>> rose: devastating floods in the united states; a deadly
heat wave in india. a new report says the extreme
weather is all related, and there is more of it
to come. also tonight, a startling failure of airport security.
investigators give fake bombs and band weapons past screeners almost
every time they try. bruce jenner's transition-- the former olympic
athlete says "call me caitlyn."and it was the big one
at the box office, but an earthquake expert finds fault
with "san andreas."\this is the "cbs evening news"\with scott pelley.>>
rose: good evening. scott's on assignment. i'm charlie rose. scientists
today made an ominous prediction-- we'll be seeing more extreme
weather like the flooding that killed at least 30 people
last month in the southern plains while damaging or destroying
thousands of homes. and on the other side of the
world, the extraordinary heat wave that killed well over 2,000
in india. they traced the cause of it all to
the very top of the world. here is cbs news
correspondent kris van cleave.>> reporter: may took texas from drought
to destructive floods, while on the other side of the
globe, excessive heat turned deadly in india. in a paper
published today, researchers from rutgers university offered an explanation for
why, arguing climate change in the arctic is slowing the
jet stream over the northern hemisphere, leaving the weather increasingly
prone to repeat. climatologist dave robinson.>> everything slows, and with
it, weather patterns persist over areas for longer periods of
time. that could make a wet situation dangerously wet. it
could make a heat wave dangerously long.>> reporter: typically, the
jet stream would move storms from west to east across
the u.s.in may, it funneled storm after storm to texas
and oklahoma, resulting in the northeast being unseasonably dry, california
is stuck in drought and alaska had its first 90-plus
degree day earlier than ever. may was such an unusual
weather month. what happened?>> nature hit pause.>> reporter: the national
weather service's chris vaccaro says the phenomenon can happen any
time.>> we can see in the winter months in the
northeast where you have, like in the boston area, we
had repeated snowstorms over a short period of time.>> forecasters
say the storms in parts of the northeast and the
weather we're seeing here in the mid-atlantic today are signs
that the weather pattern is off repeat. that's welcome news
for folks in texas who are finally getting an opportunity
to dry out. but charlie, no sign of relief for
california's historic drought.>> rose: thanks, chris. sunshine is in the
forecast for texas and oklahoma this week. this is a
welcome change after weeks of endless rain and flood that
caused about $1 billion in damage, but omar villafranca says
relief will be slow in coming.>> reporter: it's not over
yet. rivers and lakes are still at dangerously high levels.
on saturday, an eight-year-old girl in suburban dallas was killed
after a car crash ejected her into floodwaters. rescuers had
to use a boat to recover her body. at least
21 roads were still closed in the dallas area, but
that didn't stop some drivers from ignoring low water crossing
barriers and risking their lives to pass through. lieutenant scott
walton is with the dallas police department.>> if you actually
move a barricade, the person that comes along behind you
doesn't know that barricade was there and puts themselves in
danger. this is a violation of state law.>> reporter: just
30 miles from houston, several hundred cattle were stranded in
floodwaters and had to be rescued. along the brazos river
in houston, officers have something new to worry about-- gawkers.
doug adolph with the sugarland police department is trying to
keep people from getting too close.>> if you go in,
there's a strong likelihood that you'll go under and you're
going to stay under.>> oh, no!>> reporter: almost a week
after a swollen blanco river devastated wimberly, texas, several people
are still missing. volunteers continue to search through the rubble.
resident joel moore did not see it coming.>> we had
no idea the river was that high, and we're right
there on it. at the end of the day, you're
in texas and people are only going to leave when
they're forced out sometimes.>> reporter: nearly 6,000 homes and businesses
have been damaged in this texas flood, and, charlie, that
number could change because hurricane season started today.>> rose: thanks,
omar. we've got some alarming news today about security at
our busiest airports. screeners have failed test after test when
federal agents tried to sneak in fake bombs and weapons.
homeland security correspondent jeff pegues has more on that.>> reporter:
undercover investigators posing as passengers were able to smuggle dangerous
items 67 of the 70 times they went through airport
security. the so-called red teams whose job it is to
uncover security vulnerabilities had a 95% success rate, smuggling mock
explosives, weapons and potential bomb components through t.s.a. checkpoints. the
contraband included both metallic and non-metallic bomb parts like those
used in the underwear bomb which almost exploded aboard a
delta airline's plight on christmas day in 2009. those types
of bombs are the hallmark of al qaeda in the
arabian peninsula. officials see that group as one of the
greatest threats to aviation. an individual familiar with the classified
findings says the shortfalls point to a need for better
technology and increased training for the country's 50,000 t.s.a. agents.
for example, in one failure, a t.s.a. agent performing a
pat-down of an undercover investigator did not detect a mock
explosive taped to that person's back. frank cilluffo is a
former white house counter-terrorism official.>> we're dealing with thinking predators.
they base their actions, in part, on our actions, consistently
seeking vulnerabilities, and we have to do what we can
to stay ahead.>> reporter: one former high-ranking official called the
report "disturbing."d. h.s. secretary jeh johnson was so concerned about
the results, he ordered immediate security changes. jeff pegues, cbs
news, washington.>> rose: three domestic surveillance programs are on hold
tonight after the senate failed to reauthorize the patriot act.
one of those programs, the bulk collection of phone records,
has been the subject of controversy ever since it was
revealed by former n.s.a. contractor edward snowden. here is our
congressional correspondent nancy cordes.>> we find ourselves in a circumstance
where important tools have already lapsed.>> reporter: senate majority leader
mitch mcconnell warned u.s. investigators are now working with one
hand tied behind their backs, unable to seek roving wiretaps
to track suspected terrorists who switch out their cell phones,
or to wiretap so-called "lone wolves" who are not tied
to a specific terror group. they are also blocked from
conducting new searches of the national security agency's phone records
database to see who suspected terrorists called and when. according
to a federal report, the n.s.a. queried the database 288
times in 2012. how often are these programs used?>> well,
the truth is they're used very seldom.>> reporter: republican richard
burr chairs the senate intelligence committee. he says a temporary
lapse won't pose a huge risk, but a longer one
would.>> when we collect a cell phone of a known
terrorist abroad, the ability in real-time to check that against
the database of american phone calls to see if there
was ever a communication is absolutely crucial in our ability
to be in front of a terrorist attack.>> reporter: but
many lawmakers believe the bulk collection of phone records is
an invasion of privacy, and kentucky senator rand paul blocked
a vote sunday night to extend the program even temporarily.>>
we can't allow the rule of law to be so
trod upon that we live in an arbitrary governmental world
where they collect anything they want any time they want.>>
reporter: the house has already passed a bill that would
stop the n.s.a.'s collection of phone data but allow it
to access those records being held by phone companies. the
president supports that measure and, charlie, the senate could vote
on it as early as tomorrow.>> rose: thanks, nancy. secretary
of state john kerry is due tonight in boston where
he'll get treatment for his broken right leg. he broke
it in france yesterday when his bicycle hit a curb.
kerry, who is 71, was flown by helicopter today to
an air base in switzerland for the flight home. as
he recovers, he'll take part by phone in the next
round of nuclear talks with iran. the deadline for concluding
a deal to curtail iran's nuclear program is june 30.
in return, painful economic sanctions would be lifted. so what
are the chances this can be worked out? liz palmer
went looking for answers in tehran.>> reporter: there's no getting
away from the pain of u.s. sanctions here. grocery prices
are up 20% over the past year. gas and electricity
have doubled. iranians want it to stop. so they're watching
the nuclear talks closely, most desperate for a deal. of
course, not everyone is on side. hard-liners see an agreement
as a capitulation to america. hossein shariatmadari is a well-known
conservative. do you think there will be a nuclear deal
a month from now?>> i don't.>> reporter: never?"never," he says,
"and all the optimism, it's just talk."there was lots of
optimism last fall when negotiators came to an interim agreement,
but there are now big obstacles ahead. first, how fast
the sanctions against iran would be lifted. the iranians want
relief right away; the u.s. wants a phased approach. the
second is how much access international inspectors will have to
iran's military installations to check that they are not developing
nuclear weapons. iran's supreme leader says there will be no
access. the u.s. says that's a deal breaker. obviously, charlie,
there's a lot to do before the 30th of june.
secretary kerry's accident has come at a bad time. he
gets along very well with iran's foreign minister, and their
close relationship has driven these negotiations forward. it's just not
going to be the same dynamic if the secretary is
grounded in washington.>> rose: thank you, liz. today, senator lindsey
graham of south carolina joined the race for the republican
presidential nomination. he said he has more national security experience
than any other presidential contender, including democrat hillary clinton. graham
said he would send thousands of u.s. troops back to
iraq. he is the ninth republican in the race, and
there are more to come. today, the white house web
site, whitehouse.gov, created a virtual condolence book so the public
can send notes of sympathy to the family of beau
biden. the vice president's son, who was 46, died saturday
of brain cancer, a disease that kills more than 15,000
americans every year. we asked our dr. jon lapook to
tell us more about it.>> reporter: beau biden suffered a
mild stroke in 2010, and in 2013, underwent surgery to
remove what was described as a small brain lesion, although
the specifics are not public. the survival rates of brain
cancer vary depending on the type of tumor. most malignant
brain tumors in adults are glioblastoma, which are highly aggressive.
treatment includes surgery, chemotherapy and radiation, but the median survival
is about 14 months, and two-year survival is only 30%.>>
this is clara.>> reporter: 32-year-old clara guy was diagnosed with
a brain tumor when she was pregnant with her second
daughter in 2012. a year after surgery, the cancer returned
as an advanced glioblastoma.>> i would likely have approximately six
to 18 months. i've got these two young kids. it
is not stopping ground for me, and not only that,
it felt like a punch in the stomach. so, i
needed a positive lookout, and it was, "okay, who can
we find that can have hope?">> reporter: in 2014, clara
was part of a clinical trial using immunotherapy at duke
university medical center. since cancer often hides itself from the
body's defense system, the strategy here is to manipulate immune
cells to recognize and attack brain tumors. dr. john sampson
is part of the team at duke developing these immunotherapies.>>
once we rev up the immune system, the cells can
track the tumor down, even in these deep crevices within
the brain and kill the cells in a specific way
without harming the cells around them.>> reporter: finding cancer cells
in those crevices within the brain is crucial because a
main reason for the poor prognosis is that, by the
time a diagnosis is made, the tumor cells usually have
spread microscopically beyond what's visible on cat scan or m.r.i.
so far, clara guy is doing well.>> rose: thank you,
john. today, a colorado jury heard james holmes tell a
state-appointed psychiatrist he knew murder was legally wrong when he
shot up a movie theater killing 12 and injuring 70.
he said he hoped the shootings would get him out
of his depression. this is part of a lengthy interview
being played at holmes' murder trial. holmes has pleaded not
guilty by reasons of insanity. tonight, some drivers in colorado
admit they're nervous after the police and the f.b.i. said
there's a link between two recent highway shootings. barry petersen
is following this.>> reporter: for almost 30 years, kerry minchow
has been commuting on interstate 25, the main route between
denver and northern colorado. she's faced blizzards, rain, hail, but
never this. is it in your mind that somebody out
there might take a shot?>> absolutely. yes.>> reporter: that's pretty
scary.>> it is. it is scary. but something could happen
to us like that going to work.>> i thought i
had been in an accident.>> reporter: it started with the
late-night shooting of cori romero about six weeks ago on
the interstate. a bullet passed through her neck.>> the pull-down
mirror was down, and that's when i saw they weren't
cuts, there were holes on each side.>> reporter: then on
may 18, john jackoby was shot twice and killed riding
his bicycle in the city of windsor about 60 miles
north of denver.>> we linked the two shootings with evidence...>>
reporter: windsor police chief john michaels, whose department is working
with local sheriff's and the f.b.i., won't say what evidence
linked the shootings, but he's warning the half-million people in
the immediate area to be cautious. are you worried you're
dealing with somebody who is a serial shooter?>> we're dealing
with an individual that we know, individual or individuals we
know have been involved in twoshootings. there could be more.
we don't know.>> reporter: as for why those two people
were targeted, no one will say for sure, but it
may well have been random-- all the more nerve-racking, charlie,
for the drivers of the 67,000 vehicles who use this
interstate every day.>> rose: thanks, barry. bruce jenner makes a
high-profile debut as a woman and reveals a new name.
and tragedy at an air show when the "cbs evening
news" continues.>> rose: today, bruce jenner went public with a
new female identity and name. jenner will now be known
as caitlyn. jenner, who is 65, is the most high-profile
american to identify as transgender. more now from michelle miller.>>
and he's going to shatter... >> reporter: to one generation, he
was a rugged olympic champion...>> what a day for bruce
jenner!>> reporter: ...to another, kim kardashian's athletic step-dad. but on
the cover of the july issue of "vanity fair" magazine,
the person once known as bruce jenner now asks the
world, "call me caitlin."caitlyn expressed her thoughts on video during
her photo shoot with renowned photographer annie leibowitz.>> bruce always
had to tell a lie. caitlyn doesn't have any secrets.>>
it's just a critical moment.>> reporter: dru levasseur is with
lambda legal, a national organization advocating for legal rights in
the transgender community. what does caitlyn jenner's outing do for
this movement?>> i think it brings increased visibility. it shows
that even somebody who was on the wheaties box maybe
when they were growing up can be transgender.>> reporter: in
a 2011 survey, transgender people are twice as likely to
be unemployed, twice as likely to be murdered, and have
a suicide attempt rate of 41%.but things may be starting
to change.>> even for somebody like, you know, caitlyn jenner,
to have that struggle of coming out, it's something that
people can relate to.>> reporter: and the guinness book of
world records has recognized caitlyn jenner's twitter account as the
fastest to reach one million followers, breaking president obama's record
in four hours.>> rose: thanks, michelle. there's a little less
romance in paris tonight. we'll see why when we come
back.>> rose: today, the supreme court ruled in favor of
a muslim woman who did not get hired by abercrombie
and fitch when she showed up for a job interview
wearing a head scarf. in another decision, the justices made
it harder to prosecute people for making threats online. they
threw out the conviction of a man who ranted on
facebook about wanting to kill his ex-wife. in eastern italy, amateur
video captured the moment yesterday when two stunt planes collided
over the adriatic during an air show. both crashed. one
pilot died, the other was rescued. sometimes, you can have
too much love, even in paris. for seven years, tourists
have attached locks to the bridge of the arch and
thrown away the keys to express their undying love. the
locks now weigh 45 tons and the bridge cannot support
them. today, workers began carting away the panels, and the
locks to be replaced by plexiglas. an earthquake expert reviews
this weekend's biggest movie for accuracy when we come back.>>
rose: at the box office this weekend, "tomorrowland"finished third, just
behind "pitch perfect 2."the number-one movie-- "san andreas."it's about the
"big one," but how close is it to the real
one? here's john blackstone.>> reporter: hollywood kicked off the summer
movie season by destroying its hometown. the disaster movie "san
andreas"envisions a series of huge earthquakes wiping out much of
california.>> what does not happen is this-- the fault can't
open up.>> reporter: so we're not going to fall in.>>
we're not going to fall in.>> reporter: when real earthquakes
happen in california, reporters turn to seismologist lucy jones at
u.s.g. s. for the facts. this is looking real bad.>>
it's looking real bad.>> reporter: now, she's addressing the fiction.
fact or fiction, most of the high-rises in l.a. fall
down?>> most coming down-- fiction. a few, potentially fact.>> you'll
feel it on the east coast.>> reporter: fact or fiction,
they're going to feel this in new york?>> no, absolute
fiction.>> reporter: she spent time today on reddit telling an
online audience what the movie got right and what it
got wrong.>> i see it!>> reporter: huge tsunami hits san
francisco?>> a tsunami is too big for anywhere. you have
to have a subduction zone to create it. we don't
have it in san francisco. no.>> reporter: still, she sees
the movie not as a disaster but as an opportunity
to push the message "be prepared.">> it's great to see
the seismologist ordering people out of the doorways and under
the table.>> reporter: the movie may not match reality, but
one thing is clear-- its impact at the box office
will be seismic. john blackstone, cbs news, hollywood.>> rose: it
is a movie. that's the "cbs evening news."for scott pelley,
i'm charlie rose in new york. thank you for joining
us. i'll see you first thing tomorrow on "cbs this
morning."good night.