We have our own victims of war here in america. There were headlines recently when a 76yearold veteran shot himself to death outa va hospital in north port new york. Suicides by vets happen on average, 20 times a day. Tonight, jim axelrod has a remarkable story about an organization that is helping to rescue, vets in distress. After trying to drink himself past the demens that darkened his mind and after a second member of his old platoon committed suicide, Frank Lesnefsky got help. In his therapists office he can talk about his posttraumatic stress instead of being haunted by it. You know the tension across my chest. I was immobilized. Like being frozen. Just watching time pass. Its crazy. And contemplated taking his own life. I had a great person tell me once that you know, dont so, theyre killing us, theyre killing us over there and theyre still killing us here. The guy told me dont let it happen. Dont give them that satisfaction and let them know that. Reporter in 2014 he found help at headstrong. Helping any vet who needs it, deal with their hidden wound. No cost, most win. Thats all it takes. Now, lesnefsky is leading by example. A very public example. The tentative steps towards healing first taken in therapy have turned into strong purposeful stride. Sharing his struggle with the 20 million followers of the popular blog humans of new york. There is an old man fishing in the same spot every single day. And, so one day this 15yearold kid ride up on a scooter and drops a bomb behind him. I always just honor the human form. Now i have come to a place where the human body is shredded and stomped and blown to bits. And its just wasnt me. I used to be jokey, i used to be goofy, i was frank from north scranton, and i know i wont be that again. Reporter so far more than a dozen stories have been we asked a few bloggers to read what they posted. Like chris wilson who described the burd in of war Time Leadership with him after the shooting stopped. You dont do your job people will die over and over. It was drilled into me, people would die if i messed up. Nine guys died. Hard to forgive myself. Others like jenny pacanowski, described the battle they fought when nay arrived home. For a back i isolated myself in a cabin and drang all the time. Then at one point i decided i was going to try Everything Possible to feel better. And if nothing worked, i was going to kill myself. God, this is harder to talk about than bombs. These folks are just as courageous as folks who do something physically daunting on the battlefield because they are baring their physical wound in order to help a broader reporter headstrongs director, retired marine captain, zachary iscol, teamed up to get the word out. Recovery is possible. But you have got to ask for help. To sit there and watch somebody be vulnerable and possibly read their story and say, you know what, im going through that too. But i am not talking about it. I need to. Reporter it took a lot of therapy to release this type of selftorment. Therapy is the only reason i can talk about these thing today. Now i can own it. I can say this is who i am. This is what i have been through. Reporter there is an importance in just sharing the story . Absolutely. I can tell other people there is a way out. There is a way to get better. Why not take it . Reporter when you are fighting a battle where the wounds are invisible. Just being consumed by the feeling. Reporter true courage is letting others see them. Help is available. Coming up next, a final victory for a world war ii veteran. And, the government said a college didnt make the grade so 40,000 students are forced to drop out. Question, and be honest. Are my teeth yellow . Have you tried the tissue test . The what . 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I have been really struggling to be a mom and just do it all and to be able to do it, full time student. It has been very difficult. And all of that cannot go to waste. Thuz sastudents were notifie emails. Federal and state agencies have been investigating the college on allegations of luring students in with deceptive promises. And leaving them with more debt than job prospects. Last month the department of educat b enrolling new students who receive federal aid. That turned out to be the death sentence since 80 of itt students depend on that aid. Itt is one of a handful of for profit colleges to come under intense scrutiny in the last year. Missouri senator, claire mccaskill. They were not getting the job done, not producing garage war, not pro ducing job ready garage our dream its to be nursz, we want to help people, genuinely help people. They wont allow us. Reporter itt calls this a lawless execution caused by the department of education. Students can now apply to have their federal loans forgiven or scott they can try to have those credits transferred to another school. Don dahler, thanks. Up next, the new iphone, today apple unveiled its iphone 7, but two Traditional Apple features were missing. The headphone jack and the magic. Apple stock was flat as a tablet today. So we asked John Blackstone whether apple is losing appeal. Reporter at apples annual launch of new products. Have ever created. Reporter introducing iphone 7 today, ceo tim cook gushed over the success of apples flag ship product. We have now sold over 1 billion of them. [ applause ] this makes iphone the best selling product of its kind in the history of the world. Reporter this past year for the first time, apple sold fewer iphones than the year before with revenue dropping 27 . Apples counting on new features buyers back. Scott stein, senior editor. I think there were upgrade people wanted to see on previous iphones, water resistance, battery life that doesnt add up to something that sound immediately exciting if youness stae necessarily take the plunge. Reporter the price is 649. These are expensive products. Theyre very expensive. Shock, cook talked up the company 32 a month lease plan that lets users get the latest iphone directly from apple every year. Basically the way i look to think the iphone is a dollar a day product. Tech analyst, horace dedieu. One way to think of apple. Little different than waiting for a big hit every few years. Reporter some users worry what is not on the new iphone, the hole in the bottom to plug in the ear phone jack ear phones will use apples lightning connector or 159, scott, apple will sell you wireless ear phones. John blackstone, thank you. Coming up next, a pioneer for women scores one last we end tonight with a long overdue honor for a veteran of world war ii. Elaine harmon of maryland, died last year at age rest today in americas premier Military Cemetery after winning one final battle. Here is david martin. [ taps plays ] reporter it took an act of congress for elaine harmons ashes in the arlington sim terry. My grandmother and other members of the wasp were the first will tine fly military military. Reporter erin miller was proud of her grandmothers Service Training the men who went into combat. Reporter my grandmothers last wishes were to have her ashes inurned at Arlington National cemetery. Reporter so she had to store her grandmothers ashes in a closet. That its not a very dignified resting place . No, certainly is not a very dignified resting place. We didnt know what else to do. Congresswoman ma one of the first women to fly combat aircraft introduced a bill to allow wasps into arlington. The fact that they were told they couldnt has them thinking this is one last slap in the face of sexism. Thought it was over. And it was just this one last element of not being treated fairly. Mcsallys bell was passed and signed into law in five months. The speed of light in politically gridlocked washington. I see a tattoo on your thats pretty intense. She, this is so important. So meaningful to her. That this was made right for her grandmother that she chose to memorialize it in that way. Reporter elaine harmons ashes came off the shelf transferred by erin and her mother into a handcarved urn. Only 100 wasps are still alive and eligible to be inurned at arlington. We want to make sure we made this right as fast as possible for those that are still with us. Reporter a year and a half after she passed a was granted her last wish. And with it an honor she hadnt asked for. A flyover by world war ii vintage planes. David martin, cbs news, arlington, national cemetery. And thats the overnight news for this thursday. For some of you, the news continues. For others, check back with us a little bit later for the morning news and of course, cbs this morning. From the Broadcast Center in new this is the overnight news. Welcome to the overnight news, im vladamir dut tichlt er. Capitol hill was abuzz when florida congressman david jolly showed up on the house floor with a container of mosquitoes. Making a pin the about not funding the fight against the zika virus. Turns out, mosquito larva and not mosquitoes they werent infected with zika any way. In florida the virus spread. 56 confirmed cases of locally transmitted infections and the battle is turning ugly. Dozens turned out in miami to protest the use of a powerful pesticide to kill mosquitos that carry zika. Reporter the chemical used, over the city in a mist. Every expert said such a fine, small amount it is harmless to humans. I got to till you trying to convince people here in miami beach that it is harmless is proving difficult. Just yesterday, miami beach began ground spraying using bti, slowly kills mosquito larvae. With mosquito counts on the rise that fight will be taken to the air as it was in the miami neighborhood o month. Planes carrying a neurotoxin, naled will be used to target adult mosquitoes over a 1 1 2 square mile area of miami beach. Naled band by the european union. The epa website says it is used in this country since 1959 without posing unreasonable risks. When applied according to the label. At high doses however, it can overstimulate the nervous system. Causing nausea, dizziness, or yes. Do you believe that . As the mayor . Will i believe that the epa, it is telling us the truth the i believe the cdc on their website, explains specifically, and exactly what aerial spraying is about. I believe what the krcht dc says. Cdc previously said aerial spraying over miami beach wouldnt work due to high rise buildings and wind currents. The use of naled is causing an uproar on social media. Residents petitioning l state leaders to reverse decision. One of them is alberto gross. He lived on miami beach for seven years. The solution could be just as bad as the problem. You know, why are they doing this . Why arent they listening to residents of miami beach . President obama wraps up his historic visit to laos on final day of the Southeast Asian summit. The president and leaders attend a gala dinner, all smiles and champagne toast. Mr. Obama had a short meeting with the president of the referred to the president as the son of a whore. Mr. Obama is the first sitting president to visit the land locked nation, dealing with the aftermath of the vietnam war. More on that from margaret brennan. Reporter president obama says the u. S. Has a moral responsibility to help the victims of americas secret war in laos. It was one of the largest covert cia operations in history and it left laos, the most heavily bombed country in the the prosthetic limbs dangling above president obama were a stark reminder of the wound still caused by the American Bombing decade ago. We are reminded that war is always carry tremendous costs. Many unintended. During the war in neighboring vietnam, u. S. War planes dropped 270 million cluster bombs on laos to cut off military supply lines. 80 million did not explode. There have been 20,000 phong manithong, maimed and blinded at 16. A friend gave him what looked look a toy ball. It was a bomb that suddenly exploded in his hand. I feel lots of pain on my body. And i feel like i, i was in fire. Reporter for a year after the devastating accident. Phong was afraid to leave home. Surpri surprisingly he is not angry at the country that dropped the. Everyone because angry doesnt get you any good thing. Reporter across laos hard to miss the imprints from the bombs. [ explosion ] clearing unexploded munitions is painstakingly slow. At the current rate it would take 50 years to remove the tiny bombs. 300 people are killed or maim each year. You can see there is lots of heavy contamination in the area. Group said the president s pledge of 90 million will help speed up removal. With the announcement of funding that will please a lot of lao people, they understand the americans are committed here and taking their responsibilities seriously. Reporter that aid money while much needed is not enough to complete the cleanup or to help all of those left handicapped and psydamaged. Donald trump is vowing a big increase in military spending if he is elected. Whether we like it or not, thats what is going on. More ships, more submarines, more fighter jets and called Hillary Clinton trigger happy and very unstable. She is also reckless, so reckless in fact that she put her emails on an illegal server that our enemies could easily hack. And probably have. Then, clintons team used a technology called bleachbit, which is basically acid. Her emails. Who would do this . And nobody does it because of the expense. Who would do this . They even took a hammer to some of her 13 phones, to cover up her tracks in obstruction of justice. These email record were destroyed after she received a subpoena. Remember that word. After. After, she received a subpoena from congress. Hil trumps criticizep of her as well as his military plans. Nancy cordes reports. He says he has a secret plan to defeat isis. The secret is he has no plan. Reporter clinton likened trump to a two bit scam artist trying to pull one over the american people. The list goes on and on, the scams, the frauds, the questionable relationships. Got tickled the other day when mr. Trump called my in durham, North Carolina her husband went after trumps foundation for illegally donating 25,000 to a group with ties to a key official. 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Reporter fueled by men brave enough to travel where no one had gone before. Thats one small step for man, one vast leap for mankind. Boy. Reporter the astronauts were superstars. Engineers the stuff of movie legend. But americas triumph in the space race was made possible by another group the country didnt computers, and they were women, many of them africanamerican, hired by nasa to hand calculate, propulsion, lift, thrust and trajectory. They had to make sure the planes were safe, that the planes were fast. They were efficient. That the as ttronaut went into space and came back safely. This was life or death. This is life or death. Importance. Do the work right. Do it right the first time. Daughter of a nasa scientist, was raised in the same town where these women once worked. A Hidden History that had been staring her in the face. It is not a first or an only story. Its a story of a group of women given a chance an w