A criminal act. And a parade fit for the champions. Its my absolute honor to lead this team out on the field. There is no other place that i would rather be. Axelrod good evening. Im jim axelrod. And this is our western edition. The storm that could become the years first hurricane to hit the u. S. Appears to be bearing down on the gulf coast tonight. Late today hurricane watches were posted along the Southern Coast of louisiana, but the storm threat stretches from texas to florida. More than half a foot of rain fell on louisiana today, and there could be much more to come, up to another foot and a half by this weekend along with a surge of seawater. Manuel bojorquez is in new orleans tonight. Reporter morning storms unleashed up to eight inches of rain within three hours over parts of new orleans, flooding neighborhoods as well as streets and businesses along the historic french quarter. There was even a waterspout spotted on lake pontchartrain, and some were left to navigate streets by kayak. Paula griffin snapped these photos before ditching her car in rising waters. How did you get out . I pushed my door open, and the water rushed in. Reporter how high was it . I walked in this high. Reporter so up to your waist . Yeah. Reporter Lauren Morris didnt even make it into her dental office, which was flooded. Its gut wrenching. Its frustrating. You know, nobody wants to have to go through this, so not only myself, but the other businesses around here. Reporter the concern now turns to the tropical system in the gulf, which could dump up to 18 more inches of rain in louisiana over the weekend. Latoya cantrell is the mayor of new orleans. It is still too soon to tell what the impact will be, but it is never too early to prepare. Reporter many of the areas levees were part of a 14 billion retrofit after hurricane katrina, but some have started to settle and may not provide the intended protection. Here in the lower ninth ward, the river is already swollen and is expected to reach 20 feet this weekend. Thats the same height as some of the levees. Jim . Axelrod Manuel Bojorquez on the hurricane watch for us tonight. Thank you. Lets move now to our chief weathercaster lonnie quinn of wcbs tv in new york. Lonnie, what is this system looking like to you . Its looking like a big rain maker more so than a wind maker. The blue shows you where the moisture is. The red shows you the dry air is. The dry air is running out of time. Its just not being infused into this system. So the system is getting stronger. So now the question is where is it going to go . Take a look. We see it right now. It does not have name, it does not have a number, but we think by tomorrow this becomes Tropical Storm barry with 65, or, say, 45mph winds tomorrow and 65 on friday making landfall between texas and louisiana as a category 1 with 85mph winds, but its really going to be about the rain and the storm surge with this system. Now watch this. Regardless of where the storm makes its landfall, stop it right there, okay. Here it is off shore. Look at the flow around it, pushing all of that into the new orleans area. New orleans has already picked up four inches of rain. Outside of new orleans they have already picked up seven inches of rain. The numbers are going to get way up there now. This white shaded area shows you a foot of rain, alright . Right there around new orleans, that area in black, that is 18 inches of rain. And that doesnt even take into consideration, jim, the storm surge that comes with the flow on shore. So again, i think its going to be more of a storm about the water than the wind. Wind will be an issue, but i think the water is the big thing. Axelrod lonnie, thank you. Now to labor secretary alex acosta, who is hanging tough tonight and rejecting calls to resign and insisting the plea deal he worked out with investor Jeffrey Epstein was the best he could get. Epstein received an unusually lenient sentence in 2008 after being charged with molesting teenage girls. Acosta was the u. S. Attorney in south florida at the time. Mola lenghi now on what acosta had to say today. He needed to go to jail. Reporter for almost an hour, labor secretary alex acosta defended his actions as u. S. Attorney in miami when he oversaw the controversial plea deal with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. We did what we did because we wanted to see epstein go to jail. Reporter acosta says the state charges would have meant epstein would get off, so acosta agreed to a federal plea, which led to a watereddown jail sentence of 13 months. There is a value to a sure guilty plea, because letting him walk, letting what the state attorney was ready to do, go forward, would have been absolutely awful. Reporter epsteins alleged victims were not informed of the plea or even consulted. A federal judge has since ruled the deal violated the rights of the victims. On monday the 66yearold multimillionaire pleaded not guilty in new york to new federal charges of sex trafficking dozens of minor girls. Court papers say unnamed Epstein Associates recruited them to his homes in palm beach and new york. This week more women have come forward saying epstein abused them. Jennifer araoz told nbc she was 15 when she was assaulted at epsteins manhattan town house in the early 2000s. Did Jeffrey Epstein rape you . Yeah, he raped me, forcefully raped me. Reporter today acosta was asked if he owed the victims an apology. These victims were traumatized. We cant begin to understand what they went through. And they look at this and they say, but why . And so you always look back and you say, what if . Reporter acostas answers did not satisfy those calling for him to step down. Nothing in secretary acostas attempts to justify his misconduct changes the verdict. He must go. He must resign. Reporter cbs news has learned that President Trump himself encouraged acosta to publicly defend his actions. Weve also just learned that more women claiming to be epsteins victims have contacted the f. B. I. , jim, since monday. Axelrod so much to continue to track here. Thank you, mola. Tonight cbs news can confirm the department of Homeland Security is investigating a claim being made by a 15yearold girl from honduras that she was molested by a Border Patrol agent at a facility in yuma, arizona. And we have learned a guatemalan woman whose child died in ice custody is suing the federal government. Omar villafranca reports she told her story to congress today. translated there are days i just want to give up. Its been so painful for me to see so many children and not my little girl. Reporter 21yearold yazmin juarez broke down while talking about the death of her oneyear old daughter mariee. Juarez and the little girl came to the u. S. Last year from guatemala to seek asylum. Juarez told the house subcommittee that the Ice Detention Center in dilley, texas, where she was taken, was crowded with adults and children forced to sleep in a cold room with hard concrete floors. Juarez says her daughter got sick there. translated the world should know what is happening to so many children inside these ice detention facilities. Reporter medical records obtained by cbs news show that on march 5, 2018, a nurse in dilley, texas, examined the little girl and found that she was healthy when she arrived. Last year juarez described the conditions at the facility to 60 minutes. translated there were too many people, too many children, and they put us in, like, cages. Reporter and over the next 20 days, the girl did get sick. Once juarez and her daughter were cleared to leave government custody, they joined family in new jersey. Upon landing, the young mother took her daughter to the e. R. , but her condition got worse. The little girl spent six weeks in the hospital and was put on a ventilator. Members of congress, as well as those in the gallery, wept as juarez talked about the day mariee died, which happened to be mothers day in her home country of guatemala. translated when i walked out of the hospital that day, all i had with me was a piece of paper that the doctors made with mariees hand print. Thats all i had left, her hand prints. Reporter juarez has filed a wrongful death and negligence claim against the u. S. Government saying that facility in dilley was unsanitary and that her daughter received inadequate care. An ice spokesperson told us they cant comment on pending litigation. Jim . Axelrod emotional testimony on capitol hill today. Omar, thank you. The British Ambassador to the United States resigned today after getting iced out by President Trump for speaking his mind in diplomatic cables. Now, the ambassador thought they were confidential, but they were leaked. Margaret brennan has more on this. Reporter sir kim darrochs resignation came after days of unrelenting criticism by President Trump, who said he would no longer work with the British Ambassador. In a statement, darroch said, the Current Situation is making it impossible for me to carry out my role as i would like. Prime minister theresa may said she regretted that decision and hoped it wont prevent other diplomats from being candid. Good government depends on Public Servants being able to give full and frank advice. Reporter in one of the diplomatic cables leaked to the mail, darroch said the administration was clumsy and inept and doubted they will ever look competent, but warned london, do not write him off, referencing mr. Trumps ability the survive scandal. The president fired back on sunday. Reporter and he continued to lash out on twitter, calling darroch wacky and a very stupid guy. The white house disinvited darroch from a high profile event this week, and british officials grew concerned the president might actually cut off all u. S. Government contact with their top diplomat in washington. While the current British Government gave a fullthroated defense of darroch, the front runner to become the next Prime Minister did not. I, and i alone, will decide who takes important and politically sensitive jobs such as the u. K. Ambassador to the u. S. Axelrod Margaret Brennan joins us now. Margaret, this kind of diplomatic dustup, uncommon, extraordinary . How would you characterize it . Extremely unusual. I mean, keep in mind, darroch is experienced, and hes really well connected here in washington. So its important because what he said about the Trump Administration was based on what he had learned himself from u. S. Officials and friends of the president. So, in short, he was doing the job all ambassadors are asked to do, which is to act as the eyes and ears for their government and candidly report back. The u. K. Is investigating how the leak happened, but because President Trump took this personally and since it also became a political football in the u. K. , ambassador darroch decided he just couldnt do the job any longer. Axelrod Margaret Brennan, thanks for your insight. There was quite a parade today through the canyon of heroes in lower manhattan. Fresh off their world cup victory in france, the u. S. Womens soccer team is using the bright lights and big stage to focus attention on womens equality. Heres jericka duncan. cheers and applause reporter it was deja vu for the u. S. Womens National Team. Usa, usa reporter but this new york city ticker tape parade was different than 2015, the signs, the chants. Equal pay equal pay reporter . And the comments of fans centered around the fight for equal pay. My hope is that this isnt one moment in time. Megan rapinoe reporter outspoken forward megan rapinoe, who was honored as the top player and top goal scorer, addressed the topic this week. I think everybody realizes at this point, you know, all the top brass included, that its time for that change. Reporter the 23 women who make up the National Team say their fight is about helping the next generation of female athletes. What lessons do you learn by watching them . Teamwork. Reporter with young girls like that looking up to her, rapinoe made calls for unity and inclusion. We have pink hair and purple hair. We got white girls and black girls. And everything in between. Straight girls and gay girls. cheering and applause hey we have to be better. We have to love more, hate less. Reporter a winning goal for all americans. Jericka duncan, cbs news, new york. Axelrod up next on the cbs evening news, well hear from a california couple at the center of a fertility fiasco. For nine months a mother bonds with a child, but i was robbed of that. Axelrod and that was just the start of their troubles. And later, a mystery who killed an american scientist who was visiting greece . S visiting greece . Honey have you seen my glasses . Ive always had a knack for finding things. Colon cancer, to be exact. And i find it noninvasively. No need for time off or special prep. It all starts here. 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Reporter two babies were born march 31st to an asian couple who thought they had twins. Reporter they knew the day the babies were born because they had apparently called cha and told them, were asian and these children are white, theyre caucasian. These children are definitely not ours. Reporter the manukyans say a few days later they were asked by the fertility clinic to take a d. N. A. Test. The next day they learned the stunning news. She said, think of it as a good thing. You have a son now. And i just burst out, like i just lashed out, what about the woman, you know, what, is she going through right now . Reporter you feel for them, though . Of course. Thank god we got our child back, but she ended up with nothing. Reporter it took another month and a legal battle before the manukyans could bring their son home. It was hard. Not knowing where your child is. We just sat there and just looked at each other and cried all day. Because we didnt know if were ever going to see him. Reporter their attorney, adam wolf, has filed a lawsuit. I cant see how they could ever trust cha again. I cant see how anybody can trust cha again. This is just a failure of epic proportions. Reporter cha has not responded to our repeated requests for a comment. As for baby alec, hes bonding with his parents. How does he seem to be doing with the two of you . Hes doing great. Hes smiling. Hes rolling over. Reporter jamie yuccas, cbs news, los angeles. Axelrod coming up, a serious cash grab on a highway. Where did all that money go . Where did all this money go . Patients get their day back. To be with. Family. Or just to sleep in. Strong chemo can put you at risk of serious infection. In a key study. Neulasta reduced the risk of infection from 17 . To 1 . A 94 decrease. Neulasta onpro is designed to deliver. Neulasta the day after chemo. And is used by most patients today. Neulasta is for certain Cancer Patients receiving strong chemotherapy. 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