Seaboard, a track that will bring it right up along the florida coastline, the georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina coastlines as we head towards end of the week and into the weekend. So the imminent threat here across cuba, hispaniola, jamaica, move towards florida, southeast atlantic coastline. Late week period. North of North Carolina where uncertainty is, scott, go out to sea or move up the close. More claritien the next couple days. Changes in our climate are dominating president obamas final days in office. Tonight on the white house lawn, the president is taking part in an ideas festival. That includes a discussion of the dangers of a warming planet. The president has called Global Warming a slow motion catastrophe. Scientists worried about how the human race will feed itself, are working on a radical new idea. Mark phillips has the fruits of their labor in the netherlands for tonight tea climate diaries. Reporter if rising sea levels and more flooding are the inevitable future of Climate Change. There is a place in the world that may have found at least part of the solution. Nobody knows more about dealing with the encroaching waters than the dutch. Where more and more salty water has been seeping through the dikes on to agricultural land. On this experimental farm theyre trying to see what might grow in the conditions. How are you finding out what works . Simply by letting the plants tell us which is salt and which isnt. Reporter which is why they call marc van rijsselburgh, the potato whisper. Heave speaks potato. If they die they give you a statement. And for, unfortunately we dont hatch off to kill our scientists before nthey give a statement. They dont all, the potatoes. Tested hundreds of varieties irrigating with increasing salty water. They found plenty that love the stuff. But there would be no point unless those survivors were also edible. Try the brown one first. First. Yeah. Tastes like a good potato. Yeah. The other one tastes like . A good potato but different. Im betting this is the salty one. You are absolutely right, mark. Reporter so far, so interesting. But there are real current applications for this discovery. In this salt affected region of pakistan, one of many such regions around the world, they have given up trying to grow anything. Until the dutch showed up with their salt resistant potatoes. The result, bumper crops. Amsterdam university bottle annist, arjen devos runs the project and says it works for other vegetables too. Use half water seawater salinity. They should be dead already. But these carrots can feed many people worldwide. Reporter the potato whisperer not only provides the ingredients he has the recipe. We can make onions, carrots, and potatoes for the people in bangladesh and and pakistan. Then hey have a meal. Little curry spice you are talking. Yeah. Reporter they are talking about break new england ground here in so many ways. Mark phillips, cbs news, texel island, the netherlands. Coming up. Police go to new heights to catch drivers who text. Later the inspiring story of the chess queen and the game that changed her life. Geico motorcycle, great rates for great rides. Ialmost everything. You know, ke 1 i n 10 houses could get hit by an expensive septic disaster. But for only 7 a month, ridx helps break down waste. Avoid a septic disaster with ridx. Dry spray . Thats fun. Its already dry no wait time. This is great. Its very soft. Can i keep it . laughter all the care of dove. Now in a dry antiperspirant spray. Awarded best of beauty by allure. You knmegared omega3s. But did you know your eyes, your brain, and your joints really love them too . Introducing megared advanced 4in1. Just one softgel delivers mega support. Texting while driving is now illegal in 46 states. But catching violators has forced the police to get creative and think outside the patrol car. Heres our transportation correspondent kris van cleave. Brandy hayes doesnt know it yet she is about to get a ticket. White pickup on my right. Lieutenant cary hopkins spotted her from up high riding shotgun in tennessee Highway Patrol semi. He radios a trooper to pull hayes over. People know they sthunt be texting while theyre driechlgt theyre sneaky arent they . People are holding the phone down. Thats really even more dangerous because, theyre taking their eyes complete plea off the road. In the time it takes a driver to look down and send a text, a vehicle could travel the distance of a football field. Driver brandy hayes. Do you think about the safety aspect of that . I do. But you know you always think you are above it. You know you are not going to be the one to have an accident. But those accidents are rising. Fatal distracted driving crashes. Jumped nearly 9 last year. Over 2014. Prompting this startling antitexting ad. Theyre driving, just like a drunk driver. Youve will see them weaving. You will see them go over the center line. To catch texting drivers, police are getting creative. Shes texting. Reporter officers in san bernardino, california posed as panhandlers. Even though their signs warn theyre looking for cell phone violat violators. Drivers dont see them and are pulled over by motorcycle cops nearby. In moscow, idaho, they use a Yellow School bus. In westbridge water massachusetts theyre using bicycle officers. Chief victor flaherty. In three hours, the guys will stop 100 cars. Reporter sending a message, an oldfashioned way by a handwritten ticket. You have to pay over 100. So, dont look at your phone Reporter NationalSafety Council estimates roughly 1. 6 million crashes last year could be attributed to cell phone use. Scott, thats about a quarter of all accidents. Keep your hands on the wheel. Kris van cleave, thanks very much. 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Late today the attempted murder charge against the 14yearold boy who allegedly shot him was upgraded to murder. He is charged with murdering his own father and the attempted mur murder of a teacher and two students. Jacobs parents are asking mourners to honor him at his funeral by dressing as super heroes. Engineer of the new Jersey Transit train that crashed in hoboken last week has told investigators he has no memory of the accident. Thomas gallagher says he does remember the train was going ten miles an hour when it entered the terminal. Some witnesses say it was moving much more quickly. One data recorder on the train was not working. The other has not been recovered yet. One person died. More than 100 were hurt. Up next, her life had a most humble beginning, but now, kings and queens do her bidding. Our final story is a real life fairy tale with a holly wood ending and a most unlikely beginning. Here is jericka duncan. Reporter 20yearold rjts Phiona Mutesi found a new way of thinking through chess. The dreams started here in one of the largest slums in uganda, katwe, whereas a child, mutesi sold corn to help her family survive. I dropped out of school at 6. Reporter you dropped out of school at 6 . Yes. We didnt have anything. My mom had no money. Reporter when she was 9 she stumbled upon a church Chess Program. At first it wasnt the game that interested her. Just going back i wanted a meal. Reporter you were going back to play because you needed food . Yeah. Reporter things began to change when mutesi, met robert katende. He started the Chess Program to empower children in katwe. What was it about phiona. The determination to survive. She was grasping every concept you would teach her and fry to use it well. Against other players. Reporter he signed her up for tournaments. She began winning. And became the first female chess champion of her country. By 14, she competed in the olympics of chess, beating adults, achieving status as an expert player. I kind of just believe that i would person right here at this level. I am a person from nowhere. Reporter mutesis journey is a movie. Check mate. She won. Reporter disneys queen of katwe featuring Lupita Nyongo and david oyelowo, plays her coach. What message do you have for other young people in similar situations as yourself . Hope wins in everything you are doing. Reporter hope wins . Yeah. It is up to you to wake up. Stand and then do something. Spoken like a winner who says she never loses. She just learns. Jericka duncan, cbs news, new york. Thats the overnight news for this tuesday. For some of you the news continues. For others check back with us a little bit later for the morning news. And be sure not to miss cbs this morning. From the Broadcast Center in new york city, im scott pelley. This is the cbs overnight news. Welcome to the overnight news. Im don dahler. Could be called the undercard in the great president ial prize fight. Vice president ial candidates, tim kaine and mike pence will square off tonight for the first and only debate of the campaign season. An both will likely face question as but the latest revelation as but Donald Trumps taxes. Tax documents show that trump lost so much money in the 1990s, nearly a billion dollars, that he may not have had to pay federal taxes for decades. Major garrett with the Trump Campaign begins our coverage. I have legally used the tax laws to, my benefit. Today in colorado, donald trump was unapologetic after the New York Times reported he claimed a business loss of nearly 916 million on his 1995 personal tax returns. Those losses could have shielded trump from federal income tax for years. I understand the tax laws better than almost anyone. Trump has the not released any tax returns and a trump lawyer threatened the times with legal action for unauthorized publication of trumps records. The documents were mailed anonymously to the times. Reporter susan craig and david barstow. Walking by my mailbox. I check it frequently. I looked in. There was an envelope addressed from trump tower. So to have them tumble out of an envelope, you know, your first reaction, really is skepticism. Reporter in february, trump bragged to us about not paying taxes. You worked very hard to pay the least amount of taxes . Yeah, i want to pay the least amount possible. Reporter trump said this when Hillary Clinton raised his tax history at last mondays debate. He didnt pay any federal income tax. That makes me smart. Today new York Attorney general, eric schneiderman, clinton supporter, ordered the Trump Foundation to stop soliciting contributions in new york because it is not properly registered with the state. Schneiderman is investigating charges trump used funds for personal gain. Trump said the foundation will comply with the order. Clinton wasted no time. Her campaign rushed a new tv ad on to the airwaves. And clinton told supporters trump has taken corporate excess and made a business out of it. Nancy cordes reports. What kind of genius lose a billion dollars in a single year . Trumps tax plan gave clinton a chance to chip away at his biggest selling point. His business acumen. Now how any body can lose a dollar let alone a billion dollars in the Casino Industry is kind of beyond me, right . You work hard. You pay your taxes. Clinton and Top Democrats quickly cut ads to capitalize on the news they had been anticipating for months. I want a president who is proud of our country. Not a president who its proud of getting out of paying taxes. Reporter her stops in akron and toledo marked clinton any first visit to ohio in a month. She was greeted by a new poll that shows her trailing there by 5 points. Though she did pick up a new endorsement from the states best known athlete. Cavaliers star, lebron james. I mean our kids are our future. And i believe barack started it. I believe hillary is going to continue tip. Here in ohio, lebron will always be the king clintons biggest challenge in ohio its the outsized share of White Working Class voters. Cbs news found that nationally, whites without a college degree, favor trump by nearly 2 1. Our own Elaine Quijano will host the Vice President ial debate. Cbs News Coverage begins at 9 00 p. M. Eastern. The mass shooting at a South Carolina church last year exposed a deadly flaw in the background checks for gun purchases. Jeff pegues has the story. Reporter in june, 2015, dylann roof walked into a Charleston Church and killed nine feel with a gun. Investigators later determined he should not have been allowed to buy. Roof bought the. 45 caliber handgun legally in South Carolina. His purchase did trigger a background check, but his records did not reflect a recent drug arrest because of a clerical error. This weeks Inspector General report cites roofs case as the a prime example of weaknesses in the background check system. 13 states are allowed to conduct their fbi check. Using the database, arrest reports, felony warrants and some Mental Health records. The report found that in 630 of 631 cases, the states did not fully update the database. And that increased the risk that individuals found by a states to be prohibited purchasers could be able to purchase firearms in the future. Some of the information kept in file cabinets of state and local agencies. Fbi assistant director, steven morris. The system is outdated. Wouldnt say it is outdated. The system that we have now is the same system we have been relying on since the late 90s. Morris gave us a tour of the fbi data center in clarksburg, west virginia. In august, new technology was introduced to speed up the processing of firearm transactions. How many calls does this center get on a daily basis . We consider maybe a low day. Where we get 30, 25, 30,000. We have had days. 25,000 or 30,000. Low day. Fbi this is chad. There have been 4 million more background checks so far this year compared to last. Recent lely this center added 1 more people to handle the volume of calls. Overall the ig report praised the fbi for having a 99. 8 accuracy rate. When it comes to approving or denying gun purchases. The report notes that even one mistake can be deadly. Jeff pegues, cbs news, washington. Reality tv star Kim Kardashian back in new york minus 10 million worth of jewelry after being robbed in paris. Kardashian and husband kanye west ignored cameras as they made their way home. She told police armed thieves tied her up and made off with a pricey ring and jewels. Elaine cobb reports from paris. Reporter shortly before 3 00 a. M. When five masked men were allowed into this building by the concierge. Police say the robbers handcuffed the concierge and forced him to lead them to the apartment where they confronted the star before escaping on bicycles. The gaggle of photographers and cameramen, the trailed kardashian west wherever she goes was not covering the usual kind of Story Associated with the 35yearold supercelebrity this morning. According to french police, robbers masquerading as police tied her up and made off with a ring priced at 4. 5 million and jewelry box containing around 6 million worth of valuables. A spokesman for kardashianwest said she was badly shaken, but physically unharmed after the robbery. Husband kanye west performing at the meadows Music Festival in new york at the time. Im sorry. Family emergency. I have to stop the show. And canceled the show mid performance. Kardashianwest in the french capital for fashion week attended a show sunday evening where Kendall Jenner was on the catwalk. 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The arctic ocean sits on top of the globe encircled by russia which encompasses half of its coastline. Norway, greenland, canada, and the United States thanks to alaska. We flew as guests of the navy, from prudo bay, alaska, 200 miles in the direction of the north pole. Over fractured thinning ice, to a spot where the ice was still thick enough to support this base camp. It was a small temporary village, disrupting the peace and the purity of the ice, white as far as the eye can see. The camp was built for scientific military exercise called icex, 2016. Hi, everyone. Nice to meet you. Welcome. Well cup. For five weeks this nomans land of ice