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in our ongoing series, we call issues that matter, a closer look at america s longest war. why we re still in afghanistan. conflict spanning three presidencies and where the u.s. can go from here. we begin this morning with a look at today s eye opener your world in 90 seconds. any senator who votes against starting debate is telling america that you are fine with the obamacare nightmare. senator mccain returns for a crucial vote on health care. it shows how desperate they are not wanting to go home in august having accomplished absolutely nothing and frankly having to listen to donald trump beat them over the head with that. by the way, you re going to get the votes. he getter get em!.- oh, otherwise i ll say tom, you re fired! a truck driver could get the death penalty if convicted in a deadly human trafficking case in texas. the driver told investigators he had no idea people were inside. just devastating. it s like a war zone. severe weather a ....
congress got an sos today from the common can t of the coast guard. he said the guard is busier than ever, chasing drug runners but it can t do the job without more money. carter evans now on what s at stake. reporter: this what $800 million worth of cocaine looks like. we were aboard the coast guard cutter back in 2015 after it seized tons of drugs from fast boats and make shift submarines. there was so much flow right now. but the drugs keep coming. and last year the coast guard couldn t even chase hundreds of shipments they knew about. how much is still getting through? there were over 500 events that, that literally alluded us. we knew they were out there. this came done to we didn t have enough planes, didn t have enough ships. reporter: he says much of his fleet is decades past retirement age. and the coast guard needs 1.5 billion dollars just to catch up on maintenance. copy. thank you. chief warrant officer, bill hansman is captain of the 55-year ....
america s longest war. why we re still in afghanistan. conflict spanning three presidencies and where the u.s. can go from here. and a look at today s eye opener. your world in 90 seconds. any senator who votes against starting debate is telling america that you are fine with the obamacare nightmare. senator mccain returns for a crucial vote on health care. it shows how desperate they are not wanting to go home in august having accomplished absolutely nothing and frankly having to listen to donald trump beat them over the head with that. by the way, you re going to get the votes. he better get them. oh, otherwise i ll say tom, you re fired. a truck driver could get the death penalty if convicted in a deadly human trafficking case in texas. he told investigators he had no idea people were inside. just devastating. severe weather across the country. tornado damage to extreme flooding. in the phoenix area streets flooded after a second round of storms. ....
circle into a political arena. stan, you were just hit with the liberal agenda. are you going to this is the cbs evening news. mason: good evening. i m anthony mason. president trump gave his attorney general a very public, very humiliating thrashing today and left open the possibility of firing him. speaking in the rose garden, the president made clear that jeff sessions is a thorn in his side, most notably for recusing himself from the russia investigation, which led to the appointment of a special counsel. here s chief white house correspondent major garrett. but i am disappointed in the attorney general. he should not have recused himself almost immediately after he took office, and if he was going to recuse himself, he should have told me prior to taking office, and i would have quite simply picked somebody else. reporter: president trump denied attorney general jeff sessions is twisting in the wind, but after days of steady criticism the president declin ....
immigrants in a sweltering tractor-trailer in texas, now extend to an iowa trucking company and mexican drug gangs. and tonight mark strassmann has new information about the driver. james bradley jr. should never have been driving the tractor-trailer that carried roughly 100 illegal immigrants into san antonio. florida had suspended his commercial driving license back in april. ten people died including 19-year-old, frank fuentes. he graduated from high school in virginia but had been deported. the 60-year-old bradley s criminal history dates back 20 years, with felony arrests in colorado, for menacing and assault, and in florida for an escape warrant. he spent a year in a colorado prison. more than a dozen survivors remain hospitalized, some in critical condition. it s never just the driver, by himself or herself. shane fulton, the special agent in charge of homeland security office is leading the criminal investigatin. these organizations consider these people a ....