, study what general pershing of the United States did to terrorists when caught. A reference to a debunked urban legend mr. Trump told during the campaign about American GeneralJohn Pershings alleged slaughter of muslim soldiers in the philippines. What they did was, they cut open two pigs and they dumped the bullets into the pigs. And they took the bullets and they stood the 50 men up, and they shot each man. Reporter the president s Quick Response to the barcelona attack was a sharp contrast to the days it took him to condemn a white supremacist who drove his car into a crowd of protesters, killing one and injuring 19 others. Today, the president also bemoaned the removal of what he called beautiful confederate statues, and said American History is being ripped apart. In a statement, republican senator Lindsey Graham urged the president to stop. You are now receiving praise from some of the most racist and hatefilled individuals and groups in our country, he said. Please fix this. But inciting racial tension can be politically useful, according to the president s chief strategist, steve bannon, who just days ago appeared on the verge of being fired. In a series of interviews, he dismissed the far right as clowns, but said, if the left is focused on race and identity, we can crush the democrats. The president also lashed out at republican senator jeff flake of arizona and endorsed one of his primary challengers. Anthony, next week, the president will hold his own rally out in phoenix. Mason Margaret Brennan with the president in new jersey. Thanks. Joining us now, john dickerson, our chief washington correspondent and anchor of face the nation. John, those are pretty strong words coming from the chairman of the Senate Foreign relations committee. What do you make of senator corkers remarks questioning the president s stability and competence . First, who is senator corker . He is not one of the usual suspects, whos always criticizing the president. He has been golfing with the president. He is not by temperament somebody rushing out and saying the sky is falling. But in this instance, he says if the president doesnt solve his problems, our nation is going to go through great peril. So where this is coming from, is extraordinary, and the critique he is making is a thorough one. Its not just something he tossed off. Mason he said the president needs to move beyond himself. What do you take that to mean . Hes identified the locus of the Program Inside the president himself and the reason that is so damning is this is a critique people have had about candidate trump and then President Trump, his impulsiveness that made him so popular among his base is incompatible with the office he holds. And so when he talks about the lack of discipline, the lack of stability, those are central elemental characteristics a president has to have. And senator corker is saying that theyre not there in this president now. Mason so if you are in the white house, how do you take this criticism . Well, you take the criticism right to the person its aimed at, which is the president. And there is no amount of staff you can ring around a president to fix these problems. These are problems, as senator corker has identified themselves, that are in the man himself. He calls on the president to have some selfreflection. So if youre in the white house, you have to hope the president is listening. Mason john dickerson, thanks. A new poll shows a majority of americans, 62 want confederate statues to remain standing as historical symbols. 27 of those polled believed the statues should be removed because theyre offensive. Manuel bojorquez has more on this from Stone Mountain, georgia. Reporter theres no bigger monument to the confederacy than this towering sculpture on Stone Mountain outside atlanta. The carving of jefferson davis, robert e. Lee, and Stonewall Jackson is larger than mount rushmore. Edward wilson has lived near it more than 20 years. Im curious though, when you look at it, what do you feel . I feel the war continues. Reporter though no battles were fought here, its a tourist attraction that even includes a laser light show. But the mountain is also considered the symbolic birthplace of the modern ku klux klan, which had gathered here since 1915. In 2015, White Supremacists rallied here and clashed with counterprotesters. Its why williams and others have now started petitions to remove or alter the monument. These images are individuals that lost a war, that wanted to maintain slavery, that wanted to maintain a way of life that excluded my people and other minorities. Reporter but its a complicated issue. One unlikely voice for moving past the monuments debate is civil rights icon and former Atlanta Mayor andrew young. I think its too costly to refight the civil war. We have paid too great a price in trying to bring people together. Reporter but in tampa today, opponents of a statue of a rebel soldier said they quickly raised the 70,000 needed to remove it. Across the country, more than 100 schools and nearly 500 roads and highways bear the names of confederates. In total, theres an estimated 1,500 symbols to the confederacy. The greatgreat grandson of general Stonewall Jackson spoke to us by phone. Were ashamed of the monument, but not Stonewall Jackson himself. Were ashamed because its an image of White Supremacy that that, you know, as many people interpret. Reporter back here in Stone Mountain, some groups are planning a protest on this lawn in front of the carving, a self proclaimed k. K. K. Member made a request for a permit, too to burn a cross at the top of the mountain. It was denied. Anthony. Mason Manuel Bojorquez at Stone Mountain. Thank you, manuel. Coming up next deadly crash of the u. S. S. Fitzgerald has cost the skipper his job. Are you taking the tissue test . Yep, and my teeth are yellow. Time for whitestrips. Crest whitestrips whiten. 25x better than a leading whitening toothpaste. Nice smile thanks i crushed the tissue test. Crest. Healthy, beautiful smiles for life. How are your teeth whiter than mine . Your strips are slippy. Mine are grippy. Crest whitestrips stay in place. Crest whitestrips professional effects. Lock in the whitening for a whiter smile. These arent going anywhere. These are. Crest. 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With water rushing in on the starboard side, they started yelling, water on deck, and get out, scrambling for a ladder on the port side. After the initial shock, the report says, the sailors lined up in a relatively calm and orderly manner to climb the portside ladder, even though they were up to their necks in water by that point. Two sailors stayed at the bottom of the ladder helping others up. When those two finally climbed out, they stayed at the top of the ladder and reached down underwater to pull two more to safety before they had to retreat to another level to seal the flooded compartment from the rest of the ship. One of the dead, gary rehm, was buried wednesday at Arlington National cemetery. According to the report, he rescued a sailor trapped under a falling locker. The ships captain, along with the officers and men on watch that night, are considered to have committed critical mistakes which caused the collision. Anthony. Mason david martin at the pentagon. 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We end fenway boston ball park. A wild first pitch had the crowd in stitches. Keep your eye on the ball. It hit a photographer in the last place he would want to be hit and he went down in a heap but he laughed it off posting his photo of the ball flying at him just before impact. Ouch what a way to get a souvenir. Were back in just a moment. Mason the total eclipse of the sun is just four days away now, and an army of citizen scientists has been enlisted to track it on its journey across america. Heres jamie yuccas. Reporter it will certainly be the mostphotographed Solar Eclipse ever. Theres Something Else making history, too. You. Reporter this Google Campaign aims to get the perfect shot for science. Youre not hiring professional people to partake in this. We managed to get 1,500 volunteers to sign up. Reporter Laura Peticolas is with berkeley Space Science laboratory. They and google will stitch together images of the eclipse from coast to coast into a short, timelapse movie that anyone can download that day. Are you one of the 1,500 volunteers . I am. Reporter do you consider yourself a professional photographer . Not at all, just a hobby. Reporter tim mcmanus hobby has produced stellar images of full moons over san francisco, but for the eclipse . Im like a complete ball of nerves. Reporter you are . Totally nervous. I dont want to mess it up. Reporter each photographer is using a digital camera with a telephoto lens. The scientists will study those images to learn more about the suns atmosphere. Is this kind of where science might be heading, is that youre going to have to need real people to help you . I do. I think its the wave of the future, and i think its exciting. How you can help . Reporter another project called globe observer asks anyone during the eclipse to send nasa temperature data from their smart phones. Science writer autumn burdick. You could be two, you could be 92, you can use this app. The average joe can become a scientist. Reporter are you hoping that you can contribute to science, or are you hoping that you have a really great shot that ends up in the movie . Its all about the likes. Reporter the eclipse may be drawing amateurs to science, but its also making the scientists a little silly. Are you taking a selfie . Im totally taking a selfie £aughs with all my selfie buds. Reporter so, sun, get ready for your closeup. Jamie yuccas, cbs news, san francisco. Mason cbs news will bring you live coverage of the eclipse in a twohour special monday beginning at 1 00 p. M. Eastern. And thats the overnight news for this friday. For some the news continues for others check back later for the morning news and cbs this morning. For the Broadcast Center in new york city im anthony mason, thanks for watching. This is the cbs overnight news. Welcome to the overnight news. Terror returned to spain this time in barcelona. The Islamic State is claiming responsibility for a van attack that left at least a dozen dead and some 80 others injured. The van jumped the curb and sped down a crowded sidewalk for seven blocks mowing down pedestrians the whole way. Arrests have been made. Debra patta reports. People ran for their lives. Whitevan jumped in a crowd. In his wake, bodies strewn across the pavement like broken dolls. Witnesses said he was weaving in and out, aiming for people as they desperately tried to get out of the way. He drove seven blocks before abandoning the vehicle. A passerby frantically tried to give c. P. R. To an injured man. An american tourist who had just arrived at the popular site said the attacker was driving erratically. I heard this, just, group of people scream. Then i looked to my left, and i saw a white van. It looked to me as if he was going left to right, hitting people at the little stands where people were shopping. Reporter cobb oxford from South Carolina, also witnessed the attack. Move, move, move the best way i can describe it is all hell breaks loose. I saw a car bumper laying in the middle of the sidewalk, and people scattering in all different directions. I counted six or eight bodies within a block and a half. Reporter Police Arrived quickly, sealing off the area and ushering people to safety, as they went door to door searching for the gunmen. Stores and subway stations were shut down. Its the latest in a string of attacks in europe where vehicles are the weapon. Last summer in nice, france, 86 people were killed when a man drove a truck through crowds gathered to celebrate bastille day. In december, a truck was driven into a crowded Christmas Market in berlin. And in the u. K. This spring, vehicles were used in attacks at westminster, london bridge, and finsbury park. Tonight everything is shut down here in the center of barcelona what is normally a festive part of the city. Two arrests have been made. Police have categorically stated they were not driving the van that mowed in the pedestrians today that person is still on the run. Closer to home, tennessee senator, bob corker is the first republican leader to publically blast trump over his response to the violence in charlottesville, virginia, mr. Trump blames both sides for the violence. Margaret brennan reports. There needs to be radical changes take place at the white house itself. Reporter Harsh Criticism from a prominent member of the president s own party, tennessee senator, bob corker. The president has not yet has not yet been able to demonstrate the stability, nor some of the competence that he needs to demonstrate in order to be successful. Reporter and this from another republican, tim scott of South Carolina what we want to see from our president is clarity and moral authority. That moral authority is compromised. Reporter while the president has avoided cameras for the past two days, he has not been silent. Today on twitter, he swiftly condemned the barcelona attack and suggested his followers, study what general pershing of the United States did to terrorists when caught. A reference to a debunked urban legend mr. Trump told during the campaign about American GeneralJohn Pershings alleged slaughter of muslim soldiers in the philippines. What they did was, they cut open two pigs and they dumped the bullets into the pigs. And they took the bullets and they stood the 50 men up, and they shot each man. Reporter the president s Quick Response to the barcelona attack was a sharp contrast to the days it took him to condemn a white supremacist who drove his car into a crowd of protesters, killing one and injuring 19 others. Today, the president also bemoaned the removal of what he called beautiful confederate statues, and said American History is being ripped apart. In a statement, republican senator Lindsey Graham urged the president to stop. You are now receiving praise from some of the most racist and hatefilled individuals a